Re: knee-jerk 90

2007-02-02 Thread Viktoras Didziulis
EU, Lithuania, but the situation is actually similar in other European countries except Scandinavia where Macs are slightly more popular. But even there, when I asked my Finish partner if they have any Mac for testing, he replied that it would be quite hard to find one because they do not have any

Re: OT: Quicktime Streaming Server on LInux

2007-02-02 Thread Richard Miller
We've taken perhaps 100 25-50 MB quicktime movies (all at 450 x 340, full color, 30 fps) and compressed them down to typically 3-6 MB each using Quicktime Pro's mpeg-4 compressor with relatively little degradation. These have then been put into an account at Streamhoster.com. We've found

Once upon a time?

2007-02-02 Thread David Bovill
put once upon is among the words of once upon a time = false (which surprised me!) put once,upon is among the items of once,upon,a,time = true set the wholeMatches to true set the itemDelimiter to space put once upon is among the items of once upon a time = true but with 2 spaces: set the

Re: Receiving data with Sockets when behind a Router

2007-02-02 Thread Derek Bump
Stephen Barncard wrote: Look at IP tunnelling. This allows a computer on a LAN to get a port or range of ports of various protocols through a router from the outside world. Stephen, Thank you for the guidance! I spent a little time this morning looking up IP Forwarding on the site you

Re: RevSpeak - a little less robotic?

2007-02-02 Thread Gregory Lypny
Thank you, Jim, Mark, and Sarah. I'll look into AppleScript as well revSpeechVoices() and revSetSpeechVoice in Revolution. Regards, Gregory ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: OT: Quicktime Streaming Server on LInux

2007-02-02 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Richard and all, We've taken perhaps 100 25-50 MB quicktime movies (all at 450 x 340, full color, 30 fps) please don't forget that you can even save some MBs if you encode your moves with only 25 or 24 fps, if possible, maybe even lower rates, let your eyes decide. 30 fps is what the

Re: Once upon a time?

2007-02-02 Thread Brian Yennie
If you need exactly two words, how about something like this: set the wholeMatches to true get wordOffset(word1, tText) if (it 0) AND (it = (wordOffset(word2, tText) - 1)) then ... end if It seems wordOffset() will ignore multiple spaces for you. HTH, Brian

Re: Relaunch

2007-02-02 Thread Devin Asay
On Feb 1, 2007, at 9:12 PM, Charles Szasz wrote: Has anybody use the relaunch command to prevent an application from being launch a second time while it is open? Charles, Just include a relaunch handler in the stack script that blocks the message from being passed. I do this all the

Re: Once upon a time?

2007-02-02 Thread Jim Ault
put once upon is among the words of once upon a time = false (which surprised me!) This shouldn't surprise you if you consider: put apple,grape is among the items of apple,grape,pear = false --since apple,grape is not an item, it is two of them --just as once upon is not a word If you want to

LIST and RUNREV security

2007-02-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I don't know how this can be the list as such. 1. Anybody, whether a member or not, can read any message on the use-list and see any contributor's e-mail address loud and clear to the top of the page. anybody who wants to send you messages about their millions squirreled away in Swiss

MS Office, Ribbons, and you

2007-02-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
Last year Dan Shafer shared this URL with us: http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/ That's a blog by the UI lead for MS Office, and most of it describes Office's new Ribbons interface. If you haven't been following the story, the Ribbons UI is worth learning about, and the blog is a great read.

Re: LIST and RUNREV security

2007-02-02 Thread Luis
An alternative would be to use a system similar to what Sourceforge uses, where the Reply To address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] in all emails, and the senders email address is munged noreply@(I think it's the mail server).sourceforge.net. Mind you, this is their Forum based system, so it wouldn't

Re: Rotate Graphic Image Smoothly?

2007-02-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
==Recently, Scott Rossi wrote: ==If you're going to continually rotate an image, the way to do this is to set ==the angle of the image, which keeps the image's data intact. Note that the ==results are poor with regard to any transparency in the image (such as =antialiasing of the edges and

RE: In standalone, closing a modal closes everything

2007-02-02 Thread Mark Powell
Hi Chipp/Trevor By chance, have you implemented something to work around this bug? Wait for fix? Subject users as is? If testing for engine version, then what? I am at an impasse. Nothing seems quite workable to me. Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Rotate Graphic Image Smoothly?

2007-02-02 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The image is not transparent so that is not the issue. I want a smooth rotation not a choppy one that I seem to be getting. Yes I was using the set angle of the image, but as I said it seems choppy to me. Is there a better way or am I stuck? The only two

Re: MS Office, Ribbons, and you

2007-02-02 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote: Any of you thinking about Ribbons-influenced designs for your apps? For years, though not with the moniker ribbon. What do you make of this shift? You may recall I posted to the list about this very subject back in Dec 2005:

Re: game-based learning

2007-02-02 Thread Marielle Lange
Of course, *I* am always interested ;-) I attended a seminar today on the theme of serious gaming. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serious_game -- this article is in French only. Presenters were Olivier Rampnoux, Julien Alvarez, Jean-Pierre Jessel. All members of the European Center of

Re: game-based learning

2007-02-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
Great stuff, Marielle. I was especially interested in the comments about girl gaming. I saw Brenda Laurel give the closing keynote at CHI-98, where she talked about her experience doing usability research to found her company Purple Moon (since killed by the Mattel juggernaut). Reinforcing

Re: game-based learning

2007-02-02 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Richard, I'm a little reluctant to expose this thinking to public scrutiny at this time, but almost ten years ago I was prepared to launch a major endeavor that was combination electronic book and game; however, I got distracted - big time, and never really got back to it. One of the

Re: Rotate Graphic Image Smoothly?

2007-02-02 Thread Jim Ault
On 2/2/07 8:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The image is not transparent so that is not the issue. I want a smooth rotation not a choppy one that I seem to be getting. Yes I was using the set angle of the image, but as I said it seems choppy to me. Is there a better way or

Re: MS Office, Ribbons, and you

2007-02-02 Thread Devin Asay
Richard, I'm trying to get my head around this. It is either simpler or more complicated than I think. How is this different from a template approach, as used in Apple Keynote or iDVD or Apple's Pages templates? I don't have VISTA or the new Office to see how it works. Devin On Feb 2,

Re: game-based learning

2007-02-02 Thread Marielle Lange
Hi Richard, Thanks for your comments and the tip on Brenda Laurel, didn't know that one. Funny, I found mention of her on a website game girl advance http://www.gamegirladvance.com/. I like the pun! Other games that are said to be highly successful with girls are: Alexandra Ledermann 6

Re: Receiving data with Sockets when behind a Router

2007-02-02 Thread Neal Campbell K3NC
Could it be as simple as your router does not have the right configuration to forward the port to your computer (or you have a firewall that prevents it since it thinks its from a non-trusted network? Neal Campbell K3NC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Devoted to Dogs: How to be your dog's best owner

recordInput

2007-02-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
The recordInput property lets me assign any of several input sources, but how can I know which ones are available? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com

Re: Macinstruct articles on Revolution

2007-02-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Hi Everyone, Well, we started publishing articles on Revolution the 15th of last Month as promised. I've received some response from a few on the list, but I am more than eager to see what any of the rest of you think. Just sent you an offlist reply about

Re: Macinstruct articles on Revolution

2007-02-02 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Thanks, Jacque. I knew my memory would come up to bite me now and then. I hadn't gone back to an HC stack to check and with my keyboard in my lap, I sometimes mess up - royally. Red faced once again. Just shows I'm human, but also that some don't read quite as critically as do others. BTW,

Re: MS Office, Ribbons, and you

2007-02-02 Thread Chipp Walters
The Ribbon is an interesting concept, basically replacing menus with visually rich tabs, each complete with their own dropdown visually rich menus. These are all certainly easily accomplished within Rev. The idea is most interesting, but there are a few noticeable caveats. The biggest drawback I

Re: Receiving data with Sockets when behind a Router

2007-02-02 Thread Jim Ault
The basic idea of a LAN behind a router is that the router assigns IP addresses dynamically therefore each cpu can have a different IP address every time it is booted. Inexpensive routers can only forward one port to one LAN IP address (internal network) thus using 9454 as the port number, for

Re: Macinstruct articles on Revolution

2007-02-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Thanks, Jacque. I knew my memory would come up to bite me now and then. I hadn't gone back to an HC stack to check and with my keyboard in my lap, I sometimes mess up - royally. Red faced once again. No need to be embarrassed, and I wouldn't call it a very big gaffe.

Re: Macinstruct articles on Revolution

2007-02-02 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Jacque, actually, that's one of the problems with programmers, we're too willing to accept gaffes; which leads to bugs. I try to be perfect, knowing that if I make it 90% of the time, I'm doing better than most. Thanks for your commiseration. Joe Wilkins On Feb 2, 2007, at 2:11 PM, J.

Re: Receiving data with Sockets when behind a Router

2007-02-02 Thread Alex Tweedly
Stephen Barncard wrote: Look at IP tunnelling. This allows a computer on a LAN to get a port or range of ports of various protocols through a router from the outside world. All routers will have this. http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/VS-IPTunneling.html Unfortunately, this scheme described

Re: [Ann] New game made with Rev. Drops

2007-02-02 Thread Mark Swindell
Very nice job, Malte. Great little game. Wastes time with the best of them. :) Mark On Jan 31, 2007, at 2:41 PM, Malte Brill wrote: Hi all, I am very proud to announce that after a while of quietness, I finally released a new product. It is simple. It is fast. It is addictive. It is

Re: RevSpeak - a little less robotic?

2007-02-02 Thread Mark Wieder
Mark- Thursday, February 1, 2007, 4:29:27 PM, you wrote: Vista purposed to have improved voice technology as well. In Apple's normal fashion, they took pot shots at it. I heard a demo of it and it sounded much improved as well. The Apple version did sound more natural though. ...and for

Re: MS Office, Ribbons, and you

2007-02-02 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Friday, February 2, 2007, 8:22:32 AM, you wrote: Dan also shared this background article from Jakob Nielsen about the new Office UI: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/wysiwyg.html My take du jour: While I do like the new look of Office 2007, I don't find the Ribbons idea in Office all

Re: Receiving data with Sockets when behind a Router

2007-02-02 Thread Derek Bump
Neal Campbell K3NC wrote: Could it be as simple as your router does not have the right configuration to forward the port to your computer (or you have a firewall that prevents it since it thinks its from a non-trusted network? That very well could be. I'm figuring that there will inevitably

Re: Receiving data with Sockets when behind a Router

2007-02-02 Thread Derek Bump
Jim Ault wrote: This is based on my experience and may not be entirely correct. This should be accurate for most home or small office systems. Thanks Jim, your information does help. Ultimately the program I'm developing will fail simply because the target audience is not technical enough

Re: Receiving data with Sockets when behind a Router

2007-02-02 Thread Derek Bump
So I have an idea to help resolve the issue of port forwarding. I did some testing with a friend overseas (Japan) and my computer (USA). He's behind a router and I am not, but it's apparent that his router supports Port Triggering. I know this because the Port that his computer supplied to

Re: Once upon a time?

2007-02-02 Thread Jim Ault
I apologize for my first reply. A phone call came in before I wrote the reply, then I did it from my recollection of the problem, and did not re-read the email carefully. Disregard it because it does not address the problem (yes it is a hectic Friday) On 2/2/07 4:55 AM, David Bovill [EMAIL

Re: LIST and RUNREV security

2007-02-02 Thread James Z
Spam is everywhere. When I worked at Netcom in San Jose I would make a test account and send email to another test account. No public exposure of any kind. Within a day or two I'd start getting spam. How they did it I don't know. I don't think there is a way to hide from a committed spammer. James

Re: LIST and RUNREV security

2007-02-02 Thread Bridger Maxwell
It wouldn't take an infected PC to harvest emails. Our email is out on the web: http://mail.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2006-November/089491.html You can tell that steps have been taken to protect it, (at instead of @), but I am sure there are spiders sophisticated enough to figure that

Re: RevSpeak - a little less robotic?

2007-02-02 Thread Chipp Walters
Well, a quick Google on 'Mac Marketshare' returns these first 2 hits: http://www.macobserver.com/article/2004/10/29.6.shtml and http://www.macrumors.com/2006/06/01/mac-market-share-update/ both mac websites-- and I suppose appropriately biased. The highest Mac marketshare I saw was 2.3%