Re: [OT] - Jakob Nielsen on Web Forms vs. Apps

Thanks, Dan, for this. It's been a while since I've checked his site and though, like you, I may not always agree 100%, still, as you say, he's evidentally put thought into the matter and, hence, his stuff is always thought-provoking. Now, if only I could make the time to stay on tiop of such stu

"Rebranding" a Revolution .exe

Hello all, Greetings from a new Revolution user (I'm not totally new, but upgraded recently from Dreamcard to Studio). I am trying to create an software application which will allow users to personalize the software. Basically, I hope to allow users to insert their own userid into a field name

Re: [OT] - Jakob Nielsen on Web Forms vs. Apps

Dan Shafer wrote: For those of you who don't subscribe to it, Jakob Nielsen's newest AlertBox newsletter today has some advice about when to use forms and when to use more controlled applications for Web user interaction. I don't always agree with Jakob and even in this piece I have a few

[OT] - Jakob Nielsen on Web Forms vs. Apps

For those of you who don't subscribe to it, Jakob Nielsen's newest AlertBox newsletter today has some advice about when to use forms and when to use more controlled applications for Web user interaction. I don't always agree with Jakob and even in this piece I have a few quibbles, but overa

Re: activating a combobox

Yes, I wanted to physically pop them open. Some of my stuff has a series of combos, each populated based on the previous one, and I (and the users) find it helpful to automatically open each one to make the contents immediately visible. Saves clicking, looks spiffy! There is a command to do this

Re: two questions: send and references

Trevor- Tuesday, September 20, 2005, 10:35:16 AM, you wrote: > What you might be able to do is send the name of a custom prop that > has the array in it. Just set the values in that. Not ideal but > might solve the problem for now and it is easy enough to transfer > arrays to and from custo

Re: two questions: send and references

Trevor- Tuesday, September 20, 2005, 10:47:18 AM, you wrote: > try: > send "AddListener pMessage, pViewer" to pController Doh. I knew there would be some way to put quotes around something that already had quotes in it. Thanks. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CS Notification Center

On Sep 20, 2005, at 1:32 AM, Paul Claude wrote: Anyone have idea about how to use the Apple's CSNotificationCenter ( http://developer.apple.com/documentation/CoreFoundation/Reference/ CFNotifica tionCenterRef/index.html) to read informations of other applications from a Revolution stack?

Re: activating a combobox

Ron Noice wrote: Thanks, Pat. Don't think I would ever have come up with that idea -- and as a bonus, it actually works!! Sometimes the list closes again right away but that's probably due to something else I'm doing. So thanks very much for an inventive solution. ... Ron Do you actually want t

Re: activating a combobox

Thanks, Pat. Don't think I would ever have come up with that idea -- and as a bonus, it actually works!! Sometimes the list closes again right away but that's probably due to something else I'm doing. So thanks very much for an inventive solution. ... Ron __

Re: activating a combobox

Ron, The only way I found to do this is to get the loc (with mouseLoc) of the arrow on the combo box, and then click at that loc. eg click at "283,194" HTH Pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Ron Noice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Revolution List" Sent: Wednesday, Sep

Re: Windows exe not dropping from task manager list of processes

Hi, Chris, Cool... this did take care of the situation. In the stack script I am using both handlers on closeStackRequest quit end closeStackRequest on closeCard -- brute-force method (from docs) repeat until the pendingMessages is empty cancel item 1 of line 1 of the pendingMessages

Re: Windows exe not dropping from task manager list of processes

Check out closeStackRequest and/or shutdownRequest if you haven't already. I've found that sometimes (on Windows especially), depending on what's going on when you try to quit, it's necessary to handle these messages and issue a quit command inside them. Chris On Sep 20, 2005, at 3:11 P

Re: Windows exe not dropping from task manager list of processes

Thanks for the suggestions, but no luck. Here is what is in the stack script, only one card, two buttons. disappears < Launch only, close button > persists < run script without a 'send', close button > persists < run script with 'send', close button > on openstack set the destroystack of this s

Re: Windows exe not dropping from task manager list of processes

Jim Ault wrote: This has probably been answered, but I could not find it in the archive. I am compiling a tiny app that basically just gets a file from an ftp site every 20-30 seconds. If I launch the file, then close it, its process quickly disappears. If I launch and run a script, it takes ov

Re: Windows exe not dropping from task manager list of processes

Jim, You may want to look at something like this: on shutdownRequest -- user is trying to quit repeat for each line l in the pendingMessages if (item 3 of l is "m") cancel (item 1 of l) end repeat end shutdownRequest Untested, but the idea is: When the user tries to quit, look at all

Windows exe not dropping from task manager list of processes

This has probably been answered, but I could not find it in the archive. I am compiling a tiny app that basically just gets a file from an ftp site every 20-30 seconds. If I launch the file, then close it, its process quickly disappears. If I launch and run a script, it takes over 60 seconds to d

Re: Export Callback anyone??

Kevin, I would export locally, then upload the file via ftp. Here's what I do: local LUploadWorkDone, LCancelFTPUpload, LCurUploadUrl, LCurUploadSize put false into LUploadWorkDone put false into LCancelFTPUpload -- set to true when/if user clicks "Cancel" button in progre

activating a combobox

I'm sure to win the "Twit of the Day" award for this, but cannot figure out how to automatically activate a combobox field (button, menu, whatever). I want to be able to select something from combo1, populate combo2 based on combo1 and then have combo2 automatically open without the user needing

Re: AppleScript - Silent Running?

Geoff Canyon: You could use the built-in web interfaces. I believe FileMaker can supply HTML or XML. This has the advantage of being "silent" as you say, and cross-platform. With v7 FileMaker Pro standard edition no longer supports HTML/XML nor the older CDML. You have to buy one of the expe

Re: Insertion Point in Fields

That was it, Chris. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Although, it's interesting that everything was OK on the first card but not subsequent cards. Such strange goings-on!! Cheers, Roger On Sep 20, 2005, at 11:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to remember a problem where if the

Re: two questions: send and references

On Sep 20, 2005, at 10:46 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: I'd like to believe it, but no. It doesn't. Maybe I should be more exact about what I'm trying to do. MVC.RegisterViewer the long id of field "abc", "HelpMe", the long id of button "xyz" on RegisterViewer pViewer, pMessage, pController local t

Re: two questions: send and references

Klaus- Tuesday, September 20, 2005, 10:17:54 AM, you wrote: > you just won't believe it, but this will also work with other vars :-D > ... > put the long id of field "xyz" into it2 > send "hi it2" to field "abc" of card "argh" > ... I'd like to believe it, but no. It doesn't. Maybe I should be

Re: menuItem and menuHistory Question

On 9/20/05 11:26 AM, "Klaus Major" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi David, > >> Hi All, >> >> If I have the name of a Menu Item (In a Tabbled Button) "OptionA", >> how can I get the Item Number associated with it. I want to set the >> menuHistory property to the Item Index of Item "OptionA". I ju

Re: two questions: send and references

On Sep 20, 2005, at 10:24 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote: Thanks for the sanity check. It's the "send" and "call" functions that are messing things up again. I'm not using the stuff2 handler directly but trying to use a virtual pointer to it and the "send" function isn't passing the arrays. I forg

Re: two questions: send and references

On Sep 20, 2005, at 10:01 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Trevor- Tuesday, September 20, 2005, 8:30:20 AM, you wrote: Try stuffing the values you want to send into variables and then do this: get the long id of field "xyz" send "hi it" to field "abc" of card "argh" Thanks. Unfortunately, I need t

Re: two questions: send and references

Hi Mark, Trevor- Tuesday, September 20, 2005, 8:30:20 AM, you wrote: Try stuffing the values you want to send into variables and then do this: get the long id of field "xyz" send "hi it" to field "abc" of card "argh" Thanks. Unfortunately, I need to pass two of these fully-qualified identifie

QuickTime Annotations

Can't find a solid way to add annotations to Spotlight metadata for QuickTime files... there seem to be some bugs with AppleScript adding metadata to QuickTime files. Tempted to look at doing this from C as the documentation I have seen so far from Apple gives C based examples I will

Re: two questions: send and references

So put the long id of fld "xyz" into id1 put the long id of fld "abc" into id2 send "hi id1,id2" to field "abc" of card "argh" should work, no? On 20 Sep 2005, at 18:01, Mark Wieder wrote: Try stuffing the values you want to send into variables and then do this: get the long id of field

Re: custom properties help

Paul Salyers wrote: Dear RunRev Programmers, Can sopme1 help me with this stack, I'm trying to learn how to save program information in custom properties. This may help: -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal

Re: two questions: send and references

Trevor- Tuesday, September 20, 2005, 8:30:20 AM, you wrote: > Try stuffing the values you want to send into variables and then do > this: > get the long id of field "xyz" > send "hi it" to field "abc" of card "argh" Thanks. Unfortunately, I need to pass two of these fully-qualified identifiers

RE: Insertion Point in Fields

Try recreating the field - sometimes a field can get corrupted and do this sort of thing. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Guay Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 11:51 AM To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Subject: Insertion Point in

Re: menuItem and menuHistory Question

Thanks a lot Cheers Dave Hi David, Hi All, If I have the name of a Menu Item (In a Tabbled Button) "OptionA", how can I get the Item Number associated with it. I want to set the menuHistory property to the Item Index of Item "OptionA". I just can't seem to work out how to do it! ..

Re: custom properties help

Hi Paul - In the Topics section of the Rev docs, the "Custom Properties and Custom Propertysets" list item is a good starting point. It covers the basics. Have you read through that section yet? I tried opening it here and Rev hung. I pressed option-period (on a Mac) to unhang it and was then

Re: menuItem and menuHistory Question

Hi David, Hi All, If I have the name of a Menu Item (In a Tabbled Button) "OptionA", how can I get the Item Number associated with it. I want to set the menuHistory property to the Item Index of Item "OptionA". I just can't seem to work out how to do it! ... put lineoffset("OptionA", b

Re: AppleScript - Silent Running?

> I'm using AppleScript to access a local FileMaker Pro 7 database > under OS X 10.3/10.4 from my Rev stack. This works fine except > there's an awful lot of "screen flashing" going on - i.e. every time > I use some AppleScript to access the FM Pro database, FM Pro becomes > visible and is the fro

menuItem and menuHistory Question

Hi All, If I have the name of a Menu Item (In a Tabbled Button) "OptionA", how can I get the Item Number associated with it. I want to set the menuHistory property to the Item Index of Item "OptionA". I just can't seem to work out how to do it! Thanks in Advance Dave

Re: Insertion Point in Fields

Hi Roger, Not sure if you've gotten a response to this or not, but just in case you haven't... I seem to remember a problem where if the rect of a group overlaps a field, you don't see the field's insertion point. Could this be the case? I've had this happen before and not even realized

Re: Insertion Point in Fields

'Fraid I can't replicate the problem here - seems to be working properly... Mark Mac OS 10.4.2 Rev 2.6 On 20 Sep 2005, at 16:51, Roger Guay wrote: I'm sorry for the repeat, but I'm at my wits end with this seemingly simple problem: I have a background group with a field in it that has i

Insertion Point in Fields

I'm sorry for the repeat, but I'm at my wits end with this seemingly simple problem: I have a background group with a field in it that has it's sharedText set to false. On the first card, this field behaves properly with a flashing insertion "|" whenever you click inside it. Not so on su

Re: AppleScript - Silent Running?

> You could use the built-in web interfaces. I believe FileMaker can > supply HTML or XML. This has the advantage of being "silent" as you > say, and cross-platform. > > On Sep 20, 2005, at 3:47 AM, Peter Reid wrote: > >> I'm using AppleScript to access a local FileMaker Pro 7 database >> under O

Re: two questions: send and references

On Sep 20, 2005, at 8:23 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: All- I've run up against a couple of problems here: 1. I'm trying to pass parameters using the "send" command. The problem is that "send" insists on interpreting these for me rather than sending them verbatim. In other words, if I try send "hi"

Export Callback anyone??

I'm using export image "image1" to URL "ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/image1.gif" as GIF to replace an existing image on a web page. Sometimes, this works but mostly it fails, replacing the existing file with an empty one i.e. 0kb I think the problem lies with the site host as the command always

two questions: send and references

All- I've run up against a couple of problems here: 1. I'm trying to pass parameters using the "send" command. The problem is that "send" insists on interpreting these for me rather than sending them verbatim. In other words, if I try send "hi" && the long id of field "xyz" to field "abc" of car

Re: AppleScript - Silent Running?

You could use the built-in web interfaces. I believe FileMaker can supply HTML or XML. This has the advantage of being "silent" as you say, and cross-platform. On Sep 20, 2005, at 3:47 AM, Peter Reid wrote: I'm using AppleScript to access a local FileMaker Pro 7 database under OS X 10.3/10

custom properties help

Dear RunRev Programmers, Can sopme1 help me with this stack, I'm trying to learn how to save program information in custom properties. Thank you! Paul Salyers PS1 - Senior Rep. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Http://ps1.SoftSeven.org ___ use-revolution mailing l

Re: Why happen Topic error ; message id is not an integer

Hello Supote, Dear sir, I want to know what happen of text error below. And I want to know how to solve this problem. executing at 10:18:21 AM Typecancel: message id is not an integer ObjectNextWeek Line Hintbutton id 2691 of card id 1002 of stack "Calendar Schedule11

Re: highlight and hide field from standalone

I'm glad you got it working. I don't know why, but it took nearly a week for my reply to appear Mark On 20 Sep 2005, at 12:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Mark Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi Mark and everyone that helped with this. I got it sorted using this script...Basically usin

Re: highlight and hide field from standalone

Quoting Mark Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi Mark and everyone that helped with this. I got it sorted using this script...Basically using the background colour. I added another caveat that it only works when the mainstack is "armbase" So I can change the mainstack name in the runtime and the fields

Why happen Topic error ; message id is not an integer

Dear sir, I want to know what happen of text error below. And I want to know how to solve this problem. executing at 10:18:21 AM Typecancel: message id is not an integer ObjectNextWeek Line Hintbutton id 2691 of card id 1002 of stack "Calendar Schedule111" of stack "E:/s

GAME DEVELOPMENT?

hi! I would like to create a MYST like adventure game and wonder if i can be able to do the following in REVOLUTION: 1. Have quicktime videos with 3d animated "gadgets" on top (alpha channel) (done in Lightwave 3d) to create "PUZZLES" with hospots/ get user actions and then send messages in order

Artifacts and unwanted selection markers in stand-alones

I develop in OS X, but when I build stand-alones for either OS X or Windows XP, I often get unwanted graphic artifacts like a selection boundary around a button or field. If I click a different button or field, the boundary goes away, but it's always there the next time I open the stand-al

Re: highlight and hide field from standalone

How about drawing a red rectangle around the field: On mouseup whgichone global field2delete if the controlkey is down then if whichone = 3 then put "xyz" into field2delete addBorder field2delete end if else exit to top end mouseup on addBorder field2delete put the rect of fld fi

AppleScript - Silent Running?

I'm using AppleScript to access a local FileMaker Pro 7 database under OS X 10.3/10.4 from my Rev stack. This works fine except there's an awful lot of "screen flashing" going on - i.e. every time I use some AppleScript to access the FM Pro database, FM Pro becomes visible and is the front app

[OT] 70% now using 1024x768 or greater

For those of you who crave designing for 1024x768 resolution, in many markets your day may be here - the most recent stats I could find: July 2005 640x480: 0% VERY old/small desktop monitors and laptop computers 800x600: 24% Just about all 15"

[ANN] ssBk 5.12 update available

The Scripter's Scrapbook update v5.12 is now available, correcting a window layering issue in OSX when importing a backup with different Entry classifications. - Registered and trial users should update within their program under the Help menu. - If you wish to try the software, you can obt