Re: Rev Media and the product line gap

2006-03-31 Thread Judy Perry
Here, here! It IS the sweet spot.. and relegating it to the none of the above spot in my view at least, damns us to the fuhgettabuddit spot of never-neverLand. I mean, I DO use the none of the above' in multiple-guess exams... and only rarely is it used to support an intelligent guess. I

RE: Rev Media and the product line gap

2006-03-31 Thread Judy Perry
Damn... that's my favorite category :-) Judy he that knows little oft repeats it... On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Lynn Fredricks wrote: Its okay if we have one inventive user, but invective users have to go :-) ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Font/Style Problems on Windows

2006-04-03 Thread Judy Perry
Is it the correct font but just lacking style attributes and the correct size, Dave? I know I have had problems where, even on PCs on which the correct font was indeed installed (e.g., Trebuchet and Comic Sans), the font itself got reset to something else under Windows. Nobody's been able to

Re: [Ticket#: 2006040510000641] Re: [OT] Articles to read

2006-04-09 Thread Judy Perry
Well, Marielle, I've been accused of it. Dan too, I'll bet. And the both of us in a single breath, I'll wager (I wonder just how many people avoid a forum in which the two of us reside; or me alone, for that matter). Sometimes these things happen due to the differences between bodily-present

Re: [Ticket#: 2006040510000641] Re: [OT] Articles to read

2006-04-09 Thread Judy Perry
I guess I am fortunate that googling me turns up people other than me or me in my other incarnation as an amateur historian. 'Cuz otherwise I'd be so obviously toast... Anybody got the butter handy??? (hiding... don't hate me, Marielle: I'm just in an uncharacteristically good/wine-lubricated

Re: ArcadeEngine Forum is moving

2006-04-09 Thread Judy Perry
Thanks, Malte! Best of luck! Judy On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Malte Brill wrote: Hi all, Now that Runtime has their forums online, ArcadeEngine support forum is moving to our new RevSelect forum here - http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=27 I am looking forward to see you there.

Re: Register at Forums to See Everything

2006-04-09 Thread Judy Perry
Ditto. And amen! Judy On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, J. Landman Gay wrote: Please, please install the capability to use email with the forums. This will allow you the same degree of control over content that you want, and will not inconvenience those of us who just don't have time to click their way

Re: Runtime Revolution Ships Revolution Media

2006-04-10 Thread Judy Perry
Well, Dan (et al.), I suppose that I personally don't give a flying flaming figurative fig's whatever body-part who calls what what, but... It really would be nice if RunRev could pick a few names and STICK WITH THEM!!! I mean, honest to [EMAIL PROTECTED] every term I teach the course, I don't

Re: End all Negative Threads Now

2006-04-10 Thread Judy Perry
Anybody sharing the love with Percodan/Percocet? Will share Wine Bottle... I'm willing to give it a generous try... :-) Judy On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Mark Wieder wrote: Ken- Sunday, April 9, 2006, 9:54:15 AM, you wrote: I share your frustration, but there are better ways to handle this,

RE: Runtime Revolution Ships Revolution Media

2006-04-11 Thread Judy Perry
Sounds like a good idea! Judy On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Lynn Fredricks wrote: A reputation for being flighty seems a far more serious branding issue than merely following an established trend among many major successful companies. Id be happy to set up a marketing forum to discuss pro's and

Re: Runtime Revolution Ships Revolution Media

2006-04-12 Thread Judy Perry
It almost sounds like RevConWest... Almost. Just to play Devil's Advocate, how do you know that your participating end-users are not hand-picked to ensure a certain outcome? Not that I'm accusing you of doing that, but I participated in an external evaluator session for our first online

Re: Hmmm ! I wonder whether I can do this with Revolution ?

2006-04-12 Thread Judy Perry
Joe, This is great as long as you only need to do one or two of them. If you need to do more, it becomes downright painful. We had a similar need to Francis' nearly a decade ago when I worked in the Dean's Office. Back then, all part-time faculty contracts had to be hand-typed into a photocopy

Re: Runtime Revolution Ships Revolution Media

2006-04-12 Thread Judy Perry
Media's really not all that bad as a name... Judy On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Jim Ault wrote: Hmmm, DreamRev ? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Hmmm ! I wonder whether I with Revolution ? Forms processing

2006-04-12 Thread Judy Perry
Bill, To continue in your OT vein, isn't it a violation of federal law (I think it's the 1986 Computer Matching Records Act additions to the 1973 Privacy Rights Act) to merge those different databases for comparison purposes? I ghostwrote and handled correspondence on behalf of a local chapter

Re: Save Lives: Debug Code

2006-04-13 Thread Judy Perry
Sara Baase' book _A Gift of Fire_ explores this area as well in chapter 4; you can d/l the accompanying PPT slides from here: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/giftfire/ Judy On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Dan Shafer wrote: Offered without comment as further conversation fodder for the ongoing

Re: [WTF] User Forums

2006-04-14 Thread Judy Perry
Thanks, Bjornke... I had just cancelled my ditto for the same reason. And, you know, I can't delete my ditto's here... ;-P Judy On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, [ISO-8859-1] Bj?rnke von Gierke wrote: Not the words i would have used, but despite the tone a correct assessment. On Apr 14 2006, at 22:30,

Re: [OT] Cringely on BootCamp's future

2006-04-18 Thread Judy Perry
Chipp, Doesn't Adobe allow you to pay a small fee to 'cross-grade' from one platform to the other? Or was it Macromedia? I'm pretty certain that one of those two companies (now the same one, of course) didn't make it really financially painful to switch platforms... Judy On Wed, 19 Apr 2006,

Re: Mysterious Processor Use?

2006-04-20 Thread Judy Perry
FWIW, I've also noticed this, and pre 2.7 FWIW. Sorry; not much help, I know. But at least if I'm losing my marbles, THIS isn't the cause of it. Judy On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, J. Landman Gay wrote: Hm. I've got two different versions of Rev running right now, along with a third copy of MetaCard.

Re: Mysterious Processor Use?

2006-04-20 Thread Judy Perry
This is what I had to do as well. Sometimes I'd have to force-kill it from the terminal or activity monitor, as Rev would hang with 85% + processor use. Judy On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Mark Talluto wrote: On Apr 20, 2006, at 9:28 PM, Jim Ault wrote: Re-launching Rev or restarting your

My Student's Problem

2006-04-20 Thread Judy Perry
Hi all, I mistakenly posted this originally to the improv-list (what I get for not looking before pressing the reply key) :-( Anyway, I have a student who has a simple stack that has an openStack handler that plays an imbedded iMovie file and then mosies along to card 2, which has an animation

Re: My Student's Problem

2006-04-20 Thread Judy Perry
for the play entry. WHAT??? Any ideas? Retreating with egg on face... Judy On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Judy Perry wrote: ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: My Student's Problem

2006-04-21 Thread Judy Perry
to card 2 after the movie finishes: on openStack play videoclip lab2intro.mov end openStack on playStopped go cd 2 end playStopped This way he doesn't need to know how long the movie is. Phil Davis Judy Perry wrote: Well, here's what my student has to say about it, fixing

Re: Making custom skins for your app

2006-04-21 Thread Judy Perry
Xeubie, Check out the windowshape property. If I understand you correctly, this is probably what you are looking for: It allows you to set the shape of your stack to any image with requisite alpha channel(s). HTH, Judy On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Xeubie Tsu wrote: I didn't know it was as simple as

Re: RevMedia for CBT/eLearning

2006-04-27 Thread Judy Perry
Bob, I'd love to see your tool; the subject is of interest to me. See you at RevConWest! Judy On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Bob Earp wrote: We've done all of this (and much more) in other languages (the last being ToolBook) and will do it in Rev just as soon as we can find a benefactor ;-) best,

Re: RevMedia for CBT/eLearning

2006-04-27 Thread Judy Perry
Bob, U... yeah... Sorry. I seem to be prone to those oopsie moments. A number of years ago I was coordinating the shooting of our school-based promotional video and we were shooting the concrete canoe that day. It was suspended from the ceiling. The videographer was a little concerned

Re: RevMedia for CBT/eLearning

2006-04-28 Thread Judy Perry
Did I write that??? Not part of my sig (not that I even HAVE a sig). Sorry, I must not have deleted all trailing lines of a prior message. Judy On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Bob Warren wrote: Judy Perry wrote: Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE

Re: RevMedia for CBT/eLearning

2006-04-28 Thread Judy Perry
Really? I am sooo out of the pop culture loop. I was simply at a loss for words to describe Bob's er, whatever (the software thingy!!!). Judy On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Peter T. Evensen wrote: It has the same connotation in American English too, Bob.

Re: RevMedia for CBT/eLearning

2006-04-28 Thread Judy Perry
Jerry, Did I mention that I'm 12? ... Gotcha! just kidding ;-P B C N U! Judy On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Jerry Daniels wrote: Judy, RevConWest - a new twist with trysts! See you there! Best, Jerry On Apr 28, 2006, at 9:22 AM, Peter T. Evensen wrote: At 05:09 PM 4/27/2006,

Re: Sort-of OT: Learning Python

2006-05-06 Thread Judy Perry
FWIW, my husband is a devoted python user and he's not had any problems with installing or using Python on a Mac in OS X (don't even know if OS 9 is possible...). The only thing he's not been able to get going is PythonCard. Judy On Fri, 5 May 2006, Alex Tweedly wrote: Before I go and read the

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,

Re: Use an iPod as a USB drive ?

2006-05-09 Thread Judy Perry
And not only that, but my photo iPod with it's FireWire connection is a BOOTABLE harddrive. Used it to ressurect an old TiBook that decided it could fly while operational. Judy On Tue, 9 May 2006, Alex Tweedly wrote: Thomas McGrath III wrote: I do this all of the time. In iTunes you

Playing Simultaneous Sounds?

2006-05-09 Thread Judy Perry
Hi, I searched the use-list archive via Richard's page but can't come up with what I think I remember reading, namely, that you can sorta, kinda, using players, play two or more sounds simultaneously. Is it so? Can anyone point me in the right direction? Kindest thanks, Judy

Re: Playing Simultaneous Sounds?

2006-05-09 Thread Judy Perry
Thanks, Scott. Must they be external files then? Thanks again! Judy On Tue, 9 May 2006, Scott Rossi wrote: Yes, use two or more players set to different filenames. Or use an imported audioclip and a player. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Playing Simultaneous Sounds?

2006-05-09 Thread Judy Perry
file qua videoclip idea... might be the best to use in this particular type of circumstance. Thanks again! Judy On Tue, 9 May 2006, Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Judy Perry wrote: use two or more players set to different filenames. Or use an imported audioclip and a player. Must

Re: More cross-platform info needed - Text-to-Speech

2006-05-16 Thread Judy Perry
Well, I've forgotten the original request of this thread, but the reactions of my students to the Mac OS voices is that they are wayy cool (remember, however, that they are developing apps for kiddies and also working on game dev, so maybe goofy, time-warped voices are what is called for in our

Re: More cross-platform info needed - Text-to-Speech

2006-05-17 Thread Judy Perry
Sarah (et al): I especially like Agnes High Quality... Or, is it Victoria High Quality? Bruce is decent, as well. BUT I really LOVE Trinoids, Zarvox... even Bad News. Bubbles is fun... and so on... ;-) Judy On Wed, 17 May 2006, Sarah Reichelt wrote: Apple added a few higher quality ones

Re: Use emulated look for app permanently

2006-05-20 Thread Judy Perry
Hi Garrett, I think the only thing you can do is take screenshots of the various look'n'feel elements and paste them in individually, scripting each part that's supposed to do something (e.g., maximize/minimize/close elements, etc.). I don't know how you'd handle resizing, though. Maybe by

Re: Use emulated look for app permanently

2006-05-20 Thread Judy Perry
Hi Garrett, Right. So, the same technique I think should still apply as long as you can display the gui look'n'feel you'd like to use. If all else fails, d/l a 30-day trial of Rev for the desired GUI look'n'feel *after* you've got code more or less working and take the screen shots (of, I'm

Re: Video at the conference.

2006-05-22 Thread Judy Perry
Even using a consumer videocam and spending a few hours on editing couldn't hurt. And perhaps streaming just isn't possible or even wanted. Just my two small monetary units of thought on the subject. I might be willing to take a stab at a session or two... Judy On Mon, 22 May 2006, Stephen

Re: Splash Screen Strategy

2006-05-22 Thread Judy Perry
Again, Does it need to be streaming/live? Or could it survive/have a paying audience if it were to be audited? I'm reasonably certain a decent job could be done with editing, etc. As long as the audio's clear, you can always edit out bad video and substitute screen shots, bullet points, etc.

Re: video at the conference?

2006-05-23 Thread Judy Perry
Well, of course it would be better to do it right than to do it wrong. I just don't see anybody stepping up to the plate to do it right. Judy On Tue, 23 May 2006, Stephen Barncard wrote: I'd rather see reasonable lighting and a microphone at least on the podium before worrying about

Re: video at the conference?

2006-05-24 Thread Judy Perry
Congrats, Chipp! Maybe she can show my 5-yr. old twins David Sophie the ropes! Judy On Thu, 25 May 2006, Chipp Walters wrote: Hi All, Sorry, just found this thread as I've been away from the list. My wife and I are in the process of adopting a lovely little 10 year old girl (who will be

Disable combo box menu item?

2006-05-25 Thread Judy Perry
Hi, I'm not understanding this. I've got a pulldown menu button with style set to combo box. I manually disable one of its contents by using the inspector and typing a ( next to the content name in particular. For all other multiple-option button types, doing this disables the particular

Re: Disable combo box menu item?

2006-05-26 Thread Judy Perry
On Thu, 25 May 2006, J. Landman Gay wrote: Judy Perry wrote: For all other multiple-option button types, doing this disables the particular button/menu option. But for the combo box, it simply shows an enabled-state menu item that looks like this: (Vodka Why? Combo buttons

Re: audio file volume levels

2006-05-27 Thread Judy Perry
Wow. Makes me want to go buy a few... except, that I don't have an OS 9 machine up and running... but I do have an old 601 machine laying around in the office. Great little app... one of the few I have available in my teaching lab... Judy On Sat, 27 May 2006, Stephen Barncard wrote: Good old

Re: Saving information in Revolution

2006-05-27 Thread Judy Perry
Mark: Kindest thanks for your reference! Alvaro: You may want to visit a scripting conferences stack by Ken Ray at http://downloads.runrev.com/section/scriptingconferences.php See also the specialFolderPath function via the Rev docs. I have a PDF on this as well:

Re: SCHEDULE

2006-06-16 Thread Judy Perry
huh??? It's 1 am Monterey-time, we just got in, and I sure as *$!! hope I'm not too late for registration!!! 'Cuz, that would REALLY well and truly suck given that, arriving here after midnight, we discovered that our lodgings booked through Travelocity are for a Holiday Inn in Monterey...

Re: Dreamcard Roadster in the future??? - great idea!

2005-06-05 Thread Judy Perry
Yup. It's the 'web ueber alles' mentality that is unfortunately all-too-prevalent, especially in education. I would like to see it done just so that we can say so. Then let it be. Get back to our standalones!!! ;-) Judy On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Marian Petrides wrote: Can't answer the question

Re: Dreamcard Roadster in the future???

2005-06-05 Thread Judy Perry
But, I thought that access to the Flash file format was the big reason why we can't embed Flash files in Rev. Probably, with the exception of a brave very few souls, most of the ed community (and/or anyone else) doesn't give a flying, flaming fig about Roadster. But any sort of reasonably easy

Re: Dreamcard Roadster in the future???

2005-06-05 Thread Judy Perry
Hi Klaus, Yup; this is what I suspected it was. And, while I agree, this simply WILL NOT counter the 'web ueber alles' mentality. Period. Too geeky, too, I don't know what, too s not what's happening today or some such thing. In some (unmentioned) communities, it is all but a religious

Re: Dreamcard Roadster in the future???

2005-06-05 Thread Judy Perry
Andre, It's NOT about logic. It's about dogma. I agree with you. But it's irrelevant. It comes down to this: Do we want some of these people to produce crappy stuff with FrontPage; Do we want the somewhat geekier segment of them doing maybe slightly less crappy stuff in Flash; or do we want

Re: Beyond the Browser (was Re: Dreamcard Roadster in the future???)

2005-06-05 Thread Judy Perry
I swear I'm gonna start making it required reading in my class, as my CS majors (and probably alot of other people out there, too) are under the impression that multimedia = web-delivered content = Flash or whatever. Not that I'm knocking Flash (but I've sure seen plenty of completely useless,

Re: Dreamcard Roadster in the future???

2005-06-05 Thread Judy Perry
Troy, True enough. But equally, if not more, likely is the arena in which web-delivered content is dogma. I agree with Marian that, in many cases, those in decision-making capacities lack the knowledge or interest in making an intelligent decision in the matter. Try spending 25 years in higher

Re: Dreamcard Roadster in the future???

2005-06-05 Thread Judy Perry
Andre: EXACTLY!!! De ja vous! Been there, heard that!! (How can you tell I work at a publicly-funded university?) Judy On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Andre Garzia wrote: distance learning tool for those in rural areas. If you could just see the monster they created, imagine this: HTML + Microsoft

Re: Dreamcard Roadster in the future???

2005-06-05 Thread Judy Perry
I don't think that it is the similar (or not) environment that some yearn for; it's the eventual deliverability on Macs and PCs, in this case, with the specificity of over the web being the point of interest. Judy On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Brian Yennie wrote: Simply put, the majority of Revolution

Re: Dreamcard Roadster in the future???

2005-06-06 Thread Judy Perry
. But he did it without installing new software @;-) Judy On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Marty Billingsley wrote: Judy Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For many teachers, especially in public schools, installing standalone apps is an impossibility. The only way to allow many of these teachers access

Uh-oh.... Anybody following WWDC?

2005-06-06 Thread Judy Perry
From macnn.com's coverage: Mac OS X has been leading secret double life. Every Mac project build for Intel and PowerPC and Intel. Every release of Mac OS X has been built for both Intel and PowerPC-based Macs. For the last 5 years. Mac OS X is cross-platform by design. Apple's demo is on an

And, it's official?

2005-06-06 Thread Judy Perry
Two major transitions for Mac: 68K to PowerPC. Next Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X. Now time for third transition. Transition to Intel-based Macs. Developers Now. Next year for users. Because we want to make the best computers for our customers. No G5 PowerBook yet. Future products can't be build on IBM of

Re: Uh-oh.... Anybody following WWDC?

2005-06-06 Thread Judy Perry
Yeah. Time to go puke in 6 colours. ;-/ Judy On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Andre Garzia wrote: I am... . OMFG (I am sick) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Uh-oh.... Anybody following WWDC?

2005-06-06 Thread Judy Perry
Yeah, but what about the money we have invested in PPC-native apps? Do we get those all free? Is this why it's been more than a year since we've had a major Rev release? Kinda makes me feel less guilty that I let my personal studio subscription lapse due to finances. I dunno... I kinda like

Re: Uh-oh.... Anybody following WWDC?

2005-06-06 Thread Judy Perry
If they haven't already... On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Andre Garzia wrote: On Jun 6, 2005, at 2:49 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Judy Perry wrote: Yeah. Time to go puke in 6 colours. ;-/ Judy On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Andre Garzia wrote: I am... . OMFG (I am sick) Cheaper faster

Re: Uh-oh.... Anybody following WWDC?

2005-06-06 Thread Judy Perry
I know, I know. sniffle. Besides, the Rosetta thingy looks interesting, but I suspect it will be around about as long, if not less long, than Classic emulation. We're gonna need heat shields for aluminum-cased laptops... And, wasn't it you who recently told another poster that s/he was wrong

Re: 2.6 objects Kevin talked about? Anyone?

2005-06-07 Thread Judy Perry
So, we're talking about what, 4 or 6 years? Judy On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Richard Gaskin wrote: MisterX wrote: I do remember clearly that Kevin talked about an object oriented variable and scripting thing for this release a couple revChats ago... IIRC he was referring to 3.0 or later, not

RE: 2.6 objects Kevin talked about? Anyone?

2005-06-07 Thread Judy Perry
It seems to me that perhaps this has been taken differently than intended. It is less of a snippy remark than my trying to understand the company's timetable for releases. While I know that these things cannot be expected to be set in stone and rigorously followed, I find myself puzzled by what

Re: Inspector interface problem

2005-06-07 Thread Judy Perry
This exact same thing just happened to me last week, when I finally downloaded the DreamCard that I'd purchased along with my students at the beginning of the semester: All the text in the inspector views were in Ransom!!! (this is a ransom-note font in which each letter looks like it was cut

Re: 2.6 objects Kevin talked about? Anyone?

2005-06-07 Thread Judy Perry
Maybe I'm just overly anxious? Judy On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Kevin Miller wrote: On 7/6/05 8:26 pm, Judy Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Getting from 2.5 to 2.6 took more than a year with seeming little in the way of bug-fixes. Actually, its considerably less than a year

Re: 2.6 objects Kevin talked about? Anyone?

2005-06-07 Thread Judy Perry
Well, y'all must be right about this. Why does it FEEL like such a long time? (I'm starting to sound like a kid on a road trip: are we THERE yet) @;-P Judy On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Alex Tweedly wrote: No, it didn't actually take more than a year. 2.5Beta was last July - 2.5 itself came out

Re: updated page for RevConWest.

2005-06-08 Thread Judy Perry
Dan, Do you have any kiddie-friendly suggestions for the accompanying family members? Judy On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Dan Shafer wrote: You beat me to it, Andre. But don't call me! Sign up at the site. b We have only a few spots left, so time is of the essence. On Jun 8, 2005, at 6:20 PM,

Re: updated page for RevConWest.

2005-06-09 Thread Judy Perry
best Edna Mode effort from The Incredibles No CANDY! /best Edna Mode I mean, after all, we've got to get them to SLEEP that /those nights so that I can attend the next RevConWest day!!! ;-) Thanks, tho'... Judy On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Judy Perry wrote: Do you

Re: updated page for RevConWest.

2005-06-09 Thread Judy Perry
Thanks, Dan, Because, at this point, I'm considering taking off lunch BOF etc sessions as I don't think that ever, in the four years of the twins' life, my devoted spousal unit has EVER watched them ALONE for 10+ consecutive hours... Judy On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Dan Shafer wrote: Yes, I do.

Re: Live Keynotes from RevCon West

2005-06-16 Thread Judy Perry
I have a videocam if it is needed... We also have our 'Pods and maybe the mic (altho' this is purchaseable, no?) but have never done 'Podcasts... Judy On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Chipp Walters wrote: Hi all, We're trying to setup a live video stream for both Keynotes, Friday and Saturday, here at

Re: Make icons on a Mac?

2005-06-17 Thread Judy Perry
Kat, Jacque here at RevConWest has recommended Iconographer, which I am presently downloading: http://www.mscape.com/products/iconographer.html Shareware for $15. Judy On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Kat wrote: I've been following the discussion about icons with great interest. I'd like to create

Re: Make icons on a Mac?

2005-06-18 Thread Judy Perry
Yves, I'm lazy (it's nearly midnight and I need to grow fur and fangs by 9 a.m. so that fellow RevConWest attendees might properly recognize me): Is this in the devTools CD or elsewhere? Thanks... (is it a full moon yet???) Judy Gr. I feel a howl coming on... On Sat, 18 Jun 2005,

Re: Make icons on a Mac?

2005-06-19 Thread Judy Perry
Thanks, Scott! Loved your presentation!!! I might well just dust off an old trig book... Judy On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Scott Rossi wrote: Iconographer is great, but watch out for a bug in either the huge or large images -- the app will sometimes clip a portion of the image.

Re: Live Keynotes from RevCon West

2005-06-20 Thread Judy Perry
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Sarah Reichelt wrote: Hopefully, we will get to see some of the other presentations too, or notes from them? Sarah: I took some notes for the sessions I attended; Jacque encouraged me to finish them up and u/l them. I will when I get the chance (after finishing my first

Re: Food Fight

2005-06-21 Thread Judy Perry
That's 'cause you weren't in the direct flight path! (not that I'm unsympathetic to anti_Hungarian-Lite). Judy On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Mark Talluto wrote: I just wish some of it had been tossed my way. :) ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Bug with background groups

2005-06-22 Thread Judy Perry
I'm still on 2.5.x, but what you're describing isn't happenning here... Judy 2.5.? LS 10.3.8 On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Ton Kuypers wrote: I'm using RR 2.6 on Tiger. I've created a bunch of fields and labels to give a description to the user on what to put in those fields. Then I grouped all

Re: Bug with background groups

2005-06-22 Thread Judy Perry
Which would seem to be the default?? Judy On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Eric Chatonet wrote: Just set the sharedText property to true for your labels and to false for your fields :-) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Principles for User-Interface Design

2005-06-22 Thread Judy Perry
I especially got a kick out of reading what he had to say about user-configurable UIs and MS Word 6 for Mac. Basically, his take was that user-configurable UIs are a TERRIBLE idea but, that in the case of Word 6 for Mac, the UI was already such a total piece of crap that anything that a user

Re: Aaaaah, now I get it

2005-06-22 Thread Judy Perry
You've all got me curious: I've got such a thing up at both the Rev-Ed wiki and in RevOnline (username: JudyPerry). It even has (on the Weapons tab) a button for downloading a PDF. Except that it the coding is not optimized for very new-newbies, what would you like to see added/changed?

Re: Aaaaah, now I get it

2005-06-22 Thread Judy Perry
Bob, Go to the last tab in my stack. It brings up a substack with tabs on a single card; the tabs hide and show groups of things (mostly buttons IIRC). Thanks for the feedback and kind words! Judy On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Bob Hartley wrote: You wrote: Hi Judy Well I must say I could not have

Re: Principles for User-Interface Design

2005-06-22 Thread Judy Perry
Mark, Oh yeah! I think that the User Interface Hall of Shame even might have had in it M$'s horrible use of the dancing tabs-on-tabs-on-tabs... they, too, would rearrange on-the-fly, making them totally unusable. Judy On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Mark Wieder wrote: ...and not just user-configurable

Re: Principles for User-Interface Design

2005-06-22 Thread Judy Perry
Al: It sux bigtime!!! I remember once I was teaching the how to turn your computer on class on the PC platform and some CS major decided it would be cute to reprogram the left-right mouse buttons to their opposite. I can't begin to tell you how much fun that was. Happened periodically that

Re: Fast/slow code example (was: Re: compileIt for revolution?)

2005-06-24 Thread Judy Perry
Well, _my_ understanding of the online scripting conferences is that they are intended towards newbies; thus they are more about basic functionality and how-to use Rev as opposed to code optimization. Am I wrong Jacque? Judy On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Langers Christian wrote: Perhaps, I will find

Re: is within ... polygon shape?

2005-06-24 Thread Judy Perry
bummer... I was hoping that you'd found a solution to my need for the sort of irregularly-shaped buttons that an old HC external provided. Drats! Judy On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Steve Bonham wrote: h- Intersect doesn't work after all. It appears that one object will intersect with another

RE: is within ... polygon shape?

2005-06-24 Thread Judy Perry
Yup, that's what somebody told me when I asked about it privately some months ago: You need to read a book on algorithms... Gave up. Judy On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, MisterX wrote: you need a real algotithm. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: is within ... polygon shape?

2005-06-24 Thread Judy Perry
, 24 Jun 2005 10:49:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Judy Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: is within ... polygon shape? To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII bummer... I was hoping that you'd found

Re: Endless ranting and rude insults

2005-06-28 Thread Judy Perry
Tom, I couldn't agree more! Judy No DOT NOTATION! It SUX... It's hard.to.read.this:total.utter:crap! ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Embedded objects in fields

2005-07-05 Thread Judy Perry
Yes, and one of my favorites to use in teaching is The Art of the Obvious (Lind, Johnson Sandblad, CHI 1992). While it is largely concerned with automatically processed components of the task of reading frequently used documents, the authors contend that their findings suggest implications for

Re: Embedding Fonts

2005-07-07 Thread Judy Perry
Ken, Really? Director lets/let you embed fonts? (Sorry for continuing to look stoopid, but this was the first thing I asked of our program's 'Director Guru' in my edu-based MS program and he said 'no can do'... I guess I shouldn't be surprised??) Judy On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Ken Ray wrote: Yes,

Re: What About Newbies

2005-07-10 Thread Judy Perry
To which we should add: http://support.runrev.com/scriptingconferences/ --The company's collection of tutorial stacks presentation chat sessions http://revolution.lexicall.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=RevolutionTutorials --Marielle's Revolution for Education Wiki with various tutorials Judy

Re: What About Newbies

2005-07-10 Thread Judy Perry
Hi Tom, I'd love to help, but I'm completely database-illiterate. Can you tell us a little more specifically what it is you want to do? Judy ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: different UI approach

2005-07-10 Thread Judy Perry
And I'm with both of you (in spirit; haven't checked Mark's link yet). I really hate those websites that have those nav-menu bars that both scroll down the page with you (obscuring content sometimes, mind you) as well as being drop-downs merely by mouse-withins that are accidentally triggered

Re: different UI approach

2005-07-10 Thread Judy Perry
Isn't that the Microsoft Paperclip? Or any Mac version of Word after 5.x? Judy On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Richard Gaskin wrote: I suppose if we were to indulge in reductio ad absurdum we could recommend a UI that doesn't even require the effort of moving the mouse -- the software decides for you

Re: different UI approach

2005-07-10 Thread Judy Perry
IIRC, you are not on a Mac, are you Chipp? I got mouse-finger (have you tried drawing with one?!!) until I first moved to the Kensington four-button trackball, and, finally, to the current fingerless (ask my husband, as he really hasn't got any) Mac mouse. No more mouse-finger! FOR people who

Re: different UI approach

2005-07-10 Thread Judy Perry
Exactly! Okay, so, I am a Mac bigot of sorts, and, so, when I see PC laptop users with perfectly usable trackpads packing along external mice, I think, WT*??? I mean, I'm pretty certain that their PC trackpads are equipped with the requisite left and right mouse buttons, right? And, sometimes,

Re: different UI approach

2005-07-11 Thread Judy Perry
Really? I personally have more problems with the mouse because it moves, even when I don't want it to (as does the mousepad, as well as whatever it's sitting on), whereas, hopefully, the trackpad ain't goin' anywhere (and, if it does, I'm in big trouble 'cuz either my computer is

Re: play videoClip nameOfVideo does not work, Please help

2005-07-12 Thread Judy Perry
Also, I may be wrong, but I think from a previous email of his that he may have used a wmv format which I think is proprietary and perhaps unsupported? Anybody know about this? Judy ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Asking for Shao Sean's Calendar Object

2005-07-19 Thread Judy Perry
Well, Dan, I guess this goes to show that people are reading (and, hopefully, hence, _buying_) your book, so I'm hoping we'll be seeing Vol. II sometime soon?? Judy On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Michael Mandaville wrote: I am working through the Dan Shafer book and couldn't find the Shao Sean's

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