Re: OT: iSight

2003-11-14 Thread Carsten Levin
Klaus Major rose this question, not really regarding Revolution. But allow me to put it into this context: Can iSight and other cameras of this type be used to digitize video directly into a file by Revolution? ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL

Open/Write to/Read from Process

2003-11-14 Thread mendelss
Hey, I'm new to Revolution and need some quick guidance on what may be a very straightforward matter. I've created a simple front-end interface designed to call and write some input to a free-standing program on my machine. The external program is designed to be executed from and receive

Re: Tooltip for groups

2003-11-14 Thread jbv
I have completely screwed up many groups in my four weeks of using REV. There is no group Tooltip built-in but you could just hide a tooltip like window and trap a mouseEnter with show/hide tooltip field. yes, this crossed my mind, but the nice thing about a tooltip is that its size

Re: backreferences in PCRE?

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Rice
On Nov 13, 2003, at 2:15 PM, Dar Scott wrote: I mean the negative assertion (?! ). This should also take care of the start. So tinker with this: replaceText(pStr, (?!\\)\\quote, \quote) OK this works: replaceText(pStr, (?!\\)quote, \quote) Thanks Dar! I haven't used assertions much in

Re: Tooltip for groups

2003-11-14 Thread T. R. Ponn
Thomas J McGrath III wrote: I have completely screwed up many groups in my four weeks of using REV. There is no group Tooltip built-in but you could just hide a tooltip like window and trap a mouseEnter with show/hide tooltip field. Or...create a transparent button with no handlers...with the

Re: Paint Tools issue

2003-11-14 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Thomas J McGrath III, Here is a screen shot of the Paint Tools Palette. Ehmm... yes ;-) I upgraded to OSX 10.3 and REV 2.1.2 and now it looks like this. I just took a look and yes, the paint tools palette looks like garbage :-( Advanced Media Group Thomas J McGrath III 2003 [EMAIL

Re: backreferences in PCRE?

2003-11-14 Thread Dave Cragg
At 2:15 pm -0700 13/11/03, Dar Scott wrote: Yikes. I mean the negative assertion (?! ). This should also take care of the start. So tinker with this: replaceText(pStr, (?!\\)\\quote, \quote) Thanks for the pointer, Dar. It looks like this will do it. put (?!\\) quote into tRegEx

Re: backreferences in PCRE?

2003-11-14 Thread Dar Scott
On Thursday, November 13, 2003, at 02:15 PM, Dar Scott wrote: So tinker with this: replaceText(pStr, (?!\\)\\quote, \quote) I mean this: replaceText(pStr, (?!\\)quote, \quote) I forgot what you were trying to do. Dar ___ use-revolution mailing list

RE: backreferences in PCRE?

2003-11-14 Thread Ken Ray
In transcript I thought it should be : replaceText(pStr, ([^\\])quote, $1\quote) Which works *except* for the $1 is used literally instead of as a backreference. That's because only the second parameter of replaceText() is a match expression; the third param is a simple string. Ken Ray

Re: Windows Misery

2003-11-14 Thread Graham Samuel
Thanks for the replies on this (Alex Rice, Ken Ray and Scott Rossi). Scott asked: Did you try forcing the animated GIFs to play by setting their repeatCounts to -1? Maybe something like: [button script] on mouseMove set the repeatCount of img mySrcImg to -1 end mouseMove Yes, indeed. I was

[ANN] RevZilla 1.1 Available!

2003-11-14 Thread Ken Ray
Hey, everyone! A new version of RevZilla, the front-end for Runtime Revolution's BugZilla bug tracking system, was released today. RevZilla 1.1 has been enhanced to add the following features: - Voting on bugs and features, managing your votes, and viewing who voted on a particular bug or

Re: Database Query Builder: workaround please

2003-11-14 Thread David Wilkinson
On Thursday 13 November 2003 3:47 pm, you wrote: On the Database Query Builder, Record Set Tab, SQL query field: 1) enter some syntactically bad SQL 2) click the refresh query button (or close the Database Query Builder window) 3) now Rev gets stuck in an endless loop of modal error

DON'T DOWNLOAD REVZILLA 1.1!

2003-11-14 Thread Ken Ray
Sorry, everyone, but apparently while RunRev was down something changed in the BugZilla system and now if you use the voting features in RZ 1.1 to vote for a bug or feature, it will *remove all other votes on all other bugs or features* that you have done. So I'm pulling it and will repost a fix

Re: [ANN] RevZilla 1.1 Available!

2003-11-14 Thread Bill Vlahos
Thanks Ray. This is a lifesaver. I can't for the life of me figure out how to use Bugzilla. This makes it easy. Three cheers for Ray! Bill Vlahos On Nov 13, 2003, at 3:48 PM, Ken Ray wrote: Hey, everyone! A new version of RevZilla, the front-end for Runtime Revolution's BugZilla bug tracking

RE: Player Progress?

2003-11-14 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Scott, Seems to me the best way to handle it is to download the QTMov locally and track *that* with a progress bar. Then the Mov will launch quickly and play seamlessly. Course, streaming is therefore out of the question. -Chipp Anyone know if it is possible to track/display progress of

[ANN] RevZilla 1.1 - (No really, this is the good one... :-)

2003-11-14 Thread Ken Ray
Alright, everyone... some quick-fingered bug-fixing and RevZilla 1.1 is ready to go again. For those of you who missed the original post (with the update info), here it is again: --- A new version of RevZilla, the front-end for Runtime Revolution's BugZilla bug tracking

Semi-OT: Interesting article on Java

2003-11-14 Thread Geoff Canyon
Talking about J2EE and the things it needs to do to succeed. He says it needs two things: to be easier to use -- he calls it incredibly complex -- and to add new features at a faster pace -- he says it currently takes a year to two years to get anything through the standards process.

[Q] upgrade to libSmtp

2003-11-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sorry to put this out on the mailing list.. i've slowly been working on a major(?) upgrade to the smtp library (adding unicode support) and i'm trying to decide whether to continue using variables as parameters or field pointers as parameters.. variable parameter example put the htmlText

Mail Screw-up on RevZilla (sorry)

2003-11-14 Thread Ken Ray
It appears like my emails have appeared on the list in reverse order! There were three emails that were sent, the first announcing RevZilla's availability, the second was the don't download email, and the third was the (No really... email. Bottom line is the RevZilla 1.1 is ready to go, and you

Help with AppleEvents

2003-11-14 Thread Paul Stary
What is up with this? I have spent the day trying to figure out why the following statement works in SuperCard but NOT Revolution. I want to communicate with SuperCard on a remote Mac named Remote Mac. SuperCard is running on that Mac. I execute the following statement from Revolution on my

REVTOOLS HACK - BIGGER- BETTER-BOUNCIER!

2003-11-14 Thread Mathewson
Dear RunRev Afficionados, Stimulated by Dr John Tenny's helpful suggestions I have been on a roll recently. and the results are looking good! On the 'GUI HACKS' page of my website: you know it annoys you - but, hey, the world's a wild place! Go, get the new RevTools and send me a postcard.

Re: Tooltip for groups

2003-11-14 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 11/13/03 1:29 PM, jbv wrote: Well, I checked the custom prop. option : actually no custom prop. is created... That's what I get for not testing before I post. Sorry. In that case, Klaus is right (as usual) and there should be an error message. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL

Re: OT: iSight

2003-11-14 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Carsten, Klaus Major rose this question, not really regarding Revolution. But allow me to put it into this context: Can iSight and other cameras of this type be used to digitize video directly into a file by Revolution? Yes, at least iSight, have no other camera. I just plugged it into my

Re: Help with AppleEvents

2003-11-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Paul Stary wrote: What is up with this? I have spent the day trying to figure out why the following statement works in SuperCard but NOT Revolution. I want to communicate with SuperCard on a remote Mac named Remote Mac. SuperCard is running on that Mac. I execute the following statement

Re: end field editing?

2003-11-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alex Rice wrote: Is it possible to make all fields on a card end editing? I have been confused at times because closeField can be delayed on Mac because clicking on a button does not change the keyboard focus. So I have started making an off-screen field defocuser and when I want to force

Re: Tooltip for groups

2003-11-14 Thread Klaus Major
Hi JB, ... yes, this crossed my mind, but the nice thing about a tooltip is that its size (actually its width) is automatically resized according to it's content... and I'm not sure I can reproduce that with a field... You can! ;-) ... set the width of fld fake tooltip to the formattedwidth of

RE: end field editing?

2003-11-14 Thread Ken Ray
How about select empty ? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Rice Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 3:31 PM To: How to use Revolution

Re: end field editing?

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Rice
On Nov 14, 2003, at 3:42 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Does select empty do what you need? Yes! Thanks Richard Alex Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Mindlube Software | http://mindlube.com what a waste of thumbs that are opposable to make machines that are disposable -Ani DiFranco

Re: Player Progress?

2003-11-14 Thread Scott Rossi
On 11/13/03 4:53 PM, Chipp Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know if it is possible to track/display progress of setting the filename of a player to a Web-based URL? I know a QT player can display progress inside the controller bar but I'm using a hidden player and am hoping to display

Re: Slightly OT: Switching mySQL from win to Mac OSX

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Rice
On Nov 14, 2003, at 4:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone any suggestions? I would not move the raw data files between different servers. It might work but a lot could go wrong: different mysql table types, different architecture, different mysql servers versions, etc. Mysql has command-line

Re: Help with AppleEvents

2003-11-14 Thread Paul Stary
Paul Stary wrote: What is up with this? I have spent the day trying to figure out why the following statement works in SuperCard but NOT Revolution. I want to communicate with SuperCard on a remote Mac named Remote Mac. SuperCard is running on that Mac. I execute the following statement

RE: Help with AppleEvents

2003-11-14 Thread Ken Ray
Paul, Is this on OS 9, I assume? Or OS X? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Stary Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 5:56 PM To:

RE: Help with AppleEvents

2003-11-14 Thread Paul Stary
At 6:04 PM -0600 11/14/03, Ken Ray wrote: Paul, Is this on OS 9, I assume? Or OS X? Ken, Rev is running on an OS 9.1 machine, communicating (trying, anyway) to a machine running OS 8.1. -- Paul Stary Audio-Video Engineering Voice Mail: (949) 646-8877 Fax: (949) 515-3640

Printing a field with tab stops

2003-11-14 Thread Bill Vlahos
There are 2 things that go wrong when I print a field using: case Page Setup... answer printer break case Print... revShowPrintDialog false,true revPrintText (the htmlText of field Directory) break 1. The tab stops are too short so the text almost always spills over. 2. No

Accidents do happen...

2003-11-14 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Accidents do happen... I was going to reply an e-mail from the Digest and... the whole message was send back to the list. I hope that you excuse me. I suspect that I typed an unknow shorcut . Now, I.m typing disconnected from the internet, so it'll not happen again. :(( Al

Re: What's Really Important/feedback please

2003-11-14 Thread Alejandro Tejada
on Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:30:10 -0800 (PST) Judy Perry wrote: I'm finishing up a program in instructional design and technology and would like for my final project to be a new Rev interface ala Hypercard's that will make the program more accessible to new/novice programmers (think: elementary school

Re: Player Progress?

2003-11-14 Thread Alejandro Tejada
At 03:18 PM 11/14/03, you wrote: Send use-revolution mailing list submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to

Re: Help with AppleEvents

2003-11-14 Thread Rob Cozens
I tried this also, but still comes back with no such program. Has anyone ever used AppleEvents FROM Revolution using the send to program? I am faithfully following the Transcript dictionary. Hi Paul, Hopefully Jan Schenkel will chime in soon. Last March he reported to the revolution_ipc

waaaay OT Scots

2003-11-14 Thread Kurt Kaufman
there is a book about how the Irish saved civilization. does anyone know the companion volume about how the Scots defined civilization? Sorry, I only have volume III of how the English invented civilization. And I, volume IV, where the Americans destroy it. -Kurt (ducking the flames)

Re: What's Really Important/feedback please

2003-11-14 Thread Judy Perry
As real as I can make it. On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Alejandro Tejada wrote: on Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:30:10 -0800 (PST) Judy Perry wrote: I'm finishing up a program in instructional design and technology and would like for my final project to be a new Rev interface ala Hypercard's that will

RE: Help with AppleEvents

2003-11-14 Thread Ken Ray
- send to program works on the same Mac - send to program doesn't work between two Macs Paul, even if this is true, there's more than one way to skin a cat. You could use a different communication mechanism (like opening a socket or datagram and sending messages via TCP or UDP) instead of Apple

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 2, Issue 71 WHOA NELLIE!

2003-11-14 Thread Ken Norris
Holy Cow!! This digest issue had 113 posts! Most are repeats, but WATCHOUT...some aren't in the first set (like Judy Perry's What's Really Important/feedback please and Alex's end field editing? Ken N. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: waaaay OT Scots

2003-11-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Kurt Kaufman wrote: there is a book about how the Irish saved civilization. does anyone know the companion volume about how the Scots defined civilization? Sorry, I only have volume III of how the English invented civilization. And I, volume IV, where the Americans destroy it. -Kurt

Re: What's Really Important/feedback please

2003-11-14 Thread Ken Norris
Hi Judy, This thing almost got lost in a barrage of repeats in the digest version. Don't be surprised if mine is the only Re for awhile. Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:30:10 -0800 (PST) From: Judy Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: What's Really Important/feedback please I'm finishing

Re: What's Really Important/feedback please

2003-11-14 Thread Ken Norris
on 11/14/03 8:03 PM, Ken Norris at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Judy, This thing almost got lost in a barrage of repeats in the digest version. Don't be surprised if mine is the only Re for awhile. - OK, never mind. It came through separately in another digest list. Ken N.

Re: Tooltip for groups

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Rice
On Nov 13, 2003, at 9:50 AM, jbv wrote: Can a tooltip be set for a group ? The MC doc says tooltips apply to all controls, and set tooltip of grp 1 to xyz doesn't return any error and doesn't create a custom prop, but no tooltip is displayed when mouse moves over the group (tooltipdelay is not

Re: Printing a field with tab stops

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Rice
On Nov 14, 2003, at 5:22 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: How would I go about making printing work better? You might try revPrintField instead of revPrintText. I think revPrintField uses revPrintText in it's implementation, but revPrintField is smarter about various formating options. Alex Rice [EMAIL

Re: Player Progress?

2003-11-14 Thread Scott Rossi
On 11/14/03 10:59 PM, Alejandro Tejada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you could write to the Quicktime enginner who wrote some articles in MacTech Is this article reprinted somewhere? Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: