Re: matchChunk to find fontNames

2005-06-23 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Claudi, I would not use matchText but would go straight on with 2 repeat loops to parse the html text: one with the fontNames: if tFont is in tText... Another one with tag styles: if i is in tText... Less, less elegant :-( but should do the job :-) Best Regards from Paris, Eric Chatonet.

Re: The sheet effect

2005-06-23 Thread Yves COPPE
Le 22 juin 05, à 23:37, Éric Miclo a écrit : Hello, So I'll post it. Concerning the drawer window it's a little bit more stange: First create a stack and let's call it Main and a substack called Sub. If you set a button's script to: on mouseUp drawer stack Sub end mouseUp when

Re: Food Fight - Rev Name Space

2005-06-23 Thread John Ridge
on 22/6/05 8:42 pm, Ken Ray wrote : Were you thinking of some formal [ANN]? I have no problem doing that; just wanted to know what you were thinking... ** Why not? It sounds like a potentially big issue that every scripter needs to know about, so [ANN] is appropriate. --

RE: compileIt for revolution?

2005-06-23 Thread MisterX
whatever happened to the old metacard externals example (in the examples in the MCTools menu.)? It had lots of stuff - no explanations but it demoed a lot of good stuff... cheers Xavier -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Tweedly

Re: compileIt for revolution?

2005-06-23 Thread Mark Wieder
Dan- Wednesday, June 22, 2005, 8:38:36 PM, you wrote: DS I have a hard time seeing where you and I disagree here. I think DS we're saying the same thing differently. Ah... that may be. But I'm pushing *for* a generic external interface, and you're arguing against it. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL

Re: Principles for User-Interface Design

2005-06-23 Thread Martin Baxter
Marielle Lange wrote: Let's not start some arguing. Simple question: how many of you swear at your computer. What platform are you using? If you happen to use different platforms, how often do you swear when using each one of them Right, few things are more boring than platform wars. I can

Re: matchChunk to find fontNames

2005-06-23 Thread Marielle Lange
Hi Claudi, You are on the right track... but you need to tune your regular expressions a bit. Problem 1: $ means end of the line (not end of the chunk) Problem 2: \ works with perl and unixy languages. I found it not to work with revolution. I usually use font face= quote . Possibly \ is ok

Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote--my misspelling

2005-06-23 Thread Marielle Lange
My dictionary of 61,000 words comes in at 592 K--similar to yours in size. The problem is that it includes a lot of words I've never heard of. For example the dictionary begins with the following: aardvark, aardwolf, aba, abaca, abacist, aback, abacus, abaft, abalone, abamp, abampere,

Re: the := operator (affectation

2005-06-23 Thread Marielle Lange
OTH, allowing ``a=4'' as a shorthand for ``put 4 into a'' harms nobody, and meets with the expediency criterion; just don't require it. Hi John, I do often write myVar = x. But I like the fact that there is a different logic for properties and variables. set the width to 100 put 100 into

Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote--my misspelling

2005-06-23 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Marielle, I am curious... So I had a look ;-) In fact, if you strip repeated words in your list, it is 5065 words long. Le 23 juin 05 à 12:08, Marielle Lange a écrit : If you use the url below, you will directly get to see the list of words which have a frequency of 10 or more.

Resources to learn C programming (was: compileIt for revolution?)

2005-06-23 Thread Alejandro Tejada
on Wed, 22 Jun 2005 Richard Gaskin wrote: With only 27 keywords in the language, the learning requirement for implementing those sorts of algorithms in C is arguably much lower, and there are infinitely more resources available to get one started with C than with CompileItSpeak. For

Re: Principles for User-Interface Design

2005-06-23 Thread Dave Cragg
On 23 Jun 2005, at 09:43, Martin Baxter wrote: Marielle Lange wrote: Let's not start some arguing. Simple question: how many of you swear at your computer. What platform are you using? If you happen to use different platforms, how often do you swear when using each one of them Right,

Re: the := operator (affectation)

2005-06-23 Thread Dennis Brown
John, Of course you realize that if the = assignment operator was allowed in Transcript put would all but disappear from scripts. Who wants to type putinto vs =. Put would go the way of button vs btn. I find myself reversing my opinion on this one. = would make a nice shorthand

Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote--my misspelling

2005-06-23 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 8 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:41:08 -0500 From: J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote--my misspelling To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed On 6/22/05

Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote--my misspelling

2005-06-23 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 18 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:53:01 -0700 From: Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 21, Issue 133 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Jim- Wednesday, June 22, 2005, 5:57:53 PM, you wrote: JH It should be red

Re: Resources to learn C programming

2005-06-23 Thread Alex Tweedly
Alejandro Tejada wrote: For example, i've read this book written by Mike Westerfield, for ORCA C in Apple II and i like his writing style... :-D Learn to program in C http://www.byteworks.org/resume/samples/ltp.pdf But i've been not able to run his examples in any gnu compiler for windows.

Re: compileIt for revolution?

2005-06-23 Thread Rob Cozens
Dan, et al, programming language that is everything to everyone is nothing to anyone. Not if it does the job. (You'd really like to switch between different programming environments to create bits and pieces of an application?) Isn't C a programming language that is everything to

Re: compileIt for revolution?

2005-06-23 Thread Rob Cozens
Richard, et al: So instead CompileIt! had its own unique syntax and hundreds of symbols one could use to implement things that were algorithmically very much like one would do in Pascal or C. Of course this required a whole other level of knowledge, and for those symbols related to the Mac

Re: compileIt for Revolution?

2005-06-23 Thread Mikey
Try not to get your knickers in a twist. In case you haven't noticed, hypertalk/transcript is clearly a Pascal derived language, they just got rid of begin/end, loosely typed it, and made the operator of affectation verbose. ROTFL/ OMG that's funny. Don't forget scoping, and the overarching

Re: revCopyFile under Tiger

2005-06-23 Thread Chris Sheffield
Thanks all. I probably will end up using the put method, as I intend to compress the files anyway. I was just curious about revCopyFile, and whether or not there was some way to suppress that audio. Sounds like there isn't, at least not right now. There must be some way of doing it,

Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote--my misspelling

2005-06-23 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 9 Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 11:08:45 +0100 From: Marielle Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote--my misspelling To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 My dictionary of 61,000 words comes in at

Printing Scripts PAINFUL

2005-06-23 Thread Mikey
OK, ladies, I'm trying to print a script. However, on my printer the text winds up big (like 14 pt. plus), and it overruns the left margin, making the script unreadable. Suggestions? -- http://taoof4d.blogspot.com http://4dwishlist.blogspot.com On the first day, God created the heavens and the

Can't see movies on rev site

2005-06-23 Thread Kaveh Bazargan
I am trying to look at the tutorial movies on the runrev site. I am using Tiger on OS X, and Quicktime Pro 7.0.1. I have downloaded and istalled the Ensharpen codec, but I hear only sound. There is no picture. I have tried looking through Revolution Online, but same problem. Any ideas? -- Kaveh

Re: Can't see movies on rev site

2005-06-23 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Kaveh, Did you restart? Don't know but can help :-) Le 23 juin 05 à 17:01, Kaveh Bazargan a écrit : I am trying to look at the tutorial movies on the runrev site. I am using Tiger on OS X, and Quicktime Pro 7.0.1. I have downloaded and istalled the Ensharpen codec, but I hear only

RE: compileIt for revolution?

2005-06-23 Thread Jim Bufalini
Guess I'll add my two cents. I'm a newbie to Rev (Revolution) but worked over 25 years in Rev (Revelation), another similar, high-typed, extensible, flexible, run as you program, script language. It's an implementation of Pick on the PC. I was considered an expert. I also owned a company and

Re: Printing Scripts PAINFUL

2005-06-23 Thread Steve Bonham
M, Have you selected: View Wrap long script lines ? ...and under preferences you can choose font and size for scripts. It may be set to default- which may be causing the printing prob. S OK, ladies, I'm trying to print a script. However, on my printer the text winds up big (like 14 pt.

Re: Printing Scripts PAINFUL

2005-06-23 Thread Ken Ray
On 6/23/05 9:41 AM, Mikey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, ladies, I'm trying to print a script. However, on my printer the text winds up big (like 14 pt. plus), and it overruns the left margin, making the script unreadable. Suggestions? Copy and paste it into a text editor and print from

Re: License key not saved between launches

2005-06-23 Thread Steve Wright Jr.
Thank you to everyone who replied. Turns out I had evaluation versions of the license keys. Once they were replaced with commercial keys, the info is now saved across launches. Steve On Jun 21, 2005, at 12:49 PM, Steve Wright Jr. wrote: I'm installing Revolution and Revolution Dreamcard

Choosing printer from within a script

2005-06-23 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
Is this possible in Windows? What I want to do is create a custom printer dialog. For the most part, that should not be too difficult. However, choosing which printer you want to print on is both important, and something for which I do not see an obvious technique. There does not appear to be

Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote--my misspelling

2005-06-23 Thread Marielle Lange
I am curious... So I had a look ;-) In fact, if you strip repeated words in your list, it is 5065 words long. It wouldn't be a big deal to write a revolution script to delete any repeated line, would it? Je parie que c'est ce que tu as fait [I bet it is what you have done]. All that lexicall.org

Re: Can't see movies on rev site

2005-06-23 Thread Kaveh Bazargan
At 17:04 +0200 23/6/05, Eric Chatonet wrote: Hi Kaveh, Did you restart? Don't know but can help :-) I did now, and it works. dohh! Thanks Eric. -- Kaveh Bazargan http://www.river-valley.com/ http://www.holographer.org/ ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: the := operator (affectation

2005-06-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Marielle Lange wrote: OTH, allowing ``a=4'' as a shorthand for ``put 4 into a'' harms nobody, and meets with the expediency criterion; just don't require it. Hi John, I do often write myVar = x. But I like the fact that there is a different logic for properties and variables. set the

Re: compileIt for Revolution?

2005-06-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mikey wrote: Try not to get your knickers in a twist. In case you haven't noticed, hypertalk/transcript is clearly a Pascal derived language, they just got rid of begin/end, loosely typed it, and made the operator of affectation verbose. ROTFL/ OMG that's funny. FWIW, I've read that

Re: the := operator (affectation

2005-06-23 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hello Richard, Since it would be optional as it is in other xTalks, nothing would be lost. Except the spirit :-) Grasp all, lose all... Le 23 juin 05 à 18:53, Richard Gaskin a écrit : Marielle Lange wrote: OTH, allowing ``a=4'' as a shorthand for ``put 4 into a'' harms nobody, and

Re: the := operator (affectation

2005-06-23 Thread Dennis Brown
Here is an answer that everyone might like: The get x construct is already a syntactic equivalent of it= x (left assignment). That could be expanded to the general form it gets x. Now we have a general xTalk flavored version using the new gets keyword. From there just substitute any

Re: the := operator (affectation

2005-06-23 Thread Dar Scott
On Jun 23, 2005, at 11:17 AM, Dennis Brown wrote: The get x construct is already a syntactic equivalent of it= x (left assignment). That could be expanded to the general form it gets x. Now we have a general xTalk flavored version using the new gets keyword. From there just substitute any

Re: the := operator (affectation

2005-06-23 Thread Dar Scott
On Jun 23, 2005, at 4:13 AM, Marielle Lange wrote: But I like the fact that there is a different logic for properties and variables. set the width to 100 put 100 into myVar I'm curious as to why you like the different syntaxes? I sometimes accidently try to use 'put' when I need

Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote--my misspelling

2005-06-23 Thread Marielle Lange
What an enterprising person (not me) would do is take the text of several books and create a fequency-of-occurence list using Scott's algorithm, and then delete all words in the dictionary which don't have the necessary frequency. Jim, Excellent suggestion. In fact, it is exactly what the guys

Re: TIP: isImagLoaded function

2005-06-23 Thread Ken Ray
On 6/22/05 1:50 AM, MisterX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Resources to learn C programming

2005-06-23 Thread Wolfgang M. Bereuter
Alex, On 23.06.2005, at 15:35, Alex Tweedly wrote: Haven't seen that one. But in general my favourite writer's style is that of Donald Alcock, in his Illustrating ... series. I had the good fortune to work for him (as a summer job while at university - I learnt more in that 2 months than

Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote--my misspelling

2005-06-23 Thread Marielle Lange
Jim, A suggestion: In your application, put the crypted version in uppercase and the uncrypted version in lower case. Studies shows that it is easier to recognize words when they are in the usual (lowercase) format. (Besner, D., Davelaar, E., Alcott, D., Parry, P. (1984). Wholistic reading of

RE: TIP: isImagLoaded function

2005-06-23 Thread MisterX
Ken, Wrong, it, scans all the stacks (listed in the windows variable)... Of course i have a bit more advanced version coming which will scan known and substacks and etc... ;) cheers Xavier -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Ray

Re: the := operator (affectation

2005-06-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Eric Chatonet wrote: Hello Richard, Since it would be optional as it is in other xTalks, nothing would be lost. Except the spirit :-) Grasp all, lose all... With the current flexibility of xTalk, we can choose to write: put 1 + tMyVar into tMyVar ..or we can write: add 1 to tMyVar

Re: Choosing printer from within a script

2005-06-23 Thread Ken Ray
On 6/23/05 11:13 AM, Lynch, Jonathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there shell commands that either return a list of available printers, and that allow you to pick your printer? You can use VBScript for this, and run VBScript from Rev. Here's a page where they talk about getting the list of

re: compileIt for Revolution?

2005-06-23 Thread Eric Engle
Message: 2 Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 10:15:28 -0400 From: Mikey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: compileIt for Revolution? To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Try not to get your knickers in a

Re: compileIt for revolution?

2005-06-23 Thread Jerry Daniels
CompileIt! lovers and haters... YESTERDAY I would have to agree with Rob, here. I used CompileIt! to the point where I made a small C app that RAN externals only and I would get CompileIt! to compile into that app (called HyperApp). I then wrote a front end (in CompileIt!) to write and

RE: Choosing printer from within a script

2005-06-23 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
Thanks Ken! What versions of windows allow you to use Vbscript in this way? I see many uses for such a thing. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Ray Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 2:19 PM To: Use Revolution List Subject: Re: Choosing

Re: TIP: isImagLoaded function

2005-06-23 Thread Ken Ray
On 6/23/05 1:13 PM, MisterX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken, Wrong, it, scans all the stacks (listed in the windows variable)... You misunderstood me, Xavier. I didn't say that it only scanned one stack. I said that it wasn't comprehensive enough to be useful. When you ask for: put the

Re: Mac vs PC .csv files

2005-06-23 Thread Dennis Brown
Thanks, I think I got the idea now. I am sure I can generate the right format .csv for PCs now. Dennis On Jun 23, 2005, at 12:30 AM, Stephen Barncard wrote: Put the delimiter you want after each line instead of RETURN, then SAVE AS BINARY... otherwise rev will save as text, using the

RE: TIP: isImagLoaded function

2005-06-23 Thread MisterX
OOPS! I assumed images were stack-global! Slap me again! I'll fix it later ;) cheers Xavier -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Ray Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 20:25 To: Use Revolution List Subject: Re: TIP: isImagLoaded

Re: Images in Customproperties

2005-06-23 Thread Sivakatirswami
This is interesting... I'm curious where multiple instances of a single image object are needed, what would be the advantages of storing images in customproperties, vs using Rev's option (admittedly a unicornian one, but it works really well.) to set the icon of a button to the id of an

Confirm Long File Name Bug in Player Object

2005-06-23 Thread Sivakatirswami
Can someone quickly confirm this ( bugzilled already) ... a bit of a serious problem for me at the moment: a) get an .mp3 file... any will do. Make sure the number of chars in the file name (inclusive of extension) is 33 e.g. someFoo.mp3 b) set some player test to this file and confirm

Re: Confirm Long File Name Bug in Player Object

2005-06-23 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Sivakatirswami wrote: Can someone quickly confirm this ( bugzilled already) ... a bit of a serious problem for me at the moment: a) get an .mp3 file... any will do. Make sure the number of chars in the file name (inclusive of extension) is 33 e.g. someFoo.mp3 b) set some

Re: Confirm Long File Name Bug in Player Object

2005-06-23 Thread Peter T. Evensen
I am also noticing, on Mac, at least, the refusal to load images that are reference by long name. For example, a file named Critical Thinking Instructions.png will not load, but a file named Critical Thinking Instr.png will. I haven't played around with enough to see if it is the file name

Re: the := operator (affectation

2005-06-23 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Richard, Don't think it's a problem of religion :-) Or you want to maintain an every day language or you want to allow specialists languages come in. As for me I don't mind : I use both. But I think that all guys who invented Xtalks principles would not agree. In fact, if some

Re: Confirm Long File Name Bug in Player Object

2005-06-23 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hello Peter, Assuming Mac OS... Critical Thinking Instructions.png is 34 chars (you have to count the extension) Critical Thinking Instr.png is 27 chars. The limit is 31 :-) Le 23 juin 05 à 21:14, Peter T. Evensen a écrit : I am also noticing, on Mac, at least, the refusal to load images

Re: Confirm Long File Name Bug in Player Object

2005-06-23 Thread Klaus Major
Hi all, Recently, Sivakatirswami wrote: Can someone quickly confirm this ( bugzilled already) ... a bit of a serious problem for me at the moment: a) get an .mp3 file... any will do. Make sure the number of chars in the file name (inclusive of extension) is 33 ...

Re: Confirm Long File Name Bug in Player Object

2005-06-23 Thread Todd Higgins
Is there a technical reason for Revolution having a 31 char limit in Mac OS X? Obviously the OS and filesystem support longer file names (256 chars) and there must be other Carbon application that support long filenames. Todd On Jun 23, 2005, at 3:25 PM, Eric Chatonet wrote: Hello

Re: compileIt for Revolution?

2005-06-23 Thread Mark Wieder
Eric- Thursday, June 23, 2005, 11:20:16 AM, you wrote: EE There's even an entire article on macTech Comparing HyperTalk to Pascal which EE says, EE Both Pascal and HyperTalk provide powerful if-then-else control structures EE with very similar syntax. EE The specification and calling of user

Re: the := operator (affectation

2005-06-23 Thread Mark Wieder
Dar- Thursday, June 23, 2005, 10:40:06 AM, you wrote: DS Commands in xTalk follow the English implied-you imperatives. The DS deviation from that to a descriptive of the dataflow does not fit. I DS come from a functional programming background, but I accept the DS imperative style. Exactly.

Re: Confirm Long File Name Bug in Player Object

2005-06-23 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Jun 23, 2005, at 12:39 PM, Todd Higgins wrote: Is there a technical reason for Revolution having a 31 char limit in Mac OS X? Obviously the OS and filesystem support longer file names (256 chars) and there must be other Carbon application that support long filenames. Revolution is most

Re: the := operator (affectation

2005-06-23 Thread Dennis Brown
Dar, I am not arguing for =, I am arguing for gets and some shortcut that suits, if any. Gets is a cousin of get command that is already a left assignment operator. It does not introduce a new concept to the syntax, but just makes the get construct more general. I actually find it a

Re: Confirm Long File Name Bug in Player Object

2005-06-23 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Trevor, On Jun 23, 2005, at 12:39 PM, Todd Higgins wrote: Is there a technical reason for Revolution having a 31 char limit in Mac OS X? Obviously the OS and filesystem support longer file names (256 chars) and there must be other Carbon application that support long filenames.

Re: Confirm Long File Name Bug in Player Object

2005-06-23 Thread Peter T. Evensen
I guess they decided not to fix it in the next release? At 03:26 PM 6/23/2005, you wrote: Hi Trevor, On Jun 23, 2005, at 12:39 PM, Todd Higgins wrote: Is there a technical reason for Revolution having a 31 char limit in Mac OS X? Obviously the OS and filesystem support longer file names

revSetStackProfile in model stack

2005-06-23 Thread Peter T. Evensen
It appears the a call in the openStack of a stack that is opened via the modal command has no effect. I changed the command from mode StackName to go to StackName And it works. I haven't tried to play around with it. Has anyone else seen this? Peter T. Evensen

Re: Confirm Long File Name Bug in Player Object

2005-06-23 Thread Sivakatirswami
So, we are stuck... mmm. I guess i'll have to implement a work around to preserve the long file names in some custom prop, field or global, truncate the file name on disk... reset the player to the truncated file name... all on the fly, when the transcriber finishes work, restore the

Re: Confirm Long File Name Bug in Player Object

2005-06-23 Thread Dar Scott
On Jun 23, 2005, at 1:08 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: I would set this at Blocker status because it prevents playback of otherwise playable media. I don't agree with that. First of all, somebody will have a workaround command (3 minutes; 17 lines) shortly after I mail this. Second, blocker

Re: Confirm Long File Name Bug in Player Object

2005-06-23 Thread Dar Scott
On Jun 23, 2005, at 3:03 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote: So, we are stuck... mmm. I guess i'll have to implement a work around to preserve the long file names in some custom prop, field or global, truncate the file name on disk... reset the player to the truncated file name... all on the fly,

Re: the := operator (affectation

2005-06-23 Thread Mark Wieder
Dennis- Thursday, June 23, 2005, 12:57:04 PM, you wrote: DB easily change my mind later. I would be happy to be able to change DB get x to myVariable gets x. That's not the same syntax at all. The analogy for myVariable gets x is put x into myVariable while get x comes out as

Convert a standalone stand to a substack

2005-06-23 Thread Kaveh Bazargan
I have a standalone stack (actually the preferences stack from Revolution Online) which I want to make into a substack of another main stack. How can I do that? -- Kaveh Bazargan http://www.river-valley.com/ http://www.holographer.org/ ___

Re: revSetStackProfile in model stack

2005-06-23 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Peter, May be modal stack stackName could work too ;-) Le 23 juin 05 à 23:00, Peter T. Evensen a écrit : It appears the a call in the openStack of a stack that is opened via the modal command has no effect. I changed the command from mode StackName to go to StackName Best Regards

Re: Convert a standalone stand to a substack

2005-06-23 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Kaveh, 1. Clone the stack you want to make a substack to keep the original unchanged (by typing in the message box: clone stack stackName) 2. Open the property palette for the cloned stack and set it as a substack of the stack you wish in the popup menu (this main stack has to be open)

Re: revSetStackProfile in model stack

2005-06-23 Thread Peter T. Evensen
I meant modal stack StackName The point is: on openStack revSetStackProfile MyProfile end openStack does not work if the stack is opened via modal stack StackName but does work if it is opened via go to stack StackName An ask confirms that revSetStackProfile is being called in both

Re: revSetStackProfile in model stack

2005-06-23 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Peter, Sorry for my joke ;-) Never seen this. I worked with profiles for multilingual projects but I think it's not an acomplished feature in Revolution... You are right : the best way is always to make a new test stack to isolate the problem. Let us know... Le 23 juin 05 à 23:58, Peter

Stack size

2005-06-23 Thread Hershel Fisch
Hi all, I'm wondering why when I put a few commands in a preOpenSTack and among the commands is a size stack (height and width) if it is not the last command it doesn't work? And to put it into a openStack its very unprofessional. Lets not discuss the fact that stack sizes do not save . Hershel

Re: the := operator (affectation

2005-06-23 Thread Jim MacConnell
Hi. I've been listening to this discussion and find it intriguing. I personally have nothing against := and = for variable assignment and have used them when using a tool that requires them. I also can quickly adapt to the == concept for comparisons and =+ for incrementing (Though that

Rev 2.5 as CGI

2005-06-23 Thread Gary Thompson
Hello All, When I purchased Runtime Revolution last month one of the things that interested me was the capability to quote the web site Let Transcript run facelessly on your server as a script language. I would like to experiment with this concept under OS X. I'm running Tiger if that

Re: Rev 2.5 as CGI

2005-06-23 Thread Kat
Hi Gary, Welcome to Revolution! A good place I've found to start learning about RevCGI is at Jacque Landman Gay's site, http://www.hyperactivesw.com/cgitutorial/ She has links to other resources along the same vein as well. Good luck! Cheers, Kat http://rugusa.linguistix.net Gary

Re: Stack size

2005-06-23 Thread SimPLsol
Hershel, Is this behavior in a stack that had cards before you added menus? Paul Looney ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Stack size

2005-06-23 Thread Hershel Fisch
On 6/23/05 6:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hershel, Is this behavior in a stack that had cards before you added menus? I don't remember seeing any difference. Paul Looney ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: matchChunk to find fontNames

2005-06-23 Thread Claudi Cornaz
Thanks Björnke, Eric and Marielle, You all helped me. In the mean time I got the matchChunkpart also worked out, and am putting it all together now. I will try to make a complete textMenu example, with all the features you ever wanted, plus a few more I hope (well, we will see about that

Re: the := operator (affectation

2005-06-23 Thread Dar Scott
On Jun 23, 2005, at 4:13 PM, Jim MacConnell wrote: In contrast I think adding the put x into y construct would help a lot of other code (C, VB, ++) be more readable I was thinking of an arrow pointing into the open top of a shoe box labeled with the variable name on the side. BTW, I

Re: Printing Scripts PAINFUL

2005-06-23 Thread SimPLsol
Also vote to fix this bug! Paul Looney ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Confirm Long File Name Bug in Player Object

2005-06-23 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Dar Scott wrote: I would set this at Blocker status because it prevents playback of otherwise playable media. I don't agree with that. First of all, somebody will have a workaround command (3 minutes; 17 lines) shortly after I mail this. Second, blocker means it blocks

Re: compileIt for revolution?

2005-06-23 Thread SimPLsol
Jerry, Assuming there is sufficient interest what is the first step, and what would THAT cost? I'm thinking that the initial ScriptCompiler (or some better name) would just turn Transcript into machine code. This would be of interest to me (hopefully others) who want to put guarded code in

Re: Latest version of Revolution ?

2005-06-23 Thread Robert J. Earp
Mark - Done... Bob- ~~ Wednesday, June 22, 2005, 12:14:12 PM, you wrote: RJE Yes, I know about the Check for Updates but I was hoping somebody from RJE Rev would pick up on my (maybe too) subtle hint at putting the bloody RJE revision

Re: revSetStackProfile in model stack

2005-06-23 Thread Peter T. Evensen
I just did a simple test. A stack with 2 buttons, one opens a substack via modal stack and the other via go to stack. It doesn't work with modal. I'll put it in bugzilla. At 05:07 PM 6/23/2005, you wrote: Hi Peter, Sorry for my joke ;-) Never seen this. I worked with profiles for

Re: Confirm Long File Name Bug in Player Object--OTHER

2005-06-23 Thread Thomas McCarthy
I noticed that when I ran shell scripts to convert WAVE files to MP3, if the file name was long it wouldn't work. If I set the default folder to the location of the files, that seemed to help. I haven't experienced this bug on Windows--but maybe I had already dealt with it on my Mac? Can't

Re: Confirm Long File Name Bug in Player Object

2005-06-23 Thread Dar Scott
On Jun 23, 2005, at 4:38 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: Changing filenames of your own media may be acceptable but changing filenames of a users media is a really bad idea. If you change a filename and for whatever reason you are unable to restore to the original name, I can imagine the user being

Re: compileIt for revolution?

2005-06-23 Thread Dan Shafer
Maybe that's what I ended up doing but it was accidental! Maybe I fell asleep at some point. My argument is NOT against the ability to build externals to do whatever one wishes to do, including platform-specific things if you want to make your life more complicated and miserable or if you

Re: compileIt for revolution?

2005-06-23 Thread Dan Shafer
If you can write externals in Transcript syntax and NOT over-extend the language to accommodate this demand, I don't have an issue. But that is not generally the case. When people talk about writing externals they generally (in my experience at least) mean they want to make the tool do

Re: Latest version of Revolution ?

2005-06-23 Thread Bill
I tried it with 10.4.1 in both the same volume and a different volume. Hypercard turns on and everything but Reports 9 to 5 is completely broke. I can't run Tiger because it destroyed Hypercard. It didn't for me! I am still using HyperCard with Tiger. I heard that 9 to 5 Reports no

Re: Confirm Long File Name Bug in Player Object

2005-06-23 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Dar Scott wrote: Changing filenames of your own media may be acceptable but changing filenames of a users media is a really bad idea. If you change a filename and for whatever reason you are unable to restore to the original name, I can imagine the user being extremely upset.

Re: the := operator (affectation

2005-06-23 Thread Dennis Brown
okay.. back into my hole... Yes, Please stay there. I personally have nothing against := and = for variable assignment and have used them My problem with the concept of gets is that I can't see how it fits within the conceptual framework of xTalk var := x var == x var = x --this is a

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 21, Issue 136

2005-06-23 Thread SB
Hi everyone, here are some still images from the RevConWest trip. http://www.troutfoot.com/rev/index.html Feel free to make copies, share, etc. Sandy ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Choosing printer from within a script

2005-06-23 Thread Ken Ray
On 6/23/05 1:23 PM, Lynch, Jonathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Ken! What versions of windows allow you to use Vbscript in this way? I see many uses for such a thing. All of 'em... (actually I think you need to have at least Internet Explorer 4.x or later in Windows 95). However

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 21, Issue 136

2005-06-23 Thread SimPLsol
In a message dated 6/23/05 6:24:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.troutfoot.com/rev/index.html Wow, great pictures. Now I know I really was there - was beginning to think it was all a dream. And your slide show - frosting on the cake! Thank you very much. Paul Looney

Re: compileIt for revolution?

2005-06-23 Thread Dennis Brown
Dan, Rev is chock full of stuff that I will never use. Perhaps half or more of the commands are irrelevant to my needs. However, I see on this list folks that love those irrelevant things in their applications. You have your ideas about the kind of applications you want to use Rev

Re: compileIt for revolution?

2005-06-23 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Dan, That's what I got from the first post, exactly. I tend to agree with your statement and your logic is sound. (not that you need me to say so) I just wanted to agree to this and don't want to see Rev changed in another direction. Thanks Tom On Jun 23, 2005, at 8:20 PM, Dan Shafer

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 21, Issue 136

2005-06-23 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Very nice slide show with music Sandy, Thank you very much. I just wish I knew which people are which. Also your photography of the surrounding area is very good. Thanks TOm On Jun 23, 2005, at 9:01 PM, SB wrote: Hi everyone, here are some still images from the RevConWest trip.

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