Re: [OT] 3d flip effect?

2010-05-18 Thread René Micout
Have you look at Quartz Composer ? Le 18 mai 2010 à 07:51, Nicolas Cueto a écrit : Have you checked QuickTime effects? I think Rev's QT effects are for card transitions only, but I'm looking for an image effect. Thanks all the same, Devin. -- Nicolas Cueto

Re: [OT] (totally OT) on iPhone eQuality and iStupidities

2010-05-18 Thread Robert Mann
Hi folks.. sorry that was just a little stupidity from me.. and I did suppress this silly msg yesterday from the list.. ok!? After all, it's up to pepole to choose what apps are interesting and if some buy the love champion app well.. it's not much worse than the fart app that started the iphone

Re: [OT] 3d flip effect?

2010-05-18 Thread Robert Mann
I saw a stack recently in revOnline that shows a nice page effect example, I think it is built with core graphics. CHeck it out. VisualEffects transitions by Bernd Niggemann some of the build in Quicktime and core image transitions of Rev for MacOs X Needs a graphic card 64 Mb and System 10.4

Re: Getting an Audio Plugin Created ( was RE: [audio] Call for an updated enhanced quicktime audio library ora small audio complementary library!)

2010-05-18 Thread Robert Mann
Thanks all for your contributions. I propose to set up somewhere a wiki page so that all interested parties can append a specification document with suggestions, reactions and so on.. ?? It sounds a good idea to set the boundaries between several levels of librairies and raw some specifications

Re: Getting an Audio Plugin Created ( was RE: [audio] Call for an updated enhanced quicktime audio library ora small audio complementary library!)

2010-05-18 Thread René Micout
Hello Robert, Le 18 mai 2010 à 11:54, Robert Mann a écrit : f6 - Command PlayMidiChord(parameters : dito PlayMidiNote with pitch = array of notes) or chord name? (robert M) Chord name is possibly a good thing, but it is better to have possibilities to contruct chords with a list of

Re: [OT] 3d flip effect?

2010-05-18 Thread BNig
Robert Mann wrote: I saw a stack recently in revOnline that shows a nice page effect example, I think it is built with core graphics. CHeck it out. The effects were taken from the Core Image Sampler.rev stack in the Resources-Examples folder that ships with Rev (Mac version). They were just

Re: [OT] 3d flip effect?

2010-05-18 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Thanks for the Mac advice, but I'm on Windows. -- Nicolas Cueto ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Cloud computing: scalable DB

2010-05-18 Thread David Bovill
I'm looking into an application which needs a highly scaleable back end database. One with low up front costs and yet won;t fall over if it suddenly takes off. I've noticed Jerry and others describing On-Rev in terms of cloud storage - but AFAIK it is a simple shared host, and there are no

Re: Playing wav sound file in Linux in background?

2010-05-18 Thread Peter Alcibiades
We need someone like Andre to help on this. I have had a similar problem with printing from the shell, the app prints, but if the shell command does not complete, it hangs, so would like to know the answer to the general question of how to get shell commands running in the background. I suspect

Can't save stack Error

2010-05-18 Thread Graham Pearson
List: In Revolution Studio 4.0.0-gm-1 I am trying to follow directions to center the answer and ask dialog boxes under windows to the center of the screen. To do this, I use Revolution's View Menu to Show the Revolution UI Elements in the List, and then use the Tools menu to Show the

Re: [OT] 3d flip effect?

2010-05-18 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Very nice use of export snapshot with the Core Image Transitions, Bernd. Tom McGrath III Lazy River Software http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net I Can Speak - Communication for the rest of us... http://mypad.lazyriver.on-rev.com I Can Speak on the iPad Store

Re: Can't save stack Error

2010-05-18 Thread Mark Schonewille
Graham, Try saving the stack in a different location, e.g. on your desktop or documents folder, and move it to the right place inside the Revolution folder, replacing the old answer and ask dialog stacks. You may need to quit Revolution and you also may beed to make sure to log in as

Re: Cloud computing: scalable DB

2010-05-18 Thread Andre Garzia
David, I've been looking at the same things. I am a user of Amazon S3 and I made tests with SDB as well (not from rev at this time). Depending on the data you want to store, you might want to check out the following noSQL databases: * CouchDB http://couchdb.apache.org/ * MongoDB

Re: [OT] 3d flip effect?

2010-05-18 Thread BNig
Thomas McGrath III-3 wrote: Very nice use of export snapshot with the Core Image Transitions, Bernd. Thank you Tom regards Bernd -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-3d-flip-effect-tp2220725p2221215.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing

Re: [OT] 3d flip effect?

2010-05-18 Thread Robert Mann
Just for info.. I was impressed by the rendering, quality of turn page, but it takes its time in my macBook. Is it super fast elsewhere? I imagine the time to export the snap to hard disk then read back in, and then apply the effect. Could there be a way to save directly to a variable? Or to read

Re: Cloud computing: scalable DB

2010-05-18 Thread David Bovill
Thanks Andre: On 18 May 2010 13:18, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote: * CouchDB http://couchdb.apache.org/ * MongoDB http://www.mongodb.org/ (there's a mongo db hosting service at MongoHQ ) * Cassandra http://cassandra.apache.org/ * Riak http://riak.basho.com/ I think it is only

Re: [OT] 3d flip effect?

2010-05-18 Thread BNig
Robert, it is not super fast, the snapshots are saved to a variable, no disk access. --- export snapshot from this card to tTarget as png set the text of image TargetImage to tTarget --- Part of it is that you take 2 snapshots, one from the present card and one of the card to go to.

Re: Cloud computing: scalable DB

2010-05-18 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 18/5/10 4:04 PM, David Bovill da...@vaudevillecourt.tv wrote: Hi All, * I wonder if anybody from you going to setup your own 1000 computer-servers cluster(s)? Like this must do Google and Amazon If not - then excuse me, guys you have completely different tasks than google. * Andrea

Re: player object and https URL

2010-05-18 Thread Martin Koob
J. Landman Gay jac...@... writes: I know almost nothing about it so I probably shouldn't say anything, but don't you need some kind of certificate to access https pages? Hi, I thought so too and there is the command sslcertificates which the dictionary says is to set the list of

Re: Cloud computing: scalable DB

2010-05-18 Thread Andre Garzia
Ruslan, Thanks for dropping in the thread. One thing that I think is stopping some rev developers moving to valentina is that there's no valentina server for revServer. The FREE Valentina server has adaptors only for ruby and php, if we had RevServer support or at least a public available

RE: Getting an Audio Plugin Created ( was RE: [audio] Call for anupdated enhanced quicktime audio library ora small audiocomplementary library!)

2010-05-18 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Hi all, f6 - Command PlayMidiChord(parameters : dito PlayMidiNote with pitch = array of notes) or chord name? (robert M) We need to get something off our plate first but, I wonder if MIDI is necessarily something to bundle in with everything else. Im sure we'd be looking at some

Re: [OT] 3d flip effect?

2010-05-18 Thread Robert Mann
A cached version?? thanks for the info! Yeah I guess to optimize things on a stack one could cache the images of static cards. Thus running a script to that effect, and modifying the effect script to look for a cached version first hand, and only take a snapshot if none is found. I do not think

Cloud computing: scalable DB

2010-05-18 Thread Mark Stuart
on Tue May 18 06:23:14 CDT 2010, David Bovill wrote: I'm looking into an application which needs a highly scalable back end database. David, have you checked out Microsoft's Azure cloud services? http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/sqlazure/ Here's some info I copied from that page: SQL

RE: Cloud computing: scalable DB

2010-05-18 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Hi Andre, Thanks for dropping in the thread. One thing that I think is stopping some rev developers moving to valentina is that there's no valentina server for revServer. The FREE Valentina server has adaptors only for ruby and php, if we had RevServer support or at least a public

Re: Cloud computing: scalable DB

2010-05-18 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 18/5/10 4:48 PM, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote: Hi Andre, Thanks for dropping in the thread. One thing that I think is stopping some rev developers moving to valentina is that there's no valentina server for revServer. The FREE Valentina server has adaptors only for ruby and

Re: Getting an Audio Plugin Created ( was RE: [audio] Call for anupdated enhanced quicktime audio library ora small audiocomplementary library!)

2010-05-18 Thread René Micout
Indeed the Midi functions are specific and can be a separate library ... Bon souvenir de Paris René Le 18 mai 2010 à 16:23, Lynn Fredricks a écrit : Hi all, f6 - Command PlayMidiChord(parameters : dito PlayMidiNote with pitch = array of notes) or chord name? (robert M) We need to get

Re: Cloud computing: scalable DB

2010-05-18 Thread Scott Rossi
Not sure if this would help but Mark Smith created a Rev library for working with S3: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/ANN-libS3-td326689.html#a326 689 Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design Recently, David Bovill wrote: I'm looking into an

Re: Getting an Audio Plugin Created ( was RE: [audio] Call for an updated enhanced quicktime audio library ora small audio complementary library!)

2010-05-18 Thread stephen barncard
I think the below should be added to Set1 - BASIC AUDIO trim functions *f16 - load, save and play audio from a variable* Imagine an array with sounds! Echo/Reverb, IMHO, is hard to do well and be efficient at the same time. Most likely would be cheesy anyway, and this should be saved for

RE: [ANN] NativeGeometry 2 OPEN BETA, the ultimate geometry manager for Revolution is here for free!

2010-05-18 Thread Damien Girard
Hello, I will try to answer to all your questions :) To answer to Jerome (in English): Bonne et mauvaise nouvelle ! Avez-vous des précisions concernant la création d'applications multilingues avec NativeGeometry 2.0 ? Vous indiquez que NativeSpeak 1.x ne va plus évoluer et vous mentionnez

Reading the Supercard manual #1

2010-05-18 Thread Richmond Mathewson
How about this: The SuperScript utility allows you to almost instantaneously export all or some of the scripts of your project to text or RTF formatted files. ? Can one do this in RunRev? ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Reading the Supercard manual #1

2010-05-18 Thread RevList
Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com on May-18-10 at 10:26 AM -0700 wrote: The SuperScript utility allows you to almost instantaneously export all or some of the scripts of your project to text or RTF formatted files. ? Not that I am aware of, but have you checked out this?

Re: Reading the Supercard manual #1

2010-05-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richmond Mathewson wrote: How about this: The SuperScript utility allows you to almost instantaneously export all or some of the scripts of your project to text or RTF formatted files. ? Can one do this in RunRev? Sure. Why not? Just loop through the scripts and save them out to text

Re: Reading the Supercard manual #1

2010-05-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond Mathewson wrote: How about this: The SuperScript utility allows you to almost instantaneously export all or some of the scripts of your project to text or RTF formatted files. ? Can one do this in RunRev? Why not? It's just getting scripts and writing them out with object

Re: Reading the Supercard manual #1

2010-05-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
J. Landman Gay wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: Can one do this in RunRev? Sure. Why not? Richard Gaskin wrote: Why not? I have simply got to fix the reverb in this email software. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software |

Re: player object and https URL

2010-05-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
Martin Koob wrote: However if I set the file name of an image object to an https URL the image will load without me specifying sslcertificates. This is what made me think that I don't need to use the sslcertificates command I'm not sure about this one, we need a guru. Also if I use

Re: player object and https URL

2010-05-18 Thread Martin Koob
J. Landman Gay jac...@... writes: I know almost nothing about it so I probably shouldn't say anything, but don't you need some kind of certificate to access https pages? I am just hacking around here but I tried this I created a 'certificates' folder Then I opened my website in

Re: Playing wav sound file in Linux in background?

2010-05-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
John Patten wrote: Hi All... I've been having a problem playing back an audio file on a Linux computer using an arecord a shell script to first create the audio file. The audio file gets created on the local machine, it then gets uploaded to an ftp directory, however when I go to play the

Re: Reading the Supercard manual #1

2010-05-18 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 10:59:01 AM, you wrote: I used to write dumpers every time I picked up another xTalk, but after while it occurred to me that I never actually do anything with the dumps. They're boring to read, and for working with code I find it far more helpful to work

Re: Playing wav sound file in Linux in background?

2010-05-18 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 18/05/2010 21:14, J. Landman Gay wrote: John Patten wrote: Hi All... I've been having a problem playing back an audio file on a Linux computer using an arecord a shell script to first create the audio file. The audio file gets created on the local machine, it then gets uploaded to an

Re: Reading the Supercard manual #1

2010-05-18 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 18/05/2010 21:15, Mark Wieder wrote: Richard- Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 10:59:01 AM, you wrote: I used to write dumpers every time I picked up another xTalk, but after while it occurred to me that I never actually do anything with the dumps. They're boring to read, and for working with code

Reading the HyperNext manual #1

2010-05-18 Thread Richmond Mathewson
http://www.tigabyte.com/docs/LanguageReference.pdf There are five dedicated sound channels and any sound or music file must be allocated to a channel. The idea of having sound channels so that 2 or more sounds can be played simultaneously comes up here from time to time; but never seems to get

Re: Playing wav sound file in Linux in background?

2010-05-18 Thread stephen barncard
It may be bothersome to re-encode, but one does not get better quality by decoding then saving as uncompressed. If the files are going to be full size, why not take advantage of the better quality by 're-encoding'. On 18 May 2010 11:24, Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote: On

Mobile Template for Iphone/Ipad/Android Version Alpha 004a : new 18 May

2010-05-18 Thread Fabrice Muller
Revision Alpha 004a from 18 May: -Multi-Language -Manage visible/hide for fields -Some modifications based on Iphone look -Optimization existing code -Centralized function in MainStack, goal to use same function from different stack, write once your code and use it for Iphone stack, Ipad stack,

Re: Playing wav sound file in Linux in background?

2010-05-18 Thread Peter Alcibiades
He has a solution, surely, it is to do it from the shell. His problem is that when he goes out to the shell, it does not then play in the background. If he calls the shell command from a separate stack, will it not then leave the original stack to just go on? So the effect will be to play in

Re: [OT] 3d flip effect?

2010-05-18 Thread BNig
Robert, I did a quick test on a cached version. Caching does indeed speed things up considerably. On a MacBook Pro 2.33 GHz the uncached version took about 700 milliseconds to get the two snapshots of the cards (731 by 744 pixel), having cached the images in a custom property took about 100

Rev audio clips

2010-05-18 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi all, After learning about the binary string produced by compress(), i am curious to know if one of the professional audio experts in this platform have examined the converted audio clips that Rev uses internally, after importing an audio file. By trial and error, you could isolate the audio

Re: Rev audio clips

2010-05-18 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 18/05/2010 22:17, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Hi all, After learning about the binary string produced by compress(), i am curious to know if one of the professional audio experts in this platform have examined the converted audio clips that Rev uses internally, after importing an audio file.

Re: Adding to standard dialogs

2010-05-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
There is no way to add to the present ask and answer dialogs. But there's nothing to prevent you from making your own! See the dialogdata in the documentation for methods to send data back and forth between your custom dialog window and your application. You get and set the dialogdata (a global

Re: Rev audio clips

2010-05-18 Thread stephen barncard
Assuming that Rev stores audio file data sequentially in the first place, one would have to search for a pattern of binary data AFTER the headers, which would not be stored in the stack. Check for where the headers end and where your test data starts and just use a small sample to search for,

How to create a self-contained custom control

2010-05-18 Thread Jérôme Rosat
I created a custom control. I set the behavior of the group (the custom control) to a button script (I want no script in the group). If I copy the custom control in a new stack, i need to copy the button script too, or the stack that contains the button script as a substack of a new stack.

Re: Reading the Supercard manual #1

2010-05-18 Thread Robert Mann
Problem is always... priorities! So maybe what could help all parties, runrev included and us too, would be a way to ORGANIZE, PRIORITIZE, ideas, feedback, problems and solutions... in an organized WIKI place... rather than firing all round (sorry for that image.. no personnal scratch!!). I'm

Re: getting the user's (internet, not local network) IP address

2010-05-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi Mike. It is the generally accepted rule of thumb that some kind of firewall appliance between your cable modem and your computer is highly advisable. First, it almost certainly will use some form of NAT, which is Network Address Translation. This converts the packet info containing your

Re: Cloud computing: scalable DB

2010-05-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
My elephant skates quite well. I just could never teach him to stop! Bob On May 18, 2010, at 5:18 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: RDBMS are quite complex tools and sometimes they are used for the wrong job and then designing table schemas become like trying to teach an elephant to ice skate, if

Re: Adding to standard dialogs

2010-05-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bob Sneidar wrote: There is no way to add to the present ask and answer dialogs. But there's nothing to prevent you from making your own! Yup. But Paul wanted to know about open/save file dialogs. Unfortunately there's no way to modify those. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: Adding to standard dialogs

2010-05-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
Silly me. Same principle applies though. It's one of the reasons I like hypercoding so much. You can fairly easily make things look pretty much like anything you want. I wrote a Monopoly stack once in my Hypercard heyday. There was no color at the time though, so I gave it up. Bob On May

Re: getting the user's (internet, not local network) IP address

2010-05-18 Thread Michael Kann
Bob, Thank you very much for the good info. You've fired me up install the setup you describe. Until now I've probably just been luckier than I deserve to be. Mike --- On Tue, 5/18/10, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: From: Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com Subject: Re: getting the user's

Re: Adding to standard dialogs

2010-05-18 Thread stephen barncard
One *could* make a great ask/answer file dialog from scratch, complete with the 'correct' icons that would be very close to the standard. Do a search of Rev archives for 'Directory Walker' . There are many, many threads about this. *You could use a datagrid and lay it out any way you want.* On

Re: Adding to standard dialogs

2010-05-18 Thread stephen barncard
In 4.0 the dialogdata property is a full fledged data object and can be multi-dimensional, easily converted back and forth into an array. This simplifies creating complex dialog boxes with many parameters. Before 4.0, complex systems needed to be created to get multiple data blocks, some with

Re: How to create a self-contained custom control

2010-05-18 Thread stephen barncard
Nested Groups? On 18 May 2010 13:36, Jérôme Rosat jro...@mac.com wrote: I created a custom control. I set the behavior of the group (the custom control) to a button script (I want no script in the group). If I copy the custom control in a new stack, i need to copy the button script too, or

Re: Cloud computing: scalable DB

2010-05-18 Thread Jim Ault
On May 18, 2010, at 2:13 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: My elephant skates quite well. I just could never teach him to stop! Bob Ahhh, but can it do a camel ? Jim Ault Las Vegas ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Rev audio clips

2010-05-18 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi, Download these stacks and this audio clip: http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/alejandro/stacks/New_stacks_with_sample_au.zip This compressed file contains 3 files: 1 new stack, created and saved inmediatly without any change. (1k) 1 stack, created and inmediatly imported the audio clip sample.au

Re: Reading the HyperNext manual #1

2010-05-18 Thread Judy Perry
I'll say it again: Because Scott Raney didn't want to do it. Judy On Tue, 18 May 2010, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Now how is it that a RAD developed by 1 person can manage sound channels while . . . . ? ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Reading the HyperNext manual #1

2010-05-18 Thread Tereza Snyder
On May 18, 2010, at 6:36 PM, Judy Perry wrote: I'll say it again: Because Scott Raney didn't want to do it. Judy On Tue, 18 May 2010, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Now how is it that a RAD developed by 1 person can manage sound channels while . . . . ? That's right. It turns out to be

Re: Rev audio clips

2010-05-18 Thread stephen barncard
RIGHT. But there's a way to go; what you are trying to do is go behind Rev's back and obtain the data. Simpler with one audio file, but what if there are hundreds? One could find the start and stop points for audio data that Rev uses in the files, find the parts that will be stripped, put them

Keep Pull down Menus from changing on mousedown

2010-05-18 Thread Sivakatirswami
How can I keep a pull down menu from doing the reversed out thing with the foreground color switching to the background color on mouse down, I have some white text color pull down menus on a black ground, when the user click down we want the button name itself not to change at all, just show