Manipulating Raw Picture Data

2008-06-25 Thread Mark Greenberg
very pixel in a 600x400 image and possibly changing the pixel's color be fast enough to seem like a highlight to the user? and how would I go about doing that? Thanks in Advance, Mark Greenberg ___ use-revolution mailing list

Shifting RGB

2008-06-16 Thread Mark Greenberg
get around this problem? Thanks in advance, Mark Greenberg ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.run

Zooming to Center

2008-05-17 Thread Mark Greenberg
). Right now it moves around and I can't figure out the math to make it seem to zoom to (or from) the part of the picture that is in the center of the card. Thanks in Advance, Mark Greenberg ___ use-revolution mailing lis

Frame Animation Method (repeat of subjectless message)

2008-04-06 Thread Mark Greenberg
punch" & frameNo of Card 2 into image "Player1Main"? Speed is important because we are starting to reach the limit of the computers' ability to display the images. Thanks in advance, Mark Greenberg __

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2008-04-06 Thread Mark Greenberg
is important because we are starting to reach the limit of the computers' ability to display the images. Thanks in advance, Mark Greenberg ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Re: Fraction Fonts

2008-01-29 Thread Mark Greenberg
helped, Mark Greenberg ___ 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: Play a Song From CD

2008-01-04 Thread Mark Greenberg
Scott and Ian, thank you for your responses. Ian, your suggestion to use a player worked. Thanks. I had tried a player before but was doing something wrong, I guess. Then reading the docs made me thing that players would only play QuickTime formats. Thanks again. This list is a great

Play a Song From CD

2008-01-03 Thread Mark Greenberg
;ve only tested it in Tiger so far. Yes, I did try different CD's. Thanks in advance, Mark Greenberg ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: OT: looking for recommendatinos for games

2007-10-29 Thread Mark Greenberg
suit your needs; if you write me off-list I'll give you the details about that. Mark Greenberg On Oct 29, 2007, at 10:00 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: I'm looking for recommendations for games (or educational software) for a (young) 7-yea

Splash Screen Launcher

2007-10-08 Thread Mark Greenberg
rt up the stack file. Thanks in advance, Mark Greenberg ___ 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/mailm

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 47, Issue 1

2007-08-02 Thread Mark Greenberg
ly helpful people that contribute to this list. Mark Greenberg ___ 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/li

AN: My Game Stacks

2007-07-27 Thread Mark Greenberg
email to anyone who wants it. Thanks. And for you educators out there, have a great school year! Mark Greenberg ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage yo

Dissolve Transition Works Sometimes

2007-07-20 Thread Mark Greenberg
l effect specified in the script. Any ideas on this one? Thanks in advance, Mark Greenberg ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your su

Re: From Planet Bizarre!

2007-03-31 Thread Mark Greenberg
The high school at which I teach has no textbooks, all the course content being delivered over the Internet and local network resources. Last week I arrived to open the school only to find that all our network infrastructure was down -- online district utilities for email, grading, and att

Re: Launching the Calculator

2007-03-14 Thread Mark Greenberg
under several layers of security and don't have Windows permissions to do much.) Richmond, I was not able to get to your calculator because the "files" link is only available to members of that yahoo group. Thanks again. This list is great!

Launching the Calculator

2007-03-14 Thread Mark Greenberg
would be for them to create their own calculator within the stack or as a substack. They only have three weeks to finish this project, so I was hoping to avoid that rout. Thanks in advance, Mark Greenberg ___ use-revolution mailing lis

Re: Infinity Char on Windows

2007-01-30 Thread Mark Greenberg
Thanks for the responses. I haven't had a chance to sit down and try the solutions yet, but between the HTML entity code and the Symbols font I should be able to make it work. Thanks Devin and Ken. Jeanne, to answer your question, the infinity sign is placed in a field when the user hit

Infinity Char on Windows

2007-01-28 Thread Mark Greenberg
because I've never tried to make Unicode work for me in Rev. TIA, Mark Greenberg ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runre

Stop Repeating Keys

2007-01-22 Thread Mark Greenberg
the user's input. Using KeyUp instead causes a problem when two keys are pressed, so that won't work. Any help would be appreciated, Mark Greenberg ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit t

Re: Change Tabs

2006-10-08 Thread Mark Greenberg
Sarah, thanks for telling me how to do this. I don't feel too foolish; it isn't very obvious that menuHistory is the way to switch from tab to tab. : ) Everyone, hope the weather is as nice in your part of the world as it is in Arizona. If it is, enjoy! Mark

Re: Collision Detection w/o AE

2006-10-08 Thread Mark Greenberg
rticular stack, we won't need true collision detection. Thank you both for your responses. Mark Greenberg ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage yo

Collision Detection w/o AE

2006-10-05 Thread Mark Greenberg
One of my student teams needs an image that has an irregular shape and a transparent background to know when it "hits" another such image. Any suggestions? I already know about Arcade Engine, but was hoping for just some code that would do the trick. Thanks in advance,

Change Tabs

2006-10-05 Thread Mark Greenberg
I know I'm missing something obvious, so I'll brace myself for egg on my face now. How does one script a change in a tabbed button? That is, I need it to change from one tab to another without the user clicking it. Thanks in advance, Mark

Re: irregular expression

2006-07-15 Thread Mark Greenberg
Thanks, Dar. I knew it would be something stupid I was missing. I wish, instead of sending me spam to increase my manhood, they would send ads for a pill that would make me see the obvious. : \ Mark On Jul 15, 2006, at 10:00 AM, Dar Scott wrote: put replacetext(myVar,"]*>","") int

Re: irregular expression

2006-07-15 Thread Mark Greenberg
On Jul 14, 2006, at 10:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: put replacetext(myVar,"]*>","") into myVar This is probably a brain-fart on my part, but why do you have /? in your RegEx string? Sorry to waste your time if I'm missing something

Serial Number in XP Network

2006-04-28 Thread Mark Greenberg
his to the fine folks at Rev, I have found the responses here on the list to be lightning fast, very helpful, and usually friendly (as long as I don't mention bugs or cheese...).) TIA, Mark Greenberg ___

In-line Fraction with Horizontal Line (Solution)

2006-03-12 Thread Mark Greenberg
er side to make it look right. I looks perfect, as if horizontal-line fractions are built right into the font. I can send the stack (not yet finished) if anyone is interested. Just contact me off-list. Thanks again. I couldn't have done it without your help. Mark Greenbe

In-line Fraction with Horizontal Line

2006-03-06 Thread Mark Greenberg
Fellow list members, I have a problem for which I can only find difficult or unsatisfactory solutions, and I was hoping you might have some suggestions. I am making a stack to teach students math -- linear equations, to be more precise. When I display the y = mx + b form, the best I can do

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 28, Issue 45

2006-01-20 Thread Mark Greenberg
Christian, there is an easy RegEx way to do it: Put ReplaceText (OrigText,"[,.;:!?]","") into NoPunct Whatever you consider punctuation goes inside the []. Quotation marks are tricky, as are dashes and carets. To include quotation marks, use... Put ReplaceText (OrigText,"[,.;:!?" & Quote

Re: Rev in High School

2006-01-15 Thread Mark Greenberg
c news. How did this happen? I think learning how you were able to do this might help in other states as well. A description from first contact to final acceptance might be useful. Tom On Jan 15, 2006, at 1:17 PM, Mark Greenberg wrote: Fellow Revolutionaries, just a note to let you know of some

Rev in High School

2006-01-15 Thread Mark Greenberg
Fellow Revolutionaries, just a note to let you know of some progress in getting Revolution into the classroom. I have been awarded a $10,000 grant to train students to program game-like Rev stacks that help learners understand academic topics. My district has authorized an elective course

Re: [ANN] surprise - new website to host codes

2006-01-09 Thread Mark Greenberg
Marielle, I agree with a previous comment about your work: You can't possibly be just one person. I'm thinking that your name is actually an acronym for a secret branch of the Runtime Revolution company. Wow! Thank you for all your hard work. Mark On Jan 9, 2006, at 7:34 AM, Marielle L

MouseChunk with false cursor

2005-12-22 Thread Mark Greenberg
How can I use a false cursor (an image that follows the mouse with the cursor set to none) that also recognizes MouseChunk, MouseText, etc. It seems that the way I am doing it, the image blocks the mouse from "seeing" the text in the field. Thanks in advance for any help. Mark ___

Re: Heads & Tails

2005-12-11 Thread Mark Greenberg
Beautiful solution! The arrays are probably much faster than the regular expressions too. And I learned a new command: Combine. Thanks for teaching me. : ) On Dec 10, 2005, at 6:52 AM, Jim Hurley wrote: on mouseUP put field 1 into tText put char 1 of tText into tLastChar --Separ

Re: Heads & Tails

2005-12-09 Thread Mark Greenberg
Yes, but the original post (quite a while ago) was looking for a way to determine how many times h occurred in singles, doubles, triples, etc. Your script counts how many heads and tails there are total. There were some non-RegEx solutions offered, but they were long. RegEx shortens the l

Heads & Tails

2005-12-09 Thread Mark Greenberg
n, so I'll wish you all a happy holiday season now. Enjoy! Mark Greenberg ___ 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: regex question

2005-12-01 Thread Mark Greenberg
+? or in your case "(?s)(.+?)" Hope this helps. Mark On Dec 1, 2005, at 2:07 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: All- Is there a way to tell matchChunk() not to be greedy? I've got a regular expression stumper here. I'm using regex with the matchChunk() function and I've BZed a problem with it

Re: How trim: Bug in RegExp engine

2005-10-24 Thread Mark Greenberg
ugh that I do this on the side, and sometimes my teaching job keeps me from my hobby of "playing" with Rev. : ) Contact me off-list if you wish about this. Mark Greenberg On Oct 23, 2005, at 5:24 PM, Jim Ault wrote: My work is basically surface level application and i

Re: How trim: Bug in RegExp engine

2005-10-23 Thread Mark Greenberg
nclude what they call "lazy" quantifiers. Whereas * has this problem, *? (the lazy twin) does not. Same with ? and ??. So answer replaceText("A C","^ *?","") does work as expected. Mark Greenberg ___

Re: How trim?

2005-10-23 Thread Mark Greenberg
d under the mat. ","\s+$","") The 1 to -1 solution is best for stripping both ends. Mark Greenberg PS Thanks for the 15 seconds of fame. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit t

[ANN] Language Arts Stack

2005-07-26 Thread Mark Greenberg
is in the room... there to help, demo, explain, cajole, etc. It is sparse in instructions for that reason. Thanks again to Alejandro Tejada for helping me with the logistics of posting these. Mark Greenberg High School Teacher

Legal, Ethical?

2005-07-25 Thread Mark Greenberg
give permission for this type of use. What do you all think? By the way, I am in the US, so the Fair Use clause of the intellectual properties laws might apply in a school setting. TIA, Mark Greenberg ___ us

Re: Anomolous is among

2005-07-22 Thread Mark Greenberg
Of course, in the extreme white space regions, that's where penguins live. (Sorry, couldn't resist. : ) Mark On Friday, July 22, 2005, at 05:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: put "penguin" is among the words of "1 2 3 4" = FALSE put "penguin" is among the words of "1 2 3 4 " = T

MatchText and PCRE

2005-07-19 Thread Mark Greenberg
h more obscure codes that work in the Rev flavor of Regex. Mark Greenberg ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: htt

Re: design problem: fonts and spacing

2005-06-30 Thread Mark Greenberg
someone on the list can tell what the function is. Then you could line up the text and scan lines. (I used the latter for math equations in which one number must line up vertically with another. As I recall, it worked well.) Mark Greenberg On Thursday, June 30, 2005, at 05:17

How to find and replace

2005-06-06 Thread Mark Greenberg
Christian, I didn't totally understand your question, but Rev has several ways to match text. RegEx, which is a tiny language imbedded into Rev, will match just about any pattern you want, including "da" without matching "das" or "Mandant" or even "Da" if you want. Here's how in Rev-RegEx:

How to find and replace

2005-06-06 Thread Mark Greenberg
Christian, My previous example used a flavor of RegEx not supported by Rev. Sorry. Please modify the example to read: Put "The day is dappled with da and dads." MatchText (MyText, "\bda\b") --returns true because da is by itself. ReplaceText (MyText, "\bda\b", "Ra") --returns "The day is d

How to find and replace

2005-06-06 Thread Mark Greenberg
On Monday, June 6, 2005, at 12:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I click "da" and I just want this to be replaced in the field (not "das", "Dach","Dame",...) How can I solve this ? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Kiosk mode

2005-06-02 Thread Mark Greenberg
I thought I remembered mention of a setting that would show a solid color, instead of the desktop, behind a standalone stack. Now that I need such an odd feature, I can't figure out what it was. Can anyone enlighten me, please? TIA, Mark G __

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 21, Issue 6

2005-06-01 Thread Mark Greenberg
Could Ben be one of those who, a week ago or so, got our list's mail by mistake? Some of them were angry, and nobody could be that annoying without trying. This could be his revenge. Just a thought, Mark G On Wednesday, June 1, 2005, at 04:01 PM, Malte wrote: i am

Re: Ann: Kount Fu Master

2005-02-09 Thread Mark Greenberg
Xavier, the screen shot shows that the interface is awesome. Any chance of compiling it for us Mac users? Mark Greenberg ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Using QT Transitions

2005-01-02 Thread Mark Greenberg
Thanks Klaus and Ben and the others that responded to my question about QT effects. I get it now. Its funny how the simple stuff can trip a person up sometimes. Mark G. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.run

Re: Using QT Transitions

2005-01-01 Thread Mark Greenberg
On Saturday, January 1, 2005, at 07:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you use the answer effect command, an encooded description for the effect is returned in the "it" variable. You can store this somewhere (variable, custom property, etc.) and use it in a later script: answer effect if

Using QT Transitions

2004-12-31 Thread Mark Greenberg
I must be missing something. The Answer Effect command will bring up the QT dialog for a user, but what if I want the Gradient Wipe transition, say, as part of my stack? The answer must be simple, but I'm not seeing it. I'm using Rev 2.0 on OS X, if that makes a difference.

Re: Find command

2004-11-25 Thread Mark Greenberg
David, The find command begins searching from the point of the last successful find. Try inserting "Find Empty" just above the line of code with the find command: Find Empty Find "desired text" ... Mark Greenberg ___ us

Re: RegEx Help--Across Lines

2004-11-21 Thread Mark Greenberg
about everything I attempted with Regex in Rev. Mark Greenberg ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Link to an Educational Stack

2004-08-26 Thread Mark Greenberg
Windows. If there is interest in my type of stacks, perhaps I can post them one at a time. Feel free to contact me off list too if you want. Mark Greenberg English Teacher PS The New York Times featured me and this teaching approach in the Circuit section last Thursday (front page). That'

Re: Educational uses for Rev

2004-08-16 Thread Mark Greenberg
il. All my Rev stacks fit on one CD, and I'd be glad to send them to anyone who is interested if they contact me off-list. They are teaching-game stacks mostly for the high school level. Some of the stacks described in my original post are not Rev stacks, but HyperStudio stacks scripted

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 11, Issue 62

2004-08-14 Thread Mark Greenberg
for Stat class) that animated according to three different variables, all entered by the user. There are scores more. One interesting site that advances the view of using video-game metaphor as an educational design for programming is http://www.marcprensky.com/. Mark Greenberg