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<div>Hi Tom,</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="-1">1. When your script
executes "answer" or "ask," the dialog box (or
whatever it's called) comes up with a big, honkin' R for
Revolution. How do I get rid of it? Actually my game is a fish game
and I would really love to assign the fish image instead of the R. How
can I do that?</font></blockquote>
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<div>Both ask & answer syntax include an optional first argument,
iconType</div>
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<div>From Rev Dictionary:</div>
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<div><font color="#000000">"The<i> iconType</i> parameter is one
of the following types: information, question, error, or warning. The
icon is displayed on the left side of the dialog box. If you don't
specify an icon, none is displayed."</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">So, if you are seeing an icon, I presume
the first word after ask/answer is in " information,
question, error, warning". Remove that word and the icon
should be gone.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">To make the icon a fish, your would have to
determine where & how Revolution resolves the image ids associated
with " information", "question",
"error", and "warning" icons--I presume they
are different for different platforms--and replace them with yours if
this is possible. It may turn out Rev uses system resources on
each platform, and therefore your changes would affect other
applications.</font></div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="-1">2. The "window"
that appears when Rev executes "answer" or "ask"
goes clean across the screen. Can I make it more compact in shape and
size like in HyperCard? That'd be nice.</font></blockquote>
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<div>I believe the window tries to expand to fit the message line
width. If so, inserting returns to block your text into several
short lines will make the window narrower. If this doesn't work,
one can clone the Rev ask/answer stacks and and create custom dialongs
to distribute with one's standalone.</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="-1">3. How do I get Rev to
inspect itself completely for incompatible script? I suspect there is
some left there because when I try to build a distribution version, it
crashes with some dialog box flashing and I have to FORCE revolution
to quit. Am I doing something wrong?</font></blockquote>
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<div>Whenever you press the <enter> key while editing a script,
syntax is checked and any errors are immediately reported. If
the Script Editor closes the window without complaint, your syntax is
OK.</div>
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<div>It sounds to me like your standalone is looking for a stack or
file when opening and cannot find it. Note, when running the Rev
Dev environment, the folder containing the Revolution app is the
defaultFolder until it is changed. When your standalone starts
up, the folder it resides in is the defaultFolder. One needs to
take this into account, especially in Mac OS X, where the application
bundle comes into play.</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="-1">4. By the way, the dialog
box for creating the distribution file is cut off at the bottom and I
can only see the tip top of three buttons to click. Only one is active
and I've been clicking the barely visible sliver of that button, but I
don't know its name because it's cut off. What
gives?</font></blockquote>
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<div>There is a know (but undiagnosed) problem with screen window
sizes that appears to have something to do with menus & Mac
OS. I can open the Distribution Builder several times with no
problem; but sometimes when rebuilding a second or subsequent time the
window will shrink.</div>
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<div>Rob Cozens, CCW<br>
Serendipity Software Company<br>
<br>
"And I, which was two fooles do so grow three.<br>
Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee."<br>
<br>
>From "The Triple Foole"<br>
by John Donne 1573-1631</div>
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