RE: Re: Relaibly detecting a successful save in Windows

Hi Eric, Ian Thanks for the feedback and apologies for the delay in replying. I have been away on business all week I clearly need to do more testing to pin this down, starting with Erics test. Cheers Steve ___ use-revolution mailing list

Relaibly detecting a successful save in Windows

Hi Eric Yes I am aware of this and the first attempt had the test directly after the save. The delay was put in to see if this cured the problem. I think you missed the point though. The problem I have is that saving over a network can take some time, several seconds and it seems that Rev

RE: Reliably detecting a successful save in Windows

Ok -second thoughts this approach is rubbish, as the result is a function! Is it possible to determine when the save command has completed (and the result should appear valid)? Steve Hi Eric Yes I am aware of this and the first attempt had the test directly after the save. The delay was put in

Reliably confirming a successful file save in Windows

Hi Is there any way of reliably confirming if a file (in this case a substack) has been successfully saved or not? The docs state that if the result is empty then the save has been successful, but I am finding that this is not reliable. I am working on a network so saving can sometimes be

Re: Reliably confirming a successful file save in Windows

HI Mark Nothing clever, started with simply Save this stack.. and test the result, then added a 5 second wait to see if this helped, but even this is not reliable in testing the result (certainly not in the case of the trying to save over a file with read-only attribute set). case Save

Problems with Printer dialogues in Win XP

Hi, I am using Rev 2.5.1 and am having problems displaying Printer dialogues and cancelling printing. I am trying to print a single card only using Print this Card. This works fine, but I need to be able to set the active printer first and possibly cancel if the printer is not available. If I

Re: Problems with Printer dialogues in Win XP

Hi Jeanne, Mark Thanks for the suggestions; Jeanne Here's a method that I think will work (although I'm not 100% sure it will work properly on Windows, and I'm not near a Windows system at the moment to check): on mouseUp open printing with dialog -- displays the dialog, setting the

Help - Building standalone on windows errors with Can't open Stackfile...

Hi I am using 2.5.1 and have hit a problem with building the standalone and hope someone has a solution (or I have to go back a long way to an earlier version) I am building a standalone that saves data so using move into individual stackfiles. I had a problem at one point (have no idea what

Re Graphs and text reports

Thanks Sounds OK for text, does Quartam do graphs as well (couldn't find them mentioned in the features)? Cheers Steve -You should consider upgrading while Rev has it's bundle promotion going: -http://www.runrev.com/offers/rshb/index.php?id=frontdoor -this bundle includes Quartam Reports for

Grpah and Page formatting in Rev

Hi I have been out of the Revolution loop for some time, but may rejoin with the latest bundle offer. The one area I felt rev really lacked was easy page formatting for printing and graph capability. Have any of these been improved since 2.6 (or will they in the upcoming 2.9). Being able to

Bessel function

Hi Does anyone know if Rev has a bessel function? I can't find it in the transcript dictionary. If not, does anyone have any suggestions on the maths to build this function. I am trying to recode an EXCEL application I have to an to a Revolution application. The EXCEL implementation is a bit

Re: Studio License Renewal Cost

Hi, Have been off the list for a while as I am still using 2.5.x. I am a hobbyist only and feel that Rev pricing is pretty competitive. To the question is $200 a lot - interesting question, I work in a very different field of engineering and not software, for a very large company and know

Re: player blinking all over the place

Jon, May be same as I and others have had - see Bug 2692 - note that though the menu is referenced, this is not necessary for the bug (see comment 3). http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=2692 Still open I believe, not sure why its still shown as unconfirmed though. Cheers

Re: [OPINION] Re: Windows Absolute Control

As a windows user I have never had any problem with reactivation (and am not personally aware of anyone who has had a problem). I have upgraded most parts of my PCs (both have separate licensed copies of XP) and typically clear and reinstall every year or two anyway to clear out the garbage.

Re Revolution Graph Plotting

Hi Glyn, There was a MetaCared/Revolution graph object produced some time ago by Kenneth L Simons. Its still on his web site http://www.rpi.edu/~simonk/technical.html Its quite flexible and I'm sure it would meet your needs. According to the notes in the object it is free to use and is public

Re: Enhanced QT External

[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Enhanced QT External To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Mar 23, 2005, at 11:49 AM, Stephen King wrote: Hi, Is it possible to extract an audio track from

Re: Enhanced QT External

@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Mar 24, 2005, at 10:38 AM, Stephen King wrote: Hi Trevor, Many thanks for the guidance. I am working on it but noticed something odd happens as soon as a movie is loaded (also happens

Enhanced QT External

Hi, Is it possible to extract an audio track from a QT movie, edit this in an editor then paste back into the movie? I can find QTDeleteTrack but no AddTrack function. I can also find QTCopyTrackToScrap, but I tried this with Track 2 (by trial and error of QTSetTrackEnabled) and nothing

Re: Rotating a QT movie in Rev

Sounds perfect Trevor, I'll give it a go. Many thanks Steve Hi, Does anyone know if its possible to rotate a QT movie using Rev. We recently had to take some video using a camera sideways orientation - so I either have to rotate the video 90 degrees or turn the monitor over! I am sure I have

Re: Rotating a QT movie in Rev

Just one point Trevor, The link mentions Mac and Windows for the beta, but the download zip seems to only contain Mac. (I'm on PC unfortunately). Am I misunderstanding something Cheers Steve - Original Message - From: Stephen King [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Rotating a QT movie in Rev

Oops! Think I found it right on the top of the pile! EnhancedQT.dll I guess. Cheers Steve - Original Message - From: Stephen King [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 8:41 PM Subject: Re: Rotating a QT movie in Rev Just one point Trevor

Text to Speech in windows

Thanks Tuviah..much appreciated. Judy wrote Well, I, as a Mac user, for one, do not agree. I was happy when TTS was made available for Windows, as well as when Jonathan made a Windows version of Shakobox. Of course you are right. Its a target machine issue rather than a developer machine issue

Text to Speech in windows

Hi, I have raised this a number of times, most recently with regard to my subscription renewal. I actually bugzilla'd it at least once and it vanished! I thought I had raised it again on Bugzilla. One reason it may not have been voted or marked critical could be its a windows issue. I posted on

Re: sound in revolution

Hi Judy, Klaus, After carefully reading your post Klaus, I have now (embarrassingly) cracked my problem of playing WAVs without QT. I hadn't fully appreciated the difference between the PLAY and PLAYER 'objects'. I mistakenly thought that PLAY was simply similar to PLAYER but with data stored

Re Feature requests

Tuviah wrote.. MDI, ActiveX how many people need these vs things like answer file with extension. Seems not many from looking at the bugzilla votes. If you want these features, vote for them:-) Just a thought on the voting system...If (and its a big if) the user base is predominantly focused

Re: Is Rev too Mac focused?

Troy wrote Out of curiosity, what functionality specifically do you need which then requires QuickTime? Rev can obviously run happily without it, and some basic media types are even supported in that case - but beyond that, QuickTime is required to do the heavy lifting. Hi Troy, I wasn't really

Re Demise of VB? (was: Rev's Mac-Centricity)

Ken Ray wrote On 8/7/04 10:06 PM, Chipp Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to mention all of the alienated VB programmers MS created when it dumped VB in favor of .NET. And now they're getting rid of VB all together! Really? Could you provide a link where you saw that? Just curious... Ken

Re: Plea to sell Dan's book widely

Dan wrote I reiterate what I said earlier today in this very interesting discussion. I do not believe Rev has any serious chance of making significant inroads into the professional development community on ANY platform, and certainly not on Windows or (moreso?) on *nix. It will always be a

Is Rev too Mac focused?

Hi Cubist wrote... I'm a Mac user of long standing, and I got one thing to say to those PC users: Welcome to *our* world, baby. Think about it. Don't get me wrong, I was only saying that for Rev to get into the big market (here in the UK), they need to show the program is PC orientated

Re: sound in revolution

. Does it work one way or the other? I normally test across 2 PCs - I have one with QT on and the other does not have QT. I know my target (school PCs) do not have QT. Cheers Steve On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Stephen King wrote: Klaus, How did you manage WAVs? I am sure I have not managed to play

Rev Player - part of distribution of download?

Hi All, Sorry if this is a question answered by the latest Rev Beta, but my subscriptioon has currently expired, so I probably can't evaluate the 2.5Beta. I understand that there are no standalones as such, but stacks play in the Rev player (presumably a different one per platform?). Is this

Re: Any revers in England

Hi I'm in Bedfordshire, although pressure of work has meant I've not used Rev for some months. Cheers Steve ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Closing one stack and opening another

Hi All, Very simple question I suspect, I'm just not sure of the 'best' way to do this. I have a Splash stack (hidden) and various datastacks which I only want open one at a time. What is the best way to close one stack (by a button on a card of that stack) and opening/displaying another stack

Re: Closing one stack and opening another

screen OR go stack B in window A which is cool if they are the same size windows. HTH Tom On Mar 22, 2004, at 4:15 PM, Stephen King wrote: Hi All, Very simple question I suspect, I'm just not sure of the 'best' way to do this. I have a Splash stack (hidden) and various

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 6, Issue 89

Geoff, This is all good of course but what about those windows media issues raised many times on the list. Here in the UK, the windows/mac balance is probably 95%/5%. Certainly everything I build for school use and club use is Windows. I bought my Rev partly on its multimedia and cross platform

Re: Problems with cloning cards...

Mark, Thanks for the response, I haven't yet tried it in the standalone, I have been working this section entirely in the IDE. The card has a background group but not created by the script. Anyway, I'll put a few more debug prompts in then test with a standalone. Cheers Steve

Problems with cloning cards...

Hi All, I should have stuck with one card stacks! I am having some trouble understanding cloning cards. I am using the clone approach at the moment so that card script is carried over (maybe templates are the way but I haven't investigated them yet). 1. In the script On..handler ...

Problem with Image on background property

Hi all, I'm sure this is really simple, but I can't understand what is happening. I am experimenting with a basic database example and have an image on the card as part of the background group. I start with a card with empty fields and image (no file reference). I then fill in data, reference an

Re: Problem with Image on background property

Thanks everyone for the very quick replies. At least ths explains whats happening! The aim is straightforward placing of the member image in the card as part of the database. I'll try Robs idea of using a button and if not quite what I want, the custom property approach seems pretty

Re: Trying to buy Dan's book

I can vouch for what Jacqueline says. I just bought Dans book a few days ago. Things are a little slower at the moment, but if you don't hear after a few days, just give a polite reminder to the RunRev team. They will respond and follow up. It does work. By the way - Dans book is pretty awesome!

Problem with counting numbers of groups in a stack

Hi all, I have just come across a problem with counting the number of groups, between the IDE and built application. I have a small stack that has 20 groups (listed in the App browser). It has a main and sub stack with no groups on the substack. There are no plugins in use (according to the

Re Problem with counting numbers of groups in a stack

this added group was always added. Cheers Steve Stephen King wrote: Hi all, I have just come across a problem with counting the number of groups, between the IDE and built application. I have a small stack that has 20 groups (listed in the App browser). It has a main and sub stack

Re: Newbie - Timers and Send an example

Erik, I have put together a very simple stack to show the differences between 3 methods to give as an example. if you want the stack, just email me off list. Note that the differences in timing show best when another process is running in background (I used a render package to get reasonable

Re: Newbie - Timers and Send

Dar, I have used this method as well, but found that it didn't work too well for short time increments, in 10's of mSec as the Send message will only accept integer values of mSec. So I went to the system clock instead. Dynamically adjusting the Send delay worked Ok for me on longer delays

Newbie - Timers and Send

Paul, As already suggested, 'Send' is the best way, but beware that it is not in itself very accurate (typically around 95% I've found). If you need accurate timing, then you may need to enhance it a little. I have an app which is used for swim coaching, accuracy required to 0.02 seconds. Send

Troubles with groups..

Hi All, I'm sure this is really simple (and has probably been answered many times before - and apologies if it has), but a review of the dox doesn't seem to help, nor could I find what I was looking for in the archives. I have a number of groups on a card each of which has a field and and image

Re: Problem with Groups

Hi JB Hadn't thought of using IDs with Offsets - yes seems easy to calculate and should work. I have since thought of another way that works that seems to be generic enough: Field and Image - Pass MouseUp Group - send message to Card with 'the name of me' as a parameter or placed in a global.

Re: Problem with Groups

Hi everyone, Thanks for all the ideas. Its a lot clearer now and I think we all came down to two basic ideas; - using ID or Long ID of the target - pass the name or owner of target as parameter. The latter approach (name) is the one I have gone with. Thanks for everyones help. Cheers Steve

How to use Rev with Media Player - anyone got a guide?

Dear All, I think I am not alone in being a bit confused about what exactly one can and can't do with players in Rev when QT is not installed. Like some other posts recently, I also have to produce an app for windows machines that do not have access to QT (in my case a dedicated swimming club

Re: How to use Rev with Media Player - anyone got a guide?

Hi Klaus, Well, maybe not 'official', but its a good start...highlights a lot of pitfalls and things to test for. Still there were some surprises like WAV sounds which could be played in the WMP as well as QT, no fancy codec, but it just does not want to play in RR... I saw this too and was

Player seems to miss out alternate filenames on Win XP

Hi All, I have a problem trying to send a playlist to a player. I have a playlist in a field (Output) and use the PlayStopped message to move down this field, loading the next filename each time. Unfortunately, every alternate one is missed. Script is... On PlayStopped if PlayingFromList =

Re: Player seems to miss out alternate filenames on Win XP

Hi Klaus, Very subtle... and fixes my problem perfectly! Many thanks - you've saved an awful lot of head scratching Cheers steve. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Running Standalones from the windows desktop

Hi All, I have a standalone that my installer places in c:\program files\app_name and also places a shortcut on the windows desktop. On first run, this app then copies or creates an ini and a datafile into its working directory (c:\program files\app_name). However, it doesn't. If run from the

Re: Running Standalones from the windows desktop - solved

on the desktop. Being a single exe, there were no errors produced. Lesson learned here. Cheers Steve .. On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 03:15 PM, Stephen King wrote: Is there a way that Rev can pick up the real working directory rather than the desktop? (user has option to change the working

Re - text-to-speech on WindowsXP

Hi Barry, I had the same problem with Rev 2.0 and Mailed Rev about it and got the following reply from Tuviah. --- snip Does anyone know if Text to speech works in windows? I have tried Win XP and Win 98 (using a button for both) and each time I get the error message 'Can't initialise speech

Basic question - how to use a variable to refer to an object (button)

Hi All, I am sure this is a very basic question but I cannot find it anywhere.. How can I refer to a button by name using a variable? I know I can .. ' set the property of button x to...' where x is the ID number of the button, but I cannot seem to reference its name. I have tried .. button

Re: Basic question - how to use a variable to refer to an object (button) -Thanks

Hi, Thanks for the info - it sort of backed up my own thoughts so thats really useful in telling me I'm on the right track. I found the specific problem though its a little more subtle, it seems that you can't label a button with a number and do this sort of thing. Unfortunately this is exactly