This probably reflects my complete ignorance, but...

2010-10-29 Thread Vokey, John
All, I use RunRev in my lab: indeed, it does everything in my lab: all of my lab computers have it, except they have it as Metacard, but that shouldn't be an issue (or if it is, then I really have an issue, as it has to be in the Metacard IDE!). I never create standalones (well, I have done

crop command

2010-10-21 Thread Vokey, John
LiveCode graphics gurus: I have to process a few thousand photograph files through a simple set of manipulations that scales, translates and rotates the images to a common standard, and then crops them to a fixed size. The code is simple, except apparently the crop command doesn't work on

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 85, Issue 44

2010-10-21 Thread Vokey, John
on file-sourced image objects. For example, if you create an image object and use the paint tools to create an image, it can be cropped with the crop command, but if the image object is sourced to a file, the crop command returns an error. On 21 October 2010 11:11, Vokey, John vo...@uleth.ca

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 85, Issue 31

2010-10-15 Thread Vokey, John
One last change; HP worked hard to find the colours for the keys that would work for all, especially those otherwise known as colourblind; hence the, for some, odd beige/yellow keys, and the faded cyan keys. But, in tests, these colours really do work for all including monochromats. Wendy

Re: [ANN] Simple RPN Calculator on RevOnline

2010-10-13 Thread Vokey, John
I still have (and use) my HP-25C and my HP-48G+ . I prefer the 25C to the 48G+ for most simple programming tasks. I also have a perfect emulator of the HP-25C for OS X that I picked up a few years back. It is my main calculator on the mac. I can't find it on the internet anymore, but I will

Re: [OT-Rodeo] Last minute call to get onboard with pre-realase conditions!

2010-07-20 Thread Vokey, John
Ignoring the repeated spelling error, I chose not to buy-in to the early release bargain (and, it is a bargain); Instead, I want Jerry et al. to be able to leverage this thing to the point where it is actually affordable *for them*. So, I will wait and pay the full freight. I am so impressed

Re: Naming Custom Properties

2010-04-16 Thread Vokey, John
If you note in the Dictionary there is a comment from me on this ``hiccup'' of the custom properties, and it represents a long-standing complaint of mine (i.e., that all custom property names should be quoted literals or the contents of some variable). The problem is this: if variable fred

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 79, Issue 28

2010-04-15 Thread Vokey, John
What do I do? Rail against the fact that, sensibly, the engine translates all file references to one form, but fails to do so for many other utterly trivial differences. So, one is always forced to check for the OS (see the dictionary for all the ridiculous exceptions). Why? Why doesn't the

RunRev and Linux

2010-04-10 Thread Vokey, John
I have been an Apple user since the Apple ][, and have purchased upwards of at least 100 machines from Apple in that time; but, lately, I have been playing with Ubuntu Linux. And, I must admit I am impressed. Most of my work on Macs is done with open-source software (mostly LaTeX and R), but

[OT] Drifting off topic (was: Re-2: on standalonesaved)

2010-02-22 Thread Vokey, John
I would absolutely loved to have been invited (can you just imagine all the amazing insights Jacqueline keeps hidden in there simply because she doesn't realize how we would all benefit if she just let it all out?). That said, it does seems a bit creepy, and I suspect my wife would have words.

Re: Sorting question

2010-02-11 Thread Vokey, John
This function provides for a *truly uniform* random sort: function scramble x -- scramble lines or items in a row put the number of lines of x into z if z = 1 then put the number of items of x into n else put the number of lines of x into n repeat with i=n down to 2 put random(i) into

Re: large-file sharing

2009-12-23 Thread Vokey, John
On 2009-12-23, at 11:00 AM, use-revolution-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: *** I would like you recommendations of where to upload a free version of a 150 megabyte program *** Try Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/home#/ -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See

Re: Rev IDE vs MetaCard IDE

2009-12-13 Thread Vokey, John
On 2009-12-13, at 11:00 AM, use-revolution-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: Can someone give me a quick summary of why I might want to use the MetaCard IDE instead of RunRev's? It seems that a lot of users of this group use MC. Is it just what you were used to or is there some feature