Re: sort of OT, CD names to iTunes

2006-03-08 Thread Charles Hartman
On Mar 8, 2006, at 8:11 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: The only reason I'd recommend this method is that I hate to waste CD space. Most LPs are only 45 min or less. Quite a few Double LPs can fit on an 80min CD. So by putting everything in iTunes first I can then add extra tracks (either by the

Re: The End of Dreamcard?

2006-03-06 Thread Charles Hartman
time. That is what I have just done. (I mention this on list because on list I've mentioned questions and reservations about this whole transition. I'm not convinced -- but an academic update package for a year gives me time to think at a reasonable price.) Charles Hartman

Re: The End of Dreamcard?

2006-03-05 Thread Charles Hartman
On Mar 5, 2006, at 12:06 AM, Judy Perry wrote: --For the price -- roughly half of what Hypercard last sold for -- it seems fair enough. Which price? $60? yes. $200? no. Can you do mySQL and CGIs in PowerPoint? (not being nasty: I really don't know but doubt it as I don't think it has a

Re: No Openstack ..... !

2006-03-04 Thread Charles Hartman
So use StackRunner (which beats the pants off the Dreamcard player anyway) on the PC too. You can bundle it with your stack for others to use. Charles On Mar 4, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: Hi from Paris, I have just run into my first Platform problem, but in fact, my

Re: The End of Dreamcard?

2006-03-04 Thread Charles Hartman
On Mar 4, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: Dreamcard was a crippled Rev. It straddled the lines of an inventive user and a professional developer but the lines were blurred and the audiences and messages so different that it created as much confusion as it did anything else. Well, I

Re: Importing and export text with foreign accents

2006-03-03 Thread Charles Hartman
Is this really true? My impression is that characters 128 are different in the ASCII character sets on Mac and Windows. Charles On Mar 3, 2006, at 12:08 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Derek, Even if you are using diacritics, as they are called, there is no reason to use unicode. Only if

Re: Debugging question

2006-03-02 Thread Charles Hartman
You need Constellation. More evident, and with more features. (Shameless plug. I love it.) Charles On Mar 2, 2006, at 5:29 PM, Peter T. Evensen wrote: I never noticed that before! Seems like an odd place for it, though. I'd expect it in the debugger window someplace, but now that I know

Re: implementing a search function

2006-03-01 Thread Charles Hartman
If you want to go beyond the first character (press 'm' to get all the 'm…' lines, 'a' to get all the 'ma…' lines rather than all the 'a…' lines) it gets trickier, but several people have worked out versions of it. I can't remember quite when, but look in the archives for roughly August of

Re: So long and thanks for all the stacks...

2006-02-24 Thread Charles Hartman
FLStudio sounds cool, I thought . . . Eww, but it runs on Windows! Charles (dodging) On Feb 24, 2006, at 12:15 PM, MisterX wrote: Not sure, but he may have turned to something that is not as quick, but will allow him to develop for his work flow without the stumbling blocks. Actually im

Re: Parameters [WAS: Main menu puzzle]

2006-02-20 Thread Charles Hartman
On Feb 20, 2006, at 8:02 PM, Ken Apthorpe wrote: You are having a dream. You are in a different country, and there's a group of locals around you all talking to each other. It's an english-like language, you catch individual words but they string them together in a very strange way. You

Re: sort of OT, CD names to iTunes

2006-02-19 Thread Charles Hartman
Mark On 19 Feb 2006, at 12:09, Alex Tweedly wrote: Charles Hartman wrote: I'm doing a lot of LP - CD transfers, a process with many steps some of which are silly tedious. One of them is that, after I've split the digitized audio file into tracks, and named them (a little tedious

Re: Main menu puzzle

2006-02-18 Thread Charles Hartman
On Feb 18, 2006, at 3:45 PM, Rob Cozens wrote: As a programmer, I see any if construct with more than two mutually exclusive alternatives as crying out for switch [case] syntax. Not only is it easier to comprehend the total logic flow, but adding new alternatives is much simpler. As

sort of OT, CD names to iTunes

2006-02-18 Thread Charles Hartman
I'm doing a lot of LP - CD transfers, a process with many steps some of which are silly tedious. One of them is that, after I've split the digitized audio file into tracks, and named them (a little tedious in itself since I'm using an ancient Toast Lite to burn the CD), and go to import

Re: sort of OT, CD names to iTunes

2006-02-18 Thread Charles Hartman
it through ClickRepair -- and some busywork, bookkeeping steps. The AIFF-AAC conversion is another long waiting step, and that's what decided me, perhaps wrongly.) Charles Mark On 19 Feb 2006, at 03:10, Charles Hartman wrote: I'm doing a lot of LP - CD transfers, a process with many steps some

Re: Revolution 2.7 documentation panic

2006-02-17 Thread Charles Hartman
On Feb 17, 2006, at 2:35 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: hard-coded path to Adobe Reader You're kidding! It'll be fixed in some point-release down the line. But apparently I'm the only person around here with Acrobat installed. Maybe. But I try never to use Adobe Acrobat Reader on the Mac.

Re: Revolution Media

2006-02-16 Thread Charles Hartman
On Feb 15, 2006, at 8:43 PM, Charles Hartman wrote: -- except apparently it sort of doesn't. I got from Rev a message inviting me to buy an upgrade pack for my Dreamcard. I wrote back in puzzlement because I'd thought just what you say. The return message points out that the DC up-pack

Re: Revolution 2.7 documentation panic

2006-02-16 Thread Charles Hartman
On Feb 16, 2006, at 5:56 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: hard-coded path to Adobe Reader You're kidding! Charles ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Getting Started with a Database

2006-02-15 Thread Charles Hartman
I just tried downloading CocoaMySQL from curiosity. When I selected one of my databases and selected a table, it froze my PowerBook absolutely solid -- after half a minute, the beachball wouldn't even spin! Is there some more modern ( 2003) version I didn't find? Charles On Feb 15, 2006,

Re: Getting Started with a Database

2006-02-15 Thread Charles Hartman
On Feb 15, 2006, at 12:13 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Is this really a massive learning curve? I have until Monday to get Yes, probably. Find yourself a good SQL tutorial online. It's not that hard to get the basics. I found this series of tutorial pages a decent start:

Re: Getting Started with a Database

2006-02-15 Thread Charles Hartman
Thanks, that's nice new, two years newer than the one I found before. BUT it still freezes my PB totally so only a very hard reboot will bring it back. Am I weird? Some intereaction . . . Charles On Feb 15, 2006, at 5:42 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote: as I mentioned earlier in the week, the

Re: Revolution Media

2006-02-15 Thread Charles Hartman
On Feb 15, 2006, at 8:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone enlighten me on Revolution Media? Looks like a great product for a great price. I'm assuming it replaces Dreamcard. -- except apparently it sort of doesn't. I got from Rev a message inviting me to buy an upgrade pack for my

Re: Revolution Media

2006-02-15 Thread Charles Hartman
On Feb 15, 2006, at 9:09 PM, Lynn Fredricks wrote: -- except apparently it sort of doesn't. I got from Rev a message inviting me to buy an upgrade pack for my Dreamcard. I wrote back in puzzlement because I'd thought just what you say. The return message points out that the DC up-pack is

Re: Revolution Media

2006-02-15 Thread Charles Hartman
At what in particular? I don't see anything here that addresses this question. It's been a long day and I'm tired; what am I missing? Charles On Feb 15, 2006, at 9:24 PM, Lynn Fredricks wrote: (Database access not available in Revolution Media) is right in the middle of the features

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

2006-02-14 Thread Charles Hartman
, Constellation makes Rev a usable programming environment. And you wouldn't believe how much it's developed in just the last three or four months. Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: Revolution RUMORS!

2006-02-13 Thread Charles Hartman
On Feb 13, 2006, at 12:45 AM, Scott Kane wrote: By-By DreamCard? Is there really a market for it anyway? I mean, apart from education most people want to compile binaries... (carefully selecting the polite form of the answer) Why yes, there is a market for it. As an unfunded private

Dreamcard - Media

2006-02-13 Thread Charles Hartman
So Dreamcard has been replaced by Revolution Media, is that the idea? The price has gone down, then, which I suppose is a good thing in the abstract. I can't make out whether it has any new limitations. Is Media, like Dreamcard, still essentially Revolution without standalones? Charles

Re: [OT] Re: Thar She Blows! - RR 2.7 ???

2006-02-12 Thread Charles Hartman
On Feb 12, 2006, at 2:33 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: The hard part is the translating from the written letters to how it should sound ... which is probably why I'm still stuck on unmensefu I take it to be a derivative of Latin mens, mind (as in Mensa, or mens sana in corpore sano), and like

Re: Getting Started with a Database

2006-02-11 Thread Charles Hartman
What platform? On OSX I was in a similar position recently, and I settled for MySQL (downloadable) with Blue Mango's (Trevor DeVore's) libDatabase 2.0 (ditto). This way's free. The libDatabase isn't strictly necessary (it's a wrapper around revdb functions), but it makes things a *lot*

Re: Minimum Mac specs for Rev 2.6.1?

2006-02-11 Thread Charles Hartman
There's a known bug that makes some parts of the Docs -- the Topics especially -- take a LONG time to load (upwards of 20-30 seconds), which can certainly make it seem that everything has frozen. Try waiting it out for that long, and see if that's it. We all hope, of course, that this will

Re: SpeechLab

2006-02-08 Thread Charles Hartman
text - speech is easy (relatively; still very poor) speech - text is hard On Feb 8, 2006, at 11:42 AM, Jeff Honken wrote: The MonsieurX.com site has a fun application called SpeechLab that allow you to type in a sentence and it will voice it back to you. Does Revolution have the reverse

Re: SpeechLab - Granny Mckay's steam-driven computer

2006-02-08 Thread Charles Hartman
On Feb 8, 2006, at 3:34 PM, Mathewson wrote: but, hey, how many real women say things like Your hard disk is badly fragmented in a voice that really means lets hop in the sack for a quick one?) You're just not moving in the right circles. Charles

Re: [ANN] Speechlab

2006-02-07 Thread Charles Hartman
On Feb 7, 2006, at 1:52 PM, MisterX wrote: So, it's not that hard at all to make rev speak! Just try it! Thanks for doing this, Xavier. I pasted in the text of a poem I'm working on. The sound was so totally alien that it gave me quite a useful perspective. ;) Charles

Re: Assist a Newbee

2006-02-05 Thread Charles Hartman
I seem to remember hitting that cursor bug. The solution had something to do with resetting the Rev cursors . . . can't remember. Does this sound familiar to somebody who knows more? Charles On Feb 5, 2006, at 5:22 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On 2/5/06 2:21 PM, Eric Chatonet [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 1934 Was Not Such A Good Year

2006-02-03 Thread Charles Hartman
Is this somehow (??) connected with the Unix Apocalypse that comes around in there somewhere if I recall correctly? Charles On Feb 3, 2006, at 9:03 AM, Mark Smith wrote: I get the same result. Rev 2.6.1 Mac OS 10.4.4 PB G4 1.5 Doing this: on mouseUp set useSystemDate to true set the

Breve interface

2006-01-29 Thread Charles Hartman
Just out of curiosity (so far), has anyone used Rev with (embedding or embedded by) this really-pretty-cool simulation environment? (see http://www.spiderland.org/breve) Charles ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Calendar and Time Schedule

2006-01-18 Thread Charles Hartman
Daniels Mara, timegadget. Charles Hartman On Jan 18, 2006, at 7:13 PM, Jeff Honken wrote: Has anyone created a scheduling app and would share how they did it. I'm starting a project that will require a calendar and a time element. When a particular date is chosen a time grid needs

Re: Architecting the Doc Solution

2006-01-15 Thread Charles Hartman
something. This is the long-winded way of saying I think Marielle's approach to code-fragment collection may turn out to be the missing link of docs. Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: getExif1.3

2006-01-11 Thread Charles Hartman
That's a very neat helpful stack. Thank you! Just out of curiosity, why does it show a thumbnail image of JPEG files but not TIFF? Maybe you have said this before and I missed it. Charles Hartman On Jan 11, 2006, at 10:21 AM, UDI wrote: Thanks Klaus Or, doesn't stack work rightly

Re: getExif1.3

2006-01-11 Thread Charles Hartman
files but not TIFF? Maybe you have said this before and I missed it. Ever tried to set the filename of an IMAGE to a TIFF file? That's it ;-) You need a player object (and QuickTime) to display a TIFF. Charles Hartman Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de

Re: One cute hack for MacOS X (... or nice internet protocol helper hacks...)

2006-01-03 Thread Charles Hartman
On Jan 3, 2006, at 3:53 PM, Ken Ray wrote: That's a great idea, Chipp! That's definitely something cool to run with... do you see StackRunner *only* running web-validated stacks, or also able to run locally executed stacks? The reason I ask is that currently StackRunner is designed in a

Re: [OT] .ds_store Messing Up ZIP

2006-01-03 Thread Charles Hartman
On Jan 3, 2006, at 7:29 PM, Phil Davis wrote: dot-file removal is one of my standard steps when creating a cross- platform CD. From what little I can tell, I assume those files are probably Mac resource forks that only show up on a platform that doesn't understand them (Windows). Is that

Re: SQL Statement on Multiple Lines

2006-01-02 Thread Charles Hartman
One thing you can do in some situations is to put the parts of a long string into custom properties (or even just local variables, I suppose), concatenate them into another variable using , and send the result off to (for instance) the SQL db. I sometimes build long queries this way,

Re: Fractals

2006-01-01 Thread Charles Hartman
On Dec 31, 2005, at 10:58 PM, Scott Kane wrote: Don't boast: mercifully for us all, 38C is only 100F. We're about to get snowed on in New England. Actually - the top temp' for the day was 44 d C with an overnight low of 27 d C. Somewhat worse than 100F. g Ouch. Charles

Re: Fractals

2005-12-31 Thread Charles Hartman
Don't boast: mercifully for us all, 38C is only 100F. We're about to get snowed on in New England. Charles On Dec 31, 2005, at 5:43 AM, Scott Kane wrote: Happy New Year to everybody. :-) It's New Years eve downunder and here in Melbourne it's 38 C (109 F). Kind of sticky! Recently I came

Re: Fractals

2005-12-31 Thread Charles Hartman
(Man did that sound sour. Sorry! Let me add, Happy New Year.) On Dec 31, 2005, at 8:36 AM, Charles Hartman wrote: Don't boast: mercifully for us all, 38C is only 100F. We're about to get snowed on in New England. Charles On Dec 31, 2005, at 5:43 AM, Scott Kane wrote: Happy New Year

Re: REv Documentation locking up

2005-12-28 Thread Charles Hartman
other and boom! next minute it's just we're in total darkness. That'd scare the bejeezus out of me. -- Conway, in Jarmusch's Dead Man On Dec 27, 2005, at 8:02 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On 12/27/05 6:22 PM, Charles Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm . . . I have a login account

Re: REv Documentation locking up

2005-12-27 Thread Charles Hartman
BZ 2936. It's got no votes, but it's what keeps me from ever using the Topics part of the docs. Charles Hartman On Dec 26, 2005, at 8:15 PM, Kurt Kaufman wrote: I have a new problem, open docs, click on Topics then click in the TOC book marks -Containers etc. Rev locks up... any

Re: REv Documentation locking up

2005-12-27 Thread Charles Hartman
On Dec 27, 2005, at 7:52 AM, Scott Kane wrote: BZ 2936. It's got no votes, but it's what keeps me from ever using the Topics part of the docs. I've been experiencing much the same thing. Also the doc's mysteriously die from time to time and I can't get them going again unless I reinstall

Re: REv Documentation locking up

2005-12-27 Thread Charles Hartman
I never had any! (sniff) I'll write RunRev . . . Charles On Dec 27, 2005, at 11:53 AM, Ken Ray wrote: Hmm... Charles, each person is supposedly given 100 votes to spend on bugs. You can remove votes from bugs you've already voted on and give them to another bug, so long as you never

Re: REv Documentation locking up

2005-12-27 Thread Charles Hartman
Hm . . . I have a login account, and RevZilla shows that I've expended one (1) vote. But it also says I don't have any more votes to spend. ? Charles On Dec 27, 2005, at 11:53 AM, Ken Ray wrote: On 12/27/05 7:06 AM, Charles Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 27, 2005, at 7:52

Re: Ask Answer

2005-12-26 Thread Charles Hartman
--except that, as I understand it, that doesn't work on OSX (nothing does). Is that right? Charles On Dec 26, 2005, at 12:23 PM, sims wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm using v2.6.1 on Mac OSX. 1) How do I delete the rev logo from ask and answer dialog boxes? Have a look at gRevAppIcon and

Re: Debugging and the execution path

2005-12-24 Thread Charles Hartman
The distinction in many debuggers is that a Watched variable causes execution to pause (creates a breakpoint) whenever its value changes -- as opposed to displaying its value, changed or not, whenever something else (a breakpoint) pauses execution. Naturally a Watch in that sense slows

Re: Debugging and the execution path

2005-12-24 Thread Charles Hartman
I think (though I've certainly never written a debugger) that true watch-points would be a whole lot harder to write. And they're by no means as often useful. I'd let that go at least for now. Charles On Dec 24, 2005, at 10:30 PM, Jerry Daniels wrote: It seems there are two requests...

Re: Don't understand the meaning of local

2005-12-23 Thread Charles Hartman
On Dec 23, 2005, at 9:03 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Mark Wieder wrote: Alex- Friday, December 23, 2005, 4:05:17 PM, you wrote: global gVar; delete global gVar Weird, huh ? But it works. Thanks. That makes some sort of sense. But Very Very Weird. Not really different than any other

[OT sub Holidays]

2005-12-22 Thread Charles Hartman
(Charles) Begin forwarded message: Please accept with no obligation, implicit or explicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practised within the most enjoyable

Re: Debugging and the execution path

2005-12-22 Thread Charles Hartman
An exciting prospect for the New Year! Charles On Dec 22, 2005, at 11:24 AM, Jerry Daniels wrote: Colleagues, I'm encouraged by your enthusiasm for an embedded var watcher in Constellation to replace the Rev Var watcher palette that we now use. Here's what I'm proposing to do: -

Re: Debugging and the execution path

2005-12-21 Thread Charles Hartman
Timidly, I'll weigh in. I don't want the transcript syntax, which is full of potential snares. (How many newbies -- not this one, anyway -- can remember when some long string of prepositional phrases needs a set of parentheses somewhere?) If I'm looking at a stack trace, I expect to see it

Re: Bush-like weasel words about standalone

2005-12-21 Thread Charles Hartman
On Dec 21, 2005, at 9:58 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: P.S. I love my VW Bus (72 Transporter converted into a Camper Bus). Wish I had an OS for it, that would be cool. You *are* the OS for it. Those were the good old days. Charles ___

Re: Is this possible.

2005-12-19 Thread Charles Hartman
You'll get better answers from others who know more, but two things seem clear to me: 1) Revolution is a fine way to do this 2) Using Excel is not going to be the easiest way (very not); are you stuck with that? what form do you get the data in? Charles Hartman On Dec 19, 2005, at 6:21

Re: Is this possible.

2005-12-19 Thread Charles Hartman
. Thanks Martin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Hartman Sent: 19 December 2005 12:50 To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: Is this possible. You'll get better answers from others who know more, but two things seem clear to me: 1

Re: Debugging and the execution path

2005-12-18 Thread Charles Hartman
had to redo it. (Though I'm hoping Constellation will incorporate this instead -- which I don't *think* it can yet -- hint to Jerry Daniels!) Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: MacOS X, player, long filename and accented chars : solved

2005-12-17 Thread Charles Hartman
that clarifies this . . . Charles Hartman On Dec 17, 2005, at 6:43 AM, Thierry Arbellot wrote: The stack is available on another server Here are the links : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/hal/player.rev http://perso.wanadoo.fr/hal/player.rev.zip Cheers, Thierry On 2005, Dec 16, , at 21:26

Re: Chunking, Array's and I've lost my mind...

2005-12-16 Thread Charles Hartman
(A) is probably close enough for government work, but in (B) watch out for rounding errors. Charles Hartman On Dec 16, 2005, at 9:09 AM, Mark Smith wrote: A. 1.6574 B. A walrus :) On 16 Dec 2005, at 14:02, Thomas McGrath III wrote: OK, I'll bite. When applying a patina to cold rolled

Re: How About a Forum, I'll Supply the Space?

2005-12-15 Thread Charles Hartman
of a spike, I don't think it really is a spike. And we have to go to the archives anyway to search by threads (though it doesn't cross month boundaries!). Of course all this might mean I should unsubscribe from this list and remind myself daily to check the archives . . . Charles Hartman On Dec

[OT] Re: [RRgraphix] TL.rev . . .

2005-12-15 Thread Charles Hartman
certainly nor original, but is he stealing it? /totallyAndCompletelyOT /sorry! sorry! Charles Hartman On Dec 15, 2005, at 12:20 AM, Judy Perry wrote: It's been mentioned that Dylan has an, um, appropriation problem: http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column95l4.html Judy

Re: how to beat confabulator

2005-12-13 Thread Charles Hartman
-list if you'd prefer. Charles Hartman On Dec 13, 2005, at 5:05 PM, Marielle Lange wrote: What we dont have is: - a repository showing 2000 apps to download More than 60 stacks in the gallery now. http:// revolution.lexicall.org/stacks_education.php. There is room for more! You have a stack

Re: MIDI Files

2005-12-11 Thread Charles Hartman
algorithmicity of the two processes …) Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use

Re: Works on Mac OS X, Why Not on Win XP? II--SOLVED

2005-12-10 Thread Charles Hartman
Do I understand right, that this problem applies only to standalones? My Dreamcard stacks are OK without this step? Charles Hartman On Dec 10, 2005, at 9:36 PM, Rob Cozens wrote: My apologies. Problem is the same as lst time: The stack I was testing hadn't been compressed before being

Re: Save on Linux, not on Mac, Win

2005-12-05 Thread Charles Hartman
and your stack in a single folder. Very easy. And -- let me say again, on behalf of the 'hobbyists' among us -- a whole brave new world for users of Dreamcard. Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Why isn't Rev more popular?

2005-12-04 Thread Charles Hartman
On Dec 4, 2005, at 12:55 PM, Jerry Daniels wrote: I have to agree with Sarah. I often want to see if a string doesn't contain another string. where I always feel you should be able to use something like: if myVar does not contain fred This would mean adding does to the Transcript

Re: Why isn't Rev more popular?

2005-12-04 Thread Charles Hartman
Thank you for pointing that out. I am totally in favor of it; if I had any votes I would vote for it. Charles On Dec 4, 2005, at 1:58 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Charles- Sunday, December 4, 2005, 10:37:41 AM, you wrote: This discussion got me thinking about how Transcript does handle is,

Re: Why isn't Rev more popular?

2005-12-02 Thread Charles Hartman
the flexibility of a natural language is available then feel hurt bewildered that it isn't. (For an example, port a Hypercard stack to Rev and look how many errors pop up that have to be solved by inserting the where Hypertalk didn't require it.) Charles Hartman

Re: Why isn't Rev more popular?

2005-12-02 Thread Charles Hartman
, but for people who've gotten somewhat farther up the learning curve. (Not that it matters much.) Charles On Dec 2, 2005, at 8:45 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Charles Hartman wrote: As a Prof. of English and long-time amateur programmer (but if you say hobbyist in my vicinity I'll bristle) I

Re: Times Change.... and often for the better

2005-12-02 Thread Charles Hartman
Just raising my hand here as Civilian Who Wouldn't Be Using Rev If I Couldn't Do It For Under $100 (since it's my own non-amortizable money). It can make sense for Rev not to want me, but it makes a different kind of sense for Rev to swallow its pride take me on. Who knows what might

Re: AW: Front Stack/Window???

2005-11-30 Thread Charles Hartman
On Nov 30, 2005, at 1:03 PM, Thomas Fischer wrote: actually, it might be useful to activate the Message Watcher (available in the Debug Menu when editing a script, but staying around after the script is closed). It will be necessary to suppress some messages (at least cRevGeneral - what

Re: Rev and User Accounts

2005-11-28 Thread Charles Hartman
On Nov 28, 2005, at 12:54 AM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: Both DC and Rev Player use the same creator code, so it may be that OS X thinks they are duplicate apps. Been zilla'd: http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi? id=2814. But it's still marked Unconfirmed? Charles Hartman

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-27 Thread Charles Hartman
the street, instead. A lot of people tried programming for the first time because of Borland Pascal, DeSmet C, HyperCard . . . They weren't choosing between one product and another (e.g., a pro and a lite version). I imagine a certain number of the pros on this list began that way. Charles

Re: Constant 'Nonsense' about RR documentation

2005-11-27 Thread Charles Hartman
, needs) are misleading. It's the message path that dominates everything, I think. When you keep it in mind you tend to make right decisions about design, large and small. When you forget about it, you don't just do inefficient work, you paint yourself into deeply bafflling corners. Charles

Re: Graphic Design Tools

2005-11-26 Thread Charles Hartman
?? Not according to http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/ Where'd you see it? Charles Hartman On Nov 26, 2005, at 4:52 PM, Mathewson wrote: GIMP is now available for MAC OS X without having to fool around with X11. ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: OT Last week's CarTalk puzzler

2005-11-24 Thread Charles Hartman
On Nov 24, 2005, at 9:31 AM, Jim Hurley wrote: Message: 10 Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:19:31 -0500 From: Charles Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT Last week's CarTalk puzzler To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain

Re: OT Last week's CarTalk puzzler

2005-11-24 Thread Charles Hartman
I absolutely promise not to post on this topic any more. But having said something stupid I have to take it back, which requires posting, trying to avoid saying something stupid . . . I think this is called karma. What I neatly demonstrated had nothing much to do with the problem,

Re: OT Last week's CarTalk puzzler

2005-11-23 Thread Charles Hartman
On Nov 23, 2005, at 6:07 PM, Jim Hurley wrote: All those numbers are called perfect squares. And only they have an odd number of factors, because one of the factors is the square root of the number in question. For example, nine has three factors, 1 and 9 and 3. [I confess, I can't see

Re: Living together BUT not married: RR/MC and Linux

2005-11-21 Thread Charles Hartman
good Linux support for the reasons above. And the Brazilian government's policy is worth keeping in mind, and watching as a plausible trend. Charles Hartman On 18 Nov 2005, at 21:17, Richard Gaskin wrote: I don't know RunRev's position, but for myself I see Linux as a challenging beast

Re: Living together BUT not married: RR/MC and Linux

2005-11-21 Thread Charles Hartman
I assume that in DreamCard I can write an OSI-certifiable thingie that is a DM stack, with StackRunner bundled with it. Charles Hartman On Nov 21, 2005, at 1:20 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Mathewson wrote: Now, maybe I'm wrong, but . . . I believe that it is perfectly legal to download

Re: Cmd-A doesn't work from Keyboard in Standalone

2005-11-18 Thread Charles Hartman
. So commandKeyDown works outside the field, but only rawKeyDown works inside the field. I'd really like to know if I've got something wrong about this. Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: Cmd-A doesn't work from Keyboard in Standalone

2005-11-18 Thread Charles Hartman
: On 11/18/05 7:57 AM, Charles Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So commandKeyDown works outside the field, but only rawKeyDown works inside the field. I'd really like to know if I've got something wrong about this. Charles, that's not what I'm getting... I created a simple stack with two

keycodes??

2005-11-18 Thread Charles Hartman
Sometimes I need to use rawKeyDown handlers, which receive a keyCode parameter. Two questions: is there a table of these somewhere? and, are these cross-platform? (If I have to use two tables, and wrap everything in an if platform structure, I'm going to be very sad.) Charles Hartman

Re: One Laptop Per Child project

2005-11-18 Thread Charles Hartman
I myself could *really* use that sometimes. And if they want crank-based software too, maybe I could help . . . Charles Hartman On Nov 18, 2005, at 1:06 PM, Judy Perry wrote: Aren't there some crank-based ones too? One or more cranks for 30 min. battery life I think... I'll take a look

Re: Cmd-A doesn't work from Keyboard in Standalone

2005-11-18 Thread Charles Hartman
. The latter is easier to deal with, so I should go back and experiment with that some more. One way or another, we seem to have an OS 10.3 / 10.4 disparity, don't we? Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Cmd-A doesn't work from Keyboard in Standalone

2005-11-18 Thread Charles Hartman
palette, is that property false? If you have no commandKey handler at all, doesn't cmd-A select all the lines in the list? Charles Hartman On Nov 18, 2005, at 9:37 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Sarah Reichelt wrote: I can confirm Charles' results with 10.4.3 Revoloution - so it's not just

Re: keycodes??

2005-11-18 Thread Charles Hartman
Thanks to Sarah Phil. I just wanted to know if I could trust the basics -- escape, return, enter, arrow keys. Charles On Nov 18, 2005, at 4:27 PM, Phil Davis wrote: Sarah Reichelt wrote: On 11/19/05, Charles Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometimes I need to use rawKeyDown handlers

Re: Signatures and quoting

2005-11-17 Thread Charles Hartman
They don't shoot people on this list. Lethal injections are the preferred mode. Charles Hartman On Nov 17, 2005, at 11:25 AM, Sean Shao wrote: ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe

Re: scope puzzle with menus

2005-11-16 Thread Charles Hartman
containing the field whose script contains the keyUp handler. That handler then calls a handler in the main stack, which reads and writes a variable there in the main stack script. So why does that cmd-U (or the 'u' part of it) end up in that variable? Charles Hartman

Re: OT: de Smet C compiler

2005-11-16 Thread Charles Hartman
). It was good; it worked; you could do anything you could think of with it, at the time. Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Charles Hartman
On Nov 16, 2005, at 6:31 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: I can only shake my head. *So far* you can. (Tomorrw Aunt Zelda may shake it for you . . .) Dan On Nov 16, 2005, at 3:09 PM, Judy Perry wrote: Funny, we just talked about biometric stuff in class a couple of weeks back. Of course, one

Re: Cmd-A doesn't work from Keyboard in Standalone

2005-11-16 Thread Charles Hartman
(= paste). Puzzling. Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Charles Hartman
really, really expensive? Yes, many are now; but many aren't. Jarhead was edited, as I understand it, by whatshisname the great film editor using Final Cut Pro. Pro-level audio software, though not cheap, is within reach for an amateur. Will that stop being true? Don't like it. Charles

scope puzzle with menus

2005-11-15 Thread Charles Hartman
it? I could build a kludge filter (maybe, though it would be easier if I knew exactly how those keystrokes got in there), but there must be a better way. Any advice enlightenment much appreciated as always. Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: scope puzzle with menus

2005-11-15 Thread Charles Hartman
Jacque, I would not have thought of that in 127 days. Thank you! (I'm still a little puzzled. I still don't see why my script local variable is getting tampered with by something outside the script at all. I fear I'm missing a General Concept here.) Charles Hartman On Nov 15, 2005, at 10

scrolling to a line

2005-11-13 Thread Charles Hartman
put the seconds into lastKeyTime put lineOffset(CR kTyped, me) into lo if lo is not 0 then set the scroll of me to lo * the effective textHeight of me end keyUp Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

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