Re: runrev community : how many licenses? How many users? How many developpers?

2010-06-10 Thread Jim MacConnell
Knew I was on the map but was very surprised to see I'm there twice.. and my house seems to only be a little way from my house. I'll have to go visit myself next time I'm here. Jim Jim MacConnell Consensus Technology,LLC On Jun 9, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Robert Mann wrote: I really wonder how

Re: Media on MacWorld

2006-04-10 Thread Jim MacConnell
Promo = good... typo = bad? Not sure what this sentence in the promo means... A scripting engine is included, along with effects ling interactive blending, transparency, transitions, animations, anti-aliased vector graphics support, QuickTime interactivity, text-to-speech functions and

Re: [OT-sorta] Bootcamp, (NOT BASECAMP) and the new cat LEOPARD

2006-04-05 Thread Jim MacConnell
Makes sense. An article in the New York Times this AM about creating a dual boot system on your own probably forced Apple's hand. Better to do it officially rather than risk having someone kill their system by doing it wrong. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/05/technology/

Re: Revolution in Seattle?

2006-03-23 Thread Jim MacConnell
Bruce, I live in Seattle but am a casual user/perpetual newbie to Rev. There is so much more to Rev than I can address that someone else would probably be a better choice to demo it . But I'd love to participate anyway. Wold this be ab excuseto jump to 2.7? I'm still 2.2.1'ing it.

Re: Finding non-common elements in two arrays

2005-11-07 Thread Jim MacConnell
Meant to send earlier but email issues prevented send. Bruce, I¹m sure you¹ve had enough input no this but. Thought a little more couldn¹t hurt. Don't have time to see what changes would be required for arrays but. Assume it isn't going to present any difficulties From the Rev 2.2

Re: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-29 Thread Jim MacConnell
Jon, You're not coming off as annoying... just very set in your ways. Indenting style is a personal preference and Rev indents the way I've seen all xTalks indent and the way I like to do it... a holdover from very old debugging habits using a ruler on printouts to check for proper

Re: the := operator (affectation

2005-06-24 Thread Jim MacConnell
Dennis, My apologies, I was a bit over the top yesterday in my reply. Thanks... and I was a wee tad over in my response... I guess I was a bit too obscure. The ;-) was the clue that the statements were an example of get, put, gets syntax and a lighthearted jab not meant to be taken too

Re: the := operator (affectation

2005-06-23 Thread Jim MacConnell
Hi. I've been listening to this discussion and find it intriguing. I personally have nothing against := and = for variable assignment and have used them when using a tool that requires them. I also can quickly adapt to the == concept for comparisons and =+ for incrementing (Though that

Re: the := operator (affectation

2005-06-23 Thread Jim MacConnell
Dennis, First.. thank you for your intelligent reply to my: okay.. back into my hole... Yes, Please stay there. It is good to so easily learn so much of the people we correspond with. I'm not surprised that I touched a nerve but I am surprised at the scream ... sorry ;-{ ) Second.. var

Re: Problems with Rev and Apple's Bluetooth wireless keyboard (??)

2005-06-10 Thread Jim MacConnell
All, I have a 17 PB with a Bluetooth keyboard and shift, option and control key downs work just fine in mouse up handlers. So it isn't a generic problem. It's true that some? bluetooth devices won't wake a Mac up if its asleep (as it has to be alert to listen) but other than that it

Re: Uh-oh.... Anybody following WWDC?

2005-06-06 Thread Jim MacConnell
Ugh... I hate the idea of Mactel machines... But maybe it doesn't matter if we a get better performance? Can that be possible? Does this open up new graphics performance worlds for Mac Gaming? Is this actually a good thing since the PowerPC has had trouble growing the way I think

Re: level 1 stacks lock together?

2005-06-01 Thread Jim MacConnell
Doug, Sounds weird. Are you manually telling the second stack where to open (e.g. setting its location or rect when you first open it?). My though is that one of the stacks is being positioned relative to the other in an openCard handler or the like that is getting called when you don't expect it

Re: [INFO] Javascript Colors list....(OT)

2005-05-27 Thread Jim MacConnell
Ben, First.. Why are you YELLING every so often. IS it CODE. Stringing together the shouts doesn't make sense... - - - - - - - NEW PROBLEMS HARMFULL DEAP ANSWERS... TASKS TOO COMPLICATED NOBODY TRYING TO HARD ...TO ACHIEVE TO MUCH REV ...IMMENSE POWER NEW PERSON ZERO TEDIUOS

Re: ANN Getting Nine digit zip codes

2005-04-14 Thread Jim MacConnell
23 seconds... DSL @ 1536/992kbps - (down/up) -- Jim Consensus Technology, LLC Subject: Re: ANN Getting Nine digit zip codes go url http://home.infostations.net/jhurley/NineDigitZipCodes.rev; ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: ANN: BreakpointNavigator Plugin release

2005-04-10 Thread Jim MacConnell
I get only a screen full of script. Is this a 'go url' thingy for the message box? Dave This question keeps coming up (lots of new users?) and the answer is routinely. Open Rev then use go url in the message box... Not the most convenient since I am not a full time coder and I rarely have Rev

Re: Math wizardry

2005-03-29 Thread Jim MacConnell
All of these give different values for the resulting angles, depending on the direction from which the lines are drawn. How do I consistently determine the angle between the two lines? I think you may want to take a different approach. Since the user is drawing the lines, it sounds like

Re: Math wizardry

2005-03-28 Thread Jim MacConnell
Richard, All of these give different values for the resulting angles, depending on the direction from which the lines are drawn. How do I consistently determine the angle between the two lines? I think you may want to take a different approach. Since the user is drawing the lines, it sounds like

Re: Poll: the sum(7,9)

2005-03-15 Thread Jim MacConnell
It's this: How do you mentally process simple addition/subtraction facts? What actually happens in your brain to elicit 16 when you hear 7+9? (for example) Great thread I find I use a variety of strategies depending in large part on my mood and how much sleep I've gotten. Simple

Re: Printing Question - Rephrased

2005-03-11 Thread Jim MacConnell
Hi Len, I am by far no expert but... Is the problem you're having with scaling of the image or is it with margins from your printer (e.g. Placement)? If I size images (or whatever) based on 72 whatevers per inch and then print at 100% I get images that are the size I expect. For example if I

Re: Newbie question about image/button relationships

2004-11-22 Thread Jim MacConnell
Gordon, I'd suggest using transparent buttons... Different from invisible regular buttons. Make a button over the key in your picture. In the Property Inspector: Uncheck Show Name: Uncheck Opaque You can Uncheck Auto Hilite or not depending on whether you want to roll your own key press

Re: Image sizing a problem...

2004-11-18 Thread Jim MacConnell
Jim, I ran into the same thing long ago.. And haven't gotten back to it as other priorities have taken hold ($$) but. Look at the imageData property. Use it when you want to capture a processed image. From 2.2. docs: = = = = = = = = = = = = The imageData, unlike the contents of the image

Re: Image sizing a problem...

2004-11-18 Thread Jim MacConnell
Jim, I had to look at this for a while... And again the docs come to the rescue And the fact that imageData needs to go into the same size image as the reshaped original or the pixel count doesn't work... Which can lead to all sorts of weird things. So... Make sure your sizes work out. Then,

Re: Drag and Drop Question

2004-10-26 Thread Jim MacConnell
Trevor, Have you looked at dragMove? Jim -- James H. MacConnell Consensus Technology http://www.consensustech.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: slight delay in animated gif loop

2004-09-20 Thread Jim MacConnell
I'm surprised it makes a noticeable difference but... resetting your frame to the start is using an added IF statement. Maybe try using MOD instead. This means the same number of statements are executed every time through the loop so the timing should be better. Also note I added a tNumFrames

Re: slight delay in animated gif loop

2004-09-20 Thread Jim MacConnell
Kweto, Glad the delay is gone and you are right.. MOD gives zero when you hit the divisor. You could use something like: (TCurrentFreime MOD 36) + 1 But.. If it isn't broken now.. Obviously don't fix it. Jim Unfortunately, MOD is not the solution. The documentation explains that: If

Re: 3D project.

2004-07-07 Thread Jim MacConnell
Bruce, Yes, it is a Classic app. However, look in the Tutorials folder and open samples.html in your browser. That will let you look at the various applets. The wrapper app is just a front end for the samples anyway (at least as far as I can tell). I assume that the Classic App is actually not

Re: URGENT-How to add New Card button/menu to stack

2004-06-23 Thread Jim MacConnell
Dan I assist a professor at my university and have imported his old HyperCard Address Book stack into Revolution. I then saved it as a standalone application. I need to figure out how to add a add new card button, like his old HyperCard stack had. Everyone else will probably chime in soon

Re: Crashing Problem on MacOS/RunRev 2.2

2004-04-29 Thread Jim MacConnell
Dave, Can't check for a crash right now.. It would be a surprise and not good behavior but... My guess is your script would work fine if you didn't use the a word... As in: function CheckKey theKey if theKey is a number then return true if theKey is , then return false if theKey is

Re: Demo Show Stopper - Save File Dialog

2004-04-26 Thread Jim MacConnell
Okay.. I'm definitely not the person to be trying to help but... I remember ages ago some issue with breakpoints not clearing when Debug Mode turned off and stacks crashing as a result after being opened (in earlier versions). The fix was to clear breakpoints? on any stack that had problems

Re: News: Retrolution 4 Released

2004-04-01 Thread Jim MacConnell
OUTSTANDING The Sinclair Z80 is out of the box, plugged in, TV attached, memory block attached, cassette recorder ready but I'd like to DL but the DL size is more than I can fit on a 30 min. cassette... Any ideas? If I remember the 45 min cassettes have fidelity problems... The

Re: How Do I Select Text in a Field?

2004-03-12 Thread Jim MacConnell
Joe, Just a hunch but why don't you try send getFiles to me in 60 seconds Instead of send mouseUp Could be between any mouse events by you and the ato mouse events, the field looses track of what is where. Jim From: Gardner, Joseph A [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: How to use Revolution [EMAIL

Re: revGoURL and https://

2004-02-20 Thread Jim MacConnell
however, if I try to launch an https:// address, the browser never launches. It works fine for me using Safari as default browser... OS 10.2.8 Rev 2.1.2 Jim -- James H. MacConnell Consensus Technology http://www.consensustech.com **

Re: itemDelimiter

2004-02-12 Thread Jim MacConnell
Tom, --- sure you have multiple answers by now but I'm just now having a minute --- Also no sleep last night so long winded.. Will refrain in future but --- I've done this already so here goes... Btw Untested While I hesitate to give scripting advice as I am just relearning, and prone to really

Re: Rotating an image

2004-02-07 Thread Jim MacConnell
All, Thanks for all your ideas. I've made progress in that I've isolated how to create the problem. It appears that something goes wrong when an image that has had its angle set is placed in another image... Or at least that's where I think it is. I put a sample stack illustrating the problem

Image rotation confusion

2004-02-06 Thread Jim MacConnell
Listees I am trying to do something simple but it is giving me fits. I have an image ³FullSize² that is 600 pixels wide by 300 tall I have a small version ³ThumbSize² that is 100 by 50 (made by putting ³FullSize² into it and shrinking) I referenced the ³ThumbSize² in a field using

Re: Revolution 2.02 is a $200 beta?

2003-07-23 Thread Jim MacConnell
The same sort of thing has been happening to me but I thought I was special. Also, I'm a lurking newbie so don't speak up much. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = I was using the 30 day trial and everything worked fine. Then the trial expired, and Rev reverted to Free edition. Immediately just

Re: Bourbon vs Burbon (OT)

2002-12-11 Thread Jim MacConnell
In the American South, Whiskey means Burbon. Okay you got me going now. I grew up in the deep South and my mark of distinction as a young lad was drinking Bourbon and Coke... God knows why as I look back on it through the fog of too many decades. But I never ever had a Burbon and Coke.

Re: usage of this

2002-10-31 Thread Jim MacConnell
differences myself. I was used to working on other cards from a handler without having to worry about hurting them unless I included a of card XXX type of instruction. Hope this helps, check out Rob's original post and sorry for stealing your brain-work Rob. Jim MacConnell

Re: Participation in Improvement List

2002-07-08 Thread Jim MacConnell
Voting? I love voting No tags please. Makes my color coding based on any recipient containing runner redundant One can always write a rule to add the prefix RunRev: to the mail from runrev (Outlook users only?). It is harder to delete something from the subject line since it may not

Re: Can Anyone Give Me A Clue

2002-05-24 Thread Jim MacConnell
My 2 cents I like the idea of a submenu listing in reverse Modified Date order other potential matches to the stack name. Open recent Stack -- My Stack A My Stack A.rev My Stack A.rev.bu My Stack A.rev copy Stopping at My Stack A would open the

Re: Pick up a specified text on several card?

2002-05-21 Thread Jim MacConnell
Magnus, et.al., First, I'm a Revolution Newbie (still assessing Starter Kit) but, as I used to be a HyperCard nut, I thought I'd chime in at the risk of being completely off base. I don't think using Find in a loop like this is doing what one might expect put field sessions into tempText