Exporting sound from RR? - storing inside Custom Properties

2006-07-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
jeanne a. e. devoto wrote: For a file, like this: answer file Which file do you want to store? set the myCustomProp of this stack to URL (file: it) To get it back out: ask file Where do you want to put the file? put the myCustomProp of this stack into URL (file: it) Thank you so

Re: Dependence on Programming Experts

2006-07-15 Thread Judy Perry
Scott, Respectfully ('cuz I did buy your guage thingy, which I love, btw, and would have bought the audio library thingy too if I hadn't been blindsided by my financial 'bookings in Monterey-Mexico' problem): Did you read the rest of my post? (1) Multiple ways of doing things confuse

Re: Dependence on Programming Experts

2006-07-15 Thread Judy Perry
But it's dead now, right? Yes, like Hypercard, but, And, yes, widely adopted (but as an xtalk? not hardly as it ended up)... but, and from my example (undoctored by me) only 1 or 2 persons out of 22 chose it/found it embraceable? Not great odds. Do you dispute that its verbose heritage had

[OT] Open Source Replacements

2006-07-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I have just deleted a set of antiquated versions of Commercial programs for 3 reasons: 1. No money to stump up for the newer versions. 2. A bit tired of having to rely on platform dependent programs as I now seem to use Mac, Win and Lin. 3. I have found FREE replacements: GIMP replaces

Re: Dependence on Programming Experts

2006-07-15 Thread Ken Ray
On 7/15/06 1:28 AM, Judy Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Judy, I agree with both you and Scott. (How? You might say?) You're both right (IMHO) so long as there are qualifiers: (1) Multiple ways of doing things confuse newcomers. I agree with you, so long as the multiple ways are *equally

Dependence on Programming Experts

2006-07-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Troy wrote: The fact that Lingo is probably the most successful xtalk in history which seems to be a meaningless statement: 1. Lets be 'gross materialists' - if we measure volume of sales does that mean that Lingo is successful? After all, when I worked at the University of the United

[OT] Retarded Idiots and Mouthwash

2006-07-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
[Nothing like a bit of hypocrisy here - but, Hey, nobody shouts louder than he who has been reformed] It seems that the Dependence on Programming Experts stream/string/what-ever is taking a rather unpleasant turn and I for one would like to think that there are no 'retarded idiots' who

Re: [OT] Open Source Replacements

2006-07-15 Thread Bob Hartley
You wrote: I have just deleted a set of antiquated versions of Commercial programs for 3 reasons: 1. No money to stump up for the newer versions. 2. A bit tired of having to rely on platform dependent programs as I now seem to use Mac, Win and Lin. 3. I have found FREE replacements:

Re: Game Developers -- Call

2006-07-15 Thread Sivakatirswami
Aloha, Rick: Really, I thank you for your candor! I don't consider it harsh but just good strong medicine. (smile) I have no problem being told I'm completely naive on many matters. We don't do flames on the Rev forum (well occasionally) and honesty is good. In Sanskrit it is referred to

Re: Game Developers -- Call

2006-07-15 Thread Sivakatirswami
Aloha, Bjornke: Thanks for the positive feed back that yes, it could be doable. I was worried for a minute I had walked into a room full of Grand Theft Auto developers who thought I was insane (smile). On the other hand, I think we need to accept Rick's understanding that our expectations,

Re: irregular expression

2006-07-15 Thread Mark Greenberg
On Jul 14, 2006, at 10:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: put replacetext(myVar,/?a[^]*,) into myVar This is probably a brain-fart on my part, but why do you have /? in your RegEx string? Sorry to waste your time if I'm missing something obvious. Mark Greenberg

Re: Game Developers -- Call

2006-07-15 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Dear Sivakatirswami Another thought crossed my mind: Maybe you don't want an Rev program explicitly, but only cross platform capabilities? In that case you might want to make a post about your needs to the following forums: iDevGames classified:

Re: Game Developers -- Call

2006-07-15 Thread Björnke von Gierke
oops this should have been sent directly to Sivakatirswami! -- official ChatRev page: http://chatrev.bjoernke.com Chat with other RunRev developers: go stack URL http://homepage.mac.com/bvg/chatrev1.3.rev; ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Game Developers -- Call

2006-07-15 Thread Andre Garzia
TEREZA ROCKS :-D On Jul 14, 2006, at 9:34 PM, Tereza Snyder wrote: oops! I mistakenly sent to the whole list. dang! [red-faced] Tereza -- Tereza Snyder Califex Software, Inc. www.califexsoftware.com ___ use-revolution mailing

RE: Dependence on Programming Experts

2006-07-15 Thread Rob Cozens
Hi Lynn, I am named in this thread! I hope it was clear that I wasn't attributing my remark, the way for Runtime Revolution to differentiate itself from competitors and attract developers from other platforms is to adopt the syntax of its most successful competitors. to you, but rather

Re: Game Developers -- Call

2006-07-15 Thread Andre Garzia
Rick, it is not about flames, many times here, I was replying to some one pointing them on some very different direction than the one their we're going and yet, we can always be nice. Be honest is one thing, but you can always write your email in a more polite way. You don't call other

RE: Dependence on Programming Experts

2006-07-15 Thread Rob Cozens
Moi: if Brian or anyone else wants to Bugzillia this request, it's got 5 votes from moi. I decided to BZ this myself, thus allowing me to define the request myself'. :-} I have requested the following enhancement to the Script Editor: On July 13th, Brian Yennie posted RE: Dependence

Re: Dependence on Programming Experts

2006-07-15 Thread Brian Yennie
Rob, Thanks for the attribution here. It's probably worth noting that if this isn't something that makes headway with RunRev, there are definitely possibilities for a community authored plugin. Then, if that caught on, RunRev might be inclined to just bundle the plugin with the IDE (or at

Re: irregular expression

2006-07-15 Thread Dar Scott
On Jul 15, 2006, at 7:34 AM, Mark Greenberg wrote: put replacetext(myVar,/?a[^]*,) into myVar but why do you have /? in your RegEx string? I think I can guess that one, Mark. From one of my pages: a href=rev.htmlRevolution/abr I think Terry's intent is to change that to this:

True random numbers with RndLib

2006-07-15 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, Seeing all the posts concerning randomisation, I decided to collect some scripts of mine in one stack, which connect to the random.org server. If you need true random numbers, this may be a solution for you. Download it at http://economy-x-talk.com/developers.html. It is freeware.

Re: irregular expression

2006-07-15 Thread Mark Greenberg
Thanks, Dar. I knew it would be something stupid I was missing. I wish, instead of sending me spam to increase my manhood, they would send ads for a pill that would make me see the obvious. : \ Mark On Jul 15, 2006, at 10:00 AM, Dar Scott wrote: put replacetext(myVar,/?a[^]*,)

Re: AppleScript Question

2006-07-15 Thread Garrett Hylltun
On Jul 14, 2006, at 4:15 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: Ummm. Ok, don't laugh at me, but I don't use Dashboard and have it disabled. So I don't know much about that. Where would I find the widgets for dashboard? :-( [snip] If you actually want the Dictionary app to open, how about trying

Re: AppleScript Question

2006-07-15 Thread Jim Ault
On 7/15/06 1:48 PM, Garrett Hylltun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 14, 2006, at 4:15 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: If you actually want the Dictionary app to open, how about trying UI Scripting. It's fiddly, but it does allow AppleScripting of non-scriptable apps. You can read about it on the

the 3 quick rules (of UI design)

2006-07-15 Thread Erik Hansen
--- Judy Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my CS students... end up liking the 3 quick rules... what are the the 3 quick rules? = 6 ways to do things tolerably well... these are different than the 3 rules? anything that holds kids short attention spans must have something going for it.

Ummm, Eeeeee, How do you this again?

2006-07-15 Thread Garrett Hylltun
Rev 2.6.1 on OS X Greetings, Somebody showed me how to do this before, but for the life of me can't find the code or the email on it. I need to record the vscroll position, increase the font size of the field, then reapply the htmltext, then adjust the vscroll to take into account the

Re: Game Developers -- Call

2006-07-15 Thread Chipp Walters
Great post Andre! Furthermore, Sivakatirswami has already had great success with this type of approach in the past. I've agreed to work for him on a budget-- and in past lives been involved as producer, programmer, interface designer, artist and CEO on many more than 20 award winning children

Re: Game Developers -- Call

2006-07-15 Thread Rick Harrison
On Jul 15, 2006, at 12:44 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Rick, it is not about flames, many times here, I was replying to some one pointing them on some very different direction than the one their we're going and yet, we can always be nice. Be honest is one thing, but you can always write your

Re: Ummm, Eeeeee, How do you this again?

2006-07-15 Thread Ken Ray
On 7/15/06 6:43 PM, Garrett Hylltun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rev 2.6.1 on OS X Greetings, Somebody showed me how to do this before, but for the life of me can't find the code or the email on it. I need to record the vscroll position, increase the font size of the field, then reapply

alternative ways to make projects come true (was Re: Game Developers -- Call)

2006-07-15 Thread Andre Garzia
Rick at al, much been said on this topic and the positive side is that although we all have our own views of things, we can actually work together. One thing that Rick said that caught my attention is that some of us have projects that could use more help, that sometimes, that nice

Re: Dependence on Programming Experts

2006-07-15 Thread Judy Perry
Richmond, Given the early policy of Macromedia requiring a Made with Macromedia or some such thing splash screen, I suspect it's not all that difficult... (to estimate the number of deployed products made with Director). As you may know, I tend to agree that some of the people exposed to it

Re: [OT] Retarded Idiots and Mouthwash

2006-07-15 Thread Judy Perry
Ummm... Sorry... you're almost certainly referring to me/my words. I certainly did not intend to imply that anybody was saying that about me. Consider it hyperbole (or whatever, a worst-case scenario)... I still don't get the nothing like a bit of hypocrisy here - but, Hey, nobody shouts louder

Re: the 3 quick rules (of UI design)

2006-07-15 Thread Judy Perry
Yeah, okay, so it's not like the tablets from Sinai ;-) Hold on... gonna go find it... Mullet, Kevin E. Sano, Darrell K. Applying Visual Design: Trade Secrets for Elegant Interfaces. CHI'94, pp. 353-354. --remember that I can't make decent citations to save my life!!! Better still is the

hostname() not giving useful results

2006-07-15 Thread kee nethery
On Mac OS X, on my personal machine, when I do hostname() I get the text that is located at: System Preferences Sharing Services the field labeled Computer name which for me is kee.kagi.com On another machine at a colo, when I do hostname() I get the machine name shown in the text under that