Re: Starting an iMac 24 with remote keyboard

2007-05-04 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Jeffrey, You made my day. Isn't life a hoot? Thanks, Joe Wilkins On May 3, 2007, at 8:06 PM, Jeff Reynolds wrote: Joe, seemed very appropriate... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQmode=relatedsearch= (sent to me by a client who does illuminated illustrations and she always

A daft idea about using a printerserver to import video . . .

2007-05-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Strap a scanner to one of the older Mac monitors now, talking about DAFT :) as I have a SCSI CD-ROM burner in my attic in Scotland I will just make backups of all my silly little MACS (about 5 at the last count - they breed, you know) onto CD. Come to think of it . . . I have a SCSI PCI card on

Assigning IP addresses . . .

2007-05-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Ian Wood wrote: You can only assign IP addresses to devices that understand Internet Protocol, i.e computers and network-aware devices such as network printers, network scanners and NAS boxes. All those things that have ethernet ports... That has been my point all along! For instance: On

Re: A daft idea about using a printerserver to import video . . .

2007-05-04 Thread Luis
Richmond Mathewson wrote: Strap a scanner to one of the older Mac monitors now, talking about DAFT :) What? When you gotta make do, you gotta make do. I've still got my metal detector in a matchbox somewhere... as I have a SCSI CD-ROM burner in my attic in Scotland I will just make backups

Best graphic lib to use with Rev cgi ?

2007-05-04 Thread jbv
Hi list, Could someone be kind enough to advise a graphic lib that allows (fast) 3D bussiness graphics with Rev cgi (stuff like 3D bar-charts with perspective)? The ouput should be gif or jpg images to be integrated on-the-fly into web pages generated from the same Rev cgi scripts. I guess the

Re: A daft idea about using a printerserver to import video . . .

2007-05-04 Thread James Richards
Richmond, A couple of links that might help with this: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=50512 http://lowendmac.com/network/bridge.shtml Regards James -- James J Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. +44 (0)15394 43063 On 3 May, 2007, at 16:53, Richmond Mathewson wrote: And, while I

Re: Best graphic lib to use with Rev cgi ?

2007-05-04 Thread Ian Wood
I've no idea if it would work with Rev CGI, but ArcadeEngine does a nice line in 3D barcharts etc. Ian On 4 May 2007, at 10:52, jbv wrote: Hi list, Could someone be kind enough to advise a graphic lib that allows (fast) 3D bussiness graphics with Rev cgi (stuff like 3D bar-charts with

Re: Assigning IP addresses . . .

2007-05-04 Thread Luis
Richmond Mathewson wrote: On my home network I have a fairly plain, vanilla USB printer hooked into my Router via an EdiMax (cheap and not very cheerful, and a pain in the bum to set up with Macs) printer server. My printer probably wouldn't understand an IP address if it hit it in the face (a

Re: Best graphic lib to use with Rev cgi ?

2007-05-04 Thread jbv
Ian , Thanks for your reply. Is there any example of 3D barcharts generated with ArcadeEngine ? And is ArcadeEngine compatible with Rev 2.5 ? Thanks, JB I've no idea if it would work with Rev CGI, but ArcadeEngine does a nice line in 3D barcharts etc. Ian

Re: Best graphic lib to use with Rev cgi ?

2007-05-04 Thread xavier . bury
Hi BvG, have you looked at SvG graphics? They sound like the right stuff for a cgi... http://cairographics.org seems like a good place to start. There's also links for 3D Graphs and stuff... There's other non-free libs but this one is compatibile with lots of other languages and it's free...

Re: Best graphic lib to use with Rev cgi ?

2007-05-04 Thread xavier . bury
Oops, sorry, i keep confusing svg, jbv and bvg ;) -=- Xavier Bury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/05/2007 14:42:59: Hi BvG, have you looked at SvG graphics? They sound like the right stuff for a cgi... http://cairographics.org seems like a good place

A daft idea about using a printerserver to import video . . .

2007-05-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I wrote: LUIS: I may yet strap a scanner to my face and plaster it all over your e-mail :) and Luis wrote: Is it just me or does that just sound plain wrong? and, frankly, it is just Luis for the very simple reason that my face does not have an IP Address, a USB port or a FireWire port :)

A daft idea about using a printerserver to import video . . .

2007-05-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
James Richards wrote: A couple of links that might help with this: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=50512 http://lowendmac.com/network/bridge.shtml; Thank you very much - my digestive juices are now flowing about an OLD Mac Laser printer which is (also) rotting in my attic in

Re: Best graphic lib to use with Rev cgi ?

2007-05-04 Thread Luis
From: http://www.runrev.com/section/features.php 'Beautiful vector graphics engine with SVG operators' So the transition should be fairly painless. Cheers, Luis. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi BvG, have you looked at SvG graphics? They sound like the right stuff for a cgi...

Re: A daft idea about using a printerserver to import video . . .

2007-05-04 Thread Luis
Depending on the drive space you could also use it as a file server to back up your projects into. You could put Linux on it and test Linux builds... Cheers, Luis. Richmond Mathewson wrote: James Richards wrote: A couple of links that might help with this:

PPC Linux builds?

2007-05-04 Thread Luis
Got to thinking after a recent post: Does anyone know if the Linux builds are x86 only? Many Linux distros are available on PPC platforms, check out Ubuntu, Fedora, SuSe, etc and let's not forget YellowDog Linux! If the target is Linux x86 and PPC, would it take the form of a 'Universal

Re: Best graphic lib to use with Rev cgi ?

2007-05-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Luis wrote: From: http://www.runrev.com/section/features.php 'Beautiful vector graphics engine with SVG operators' This is news to me. What do they mean? Can someone from RunRev chime in here to explain how to tap into these SVG operators? -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal

Re: PPC Linux builds?

2007-05-04 Thread Andre Garzia
Luis, there's no such thing as linux universal binaries, you get one platform or the other, no way to bundle them together. Rev is only for x86 IIRC. andre On May 4, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Luis wrote: If the target is Linux x86 and PPC, would it take the form of a 'Universal Binary' ala

Re: PPC Linux builds?

2007-05-04 Thread Luis
Hiya, I assumed as much, I haven't seen the concept bandied about in Linux sites. Still would like to know about PPC builds, or is this for the next revision of the engine? Cheers, Luis. Andre Garzia wrote: Luis, there's no such thing as linux universal binaries, you get one platform or

Re: PPC Linux builds?

2007-05-04 Thread Martin Baxter
Luis wrote: Hiya, I assumed as much, I haven't seen the concept bandied about in Linux sites. Still would like to know about PPC builds, or is this for the next revision of the engine? Cheers, Luis. Luis, Way back when, there used to be a separate engine for PPC Linux, but it was

Re: Assigning IP addresses . . .

2007-05-04 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Hence the idea that one could assign an IP address to some sort of USB-to-Ethernet server regardless of what was plugged in at the far end. Expensive, but cool idea... http://www.bb-elec.com/product.asp?SKU=ANYWHEREUSB/5 Roger Eller [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A daft idea about using a printerserver to import video . . .

2007-05-04 Thread Stephen Barncard
Richmond, is your time so non-valuable you need to put yourself though this? These days when $250 will buy you a networkable color printer that you plug and play? I've been there, done that. These kludges with old (older than 6 years) hardware do nothing but drive you crazy and take up

Re: A daft idea about using a printerserver to import video . . .

2007-05-04 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Stephen, You're certainly right; but I'm sure with Richmond that it is the challenge. As we get older, sometimes the challenges are as important to us as the time we have left to engage them. Just my thought on the topic. Joe Wilkins On May 4, 2007, at 10:31 AM, Stephen Barncard wrote:

Re: A daft idea about using a printerserver to import video . . .

2007-05-04 Thread Stephen Barncard
Anyone in the San Francisco area want to take away my old macintosh challenges away?? ha ha I have a SE-30,9600,8100,7100,a wallstreet and two older Mac Laptops plus all the ADB and SCSI hardware you can eat, complete with a couple of old Pro Tools systems... Not to mention a couple of

matchtext question using regex

2007-05-04 Thread ron
Regex question for use in matchtext I want to find word A followed by word B. (quickly) So: put this is my big dog called cat. into thetext put my.{0,5}dog into reg And put matchtext(thetext,reg) returns true because I use a period so it is counting characters but I need it to count words. I

Re: Best graphic lib to use with Rev cgi ?

2007-05-04 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Richard, Luis wrote: From: http://www.runrev.com/section/features.php 'Beautiful vector graphics engine with SVG operators' This is news to me. What do they mean? Can someone from RunRev chime in here to explain how to tap into these SVG operators? I'm afraid this only applies to the

Path problem with Standalone

2007-05-04 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi everyone, At least I'm back to a stack that will build a standalone again; but when I try to add the files for my external aiff files, I cannot get the path to match the source path for the players. As an example: the first player's source path is: /applications/Revolution

Re: A daft idea about using a printerserver to import video . . .

2007-05-04 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Well, I can match you tit for tat plus some, but I figured they might one day be grist for a museum of some sort. Who knows, we may be back to using bows and arrows shortly if things don't improve in this crazy world of ours. Thanks for your sense of humor. Joe Wilkins On May 4, 2007, at

A daft idea about using a printerserver to import video . . .

2007-05-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Stephen Barncard wrote: Richmond, is your time so non-valuable you need to put yourself though this? These days when $250 will buy you a networkable color printer that you plug and play? There are 4 interesting points about his remark: 1. I have a very nice Epson Stylus Photo R200 that does

Re: Path problem with Standalone

2007-05-04 Thread Bill Marriott
Joe, In the case of a standalone, wouldn't you want the path to be as generic as possible? Your end-users are not likely to have a 2.8.0-gm-4/ directory. I haven't fiddled with this on Mac OS X, but I think Beta 7 has some improvements in the standalone building, as well. FWIW, the best way

limited time demo?

2007-05-04 Thread Robert Mann
Are there any sample scripts showing how I should do this? I was thinking of doing it like this On preopenstack IF fld dateopened is empty THEN put the long system date into fld dateopened else * this is where I am having trouble want to check what is in fld datopened and

Re: Path problem with Standalone

2007-05-04 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Jacque, Bill: Thanks for your time and patience. I'll digest what you've said and attempt to make it work. It's definitely not as simple as I had hoped and expected; but what is? Frankly, Jacque's explanation gives me more hope for it working as I think it should than does your's, Bill.

Re: limited time demo?

2007-05-04 Thread Phil Davis
Hi Rob, I've done this kind of thing before: on preOpenStack -- first gain access to settings -- (assumes this is a standalone) put the filename of me into tPath set the itemDelimiter to slash if the platform = MacOS then delete item -4 to -1 of tPath else delete item -1 of

Re: limited time demo?

2007-05-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Robert Mann wrote: Are there any sample scripts showing how I should do this? I was thinking of doing it like this On preopenstack IF fld dateopened is empty THEN put the long system date into fld dateopened else * this is where I am having trouble want to check what is

Re: Path problem with Standalone

2007-05-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: It's definitely not as simple as I had hoped nd expected; but what is? Story of my life. :) Actually, it really is simpler than it appears, but only if you know the underlying concepts. I think what you're getting stuck on are some concepts that HyperCard didn't

Re: Path problem with Standalone

2007-05-04 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Thanks to all of you. I didn't do exactly what I thought any of you said, but absorbing the essence of what you were saying led me to solve the problem. Now working from the Standalone. It was really pretty simple. I just needed to put the sound files folder into the folder where I was

Problem setting Quicktime VR zoom, tilt, and pan settings through the property inspector

2007-05-04 Thread Stgoldberg
I am trying to set the zoom, tilt, and pan settings for a Quicktime player by typing their values into the Quicktime player property inspector. However, this does not seem to change anything. I presently have to write a script to create the zoom, tilt, and pan settings. Am I doing

Re: Path problem with Standalone

2007-05-04 Thread Devin Asay
On May 4, 2007, at 2:51 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: When you add files to a standalone, the SB will place the files (on OS X) inside the application bundle, next to the engine file, in: My Standalone/Contents/MacOS/ Since the default folder on launch will be the folder containing the

Re: A daft idea about using a printerserver to import video . . .

2007-05-04 Thread Luis
Ebay! Or a museum! Anyroad, sometimes we learn from the old. Cheers, Luis. On 4 May 2007, at 18:51, Stephen Barncard wrote: Anyone in the San Francisco area want to take away my old macintosh challenges away?? ha ha I have a SE-30,9600,8100,7100,a wallstreet and two older Mac Laptops

Re: A daft idea about using a printerserver to import video . . .

2007-05-04 Thread Luis
Just leave the haggis behind... ;) Cheers, Luis. On 4 May 2007, at 19:28, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Stephen Barncard wrote: Richmond, is your time so non-valuable you need to put yourself though this? These days when $250 will buy you a networkable color printer that you plug and play?

Re: Path problem with Standalone

2007-05-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
Devin Asay wrote: I would add one subtlety to Jacque's excellent summary regarding the defaultFolder: In an OS X standalone, the default folder on launch is the folder containing the application *bundle*. That is if you never set the defaultFolder in your stack. If, on the other hand, you

Embedded stacks in Windows

2007-05-04 Thread Bill Vlahos
I've noticed that under Windows, any included stacks show up as separate programs in the Task Manager. Is there a way to prevent this? My program should only appear as a single application to my users. Bill Vlahos ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: limited time demo?

2007-05-04 Thread Scott Kane
Rob, Richard's suggestion of approaching the issue from a crippling point of view is an excellent one. The problem with us technical types is that we see trial versions as a security issue and not as what they really are - marketing tools. Once you start delving into protection via time

Re: limited time demo?

2007-05-04 Thread Scott Kane
I should add that the article I provided a link to references the ASP's PONC policy (that prohibited crippling of software by members). That policy was ditched ten years ago as developers became aware that the whole nature of the end user had changed from people who paid for trials because