Re: Export to pdf

Hi Marty, i have made a stack to export vectors to pdf. It is possible to create a stack that export text to pdf. Roger Eller sent me this stack long time ago. Now, the missing piece is exporting bitmap images to pdf. Who have the time to solve this task? alejandro -- View this message in

Re: [ANN] HOOT: Hacked Object Oriented Transcript

Hi Geoff, This Hacked Object oriented Transcript reads like an extraordinarily useful addition to the techniques available in this platform. In this platform, i've played mostly with vector graphics. With the stack PenTool, i'm able to create individual vector graphics, but latter when these

Re: Weather Widget

Hi Scott, Excellent widget! You had raised the bar again. :-) Now, Do you know what could be really useful? an installable widget player, like that from Yahoo. :D If some of you is ready for releasing a multiplatform Widget engine, i have already some widgets ideas, that could start working

Re: Export to pdf

Hi Marty, Actually it's not too difficult. Just require time to code, test and fix. Look at these references about the PDF file format: PDF v 1.2 http://www.baw.de/vip/abteilungen/wbk/Publikationen/docs/pdfspec.pdf PDF v 1.3 to v 1.6 (Directly from Adobe)

Re: Export to pdf

Hi Marty, i noticed that you asked for a download link to the most recent version of the stack Vector to PDF: http://aulasdigitales.net/exportVector_v02c.zip Previous versions: http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/vector2pdf_v02b.zip http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/vector2pdf_v02.zip

Runrev handling of imported bitmaps

Hi all, Recently i was creating a simple stack image library utility to reuse images multiple times in a stack. The result is unworthy to post in this mail list, but it opened many questions: How could i recreate the changes in dimensions, ink-effects rotations, flipping, etc for all the

Minimize Custom shaped stacks

Hi all, Recently i was adding a Minimize button to a custom shaped stack, and to my surprise, the stack does not minimize at all, but moves near to the bottom of the screen where only a small portion of the top is visible. To maximize the stack, i just have to do is double click on the visible

Minimize Custom shaped stacks

Hi all, i have posted a bug report on this: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=5864 Please vote if this problem affect your applications. Thanks in advance! alejandro -- View this message in context:

Minimize Custom shaped stacks

Hi all, i have posted a bug report on this: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=5864 Please vote if this problem affect your applications. Thanks in advance! alejandro -- View this message in context:

Re: Archiving Eudora?

Hi Stephen, Eudora uses the mbox format, Right? On September 2006, i posted this message to this mail list: stack Mailbox Offline reader Hi all, This stack arises from the fact that i do not have internet in the place where i live actually and i like to read the messages from this list

Re: md5

Hi Mark, This has been discussed before ;-) In 2005, september 25 Mark Waddingham wrote, in the message: put url some url into someVar... Mark Schonewille was trying to do something very similar a while ago and filed an enhancement request about being able to do md5 digests on large files

Implementing rsync protocol and algorithms with RR apps

Hi all, (First, i wrote this message in 2005, so it´s worth repeating given the actual interest about RR stacks on the internet.) Have anyone given a try to implement rsync protocols and algorithms using only RR clients applications? http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/

Re: [ANN] Multi-Browser pre-alpha test release

Hi Thomas, Here, in a Windows XP box, the web browsers works great. Tested with StackRunner 1.7, but does not work inside RR 2.8.1. Notice that web browser window have a fixed size, so it´s difficult to use in smaller screen sizes like 1024x768. alejandro -- View this message in context:

Re: [ANN] Multi-Browser pre-alpha test release

Hi Thomas, This new version works great in RR 2.8.1 and StackRunner 1.7 in Windows XP. When you publish a 1024x768 version, i will test all the features. Keep up your good Work! :-) alejandro -- View this message in context:

[OT] A Hardware wish...

Hi all, Recently, while working in a teamwork project, the hard reality of having to download and upload (daily) many files of hundreds Megabytes to a remote server, keep me wishing for a faster connection or some clever and automatic way to handle these kind of data moving task after my daily

Re: [OT] A Hardware wish...

Hi Phil, Phil Davis-5 wrote: A NAS device won't do it - at least not the ones I'm familiar with, but I haven't looked at them since I bought one a couple of years ago. Maybe they are smarter now. [snip] Jim Ault introduced me to StuffIt for automated backups (which I still don't use

MD4 Function translated from Director to Runrev

Hi all, Recently, i took a second look to MD4 digest in this stack: http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/lingo_md4_digest.zip where i try to translate (without sucess) a Fast lingo implementation of the MD4 algorithm by Joni Huhmarniemi. Compare results with this javascript version:

Re: MD4 Function translated from Director to Runrev

Hi Richard, Richard Gaskin wrote: What are the advantages of MD4 over Rev's built-in MD5? MD4 is used by the rsync utility for synchronizing files and directories from one location to another while minimizing data transfer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync For some time, i have been

Re: LAME DLL for Rev?

Hi Devin, Some years ago, Bill Griffith of iGame3D released FMODforRev.dll for Mac and PC. Could this be what you are looking for? Devin Asay wrote: Does anyone know of a LAME library DLL that has been compiled to run as a Rev external? -- View this message in context:

Re: MD4 Function translated from Director to Runrev

Hi Mark, Many thanks for the advice! i will check openssl. Have a nice weekend. alejandro masmit wrote: Alejandro, if you have openssl installed on your computer, you can use it to do md4, md5, sha1 and others as shell calls. Having written a Revolution implementation of the sha1

Re: Interactive Fiction with Runtime Revolution

Hi, Luis, many thanks for these pointers with really useful information! :-) Thom, you made very good points that i should ponder. Many thanks for making available your iTunes Library Suite! :-D About web based Interactive Fiction, look at this fine example:

Re: Embedding fonts anomalies

hi Shari, i have not used this feature, but it is really mind opening to see, how developers use font embedding in their apps. Do you have a sample stack that show the approach that you described? Thanks in advance! alejandro Shari-2 wrote: Load several custom fonts. Create a heirarchy

Re: Problem with linktext and html characters

Hi, Reading this thread in Nabble, i just noticed that some mailers interpreted the htmltext that was included in previous messages, rendering meaningless the htmltext strings discussed. So, if you want to read this message thread as was intended to be read, visit the Runrev mail archive and

Re: Scrolling a Gigantic Text file in a field

Hi Richard, Andre and Craig! Thanks for answering my request. Probably the differences in my results are that the whole text of the Bible is only 4.24 MB and the Gigantic Text file is between 15 MB and 25 MB. i am sure that 4.24 MB or 25 MB are no problem if you are using a modern machine with

Re: Scrolling a Gigantic Text file in a field

Hi Andre, Does text fields in HTML browsers have built-in specific routines to show and scroll smoothly big text files? How did you discover this? Thanks for the advice. i will check this option closely. Have a great day! alejandro Andre Garzia-3 wrote: Alejandro, There's another way

Re: [ANN] Game update

Hi john. Where is your game in Rev Online? i was looking under the user name Jock_McTartan, but could not found this stack. Thanks in advance. al -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-ANN--Game-update-tp24246055p24261917.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list

Re: Any thoughts on speed limitations of Revlet?

Hi Jim, This revlet works great inside the web browser. Now, i find suspicious that with the first shot i was able to sink 8 balls... twice in a row. :-D Keep up your great work! and thanks to Scott Rossi for lending his gifted hands to this revlet. al -- View this message in context:

Re: Any thoughts on speed limitations of Revlet?

Hi Jim, This revlet works great inside the web browser. Now, i find suspicious that with the first shot i was able to sink 8 balls... twice in a row. :-D Keep up your great work! and thanks to Scott Rossi for lending his gifted hands to this revlet. al -- View this message in context:

Re: RevMedia 4 does not like my animated gifs (constantMask problem)

Hi Kurt, Could you post a screenshot of the main screen of the stack? Thanks in advance! al Kurt Kaufman wrote: Alejandro, I do not see the black trails you mention on Rev 4, Mac OS 10.5.7 (although since I do not know Japanese characters it took a while to earn an animation!).

Re: RevMedia 4 does not like my animated gifs (constantMask problem)

Well, Geocities is closing, so i will move my page to another free webserver. Kurt reported that animated gifs looks right on Mac OS X. How did this stack looks in Linux? Thanks in advance! al -- View this message in context:

Re: Digging Huge Files

Some months ago, i ask in this list about the limitation of reading files bigger than 2 gigabytes: http://www.nabble.com/Problem-parsing-data-in-Gigabyte-size-text-files-td11438677.html#a11469329 and in this message thread, Jackeline reported that this will be solved in next version:

Re: [ANN] Stacks published on the Web

Hi Rick, Actually, if you have doubts about the security of running an application inside your web browser, you should contact the author with specific questions about the operation of this application. Look for example this example: http://capellan2000.000space.com/examen.html This is a test

How do you solve this dilemma?

How do you solve this dilemma? For many years, i have been talking to my fellow teachers and coworkers about Runtime Revolution and how easy it is to create useful applications for their own use. Now, that Runrev have released the free Alpha version of revMedia, i have wrote to all of them

Downloading messages from Runrev Forum

Hi all, Does exist some method to download all messages from Runrev forum, just like we could do with compressed mails in the Runrev list serve page? I find really useful the categorization of topics in the forum, but will prefer to browse these messages offline. Thanks in advance. al --

Re: revlet and path

Hi Jacque, i noticed that you interpreted the error numbers that appear in the warnings. Where could i find this list of number error codes? Thanks in advance al J. Landman Gay wrote: Further to this discussion, this fails in a revlet run from a server: try put

Re: How do you solve this dilemma?

Hi Judy, Many thanks for replying to my questions! Now i remember that you have already teach this platform in your classes. :-) Teachers that i have met in Courses, Seminaries and Workshops have the most diverse background and skills: Age: From 25 to 55 Subjects: Language (spanish, english),

Re: How do you solve this dilemma?

Judy Perry wrote: What sorts of things would your colleagues like to be able to do with Rev? Actually, it will be better to show them by example: What you could do with Rev in your classes. (Now, i remember Mark Greenberg stacks) Already, i have show them templates for Multiple choice exams,

Vote to fix gif animation display in Windows

Hi all, Please, vote for bug 8208 http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=8208 RevMedia 4 display animated gifs with black trails, but this appears in Windows, not Mac OS X, not sure about Linux. This problem affect most of the commercial gif animations that actually uses this

Re: [script optimization challenge] Multi dimensional array filtering

Hi Brian, There is a page in Wikibooks about Algorithm Implementation for Binary search: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Algorithm_implementation/Search/Binary_search Would you like to add your example under a new revTalk section? By the way, i find enlightening the facts exposed in the Wikipedia

Re: revLet Visual Effect

Hi Kenji, In Windows XP, visual effects does not shows in the revWeb plug-in. All transitions are just like show and hide, ocurring instantly. Somehow, i suspect that this is related with screen redraw of plug-in inside the browser. Redrawing the plug-in area and processing mouse messages seems

[ANN] RGB_CMYK revlet

hi all, Visit the page: http://capellan2000.000space.com/RGB_CMYK/test.html No warnings this time, because this revlet is only for visual display. Contains gif images with inks applied and four scrollbars to change the blendlevel of images. i build this stack, among many others, for my

Re: Transcript should be called Transcript

Actually, i liked the new logo and the change in language name. al -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Transcript-should-be-called-Transcript-tp24954696p24965084.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Challenge: How can we set the rect of a polygon to its visual rect?

Hi Wilhelm, Take a look at the script of this stack, to check if some code is useful: http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/mask_bitmap02.zip This version included the option to crop the image while masking. Wilhelm Sanke wrote: So again, does anybody know a way - or a workaround - to

Re: Challenge: How can we set the rect of a polygon to its visual rect? (and a tentative solution)

Hi Wilhelm, Wilhelm Sanke, FB01 wrote: Could it be that the option to crop is contained in a different version of your stack? This the part of the script that crop the image to the size of the user created cropping rectangle: if cropImage = true then repeat until

Syllabic division of words

Hi all, Recently, someone asked me a script to divide words in syllabes. I know, for certain, that this kind of task is especially suited for a language like revtalk, but honestly, i dont know how to begin. Should use a dictionary of common words (like: origin=o ri gin) and use search and

Re: Syllabic division of words

Hi Richard, Many thanks for the link. This information is really important. About the use for this syllabic divisor, surely is for some kind of analitic lenguage task. Have you noticed that common words are always shorter than specialised vocabulary? Thanks again for your help! alejandro

Re: Syllabic division of words

Hi all, Actually, i have found an online syllabic divisor: http://www.respublicae.net/lengua/silabas/ that could be useful to compare the output of this script. In other webpage, there is a list of 4212 valid syllabes: http://www.cpimario.com/silabas.zip My first test script divided wrong most

RE: Syllabic division of words

Actually, i understand Randall petition. The task of syllabic (and phonemes) division for many languages was already done by the Research labs of Apple, Microsoft, ATT and many more private companies. Probably, Applescript and VBScript allows to access these extraordinary capabilities of the

Re: Syllabic division of words

Richard Gaskin wrote: Nicely done. The downloadable stack, that is. The RevLet through an error (There was an error loading the revlet failed to read revlet stack). But the download - nice job, esp. in choosing the appropriate consonants to split on. I always enjoy your stuff. Thanks

Vote to disable password protection for revMedia 4 stacks

Hi all, This is an enhancement request for revMedia 4. filled in Report # 8234. Given that revMedia 4 will be free, the option to password protect your scripts should be allowed only in Studio and Enterprise versions of Rev, just like the options to use encryption, Business databases and SSL.

Re: Vote to disable password protection for revMedia 4 stacks

Richard Gaskin wrote: But before I vote I have to ask: Could there be security considerations for the end-user or RunRev which are minimized with this ability? Minimized? Do you mean: How could revMedia 4 end users will be affected if they could not password protect their stacks?

Re: Vote to disable password protection for revMedia 4 stacks

Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote: Not really, if the questions and answers are stored out with the stack in some sort of encoded document! Obviously without the ability to password protect stacks the programmer who wants to protect his/her data (i.e. stuff other than scripts) will have to

RE: Syllabic division of words

Randall Reetz wrote: I should clarify. Stochastic (counting and statistical) methods of meaning acquisition are employed often to avoid structural grammatical parsing. Some adherents go further and posit that brains don't use grammar anyway, why should computers? Actually, i believe

Re: Vote to disable password protection for revMedia 4 stacks

Robert Maniquant wrote: 1) develop the sharing habit of utilities, eductionalWare, libraries. Maybe runrev can think of some innovative incentive to do so. Something like this could help: http://ced.ncsu.edu/mmania/ i serve as judge in one of the editions of this event. Students sent

Vote to disable image copying from password protected stacks

Visit report 8251 to vote for disable image copy from password protected stacks. http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=8251 To copy an image from a password protected stack, users just had to select the image and write in the message box: set the clipboarddata to the text of the

Re: Smoothing a curve

Hi All, Some time ago, i published this stack that shows two algorithms for smoothing the straight sides of a polygon: http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/Two_smooth_polygon_algorithm.zip This stack implements two polygon smoothing algorithms: Chaikin and Shemanarev Here is a screenshot:

Re: Perl and Revolution at OSDC.fr 2009

Hi Thierry, Congratulations for this great achievement! Since ever, I have believed that is in the best interest of this platform (and all of us) to develop ways of intercomunication with other programming languages, like Perl, Python or Java. When will you publish benchmarks of the overhead

Applying the concept of Images libraries (vector and bitmaps )

Hi all, Recently, i have been advising some fellow teachers about using revMedia to create educational content. One of the most frequent request that i found, is the possibility of reusing images (vector and bitmaps) across different stacks and reusing the same images in the one stack with

Re: Applying the concept of Images libraries (vector and bitmaps )

Hi Scott, Many thanks for answering this request. How do you handle the particular case, where the same image is used in different cards using varied ink effects and sizes? Why is important sub-pixel positioning and imge distortions? Thanks in advance! al Scott Rossi wrote: One way to

Re: [OT] Headless COMPAQ P3

Richmond, Did you notice, like me, that stubborn entities like sheeps and personal computers when they go against you, attack directly to your feets??? Congratulations for completing your Runrev developer setup: Mac, Linux and PC Have a nice weekend! al Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote: After

Re: Music ????

Hi All, Remember that UDI published many stacks to play Midi music using Quicktime. And there is a Keyboard, too: http://homepage.mac.com/udi/stack/tool.html Mac Users should not have problems to decode all Rev and Zip files encoded as HQX, but Windows Users without WinZip or Stuffit Expander,

Re: Music ????

Hi Kenji, Kenji Kojima wrote: [snip] Yes, UDI's makeSMFLib works on MacOS, Windows and browser. Yes, it works great inside a browser. Hopefully, UDI will complete the code for importing and converting Midi files. I found the stack Random Music Player specially interesting and would like

RevMedia Portable

Hi all, Reading news about RevMedia launching in November, I will repeat the same question from days ago: When RunRev will launch RevMedia as a portable application, that run from a PenDrive or CD, without installation? Notice that some third party developers, devote themselves to create

New direction for Stacks and Code Samples

Hi all, Monday, 2009 October 26, Geocities will close and my page and files will dissapear. For this reason, i have moved my page and files to this new location: http://www.capellan2000.000space.com/ Hopefully, as time permits, I will convert each one of these stacks in revlets to run inside

Re: RevMedia Portable

Hi Peter, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Alejandro, what is the problem exactly? [snip] But it seems to run fine from the stick. Or is there something else? Must be Yes, there is something else. The development enviroment freeze and had to force quit RevMedia. Tested in different

Re: New direction for Stacks and Code Samples

Actually the free webhosting that I choose, 000space, allows revlets, but no big files. al -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/New-direction-for-Stacks-and-Code-Samples-tp26042254p26053882.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Autocomplete field

Hi all, Visit the webpage: http://www.capellan2000.000space.com/test05.html and download the stack: http://capellan2000.000space.com/autocomplete_names.zip I am looking for ideas to make better the code of these autocomplete fields. Notice that in this example, both fields have the same names

revupdatechecker.exe

Hi all, Today, after installing the new version of the browser plug-in, i noticed that there is a new process running with the name: revupdatechecker.exe Winamp uses an application named winampa.exe to retain media files association. Actually, they ask for permission to install this app. Notice

Re: Clueless revlet question

Andre, you sound really excited for this new feature. Can you show us (by examples) what could we do :D from a revlet to control a browser's webpage? Thanks in advance. Alejandro Andre Garzia-3 wrote: do in browser is working? :-O rejoice! rejoice! I missed the release of this...

Re: [OT] Living in Silicon Valley

Actually, i liked the tv series Cosmos 1999 :D http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_1999 Scott Rossi wrote: Even with the the ultra-high cost of living, the traffic, and the unemployment, sometimes living in California's Silicon Valley has a silver lining. http://www.thetech.org/StarTrek/

Re: RevMedia Portable

Actually, just as you stated, the purpose is to use the IDE from any Windows computer, without rebooting. About stability, the answer should lie in the hooks that IDE installation make to Windows OS during installation and use. Alejandro Peter Alcibiades wrote: Is the aim to have a version

Re: RevMedia Woes

Yes, Completely awesome! :D I noticed that this revlet runs faster too: http://capellan2000.000space.com/test03.html Does it means that Runrev made some optimizations or enhancements specifically oriented to screen redraw? H, maybe this explain the absence of Palettes and substacks in

Re: RevMedia Portable

Hi Mark, Although i understand that is really useful to have portable editions of enterprise or studio, i talk about portable editions of RevMedia's free versions. Alejandro -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/RevMedia-Portable-tp26036319p26121378.html Sent from the

Re: Revlet Woes - Substacks Don't Open

Richmond, visit this page (A simple paint stack) and explain us if you apply use the same method with your stacks: http://revmedia.runrev.com/revWeb-samples/sketch/ Alejandro -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/revlet-woes-tp26103180p26121585.html Sent from the Revolution -

Re: Autocomplete field

Hi Peter, Many thanks for posting this handler. Filtering the search results is a great idea! Thanks again. Looks like your handler was cut-off, because the rawKeydown handler does not had a closing match. While running this handler, i always get the word sEntryBuffer in the field enterPt and

Re: Small update to Plugin

Thanks a lot for spreading the good news! Now, i am curious to know the function of revupdatechecker.exe that i see running among processes in Windows Task Manager Alejandro Heather Nagey wrote: We have just uploaded a small update to the 4.0 web plugin, [snip] -- View this message in

Re: RevMedia Woes

Hi Jim, James Hurley wrote: I don't know if this is related, but I have found that there is a significant increase in speed in going from Rev IDE on Mac OS to the revLet see discussion below. I've been waiting for some clarification from Rev. [snip] go url

Re: RevMedia Question: Securing the revlet?

Hi Malte, This is similar to methods used by Director and Flash to stop users of running their apps from their hard disk. Al -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/RevMedia-Question%3A-Securing-the-revlet--tp26129636p26137360.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list

Re: Another How to do this in a Revlet? thread

Hi Richard, Actually, these are plain and simple vector graphics, organized like concentric rings that you could show and hide, depending of zoom level. This zoom slider is actually scaling all graphics from the center. Adobe Flash do not scale all vector graphics at the same time. This is an

Re: [ANN] RevLetObject javascript include.

Many thanks for sharing this useful script! :-D My only worry is: What could happen in the specific case that users had disabled javascript, just like some Firefox extensions do. By the way, Andre, Could you prepare an online demo of revlets and javascript interaction? I have to ask about this

Re: Into the flamefest

On Dec 6, 2005, at 9:34 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: I am rebuilding my homepage and there'll be a section on my Application Framework or Paradigm called Alfred that is the stack controlling everything I said on top. Alfred.. Like the Batman's Majordomo, Alfred Pennyworth? :-)) -- Sent from

Re: How do i check for an internet connection?

Hi Kurt, I don't remember who to thank for this one, which I modified only slightly: Dar Scott published this code in march 2002: local testSock on mouseUp put 255.255.255.255:43222 into testSock open datagram socket to testSock -- opens immediately on Win2K put

Re: MIDI Files

Hi Scott, you could visit Hugh Senior's website: and download the file: UDI, an extraordinary japanese programmer, published many stacks to play Midi files using notation similar to HyperCard. al -- Sent from the Revolution - User forum at Nabble.com:

Re: Recent Development on the Use-List

Hi all, What do you think about the educational model used by Alias (now an AutoDesk company) From their webpage: - Maya Personal Learning Edition is a special version of Maya® software, which provides free access to Maya for non-commercial use. It

Re: Why is Konfabulator 'Pretty?'

Marielle Lange wrote: Dreamcard is presented as something that persons with lack of experience with other development environments can come to grip with. Apparently, it doesn't work that well. Beginners often complain on this list or elswhere (see , a mailing list for dreamcard users

Re: RE: MIDI Files

Hi Scott, Looks like the URL's posted were hidden somehow. Let's try again: you could visit Hugh Senior's website: _http://www.flexiblelearning.com/xtalk.htm_ _http://www.flexiblelearning.com/xtalk/mci_in_3_steps/mcisendstring3steps.htm_ and download the file:

Re: [Ann] Adventure Game Graphics

Hi Judy, i believe that this Contest is for users of 3D graphic software, that are able to create these kind of Myst-like stills of 3D environments from renderings of their work in any platform. Hope to see the final entries of many of them in this Contest. :-D alejandro -- Sent from the

Re: getExif

Hi UDI, Could you include some sample images with this stack? i tried without sucess to read exif data in these images from these websites: _http://www.exif.org/samples/_ _http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/fuji/finepix_s9000-review/gallery.shtml_ Thanks in advance and Thanks a lot again for