Inks, Transparency: Mac vs Windows.

2006-05-06 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I found this in the Metacard 2.5 documentation stack: The ink property determines how the colors used to draw a control are combined with the colors of the of the pixels underneath that control. A control's ink can be set to one of the following values: clear, srcAnd, srcAndReverse, srcCopy,

Re: Inks, Transparency: Mac vs Windows.

2006-05-06 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I found this in the Metacard 2.5 documentation stack: [ stuff about inks snipped ] It just took a tiny, tiny bit of oomf to go and find it . . . I'm not sure how reading the documentation takes oomf but the MC 2.5 info is now somewhat out of date with

Inks, Transparency: Mac vs Windows.

2006-05-06 Thread Richmond Mathewson
By 'oomf' I was gently signalling that I could not quite understand the reason for the discussion on the use-list when (both in MC 2.5 and in the 2.7.1 documentation) all is really quite accessible. Scott Rossi's posting seems completely comprehensive and comprehensible. One thing that has

Poll on New Graphics Capabilities

2006-05-06 Thread Richmond Mathewson
If you have time, Please spare a moment to pop across to the RR Graphic group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RRgraphix/) and take the poll there. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson Philosophical problems are confusions arising owing to

Implementation of serial number

2006-05-06 Thread Ton Kuypers
A very good day to you all! I am in the progress of finalising a small commercial program for the graphic industry: select one or more PDF files and have Adobe InDesign put them in the correct location and order to create impositions. Everything is working the way it should, so now I am

Re: Implementation of serial number

2006-05-06 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Ton, you can find a small demo stack on revonline in my user space: user: Malte stack: password generator It might be a bit over complex, today I go with a simpler approach, but it might help to get you started. All the best, Malte ___

Re: Implementation of serial number

2006-05-06 Thread Ton Kuypers
Hey Malte, I think this is usable... Will check it out and see how to implement this, thanks! Warm regards, Ton Kuypers Digital Media Partners bvba Tel. +32 (0)477 / 739 530 Fax +32 (0)14 / 71 03 04 http://www.dmp-int.com On 6-mei-06, at 13:23, Malte Brill wrote: Hi Ton, you can find

Tools Palette

2006-05-06 Thread LunchnMeets
Hi Everyone, Is there a way to change the default position of the tools palette in a script? It gets buried under the development tool bar in 2.7.1. I'm using Mac OSX. Thanks in advance for your helpful advice. Joe Orlando, FL ___ use-revolution

Re: Sort-of OT: Learning Python

2006-05-06 Thread Geoff Canyon
On May 5, 2006, at 2:25 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: Before I go and read the blog, I'll take a wild guess that you're on a Mac. True, but most of the issues I saw were platform-independent. For example, the latest version of Boa Constructor is 0.4.4-Alpha. Is the alpha release stable? If I

Tools Palette

2006-05-06 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I have just uploaded a 2.7 format stack to the RR Graphics group: (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RRgraphix) that will patch your revTools stack for you. Be warned!!! This can only be used ONCE and will result in your revTools stack always starting at the chosen on-screen position. sincerely,

save stack question

2006-05-06 Thread Stephen Barncard
I've got a notePad-like one-field window that will only be used in the IDE. I've got a 'save stack' command in the closeStack handler. Is there a way to have the IDE not ask to save the stack when closing (since I'm doing that) without the stack being modal? It's probably something dumb. I

Re: Popup problem under Windows

2006-05-06 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi Mark, Thanks for the reply. I have never used a mouseDown. I don't know if it's any different from a mouseUp (simply because when you click on the mouse, you have to release !). I have copied popUp buttons which work and then adjusted them (that was my first attempt !), and it didn't work.

Re: QT and standalones -- incompatible?

2006-05-06 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi Peter, I totally agree ... -Francis Nothing should ever be done for the first time ! This list is the BIGGEST selling point for Rev - fast help from friendly people, what more can a stressed out programmer ask for!! ___ use-revolution

Re: save stack question

2006-05-06 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Stephen, You might try this: set the grevstackstatus[Your stack] to empty This array contains edited or empty for each stack. The stack names are the keys of the array. The problem is to determine where you should put this syntax. If the only thing that changes is e.g. a text field,

Re: Sort-of OT: Learning Python

2006-05-06 Thread Judy Perry
FWIW, my husband is a devoted python user and he's not had any problems with installing or using Python on a Mac in OS X (don't even know if OS 9 is possible...). The only thing he's not been able to get going is PythonCard. Judy On Fri, 5 May 2006, Alex Tweedly wrote: Before I go and read the

Re: Popup problem under Windows

2006-05-06 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Francis, Op 6-mei-2006, om 23:20 heeft Francis Nugent Dixon het volgende geschreven: Hi Mark, Thanks for the reply. I have never used a mouseDown. I don't know if it's any different from a mouseUp (simply because when you click on the mouse, you have to release !). I believe it is

Re: Sort-of OT: Learning Python

2006-05-06 Thread Mark Schonewille
In fact, I can't imagine anything easier than installing Python on Mac OS X. Just install the developemnt tools from your OSX CD. When you write a script and give it a .py extension, double-click it and if you didn't make any mistakes in the syntax, your application will be saved next to

Re: save stack question

2006-05-06 Thread Stephen Barncard
undocumented hmmm.. Thanks for this, Mark, but Rev won't let me compile the line... ON closeStack save this stack set the grevstackstatus[notePad] to empty END closeStack Hi Stephen, You might try this: set the grevstackstatus[Your stack] to empty This array contains edited or

Re: save stack question

2006-05-06 Thread Mark Schonewille
Apologies, I was working with properties... The syntax should be put empty into gRevStackStatus[Your Stack] and it won't work in a closeStack handler. Best, Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Salery is the easiest way

Re: Sort-of OT: Learning Python

2006-05-06 Thread Alex Tweedly
Judy Perry wrote: FWIW, my husband is a devoted python user and he's not had any problems with installing or using Python on a Mac in OS X (don't even know if OS 9 is possible...). The only thing he's not been able to get going is PythonCard. What trouble did he have ? Pythoncard used to

The end of OS9 development

2006-05-06 Thread Mark Wieder
All- Now that my domain's back on line (if anyone tried to email me and got bounced, please try again) I can finally say: R.I.P. CodeWarrior Freescale/Metrowerks finally pulled the plug yesterday. The web pages that describe CodeWarrior 10 are still online, but there is no mention anymore of

Re: Sort-of OT: Learning Python

2006-05-06 Thread Dan Shafer
If he needs help getting PythonCard running, have him send me an email or query Alex (who knows more about it than I do, I'm sure). The trick that bites most people I know who've tried this is the way OS X by default launches Python files in the IDE rather than with the PythonLauncher app that

Re: The end of OS9 development

2006-05-06 Thread Dan Shafer
Mark Yeah, I kept getting email bounces but be aware that I got your upgrade fee for RevCon West. And FWIW, I'm another one who's happy to see OS 9 ride off into the sunset. I suspect if Rev didn't have to keep making their stuff work with that creaky OS, we'd have more stability on some of

Re: Sort-of OT: Learning Python

2006-05-06 Thread Geoff Canyon
On May 6, 2006, at 4:37 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: In fact, I can't imagine anything easier than installing Python on Mac OS X. Just install the developemnt tools from your OSX CD. When you write a script and give it a .py extension, double-click it and if you didn't make any mistakes in

Re: Sort-of OT: Learning Python

2006-05-06 Thread Geoff Canyon
On May 6, 2006, at 4:01 PM, Judy Perry wrote: FWIW, my husband is a devoted python user and he's not had any problems with installing or using Python on a Mac in OS X (don't even know if OS 9 is possible...). Is he building double-clickable graphical aqua apps? I can use Python. The