Re: Sort-of OT: Learning Python

2006-05-07 Thread Judy Perry
Okay... Will probably do. The last time we tried was more than a year ago. On the to-do list... Thanks! Judy On Sun, 7 May 2006, Alex Tweedly wrote: Judy Perry wrote: The only thing he's not been able to get going is PythonCard. What trouble did he have ? Pythoncard used to be flaky

Re: The end of OS9 development

2006-05-07 Thread Judy Perry
Hardware's not been our particular problem (yes, my Frankenlab STILL runs OS 9!). We have some POC microarchitecture sim that's Classic-only (I've just tried to Google it but, well, ignorance is bliss and I can't rightly recall: CPUSim? I dunno). BUT, while looking for the thingy we're tied to,

Tools Palette: default positioner with a RESTORE button.

2006-05-07 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Just uploaded a stack to the RR Graphics group: ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RRgraphix ) this allows users to PATCH their revTools stack to set a default starting screen location. It also can RE-PATCH the revTools stack to its former position. The revTools stack script is patched with the

teach me to fish...

2006-05-07 Thread Preston Shea
I have a simple question: can the RR player play mp3 format sound and if not, where can I find a good (i.e. free) converter for mp3 - wav? My more complicated question: how could I have found out this info from the RR docs? Preston ___ use-revolution

Re: teach me to fish...

2006-05-07 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Preston, QuickTime plays MP3 and I'd expect the docs to state that you can play all QuickTime formats using the player objects. Best, Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Salery is the easiest way to get your own

drag a title-less palette stack

2006-05-07 Thread betypaul
Hi All I need a script so that a palette stack without a title bar can be dragged around with a mouseDown within the stack?. I have unsuccessfully tried different ways and searched the literature but no luck. I feel that somewhere there is an solution, can someone kindly point the way?

drag a title-less palette stack

2006-05-07 Thread Richmond Mathewson
try this: on mouseUp move me to the screenMouseLoc end mouseUp A bit clunky, but it works! sincerely, Richmond Mathewson Philosophical problems are confusions arising owing to the fluidity of meanings users attach to words and

Re: drag a title-less palette stack

2006-05-07 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Paul, Hi All I need a script so that a palette stack without a title bar can be dragged around with a mouseDown within the stack?. I have unsuccessfully tried different ways and searched the literature but no luck. I feel that somewhere there is an solution, can someone kindly point

Re: drag a title-less palette stack

2006-05-07 Thread Geoff Canyon
Here's the relevant code from the titlebar of my Navigator palette. local sMoving -- boolean that indicates whether we are dragging or not local sLoc -- the starting loc of the mouse on mouseDown put true into sMoving put the mouseLoc into sLoc end mouseDown on mouseUp put false into

Re: Sort-of OT: Learning Python

2006-05-07 Thread Rodney Somerstein
Is he building double-clickable graphical aqua apps? I can use Python. The confusion is in figuring out how to set up wxWidgets (or tkAqua), which GUI builder to use, which IDE, etc., etc. In any case -- if he knows of a set of instructions to get from here to there, I'd love to know where

Re: Sort-of OT: Learning Python

2006-05-07 Thread Alex Tweedly
Rodney Somerstein wrote: Also, while Bob Ippolito has done what seems like a fairly nice job on py2app, the standalone builder for Mac Python, he seems to hold a very low regard for readable documentation. He wrote the tool for himself and makes it available for the good of the community.

Re: drag a title-less palette stack

2006-05-07 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, betypaul wrote: I need a script so that a palette stack without a title bar can be dragged around with a mouseDown within the stack?. Many folks here have a variation of this. Here's one, to be placed in an object that will serve as your titlebar or similar: (watch line wrap)

Re: teach me to fish...

2006-05-07 Thread Thomas McCarthy
Also QuickTime needn't be installed on Windows machines for the player object to playback Mp3 (Windows Media Player can do it) --also there was a bug with the player on windows. If it was not visible, it would cut off. The solution for hiding the player is to place it off screen. cheers, tm

A Dream!

2006-05-07 Thread Roman D
Hi fellow Revolutionaries! I am wondering... Has anyone has come across the idea of making an Operating System based on the Runtime Revolution Engine. For example, the OS core would be Linux/Unix (or Darvin, as the case is with Mac OS X) and Revolution will provide a windowing system plus all

Re: A Dream!

2006-05-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
Roman D wrote: Has anyone has come across the idea of making an Operating System based on the Runtime Revolution Engine. For example, the OS core would be Linux/Unix (or Darvin, as the case is with Mac OS X) and Revolution will provide a windowing system plus all it's power and glory. (I am

Re: A Dream!

2006-05-07 Thread Jerry Muelver
Roman D wrote: Hi fellow Revolutionaries! I am wondering... Has anyone has come across the idea of making an Operating System based on the Runtime Revolution Engine. For example, the OS core would be Linux/Unix (or Darvin, as the case is with Mac OS X) and Revolution will provide a windowing

Re: The end of OS9 development

2006-05-07 Thread Mark Wieder
Judy- Saturday, May 6, 2006, 11:23:21 PM, you wrote: BUT, while looking for the thingy we're tied to, I came upon this article: http://www.sosresearch.org/caale/caalesimulators.html Any thoughts, fellow educators? An element of fun is added by making Chip ticklish - if the mouse pointer

Re: A Dream!

2006-05-07 Thread Roman D
On 5/7/06, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roman D wrote: Has anyone has come across the idea of making an Operating System based on the Runtime Revolution Engine. For example, the OS core would be Linux/Unix (or Darvin, as the case is with Mac OS X) and Revolution will provide a

Re: Message

2006-05-07 Thread Ivan
Thanks. I might have done this as I had several stacks open at the time. J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Did you change the stack name? Rev only remembers the stack if it is named exactly as it was when you first opened it. If you change the name or move the location, it forgets.

revdb error: MUST be select SQL

2006-05-07 Thread Ivan
Hello, I have been testing the revDataFromQuery function with a SQL pragma query for sqlite3: PRAGMA table_info(articles) However, whenever I run it, I get an error message: revdberr,Database Error: MUST be select SQL! The reason seems to be because PRAGMA is not a select statement? I have

Re: The end of OS9 development

2006-05-07 Thread Jeffrey Reynolds
Dan, Its to tell K12 to bite the bullet if they had a bullet to bite. in schools It is not a matter of justifying anything, its a matter of the money just plain not being there to buy the software, or in many cases, the hardware, to bump everything up to OSX. i could easily justify that

Re: revdb error: MUST be select SQL

2006-05-07 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Ivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have been testing the revDataFromQuery function with a SQL pragma query for sqlite3: PRAGMA table_info(articles) However, whenever I run it, I get an error message: revdberr,Database Error: MUST be select SQL! The reason seems to be

Re: How Computers Really Work: A Children's Guide

2006-05-07 Thread Jeffrey Reynolds
Judy, Interesting article. Actually, I have been amazed at how well kids understand the workings of computers compared to even heavily computer using adults! Also the kids usually grok this stuff when they dont know it pretty quickly, but i have explained some simple concepts to adults

Re: How Computers Really Work: A Children's Guide

2006-05-07 Thread Jeffrey Reynolds
whoops i was curious about what gonick was doing and found he had done the cartoon guide to computers but way back in 1991! faint memories of it are slowly coming back. cheers, jeff On May 8, 2006, at 12:33 AM, Jeffrey Reynolds wrote: I wish gonick would do a cartoon guide to

Re: revdb error: MUST be select SQL

2006-05-07 Thread Ivan
Jan Schenkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- Ivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have been testing the revDataFromQuery function with a SQL pragma query for sqlite3: PRAGMA table_info(articles) However, whenever I run it, I get an error message: revdberr,Database Error: