Re: On the Democratic Operation of Bugzilla

2006-02-24 Thread Judy Perry
Here, here! I agree wholeheartedly, Rob. I mean, y'all know that I have and will likely continue to do more than my own fair share of kvetching... But I also have to say that I have seen responsiveness on most if not all of the issues I kvetch about most: *Reasonable hobbyist/IU/educational

RE: On the Democratic Operation of Bugzilla

2006-02-24 Thread Scott Kane
Lingo went to c.dot.syntax.hell in a very short fashion... Please don't let Transcript follow behind Lingo! I'm sure I wouldn't want to ask RR to make Rev use dot notation - but it's a nice way to work when you are used to it. ;-) Scott ___

RE: mySQL and Rev 2.7 - fails once built app

2006-02-24 Thread John Tregea
Dear Chipp, Thanks for your help, I am experimenting now. Regards John T -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chipp Walters Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 2:16 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: mySQL and Rev 2.7 - fails once built

RE: mySQL and Rev 2.7 - fails once built app

2006-02-24 Thread John Tregea
Dear Tom, Hmmm... Good questions you ask. I started the stack in Rev 2.6.1 then opened it in 2.7 Enterprise for a final evaluation (when it came out). I use no other libraries or plugins. It was no problem in 2.6.1 to build the app onto my desktop (Win XP Pro) and then run the built app from

Re: SetWindow

2006-02-24 Thread Robert Presender
Thank you Ken. Just what I needed. Regards ... Bob On Feb 23, 2006, at 10:00 AM, Ken Ray wrote: On 2/23/06 8:34 AM, Robert Presender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SuperCard has a command: setWindow window x If used, it negates the need to use 'of window x'. So far, I haven't found a Rev

Focus on an external app

2006-02-24 Thread Paul Consolo
I've a button that paste a text, and I'd like to have this text to be pasted on an external app (a text editor window, an email message, etc.) WITHOUT knowing before the name of that app (the app will be the one focused immediately before I push the button on my Rev stack). There's a way?

There's a cockroach in my soup...

2006-02-24 Thread Bob Warren
In a Restaurant Customer #1: Waiter! Excuse me, but there's a cockroach in my soup. Waiter: So? Customer #2: What do you mean, So?? Waiter: Well, that's quite normal. Customer #1: What?! Waiter (to Customer #2): Excuse me sir, but do you have any cockroaches in your soup? Customer #2: No.

There's a bug in my cockroach in my soup

2006-02-24 Thread Bob Warren
Line 3 of There's a cockroach in my soup should read Customer #1 and not Customer #2. Please send me your votes on the importance of this bug. If I receive enough votes, I will change it. Otherwise, it stays. Thank you very much. Bob Warren (playwright)

Re: There's a bug in my cockroach in my soup

2006-02-24 Thread Dave Cope
Bob Warren wrote: Line 3 of There's a cockroach in my soup should read Customer #1 and not Customer #2. Please send me your votes on the importance of this bug. If I receive enough votes, I will change it. Otherwise, it stays. Thank you very much. Bob Warren (playwright)

Re: File sharing, locking, etc... between multiple users...

2006-02-24 Thread Jonathan Lynch
I just changed the scripts in Task Mage and Remote Task Mage to use flag files... This turns out to be a much more elegant approach. Simplifies things in a number of places. These kinds of discussions are very useful for programmers who are self-taught. :) Jonathan

Re: So long and thanks for all the stacks...

2006-02-24 Thread Jonathan Lynch
I don't understand... Why is Xavier giving up on Rev? On 2/24/06, Scott Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Xavier, I really think you're overacting just a tiddly bit... Scott ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: So long and thanks for all the stacks...

2006-02-24 Thread Jim Ault
On 2/24/06 7:00 AM, Jonathan Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand... Why is Xavier giving up on Rev? Probably reached a point where the hours he spends trying to get tools working don't get him where he needs/wants to go. Sounds like he has built a very extensive environment

I Can't download 2.7 for OS X

2006-02-24 Thread LunchnMeets
Hi Everyone, I've tried several times, but I've been unsuccessful in downloading 2.7 for the Mac OS X. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Joe Orlando, Florida ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Opening Hypercard Stack with Revolution 2.7

2006-02-24 Thread simplsol
I have gone back to 2.6.1 so I can't speak directly to the issue. However, be sure you have compacted your HC stack before trying to convert it (sometimes two or even three times). This would help with prior versions. Paul Looney -Original Message- From: BRAMI [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Version plugin for 2.7?

2006-02-24 Thread Devin Asay
Sorry, I lost the URL for downloading Chipp's plugin--the one that lets you save a stack in 2.6.x from 2.7. I had intended to download it, but can't find it now. Can anyone help me out? Devin Devin Asay Humanities Technology and Research Support Center Brigham Young University

Re: So long and thanks for all the stacks...

2006-02-24 Thread Sean Shao
I don't understand... Why is Xavier giving up on Rev? It seems that you're not signed up on the MetaCard list, but there was some accusations from RR in regards to Xavier's license.. http://mail.runrev.com/pipermail/metacard/2006-February/009018.html

Re: On the Democratic Operation of Bugzilla

2006-02-24 Thread Rob Cozens
Garrett: This is not about influencing the direction of the product. This is about how bug reports should be directly given to the company, the company should track it internally and insure that it's taken care of. Users should not have to do anything else, that's why they pay Runtime for

RE: So long and thanks for all the stacks...

2006-02-24 Thread Lynn Fredricks
I don't understand... Why is Xavier giving up on Rev? It seems that you're not signed up on the MetaCard list, but there was some accusations from RR in regards to Xavier's license. There are some issues solely between Xavier and RR which were on the list but had no business being on the

RE: So long and thanks for all the stacks...

2006-02-24 Thread MisterX
That part of it was a quiproquo and I dont blame rev for it. At least once they did read what I said and acted on it! Like I said, no hard feelings, I look forward to other creative activities beyond programming! It's sad to throw away such a long enterprise as was TAOO and the long hours

Re: So long and thanks for all the stacks...

2006-02-24 Thread Jonathan Lynch
My goodness... I read those links. That was painful to read. All of that over a single license! ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Showing linkText on mouse over

2006-02-24 Thread Devin Asay
I have an application with a field that can have link style text in it. I wanted the contents of the linkText of link-style text to show up in a field when you mouse over it, just like in a web browser when you mouse over a hot link. So I wrote this handler in the field. on mouseWithin

RE: So long and thanks for all the stacks...

2006-02-24 Thread MisterX
Not sure, but he may have turned to something that is not as quick, but will allow him to develop for his work flow without the stumbling blocks. Actually im turning to stuff that is light-years ahead of rev... These include: http://flstudio.com - the easiest music production studio out

Re: Showing linkText on mouse over

2006-02-24 Thread Jonathan Lynch
Yes... I do this in Task Mage. The field that displays the link text needs to be placed lower than the mouseloc, so that it does not get in the way. I set it up in task mage so that you can display the link, then either click the link, or move the mouse down and highlight the displayed linktext

Re: File sharing, locking, etc... between multiple users...

2006-02-24 Thread Jim Ault
On 2/24/06 6:55 AM, Jonathan Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just changed the scripts in Task Mage and Remote Task Mage to use flag files... Since you are now using flag files, here some ways I use them in one of my businesses. 1-- The file contains data for another stack or app. The

Re: So long and thanks for all the stacks...

2006-02-24 Thread Thomas McGrath III
I don't see how flstudio or gtlegends has anything to do with Rev, but Hey good luck to you. Maybe we'll see you around, dude. Tom On Feb 24, 2006, at 12:15 PM, MisterX wrote: Actually im turning to stuff that is light-years ahead of rev... These include: http://flstudio.com - the easiest

Re: Showing linkText on mouse over

2006-02-24 Thread Devin Asay
Jonathan, Thanks for the reply. On Feb 24, 2006, at 10:19 AM, Jonathan Lynch wrote: The field that displays the link text needs to be placed lower than the mouseloc, so that it does not get in the way. I'm not sure I'm following this. By 'link text' do you mean text with link style or

RE: So long and thanks for all the stacks...

2006-02-24 Thread MisterX
I don't see how flstudio or gtlegends has anything to do with Rev, but Hey good luck to you. Maybe we'll see you around, dude. Tom FLStudio you could compare to rev very easily. Any audio sample, filter, channel, controller, keyboard, setting or automation is an object you stack up in a

Re: Showing linkText on mouse over

2006-02-24 Thread Jonathan Lynch
hello, What I mean is this: Pretend the following is a link:Q When your mouse moves over the Q, you display a field that shows the content of the linktext. You have to make sure the position of that field does not cover the link, and that it moves with the mouse. Like this (untested, but

Windows beep

2006-02-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
We've had a report in the tech support queue that the beep command does not work on a Windows machine with Rev Studio. I am fairly sure that this isn't a general problem or we would have heard about it, but I wanted to ask here if anyone else has seen this. This person has tested on two

Re: Opening Hypercard Stack with Revolution 2.7

2006-02-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
BRAMI wrote: I Cant open any hypercard stack file with Revolution 2.7, even a simple stack with 1 card 1 field no external ressources and no script ( this just for trial). I get an error message there was a problem opening this stack Is this a problem known with 2.7 ? Yes, it is a

Re: Showing linkText on mouse over

2006-02-24 Thread Devin Asay
On Feb 24, 2006, at 11:10 AM, Jonathan Lynch wrote: hello, What I mean is this: Pretend the following is a link:Q When your mouse moves over the Q, you display a field that shows the content of the linktext. You have to make sure the position of that field does not cover the link,

Re: Windows beep

2006-02-24 Thread Bill Marriott
Rev's beep command on Windows sounds the internal PC speaker/buzzer. It does not issue a sound through the audio card. If a user does not have an internal speaker connected (many systems do not), they will not hear anything when the beep command is issued. Bill J. Landman Gay [EMAIL

Re: Showing linkText on mouse over

2006-02-24 Thread Jonathan Lynch
Cool, sorry I misunderstood. Just in case you need it, you can also click links within unlocked fields, using the selectionchanged handler. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: On the Democratic Operation of Bugzilla

2006-02-24 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hello Tom, Actually, I couldn't make a balance sheet balance for the life of me (no offence to any accountants on this list), but I do appreciate your thoughtful analogy. It falls short of our Bugzilla deal, though. Accountants receive disparate (not desperate; that would be Nortel and

Re: So long and thanks for all the stacks...

2006-02-24 Thread Charles Hartman
FLStudio sounds cool, I thought . . . Eww, but it runs on Windows! Charles (dodging) On Feb 24, 2006, at 12:15 PM, MisterX wrote: Not sure, but he may have turned to something that is not as quick, but will allow him to develop for his work flow without the stumbling blocks. Actually im

Re: So long and thanks for all the stacks...

2006-02-24 Thread Jonathan Lynch
Anyone can mail me before they come to luxembourg for a beer, good food and loads of laughs! ;) cheers Xavier I, for one, shall have wine tonight, and shall toast Xavier to my wife. (Who will probably look at me funny and ask who the heck that is.) J

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 29, Issue 63

2006-02-24 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hi Mark, I am thick as a brick, but by golly, I know when someone is poking fun at my naivety. I live next door, so it wouldn't be sporting of me to comment on the performance of the West Wing. I wish we had a Prime Minister as cool as your President. I think Martin Sheen is great.

Re: On the Democratic Operation of Bugzilla

2006-02-24 Thread Dan Shafer
Garrett. I've spent the better part of my adult life in the software biz and I think your reaction here was really, really extreme. You said: You don't release products if you know it still contains bugs! You don't upgrade your product unless the upgrade fixes all the prior bugs. I don't

Re: Showing linkText on mouse over

2006-02-24 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Feb 24, 2006, at 9:04 AM, Devin Asay wrote: I have an application with a field that can have link style text in it. I wanted the contents of the linkText of link-style text to show up in a field when you mouse over it, just like in a web browser when you mouse over a hot link. So I

Re: Windows beep

2006-02-24 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Feb 24, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Bill Marriott wrote: Rev's beep command on Windows sounds the internal PC speaker/ buzzer. It does not issue a sound through the audio card. If a user does not have an internal speaker connected (many systems do not), they will not hear anything when the beep

Re: Showing linkText on mouse over

2006-02-24 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 10:49 AM -0700 2/24/2006, Devin Asay wrote: on mouseWithin if the mouse is down then exit mouseWithin ## interrupt this handler to pay attention to the mouse. if the textStyle of the mouseText contains link then put the linkText of the mouseText into fld status else put empty

Re: On the Democratic Operation of Bugzilla

2006-02-24 Thread Dan Shafer
Rob Fair enough. I hadn't considered that scenario. I stand corrected. On 2/23/06, Rob Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan, et al: If I create a new bug entry in Bugzilla, it would not even occur to me to vote for it. By posting it and giving it a rating, I think I *am* voting on

Transcript and Dot Notation

2006-02-24 Thread Dan Shafer
I seem to have a knack for starting discussion threads that are probably just close enough to being on topic to avoid their immediate crushing by Listmom Heather and yet generate significant amounts of message traffic for which some people here probably wish I would just shut up or go away.

Re: Transcript and Dot Notation

2006-02-24 Thread Jonathan Lynch
I love transcript. It works the way I think. A script like: put Don't screw up Transcript into field What RunRev Should Do is just very easy to conceive. With transcript like it is, I spend my mental energy thinking about how my program is going to work and interface, not translating my

Re: Transcript and Dot Notation

2006-02-24 Thread Dan Shafer
I don't disagree, Jonathan, but if you apply that logic to object-orientation you find yourself in a syntax soup that is difficult to resolve and leads to huge slowdowns in performance. So if you vote to keep the language simple, you're voting to keep it non-object-oriented. I'm OK with that but

Re: So long and thanks for all the stacks...

2006-02-24 Thread Dan Shafer
I have long been a supporter and fan of Xavier's. He attempted to create a massive infrastructure in HyperCard and later began moving it to Rev. He and I have had many very long exchanges about the object orientation of what he was trying to build. I think he learned a lot about how hard it is to

Re: Transcript and Dot Notation

2006-02-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dan Shafer wrote: I don't disagree, Jonathan, but if you apply that logic to object-orientation you find yourself in a syntax soup that is difficult to resolve and leads to huge slowdowns in performance. So if you vote to keep the language simple, you're voting to keep it non-object-oriented.

Re: Text Tools Palette-Gone?

2006-02-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
Sivakatirswami wrote: I meant an independent palette that set text properties for the selected text or object. Text Tools I vaguely recall we had that once. Sounds like it may have been a custom plugin. If you look in your Plugins folder inside older Rev distributions you may find it. I don't

when Rev fails to send mouseEnter

2006-02-24 Thread Dick Kriesel
Here's a recipe to demonstrate that Rev usually fails to send mouseEnter to a nearly vertical line: Create a new mainstack. Paste the following four lines into the multiple lines message box. create graphic set the style of it to line set the points of it to 200,100cr208,300 set the

Re: Transcript and Dot Notation

2006-02-24 Thread Jim Ault
On 2/24/06 12:14 PM, Dan Shafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .this.that.thatotherthing.IsThisParticularDotSupposedToBeAMethodOrAnObject.Sh ootMeNow My vote would be that the option to use dot notation would be quite welcome. I, too, use programs that become much simpler and functional that way.

Re: Showing linkText on mouse over

2006-02-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
Devin Asay wrote: I actually modified my handler to add an interrupt at the beginning: on mouseWithin if the mouse is down then exit mouseWithin ## interrupt this handler to pay attention to the mouse. if the textStyle of the mouseText contains link then put the linkText of the

Re: Windows beep

2006-02-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bill Marriott wrote: Rev's beep command on Windows sounds the internal PC speaker/buzzer. It does not issue a sound through the audio card. If a user does not have an internal speaker connected (many systems do not), they will not hear anything when the beep command is issued. Thanks. This

Re: Windows beep

2006-02-24 Thread Bill Marriott
This has no effect on the beep command. You're changing the registry to select a different WAV file than the default for SystemExclamation. You can set this value to anything you want and it still won't play. As I stated before, beep doesn't play a WAV file (and doesn't use

Re: Windows beep

2006-02-24 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Feb 24, 2006, at 1:02 PM, Bill Marriott wrote: This has no effect on the beep command. True. The code uses the play command to play the sound file that other Windows apps use (or at least that is what my client told me). You're changing the registry to select a different WAV file than

Re: Windows beep

2006-02-24 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Windows XPpro and Enterprise Revolution: Beep works fine here in a new stack. The dogs hate that noise and are barking now. Tom On Feb 24, 2006, at 1:31 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: We've had a report in the tech support queue that the beep command does not work on a Windows machine with

Re: Transcript and Dot Notation

2006-02-24 Thread Judy Perry
What possible competitive advantage does it offer to the company for it to transform Transcript into yet another bit player in a very major league? With it being an x-Talk, it offers certain advantages, such as ease of learning/reading, that are all but nonexistant in your traditional programming

Re: Transcript and Dot Notation

2006-02-24 Thread Peter T. Evensen
At 02:02 PM 2/24/2006, you wrote: I am an object-oriented programmer by training and disposition. Every single object oriented programming language that I've used (and I have admittedly not used them all) with the single exception of Smalltalk (which I actually think got it right) uses dot

Re: On the Democratic Operation of Bugzilla

2006-02-24 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Well that figures, but hey what's a good discussion without a few analogies, even wrong ones. Regards, Tom On Feb 24, 2006, at 2:11 PM, Gregory Lypny wrote: Hello Tom, Actually, I couldn't make a balance sheet balance for the life of me (no offence to any accountants on this list),

Re: Transcript and Dot Notation

2006-02-24 Thread Peter T. Evensen
At 03:14 PM 2/24/2006, you wrote: I've said it before and will say it again: If true OO is what you really want, why not just use one of the bazillion OO languages? Once Lingo went down that route, it ceased to be a learnable language for ordinary humans. I think there are two issues here,

Re: Version plugin for 2.7?

2006-02-24 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 2/25/06, Devin Asay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I lost the URL for downloading Chipp's plugin--the one that lets you save a stack in 2.6.x from 2.7. I had intended to download it, but can't find it now. To get the StackFormat plugin, just type into your 2.7 message box and hit return

Re: Transcript and Dot Notation

2006-02-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Judy Perry wrote: OPTIONAL dot.speak I fear will end Transcript's natural-language orientation. Regex isn't exactly natural, but those that use it like that it's included as an OPTION. I don't recall anyone saying that RunRev was going to force users to replace years of legacy code with

Re: I Can't download 2.7 for OS X

2006-02-24 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 2/25/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone, I've tried several times, but I've been unsuccessful in downloading 2.7 for the Mac OS X. Is there something I'm doing wrong? You have to download the installer, which then downloads the other components. Are you still on

Re: Transcript and Dot Notation

2006-02-24 Thread Thomas McGrath III
No not this again Why does he keep bringing this up? Just poking fun, Tom I can read dot but have never really 'liked' it. On Feb 24, 2006, at 3:02 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: I seem to have a knack for starting discussion threads that are probably just close

Re: Transcript and Dot Notation

2006-02-24 Thread Peter T. Evensen
At 03:27 PM 2/24/2006, you wrote: This is so very non-controversial I'm surprised it comes up again and again as such If it keeps causing controversy, isn't it by definition controversial? ;) (I just couldn't resist) Peter T. Evensen http://www.PetersRoadToHealth.com 314-629-5248 or

[Ann] Last chance for altSQLite3

2006-02-24 Thread Chipp Walters
Pricing will change over the weekend to the standard pricing. If you haven't upgraded or are interested in purchasing altSQLite3, you should check it out now! best, Chipp http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/altSQLiteSub/Buy.htm ___ use-revolution

play video clips on linux

2006-02-24 Thread Andy Clay
Hi I am trying to build an app with rev that needs to run on linux, and must show some video clips. The clips are mpeg4, which is not playable with the xanim player. There is the videoClipPlayer property mentioned in the help, but I can not make it work. It would be ideal if I could make rev

Re: Transcript and Dot Notation

2006-02-24 Thread Andre Garzia
Folks, taking the risk of sounding naive, why can't we deal with objects the way we deal with custom props? for example imagine the following Traffic Light object with properties and methods: TrafficLight.stopColor --- Red TrafficLight.attentionColor --- Yellow

Re: Transcript and Dot Notation

2006-02-24 Thread Phil Davis
Hey, Andre, I like this! Phil Davis Andre Garzia wrote: Folks, taking the risk of sounding naive, why can't we deal with objects the way we deal with custom props? for example imagine the following Traffic Light object with properties and methods: TrafficLight.stopColor

Re: Showing linkText on mouse over

2006-02-24 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Devin, MouseWithin is sent repeatedly by the engine all 200 milliseconds but I would prefer to use mouseMove that is also sent all 200 milliseconds but only if the mouse moves. I would also prefer to segment my code to take advantage of built-in messages and use the linkClicked message.

Re: Version plugin for 2.7?

2006-02-24 Thread Devin Asay
Thanks, Sarah. On Feb 24, 2006, at 2:26 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: On 2/25/06, Devin Asay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I lost the URL for downloading Chipp's plugin--the one that lets you save a stack in 2.6.x from 2.7. I had intended to download it, but can't find it now. To get the

Re: Transcript and Dot Notation

2006-02-24 Thread Peter T. Evensen
At 03:58 PM 2/24/2006, Andre Garzia wrote: So why can't we do transcript-ish things like: set the stopColor of TrafficLight to red set the interval of TrafficLight to 20 secs Would there be any reason to distinguish between custom properties and a object property? If not, I see the above

Re: Transcript and Dot Notation

2006-02-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
Thomas McGrath III wrote: No not this again Why does he keep bringing this up? Got me. I thought we'd already finished this conversation several times. I don't see the point of hashing it out all over again. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL

Re: Showing linkText on mouse over

2006-02-24 Thread Devin Asay
Thanks, Jonathan, Jacque, Jeanne, Trevor and Eric for your suggestions. This is what I ended up with and it's working very well. It basically emulates what happens in a web browser when you hover over a link. on mouseWithin if the mouse is down then exit mouseWithin if the textStyle of

Re: Transcript and Dot Notation

2006-02-24 Thread Jonathan Lynch
This is exactly the way transcript works now, except that it would allow you to create custom objects. But that raises a whole new issue... How would you define a custom object? Right now, I use groups to create custom objects, like specialized tables and the like. But, say we wanted to

OT: searching for a video within another video

2006-02-24 Thread Peter T. Evensen
I know this is off-topic, but does anyone know of a way to search for a video within another video? I have some QT videos that have been chopped up. I want to replace the chopped up video with a start and stop selection in a player, but I don't have the indexes. I have 134 movies to match.

OT: Internet Rich Applications Patent Granted

2006-02-24 Thread Sivakatirswami
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml? articleID=180206472cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News [snip] How broad is the patent? Here's what the patent abstract says it covers: A host computer, containing processes for creating rich-media applications, is accessed from a remote user

Re: OT: Internet Rich Applications Patent Granted

2006-02-24 Thread Dan Shafer
Swami.. Not legal advice but informed business counsel from someone with a background in intellectual property law. Take it for what you pay for it. Software patents are a huge pit. For many years, the USPTO has had a shortage of people qualified to review such applications. As a result, it

Re: play video clips on linux

2006-02-24 Thread Mark Talluto
On Feb 24, 2006, at 1:55 PM, Andy Clay wrote: Hi I am trying to build an app with rev that needs to run on linux, and must show some video clips. The clips are mpeg4, which is not playable with the xanim player. There is the videoClipPlayer property mentioned in the help, but I can not

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 26, Issue 81

2006-02-24 Thread benjamin pastrana
Hello! I looked in the documentation of Rev2.7 and in the Shafer Book but can't find any references to the Kind of Cursors available in Revolution (Macintosh) I would like to know all the cursor names I can use to change them via scripts. Any ideas? thanks! Ben

Re: Transcript and Dot Notation

2006-02-24 Thread Thomas McGrath III
You mean like an object template? Tom On Feb 24, 2006, at 5:29 PM, Jonathan Lynch wrote: One thought is that they could create some sort of blank object, with, like all possible properties that one could think of, that could be set from the property inspector - like a universal object.

Grab Commands

2006-02-24 Thread benjamin pastrana
I have the following script in an barrel picture: I want to simulate a barrel making noise while it's beign moved. on mousedown grab me play audioclip noise.wav end mousedown on MouseUp stop playing audioclip noise.wav end MouseUp on mouseEnter set the lockCursor to true set the cursor

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 26, Issue 81

2006-02-24 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Comments: The built-in cursors and their recommended uses are: * none: Hides the cursor * busy: Use repeatedly during a long handler * watch: Use during a moderately long handler * arrow: Use for selecting objects * cross: Use for painting, drawing, or

Re: Grab Commands

2006-02-24 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, benjamin pastrana wrote: I have the following script in an barrel picture: I want to simulate a barrel making noise while it's beign moved. ... The thing is that I want only to play the sound IF the picture is beign dragged. Right now it plays because it's under the

Re: OT: Internet Rich Applications Patent Granted

2006-02-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dan Shafer wrote: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=180206472cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News Not having read the patent, I will say that if I had a company doing this kind of work (and I do) ... Many of us do. The patent was granted on Valentine's Day, but RevNet

RE: Transcript and Dot Notation

2006-02-24 Thread Scott Kane
Richard Gaskin Sent: Saturday, 25 February 2006 8:27 AM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: Transcript and Dot Notation This is so very non-controversial I'm surprised it comes up again and again as such Agreed. It'd also be a major attraction, as an option, for developers coming

Re: Transcript and Dot Notation

2006-02-24 Thread Dan Shafer
In Smalltalk, the basic principle was the use of words parsed left to right for readability, right to left for precedence of operation. Parameters were embedded in method calls separated with colons. So, for example, to create a new instance of a Person object, you would write something like:

Re: Transcript and Dot Notation

2006-02-24 Thread Dan Shafer
Andre.. While you're not exactly wrong here, you do miss the central point/issue. To use your example, if I'm designing a traffic system with lots of TrafficLight objects, I need a way to create individual instances of that object, give them identifiers, and send messages either to the

Re: Transcript and Dot Notation

2006-02-24 Thread Dan Shafer
I don't recall this being hashed out and finished several times, Jacque. Maybe it's been resolved to YOUR satisfaction, but someone else raised the issue in another thread, so evidently at least some of us don't think the issue's been resolved. Except of course this is all hypothetical BS because

Re: Transcript and Dot Notation

2006-02-24 Thread Dan Shafer
Just for the record, I didn't bring this up again. Judy Perry did. I just moved the discussion to a new thread and offered my opinion. On 2/24/06, Thomas McGrath III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No not this again Why does he keep bringing this up? Just poking

Re: OT: Internet Rich Applications Patent Granted

2006-02-24 Thread Dan Shafer
On 2/24/06, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When will the USPTO be able to afford reviewers familiar with the domain they're tasked to review? Not likely. It's not a political priority. -- ~~ Dan Shafer, Information Product Consultant and Author

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2006-02-24 Thread jumpjacks
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Re: On the Democratic Operation of Bugzilla

2006-02-24 Thread David Vaughan
On 25/02/2006, Garrett Hylltun [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Gregory Lypny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote stuff. Sorry to others for some repetitious elements in here but I see a couple of basic themes in the offerings from Garrett and Gregory (principally the former) which I wish to answer. My

Dan's Books

2006-02-24 Thread Scott Kane
Hi all, As a great many of you are aware I'm a relative Rev newbie. While I've been a one eyed Delphi programmer since it's release in 1995 I have to admit that I now *look forward* to writing projects in Rev, and each time I do I have the most awesome warm fuzzy feelings that go with something

Re: Transcript and Dot Notation

2006-02-24 Thread Mark Smith
Well maybe one could 'see' an objects functions as properties, like in Eiffel, or at least in my dim understanding of it. get the sqrt(9) of mathsObject Mark On 24 Feb 2006, at 22:25, Peter T. Evensen wrote: At 03:58 PM 2/24/2006, Andre Garzia wrote: So why can't we do transcript-ish

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 29, Issue 63

2006-02-24 Thread Mark Smith
Gregory, please forgive my jibe. Of course it isn't a fair comparison, but then a fair one wouldn't have been as good a joke. 'Seems to me that all bugs in ProTools should be fixed, and and a simple word to Digidesign should get the ball rolling', while having the same kind of optimism

Re: Transcript and Dot Notation

2006-02-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
Dan Shafer wrote: I don't recall this being hashed out and finished several times, Jacque. Seems to be an annual event. I see two threads in the archives, February of 2004 and another in August 2005, and now this one. That doesn't seem like enough to me, I'm pretty sure there were a couple

Window with no title bar in Linux?

2006-02-24 Thread Bob Warren
I have just started work on a slideshow for Linux that I would like to function in a way similar to my very popular (VB) slideshow for Windows, if possible, showing the pictures in full screen. It didn't take me long to get into trouble. In Windows, setting the decorations to empty causes the

Re: Window with no title bar in Linux?

2006-02-24 Thread Phil Davis
Hi Bob, What happens if you make the stack larger than the screenRect, and show the stack at the screenLoc? I've done that before (though not on Linux). Phil Davis Bob Warren wrote: I have just started work on a slideshow for Linux that I would like to function in a way similar to my very

Re: Transcript and Dot Notation

2006-02-24 Thread James Spencer
On Feb 24, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: I am an object-oriented programmer by training and disposition. Every single object oriented programming language that I've used (and I have admittedly not used them all) with the single exception of Smalltalk (which I actually think got it right)

Re: Dan's Books

2006-02-24 Thread Dan Shafer
Thanks, Scott, for the kind words. There are times -- and this weekend promises to be one of them -- when unsolicited testimonials make a lot of what goes into writing these things so worthwhile that I forget for a while my significant hair-loss as a result of trying to explain how to do

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