Re: Problem with Windows but not with Mac. Bug??

2004-03-05 Thread François Cuneo
OK, thank you Klaus. But it's a reel problem! I have to rewrite all my code to change the accentued words? I think it's horrible! I need a lot of days to do that! Or is it a Revolution bug? Le 4.3.2004 22:38, Klaus Major à [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: Bon soir François, Hello! I have some

Re: Problem with Windows but not with Mac. Bug??

2004-03-05 Thread A.C.T.
Hi, François, Did you try to NOT use accented chars for your names? - Travail ecrit But it's a reel problem! I have to rewrite all my code to change the accentued words? Well, creating code or content for cross platform use always will have you bothering with accents, Umlauten etc. It would be

RE: More dialer stuff

2004-03-05 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Developers, Check this handler too, based in the function published by Ken Ray. It get the COM ports from the Registry for some modems in my system, but it needs more testers that confirms that the key AttachedTo is always present for modems in every windows 98 machine. Look in google for

Re: PDF

2004-03-05 Thread Ken Norris
Hi Folks, Notice Ken, a file of this size (36 * 48 inches), will create a huge bitmap, even at 72 dpi. Surely, you will prefer to work with tiles of this map, not with an unique image. -- Nope, not necessary. -- If you're going to use this mongoMap on a Mac, be aware

Re: Problem with Windows but not with Mac. Bug??

2004-03-05 Thread François Cuneo
Le 5.3.2004 9:31, A.C.T. à [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: Thank you, I'll try it but it's difficult because some text (the pure code, the variablies) has to be without accent, and the text for the user is with! Hi, François, Did you try to NOT use accented chars for your names? - Travail ecrit

table fields

2004-03-05 Thread Chris Sheffield
Is there any way to limit the number of columns in a table field when allowing cell editing? If I use tab or arrow keys to navigate the cells, I can just keep moving to the right forever and ever (well, maybe not forever, but for a long time). Any way to stop this behavior and limit the number

Re: Problem with Windows but not with Mac (I know, it's usual!!)

2004-03-05 Thread Dom
Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try to NOT use accented chars for your names? - Travail ecrit I think Klaus is right -- don't use accented chars for control names! It may be OK within a single platform -- but causes problems if translated to other platforms... (as é È ;-))) --

Re: PDF

2004-03-05 Thread Brian Yennie
Cool that it works so smoothly! I think you missed the point on the stumped part, however: your image was less than 4000 pixels in both dimensions. The problem is with 4000+ pixel images, height or width I presume. FWIW, Brian Be stumped no more. Thomas sent me a jpg file conversion (from the

Re: Problem with Windows but not with Mac. Bug??

2004-03-05 Thread A.C.T.
Hi, François, I'll try it but it's difficult because some text (the pure code, the variablies) has to be without accent, and the text for the user is with! I understand. But Text does not belong hardcoded into a script (in my eyes, at least) - it should remain in resources outside the code.

Re: Problem with Windows but not with Mac (I know, it's usual!!)

2004-03-05 Thread A.C.T.
Hi, just to make sure: I think Klaus is right -- don't use accented chars for control names! It may be OK within a single platform -- but causes problems if translated to other platforms... (as é È ;-))) It is NOT a problem of windows but of using various platforms running different code

Re: Problem with Windows but not with Mac (I know, it's usual!!)

2004-03-05 Thread Klaus Major
Bonjour mes amis, Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try to NOT use accented chars for your names? - Travail ecrit I think Klaus is right -- don't use accented chars for control names! It may be OK within a single platform -- but causes problems if translated to other platforms... (as

Re: Problem with Windows but not with Mac (I know, it's usual!!)

2004-03-05 Thread François Cuneo
Ok, thank you all. I understand but I think that Revolution has to write that very big in the documentation!!!:-) Friendly François Le 5.3.2004 11:41, A.C.T. à [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: Hi, just to make sure: I think Klaus is right -- don't use accented chars for control names! It

Re: Problem with Windows but not with Mac (I know, it's usual!)

2004-03-05 Thread Dan Soneson
I understand but I think that Revolution has to write that very big in the documentation!!!:-) François, Check the MacToISO function (and conversely, the ISOToMac function in the docs. AFAIK, it is only in the customProperties that this cross-platform use of diacritics is problematic. I

Re: Problem with Windows but not with Mac (I know, it's usual!)

2004-03-05 Thread François Cuneo
Thank you but I don't Use customPropreties!:-) But I'm converting all my diacritics! I'll say you if it's better after. I hope so!:-) Le 5.3.2004 14:00, Dan Soneson à [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: I understand but I think that Revolution has to write that very big in the

Rotating Graphics

2004-03-05 Thread Springer, Paul
I am trying to rotate a graphic (or image), but not around its center - I need to rotate it around and endpoint, like the end vertex of an isosceles triangle. Imagine the overhead view of a wind sock or smoke plume changing with the wind direction. Rotate does not help me because it rotates

Re: Update button icon

2004-03-05 Thread Robert Brenstein
I'm using a custom prop to store if the button it self is a big yellow one or a non-yellow one. Then via scripting the next time the button is hit it asks for the custom prop cYellow and if true sets the state to a yellow button. However, I want to (without setting the icon itself ) have it

Re: Update button icon

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Ken, I had the updating button look code in with the mouseUp code and was being lazy. All I need to do is include the code for new button look outside of the mouseUp code and call that when I need to. also a lock screen unlock at that time but not needed at the mouseUp time. My thoughts were

prepping stack for windows

2004-03-05 Thread Stephen Messimer
Hi all, I have a stack that I want windows users to be able to use. I have checked and rechecked the code for problem characters so that is OK. However because the stack was created on a Mac it has a resource fork, right?. Do I need to do anything about this before I make this stack

grabber in Rev (was PDF)

2004-03-05 Thread Chris Condit
Hi List (especially Ken N. and Brian Yennie)- I noticed in Rev list V. 6 Issue 38 Ken N. Brian Yennie traded info about: and plugged the *genuine* Rev-style mouseMove grab/scroll handlers into the image script. It works beautifully. Grab/scrolls like its on bed of ball bearings. No problems,

Re: prepping stack for windows

2004-03-05 Thread xbury . cs
the res fork will be either deleted automatically or if none was there, nop roblem... Test before though. Icons may disappear too so make sure all media is in the stack and not in the res fork... -=- Xavier Bury Clearstream Services TNS NT LAN Server ext

Restore Minimized App in the Dock (MacOSX Jaguar)

2004-03-05 Thread James . Cass
Happy Friday to all! PLATFORM: MacOSX 10.2.8. CATEGORY: Dock QUESTION: How can I cause a dock-minimized application window to maximize and be in focus when the user clicks on the dock-alias of the application? DETAILS: We have an app that users can minimize to the Dock (using set the

Re: Restore Minimized App in the Dock (MacOSX Jaguar)

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas McGrath III
James, This is the script I use. It is in case there are substacks open as well as my main stack. So I want ALL stacks to iconify and also when opening i want the topmost stack on iconify to be in front on uniconify. on iconifyStack put the openstacks into tvar put the short name of this

Re: Rotating Graphics

2004-03-05 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, March 5, 2004, at 06:23 AM, Springer, Paul wrote: I am trying to rotate a graphic Does anyone have any tips? Use a custom property (or more) to hold points with fractional positioning, that is, with numbers that are not rounded after each rotation. Rotate that. After each rotation

Re: Restore Minimized App in the Dock (MacOSX Jaguar)

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas McGrath III
James, WARNING: don't use this in the IDE only in a standalone. It will center all of REV's windows as well. Not really a good thing. Tom On Mar 5, 2004, at 10:28 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: James, This is the script I use. It is in case there are substacks open as well as my main stack.

Re: Rotating Graphics

2004-03-05 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, March 5, 2004, at 08:31 AM, Dar Scott wrote: Does anyone have any tips? Use a custom property (or more) to hold points with fractional positioning, that is, with numbers that are not rounded after each rotation. Rotate that. After each rotation set the points. Never get the

RE: Rotating Graphics

2004-03-05 Thread Springer, Paul
Dar, Thanks for the help. As a beginner with RR, I need a little clarification. 1. When you say Rotate that. Do you mean with a built in command or with a custom command that is re-calculating where the points should be? 2. Aren't there points already defined for the polygons vertices? Do I

Re: Limitations of RR for drawing apps?

2004-03-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote: With the exception of user-manipulatable points for lines and polygons, it's all there in the engine now Is the Reshape Polygon button in Rev not what you have in mind here? .. If Rev's implementation is not accessible, you're welcome to mine;

Re: Rotating Graphics

2004-03-05 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, March 5, 2004, at 09:28 AM, Springer, Paul wrote: Thanks for the help. As a beginner with RR, I need a little clarification. It is I who needs to be clear. 1. When you say Rotate that. Do you mean with a built in command or with a custom command that is re-calculating where the

Re: The Scripter's Scrapbook: Update notice

2004-03-05 Thread Dom
A (not so) little problem: don't check mac default menubar in the setup preferences ;- I was given an entertaining animation with a flashing error dialog -- CMD-point didn't work, I had to force-quit ;-))) ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL

RE: Rotating Graphics

2004-03-05 Thread Springer, Paul
Thanks again Dar, I am beginning to see the light. So it looks like the hardest thing I have to do is figure out the trigonometry for the custom rotation function. I don't suppose someone might have such a function for an isosceles triangle? -Paul -Original Message- From: Dar Scott

RE: Rotating Graphics

2004-03-05 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 3 Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:28:48 -0500 From: Springer, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Rotating Graphics To: 'How to use Revolution' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain Dar, Thanks for the help. As a beginner with RR, I need a little

RE: The Scripter's Scrapbook: Update notice

2004-03-05 Thread Ken Ray
A (not so) little problem: don't check mac default menubar in the setup preferences ;- I was given an entertaining animation with a flashing error dialog -- CMD-point didn't work, I had to force-quit ;-))) Hmm... Dom, what is the OS and Rev versions you're using? I just tested this in

RE: CGI Engine - Success and Failure

2004-03-05 Thread Ken Ray
Jim, If you can't use the revXML DLL effectively in your CGI, I have an alternate, Transcript-only XML parsing library that might work for you: http://www.sonsothunder.com/products/metacard/xmllib.htm HTH, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site:

Re: prepping stack for windows

2004-03-05 Thread Martin Baxter
Stephen Messimer wrote: I have a stack that I want windows users to be able to use. I have checked and rechecked the code for problem characters so that is OK. However because the stack was created on a Mac it has a resource fork, right?. Not unless you explicitly created a resource fork using

Re: Again with the start using

2004-03-05 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, March 5, 2004, at 09:58 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: That's a very interesting case. When I make compound objects (grouped controls that act as a single object with their own properties and behaviors) I tend to put the code driving them into one library. This is what I have been

Re: Rotating Graphics

2004-03-05 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, March 5, 2004, at 10:10 AM, Springer, Paul wrote: I don't suppose someone might have such a function for an isosceles triangle? See Jim's. This is one of those cases in which the general solution is simpler than the specific solution. Dar Scott

Re: PDF

2004-03-05 Thread Ray G. Miller
From: Brian Yennie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ken, I believe the 4000 pixel limitation was meant as a single dimension, not the total number of pixels. So you can have 4000x4000 = 16 million pixels. Yep, my bad... I meant to say 4000 pixels per dimension. You can create a view window by

Re: CGI Engine - Success and Failure

2004-03-05 Thread Jim
Hi Ken. Yeah, I've stumbled across that one. I've already downloaded it and the docs, but haven't had time yet to dig in to it much. It looks pretty sophisticated, but I'm sure I can use some of the basic functions of it. I shouldn't have any trouble with it once I wrap my head around it.

Re: Again with the start using

2004-03-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dar Scott wrote: On Friday, March 5, 2004, at 09:58 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: That's a very interesting case. When I make compound objects (grouped controls that act as a single object with their own properties and behaviors) I tend to put the code driving them into one library. This is what

Re: grabber in Rev (was PDF)

2004-03-05 Thread Ken Norris
Hi Chris, Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 09:27:13 -0500 From: Chris Condit [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: grabber in Rev (was PDF) Hi List (especially Ken N. and Brian Yennie)- I noticed in Rev list V. 6 Issue 38 Ken N. Brian Yennie traded info about: and plugged the *genuine* Rev-style

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 6, Issue 39

2004-03-05 Thread Ray G. Miller
From: Springer, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Rotating Graphics To: How to use Revolution [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain I am trying to rotate a graphic (or image), but not around its center - I need to rotate it around and endpoint, like the

RE: Rotating Graphics

2004-03-05 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 3 Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 12:10:03 -0500 From: Springer, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Rotating Graphics To: 'How to use Revolution' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain Thanks again Dar, I am beginning to see the light. So it looks like the

about saving a stack in a standalone...

2004-03-05 Thread Andre Garzia
Hi Folks, two questions on the same subject, If I move all my substacks to individual stack files will I be able to save them in a standalone, like making a persistent state. It's for the revHTTPd project, I want the server to be deployable as a standalone, but I want the user to be able to

Re: The Scripter's Scrapbook: Update notice

2004-03-05 Thread Dom
Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... Dom, what is the OS and Rev versions you're using? Mac OS 10.2.4 / RR 2.1.2 -- Vous parlez français ? faites un tour sur le groupe francophone ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jetez un oeil sur RevoBlog http://revoblog.free.fr !

Re: Problem with Windows but not with Mac (I know, it's usual!!)

2004-03-05 Thread Dom
A.C.T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is NOT a problem of windows but of using various platforms running different code pages. In fact: The MAC is the one that uses an abstruse variation of ISO code (called Mac-Roman), not the PC ;-) Hmmm... it's a rant about operating systems, or am I wrong ?

Re: Update button icon

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Chris, That is exactly what I want. If it works I will be a happy puppy. Does setProp get sent when a custom prop is changed? So i would then trap a setProp message and update there? Or do I use setProp to set the prop of a custom property? Thank you, Tom On Mar 5, 2004, at 11:45 AM, Chris

Re: Problem with Windows but not with Mac (I know, it's usual!!)

2004-03-05 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, March 5, 2004, at 03:01 PM, Dom wrote: In short, today there is a ISO-8859-nn standard. it is true that the Windows-1252 is closer to ISO-8859 than Mac OS Roman. But Mac OS Roman was defined *before* ISO-8859 was defined! At this time, DOS was speaking with 7-bits ASCII +

Re: PDF

2004-03-05 Thread Ken Norris
Hi Brian, Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 05:01:24 -0500 From: Brian Yennie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PDF Cool that it works so smoothly! I think you missed the point on the stumped part, however: your image was less than 4000 pixels in both dimensions. The problem is with 4000+ pixel

good laptop for Revolution?

2004-03-05 Thread Erik Hansen
it was suggested that buying the lowest price laptop might not be a good idea. a Windows platform ought to make it easier for most others to use apps, so... any thoughts, experiences with this line with RunRev apps, esp. audio, MIDI, graphics? Dell Inspiron 9100 Widescreen Display 15.4 in.

Re: The Scripter's Scrapbook: Update notice

2004-03-05 Thread FlexibleLearning
Hmm... Dom, what is the OS and Rev versions you're using? Mac OS 10.2.4 / RR 2.1.2 Problem located, solved and an update issued. Select 'Checking for updates' under the Help menu for a direct transfer. For those who do not have The Scripter's Scrapbook yet, go to

RE: PDF

2004-03-05 Thread Ken Ray
I imported the 2448 x 3240 JPEG image to a Rev stack, grouped it, bordered it, set the margins to 0, locked it, added scrollbars, and plugged the *genuine* Rev-style mouseMove grab/scroll handlers into the image script. It works beautifully. Grab/scrolls like its on bed of ball

RE: Update button icon

2004-03-05 Thread Ken Ray
Tom, SetProp is triggered when a custom property is about to be set; if you pass the setProp it actually sets the property. This gives you an opportunity to prevent it from being set, or to do something based on what value the property is about to be set to, etc. Here's an example: on mouseUp

Re: EuroRevCon - Folks, even more goodies!

2004-03-05 Thread Erik Hansen
--- Sarah Reichelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can non-attendees get these CDs too? In addition to Klaus performing his opera From click to dawn... A day in the life of the message-hierarchy...(Wow! That man has guts!!) will this be streamed? = [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: prepping stack for windows

2004-03-05 Thread Erik Hansen
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the res fork will be either deleted automatically or if none was there, no problem... Test before though. Icons may disappear too so make sure all media is in the stack and not in the res fork... is there a way to survey what the resource fork contains.

Re: good laptop for Revolution?

2004-03-05 Thread Christopher Mitchell
On Mar 5, 2004, at 5:04 PM, Erik Hansen wrote: it was suggested that buying the lowest price laptop might not be a good idea. I agree with this. a Windows platform ought to make it easier for most others to use apps, so... Could you explain the reasoning here? It seems vague. Who are you buying

Standalone shell/console application

2004-03-05 Thread Kevin
I have not posted in a few days since I felt it necessary to ponder the following question. Why isn't there a global property to disable the graphic subsystem? Better yet a handler similar to onStartup is called only when the display/GUI is missing allowing developers to take action (run

Interesting Utility for PDF Generation

2004-03-05 Thread Brian Maher
Hi Folks, A buddy of mine has created an interesting utility that might fill a need for some folks. Basically, for producing reports his utility takes an xml file that you generate (which follows his specs), passes it thru a command line utility and produces a PDF file. This utility doesn't

Re: Windows Standalone

2004-03-05 Thread Andrew
Hmm.. My script is very long and homogenous... Are there any other standard culprits for this sort of malfunction with Windows? Thanks -Andrew On Thursday, March 4, 2004, at 07:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At this stage I usually start commenting out sections of the script to see if I can

RE: Interesting Utility for PDF Generation

2004-03-05 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Brian, I checked out the link. Very sparse site. I couldn't quite figure out what his licensing model is. Is is like altBrowser.DLL, purchase it once and you can use it in as many custom developed commercial applications as you want? If not, then I imagine he'll have a tough time as a