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
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:
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
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
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 all
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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,CARDNUMBER
If I search for
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
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
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
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
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
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 a
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
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
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
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
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 you
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
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
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
Oh that kind
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:
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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:39:53 -0600
From: Chipp Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ANN:
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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
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 far as I
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 my
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
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.
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
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
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
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 as
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
Where is it once
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 'Cursor
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
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
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
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.
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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 'Cursor
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.
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 30,
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