Re: Using SHELL to get a list of processes

2009-02-06 Thread Hugh Senior
Thank you... I must have missed the introduction of the 'relaunch' message in 2.7.3 which certainly makes things a LOT easier than using shell or file locks! /H Hugh Senior wrote: I just found TASKLIST which works... get shell(TASKLIST). And the processID returns the id of the app. So I

Transparent

2009-02-06 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Lay awake for hours last night, and in the wee hours of the Brahma-Muhurta thought () I had a brilliant idea: When attempting to make a PNG with an odd-shape and transparent area from an original PNG and text on top of it why not set the alphaData of the end-product to that of the original

Re: Dynamic labels for buttons with (oddshaped) icon images?

2009-02-06 Thread Klaus Major
Am 05.02.2009 um 22:50 schrieb Mark Swindell: On Feb 5, 2009, at 1:33 PM, Klaus Major wrote: Maybe I'm thinking a bit naive, but why shouldn't it then be possible (for the engine) to combine these two states and the result would be the label on top of the icon :-) Troublemaker.

Re: Dynamic labels for buttons with (oddshaped) icon images?

2009-02-06 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Jaqueline, Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, J. Landman Gay wrote: I suppose it would be possible to write a little script that would calculate the font size, compare it to the button height, and adjust the margins. It's possible, but it's not a little script. :-) I demoed a

OT: Need a little help with package maker

2009-02-06 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hello, creating my first package ever on a Mac, using PackageMaker I stick at two issues, probably a lack of Mac-knowledge. I tested to package one app bundle and one readme.txt file. As Destination I entered for both: /Applications/MyName Building the package succeeds without warnings or

Re: OT: Need a little help with package maker

2009-02-06 Thread Malte Brill
Moin Tiemo, why would you want to create an installer for your app in first place? There are very few apps on the Mac that require an installation process. Usually these are those that need admin rights to install things in places a normal user would not have access to. Most apps are

Re: convert to lower ascii 128?

2009-02-06 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Mark Smith wrote: One of the things that can slow Rev down in a long for loop is the building up of a long output string (I suspect that an awful lot of copying and moving of memory starts to happen). I made a little test of something suggested by someone on this list (Eric Miclo?), that

AW: OT: Need a little help with package maker

2009-02-06 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Thank you Kay, I'll dig into it Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution- boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Kay C Lan Gesendet: Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 10:52 An: How to use Revolution Betreff: Re: OT: Need a little

Format a disk on MacOS X

2009-02-06 Thread Ludovic Thébault
Hello, I want to make a button to format a disk with the shell (in FAT16 which is impossible to do with the GUI of MacoS X). Here my script : get shell(df) put line lineoffset(/Volumes/the label of btn disk, it) of it into tdisk set the itemdel to put item 1 of tdisk into tdisk

Re: Format a disk on MacOS X

2009-02-06 Thread Ludovic Thébault
Le 6 févr. 09 à 12:22, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : Probably a naive question (well, they are my speciality), but when I looked at the Help for Dosk Utility it said that I can format a disk with MS-DOS (FAT) - is that 16 or 32; certainly a bit unclear from the documentation. Yup, the GUI of

AW: Need a little help with package maker

2009-02-06 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Perhaps somebody can give me an advice for a good Mac developer forum, where I could ask this toppic. I didn't find any at developer.apple.com and macuser.com seems to be a user community. Thanks for any hint Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com

Detecting CYMK jpeg images

2009-02-06 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Does anyone have a method in Transcript to detect the colour space of a jpeg image? As you doubtless know, Rev can't open a CMYK JPEG; however the error it throws if you try to open one (eg by setting the filename of an image object to the URL of a jpeg file that happens to be CMYK) is simply

Re: Format a disk on MacOS X

2009-02-06 Thread Thierry
Le 6 févr. 09 à 11:16, Ludovic Thébault a écrit : Hello, I want to make a button to format a disk with the shell (in FAT16 which is impossible to do with the GUI of MacoS X). Here my script : get shell(df) put line lineoffset(/Volumes/the label of btn disk, it) of it into tdisk

Re: Dynamic labels for buttons with (oddshaped) icon images?

2009-02-06 Thread Mark Swindell
C'était une blague. :) m On Feb 6, 2009, at 12:54 AM, Klaus Major wrote: Am 05.02.2009 um 22:50 schrieb Mark Swindell: On Feb 5, 2009, at 1:33 PM, Klaus Major wrote: Maybe I'm thinking a bit naive, but why shouldn't it then be possible (for the engine) to combine these two states and

AW: OT: Need a little help with package maker

2009-02-06 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Moin moin Malte, Good point. Actually I wanted to have the same installation process on Win and Mac. My Win install is split into two parts. Part 1: installation of the prog (made with Inno), which calls after being finished part 2 (a rev app), which copies zipped video files from DVD to HD and

Format a disk on MacOS X

2009-02-06 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Probably a naive question (well, they are my speciality), but when I looked at the Help for Dosk Utility it said that I can format a disk with MS-DOS (FAT) - is that 16 or 32; certainly a bit unclear from the documentation. Yup, the GUI of Disk Utility smells a bit off - BUT, read this:-

Re: Format a disk on MacOS X

2009-02-06 Thread Ludovic Thébault
Le 6 févr. 09 à 16:03, Thierry a écrit : typo or error in your shell ? I found ! Before in my script i've set the defaultfolder to /Volumes/thedisk, so it's normal that MacOS X doesn't want to eject the disk. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Transparency

2009-02-06 Thread Richmond Mathewson
This works: on mouseUp set the transparent of img Yellow.png to true put top of group gX into TOPP put bottom of group gX into BUM put left of group gX into LEFTT put right of group gX into RITE put LEFTT , TOPP , RITE , BUM into fld fRECT put fld fRECT into FRECT put

Re: Format a disk on MacOS X

2009-02-06 Thread Thierry
/... get shell(diskutil umount tdisk) -- Fail to unmount (but works directly in the terminal Any idea ? A guess; did you try to quote tdisk ? Regards, Thierry ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: OT: Need a little help with package maker

2009-02-06 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Tiemo Hollmann TB toolb...@kestner.dewrote: Hello, creating my first package ever on a Mac, using PackageMaker I stick at two issues, probably a lack of Mac-knowledge. I know, that these are actually no topics for a rev forum, but perhaps it is so easy for

Script Reporter

2009-02-06 Thread RevList
How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com on February 4, 2009 at 9:16 AM -0800 wrote: Hello Friends, For those that missed the last newsletter (you should not!), I've just released a handy tool to auto generate HTML documentation from stack comments. It is called RevDoc and it's

Detecting CYMK jpeg images

2009-02-06 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Well, I won't pretend to understand this, but it should work: http://www.sweattechnologies.com/rev/ libColor.rev sincerely, Richmond Mathewson. A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle.

Re: Dynamic labels for buttons with (oddshaped) icon images?

2009-02-06 Thread Klaus Major
Bonsoir Mark, C'était une blague. Well, I guessed, but the lack of smileys always perplexes me a bit :-) :) m Best Klaus -- Klaus Major kl...@major-k.de http://www.major-k.de ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Detecting CYMK jpeg images

2009-02-06 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Richmond Mathewson wrote: Well, I won't pretend to understand this, but it should work: http://www.sweattechnologies.com/rev/ libColor.rev Richmond, thanks for the reply - but unfortunately libColor is about converting a colour description between colour spaces, nothing to do with

Re: Dynamic labels for buttons with (oddshaped) icon images?

2009-02-06 Thread J. Landman Gay
Klaus Major wrote: No bells and whistles though, it just mashes the name into the center. The math may need some jiggl...um, adjustments. :-) Tested a bit and did some finetuning: ... put (the height of btn 1 - the textheight of btn 1 - the effective textsize of btn 1) div 2 into tMargin

Transparency

2009-02-06 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I wrote: HOWEVER; the result is a PNG of the odd-shape with a 'cute' little, white drop-shadow: I wonder why. I just tried this with a circular PNG as the original image and the end result had quite a fat white border all around it which would seem to indicate that when the SNAPSHOT is imported

Re: Detecting CYMK jpeg images

2009-02-06 Thread Ken Ray
Does anyone have a method in Transcript to detect the colour space of a jpeg image? If you're on Mac, yes... you can use SIPS at the command line. Here's the handlers I created for this - feel free to use them (although I don't have a Windows or Linux version). You'd use it like this: on

Re: Transparency

2009-02-06 Thread Brian Yennie
Richmond, It looks like you are using a group (group gZ) to determine the rect you are grabbing the snapshot from. Are you sure the rect of the group is the same as the rect of the image you are trying to copy / put it in to? Is the image inside that group (in which case, maybe borders or

Transparency

2009-02-06 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Dear Brian Yennie, Wow, fantastic: all my problems are solved (well, at least with this particular project)! Mind you, makes me feel fairly foolish. Thank you so much. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson. A Thorn in the flesh is better

Re: Script Reporter

2009-02-06 Thread Ken Ray
This is an excellent solution. Others might also be interested in a rev stack that I developed some time ago called Script Reporter. It too is free and open source. See http://www.createchsol.com/ScriptReporter/ for a video and download. That's sweet, Stewart! I didn't know you'd done

Re: ListMagic calculated columns

2009-02-06 Thread Josep
Hi, Any can say me why the code added into the scripts of the card don't work? In the scripts of the card following the documentation say that can add my own code into but nothing happen... :( Cheers, Josep M -- View this message in context:

Re: Transparency

2009-02-06 Thread Brian Yennie
LOL, if one of my posts solves ALL your problems, please let me know =)!!! Dear Brian Yennie, Wow, fantastic: all my problems are solved (well, at least with this particular project)! Mind you, makes me feel fairly foolish. Thank you so much. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.

Re: Script Reporter

2009-02-06 Thread runrev260805
Stewart, that is something i was looking for now for a long time. Thank you very much for that piece of software. Regards, Matthias Rebbe Original Message Subject: Script Reporter (06-Feb-2009 18:01) From:RevList revl...@createchsol.com To: runrev260...@m-r-d.de

Re: Script Reporter

2009-02-06 Thread Chipp Walters
Yes, ScriptReporter is very nice! I have an altPlugin called 'altStats' which is a nice compliment to script reporter. It counts things in stacks and substacks. Frequently I like to be able to report how many lines of code or how many controls are in a project, and altStats helps me do this.

RE: ListMagic calculated columns

2009-02-06 Thread Jim Bufalini
Hi Josep, I assume you are saying you have handlers you have added into the card script that are not working? Can you show a sample of the code that is not working? Thanks! Jim Bufalini -Original Message- From: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution-

RE: ListMagic calculated columns

2009-02-06 Thread Josep
Hi Jim, I need something like this example: CodeDescription Units Price Total J001Item A 2 12 24(*) (*) Column Total will be calculated by col Units * Price, and if the user edit the values of Units or Price the column Total will be

RE: Re-4: List Magic testimony

2009-02-06 Thread Jim Bufalini
Dear Bob and All, We are still in the process of sorting things out after Eric's untimely and unexpected death. Just yesterday and today we managed to get unlock codes to all who had purchased and posted the latest updated version of ListMagic 1.1 for download. If anyone purchased ListMagic and

Re: Re-4: List Magic testimony

2009-02-06 Thread Neal Campbell
Hi Jim I got an unlock code but am not sure how to use it. Where do you enter the code? Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software Programming Services for Windows, OS X and Linux www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 242 0911 On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Jim Bufalini j...@visitrieve.com wrote:

RE: Re-4: List Magic testimony

2009-02-06 Thread Jim Bufalini
Hi Neal, Click on the *Presentation* tab and then on the *Enter License code* button on the bottom right. Follow the directions. Once unlocked, you can download any future trial copy and it will be automatically unlocked. Jim Bufalini -Original Message- From:

Re: ListMagic calculated columns

2009-02-06 Thread william humphrey
I'm having trouble getting LMPopulate to work when the list widget is in a card on another stack. WHen I do: LMPopulate tList,the long ID of fld Customers of card Sales of stack hopeless' as in the example it doesn't work. I end up having to lock screen go card sales of stack hopeless

Re: ListMagic calculated columns

2009-02-06 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 9:14 AM, william humphrey shoreag...@gmail.com wrote: I'm having trouble getting LMPopulate to work when the list widget is in a card on another stack. WHen I do: LMPopulate tList,the long ID of fld Customers of card Sales of stack hopeless' as in the example it doesn't

Re: Re-4: List Magic testimony

2009-02-06 Thread Neal Campbell
Hi Jim On the bottom right (on the stack I got) is a Print button. Do I have the wrong stack? Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software Programming Services for Windows, OS X and Linux www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 242 0911 On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Jim Bufalini j...@visitrieve.com

Re: Re-4: List Magic testimony

2009-02-06 Thread Neal Campbell
I indeed had the wrong stack, sorry! Thanks for the help, Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software Programming Services for Windows, OS X and Linux www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 242 0911 On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Neal Campbell nealk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jim On the bottom right (on

RE: ListMagic calculated columns

2009-02-06 Thread Jim Bufalini
Hi Josep, First let me say that Eric designed version 1.1 of ListMagic to make it easy to display a list of tab delimited data with headers and a lot of other functionalities, but not to act as a spreadsheet or report generator like you have for database with calculations and breaks and bands,

RE: Re-4: List Magic testimony

2009-02-06 Thread Jim Bufalini
Hi Neal, Glad you found the correct stack. :-) Anyone that downloaded ListMagic 1.1 prior to Friday 2/6/09 should download it again. Even though it has the same version number, it has changes to do with the entry of registration codes and some minor fixes. Jim -Original Message-

RE: ListMagic calculated columns

2009-02-06 Thread Jim Bufalini
Hi William, I'll dig into this shortly. Thanks in advance for your patience. Jim -Original Message- From: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution- boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of william humphrey Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 1:14 PM To: How to use