Re: How do I make a background field?

2006-09-24 Thread Judy Perry
Thanks for the links, Devin! Judy On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Devin Asay wrote: I put together some notes about Rev groups for the students in my beginning Rev programming class. You can read them at: http://revolution.byu.edu/groups/Groups.html See also the discussion on Object Hierarchy and

Re: Revolution 2.7.4 Released

2006-09-24 Thread Judy Perry
Huh??? When did 'one year of free updates/maintenance releases/etc.' get dropped?? Thanking the stars my economic livelihood doesn't rely upon them... Judy On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Bill Marriott wrote: Alright. Am I correct that the price of update packs has increased now? Early update $188/yr

Re: Revolution 2.7.4 Released

2006-09-24 Thread Judy Perry
I'm coming in on this late, so perhaps this has already been answered, and if so, apologies, but... is there a difference between upgrades (which I would understand as being from Studio - Enterprise or whatever's next on the developmental food chain) and new releases (e.g., from 2.7.1 - 2.7.2)??

Re: Revolution 2.7.4 Released

2006-09-24 Thread Judy Perry
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Ken Ray wrote: On 9/24/06 3:59 AM, Judy Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Huh??? When did 'one year of free updates/maintenance releases/etc.' get dropped?? According to the Internet Wayback machine, this happened sometime early in 2004. I know what you mean, though... I

Re: [OT] Re: Filthy Apples

2006-09-29 Thread Judy Perry
Monte, Don't your neighbors get PO'd? I ask because, I, too, compost much of my household's organic waste. I don't have one of those commercial composting bin thingies, so I just use a 2' x 2' space in my very tiny rear yard and keep it wet and turn it over occasionally. I find that the

Re: [OT] Re: Filthy Apples

2006-09-29 Thread Judy Perry
I believe that here in California, there is a new state law that requires depositing all such used computing equipment at a state-designated/approved recycling/disposal facility. Judy On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I had no intention, in my original posting, of implying that

SRe: [OT] Re: Filthy Apples

2006-09-30 Thread Judy Perry
So, do you think this is a good thing or a bad thing? Judy On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Stephen Barncard wrote: And even better, this year consumers in California pay about $10/item more on purchase price for recycling monitors and computers. My local 'sanitary engineers', Sunset Scavenger, is now

Re: [OT] - REALBasic Claims 100K Users

2006-10-05 Thread Judy Perry
Dan, I suspect that you're right about the 'popularity' factor (don't pass out... really... grab whatever heart meds are needed. Call 911 if necessary!).. ;-) But, how to get Rev to attain a similar 'popularity' quotient...??? Is it really a chicken or the egg thing? You say that it may not

Re: [OT] - REALBasic Claims 100K Users

2006-10-05 Thread Judy Perry
Hmmm... and if he HAD said it, I suppose I'd just love arrays. ;-) Judy On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Richard Gaskin wrote: Was it H.L. Mencken who said Arrays are the devil's playground? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Test for recovery

2006-10-09 Thread Judy Perry
Damn!! You're too late! ;-) Judy On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, J. Landman Gay wrote: A server failure shut down most communications with Runtime over the weekend. This is a test to see if the list is working again. Those of you who suffered withdrawal symptoms can now stop taking your medication.

Re: digital circuit simulator

2006-10-12 Thread Judy Perry
Marty, I don't know of one, but I'd LOVE to see what you come up with! Judy On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Marty Billingsley wrote: Hi -- Anyone know of a digital circuit simulator implemented in RR? I'd like my students to be able to drag logic gates around, hook them to inputs, put power to the

Re: Open Letter to Rev: Quality Is Job #1

2006-10-20 Thread Judy Perry
Well, I'd argue it a different way: If you're steathfully (is that a word??) going to switch away from an oft-vaunted policy of free year of upgrades for a license to a this is all you're gonna get policy of annual subscription fees, you'd really better be continuously chugging out new versions

Re: Open Letter to Rev: Quality Is Job #1

2006-10-20 Thread Judy Perry
Whaaatt?? Are you saying that there wasn't a Hypercard list??? Maybe Apple didn't provide it, but I'm pretty certain that some of the Apple HC engineers were on it and read it (and even contributed IIRC). Judy On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I was around when Hypercard changed

Re: Bill's Boycott - was Open Letter to Rev: Quality Is Job #1 (Vista Install)

2006-10-20 Thread Judy Perry
Here, here. Judy On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Stephen Barncard wrote: You act like Rev can afford a staff of Beta testers in house all the time. They don't have the resources of M$ and I imagine the margins are thin. After seeing the supposedly well supported Hypercard go down, I'm very grateful

Re: Bill's Boycott - was Open Letter to Rev: Quality Is Job #1 (Vista Install)

2006-10-21 Thread Judy Perry
Oh, Stephen... Do we really need to go down that street? It's not nice to imply that hobby users are not serious: the two are NOT mutually exclusive. They may pay less for a license, but they get less, too, and, still, they PAY. While not Bill Marriott-possibly hopping mad about the

Re: [ANN] MacFormat Tutorial: Writing frogger with Rev and AE

2006-10-24 Thread Judy Perry
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Re: Careful

2006-10-30 Thread Judy Perry
This sounds like something I once got in trouble for doing in the 5th grade (namely, compile a dictionary of swear words). My teachers were not amused... Seriously, though, somebody's actually written a book on the subject: _The Anatomy of Swearing_ M. F. Ashley Montagu (1967). _Why We Curse:

Re: Fonts in a Stack

2006-10-31 Thread Judy Perry
I think Chipp has one (a plug-in thingy, I think). http://www.altuit.com/ I wasn't able to quickly find it, but I could swear he had one... HTH, Judy On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Bridger Maxwell wrote: Hey, For a stack I am making, I have a very specific font that I am wanting to use, but it is

Re: links again

2006-11-05 Thread Judy Perry
Tim, You can also check out a simple stack I have explaining how to do this up on RevOnline in the Education category: Hyperlinks in Transcript. HTH, Judy On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Sarah Reichelt wrote: Hi TIm, Yes there is a way to do what you want, but it is a bit clumsy to implement. You

Re: Open Letter to Rev: Quality Is Job #1

2006-11-07 Thread Judy Perry
Wow. When someone patiently explains to you how the system works, and explains that she is indeed part of that system, and you continue to offer insults... How is that supposed to be helpful? Jacque's one of the most tireless, patient, and giving members of the x-talk community, a community it

Re: [REM] Scripter's Scrapbook half price offer

2006-11-10 Thread Judy Perry
Got mine! Judy On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To give yourself a weekend of evaluation time, a reminder that the special half price offer to Revolution users will expire on Monday. This was the announcement in case you missed it...

Re: Rev_rant

2006-11-10 Thread Judy Perry
Hi Richard, You just made me go back and re-read his posts to see if I missed anything, as I certainly did not not have a recollection of any flaming arrows being released in my general direction... And, indeed, I didn't find any! Bravo! Judy On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Richard Gaskin wrote: Some

Re: Altuit sale of altBrowser, altSQLite and altFont to RunRev

2006-11-10 Thread Judy Perry
Awesome news! Judy On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Chipp Walters wrote: Well, most of you probably have already read the latest news, but I thought I could add our take on things. Today we announced the imminent sale of three of our best selling add-ons to Runtime Revolution. The three products are

Re: Quality

2006-11-10 Thread Judy Perry
I like that idea! The only downside I can see is that dolts such as myself may feel free to flood RevZilla with bugs that are really stupid user errors (which is why even when I was having wierd font problems, I never BZ'd it because I was fairly certain it just HAD to be something stupid that I

RE: Quality

2006-11-10 Thread Judy Perry
Well, you know, even though I mentioned the plight of the poor Linux/Unix/*nix user, I suspect that some of the problems experienced or features nonexistent on that platform may well be beyone Rev's control and lie more with the OS. FWIW... Let me know please if I am wrong about this so that

Where are the *%#$!! web fora??

2006-11-13 Thread Judy Perry
Feeling daftly dumb... Went through 4 pages of google search as well as searched within Rev's site. :-( Judy ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

RE: Revolution in Programming for Dummies (was RE: Rev_rant part 4)

2006-11-14 Thread Judy Perry
This is REALLY lovely news! Gotta go buy that book! If nothing else, I can show it to my department the next time I ask..., er, beg, them for new Rev licenses for my lab :-D Judy On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Lynn Fredricks wrote: Is there some kind of deal on Rev as well (Free 2.2.1 license?)

Re: jscard

2006-11-29 Thread Judy Perry
Yeah, because I seem to recall it being up on the HC list some time ago, and nobody complained there about it not working (not that I checked it, mind you...). Judy On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Jan Schenkel wrote: The second link I sent yesterday did work - perhaps they've taken it down after all us

Re: [OT] Rev Online User Space

2006-12-04 Thread Judy Perry
Gee, I thought that it stood for you idiot! you have more than one RevOnline space!! ('cuz I noticed that one of my spaces had one; most assuredly not a comment on anyone else's). ;-) Judy On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Eric Chatonet wrote: Hello, Le 4 d?c. 06 ? 07:36, Kay C Lan a ?crit : I was

Re: I want money.

2006-12-11 Thread Judy Perry
Be certain to do them in really large, red type. And don't forget the dancing hamsters on a blinding yellow patterned background. Judy On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Andre Garzia wrote: wait till I remember how to use the maquee and blink html tags... I'll be so rich... ;-) On Dec 11, 2006, at

Re: Solstice salutations!

2006-12-19 Thread Judy Perry
OTOH, There are, regrettably, those for whom proper usage of the language isn't even a priority. Heard last week during student presentations on the subject of the computer impact on society vis-a-vis telemedicine and the case of Jeri Nielsen: Computers and telemedicine enabled Dr. Jeri Nielsen

Re: OT: Virtual PC vs Real PC

2004-08-24 Thread Judy Perry
I dunno, but even my wintel students all complain about XP being bloatware... (Sorry for the late reply -- our server's apparently been down a while...) Judy On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Marian Petrides wrote: What is the problem using XP Home Edition for development? I develop on Mac, then port,

Re: OT: Virtual PC vs Real PC

2004-08-24 Thread Judy Perry
FWIW, I also ran VPC w/XP on a dual G4... kinda painfully slow. FWIW, if your user is using an older PC with specs that match Rev's lower-limit official specs for deliverables, this is kinda like what VPC is like on my dual G4, so, in a way, using VPC does you the favor of knowing how dreadfully

RE: Do we have synthetic speech in WindowsXP yet?

2004-08-24 Thread Judy Perry
Not to be excessively grouchy, but, hasn't this been the case for a good year or more already? Judy On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, MisterX wrote: I think there is something about it in the readme... It's in the what's new actually Issue: On Windows systems, the Speech library is not yet compatible

Re: Text to Speech in windows

2004-08-25 Thread Judy Perry
Well, I, as a Mac user, for one, do not agree. I was happy when TTS was made available for Windows, as well as when Jonathan made a Windows version of Shakobox. I don't want features to be broken under windows... and this isn't because it affects my bottom line (thin as it is), either. OTOH,

re:Do we have synthetic speech in WindowsXP yet?

2004-08-25 Thread Judy Perry
Perhaps, but I KNOW it's been discussed on list before... and I think there's even some sort of tech note/read me kinda thing that acknowledges the problem/issue... and that it was being fixed? Judy On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, tuviah snyder wrote: Just checked bugzilla and cannot find a feature

re:Do we have synthetic speech in WindowsXP yet?

2004-08-25 Thread Judy Perry
Remember that I brought it up at the first rev chat session, too. Judy On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, tuviah snyder wrote: Just checked bugzilla and cannot find a feature request or bug report for speech under xp with sapi 5... ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: re:Do we have synthetic speech in WindowsXP yet?

2004-08-25 Thread Judy Perry
Thank you, Tuviah :-D Judy On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, tuviah snyder wrote: Note revspeech.dll has been updated to support SAPI 5 for 2.5. You will however have to choose between two versions of the external one that is compatible with SAPI 4 and the other one which is compatible between with SAPI

Re: New RunRev site...

2004-08-31 Thread Judy Perry
Wow Huge improvement! Judy ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Why 10 hours for a newbie and 30 days for a programmer ?

2004-09-01 Thread Judy Perry
But, how many will they lose to the perception of being miserly? (I should add that I was going to use the work 'niggardly' but, being afraid of being racially offensive, used a thesaurus... in which the word 'Scotch' also became an unfortunate possibility). Really, though: what will they lose

Re: Why 10 hours for a newbie and 30 days for a programmer ?

2004-09-01 Thread Judy Perry
to do for tomorrow, so s/he launches some other program just to check something really quickly... gets lost in thought, the phone rings, etc etc. And hours can inadvertently get lopped off the very small allotment of 10 hours of use. Judy On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Jan Schenkel wrote: --- Judy Perry

Re: Why 10 hours for a newbie and 30 days for a programmer ?

2004-09-01 Thread Judy Perry
Mark, Lucky you ;-) Did I mention my dogs? Judy On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Mark Brownell wrote: As far as the laundry, phone, and kids goes... How do you do that? I need to concentrate when I work at the computer. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL

Re: Why 10 hours for a newbie and 30 days for a programmer ?

2004-09-01 Thread Judy Perry
I agree with Dan that I like the approach; just not the number. Judy On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Dan Shafer wrote: One more thing. An arbitrary review period measured in ACTUAL time of usage rather than some number of days passing is, IMNSHO, a very smart and helpful thing. I can't tell you how many

Re: about upgrading from 2.2 to 2.5?

2004-09-01 Thread Judy Perry
Jacque, How do I do this for my institution's purchase? (would really like to use 2.5 instead of 2.2 for Friday's lab...) Thanks! Judy On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, J. Landman Gay wrote: If your license is current and not expired, just go here and request an updated key for free:

Re: about upgrading from 2.2 to 2.5?

2004-09-02 Thread Judy Perry
Nope. Tried that last Friday. The old code was for the purchase of 2.2 (or whatever it was back in July). Any other ideas? Thanks! Judy On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 9/1/04 5:27 PM, Judy Perry wrote: Jacque, How do I do this for my institution's purchase? I'm still

RE: LittleArrows Problem

2004-09-02 Thread Judy Perry
Try Bugzilla: http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/query.cgi?GoAheadAndLogIn=1 HTH, Judy On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Arthur Urban wrote: Now this one, I do not feel there is an excuse for. The negation of -6 is 6, not some approximation. Somebody at Revolution really needs to respond to this, but

Re: Why 10 hours for a newbie and 30 days for a programmer

2004-09-03 Thread Judy Perry
I agree. I don't argue that Rev flood the market with free software for educators. I simply do not believe that 10 hours is a sufficient amount of time for learning/evaluation and that even the mere *perception* that real developers get 30 days and lowly newbies get 10 hours looks bad. Worse

Re: Why 10 hours for a newbie and 30 days for a programmer

2004-09-03 Thread Judy Perry
This is exactly what I was talking about in my previous post. Judy On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Keith Hutchison wrote: Thanks for your response, we were getting fairly frustrated with make up your mind in ten hours or forget it message. Frankly it caused confusion.

Re: Why 10 hours for a newbie and 30 days for a programmer

2004-09-07 Thread Judy Perry
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Dan Shafer wrote: 2. Development tools are a particularly difficult sell into the education market because of the wide availability of free, Open Source tools. --In our case, it's even worse. On the educational end, we eschew the free, open source dev tools in favor of

Re: [OT] Why 10 hours for a newbie and 30 days for a programmer

2004-09-07 Thread Judy Perry
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, j wrote: I'll wager Microsoft has made a nice chunk of cash selling Word licenses to pretty much every school in the Western world. --But, it wasn't always so easy. WordPerfect had a near lockjawed grip on the education market as it was the preferred choice for PCs into

Re: [OT] Why 10 hours for a newbie and 30 days for a programmer

2004-09-07 Thread Judy Perry
Yes, I've obviously thought about doing this myself... maybe even will if I can spin the right angle. It's difficult inasmuch as my students are all largely 3-rd year CS majors, though... maybe T.H.E. Journal? Judy On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Richard Gaskin wrote: Judy Perry wrote: On Tue, 7 Sep

Re: Why 10 hours for a newbie and 30 days for a programmer

2004-09-07 Thread Judy Perry
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Dan Shafer wrote: snip The problem, I submit, is with the fact that dedicated educators can't get their schools to buy the right stuff because those schools are spending way too much money on overpriced textbooks and top-heavy administrative groups. --Amen, amen, and,

Re: play command / faq?

2004-09-14 Thread Judy Perry
Dunno about wav, but I think aif works fine.. Judy On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Eric Engle wrote: Hi, I am sure this is in a faq somewhere - so maybe just point me to a faq url? I am trying to figure out the play command. What file types can be played using play? I tried to play an MP3 and got

RE: Mac OS X splittable window?

2004-09-15 Thread Judy Perry
Does anyone know whether the resizing bug got fixed? Being lazy... Judy On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Arthur Urban wrote: Now how does one pull of those side drawers that are all the rage in OS X apps? I believe all you have to do is: drawer stack mystack Check out the 'drawer' command

Re: Sidescroller games?

2004-09-23 Thread Judy Perry
Thanks for the tips, Malte! On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Malte Brill wrote: Hi Judy, it is possible to do Sidescroller Games in Rev if you keep the minimal system requirements high enough: The computer the game is played on should run at 600 + MHz, have at least 4 MB video Ram and 256 MB Ram.

Re: Valid Audio File for Linux

2004-10-01 Thread Judy Perry
I'd be interested in knowing this info as well... Judy On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, David Quinn-Jacobs wrote: Could some kind soul someone email a valid sound file for Linux to me? I have tried every format I can think of, but the sound remains distorted. AU files are only slightly off, but WAV

Re: openCard message not received

2004-10-01 Thread Judy Perry
Leston, I have the same problem with one of my stacks -- in the opencard handler of the first card, I have an animation routine (simple). It doesn't. There is no openCard handler at the stack level. If, on card one I type: send openCard to this card then, it works as it should. It doesn't

Re: openCard message not received

2004-10-02 Thread Judy Perry
I don't know because (a) it's not finished (b) it's not supposed to be compiled (it's an example buttons stack for my students). I guess I'll try that next, but it won't help in my particular circumstance. Judy On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Richard Gaskin wrote: Judy Perry wrote: Does it happen

Re: Comparing Rev to other multimedia apps at NECC

2004-10-05 Thread Judy Perry
Yeah, but it sounds a little geeky for the edu crowd... Judy On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Rob Cozens wrote: Note this can be posed as a real-world problem: The objective of this exercise is to calculate the total of a specific sub-field in a file of comma-delimited text records. Fields are

Re: Comparing Rev to other multimedia apps at NECC

2004-10-05 Thread Judy Perry
on the first test (e.g. 100+90+80). (I think you can fill it in from here...) On Oct 5, 2004, at 3:21 PM, Judy Perry wrote: Yeah, but it sounds a little geeky for the edu crowd... ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

RE: use-revolution Digest, Vol 13, Issue 38

2004-10-17 Thread Judy Perry
Hmmm, Well, you could use soundChannels... but, oops, that's a Hypercard thingy, isn't it?! Ummm, I don't think I've ever seen a good reason why this couldn't be done in Revolution other than it isn't. The traditional explanation from I think Scott Raney was something to the effect that it

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 13, Issue 38

2004-10-18 Thread Judy Perry
So, then it's not that it's IMPOSSIBLE as we've previously been led to believe but rather that it's not a priority? Judy On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Troy Rollins wrote: Yeah, you're pretty much spot-on, as usual. Director and Flash are both aimed at this sort of thing. Flash in a slightly less

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 13, Issue 38

2004-10-18 Thread Judy Perry
Thank you! Judy On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Troy Rollins wrote: On Oct 17, 2004, at 9:28 PM, Judy Perry wrote: Is it possible in Director or Flash, anyone? Both. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Are you using Rev/DC in Education?

2004-10-18 Thread Judy Perry
I have some handouts that I developed for my class in PDF format if you want them... They're not really comprehensive 'intro to programming' per se but they are aimed at the novice/non-programmer. Judy On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Bill Vlahos wrote: I'm looking for course material to do a similar

Re: Are you using Rev/DC in Education? / sound capabilities

2004-10-18 Thread Judy Perry
There is one -- it's been announced/discussed now for the third time on thie list: go to Jacque's site; I believe she just redid that page to include a d/l link for the PC Shakobox. http://www.hyperactivesw.com -- Resources (I think) and look for Shakobox. Judy On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Erik Hansen

Re: Are you using Rev/DC in Education? / sound capabilities

2004-10-18 Thread Judy Perry
Same here ;-) Judy On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Erik Hansen wrote: no apologies for being a pest either. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

GeekSpeak Cheat Sheet

2004-10-21 Thread Judy Perry
Hi, I am attempting to put together a GeekSpeak Cheat Sheet on Rev for my lazy CS majors (largely so that they'll stop whining about how they can't do anything 'real' in Rev). But, not being a real geek myself, I find myself at an impasse. I have Coulouris Thimbleby's HyperProgramming which

Re: submenus hiearchies (was the popup problem in os9)

2004-10-24 Thread Judy Perry
Sounds like Sunny San Diego to me ;-) Judy On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, sims wrote: Winter? What is winter? Come to the European Rev Conference 14-15-16 November in *sunny* Malta! UK seasons: Rain-Rainy-Cloudy Drizzle-Rainy Northern New England seasons: Snow-Mud-Mosquitos-Frost Malta has: A

Re: GeekSpeak Cheat Sheet

2004-10-24 Thread Judy Perry
Ummm, you mean that overwhelming, Yes, Virginia, there IS a Santa Claus-type of voluminous replies? Surely you jest ;-) On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Alex Tweedly wrote: I haven't seen other replies, so I'll take a shot at this classes - unimportant. They're only significant as a representative

Re: GeekSpeak Cheat Sheet

2004-10-25 Thread Judy Perry
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Alex Tweedly wrote: On the basis of getting a camels' nose into the tent - ask them why C++ not Java or C# If that gets them to admit there is a choice to be made - maybe they'll then admit there are a whole set of choices possible. Get them to read

Re: long standing bugs....

2004-10-25 Thread Judy Perry
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Richard Gaskin wrote: The beta list is already public. What did you expect the readers here to do? --Vote for them maybe?? (just a guess...) Bug#: 1525 Win95 only; worth doing, but in the meantime will affect less than 2% of all computer users, and usually less

Re: GeekSpeak Cheat Sheet

2004-10-26 Thread Judy Perry
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Troy Rollins wrote: As usual, I take on the role of devil's advocate. This thread makes me wonder what the goal is. It would seem to me that the CS students have every right to roll their eyes. snip --Fair enough, but, actually, no they do not have this right inasmuch

Re: GeekSpeak Cheat Sheet

2004-10-26 Thread Judy Perry
Thanks, Chipp, for the link. I definitely will read it. And, FWIW, whenever I do hear back later from a student in the workplace, those students have gone out of their way to tell me how this type of instruction most definitely did make a difference in helping them get a job. Clearly, not the

Re: GeekSpeak Cheat Sheet

2004-10-26 Thread Judy Perry
H.. I get a 'server not found' when I try your link. Judy On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Chipp Walters wrote: http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: GeekSpeak Cheat Sheet

2004-10-26 Thread Judy Perry
Go figure. It just came up. :( Judy On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Judy Perry wrote: H.. I get a 'server not found' when I try your link. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: GeekSpeak Cheat Sheet

2004-10-26 Thread Judy Perry
I couldn't agree with you more! I deplore how so-called universities choose to transmorph themselves into trade schools. Trade schools have their place... as do universities. I am always reminded of the joke about the engineer on his way to the guillotine. It, of course, malfunctions for many

Re: sample stacks

2004-10-30 Thread Judy Perry
Ralph, Are they not freely available via RevOnline? If not, making them available only via purchase seems to me to be a very grave oversight. What exactly are you looking for? How much of a HyperCard geek are/were you? Judy On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Ralph R. Forehand wrote: Mark wrote; Hmmm -

Stumped Feeling Stupid...

2004-11-12 Thread Judy Perry
I'm trying to create a simple sidescroller game example. I have a stack containing a single card containing two images: (1) map image that is larger than card window (it's a starcraft map). (2) animated gif of player/critter that can be moved about screen using the arrow keys. The map is more

Re: Stumped Feeling Stupid.../Never mind...

2004-11-12 Thread Judy Perry
I figured it out, more or less. Do I ever feel geeky ;-P in a cutting one's baby teeth sort of way. Judy ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Collisions between circles, velocity, mass questions --Answered my own question

2004-11-16 Thread Judy Perry
That would be sooo coool! I gave up on blender just because I couldn't make heads nor tails out of it. Judy On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Richard Gaskin wrote: Given what you describe as Blendeer's odd interface, I wonder if there could be a way to make the Blender engine accessible within Rev

Re: activating a menu via script

2004-11-16 Thread Judy Perry
It's not a scripting-based solution, but if the user isn't going to be interacting with those same menus (or, even if they are but later), why not do a screen movie capture and play that? Or, do it via animation (I'm guessing that you could hide the cursor, create a transparent button with a

Irregular shaped buttons redux

2004-11-16 Thread Judy Perry
Hi, I think I've come across a situation in which I really will need an irregularly-shaped button. It's for using the intersection function; it's okay for one of the objects to be rectangular but not the other as it represents 'obstacles' on an orthoscopic map. Any ideas? TIA, Judy

Re: Irregular shaped buttons redux

2004-11-17 Thread Judy Perry
a look at it. Thanks again! Judy On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Judy Perry wrote: I think I've come across a situation in which I really will need an irregularly-shaped button. It's for using the intersection function; it's okay for one of the objects to be rectangular

Re: Irregular shaped buttons redux

2004-11-19 Thread Judy Perry
Sorry to be so dense here, but I'm not seeing how to use the within() function. I suppose I could set *either* image as the object, but the loc of both are constantly changing, and how do I check for within() four sets of points? It's looking (to me at least) like the intersect function *should*

Re: Irregular shaped buttons redux

2004-11-19 Thread Judy Perry
Hi Scott, Haven't tried it yet but it looks like it should work. Many thanks! Judy On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Scott Rossi wrote: Without knowing what you're doing, this might work: # CHECK FOR COLLISION BETWEEN BOX1 AND BOX2 function collisionCheck obj1,obj2 set itemDel to | put

Re: Mathewson's problem and his MSc Thesis

2004-11-21 Thread Judy Perry
Richmond, Misery loves company. You should have seen the substandard stuff I recently endured for two years for my MSc. They actually awarded the degree WITHOUT EVER SEEING my project (as opposed to thesis). Some who have seen it may think that that's a good thing ;-) Can't wait to see

RE: Revolution Comment

2004-11-21 Thread Judy Perry
Subscribe to freeGUI... We've seen some recent traffic there. Judy On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, MisterX wrote: Are you refering to Alain Farmer's OpenCard initiative? Haven't heard from him in a while! ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Standard Images

2004-11-21 Thread Judy Perry
While I believe that the docs could be improved (or, rather more specifically, the additional learning materials), of course this could be said of all things, most certainly of my own stuff as well (some of which could well and truly be classified as 'crappy'). All the docs and learning materials

Re: Newbie question about image/button relationships

2004-11-22 Thread Judy Perry
Or, Jason, In perhaps a more 'brain-friendly' fashion, simply create a number of buttons whose type is transparent -- these will respond just fine to mouse events. How to do it? Create a button by dragging the button tool over from the tools palette to the area on your phone image; resize to

Re: Newbie question about image/button relationships

2004-11-22 Thread Judy Perry
saints-in-training get tied to stakes and flamed ;-) j.k. ... On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Judy Perry wrote: In perhaps a more 'brain-friendly' fashion, simply create a number of buttons whose type is transparent -- these will respond just fine to mouse events. Also

Re: Newbie question about image/button relationships

2004-11-22 Thread Judy Perry
Thanks, Jim... I think you just helped me getting a few steps closer to 'getting my wings' ;-) Judy On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Jim MacConnell wrote: Gordon, I'd suggest using transparent buttons... Different from invisible regular buttons. Make a button over the key in your picture. In the

Re: Newbie question about image/button relationships

2004-11-22 Thread Judy Perry
Oh, no, Scott, I didn't feel that way at all! My apologies for having inadvertently suggested that. I know well that mine is often perhaps 'the idiot's approach' (or rather the least possible elegant approach), but if a person is *very* new to such things, I would guess that it's conceptually

RE: bigger cursors

2004-11-23 Thread Judy Perry
I'd vote for this one myself! This could be indispensible for anyone doing development for children... and anyone accustomed to being able to do so in Rev's oft-mentioned direct competitor, Director... Judy On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, MisterX wrote: What about using color cursors Jacque? cheers

Re: giving thanks...

2004-11-24 Thread Judy Perry
Yes, and thank you, Andrew, for your recipe for turkey function stew... ;-) Judy On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you to those who have helped me and others over the year(s)... Andrew ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL

RE: Lessons from Themes

2004-12-02 Thread Judy Perry
I would also appreciate viewing such a tutorial if anyone has one handy... Judy On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, MisterX wrote: Do you have a tutorial on profiles or know where I can dig it? ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OT: Request for Screenshot

2004-12-02 Thread Judy Perry
Hi, I know that this is a really stupid request, but I am looking for a screenshot of Rev's colorized script editing window. I thought that they had one on their website a while back but, in quickly looking, I couldn't find it. So, why don't I roll my own? Because my two main machines with a

Re: OT: Request for Screenshot

2004-12-02 Thread Judy Perry
Any should be fine... Thank you :-D Judy On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Ken Ray wrote: On 12/2/04 12:00 PM, Judy Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I know that this is a really stupid request, but I am looking for a screenshot of Rev's colorized script editing window. I thought that they had

Re: Sexuality and Runtime Revolution

2004-12-12 Thread Judy Perry
You never know with higher ed these days. Sigh... Judy On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Bill wrote: I agree with Andre. This could well be a serious college curriculum. Although the sexist comments about the professor's secretary would surely get him fired (perhaps he is tenured) at the least he will

Re: Sexuality and Runtime Revolution

2004-12-13 Thread Judy Perry
I remember Lobachevsky: plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize! But, seriously, these days half the CFP I see in history and literature are along the lines of Cross-dressing Transgendered Trolls and multilayered identity in Beowulf. Okay, the above is a bit of an exaggeration. But not much. Judy

Re: What's a function

2004-12-13 Thread Judy Perry
Thank you, Jacque :-D Can't wait to read it! Judy On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, J. Landman Gay wrote: I said elsewhere that I'd post my article about the differences between a function and a command handler. For anyone interested, I've put it online here:

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