Re: OT Mac hack to span multiple monitors on iBook...

2004-04-02 Thread Dom
Chipp Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is Off Topic, but it's a very cool Applescript hack which enables multiple monitor mode for iBooks (which previously only worked in 'mirror' mode). The one I know -- and use :-) -- is a open firmware hack is it the same? -- Vous parlez

Re: OT Mac hack to span multiple monitors on iBook...

2004-04-02 Thread Ian Wood
uControl allows you to use Shift+Delete as Forward Delete. Apart from giving you single-key access to the function keys. Another good tip if you type a lot on the laptop keyboard is to disable the Caps Lock key, i am always hitting it along with A. Ian On 2 Apr 2004, at 08:00, Chipp Walters

callbacks only work first time a player is used - workaround

2004-04-02 Thread Eric Peden
I just filed a bug report for this, but thought I'd send it to the list as well in case anyone else had run into the problem. Callbacks set on a player are only called the first time the movie is played. I ran into the problem earlier today, and identified a workaround: setting the callbacks

Clip2Gif

2004-04-02 Thread Edward McCabe
Does anyone know where the old Mac freeware application clip2GIF by Yves Piquet can be obtained. His site is no longer available. Ed McCabe ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

external program interface on windows

2004-04-02 Thread Springer, Paul
Hello, I need to find out about interfacing to non-RR programs on a Windows machine. There are programs running I need to get data from, and I can add a function to them to provide the data, but I don't know if I can call it from RR. I suppose I could write the data periodically to a file and

Clip2Gif

2004-04-02 Thread Ed McCabe
Pierre said: I can send you it, in its 0.7.2 issue. Just ask for it off-list, to confirm. Best, Pierre Le 2 avr. 04, à 00:53, Ed McCabe a écrit : Does anyone know where the old Clip2Gif Mac freeware utility from Yves Piquet can be currently obtained, his site is not active. Ed McCabe

Re: external program interface on windows

2004-04-02 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Paul, Hello, I need to find out about interfacing to non-RR programs on a Windows machine. There are programs running I need to get data from, and I can add a function to them to provide the data, but I don't know if I can call it from RR. I suppose I could write the data periodically to a

Re: Clip2Gif

2004-04-02 Thread Rob Cozens
Does anyone know where the old Clip2Gif Mac freeware utility from Yves Piquet can be currently obtained, his site is not active. Hi Ed, I have v0.7.2 on my iBook. If you can't find a download somewhere, write me privately. -- Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Software Company

Re: Is there a way to recover the stack file from a classic MacStandalone

2004-04-02 Thread Timothy Bleiler
Thanks for all the suggestions. The original build was from Metacard and there was no data folder or that idea would've saved me. I'll give Monte's a try. -- Tim Bleiler University at Buffalo ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fh and tracing

2004-04-02 Thread xbury . cs
Scott, I too am a FreeHand freak! Did you try changing the scale of your drawing to be traced? Eventually rotation may also help... But I still prefer the tracing in Photoshop... But in the end there is always some tweaking to do! On 02.04.2004 07:28:16 use-revolution-bounces wrote: On

MouseLeave puzzle

2004-04-02 Thread Jim Hurley
I have a field script: on mouseUP if there is no graphic arrow then set the style of the templateGraphic to line set the endarrow of the templateGraphic to true set the lineSize of the templateGraphic to 2 create graphic arrow end if put the mouseLoc into line 1 of

Re: MouseLeave puzzle

2004-04-02 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Jim, I have a field script: on mouseUP if there is no graphic arrow then ... put the mouseLoc into line 1 of tGraphicPoints ## !!! see below ... set the points of graphic arrow to tGraphicPoints --Draw the arrow wait 1 sec end mouseUp on mouseLeave set the points of graphic arrow to

OT Backup

2004-04-02 Thread Stu Duncan
I am about to start a project that will have massive amounts of video, stills, sound, etc. I need to reexamine my storage and backup systems because these projects go well beyond my current storage abilities. There are going to be terabytes of data. Currently I am thinking a RAID system with

Cards in standalone are a different color than in development

2004-04-02 Thread Timothy Bleiler
Hi, I can't figure this one out. I have a stack with several substacks. All of the substacks are supposed to have a white background. When the program is run in development all is fine. When I build a standalone some of the substacks are getting a grey background. The main stack has a white

Re: MouseLeave puzzle

2004-04-02 Thread Jim Hurley
Jim Hurley wrote: (Snip) The puzzle is that the arrow shows for 1 second and then disappears, even when the mouse is never moved away from the clickText, much less out of the field. (The word pairs are linked.) Why is the mouseLeave message being send? Quick guess: The new graphic appears

PowerPoint-type presentation

2004-04-02 Thread Marty Knapp
A friend has asked me to put together a PowerPoint-type presentation for him, but as I don't have PowerPoint, I was thinking about using Rev. It will be distributed on CD and needs to run on PCs and Macs. It would be nice if it would autoplay upon insertion. Does anyone have an example stack that

Revolution 2.2 Released

2004-04-02 Thread Rod McCall
Dear Revolution user, We are delighted to announce the release of Revolution 2.2, the latest version of our user-centric development environment for every major platform and users of all abilities. Revolution combines unrivaled support for databases, Internet protocols, multimedia, XML and

Redeye removal, cropping, marching ants and maximum image size.

2004-04-02 Thread Frank Leahy
Four quick questions: 1) Is anyone doing redeye removal in Rev? If so, would you mind sharing how you are doing it? 2) Real time image cropping. I seem to remember someone posting code showing how to do cropping in real time, i.e. drag mouse and have inner rect shows at 100% blendLevel and

Re: OT Backup

2004-04-02 Thread Stu Duncan
I meant via cable modem. I live 3 miles (5 km) away from the shop and yes I am concerned about the openess of the internet, ftp or whatever. I am also open to a better idea. We are hoping to avoid physically carrying a box of hard drives around each day. - Original Message - From:

Re: OT Backup

2004-04-02 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hello, In about this kind of stuff (streaming), i would yet prefer to use a splitted mirroring system than a RAID5 one. About the hardware possibles choices : XServeG5 as my prefered if you don't need to stream, via Helix, RealVideo or Win32 MP contains else Linux x86. Best, Pierre Le 2

Re: PowerPoint-type presentation

2004-04-02 Thread Thomas McGrath III
THe problem is you are very vague about what you want to do here. You say PowerPoint - type presentation but what exactly do you mean. I have exported Powerpoint to pngs and used them in my last CD. I have also exported Keynote presentations in Quicktime and used them in Rev. If you are not

Re: Redeye removal, cropping, marching ants and maximum image size.

2004-04-02 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Redeye is definitely not in the scope of REV. IMHO. I would want more import options before I wanted REV to do what a dozen apps already can do just fine. Photoshop, Corel, Painter and dozens of others do this now. Real time cropping would be great. Max size increase would be great too. Tom

Re: PowerPoint-type presentation

2004-04-02 Thread Marty Knapp
THe problem is you are very vague about what you want to do here. You say PowerPoint - type presentation but what exactly do you mean. What are you going to show? Will you put buttons in it for advancing from slide to slide? etc. I would be putting together an automated slide show type

Re: PowerPoint-type presentation

2004-04-02 Thread Thomas McGrath III
I developed on Mac OSX for cross-platform deployment. I used PNG for images which worked great. I used .wav files for audio voice overs which were large but worked great. I used a timer function to go from card (slide) to card. The font I used was Arial but there are a few cross platform fonts

Re: PowerPoint-type presentation

2004-04-02 Thread Marty Knapp
REV can handle this stuff with it's eyes closed. A cake walk. Keep text in small text boxes for easy changes and ask questions on what you are trying to do on the list. I will help when I can. Thanks Tom, I appreciate your input. Marty ___

Re: PowerPoint-type presentation

2004-04-02 Thread Thomas McGrath III
PS. The company only requested a Windows version of my CD BUT after I gave them Windows, OS9 and OSX they were very happy. I did not charge them extra and now they may get used to offering the Mac side of things (might help in us mac users not being left out). Also, check early for a couple of

Re: Redeye removal, cropping, marching ants and maximum image size.

2004-04-02 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, April 2, 2004, at 01:12 PM, Frank Leahy wrote: 3) In Photoshop, MacPaint, even the RR IDE, when you select a rectangle it shows marching ants around the selection. Is there any way to get this effect in RR? Is there a marching ants command I'm overlooking? Maybe you can put a

Re: Redeye removal, cropping, marching ants and maximum image size.

2004-04-02 Thread Brian Yennie
1) Is anyone doing redeye removal in Rev? If so, would you mind sharing how you are doing it? I'm guessing the question here is going to be speed. If someone can find reference to the algorithm for this, it could be done with imageData, but it might be slow. Perhaps one of the GNU image

Re: Redeye removal, cropping, marching ants and maximum image size.

2004-04-02 Thread Rodney Tamblyn
3) In Photoshop, MacPaint, even the RR IDE, when you select a rectangle it shows marching ants around the selection. Is there any way to get this effect in RR? Is there a marching ants command I'm overlooking? May not be exactly what you are look for but you could try dynamically setting

RE: Cards in standalone are a different color than in development

2004-04-02 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi What version of Revolution are you using? Cheers Monte Hi, I can't figure this one out. I have a stack with several substacks. All of the substacks are supposed to have a white background. When the program is run in development all is fine. When I build a standalone some of the

Re: Redeye removal, cropping, marching ants and maximum image size.

2004-04-02 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, April 2, 2004, at 04:07 PM, Rodney Tamblyn wrote: 3) In Photoshop, MacPaint, even the RR IDE, when you select a rectangle it shows marching ants around the selection. Is there any way to get this effect in RR? Is there a marching ants command I'm overlooking? May not be exactly

Re: OT Backup

2004-04-02 Thread kee nethery
What hardware would you suggest for this backup array and what software OS to drive the system? Also needs to allow for expansion since these projects look to be ongoing. From what I hear, the Apple Xserve RAID box is a wonderful thing (even if you are not using macs). From what I've seen, it

Re: OT Backup

2004-04-02 Thread Chipp Walters
We recently purchased a couple of Ximeta NetDisk 250Gb at Fry's for a couple hundred apiece and are using them to backup our servers at our datacenter. You can set them up to mirror each other if you like. Pretty affordable and they work with OSX, Windows and Linux. You can check them out at

Re: Revolution 2.2 Released

2004-04-02 Thread Andre Garzia
Hi, congratulations on new version, and also the new site layout is very cool. It's elegant and simple, like revolution! Also I want to know if 2.2 will count as our free upgrade for studio users. Tanx Andre -- Andre Alves Garzia 2004 Soap Dog Studios - BRAZIL http://studio.soapdog.org

[OT] feature backlash

2004-04-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
I promised to restrain myself from OT posts last month and will reduce them going forward, but this one is a hoot too good to miss. There's a moral here for all of us about considering the implications of software feature design before we rush them to market Word flaw

Re: News: Retrolution 4 Released

2004-04-02 Thread Christopher Mitchell
I think Lisa did use Twiggy. Yours, Chris On Apr 1, 2004, at 2:38 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: Bummer, I guess my old Lisa will have to wait for Retrolution 5. BTW, anyone know where to purchase a replacement Twiggy drive? Oh, that's right, Lisa didn't use Twiggy. -chipp Rod McCall wrote: In

Re: News: Retrolution 4 Released

2004-04-02 Thread Chipp Walters
Christopher...I stand corrected. From: The original Lisa had dual 'Twiggy' 5-1/4 floppy drives, which were quite unreliable, and which was soon replaced by the Lisa 2. The Lisa 2 and Lisa 2/5 were essentially the same machine as the original Lisa with the exception that the dual 'Twiggy' floppy

Re: Redeye removal, cropping, marching ants and maximum image

2004-04-02 Thread Frank Leahy
On Saturday, April 3, 2004, at 06:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you to everyone -- Thomas, Dar, Brian, Rodney, and Claude -- for your replies...I will let you all know what I wind up using. Best, -- Frank ___ use-revolution mailing list