Re: Image collision detection

2006-12-05 Thread John Craig
Thanks to everyone who emailed with feedback - it's really helpful. There is also a legacy version available now - just tried it on Linux / Rev 2.6.1. JC download the library at http://molekular.co.uk/ Scott Morrow wrote: The transparency threshold is great!

OT: Why you shouldn't give away your shareware for free

2006-12-05 Thread Ian Wood
http://www.thinkmac.co.uk/blog/2006/11/why-you-shouldnt-give-away- your.html Roughly paraphrased as: Hey buddy, can we give away 5,000 copies of your app for free? What? Why on Earth would I want to create an extra 5,000 potential customer support issues for no money, and piss off all my

Re: Revolution and the Web, feedback wanted, Part 1 of 3

2006-12-05 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Re: Revolution browser plugin, has anyone tried OSA Kit? http://www.osakit.com regards alex ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Revolution and the Web, feedback wanted, Part 1 of 3

2006-12-05 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Alex, Am I right that OSA Kit works on Windows only? Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Get your store on-line within minutes with Salery Web Store software. Download at http://www.salery.biz Op 5-dec-2006, om

Re: v2.7 engine?

2006-12-05 Thread Robert Brenstein
I meant, I download the whole shebang and then grab the engine out of it. Check your copy of Enterprise to see if it already contains the Mac and Windows standalone engines. They are in mine. If you don't see them, just make a 1-card standalone and build for all available platforms, and they

Re: v2.7 engine?

2006-12-05 Thread Ian Wood
On 5 Dec 2006, at 13:12, Robert Brenstein wrote: Wasn't lately a personality split introduced in engines which resulted in requiring a different engine for IDE and different for standalones? Robert There was an issue with the IDE and the engine having different version numbers. Ian

Re: v2.7 engine?

2006-12-05 Thread Mark Schonewille
Robert, I think you're right. I think it would be very useful if RR Ltd created a download link on the index page of runrev.com, directly leading to all versions ever pulbished including the standalone engines. On one occasion, a client of mine called me in the middle of the night

Re: OT: Why you shouldn't give away your shareware for free

2006-12-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Ian Wood wrote: http://www.thinkmac.co.uk/blog/2006/11/why-you-shouldnt-give-away- your.html Roughly paraphrased as: Hey buddy, can we give away 5,000 copies of your app for free? What? Why on Earth would I want to create an extra 5,000 potential customer support issues for no money, and

Re: Revolution and the Web, feedback wanted, Part 1 of 3

2006-12-05 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Mark It mentions ActiveX (which is windows-only) in the faq but they claim to have a pro version (165k!) which works as a standard plugin for other browsers. I've sent a email of to them to see if they have plans to support other OS's. regards alex Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Alex,

Re: Revolution and the Web, feedback wanted, Part 1 of 3

2006-12-05 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Alex, Yes, I have seen that browsers other than IE are supported on Windows, but haven't found information about other OS's. Please let us know their reply to your query. Best, Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz

Re: Revolution and the Web, feedback wanted, Part 1 of 3

2006-12-05 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Mark The reply.. Actually it is very early to tell about a OSX or Linux version! at least I have to wait after the coming update which will be a surprise :) Though you can use CrossOver Office to emulate the browser plugin and you will be able to use OSAKit in your Linux browser,

Re: v2.7 engine?

2006-12-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
Robert Brenstein wrote: I meant, I download the whole shebang and then grab the engine out of it. Check your copy of Enterprise to see if it already contains the Mac and Windows standalone engines. They are in mine. If you don't see them, just make a 1-card standalone and build for all

Re: v2.7 engine?

2006-12-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Schonewille wrote: Robert, I think you're right. I think it would be very useful if RR Ltd created a download link on the index page of runrev.com, directly leading to all versions ever pulbished including the standalone engines. On one occasion, a client of mine called me in the

RE: Why you shouldn't give away your shareware for free

2006-12-05 Thread Lynn Fredricks
http://www.thinkmac.co.uk/blog/2006/11/why-you-shouldnt-give-away- your.html Roughly paraphrased as: Hey buddy, can we give away 5,000 copies of your app for free? What? Why on Earth would I want to create an extra 5,000 potential customer support issues for no money, and piss off all

Re: OT: Why you shouldn't give away your shareware for free

2006-12-05 Thread Robert John Warren
Ian Wood wrote: http://www.thinkmac.co.uk/blog/2006/11/why-you-shouldnt-give-away- your.html Roughly paraphrased as: Hey buddy, can we give away 5,000 copies of your app for free? What? Why on Earth would I want to create an extra 5,000 potential customer support issues for no money, and

Re: v2.7 engine?

2006-12-05 Thread Mark Schonewille
And where are the versions later than 2.6.1 and earlier than the latest? It would be very useful if this were made public. Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Get your store on-line within minutes with Salery Web Store

Re: OT: Why you shouldn't give away your shareware for free

2006-12-05 Thread Ian Wood
On 5 Dec 2006, at 16:39, Robert John Warren wrote: Within your business model (whatever it is), I cannot think of any reason at all why you would want to piss off all your paying customers. But not everybody thinks Mac, that's all. Diversity is (or rather should be) the spirit of the

Re: Why you shouldn't give away your shareware for free, Lynn Fredricks lynn at paradigmasoft.com

2006-12-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Lynn Fredricks wrote: http://www.thinkmac.co.uk/blog/2006/11/why-you-shouldnt-give-away- your.html Roughly paraphrased as: Hey buddy, can we give away 5,000 copies of your app for free? What? Why on Earth would I want to create an extra 5,000 potential customer support issues for no money, and

Thank you for all of the help

2006-12-05 Thread Ben Bock
I wanted to say a heartfelt Thank You for the good-hearted support, sharp advice and incredibly instructive sample scripts, links, and trouble-shooting I received from the participants on this list. I completed a doctoral dissertation standalone ~36 stack Rev program in episodic eyewitness

Re: Thank you for all of the help

2006-12-05 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Ben, Heartwarming :-) That's the purpose of this list to help all: advanced users or beginners. We wait for your next posts ;-) Thanks. Le 5 déc. 06 à 19:28, Ben Bock a écrit : I wanted to say a heartfelt Thank You for the good-hearted support, sharp advice and incredibly instructive

Re: v2.7 engine?

2006-12-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Schonewille wrote: And where are the versions later than 2.6.1 and earlier than the latest? It would be very useful if this were made public. They are in various ftp folders, but you need to know the exact file link to access them and you are right these URLs aren't public. You might

Re: v2.7 engine?

2006-12-05 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Schonewille wrote: And where are the versions later than 2.6.1 and earlier than the latest? It would be very useful if this were made public. They are in various ftp folders, but you need to know the exact file link to access them and

SHA1

2006-12-05 Thread Mark Smith
I've implemented an SHA1 digest function in transcript. For those interested, it's reasonably quick on very small inputs, and dog - slow on big ones. I also doubt that it works right on an intel machine - I only have motorola macs, here. But it was an interesting challenge, and could be

Delay before sound starts playing

2006-12-05 Thread Fred Moyer
I'm trying to create a stack where the user can play a solo instrument along with a sound file that plays an accompaniment. At times in the music, the accompaniment stops for a while and the solo instrument needs to keep playing; at these places, I've had the sound file pause and wait for

Access Plugins

2006-12-05 Thread Mikey
All, I have a really interesting project that I'm going to be starting here shortly, but it has a problem - I need to be able to generate Access database files as output (and then zip them). I'd love to be able to do this one in RR, because there will be a significant amount of parsing, and

Re: SHA1

2006-12-05 Thread Bill
It seems almost everyday that someone makes a cool library for RunRev that does something which I have no idea what is... On 12/5/06 2:43 PM, Mark Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've implemented an SHA1 digest function in transcript. For those interested, it's reasonably quick on very small

Re: Access Plugins

2006-12-05 Thread Jan Schenkel
Hi Mikey, You can always connect to Access databases via ODBC - setup a DSN and open a connection to it. If you need to create new .mdb files, it's a little trickier as you'd have to create an empty .mdb file, duplicate that, create a DSN on the fly and then manipulate it from Revolution.

Re: ScriptParsingError

2006-12-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Schonewille wrote: Richard wrote: It'll be tough to make a business case for reverting to the message after all this time, esp. given the convenient immediacy of just checking the result. Look at it this way: Sure, it's extra work, but you do it once, it only takes a few minutes,

Re: Access Plugins

2006-12-05 Thread Mikey
Unfortunately that isn't a solution. This is going to be a project that is going to replace an embedded Access database, so access to Access is negatory. -- 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

Re: Thank you for all of the help

2006-12-05 Thread Jim Ault
Cool !! So how did we all do on the psych test part? I would imagine highly schizophrenic with singular and multiple personality disorders. The Orderly Disagreement Quotient was probably up there as well. Hopefully your grade was excellent. Jim Ault Las Vegas On 12/5/06 10:28 AM, Ben Bock

slide with multiples of x?

2006-12-05 Thread Peter T. Evensen
Is there a built-in way to create a slider that only stops at increments of x (e.g., of 20, from 0 to 100, so 0, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100)? Thanks! Peter T. Evensen http://www.PetersRoadToHealth.com 314-629-5248 or 888-682-4588 ___ use-revolution

Re: slide with multiples of x?

2006-12-05 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Peter, The How to Manage Snap to Scrollbars tutorial might help you: How to manage a slider snap-to behavior to make sure that the indicator lines up with the ticks especially on Mac OS X. You will access this tutorial through Tutorials Picker a free plugin that interfaces with the So

Re: ScriptParsingError

2006-12-05 Thread Dar Scott
On Dec 5, 2006, at 12:47 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: In general I agree, but from time to time as the language grows I'd be willing to accept some deprecated tokens on a case-by-case basis if a better solution becomes available. Have you noticed the effective default value for the

Re: slide with multiples of x?

2006-12-05 Thread Peter T. Evensen
Hi Eric, Thanks for the pointer. The one key I was missing is scrollbarDrag. I didn't know about that message. I implemented my own scrollbar value indicator that I move.Here's what I wound up with in my script. I haven't tried this on the Mac yet. I don't like the hard-coded

Re: slide with multiples of x?

2006-12-05 Thread Marty Knapp
Hey Peter, I don't think there's a built-in way to do this. You'll have to roll your own. I did stack that might help you get started - it's called Marty's Sliders in my Rev Online space, under Marty Knapp. Maybe that will help some (it doesn't do incremental stops though). Marty Knapp Is

Re: Thank you for all of the help

2006-12-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jim Ault wrote: Cool !! So how did we all do on the psych test part? I would imagine highly schizophrenic with singular and multiple personality disorders. The Orderly Disagreement Quotient was probably up there as well. No it wasn't. ;) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL

Re: slide with multiples of x?

2006-12-05 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Peter, You can achieve your goal more easily with a oneliner: on mouseUp set the thumbPos of me to the thumbPos of me end mouseUp Best Regards from Paris, Eric Chatonet Le 5 déc. 06 à 22:35, Peter T. Evensen a écrit : Hi Eric, Thanks for the pointer. The one key I was missing is

Re: slide with multiples of x?

2006-12-05 Thread Peter T. Evensen
Eric, How does that make you go by 20s? I want the slider to go from 0 to 100 by 20s, so if you have the slider at position 25, it will snap back to 20. Am I missing something? At 03:45 PM 12/5/2006, you wrote: Hi Peter, You can achieve your goal more easily with a oneliner: on mouseUp

Re: slide with multiples of x?

2006-12-05 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Peter, Depends on the fact you want values showing or not. If you show values: yes you have to script it as you did it. Otherwise it's enough to set the endValue appropriately and multiply the thumbpos value to use it if needed. Best Regards from Paris, Eric Chatonet Le 5 déc. 06 à

Re: Access Plugins

2006-12-05 Thread Bill
It would be nice if there was a way to convert access databases to SQLite. On 12/5/06 3:57 PM, Mikey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately that isn't a solution. This is going to be a project that is going to replace an embedded Access database, so access to Access is negatory.

Re: v2.7 engine?

2006-12-05 Thread Robert Brenstein
All the older distributions up through 2.6.1 are available at the ftp link Richard mentioned before: ftp://ftp.runrev.com/pub/revolution/downloads/engines/ The latest 2.7 distribution can be downloaded directly from the download web page at the RR site. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

images don't scale when the stack changes size

2006-12-05 Thread Brian Durney
Hello, I am making a remote-controlled slide show program where a user uses a local machine to control a slide show stack on a remote machine. I want to make a thumbnail version of the slide show stack so that the user can see what's happening on the remote machine. I also want the user

Re: images don't scale when the stack changes size

2006-12-05 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Brian, Your own scripts will probably be more reliable than the Geometry Manager, but since you have already done the work of setting all GM properties for your images, you can simply send resizeStack to the card or stack containing the images. Don't forget to pass the resizeStack

Re: slide with multiples of x?

2006-12-05 Thread Jim Ault
Same result, just a little bit shorter and one less handler, but probably the same speed. on mouseUp get the thumbposition of me set the thumbposition of me to ((it div 20)+( it mod 20 div 10))*20 AdjustLabelPosition end mouseUp You can do a quick test by pasting the following lines

Re: Thank you for all of the help

2006-12-05 Thread Scott Kane
So how did we all do on the psych test part? I would imagine highly schizophrenic with singular and multiple personality disorders. Schizophrenia has ***nothing*** to do with multiple personality disorders. Forget Sybil it was a total joke and a lie. Think more A beautiful Mind which

Back to button basics

2006-12-05 Thread Jan Sælid
Hi folks, I’m redesigning my buttons. it’s been a while since the last time. The autobehaviour drives me nuts. Can someone please tell me what to turn off and on in the following scenario: The buttons belongs to a group. There should be no radiobehaviour. They should all be transparent. No

Re: v2.7 engine?

2006-12-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
Robert Brenstein wrote: It would be nice if not only the older engines but also current engines were available through ftp, so they are all in one place for download. And earlier 2.7.x distributions do not seem to be readily available. I'll see what I can find out about this. -- Jacqueline

Re: Thank you for all of the help

2006-12-05 Thread Jim Ault
I meant both... schiz combined with the others.. I should have said personality disorders ***added in*** but it was a quick email for fun. I see your triple emphasis, and one of me understands the diff, and the other doesn't think it applies to him. Jim Ault Las Vegas On 12/5/06 6:07

best downloading architecture - vote 1, 2, 3 or 4

2006-12-05 Thread Josh Mellicker
Let's say you wanted to provide the user with a splash or stub app that downloaded a Main Stack from a server along with a a whole bunch of other files to be downloaded to various locations. There are a few options: 1. the

Re: Thank you for all of the help

2006-12-05 Thread Scott Kane
I meant both... schiz combined with the others.. I should have said personality disorders ***added in*** but it was a quick email for fun. I see your triple emphasis, and one of me understands the diff, and the other doesn't think it applies to him. No worries, Jim. I'm touchy on the

Re: Back to button basics

2006-12-05 Thread Tereza Snyder
On Dec 5, 2006, at 9:05 PM, Jan Sælid wrote: ... What I want to do is to just change the icon according to the state of onstate property. Should I use a visited icon or a hilited icon? No matter what I turn off or on I seem to get some additional behaviour. Like a border or the

Re: best downloading architecture - vote 1, 2, 3 or 4

2006-12-05 Thread Jim Ault
On 12/5/06 7:53 PM, Josh Mellicker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. the splash app first downloads the Main Stack and runs it, but the splash app continues to download a whole list of files in the background This would be ideal, but is it feasible to set up a callback framework where the Main

Re: best downloading architecture - vote 1, 2, 3 or 4

2006-12-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Josh Mellicker asked: What is your vote? 1 2 3 4 5. none of the above 6: The application is installed with everything it needs to run. Updates can come in over the wire later, but once the installer has run it's ready to go, right then and there. You'd be surprised how many folks

Re: Access Plugins

2006-12-05 Thread Mark Wieder
Mikey- Tuesday, December 5, 2006, 11:08:45 AM, you wrote: All, I have a really interesting project that I'm going to be starting here shortly, but it has a problem - I need to be able to generate Access database files as output (and then zip them). I'd love to be able to do this one in RR,

Re: best downloading architecture - vote 1, 2, 3 or 4

2006-12-05 Thread Phil Davis
I like this, Richard. It gets my vote. Thanks for sharing it. Phil Davis Richard Gaskin wrote: Josh Mellicker asked: What is your vote? 1 2 3 4 5. none of the above 6: The application is installed with everything it needs to run. Updates can come in over the wire later, but once the

Re: Access Plugins

2006-12-05 Thread Scott Kane
I'd love to be able to do this one in RR, because there will be a significant amount of parsing, and chunk expressions are SO perfect for that. One possibility is to generate a DLL (if this is on Windows) that has the Jet Engine interface built into it. I'm not knowledgeable about building