Welcome back Bob,
good to see you again. As you can see from my late post I am only able
to skim the lists from time to time. Even though I prefer reading
online and prefer forum interfaces to email lists I still think the
use list is still it. I would wish to have best of both worlds in
Hi all,
I´m very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
animationEngine 2.9.
For those of you who do not know it yet:
animationEngine is a library stack that lets you move stuff, check for
collisions, handle geometric calculations and lots more cool things to
make your
Hi Joe,
the animationEngine trial works without needing any unlock code. If
you just want to try it there is no need to enter any code.
Did you mean you downloaded a trial of Revolution 2.9? That one will
ask you for an email address and will need an unlock code to run.
AnimationEngine is
Hi Joe,
sorry for the confusion... This is surely a design faflawult in my
interface. :-)
Yes, animationengine has a field where you can enter a code to unlock
it, however you do not need to enter anything there to try it.
Just open the messagebox and type:
start using stack
Well, subject sais it all.. :)
does anyone of you use that beast? What is in the platform there?
Thanks,
Malte
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Hi gang,
for the fun of it I compiled drops! for Linux. Performance is pretty
good under UBUNTU in a virtual machine. But for the life of me I can
not get audioclips to play neither does a player with a path to
an .mp3 set. Did anyone succeed playing audio under Linux? If so,
which
Thanks for the feedback. Anyone successfully using google checkout?
Options on that?
All the best,
Malte
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Hey Colin,
Well, I got to 2nd best score for the last 20 days during my trial
play time, but sadly I can't buy it, as I've had bad spam experiences
from using PayPal, and so won't use them anymore.
Actually this is a very interesting topic. Is there any Web payment
method you would trust?
Hi all,
some of you have wondered why I was so quiet the last few months.
(Thanks for the off list conversation guys). Well, I am still alive
and actually have some quite exciting news.
derbrill Multimedia aquired awesome mega mighty games, a game design
company.
What I forgot to mention. To those of you who own a copy of drops!
1.0...
The update is free. Your old unlock code still works.
All the best,
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Which bug should be fixed first?
That is really a problem. Even though I am pretty happy with the 2.9
release there are those little things that catch you as they do not
work reliably / not as expected / not as documented or not at all. My
special friend at the moment
Richard,
congratulations on this great piece of work. The only thing that
confused me a bit was the IP being displayed instead of the domain
name, when using the CGI parts (search) in my browsers address bar.
However the functionality is really impressive.
All the best,
Malte
Hi all,
something strange when working with https in Rev Enterprise 2.8.1
the result contains error: cannot load SSL library
What can I do to work around?
All the best,
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My name is Malte and I am a GLX2 user. Currently I am undergoing a 12
step program to be able to live without it at customers places...
Jokes aside:
Never ever will I want to switch back to the original Script Editor in
the IDE. Working with GLX is such a relief, once you get used to it.
Hi Mark,
Who is using RunRev in a group development environment? (reply if
you are)
Me :)
How many developers are on the team?
Up to 5
Are the developers in the same office or are the team members spread
over
different regions or countries?
Most of the time same office, somtimes
Camm wrote:
Somehow I doubt Runrev will show any interest looking at the
many bugs/enhancements that have been outstanding for many
years.
How come you think so? I think RR is doing a very good job with the
work on 2.9. So far almost everything I considder a blocker has been
fixed
Hi all,
I am a bit puzzled here. I am experimenting with fonts and what
happens when a font is not installed on the hosting OS. I always
thought Rev would fall back to Tahoma on Windows and Lucida on a Mac.
However, when I created a stack (on the Mac), set different text fonts
I know are
May I humbly disagree Lynn?
there is a forum dedicated to the beta, which I believe is public.
http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=34sid=baa2408f16875cdaf781cc8b42ff0e01
(Although I haven´t seen Bill around there much recently)
So at least there is one place that is viewable by
Hi Mark,
Rev has MD5 build in. However you will need to do some conversion of
it, to match the way other languages display MD5 (like PHP)
Here is a snippet:
local tVar,tDigest
put md5digest(Malte) into tVar
get binarydecode(H*,tVar,tDigest)
put tDigest
Hope that helps,
Hi all,
running into some puzzles here, so I have two question.
About proxies: We have clients that run proxies that require
authentification via username and password. How would I build the URL
to connect to those?
About certificates: How do I make the SSL library accept unsigned
I also just hate how menubars (do not) work on mac Os X. However with
all problematic stacks I had the problem went away with hiding the
menubar group. So I have something like this on preopenstack
on preOpenStack
if mac is in the platform then
hide grp myMenus
else
show grp
Hi Peter,
once that happes again, try this in the messagebox:
put the messagemessages
If you get true in return, set the messagemessages to false. I had
that happen once that a prefs file got screwed and that property was
true (even though I did not even touch the message watcher). If you
Sarah wrote:
Rev's XML library can give a text representation of an
XML tree using revXMLtext, but it is not formatted and appears all on
one line.
Just to share something nice (and as a reminder to mySelf) revXmlText
has an undocumented third parameter. if you use
put
Hi Scott,
maybe store the selectedObject in a var,; select empty; select
previous selectedObject on close / exitField?
All the best,
Malte
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Yes. I am. :)
I do not have to say too much on the original topic though. Actually,
I wrote a lengthy email and threw it away instantly. Boiled down:
If I want my games to run in a browser (which I do not at this time) I
´d go flash. If I wanted them
Merci beaucoup Pierre and Mark,
I still will need to dig a bit more into the shell stuff. There seem
to be so many hidden treasures waiting to be dug up.
All the best,
Malte
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Easier then I thought. Nevermind. I should go RTFM more from time to
time. :)
( look up $ )
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Hi all,
I just got asked if it would be possible to launch a rev app from the
commandline with parameters and read out the parameters within the
app. This way over my head, as I am not a commandline guru at all. I
would appreciate a few lines of script + the commandline call I would
need
Hi all,
just wanted to let you know that the german Revolution board
http://www.revolutionboard.de
is down at the moment. Sorry for the inconvenience to all users.
We need to figure out what is happening and I haven´t got hold of our
admin as yet.
All the best,
Malte
Hi,
try passing a parameter with mouseUp / mouseDown and the doubles:
on mouseUp pBut
if pBut=1 then answer Left click
if pBut=3 then answer Right click
if pBut=2 then answer Middle click
end mouseUp
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Up and running again. Thanks to Sascha for all the hard work.
All the best,
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Bill wrote:
Free upgrades for bundle customers!
Wow!
Same applies to the next revision of AnimationEngine. :-)
Happy to be on bord.
All the best
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It's all a bit weird getting all these freebies
Tis the season :-D
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Hi Xav,
that´s what I fear, however it is not what the docs suggest:
Uppercase letters, including special characters with diacritical
marks, are converted to the lowercase equivalents. All other
characters, including lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, and
special characters with no
Hi all,
slight prob over here. Casesensitive is false:
put ö=Ö -- false
put toLower(Ö) -- Ö
anyone got an idea how I can compare if a string containing umlauts is
in another string REGARDLESS of the cases in both strings?
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Hi all,
this has absolutely nothing to do with Rev (but a tad bit with
creativity). and I must admit that I am proud like a dog that my ex
band and close friends 4tune8 made it into the iTunes store. Funny to
hear their songs in iTunes now. And I am really happy that I was able
to help
Hi Kay,
this is extremly interesting. As you see a different behaviour than
me, I suspect it might be a setting somewhere or something that got
corrupted on my and other machines. Would love to investigate that.
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Hi Kay,
following test scenario. Vanilla Stack, first card script reads:
on preOpenStack
answer moo
end preOpenStack
Save-quit rev, double click - No moo at all
quit rev - open Rev - double click - Moos just fine
same with drag and drop
RR 2.8.1, Intel MacBook, German Os X.4.10, with and
I don't believe so; AFAIK the IDE does not prevent your stack from
getting preOpenStack messages. Perhaps you were thinking of startup?
Well, my experience is that it does not get sent if Rev is not yet
open and you double click on a stack file, or drag the stack to the
rev icon in the
Is this wrong? It's such a simple procedure. How could it be
wrong? If it is, please fill me in on it.
I´m suspecting the last line of your script is a typo. Should read
end openStack
However, is button foo on the first card?
All the best,
Hey S.
Very nice patch!
Many thanks for that!!
Atb,
Malte
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Hi,
just throwing in a thought. If you assume you never start up
maximized you can create your own property:
on openStack
set the uIsMaximized of this stack to false
end openStack
on resizestack
if item 2 of the mouseLoc=0 and item 1 of the mouseLoc the
right of this cd - 4 then
--
Nevermind. Not fool proof. If the user is quick moving the mouse it
does not work
ATB,
Malte
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Thanks Andre,
will give it a try for sure, when my schedule cleans up a bit. So now
that you are also an external pro, when will you be for hire to write
that Multichannel audio external I always dreamed of? g
All the best,
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Hi all,
does anyone else see that autoTab is broken on intel Macs (No other
machines here to check right now). It does appear to work most of the
time, however if there is a fast sequence of returns it puts return
in the field instead of moving to the next field. This appears to be
Leaves me puzzled why I can end up with 5 lines in a field that is
only 22 pix high, before it finally tabs. Note: not everytime, only
sometimes.
I find this strange...
ATB,
Malte
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Moin Ralf,
the script I posted earlier does the trick for single line fields, if
placed on card, stack or library level. Might be adapted to more than
one line. At least it is a workaround.
ON returnInField
IF the autotab of the target THEN
type TAB
ELSE
pass
Hi Emilio,
please excuse the shameless plug. If you´d use animationengine you would
want to use something like the following script in the card (assuming
one moving button called myButton and one oval graphic, called arc):
local tDragTime
on init
set the loc of btn myButton to 400,400
set
Hi,
I would like to post something (Multipart Formdata) to an URL on
mouseUp. Sometimes libURL return error Previous request not completed.
How do I find out if the last posts aren´t busy anymore and I can do the
next post?
All the best,
Malte
Thanks Mark (and sorry for the late reply),
that´s what I was afraid of. *sigh*
All the best,
Malte
One way would be to simply (and rather painstakingly!) build arrays
(storable as customPropertySets) as look-ups for each code page, such
that you could then do:
repeat for each char c in
Hi all,
anyone got a pointer how to read text in those formats and get it to
display correctly? (including umlauts and stuff.)
Cp850, Cp437, Cp1252
All the best,
Malte
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Reading my post I think I was not clear enough what I need. I want the
white area you can see in the snapshot to be gray also.
http://derbrill.de/menu.jpg
Any pointers highly appreciated.
Malte
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Hi Klaus,
assuming your Text is UTF-8 try this
put uniDecode(uniEncode(uniEncodedVar,UTF8),english) into decodedVar
Hope that helps.
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Hi,
I´m on my wits end here. I would like to set the color behind the
dropped down text of a pulldown menu. I set the backcolor of the button.
sometimes it works for the first level of text, but as soon as there are
submenus I get white. Anyone managed to do this in rev 2.8.1?
dropdown menu
Hi Mick,
sorry, it seems I lost your acceptance while I was traveling. Please
excuse the delay.
Perhaps you could tell everyone where to find such a stack. And I
would like to request being sent a copy again.
With animationEngine in use call this from the messagebox:
go stack URL
Hi David,
Björnke already gave you the hint. In the stack
animationEngineDocs.rev scroll to rotate3dPoint and look at the
example. That stack is self contained and does not need AE to be in
use, so you can see the examples without actually wasting one of the
15 free trial sessions. To
Andre,
have you declared the global in the script of stack2?
global thisText
put thisText into line 1 of fld myField
All the best,
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Sorry, seems I misread your post. :-)
does
put thisText into line 1 of fld “thisField” of stack stackTwo
work instead of going there?
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Hi David,
yes,
the text is UTF-8 encoded. It appears to be a BOM issue. I received
the following tip that appears to do the job:
Instead of unidecode(uniencode(myXML,UTF8),ANSII) for the whole
XML data I have the following script now:
-- Remove byte order mark from UTF8 text
if
BOM in this case Byte order Mark (I think) I am completely unsure
about that UTF-8 stuff though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark
replacing anything inside the node contents would render the whole
purpose of using UTF-8 encoding useless, wouldn´t it?
All the best,
malte
Hi Mark,
additionally it seems the header of my document was wrong:
Interesting fact:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?
Works as expected (unless there is more to it)
?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?
(Mind space before does not. However, the parser does not
complain and builds the tree.
Hi,
first of all thanks for your time. It appears that the external does not
play nicely with UTF-8 encoding. But there might still be me doing
something wrong. However, it is a blocker for a project at the moment. I
have created an attachment to bug 5215.
Thanks Ken, that´s what I was afraid of.
Andre: The gt; is in the contents of the node, not in the Tag name. The
whole thing is UTF8 encoded, so I do not see how the external should
lose any char in the node contents. It appears that it doesn´t get along
with mixed stuff in node contents
Hi all,
big problem over here. I have an XML Node containing the text gt;
(encoded ) Whenever I call revXMLChildcontents to get it back there is
nada,zilch,nothing. Anyone got an idea what is going on?
Thanks a lot,
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Thanks Ken,
this turns out to give headaches, as the info seems to be localized (on
win at least)
All the best,
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Hi Ken,
our problem is we need to parse 5MB of XML data. Is your lib speedy
enough to tackle that? We would need a performance close to the .dll.,
but of course reading the correct data back. (UTF8 encoded XML)
Thanks,
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Hi all,
is there a cross platform solution to find out how much Ram is installed
on the computer a Rev app is running on?
All pointers highly appreciated.
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Hi Ian,
http://www.ianjameswood.co.uk/pano2movie/betas/p2m_b42_win.zip (1.8MB)
your standalone crashes immediately after an answering dialogue
(external found) on first launch on my machine, but not in any launch
after the first. It then has 2 answer dialogues. One it found the
external,
Hi David,
any timers running? Did you try lock messages before quitting?
Check if the pendingmessages are empty.
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Hi Joe,
if you say the inspector changes things for your players this might
be related to bug 4711.
http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=4711
If you have anything to add to that (maybe a good recipe, as I find
it to happen randomly that the inspector suddenly does act
Hi Victorias,
Can it be related to bug #3992 (already confirmed, but not yet
fixed in dp5)?
Yes, I think so. As well as #3955. Of course this is just me shooting
in the dark, though.
All the best,
Malte
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Congrats on Lumen Bridger!
Very well done!
Would be cool, to make the app install the puzzle folder for lazy
bones like me. :-)
All the best,
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Congrats Andre
This is über cool. I wish you all the best and a ton of fun there!
All the best,
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Hi Katir,
Here is a starter. Try this in a button:
on mouseUp
set the flag of me to not the flag of me
if the flag of me then
createBall
end if
end mouseUp
on createBall
if there is a grp ball then delete grp ball
local tSpikes,tAngle
put 6 into tSpikes
put 360/tSpikes into
Hi Andre,
thanks for the feedback. :-)
Seems one needs to put a bit of energy into playing to get into the
top 5 :-) And to avoid frustration I updated the highscore list, to
also display the last 40 entries sorted from best to lowest score.
Check it here:
Same on INTEL Mac
All the best,
Malte
Yeesh. It looks like all three of us are on Macs. Has anyone tried
this on an Intel chip and/or Windows?
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are you copying or cloning anything in your protected stack? That won
´t work.
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Hi all,
I have received a few mails asking why I have removed my tutorials
from my homepage. Good news: I didn't. :-)
I just restructured my site. All dev related stuff can be found here
from now on:
http://derbrill.de/developers.php?lang=en
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Malte
This renders the password useless, as it allows access to the scripts
then, unless you revert the stack or remove it from memory and reopen
it.
Bill Marriott wrote:
Well, it will work, but you have to unlock the stack at runtime
with the
correct passkey.
Malte Brill wrote,
are you
you to launch 19 times before requiring a
payment.
Trivia note: ZACK! got it’s name from the sounds CEO Malte Brill
makes when playing the game.
All the best and happy hollidays,
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Hi Neal,
as Mark wrote before, you might use visual effect. However that
really depends on Quicktime being present on the system your
presentation is being viewed on. If Quicktime is not installed, Rev
falls back to a much weaker internal implementation that looks all
grainy. However,
Hallo Wilhelm,
very impressive. How long does rendering the results take for a
reasonably sized image? Results look way kewl. Please keep up the
good work.
All the best,
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Hi Ben,
all I can say is download everything from Scott Rossi!
Of course you are welcome to show some of my stuff:
AE Showcase #3 has some nice 3D animation:
Win: http://www.runrev.com/section/revselect/arcadeengine/downloads/
ae20showcase.zip
Mac X:
Hi all,
thanks for all the wishes. I am really glad to participate in a
community of heartily people like this. (And Klaus, Pfaff is the
surname. :-) Spousal unit and me are not married)
All the best,
Malte
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Hi all,
just wanted to let you know that my second kid arrived today.
Mattis Johan Pfaff
Length 55 cm
Weight 4280 gramm
http://www.derbrill.de/linusundmattis.jpg
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Malte, what did you do for drops, where you have 5 undos?
I did something I would not do again. :-)
I am cloning the playgrid and copy it to an undo card. If there are
more than 5 groups on that card I delete the one with the lowest
layer. when undoing I copy the one with the highest layer
Hi Sarah,
if you want to avoid setting the screenmouseloc, you might want to
take a snapshot at the location you want to examine and look at the
imagedata.
import snapshot from rect x,y,x+1,y+1 of this cd
When I tried i ended up with a huge image (of the correct color
though, so it
Richard wrote:
There is an SVG importer available for Rev
Where is it? Does it support gradients? *drool*
All the best,
Malte
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Hi Derek,
I also had that error when I validated drops for U3. Talking to
Claudio of U3 it turned out I had to fiddle a bit with the
manifest.u3i file inside the .u3p packackage. This package is
basically a .zip folder. You can change the extension to .zip, search
for the manifest file
Thanks for all the feedback both on and off list. :-)
Really makes the work worthwhile. All the input I reveive makes me
think of improved versions, so there might be more to come.
All the best,
Malte
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Hi Rishi,
Aw, no Linux version? Would it be too much to ask? I can't be
bothered
re-booting into Windoze in my coffee breaks anymore... ;)
As soon as we see a 2.7 engine for Linux I will create a standalone.
All the best,
Malte
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Hi all,
I am very proud to announce that after a while of quietness, I
finally released a new product.
It is simple. It is fast. It is addictive. It is Drops!
Drops is a deceptively simple but captivating game, ideal to play
during your coffee break, or for an evening of fun. It's
And an extra thanks to ShaoSean for testing it in unusable state till
I reached the final. So excited I nearly forgot.
Sorry for the extra mail, but it must be said. :-)
All the best,
Malte
http://www.derbrill.de/drops
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Thanks for putting a smile on my face. I really appreciate it.
All the best,
Malte
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Hi Judy!
I suggest you do a google search on non geeks guide
Also I like these 2:
http://www.noendpress.com/caleb/computer_help/index.php
http://davidrothman.net/2006/07/08/how-to-explain-ram-to-non-geeks/
Hope that helps a bit,
Malte
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Hi all,
this is a silly post. Complete nonesense, but I am somewhat
overworked and need some fun.
Try this in msg:
put there is coffee
if there is coffee then drink it
Anyone else wants to share her / his favourite silly script?
All the best,
Malte
For explicitVars addicts:
put there
Hi Phil, Klaus and David,
thanks for the pointers. Thinking about the binary problem it makes
sense, however given the simplicity things usually work I am
sometimes tempted to take things for granted. :-) macToIso / isoToMac
seems the way to go.
All the best,
Malte
Hi Bill,
you used the counterpart to the command you need to set the password.
To protect a stack: set the password of stack myStack to myPassword
then save and reopen the stack.
To get access to the script again:
set the passkey of stack myStack to myPassword
and you are able to read the
Hi all,
came across something weird. Stored different text chunks in a cProp
on a Mac. I set the label of a button to that chunk. If the stack is
transfered from a Mac to a Win Box, umlauts are replaced with some
strange characters. Has anyone else seen this?
Rev. 2.7.4 Os X.4.8 Intel
Hi JC,
way cool. That one is VERY fast for large images. In fact, much
faster than my version.
Chapeau,
Malte
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