Re: 2.1.1 better and reliable ... but

2003-11-09 Thread Carsten Levin
I dont know whether you are Beating a dead horse. But the directory bug is important if you are relying on it to give the correct answer. The keyboard problem is relevant if you expect people to be able to find anything but a-z on a non US/UK keyboard. It might be irrelevant for you. To us it

Re: Need Help Resizing windows

2003-11-09 Thread Graham Samuel
On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 12:49:23 -0600, J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Here are some other posts on a related subject (window titlebars), the first from Graham Samuel and the second is a Re to it from Ken Ray: Just to say that I am successfully using the info given in the two mails

Rev Sandbox?

2003-11-09 Thread Jim Lyons
Recently, Dan Schafer wrote: (One of these days I'll understand the mentality vandals who derive joy from merely disrupting the lives and sanity of others. On second thought, I hope I never do understand that. It's abominable.) A dark thought that has been lurking in my world-weary mind is

Re: Rev Sandbox?

2003-11-09 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Jim Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently, Dan Schafer wrote: (One of these days I'll understand the mentality vandals who derive joy from merely disrupting the lives and sanity of others. On second thought, I hope I never do understand that. It's abominable.) A dark thought

Re: Rev Sandbox?

2003-11-09 Thread Pierre Sahores
Allo Friends, I was just on the way to reply to your mail, Jim, when Jan answered with all the needed concepts and details about the use of the global securemode property. As Jan describe, transcript give us all what's needed to avoid sad problems. We just need to take care about setting the

Menu divide line

2003-11-09 Thread Robert Presender
Hi, Using Mac OS 10.2.8, rev up to 2.1.1 A funny thing happened on the way to .. I am trying to get the dividing line to show when in the 'Set as Menu Bar on Mac OS' mode. Instead of a line, a blank space occurs. Can't get rid of the 'disabled' even tho it is not checked after I un-check

doubled keystrokes

2003-11-09 Thread John Tenny
Something new with my new Powerbook and Panther and Rev 2.1... I think Panther is the culprit but not sure When I use the Apple-2 or Apple-3 keys to navigate from card to card, it will sometimes go into a state where it jumps two cards instead of one. I can use the pull down menu to step

Re: Menu divide line

2003-11-09 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Robert, Hi, Using Mac OS 10.2.8, rev up to 2.1.1 A funny thing happened on the way to .. I am trying to get the dividing line to show when in the 'Set as Menu Bar on Mac OS' mode. Instead of a line, a blank space occurs. Can't get rid of the 'disabled' even tho it is not checked after

RE: GIF animation problem

2003-11-09 Thread Graham Samuel
Still struggling with this one (buttons whose icons are derived from animated GIFs won't animate when the buttons overlap). I got it to work by moving the GIFs onto the same card as the buttons and giving them locs like (-1, -1) so the user can't see them. Heaven knows why this makes

Re: GIF animation problem

2003-11-09 Thread Scott Rossi
On 11/9/03 8:40 AM, Graham Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However this has created another problem that I've never seen before: the app works in MacOS9, MacOSX and Windows XP, but consistently crashes on Windows 95 with an Invalid Page Fault. I have never heard of a RunRev standalone that

Re: Menu divide line

2003-11-09 Thread Robert Presender
Hi Klaus, On Sunday, November 9, 2003, at 09:00 AM, Klaus Major wrote: Hi Robert, Hi, Using Mac OS 10.2.8, rev up to 2.1.1 A funny thing happened on the way to .. I am trying to get the dividing line to show when in the 'Set as Menu Bar on Mac OS' mode. Instead of a line, a blank space

Re: Menu divide line

2003-11-09 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Robert, ... As far as is remember, i'm running 10.3 for 2 weeks and very happy with it :-) this was a cometic bug in OS X 10.2.X... With Panther these little lines are back again, without switching the RR version! Thank you for the info. Haven't upgraded to Panther yet. Guess my 10x apps

need advice form Guru - traffic light app

2003-11-09 Thread Ernst M. Reicher
Hi, I want to make an application which shoes something like traffic lights in a small window on 5 computers in a network. Each traffic light represents one of this computers. When I set my (computer 1) traffic light to yellow on all coputers traffic light 1 should become yellow. When the user

Re: need advice form Guru - traffic light app

2003-11-09 Thread Thomas J McGrath III
FWIW, I think that this would be a good place for a custom property in each light and then a name group/item name that matches that computer in some way. Then a custom handler at the stack level to intercept a message from other computers and set this computers light set. A button or mouseUp

Re: Rev Sandbox?

2003-11-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Pierre Sahores wrote: I was just on the way to reply to your mail, Jim, when Jan answered with all the needed concepts and details about the use of the global securemode property. As Jan describe, transcript give us all what's needed to avoid sad problems. We just need to take care about

Re: Rev Sandbox?

2003-11-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jan Schenkel wrote: You could build a small player standalone that sets secureMode to true on startup, and where you can enter the URL and run it from there. Or even just a plugin, but remember that once it's set you must quit the app before you can save anything again. -- Richard Gaskin

Re: New stack title query

2003-11-09 Thread Alex Rice
On Nov 9, 2003, at 1:53 PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: The file name isn't the same as the stack name. What you do is choose Stack Inspectoor from the Object menu and fill in a stack name and/or title. It's good to have separate name and filename properties! But can be confusing because the

Re: New stack title query

2003-11-09 Thread Alex Rice
On Nov 8, 2003, at 8:55 PM, David Squance wrote: There's likely something obvious I'm missing, but it's rather confusing. Help! David, you are dealing with stack 3 properties here the name the filename the title When your stack has an asterisk in the titlebar it's showing the NAME property,

Problem for building a stack

2003-11-09 Thread Yves COPPE
Hello, I have a stack (main stack is a splashscreen) with two little substacks when I build a distribution, it stops on now setting Profil options on stack xxx it stops there and just do nothing...no build I'm using Rev 2.1.1 on Mac OS X 2.8 Any help ? thank you very much. Bien

Building and cursor Problem

2003-11-09 Thread Pierre Bernaert
hi friends, Using Mac OS X.2.6 and Rev 2.1 i have a stack and a substack. The stack contains a field into which user can data. The substack contains 3 fields into which user cant type data. Under browsing in development environment the cursor reacts correctly switching from arrow to IBeam when

Applet in a stack?

2003-11-09 Thread Eric Engle
I know I loathe Java, and perhaps you do to. I much prefer xTalk. However I am wondering whether MC/RR can run an applet from within a stack? I know we can call up a browser window, and get at the applet that way. But suppose I was a masochist and wanted to use my (or my likely someone elses)

Re: Applet in a stack?

2003-11-09 Thread Pierre Sahores
Le dim 09/11/2003 23:18, Eric Engle a crit : I know I loathe Java, and perhaps you do to. I much prefer xTalk. However I am wondering whether MC/RR can run an applet from within a stack? I know we can call up a browser window, and get at the applet that way. But suppose I was a masochist and

Re: Building and cursor Problem

2003-11-09 Thread Scott Rossi
On 11/9/03 2:07 PM, Pierre Bernaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Building a standalone or files gives a weird result when using them: Although giving the possibility to type into fields correctly the pointer appears OK into the field , but the cursor stays always the same: the busy cursor

Re: New stack title query

2003-11-09 Thread Sarah
I had a problem when I tried to rename a stack but the original name Untitled x kept popping back into the field. It turned out that I was trying to use a stack name that I had already used in that stack file (I had forgotten that I had already created that stack), so Rev didn't allow me to

Re: Applet in a stack?

2003-11-09 Thread Scott Rossi
I am wondering whether MC/RR can run a [Java] applet from within a stack? One way is with altBrowser which allows embedding of IE or Mozilla within a stack (Windows only). http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/RunRev/altBrowser.htm Otherwise, I don't believe there's any native Java environment

Re: Converting times

2003-11-09 Thread Sarah
Neil, OS 9 handles daylight saving in a very different way to OS X. In OS 9 it is an option that you turn on in the control panel, OS X just does it on it's own and you can't over-ride it. I guess it gets the data directly from the time servers or it has it built into the selectable

Re: need advice form Guru - traffic light app

2003-11-09 Thread Sarah
I suggest you use sockets and have each computer broadcast on a specific port number when it's traffic light changes state. All the computers need to be listening on that same port number and they can change their states according to the messages they receive. If you need some example scripts,

Re: Mac OS X default button = 100% CPU usage

2003-11-09 Thread Scott Rossi
On 11/8/03 1:35 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Throbbing buttons are kinda cool, too bad they can't figure a way to multitask the things so they don't hog the CPU. They have a cool appearance, but are arguably counterproductive in actual use (beyond being a CPU hog). A default button must be

Re: Mac OS X default button = 100% CPU usage

2003-11-09 Thread Geoff Canyon
Another thing to consider about the throbbing default button is that familiarity reduces the distraction. I barely notice the thing anymore. The content (which is different each time) draws more attention. regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Nov 9, 2003, at 2:49 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:

Re: Building and cursor Problem

2003-11-09 Thread Pierre Bernaert
Hi Scott, The problem is the reverse, I want as I could expect to have the IBeam cursor when going over the field I can type into. I think this is a normal behavior for fields that can be modified. In other words why, after building when entering the cursor into the card (Outside the field)

Re: Building and cursor Problem

2003-11-09 Thread Scott Rossi
On 11/9/03 3:56 PM, Pierre Bernaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is the reverse, I want as I could expect to have the IBeam cursor when going over the field I can type into. I think this is a normal behavior for fields that can be modified. Yes, that's the way you would expect it to

Re: Menu divide line

2003-11-09 Thread keith
Sometime around 9/11/03 (at 5:39 pm +0100) Klaus Major said: As far as is remember, i'm running 10.3 for 2 weeks and very happy with it :-) this was a cometic bug in OS X 10.2.X... With Panther these little lines are back again, without switching the RR version! It wasn't a bug in previous

Re: New stack title query

2003-11-09 Thread David Squance
On Nov 8, 2003, at 8:55 PM, David Squance wrote: There's likely something obvious I'm missing, but it's rather confusing. Help! David, you are dealing with stack 3 properties here the name the filename the title When your stack has an asterisk in the titlebar it's showing the NAME property,

Re: Applet in a stack?

2003-11-09 Thread Judy Perry
Lucky you! Mine won't even look at it/let me use it (except for my final project -- yippee!). Of course, they think that a school's morning announcements on the PA system = multimedia and that Hypercard was 'a cheap rip-off of Visual Basic', and that --get this -- VBA stands for... Visual Basic

Image advice

2003-11-09 Thread Ken Norris
Oh dear, here I go again... OK, here's the setup: I have a graphic image, a simulated plastic color bar with the color gradient I want, which I can see right through to the text under it (srcOr). Now, the metaphor needs a graphically depicted mounting device, in this case it simulates a metal

Need Sample for passing structure and pointer to and from C

2003-11-09 Thread lbpark
Subject: Re: Read shared memory in unix On Nov 6, 2003, at 6:30 PM, lbpark wrote: Hi, Is it possible to read a shared memory in unix by Revolution? Or Can handle memroy address directly ? Hi, I'm pretty sure you would have to write a Revolution external library in C to do the

Re: Need Sample for passing structure and pointer to and from C

2003-11-09 Thread Alex Rice
On Nov 9, 2003, at 7:17 PM, lbpark wrote: Thanks for the help. First I have to tell that I'm new to Runtime Revolution. But I'd like to use it for RR's support for multiplatform. I've only been using it 2 years so I'm pretty new compared a lot of these folks :-) Just curious: what are kind of

Window Resizing Head-scratcher...

2003-11-09 Thread Jason Rippetoe
Hello all; I have a stack that I want to run on screens at 800x600 or higher resolution. I have set the Size and Position settings in the inspector for 800x600, and the resizable? box is not selected. The stack is set to hide menubar/hide taskbar at stack startup and use a backdrop. When

RE: Window Resizing Head-scratcher...

2003-11-09 Thread Monte Goulding
Hello all; I have a stack that I want to run on screens at 800x600 or higher resolution. I have set the Size and Position settings in the inspector for 800x600, and the resizable? box is not selected. The stack is set to hide menubar/hide taskbar at stack startup and use a backdrop.