SpecialFolderPath(26) on Vista

Has anybody any experience with writing files to this folder on Vista? Will it still be open, or do I have to write the files to another folder? What about c:/temp? Signe Marie Sanne ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Open mail on Windows

= win32 then put empty into tTitle set hideConsoleWindows to true if NT is in systemVersion() then set the shellCommand to cmd.exe put quote quote into tTitle end if get shell(Start tTitle quote tEmailAddress quote) Regards Signe Marie Sanne

OT: Ugly fonts

is delivered to a private user, will the box with Clear type be default setting, or is is just Standard that is the default? Is the resolution 1280x1024 now used as default? Signe Marie Sanne ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please

Re: AW: Ugly fonts

100,100,100 (greyish black), textstyle bold, textsize 13 and 14 may appear a little too hard/dark with Clear type on. Resolution 1280x1024: It does not matter whether Clear type or Standard or none is used. SIgne Marie Sanne Den 12. apr. 2007 kl. 15:06 skrev Tiemo Hollmann TB: As a Windows

Re: Alias to Folder?

At least on Windows this works: put specialFolderPath(desktop) /FolderName.lnk into shortcutName create alias(shortcutName) to file theFolder Note that you use file even for a folder! Den 29. mar. 2007 kl. 21:13 skrev Scott Rossi: The docs say we have a create alias command. Is it

Re: Duration of non supported applications

students, they are mostly more mature people than our regular students. I'll probably be back with questions concerning the upgrading. Thank you again. Signe Marie Sanne Den 16. mar. 2007 kl. 19:26 skrev Bill Marriott: I think for all practical purposes the answer to the original

Re: Duration of non supported applications

:// www.hf.uib.no/mlab/ItaMP/mcIta.html. User: studita Password: itafj As to a repository, isn't that what Marielle is trying to do something about? Signe Marie Den 16. mar. 2007 kl. 21:38 skrev Devin Asay: On Mar 15, 2007, at 4:23 AM, Signe Marie Sanne wrote: So far I have used MetaCard

Duration of non supported applications

to latest version of Revolution? Would this secure a longer life for them? Can we count on a contiuous existence of QuickTime and Microsoft Multimedia Tools when new systems arrive? I would be happy to hear your opions. Signe Marie Sanne ___ use

Re: Umlaut--Success!

. My problem arose when I wanted to select a line in the text, then having to change the colour of the image as well. So I think I'll stick to the images, just double the sets of images with selection colours as well. Thanks for all the help from you and Mark. Signe Marie Sanne Den 28. feb

Umlaut

Hello Perhaps someone of you may find a better solution to a small problem. I need to have the letter n with umlaut (tréma) in a text fld set to an ordinary textfont (verdana). So far I have used the imagesource, but I would like to know if there is a font (among those always present on

Re: Umlaut

Hello Klaus and Mark Thanks for the reply, so far no good. I thought that perhaps there might be a unicode solution, or a solution with putting the trema atop the n in some way or other. Other suggestions? Signe Marie Den 28. feb. 2007 kl. 11:53 skrev Mark Schonewille: Klaus, That's a

Re: Umlaut

It is used in the orthography for the Indian dialect Boruca, spoken by only few inhabitants in Costa Rica. I'm making a language/research program for a colleague of mine from Costa Rica, who is professor at our Spanish department. Signe Marie Sanne Den 28. feb. 2007 kl. 13:05 skrev Marc

Re: Where to Save Downloads -- Best Practice?

specialFolderPath(26)? This saves to C:/Documents and Settings/ MyUserId/Application Data/ which usually is open. Signe Marie Sanne ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: textColor misbehaving?

Did you try set the textColor of char 1 to -1 of fld FFF to red Signe Marie Sanne ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http

Re: Put URL failing -- HTTP header problems?

XP - MetaCard Ide - the above just fills up the message box with all the source code. -- Signe Marie Sanne 1. amanuensis/Senior lecturer Romansk institutt Tlf.+47 55 58 21 27 Øisteins gt. 1 Epost: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitetet i Bergen http

Re: movies on Win

mciMpegVideo may help you. Can be found on Rev Online, under username sms Signe Marie Sanne 1. amanuensis/Senior lecturer Romansk institutt Tlf.+47 55 58 21 27 Øisteins gt. 1 Epost: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitetet i Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/mlab/Info

Re: A Custom Property Sets 'Database

that will be of help. Signe Marie Sanne 1. amanuensis/Senior lecturer Romansk institutt Tlf.+47 55 58 21 27 Øisteins gt. 1 Epost: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitetet i Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/mlab/Info/sms.html

Re: Changing Font Style of Text Already in a Field

but not the appearance of text already in it. set the textfont of char 1 to -1 of fld X to to Lucida Grande -- Signe Marie Sanne 1. amanuensis/Senior lecturer Romansk institutt Tlf.+47 55 58 21 27 Øisteins gt. 1 Epost: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitetet i Bergen

Re: Saving Prefs on Windows

of directories on Windows are blocked for access. If you use specialfolderPath(26) this directory is usually open for storing files. This directory is C:/Documents and Settings/.../Application Data Signe Marie Sanne 1. amanuensis/Senior lecturer Romansk institutt Tlf.+47 55 58 21

Alias on MacOS 10.3.9

specialfolderPath(pref) /IVANAmp/ into framp put there is a folder framp --renders 'true' put specialfolderPath(desktop) /IVANAmp/ into tilmp create alias (tilmp) to file framp Any suggestions? -- Signe Marie Sanne 1. amanuensis/Senior lecturer Romansk institutt Tlf.+47

Re: Is there a better way of scanning this list ?

stack for us, thanks a lot to you. Signe Marie Sanne Epost: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.hf.uib.no/mlab/Info/sms.html ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: listField - dontWrap

Signe Marie Sanne skrev: Hello, I have a number of phrases, each delimited by return in a scrolling field. When the user clicks anyone of these, the line should be highlighted in some way. The problem is that some of the phrases are longer than the field width, if I use list field

Re: listField - dontWrap

I'll upload a stack to show this within a few hours. Signe Marie It's done. The name is BulletMarkLine. You'll find it either under Programming, or in my userspace sms. Signe Marie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list

listField - dontWrap

for suggestions. -- Signe Marie Sanne 1. amanuensis/Senior lecturer Romansk institutt Tlf.+47 55 58 21 27 Øisteins gt. 1 Epost: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitetet i Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/mlab/Info/sms.html

Re: listField - dontWrap

. Grateful for suggestions. -- Signe Marie Sanne Hi, There may be a prettier way to do this but you can have a scrolling field with: lock text true, dontwrap false, listbehaviour and autohilite off, and give it a script like: on mouseup put word 2 of the clickline into lnum put the number of lines

Record/play wave files without QT

: If you cloned a previously-uploaded stack in order to make your new one, it will contain the same fingerprint and RevOnline will think it is the old stack. So just be sure that you do not clone the stacks you want to upload. -- Signe Marie Sanne 1. amanuensis/Senior lecturer Romansk institutt

Database saved as custom property

Categories --Programming. Its name is CustPropDatabase. -- Signe Marie Sanne 1. amanuensis/Senior lecturer Romansk institutt Tlf.+47 55 58 21 27 Øisteins gt. 1 Epost: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitetet i Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/hfolk/mlab/Info

Re: Database saved as custom property

John Ridge skrev: on 6/6/05 1:11 pm, Signe Marie Sanne wrote : Hello, Since someone a week ago said he had not ventured into custom properties, I have uploaded a very simple stack which shows how you make a small archive stack and save it as a custom property, all with just one card

Re: Stack file size

the various diacritics across platforms. If you need further help, don't hesitate to mail me offlist. Signe Marie -- Signe Marie Sanne 1. amanuensis/Senior lecturer Romansk institutt Tlf.+47 55 58 21 27 Øisteins gt. 1 Epost: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Error saving standalone -- revisited yet again

10.3.9 Any clues? I had the same problem earlier on when I had opened a MetaCard stack with resources (answer/ask stacks etc)included. I had to go back to MetaCard, remove the resources before being able to save the stack as a rev stack. Could this be the cause? -- Signe Marie Sanne 1. amanuensis

Re: playing video on PCs

Signe Marie Sanne skrev: sims skrev: I need to play video on both OS X and Windows machines which will for the most part be business computers - corporate office machines. The Mac part I can figure out and will be able to use QuickTime. Some PC machines will not have QuickTime installed

Re: playing video on PCs

, but it contains the necessary scripts to get started. Best regards Signe Marie -- Signe Marie Sanne 1. amanuensis/Senior lecturer Romansk institutt Tlf.+47 55 58 21 27 Øisteins gt. 1 Epost: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitetet i Bergen http

OT: Key to RevOnLine

When in RevOnLine I sent my email address in order to get the key. The confirmation message said it would be effectuated within 24 hours, but after 2 weeks still no response. I even sent it to Support. Hope someone in Scotland reads this. Thanks in advance. Signe Marie Sanne

Re: user-movable fields?

control-clicking and dragging you put a copy of the text into the new field. (This is on Windows.) There are always new things to learn! Regards Signe Marie Sanne ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com

Re: Can't open file

again? Regards Signe Marie Sanne ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Can't open file

Ken Ray skrev: On 4/6/05 2:02 AM, Signe Marie Sanne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip So now that I have that working, I want to make the file invisible. Any ideas why this standard snippet is failing: replace / with \ in tPath -- this contains what it had before put attrib quote tPath quote

Re: using MCISendString to record

I am still waiting to get the key to be able to upload a small stack to RevOnLine. While waiting I have extracted all the scripts. Many of them have been adapted from a stack by Tom McCarthy, St. Catalina Girls School, Matsuyama, Japan: on react move target rel 1,1 wait 10 ticks move

Re: using MCISendString to record

days. Signe Marie Sanne ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

listbehavior and imagesource

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Time Counter

Hello, I know there must be several counters around. Could someone please provide me with scripts or stacks. It should display the elapsed time from start in a format: 01:15 (minutes:seconds),changing each second. Regards Signe Marie Sanne ___ use

Re: Time Counter

Malte Brill skrev: Hi Signe, you might try this script (which can be adapted to split out hours too): on mouseUp set the istimer of me to 0 if the flag of me is empty then set the flag of me to -1 set the flag of me to the flag of me*-1 if the flag of me=1 then startMyTimer end mouseUp on

Re: Time Counter

Malte Brill skrev: I found it, Malte. I had placed the handler on the card, whereas the mouseUp was in a button script. I then moved the handler into the button script, and then it's OK. Thanks for your comments anyhow. Signe Marie on mouseUp --we need to call the startMyTimer handler fom

Re: Passing information between cards

to -1 of fld... (char -1 = last char) set textSize of char 1 to -1 of fld... set textStyle of char 1 to -1 of fld... For these 3 text attributes you can set the attributes for chunks, whereas for textHeight you just set it for the whole field. Hope this helps Signe Marie Sanne

Re: Typing foreign characters in RunRev

first (without anything appearing on the screen). Then you press the letter, and both appears at the same time. Hope this was what you were looking for. Signe Marie Sanne ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http

Re: MP3 without QuickTime on Windows

[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: All you need is (with a default mp3 player installed) to get shell(start mymp3filepath) Why try harder? ;)) It's just a question of having a default play or Open command associated with a player... Hello Xavier Should 'mymp3filepath' include 'file' or 'url'? Do we need

Re: MP3 without QuickTime on Windows

Merci beaucoup, Xavier and Vielen Danke to Claus! set itemDel to / put item 1 to -2 of the effective filename of this stack into tFolder put tFolder /M0NKP9EA.MID into mymp3filepath replace / with \ in mymp3filepath ##it's windoze ;-) get shell (start mymp3filepath) With the change of /

Re: SpecialFolderPath

as it is. create alias(snarvei) to file gLongNameFile end makeShortcut Strangely enough, this same wording including file will as well make a shortcut to a folder! Signe Marie Sanne ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http

Re: CaptureJPG

Chipp Walters skrev: Hi Signe, Email me offlist and I'll see about getting you a copy of a later version for MacOSX. Hello again, I just discovered Grab on MacOSX, so there is no longer need for your CaptureJPG on that platform. Thanks all the same. Signe Marie

CaptureJPG

Hello I regularly use a very handy small file from Altuit called CaptureJPG on Windows. I used to use it on Mac as well, but I seem to have lost it. I have searched Chipp's pages but without success. I need it for Mac OSX. Thanks in advance. Signe Marie Sanne

Re: Umlaut on a consonant letter

://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution Lots of thanks to Richard, Dar, Jonathan and Frank. I now have a field exposing text with accented letters and the umlaut at the same time. Merry Christmas to all the very helpful Revolutionies! Best from Norway Signe Marie Sanne

Umlaut on a consonant letter

Hello, I'm going to develop a language learning course in the Indian dialect Boruca (used in Costa Rica). In their written language they use an umlaut on top of the letter n. Any clues to how to generate this letter either in Word or in Revolution? Regards Signe Marie Sanne

RevOnLine

did not understand the difference between these two and have managed to put one under each. (SaveStackInStack is under Programming.) Regards Signe Marie Sanne 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27

Re: Add fields from stack in data directory to standalone

recent uploading to RevOnLine (SaveStackInStack) shows how to save a stack in various ways as a custom property. (See under Username: sms). 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Øisteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen

RevOnLine

the custom property is retrieved and recreates the stack with scripts available to the current stack. This is useful for reusable code (recently discussed on this list). Please feel free to comment and suggest changes. Regards Signe Marie Sanne 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: audio on windows not playing

. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Øisteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/hfolk/mlab/Info/sms.html Norway ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL

Re: Shortening a line.

Marie Sanne At 22:00 19.10.2004 +0200, you wrote: Second query: Shortening a line: Drawing a nice vertical line with the line tool is straightforward. But to adjust the line to the right length is impossible. The moment the mouse clicks on the handle, the line goes off vertical, and it cannot

Re: Are you using Rev/DC in Education?

of MetaCard arrived, I switched to it. I develop for two platforms: Windows and Mac, still use the MetaCard IDE. All the programs can be downloaded by a 'portal stack' directly to the student's home computer. Regards Signe Marie Sanne 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Cross Platform Font Question ?

for using in stacks that are to be used on more than the one platform ? Verdana is my favourite. 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Øisteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/hfolk/mlab/Info

Re: QUESTION: How to get a remote directory file listing from a web site

___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Øisteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no

Re: Error message - Revolution 2.5

answer dialog of stack myMainstack Be sure to use the long stack reference, or you might accidentally remove the IDE's answer dialog instead. Thank you Jacqueline. As you said, you know everything (except how to enjoy a meal of lutefisk). Regards Signe Marie 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail

Re: Error message - Revolution 2.5

At 12:31 22.09.2004 -0500, you wrote: On 9/22/04 3:34 AM, Signe Marie Sanne wrote: Hello, when I start Revolution 2.5 I get the message below (this has been the case both earlier on and after I updated today - both on Windows XP and Mac 10.3.5): A stack Answer Dialog in file /Applications

Error message - Revolution 2.5

stacks which have identical names, so editing these stack files while both are in memory could result in data loss. How can I get rid of this message? Regards Signe Marie Sanne 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55

Re: Waaaaaaaay OT: Lutefisk

on to. Best regards from a lutefisk eater Signe Marie Sanne 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Øisteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/hfolk/mlab/Info/sms.html Norway

Re: Audio w/o Quicktime on PCs

Signe Marie Sanne 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Øisteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/hfolk/mlab/Info/sms.html Norway ___ use

Re: Mac to Windows -- maybe text encoding

on Mac. Then - for each symbol I have used Import -- Snapshot to create a small image of it. Voilà, no more need for having phonetical fonts present on either platform. Hope this may give you some ideas to go on with. Signe Marie Sanne ___ use

RE: Create alias from CDROM to desktop?

on desktop: put skrbord /DysEngMP.lnk into snarvei create alias(snarvei) to file mappe --file is used even for a folder Regards Signe Marie Sanne 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Øisteins gt. 1

Re: New engine...

At 11:21 16.04.2004 +0200, you wrote: snip I have not been able to follow your discussion since I do not use MacOSX. However, did you try: put decompress (url(binfile:..gz)) into ? This decompresses .gzip-files as far as I know. Regards Signe Marie Sanne 1. amanuensis Signe Marie

RE: AVI/WMV Playback Control?

length) There are two stacks in the Developers area: mciSendString and mciMidi. These may put you on the right track. Signe Marie Sanne 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Øisteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen

Locate the desktop on Mac Classic?

etc. How can I identify its name from the CD-ROM in order to write the notes' file to the harddisk? Thanks in advance. Signe Marie Sanne 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Øisteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen

RE: AVI/WMV Playback Control?

(tstring) get mciSendString (status myAudio length) There are two stacks in the Developers area: mciSendString and mciMidi. These may put you on the right track. Signe Marie Sanne Thanks Signe. Please could you give me the link to the developers area, it's so long since I've been to the MC site, I

Re: Player FileName from Loaded URL

if Regards Signe Marie Sanne 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Øisteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/hfolk/mlab/hjem/default.html Norway

No postings since 6 June

Title: No postings since 6 June Will you please check to see if you have cut me off both from the Revolution and the MetaCard discussion lists. Thanks in advance. Regards Signe Marie Sanne -- 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutt tel: +47 55 58 21 27

Re: sentences as items

using # as delimiter since you find it easily (in the same way and place) on the keyboard for both Windows and Mac. -- 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Oysteins gt. 1

Re: OT: Elegant Cross Platform Fonts

!). I have now started using only VERDANA which is a distinct and nice font and has been found on both platforms for some years now. The textsize and textheight varies just a little from one platform to another. At least it's worth a try! Signe Marie Sanne -- 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne

Re: inserting accented characters

with this? Both French and Spanish make extensive use of this accent! -- 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Oysteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/hfolk/mlab

Re: inserting accented characters

this to the list, or insert a new button or whatever you choose. Now I think this is getting complicated, so I'll stop here. -- 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Oysteins gt. 1

Re: inserting accented characters

of a palette, you can place the text or the buttons on it, but there is no need for a palette. I usually have a button on a screen labeled How to type or similar. When clicked, a field appears with the appropriate help. -- 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutt

Re: Stacks delivered via the web?

to ask further questions. -- 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Oysteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/hfolk/mlab/default.html Norway

Download (and upload) stacks

will find them useful too. Regards Signe Marie Sanne -- 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Oysteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/hfolk/mlab/default.html Norway

Sound Recording on Windows Platform

of queryRegistry(hkey_classes_root\soundRec\shell\record\command\) into lyd launch lyd If someone has the recipe to launch Mac's built-in recorder Apple Simple Sound I would be grateful for a suggestion. Regards Signe Marie Sanne -- 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk