Re: iPhone again

2008-10-12 Thread Jim Sims
On Oct 12, 2008, at 1:26 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: ... get a real-time, constantly updating display of this instrument's current value, in full screen on the iPhone. It is very cool to be perched on the top of a ladder, a long way away from any computer, filling a large tank while watching it's

Re: iPhone again

2008-10-12 Thread Andre Garzia
> Apple reps have strongly emphasized that implementing a pure web solution is > the least trouble. It makes a lot of sense to me to go this route unless > there's some major performance issue, like creating a game that requires > some sort of local acceleration. > Lynn, iPhone web apps can't acc

Re: openSockets strangeness

2008-10-12 Thread Alex Tweedly
Björnke von Gierke wrote: I can't really help on the first of your questions, but maybe it is this: The open socket message will do what you want, namely open a socket. The computer on the other end (or your own when you use localhost as in your examples), will then either: 1. reject it (at wh

Re: "Seamless Tiles Generator 2" updated

2008-10-12 Thread Wilhelm Sanke, FB01
Stephen Barncard stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com wrote: >> I would very much like to know what kind of error dialog you get and which >> operations could not be cancelled. > as I said, the IDE doesn't like the imbedded substack with the name > Answer Dialog. > The custom dialog just needs ano

Re: Sticking an image to the cursor

2008-10-12 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Bernd, Your stack looks great and works with the exception if you start moving the pink square over the yellow square, it drops the pink square and picks up the yellow square. So, just change in the mouseEnter, the first line to now read: if the short name of the target contains"puzzlePiece"

Re: Conflict between the Rev 'backdrop' and OSX 'Spaces'?

2008-10-12 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 6:25 AM, Graham Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On OSX Leopard there is a feature called 'spaces' which allows one to divide > applications into sets, and then switch between the sets (spaces) so that > only the windows of the current set are shown. This can be useful, a

Re: Conflict between the Rev 'backdrop' and OSX 'Spaces'?

2008-10-12 Thread Sarah Reichelt
> It looks like a bug too me so I reckon you should file a report. I > thought a possible workaround might be to hide the backdrop when the > app was suspended and set it again on resume, but in my tests, the > suspend and resume messages are not being sent. > This would appear to be another bug wh

Re: openSockets strangeness

2008-10-12 Thread Alex Tweedly
Russell Martin wrote: Hi. I've been playing around with sockets. I'm attempting to create a stack than can run shell commands on OS X so that I can get a multi-threaded effect. I've never used sockets before, so after, digging through the chat example stack, I dug right in. I'm finding some o

Re: landscape printing on Windows

2008-10-12 Thread Sarah Reichelt
>> On XP I'm trying to print a card that contains a background image and >> some fields. So far, no joy. Here is my approach. What am I missing? >> > I was hoping someone who actually knows what they are doing would reply to > this, but since they haven't, this is what I do: > > on mouseUp > set t

Re: "Seamless Tiles Generator 2" updated

2008-10-12 Thread -= JB =-
Thank you very much Wilhelm. -=>JB<=- On Oct 12, 2008, at 11:36 AM, Wilhelm Sanke, FB01 wrote: -= JB =- sundown at pacifier.com wrote: I have only been using Revolution for less than a year now and before that I used hyperCard. I know about MetaCard but I thought it was replaced by Rev.

Re: openSockets strangeness

2008-10-12 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I can't really help on the first of your questions, but maybe it is this: The open socket message will do what you want, namely open a socket. The computer on the other end (or your own when you use localhost as in your examples), will then either: 1. reject it (at which point you'll get a n

Conflict between the Rev 'backdrop' and OSX 'Spaces'?

2008-10-12 Thread Graham Samuel
On OSX Leopard there is a feature called 'spaces' which allows one to divide applications into sets, and then switch between the sets (spaces) so that only the windows of the current set are shown. This can be useful, and I'm employing it while doing Rev development. However I've come acros

openSockets strangeness

2008-10-12 Thread Russell Martin
Hi. I've been playing around with sockets. I'm attempting to create a stack than can run shell commands on OS X so that I can get a multi-threaded effect. I've never used sockets before, so after, digging through the chat example stack, I dug right in. I'm finding some odd behavior that I'm hop

Re: "Seamless Tiles Generator 2" updated

2008-10-12 Thread -= JB =-
Jacque you always provide so much, thank you. -=>JB<=- On Oct 12, 2008, at 11:07 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: -= JB =- wrote: I have only been using Revolution for less than a year now and before that I used hyperCard. I know about MetaCard but I thought it was replaced by Rev. So where do

RE: iPhone again

2008-10-12 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> 3. Develop something that is so far outside Apple's interests > that there would be no way they would even consider going there. Yes - but unless what you are producing is very vertical market, its very hard to guess what area they may suddenly go into. > 4. Develop for in-house use. > > I p

Re: "Seamless Tiles Generator 2" updated

2008-10-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
Wilhelm Sanke, FB01 wrote: One of the already known issues is the unfriendliness of the Rev IDE towards customized answer and ask dialogs. I'll play "devil's advocate" here for a moment. The warning about duplicate stacks does not include only the answer and ask dialogs; it also includes an

Re: "Seamless Tiles Generator 2" updated

2008-10-12 Thread Wilhelm Sanke, FB01
-= JB =- sundown at pacifier.com wrote: > I have only been using Revolution for less than a year now and before > that I used hyperCard. I know about MetaCard but I thought it was > replaced by Rev. So where do I get the MetaCard IDE and after I > get it how do I install it properly? > I have n

Re: Sticking an image to the cursor

2008-10-12 Thread Sue Smith
You guys are great! Thanks so much for all of your suggestions. Every single one provided a way to accomplish this. I can tell that in my "free time" I need to really look hard at both custom properties and local variables. Thanks again! --- On Sat, 10/11/08, Sue Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: "Seamless Tiles Generator 2" updated

2008-10-12 Thread Stephen Barncard
I would very much like to know what kind of error dialog you get and which operations could not be cancelled. as I said, the IDE doesn't like the imbedded substack with the name Answer Dialog. The custom dialog just needs another name. The support code is trivial. Also the code doesn't reco

Re: "Seamless Tiles Generator 2" updated

2008-10-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
-= JB =- wrote: I have only been using Revolution for less than a year now and before that I used hyperCard. I know about MetaCard but I thought it was replaced by Rev. So where do I get the MetaCard IDE and after I get it how do I install it properly? You can download the MC IDE setup stack,

Re: landscape printing on Windows

2008-10-12 Thread Phil Davis
Thanks Peter - I'll try your suggestion later today. Phil Peter Alcibiades wrote: Phil Davis-5 wrote: On XP I'm trying to print a card that contains a background image and some fields. So far, no joy. Here is my approach. What am I missing? I was hoping someone who actually knows

Re: landscape printing on Windows

2008-10-12 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Phil Davis-5 wrote: > > On XP I'm trying to print a card that contains a background image and > some fields. So far, no joy. Here is my approach. What am I missing? > > I was hoping someone who actually knows what they are doing would reply to this, but since they haven't, this is what I do

Re: iPhone again

2008-10-12 Thread Sarah Reichelt
> It seems to me that to approach iPhone development confidently you need to > either: > > 1. Develop something that isnt your core revenue generator and accept the > risk, or > > 2. Have a relationship with Apple that gives you the confidence you need to > move forward Or 3. Develop something th

Re: "Seamless Tiles Generator 2" updated

2008-10-12 Thread -= JB =-
I have only been using Revolution for less than a year now and before that I used hyperCard. I know about MetaCard but I thought it was replaced by Rev. So where do I get the MetaCard IDE and after I get it how do I install it properly? I have noticed others on the list mention they use MetaCar

Re: Sticking an image to the cursor

2008-10-12 Thread BNig
Chipp Walters wrote: > > And if you want to do it outside a mouseDown, then replace mouseDown > with mouseEnter... thanks Chipp, I took your advice and script and made a little demo stack and put it on revonline, the username is berndniggemann, the stack is "puzzlepiece2" so Sue can take it apa

Re: "Seamless Tiles Generator 2" updated

2008-10-12 Thread Wilhelm Sanke, FB01
Many thanks for your comments. -= JB =- sundown at pacifier.com wrote: > That is a nice stack. Thank you. I do get a few error dialogs. I > even get one > when it first starts but I select ignore and the stack works. and Stephen Barncard stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com wrote (using "Two

Re: ANN: "Seamless Tiles Generator 2" updated

2008-10-12 Thread -= JB =-
Hi Wilhelm, That is a nice stack. Thank you. I do get a few error dialogs. I even get one when it first starts but I select ignore and the stack works. Thanks again for posting it. -=>JB<=- On Oct 11, 2008, at 11:54 AM, Wilhelm Sanke, FB01 wrote: Just uploaded a slightly updated vers