Common Causes of Crashes?

2006-03-08 Thread Stephen Paul McNutt
I know that causes of crashes has been discussed, but I can't find it in the archives. I've got a stack that started crashing yesterday, and I'd like to know some common causes I can look for in my scripts. Thanks in advance. ___ use-revolution

Duplicating a Substack

2006-01-07 Thread Stephen Paul McNutt
The weird thing is I've done these several times already, but now I can't figure it out. I want to duplicate one of my substacks so that I can rename and modify it--rather than starting from a blank substack. Seems like that should be easy, but no. Thanks in advance for any help

Why doesn't this script work?

2005-11-13 Thread Stephen Paul McNutt
Here's a script I use to set the defaultFolder property for a standalone. The part for OSX works perfectly, but the part for Win32 doesn't. I've placed all those answer commands in there to check variable and property values as I go. local ldefaultFolder if the environment

Artifacts and unwanted selection markers in stand-alones

2005-09-20 Thread Stephen Paul McNutt
I develop in OS X, but when I build stand-alones for either OS X or Windows XP, I often get unwanted graphic artifacts like a selection boundary around a button or field. If I click a different button or field, the boundary goes away, but it's always there the next time I open the

Icon Composer File Stopped Working

2005-08-07 Thread Stephen Paul McNutt
I just noticed this, so I'm not sure exactly when it happened, but my Icon Composer file for the OS X standalone icons no longer works. I can still see the icons using Preview, and it's still set to use the proper file in Standalone Application Settings, but my standalone builds no longer

Error while creating standalone in Rev 2.5.1

2005-03-19 Thread Stephen Paul McNutt
A week or so ago, I first posted about a problem I've had since upgrading from Revolution 2.2.1 to 2.5.1. I get the message: An error occurred while saving the standalone application. Unfortunately, there's no other information given. I have discovered a fix for my particular stack, but it

How do I allow quotation marks in input text?

2004-08-03 Thread Stephen Paul McNutt
I've got a field into which users enter questions for a game, but single and double quotation marks don't display properly later when they appear in the game. They become boxes. Is this a font issue? I've tried several fonts. I thought it was because the quotation marks were reserved

Frequent corruption of Revolution program?

2004-07-18 Thread Stephen Paul McNutt
I'm having a frequently recurring problem that is fixed by reinstalling Revolution 2.2.1. For reasons I'm not sure of, possibly sometimes a script bug, the program I'm building will appear to load okay, but when I check the variable watcher, I find that only a half dozen or so variables have