Re: Conference DVDs: Design principles

2008-11-19 Thread Klaus Major
Am 18.11.2008 um 22:39 schrieb Thomas McGrath III: I want to own a part of Malte too!!! Naughty Boy! Tom :-) Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit

answer file with filter ???

2008-11-19 Thread Thierry
Hi all, After having checked the doc, and drink 2 coffees, I'm stuck this morning with this simple one line of code: answer file Choose a ICS file... with filter ICS,*.ics the filtering doesn't work at all ? Well, did try with different suffix and same behavior... Rev 3.0 on Tiger Any

Re: answer file with filter ???

2008-11-19 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Thierry, On Mac, a file type is expected, while on Windows a file extension is expected. You need to check the platform and then use the right command. For example, for Mac: answer file Choose a ICS file... with filter ICS,ICS I have put a space after the ICS file type, because file

Re: answer file with filter ???

2008-11-19 Thread Thierry
Le 19 nov. 08 à 10:43, Mark Schonewille a écrit : Hi Thierry, On Mac, a file type is expected, while on Windows a file extension is expected. You need to check the platform and then use the right command. Thanks Mark ! Here is about the confusion: From the Dictionary Doc:

Re: answer file with filter ???

2008-11-19 Thread Mark Schonewille
Thierry, As I wrote in my previous e-mail, you should use WITH type and not OF type. answer file with type ICS|*ics|ICS You can add additional filters: answer file with type ICS|*ics|ICS or type All Files|*|* I believe that the ICS type defined as ICS|*ics|ICS should work fine,

Re: answer file with filter ???

2008-11-19 Thread Klaus Major
Bonjour Thierry, Le 19 nov. 08 à 10:43, Mark Schonewille a écrit : Hi Thierry, On Mac, a file type is expected, while on Windows a file extension is expected. You need to check the platform and then use the right command. Thanks Mark ! Here is about the confusion: From the Dictionary

Re: Conference DVDs: Design principles

2008-11-19 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Malte Brill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom wrote: I want to own a part of Malte too!!! Lol. I have an arm and a leg I do not use at the moment. Would that help? Cheers, Malte I was already grateful nobody said I want to eat Malte, just to possess his powers! - and now he's

Re: RevOpenDatabase(tQuery)

2008-11-19 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- hershel fisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/18/08 8:13 PM, hershel fisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the correct syntax but doesn¹t work, if I spell it out then it does. Hi, what is the reason that this doesn't work Put revOpenDatabase(tQuery) into tResult Tquery contains

Re: answer file with filter ???

2008-11-19 Thread Klaus Major
Bonjour, Thierry: answer file with type ICS|*ics| Will work for you :-) Hmmm, try differents solutions from Mark and You, and always get it wrong So, it's not my day :-( I think i'm going to check the answer dialog stack... May be corrupted ? No no, just a typo we did not notice

Re: answer file with filter ???

2008-11-19 Thread Thierry
Please omit the asteriks * in the suffix: answer file with type ICS|ics| and even few chars less: answer file Select a ICS file... with type |ics Et voila ... It works :-) Hmm, do I need to say that having the solution I don't see how one could come to it by reading the Docs ? Anyway,

Re: answer file with filter ???

2008-11-19 Thread Klaus Major
Bonjour Thierry, Please omit the asteriks * in the suffix: answer file with type ICS|ics| and even few chars less: answer file Select a ICS file... with type |ics Et voila ... It works :-) Please also check bug #6433 http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=6433 Hmm, do I

Re: answer file with filter ???

2008-11-19 Thread Thierry
answer file with type ICS|*ics| Will work for you :-) Hmmm, try differents solutions from Mark and You, and always get it wrong So, it's not my day :-( I think i'm going to check the answer dialog stack... May be corrupted ? Merci beaucoup Thierry

Re: SQLite revQueryDatabase where param won't detect invalid target

2008-11-19 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Paul Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When trying to detect that an entry in a table is missing, revQueryDatabase SELECT... WHERE... is returning an integer (cursor) result when the table is actually empty or the search value has never been inserted into the table: The following code

Re: Conference DVDs: Design principles

2008-11-19 Thread Thomas McGrath III
LOL. On Nov 19, 2008, at 6:26 AM, Jan Schenkel wrote: --- Malte Brill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom wrote: I want to own a part of Malte too!!! Lol. I have an arm and a leg I do not use at the moment. Would that help? Cheers, Malte I was already grateful nobody said I want to eat

re-Ordering sub stacks

2008-11-19 Thread Chris Condit
I've got a project that has numerous subStacks, to which I often make changes or enhancements. Numerous others use the same basic project, and in order to simplify updating their projects, I have the user run an updater stack, which among other things deletes the subStack that has been

Re: re-Ordering sub stacks

2008-11-19 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Chris, As far as your actual problem maybe it is better to set the substacks mainstack property as in: on orderSubs thismainStack get the substacks of stack thismainStack sort it put it into theSubstacks repeat with x = 1 to the number of lines of theSubstacks put line x of

Re: RunRev V3.0 Question/Message Box

2008-11-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Sarah- Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 9:41:31 PM, you wrote: Do ask answer work in the IDE? Is the problem that they are not being copied to the standalone or does the standalone not build at all? I also had this problem with at least one stack, where it was critical that answer dialogs be

Re: Conference DVDs: Design principles

2008-11-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Malte- Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 11:35:55 PM, you wrote: Lol. I have an arm and a leg I do not use at the moment. Would that help? Yes. I have a plumbing application coming up where an extra hand would be quite useful. Thanks for the offer. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: re-Ordering sub stacks

2008-11-19 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Chris, This might be a better approach for the repeat loop I mentioned in the previous email. Use the lineoffset instead: on mouseUp set the hilite of me to true put mainstacks() into listOfMainStacks put line (lineoffset(ddm-,listOfMainStacks)) of listOfMainStacks into thismainStack

Re: Conference DVDs: Design principles

2008-11-19 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Ha Ha Ha, And I could really use a 'leg up' in this company I work for. Interesting!!! Tom McGrath III Lazy River Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] iTunes Library Suite - libITS Information and download can be found on this page: http://www.lazyriversoftware.com/RevOne.html On Nov 19, 2008, at

Re: Conference DVDs: Design principles

2008-11-19 Thread Neal Campbell
I am glad no one wants to get ahead in their company! Neal Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software Programming Services for Windows, OS X and Linux (540) 242 0911 - Try Spot for OS X, the intelligent DXCluster Client at

Re: Conference DVDs: Design principles

2008-11-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Neal Campbell wrote: I am glad no one wants to get ahead in their company! I could use a shoulder to cry on. Pretty soon there will be nothing left of poor Malte. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

Re: Rev Tutorial Videos has audio but no video

2008-11-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Charles Szasz wrote: I have OS 10.5.5 and Rev. 3.0. I recently purchased QuickTime Pro. Last weekend, I decided to view one of the Rev tutorial videos. I got audio but only a green screen instead of video. I have installed the Techsmith Codec for Intel OSX machines twice and rebooted each time

Re: Rev Tutorial Videos has audio but no video

2008-11-19 Thread Thomas McGrath III
I tried one of the Tutorials and got a blank screen. I went and installed/reinstalled the TechSmith codec and now I can see the video. Everything looks fine. Quicktime Pro 7 Rev 3.0.0 Mac OSX 10.5.5 Tom McGrath III Lazy River Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] iTunes Library Suite - libITS

Re: RevOpenDatabase(tQuery)

2008-11-19 Thread hershel fisch
On 11/19/08 3:29 AM, Jan Schenkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering because this works? put revOpenDatabase ( pDbType , pHost , pDbName , pUserName , pPassword ,) into tResult (with postgresql)? Hershel --- hershel fisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/18/08 8:13 PM, hershel

Re: Rev Tutorial Videos has audio but no video

2008-11-19 Thread Colin Holgate
On Nov 19, 2008, at 12:54 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: Quicktime Pro 7 Rev 3.0.0 Mac OSX 10.5.5 Which version of QuickTime, and what kind of Mac? There were changes in 7.5.5 that upset some machines, but an update the other day improved things a bit.

Re: Rev Tutorial Videos has audio but no video

2008-11-19 Thread Thomas McGrath III
I then installed via software update Quicktime Pro 7.5 update. Played same tutorial and it was fine. Played new/downloaded tutorial and it was fine as well Tom McGrath III Lazy River Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] iTunes Library Suite - libITS Information and download can be found on this page:

Re: Rev Tutorial Videos has audio but no video

2008-11-19 Thread Thomas McGrath III
First 7.0 and then 7.5 and both seem to work fine. Tom McGrath III Lazy River Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] iTunes Library Suite - libITS Information and download can be found on this page: http://www.lazyriversoftware.com/RevOne.html On Nov 19, 2008, at 12:58 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: On

Re: RunRev V3.0 Question/Message Box

2008-11-19 Thread Camm29
Sarah , Works in IDE with no problems. Tried all manner of inclusions or not etc , still fails to build standalone. I made a small stack with just an answer dialog and its fails to build in Rev 3. If I leave out any ask , answer dialog then stacks will build in Rev 3. Regards Camm -

Rev 3 Player/Stack Title Bug - Help?

2008-11-19 Thread Scott Rossi
Hello List: Good grief... I'm wondering if anyone can find a workaround for this odd behavior in Rev 3, Windows. Create a new stack. Give it a title, like ABCDE. Drag a player control onto the stack. Hit enter in title field of Rev's inspector, solely to update the title. If you see what I

Re: Rev Tutorial Videos has audio but no video

2008-11-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Thomas McGrath III wrote: First 7.0 and then 7.5 and both seem to work fine. Thanks for checking, Tom. Appreciate it. After Colin's comment, I just downloaded 7.5.5 and it seems to work fine here too with the Rev tutorials. Charles, did you download and install the correct codec? There are

Converting Hypercard Stack -- No Scripts?

2008-11-19 Thread Sivakatirswami
Wow, someone was cleaning up their computer here and sent me three hypercard stacks that I think i made nearly 20 years ago! One has some important, still useful data. I just opened the HC stack in Revolution and viola it appears. But I'm getting some strange behaviors that I don't know how

Re: Rev 3 Player/Stack Title Bug - Help?

2008-11-19 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Scott Rossi wrote: If you see what I see, the stack's title (in the titlebar) changes to A; the title in the inspector does change. ...does NOT change. Sorry for the typo (frustration evident). Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design

Re: Rev 3 Player/Stack Title Bug - Help?

2008-11-19 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Scott, Hello List: Good grief... I'm wondering if anyone can find a workaround for this odd behavior in Rev 3, Windows. Create a new stack. Give it a title, like ABCDE. Drag a player control onto the stack. Hit enter in title field of Rev's inspector, solely to update the title. If

Re: Converting Hypercard Stack -- No Scripts?

2008-11-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Sivakatirswami wrote: I just opened the HC stack in Revolution and viola it appears. But I'm getting some strange behaviors that I don't know how to solve. ... No script editor is invoked, and the script of the button with the offending command is not available. Any ideas? Odd. I've

Re: Rev 3 Player/Stack Title Bug - Help?

2008-11-19 Thread Chris Sheffield
Does setting the title in a preOpenStack handler make any difference? On Nov 19, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Scott Rossi wrote: If you see what I see, the stack's title (in the titlebar) changes to A; the title in the inspector does change. ...does NOT change. Sorry

Re: Rev 3 Player/Stack Title Bug - Help?

2008-11-19 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Chris Sheffield wrote: Does setting the title in a preOpenStack handler make any difference? Even if it did, the bug appears to happen when the engine encounters a card with a player. So if you switch a new card that has player (my situation), the title gets shot. I have tried

Re: Rev 3 Player/Stack Title Bug - Help?

2008-11-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Scott Rossi wrote: Hello List: Good grief... I'm wondering if anyone can find a workaround for this odd behavior in Rev 3, Windows. Create a new stack. Give it a title, like ABCDE. Drag a player control onto the stack. Hit enter in title field of Rev's inspector, solely to update the title.

Re: SQLite revQueryDatabase where param won't detect invalid target

2008-11-19 Thread Paul Murray
Jan, Thanks very much for your help! btw... got a syntax error on: put revDataFromQuery(wgdbConID,doSQL,anonID) into tRecordCount so I checked the documentation, and although it implies the first two parameters are optional, I had to add a couple of leading commas to get it to work: put

Backdrop in Media

2008-11-19 Thread Shari Coxford
The forced backdrop when running a stack with the Media player is NOT user friendly, it is downright hostile. It prevents folks from switching back and forth easily from other applications to the Rev stacks. I've tried a boatload of ways to run these stacks without the backdrop. Failed

Re: Rev Tutorial Videos has audio but no video

2008-11-19 Thread Charles Szasz
The video problem was due to Perian 1.1.2, which is a QT component. After I removed it the video returned. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Rev-Tutorial-Videos-has-audio-but-no-video-tp20573242p20588678.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at

Re: Rev Tutorial Videos has audio but no video

2008-11-19 Thread Charles Szasz
The video problem was due to Perian 1.1.2, which is a QT component. After I removed it the video returned. Thomas McGrath III-3 wrote: I then installed via software update Quicktime Pro 7.5 update. Played same tutorial and it was fine. Played new/downloaded tutorial and it was fine as

Re: Rev Tutorial Videos has audio but no video

2008-11-19 Thread Charles Szasz
The video problem was due to Perian 1.1.2, which is a QT component. After I removed it the video returned. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___

Re: re-Ordering sub stacks

2008-11-19 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Chris, I just reread your post and think that if this script 'used' to work prior to 3.0 then either it is a bug or maybe 3.0 changed the way it handles the substacks function. You might want to enter a bug report on this. Tom McGrath III Lazy River Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] iTunes

Re: Converting Hypercard Stack -- No Scripts?

2008-11-19 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Sivakatirswami wrote: I just opened the HC stack in Revolution and viola it appears. But I'm getting some strange behaviors that I don't know how to solve. ... No script editor is invoked, and the script of the button with the offending command is not available. Any ideas? I had

RE: Backdrop in Media

2008-11-19 Thread Lynn Fredricks
The only problem I have with the Rev player is that danged backdrop. It really is unprofessional and hostile. How can someone look at a file on their computer, and then use info from that file to enter it into the stack I've created for them? They cannot. The backdrop makes the Player

How to manage german mutated vowel in SQLite

2008-11-19 Thread Reinhold Venzl-Schubert
Hi! In my program I use a SQLite database, to store sentences in german language. I can store sentences as rtf-text with mutated vowels and can get them back from SQLite, everything works well. But now I want to export some records and reimport them later. This is my export-script: put

Re: Converting Hypercard Stack -- No Scripts?

2008-11-19 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
That also happened to me right after I got 3.0. If I remember correctly, everything was OK after I compacted the stack before opening it in Rev. Of course, that meant I had to be able to open it in HC to do that. Seems like there was something else, too. I think it was Jacqui who put me on

Re: Converting Hypercard Stack -- No Scripts?

2008-11-19 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: That also happened to me right after I got 3.0. If I remember correctly, everything was OK after I compacted the stack before opening it in Rev. Of course, that meant I had to be able to open it in HC to do that. Seems like there was something else, too. I think it was

Re: Converting Hypercard Stack -- No Scripts?

2008-11-19 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
At the time I didn't even know that property existed. Joe Wilkins On Nov 19, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: That also happened to me right after I got 3.0. If I remember correctly, everything was OK after I compacted the stack before opening it in Rev. Of

RE: Backdrop in Media

2008-11-19 Thread Shari
Lynn, I cannot sell them on more than the $49 I've already sold them on. I found a kludgie workaround. I'm not totally happy with it but with that one danged Player issue I had to find some other way. The backdrop is ridiculous. I don't know of any products excepting a few games where

Re: Confused

2008-11-19 Thread Stephen Barncard
Hi Joe, Try using a full path to the files, rather than the uncertainty of a partial path. It's easy to generate a whereAmI() function. and create it and add on the fly to combine with the desired file name. sqb Then the application should have the source for the players as:

Confused

2008-11-19 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Once more I find myself going in circles. I've created a standalone for both Intel and Legacy Macs that plays a number of .aiff music files. At one point it worked great in the IDE, but then I started messing with things trying to get the Legacy version working under 2.6.1. And I

Re: Converting Hypercard Stack -- No Scripts?

2008-11-19 Thread Sivakatirswami
Ben Rubinstein wrote: Sivakatirswami wrote: I just opened the HC stack in Revolution and viola it appears. But I'm getting some strange behaviors that I don't know how to solve. ... No script editor is invoked, and the script of the button with the offending command is not available.

Re: Confused

2008-11-19 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi Stephen, So you create a path and then assign that path to the players' source property? Haven't used a function to find out whereAmI, but guess a little rooting around in Rev will not be too difficult. That's when I learn new things. I thought the method I was proposing was fool-proof.

Re: Confused

2008-11-19 Thread Thomas McGrath III
on openStack put applicationFolder() into AppPathMusic put MusicFolder/ after AppPathMusic put AppPath -- Now you can do what you want with looking up the .aiff files and you can be sure the path is correct to those files -- Access the .aiff files with AppPath

Re: Confused

2008-11-19 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Correction: on openStack put applicationFolder() into AppPathMusic put MusicFolder/ after AppPathMusic put AppPathMusic -- Now you can do what you want with looking up the .aiff files and you can be sure the path is correct to those files -- Access the .aiff

Re: Confused

2008-11-19 Thread Brian Yennie
Joe, Are you using actual relative paths, or is the below a typo? A relative path would start with a period (.) as in: ./MusicFolder/Music1.aiff == relative path /MusicFolder/Music1.aiff == root directory of your hard drive Then the application should have the source for the players as: /

Re: Confused

2008-11-19 Thread Stephen Barncard
FUNCTION whereAmI get the effective filename of me set the itemdelimiter to / delete last item of it return it END whereAmI Hi Stephen, So you create a path and then assign that path to the players' source property? Haven't used a function to find out

Re: Confused

2008-11-19 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Thanks Tom. You're doing some pretty amazing stuff with Rev. Joe Wilkins On Nov 19, 2008, at 7:11 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: Correction: on openStack put applicationFolder() into AppPathMusic put MusicFolder/ after AppPathMusic put AppPathMusic -- Now you can do

Re: Confused

2008-11-19 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
You too, Stephen. thanks, Joe Wilkins On Nov 19, 2008, at 7:19 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote: FUNCTION whereAmI get the effective filename of me set the itemdelimiter to / delete last item of it return it END whereAmI Hi Stephen, So you create a path and then

Re: Confused

2008-11-19 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Thanks Joe, I learn something new everyday and before long things just start happening Regards, Tom McGrath III Lazy River Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] iTunes Library Suite - libITS Information and download can be found on this page: http://www.lazyriversoftware.com/RevOne.html On Nov

Re: Converting Hypercard Stack -- No Scripts?

2008-11-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Sivakatirswami wrote: I tried opening again in 2.8.1, compact stack, save as again, open in 3.0... still no go... The compacting pretty much has to be done in HyperCard, and it's a fairly important step. Some uncompacted stacks won't open at all in any version of Rev, or may open

Re: RunRev V3.0 Question/Message Box

2008-11-19 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Works in IDE with no problems. Tried all manner of inclusions or not etc , still fails to build standalone. I made a small stack with just an answer dialog and its fails to build in Rev 3. If I leave out any ask , answer dialog then stacks will build in Rev 3. That's really weird. Have

Re: RunRev V3.0 Question/Message Box

2008-11-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Camm29- Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 10:05:56 AM, you wrote: Sarah , Works in IDE with no problems. Tried all manner of inclusions or not etc , still fails to build standalone. I made a small stack with just an answer dialog and its fails to build in Rev 3. If I leave out any ask ,

Re: Confused

2008-11-19 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Good point, Brian. I'll have to check my code to see if I inadvertently included a period. This whole path issue has been a real bother to me from day one. I think this is one area where there should not be quite so much flexibility. I know my poor eyesight creates a lot of room for errors