[OT] 1234567890 epoch time

2009-02-13 Thread Malte Brill
Anyone having a party? My collegue and friend Benedikt build this nice clock in processing to celebrate this event. http://benedikt-seidl.de/123/ All the best, Malte ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Button Basher images

2009-02-13 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
Hi Richmond, I created a red and beveled circle (with light effects) in RealDraw Pro and replaced your circle image in stack BB alpha with the new image. The images exported with your button Export Button Images maintain the original form, color, and transparency of the new (resized) circle

Re: Stack mode vs style

2009-02-13 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Sarah, You can consider the mode the effective style. The mode is changed by the style property, the go command (including the palette, toplevel, modal and modeless commands), and by the mode property itself. The style property is the only one that sticks. If you use the go command,

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2009-02-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Wilhelm Sanke wrote: the specific volatile nature of PNG-images just having been created in Revolution Maybe . . . However it may have something to do with the way I made my odd-shapes templates: I initially exported primitives from Open Office Org. Draw as PNG images [these do not contain

Re: [OT] 1234567890 epoch time

2009-02-13 Thread Mark Wieder
Malte- Friday, February 13, 2009, 12:09:01 AM, you wrote: Anyone having a party? We're going to a party on Tuesday for the Death of Analog Television. Does that count? http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/tvfuneral -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___

Re: [OT] 1234567890 epoch time

2009-02-13 Thread Jim Sims
On Feb 13, 2009, at 5:11 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: We're going to a party on Tuesday for the Death of Analog Television. That going to be streamed on the internet? ;-) sims ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: [OT] 1234567890 epoch time

2009-02-13 Thread Judy Perry
Looks much more accurate than the speedometer on my car! (wondered why I was suddenly only getting 9 miles per gallon) ;-) Judy http://revined.blogspot.com On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Malte Brill revolut...@derbrill.dewrote: Anyone having a party? My collegue and friend Benedikt build

Re: [OT] 1234567890 epoch time

2009-02-13 Thread Judy Perry
I dunno, but the trial proceedings of the RIAA going after some poor schmo is set to be streamed live on the internet! Judy http://revined.blogspot.com On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Jim Sims s...@ezpzapps.com wrote: On Feb 13, 2009, at 5:11 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: We're going to a party

Arrays and Custom Props

2009-02-13 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hello Everyone, If I'm not mistaken, I recall reading something a while back that an array can now be a custom prop and that there was an easy way to get a listing of all your custom props. I can't seem to find it. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd much

Re: Arrays and Custom Props

2009-02-13 Thread Thierry
Le 13 févr. 09 à 17:55, Gregory Lypny a écrit : Hello Everyone, If I'm not mistaken, I recall reading something a while back that an array can now be a custom prop and that there was an easy way to get a listing of all your custom props. I can't seem to find it. If anyone can

Populating ListMagic lists (was:RE: ListMagic calculated columns)

2009-02-13 Thread Jim Bufalini
Hi William, I just realized you sent two similar emails to me off list and one to the list. So I'll repeat my answer here that I sent you off list, in case anyone else is seeing the problem. I haven't been able to duplicate the issue you report. Is the card with the widget you are populating in

getting list of controls in a group

2009-02-13 Thread viktoras d.
sorry, can't find how do we get list of names or ids of all controls in a group ? Viktoras ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: getting list of controls in a group

2009-02-13 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Viktoras, With the simple scripts at http://runrev.info/Objects%20list.htm you can retrieve the objects of group x or the objectIDs of group x. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Dutch

Re: [OT] 1234567890 epoch time

2009-02-13 Thread Mark Wieder
sims- Friday, February 13, 2009, 8:22:11 AM, you wrote: That going to be streamed on the internet? ;-) g Yes, but audio only afaik. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: getting list of controls in a group

2009-02-13 Thread viktoras d.
Thanks, Mark! Viktoras ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: [OT] 1234567890 epoch time

2009-02-13 Thread Colin Holgate
On Feb 13, 2009, at 12:57 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: That going to be streamed on the internet? ;-) g Yes, but audio only afaik. As part of the change to digital only, audio will now come out of your TV speaker as Morse code. ___

Title gets corrupted when opening a substack

2009-02-13 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hello, I have a really wired phenomenon at one of my beta testers, Win XP. Opening my mainstack, it has his title icon and title text, just normal. When opening a substack (with toplevel) the title of the mainstack gets completely corrupted. The title of the maintack shows only special chars, as

Re: Title gets corrupted when opening a substack

2009-02-13 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Tiemo, Hello, I have a really wired phenomenon at one of my beta testers, Win XP. Opening my mainstack, it has his title icon and title text, just normal. When opening a substack (with toplevel) the title of the mainstack gets completely corrupted. The title of the maintack shows only

Re: [OT] 1234567890 epoch time

2009-02-13 Thread Jim Sims
On Feb 13, 2009, at 7:04 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: As part of the change to digital only, audio will now come out of your TV speaker as Morse code. Dang! All those hours learning semaphore flags broadcast over youtube.com wasted! sims s...@ezpzapps.com Skype: sims.jim iChat:

AW: Title gets corrupted when opening a substack

2009-02-13 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Klaus, the titel gets corrupted in the mainstack and yes it has a quicktimeplayer included. But it gets only corrupted when opening a substack (without QT) Are there any workarounds here in the list? Thanks Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com

Re: Arrays and Custom Props

2009-02-13 Thread Gregory Lypny
First example: ...myPropertiesArray. Boy, do I feel dumb. Thank you, Thierry. G. On Fri, Feb 13, 2009, at 1:00 PM, use-revolution-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: Le 13 févr. 09 à 17:55, Gregory Lypny a écrit : Hello Everyone, If I'm not mistaken, I recall

Re: [OT] 1234567890 epoch time

2009-02-13 Thread Mark Wieder
Colin- Friday, February 13, 2009, 10:04:38 AM, you wrote: As part of the change to digital only, audio will now come out of your TV speaker as Morse code. Good. I'm looking forward to having some intelligence come out of the tube for a change. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net

Re: Stack mode vs style

2009-02-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
Sarah Reichelt wrote: Hi All, I am a bit confused about a stack's mode versus it's style. The 2 seems to do the same things but be able to be set independently and it is possible to have them set to conflicting settings. Actually, mode is read-only and so Rev's contextual menu description is

Re: [OT] 1234567890 epoch time

2009-02-13 Thread Colin Holgate
On Feb 13, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: As part of the change to digital only, audio will now come out of your TV speaker as Morse code. Good. I'm looking forward to having some intelligence come out of the tube for a change. Tying all that together, here's the theme music for

RE: how to show language specific path names?

2009-02-13 Thread Jim Bufalini
Hi Tiemo, Try using specialFolderPath(XX). For example, if you *put specialFolderPath(5)* (no asterisks, of course) from your message box. Does it come out in English or the machine language? 5 is the Documents folder. Jim bufalini -Original Message- From:

RE: AW: Problems deleting folders on Vista - error #?

2009-02-13 Thread Jim Bufalini
Hi again Tiemo, Btw. How do you install an app to run as admin? I just know to do it by hand with right mouse key. Create a shortcut to the EXE. This is actually a .lnk file. Then right click on the shortcut. Click on Advanced. Check Run as administrator. Then execute the shortcut rather than

Re: Arrays and Custom Props

2009-02-13 Thread Bernard Devlin
Don't feel too bad. So the dictionary does contain an example for what you needed, but after 6 years of using Revolution I still have to look up how do work with custompropertysets arrays almost every time I use them together! Not to mention that I can never remember which way round 'split'

Re: AW: Problems deleting folders on Vista - error #?

2009-02-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jim Bufalini wrote: Otherwise you need something like your installer to do it when you install the program. Take a look at the Nullsoft NIS installer (free) and there is a plugin for setting UAC (User Access Control) of either or both your app and directories. Any files in a directory or

Re: Arrays and Custom Props

2009-02-13 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Bernard Devlin wrote: I think I must have been particularly stupid at the time when I was learning how to use arrays, and my confusion has been permanently wired into my brain on mouseUp put that makes 2 of us into response[Bernard] end mouseUp Regards, Scott Rossi Creative

[HELP] does anyone know how to create revolution arrays with externals?

2009-02-13 Thread Andre Garzia
Hello Friends, I am cooking a brand new external. I want to create a function that returns an array, does anyone here has a pointer to some call to create arrays from the external? Can we return array values or can we modify a passed variable to be an array? Any clue? Cheers andre --

Re: [OT] 1234567890 epoch time

2009-02-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jim Sims wrote: Dang! All those hours learning semaphore flags broadcast over youtube.com wasted! There's always a venue for such a valuable skill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqiUGjghlzU :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting:

[HELP] how to trigger a callback from an external...

2009-02-13 Thread Andre Garzia
Hello Friends, another question about externals. If I have a function that register a callback for later use upon some event. How do I send a message from the external to the engine? I saw the SendCardMessage() call but this will send the message to this card of this stack and that might not be

RE: AW: Problems deleting folders on Vista - error #?

2009-02-13 Thread Jim Bufalini
Hi Jacqueline, An installer has to have admin privileges in order to install to the Program Files directory. This is why you always get prompted to allow an installer to install. It also usually needs to write to the registry. Secret: Any EXE with the word *install* or *update* anywhere in its

Re: [HELP] does anyone know how to create revolution arrays with externals?

2009-02-13 Thread Mark Wieder
Andre- Friday, February 13, 2009, 1:01:58 PM, you wrote: I am cooking a brand new external. I want to create a function that returns an array, does anyone here has a pointer to some call to create arrays from the external? Can we return array values or can we modify a passed variable to be

Re: [HELP] how to trigger a callback from an external...

2009-02-13 Thread Mark Wieder
Andre- I believe you're gonna be stuck with SendCardMessage. I've had an enhancement request sitting in Bugzilla for a while (as of next week it'll be five years) to modify the scope of SendCardMessage, but I wouldn't wait around for it. You can always send a uniquely identifiable message such as

Re: [HELP] how to trigger a callback from an external...

2009-02-13 Thread Andre Garzia
Mark, thanks for the quick reply. I'll post my votes there for the sake of hope and consistency. Right now, I can emulate the feature we want using a couple ExprEval() calls. In the register callback, I use an ExprEval(the long id of me) to capture the target for the callback, this way, later, I

Re: [HELP] does anyone know how to create revolution arrays with externals?

2009-02-13 Thread Andre Garzia
Mark, again, thanks!!! Right now I am trying to solve the callback first. If the callback does not work, then, there's no point in the arrays, they are to be used in the callback message. I think I'll go with setarray. :D Thanks again andre On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Mark Wieder

Re: [HELP] how to trigger a callback from an external...

2009-02-13 Thread Mark Wieder
Andre- Friday, February 13, 2009, 2:56:15 PM, you wrote: this way, later, I can assemble a send call to the correct target and use that! :D rotfl hate pointers... Depends on what you're used to, I guess. Me, I tend to think of everything in terms of pointers. You've got a parameter with a

Re: Arrays and Custom Props

2009-02-13 Thread Jim Ault
Just a couple hints that might help you in the future.. I hope this can help someone understand a little more. I think of arrays as.. Arrays, like variables, evaporate on quitting, Custom properties, like button names, are stored in the stack file. (note: this is not true for compiled apps since

ListMagic Printing

2009-02-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Has anyone tried to print from Listmagic yet? I tried to use the Preview option in the OS X print dialog and it basically locked up with a dialog that said it was printing but never really did. Cancelling did not cancel. I had to quit Revolution to get out of the loop. When I did that,

Re: Arrays and Custom Props

2009-02-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
WHOA THERE TONTO! I thought the whole idea to properties was persistence?? That means that I cannot save, for instance, the database settings a user entered? I have to create an external file for all of that? And so many card and object properties in my app DEPEND on persistence through

Re: Arrays and Custom Props

2009-02-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: WHOA THERE TONTO! I thought the whole idea to properties was persistence?? That means that I cannot save, for instance, the database settings a user entered? I have to create an external file for all of that? And so many card and object properties in my app DEPEND on

Re: Arrays and Custom Props

2009-02-13 Thread Mark Wieder
Bob- Friday, February 13, 2009, 4:29:13 PM, you wrote: Say it ain't so Sam! You might want to check out the section on Splash Screens in the scripting conference stack devoted to building standalones... http://support.runrev.com/scriptingconferences/ -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net

Re: AW: Problems deleting folders on Vista - error #?

2009-02-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jim Bufalini wrote: But, once your installer creates a directory under Program Files, let's say MyRevApp, then if your installer has the ability to alter the UAC of folder MyRevApp, and set it to all users - total control, then your Rev app doesn't need admin privileges to read, write, create,

Re: [OT] 1234567890 epoch time

2009-02-13 Thread Mark Wieder
Colin- Friday, February 13, 2009, 11:55:12 AM, you wrote: http://www.imeem.com/isuda/music/IWmcFwR0/ barrington_pheloung_inspector_morse_theme/ Thanks but no thanks to You must log in or sign up to listen... -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net

Re: [OT] 1234567890 epoch time

2009-02-13 Thread Colin Holgate
On Feb 13, 2009, at 10:26 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: http://www.imeem.com/isuda/music/IWmcFwR0/ barrington_pheloung_inspector_morse_theme/ Thanks but no thanks to You must log in or sign up to listen... I found it worked the first time, but when I tried to replay it I got the sign in notice.

RE: AW: Problems deleting folders on Vista - error #?

2009-02-13 Thread Jim Bufalini
Dear Jacqueline, This is my main question because we have one customer who is having some unusual trouble. He uses Vista. The app was not able to create a folder in his Documents folder. I don't know why, since it has been working for other customers, but I wondered if it was a permissions

RE: ListMagic Printing

2009-02-13 Thread Jim Bufalini
Hi Bob, Has anyone tried to print from Listmagic yet? I tried to use the Preview option in the OS X print dialog and it basically locked up with a dialog that said it was printing but never really did. Cancelling did not cancel. I had to quit Revolution to get out of the loop. When I did