Re: Desktop to iPad

2010-11-18 Thread Colin Holgate
I haven't checked, but does LC have a full screen mode, where you get to use the 1024x768, and not have to show the status bar? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: LiveCode and the Mac App Store

2010-11-11 Thread Colin Holgate
I think Richard's answer just covered the topic about whether LiveCode apps are permitted now, but part of the question was about whether Xcode has to be used as the way to submit the app? Is there a walkthrough somewhere of the submission process for LiveCode apps?

Re: Where is the Login to Rev's Web Hosting

2010-10-27 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 27, 2010, at 9:57 AM, Gregory Lypny wrote: A, rebranding. Went to Rev's home page. Can no longer find any links to On-Rev. Can anyone point me in the right direction? You should have received an email telling you your new log in details. Check with Heather if you can't find

Re: LiveCode applications accepted in iOS App Store

2010-10-27 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 27, 2010, at 1:35 PM, Devin Asay wrote: Seems in line with similar apps. 1 - 2 seconds on my 1st Gen iPod Touch. On iPad and iPhone 4 it's pretty instant. There is an iOS 4 glitch though. The game does honor multitasking, but if you fast app switch back to the game while it's

Re: LiveCode applications accepted in iOS App Store

2010-10-27 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 27, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: This is an evil app. And it has cost me a lot of money besides. I wore a hole in my iPhone screen herding sheep!! LOL! j/k I think that outcome is previously unherd of. ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: LiveCode applications accepted in iOS App Store

2010-10-26 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 26, 2010, at 2:56 PM, Kevin Miller wrote: Some exciting news for you all! http://www.runrev.com/company/runrev-blog/ Kevin, are you sure that it wasn't done in GameSalad? Just kidding... Looking forward to the more capable build. ___

[OT], but imagine an iPad Rev...

2010-10-25 Thread Colin Holgate
http://itunes.apple.com/app/iluabox/id398073834 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: [OT], but imagine an iPad Rev...

2010-10-25 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 25, 2010, at 9:41 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: If you select: B) then, correct me if i am wrong, but Could this editor be implemented via the web browser? I hadn't deeply thought about it at all, but the browser approach might not work, if it required plugins. It was mainly the fact

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-23 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 23, 2010, at 2:36 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Its surreal to have it be alt + 3 unmarked. How on earth are you supposed to know that? I guess you have to read the Human Interface Guidelines? The keys are marked for normal, fn, and shift already. Marking them for option and

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-23 Thread Colin Holgate
A few times in the past I've bought these discounted bundles, where you get perhaps a dozen applications for less than the price of the most expensive of them. It's generally a good deal, especially if there's just one of them that you were already thinking about buying at full price. Those

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-23 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 23, 2010, at 1:55 PM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: Presumably they wanted to have the pound sterling symbol more naturally available, so they swapped the sterling and the # mappings -- option-3 vs shift-3. It would have made more sense for them to have mapped the sterling symbol to

Re: [OT] LaunchPad is a registered trademark - of Canonical Inc.

2010-10-23 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 23, 2010, at 3:48 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Turns out that the name LaunchPad is a registered trademark of Canonical Inc., makers of Ubuntu: Fortunately, the Apple software is called Launch Pad: http://www.apple.com/webapps/productivity/launchpad.html

Re: [OT] LaunchPad is a registered trademark - of Canonical Inc.

2010-10-23 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 23, 2010, at 3:51 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: Fortunately, the Apple software is called Launch Pad: http://www.apple.com/webapps/productivity/launchpad.html My mistake, it is indeed Lanchpad: http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/ It even uses the lowercase p like the Ubuntu one

Re: [OT] LaunchPad is a registered trademark - of Canonical Inc.

2010-10-23 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 23, 2010, at 6:59 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: Thanks for that. I was worried about my new app called EYE-tunes. I now expect no legal concerns from Apple because mine's spelled different from there's. Perhaps you could get away with calling it something with inverted text: sǝunʇı

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-22 Thread Colin Holgate
I ordered a few items the other day, one of which is the shorter wireless keyboard. I'm expecting to get on with it ok, because I full time use a MacBook Pro keyboard, which is more or less the same set of keys. I also ordered a Magic Trackpad. Will be interesting to see how that goes.

Re: VideoGrabber: dropping last second of sound

2010-10-22 Thread Colin Holgate
I have no idea what VideoGrabber is, but the symptoms suggest that some frames were skipped, and yet the stored frames were kept at a regular frame rate. Would be interesting to video grab a running clock. Then you could test my theory. ___

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-22 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 22, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: The real irritation about the Apple keyboards is the keys. Where, you ask yourself is the # key? Any Apple keyboard I look at seems to have the # as shift 3. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-22 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 22, 2010, at 4:02 PM, Richmond wrote: Transatlantic problem! British Apple Keyboards have the Sterling sign at shift 3; # is there at Alt 3. And the US one uses option-3 for £. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-21 Thread Colin Holgate
The thing about the Ambrosia apps is that they all need to patch the system in order to work. It ought to still be possible to make the apps work in a way that on first launch they then do the patch, and maybe require a restart. But in general I thing the app store would be geared towards apps

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-21 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 21, 2010, at 2:44 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: I read somewhere that Java apps would NOT be allowed. Not sure that bodes well for Rev. Rev is in Java? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-20 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 20, 2010, at 3:27 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: check out: http://www.apple.com/mac/app-store/ http://www.apple.com/mac/app-store/Will our LiveCode apps be featured there? So far we do not know since the thing was announced 10 minutes ago, but one can only hope! I read sometime in

Re: [OT] First Mobile App Released

2010-10-16 Thread Colin Holgate
It's pretty good, and one of the most slick looking GameSalad apps. You might have risked splashing out for Pro to avoid the GameSalad promo screen! As you may know, things are changing over there at the moment, so keep an eye on that. I've done five of the stages, working on the sixth. The

Re: [OT] First Mobile App Released

2010-10-16 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 16, 2010, at 2:55 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: And second, exciting for LiveCode. One of our apps got accepted to the Apple Store, which means very good things for all of us. I know that Scott's one is GameSalad, but as a point of interest, are LiveCode mobile alpha apps capable of

Re: [OT] First Mobile App Released

2010-10-16 Thread Colin Holgate
I have a question for Scott: After the coloring by numbers last level (which has a strange thing about it, in that you have to select the black color even though it doesn't change the appearance of those triangles), you get to a screen where it says transmitting data to SCIUP. After that the

Re: [OT] First Mobile App Released

2010-10-16 Thread Colin Holgate
I did a hard restart of my iPad, and then I didn't have to select the black triangles on the last level, and also I got through to the rotating menu screen ok. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: [OT] First Mobile App Released

2010-10-16 Thread Colin Holgate
I wouldn't worry too much, the Pad likes to crash in general. I have Flash apps that work fine even on the original iPhone, but will crash after a short time on my iPad. I wrote a review, but it doesn't seem to be there yet. ___ use-revolution

Re: [OT] First Mobile App Released

2010-10-16 Thread Colin Holgate
Thanks for the detailed description. As a reward, feel free to mention what your app is called! ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Read Words from a URL

2010-10-15 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 15, 2010, at 12:59 PM, Razvan Pantescu wrote: How can I read/get all the words from a URL? Do you mean the text that is held at that URL, or the words that are in the URL itself? If you mean the contents of the URL, here's the example from Help: get URL

Re: Read Words from a URL

2010-10-15 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 15, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Razvan Pantescu wrote: http://beta.mindcast.com/folders/32ilym4b/?context=list_fileset When you do: get URL http://beta.mindcast.com/folders/32ilym4b/?context=list_fileset; 'it' then contains: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp

Re: [OT] What do you do with your F-8 key?

2010-10-12 Thread Colin Holgate
F8 is used by Mac OS, for Expose. It's also used by Flash, but I have to use the menu item because I can't be bothered to go and disable the OS usage. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: [OT] What do you do with your F-8 key?

2010-10-12 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 12, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Richmond wrote: when I hit the F8 happens . . . :) I misspoke, it's Spaces that F8 is used for. I've now set that to F7, so I'm good to go in Flash. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: [OT] What do you do with your F-8 key?

2010-10-12 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 12, 2010, at 1:15 PM, Richmond wrote: Still doesn't leave me with a free F-key! You could use F7, that doesn't seem to be used by much. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: SHIFTy thoughts

2010-10-11 Thread Colin Holgate
This might give you an idea: on checkkeys send checkkeys to me in 100 milliseconds put shiftkey() end checkkeys ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: SHIFTy thoughts

2010-10-11 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 11, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Richmond wrote: what I cannot work out how to do is find out if the SHIFT key is down without having to plonk my fat fingers on some other key as well. You said this just now, with my solution that works still copied in the top of your message. Take another

Re: SHIFTy thoughts

2010-10-11 Thread Colin Holgate
This part: if the shiftkey and not shiftisdown then UserReleasedShiftKey end if should have been: if not the shiftkey and shiftisdown then UserReleasedShiftKey end if ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: SHIFTy thoughts

2010-10-11 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 11, 2010, at 1:43 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: Or maybe this: Your two approaches are basically the same idea as mine, only in yours there is still no way for the rest of the script to know that the shift was pressed. You might also need an idle check, or another send, to then inspect the

Re: SHIFTy thoughts

2010-10-11 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 11, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: Sorry, I'm not following -- the shift state is constantly polled/stored, so why does the script need to care about the state at all? He wants to have an action happen when the user presses the shift key. Your variable knows whether the shift

Re: SHIFTy thoughts

2010-10-11 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 11, 2010, at 2:56 PM, Richmond wrote: as you can see; fairly pedestrian stuff, which is why I get all moist and sweaty when I think about the Shift key. Could you use the space bar? If you can't because people are entering words in a field, then shift would be a problem too for

Re: [OT] 42-day

2010-10-10 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 10, 2010, at 5:16 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: I believe this is a good occasion to post a link to an anecode that Colin wrote the the HyperCard list a few years ago: http://qurl.tk/io Saved me a lot of new typing! There is a link mentioned in that long message, and our server

Re: [OT] Morning fun: Tao of Programming

2010-10-09 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 9, 2010, at 4:55 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: It was just a joke... actually, right now, I am eating pizza which improves my state of mind and by consequence my coding. A cheesy joke then? ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: iphoneRotateInterface command in mobile apps

2010-10-06 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 6, 2010, at 9:21 AM, paolo mazza wrote: I have to'inform you that opening a mobile application in the iPad the platform is iPhone so In our Rev_mobile applications we have to' write if the environment is iPhone then iphoneRotateInterface landscape left end if The iPhone

Re: Sort question

2010-10-03 Thread Colin Holgate
Ben, wouldn't yours just end up with it sorted the second way? Mark's does work if you use ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Sort question

2010-10-03 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 3, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Yves COPPE wrote: some first names have 2 words !!! Go back to using Mark's way, with instead of 'and', and also say 'last word of each' instead of 'word 2 of each'. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Sort question

2010-10-03 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 3, 2010, at 11:08 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: won't always workshop corrector. Probably you neef to use 'and' and sort numeric. I think your spell checker doesn't alway walk correctly either. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: RevMobile Discussions

2010-10-02 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 2, 2010, at 9:54 AM, Michael D Mays wrote: Is this the or is there a place for RevMobile discussions? I would think that here would be a good place. It's not really any different than if you were asking about a standalone specific issue, there isn't a special forum just for that.

Re: RevMobile Discussions

2010-10-02 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 2, 2010, at 7:16 PM, Michael D Mays wrote: Back in March and April in the pre-Alpha release notices there was mention of setting up a such discussion group. The release in August did not. I was hoping it had been set up. I would still hope we can talk about things here, because

Re: RunRev, er, LiveCode on MacNN

2010-09-27 Thread Colin Holgate
Here's the direct link: http://www.macnn.com/articles/10/09/27/revamp.offers.new.ios.development.environment/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: ANN: Updated website

2010-09-26 Thread Colin Holgate
On Sep 26, 2010, at 1:53 PM, Klaus on-rev wrote: What you always wanted to know about sex...: Your translation of the title isn't quite right: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068555/ I suspect that some teenage boys would be giggling at the fact that the star of that film has the name woody.

Re: [OT] Another one bites the dust . . .

2010-09-21 Thread Colin Holgate
On Sep 21, 2010, at 2:45 PM, stephen barncard wrote: I see a page with a hundred stories and a hundred links, all which change hourly. To what (or which) do you refer? From here it looks like the site is shut down. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: I feel betrayed

2010-09-21 Thread Colin Holgate
Have all your copies of revMedia stopped working? Is it not still possible to let kids use it for free? There may be some future need that requires having an updated version, but for now revMedia is as good as it was two days ago. ___ use-revolution

Re: GOOSE BUMPS

2010-09-21 Thread Colin Holgate
On Sep 21, 2010, at 4:20 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Are you implying that there is very little returned when searching livecode? In fact there is five times as much when searching for livecode (because it just knows that you really meant live code). Searching for +livecode cuts that down a

Re: [OT] Another one bites the dust . . .

2010-09-21 Thread Colin Holgate
On Sep 21, 2010, at 4:26 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Yeah, that's the ticket. Obviously I meant try *not* refreshing your cache g That can be achieved in Safari by not pressing command-option-e. BTW, I had the situation where I caught it again when it wasn't working, but after a clear cache it

Re: Where does revMobile go?

2010-09-21 Thread Colin Holgate
On Sep 21, 2010, at 3:31 PM, Terry Vogelaar wrote: I upgraded to LiveCode 4.5. Because I have bought revMobile, Mobile Deployment is already purchased according to the store, as expected. However, I don't see it in the Development Plugins menu where it used to be. Nor can I find it

Re: GOOSE BUMPS

2010-09-20 Thread Colin Holgate
For anyone already curious about this, if you have an existing license for a version of Revolution, when you go into your account settings you'll find that you're already licensed for LiveCode. You can download the release 4.5, now called LiveCode, and as you run it you do a log in using your

Re: GOOSE BUMPS

2010-09-20 Thread Colin Holgate
On Sep 20, 2010, at 10:17 AM, wayne durden wrote: Thanks for any clarity on the situation. Perhaps I should email Heather if folks have received an account password already... She might be busy today! My account login email arrived only 85 minutes ago, and the general announcement one

[OT] competition in the easy to use mobile app dev area

2010-09-20 Thread Colin Holgate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ADwPLSFeY8 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: GOOSE BUMPS

2010-09-20 Thread Colin Holgate
On Sep 20, 2010, at 12:49 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Taking time? Why not have Rev do it? Did you mean have LiveCode do it? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: GOOSE BUMPS

2010-09-20 Thread Colin Holgate
On Sep 20, 2010, at 2:19 PM, Richmond wrote: Let's see now: I program with . . . xTalk, Transcript, RevTalk, Revolution, RunRev, LiveCode . . . Yer Wot? Plain confusing. Make sure to list them all on your CV, it'll look impressive. ___

how to totally make Kevin's day

2010-09-09 Thread Colin Holgate
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/09/09statement.html ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Bundle Shmundle: more Bad Boy mouthings.

2010-09-02 Thread Colin Holgate
On Sep 2, 2010, at 3:10 PM, Richmond wrote: But I could find none of those in the RunRev 4.5-dp-4 folder. These files would have been my first port of call. In passing, how did you get that build? When I do a check for updates in 4.5 dp-3, I get a server connection error.

Re: revOnline

2010-09-02 Thread Colin Holgate
On Sep 2, 2010, at 5:03 PM, BNig wrote: it did not work today but just started to work again from the IDE. Check for Updates works again now too. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: the pendingClick

2010-08-11 Thread Colin Holgate
I was going to post something on those lines too (the one where you set a variable to know whether to not do the mouseup after all), but there's a big problem. The rules for mousedoubleup are that it is triggered when the mouse is released after the double click. That means you could click,

Re: [OT] Moving forward

2010-08-11 Thread Colin Holgate
On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:53 PM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: The only way I know what I really believe is by keeping watch over what I do. -- Sister Helen Prejean I met her once. She seemed nice. It was in connection with a HyperCard based version of Dead Man Walking.

Re: Find or Search Function

2010-08-11 Thread Colin Holgate
In HyperCard you could speed up that sort of thing by saying: unmark all cards mark cards by finding whatever repeat with a = 1 to the number of marked cards go marked card a --then run around the fields if you need to end repeat That may well work the same in Rev, and might make things

Re: Check If URL Is Valid

2010-08-08 Thread Colin Holgate
On Aug 8, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Warren Kuhl wrote: I need to check if a URL is valid and receive notification for invalid URLs. I don't want my program to open any browswers when checking. Is this possible? In some cases it is. If the page you try to access doesn't exist, but the server traps

Re: Check If URL Is Valid

2010-08-08 Thread Colin Holgate
On Aug 8, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Jeff Massung wrote: I believe the result of your get will have an error message in it if the URL doesn't exist. Otherwise the result is empty. It does indeed contain: error 404 Not Found but it has the same limitation I mentioned, if you try a nonexistent page

Re: Check If URL Is Valid

2010-08-08 Thread Colin Holgate
On Aug 8, 2010, at 1:28 PM, Warren Kuhl wrote: The websites I are checking do not redirect so this is working perfect. Thanks for all your help! That's good. Given a choice, I would go with the way Jeff was suggesting: get url some maybe valid url if the result is not empty then

Re: OT: Mac vs Win partisanship is unnecessary

2010-07-23 Thread Colin Holgate
On Jul 23, 2010, at 11:30 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: it took my every after class moment for a period of about a month That certainly is a bit longer than three hours of live streaming from Brooklyn. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: File Path Issue

2010-07-18 Thread Colin Holgate
Would using the stacks do? Any stacks that are open will be listed with their paths. A quick test here, with an openstack handler of put the stacks into field 1, gives this: /Users/colin/Desktop/stacks/MacOSX/stacks.app/Contents/MacOS/stacks where stacks was the name I gave the standalone. I

Re: XML one-liner (if possible)

2010-07-13 Thread Colin Holgate
On Jul 13, 2010, at 5:19 PM, viktoras d. wrote: err., what's the simplest way of displaying all contents of an XML document in a rev field? e.g. getting a list of all elements with all their attributes and values. Is there a simple way to do this - a one liner probably ;-) ? put URL

Re: XML one-liner (if possible)

2010-07-13 Thread Colin Holgate
On Jul 13, 2010, at 6:35 PM, viktoras d. wrote: I realized that the simplest way to display xml with known schema is to transform it by simply replacing xml tags with html in the source text and setting htmltext of field to it (!). That sounds more complicated than my example. What is

Re: [OT] G4 goes West

2010-07-09 Thread Colin Holgate
I hadn't seen anyone use the expression going west before, so I just took it to mean going south, with some misdirection (as it were) for the sake of humor. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Intelligent sorting: A bit of a poser

2010-07-01 Thread Colin Holgate
Darn, Klaus beat me by moments: on mouseup put img1 return img10 return img5 return img6 return img60into imagelist sort imagelist numeric by char 4 to -1 of each put imagelist end mouseup ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Intelligent sorting: A bit of a poser

2010-07-01 Thread Colin Holgate
On Jul 1, 2010, at 10:16 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Hold everything. Doesn't work. I noticed. This does though: on mouseUp put separateNumbers(fld yourField) into temp sort temp numeric by item 2 of each item 1 of each sort temp by item 1 of each replace comma with

Re: Intelligent sorting: A bit of a poser

2010-07-01 Thread Colin Holgate
On Jul 1, 2010, at 10:42 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Almost identical except you like the early part of the alphabet, and I like the latter. I do more 3D work than you, so would want to use UV for texture coordinates, and XYZ for 3D locations. Interestingly, I use a and b, etc for

Re: Running revlets on the iPad

2010-06-30 Thread Colin Holgate
On Jun 30, 2010, at 2:04 PM, James Hurley wrote: I tried on my iPad and I got a screen asking me to download the plug-in, but it didn't happen, i.e. the plug-in didn't download. Plugins don't work on the iPhone or iPad. ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: Running revlets on the iPad

2010-06-30 Thread Colin Holgate
On Jun 30, 2010, at 2:22 PM, Richmond wrote: And, quite frankly, if Plugins don't work on those platforms they do look a bit flat if one wants (especially with regard to the iPad) to use them as effective web-browsers. I spend all day every day developing Flash content for the web, so I

Re: Smokescreen.rev

2010-06-30 Thread Colin Holgate
On Jun 30, 2010, at 2:25 PM, Simon Lord wrote: PS: My point is it's probably fairly trivial to do the same for rev stacks if the right people took a stab at it The Javascript Flash players are just replaying the graphics in the swf. A similar thing with Rev would be to flip through the

Re: Tools palette showing?

2010-06-24 Thread Colin Holgate
On Jun 24, 2010, at 4:02 PM, Emmett Gray wrote: Is there a way to discover if the Tools palette is visible (in RevMedia)? the visible of window revTools ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Tools palette showing?

2010-06-24 Thread Colin Holgate
On Jun 24, 2010, at 4:09 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Hide/show stack revTools Cool that all such gadgets are stacks. It also reports as being a window, but in any case, the question was how to know if it's current;y showing, and not how you would show it.

Re: Tools palette showing?

2010-06-24 Thread Colin Holgate
On Jun 24, 2010, at 4:20 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Actually, he had a problem in that opening a new stack set the visible of the tools palette back to true. So I think he also needs to know how to access it, so he can hide it. Any of the ways we've said to do it will work well, but he

Re: Tools palette showing?

2010-06-24 Thread Colin Holgate
On Jun 24, 2010, at 5:00 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: put the openstacks I used the older HyperCard form of: answer the windows which, as they are all stacks, amounts to the same thing. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Tools palette showing?

2010-06-24 Thread Colin Holgate
On Jun 24, 2010, at 8:24 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: BTW: it's not really the same thing - answer has the annoying aspect of being blocking, so you have to memorize the list and close the answer dialog before moving on. Put leaves them in the message box where you can copy them or inspect them as

Re: [OT] Adobe and Apple

2010-06-18 Thread Colin Holgate
One item missing from the list is Macromedia Mediamaker, although that may have already been dropped before the merger. Mediamaker was originally written in HyperCard. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Re: no go?

2010-06-17 Thread Colin Holgate
On Jun 17, 2010, at 12:02 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Say it ain't so. I have no idea if it is so, but in the case of HyperCard it managed to achieve that by having global variables for Applications, Stacks, and Documents, which it filled in from the last card of the Home stack. Look

Re: no go?

2010-06-17 Thread Colin Holgate
I see what you mean. ___ 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: [Very OT] Happy and need to share it!

2010-06-15 Thread Colin Holgate
On Jun 15, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Jeff Massung wrote: http://massj.tumblr.com/ Sorry for the spam (sorta), but I just have to share a very happy moment for me. The speaking is good, but I was a lot more impressed about how she went on to program the Nitrogen editor!

Re: [Very OT] Happy and need to share it!

2010-06-15 Thread Colin Holgate
On Jun 15, 2010, at 11:00 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Cute :-) Now wait for daddy, I want an iPhone! That's unlikely. I mean, she's bound to know that the ATT page is not working right now. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: A better tape measurement script, please

2010-06-14 Thread Colin Holgate
On Jun 12, 2010, at 5:21 AM, Michael Kristensen wrote: Its not very effective when there is a lot of object/graphics in the stack. The tape cant follow the cursor What goes wrong when there are more objects in the stack? ___ use-revolution

Re: A better tape measurement script, please

2010-06-14 Thread Colin Holgate
I still can't get it to go wrong, but maybe you have some scripts in your tape graphic. You could put a lock messages, unlock messages into your mouse following script, then hopefully anything else won't get triggered by accident. ___ use-revolution

Re: Have you discuss here already that Apple changed SDK to allow cross-tools ?

2010-06-13 Thread Colin Holgate
Here's an article about it, that includes the relevant passages: http://www.appleoutsider.com/2010/06/10/hello-lua It seems more geared towards Electronic Arts games, where they use Lua to do overall game control. It's hard to say whether Rev apps would get away with the same conditions,

Re: Scanning barcodes

2010-06-11 Thread Colin Holgate
On Jun 11, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Just about any scanner has a mode where it will type at the location of a cursor. We use something called the Magpie from Peninsula. It was very reasonably priced, compared to a lot of other bar code scanners I looked at. Unfortunately,

Re: Scanning barcodes

2010-06-11 Thread Colin Holgate
You can usually set the scanners to automatically add a return character after the numbers. That can make it easy to tell when the code has arrived. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Flash is buggy - Where have I heard that before?

2010-06-07 Thread Colin Holgate
On Jun 7, 2010, at 6:44 PM, Douglas wrote: Some people have found that Flash / Acrobat / Adobe Reader is/are buggy and a serious security risk. (Just in case you didn't know.) Those links don't claim Flash to be buggy. There is a brief mention that if Flash needs a security patch that it

Re: Abysmal Sound on Windows?

2010-06-05 Thread Colin Holgate
Someone nicely summed up the browser craziness with this image: http://i.imgur.com/cT08B.png As for saying anything against Flash, if you go along with what Steve says about Flash, you should also stop using Rev. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: raw data from barcode scanner

2010-06-05 Thread Colin Holgate
Barcode readers act just as if the user had typed the numbers in on a keyboard. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Abysmal Sound on Windows?

2010-06-04 Thread Colin Holgate
When using other tools, and getting choppy sound on Windows, one place to check is in the Audio part of the QuickTime preferences. Make sure it's set to use the normal WAV player, and not using hardware. Failing that, try the opposite approach outlined here: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1362

Re: Abysmal Sound on Windows?

2010-06-04 Thread Colin Holgate
On Jun 4, 2010, at 8:54 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: Thanks for the suggestions Colin but the stack I'm building is for public use -- messing around with a QT control panel (if indeed there is one) won't be a viable option. Might be worth trying anyway, so that you can tell people how to fix it.

Re: HyperCard was huge in its day, Jobs said

2010-06-01 Thread Colin Holgate
Unfortunately, Steve was making the point that Flash being big doesn't prove that it will live forever, after all, look at HyperCard. The blog I followed reported that the crowd laughed at his HyperCard comment. He also seems to be making the mistake that a lot of people have, thinking that

Re: Using xTalk in place of Javascript

2010-05-31 Thread Colin Holgate
Here is a quite long article that might answer some of your questions about what would be involved in making a xTalk like syntax convert to Javascript: http://lexnet.bravepages.com/HTMLJS.htm As Andre says though, it may be simpler to just learn Javascript. It's not difficult once you get past

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