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Mark, thank you for the link. Unfortunalty, I could not get the plugin to operate under Rev 2.1 (I know! :oops: ) on Windows 2000. I would have liked to see it. Once I get my mits on an updated Rev (they will buy me an upgrade at work or else!) I'll try using an alpha channel window to make a nice l...

Thought I would chip in again and say that the idea of a stack works really well. Thanks! I set the style of the stack to float above everything and got rid of the title bar. I guess the code will be something like this; on mouseEnter if tipsOn then set the location of stack "tip" to the mouseLoc se...

Hi Klaus

Thanks for the tip (sorry, no pun intended!).

I'll think on how to implement your ideas. If I understand, you're suggesting to open a floating (palette?) stack at the current mouse position. The stack window has no decoration I guess. That's a nice idea.

Thanks,
Dave.

Does anyone know if it's possible to style the tooltips in Rev? i.e determine the size, type and colour of the font and the tooltip background.

Thanks,
Dave.

Reply to self. I found the only workaround was to limit the width of the window containing the AltFieldHeader control so that the last column does not disappear. This works fine - obvious really. :D ps Had a look at Beta 2.9 and whilst I did not expect a new data control, I had a look at the Rev sou...

Hi, I am using the excellent AltFieldHeader to provide users with a pseudo data grid. If I resize the window which contains the table and AltFieldHeader group such that it covers the rightmost column, the title text of the rightmost column header disappears. Any suggestions as why this happens pleas...

There is nothing new under the sun... I found reference to an application called "Quickhelp" which, on paper, seems to have implemented the same sort of system what I have been discussing here. See http://www.excelsoftware.com/ I get the impression that it's written in Realbasic (boo.. :wink:). Whil...

Hi Richard, Thanks for your input. If I read this correctly, the other contributors on this project are laying out content, but not writing script, correct? Yes, that is correct but interactive navigation and content presentation scripts would need to be generated from the content editor and saved w...

Hi Mark Thanks for your comments (Richard too). That was an option I had in mind too. To produce HTML for Apple Help viewer and maybe CHM files. By playing to Revs strengths as a presentation tool, I could see how one could produce multimedia help systems that have both static and interactive, tutor...

Hi Mark, Hi Davec, Tell those other developers to buy a copy of Revolution. Make a stack that creates the files you want and builds the standalone inside Revolution. You can have the standalone built automatically, with a few tricks. You can offer your tool as a plugin to Revolution. Ah, if only it ...

Hi Richard, Not being familiar with the player per se, I don't know how to make a custom player app. That is something I will have to research. My assumption is that the player would have to be a separate install on the end user's machine and the .rev file would run when called, or clicked. It's thi...

Hi, I think I already know the anwser to the following question, but I would welcome the views of more seasoned Rev developers. Is it possible to compile Rev scripts outside of the IDE but within an application? From what I read in the Rev docs, the answer is a plain no. My thinking is such that the...

Hi Richard, RunRev has announced on their mail discussion list that they would like to do one more update if they can find the compiler components needed to do it, but whether today or tomorrow sooner or later we can expect that the Rev engine for Classic will become as frozen as Apple has made Clas...

Hi This is just a plea (and thanks) for continued Mac OS Classic support in Rev. I'm on the verge of buying Rev Studio for my Freelance work and have some work lined up to make a "legacy" application for a client on MacOS classic. I also have Classic systems in-house still earning their keep (Filese...

Hi deeverd If I could read and understand Java, I'd do just that but Revolution really caters to people like myself who have never done any programming before. When someone like myself who is new to programming wants to know how to accomplish some interesting task, more times than not there really i...