Malte,
ill second diskwarrior, its worth the $100, been a champ for me over
the years when drives have gone bad. just got a portable disc
resurrected that had gone south. worth spending the money as the time
it saves dinking around.
cheers
jeff
On Oct 5, 2010, at 6:38 PM,
Médard,
works fine on safari 5.0.2 on 10.5.8, so not 5.0.2 by itself seems to
be a problem. i can try 5.0.2/10.6.4 late today for you.
cheers
jeff
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your revlets work for me: MacOSX 10.6.4, Safari 5.0.2, MacBook
Mark,
I owe you a beer! it was the firewall! running fine now.
was frustrating as the new win7 box i just bought just to do a little
other win7 testing has no serial port! was going to have to add a card
to start trying to test it or worse yet have to do a service call..,
but all fixed
Hi,
i have an old app made from rev 2.6.1 that calls the serial port. been
running for years under xp, but the client just tried it on a new win7
box and it doesnt look like anything is making it out the serial port
on the new machine. he confirmed the device driver shows the single
com
Richmond,
nice frankensteining! did you scream its alive when you turned the
power back on?
you might want to think about grabbing a little temperature probe. you
can get these for less than $10 these days and they usually fit in a
bay cover space and have an in-line drive vampire plug
Mark,
my bag always has my bright orange towel (bought while traveling in
japan in 1984 and still in use) that i keep there in honor of douglas
adams, to wipe the sweat off my face, goo off the computer and keep
the universe in balance while im traveling...
42 my man, 42...
cheers
jeff
jeff,
now that made me really laugh!!!
another jeff
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I'm a moron... and obviously a geek. ;-)
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Kudos Tom! great meeting of ideas, need, and technology! i think you
will have a hit on your hands here! Also wonderful to see when an app
does something that really makes a big human difference. i hope your
app is featured over an ipad face book interface widgit (yeah that
improves
Richmond,
sorry im a mid level dyslexic and i tend to bung up names like that
when i type. apologies. (and no richard gaskin i did not mistake you
for richmond!)
I think there was reoccurring hope that one last classic build was
going to happen at some point, but just ended up sticking
Richmond,
I totally agree and they can continue to be supported via the classic
products like rev 2.6.1. its just that if you force the modern cutting
edge stuff to be all backwards compatible with the stuff over a decade
old, the cutting edge will be pretty dull and pretty expensive and
Richard,
from all i have heard mac classic build stopped at 2.6.1 and never
officially made it into anything after that. 3 was to be the last, but
i think that ended up being abandoned by that point as it was just too
hard to keep it backwards compatible. for stuff that also needs mac
sorry for the very off topic list, but this list has a lot of
europeans on it and i thought some might have some ideas for me for
things to do in Stockholm in early December. will most likely have
couple of hours to half a day each day over a week or so to play with.
know the vassa and the
Sivakatirswami,
most of those kinds of sites here are done by the larger publishing
and training companies are are thus closed. most is pretty bad IMHO.
the larger the publishing firms have gotten with recent consolidation
and the increase on all sorts of state educational frame works (a
Sheri,
it is using your address book. when i had to get into facebook for
some clients work i registered under a nome de plume of buckaroo
banzai (not sposta do that but i have never been caught by the
facebook cops). unfortunately i screwed up one time in there fiddling
with things and
Hey,
just wanted to say thanks for those that responded to my query and
solved the problem with finding the older version!
much appreciated!
cheers,
jeff reynolds
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Hi,
i searched my records and found
Hi all,
In past times theres been a bunch of the major versions up on the
revrun site to download. for some historical reasons with a client im
trying to find a v2.8 for windows of studio. any idea of where i can
find them?
thanks
jeff reynolds
Stephen and Richard,
hey what ever you dont give away there was a school over in oakland (i
think the jr high just behind the grand lake theatre) that had a lab
program where the kids take in donated old equipment and either
frankenstein together systems or recycle what is not recoverable
Ha, had forgotten about the old xtalk list. did it finally fold up
lately? i seem to remember it hanging around for quite a while with a
post here and there. with the exponential email curve i have gotten
more vicious with the delete button so lost records of it a long time
back.
one
I think Hypertalk/Xtalk would fall under Unitarian
i really LOLed at the last
Visual Basic would be Satanism - Except that you don't REALLY need to
sell your soul to be a Satanist...
looking at possibility of trying to convert some old cdroms done by
others in vb to rev and its easier to
Yes i think its a bit of a combo of all the ones mentioned, convention
costs going way up for vendors (have heard of this in a lot of
different fields from publishing to housewares to computers.) Also as
you mention its a lot easier to disseminate information these days and
also make a
recent Rev OSX IDE and create the osx and windows
standalones. so far this is working fine, bit of a pain, but working.
so far i have not run into any serious gotchas when i moving the 2.6.1
stack up to later versions for creating the OSX and windoz standalones.
cheers,
jeff reynolds
HI,
Has anyone yet converted their rev 3.0 stacks into OS9 classic
standalones? is the classic build going to be frozen at 2.6.1 for good
now? there was promise that the final classic was going to be in 2.7
or 2.8, but that never seemed to happen (2.8 left it at available soon).
i still
Richard,
actually more worried about the osx and windows versions of the
standalones keeping up. i have been solving this by working in the
2.61 IDE and making the classic standalone from that then opening the
stack up in the latest rev for then creating the mac and osx versions.
rub
you can get a build of 2.6.1 by signing up for a demo and list classic
as your system. i too noticed the old builds on the ftp disappeared.
has anyone found them elsewhere?
cheers,
jeff
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Hmm, it used to be possible to download old
into one system to
train the guides on all the media presentations! its only 10 hrs of
video in about 600 clips, so simple after the last project!
cheers,
jeff reynolds
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I agree, a great conference, and wonderful to see everyone during my
Wilhelm,
thanks forgot to mention im doing this project on Mac OSX 10.5. you
did jog my memory that when i had the same problem in the past that it
was on win xp and worked fine on the mac. i did a cdrom last fall in
rev 2.6 (to do mac classic versions) and did not have this problem.
Jan,
thanks, but these are gif and jpeg files so no partial transparency
there. i can recombine the two jpegs in any graphics program and they
merge perfectly. checked the rev blend first thing since i had done a
button hi light using a blended mask, but the images were all at blend
0
HI,
i have been finishing up a museum project in rev 2.8.1. I didn't want
to flip to 2.9 until this was done as 2.8 was being totally stable on
development of this and its a pretty simple application and i was in a
huge rush.
just noticed one odd thing though that i think i saw a long
Mark
I get it here also. Does appear to be a flash player message. clicking
the settings button does nothing for me. flash player 9 has no prefs i
can see. any ideas of where these setting are?
jeff
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I bet this isn't Mac OS X,
time to loose all the old substack assets
to make it clean with rev.
thanks
jeff reynolds
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rev.
thanks
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Sorry, beg to differ, we consistently come up with much better and
smaller qt h264 files than wmv9. this may be because our compression
guy has a lot of tricks that he can do to make qt stuff really shine.
hes been at this for like 20 years and has lots of secret sauces that
work great
need to make sure you if cross one of those lines and if
you have a plan.
on the H264 it really takes the processor power on the encoding step,
not seen a problem with playback on older machines yet. lots of the
world is going h264 these days...
cheers
jeff reynolds
On Feb 15, 2008
except making a nicely compressed and good quality wmv file is pretty
much an oxymoron... my old compression guru (been in the biz forever
and a real artist) still snarls at me when i request wmv files... they
never come out as nice or as small and the clients always ask why it
doesnt look
Colin,
Murph! thanks could not remember his name. It was the A World Alive
project we were doing with him, it was sea studio's film and i was
helping him pull all the parts together at the studio.. Glad to hear
hes a producer now with scholastic!
Sorry, i got it confused with another
meant betasp/480i! 44mb syquest cartridges were a marvel! we use to
walk 10 miles to school in the snow and 20 miles home in bare feet...
cheers,
jeff reynolds
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Voyager had it, and did one CD-ROM using it (not done by me
long.
just wondering if anyone has torture tested rev playback like this of
larger movie files with quicktime on the mac.
cheers,
jeff reynolds
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try an imac and have a touch screen installed by trolltouch.com. nice
solution and look great. i looked at several of the integrated lcd
touch screens and lcd/integrated pc units out there for an exhibit
project im doing right now and all of them looked pretty bad. the imac
and apple
Tiemo,
Dont think so. I have both a line conditioner and a UPS on the power.
I have gobs of electronic equipment in the office and the dells have
all kept dying. its also been over two different houses on each on
the other coast! If dell is that susceptible to power fluctuations
then
I just had my third desktop dell in 6 years die. each died at almost
exactly two years! almost feels like a timer is built in. all middle
of the road dells with light use bought new directly from dell.
this last time i did extend the warrantee to two years on a rebate
deal, but I forgot
(just at the right
time, thanks scott!) came along and here we all are! sure many others
on the list followed very similar paths in life!
Also fondly remember the Computer Chronicles! Glad to find this archive!
cheers,
jeff reynolds
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Problems is new machines will now be shipped with Leopard and if you
are in the education market here in the states there a lot of macs
and the new machines are the ones that they want to run the
multimedia apps on that i do with rev.
Have others tried other rev 2.6-2.8 standalones in
Sivakatirswami,
you are correct rev is the best solution here! many public kiosk apps
living happily for years at many museums made in meta/rev!
As others have suggested, getting rid of the keyboard in a public
place is the best thing to do. i they do need to put in some input
then just
Ken,
no we did not track any learning/reading disorders with the study
from what i remember, but the group was normalized so that we were
getting an 'average' group of kids.
LOL, i am both dyslexic and have taken speed reading (the speed
reading actually masked my being diagnosed as
Stephen,
No you are not alone, just in the minority from the work we did. I
wish i kept the data, the company is now gone along with all the
files... I do remember that the score distribution was totally moved
down on the light on dark tests, so it looked like most everyone was
being
We did a large amount of reading studies for an NSF cdrom for kids a
while back and what worked best for various aspects of reading on the
screen vs the printed page.
Turns out black on white wins way over the reverse or messing with
either text or bg color much. you can go to a slight
Trevor,
Thanks this was my fear of using MCI controls. apple seems to do a
good job of making sure it plays with most graphics and audio chip
sets so that these drivers issues are not too much of a problem. Hate
to get into having to do a lot of tech support with folks w/o
quicktime on
Mark,
Yes it is amazing that a lot of systems out there still dont have
it... Problem with school systems is lots of times PC labs are these
all in one setups where all machines are the same and everything is
installed from one master set of cds. they dont like doing anything
thats not
anyone had luck with doing qt on the mac and mci on the pc for
playing video/audio like this? has it made your life miserable with a
lot of platform specific coding/testing? feels like a world of hurt
to me...
thanks
jeff reynolds
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Im starting to do a port of an old hypercard stack i have to a new
Rev app. The old stack has a pile of pict resources and i need to
export them all out. I can easily access them and copy them with
resedit or rezilla, but i remember having an old os9 app that would
take and export all the
sorry i have been out on the water chasing whales for a couple of
weeks and am behind in the rev list.
Peter,
I beg to differ on this point. Almost all my clients are poor
educational and charitable orgs. the big thing here (which others
have mentioned) is total cost of use of the
Not a personal story, but a pararallel. about 8 years ago the
Monterey Bay Aqarium plowed about $1 million into revamping their
auditorium where some of my exhibits run. New mega projection system,
HD non compressed video server, huge amx control system, the works. I
was also updating my
Richard,
Its a must to serve these installations as far as the publisher and
distributors are concerned for the K-6 education market. sorry to be
the broken record on this, but its just a fact of life that these
systems are there and we have to sell to it. we cant make them change
or
Has anyone been using rev 2.6.1 stanalons on mac osX 10.2 and
earlier? We are having a devil of a time getting a 10.2 test machine.
we are buying a 10.2 set of discs and setting up an old imac, but i
thought i would make double sure that folks were not having any 10.2
or earlier troubles
there was a flash ad a while back that had a sort of meatrix takeoff
(see meatrix sometime, its a hoot) and i remember it playing every so
often for quite a while while a web page was up in the browser in the
background. i cant remember what the content was, but i do remember
the fishburn
David,
If you want something nice and very fast, try a ken burns slide show
just use iphoto and dump it out as a quicktime movie. The joke with
my video producer is how amazingly well iphoto does just guessing on
pan and scans. its a bit creepy, kind of like those segues that
itunes does
Just a quick note to let folks know Revolution is now running a
second program in the Monterey Bay Aquarium auditorium. The new
Program, You Otter Know (all groan together) is a staff run game show
about Sea Otters. The show has three volunteers from the audience get
up on the stage and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] we just sent our cd out for replication, im trying to put a
stop on it if possible. 10.1 and 10.2 ARE STILL ALIVE AND WELL IN THE
SCHOOLS! This is a big problem for our product. We tested 10.3, and
10.4 on ppc and intel, but not 10.2 on ppc. I can still create a
10.1-10.2
You got it... basically what you have to deal with are these
roadblocks to upgrades
- cost of OS upgrade
- having someone who will install it (k-6 teachers tend not to like
to poke at their computers and many schools have no tech support or
one guy in the whole district to do it all,
in china already and just waiting the cds to go in...
cheers,
jeff
Jeffrey Reynolds
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Jeff Reynolds wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] we just sent our cd out for replication, im trying to put
a stop
on it if possible. 10.1 and 10.2 ARE STILL
I have a touch screen application where i trigger all events via
mousedowns (works best for that type of interface).
The problem is once and a while a mouse down event is not caught by
revolution. it appears to usually happen after clicking on a button
that brings up a different group and
Thanks Sarah and Scott,
I have tried in the past to trap the missed mousedown when they go
through, but its a real pain since there are a lot of possible
buttons it may have been intended for and i need to go through the
list of them to see if the clickloc was with each to find who should
If i call and ask dialog from a mousedown handler, the ask dialog
buttons in the dialog box does not appear to have the screen focus
when its brought up so it takes two clicks to activate a button (ie
one to bring the window into focus and the second to activate the
button.) if i do the
Sorry this is not so. They sitll have some small budgets for software
and want to be able to run new stuff they buy on all the computers
they can and in some case its only old computers they have.
Its not a huge market in the over all scheme of software, but in the
education market,
Joe and Richard,
Dropping os9 is not a solution if you build for the K-6 education
market. there are still gobs of system 9 (and even a good number of
8x systems) out there and the publisher and distributors all want the
stuff to be osx and os9 compatible. we even have had school district
nope, a lot of schools wont do this unless folks like you with the
savvy to figure out how to do this go in and volunteer to do it, you
donate the money for the the copies of osx for their computers, then
you will have to come in and train the teachers how to use the osx,
then you will
will be something to deal with in the not
to distant future!
cheers,
jeff reynolds
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Hi Jeff,
You can develop the stack in Rev 2.8 and save it in 2.4 levacy format
before opening it in Rev 2.6. You might have to make adjustments
Hi all,
Does anyone know what the current path is for creating a classic mac
app from rev2.8?
should i just keep the rev stack as a 2.6x stack to create the
classic app then just open the stack in 2.8 to create the windows and
osx versions?
thanks
jeff reynolds
Joe,
seemed very appropriate...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQmode=relatedsearch=
(sent to me by a client who does illuminated illustrations and she
always jokes she is medieval with computers...)
cheers,
Jeffrey Reynolds
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to the solution of what is being called 'thingie'
have often felt like the search for the holy grail or the source of
the nile -- exploration can go on and on and on into uncharted
territory, at times feeling like indiana jones!
cheers,
jeff reynolds
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I wonder how long MS will continue to sell XP home and pro now that
Vista is out... I guess there is still gobs of old equipment out
there that is not up to vista that could still be upgraded to XP and
make some $$, so i hope it will be around a while...
cheers,
jeff
Jeffrey Reynolds
Tiemo,
read the current apple agreement very carefully, it changes over time
and has had some restrictions on how you could distribute the player
on your discs that were sometimes a bit buried or unclear.
some of the distribution conditions in the past that have come and
gone and come
the project
since it has changed quite a bit over the years. theres a bit more to
it than just put a logo on the label.
cheers,
Jeff Reynolds
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Jeff, what you wrote about the QuickTime license is technically
correct,
but I feel it may
Hmm, i just got my new powerbook this week with tiger installed, but
not classic (i think apple has been doing this for at least a year now
since i have had folks say they didnt have classic and i would just
have them load it from their system discs). the powerbook tiger system
discs came with
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