FSCommand support in EnhancedQT external

2004-04-19 Thread Trevor DeVore
Due to the overwhelming response for FSCommand support for swf files playing in a player object (Ken and Terry ;-) ) I have implemented this in a development version of my EnhancedQT external. It turns out it only took about 4 lines of code. You can now load any .swf (version 5 or lower) file

Re: Copy Image

2004-04-19 Thread Dreamscape Software Webmaster
I'm trying to allow the ability to copy a JPEG into the clipboard, but the copy command doesn't seem to want to copy the image. Even setting the cliboardData property doesn't work. About the most I can do is empty the clipboard. Any ideas? See the 'export' command in the

ask file with filter

2004-04-19 Thread Dreamscape Software Webmaster
How do I get the filter that was choosen within the ask file dialog box? Derek Bump Dreamscape Software Compress Images Easily with JPEGCompress 1.2 http://www.dreamscapesoftware.com ___ use-revolution

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 7, Issue 107

2004-04-19 Thread Frank Leahy
On Monday, April 19, 2004, at 06:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: Scrolling List Bug [temporary fix] To: How to use Revolution [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed On 4/18/04 1:09 PM, Frank Leahy wrote: After a

Re: Scrolling List Bug [temporary fix]

2004-04-19 Thread Frank Leahy
On Monday, April 19, 2004, at 06:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: Scrolling List Bug [temporary fix] To: How to use Revolution [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed On 4/18/04 1:09 PM, Frank Leahy wrote: After a

Re: basic put URL question-more

2004-04-19 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Rich, I think I have found what makes the difference here: Revolution doesn't like folder names with a fancy at the end. I have tried the basic import script that Klaus sent me, (See below,) on a bunch of different text files. The script does not work if the file I'm trying to put is a

Patch for Revert to saved... problem

2004-04-19 Thread Jan Schenkel
Hi All, Just spent some time tracking down the problem with the Revert to saved... item in the File menu. For the adventurous type of people, here's the patch : 0. Make a backup copy of the stack revmenubar.rev, which you'll find in your Revolution directory at

Re: ask file with filter

2004-04-19 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Dreamscape Software Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I get the filter that was choosen within the ask file dialog box? Derek Bump Hi Derek, There is currently no way to do that ; but you could always check the extension of the file : answer Select a file if it is empty

Menu Bar in MacOS

2004-04-19 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I am trying to figure out the best way of handling the Menu Bar in MacOS. My Project is setup like this: MainStack, does nothing has a couple of Global Cards that contain info that the Substacks of the App can use. It also contains some common functions that are held in the Stack Script.

Re: Menu Bar in MacOS

2004-04-19 Thread Martin Baxter
Hi, I am trying to figure out the best way of handling the Menu Bar in MacOS. Basically what I am asking is how do I share the menu bar with all the other stacks (windows) in the App like a regular MacOS application? Thanks in Advance for any Advice Cheers Dave Hello Dave, Have a look at the

Re: Menu Bar in MacOS

2004-04-19 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I am trying to figure out the best way of handling the Menu Bar in MacOS. Basically what I am asking is how do I share the menu bar with all the other stacks (windows) in the App like a regular MacOS application? Thanks in Advance for any Advice Cheers Dave Hello Dave, Have a look at the

Re: Windows Distribution Icon

2004-04-19 Thread Graham Samuel
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 22:03:18 -0600, Scott Slaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to build a Windows distribution. In order for it to correctly add my icon, I need to have an icon file containing icons in 9 different formats. Does anyone out there know how I would go about making that icon

Re: ask file with filter

2004-04-19 Thread Cubist
sez [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I get the filter that was choosen within the ask file dialog box? There is currently no way to do that ; but you could always check the extension of the file : answer Select a file if it is empty then exit to top put it into tFilePath

Popup and radio button alignment off by 1 -- MacOSX vs PC

2004-04-19 Thread Frank Leahy
Hi all, I'm cleaning up my app and making it work cross-platform, and along the way changed all the field, label, and control fonts to Arial. This worked pretty well, except for one minor problem -- control alignment. The problem controls are popup menus and radio buttons, which are 1 pixel

Re: ask file with filter

2004-04-19 Thread Dreamscape Software Webmaster
There is currently no way to do that ; but you could always check the extension of the file : answer Select a file if it is empty then exit to top put it into tFilePath put char -3 to -1 of tFilePath into tExtension I don't think you can count on a file extension *always* being

RE: FSCommand support in EnhancedQT external

2004-04-19 Thread Ken Ray
Due to the overwhelming response for FSCommand support for swf files playing in a player object (Ken and Terry ;-) ) I have implemented this in a development version of my EnhancedQT external. It turns out it only took about 4 lines of code. You can now load any .swf (version 5 or

script inheritance?

2004-04-19 Thread Springer, Paul
I have some functions that are going to be common to many controls and I don't want many copies. Is there a way to put the command script on the card but have it executed in the context of the control (so me is the control, not the card)? I tried passing the control name as a parameter and

[MORE INFO] Popup and radio button alignment off by 1 -- MacOSX vs PC

2004-04-19 Thread Frank Leahy
On Monday, April 19, 2004, at 02:49 PM, Frank Leahy wrote: Hi all, I'm cleaning up my app and making it work cross-platform, and along the way changed all the field, label, and control fonts to Arial. This worked pretty well, except for one minor problem -- control alignment. The problem

[MORE INFO] Popup and radio button alignment off by 1 -- MacOSX vs PC

2004-04-19 Thread Frank Leahy
On Monday, April 19, 2004, at 02:49 PM, Frank Leahy wrote: Hi all, I'm cleaning up my app and making it work cross-platform, and along the way changed all the field, label, and control fonts to Arial. This worked pretty well, except for one minor problem -- control alignment. The problem

not every text file a text file?

2004-04-19 Thread Friedrich F. Grohmann
I've been trying to work with the read from file command (Rev 2.1.2 on a G4 PowerBook with OS 10.3.2). The file involved was produced in Nisus Writer Express and saved as text. Nothing happened despite all attempts to improve the script including get URL. I finally copied the text into a

Re: Rev app for AS5200

2004-04-19 Thread Glen Bojsza
Bill, It is a custom application that would: dial a local number login in and start a telnet session (company policy doesn't allow web or SNMP access) I was wondering if there are any particular caveats that I should be aware of. And if someone already has developed a base framework. Glen On

RE: Main stack sub stack

2004-04-19 Thread Ken Ray
Substacks are always in the same file as the mainstack. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hershrev Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 11:53 AM

Re: IDE lockup, on delete stack

2004-04-19 Thread Meitnik
Okmore fun with IDE To get around a XML lib bug, I am making my cloned stacks substacks with a delete stack on closing the stack. In testing my work, when I suspend rev IDE, and preform the deletion, IDE locks up hard. Have to do force quit to continue working. I trying to wrap my

Re: Main stack sub stack

2004-04-19 Thread hershrev
thanks . On Monday, April 19, 2004, at 01:25 PM, Ken Ray wrote: Substacks are always in the same file as the mainstack. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: this group, versus this background

2004-04-19 Thread Ken Ray
Jim, I can't answer why Rev does what it does, but you can refer to the group that owns the objects it contains by asking for the owner of the object. For example, if you click on one of your graphic controls, and the script says: on mouseUp put the short name of the owner of me into

RE: ask file with filter

2004-04-19 Thread Ken Ray
Derek, I'm really not having a problem with handling Windows 8.3 filenames. I just figured that if Rev gave the user the ability to put a filter into the ask file command, that you would be able to find out what filter the user ended up choosing. This way I don't have to make seperate

RE: this group, versus this background

2004-04-19 Thread Jim Hurley
From: Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jim, I can't answer why Rev does what it does, but you can refer to the group that owns the objects it contains by asking for the owner of the object. For example, if you click on one of your graphic controls, and the script says: on mouseUp put the short name

Re:bug reporter in standalone

2004-04-19 Thread Meitnik
Has anyone else run into this: on closing my substack and deleting it via scripting, I get this from the bug reporter: Executing at 2:26:14 PM on Monday, April 19, 2004 Type: Object Name: Object: revTable Line: if lObject is empty or there is not a lObject then I dont use

Re: LibCGI-based CMS - anyone willing to collaborate?

2004-04-19 Thread Andre Garzia
On Apr 17, 2004, at 11:49 PM, Rodney Tamblyn wrote: Terry, I will be happy to help in an advisory capacity on an issues relating to LibCGI. I have created my own content management system for use in distance education (primarily focused on the needs of medical educators) using Revolution.

Re: [MORE INFO] Popup and radio button alignment off by 1 -- MacOSX vs PC

2004-04-19 Thread Dar Scott
On Monday, April 19, 2004, at 08:19 AM, Frank Leahy wrote: It looks like the problem is that labels and fields are 1 pixel higher, rather than controls being 1 pixel lower. My experience shows a lot of differences in fonts between Windows XP and OS X. A shift of a pixel is to be expected.

Re: FSCommand support in EnhancedQT external

2004-04-19 Thread Terry Judd
On Monday, April 19, 2004, at 10:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Trevor DeVore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon Apr 19, 2004 4:18:01 PM Australia/Melbourne To: Revolution List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FSCommand support in EnhancedQT external Reply-To: How to use Revolution [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [MORE INFO] Popup and radio button alignment off by 1 -- MacOSX vs PC

2004-04-19 Thread SimPLsol
You might find it beneficial to look at Bitstream's Vera font. It is an open source, multi-platform font designed to solve these problems. I have found it a good substitution for Geneva and Courier (it has both proportional and non-proportional typefaces) on Mac OS X. I do find some

Re: [MORE INFO] Popup and radio button alignment off by 1 -- MacOSX vs PC

2004-04-19 Thread Dar Scott
On Monday, April 19, 2004, at 04:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might find it beneficial to look at Bitstream's Vera font. It is an open source, multi-platform font designed to solve these problems. If the problem is in OS differences, won't it show up any any font? Or does Vera have

Re: [MORE INFO] Popup and radio button alignment off by 1 -- MacOSX vs PC

2004-04-19 Thread SimPLsol
It is designed to be a cross-platform, multi-purpose font. My only experience with it is on OS X. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

RE: Windows Distribution Icon

2004-04-19 Thread Monte Goulding
I am trying to build a Windows distribution. In order for it to correctly add my icon, I need to have an icon file containing icons in 9 different formats. Does anyone out there know how I would go about making that icon file? As has already been pointed out, more or less any icon editor

Re: dragdrop files for a standalone.

2004-04-19 Thread Meitnik
This is what i figured out with some help on handling files dropped on my standalone. on appleEvent pClass,pID if pClass is aevt then if pID is odoc then request appleEvent data openFileRoutine it end if end if end applevent on openfileroutine

Dialog Box in the Center of the Screen . . .

2004-04-19 Thread Roger Guay
I have a narrow (180 pixels) Palette style stack on the extreme left edge of the screen from which I call up an answer dialog box. On the Mac (OS X) this dialog box is centered on the screen, but in the Windows environment this dialog box is centered on the Palette stack and is therefore

Re: Lost cmd-D (duplicate)

2004-04-19 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 19 Apr 2004, at 1:46 pm, Dar Scott wrote: I seem to have done something to lose the ability to duplicate a control with command-D. I first noticed it on 2.2 but it is gone for 2.1.2, also. I see the edit menu flash, but there is no effect. I didn't see anything in Revolution preferences.

Re: Lost cmd-D (duplicate)

2004-04-19 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Firstly, sorry for the empty reply I just sent. I lost control of Panther's Expose for a few seconds and couldn't work out where I was clicking :-( Dar, I don't know what causes this but it is usually fixed by resetting Rev's preferences back to the defaults. It isn't always Cmd-D, but I have

Re: not every text file a text file?

2004-04-19 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Hi Fritz, Is the problem selecting the file to read or actually reading it after you have the file name? If it is a file selection problem it may be a problem with a file filter which can be difficult in OS X. OS 9 and earlier used file types creator codes to identify files. OS X partly uses

Re: dragdrop files for a standalone.

2004-04-19 Thread Sarah Reichelt
You've got the basic method worked out OK, but I would be very wary of using it as a parameter name in your openfileroutine. Change the start of the routine to: on openfileroutine fpath open file fpath Cheers, Sarah On 20 Apr 2004, at 11:07 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is

Re: not every text file a text file?

2004-04-19 Thread Friedrich F. Grohmann
Dave Cragg wrote: I can read text files created by Nisus Writer Express in both Rev 2.1.2 and 2.2. This is very encouraging and I am most curious to know how you manage to do this. I am able to read text files created by AbiWord, AppleWorks and MS Word but NWE files continue to elude

Re: Using seconds in Revolution

2004-04-19 Thread Sarah Reichelt
While I haven't encountered the short long day problem, there is a severe problem with the convert command if your system uses daylight-saving. Basically, EVERY call to the convert command, adds an hour to the time converted, if daylight saving is on. There are numerous reports in

Re: Lost cmd-D (duplicate)

2004-04-19 Thread Dar Scott
On Monday, April 19, 2004, at 09:02 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: Dar, I don't know what causes this but it is usually fixed by resetting Rev's preferences back to the defaults. Thanks, it works! (The duplicate mail is--no doubt--your poetic genius coming out.) Dar Scott

Re: Problems with 'Launch doc with app'

2004-04-19 Thread Sarah Reichelt
However, prompted by your advice that the problem is due to OS X's hidden .app extension on application bundles, and remembering that bundles are actually folders, I opened the bundle and found the actual application file I was looking for. I then made a note of all the folders surrounding it

Re: A menu question

2004-04-19 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Hi Marian, Firstly, there really isn't anything you can do with the default menu, you need to make your own even if you only need the defaults. Use the MenuBuilder and auto-script to make it is easily as possible. Now you can edit the About item in the Help menu to say what you like, and

Re: appleEvent for dragdrop file on non running app

2004-04-19 Thread Meitnik
Hi all...I want to handle droping a file on standalone to force it to run and open the file. my code so far is this: on appleEvent pClass,pID if pClass = aevt and pID is in odoc oapp then request appleEvent data if it = then exit appleEvent openFileRoutine it end if end

Scrolling non scrolling fields

2004-04-19 Thread MisterX
Hi everyone, Is there anyway to set the scroll of a field that doesn't have a scrollbar? set the hscroll of fld x to y Doesn't work if the field doesn't have the hscrollbar set. I dont want this field to show a scrollbar though... Thanks for any clues Cheers Xavier

RE: Scrolling non scrolling fields

2004-04-19 Thread Phil Davis
Take a look in the docs at: Transcript Examples Cookbook Recipe for a Roll Credits effect It shows how to do exactly what you're asking about. Unless I didn't listen again... Phil Davis -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of MisterX

REV, RB, SC speed test, Latest results

2004-04-19 Thread Chris Yavelow
It made sense to start using real data: a 120,000-word target file, and a list of 915 search strings. Those are now available with the updated projects here: http://www.yav.com/speed.html Another new feature is that I divided the task into 3 segments (Load Data, Check Matches, Display Data).