Re: returning from custom dialog

2010-03-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
stephen barncard wrote: non - IDE dialogs have always required extra clicks (for me) with the click at 1,1 it seems to work better. Still not perfect. here's the significant code: Have you tried something simpler, like just passing hi instead of an array? Zygodact uses a custom modal stack

Re: Slow opening of cards in .exe file

2010-03-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
William de Smet wrote: Hello there, In a new app I am working on I am experiencing slow opening of cards in the .exe file on Windows 7 (on Mac OSX the app works fine and smootly). It seems that all of the cards are send to memory at once because after the first mouseclick and about 10 sec wait

Re: New Version of Field Object in Version 4.5

2010-03-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
Len Morgan wrote: I think Kevin Miller's road map for 2010 a week or two ago listed at least some of the features they were shooting for. I think the road map was on the Improve list, which is only available to Enterprise customers. That info is all NDA, so anyone on the use-rev list has to

Re: Possible virus warning

2010-03-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Wieder wrote: Richard- Thursday, March 18, 2010, 9:15:06 PM, you wrote: Whether the email is part of the culprit's work or just another victim like all of us who shouldn't have rec'd that unsolicited email remains to be seen. Here's my best-case scenario: the rev team was attempting to

Re: Possible virus warning

2010-03-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Wieder wrote: Scott- Thursday, March 18, 2010, 10:38:13 PM, you wrote: Dudes, come on. The guy wrote the list on 3/16 looking for help with Rev and JADE. He probably tried to send along files he was working on by mistake. As fun as it would be to uncover, there's no conspiracy here.

Re: Possible virus warning

2010-03-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Wieder wrote: Let me point out again that the message did *not* go to this list. Looking at the email headers, it appears that I received it via bcc. It's possible that the listserv software couldn't handle that and bounced it to everyone, but that wouldn't explain why you *didn't* get a

Re: Possible virus warning

2010-03-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richard Gaskin wrote: Don't you see it?!?!?! Connect the dots!!! ObjectiveC is people!! It's a cook book!!! Yes, the monsters are due on Maple Street In that case we just send them out to the corn field. Problem solved. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

[OT] Backing up (was: View scripts of my standalone?)

2010-03-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Peter Brigham MD wrote: On Mar 18, 2010, at 9:31 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: And then. rrrgghh! A calendar she'd be working with, the most important of half a dozen calendars, for some reason she inexplicably deleted, at that was it, it was gone! She looked high and low, but it was

Re: Fit Content

2010-03-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
dunb...@aol.com wrote: Richmond. I have done this before, I think. It is a problem with my brain. I've been dying for a chance to quote this tagline I saw recently: I can't brain today, I've got the dumb. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive

Re: how to set the textStyle of word 1 of the selection?

2010-03-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
Andre.Bisseret wrote: P.S. I still play JQ Boggle a lot. But got a conflict with the other game I am addicted to: tRev, where command + R shifts from Rev to tRev and vice versa. So that I have to quit tRev to be able to rescore in JQ Boggle. Might be I should report that to the RQCC ;-O))

Re: how to set the textStyle of word 1 of the selection?

2010-03-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
BNig wrote: Jaque, I like your solution a lot. I modified it a bit in case a word is not fully selected in the first place. It would only set the textstyle to the selected part of the word. - on mouseUp select word 1 of the selection if the number of words in the

Re: how to set the textStyle of word 1 of the selection?

2010-03-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
Andre.Bisseret wrote: No, works even if there are several spaces as first characters of the selection You're right. I got stupid again. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

Re: how to set the textStyle of word 1 of the selection?

2010-03-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
Andre.Bisseret wrote: Then, I am looking for a solution. I will try to control the selection made by the user and to edit it. Does this work? on mouseUp get the selection put word 1 of it into tWord if tWord = then exit mouseUp put (word 2 of the selectedchunk)-1 into tStart set

Re: how to set the textStyle of word 1 of the selection?

2010-03-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
J. Landman Gay wrote: Andre.Bisseret wrote: Then, I am looking for a solution. I will try to control the selection made by the user and to edit it. Does this work? on mouseUp get the selection put word 1 of it into tWord if tWord = then exit mouseUp put (word 2 of the selectedchunk

Re: how to set the textStyle of word 1 of the selection?

2010-03-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
J. Landman Gay wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote: Andre.Bisseret wrote: Then, I am looking for a solution. I will try to control the selection made by the user and to edit it. Does this work? on mouseUp get the selection put word 1 of it into tWord if tWord = then exit mouseUp put (word

Re: Card Name space conflicts in the Rev IDE

2010-03-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
stephen barncard wrote: Look everyone, I know I look like a fool here, and now I know that it's possible with the App browser but I know what I am seeing and I think there is a bug here. I had been trying to use the Inspection panel exclusively without using the application browser at all. I

Re: Card Name space conflicts in the Rev IDE

2010-03-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
stephen barncard wrote: In my last attempt, the names of the two *stacks* are the default ones upon creation. I then attempt to name the first card of the substack. I can click on the substack, and I'll see one card in the inspector nav, select it, rename the card, and then bring the main stack

Re: Add file to Custom Property

2010-03-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bill Vlahos wrote: The data will be stored in a different stack. How does that make it different? Where the file is stored doesn't matter. The issue occurs after extraction; you have content in a variable at that point, and almost no apps will open content that is in memory (outside of

Re: Add file to Custom Property

2010-03-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bill Vlahos wrote: The goal is to allow the user to save a file of any format, encrypted, and password protected. Therefore Rev can't be counted on being able to display it. I know I could save the file to disk and then issue an open command but that would leave a copy on the disk. Is it

Re: Add file to Custom Property

2010-03-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jeffrey Massung wrote: On Mar 13, 2010, at 8:08 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Bill Vlahos wrote: Is there a way to skip the writing to disk part and just open it directly? If it is another stack, then Rev can open it from memory. Otherwise, no. The usual solution is to write to the temp

Re: Keyboard Menu Control Blocked?

2010-03-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
Scott Rossi wrote: Any thoughts on how I can track down what is preventing my menu buttons from firing when triggered from the keyboard? I've been trying to workaround the issue of how menus are drawn when the menu buttons that display menus are colorized. I tried adding some proxy buttons to

Re: Keyboard Menu Control Blocked?

2010-03-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
J. Landman Gay wrote: Scott Rossi wrote: Any thoughts on how I can track down what is preventing my menu buttons from firing when triggered from the keyboard? I've been trying to workaround the issue of how menus are drawn when the menu buttons that display menus are colorized. I tried

Re: Keyboard Menu Control Blocked?

2010-03-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, I wrote: Any thoughts on how I can track down what is preventing my menu buttons from firing when triggered from the keyboard? On windows... I just discovered that the menubar property of my working stack was somehow set to empty, even though the menu was

Re: Revolution Standalone + Norton Internet Security

2010-03-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
mstray...@comcast.net wrote: Hello all, I'm new to revolution and have run into a problem. I've made a simple little standalone application (4 text fields, 1 label, 1 button). Right now all that it does it that when the button is pressed it place the contents of one of the fields into the

Re: Revolution Standalone + Norton Internet Security

2010-03-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bill Vlahos wrote: I just ran into this today with Vista. However, it was even worse than what you describe. Norton flagged it as behaving suspiciously and DELETED the standalone! No option to even allow it. It didn't quarantine it somewhere? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: missing field in aplication browser

2010-03-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
Peter Haworth wrote: Grouping and ungrouping objects by selecting them on a card works great in simple situations but when you have multiple levels of nested groups or hidden fields or even hidden groups (as recommended for tab controls for example), it can be a nightmare to add or delete an

Re: missing field in aplication browser

2010-03-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
J. Landman Gay wrote: Peter Haworth wrote: Grouping and ungrouping objects by selecting them on a card works great in simple situations but when you have multiple levels of nested groups or hidden fields or even hidden groups (as recommended for tab controls for example), it can

Re: Comma-delimited values

2010-03-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richard Gaskin wrote: CSV must die. Oh come on, Richard, tell us what you really think. :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: reading and converting web page HTML text

2010-03-06 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Stuart wrote: Hi all, Looking up runrev Dictionary for HTML, does result in a find (HTMLtext), which mentions the following near the very end. Special characters (whose ASCII value is greater than 127) are encoded as HTML entities. Revolution recognizes the following named entities: and

Re: reading and converting web page HTML text

2010-03-06 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Stuart wrote: Hi all, Richard - the html entity that didn't convert was the quot, starting with and ending with semi-colon ; The htmltext can only be applied to fields; it won't work in variables. So you need to do what Richard suggested -- he's using the templateField (which is a

Re: How do I change the script for 100 buttons in one time?

2010-03-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
dunb...@aol.com wrote: Typical. In a message dated 3/4/10 2:25:09 PM, jimaultw...@yahoo.com writes: Yours is the best solution, Jacques, Don't confuse the guy with the s with me, who has no s. ;) I still trip over it. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com

Re: popup command cross-platform

2010-03-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jeff Massung wrote: So, I'm seeing different functionality w/ the popup command on OS X and Win32, wondering if I should mark this as a bug, and also wondering if anyone has a work-around? -- in a field's script on mouseUp set the backgroundColor of me to black popup btn some menu set

Re: very strange rev behavior

2010-03-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
rand valentine wrote: For some reason, Rev has started taking 50 times as long to open as it used to, and the menus are so slow as to be completely unusable. I thought the program was frozen, just a spinning beach ball for minutes on end as it started up, then slowly it went through the process

Re: [On-Rev] sending email thru sendmail?!

2010-03-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Andre Garzia wrote: Anyone is able to send mail in On-Rev? Yes, I'm using the same code that Jeff posted. I just tried it again and it is still working. Andre, didn't that code come from you? :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software

Re: parsing data returned from the foundLine

2010-03-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
David Coker wrote: ...I think I'm gonna revisit *all* of the documentation covering chunking again before I go much further with this little project. It seems that I am still missing some of the concepts, methods and/or possibilities that Rev offers when it comes to parsing textual data.

Re: Re-2: [On-Rev] sending email thru sendmail?!

2010-03-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
runrev260...@m-r-d.de wrote: Hi, i just tried it out, and here it works without problems. Maybe its server specific. My server is loki. Me too, I'm on loki. Andre, what server are you on? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software |

Re: File Associations?

2010-03-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Andre Garzia wrote: Folks, this kind of stuff should be easy. Can we abstract that code into a library? Also, Scott, did you solved it for Mac? The problem of multiple instances doesn't happen on Macs, so you don't have to do anything on that OS. The file associations are all handled in the

Re: Re-2: [On-Rev] sending email thru sendmail?!

2010-03-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Andre Garzia wrote: I am on loki as well ARGH! it is an addon domain... Mine isn't an addon. You could try a test in your main account and see if it works there. That would give some info. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software |

Re: Docking Stacks

2010-03-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
Andrew Kluthe wrote: I searched around and haven't really found anything about interactions between multiple stacks similar to docking. The Problem: I have 4 stacks That I want to dock to the edges of each other (open on the edge, snap to the edge, etc). 1. Two of the stacks are menu stacks on

Re: Scripting systemWindow

2010-03-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
Andrew Kluthe wrote: Post I found: http://n4.nabble.com/systemWindow-question-td300545.html#a300545 I just tried it and it works fine here, on both Mac OS X and Windows XP. I used this: on mouseUp set the systemwindow of this stack to not the systemwindow of this stack end mouseUp On

Re: parsing data returned from the foundLine

2010-03-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
David Coker wrote: Hello folks, I have a small 3 column list (tab delimited) where I need to check the contents for duplicate data that may be found in any of two fields or columns, then act on the line that contains that data if found. As an example, in my handler I'm using: find ABC-5678-A in

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

2010-03-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
Peter Alcibiades wrote: But as to the fonts, I fired up Rev, created a stack with a field in it, then put the font size to 12, and opened up OpenOffice and did the same thing. Its true. Rev looks like its about 6 point, and OO looks normal 12 point. After you find one of the few fonts they

Re: Life-cycle of paper clips

2010-03-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
cub...@aol.com wrote: On Feb 27, 2010, at 4:15 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 4:12 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: But I still couldn't see where socks go after you put them in the dryer. I'll keep looking. Oh, that's easy, they migrate to boys boarding schools. Every time my boys

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

2010-03-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
Peter Alcibiades wrote: Jacque, I don't understand this either. You gave me the suggestion a while back, and I did install xfs, but it made no difference. The thing I don't get is why all the other apps work fine, but Rev does not. Is there not someone in the development group who could just

Re: Life-cycle of paper clips

2010-03-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bob Sneidar wrote: What Jacque never knew, and what I must confess now, primarily because a few very smart people on this list have already figured it out, is where the USB key was in the interim. Jacque, haven't you ever wondered how I got my hands on your time *warp* stack? Well now you know.

Re: Detecting popup menu cancelation

2010-02-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jeffrey Massung wrote: I have a popup button that, when clicked, I change the background color of a field so as to really highlight for the user exactly what their action is going to be taken on. However, currently, I have no way of detecting if the user chooses to do nothing (cancel the popup)

Re: why a popup-menu does not open at a new defined mouseloc?

2010-02-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
G.Wolfgang Gaich wrote: I experimented a while with the mouseloc and realized that it's not true that the popup opens at the mouse location when you set the mouseloc with e.g. 'set the screenmouseloc to globalloc(the loc of btn b)'. In the dictionary: If no location is specified, the menu's

Re: Detecting popup menu cancelation

2010-02-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jeffrey Massung wrote: On Feb 28, 2010, at 11:21 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Jeffrey Massung wrote: I have a popup button that, when clicked, I change the background color of a field so as to really highlight for the user exactly what their action is going to be taken on. However, currently, I

Re: Possible data grid bug?

2010-02-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Jacque Landman Gay wrote: The lock screen command should really be called lock window. It only prevents redraw in the front window. So you could put up a small substack that contains only your progress bar and run it from there while the window behind is locked and

Re: Locking the Display of Individual Stacks (was Re: Possible data grid bug?)

2010-02-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
Scott Rossi wrote: For folks who would like to be able to lock the display of one stack while displaying status in another stack: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=8638 Good. I added a suggestion. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive

Re: Locking the Display of Individual Stacks (was Re: Possible data grid bug?)

2010-02-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Jacque Landman Gay wrote: Scott Rossi wrote: For folks who would like to be able to lock the display of one stack while displaying status in another stack: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=8638 Good. I added a suggestion. lock screen =

Re: Conference-DVDs arrived

2010-02-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
Kay C Lan wrote: lets hope the rest of 2010 brings about an improvement over earlier events. I have fired up my time warp stack, scooted ahead a small amount -- which was no mean trick because the controls are pretty coarse still -- and caught a fleeting glimpse as I zoomed by the end of

Re: Conference-DVDs arrived

2010-02-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
Sarah Reichelt wrote: The future is bright. But I still couldn't see where socks go after you put them in the dryer. I'll keep looking. And why does only one of each pair disappear? I bet if we compared socks, you'd have one of mine and I'd have yours. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: Possible data grid bug?

2010-02-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jeffrey Massung wrote: The end goal is to actually go to the card with the DG on it, but while it's filling in with its initial dataset, I'm showing a progress indicator. Locking the screen prevents the progress indicator (an animated GIF in this instance) from updating. The lock screen

Re: OT: Any recommendations for some Mac OS x Apps?

2010-02-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
runrev260...@m-r-d.de wrote: Dear All, I am looking for some good alternatives for my existing windows apps, when switching/extending to MacOSx. Under Windows I use Texteditor : Ultraedit IconEditor : IconWorkshop FTP Client : WsFTP MySQL Frontend:

Re: OT: Any recommendations for some Mac OS x Apps?

2010-02-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richmond Mathewson wrote: 3D animation: Blender not that I've ever used it; it sits on my computer as a must have Forgot about that, I need to pick up a copy. It's supposed to be very good, but I hear it has a learning curve from hell, so I haven't tackled it yet. -- Jacqueline Landman

[OT] Re: Playing sound in revWeb revlet

2010-02-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bob Sneidar wrote: Well I finally got ahold of Jacque's time *warp* stack (excuuuse me!), at which point I warped time and installed it on my first computer. (There are no colors in a wormhole btw.) after I restored time, it turns out I have always had it! So you're the one who took

Re: an annual calendar somewhere?

2010-02-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
Robert Cole wrote: André: On Mac OS X, I use a simple shell command to put the calendar into a field . put shell(cal 2010) into field Calendar Field Be sure to use a monospace font like Courier in the field !!! Had no idea. That is too cool. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: Playing sound in revWeb revlet

2010-02-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
Judy Perry wrote: Dissolve also works. http://jperryl.ecs.fullerton.edu/test2.html Judy On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Kenji Kojima wrote: Wipe right and wipe left work. http://www.kenjikojima.com/999ViewsRenga/ This uses blend wipe. http://www.kenjikojima.com/rgbmusicrenga/nycsubway/ Interesting,

Re: Conference-DVDs arrived

2010-02-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richmond Mathewson wrote: I'll have to hop in the car and go and fill in all sorts of daft customs forms with the word 'Revolution' Good thing the product is now called Rev then. And the company is RunRev. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive

Re: navigating cleanly between main- and sub-stacks

2010-02-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
Nicolas Cueto wrote: Richmond asked a couple of questions: What does cleanly in navigating cleanly mean? I assume (possibly wrongly) that you mean that the end-user is unaware s/he is actually changing from the main stack to a substack. Yes, that unawareness factor is what I'm after. The

Re: RunRevLive.10: 72 hours left to save

2010-02-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richmond Mathewson wrote: Can't they see just how much damage they are doing themselves by behaving like this? Can you see how much damage you are doing to the company by posting an uninformed tirade on a publicly archived list? Especially when you don't know what happened? RR behaved

Re: RunRevLive.10: 72 hours left to save

2010-02-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jeff Massung wrote: If I had one complaint, it would be that I have yet to ever see a Rev engineer on the forums or in this list answering questions and actively helping users to get all they can out of their product. They are on the Improve-Rev list, which is open to Enterprise customers.

Re: an annual calendar somewhere?

2010-02-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
zryip theSlug wrote: put tTheCal into fld Calendar Field end mouseUp And now? When I tried to use ncal on OS X, the command wasn't found. It seems it is unsupported there. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software |

Re: an annual calendar somewhere?

2010-02-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
zryip theSlug wrote: Maybe you are in 10.4? It does seem to be OS-related. On my Snow Leopard machine, ncal is supported. On my plain Leopard Mac, it is not. But even on Snow Leopard I don't see French, the calendar is returned in English. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: Freezing solid

2010-02-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
john law wrote: Greetings As a sometime Hypercard enthusiast I'm slowly getting used to RunRev. How does one prevent the program locking up in the middle of a job? I then have to force quit - Mac OS Snow Leopard. Sounds like an infinite loop. Post some sample scripts. -- Jacqueline Landman

Re: Playing sound in revWeb revlet

2010-02-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
Thomas McGrath III wrote: I am having a problem getting sounds to play in a revLet in revWeb plugin. I have tried both of these methods using imported audio clips: lock screen go card 2 unlock screen with visual effect dissolve very fast with sound boing.wav and: play audioClip boing.wav

Re: Playing sound in revWeb revlet

2010-02-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bob Sneidar wrote: How do you do something permanently for now? Is that a function of your Time Travel stack again? ;-P It's a time *warp* stack, not a time travel stack. Actual time travel is impossible due to the gravitational constant of the universe, which was adequatedly described by

Re: [OT] Drifting off topic

2010-02-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
I appear to have an open slot right now...your call. Vokey, John wrote: I would absolutely loved to have been invited (can you just imagine all the amazing insights Jacqueline keeps hidden in there simply because she doesn't realize how we would all benefit if she just let it all out?). That

Re: geek-meter might go right into overload

2010-02-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
Robert Cole wrote: I saw this article today about the iPhone and Photoshop. http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/23/found-footage-photoshop-v1-0-recreated-on-iphone/ The second paragraph of the article contains a reference to HyperCard. I wonder if the author knows about Revolution. It would

Re: revBrowserExecuteScript problems

2010-02-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jeffrey Massung wrote: Figured out the issue. For posterity... revBrowserExecuteScript is a function, meaning I can't just call it and ignore the return value. I have to do get revBrowserExecuteScript(..), which the message box does implicitly. Facepalming complete. Which just goes to

Re: Re-2: on standalonesaved

2010-02-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
runrev260...@m-r-d.de wrote: Thanks again, Jim. I thought there is a property for that. Yes, there is. Actually there is one for each OS you are building for. They are in the custom property set called cRevStandaloneSettings. If you turn on View UI Elements in Lists under the View menu, and

Re: Odd selection hangup

2010-02-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
dunb...@aol.com wrote: Someone on one of the forums (Tal) asks why when one has the following code in an object: on selectedObjectChanged set the selected of me to false end selectedObjectChanged one can click on the object when in edit mode, and the object will obligingly deselect

[OT] Drifting off topic (was: Re-2: on standalonesaved)

2010-02-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mixing replies, here: Bob Sneidar wrote: On Feb 22, 2010, at 11:07 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jim- Monday, February 22, 2010, 10:59:01 AM, you wrote: I see now that Jacque already answered the question about a property approximately 15-minutes before I did. ;-) She's a fast woman. LOL You

Re: Odd selection hangup

2010-02-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
dunb...@aol.com wrote: Now Jacques, if it was that ordinary, do you think I would have bothered this list? Stuck, I say. Or are others unable to reproduce this? Okay, you made me look. I can reproduce it. If you right-click on the object the selection handles go away. I think this is

Re: Yet an Odder selection hangup

2010-02-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
dunb...@aol.com wrote: Here is a better one, if anybody is listening. There is more going on than first appears. Create two objects. Place this script in object 1: on selectedObjectChanged set the selected of the target to false end selectedObjectChanged Go into edit mode and drag

Re: Trapping Cancel on Ask Dialogue

2010-02-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
RevList wrote: This will sound like a NewBee question, but I can't find the answer. I want to trap when someone click on the Cancel button on a Ask Dialogue For example Ask How old are you? How do I know if someone click on the Cancel button. It is what they respond. It's in the result:

Re: Stack working in MACOS, not in Windows.

2010-02-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
stephen barncard wrote: put binfile:/ before tURL Ditch the slash: put binfile: before tURL -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution

Re: the files, get URL and Unicode File Names

2010-02-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
Igor de Oliveira Couto wrote: I hear that a new version (4.5) is in the works. If this does not break any confidentiality agreements, can a beta tester tell us perhaps if any unicode issues are being addressed in this new version? The road plan is confidential so we can't really say here. But

Re: displaying numerous large image files quickly

2010-02-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Swindell wrote: I'm working on a simple game of concentration for the kids I teach. I have 24 small image rectangles grouped on a card that are populated in a repeat loop which sets their fileNames to line x of a list of filenames held in a variable. These files can be large images.

Re: Menubar problem

2010-02-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
Peter Haworth wrote: Thanks for the suggestions. The detsroystack property was already false. I tried the other suggestion but no joy. It does cause the window to start displaying from it's original size again but when I next open Rev, the same few pixels have been added to the window

Re: displaying numerous large image files quickly

2010-02-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Swindell wrote: Yes, using smaller images definitely reduces the display time... a batch of smaller gif/jpg line drawings only takes 1.5 seconds to display, but the idea is that the user can choose any image folder off their HD to create a custom, high-interest game (family members,

Re: Destroying cloned stacks

2010-02-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jeffrey Massung wrote: Main Stack: on newDocument clone stack Document ## setup document stack here... go to it end newDocument Document stack: on closeStack destroy this stack end closeStack I didn't even know that syntax worked. Apparently it works pretty well. Too well.

Re: Search / replace

2010-02-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
Glen Bojsza wrote: Sorry to bother everyone but either I'm tired or brain dead. I have a field which has hundreds of lines. For all [ in the field I need to check to see if the character to it's immediate left is a number. If it is a number then the [ is to be converted into an _. If it is

Re: [OT] Languages and cultures (was Re: survey)

2010-02-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
Kay C Lan wrote: OK, I wasn't going to say anything, but seeings you are stumped, just think of the other benefits the Gay family enjoys... Divorces must be cheap, all you need do is move to a State where Gay marriages aren't recognized ;-) I'll keep that in mind. :) So far we still like each

Re: Search / replace

2010-02-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mike Bonner wrote: If you want do the search/replace with regex, you can do similar to this.. put replaceText(field Field,(?=\d)\[,-) into tTmp put replaceText(tTmp,(?!\d)\[,empty) into tComplete This does a look behind. Amazing, thank you. I knew there had to be a way to do this but

Re: [OT] Languages and cultures (was Re: survey)

2010-02-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richmond Mathewson wrote: Certainly it would be quite difficult to work out the semantic step from 'jolly' to 'homosexual' unless, of course, there was an awareness of the even earlier sense of 'heterosexual looseness'. If I remember right, there was no semantic drift. The group simply

Re: Strange menubar problem

2010-02-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
Peter Haworth wrote: I've set up the standard app/file/edit/help menus to be displayed in the OSX menu bar of my app. The menubars property is correctly set to the name of the group containing the menu definitions and the editMenus property is set to false. The menus appear correctly in the

Re: Stack working in MACOS, not in Windows.

2010-02-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
stephen barncard wrote: Something is happening between the decoding of the files which are created, and the playing of them. The player code alone works in Windows, so perhaps the decryption is messed up. After you decode the file, try exiting the handler and opening the file and seeing if it

Re: Search / replace

2010-02-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
Igor de Oliveira Couto wrote: Mike, thank you very much for this pointer: On 21/02/2010, at 5:28 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: If you want do the search/replace with regex, you can do similar to this.. put replaceText(field Field,(?=\d)\[,-) into tTmp put replaceText(tTmp,(?!\d)\[,empty) into

Re: stack crashing IDE

2010-02-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bernard Devlin wrote: Unfortunately, it didn't work. I had no choice but to go back to an earlier backed-up version and use that. It seems that the last few versions I had would all crash Rev on start up. Very strange. Plug it into the QCC and attach a copy of both your stack and the error

Re: SuperDuper textSize property

2010-02-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
dunb...@aol.com wrote: Right, but that still leaves me without a native way to set the textStyle, say, to bold. I have to use a chunk-like expression to do that, not a field-like expression. Right. I think the closest you'll get for resetting chunks of text in a field is: set the

Re: Stack working in MACOS, not in Windows.

2010-02-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
stephen barncard wrote: I just need a Windows test bed for REV, not the latest version of Windows. I really don't want to have to deal with all this extra security crap. Will Windows XP SP3 do what I need for now to test out Rev Features? It will, since your client is using XP, but it may not

Re: Browser documentation

2010-02-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jeff Massung wrote: In the browser documentation I see the following line: To prevent the navigatation from occurring, set the global variable browserCancel to true. Yet that global variable doesn't appear to exist. Am I missing something or is the documentation wrong? It won't exist until

Re: Browser documentation

2010-02-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jeff Massung wrote: LOL. I was thinking this was a global in the same vein as lockMessages and such. Okay. Thanks, guys! I like that you aren't afraid to ask stuff. A lot of new converts are. LockMessages is a property, btw. The Rev engine creates those on startup with default values, but

Re: relative position of a target within a group

2010-02-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Swindell wrote: How does one get the relative position of a button within a group of buttons? I want to put the (relative to group myGroup) number of the target into vMyVar One can say select button 3 of group myGroup without problem. But how would one best do this

Re: Stack working in MACOS, not in Windows.

2010-02-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Peter Alcibiades wrote: I, of course the ever- mac-evangelist (Yes I was on Guy's Evangel-list) have put off my day of Windows reckoning until this moment, and cannot test this out for myself. I am paying the price for my platform bigotry. It makes no sense. Virtual machines are not good

Re: FYI: writing to and reading from fields much faster than locals, globals or custom properties

2010-02-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jim Bufalini wrote: Josh Mellicker wrote: What we found was that when writing and reading a custom property, or a variable, in a 1 ms loop, other stack windows became sluggish - very difficult to drag by the header bar, very difficult to click buttons on, rollover states sticking.

Re: revlet newbie questions

2010-02-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Chris Sheffield wrote: So I'm wondering, is there a good, single source out there somewhere that lists what works and what doesn't work in a revlet? Things to avoid in revlets? I don't think there is a comprehensive reference yet, since the revlet engine is still being revised and some

Re: FYI: writing to and reading from fields much faster than locals, globals or custom properties

2010-02-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
Kay C Lan wrote: Obviously you are not experiencing normal so many of us here would be very interested in more details to understand why. And if I were a betting man, I'd be putting my money on the end result will be using Globals will be the fastest option for you. Agreed. Dr. Raney once

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