Re: OT: Bush in Free Fall

2005-10-22 Thread Mark Swindell
That is amazing. Mark On Oct 21, 2005, at 4:52 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: All- completely off topic But it's Friday and this is way too much fun... Here's a great flash animation with physics based on Pekka's rag doll. Be sure to check out Pekka's site while you're at it (especially the

Re: docWikis

2005-10-25 Thread Mark Swindell
Could an expert scripter create a template rev stack that would wikify all the existing revdocs in one fell swoop and send them to their appropriate places in the wiki/web structure (however that works for wikis, no idea here). Just a question. I'm sure it's not easy or someone would have

Re: Revdocs on a wiki

2005-10-27 Thread Mark Swindell
Using the existing docs as a starting point would be optimal, in my view. From there things could branch out. Mark On Oct 27, 2005, at 10:52 AM, Dennis Brown wrote: Duplicating the existing docs was just a good anchor point for the corrections and expansions.

Re: Getting generic OSX icon in standalone

2005-10-30 Thread Mark Swindell
I can't help, sorry, but I have met with a lot of frustration around the whole icon experience myself. This is an area where a Rev-based Icon App would be very appreciated. The standalone builder icon scheme hasn't worked properly for me. Bring the icons into the app, point them at the

Re: Getting generic OSX icon in standalone

2005-10-30 Thread Mark Swindell
On Oct 30, 2005, at 10:55 AM, graham samuel wrote: I can't help, sorry, but I have met with a lot of frustration around the whole icon experience myself. This is an area where a Rev-based Icon App would be very appreciated. The standalone builder icon scheme hasn't worked properly for me.

Why isn't Rev more popular?

2005-11-30 Thread Mark Swindell
What is the main reason (if there is such a thing) that Rev is not more popular among professional developers/programmers? It's been around awhile now. People have had a chance to hear about it. It has garnered some awards, at least on the Mac side. On the face of things you'd think it

Re: Why isn't Rev more popular?

2005-12-01 Thread Mark Swindell
On Dec 1, 2005, at 3:13 PM, Kevin Miller wrote: If you ask people why isn't or what's wrong with x type questions it invites, well, all negative responses. I'm sure we can do better, especially when you give us feedback that is concrete and specific. Kevin, Thanks for your post, and I'm

Re: Why isn't Rev more popular?

2005-12-02 Thread Mark Swindell
On Dec 2, 2005, at 7:39 PM, Charles Hartman wrote: But I suggest that the natural language feature is much more a mnemonic aid than an aid to initial comprehension. I'm not sure I agree. I learned HyperTalk first, and the English- like features helped tremendously in initial comprehension

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-06 Thread Mark Swindell
There you go. Bundle DreamCard, purchase Rev. On Dec 6, 2005, at 12:25 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: If you can get a bundling agreement for Rev you'll see more buzz. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Re: Why is Konfabulator 'Pretty?'

2005-12-09 Thread Mark Swindell
No verification, but I've always felt your comment below re:Director is why Apple let Hypercard languish in the first place, never gave it even decent color, etc. HC's rep was so tarnished by all the unsightly crap put out there by the rest of us that they didn't want it associated in any

Re: clickLine and field #

2005-12-09 Thread Mark Swindell
Fields are defined by both their name and their vertical position on the card. If you make 3 fields and name them, in the order of creation, Bill, Joe and Sally, Bill will be field 1, Joe field 2, and Sally field 3. If you drag one on top of the other, Bill will be on the bottom, Joe in the

Re: clickLine and field #

2005-12-09 Thread Mark Swindell
Select your field (double click it to open its property inspector). Go to size and position in its property inspector (this is the object inspector, not the stack inspector). Mark On Dec 9, 2005, at 2:44 PM, Mark Swindell wrote: If I look at the stack inspector is there some way

Re: Why is Konfabulator 'Pretty?'

2005-12-09 Thread Mark Swindell
the web never took off because of all the ugly sites? :) Bill Mark Swindell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HC's rep was so tarnished by all the unsightly crap put out there by the rest of us that they didn't want it associated in any professional context

Re: Why did HyperCard wither away? [was: Re: Why is Konfabulator 'Pretty?']

2005-12-10 Thread Mark Swindell
was simply not envisioned. By 1993/1994 the Web was clearly the next big thing and HyperCard missed the boat. Bill Mark Swindell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I think they were ok with HyperCard staying a fun toy for amateurs, but they didn't want to blur the line

Re: Christmas e-cards as learning tools

2005-12-11 Thread Mark Swindell
Here's a card done with Flash which my wife thought darling. Could it be accomplished in Rev? How close could you get? -Mark http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=0212320003 On Dec 11, 2005, at 10:58 AM, Marielle Lange wrote: I gave a go to a very simple christmas ecard. It shows

Re: You're Right -- It was HARSH -- NOT!

2005-12-13 Thread Mark Swindell
I agree with Rob's points. Without filtering, today's spam-filled email, in general, could never work, split list or not. With filtering and the delete button I don't have to read anything I don't want to. I don't have the energy to go all over the web looking for the appropriate list for

Re: Audio files won't play in 2.6.1

2005-12-16 Thread Mark Swindell
On Dec 14, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: On Dec 14, 2005, at 1:06 PM, Mathewson wrote: Trevor Devore suggested changing suffixes on MP# files - ... I would convert all the MP3 files into AIFF files. If you have QuickTime Pro then you can just save the mp3 as .mov files. This

Re: Audio files won't play in 2.6.1

2005-12-16 Thread Mark Swindell
On Dec 16, 2005, at 4:13 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: On Dec 16, 2005, at 7:54 AM, Mark Swindell wrote: But why won't mp3's work properly? I think it has to do with how Revolution is saving the videoClip to disk before it plays it. When you import a videoClip Revolution stores it inside

Re: Samsung Video Codec???

2005-12-24 Thread Mark Swindell
On Dec 23, 2005, at 10:02 PM, Judy Perry wrote: Hi, I'm trying to help some friends offload their digital video captured to a memory stick that came with the Samsung Digital-Cam SC-D353. It shipped with PC-only software. I can see the files, they have QuickTime icons on them, but QT

Re: linking text

2005-12-26 Thread Mark Swindell
One way is to select the text you wish to link and go to menu TextLink. Your field will need to be locked to have the linked text respond to a mouseClick though. Mark On Dec 26, 2005, at 8:33 AM, Preston Shea wrote: How does one link word 6 and word 7 of field myField into a chunk of

Re: The formatted mouseline?

2006-01-11 Thread Mark Swindell
:53 PM, Mark Swindell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to somehow return the _formatted_ mouseline from within a mousemove handler? No, unfortunately. I've thought of a couple of ways to make it happen, but they seem unnecessarily convoluted, and it seems there might be a straightforward

Re: The formatted mouseline?

2006-01-12 Thread Mark Swindell
a scrolling field? Mark Mark Swindell wrote: Is it possible to somehow return the _formatted_ mouseline from within a mousemove handler? What I want to accomplish is to have a line of text (soft wrapped) appear to be underlined whenever the mouse is hovering over it. I'd just like to have

Re: The formatted mouseline?

2006-01-12 Thread Mark Swindell
a scrolling field? Mark Mark Swindell wrote: Is it possible to somehow return the _formatted_ mouseline from within a mousemove handler? What I want to accomplish is to have a line of text (soft wrapped) appear to be underlined whenever the mouse is hovering over it. I'd just like to have

Re: The formatted mouseline?

2006-01-12 Thread Mark Swindell
uploaded a demo to RevOnline. User name Mark, category General. The name of the stack is Reading Guide Strip. Best, Mark Mark Swindell wrote: I'm looking for the location of the formatted line, or its coordinates relative the field, so that I can place a graphic (an underline or somesuch

Re: Architecting the Doc Solution

2006-01-15 Thread Mark Swindell
I think you are right, Judy. These things ought to come out-of-the- box, as well. Rev resources are plentiful, but newbies aren't going to be able to make sense of much of what is available. It strikes me that one large searchable/navigable stack comprised of all of the scripting

Re: Amazing, strange, and mystifying

2006-01-19 Thread Mark Swindell
This is kind of spooky, no? Has the behavior been reproduced or does it still appear random? Mark On Jan 19, 2006, at 4:21 AM, Jerry Muelver wrote: From: Jim Ault I restarted my Mac (G5 dual, plenty of hard drive space, 10.4.2, rev 2.6.1), launched Rev, reopened the stack, and there was

Re: How to avoid that 3 be in 34 ?

2006-01-21 Thread Mark Swindell
You might try: if myVar is not among the items of fld myField then... Mark On Jan 21, 2006, at 11:56 AM, André.Bisseret wrote: If myVar is not in fld “myField” then put cr myVar after fld “myField” ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Amazing, strange, and mystifying - SOLVED

2006-01-24 Thread Mark Swindell
On Jan 23, 2006, at 10:01 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On 1/23/06 10:46 PM, Jim Ault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.cocoatech.com/ will get you there. A multitude of really useful features documented here, screen shots galore, and it has a built-in terminal pane so you can use those commands

Re: Amazing, strange, and mystifying - SOLVED

2006-01-24 Thread Mark Swindell
On Jan 24, 2006, at 8:52 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Buy it? Not a chance. Replicate it and claim they invented it? Likely Oh yeah. I forgot. :( It's amazing what a small shop can come up with that a megashop like Apple can't, though. People have been wanting a new Finder experience

Re: Font size when crossing platforms

2006-02-07 Thread Mark Swindell
On Feb 7, 2006, at 9:38 AM, Klaus Major wrote: Hi Mark and all, Devin- Monday, February 6, 2006, 11:39:29 AM, you wrote: program the menu behavior yourself. It's worth your while to go to the Rev documentation, select topics, and read through the Menus and the menu bar topic. Or better

Re: Minimum Mac specs for Rev 2.6.1?

2006-02-12 Thread Mark Swindell
Is it possible that you haven't attended to a debugger warning you that your script isn't functional? If the warning window gets buried by another palette I sometimes find myself frozen until I uncover it and dismiss it. Then all is well again. Mark On Feb 12, 2006, at 8:45 PM, Ken

Referring to a variable in a roundabout way...

2006-02-12 Thread Mark Swindell
If a field contains the name of a variable gMyNumber, how can I place something into that variable circuitously, referencing it not directly, but via its name residing in the field? Example: Put 54 into (variable (word 1 of field 1)), where word 1 of field 1 contains the name of a global

Re: Referring to a variable in a roundabout way...

2006-02-12 Thread Mark Swindell
Aha... merci beaucoup. Mark On Feb 12, 2006, at 9:45 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Mark Swindell wrote: If a field contains the name of a variable gMyNumber, how can I place something into that variable circuitously, referencing it not directly, but via its name residing in the field

Re: IDE Bug - Sudden Loss of Keyboard Copy

2006-02-13 Thread Mark Swindell
This is an ongoing nuisance that just shouldn't be there. Is there a bugzilla number for it? Mark On Feb 13, 2006, at 6:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using Revolution 2.6.1 on Win XP. All has been well and now inexplicably when trying to copy text from a field it simply fails to copy to

Re: Revolution RUMORS!

2006-02-13 Thread Mark Swindell
Jonathon, Thank you for your kind and wise words. Mark On Feb 13, 2006, at 11:51 AM, Jonathan Lynch wrote: Let's all just bear in mind that banning someone is an unfortunate act. This is clearly something Heather did with reluctance, not with glee. I am pretty sure Richmond's intentions

Re: Constellation

2006-02-13 Thread Mark Swindell
Is it ok to talk about Constellation on this list, or should it go to the Constellation list? I'm asking both Rev and Constellation people, and anyone else who wants to chime in. Mark On Feb 13, 2006, at 2:26 PM, Garrett Hylltun wrote: http://www.daniels-mara.com/products/ Yeah, bought

Re: Contrib to old topics - why isn't Rev more popular?

2006-02-13 Thread Mark Swindell
Ken, You must be a very powerful fellow. Others have come asking for better docs for a long, long time; years, in fact. You come and ask, and within hours, there they are. Unbelievable. :) Mark On Feb 13, 2006, at 4:20 PM, Ken Apthorpe wrote: All I suggest is that if RR or anyone

Re: Main menu puzzle, Klaus

2006-02-18 Thread Mark Swindell
On Feb 18, 2006, at 7:04 AM, Ken Apthorpe wrote: To answer Klaus. I know Rev is event driven. Problem is it seems no one can explain the driving. I get advice: do this (trust me, it will work). Do that: (trust me, this will work (better)). I do trust you, and that the suggested

Re: Parameters [WAS: Main menu puzzle]

2006-02-19 Thread Mark Swindell
On Feb 18, 2006, at 9:43 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Mark Swindell wrote: Parameters are, to me, the least well-explained and least intuitive aspect of Rev (and programming in general). You can have any number of parameters declared in a handler: on myHandler pOne,pTwo,pThree etc

Re: Switch versus if/then/else ( was: Main menu puzzle, Klaus)

2006-02-20 Thread Mark Swindell
Rob, I agree wholeheartedly with you on this. Switch statements are not hard to comprehend once you've got some mental velcro to hang them onto, some preexisting knowledge to connect to. They are imposing when you don't have that. Two conditions need to be met for most programming

Re: help the newb-rube

2006-02-21 Thread Mark Swindell
On Feb 21, 2006, at 3:15 PM, Ben Bock wrote: 1) I have 30 groups or radio buttons per page, with several pages. I'd like them to reset to zero on cardOpen. Thanks to helpful feedback from here, I'm trying to avoid hard-coding as much, but I'm flubbing the script, and can't sort out

Re: Export to pdf

2006-02-25 Thread Mark Swindell
Facilitating high resolution PDF export of screens should be a high- priority feature for future releases of Rev, in my opinion. Mark On Feb 25, 2006, at 10:49 AM, Marty Knapp wrote: Thanks Roger and Sarah, As my stack will be used by others, I need a more portable solution than the UDC

Re: repeat repeat

2006-03-01 Thread Mark Swindell
on mouseUp put fld seatNo into tseatNo repeat for each line y in tSeatNo repeat with x = 1 to the number of buttons if y = the label of button x then set the backgroundcolor of button x to y end if end repeat end repeat end mouseUp Something like the above

Re: [FR] [EN]Re: The End of Dreamcard?

2006-03-10 Thread Mark Swindell
As someone who has long been involved in elementary education I can say that at our level, while decisions may be made to shuffle existing funds one direction or another, those existing funds are negligible. The bank is broke. Cutting the fat out happened long ago. Then most of the meat

Re: Runtime Revolution Ships Revolution Media; Announce Revolution Forums

2006-04-08 Thread Mark Swindell
On Apr 8, 2006, at 7:16 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Kinda like I can't say SBC park. I always call it PacBell park. You're in luck. It's ATT park or something these days. I still find myself calling it Candlestick... No, Candlestick was re-christened Monster Park a couple of years ago, and

Media on MacWorld

2006-04-10 Thread Mark Swindell
Here's a link to the promo blurb for Media on MacWorld's site. One comment so far... http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/04/10/revolution/index.php ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Slideshow with Revolution?

2006-04-14 Thread Mark Swindell
Revolution Media has slideshow built in. Mark On Apr 14, 2006, at 10:30 AM, Joao Candido Portinari wrote: Revolution friends and gurus, I would appreciate very much any help you could kindly provide on the following: I am trying to build a slideshow using Revolution. It consists of some

Could Rev do this?

2006-04-14 Thread Mark Swindell
In looking for a way to remove duplicates photos from iPhoto, I find iPhoto Diet (free, but not up to date and partial in its implementation) and iView Media (50.00). IPhoto surely should do this on its own, but it doesn't. So I was wondering if Rev were up to the task of being able to

Re: Could Rev do this?

2006-04-15 Thread Mark Swindell
So it looks like Rev might be up for the job! Cool. I guess iPhoto doesn't exist on the Windows side of things, but a polished x-platform solution that included iPhoto's cataloguing scheme would be a very valuable resource for millions of users. It would have to be bulletproof, but I do

OT audio question - .asf files

2006-04-20 Thread Mark Swindell
I'm trying to play back some educational .asf files I've downloaded. Video works fine on all of them, but no audio playback on some of them (others work fine). All audio seems to work on Windows. I'm using OSX 10.6, and Quicktime 7.0.4 with current WMV player or VLC. This is the

Re: RevMedia for CBT/eLearning (Preston Shea)

2006-04-25 Thread Mark Swindell
Using the Rev engine couldn't a serious party make a simple training/testing/authoring IDE specific to that task... one that would be designed from the ground up to eliminate all the extraneous and sometimes confusing overhead? Mark On Apr 25, 2006, at 9:13 AM, Bob Earp wrote: However,

Re: RevMedia for CBT/eLearning (Preston Shea)

2006-04-26 Thread Mark Swindell
On Apr 26, 2006, at 2:04 PM, Phil Davis wrote: Mark Swindell wrote: Using the Rev engine couldn't a serious party make a simple training/testing/authoring IDE specific to that task... one that would be designed from the ground up to eliminate all the extraneous and sometimes confusing

Re: Math problems?

2006-05-19 Thread Mark Swindell
put 10.27 into tNumber put the trunc of tNumber into tInteger put tNumber - tInteger into tDecimal put 100 * tDecimal into tNew Decimal put tNewDecimal -- put the trunc of tNewDecimal = 27 On May 19, 2006, at 12:04 PM, Peter T. Evensen wrote: put 10.27 into tNumber put the trunc of

Re: Play a Player Backwards

2006-06-04 Thread Mark Swindell
Can your kids say NATAS!!!??? -Mark PS Paul is dead, Paul is dead, Paul is dead... On Jun 4, 2006, at 12:50 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: The player is controlled by the 'playRate'; so a playRate of 1 is forward playback at normal speed, and a playRate of -1 is reverse playback at normal

Finding vertical loc of last word of text in a field

2005-06-07 Thread Mark Swindell
This should be simple, but how do I determine the vertical location of the last word of text in a field? Essentially I want to click at last word of field myText and put the clickLoc into myVar. What I want to do is have a vertical slider dynamically match the height of text in a field

Re: Finding vertical loc of last word of text in a field

2005-06-07 Thread Mark Swindell
into myVar If you want to determine the distance from the top of the field to a given character, you can do the following: Put the formattedheight of character 1 to X of field Y into myVar -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Swindell

Need help creating vertical QT audio player

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Swindell
Can anyone direct me to a resource that might show me how to duplicate the functionality of the QT player (audio only) with a vertical orientation? A simple slider would be fine, but how do I script it to control the audio playback ala the QT paradigm, thumbpos auto-updating, instant playback

Re: Need help creating vertical QT audio player

2005-06-09 Thread Mark Swindell
Thanks, Klaus. I think I can make this work. But simpler and less fraught with potential problems, does anyone know how to simply stand the standard QT player on its head? Folks at RunRev? Mark On Jun 9, 2005, at 7:27 AM, Klaus Major wrote: Hi Mark, Can anyone direct me to a resource

Re: how to change the stack name

2005-06-09 Thread Mark Swindell
Set the name of this stack to Hello World Mark On Jun 9, 2005, at 5:46 PM, Tarek Nasser wrote: Hi, how to change the stack name using script only? i tried this: local stackName = Hello World! put stackName into the name of stack myStack tarek

Re: Dreamcard, am I missing something?

2005-06-10 Thread Mark Swindell
On Jun 10, 2005, at 12:28 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 6/10/05 2:06 PM, Douglas Gilliland wrote: But HyperStudio didn't upgrade to Mac OSX so I am now using DreamCard to rewrite my stacks but don't like the idea that my students have to navigate to my program after clicking on it's icon. I

Re: Dreamcard, am I missing something?

2005-06-10 Thread Mark Swindell
for them. Or am i missing something really obvious here? On Jun 10, 2005, at 1:34 PM, Mark Swindell wrote: Yes, but it shouldn't oughta have to come down to that. I dislike intervening screens when I open my stacks, or any program, for that matter. It's just not polite behavior to jump

Re: problem with groups

2005-06-13 Thread Mark Swindell
Have you looked at the Application Browser in the file menu to see if your group is there? Hide the group and show it via the checkbox and make sure it's behaving correctly there. Try your script in the message box while the App Browser is still showing. Try to troubleshoot it there. (BTW,

Preloading images from files

2005-06-14 Thread Mark Swindell
Is it possible preload a set of images from file references so that they are available to show instantly in a predefined image (imageHolder). Setting bufferHiddenImages to true works for images that are contained in the stack, but these are files that I want to reference by setting the

Re: creating standalone applications

2005-06-19 Thread Mark Swindell
I agree, great article. Sarah has some others, as well, no? She has the knack for explaining things simply but thoroughly. Also, Eric's if-then-else article is excellent. I very much like the way revJournal is looking. It could become THE place to go for most things revRelated. Hope

Scrollbar question -

2005-06-20 Thread Mark Swindell
On a click in a scroll bar how do you derive (what would be) the ThumbPos of the click? (Set the thumbpos of the target to the clickLoc) is the idea. Thanks, Mark ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Re: Scrollbar (slider) question - 2nd try

2005-06-20 Thread Mark Swindell
option. Thanks Mark On Jun 20, 2005, at 1:30 PM, Mark Swindell wrote: On a click in a scroll bar how do you derive (what would be) the ThumbPos of the click? (Set the thumbpos of the target to the clickLoc) is the idea. Thanks, Mark

Re: Scrollbar (slider) question - 2nd try

2005-06-20 Thread Mark Swindell
- the left of me into x put x / the width of me into x -- percentage of progressBar put x * 100 into x -- percentage as intger set the thumbPosition of me to x end MouseUp Mark Swindell wrote: I'm not sure if my question was clear, or if maybe I'm missing something obvious, but I am trying

Re: Scrollbar question

2005-06-21 Thread Mark Swindell
When you click in the slider track the thumbPos adjusts incrementally based on the property settings (Scroll distance: on bar click: x). There is no option to jump to the location of the click, which is normal behavior for QT and volume faders. Thanks to Jon... his workaround is doing

How to View Rev Scripts

2005-06-28 Thread Mark Swindell
How can I view the scripts Rev uses to do what it does? I want to check out the Find and Replace All for example... can I get in to see those scripts or am I locked out? Mark ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: How to View Rev Scripts

2005-06-28 Thread Mark Swindell
Perfect. Thank you. Mark On Jun 28, 2005, at 6:57 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Mark Swindell wrote: How can I view the scripts Rev uses to do what it does? I want to check out the Find and Replace All for example... can I get in to see those scripts or am I locked out? Nearly everything

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2005-07-01 Thread Mark Swindell
just checking...posts have not been appearing ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: documentation mini-bug

2005-07-08 Thread Mark Swindell
The feature I most like in the docs is the dialog that drops down over and over and over and over letting me know it can't find what I typed in but not letting me modify the search term or type in anything new. Argh. Mark On Jul 8, 2005, at 6:38 AM, Jon wrote: When I open the Rev

Re: documentation mini-bug

2005-07-08 Thread Mark Swindell
à 20:39, Mark Swindell a écrit : The feature I most like in the docs is the dialog that drops down over and over and over and over letting me know it can't find what I typed in but not letting me modify the search term or type in anything new. Argh

Re: different UI approach

2005-07-10 Thread Mark Swindell
I would agree with you, Dan. I want to be able to control with a definitive action (a click) when I want something done. (Though I am working on a project where the mousemove is all there is to control a particular action because I feel that's what fits best and least obtrusively in the

Re: Scrolling List field

2005-07-11 Thread Mark Swindell
On Jul 11, 2005, at 11:16 AM, Ban Nguyen wrote: Thanks you for your help. It works. How can I transfer the value of clickline into a button so when user click on a button then it shows the value of clickline You could put the clickline into a global variable (gClickVar) or custom

Re: Scrolling List field please help please help.....

2005-07-11 Thread Mark Swindell
, 2005, at 1:21 PM, Ban Nguyen wrote: Hi Mark How can I get the next value by clicking on the button and hightlight that line -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Swindell Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 12:06 PM To: How to use Revolution

Re: play videoClip nameOfVideo does not work, Please help

2005-07-12 Thread Mark Swindell
On Jul 12, 2005, at 12:35 PM, Ban Nguyen wrote: How do you set the location for this video? Set the loc of player 1 to 100,100 Are you using the built-in documentation at all for your project? Mark ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: play videoClip nameOfVideo does not work, Please help

2005-07-12 Thread Mark Swindell
On Jul 12, 2005, at 12:35 PM, Ban Nguyen wrote: How do you set the location for this video? The location of any object can be set by the following: Set the loc of object to x,y An object's location is a property of the object. From the docs: location property (any object) loc

Scrollbars in Rev

2005-07-12 Thread Mark Swindell
What exactly are the built-in Rev scroll bars, sliders? Can one get into the images they use and modify them, or create others and have them available, or does one have to roll one's own completely, ala Klaus's banana bar? It would be cool to have more style options built in. Thanks,

Re: Scrollbars in Rev

2005-07-13 Thread Mark Swindell
On Jul 13, 2005, at 2:15 AM, Klaus Major wrote: Hi Mark, What exactly are the built-in Rev scroll bars, sliders? Can one get into the images they use and modify them, or create others and have them available, i don't think so, since they are provided by the underlying OS, as far

Re: Scrollbars in Rev

2005-07-13 Thread Mark Swindell
On Jul 13, 2005, at 11:33 AM, Ken Norris wrote: That was what I was wondering... whether the OS provided the slider graphics, and how that works internally since so many of the characteristics are rev properties. As for rolling one's own, I guess that's the option to use for X-platform, as

Search/Replace Strange Behavior

2005-07-14 Thread Mark Swindell
I just had a strange behavior I wonder if anyone can explain. I have a card with 3 fields containing many pages of narrative text. They are extensively formatted with linked text, colors, etc. I used the search and replace to change occurrences of two spaces (I learned to type long ago

Re: [ANN][EN][FR] New Sophisticated Plugin from So Smart Software

2005-07-14 Thread Mark Swindell
Eric, Very nice! Is there an option to get ALL the results in one fell swoop? (i.e. the FAQ, Dictionary, Topics, Cookbook all at once without having to choose each and re-search?) Mark On Jul 14, 2005, at 4:36 AM, Eric Chatonet wrote: Paris, Thursday, 14 July 2005 Bastille Day :-)

Re: Search/Replace Strange Behavior

2005-07-15 Thread Mark Swindell
On Jul 14, 2005, at 10:47 PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: At 11:58 AM -0700 7/14/2005, Mark Swindell wrote: I just had a strange behavior I wonder if anyone can explain. I have a card with 3 fields containing many pages of narrative text. They are extensively formatted with linked text

Screen fonts great in Rev, bad in Word- why?

2005-07-18 Thread Mark Swindell
Why do screen fonts look so good in Rev and Pages and so bad in Word and AppleWorks? Even with Font smoothing turned on in AppleWorks Times still looks terrible... hardly useable. I'm using OS X Tiger. I also set the system font smoothing pref to flat panel. What am I missing?

openstack 101

2005-07-19 Thread Mark Swindell
Ok, I'm feeling pretty dumb, but why doesn't my openstack handler execute when my stack opens? What am I not getting? (I type openstack into the messagebox after opening and all is well, but the handler doesn't execute when opening my stack from scratch.) Mark

Re: openstack 101

2005-07-19 Thread Mark Swindell
Nicolas, Thanks, but I had no luck with preopenstack, either. And the stack is the main stack, there are no others in the project at this point. Mark On Jul 19, 2005, at 7:28 PM, Nicolas Cueto wrote: I hope someone more knowledgeable jumps in but... Perhaps another stack is handling the

Re: openstack 101

2005-07-20 Thread Mark Swindell
Thanks for your help. Also, thank you Sarah and Nicolas. It seems odd though that the openstack handler isn't called automatically when the new stack window first comes up, no matter where it is being opened from. Mark On Jul 19, 2005, at 10:26 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: oops, I

Re: Praise: Rev Documentation to the rescue

2005-07-26 Thread Mark Swindell
Danny Goodman's book has been mentioned more than once as an iconic sort of reference. I learned to script Hypercard with it and loved it. Just what was it that made that book so great? If we could answer to that question, why couldn't that book's recipe be approximated for a

Crossword Generator

2005-07-27 Thread Mark Swindell
Has anyone made a crossword generator in Rev? URL? Thanks Mark ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Crossword Generator

2005-07-28 Thread Mark Swindell
I was just wondering if anyone here had created such a beast. It seems like a product Rev might be good for. I'm looking to purchase one, actually, to use in the classroom, as well as to integrate into a curriculum package that will be an adjunct to a Rev product I'm working on. For

Re: Crossword Generator

2005-07-28 Thread Mark Swindell
On Jul 28, 2005, at 9:00 AM, Mark Talluto wrote: On Jul 28, 2005, at 8:15 AM, Mark Swindell wrote: I was just wondering if anyone here had created such a beast. It seems like a product Rev might be good for. I'm looking to purchase one, actually, to use in the classroom, as well

Re: Crossword Generator

2005-07-28 Thread Mark Swindell
On Jul 28, 2005, at 9:53 AM, Mark Talluto wrote: On Jul 28, 2005, at 9:48 AM, Mark Swindell wrote: On Jul 28, 2005, at 9:00 AM, Mark Talluto wrote: On Jul 28, 2005, at 8:15 AM, Mark Swindell wrote: I was just wondering if anyone here had created such a beast. It seems like

Video tutorials - OS X

2005-07-30 Thread Mark Swindell
Why don't I get video with the Rev OnLine tutorials in OS X 10.4? Only audio. This has probably been covered... but is there an easy answer? Mark ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: [OT] Pigs Fly

2005-08-03 Thread Mark Swindell
On Aug 3, 2005, at 8:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The contextual right-click simply throws up immediate access to a choice selection. No big deal. Exactly. The whole how-many-buttons argument is dizzying to me. A two button mouse has ADDED functionality, not supplanted or changed

Send question

2005-08-08 Thread Mark Swindell
Why does send mouseUp to button id 1200 return true in the message box? while send mouseUp to button Listen gives the same result as clicking on the button Listen? Thanks Mark ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

computerized speech

2005-08-09 Thread Mark Swindell
Is Apple's built in text-to-speech the best there is or are there alternatives that give more natural sounding results? How about on the Windows side? Thanks Mark ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Re: computerized speech

2005-08-09 Thread Mark Swindell
voices for many non- English languages. You can download the article (for a fee) at http://sciam.com/ . Phil Davis Mark Swindell wrote: Is Apple's built in text-to-speech the best there is or are there alternatives that give more natural sounding results? How about on the Windows side

suspend mouse clicks?

2005-08-12 Thread Mark Swindell
Is there a way to suspend the receiving/recording of mouseclicks within a field for a specified duration of time? Example: A two second sound file is playing. I don't want any mouse clicks recorded in a specified field until the condition of the play is over. I want to say, essentially:

Re: suspend mouse clicks?

2005-08-12 Thread Mark Swindell
The disabled I think, will do the trick. Sometimes just asking the question delivers the answer. Mark On Aug 12, 2005, at 12:48 PM, Mark Swindell wrote: Is there a way to suspend the receiving/recording of mouseclicks within a field for a specified duration of time? Example: A two

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