Hi list, I just found some undocumented feature in dmx2004 concerning activex-controls: I had noticed that the properties-dialog for activex-controls has 2 new tabs, "CallString" and "Constants". Doing a little google-research I found the following very interesting article:
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/education/articles/authorware6_msagent. html it deals with Authorware and ActiveX, but everything it says applies to dmx2004 as well. I don't know why macromedia decided not to include it in the documentation (at least I couldn't find it in the help), but there is a new way to communicate with activex sprites that gives much deeper access, the callSprite-method. As an example, the following code lets you show the merlin-character as ms agent : s=sprite(1) -- activex-control "Microsoft Agent Control 2.0" s.Connected=1 s.RaiseRequestErrors=0 str="Characters.Load('Merlin','Merlin.acs')" s.callString(str) str="Characters('Merlin').Show" s.callString(str) the callSprite-method allows to use much more activex-controls than with dmx or older versions. another example (semi-reply to grimmwerk's last posting) is the MS ProgressBar control, which can now be used with code like: s=sprite(1) -- activex-control "MS ProgressBar control" oldVal=sprite(1).CallString("Value") newVal=min(100,integer(oldVal)+5) sprite(1).CallString("Value("&newVal&")") valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
