Re: How exactly does runrev for ipad/iphone work?

2010-05-08 Thread Ryno Swart
Rene, There is no violation. We do our thinking in English or in French or Afrikaans; using typewriters or computers or pencil and paper. This is the creative process, and is personal to me, as to you. The output may have to conform to certain specifications. Process is as open as musical

Re: [OT] What's an iPad?

2010-04-11 Thread Ryno Swart
The iPad is the resurrection of multimedia, I believe. Remember multimedia? Ryno. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Paris

2010-03-16 Thread Ryno Swart
I get (iBook OS x 10.4.11) this message: Sorry the HD View Beta is not supported on this platform. Must be Internet Explorer, Firefox, Flock, Netscape, or Safari on Windows XP, Server 2003, or Vista. Ryno. http://artistvision.org/ Still all alone in Africa : )

Re: Rev IDE vs MetaCard IDE

2009-12-16 Thread Ryno Swart
I seem to have the uncanny ability to break anything... the MIDA$ touch. I cannot download the MetaCard IDE successfully. The message Sorry, but this version of the IDE requires engine =3.x! appears. My version of Rev is 2.8.1 build 470. Any suggestions? Ryno.

Re: OT: Increasing the volume in a movie clip

2009-05-19 Thread Ryno Swart
Many thanks, guys, I am muddling through with Audacity (a tough learn for me) and iMovie, importing and exporting and having fun! The QuickTime solution, I presume, requires QT Pro, which I don't have. I would have replied to your messages earlier, but I for some reason this entire

OT: Increasing the volume in a movie clip

2009-05-18 Thread Ryno Swart
For years I have had a movie clip of birdsong in Venice. It is exquisite, crisp and clear, but very faint. Is there some way I can raise the volume? I have iMovie, and assorted audio shareware, but I cannot make it happen. I know that a number of revolutionaries are working with sound,

Re: Good looking examples of applications built with Revolution

2009-02-18 Thread Ryno Swart
Oh man, I am so proud of Klaus and my Croptool Application. My background is in art and design, and Klaus you all know as one of the most elegant scripters around. Elegance is what we aimed for, in fact. Check it out: http://croptoolapplication.com/ If any of you like the look and feel,

Re: Visual Programming, mTropolis, Chipwits and Revolution

2005-12-04 Thread Ryno Swart
Did anybody like AxelEdge from Mindavenue? Greg Smith I like it, Greg. I downloaded AxelEdge two days ago, looked at it this morning for about an hour and then had to go out. When I got back my son (11) had done a whole character, animated it and set it to music. He likes computers, but

Re: dump newbie image questiosn

2005-06-06 Thread Ryno Swart
Jacqueline, This is one of those simple, elegant, inspired moments when scripting sings! Nice. No, I wasn't joking. I'm not even sure I understand the problem because I've never seen it. I always scale images by calculating the desired dimensions and setting the image to that size. For

Online conference.

2005-05-29 Thread Ryno Swart
Thanks Klaus and the rest of you, That was a really great conference on Saturday. Unfortunately, or fortunately, as it may be, I really was only there for the beer and the conversation, as I was at my sister's computer, and shortly after the real conference got going I was called to supper

Learning Tabbed Buttons.

2005-04-14 Thread Ryno Swart
The work you have all done on the tabbed button tutorial has been exemplary and it could well establish a standard as far as Rev documentation is concerned. Thanks to you all. I am especially impressed by the easy and generous exchange of ideas and and tweaking. I feel that Judy has created a

Re: Tabbed buttons

2005-04-11 Thread Ryno Swart
Hey Juan, It is for me. Judy understands these things already. So if you could please pass it my way, that would be great. Ryno (email address above) Judy, If you return your email address, I have a rev file with the tabbed buttons as described. It was developed by Rob Gould for me and he has

Tabbed buttons.

2005-04-10 Thread Ryno Swart
Does anybody have a simple (simple!) example of working with tabbed buttons? I went through the documentation, even searched the net, but the only information I could find was so obscure as to be useless. I need to have spelled out With the edit tool selected, click on the tab marked 'Tab 1'.

Referenced control

2004-10-25 Thread Ryno Swart
I want to put a large movie (126 Mb) onto a CD and play it from a Rev standalone file. Part of our school yearbook... (Rev does not appear to want to build a standalone with an imported movie of this size. Is there an optimum file size not to exceed when building a standalone?) It was simple

Re: Image resize.

2004-10-22 Thread Ryno Swart
Thanks to all of you for your help with resizing an image. This one, from Frank, works beautifully, but as far as I can see, only in Rev 1.1.1. (I had to change an and to a then, so the version below includes my little edit.) Maybe you could make it work in newer versions using another key

Stack backgroundcolor.

2004-10-22 Thread Ryno Swart
Another problem: Setting the backgroundcolour of a stack. The stack I built consists of more than 100 cards (one card per page). On building my first test standalone, I found that the beautiful white pages I designed, were rendered grey on Windows. No problem, I thought, and read in the

Styling text.

2004-10-22 Thread Ryno Swart
The following is a problem I find really difficult and important. Text styling: In a single field under a group photograph, I wanted to a simple type styling task; setting the words Front row in italics while keeping the students' names in roman. I can't appear to do that at all. I read in the

Image resize.

2004-10-19 Thread Ryno Swart
Hi all. I am working on a nice simple project, a yearbook for our primary school, but even in such a simple job, I came up against a few problems. These may all have solutions that escape me for the moment, and I would appreciate any assistance. I'll break them into four posts to make replies

Re: simplePrint

2004-09-13 Thread Ryno Swart
Baie dankie, Maestro, dit werk goed! One more question arises: I am getting my card clipped bottom and right, I suppose simply because it is bigger then A4. Can I print it centered into the pageRect or something, and to the maximum printing area? I am getting a fat white border at the top and

Re: Display a simple stack.

2004-09-13 Thread Ryno Swart
Thanks Gordy, and Graham, for you very helpful advice. If they are not already there, these could go into Helpful Tips. For the monitor real estate, I shall work on the premise that parents stick to the simple taskbar in Windows. For Mac parents, if they have a dock problem, I can communicate

simplePrint

2004-09-12 Thread Ryno Swart
Hello. I need a simple printing solution. I am putting together a School Yearbook in Rev in such a way that every card is also a printable page. It is a very small school, and very few of the parents have Macs, which is what I work on. So I need something chiefly for Windows, as I could make

Display a simple stack.

2004-09-12 Thread Ryno Swart
For my little School Yearbook project, I am developing a stack measuring 800 x 600 pixels. When I tested it at the school though, often the stack would not fit into the monitor display, particularly frustrating as I then lose my set of buttons along the top edge of the card, and parents would

Re: 3D project.

2004-07-07 Thread Ryno Swart
Thanks for the prompt replies, Mr X and Bob and others, Here is the lowdown. What are you wanting to render? The project I need to develop involves a new way of rendering perspective. It is simpler than traditional perspective but more sophisticated. Simpler in calculation, but more

3D project.

2004-07-06 Thread Ryno Swart
I have a project which requires serious high-level programming, way beyond my abilities. I need to build a 3D perspective rendering engine to demonstrate a system I recently developed. The most able programmers that I have come across, and the most helpful (not a minor consideration), are in

Magnificance.

2004-02-14 Thread Ryno Swart
Ken, You know I applaud your efforts already with working with the disabled on 'your little island'. I too find it to be the most rewarding thin that I do, aside from maybe my art work which I use to open everyones eyes to the beauty and magnificance around us. Magnificance? Magnificness?

Re: [OT/ANN] Now I'm a father

2004-01-05 Thread Ryno Swart
They are hand signs that are specific to what a baby can do with their hands. Much of ASL (American Sign Language?) involves using fingers and babies (or at least ours) wasn't able to do ASL style signs. These I guess are more akin to gestures. He learned roughly 6 of the 12 we decided to use on

Animating multiple gifs.

2003-12-13 Thread Ryno Swart
Hi folks, Here is a very basic question. I built a small animated gif, and placed it in a stack in three positions. How do I make them run together? I found Klaus' Taming of the Animated Gif with 'set the repeatcount of img dancer to 1', but this only animates one of the three

Losing the amateur.

2003-11-02 Thread Ryno Swart
Hi folks, I am just a bit disappointed. To Scott Rossi: I was and am dead keen to download Scott's Ouija stack (I love your more personal work, Scott), but I ran into a few problems. First, the stack appears to require Rev version 2.1, and would not even download to my version 2.0.1. Couldn't

Pardon my French...

2003-10-05 Thread Ryno Swart
Quand ça marche, ne touche à rien ;- Or: Don't fix it if it ain't broke... Thanks for a very nice new French expression. Ryno. http://artistvision.org ...a work in progress... ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: you - the potential buyer

2003-07-20 Thread Ryno Swart
I cannot but to encourage you to ask, ask, ask this list as much and as basic questions as they appear... Noone will point with the finger towards you and if someone does, i'd love to show him/her my complete collection of baseball bats :-D Thank you for your very encouraging messages to Klaus

A quick note of thanks.

2003-07-20 Thread Ryno Swart
Well guys welcome to the list. There are a lot of us older types here. While I am not quite as advanced as you, I am getting up there as well. (55). :-) Hi Steve, This reply is off-list because I wanted personally to thank you. I am already dusting off my half abandoned projects, fired up by

Grab, move, yet constrain.

2003-01-30 Thread Ryno Swart
Another penny has eventually dropped. The grab command is just what I wanted for moving a group of images around, as it is the only way I know where the cursor keeps to its place in the group. But now, can I constrain this movement? Top, bottom, left, right? Thanks for the help. Ryno Swart

Re: Drag group

2003-01-14 Thread Ryno Swart
Thanks for the help, Scott and Monte, I'm getting there. However, the mouseMoves you kindly suggested work well with an object such as a button, while not seeing or treating a group as an object. As I have exactly the effect I want, the simplest for me is to show you where I am now (having

Re: Drag group

2003-01-12 Thread Ryno Swart
Thanks Scott, It took a lot of cutting and fitting, but I have the dragging of my little horizontal group working beautifully. One problem has me stumped. I put a series of buttons (7) into the group, which I can now drag horizontally, and pass all kinds of messages to. What frustrates me now

Drag group.

2003-01-11 Thread Ryno Swart
access to your experience. Ryno Swart. P.S. At the moment I cannot get into the media part of you very elegantly redesigned site. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution