GUI and Human Interface Design -- the short list

thanks for the information: "James Cass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a good starting point for guidelines in interface design: http://developer.apple.com/referencelibrary/ GettingStarted/GS_UserExperience/index.html -- "Frank D. Engel, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You might also be interested in the in

Re: Flash and Revolution - Strange Behavior - Update

On 10/28/04 10:12 PM, "Dion McCormick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I saved an item in Flash 5 formatworked fine. > Thanks for the great pointer. > > But, I have another questionWhen I am developing a > card with a player present, sometimes it does an > extremely annoying flicker. Dion -

Re: Printing query

Thanks for the reply, Frank. However, it didn't work. I tried it on my Mac, and when I opened the PDF file I created (rather than direct to the printer) I got an error message--wrong operand or some such thing. When I tried actually printing, the printer light flashed once as it usually does befor

Flash and Revolution - Strange Behavior - Update

I saved an item in Flash 5 formatworked fine. Thanks for the great pointer. But, I have another questionWhen I am developing a card with a player present, sometimes it does an extremely annoying flicker. The environment becomes almost unusable. Anybody experiencing this on a windows env

Re: Another Menu Question

set the menuBar of stack "StackWithNoMenuBar" to "NameOfMenubarFromOtherStack" Cheers, Sarah On 29 Oct 2004, at 2:51 am, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote: Anyone know how to get a menu bar from one stack to handle keyboard shortcuts while another stack (one without a menu bar) is on top? -

Re: Wacky Submenu Problem under OS X

Frank, I think this may be due to the way that Rev tries to make OS X menus by moving certain items around. In your case, it should only move the Quit and delete the line before it, but it may be that having what becomes the last line, then starting with a tab, is causing some confusion. Just f

Re: Capturing Card Info in order to duplicate via script?

John Patten wrote: Hi All... Is there a utility that can extract all the card information, such as buttons, fields, images, etc. ...And get all the relative information about those objects, such as location, screen, color, title, filename etc. etc. I'm interested in the idea of a custom player

Re: Flash Issue

On Oct 28, 2004, at 8:32 PM, Dion McCormick wrote: Any insights you have are appreciated. Will try the Flash 5 item! You shouldn't have any problems getting Swish style stuff to be Flash 5 compatible, and that is really the whole key to getting QuickTime, and therefore Rev to display it. Swish i

Flash Issue

I have some existing flash material that I would like to add to my projects. Hate to have to re-create that contentand flash has some great tools (swish) for creating some cool flash "bits" to add to a project. Any insights you have are appreciated. Will try the Flash 5 item! dion >What d

Capturing Card Info in order to duplicate via script?

Hi All... Is there a utility that can extract all the card information, such as buttons, fields, images, etc. ...And get all the relative information about those objects, such as location, screen, color, title, filename etc. etc.   I'm interested in the idea of a custom player, ... that plays re

animation builder in dreamcard 2.5

I read here that this is no longer supported and is considered "open source". The revanimation.rev stack is in the distribution but the "Animation Builder" command is not available in the tools menu (as the on-line help would have you think). I have tried simply opening the revanimation.rev st

Re: Linux KDE & GNOME question

On Oct 28, 2004, at 1:02 PM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote: If he is using the standard display manager installed as part of Mandrake, he can just choose KDE from a popup menu when logging in. No need to restart or anything. I think the GNOME display manager has something similar (most *NIX system

Re: Linux KDE & GNOME question

If he is using the standard display manager installed as part of Mandrake, he can just choose KDE from a popup menu when logging in. No need to restart or anything. I think the GNOME display manager has something similar (most *NIX systems do anymore; Solaris does, IRIX does not). As long as

Re: Best way to create multicolored windows icon on a mac?

Hi Mallte: I do not know if IconBuilder works with Photoelements. It might say on the IconFactory website. Cheers, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot I will look a both. :-) Paul wrote: I use IconBuilder for Windows - see http://www.iconfactory.com/ibxp_home.asp Do you happen to k

Re: Linux KDE & GNOME question

On Oct 28, 2004, at 12:49 PM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote: That might be related to the window manager, so yes, you are correct to investigate KDE vs. GNOME here. I am leaning towards the issue being a GNOME related problem as I do not see the same issue with KDE. He is running Mandrake 10.1 whil

Re: Passing unknown number of referenced variables to a function

On Oct 28, 2004, at 10:52 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: Trevor, Why not just send back XML from the server and parse it? You could create a single parsing function to extract just the data you're looking for...at least that's how we do it. I am doing something similar now though I am not using XML. T

Re: Linux KDE & GNOME question

That might be related to the window manager, so yes, you are correct to investigate KDE vs. GNOME here. On Oct 28, 2004, at 3:38 PM, Mark Talluto wrote: On Oct 28, 2004, at 12:33 PM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote: Note that this will make a very marginal difference in most cases. Unless there is an

SSH and SFTP in RR?

Can FTP be setup to do SSH and/or SFTP in the current version of RR? TIA, Chipp ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Linux KDE & GNOME question

On Oct 28, 2004, at 12:33 PM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote: Note that this will make a very marginal difference in most cases. Unless there is an issue related to drag&drop, the clipboard, or window size/resizing/maximizing/moving, etc., this should make no difference whatsoever. It's not impossi

Re: Linux KDE & GNOME question

Note that this will make a very marginal difference in most cases. Unless there is an issue related to drag&drop, the clipboard, or window size/resizing/maximizing/moving, etc., this should make no difference whatsoever. It's not impossible that it could be throwing off environment variables

RE: Flash and Revolution - Strange Behavior

What do you want to do in terms of flash? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Troy Rollins > Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 19:53 > To: How to use Revolution > Subject: Re: Flash and Revolution - Strange Behavior > > > On Oct 28

Re: Linux KDE & GNOME question

On Oct 28, 2004, at 12:05 PM, Troy Rollins wrote: On Oct 28, 2004, at 3:01 PM, Mark Talluto wrote: Ok. I wasn't sure. Thanks Troy. Based on the docs for 2.5, KDE would be the preferred graphical shell. Do you have that opinion? Yes, I'd have to say that I do. KDE tends to lean toward doing thi

Re: Best way to create multicolored windows icon on a mac?

Hi Malte: Sorry, I don't know if IconBuilder works with Photoshop Elements. It might say on their website. Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot I will look a both. :-) Paul wrote: I use IconBuilder for Windows - see http://www.iconfactory.com/ibxp_home.asp Do you happen to know if i

Re: Linux KDE & GNOME question

On Oct 28, 2004, at 3:01 PM, Mark Talluto wrote: Ok. I wasn't sure. Thanks Troy. Based on the docs for 2.5, KDE would be the preferred graphical shell. Do you have that opinion? Yes, I'd have to say that I do. KDE tends to lean toward doing things in ways that Windows and Mac users find "norm

Re: Linux KDE & GNOME question

On Oct 28, 2004, at 11:59 AM, Troy Rollins wrote: On Oct 28, 2004, at 2:56 PM, Mark Talluto wrote: Would someone confirm that KDE and GNOME do the same thing but are separate options? I mean, do you need to have both installed on your Linux system or will one of them do? If you have both instal

Re: Linux KDE & GNOME question

On Oct 28, 2004, at 2:56 PM, Mark Talluto wrote: Would someone confirm that KDE and GNOME do the same thing but are separate options? I mean, do you need to have both installed on your Linux system or will one of them do? If you have both installed (Mandrake comes with both), how do you switch

Linux KDE & GNOME question

Would someone confirm that KDE and GNOME do the same thing but are separate options? I mean, do you need to have both installed on your Linux system or will one of them do? If you have both installed (Mandrake comes with both), how do you switch from one to the other (provide that is possible

Re: Flash and Revolution - Strange Behavior

On Oct 28, 2004, at 1:43 PM, Dion McCormick wrote: Are there things that Quicktime can't handle in flash? ActionScript beyond Flash 5. You can "export as Flash 5" in recent versions of Flash, but depending on techniques (and components) used in the Flash content, it may or may not work. -- Troy R

Re: Passing unknown number of referenced variables to a function

Trevor, Why not just send back XML from the server and parse it? You could create a single parsing function to extract just the data you're looking for...at least that's how we do it. best, Chipp Trevor DeVore wrote: The function actually returns an array already. I wanted to be able to creat

Re: Best way to create multicolored windows icon on a mac?

You also might want to check out my icon building tutorial at: http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/StandaloneBuilderTutorial/BuildingIconsforMacOSXandWindowsXP.htm I don't think the iconFactory plugin works with PhotoElements. ___ use-revolution mailing li

Flash and Revolution - Strange Behavior

Good call. I attempted to load the flash directly into the player and I get the error: "Couldn't open the file "XYZ.swf" because invalid media data was found in the movie." Are there things that Quicktime can't handle in flash? dion ___ use-revol

Re: Passing unknown number of referenced variables to a function

On 10/28/04 11:53 AM, "Dr.John R.Vokey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not true; just create the function with more input variables than you > would ever need to pass to it, then use the paramCount and params > functions within it to retrieve those passed. Unfortunately that only works with "regula

Re: Passing unknown number of referenced variables to a function

On Oct 28, 2004, at 9:53 AM, Dr.John R.Vokey wrote: Not true; just create the function with more input variables than you would ever need to pass to it, then use the paramCount and params functions within it to retrieve those passed. That works for passing data into a function but not for using

Re: Passing unknown number of referenced variables to a function

That was a option no one provided. Interesting! Thanks for the education. -==-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=- Disclaimer: Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental. Any resemblance between the above

Re: Passing unknown number of referenced variables to a function

Not true; just create the function with more input variables than you would ever need to pass to it, then use the paramCount and params functions within it to retrieve those passed. On 28-Oct-04, at 10:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I posted the exact question some time ago and was told it is

Re: Best way to create multicolored windows icon on a mac?

On Oct 28, 2004, at 3:40 AM, Malte Brill wrote: Hi list, as I´m getting closer to building the standalone versions of my game I would love to have an icon for the win version. Can we have 256 colors icons and how would I prepare them on a Mac? Thanks a lot, Malte I really like Iconworkshop from

Another Menu Question

Anyone know how to get a menu bar from one stack to handle keyboard shortcuts while another stack (one without a menu bar) is on top? --- Frank D. Engel, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> $ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual $ true | cat /usr/manu

Re: Passing unknown number of referenced variables to a function

Would it be possible in your case to use an array for now? The function actually returns an array already. I wanted to be able to create multiple arrays at once. The array being returned is a db result set array that I use with my libDatabase library. When running with a PHP application over

Re: OTT Python

Hugh, I could do a few simple tests (on MacOS 9), but I wouldn't know what a colorization scheme for Python would look like. I guess you won't support that for Python? I just put some Python script into the Scripter's Scrapbook (without support for Python). Which features would you like me to t

Wacky Submenu Problem under OS X

Okay, I have a File menu. The text reads something like this (put button "File"): (&Print/P Print &Labels 516&0 516&1 516&2 516&3 516&4 526&7 - Quick &Reference - &Quit/Q Note that those are indeed tabs, created by Menu Builder/Mana

Re: Passing unknown number of referenced variables to a function

Trevor DeVore wrote: On Oct 27, 2004, at 8:14 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On 10/27/04 1:21 PM, "Trevor DeVore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it possible in transcript to have a function that supports the passing of multiple referenced variables and assigning values to those variables? Sorry, Trevor, the an

RE: Passing unknown number of referenced variables to a function

I posted the exact question some time ago and was told it is not possible. Kevin -==-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=- Disclaimer: Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental. Any resemblance between

RE: SendMCMessage() (please ignore)

Sorry, I did not understand how SendMCMessage() worked and I created a few functions and seem to better understand it now. Kevin -==-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=- Disclaimer: Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window a

wait with messages revisited.

Okay, some time ago everyone assisted me with understanding how "wait with messages" functions. I am still a bit confused. In my testing I found the following. Example code: [Button A] global evtA on mouseUp put "Waiting on event (A)" & cr into field edtStatus wait until evtA with mess

Re: Best way to create multicolored windows icon on a mac?

Thanks a lot I will look a both. :-) Paul wrote: >I use IconBuilder for Windows - see http://www.iconfactory.com/ibxp_home.asp Do you happen to know if it works with Photoshop Elements? Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote: >http://www.mscape.com/products/iconographer.html >And a note to the person sett

Re: an handler inside another...help

Hi Gordon, Thanks for the idea. I got it working differently but almost in the same direction. I declared a global variable lineNum. Initialise that to the start of the file Added a handler on a button to read two lines if lineNum is less than the number of lines in the file and put that in the

OTT Python

Is anyone able to test script colorization for Python using the Scripter's Scrapbook, please? Many thanks! /H Hugh Senior The Flexible Learning Company Web: www.FlexibleLearning.com E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T/F: +44(0)1483.27 87 27 ___ use-revoluti

Re: Best way to create multicolored windows icon on a mac?

Hi Malte, I use IconBuilder for Windows - see . You need Photoshop 7.x or later though. You can get a version for Mac OS X as well. I think you can use ResEdit for the Mac as well (it's free) - though I think it runs under the Classic system. Paul [EMA

Re: Best way to create multicolored windows icon on a mac?

Hi Malte, I use IconBuilder for Windows - see . You need Photoshop 7.x or later though. You can get a version for Mac OS X as well. I think you can use ResEdit for the Mac as well (it's free) - though I think it runs under the Classic system. Paul [EMA

Re: External Development Question

Actuall, with read from stdin which seems to halt the message pump during the read holding the application hostage. -==-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=- Disclaimer: Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coin

Re: Best way to create multicolored windows icon on a mac?

http://www.mscape.com/products/iconographer.html And a note to the person setting up the FAQ/Wiki thing: this would be a good topic to include, I have seen it come up a few times already... On Oct 28, 2004, at 6:40 AM, Malte Brill wrote: Hi list, as I´m getting closer to building the standalone v

Re: Printing query

Why not specify the rect on the page as well as on the card (print this card from to into )... On Oct 27, 2004, at 7:27 PM, David Squance wrote: Hello Group, I've created a little app to print labels, and am trying to adapt it to do envelopes. I'm having trouble getting my head around the num

Visual Basic vs Revolution quick question

Is anyone familiar with the way Visual Basic works (or worked) as far as 'using' the controls you create? I was under the impression that you had to 'run' your project in VB (which basically meant compiling it) before you could actually use anything. I am trying to make a case for using Revolution

Best way to create multicolored windows icon on a mac?

Hi list, as I´m getting closer to building the standalone versions of my game I would love to have an icon for the win version. Can we have 256 colors icons and how would I prepare them on a Mac? Thanks a lot, Malte ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMA

Re: Passing unknown number of referenced variables to a function

Would using an array be out of the question? Cheers, Mark On 28 Oct 2004, at 06:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/27/04 1:21 PM, "Trevor DeVore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it possible in transcript to have a function that supports the passing of multiple referenced variables and assigning value