Re: Do we have synthetic speech in WindowsXP yet?

2004-08-25 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 8/25/04 5:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:34:17 -0600 From: Barry Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Do we have synthetic speech in WindowsXP yet? I'm at the tail end of two years using Rev and we haven't had speech on WindowsXP. I'm

Re: dragging 2 windows in synch

2004-09-01 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Hi Ken and Scott, Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:56:03 -0500 From: Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: dragging 2 windows in synch On 8/31/04 9:34 PM, Scott Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is there a technique to maintain the relative location of a secondary stack while dragging

Re: Why 10 hours for a newbie and 30 days for a programmer

2004-09-01 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Hi Kevin, Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 17:21:38 +0200 From: Kevin Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Why 10 hours for a newbie and 30 days for a programmer On 1/9/04 5:00 pm, Fred D Yocum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 10 hours enough? With all due respect I think not. If after spending 10

Re: Why 10 hours for a newbie and 30 days for a programmer

2004-09-01 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Hi Judy, Mark, sims, et al, Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 18:14:06 +0200 From: sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Why 10 hours for a newbie and 30 days for a programmer Then Mark Brownell wrote: If you let it ring ten times before answering it then you get an extra ten Rev frequent traveler

Re: Who is chuck yeager? (OT)

2004-09-01 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Hi Klaus, Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 20:03:59 +0200 From: Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Who is chuck yeager? Hi Marian, Famous (and highly daring) fighter jock/test pilot... a key figure in the movie The Right Stuff. Actually, the most important achievment of Chuck Yeager, and

Re: Who is chuck yeager? (OT)

2004-09-03 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Hi Mark, Subject: Re: Who is chuck yeager? (OT) To: How to use Revolution [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh, and one more historical item. I think he was the only fighter pilot at the end of WWII to shoot down the famous German jet from a piston-engine propellered

Re: Who is chuck yeager? (OT)

2004-09-04 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Hi Eric, Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 11:22:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Eric Engle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Who is chuck yeager? (OT) The jet you are refering to is the Me-262 (messerschmitt): it was not the only high speed jet aircraft, however it was the most reliable and produced in the

Re: Who is chuck yeager? (OT)

2004-09-04 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
I reckon you guys have seen this famous picture of a F-18 Hornet. Once-in-a-lifetime shot, eh (watch linewraps)? http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/ships/carriers/constellation/con-sndbar .jpg Ken N. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Who is chuck yeager? (OT)

2004-09-04 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Hi Mark, Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 15:55:50 -0700 From: Mark Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Who is chuck yeager? (OT) then again I might just be kidding again. ;-) I wonder what the park rangers had to say about that. Ken N. ___

Re: VS: newbie: how play sounds in RR

2003-01-23 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** Hi folks, May I jump into this one? -- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:10:51 +0100 Subject: Re: VS: newbie: how play sounds in RR From: Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. This will NOT work, if you are using QuickTime in your stack. I found out that you have to choose: QT or

How to record with RR

2003-01-23 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Hello group, I'm investigating the possibilities of recording with RR. We can, if necessary, limit the discussion to Macintosh for the present. In HC, I took a challenge to quickly develop a stack that had an ability to record voice responses to various stimuli with a settable duration. That is,

Re: VS: newbie: how play sounds in RR

2003-01-24 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** Domo arigato. -- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 10:51:18 +0100 Subject: Re: VS: newbie: how play sounds in RR From: Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] This will list some info about the multimedia-possibility on windows. on mouseUp put mciSendString(sysinfo all quantity) into xMax

No scroll wheel (newbie stuff)?

2003-01-26 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Hello Revolutionaries, I haven't been able to get my mouse scroll wheel to work with the vertical scrollbars. Is there a way to implement that? Mac G4, OS 9.1; Compaq, Windows XP Pro. TIA, Ken N. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No scroll wheel (newbie stuff)?

2003-01-27 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 20:18:20 -0800 Subject: Re: No scroll wheel (newbie stuff)? From: Scott Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recently, Ken Norris (dialup) wrote: I haven't been able to get my mouse scroll wheel to work with the vertical scrollbars. Is there a way to implement

Re: No scroll wheel (newbie stuff)?

2003-01-27 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 11:56:12 -0700 Subject: Re: No scroll wheel (newbie stuff)? From: Alex Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was thinking scrollwheel support would be native to RR I agree it should be added, because I use a scrollwheel too. However I wouldn't take it for granted that virtually

Re: No scroll wheel (newbie stuff)?

2003-01-27 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** Hello fellow scripters: Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:38:50 -0700 Subject: Re: No scroll wheel (newbie stuff)? From: Alex Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 01:34 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: Nope, definitely not Windows only. Might have to do with the version of

Re: No scroll wheel (newbie stuff)?

2003-01-28 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 18:13:29 -0700 (MST) From: Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: No scroll wheel (newbie stuff)? -- This is corn-fusin'. In the first sentence you said: -- Correction: it's most assuredly *not* part of Mac OS and there isn't even any API

Re: No scroll wheel (newbie stuff)?

2003-01-29 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:56:58 -0700 (MST) From: Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: No scroll wheel (newbie stuff)? Mouse wheels *do* work on Win32, MacOS, and Linux systems because there is OS API support for this hardware feature on these platforms. -- One

Re: To grab or not to grab

2003-01-29 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 18:45:57 +1100 Subject: Re: To grab or not to grab From: Matt Denton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geoff, any clues how I might get an object to stay within the rect of its contained group? I tested the form below (my original code was similar to this) but it doesn't

Image still cut off

2003-02-03 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Well members, This is probably the single thing that has prevented me from getting full on into RR. For many months, I go back in from time to time and try to get my full screen 800x600 pixel jpeg image to show in the dev environment with no success. I've been told the menus (which are really

Re: storing images

2003-02-04 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 01:51:49 +0900 Subject: Re: storing images From: mark mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] I finally understand this thread. I couldn't figure out how set the icon of button 1 to myImage could possibly be described as inelegant (especially relative to HC's resource

More about images

2003-02-06 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Hello Rev list, Here's the scenario (I've posted some of this 8 or 9 months ago, but I think I'm actually ready to work on it in Rev now): In my HC stack I have 2 full screen images of a keyboard and a couple of fields. One is a set of UP keystate images and the other is a set of DOWN keystate

What's happenning to my memory?

2003-02-06 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Hello Rev list, Well, with much advice and work I finally got my full screen stack to stay put. Whew! It was quite the procedure. I finally got it into position by 1) Setting editMenus to true. I didn't know I had to do that. 2) Resetting the dim's of the stack. I'd already tried that dozens

Re: Revolution Polo Shirts/T-Shirts

2003-02-06 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
*** Hi James, From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OT]: Revolution Polo Shirts/T-Shirts Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 09:12:27 -0500 This may have come up before, but are there any plans to have Revolution apparel? I would proudly wear a Revolution Polo-type shirt to work. T-Shirts and caps

Re: Animations in groups

2003-02-06 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** From: Stephen Messimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 3:32 PM Subject: Animations in groups Hi, I would really like to use the animation manager to make animations in groups. This would allow me to hide the group after the animation is shown. Thus far I

Re: More about images

2003-02-07 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** Hi Jan, -- Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 01:29:38 -0800 (PST) From: Jan Schenkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: More about images I'd rather write a simple routine that will do the same as it does in HC with Uli's xDraw: Draw corresponding button rects of the DOWN state image.

Group disappeared (was More about images)

2003-02-08 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
*** Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 22:54:31 -0800 (PST) From: Jan Schenkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: More about images Hi Ken, Let's see if I got this right: - there's one large image with all the keys in their DOWN position - and you only want to show a small portion of this

Groups and clone buttons

2003-02-09 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Hello, I got my two images grouped with background behavior. Then I created two like buttons to where the handler shows the part of the group I needed. Many thanks to Jan for the help...it's hard to fathom how much time that saved. Next, I actually cut those two test transparent buttons and

Stereo channels/TTS

2003-02-09 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
OK, here's one: One of my disabled folks has severe motor skill deficits, exhibits basically only gross, slow, and delayed motion, and some vision impairments, and speech deficits. In developing communcations, I need voice feedback as well as voice simulation TTS. The thing is, I sometimes need

Dealing with the dictionary

2003-02-10 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Hi list, When I'm at home on my boat, I work on my PB 1400c. I can develop in Rev, but it doesn't have (and can't get) enough memory to open the docs, so I assigned a formatted CF card as Virtual Memory in order to keep it from crashing. However, when I open the dictionary, it slows the whole

Where are button contents?

2003-02-12 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Hi list, I want to do something like in HC: put line 2 of target into field MainField Where are button contents? Do button contents have something to do with Custom Properties? How do I set such a thing? Ken N. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Dealing with the dictionary

2003-02-13 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Thanks for the Re Jeanne, Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:05:12 -0800 From: Jeanne A. E. DeVoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Dealing with the dictionary At 12:32 PM -0800 2/10/03, Ken Norris (dialup) wrote: When I'm at home on my boat, I work on my PB 1400c. How much RAM does it have

Re: Dealing with the dictionary

2003-02-15 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** Hi Geoff, Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 00:43:14 -0800 Subject: Re: Dealing with the dictionary From: Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] First, it doesn't free up the memory because Revolution doesn't actually close a stack when you close it. It remains in memory. This can be changed by

Re: Dealing with the dictionary

2003-02-16 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 17:14:29 +1000 Subject: Re: Dealing with the dictionary From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I couldn't find an exporter stack per se. What's the name? The name of the listing on the page is: Revolution Docs - RTF, Text and HTML

Referenced icon images

2003-02-17 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Hi list, I've been following the image threads, but some of it evades me. Please bear with a newbie on this stuff. I have a button (there may be at up to 14 more of these) which does icon hiliting using referenced images. Pretty normal so far. When I first brought in the referenced images from

Retaining/restoring text cursor

2003-02-17 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Back again, In Rev as in HyperCard, clicking operations outside a field can cause the blinking cursor to quit. In my stack, I use the type command to simulate keyboard typing into a field. In HC we can use various handler devices surrounding the selectedChunk feature to restore the blinking

Installing images for use in standalones

2003-02-18 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Hello list, What's the best way to install new .jpg images in a standalone? Note: If you have a script, great, but I'm just looking for ideas. TIA, Ken N. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using referenced images for icons

2003-02-18 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 23:26:45 -0800 Subject: Using referenced images for icons From: Ken Norris (dialup) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1) If I drag out of the button and release, the window stays open and the DOWN image (hScroll/vScroll) persists because the mouseUp handler

Re: Why... is the selected text deselected?

2003-02-18 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:57:10 -0700 Subject: Why... is the selected text deselected? From: Alex Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the docs troubleshooting item Why... is the selected text deselected?, I was looking for an explanation of why a field's selection is deselected just by moving from

Rough day on the Revolution front

2003-02-19 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Hello list, I had a terrible day with Rev yesterday: 1) When I put away a dialog, the Tool Palette would disappear with it, most of the time, but not _every_ time (inconsistent). 2) I lost 3 images and 1 button. 3) 5 other buttons got displaced halfway across the screen in the same row just by

Re: Clueless loss

2003-02-19 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 12:04:18 +0100 Subject: Re: Clueless loss From: Wolfgang M. Bereuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sometimes you dont think at the most closest thing.. (Dont know if you say it like that in english...) I work a lot with importing images as controls. The simplest way to

Re: Indirection question

2003-02-19 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 13:07:35 -0700 Subject: Indirection question From: Barry Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] on mouseUp if currentLetter = W then put theW into theList (etc) answer theList end mouseUp Now, if I do this, the answer dialog shows theW instead of the contents of

Re: Why... is the selected text deselected?

2003-02-20 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 19:46:23 -0700 Subject: Re: Why... is the selected text deselected? From: Alex Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's just it- the field is only intended to be on the first card. Second card has other stuff on it. I guess I wasn't being clear about that. thanks,

Re: Rough day on the Revolution front

2003-02-20 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** Subject: Re: Rough day on the Revolution front Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 23:09:45 -0500 From: Howard Bornstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] I haven't done extensive testing, but my feel at this point is that Rev 2.0 is much more stable in this regard. I've seen some of the bugs that are still

Why doesn't a stack open with the UI

2003-02-20 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Hi all, I don't know where the thread went, but someone asked why a stack won't open with the UI. I hadn't really run into that because I don't have a completed stack yet, but it's true: If you open a stack from a folder, Rev is opened, but there is no UI and no apparent way to get it. And on

Re: Ken's recent bad day.

2003-02-20 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 08:38:49 -0800 From: Rob Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ken's recent bad day. I have not reported this because (a) I am waiting to see whether it is fixed in v2.5 and (b) I can work around the problem by making a card the current card before trying to

Re: Why doesn't a stack open with the UI

2003-02-21 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 22:47:04 -0800 Subject: Re: Why doesn't a stack open with the UI From: Scott Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] It sounds like you're running your stack under the Rev engine only (not the development environment). In MetaCard, it is standard behavior that double

Backup tools (was 'Rough day on the Revolution front')

2003-02-21 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** From: Chipp Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Rough day on the Revolution front Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 02:09:05 -0600 snip My AltArchive plugin does not auto save every XX minutes. It's used to create incremental backups. The SmartSave plugin from Frederic Rinaldi is: A

Re: Rough day on the Revolution front

2003-02-21 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:44:51 -0500 Subject: Rough day on the Revolution front From: Kurt Kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED] It bears occasional repetition since I had so many problems (bad saves, sudden quits, hangs) with RR until I realized where the fault lay: Revolution 1.1 does not

RR/MC version mixup (was'Re: Ken's recent bad day.')

2003-02-21 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** From: Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ken's recent bad day. Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 08:45:45 -0600 I have not reported this because (a) I am waiting to see whether it is fixed in v2.5 and (b) I can work around the problem by making a card the current card before trying to

Re: RR/MC mixup (was 'Ken's recent bad day')

2003-02-21 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** From: Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ken's recent bad day. Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 08:45:45 -0600 I have not reported this because (a) I am waiting to see whether it is fixed in v2.5 and (b) I can work around the problem by making a card the current card before trying

Re: Rough day on the Revolution front

2003-02-23 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 23:15:11 -0800 Subject: Re: Rough day on the Revolution front From: Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] This definitely sounds like a memory issue. How much physical memory and virtual memory does your computer have? How much is assigned as a preferred and

Re: Rough day on the Revolution front

2003-02-24 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:21:08 -0700 Subject: Re: Rough day on the Revolution front From: Alex Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday, February 23, 2003, at 02:55 PM, Ken Norris (dialup) wrote: I have a 128mb CF card in the PCMCIA slot as a formatted volume assigned to Virtual

Re: Rough day on the Revolution front

2003-02-26 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** Subject: Re: Rough day on the Revolution front From: Ben Rubinstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 23/2/03 9:55 pm, Ken Norris (dialup) wrote I have a 128mb CF card in the PCMCIA slot as a formatted volume assigned to Virtual Memory, which gives it 116mb useable VM. I've heard

More groups

2003-02-27 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Hi everyone, I'm not quite sure how to do this: I want to group of buttons which are already made and not in a particular order (as in 1-40). Doing them by hand is wonky and time consuming, Sometimes it misses, or I accidenatally mess up the position or size, too, and have to fix it. So, I want

Re: More groups

2003-02-27 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 00:02:18 +0100 Subject: Re: More groups From: Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] supposed you have a list (field or var) of elements you want to group like: field 3 field 2 button 2 button 3 ... Then you can script (i have a field here): on mouseUp

How to add existing buttons to existing group

2003-02-27 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
I tried to put a few _existing_ buttons into an existing group like this (which is how I would've done it in HC): Choose Cut Object from the menu, select the group, Paste. ...didn't work. How should I do it? Ken N. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: More groups

2003-02-28 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 12:29:37 +1000 Subject: Re: More groups From: Sarah [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Ken, Try stepping through with the Script Debugger. You will see that Klaus' script builds a string from the list of objects in his field, using a repeat for each loop. So

Re: How to add existing buttons to existing group

2003-02-28 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:10:28 +1000 Subject: Re: How to add existing buttons to existing group From: Sarah [EMAIL PROTECTED] You're nearly there, you just need one of these two variations on your technique: right-click (control-click) to bring up the contextual menu for the

Re: ClickLine

2002-01-11 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 1/11/02 2:01 PM, yves COPPE at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, If the user click a line in a fld with the lockText property set to true, the selection stays on the clickedLine. I've tried to deselect the fld by writing in a script : select empty but it doesn't work Someone has

Re: Resizing Graphic with Rev 1.1.1b1

2002-01-11 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Title: Re: Resizing Graphic with Rev 1.1.1b1 on 1/11/02 12:28 PM, Kim L. Smith at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I might mention that here at Brigham Young University, we have three classes learning Revolution and Computer Assisted Instruction with close to 50 students. We teach it on both Mac and

Re: Application Framework?

2002-01-12 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 1/12/02 9:11 AM, J. Landman Gay at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FocalPoint was a commercial product written by Danny Goodman with HyperCard 1.2.5. -- OK. I wasn't sure. Thanks for the info. I know it was a commercial product, but I thought it came out earlier. I did look it over, though

Re: upperCase to lowerCase

2002-01-14 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 1/14/02 7:33 AM, Rolf Kocherhans at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone help me to rewrite the function below so that it changes upperCase to lowerCase. This Function changes lowerCase to upperCase: function upperCase whatStr repeat with charNum = 1 to the number of chars in

Re: Is it soup yet?

2002-01-14 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 1/14/02 12:38 AM, Geoff Canyon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 6:38 PM -0800 1/13/02, Ken Norris (dialup) wrote: What about Windows? There must be some kind of standard speech available. I'm trying to find out the nomenclature for such things in Windows, so I don't end up sifting through

Re: selectedchunk

2002-01-17 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 1/15/02 11:14 AM, bmmeili at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi I've still got a problem with the selectedchunk-function. The following test-script works properly and I get the wished chunk-description. on mouseup select word random(50) of field 1 put the selectedchunk end mouseup

Re: messages to buttons when the mouse is already down

2002-01-21 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 1/21/02 2:50 PM, Michael J. Lew at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to track the movement of the mouse through an array of buttons by hilighting each button that the mouse (button already down) passes over. However, the mouseEnter, mouseMove, mouseWithin messages are only sent to the

Re: messages to buttons when the mouse is already down

2002-01-21 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 1/21/02 4:40 PM, Philip Usher at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 1/21/02 5:34 PM, Michael J. Lew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I get the other buttons to hilight without requiring the user to click each individually? Michael, try this in the card script on mouseDown repeat while

Re: messages to buttons when the mouse is already down

2002-01-22 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 1/21/02 9:48 PM, Ken Norris (dialup) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on mouseEnter -- you can put the rest of this in an offscreen handler repeat until the mouseClick if the mouseLoc is within the rect of the target then set the hilite of the target to true else set the hilite of the target

Re: messages to buttons when the mouse is already down

2002-01-24 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 1/22/02 2:36 PM, Michael J. Lew at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all of the helpful suggestions. It is a more interesting exercise than I expected in that the messages that one might expect to use are blocked when the mouse is down. Perhaps they shouldn't be... -- Michael,

Re: Copying parts of pictures to the front

2002-01-29 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 1/29/02 7:54 PM, J. Landman Gay at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is a snap in RR, it's all built in. You won't need any of the work-arounds necessary in HC. Here's what you do: 1. Import all the pictures. You can use your existing PICT files if you want, but they will not work cross

Re: Copying parts of pictures to the front

2002-01-30 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 1/30/02 2:01 AM, Geoff Canyon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd go with the latter. I'm pretty sure you could script this entirely and be done pretty quickly. -- You're right, I'm sure, but let me see what else Jacque has to say in a later post. Thanks, Ken N.

Re: Copying parts of pictures to the front

2002-01-30 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 1/30/02 8:47 AM, J. Landman Gay at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The method you've been using in HC is pretty inefficient and I wouldn't bother with it in RR, especially since the capability you want is built in. Since the only problem is the amount of labor needed to convert the images to

'Find' for the docs

2002-01-30 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Hi...back again. I tried to figure out how to do a 'find' in the docs, but my attempts failed. Anyone know how to do this? Maybe we could build a simple stack that will Find in all/docs or Find in index/docs... Best regards, Ken N. ___

Re: Copying parts of pictures to the front

2002-01-30 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 1/30/02 9:03 AM, Troy Rollins at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd agree that Rev has reasonably good tools for handling button states, but I would disagree that this user's previous methods were inefficient. Ishell supports the capabilities described (single large image with offsets), and it

Re: Linux for Alpha CPU

2002-01-30 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 1/30/02 1:25 PM, Kevin Miller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wouldn't it be great if we could program in TranScript for PalmOS and PocketPC too? :-) We're looking at these, though Palm really has a very different OS so is most unlikely. However the other one wouldn't be so hard and might

Re: Various questions

2002-01-30 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 1/29/02 1:48 PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 4:51 AM -0800 1/29/2002, yves COPPE wrote: What's the difference between setting the directory or setting the default stack ? If you mean defaultFolder (rather than default stack), there is no difference: the folder,

Re: Pocket PC

2002-02-01 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 2/1/02 5:49 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep. Even better if it were like an output module, with the ability to select PocketPC as the build type. -- Troy RPSystems www.rpsystems.net If this does actually happen, I agree that designing the apps on a desktop

Re: Using a graphic instead of the standard window shape

2002-02-03 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 2/3/02 6:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Does anyone know if it is possible to use a graphic image (gif, jpg, etc.) as the actual window of a stack? What I have in mind is similar to Windows Media Player's skins. In other words, I don't want the window to

Re: Caution re: off-screen

2002-02-04 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 2/4/02 5:21 AM, Ivers, Doug E at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Be aware that setting the loc of an object to something like -100,-100 may not hide it from the end user if they use multiple screens. On a Mac, the main screen with the menubar can be any of the monitors. So for example, if I

Re: Does Applescript work?

2002-02-04 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 2/3/02 6:27 PM, Sarah Reichelt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having struggled with AppleScript for many years, I have a few pieces of advice. Firstly, always write debug in an AppleScript editor before transferring the script to HyperCard or Rev. Secondly, do the bare minimum in

Re: Does Applescript work?

2002-02-04 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 2/3/02 10:07 PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 6:27 PM -0800 2/3/2002, Sarah Reichelt wrote: Having struggled with AppleScript for many years, I have a few pieces of advice. [...] I prefer to use a field rather than assembling the script in a Rev script because it

Graphics manipulation and RR

2002-02-04 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Hello RR list, I'm still looking at ways to write chunkable graphics to the screen so I can use my image files without always having to manually copy and paste stuff out of other files. There have been several suggestions, but I need to know more about how graphics work in RR, and can't really

Re: Does Applescript work?

2002-02-05 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 2/4/02 3:15 PM, Sarah Reichelt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In HyperCard, you could set the language of a particular script to AppleScript. In Rev, you don't have this option so the AppleScript has to be stored somewhere else or assembled and then used with a do as AppleScript. Edit the

Re: Rotatable fields?

2002-02-07 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 2/6/02 11:06 AM, Klaus Major at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting idea. What's the purpose? You can rotate text of course, like any other drawn thing, Would you like to share this secret to this lovely community, please ;-) (In case you are not talking about creating text with the

Re: Rotatable fields?

2002-02-07 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 2/6/02 5:33 PM, Howard Bornstein at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also recently had a need for this. I wanted to rotate a button 90 degrees and have the label rotate with it. Unfortunately, it doesn't work. -- Why do you need to rotate the actual button? Just rotate a graphic under a

Video clips

2002-02-08 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Hello folks, How do I import a video clip? Is it a QT file? One of my goals is to improve training media for long term health care. HyperCard has an XCMD that allows lots of onscreen control of QT objects. Does Rev have such a thing? Thanks, Ken N.

Re: Rotatable fields?

2002-02-08 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 2/8/02 10:14 AM, Shao Sean at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: none of the above ;-) the data content (images and text) will be created as required (much like this message) and will displayed to the user.. currently i have no use for rotated text, just the ability to have pixel-point control

Re: How do I determine objects in a group?

2002-02-09 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 2/8/02 2:04 PM, Zac Elston at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was hoping there was a slick way to determine this like writing a loop in the parent that allows me to bypass writing an action for my ..lets see..30,000 circles I will end up with. -- Can you tell us, at least whenever you

Re: AppleScripts

2002-02-09 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Title: Re: AppleScripts on 2/8/02 8:33 AM, Olivier Laya at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have find 'AppleScriptlangageguide .PDF' on this site : http://www.apple.com/applescript/ ,few months ago. I hope it's always there. -- Pain in the clock to search online while you're trying to

Re: Dictionary crash.

2002-02-09 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 2/9/02 12:30 AM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What version are you using? -- 1.1.1b1 -- Also: if it happens again, try command-period. If it's the problem I'm thinking of, command-period should let you click the definition window to close it. --

Re: Dictionary crash.

2002-02-09 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 2/9/02 9:40 AM, Jacqueline Landman Gay at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem Ken described happened to me yesterday too, with a slight variation. I launched Rev 1.1.1b1, did not open any stacks or do anything else, then just chose the language ref from the menu. I typed a search term

Re: Image Manipulation (was Re: Rotatable fields?)

2002-02-09 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 2/9/02 12:51 PM, Mat Korica at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be very cool if RR were to integrate the free ImageMagick library into Revolution. Imagine the functionality of Photoshop available through Transcript! -- I'm just beginning to experiment with them myself, but Rev

Re: script of transcript dictionary stadk

2002-02-09 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 2/9/02 10:41 AM, yves COPPE at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, In the revolution documentation stack, when you click on transcript language, you come on the transcript language dictionary page. There you have n option popup btn, a fld and below this fld a scrolling fld. I'd like to

Re: Dictionary crash.

2002-02-10 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 2/9/02 9:31 PM, J. Landman Gay at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I had 32M physical memory, I had dictionary problems--incredible slowness opening the dictionary and closing Rev application, and frequent crashes after choosing a search term before the definition

Re: Image Manipulation (was Re: Rotatable fields?)

2002-02-10 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 2/9/02 9:26 PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you checked the See Also lists for each term? I think you'll find they'll lead you quickly to related terms (and e.g. the See Also list for menu items links to the Transcript equivalent, where there is one). --

Re: Rotatable fields?

2002-02-10 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 2/9/02 5:16 PM, Shao Sean at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: personally i'll probably work something out cause i'm also going to need foreign language support (whee.. writing a unicode parser will be fun).. -- Indeed...actually, I think I just read something about that just recently, so

Re: Dictionary crash.

2002-02-10 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 2/10/02 9:04 AM, Geoff Canyon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 6:52 PM -0600 2/9/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Down the road when you have some free time, extra memory is cheap and some stores install it for free! It makes the whole computer behave differently, and none more differently

Re: Rotatable fields?

2002-02-10 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 2/9/02 5:16 PM, Shao Sean at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i need a cross-platform, self-contained solution.. i have no idea what software will be running on the end-users' machines.. plus i can't use pre-generated text because i have no idea what any of the text will be.. -- Tie the

Re: graphic radio buttons

2002-02-10 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 2/10/02 4:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it should be relatively easy to implement the underlying concept in Rev/MetaCard, yes? -- Yeah, pretty much. This is very cool. There are some things that HC handles better, but on the other hand, in Rev/MC you

Print snafu

2002-02-10 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
Hi... I tried to print out some things from the Encyclopedia, but all I got was solid black. Anyone know what's happening and/or have a cure? Ken N. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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