Re: Strange math behaviour... could someone explain this ?

2005-10-08 Thread Ken Ray
On 10/8/05 9:47 PM, "Richard Gaskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You might get Rev to introduce a workaround (e.g. by changing the >> effective meaning of trunc() to be "round at some ;eve; of precision >> that will do what I *want*, and then truncate", as Mark suggested) - but >> I fear that on

Launch several files in a app ?

2005-10-08 Thread Ludovic Thébault
Hello, It's possible to open an app with a document (launch mytext.txt with myApp), but how launch an app with several documents in one time ? In fact, i want to import several pictures with iPhoto. Any Ideas ? Thanks. Ludovic ___ use-revolution mai

Re: Shell script to get shortcut's target on Win32? [SOLUTION]

2005-10-08 Thread Frank Leahy
Of course I found the solution as soon as I sent that message -- the Rev command "the longFilePath". Of course why aliasReference returns a 8.3 file name is another story... Regards, -- Frank ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runre

Re: Shell script to get shortcut's target on Win32?

2005-10-08 Thread Sarah Reichelt
> Does anyone know how to write a shell script to get the target of a > shortcut on Windows? > > I'm using the aliasReference command, but it returns an unusable file > name. For example, > >the aliasReference of "C:\Documents and Settings/frank/My > Documents/My Pictures/1-originals/IMG_4

Shell script to get shortcut's target on Win32?

2005-10-08 Thread Frank Leahy
Hi, Does anyone know how to write a shell script to get the target of a shortcut on Windows? I'm using the aliasReference command, but it returns an unusable file name. For example, the aliasReference of "C:\Documents and Settings/frank/My Documents/My Pictures/1-originals/IMG_4668

Re: Strange math behaviour... could someone explain this ?

2005-10-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alex Tweedly wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: Computers are the servants of humans, not the other way around. You wish !! I know you well enough to know you're just having fun there, but because this anomaly has been accepted as "normal" in microprocessor design I hope the readers here will i

Re: Strange math behaviour... could someone explain this ?

2005-10-08 Thread Alex Tweedly
Richard Gaskin wrote: One man's "artifact" is another man's "bug". :) The original poster never specified that it was a Rev bug, The *original* poster (jbv) didn't, but Jonathan (to whom I was replying) did. At least, he said that Rev did this, and he said (in an earlier email) that it wa

Re: little arrows Increase/decrease a field value

2005-10-08 Thread Ken Ray
On 10/8/05 12:43 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Just a quick note for those of you wondering why this is "backwards"... >> actually if you think about a field with a bunch of text in it and a taller >> scrollbar control to its right controlling the scroll of the field (yes,

RE: HELP!! - Geometry Gone Berserk, How to fix?

2005-10-08 Thread MisterX
sorry Sarah but that's little help... the problem always comes back... I know cause I tried for months! (see my next post) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Sarah Reichelt > Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 1:41 AM > To: How to use

Re: HELP!! - Geometry Gone Berserk, How to fix?

2005-10-08 Thread Sarah Reichelt
> HELP! I have a Stack and the geometry has gone berserk. I have a > "breakpoint" inserted in a preOpenStack handler that allows me to > quit the startup path. If I let it continue the Stack displays and > the geometry has scaled/moved objects as if the Stack window were > MUCH bigger. If I Abort i

Re: little arrows Increase/decrease a field value

2005-10-08 Thread Sarah Reichelt
> i've searched the docs on the little arrows (in the tools). I wanty to > increase > the numeric value of a field using the little arrows at the side > I think you have already solved this problem, but have you had a look in the Object Library? There are a couple of "Little Arrows" options there

Re: Need documentation on Geometry inspector

2005-10-08 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 10/9/05, Kaveh Bazargan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't get my head around the geometry inspector window. Is there a > tutorial or documentation somewhere? > -- > Chipp Walters has produced a great set of video tutorials, which you can get at:

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2005-10-08 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Hello List, Is there a Rev command that returns the names of all computers running on a LAN? (On Win2K, I'd click on "My network" to find this out.) Thank you. -- Nicolas Cueto niconiko language school ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lis

Re: Copy Image

2005-10-08 Thread Todd Geist
Ok well that is probably what is going on here. I am sorry I pointed a finger at Constellation. I absolutely love it. It is a joy to work with. Sorry Jerry On 10/8/05 9:03 AM, "Jim Ault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have found that clipboard operations, including the clipboarddata in Rev >

Re: little arrows Increase/decrease a field value

2005-10-08 Thread rev
Quoting Mark Wieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Bob- Saturday, October 8, 2005, 5:07:40 AM, you wrote: It seems that they are Scrollbars and A search for scrollbars says use something like this. on scrollbarLineDec Put field ButtonWidth into tBtnWidth put (BtnWidth + 1) into BtnWidth Put BtnW

Re: little arrows Increase/decrease a field value

2005-10-08 Thread rev
Quoting Ken Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 10/8/05 9:25 AM, "Eric Chatonet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In addition, note that the messages are inverted: up arrow triggers the scrollbarLineDec(rease) message and the down one the scrollbarLineInc(rease) message :-) Just a quick note for those of

Re: little arrows Increase/decrease a field value

2005-10-08 Thread Mark Wieder
Bob- Saturday, October 8, 2005, 5:07:40 AM, you wrote: > It seems that they are Scrollbars and A search for scrollbars says use > something > like this. > on scrollbarLineDec > Put field ButtonWidth into tBtnWidth > put (BtnWidth + 1) into BtnWidth > Put BtnWidth into field ButtonWidth > e

Re: Strange math behaviour... could someone explain this ?

2005-10-08 Thread Mark Wieder
Alex- Friday, October 7, 2005, 11:14:47 AM, you wrote: > It's NOT a Rev bug - it's an artifact of double precision binary > arithmetic (or, if you like, an artifact of the IEEE format used by > Intel (and everyone else)). I'm sure if I coded the same thing in java I would also come up with 179.

Re: Copy Image

2005-10-08 Thread Jim Ault
I have found that clipboard operations, including the clipboarddata in Rev require a hesitation of 0.5 to 1 sec to allow the operating system to deal with the 'shared/transportable' nature of clipboard data. Microsoft has extensive clipboard definitions (Excel charts, bit maps, rtf, etc) which add

Re: little arrows Increase/decrease a field value

2005-10-08 Thread Ken Ray
On 10/8/05 9:25 AM, "Eric Chatonet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In addition, note that the messages are inverted: up arrow triggers > the scrollbarLineDec(rease) message and the down one the > scrollbarLineInc(rease) message :-) Just a quick note for those of you wondering why this is "backwards

Need documentation on Geometry inspector

2005-10-08 Thread Kaveh Bazargan
I can't get my head around the geometry inspector window. Is there a tutorial or documentation somewhere? -- Kaveh Bazargan http://www.river-valley.com/ http://www.holographer.org/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please v

Re: little arrows Increase/decrease a field value

2005-10-08 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Bob, Little arrows in Rev do not work as expected. For instance, the thumb position that should be passed as a parameter with the scrollbarLineInc and scrollbarLineDec messages are not passed. But the messages themselves are sent by the engine. So you can write: on scrollbarLineInc if fl

Re: little arrows Increase/decrease a field value

2005-10-08 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Bob, Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Oh yeah. I'm in Homer Simpson mode today :-) Helps if I get the names right. I forgot the t before the name. Brackets not needed. Both work on scrollbarLineDec Put field ButtonWidth into tBtnWidth put tBtnWidth + 1 into BtnWidth Put BtnWidth into field

Re: little arrows Increase/decrease a field value

2005-10-08 Thread rev
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Oh yeah. I'm in Homer Simpson mode today :-) Helps if I get the names right. I forgot the t before the name. Brackets not needed. Both work on scrollbarLineDec Put field ButtonWidth into tBtnWidth put tBtnWidth + 1 into BtnWidth Put BtnWidth into field ButtonWid

little arrows Increase/decrease a field value

2005-10-08 Thread rev
Hi All i've searched the docs on the little arrows (in the tools). I wanty to increase the numeric value of a field using the little arrows at the side It seems that they are Scrollbars and A search for scrollbars says use something like this. on scrollbarLineDec Put field ButtonWidth into tBtn

Re: Strange math behaviour... could someone explain this ?

2005-10-08 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi all, set the numberformat to "0.0" put (36-34.2)*100 into temp put temp & cr & trunc(temp) & cr & trunc(180) Result: 180.0 179.0 180.0 Difficult to name this a man's bug ;-) Le 8 oct. 05 à 03:41, Richard Gaskin a écrit : Alex Tweedly wrote: Lynch, Jonathan wrote: But s

Re: Speed optimisation

2005-10-08 Thread Kay C Lan
On 10/7/05, Alex Tweedly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So *if* Rob can accept the missing trailing "0" then Kay is the "winner > apparent" for the QP (pending any other faster method). Not so fast:-) Ithink Alex you were spot on when you said: 3. it's easy to get obsessive about speed beyond the