TIP: isImagLoaded function

2005-06-22 Thread MisterX
Hi all! Here's a couple new TAOO XOSMediaLib functions im sure many are going to enjoy! However I know this one feature is much needed so i can release it outside the TAOO framework. here's the little add-on-script i made to see if an image existed or was loaded and by what stack. To use it,

Re: OT: RR and FileMaker

2005-06-22 Thread Ken Ray
On 6/20/05 12:27 PM, Bill Moseid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill, Revolution is a general purpose programming environment and does not mimic keystrokes or mouse clicks. That said, you can certainly use AppleScript on Mac to send messages to FileMaker and make it do things, and you may be able to

Re: background groups issues

2005-06-22 Thread Jim Ault
MisterX , fixing multiple background groups..an idea Yes, I too had to get used the idea of the brave new world of group anarchy. I once had to reach back to my old HC days where I had an important stack with lots of copies of fields on the card background, not the stack background. An idea

RE: background groups issues

2005-06-22 Thread MisterX
Jim, Thanks for input! But a rather lengthy procedure... Thanks for reminding me of the exportgroup function in taoo - it copies all objects in a group to another (a group of object = a stack of cards). Since i dont use cps in my data stacks, im home free on this suggestion! However the pain

[ANN] Correction Patch for Rev 2.6 Answer Dialog

2005-06-22 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi everyone, Lately, I followed the thread about the Answer dialog weird behaviour with Rev 2.6. In fact, the dontwrap of the field displaying the prompt is sometimes set (leaved) to false: this depends on the width of the window or the width of the buttons set. So, I wrote a correction

zoom image effect?

2005-06-22 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Hello List, I'm not sure if the zoom-like visual effect I'm after is easily done but, here goes. Basically, when a user enters an image with the mouse, that image will get larger, preferably gradually rather than instantly. And once the user exits the image, it'll return to its original size

Re: zoom image effect?

2005-06-22 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Nicolas, On-the-Fly and not tested but should do the job :-) function MayIZoomOut pImage if the left of img pImage = 0 then return false if the right of img pImage = the width of this cd then return false if the top of img pImage = 0 then return false if the bottom of img pImage = the

Re: Images in Customproperties

2005-06-22 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Glen, Scott, This is more at what I was getting at. I made a simple error in thinking that the image tower when stored as a custom property also had its custom properties stored...NOT. Thanks for the enlightenment. Any thoughts on my other question...if I stored an image from my hard

RE: New To Rev - Cards And Files?

2005-06-22 Thread Scott Kane
Hi all, First off - thank you very much for all your suggestions. I am exploring each one. :-) One snag I ran into is for the libIPC.rev.sgz file in the Serendipity library. The link is broken and I can't download this file. :-( It seems to be essential (I can't read the doc's without it) and

Re: zoom image effect?

2005-06-22 Thread Klaus Major
Konichi-wa Nicolas-san, Hello List, I'm not sure if the zoom-like visual effect I'm after is easily done but, here goes. Basically, when a user enters an image with the mouse, that image will get larger, preferably gradually rather than instantly. And once the user exits the image, it'll

Re: Ann: Simple Spirograph-like toy program.

2005-06-22 Thread Alex Tweedly
John Ridge wrote: sec I don't understand the point of wait 0... When I comment out the line, the program runs 300 revolutions in 2300 millisecs on my system (this is an average of 10 trials, using the default settings as in the stack you uploaded). With the line back in at wait 0, it takes 1962

Bug with background groups

2005-06-22 Thread Ton Kuypers
Hi, I'm using RR 2.6 on Tiger. I've created a bunch of fields and labels to give a description to the user on what to put in those fields. Then I grouped all items and checked the behave like a background in the property inspector. When I create a new card, all fields, popup menu's etc.

Re: compileIt for revolution?

2005-06-22 Thread Alex Tweedly
MisterX wrote: [ about the need for more speed for some things ] Example: The HotKeyN2O stack stores all properties of all controls in a card when the user opens the card. The props are all in array form which cannot be stored into another array (time based array of object changes). So for

Re: Bug with background groups

2005-06-22 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Ton, Just set the sharedText property to true for your labels and to false for your fields :-) Le 22 juin 05 à 12:12, Ton Kuypers a écrit : Hi, I'm using RR 2.6 on Tiger. I've created a bunch of fields and labels to give a description to the user on what to put in those fields. Then

Re: Bug with background groups

2005-06-22 Thread Ton Kuypers
:-))) Thanks, that did the job! On 22 Jun 2005, at 12:21, Eric Chatonet wrote: Hi Ton, Just set the sharedText property to true for your labels and to false for your fields :-) Le 22 juin 05 à 12:12, Ton Kuypers a écrit : Hi, I'm using RR 2.6 on Tiger. I've created a bunch of

RE: background groups issues

2005-06-22 Thread Marielle Lange
An idea for your situation would be to copy the original stack, delete all cards but the one that has the correct layering, etc, then write a script that will make a new card for each in the original, getting and setting all the card-by-card items/fld data/radio settings/x,y,w,h... No need

Re: Latest version of Revolution ?

2005-06-22 Thread Bill
When I choose check for updates on my build 108 on mac os 10.3 it says I must get build number 91). Maybe you are on windows or OS tiger. I can't run Tiger because it destroyed Hypercard. On 6/22/05 12:11 AM, Dan Shafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting. I don't have those problems at all.

Re: Latest version of Revolution ?

2005-06-22 Thread Robert Brenstein
Interesting. I don't have those problems at all. On Jun 21, 2005, at 7:13 PM, Kurt Kaufman wrote: On Jun 21, 2005, at 7:54 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: Can't you just use the Check for Updates... option under Help menu and find out if you have the latest and greatest?

Re: the := operator (affectation)

2005-06-22 Thread Dom
Dan Shafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I always found the whole ==, +=, :=, == syntax mess pretty ugly. I love the elegance of put 32 into x.) ;-) why not ending lines by a ; -- but not always, unless the program bugs silently ;- -- Revolutionario

Re: compileIt for revolution?

2005-06-22 Thread Dennis Brown
Dan, I also would like to speed up array processing. It kills me that my friend won't move from VB to Rev because when I write the same array processing problem that he uses, VB runs 10+ times faster than Rev. I also have had to jump through hoops trying to figure out ways to make my

Re: Ann: Simple Spirograph-like toy program.

2005-06-22 Thread John Ridge
on 21/6/05 11:05 am, Alex Tweedly wrote : snip The point of wait 0 msec with messages is to provide an opportunity for other messages to be handled. In this case, the Stop button can be pressed and will stop the drawing by unsetting gKeepDrawing; without the wait line, processing this message

Copying customPropertySet with associated customKeys

2005-06-22 Thread Glen Bojsza
Again, I am trying to dig deeper into custom properties. I am trying to store the customPropertySet with associated customKeys and the associated property contents of the keys into another object's custom properties. I have , thanks to Dan and Scott, been able to store an image and the

Re: compileIt for revolution?

2005-06-22 Thread Gordon Webster
I would absolutely echo what Dennis has just said. I was initially really impressed with rev and I should say I still am in certain respects - comfort and ease of use, the elegant and intuitive language and stack/card paradigm etc. etc. But I have been unable to get rev to do what I want it to do

Re: compileIt for revolution?

2005-06-22 Thread Derek Bump
I have spoke with a few individuals in regards to creating a utility for Revolution that would convert Transcript to C. Unfortunately, I know little of C and the individuals I talked with were not ready to start a project such as what you want. But...it is possible. If one who knows C and

Re: Recording Sound in Windows?

2005-06-22 Thread Devin Asay
Sharon, If you have a reproduceable recipe for this I'll help you post it as a bug to Bugzilla. Devin On Jun 21, 2005, at 4:34 PM, Sharon Stamps wrote: Hello all, I went searching the archives to find out if anyone had encountered the same problem I've had with the record sound feature

No entry in Window's task bar

2005-06-22 Thread Peter T. Evensen
When I run my standalone, there is no entry for the program in the Windows task bar. Mark Waddingham (I think it was) said this was because my Windows don't have title bars. While this is true (all my windows are graphical in nature), it seems that for a standalone SOMETHING should appear in

Re: No entry in Window's task bar

2005-06-22 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Peter, Normal behaviour at the moment :-) You could try, as a workaround, to keep a visible window with its titlebar but of-screen (-1000,-1000) as a signal for Windows... Le 22 juin 05 à 16:45, Peter T. Evensen a écrit : When I run my standalone, there is no entry for the program in the

Re: Principles for User-Interface Design

2005-06-22 Thread Jon
If you want a real kick in the UI pants, check out the late Jef Raskin's book called The Humane Interface. His ideas are radical enough that they cannot be implemented in most development environments, but they are worth considering. :) Jon Alejandro Tejada wrote: Hi Developers, i

Re: the := operator (affectation)

2005-06-22 Thread Jon
I doubt that it is verbose enough for this crowd sick grin :) Jon Eric Engle wrote: Is there any chance that transcript will incorporate the := operator? This is the pascal operator of affectation (put value into variable -- variable := value) This operator is available in lingo.

RE: background groups issues

2005-06-22 Thread MisterX
Marielle, im not sure you're talking about the same thing... You're talking about changing one group's content. Im talking about multiple backgrounds over many cards. And in a pseudo way the place command... Example: create stack, create a bg group 1, create a bg grp 2. Now create cards... No

RE: compileIt for revolution?

2005-06-22 Thread MisterX
Thanks Alex, I think i did start out the way you mentioned and then got into the objectness of the associative array. That may be my problem... Thanks for the heads up! Xavier -Original Message- From: Alex Tweedly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 12:21 To:

Re: the := operator (affectation)

2005-06-22 Thread Jon
Dan Shafer wrote: (I always found the whole ==, +=, :=, == syntax mess pretty ugly. I love the elegance of put 32 into x.) Elegance, verbosity. Poe-tay-toe, poe-tah-toe... ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: the := operator (affectation)

2005-06-22 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Jon and others, Transcript is designed to be an XTalk language. The XTalk basis is to look like every day english language. If it looses this easiness, it's no longer an XTalk ;-) Le 22 juin 05 à 16:59, Jon a écrit : I doubt that it is verbose enough for this crowd sick grin :) Jon

Mac vs PC .csv files

2005-06-22 Thread Dennis Brown
Good day to everyone, I have been ask by a friend on a PC to send him some files in .csv format. When I do, he complains that the returns are missing. I guess I am still a bit unclear on this difference between platforms. As I understand it the Mac uses LF for a delimiter, and the PC

Re: compileIt for revolution?

2005-06-22 Thread Jon
I have a feeling that there is compiled and then there is compiled. It is my impression (correct me if I'm wrong) that Rev compiles to pCodes (similar to the old pSystem and to Visual Basic), while Delphi and C++ compile to native code. The difference in performance is between one and three

Re: Mac vs PC .csv files

2005-06-22 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Dennis, You could have a look at the macToIso and isoToMac functions. Le 22 juin 05 à 17:07, Dennis Brown a écrit : I have been ask by a friend on a PC to send him some files in .csv format. When I do, he complains that the returns are missing. I guess I am still a bit unclear on this

Re: No entry in Window's task bar

2005-06-22 Thread Peter T. Evensen
That's an interesting idea Hadn't thought of a window off screen. Thanks! At 09:52 AM 6/22/2005, you wrote: Hi Peter, Normal behaviour at the moment :-) You could try, as a workaround, to keep a visible window with its titlebar but of-screen (-1000,-1000) as a signal for Windows... Le

Re: compileIt for revolution?

2005-06-22 Thread Peter T. Evensen
I believe part of the problem is that Revolution doesn't have numerically index arrays. The arrays are associative arrays whose indexes can be any value (including text) so element access is a lookup, rather than an address computation. At 10:07 AM 6/22/2005, you wrote: I have a feeling

RE: compileIt for revolution?

2005-06-22 Thread MisterX
then maybe the key is to have better array handlers like filter does for lines for example... is that what you mean? Note that creating an external is just a function call in any script so the script impact is minimal - actually, it does make scritps simpler... And to rebute another of Dan's

Re: compileIt for revolution?

2005-06-22 Thread Jon
Dan Shafer wrote: How in the world would you expect a compiled script or handler -- if such a thing were possible -- to then be smoothly integrated into a stand-alone app? Seems trivial to me: that's what traditional object code libraries and DLLs are for. As for performance, tuning

RE: compileIt for revolution?

2005-06-22 Thread MisterX
Derek, Not to mean that i have all the answers (but i've tried to answer all the questions in this respect before). I know C pretty well but i hate it any time you have to debug anything like pointer increments or loookup tables. Note that C compilers (not hte free ones) usually have great

Re: No entry in Window's task bar

2005-06-22 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Peter, What I have done for my graphic stacks is to have a main stack that is the startup/splash stack with a title bar with the other windows as substacks of this main stack and then when the splash stack (which is in the task bar) is brought to the front have a script hide it 'and' bring

Re: No entry in Window's task bar

2005-06-22 Thread Peter T. Evensen
Ok, while this works, is there any message sent to a stack when it is brought to the front?What happens is if I choose the task by entry for my off-screen window, it comes to the front, but the rest of my app stays behind everything else and I have the same problem. At 10:15 AM 6/22/2005,

Tab Fields: Ahhhhaaaahhhhh Now I get it.

2005-06-22 Thread rev
Hi All. I know one of the major problems with newbies (like I was a while back ) is tab-fields/menus. Now I just revisited this today, making an app for our lab, and I sussed out tab fileds. Now I know this may sound silly to the gurus, but I really cannot beleive how simple it is. Now I have my

Re: No entry in Window's task bar

2005-06-22 Thread Jon
For what it's worth, I run more than one standalone (compiled) stack in Windows all of the time, and they all show up in the TaskBar, the same as any other program. :) Peter T. Evensen wrote: When I run my standalone, there is no entry for the program in the Windows task bar. Mark

Re: No entry in Window's task bar

2005-06-22 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Peter, The unIconifyStack message might help you: Trap this message in your visible but off screen window and go to the stacks you want :-) Did not test it but should work... Le 22 juin 05 à 17:32, Peter T. Evensen a écrit : Ok, while this works, is there any message sent to a stack when

Re: No entry in Window's task bar

2005-06-22 Thread Thomas McGrath III
unIconifyStack --Sent when a stack is un-minimized. on unIconifyStack -- in stack script put return the short name of me after field List \ of stack Open Windows List end unIconifyStack iconifyStack --Sent to the current card when a stack is minimized. on iconifyStack -- hide

Re: Mac vs PC .csv files

2005-06-22 Thread Jon
The Mac uses LF, the PC uses CRLF pairs... Dennis Brown wrote: Good day to everyone, I have been ask by a friend on a PC to send him some files in .csv format. When I do, he complains that the returns are missing. I guess I am still a bit unclear on this difference between platforms.

Re: compileIt for revolution?

2005-06-22 Thread Jon
Total agreement... Gordon Webster wrote: I would absolutely echo what Dennis has just said. I was initially really impressed with rev and I should say I still am in certain respects - comfort and ease of use, the elegant and intuitive language and stack/card paradigm etc. etc. But I have been

Re: compileIt for revolution?

2005-06-22 Thread Glen Bojsza
Well, from what I see here is a business opportunity. If everyone that is interested in achieving this (and willing to pay). Then I would suggest a group should be formed andcreate a well defined set a specifications. I am sure that Chipp at Altuit or someone else would be able to produce the

Re: No entry in Window's task bar

2005-06-22 Thread Peter T. Evensen
I just found that. is uniconifyStack the same as resumeStack? Thanks! At 10:37 AM 6/22/2005, you wrote: Hi Peter, The unIconifyStack message might help you: Trap this message in your visible but off screen window and go to the stacks you want :-) Did not test it but should work... Le 22

Re: No entry in Window's task bar

2005-06-22 Thread Peter T. Evensen
Do your windows have title bars? If so, that is why. Mine do not, because they are completely graphical windows, so they don't appear. At 10:36 AM 6/22/2005, you wrote: For what it's worth, I run more than one standalone (compiled) stack in Windows all of the time, and they all show up in

Re: No entry in Window's task bar

2005-06-22 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Peter T. Evensen wrote: is there any message sent to a stack when it is brought to the front? See the resume and resumeStack messages. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.tactilemedia.com

Re: Copying customPropertySet with associated customKeys

2005-06-22 Thread Ken Ray
On 6/22/05 9:12 AM, Glen Bojsza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, I am trying to dig deeper into custom properties. I am trying to store the customPropertySet with associated customKeys and the associated property contents of the keys into another object's custom properties. I have ,

Re: Copying customPropertySet with associated customKeys

2005-06-22 Thread Glen Bojsza
Brilliant Ray, this helps pull it all together. I hope others will find this as useful... thanks, On 6/22/05, Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/22/05 9:12 AM, Glen Bojsza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, I am trying to dig deeper into custom properties. I am trying to store the

Re: No entry in Window's task bar

2005-06-22 Thread Peter T. Evensen
It seems resumeStack and/or unIconifyStack is not always sent. It seem to be sent every other time. Maybe a bug? At 10:37 AM 6/22/2005, you wrote: Hi Peter, The unIconifyStack message might help you: Trap this message in your visible but off screen window and go to the stacks you want :-)

Re: Re: the := operator (affectation)

2005-06-22 Thread Malte Brill
Jon wrote: I doubt that it is verbose enough for this crowd sick grin I´m sure I´ve got some medication left... Cheers, Malte ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

ANN Daily Crytoquote

2005-06-22 Thread Jim Hurley
This is for those of you programmers with time on your hands. :-) I am still trying to catch up after our magnificent Run Rev conference. Some time ago I change my newspaper subscription from the San Francisco Chronicle to the NYT. The Times is a a great paper but it wouldn't stoop to

Re: Principles for User-Interface Design

2005-06-22 Thread Alejandro Tejada
on Wed, 22 Jun 2005 Jon wrote: If you want a real kick in the UI pants, check out the late Jef Raskin's book called The Humane Interface. His ideas are radical enough that they cannot be implemented in most development environments, but they are worth considering. Hi John, Thanks

Re: Mac vs PC .csv files

2005-06-22 Thread Ken Ray
On 6/22/05 10:07 AM, Dennis Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good day to everyone, I have been ask by a friend on a PC to send him some files in .csv format. When I do, he complains that the returns are missing. I guess I am still a bit unclear on this difference between platforms. As I

Re: background groups issues

2005-06-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/22/05 10:03 AM, MisterX wrote: Example: create stack, create a bg group 1, create a bg grp 2. Now create cards... No probs, all is replicated. If you go back to cd 1 and create a new bg group then - it's not in the other cards you made prev. - if you create new cards, you have 3 bgs but

RE: compileIt for revolution?

2005-06-22 Thread Rob Cozens
Mr. X, et al: The whole compileIT is not required but an internal module to create ultra-fast native code would be great. Now that would be a programmer's tool worth any eye candy in RunRev. Add access to system calls, and you have my support. Rob Cozens Wisdom entereth not into a malicious

Re: compileIt for revolution?

2005-06-22 Thread Dan Shafer
Not forgetting, Brian, just discounting. :-D I avoided that stuff like the plague. Guess I'm a bit of an xtalk purist (or some would say bigot). Transcript isn't going to be THE solution/language for all problems. Every time we try to glue something onto it to solve a problem it wasn't

Re: Food Fight - Rev Name Space

2005-06-22 Thread Sivakatirswami
One is immediately struck by the larger implications of this microcosm of non-conflicting Rev tools and therefore the greater significance of establishing these conventions. blue sky dream A single, universal player ala Acrobat Reader, suddenly goes big time in terms of popularity The

Re: Naming conventions [was: Food Fight]

2005-06-22 Thread Dennis Brown
Thanks for the many replies about naming conventions. So to summarize: 1. The cryptic names are not really being pushed to make things unreadable, but as protection from the deficiencies of Rev. 2. The lack of a naming scope somewhere between local and global (such as namespace or the

RE: compileIt for revolution?

2005-06-22 Thread MisterX
Gordon, Beware that even i surprise myself with newby tricks. I just posted a slow fractal moire maker. It creates beautiful patterns and the detail is amazing but it does so creating some 4 graphics in a card. For the truely beautiful patterns, it took 30 graphics! The making can still

Re: Tab Fields: Ahhhhaaaahhhhh Now I get it.

2005-06-22 Thread Jon
Bob: Since I'm not sure what you mean, SURE, why not write an intro! :) Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All. I know one of the major problems with newbies (like I was a while back ) is tab-fields/menus. Now I just revisited this today, making an app for our lab, and I sussed out tab

Re: No entry in Window's task bar

2005-06-22 Thread Jon
Peter: Right you are. After I sent my response, I read some of the other traffic, and realized I was not answering the question you asked. Sorry about that! :) Jon Peter T. Evensen wrote: Do your windows have title bars? If so, that is why. Mine do not, because they are completely

Re: Tab Fields: Ahhhhaaaahhhhh Now I get it.

2005-06-22 Thread Kaveh Bazargan
At 12:42 -0400 22/6/05, Jon wrote: Bob: Since I'm not sure what you mean, SURE, why not write an intro! Yes please. Me too. :-) -- Kaveh Bazargan http://www.river-valley.com/ http://www.holographer.org/ ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Food Fight - Rev Name Space

2005-06-22 Thread Ken Ray
On 6/22/05 1:50 AM, Sivakatirswami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I understand the ECMI convention proposal correctly I should start using a double prefix as in: Company=HAP Himalayan Academy Publications # where do I go to register this officially with ECMI? e.g. 1 Main Stack Name=

Re: Mac vs PC .csv files

2005-06-22 Thread Dennis Brown
Thanks, Ken, Eric, and Jon, I was looking to create them in Rev. Importing and exporting them from another program (Excel) is what I am doing now. Dennis On Jun 22, 2005, at 12:16 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On 6/22/05 10:07 AM, Dennis Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good day to everyone, I

RE: compileIt for revolution?

2005-06-22 Thread Gordon Webster
Sweet! But still all UI-related. You'll get no argument from me that rev is great for the UI, but no amount of such trickery will ever allow me to implement an efficient algorithm in Transcript to process large 3-dimensional arrays of floating point numbers ... and have it complete while I'm

Re: Food Fight - Rev Name Space

2005-06-22 Thread Sivakatirswami
Aloha, Ken: Yes HAP = Himalayan Academy Publications Always has... always will, carved in stone. So, thanks you.. enter it on the new registry. Thanks! Sivakatirswami On Jun 22, 2005, at 6:51 AM, Ken Ray wrote: On 6/22/05 1:50 AM, Sivakatirswami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I

Re: compileIt for revolution?

2005-06-22 Thread Dennis Brown
I think the issue here is an elegant and efficient way to interface with externals. If we had this, it would solve both problems. When I say efficient, I don't mean pass a 100MB array as a text string to an external that converts it to numbers than does some processing and converts back

Re: Bug with background groups

2005-06-22 Thread Judy Perry
I'm still on 2.5.x, but what you're describing isn't happenning here... Judy 2.5.? LS 10.3.8 On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Ton Kuypers wrote: I'm using RR 2.6 on Tiger. I've created a bunch of fields and labels to give a description to the user on what to put in those fields. Then I grouped all

Re: Bug with background groups

2005-06-22 Thread Judy Perry
Which would seem to be the default?? Judy On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Eric Chatonet wrote: Just set the sharedText property to true for your labels and to false for your fields :-) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

[ANN2] Correction Patch for Rev 2.6 Answer Dialog

2005-06-22 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi everyone, This morning (GMT time), I posted the following mail to the list: Lately, I followed the thread about the Answer dialog weird behaviour with Rev 2.6. In fact, the dontwrap of the field displaying the prompt is sometimes set (leaved) to false: this depends on the width of the

[CCC] Simple challenge chat event

2005-06-22 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Dear Revolution Community, After a long and thorough discussion (in other words, after fighting among ourselves ;-) ), the judges have (almost) chosen the winning stacks in the Simple Challenge of the ChatRev Coding Contest. To celebrate, we will announce the winners of the contest and

Re: Naming conventions [was: Food Fight]

2005-06-22 Thread Mark Wieder
Dennis- Wednesday, June 22, 2005, 9:40:09 AM, you wrote: DB aWell bThis cIs dVery eInterresting. fPerhaps gWe hCan iPropose DB jSomething kThat lMakes mA nBit oMore pSense qBy rAddressing sThe DB tReal uIssues vBetween wWhat xUsers yNeed zTo aDo, bAnd cWhat DB dTranscript eNeeds fTo gDo.

Re: Mac vs PC .csv files

2005-06-22 Thread Robert Brenstein
Hi Dennis, You could have a look at the macToIso and isoToMac functions. Except that I don't think that mactoiso converts cr to crlf. After running mactoiso, he may have to replace cr with crlf and use binary write to save the file. I also had problems sending such files as email

Re: Bug with background groups

2005-06-22 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Judy, Le 22 juin 05 à 19:08, Judy Perry a écrit : Which would seem to be the default?? On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Eric Chatonet wrote: Just set the sharedText property to true for your labels and to false for your fields :-) You are right but I suspect that Ton transformed usual fields to

Re: Principles for User-Interface Design

2005-06-22 Thread Judy Perry
I especially got a kick out of reading what he had to say about user-configurable UIs and MS Word 6 for Mac. Basically, his take was that user-configurable UIs are a TERRIBLE idea but, that in the case of Word 6 for Mac, the UI was already such a total piece of crap that anything that a user

Re: Food Fight - Rev Name Space

2005-06-22 Thread Mark Wieder
Ken- Wednesday, June 22, 2005, 9:51:53 AM, you wrote: KR In fact, you should go over there and download the latest (Draft 004) KR specification so you can see how the globals/etc. are used. You'll see the It would be nice if the group weren't quite so private. Is there some reason why the

Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote

2005-06-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/22/05 11:07 AM, Jim Hurley wrote: The big problem with the decoder is the size of the dictionary (61,000 entries)--much too big. Many of the words you will not recognize. Anyone know of a more reasonable dictionary? I don't know which dictionary you are using, but my Boggle game uses

RE: background groups issues

2005-06-22 Thread MisterX
that's how i put it in my first mail. However the layer is not correct thereafter. What else is not? Not a solution IMOHO... But the only rev-correct way this way... the extra properties i mentioned would be better... Xavier -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Aaaaah, now I get it

2005-06-22 Thread John R . Brauer
Yes, I would love to see your newbie intro to tabbed fields. Sincerely, John R. Brauer, Psy.D. Clinical Psychologist ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

RE: compileIt for revolution?

2005-06-22 Thread MisterX
Transcript/Rev aren't a general-purpose environment. There's a whole class of apps for which they are ideally suited. There are also many for which it's not the right tool. I'm in favor of continuing to make it do what it does do better and better. I suspect you are, too, so I'm not

RE: [ANN2] Correction Patch for Rev 2.6 Answer Dialog

2005-06-22 Thread MisterX
Eric, I got a half dozen more fixes like those. Want 'em? i found one more today, still looking for the way to patch it ;) cheers X -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Chatonet Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 10:24 To: How to

Mac vs PC .csv files

2005-06-22 Thread Marielle Lange
I have been ask by a friend on a PC to send him some files in .csv format. When I do, he complains that the returns are missing. I guess I am still a bit unclear on this difference between platforms. As I understand it the Mac uses LF for a delimiter, and the PC uses CR. When I end the lines

What causes the Documentation stack to fail?

2005-06-22 Thread Mikey
I can regularly make the Documentation stack fail to show items that I'm searching for, but I don't understand what causes it. For example, I was messing around with a stack this afternoon, and I wanted to check something out about the substacks property. So I went to the documentation stack,

RE: Principles for User-Interface Design

2005-06-22 Thread MisterX
WELL, isn't THAT special? - the church lady from Sat. Night Live ;) i once called MS support - landed with a Parisian Support manager- My Applescript with MoftWord return error x. What does x mean? (x was a number i cant remember). All i got was - that's a mac problem not word... Since

restoring default script colors

2005-06-22 Thread Mikey
What does it take to restore the default script editor colors? I apparently screwed with mine and need to undo that moment of incredulity. Also, is there a way to do it without hosing other settings? -- http://taoof4d.blogspot.com http://4dwishlist.blogspot.com On the first day, God created the

Re: Principles for User-Interface Design

2005-06-22 Thread Thomas McGrath III
X positively evil ! ;-) T On Jun 22, 2005, at 1:43 PM, MisterX wrote: WELL, isn't THAT special? - the church lady from Sat. Night Live ;) i once called MS support - landed with a Parisian Support manager- My Applescript with MoftWord return error x. What does x mean? (x was a number i

Re: Aaaaah, now I get it

2005-06-22 Thread Judy Perry
You've all got me curious: I've got such a thing up at both the Rev-Ed wiki and in RevOnline (username: JudyPerry). It even has (on the Weapons tab) a button for downloading a PDF. Except that it the coding is not optimized for very new-newbies, what would you like to see added/changed?

Re: No entry in Window's task bar

2005-06-22 Thread Marielle Lange
Should I bugzilla this? It makes it hard to make a multi-media application that plays nice in Windows. What I have done for my graphic stacks is to have a main stack that is the startup/splash stack with a title bar with the other windows as substacks of this main stack and then when the

RE: No entry in Window's task bar

2005-06-22 Thread MisterX
Eric, Excelent trick. Hey, that rhymes! I've complained about this previously and was ignored. I'll give you a max of 5 votes possible (;() for the bugzilla if it you dont get a duplicate bugzilla http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=2354 uh, no, Tuv saw it as dup of

Re: Bug with background groups

2005-06-22 Thread Marielle Lange
Hi Ton, When such things happen to me, that's usually when I created a group, then added the labels afterwards (i.e., the labels are on the same page, eventually inside the group boundary, but not actually part of the group). Make sure you are in select grouped mode, then click edit group to

Flash Users?

2005-06-22 Thread Scott Rossi
Any developers on the list knowledgeable about Flash at all, specifically loading dynamic content? Please contact off-list. Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.tactilemedia.com

Re: Bug with background groups

2005-06-22 Thread Ton Kuypers
The problem was indeed created by myself... I've created a small plugin to quickly add fields and corresponding labels to a stack. Very easy and quick, when setting up a new stack containing a lot of fields, but I forgot to set that property for the labels. Now it's all fixed and the

RE: Flash Users?

2005-06-22 Thread MisterX
please define which dynamic content... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Rossi Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 20:33 To: How to use Revolution Subject: Flash Users? Any developers on the list knowledgeable about Flash at

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