Complimentary White papers

Dear all, I realize this is from the competition (well, sort of a competition !!), but there are some good points in the published white papers that SumTotal Systems has on-line at www.sumtotalsystems.com/resources/whitepapers.html Enjoy !! Bob Earp White Rock, British Columbia

RE: libURLftpCommand help required please....

, and it all works fine.Thanks again for the feedback help.best, Bob...Bob Earp - White Rock, British Columbia _ 30 days of prizes to be won with Hotmail. Enter Here. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid

Re: libURLftpCommand help required please....

Hi Mark. Just tried that and it does not make any difference either way. Thanks for the idea though..best, Bob... On Mon, 24 May 2010 18:34:51 +0200 Mark Schonewille wrote:-Hi Bob, - -Have you set the FTP mode to passive? Look up libUrlSetFtpMode in the -dictionary. - --- -Best regards,

libURLftpCommand help required please....

of a file in that location. When I finally get things going I promise I'll share a sample app that demos how this all works, for anybody who is interested. Then again, maybe there is one already out there somewhere ? Many thanks in advance, Bob... Bob Earp - White Rock, British Columbia

Setting file permissions on remote server

have some words of wisdom/guidance, or better still a sample ? Many thanks, Bob... Bob Earp - White Rock, British Columbia, Canada _ 30 days of prizes: Hotmail makes your day easier! Enter

Glass Globe - Kudos Scott !!

Many thanks Scott for the Glass Globe demo in RevUp #89. Apart from being the usual very cool looking stuff you produce, it was (once again) and extremely elegant solution. I really appreciate the chance to learn... best, Bob... Bob Earp - Ashford Technologies Inc.White Rock, British Columbia

Re: Not quite [OT]: News about Revolution

Judy, if you haven't seen it take a look at the BBC series The Last Enemy. It was on PBS under their Masterpiece Classic program, but you can see all about it at http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/lastenemy/welcome.shtmlI think it was produced around the time national identity cards were being

Completely OT - Winter Olympic events link

If any of you are coming to my great province for the winter olympics, you may like to bookmark this link which is getting 5 stars. http://maps.google.ca/maps/ms?hl=enie=UTF8msa=0msid=109677566226637280175.00047d77960b85a1c664dsource=embedll=49.288187,-123.115883spn=0.06886,0.151749 You'll have

Re: Import temperature and switch on/off the heater with Rev

Mark-It does with a USB to Serial adapter. Once the adapter is set up to replicate a specific port you just tell PortMon to monitor the pseudo port, unfortunately only on Windows though.best, Bob...~~Message: 2Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 14:37:40 -0800From: Mark Wieder

Re: Import temperature and switch on/off the heater with Rev

Mark,Thanks for the feedback. The Arduino looks a very cool device and as soon as I can escape form other tasks I'll lock myself away and play with it. Yep, I know, I have to get a life :-)I've been using the free PortMon utility from Microsoft

Re: Import temperature and switch on/off the heater with Rev

Paolo, to my knowledge there is no capability within Rev of communicating with a USB port, although I think Chuck had been working on something along time ago.I've been wanting to use a Rev project as an interface to the aircraft simulators we build and have been working on getting Rev on OS

Rev on iPhone/iPod Touch ??

I see that the latest version of ToolBook is pushing its ability to deliver to the iPhone iPod Touch. Have a look at: http://by106w.bay106.mail.live.com/mail/InboxLight.aspx?n=1390091929 Any comments on the same ability of Rev ?? Has anybody done any work with interfaces or come up with an

Re: Slightly OT - Dan the man

Thanks for the update Chip. Glad that he's being kept busy and really sorry about his pneumonia. Please pass on all of my best to him for a speedy recovery. best, Bob... ~~ Dan is really busy working on a huge web project on the west coast. He and

Slightly OT - finding time

Dear Eric, Chip, Ray, Scott, Sara, Devin, Andre, Klaus and all of the other incredible and regular contributors to this list (sorry I can't list you all), you must obviously have invented a new time machine and are only sharing it between you. I need it !! I find barely enough time to scan

Error with Quicktimeeffects.qtx identified

. The weird thing is I've only been getting this on one PC, others test OK. The stack is running as a standalone. As far as I can tell the machine in question is in the same configuration as others that are OK, and the latest version of QT is loaded. Anybody have any ideas?? Tnx, Bob... Bob

OT - Contact manager in Rev or ??

Does anybody know of a contact manager that has bee written in Rev? If not, can anybody recommend a contact manager that is preferably cross platform, and the data is shared. I've seen a few web based solutions but none crank my handle. Thanks, Bob... Bob Earp - White Rock, British

Re: Controls or Decorations?

Thanks Devin... ~ The labels in the property inspector can either be descriptive labels or the property names. This is set in Preferences, in the General section. There you can set the property labels in the inspector. Regards, Devin

Decorations or Controls ??

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dateItems (also see Controls or Decorations)

else is running build 472 and is not seeing dateItems then I'll post it as a bug. Please let me know BTW, we did check for updates to Rev and it reports no updates are available. best, Bob Bob Earp - Ashford Technologies Inc

Re: Running in a full screen mode

Many thanks Brent.. best, Bob. Robert J. Earp - Ashford Technologies Inc. White Rock, British Columbia _ Discover the new Windows Vista

Running in a full screen mode

Does anybody know if a stand-alone project can be run as a full screen app that hides the OS X menu bar? Tnx, Bob... _ News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now!

Re: Gradient Textures

the buttons on the fly? Just wondering... best, Bob... Bob Earp - from (currently) sunny Vancouver ;-) _ Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx

Re: andregarzia.com is now online

Hey Andre, nice site and thanks for continuing to support all of us so well. (Same goes for all the rest of you !!)I especially like the banner all we do is code, it'll make a great title for you next album. Hey, hang on a minute,didn't the Beatles have a title like that? Hmmm Nah, but

Re: We're number one

Jacque, After getting a promo eMail form Apple Canada about development tools a while ago, and seeing no mention of Rev, I blasted a note off to them. I'd like to think they listened and this was the result !! best, Bob... Message: 2Date:

Missing Examples in document dictionary

I've just loaded Rev 2.8.1 build 470 to a new MacBook Pro running OSX 10.4.9 and the weirdest thing is that although I can access the Documents Dictionary, the are no Examples being displayed in the definitions. The word Examples is shown but there is just blank space underneath it. After

Re: Relative folder paths

Bill,We needed to use relative paths for audio and video clips, plus graphics in our CBT engine some time ago, and came upon the same problems as you. Particularly as sometimes the projects were distributed via CD or DVD and we had no control over what drive letter/name was being used. I'm

Re: WARNING BUG ! Rev fails to Communicate

Cam,Unfortunately I cannot answer your question but I am monitoring your post as I too am VERY interested in communicating from Rev. Specifically, I'm building aircraft cabin simulators using a PLC for the basic control and wishing to use Rev to design an instructors interface (and editor) on

RE: Setting the default source path for Image controls

originally set it to just the filename. Maybe a logical way of doing things, but confusing none the less !! Thanks again, Bob... Bob Earp, in snowy White Rock, BC _ Be one of the first to try Windows Live Mail. http://ideas.live.com

Image Libraries

Does anybody know where there is some good documentation on the care and use of the Image Library ? The on-line documentation says see the Object Image Library section, but such a section does not seem to be included. Tnx, Bob... Bob Earp - White Rock, British Columbia

Setting the default source path for image controls

First a rant, rave... call it what you will, maybe even me being more of a dufus these days after a recent birthday. Unfortunately I haven't had the luxury of spending a lot of time with Rev over the last year, and am just getting back into it, hence my reliance on its documentation, which has

Basic UI idiosyncrasies (bugs?) with 2.7.1 Win version

Greetings from a very warm and sunny west coast, normally referred to by people not living here as the wet coast I just had a chance to compare Mac vs. Win versions of 2.7.1 (side by each) and a number of basic UI idiosyncrasies (bugs?) really highlighted themselves on the Win side of

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Thanks Phil. I too tried resizing the flds but the group is a bg obj and it then grows to encroach on other areas, plus the blank/space didn't work for me either. I was hoping there is an undocumented property of flds that looks after vertical alignment. If there is then this list would

Fld text vertical alignment - fld animation

I have a group of flds that I'm using as a menu with a simple animation that grows the size of text when rolled over, and shrinks the size of text (back to the original) when the mouse leaves. The problem is that the text does not stay vertically aligned in the fld, so the appearance is the

Re: RevMedia for CBT/eLearning

Be happy to Judy, but careful what you ask for. Although I live in British Columbia, I am a Brit by birth and such requests have quite a different meaning for those of us from the UK !! I'm sure the folks at Rev smiled at your request, but no offence is taken ;-P best,

Re: RevMedia for CBT/eLearning

The solution is not as easy as one would think !! An awful lot has been written about sound pedagogical design (for adults at least), and the jury is still out as to a single solution. Suffice to say training programs tend to get written to suit audiences, cultures and subject matter, and

Re: RevMedia for CBT/eLearning (Preston Shea)

Thanks for the reply Preston. Myself and colleagues have been developing CBT stuff (mainly technical subjects that include mini simulations) for an awful lot of years and have used most tools that could be referred to as RAD, and some specialized CBT authoring products. Hypercard, SuperCard,

RevMedia for CBT/eLearning ?

Has anybody got comments/reccomendations about using Revolution Media as an authoring tool for CBT and/or eLearning ? It appears to have very limited navigation capabilities, and also basic things like quizzes/tracking don't seem to be there, but of course that could be fixed with some custom

Re: Text to speech engines for Windows

Thanks Phil for an excellent resonse, I'll do some digging around and see what solution suits me best. Bob... _ Take advantage of powerful junk e-mail filters built on patented Microsoft® SmartScreen Technology.

Text to speech engines for Windows

) standards for these engines. Are there any problems associated with a particular version and a release of Windows ? Tnx, Bob... Bob Earp - White Rock, BC _ Take charge with a pop-up guard built on patented Microsoft® SmartScreen

lockMessages problem

the same problem ? I'm using Rev 2.6.1 on XP. Tnx, Bob... Bob Earp - White Rock, BC _ Scan and help eliminate destructive viruses from your inbound and outbound e-mail and attachments. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-capage=byoa

OT - Reporting a socket packet pocket error...

want to RAM your ROM, and then quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your Mom ! Well, that clears up an awful lot for me when I use Rev on a Pee Cee….. Happy Labour Day (note the spelling !!) best, Bob… Bob Earp - White Rock, BC

Setting a object to be a bg object on old cd's

cd. Tnx, Bob... Bob Earp, White Rock - BC _ Scan and help eliminate destructive viruses from your inbound and outbound e-mail and attachments. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-capage=byoa/premxAPID=1994DI=1034SU=http

Documentation - Webnotes

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Webnotes (was continuing/wrapping script line)

: as is the printer icon actually !! Should I be activating this somehow? Tnx, Bob... Bob Earp - White Rock, BC _ Powerful Parental Controls Let your child discover the best the Internet has to offer. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en

Re: Bug 2722 on Windoze

Dan, Both word and words seem to work on WinXP, however words only seems to work in the find, sort, search and numbers functions. best, Bob... PS, Rev is definitely quirky, that's why you love it ;-) ~~~` I just updated BZ#2722 which deals with OS X's lack of

Bugzilla REALLY works !!

to satisfy plus a bottom line to consider, so their priorities may not be yours... best, Bob... Bob Earp - White Rock, BC _ Take charge with a pop-up guard built on patented Microsoft® SmartScreen Technology. http://join.msn.com

ActiveX control for Rev in PowerPoint ?

Does anybody know of an ActiveX control that will enable a stand-alone stack to be run in PowerPoint as an embedded object, just like you can with Flash ? Tnx, Bob... Bob Earp - White Rock, BC _ Take charge with a pop-up guard

Re:Dumb question time

I'm still learning the nuances of Rev (that's polite-speak for being dumb myself !!) but could this be a problem with messages queing up ? Maybe adding a get flushEvents(all) to the end of your handler/s would stop this ? best, Bob... White Rock, BC

altPlugIns Icons

For anybody interested, I have uploaded a tiny stack to my user space (Bob Earp) that has 32 x 32 pixel icons for use with Chip's great altPlugIns tool for Flexible Learning's Scripters Scrapbook, Richard's RevNet and Eric's Color Picker and Resource Picker. It's called altPlugIns_icons.rev

Re: Icons for plugins

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Re: embed/install font

Thanks Chip, I'll see if I can get this going however, I can't get some of the customers to agree to loading anything at all on their machines, yeah, go figure !! I know I sound like a worn out record, but I really don't have a good answer when they say to me but we didn't have to do this

Re: embed/install font

since then. Bob Earp - White Rock, BC. I remember the days long ago in Hypercard where you could install a font as a resource in a stack, and it 'just worked', even though we were warned not to for some reason. sqb I'm creating a presentation and I

Icons for plugins

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Re: Spell Checker

Dear Derek, Is there any chance you could share this with the rest of us. To be able to add a spell checker to Rev would be quite fantastic given my spelling and typing dyslexia ;-) Thanks for responding. Bob... Bob Earp - White Rock, British Columbia

Is there a better way of scanning this list ?

speed reading at my time of life ;-) Tnx, Bob... Bob Earp - Vancouver, BC _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01

Speedy replies....... (was - looking for a better way to read this list)

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Re: Weird PC Transcript error problems....Help!!

Dear Jan and Sarah, Many thanks for your very helpful suggestions, you've made a grown man cry with joy as it fixed things !! I did have the variable checker switched on, and quotes around the iris open helped too. I guess it's one of Revolutions querks that things really don't work the same

Weird PC Transcript error problems....Help!!

when doing the same on a Mac. Is the error handling different on the PC ? I have reloaded Rev a couple of times and just accept the default settings regarding the script editor etc. Thanks for your consideration, Bob... Bob Earp - Ashford Training Technologies, White Rock, BC, Canada