Re: Can I call a function that is in a different script?

2003-03-10 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- erik hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:01 -0500 2003/03/09, Richard Gaskin wrote: Suppose I have a function defined in some field's script. Can I call it from a handler in another field's script? See the call commond.

using arrays in custom properties

2003-03-10 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I'm storing an array in a custom property of an object. Storing and retrieving items is fine. But I'm having no luck wiping them. Let's say that I've got a price list object, and I want to have a custom property array linking 'specials' to their special prices. One day fruit is on special

Re: using arrays in custom properties

2003-03-10 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Ben Rubinstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm storing an array in a custom property of an object. Storing and retrieving items is fine. But I'm having no luck wiping them. Let's say that I've got a price list object, and I want to have a custom property array linking 'specials' to

Re: mystery exception

2003-03-10 Thread Ben Rubinstein
on 7/3/03 8:51 pm, Dar Scott wrote On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 01:15 PM, Alex Rice wrote: The Error Reporting checkbox on the resources tab of the Distro builder? Yes, I included it. And this handler was failing silently until I wrapped it in a try/catch statement. How can I tell what

Re: sentences as items

2003-03-10 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 7 Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:00:14 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Signe Marie Sanne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: sentences as items Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can do it one of two ways. I am using .rtf files and reading them in at run-time so that I have styled text. What I

Re: using arrays in custom properties

2003-03-10 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Jan, Thanks for this. To summarise, what it amounts to is that given an array custom property called x, to be reinitialised, - set the customPropertySet of the object to x - create a new array - set the customProperties of the object to the new array - set the customPropertySet

Re: Can I call a function that is in a different script?

2003-03-10 Thread Victor Eijkhout
At 0:50 -0800 2003/03/10, Jan Schenkel wrote: Why not just use the 'value' function ? That's what the sons of thunder suggested. It works for me. -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout/

Fixed window position

2003-03-10 Thread Don Pederson
How do I make a window which is centered on the monitor screen non-moveable? If user tries to move the window it should snap back to the correct position or not be moveable at all. Thanks -- Dr. Donald Pederson School of Music University of Tennessee 1741 Volunteer Blvd. Knoxville, TN 37996

Re: Fixed window position

2003-03-10 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Don, How do I make a window which is centered on the monitor screen non-moveable? If user tries to move the window it should snap back to the correct position or not be moveable at all. Thanks -- Dr. Donald Pederson School of Music University of Tennessee 1741 Volunteer Blvd. Knoxville, TN

Re: Fixed window position

2003-03-10 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Don, sorry a bad typo occured... ... i know 2 solutions for that problem... 1. Put this into your stack-script and folks will not find a handle on your window to move it around :-) on preopenstack set the decorations of me to empty ### no quotes and no parenthesis ### But they are

OT: where will runrev be in 5 years?

2003-03-10 Thread Alex Rice
My opinion: Runrev is in a great position because of 1) Linux and Mac OS support and 2) Internet protocols and XML support. This article might be interesting for RunRev developers. It's long, but chock full of interesting analysis: http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit029.html Alex Rice, Software

Re: OT: where will runrev be in 5 years?

2003-03-10 Thread Rob Cozens
This article might be interesting for RunRev developers. It's long, but chock full of interesting analysis: http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit029.html I second Alex's recommendation. -- Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Software Company http://www.oenolog.com/who.htm And I, which was two fooles, do so

Read From locked files under WinNT

2003-03-10 Thread R. Hillen
Hello, I wrote a minimal program to read textfiles: answer file, open file, read from file, put it into fld xxx, close file and made a standalone for Windows using RunRev 1.1.1 on MacOSX. On two WindowsComputer (WinNT, Win2000) I had a simple TextFile to test it and it all was ok: the data

Re: Goofy button behavior

2003-03-10 Thread Ken Norris
** Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:38:11 + From: Dave Cragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Goofy button behavior But when you set the backgroundbehavior, the group's script is also the background script. -- Are you sure? I don't see that a background is the same as a group. I

Re: Read From locked files under WinNT

2003-03-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
R. Hillen wrote: Hello, I wrote a minimal program to read textfiles: answer file, open file, read from file, put it into fld xxx, close file and made a standalone for Windows using RunRev 1.1.1 on MacOSX. On two WindowsComputer (WinNT, Win2000) I had a simple TextFile to test it and it

Re: Goofy button behavior

2003-03-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Ken Norris wrote: ** Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:38:11 + From: Dave Cragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Goofy button behavior But when you set the backgroundbehavior, the group's script is also the background script. -- Are you sure? I don't see that a background is

Re: Read From locked files under WinNT

2003-03-10 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- R. Hillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I wrote a minimal program to read textfiles: answer file, open file, read from file, put it into fld xxx, close file and made a standalone for Windows using RunRev 1.1.1 on MacOSX. On two WindowsComputer (WinNT, Win2000) I had a simple

Re: mystery exception

2003-03-10 Thread Alex Rice
On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 05:13 AM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: And in so far as Alex's problem was happening in the standalone, not the IDE, it's most likely to be one of two things: - a do statement exceeding the 'starter kit' limitation - a library or DLL which is not included in the

Re: Can I call a function that is in a different script?

2003-03-10 Thread erik hansen
--- Jan Schenkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not just use the 'value' function ? It has a second parameter that lets you determine in the context of which object it should be executed. Example : get value(Foo(), fld Bar) this always works when fld Bar is in a different stack? or is it

Re: Can I call a function that is in a different script?

2003-03-10 Thread erik hansen
--- Jan Schenkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not just use the 'value' function ? It has a second parameter that lets you determine in the context of which object it should be executed. Example : get value(Foo(), fld Bar) this always works when fld Bar is in a different stack? or is it

Re: Can I call a function that is in a different script?

2003-03-10 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- erik hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Jan Schenkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not just use the 'value' function ? It has a second parameter that lets you determine in the context of which object it should be executed. Example : get value(Foo(), fld Bar) this always

Re: Can I call a function that is in a different script?

2003-03-10 Thread erik hansen
--- Jan Schenkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not just use the 'value' function ? It has a second parameter that lets you determine in the context of which object it should be executed. Example : get value(Foo(), fld Bar) this always works when fld Bar is in a

please explain Error Reporting checkbox (was mystery exception)

2003-03-10 Thread Alex Rice
Is the Error Reporting checkbox on the Distribution builder known to work? I created a simple test script which is just a single line: do nonesense In the IDE, it correctly generates a popup error dialog no such handler etc. However, when I build a standalone of this test stack, on OS X and on

Re: using arrays in custom properties

2003-03-10 Thread Tariel Gogoberidze
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 13:13:42 + Subject: Re: using arrays in custom properties From: Ben Rubinstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jan, Thanks for this. To summarise, what it amounts to is that given an array custom property called x, to be reinitialised, - set the customPropertySet of

Re: using arrays in custom properties

2003-03-10 Thread David Epstein
The first comments on this question puzzled me, as they involved setting custom property SETS, whereas the question seems only to deal with custom properties themselves. I may be missing something, but most of the commands quoted below cause an error in MC 2.4 because they try to put xxx into a

Re: mystery exception

2003-03-10 Thread Alex Rice
On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 12:30 PM, Alex Rice wrote: I am getting an exception that only happens in my standalone, not in the IDE. Does anyone recognize this exception have a clue for me? The exception message is 91,425,31 77,425,31 443,425,5,false 529,425,1,false I finally tracked down

Saving data stacks

2003-03-10 Thread Sarah
I normally build standalones with separate sub-stacks so my data can be saved in the stacks rather than having to mess around with separate files. The sub-stacks appear in a folder inside my application folder and being a Mac user, I just throw the whole thing into my Application folder and it