Re: The End of Dreamcard?

2006-03-04 Thread Dom
Judy Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My understanding is that it will be including some of the very things many of us former Hypercard using/non-programmer people have been asking for. Eventually, a successor for HyperCard? Me too, as a DreamCard user (and former HyperCard then MetaCard user)

Re: Read from StnIn from POST is still broken?

2006-03-04 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hello Katir, I did'nt have the opportunity to test this for a while but what works 100% fine (we went spoken about before if i right remember) is to stick a PHP sockets listener in front of your Rev CGI script or Rev backgrounder stack based app. A very reliable way to do Rev able to

Re: The End of Dreamcard?

2006-03-04 Thread Mikey
1986 2006 Wait...HC was '86? I thought it was 88. Yikes I'm old. -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, This is good.

RE: STOP EMAILING ME!

2006-03-04 Thread Scott Kane
STOP EMAILING ME! Take a look at the bottom of this message and you will find instructions to remove yourself from the list - which you signed on for - so simple even a complete dope can do it... Scott -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 /

Re: resizable stack with Mac unresizable with Windows

2006-03-04 Thread André . Bisseret
Thanks a lot Mark, I set the decorations to default. I will have it tried next week by colleagues (infortunately, I havn't a PC myself). I should catch a glance to BugZilla more often :-)) Best regards André Le Friday, 3 Mar 2006, à 16:00 Europe/Paris, Mark Schonewille a écrit : Hi André,

on Windows parts of text printed repeatedly instead of once

2006-03-04 Thread André . Bisseret
Hi ! In the app. I am developping, each card includes several fields (author, title, texte, références). In a printing procedure I wrote a function (formatfldToPrint) that picks the texts of these fields (with their htmlText) and arranges them as a single document in a hidden field «

Re: The End of Dreamcard?

2006-03-04 Thread Stephen Barncard
Close. 19 years ago. I remember it came in the box with the new SE20 for AM studios. I was attempting to build an app with Z-Basic at the time, and not getting anywhere...then discovering this thing.. what's this... some kind of add-in hardware card? ha ha From Wikipedia: HyperCard was

RE: The End of Dreamcard?

2006-03-04 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Me too, as a DreamCard user (and former HyperCard then MetaCard user) I was sent areminder from Revolution -- and I wonder was to do... Also, I don't understand the purpose of or update your Dreamcard license for one more year. since there is NO more update! If you update DreamCard now,

Re: Locking Messages

2006-03-04 Thread Rob Cozens
Hi Bridger, I have a stack (Which I will call Stack 1) that makes another stack (I will call it Stack 2), copies a card from some other stack running in the background (which I call Stack 3) and sends the new stack with the copied card all over the network where it is added to whatever stack

Re: The End of Dreamcard?

2006-03-04 Thread Dom
Lynn Fredricks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A lot of what makes Revolution what it is, is in the engine. Ah, OK, that makes sense! ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Scrollbar to drag through a movie?

2006-03-04 Thread Jim Hurley
Is is possible to drag smoothly through the video frames of a movie using a scrollbar? I can drag to a current time and then start from that point, but I would like to see the frames shuttle by as I drag the thumb. Jim ___ use-revolution mailing

Is style a kind of font ?

2006-03-04 Thread André . Bisseret
Hi ! With a field thisFld of which textFont is set to, say, courier If I write in msg : put the textFont of line 1 of fld thisFld If every word of this line are in plain style then I get courier But if the style of at least one word in the line 1 is italic then textFont is said mixed :-

Re: Scrollbar to drag through a movie?

2006-03-04 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Jim, Is is possible to drag smoothly through the video frames of a movie using a scrollbar? with version 2.6.1 this is only possible when the QT controller is visible OR (if the controller is not visible) when the movie is already playing...?! This was possible with earlier

Re: Is style a kind of font ?

2006-03-04 Thread Klaus Major
Bonjour André, Hi ! With a field thisFld of which textFont is set to, say, courier If I write in msg : put the textFont of line 1 of fld thisFld If every word of this line are in plain style then I get courier But if the style of at least one word in the line 1 is italic then textFont is

Re: Locking Messages

2006-03-04 Thread Bridger Maxwell
Hey, Sorry I wasn't very clear on my question. I have made a stack (Stack 1) that copies a card from any stack running in the background (Stack 3), pastes it on another stack that was just made (Stack 2), and sends stack 2 over the network where the card that was added to any stack that

No Openstack ..... !

2006-03-04 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Paris, I have just run into my first Platform problem, but in fact, my problem started on my Mac, and hasn't gone away !. I finished developing a stack on my Mac. During development, I couldn't get it to run the OpenStack script (why I don't know). I found that when using Stack Runner,

Re: No Openstack ..... !

2006-03-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: So, back to the Mac to create a button to execute openStack, then back to the PC. When I click on the button on the PC, nothing happens, so I am back to square one. What is going wrong, or more specifically, what am I doing wrong ? It sounds like a platform-related

Re: XP Problems Persist...

2006-03-04 Thread Robert Brenstein
Jeff, Actually, we saw this happen when doing an osx XP transfer. The one was the 'regular' file that we couldn't open, the other was identical except that the file name had I think it was a leading _ or_. attached. Neither was functional :-( Thanks, though! Actually ._

Re: No Openstack ..... !

2006-03-04 Thread Charles Hartman
So use StackRunner (which beats the pants off the Dreamcard player anyway) on the PC too. You can bundle it with your stack for others to use. Charles On Mar 4, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: Hi from Paris, I have just run into my first Platform problem, but in fact, my

Re: The End of Dreamcard? -- but life after death?

2006-03-04 Thread jeffrey reynolds
Man i am feeling old... I created Apples first educational CD-ROM (Earth Explorer - a multimedia environmental encyclopedia for jr high kids) when they decided to get into the CD-ROM business in the early 90s using hypercard. they were amazed that a sophisticated multimedia product could

No OpenStack ..... ! continued

2006-03-04 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi Jacqueline, You wanted my openStack script, so here it is. But I can't see anything in there that can cause a problem. I hope it is easy to read with the folding. It works perfectly well when I type OpenStack in the message box (on my Mac). Thanks for looking. -Francis

Re: Is style a kind of font ?

2006-03-04 Thread Jerry Muelver
Klaus Major wrote: I, personally, consider this a bug! From the docs about textfont: If the chunk contains more than one font, the chunk's textFont property reports mixed. But even if the textfont is identical and only the styles are mixed I get put the textfont of line 1 of fld 1 - mixed

Re: The End of Dreamcard?

2006-03-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Stephen Barncard wrote: From Wikipedia: HyperCard was created by Bill Atkinson and initially released in August 1987 Trivia question: Many HC fans know that HyperCard was originally designed without a scripting language, which was added later in the development process. Which multimedia

Re: The End of Dreamcard?

2006-03-04 Thread Andre Garzia
On Mar 4, 2006, at 5:31 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Which multimedia authoring tool had a scripting language and premiered at the Boston expo the year before HC was released? Was it Director known as VideoWorks first??? did I won? Gee, I was only seven years old! :-D

Re: The End of Dreamcard?

2006-03-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Andre Garzia wrote: On Mar 4, 2006, at 5:31 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Which multimedia authoring tool had a scripting language and premiered at the Boston expo the year before HC was released? Was it Director known as VideoWorks first??? did I won? Gee, I was only seven years old! :-D

Re: The End of Dreamcard?

2006-03-04 Thread Pierre Sahores
Was this Bill A. working at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Richard ? Best, Le 4 mars 06 à 21:45, Richard Gaskin a écrit : Andre Garzia wrote: On Mar 4, 2006, at 5:31 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Which multimedia authoring tool had a scripting language and premiered at the Boston expo

Re: The End of Dreamcard?

2006-03-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Pierre Sahores wrote: Le 4 mars 06 à 21:45, Richard Gaskin a écrit : Andre Garzia wrote: On Mar 4, 2006, at 5:31 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Which multimedia authoring tool had a scripting language and premiered at the Boston expo the year before HC was released? Was it Director known as

Re: Is style a kind of font ?

2006-03-04 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Jerry, Klaus Major wrote: I, personally, consider this a bug! From the docs about textfont: If the chunk contains more than one font, the chunk's textFont property reports mixed. But even if the textfont is identical and only the styles are mixed I get put the textfont of line 1 of

Re: The End of Dreamcard?

2006-03-04 Thread Dan Shafer
I have no inside info on this, so I'm more or less guessing but here's my take. Dreamcard was a crippled Rev. It straddled the lines of an inventive user and a professional developer but the lines were blurred and the audiences and messages so different that it created as much confusion as it did

Re: The End of Dreamcard?

2006-03-04 Thread Robert Brenstein
Andre Garzia wrote: On Mar 4, 2006, at 5:31 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Which multimedia authoring tool had a scripting language and premiered at the Boston expo the year before HC was released? Was it Director known as VideoWorks first??? did I won? Gee, I was only seven years old! :-D

Re: The End of Dreamcard?

2006-03-04 Thread Dan Shafer
I think you're right, Robert. I seem to recall writing a piece on interactive fiction in that time frame and interviewing Appleton for it. My memory is a bit fuzzy but I think he did have a scripting language of sorts in that quit-delightful tool. On 3/4/06, Robert Brenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The End of Dreamcard?

2006-03-04 Thread Pierre Sahores
Richard ? ;-) Le 4 mars 06 à 22:40, Dan Shafer a écrit : I think you're right, Robert. I seem to recall writing a piece on interactive fiction in that time frame and interviewing Appleton for it. My memory is a bit fuzzy but I think he did have a scripting language of sorts in that

Re: The End of Dreamcard?

2006-03-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Robert Brenstein wrote: Andre Garzia wrote: On Mar 4, 2006, at 5:31 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Which multimedia authoring tool had a scripting language and premiered at the Boston expo the year before HC was released? Was it Director known as VideoWorks first??? did I won? Gee, I was only

Re: The End of Dreamcard?

2006-03-04 Thread Charles Hartman
On Mar 4, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: Dreamcard was a crippled Rev. It straddled the lines of an inventive user and a professional developer but the lines were blurred and the audiences and messages so different that it created as much confusion as it did anything else. Well, I

Re: The End of Dreamcard?

2006-03-04 Thread Dennis Brown
I was not impressed with the new plan either. I own Studio, but bought DC when they first offered it because it was an economical way to stay up to date. I had no interest in compiling my apps. Most of the nifty upgrades to the language are eye candy that real app developers might

Re: No OpenStack ..... ! continued

2006-03-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: Hi Jacqueline, You wanted my openStack script, so here it is. But I can't see anything in there that can cause a problem. I hope it is easy to read with the folding. It works perfectly well when I type OpenStack in the message box (on my Mac). I'm not sure why it

Windows file visibility

2006-03-04 Thread Marty Knapp
I've been playing with a recipe from the Scripter's Scrapbook (setFileVisibility) but I can't seem to make it work on my XP machine. I poked around on Google but didn't find anything that really helped. basically I'm doing this: #creating a text file #then attempt to make it invisible: put

Re: Windows file visibility

2006-03-04 Thread Roger . E . Eller
basically I'm doing this: #creating a text file #then attempt to make it invisible: put attrib +h thePathToMyFile into commandString get shell commandString But my file remains visible. Marty, You may just be conflicting with your OS settings. Do you have XP folder options set to

Re: Windows file visibility

2006-03-04 Thread Marty Knapp
Hey Roger, I tried the delimiter both ways and checked (and reset) my folder options - still no go. When I check the File Properties for the file Hidden is not checked after I've run the shell command on it . . . Marty basically I'm doing this: #creating a text file #then attempt to make it

Re: The End of Dreamcard?

2006-03-04 Thread Martin Blackman
On 05/03/06, Dan Shafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use Revolution, the English like, built-in language, to add the *step by step logic *of your concept to your creation. I suspect -- but again my caveat -- that this is just a mistake, that the language is called Transcript, not Revolution

Re: Windows file visibility

2006-03-04 Thread Roger . E . Eller
I tried the delimiter both ways and checked (and reset) my folder options - still no go. put attrib +h thePathToMyFile into commandString Are there any spaces in thePathToMyFile? If so, try enclosing it in quotes. put attrib +h quote thePathToMyFile quote into commandString Roger Eller

Re: Windows file visibility

2006-03-04 Thread Marty Knapp
Roger, I owe you a beer! adding the quotes fixed the problem (I was placing the file in the Documents and Settings folder). Thanks for your help. Marty I tried the delimiter both ways and checked (and reset) my folder options - still no go. put attrib +h thePathToMyFile into

Way to do RegEx substring replacements?

2006-03-04 Thread Jim Witte
Is there a way in Revolution (2.0.3) to do a RegEx find and replace using one of the sub-expressions, like finding () ([^x]*)x.* and replacing by \1\t\2 directly without having to use matchText to extract the subexpressions and then construct the line? (Yes, I know this should be in

Re: The End of Dreamcard?

2006-03-04 Thread John Tregea
Ah, those were heady days... I was at that Boston MacWorld (visiting on my first trip from Australia). Someone recommended that I go check out this new HyperCard and I saw Bill Atkinson presenting it. I ended up scoring an ACME Bowling team jacket (which was the HyperCard developer team

Re: Way to do RegEx substring replacements?

2006-03-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jim Witte wrote: Is there a way in Revolution (2.0.3) to do a RegEx find and replace using one of the sub-expressions, like finding () ([^x]*)x.* and replacing by \1\t\2 directly without having to use matchText to extract the subexpressions and then construct the line? (Yes, I know

Stripping trailing spaces from a string

2006-03-04 Thread Jim Witte
How can I use a RegEx to strip trailing white-space? I tried: get matchText(theExpr, (.*)\s*, theExpr) where theExpr is 0025E95C mov r5, r0 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: The End of Dreamcard?

2006-03-04 Thread Judy Perry
On Sat, 4 Mar 2006, Charles Hartman wrote: Right. There's the point. When you buy something like Hypercard, or Dreamcard, you're buying a GUI builder and programming lanuage. But a GUI builder and programming language in which you can't control the screen even to the extent of getting rid

RE: The End of Dreamcard?

2006-03-04 Thread Judy Perry
Perhaps this could be spelled out in any emails sent to people on the subject, along with instructions on how to implement engine changes? Judy On Sat, 4 Mar 2006, Lynn Fredricks wrote: If you update DreamCard now, you will get engine updates for the length of that update period. A lot of

Re: XP Problems Persist...

2006-03-04 Thread Judy Perry
Okay... probably. To be honest, I had a difficult time even _seeing_ it on his dark little Sony Vaio (sp?) laptop with an OS X skin on it ;-) Judy On Sat, 4 Mar 2006, Robert Brenstein wrote: Actually ._ ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Way to do RegEx substring replacements?

2006-03-04 Thread Jim Ault
On 3/4/06 6:40 PM, Jim Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way in Revolution (2.0.3) to do a RegEx find and replace using one of the sub-expressions, like finding () ([^x]*)x.* and replacing by \1\t\2 directly without having to use matchText to extract the subexpressions

Re: Stripping trailing spaces from a string

2006-03-04 Thread Ken Ray
On 3/4/06 10:00 PM, Jim Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I use a RegEx to strip trailing white-space? I tried: get matchText(theExpr, (.*)\s*, theExpr) where theExpr is 0025E95C mov r5, r0 Here's a version I have that trims whitespace from both sides

Re: Stripping trailing spaces from a string

2006-03-04 Thread Jim Ault
On 3/4/06 8:00 PM, Jim Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I use a RegEx to strip trailing white-space? I tried: get matchText(theExpr, (.*)\s*, theExpr) where theExpr is 0025E95C mov r5, r0 ___ put