Re: slavic languages

2004-08-06 Thread Lars Brehmer
Thanks Devin, but: This is the first thing I tried, but every character with a diacritical just shows up as a box. This is determined by what language support you have installed in the OS. In OS X, just choose the Polish input from the keyboard menu and you should automatically be able to type

Re: Error message Can't find handler (was Object: value is not a boolean (true or false))

2004-08-06 Thread Terry Vogelaar
J. Landman Gay heeft op donderdag, 5 aug 2004 om 18:09 (Europe/Amsterdam) het volgende geschreven: On 8/5/04 4:09 AM, Terry Vogelaar wrote: I have a weird problem I can't solve. I get an error message Object: value is not a boolean (true or false) when calling a custom handler. The handler

ANN: SimpleFilePreview

2004-08-06 Thread MisterX
As I really dont have anything better to do, here is yet another release! This one is opensource, freeware and full of cool features! This stack serves two purposes: 1 Demonstrate how to read and write files in probably every possible way 2 Preview huge files that cannot be read in the usual

RE: GradientsN2O

2004-08-06 Thread MisterX
Hello everyone, Im quite distressed. Abraham sent me a screenshot of GradientsN2O on MacOSX and it looks like as if I had been doing quite a mix of psychodelic drugs last night (could be his screengrabber did too!) ;) Two problems: 1) the menus use a backpattern is not sized to Mac's liking. I

IMPORTANT: Scripter's Scrapbook v4 Bug

2004-08-06 Thread FlexibleLearning
The Scripter's Scrapbook v4.0 Important Bulletin If you are using the current version 4.0 of the Scripter's Scrapbook, there is an unlikely but potentially important bug in a sub-function of the File Attachments dialog window... If you use the File Attachment dialog's 'Save as' to

Re: Plea to sell Dan's book widely

2004-08-06 Thread Mark Brownell
On Thursday, August 5, 2004, at 09:33 PM, Troy Rollins wrote: Convincing a book distributor that Revolution has as much appeal to the unwashed masses as iTunes? Good luck with that one. -- Troy Amazon.com has a small publisher section that would allow Dan / Revolution to sell his book from the

RE: Plea to sell Dan's book widely

2004-08-06 Thread Dave LeYanna
Is his book self-published?, if so I can help save some costs because I am a partner in a Printing On Demand publisher. We do ISBN and everything including a listing in Books in Print. I'm sure that I'm cheaper than anyone else. PLUS we are on demand meaning that he doesn't have to buy any up

RE: Plea to sell Dan's book widely

2004-08-06 Thread MisterX
Why not put an announcement in DDJ.com slashdot.org ? Both put in articles for books about programming and have a wide audience of ahem, geeks... Little is known or mentioned of RR or MC or hypercard anymore but Wired.com has run articles on it in the past. Surely a small article in each

Re: Plea to sell Dan's book widely

2004-08-06 Thread Mark Brownell
On Friday, August 6, 2004, at 07:19 AM, Dave LeYanna wrote: answerI don't Know Is his book self-published? /I don't Know, advertisement if so I can help save some costs because I am a partner in a Printing On Demand publisher. We do ISBN and everything including a listing in Books in Print. I'm

RE: Plea to sell Dan's book widely

2004-08-06 Thread Dave LeYanna
I guess I got carried away... Before I get flamed, I withdraw any hint of profit making. Didn't mean to step on any toes here. Withdraw, withdraw, withdraw, sorry, sorry, sorry. Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Brownell Sent:

RE: Plea to sell Dan's book widely

2004-08-06 Thread sims
Why not put an announcement in DDJ.com slashdot.org ? Both put in articles for books about programming and have a wide audience of ahem, geeks... Little is known or mentioned of RR or MC or hypercard anymore but Wired.com has run articles on it in the past. Surely a small article in each will draw

Re: Plea to sell Dan's book widely

2004-08-06 Thread Dan Shafer
I'm afraid the bookstore route is closed to us for the moment. When Dreamcard gets enough traction and the software is available in stores, we may be able to convince some specialty places like Fry's to carry it, but mainstream bookstores aren't likely to touch it unless it comes from a major

Re: OT - Major league cool utiltiy for Mac OSX!

2004-08-06 Thread Dan Shafer
That desktop switching stuff was one of the very few features of Linux desktop I found really useful. I'm going to look at this sucker. dan On Aug 5, 2004, at 10:27 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: I recently came across a cool new Mac utility (Panther only) which really helps me on my Powerbook. It's

Re: Plea to sell Dan's book widely

2004-08-06 Thread Dan Shafer
On Aug 6, 2004, at 7:19 AM, Dave LeYanna wrote: Is his book self-published?, Nope. RunREv set up a publishing group to handle it. In a sense, RunRev has self-published it. I own the rights to the eBook version and Kevin and I have discussed doing a POD deal but such a relationship can confuse

Re: Plea to sell Dan's book widely

2004-08-06 Thread Dan Shafer
On Aug 6, 2004, at 7:10 AM, Mark Brownell wrote: On Thursday, August 5, 2004, at 09:33 PM, Troy Rollins wrote: Convincing a book distributor that Revolution has as much appeal to the unwashed masses as iTunes? Good luck with that one. -- Troy Amazon.com has a small publisher section that would

Re: Plea to sell Dan's book widely

2004-08-06 Thread Mark Brownell
On Friday, August 6, 2004, at 08:30 AM, Dan Shafer wrote: First, fulfillment is still out of Edinburgh, which drives the cost of the book very high. International shipping costs are almost a deal killer. Second, to the extent that we enter into new contractual distribution deals we cloud the

RE: Plea to sell Dan's book widely

2004-08-06 Thread MisterX
Sims, No doubt, the EuroRevCon is a great way for us to get together, and buy discounted autographed books from our favority author. ;) No kidding, I still pride my HC handbook 2.0! I got 3 HC books and Dan's the one that got the most leafing! ;) However, spending dire marketing money on the

Re: Error message Can't find handler (was Object: value is not a boolean (true or false))

2004-08-06 Thread Dar Scott
On Aug 6, 2004, at 3:58 AM, Terry Vogelaar wrote: I added a test function to both stacks with the same name to see which of the two is called. To my surprise, the one in the login stack is called! At least that explains the Can't find handler error. That is the stack with the executed script in

Re: Plea to sell Dan's book widely

2004-08-06 Thread Andre Garzia
On Aug 6, 2004, at 1:02 PM, MisterX wrote: However, spending dire marketing money on the ADC is IMOHO a big waste. What is 20 users when you can have double that with a single post in Slashdot.org (/.) alone! Oh, I almost forgot, it's free and revisitable... However RunRev has not made much

RE: Plea to sell Dan's book widely

2004-08-06 Thread sims
Sims, No doubt, the EuroRevCon is a great way for us to get together, and buy discounted autographed books from our favority author. ;) No kidding, I still pride my HC handbook 2.0! I got 3 HC books and Dan's the one that got the most leafing! ;) However, spending dire marketing money on the ADC

IMPORTANT: Scripter's Scrapbook v4 Bug

2004-08-06 Thread FlexibleLearning
The following did not appear in the Metacard Digest vol 11 issue 7, nor in the use-Revolution digest 24 which seems to have been skipped entirely... The Scripter's Scrapbook v4.0 Important Bulletin If you are using the current version 4.0 of the Scripter's Scrapbook, there is an unlikely

Re: Plea to sell Dan's book widely

2004-08-06 Thread sims
On Aug 6, 2004, at 1:02 PM, MisterX wrote: However, spending dire marketing money on the ADC is IMOHO a big waste. What is 20 users when you can have double that with a single post in Slashdot.org (/.) alone! Oh, I almost forgot, it's free and revisitable... However RunRev has not made much

Re: Plea to sell Dan's book widely

2004-08-06 Thread Marian Petrides
Well, based on an n of 1, if it weren't for the sidebar ad on macnn (or was it macintouch?), I never would have heard of Rev. On Aug 6, 2004, at 12:02 PM, MisterX wrote: Separately, in RunRev's case, I dont know how much /. banner ads cost but surely their success have to worth the money more

OT (Re: Plea to sell Dan's book widely)

2004-08-06 Thread Andre Garzia
On Aug 6, 2004, at 1:45 PM, sims wrote: Actually, if the EuroRevCon web page did get slashdoted I hope it goes down immediately as the server fees would bankrupt me. No joke there. So I must ask CmdrTaco not to publish the note I sent ten minutes ago? *grin* :D Andre -- Andre Alves Garzia 2004

RE: Plea to sell Dan's book widely

2004-08-06 Thread MisterX
hu... being slashdotted is not fun... but it's a sign of power marketing... ;) besides, with a clear description, this could be avoided. I dont click on all the website links I see in slashdot. being slashdoted usually comes with having big downloads. uh... RR has them dont they ;)) Ready

RE: OT (Re: Plea to sell Dan's book widely)

2004-08-06 Thread MisterX
ROTFL ;) what is Cryptome.org or lecanardenchaine.fr going to say now ;) want more market but cant market it? ;)) Look at le canardenchained.fr... they want to sell news but I wont buy newspapers (save the trees) so they wont publish on the net, and I wont read it anymore... ;( Catch 22?

:=

2004-08-06 Thread K
Is there any kind of preprocessor/macro system so I can create my own assignment operator? I would die right now for a := (since = is already used). -==-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=- Disclaimer: Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or

Re: OT - Major league cool utiltiy for Mac OSX!

2004-08-06 Thread Troy Rollins
On Aug 6, 2004, at 1:27 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: I recently came across a cool new Mac utility (Panther only) which really helps me on my Powerbook. It's at: http://wsmanager.sourceforge.net/index.php This switcher is really nice, however it discriminates by the window rather than the owner

RE: :=

2004-08-06 Thread MisterX
K, there's contstant,global, local a=1 and put blabla into talk and preopenstack|card to do assignements but typing variables is obsolete in RR... equal is equal as they say ;) Lastly, since transcripts are precompiled, I doubt this would run on a RunRev made app... This is not your dad's C

[ANN] The Scripter's Scrapbook v4.01

2004-08-06 Thread FlexibleLearning
The Scripter's Scrapbook v4.01 Released 6-AUG-2004 Version 4.01 of the free software is now on-line at www.FlexibleLearning.com/xtalk. If you are using version 4, you are stongly recommended to replace it from the About screen of your Scrapbook at your earliest convenience. If you

Re: :=

2004-08-06 Thread Brian Yennie
Is there any kind of preprocessor/macro system so I can create my own assignment operator? I would die right now for a := (since = is already used). There isn't although you could conceivably write a plugin which intercepts the edit and save script messages, and modifies the script text

Re: [ANN] vector to pdf

2004-08-06 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Jim Hurley wrote: Now after your triumph with Vector to AI and a Vector to PDF, what will you do for an encore? Maybe Vector to IPod? I do not have an IPod, but accept any mp3 player from the participants of this list... ;-) But, i do not feel too triumphant. This is more a scratchy start,

Re: Plea to sell Dan's book widely

2004-08-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dan Shafer wrote: I'm afraid the bookstore route is closed to us for the moment. When Dreamcard gets enough traction and the software is available in stores, we may be able to convince some specialty places like Fry's to carry it, but mainstream bookstores aren't likely to touch it unless it

Re: Plea to sell Dan's book widely

2004-08-06 Thread Marian Petrides
My suspicion is that the key phrase in all this is [w]hen...the software is available in stores. I wonder whether any thought has been given to marketing Rev through mail order/online shops as well as brick and mortar shops On Aug 6, 2004, at 3:41 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Dan Shafer wrote:

Re: [ANN] vector to pdf

2004-08-06 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Alejandro, Actually, i do not have CAD software to test this conversion. Is DXF written as ascii text? In its simplest form, DXF can be ascii only. The DXF CAD file format appears to be well documented at myfileformats.com. http://myfileformats.com/search.php?name=dxf There are numerous

RE: Plea to sell Dan's book widely

2004-08-06 Thread Alex Tweedly
At 18:02 06/08/2004 +0200, MisterX wrote: However, spending dire marketing money on the ADC is IMOHO a big waste. What is 20 users when you can have double that with a single post in Slashdot.org (/.) alone! Oh, I almost forgot, it's free and revisitable... However RunRev has not made much

Re: Plea to sell Dan's book widely

2004-08-06 Thread Dan Shafer
Richard Of course if RevPro gets enough market traction (i.e., a large enough installed base) then a publisher would be interested. As of now, it seems to me that it is far more likely that Dreamcard will achieve that level of market penetration sooner because it is going to be sold in a

Hide Taskbar

2004-08-06 Thread Derek Bump
I have a stack that resizes to the screenRect(), but after that's done and the show taskbar command is issued, the taskbar doesn't show. Is there any way to disable Revolution from hiding the taskbar when it resizes to the screenRect()? Derek Bump Dreamscape Software

Re: Hide Taskbar

2004-08-06 Thread Chipp Walters
check out the windowBoundingRect...it is correctly set in standalones (though RR's IDE resets it so it's tough to use from within the IDE) -Chipp Derek Bump wrote: I have a stack that resizes to the screenRect(), but after that's done and the show taskbar command is issued, the taskbar doesn't

Re: Hide Taskbar

2004-08-06 Thread Derek Bump
check out the windowBoundingRect...it is correctly set in standalones (though RR's IDE resets it so it's tough to use from within the IDE) Ok, so does the windowBoundingRect adjust for the different sizes of the taskbar? Is there anything in the IDE that will return the height of the

Re: Plea to sell Dan's book widely

2004-08-06 Thread Troy Rollins
On Aug 6, 2004, at 5:54 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: I did find the Mac-orientation of Revolution a bit off-putting at first. Hypercard (and Applescript, and QT and ...) are mentioned so often, and so much discussion includes Mac mentions, that I did wonder initially just how cross-platform Rev

Re: Plea to sell Dan's book widely

2004-08-06 Thread Dan Shafer
Troy That is one of the best, most cogent, clear pieces of explanation of this phenomenon that I've seen. I've been saying this for a lot of years. It seems quite clear to me that you're right, but there are still people who don't see it our way! Dan

Re: OT - Major league cool utiltiy for Mac OSX!

2004-08-06 Thread Chipp Walters
It's really easy to get all the windows on a single window. First, navigate to any window where RR is 'frontmost' then command-option click the desktop. This effectively minimizes all the windows for RR. Next navigate to the desktop you want all the windows on, then cmd-tab to bring up the task

Re: OT - Major league cool utiltiy for Mac OSX!

2004-08-06 Thread Troy Rollins
On Aug 7, 2004, at 1:15 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: It's really easy to get all the windows on a single window. First, navigate to any window where RR is 'frontmost' then command-option click the desktop. This effectively minimizes all the windows for RR. Next navigate to the desktop you want all

Localizer - Transcriptlator - opinion request

2004-08-06 Thread MisterX
After much scripting on it, I'm puzzled what I should do and so would like to let you tell me what you think. I wrote a transcript translator engine for c, pascal, basic which also handles parts of fortran, php, flash, java and js. The last piece I added to this stack is a parser that finds all

Re: OT - Major league cool utiltiy for Mac OSX!

2004-08-06 Thread Chipp Walters
Chipp Walters wrote: It's really easy to get all the windows on a single window. First, navigate to any window where RR is 'frontmost' then command-option click the desktop. This effectively minimizes all the windows for RR. Or another way: Navigate to the desktop you want RR on and just click

vis of menuBar?

2004-08-06 Thread Chipp Walters
Does anyone know how to check whether the menuBar is hidden or not? I can't seem to find it in the docs. I've tried: the vis of menubar and it won't work. TIA, Chipp ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT - Major league cool utiltiy for Mac OSX!

2004-08-06 Thread Troy Rollins
On Aug 7, 2004, at 1:32 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: Or another way: Navigate to the desktop you want RR on and just click on the RR icon in the doc to pull up all RR windows in the 'current' desktop Yes! I just did that one accidentally. That of course, works just fine. ;-) -- Troy RPSystems,

Re: Localizer - Transcriptlator - opinion request

2004-08-06 Thread Troy Rollins
On Aug 7, 2004, at 1:44 AM, MisterX wrote: So the question is whether this last script should be made available separately in a stack from the other translators? Obviously, you are considering a possible good reason for these to be separate, but since I don't have a full understanding, perhaps

image size and depth

2004-08-06 Thread Yves COPPE
Hi list, I have a file which is a jpg file This img is taken with a digital camera I'd like a script which would change the size and the dpi of this img. The idea is to dim the size and set the dpi to 100 or 72 For now I use graphicConverter but I'm asking if it would be possible to make it