RE: [ANN] Renumbering Images with new IDs

2005-12-17 Thread Scott Kane
Xavier, I'm positive your stuff is very cool (I'm still trying to work out what it all does), but the reason for my reply is to simply say - relax... :-) I come from Borland Delphi on Windows (I still design and create all my Windows app's using Delphi 7 and have done so since the Delphi Beta

Re: [ANN] Renumbering Images with new IDs

2005-12-17 Thread Chipp Walters
Xavier, This is something I've had to write in order to keep my libraries, plugins and gadgets from all 'bumping into each other.' Didn't know you had already created one, but even from your own admission yours has a few bugs. I've tried your stuff a couple of times before, and sorry, but it

Re: ANN: XOSMediaLib 2.4.7

2005-12-17 Thread Chipp Walters
Xavier, After looking at your project and mine, I think we both can agree, they appear to be for very different tasks. Congratulations on your release! It looks like a lot of work went into it. best, Chipp MisterX wrote: A new update is released of xosmedialib... Version 2.4.7 is packed

Re: Ask us anything and the executionContexts

2005-12-17 Thread Dick Kriesel
Your answer left me a hope that maybe we were just a BZ away from being able to use the executionContexts in a standalone, so I decided to search BZ before asking about that possibility. The result was a surprise, so here's another question: Would you please comment on the resolutions of BZ 724

RE: [ANN] Renumbering Images with new IDs

2005-12-17 Thread MisterX
Chipp, I'll gladly help... but lets work together ;) if some thing in my stack doesn't fit your fancy, let me know about it - which you rarely do. If you don't tell me what's wrong, how can I fix it? If a teacher doesn't tell a student about a bad habit, you know what happens to the student and

RE: [ANN] Renumbering Images with new IDs

2005-12-17 Thread MisterX
Scott very cool indeed! I know how good Delphi is because FLStudio uses that environment to make FruityLoops which is IMOHO the runtime revolution of music making. ;) HyperCard was the first CMS I used for notes taking in college. Since then it has grown to do enterprise storage administration

RE: ANN: XOSMediaLib 2.4.7

2005-12-17 Thread MisterX
Thanks Chipp Lots of work, bugzillas, crashes... lots... The worse was porting to osx and it's demanding users ;) Lots of testing too - believe it or not... BTW, Im just released 2.4.8 - it's fast evolving ;) - The change id of selected image via the image menu didn't work! ;) - now it should

RE: [ANN] Renumbering Images with new IDs

2005-12-17 Thread Scott Kane
Hi Xavier, Don't get me wrong, I'm not looking for a Delphi vs. Rev argument. g. There are things that Rev can do that Delphi can't. Multiple platform for starters. I tried RealBasic in the process of evaluating the multi-platform universe and found it to be absolutely terrible. In terms of

RE: [ANN] Renumbering Images with new IDs

2005-12-17 Thread Scott Kane
Just to add fuel to the fire, Im working on a new DB model which I call NodeDB - im not too happy in sql and why not make something even more xtalk like, ahem practical for Rev! Anything to make rev do my workflow faster - hopefully it's compatible with other users ;) Databases! LOL!

RE: [ANN] Renumbering Images with new IDs

2005-12-17 Thread MisterX
Scott, I wouldn't dare comparing the environments... Both have their purpose and place... They are different products despite being the same... I think that to use inline ASM in rev you need to do so in a c compiler and wrappit up in an external ;) cheers Xavier -Original Message-

Re: Typesetting functions

2005-12-17 Thread yoy
- Original Message - I'll check on Scott rolling credits... Sivakatirswami I can pretty much guarantee that until computer monitors have 2000+ pixels to the inch, it'll never happen. Dammit!!! Andy ___ use-revolution mailing list

RE: [ANN] Renumbering Images with new IDs

2005-12-17 Thread Scott Kane
I wouldn't dare comparing the environments... Both have their purpose and place... They are different products despite being the same... I agree 100% I think that to use inline ASM in rev you need to do so in a c compiler and wrappit up in an external ;) Hadn't thought of that...

RE: Typesetting functions

2005-12-17 Thread MisterX
Andy, Sorry, but this is possible in FreeHand 1.0 or illustrator 1.0 eons ago ;) But there's another good reason to have 3D in rev to zoom in further ;) cheers Xavier -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of yoy Sent: Saturday, 17

Re: Typesetting functions

2005-12-17 Thread yoy
- Original Message - From: MisterX [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'How to use Revolution' use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 5:29 AM Subject: RE: Typesetting functions Andy, Sorry, but this is possible in FreeHand 1.0 or illustrator 1.0 eons ago ;) But

Re: MacOS X, player, long filename and accented chars : solved

2005-12-17 Thread Dom
Thomas McGrath III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got the same error, however the file was unstuffed even with the error. but it was a 0 Kb file ;- -- Revolutionario ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Cross-Platform Memory Inconsistencies

2005-12-17 Thread Mathewson
Why does a stack on a CD run really quite well on a Pentium 2, 300MHz, 128 MB RAM (Win 98), a Pentium 3, 700 MHz, 128 MB RAM (Ubuntu 5.10) and grind to a shuddering halt on an iMac G3, 333MHz, 320 MB RAM (Mac 10.4)? This is a 'bother' as one has to plan for eventualities with machines and

Re: MacOS X, player, long filename and accented chars : solved

2005-12-17 Thread Thierry Arbellot
The stack is available on another server Here are the links : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/hal/player.rev http://perso.wanadoo.fr/hal/player.rev.zip Cheers, Thierry On 2005, Dec 16, , at 21:26, Thierry Arbellot wrote: OK I will put the stack without compression on the server on Monday. Thierry

Re: MacOS X, player, long filename and accented chars : solved

2005-12-17 Thread Thierry Arbellot
On 2005, Dec 16, , at 20:35, Eric Chatonet wrote: Hi Thierry, Bonjour Eric, Dom is a mac user and he can't decompress your archive since the last available version of Stuffit is 9.01 on this platform. I'm on a Mac (10.3.8) too and use Stuffit 10. Why not upgrade ? It's free :-) I

Re: MacOS X, player, long filename and accented chars : solved

2005-12-17 Thread Klaus Major
Hi all, Thomas McGrath III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got the same error, however the file was unstuffed even with the error. but it was a 0 Kb file ;- I hope Thierry does not mind if i put that namely stack in OS X zip format on my homepage:

RE: Cross-Platform Memory Inconsistencies

2005-12-17 Thread MisterX
Maybe it's time you admited pcs are not so bad after all ;) Welcome to the cross-plaform world... I hear standard buttons or animated gifs are a bad CPU cycle eater in the osx world... Xavier http://monsieurx.com/taoo - going where no object's been before -Original Message- From:

Re: [ANN] Renumbering Images with new IDs

2005-12-17 Thread Alex Tweedly
MisterX wrote: [ ] no doubt but I prefer to have features united under a concise manager than having 10 disparate tools to do the same job - usually workflow related jobs in my case. Whereas I generally prefer to have single-purpose tools, so that when I need one, having not used

Cross-Platform Memory Inconsistencies

2005-12-17 Thread Mathewson
I have absolutely no problem with PCs - in fact my day-to-day income depends on 4 COMPAQs running Ubuntu Linux 5.10. What I do not like is MS Windows. Notwithstanding those slightly OT remarks: There seems to be no effective way of telling what the memory requirements of an RR stack will be

Re: Best modality for rather large stacks

2005-12-17 Thread Alex Tweedly
Kurt Kaufman wrote: I know there was a discussion on this topic about a year ago, when I inquired about the necessity of using a formal database extension to Rev vs. a text file vs. multiple substacks. I ended up going with the substacks as in doing so multiple users could concurrently

Word XML

2005-12-17 Thread Preston Shea
Has anyone used MS Word 2003 to write XML for Revolution? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

RE: [ANN] Renumbering Images with new IDs

2005-12-17 Thread MisterX
Alex, truly insightful ;) I do use this tool all the time one way or another even If I don't use it directly... My palettes, my stack's button bars, all use a unified media stack after a bugzilla by the number of 2449... And it was Tuv's idea too ;)

yet a few thousand more icons ;)

2005-12-17 Thread MisterX
http://www.yellowicon.com http://jimmac.musichall.cz/icons.php there's lots of icons out there... ;) Rev imports them fine... but... you can't browse them easily, you can't edit them easily... Rev wont either import them with the right ID or checking that the ID is not duplicate... arrange

RE: Word XML

2005-12-17 Thread MisterX
you mean hello world translates to: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8 standalone=yes? ?mso-application progid=Word.Document? w:wordDocument xmlns:w=http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml; xmlns:v=urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml xmlns:w10=urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word

RE: Cross-Platform Memory Inconsistencies

2005-12-17 Thread MisterX
What I do not like is MS Windows. I can understand this... but you should have another look. As a standard UI It cannot be avoided and Moft - as much as I hated them - do try (and do get it right once in a while) to make a good job of it... Just like Rev tries to make all of us as happy as

Debugging and the execution path

2005-12-17 Thread graham samuel
Folks, for years I've been debugging Rev projects with what I now realise is a rather poor subset of the available facilities: basically I have set breakpoints, stepped through code using the debugger, and looked at variables using the Variable Watcher. Now however I have a tricky 'how did

Re: MacOS X, player, long filename and accented chars : solved

2005-12-17 Thread Thomas McGrath III
The file opened in Rev and was a player window with a button to select a file. It was not 0Kb. the stuffit error did not effect the file. HHmm... Tom On Dec 17, 2005, at 6:37 AM, Dom wrote: Thomas McGrath III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got the same error, however the file was unstuffed

Re: MacOS X, player, long filename and accented chars : solved

2005-12-17 Thread Charles Hartman
I haven't played with players before, and I have a really simple question: If I want to add a keystroke handler to this player stack, how do I do it? I can put a rawKeyDown handler in either the stack or the card, and keystrokes are recognized. (Not if I put the handler in the script of

Re: MacOS X, player, long filename and accented chars : solved

2005-12-17 Thread Dom
Thierry Arbellot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/hal/player.rev.zip ça roule ! that rolls! :-) -- Revolutionario ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: Cross-Platform Memory Inconsistencies

2005-12-17 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Richmond, From the docs (FAQ): How do I estimate how much memory your application will need? The amount of memory required by your standalone application depends on many factors, including the platform, the complexity of your code, which Revolution custom libraries you include, and how

Re: Debugging and the execution path

2005-12-17 Thread Alex Tweedly
graham samuel wrote: Folks, for years I've been debugging Rev projects with what I now realise is a rather poor subset of the available facilities: basically I have set breakpoints, stepped through code using the debugger, and looked at variables using the Variable Watcher. Now however I

Re: Export to Excel

2005-12-17 Thread Jim Ault
On 12/16/05 11:13 PM, Bill Vlahos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen some programs export it directly into Excel without going through a file on disk. How is that done? I assume on the Mac I could use AppleScript but how would I do it on Windows? Your task seems rather uncomplicated as you

How to set a field in place with dragenter and a singleclick?

2005-12-17 Thread William de Smet
Hi there, For my first app I am looking for a function where a field would stick to the mouseloc after a mouseclick and on the next mouseclick to let the field go (I work with disabled children so need to make it as easy as possible!) By accident (after playing with dragEnter) I got what I

Re: Ask us anything and the executionContexts

2005-12-17 Thread Ken Ray
On 12/17/05 3:14 AM, Dick Kriesel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your answer left me a hope that maybe we were just a BZ away from being able to use the executionContexts in a standalone, so I decided to search BZ before asking about that possibility. Dick, are you saying that you can't use

Re: Ask us anything and the executionContexts

2005-12-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
Dick Kriesel wrote: Your answer left me a hope that maybe we were just a BZ away from being able to use the executionContexts in a standalone, so I decided to search BZ before asking about that possibility. The result was a surprise, so here's another question: Would you please comment on the

Re: Chunking, Array's and I've lost my mind...

2005-12-17 Thread Jerry Daniels
The lower the acid ph, the higher temperature required--rule of thumb. Best, Jerry Daniels Tool makers for the 21st century http://www.daniels-mara.com/products On Dec 16, 2005, at 10:34 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: When applying a patina to cold rolled steel using a patina that does

Re: Chunking, Array's and I've lost my mind...

2005-12-17 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Jerry, Thanks, I will put that on my thumb. Tom On Dec 17, 2005, at 1:04 PM, Jerry Daniels wrote: The lower the acid ph, the higher temperature required--rule of thumb. Best, Jerry Daniels Thomas J McGrath III [EMAIL PROTECTED] Semantic Compaction Systems SCIconics, LLC Lazy River

Image resolution

2005-12-17 Thread Marty Knapp
I'm putting the finishing touches on a project and have started designing the graphics (using Photoshop), but I can't seem to find anything about image resolution. It sounds like the .png format is a great way to go. These images will just be for the screen- background icons, not for

Re: Image resolution

2005-12-17 Thread William de Smet
Hi Marty, I had some problems with PNG transparency on Windows XP. On MacOSX it worked perfect. William Op 17-dec-2005, om 19:30 heeft Marty Knapp het volgende geschreven: I'm putting the finishing touches on a project and have started designing the graphics (using Photoshop), but I

Re: Chunking, Array's and I've lost my mind...

2005-12-17 Thread Jim Ault
My rule of thumb is the lower the pH, the faster I remove it, and the corollary is the higher the temperature the faster I remove it. If both move to the extreme, the faster I decide not to put it in in the first place. Jim Ault Las Vegas On 12/17/05 10:04 AM, Jerry Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debugging and the execution path

2005-12-17 Thread Mark Wieder
Alex- Saturday, December 17, 2005, 8:49:19 AM, you wrote: Also, in the script editor, you can use the menu View / Go to line ... to go to a line number. Unfortunately, you can't do that while in debugger mode - the whole View menu is not enabled at that point. Interesting. This was possible

Re: Image resolution

2005-12-17 Thread Marty Knapp
William de Smet wrote: Hi Marty, I had some problems with PNG transparency on Windows XP. On MacOSX it worked perfect. William Seems like I recall a post that suggested using an alpha channel to preserve transparency - does anyone recall that? In regard to my graphic resolution

Re: Image resolution

2005-12-17 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Marty, If what you mean by 'image resolution' is what dpi to set for, then you should know it's not important for screen images-- as they're displayed at typically whatever the resolution of the monitor is. If I'm not worried about printing, I just set the dpi to 72. The important part of

Re: Image resolution

2005-12-17 Thread Chipp Walters
Marty Knapp wrote: Seems like I recall a post that suggested using an alpha channel to preserve transparency - does anyone recall that? To preserve transparency for PNGs. Create your artwork on a layer (not the background layer!) in Photoshop. Make sure the checkerboard pattern shows

Re: Image resolution

2005-12-17 Thread Marty Knapp
Chipp Walters wrote: Hi Marty, If what you mean by 'image resolution' is what dpi to set for, then you should know it's not important for screen images-- as they're displayed at typically whatever the resolution of the monitor is. If I'm not worried about printing, I just set the dpi to 72.

Re: Debugging and the execution path

2005-12-17 Thread Alex Tweedly
Mark Wieder wrote: Alex- Saturday, December 17, 2005, 8:49:19 AM, you wrote: Also, in the script editor, you can use the menu View / Go to line ... to go to a line number. Unfortunately, you can't do that while in debugger mode - the whole View menu is not enabled at that point.

Re: Image resolution

2005-12-17 Thread Bill Marriott
Marty: I have used transparent (and partially transparent) PNGs many times with Revolution on Windows XP and never had a problem. The only issue with PNGs on XP I know of is that IE6 doesn't support them well (but there is a workaround for that as well). I do think PNG is the ideal format,

Re: Image resolution

2005-12-17 Thread Marty Knapp
Bill Marriott wrote: Marty: The only issue with PNGs on XP I know of is that IE6 doesn't support them well (but there is a workaround for that as well) Hey Bill, What's the issue with IE6? Is the workaround posted somewhere? Thanks for the help! marty Knapp

Re: Image resolution

2005-12-17 Thread Bill Marriott
Marty, The issue and fix are described wonderfully at: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/ Bill Marty Knapp wrote What's the issue with [transparent PNG and] IE6? Is the workaround posted somewhere? ___ use-revolution mailing list

Png versus jpeg (was: Re: Image resolution)

2005-12-17 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Marty, Chipp and others have given you very good advice. I just want to draw your attention to the relative weights of images saved as png or jpeg. Png are a lot heavier depending on the jpeg compression. For instance, png is about 2.5 x uncompressed jpeg and if you choose a moderate

Re: Image resolution

2005-12-17 Thread Marty Knapp
Thanks to all for your help with my image questions. Now I can go to work! Marty Knapp ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Debugging and the execution path

2005-12-17 Thread graham samuel
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 16:49:19 +, Alex Tweedly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the Variable Watcher, just to the right of the drop-down menu of objects/contexts, there is a button like a scroll of paper. Clicking on that will take you to the script line of the currently selected context.

Re: Debugging and the execution path

2005-12-17 Thread Alex Tweedly
graham samuel wrote: On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 16:49:19 +, Alex Tweedly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the Variable Watcher, just to the right of the drop-down menu of objects/contexts, there is a button like a scroll of paper. Clicking on that will take you to the script line of the currently

Re: Cross-Platform Memory Inconsistencies

2005-12-17 Thread David Vaughan
On 17/12/2005, at 22:58, Mathewson [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Why does a stack on a CD run really quite well on a Pentium 2, 300MHz, 128 MB RAM (Win 98), a Pentium 3, 700 MHz, 128 MB RAM (Ubuntu 5.10) and grind to a shuddering halt on an iMac G3, 333MHz, 320 MB RAM (Mac 10.4)? This is a 'bother'

Forum

2005-12-17 Thread Mark Wieder
All- Frappr has just instituted fora, which they insist on calling forums, so I set one up for us. Nothing in there yet, and it's completely unmoderated, so we'll see how this goes. Personally I don't have much love for these things, so you won't see me there much, but it's there if you want a

Re: Typesetting functions

2005-12-17 Thread Sivakatirswami
OK, I threw in the towel completely, replaced tabs with a single space simple centered everything in the field: Correspondents Rajiv Malik, Delhi Choodamani Sivaram, Bangalore Prabha Prabhakar Bhardwaj, Delhi Madhu Kishwar, Delhi Mangala Prasad Mohanty, Orissa V. S. Gopalakrishnan, Kerala

How restrict display to 1024x768 on larger screens

2005-12-17 Thread Kresten Bjerg
We have developed a stack size 3072 x 2304, thus having 9 different full screens available on a card, when using a 1024 x 768 screen. This works fine on such a screen. But how can we limit the appearance on larger screens, so precisely a given of the 9 windows, and only that, can be seen ?

CGI Database

2005-12-17 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Hi all I need a step by step how to about installing and configuring rev cgi with database support on os x: what i have tried: I am running rev cgi engine vers. 2.5 I was unable to obtain a more up to date engine that runs on mac os x (neither linux engine (understandeable) nor mac os x

Re: How restrict display to 1024x768 on larger screens

2005-12-17 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Kresten, May be I don't understand well your problem but here is how I would imagine a reliable solution: Stack window: 1024*768 All objects grouped - group locked - size: 1024 768 Then I would set the scroll of the group according to the screen I want to display. On larger screens if

Re: Forum

2005-12-17 Thread Judy Perry
Will Fauna Merryweather be there? Judy On 12/17/05, Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All- Frappr has just instituted fora, which they insist on calling forums, so I set one up for us. Nothing in there yet, and it's completely unmoderated, so we'll see how this goes. Personally I don't