Re: Transparency and PNG format

2005-11-30 Thread graham samuel
Thanks to all who replied to this, specially Ken Ray who gave me a quick way out of my problem and answered my other question too. This is by no means the first time I've been happy to thank Ken for a RunRev solution. I really appreciate it. Graham (OT rant: I had tried the Help files in

Re: Transparency and PNG format

2005-11-30 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Yes, I had this problem with pictures that I converted to PNGs using GraphicConverter, while newly created PNGs worked fine. However I didn't know the trick that Ken has just told us all about, so I will knwo what to do next time. Cheers, Sarah On 11/30/05, Judy Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Problem with the correct cursor showing up

2005-11-30 Thread Stgoldberg
Thanks, Jacquie - Your solution worked perfectly. You are the true master of the Standalone Settings (among other things). Steve Goldberg In a message dated 11/29/05 4:47:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I tried using   cursor ID 28 instead of "hand" but the

Re: Is it possible to random images?

2005-11-30 Thread William de Smet
Hi there, Eric's advice did the trick but now all the images on the card are chosen (like the background image). How do I set like 4 images to be chosen at random? Been busy the whole morning but I can't figure it out. William de Smet Op 29-nov-2005, om 22:40 heeft Eric Chatonet het volgende

Re: Is it possible to random images?

2005-11-30 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi William, Just group the images that may be chosen :-) put random(the number of images of grp "ImageChoice") into TChosenImage put image TChosenImage of grp "ImageChoice" into image "DisplayRandomImage" Le 30 nov. 05 à 13:27, William de Smet a écrit : Eric's advice did the trick but now a

Re: Is it possible to random images?

2005-11-30 Thread William de Smet
Thanks Eric, Life is beautiful and easy... and so is RR! William Op 30-nov-2005, om 13:31 heeft Eric Chatonet het volgende geschreven: put random(the number of images of grp "ImageChoice") into TChosenImage put image TChosenImage of grp "ImageChoice" into image "DisplayRandomImage" _

Re: More newbie problems

2005-11-30 Thread Bob Hutchison
On Nov 30, 2005, at 1:03 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Bob- Tuesday, November 29, 2005, 8:53:49 PM, you wrote: Thanks, I'm going to have to get used to this running of scripts to modify things. Or try the splash screen approach. Either check out the scripting conference stack on standalones for a

Substack Question

2005-11-30 Thread AbilityForms
Hi Everyone, While reading the string of comments I was interested in the newbie question about substacks. I'm also a newbie so I need some help in this area too. What are the advantages of using a substack rather than just starting another mainstack? I use several mainstacks because if one bec

Re: Substack Question

2005-11-30 Thread xavier . bury
Hi Joe, The advantage is for distribution/release - one stack only visible to the user. In case you compile though, you can no longuer modify the stack (though nothing prevents your application from saving the substack as a mainstack later and modify that one). sorry for big sig Xavier [EMAI

Re: Substack Question

2005-11-30 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Joe, Mainly :-) 1. Substacks are embedded into the same file as the main stack: distribution is safer (their *exact* location is known :-) 2. Substacks are loaded into memory when you open the mainstack: you have not to check where there are... and can refer to them without *precaution*

substack question addition

2005-11-30 Thread AbilityForms
Hi everyone, I thought I'd mention a follow up statement. You members are so responsive it's amazing. The two replies so far are interesting. They don't apply to me though. I have no intention of distributing my work so I won't compile it into a stand alone. As far as not rewriting code, I kee

Re: Constant 'Nonsense' about RR documentation

2005-11-30 Thread David Burgun
David Burgun wrote: I learnt Hypercard without a book, and I extended my knowledge, as RR extended xTalk, in the same way: by doing! That's great if you have all the time in the world to "doing" it wrong many times! Especially when the documentaion is just plain wrong! As with the spelling

Re: Constant 'Nonsense' about RR documentation

2005-11-30 Thread Jerry Muelver
From: "David Burgun" RunRev is different in this respect and many times no one seems to actually know what is *supposed* to happen and I get a number of work arounds to a problem (from this list mainly) that may or may not work in all situations. Wiki? Dump the online docs into wiki pages,

Re: Constant 'Nonsense' about RR documentation

2005-11-30 Thread Chipp Walters
David Burgun wrote: This is from the Answer command: The prompt is a string (or any expression that evaluates to a string). The dialog box expands if necessary to fit the contents. This just doesn't happen, in many cases it just gets chopped off. There are other instances, but I really can'

Constant 'Nonsense' about RR documentation

2005-11-30 Thread Mathewson
I am not so psychologically naive to believe that everybody will learn xTalk the way I did - and will not have the luxury of very well paid half-time jobs so that they have the time to devote to learning it the way I have done. It is indeed true that the RR documentation is not comparable with all

Re: Substack Question

2005-11-30 Thread Chipp Walters
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are the advantages of using a substack rather than just starting another mainstack? I use several mainstacks because if one becomes corrupted I can replace it easier from a backup. Joe, Unlike HyperCard, the Rev engine loads full stacks into memory. Because

Re: Substack Question

2005-11-30 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Joe, Le 30 nov. 05 à 15:37, Chipp Walters a écrit : Also, if you're worried about backups, you might try my altArchive plugin, it's used by many in this list. It saves your stack and creates a serialized backup each time it's button is pressed. Great plugin. Lazy or absent-minded people

Re: Constant 'Nonsense' about RR documentation

2005-11-30 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Dave, Do you know what kind of book would represent the docs? In front of me are 2 A4 books (I need my glasses to read them :-) which were sent to me by Runrev with Rev Enterprise 2.0. The first one (User Guide) is 370 pages and the other (Transcript Language Reference) is 570 pages... I t

Re: Constant 'Nonsense' about RR documentation

2005-11-30 Thread David Burgun
David Burgun wrote: This is from the Answer command: The prompt is a string (or any expression that evaluates to a string). The dialog box expands if necessary to fit the contents. This just doesn't happen, in many cases it just gets chopped off. There are other instances, but I really can'

Re: Transparency and PNG format

2005-11-30 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Graham, PNGs support transparency as well as not. They are IMO the best for lossless compression. GIFs are good for animation. I use PNGs all of the time. I use Photoshop (not elements) and when I save a png I delete my background and make sure the BG is transparent (with little checker b

Re: Constant 'Nonsense' about RR documentation

2005-11-30 Thread David Burgun
Hi Dave, Do you know what kind of book would represent the docs? In front of me are 2 A4 books (I need my glasses to read them :-) which were sent to me by Runrev with Rev Enterprise 2.0. The first one (User Guide) is 370 pages and the other (Transcript Language Reference) is 570 pages... I thi

Re:Transparency and PNG format

2005-11-30 Thread Glenn E. Fisher
Graham, On November 29, 2005 4:05:09 PM CST you wrote: (GraphicConverter on the Mac is really good for this - a lot simpler than Photoshop Elements... but I digress). However when I import a PNG as an image, the transparency disappears and the figure therefore appears in a white rectangle. He

Re: Constant 'Nonsense' about RR documentation

2005-11-30 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Dave, Le 30 nov. 05 à 16:14, David Burgun a écrit : Hi Dave, Do you know what kind of book would represent the docs? In front of me are 2 A4 books (I need my glasses to read them :-) which were sent to me by Runrev with Rev Enterprise 2.0. The first one (User Guide) is 370 pages and the o

Re: SQL question -- TIP on Valentina SQL

2005-11-30 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 11/30/05 5:23 PM, "Ivan Smahin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Florian, > > Tuesday, November 29, 2005, 9:33:22 PM, you wrote: > >> Hi all! >> >> Say I have two tables: >> >> TABLE CUSTOMER with fields ID,NAME,ADRESS >> >> And >> >> TABLE PAYBACKCARD with fields CUSTOMER_ID,ID,CARDNUM

Rev stack format: [was Scope Problem on Standalones]

2005-11-30 Thread Rob Cozens
Richard, et al: v2.4 is the last engine version in which the file format changed Could you please put that in perspective of Rev releases? I just moved from v2.1.2 on MacOS X to v2.6.1 on Windows XP. At least 60% of my stacks will not open in 2.6.1 (either "There was a problem opening that

Re: Constant 'Nonsense' about RR documentation

2005-11-30 Thread David Burgun
Hi Dave, Le 30 nov. 05 à 16:14, David Burgun a écrit : Hi Dave, Do you know what kind of book would represent the docs? In front of me are 2 A4 books (I need my glasses to read them :-) which were sent to me by Runrev with Rev Enterprise 2.0. The first one (User Guide) is 370 pages and the oth

Re: More newbie problems

2005-11-30 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I know exacctly what you are feeling - I had the same experience about 18 months ago! Here's what I have found is the best way to do this - at least for me! Instead of using the MainStack/Substacks all in one file approach, I've found is it better to made each Main Window (either real or

Front Stack/Window???

2005-11-30 Thread David Burgun
Hi, Is there a message that gets sent to a stack when it becomes the front most window? e.g. when it is selected by the user, e.g. if there are two stacks: StackA and StackB, if StackB is selected and the user then clicks into StackA ) I would like Stack A to know this fact? For StackB to

Re: Front Stack/Window???

2005-11-30 Thread Martin Baxter
David Burgun wrote: Hi, Is there a message that gets sent to a stack when it becomes the front most window? e.g. when it is selected by the user, e.g. if there are two stacks: StackA and StackB, if StackB is selected and the user then clicks into StackA ) I would like Stack A to know this

Re: Constant 'Nonsense' about RR documentation

2005-11-30 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, David Burgun wrote: > It must be as hard or harder to maintain the online docs that > seperate PDF files. > > If they made say broke it down into (say) 7 books, it shouldn't be so > hard to do. And as long as the latest updates were available online. > I am not necessarily talking about

AW: Front Stack/Window???

2005-11-30 Thread Thomas Fischer
Hello, actually, it might be useful to activate the Message Watcher (available in the Debug Menu when editing a script, but staying around after the script is closed). It will be necessary to suppress some messages (at least cRevGeneral - what is this, by the way? Revolutions version of HC'S id

Backups Picker plugin

2005-11-30 Thread Stephen Barncard
And it has saved my posterior many times... Thanks Eric, I never code without it. Lazy or absent-minded people might be interested, as many in this list ;-) in my Backups Picker plugin that can entirely automate the process (specify a delay, how many backups keep, etc) Best Regards from Paris

Valentina?

2005-11-30 Thread Steve
I see there is a deal going were if you buy revolution they give you valentina. Does anybody have anything good or bad to say about valentina? I was going to be buying revolution anyways and maybe I should jump and buy before the offer expires. Thanks Steve

Re: Valentina?

2005-11-30 Thread Robert Brenstein
I see there is a deal going were if you buy revolution they give you valentina. Does anybody have anything good or bad to say about valentina? I was going to be buying revolution anyways and maybe I should jump and buy before the offer expires. Thanks Steve if you are going to buy revolution a

Re: Imitated multi-thread

2005-11-30 Thread Hershel Fisch
On 11/11/05 7:52 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hershel Thanks, just to mention a few things, 1) to have a reminder beep and open the calendar at the time of an appointment scheduled, 2) to search my emails every lets say 15 minutes or so. Hershel Fisch > > Depends on what

Re: ANN: Answer Dialog Patch Available

2005-11-30 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Hi Chipp, I haven't downloaded your patch yet to have a look, but is it still necessary? RunRev changed things in 2.6.0 so that the answer text wrapped, and this caused some problems with cut-off text. However as far as I can see, this was fixed in version 2.6.1 Are there still problems that I ha

Re: ANN: Answer Dialog Patch Available

2005-11-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
Sarah Reichelt wrote: I haven't downloaded your patch yet to have a look, but is it still necessary? RunRev changed things in 2.6.0 so that the answer text wrapped, and this caused some problems with cut-off text. However as far as I can see, this was fixed in version 2.6.1 Are there still probl

RE: Imitated multi-thread

2005-11-30 Thread MisterX
> On 11/11/05 7:52 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hershel > > Thanks, just to mention a few things, 1) to have a reminder > beep and open the calendar at the time of an appointment > scheduled, 2) to search my emails every lets say 15 minutes or so. > Hershel Fisch

Re: ANN: Answer Dialog Patch Available

2005-11-30 Thread Roger Guay
Chip, This is wonderful! I really appreciate what you and many others on this list do for us all. Many thanks and cheers, Roger On Nov 29, 2005, at 2:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 1 Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:39:53 -0600 From: Chipp Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ANN:

Re: More newbie problems

2005-11-30 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You are saving the new mainstack, then opening *that* file, not the old file housing the mainstack you are moving, right? Basically, each file represents a specific mainstack and its associated substacks. If you have mainstack A in file A.rev an

Re: ANN: Answer Dialog Patch Available

2005-11-30 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 12/1/05, Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sarah Reichelt wrote: > > I haven't downloaded your patch yet to have a look, but is it still > > necessary? > > RunRev changed things in 2.6.0 so that the answer text wrapped, and > > this caused some problems with cut-off text. However as f

OT - MySQL, PHP, and Japanese text

2005-11-30 Thread N Cueto
I'm using "put URL tURL" to call a PHP page, which in turn accesses a MySQL database. (Please note that PHP is the only way my webhost allows MySQL administration.) This was working fine until I tried selecting Japanese text, which is now ending up garbled at stack level. If it helps, here's m

RE: Constant 'Nonsense' about RR documentation

2005-11-30 Thread John Tregea
I think AppleScript (and CyberDog) was/were Apple's end result when they looked for a way to implement "system wide" hypertalk. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Shafer Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 7:02 AM To: How to use Revolution Su

RE: Constant 'Nonsense' about RR documentation

2005-11-30 Thread John Tregea
The MOST useful book (to me) by far in many years of commercial scripting with HyperCard was Dan Shafer's book on HyperTalk Scripting. It got used almost everyday for ten years or so. Additions to the language were always available in the "What's New" section of the users guide for each new version

Re: AW: Front Stack/Window???

2005-11-30 Thread Charles Hartman
On Nov 30, 2005, at 1:03 PM, Thomas Fischer wrote: actually, it might be useful to activate the Message Watcher (available in the Debug Menu when editing a script, but staying around after the script is closed). It will be necessary to suppress some messages (at least cRevGeneral - what is

Re: AW: Front Stack/Window???

2005-11-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
Charles Hartman wrote: On Nov 30, 2005, at 1:03 PM, Thomas Fischer wrote: actually, it might be useful to activate the Message Watcher (available in the Debug Menu when editing a script, but staying around after the script is closed). It will be necessary to suppress some messages (at lea

Re: AW: Front Stack/Window???

2005-11-30 Thread Alex Tweedly
Richard Gaskin wrote: UmbrellaMan does that by letting you select which messages you want to monitor. It's available in RevNet: Development->Plugins->GoRevNet Where is it once I get into GoRevNet ? It's not in the obvious place (Stacks / UmbrellaMan). btw - each time I use GoRevNet, it down

Re: AW: Front Stack/Window???

2005-11-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alex Tweedly wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: UmbrellaMan does that by letting you select which messages you want to monitor. It's available in RevNet: Development->Plugins->GoRevNet Where is it once I get into GoRevNet ? It's not in the obvious place (Stacks / UmbrellaMan). It's in "Stacks"

Re: AW: Front Stack/Window???

2005-11-30 Thread Jim Ault
"4W Unbrellaman" is the exact spelling in the list. On 11/30/05 5:16 PM, "Alex Tweedly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> UmbrellaMan does that by letting you select which messages you want to >> monitor. >> >> It's available in RevNet: >> Development->Plugins->GoRevNet >

Why isn't Rev more popular?

2005-11-30 Thread Mark Swindell
What is the main reason (if there is such a thing) that Rev is not more popular among professional developers/programmers? It's been around awhile now. People have had a chance to hear about it. It has garnered some awards, at least on the Mac side. On the face of things you'd think it

Re: Why isn't Rev more popular?

2005-11-30 Thread Dan Shafer
I'm sure that is a question the RunRev folks would like to have an answer to as well. There certainly isn't just one reason and I doubt there is one main reason. There's a host of things that make up the answer including: 1. As a small company, RunRev doesn't have the resources to get the product

Documented Cursor Bug...Please try.

2005-11-30 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi all, Jerry Daniels and I spent about an hour today trying to create a very simple recipe to replicate the 'Cursor stuck on I-beam' phenomenon most of us see regularly. I've built cursor libraries in the past to fix this, but the latest Rev engine (Windows) goes bezerk with the hand cursor

Re: Why isn't Rev more popular?

2005-11-30 Thread sims
I'm sure that is a question the RunRev folks would like to have an answer to as well. There certainly isn't just one reason and I doubt there is one main reason. There's a host of things that make up the answer including: 1. As a small company, RunRev doesn't have the resources to get the product

Re: Documented Cursor Bug...Please try.

2005-11-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
Chipp Walters wrote: Hi all, Jerry Daniels and I spent about an hour today trying to create a very simple recipe to replicate the 'Cursor stuck on I-beam' phenomenon most of us see regularly. I've built cursor libraries in the past to fix this, but the latest Rev engine (Windows) goes bezerk

Re: Documented Cursor Bug...Please try.

2005-11-30 Thread sims
Hi all, Jerry Daniels and I spent about an hour today trying to create a very simple recipe to replicate the 'Cursor stuck on I-beam' phenomenon most of us see regularly. I've built cursor libraries in the past to fix this, but the latest Rev engine (Windows) goes bezerk with the hand cursor

Re: Documented Cursor Bug...Please try.

2005-11-30 Thread Dick Kriesel
Your test successfully demonstrated the problem on my Mac running OS X 10.4.3 with Rev 2.6.1 Build 152. -- Dick On 11/30/05 8:38 PM, "Chipp Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Jerry Daniels and I spent about an hour today trying to create a very > simple recipe to replicate the '

Re: Documented Cursor Bug...Please try.

2005-11-30 Thread Chipp Walters
Richard Gaskin wrote: As for the "junk" cursor image, as you sure you're using v2.6.1? From the v2.6.1 changelog: Bug 885: Corrupted cursor issue ~~~ In previous engine versions, setting the defaultCursor property to a non built-in image and then setting the cursor to a non bu

CAN REVOLUTION ACHIEVE THIS?

2005-11-30 Thread Nicholas Nginya
Dear Fellow Revolution Users, I have recently come across the revolution software and am quite impressed by it, however am not a developer and thence am requesting your comments and advice as to whether REVOLUTION can support the below described project. This is also an invitation

Re: ANN: Answer Dialog Patch Available

2005-11-30 Thread Chipp Walters
Richard Gaskin wrote: Sarah Reichelt wrote: I haven't downloaded your patch yet to have a look, but is it still necessary? RunRev changed things in 2.6.0 so that the answer text wrapped, and this caused some problems with cut-off text. However as far as I can see, this was fixed in version 2

Re: Why isn't Rev more popular?

2005-11-30 Thread Judy Perry
I take exception to that!!! (okay, I see your point... I'm doing my small part, however, as is Devin I assume). Judy On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Dan Shafer wrote: > 4. It's not taught at the university level. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@l

Biometrics: In case you thought I was BSing...

2005-11-30 Thread Judy Perry
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/7000/20051130/101501.htm Judy ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http

Re: Documented Cursor Bug...Please try.

2005-11-30 Thread Jim Ault
I-beam the same as you beam. 2.6.1 build 152 [OSX 10.4.2, Mac G5 dual ] & [OSX 10.3.9, G4 400 mHz ] Jim Ault Las Vegas On 11/30/05 8:38 PM, "Chipp Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jerry Daniels and I spent about an hour today trying to create a very > simple recipe to replicate the 'Cur

Re: Why isn't Rev more popular?

2005-11-30 Thread Thomas McGrath III
I thought Rev was becoming very popular. Tom On Nov 30, 2005, at 8:50 PM, Mark Swindell wrote: What is the main reason (if there is such a thing) that Rev is not more popular among professional developers/programmers? It's been around awhile now. People have had a chance to hear about it.

Re: Why isn't Rev more popular?

2005-11-30 Thread Alessandro Manotti
I think RunRev is not yet so mature (and maybe a little too expensive...) to be used in big company projects (not only to create beautiful electronic books, kiosks, etc...). On 12/1/05, Thomas McGrath III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought Rev was becoming very popular. > > Tom > On Nov 3