Help! Problem with SequenceXtra
Help!! I have created some Director 8.5.1 movies with SequenceXtra version 1.7. Everything work fine (Win & Mac) until I run them on an IBM NetVista PC. All the MIDI playback (played using SequenceXtra) could not be heard. But I can create and save out the MIDI file & play it with Windows Media player or QuickTime. And no problem playing MIDI embeded in QuickTime movie in a Director movie on that PC. The audio device on the PC is stated as SoundMax, MIDI device is using 3Com EuSynth. Has anyone came across this problem & solved it? Would very much appreciate if someone could help. Many thanks! _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com [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!]
HELP with 3d director
I'm trying to create a primitive or place a max model in director. I need the model to be placed in a w3d object I already have on the stage. Any suggestions or sample code will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, --- Matt See Dave Matthews Band live or win a signed guitar http://r.lycos.com/r/bmgfly_mail_dmb/http://win.ipromotions.com/lycos_020201/splash.asp [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!]
Camera Controls
I'm trying to get a camera in director to be controlled by the mouse. I want it to be like Quake. I'm not figuring out how to rotate the camera. How would I go about doing this? Stacey [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!]
best database xtra
Hi list, I'm about to develop an application that will need to store about 10.000 pages of text and images. My users will need to be able to perform search in this texts. Based on this, i'd like to ask advices about the best aproach to store this data and search it. I'm experienced in SQL and dynamic languages for web, but never had done anything so big in director. If someone can help with ideas in the best xtra, or storing procedure I'll apreciate. Thank's in advance Rodrigo Peres -- [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!]
Re: continuous data feed wonderment
mmm background eh? ;) I knew that a dll wasn't an Xtra (in this case, the dll is being written in C++, as well as most Xtra's I believe)- I was just saying earlier that I can access a dll (which is what the client is planning on writing and providing to me) through the GLU32 Xtra. That's option A for me. Option B is to find or write an Xtra that takes the information in the custom dll and pipes it to Director. I checked the Xtras list, and around the web in general, prior to writing earlier post...no luck in finding something suitable. Does anyone know of just basic basic examples of Xtras? I subscribed to a list, but its not so active. The data feed looks like it's going to be two arrays of integers. It's actually data that's being collected from Nautilus (workout) equipment. That collection part is being taken care of by the client, and, since they're writing the collector in C++, have a couple options on how to give me that data. Some options that crossed my mind were an XML stream (probably brought into Director through a Flash Asset), accessing the dll directly with GLU32, writing my own Xtra that incorporated their code, or at least communicated with their code, dumping data into a database, or doing the same with good old text files (which I've already thrown out as an option, before it even broke the .5 second it took to become a conscious thought). Hope that provides fuel :-) Thanks again, Evan > >OK. Note, BTW, that a DLL is not an Xtra. Whatever you use in >Director, if it's an external code object, it almost certainly is not >a DLL. > >It might not hurt to hit the Xtras lists at Macromedia, partly to see >what can be done, and partly to see what other products exist. Could >be someone already wrote what you need. > >It's also possible, if you were to describe what this "data feed" was >coming from, what its natuire would be and what you needed to do with >it, that you could garner some reasonable suggestions here about how >to go about doing it. ;) > >-- > > Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ > Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting >Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide >Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill > http://www.osborne.com/indexes/beginners_guides.shtml >[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!] _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com [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!]
Re: volume control
Hi, At 11:01 AM 4/24/2002 -0500, you wrote: Thank you for recommending the Xtra. I have gone to www.peghole.com but am still unclear. >The simplest thing in the universe might be to convince the powers that be >at your company to spring for the OSCXtra suite from peghole.com. These >Xtras include all types of system standard components (or widgets), >including menus, buttons and sliders. This will not be easy. Could you elaborate further please? I find that the documentation on the site is inadequate and consists largely of promotion of their product. What exactly does it do? Is it so ' wonderful' as claimed? I have also gone through the examples but I am still unsure. >You could insert an OSC slider in your score and attach a couple behaviors >to it, and you'd be done. (It's not exactly that easy, but it's close.) What behaviors are you talking about please? Is it so easy? By the way is this the only solution? Noelle [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!]
Re: continuous data feed wonderment
At 14:17 -0600 04/24/2002, Evan Adelman wrote: >Yeah, I don't really have an Xtra programmer...all I know is that >some dude off in the depths of client land knows enough C++ to >create a dll...not that I don't have faith in clients, I just don't >like to depend on them all that much... OK. Note, BTW, that a DLL is not an Xtra. Whatever you use in Director, if it's an external code object, it almost certainly is not a DLL. It might not hurt to hit the Xtras lists at Macromedia, partly to see what can be done, and partly to see what other products exist. Could be someone already wrote what you need. It's also possible, if you were to describe what this "data feed" was coming from, what its natuire would be and what you needed to do with it, that you could garner some reasonable suggestions here about how to go about doing it. ;) -- Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill http://www.osborne.com/indexes/beginners_guides.shtml [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!]
Re: continuous data feed wonderment
Yeah, I don't really have an Xtra programmer...all I know is that some dude off in the depths of client land knows enough C++ to create a dll...not that I don't have faith in clients, I just don't like to depend on them all that much... Evan > >>Which seems to put me into learning C++ land... > >Why? Your Xtra programmer should be able to make use of the XDK from >Macromedia to learn how to make his Xtra send messages to Director. >You don't have to know diddly from squat about C++. All you have to >do is know how to make an acceptor or callback function -- basically, >how to write a handler. ;) > >-- > > Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ > Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting >Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide >Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill > http://www.osborne.com/indexes/beginners_guides.shtml >[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!] _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com [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!]
Re: continuous data feed wonderment
At 10:08 -0600 04/24/2002, Evan Adelman wrote: >Which seems to put me into learning C++ land... Why? Your Xtra programmer should be able to make use of the XDK from Macromedia to learn how to make his Xtra send messages to Director. You don't have to know diddly from squat about C++. All you have to do is know how to make an acceptor or callback function -- basically, how to write a handler. ;) -- Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill http://www.osborne.com/indexes/beginners_guides.shtml [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!]
A great use of Director!
I just wanted to thank everyone on the list for your input over the past months on my not always clear project. If any of you get a chance to get over to Switzerland this summer, go check out the swiss Expo 02. To see info of the piece go here : http://www.eyekon.ch/whoami/index_e.html or the official site: http://www.expo02.ch/ then look in Yverdon. I am off to do the final install and may be posting midi questions to the list over the next few days. Thanks for all your help. B Brian Douglas (:ub) [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!]
Re: Wav file playback issue followup
At 12:54 -0400 04/24/2002, debihall wrote:
>Yes, but I have not heard from them.
>Here is the lingo I used on the test.
>The imported file name is 8bit22050hz.wav
>
>8bit, 22020hz. uncompressed file
>
>on mouseUp me
> member("8bit22050hz").media = member("8bit22050hz").media
> puppetSound 3, member "8bit22050hz"
>end mouseUp me
Yeah, perfect. That's exactly what I had in mind. I don't know for
sure that it will work, mind you, but if you're having trouble with
imported image dimensions, or with imported HTML recognizing
hyperlinks, I know the member.media trick is a nice fix. So I'm
hoping it'll help with this too.
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RE: Open/display a word doc thro director.
No, it's not available for the Mac; but the PowerPoint viewer is, if that helps... Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group http://www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sandeep Khomne Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Open/display a word doc thro director. Thank you all for your prompt replies... I'll check up the FileXtra3 xtra... meanwhile, the prob with using Microsoft's Word Document Viewer is that it is not available for mac version...or is it? ~ sandy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charlie Fiskeaux Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 8:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Open/display a word doc thro director. Yes, there is another way... Download Microsoft's Word Document Viewer and include it on your CD, then just launch the .doc with your viewer and there's no problem. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group http://www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 [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!] [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!]
Re: Wav file playback issue followup
Yes, but I have not heard from them.
Here is the lingo I used on the test.
The imported file name is 8bit22050hz.wav
8bit, 22020hz. uncompressed file
on mouseUp me
member("8bit22050hz").media = member("8bit22050hz").media
puppetSound 3, member "8bit22050hz"
end mouseUp me
Thanks for all your help,
Debi
>
> Debi, I suggested setting member(whatever).media =
> member(whatever).media after you did the import. Have you tried that
> yet? You could create a small movie that does only that and send it
> over to 'em, just to see if it worked; if it did you could implement
> it everywhere.
>
> --
>
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good interactive media school
What are the best programs in interactive media in the NYC, NJ, PA area. (Preferably Philadelphia)? OR a good distance learning program. I am specifically looking at game design. I went to an orientation at the Art Institute of Philadelphia a few years ago. They talked a little about Director in the sessions. But the program seemed a little soft and very expensive. And I think it was associates and bachelor's degrees only. I would prefer MFA programs. Like I notice Paul Catanese went through an MFA program in Art and Technology somewhere in the Chicago area I think. Any suggestions? _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com [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!]
RE: Lingo Gurus! Need some Input!
>Can you set the colors on this sprite so that you can't see it?
>(leave it visible, just camouflage it.
That's pricisely the kludge I'm running now. And it works, so I'm not going
to fight it any longer. The QA Mode status text sprite is on-stage, but is
shrunk to a height of only a few pixels (so that no text shows), and the
scroll bar (which is evidently necessary) is just barely off-stage and not
visible. At the point I need this, it doesn't show anything.
>I presume you are not doing this in your parsing, etc.?
>
>repeat with var = 1 to blah.count
Well, Buzz...the parsing is long since done at the point of my problems. The
parsing is a split second thing earlier in the start-up of the engine.
There's just some DOM access going on in the object creation loop -- no
parsing, per se, going on -- and the repeat block iterates to a maximum held
within a property variable of the ItemManager object:
property miNumItems
miNumItems = goXML.getDocumentElement().getAttribute("NumItems")
repeat with i = 1 to miNumItems
¯¯¯
Christopher Watson
Sr. Software Engineer
Interactive Web Media
Lightspan, Inc.
Tel 858.824.8457
Fax 858.824.8001
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Re: continuous data feed wonderment
Which seems to put me into learning C++ landcould be worse I suppose. Unless there's a generic xtra out there that forwards any C++ message into Director? Seems generic enough that I can't find it, anyway. Thanks much, Evan > >The external code object should have a means to send messages to >Lingo or Director as well. I mean there's no reason for it to sit >there and be passive, hoarding data until Director asks for it. It >should be quite possible for the Xtra to send messages out to >handlers, with parameters and so on. That way your movie just sits >there on a frame, doing nothing in particular, until the Xtra sends a >message to it. > >-- > > Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ > Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting >Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide >Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill > http://www.osborne.com/indexes/beginners_guides.shtml >[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!] _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com [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!]
Re: volume control
At 22:53 +0800 04/24/2002, noelle cheng wrote: >>>I'd strongly advise against it. > >Thank you for your advice. > >However, if you had a superior who decided that you were required to >do a certain job, I think you would also try your best to produce >whatever was asked. That is true. Contrarily, ideally the 'superior' would also understand that if one is learning on the fly, as it were, things will take time, and that making demands for immediate production is extremely irrational and inappropriate behavior. >Perhaps you could advise me, then, how do I create volume control >using the Library palette behaviors and the score? Well, I'd start by breaking the task down into discrete pieces. For instance, in order to control volume you need a slider and some code that responds to the slider's operation. The simplest thing in the universe might be to convince the powers that be at your company to spring for the OSCXtra suite from peghole.com. These Xtras include all types of system standard components (or widgets), including menus, buttons and sliders. You could insert an OSC slider in your score and attach a couple behaviors to it, and you'd be done. (It's not exactly that easy, but it's close.) The trick with making a slider on your own is that you have to start by making the slider itself, and getting it to work in the way you want it to. Only after you get the slider working correctly as a slider would you want to try attaching volume controls to it. -- Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill http://www.osborne.com/indexes/beginners_guides.shtml [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!]
RE: Open/display a word doc thro director.
Thank you all for your prompt replies... I'll check up the FileXtra3 xtra... meanwhile, the prob with using Microsoft's Word Document Viewer is that it is not available for mac version...or is it? ~ sandy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charlie Fiskeaux Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 8:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Open/display a word doc thro director. Yes, there is another way... Download Microsoft's Word Document Viewer and include it on your CD, then just launch the .doc with your viewer and there's no problem. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group http://www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 [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!]
Re: using the debugger
At 22:32 +0800 04/24/2002, noelle cheng wrote: >No, sorry to confuse you. Your impression is correct. What I mean >is, there is supposed to be a change - the 'rollover' member is a >different colour from the 'normal' member . Well, somewhere in the rollover code then there's a line that's supposed to change the sprite's Cast member onscreen. The first thing to do is check the code in the Property Inspector under the Behavior tab and see if there are properties that can be set, such as the "normal" and "rollover" sprite members. If so, you'd change the settings there. Otherwise the behavior has been hard-coded in some way (probably). Those can be harder to modify because you don't necessarily know exactly where and how things are being modified on the Stage by the code. That's another reason I recommend against copy and paste in general; you just can't be sure that what you're getting will owrk in your files at all. -- Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill http://www.osborne.com/indexes/beginners_guides.shtml [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!]
Re: Wav file playback issue followup
At 09:11 -0500 04/24/2002, Fred Westermeyer wrote: >I had the same thing too, when I was working with Win 2000 Pro. I made a >program in Win 98 and put it on the 2000 Pro system and would not run, >so I when back and made the 2000 Pro to Win 98, now the program and >system run fine and been up for 8 month 24 hours a day. Mmm. I can't imagine convincing overseas users to sidegrade to Win98SE is an option here. Debi, I suggested setting member(whatever).media = member(whatever).media after you did the import. Have you tried that yet? You could create a small movie that does only that and send it over to 'em, just to see if it worked; if it did you could implement it everywhere. -- Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill http://www.osborne.com/indexes/beginners_guides.shtml [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!]
Re: Shockwave safe "file open dialog"?
At 13:26 +0100 04/24/2002, Andreas Gaunitz P11 wrote: >I don't think this will work in my case... The SW needs to rename >the files before FTPing them to the server. Not gonna happen, I suspect. Changing filenames is crossing the line in a big way. Consider having the user DL a stub projector that includes the Xtras you need -- or beating the client over the head for coming up with the idea. -- Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill http://www.osborne.com/indexes/beginners_guides.shtml [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!]
Re: Open/display a word doc thro director.
At 17:28 +0530 04/24/2002, Sandeep Khomne wrote: >How do I open a word document thro director on both PC and Mac? FileXtra3, included free with Director, has a command that will automatically open a given file with its creator application. Consult the docs that came with the Xtra for particulars. It's crossplatform. You should be able to find it in the Xtra Partners folder on the Director CD. -- Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill http://www.osborne.com/indexes/beginners_guides.shtml [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!]
Re: volume control
At 04:25 PM 4/23/2002 -0500, you wrote: >>It seems as though you've been trying to do your Director work by copying and pasting stuff from other movies. >>I'd strongly advise against it. Thank you for your advice. However, if you had a superior who decided that you were required to do a certain job, I think you would also try your best to produce whatever was asked. I apologize if what I have written has been impolite, ungrateful and incondite. >There's no ready way to tell whether the other movie was designed with that degree of modularity in mind, and there's no ready way to tell >how much verious pieces of code depend on other pieces being present. It was the code you helped me write. It is also against my conscience that you spend your precious time writing code so that I could just callously disregard it. >In almost all cases when you are creating a new movie it is best to work from scratch, unless you are using code which has been >specifically designed to be portable across files (i.e., the Library Palette behaviors). I understand. Perhaps you could advise me, then, how do I create volume control using the Library palette behaviors and the score? I find that using Library palette behaviors may not be able to solve all my problems. I know only that working with Lingo, trying, failing and making countless stupid, ignorant mistakes will Noelle [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!]
Re: pdf xtra
At 13:08 +0100 04/24/2002, limiar40 b wrote: >how can i detect if the acrobat reader is installed on the user machine? There is an Xtra called FileXtra3 included free with Director (on the installer CD) that can locate files, programs and so on for you. Look for it in the Xtra Partners folder. -- Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill http://www.osborne.com/indexes/beginners_guides.shtml [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!]
Re: How Can I tell?
At 18:23 -0700 04/23/2002, Mattie Wells \(E-mail\) wrote: >How can tell if someone is currently in a field? >And how do I tell when they have left that field? In what context? What do you mean by "in a field", and what do you mean by "left a field"? -- Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill http://www.osborne.com/indexes/beginners_guides.shtml [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!]
Re: continuous data feed wonderment
At 15:41 -0600 04/23/2002, Evan Adelman wrote: >I'm in the initial phases of planning a gnarly Director project that >has a continuous data feed. The data is being generated out of >several "data stations" that will be fed into a C++ *.dll (which I'm >not coding myself). Now I'm kinda stuck on the different methods I >can use to yank the data out of that dll (or how I can give >direction to the developer in terms of the most useful way to >package up the information)... The external code object should have a means to send messages to Lingo or Director as well. I mean there's no reason for it to sit there and be passive, hoarding data until Director asks for it. It should be quite possible for the Xtra to send messages out to handlers, with parameters and so on. That way your movie just sits there on a frame, doing nothing in particular, until the Xtra sends a message to it. -- Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill http://www.osborne.com/indexes/beginners_guides.shtml [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!]
RE: Open/display a word doc thro director.
Yes, there is another way... Download Microsoft's Word Document Viewer and include it on your CD, then just launch the .doc with your viewer and there's no problem. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group http://www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sandeep Khomne Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 7:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Open/display a word doc thro director. Hello All, Sorry if this question may sound very basic or has been addressed 100's of times. How do I open a word document thro director on both PC and Mac? Ans - by open command. But the application [MS office PC/Mac version]needs to be present on the client machine. But what if I dont know the path of the application? Ans - use buddy api with parameter "doc". But would it always return the path of MS Word always. Coz in my case it shows path of winword. Lastly is there any other way to display/open a word doc thro director other than having the ms word installed on the machine. Regards, Sandy. [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!] [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!]
Re: using the debugger
At 09:39 AM 4/23/2002 -0500, you wrote: >>>OH -- one more thing. If you set the cursor to a hand with something >>>like mouseWithin, >>>and then exit the frame where that is being done, the hand might not >>>reset. You'd want to make sure to add this behavior to everything >that >>>changes the cursor: >> >> on endSprite me >> cursor -1 >> end >> >>This will reset the cursor when the frame is exited permanently. >> >>Is it only on mouseWithin? How about mouseUp. MouseEnter and mouseLeave? > >You can set the cursor under pretty much any mouse condition; but it's >important to reset it to the default when the sprite's finished its life >on the Stage (unless you want to keep the cursor in a modified state). I have managed to reset my cursor by using the code you provided. Thank you. I appreciate this. >>>Well, if there's no change but Director doesn't complain about bad >>>syntax either, then something else is going on. Is it possible that >>>the >"rollover" member is the same as the "normal" member? If they look >>>alike, you wouldn't see a change, after all. >> >>No, there is a state change. > >Then I guess I'm confused here. I was under the impression that you had a >behavior that was supposed to change a sprite when the mouse points to it, >and that this behavior appeared to be malfunctioning or not changing the >sprite. From the above it seems as though you're saying it is changing it. No, sorry to confuse you. Your impression is correct. What I mean is, there is supposed to be a change - the 'rollover' member is a different colour from the 'normal' member . However, maybe you wouldn't call it a state change. I believe that I have used the word incorrectly. Thanks for taking the trouble to reply Noelle [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!]
Re: Wav file playback issue followup
I had the same thing too, when I was working with Win 2000 Pro. I made a program in Win 98 and put it on the 2000 Pro system and would not run, so I when back and made the 2000 Pro to Win 98, now the program and system run fine and been up for 8 month 24 hours a day. Fred >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/23/02 06:51PM >>> > As in previous posts I am having trouble with a Director project that has > all the sound files playing back at double the normal speed. Nothing I > have done has made any difference. > > > Operating System is Win 2000 Professional with SP1 Hi Debi, I might not have the solution toyour problem, and maybe mine is comp[letely unrelated to it, but there I go: My workstation also plays back sound AND video files at double speed, it also is a Pentium 4 processor and Windows 2000 professional. So maybe there is a more general problem. Though I have not done any troubleshooting yet as I use it for coding only so I am not so concerned about how the sound/ video play back... Good luck, maybe you can post a quick pointer here as to what the problem was should you be able to fix it.. Many thanks, and best regards, nik -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [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!] [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!]
Re: Shockwave safe "file open dialog"?
Whaaat!?! ...I was reading up on evalScript and externalEvent. Seemed excellent until I read that none of them work in recent browsers... >>>Do yo know of any free "display a file open dialog box" xtra that >>>is Shockwave safe? >> >>There's an HTML command that lets you display a file upload dialog >>box. It sends a list of the items selected to a CGI, which then >>goes ahead with the upload. You'd need to code the command into the >>HTML running your shockfile, and do the CGI yourself (or get >>someone to hack it for you). > >I don't think this will work in my case... The SW needs to rename >the files before FTPing them to the server. Can I make my Shockwave >see the file name selected with the "HTML command that lets you >display a file upload dialog box"? > >I don't use a cgi script, but maybe I could use the data base in this way: >1. Display file select dialog box on the home page >2. Send file name to the data base (instead of cgi script) >3. Make SW ask data base for new file names to upload >4. Make SW rename & upload the file to a folder on the server > >Although it would be a lot easier to make the SW put up a file selector. > >Or to make the HTML file selector communicate file names to >Shockwave directly. > > >-A. > > >[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!] [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!]
Re: pdf xtra
on 4/24/02 7:08 AM, limiar40 b at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi ppl
>
> how can i detect if the acrobat reader is installed on the user machine?
>
> tkx
> Limiar
The PDF Xtra lets you check for both:
Full blown Acrobat = isAcroBatPresent("acrobat")
or
Just the Acrobat Reader = isAcroBatPresent("reader")
These return TRUE or FALSE.
L8R,
JRS
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Open/display a word doc thro director.
Hello All, Sorry if this question may sound very basic or has been addressed 100's of times. How do I open a word document thro director on both PC and Mac? Ans - by open command. But the application [MS office PC/Mac version]needs to be present on the client machine. But what if I dont know the path of the application? Ans - use buddy api with parameter "doc". But would it always return the path of MS Word always. Coz in my case it shows path of winword. Lastly is there any other way to display/open a word doc thro director other than having the ms word installed on the machine. Regards, Sandy. [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!]
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Re: Shockwave safe "file open dialog"?
>At 13:48 +0100 04/23/2002, Andreas Gaunitz P11 wrote: > >>Do yo know of any free "display a file open dialog box" xtra that >>is Shockwave safe? > >There's an HTML command that lets you display a file upload dialog >box. It sends a list of the items selected to a CGI, which then goes >ahead with the upload. You'd need to code the command into the HTML >running your shockfile, and do the CGI yourself (or get someone to >hack it for you). I don't think this will work in my case... The SW needs to rename the files before FTPing them to the server. Can I make my Shockwave see the file name selected with the "HTML command that lets you display a file upload dialog box"? I don't use a cgi script, but maybe I could use the data base in this way: 1. Display file select dialog box on the home page 2. Send file name to the data base (instead of cgi script) 3. Make SW ask data base for new file names to upload 4. Make SW rename & upload the file to a folder on the server Although it would be a lot easier to make the SW put up a file selector. Or to make the HTML file selector communicate file names to Shockwave directly. -A. [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!]
Re: How Can I tell? (if Irv is in a field)
Mattie Wells (E-mail) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How can tell if someone is currently in a field?
> And how do I tell when they have left that field?
Hi Mattie,
There are a number of ways you could do this. If you're only interested in
a particular field, a simple behavior will do the trick:
property spriteNum
property hasFocus
on exitFrame(me)
if (the keyboardFocusSprite = spriteNum) <> hasFocus then
-- This sprite has just lost or gained focus
hasFocus = not hasFocus
if hasFocus then
put #focus, spriteNum -- or do something more pertinent
else
put #blur, spriteNum -- or do something more pertinent
end if
end if
end exitFrame
If you use this technique on more than one sprite, you will find that a
higher-numbered sprite deals with losing focus *after* a lower-numbered
sprite has dealt with gaining focus. If this is an issue, then you may
prefer to use a more powerful technique that uses the actorList or the
keyDownScript.
HyperCard sends #openField and #closeField messages to a field when the
insertion point is placed in or removed from that field. You can emulate
this in Director using the Parent Script at the end of this message.
This script places an instance of itself on the actorList to monitor the
keyboardFocusSprite once per frame. It sends #openField and #closeField
events to field and text sprites as appropriate.
If you are using a high frame rate, you may want to adapt this using a
timeOut object, so that the rate of testing for the keyboardFocusSprite is
not excessive. Alternatively, you may want to use a Just In Time technique
which detects that the keyboardFocusSprite has changed only if the user
tries to type anything:
on startMovie()
global gFocusSprite
gFocusSprite = 0
the keyDownScript = \
"global gFocusSprite"&RETURN&\
"tFocusSprite = the keyboardFocusSprite"&RETURN&\
"if gFocusSprite <> tFocusSprite then"&RETURN&\
" if gFocusSprite > 0 then"&RETURN&\
"sendSprite(gFocusSprite, #closeField)"&RETURN&\
" end if"&RETURN&\
" gFocusSprite = tFocusSprite"&RETURN&\
" if gFocusSprite > 0 then"&RETURN&\
"sendSprite(gFocusSprite, #openField)"&RETURN&\
" end if"&RETURN&\
"end if"
end startMovie
Cheers,
James
-- FIELD EVENTS parent script --
property pFocusSprite
on new(me)
(the actorList).append(me)
end new
on kill(me)
-- Removes this instance from the actorList cleanly when a
-- call(#kill, the actorList) command is used
tIndex = (the actorList).getPos(me)
if tIndex then
(the actorList).deleteOne(tIndex)
if (the actorList).count >= tIndex then
-- The instance in the actorList that has just dropped into the
-- vacant place may want to handle the #kill event. This needs
-- to be sent manually.
call(#kill, [(the actorList)[tIndex]])
end if
end if
end kill
on stepFrame(me)
tFocus = the keyboardFocusSprite
if pFocusSprite <> tFocus then
-- Send a #closeField event to the previous field or text sprite
if pFocusSprite > 0 then
sendSprite(pFocusSprite, #closeField)
end if
-- Adopt the new sprite and send it an #openField event
pFocusSprite = tFocus
if pFocusSprite > 0 then
sendSprite(pFocusSprite, #openField)
end if
end if
end stepFrame
To test the preceding Parent Script:
1. Create a new movie
2. Create a Parent Script member and name it "Field Events"
3. Paste the above scriptText into the script member and recompile
4. Create a number of editable field and text members
5. Drop these editable members on the stage
6. Drop the following behavior on each of the editable sprites:
on openField me
put #open, sprite(me.spriteNum)
end
on closeField me
put #close, sprite(me.spriteNum)
end
7. Run the movie
8. In the Message window, type
script("Field Events").new()
9. Click on the various editable sprites and watch the output in
the Message window
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