Re: lingo-l CounterClockWise
Pedja wrote: Hey Ben That is creative thinking...I have no clue if it will work, I'll do a test in a minute but I like the mental process! Never thought about using angles, it won't be 360degs though if it's a polygonal shape but still it absolutely makes sense.. Total up the degrees-from-straight and you'll get +/- 360. -- Carl West mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://carl.west.home.comcast.net [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-l Negative verbose statement
Petro Bochan wrote: Hello, In this behavior: property aSprite property aValue on beginSprite me set the aSprite of me to sprite the spriteNum of me set the aValue of me to 9 end beginSprite on doSomething me set the aValue of me to the -aValue of me end doSomething -- using verbose syntax I'm trying to set property variable aValue to a negative meaning. I know I can do this like set the aValue to -9 or aValue = -aValue, but I want it the way this is done in doSomething handler. Director complains saying Expected end of statement. I played around with the brackets but to no result. Is there a workaround about this? My test (MX, Mac) in a parent script named 'bar': property pFoo on new me return me end on setme me, arg pFoo = arg end on test me put pFoo,pFoo put -pFoo,-pFoo put me.pFoo,me.pFoo put -me.pFoo,-me.pFoo put -(me.pFoo),-(me.pFoo) put the pFoo of me, the pFoo of me put -the pFoo of me, -the pFoo of me put -(the pFoo of me), -(the pFoo of me) end In the message window: boo = new(script bar) boo.setme(7) boo.test() -- pFoo 7 -- -pFoo -7 -- me.pFoo 7 -- -me.pFoo -7 -- -(me.pFoo) -7 -- the pFoo of me 7 -- -the pFoo of me -7 -- -(the pFoo of me) -7 boo.setme(-1234567) boo.test() -- pFoo -1234567 -- -pFoo 1234567 -- me.pFoo -1234567 -- -me.pFoo 1234567 -- -(me.pFoo) 1234567 -- the pFoo of me -1234567 -- -the pFoo of me 1234567 -- -(the pFoo of me) 1234567 -- Carl West mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://carl.west.home.comcast.net [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!]
lingo-l Obfuscation was: OT: don't do that
roymeo wrote: ... a time to use good variable names and a time to do a string-replace on all the valiables with l0O11lO-type strings to obfuscate your code for a client who you're worried about paying you, Insidious. The first eight could be: 1001110 100111O 10011l0 10011lO 1001l10 1001l1O 1001llO and that's being nice. They don't need to be that short or nicely ordered. And the routine to run through the code to do that is relatively painless (for globals and properties anyway. How to identify locals on the fly?). You could even save out the replacement list for later restoration. Hmmm... -- Carl West mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://carl.west.home.comcast.net [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-l Getting separate parts of a number
Carl West wrote: ... splitList = [[integer(pVal+[.5,-.5][1+(pVal0)]),pVal-integer(pVal+[.5,-.5][1+(pVal0)])],[0,0]][1+(pVal=0)] Oh never mind, Colin's answer can be made into one line and it beats the pants off us: splitList = [bitor(pVal,0),pVal- bitor(pVal,0)] 4x faster than mine which was 1.5x faster than Pedja's -- Carl West mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://carl.west.home.comcast.net [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-l Getting separate parts of a number
Tab Julius wrote: This is all you need: intPart =integer(myFloat - .5) floatPart =myFloat - intPart Unless myFloat is negative. It's the whole rounding-up/-down/truncating thread again. With a twist. At 10:32 PM 9/1/04, John Waller wrote: Hi, I have a floating point number, e.g. 45.6200, and I want to be able to store the whole number part and the fraction part separately,... -- Carl West mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://carl.west.home.comcast.net [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-l Getting separate parts of a number
Pedja wrote: Damn...I've got it now with maths(ish)! It's a single liner and works with both positive and negative numbers correctly. pVal = -18267.8932 splitList = [integer((abs(pVal)-(abs(pVal) - integer(abs(pVal)-0.5)))* integer(getNormalized(vector(pVal,0,0))[1])),(abs(pVal) - integer(abs(pVal)-0.5)) * integer(getNormalized(vector(pVal,0,0))[1])] put splitList -- [-18267, -0.8932] I've just done a quick test and this approach is 9.5 times faster than the string approach...I've checked on 200 iterations. Without the vector math it gets 15.5 times faster but that was the only way I could determine if the number is positive or negative without an if statement:))) If someone knows an easier mathematical method to get the positive/negative value let me know as this is something that is bugging me for a long time and I bloody do intend to use it! Try this, it uses the 'if'-less 'if' of lists*. splitList = [integer([pVal+[.5,-.5][1+(pVal0)],0][1+(pVal=0)]),pVal-integer([pVal+[.5,-.5][1+(pVal0)],0][1+(pVal=0)])] It would be shorter if I could ignore the special case of zero: splitList = [integer(pVal+[.5,-.5][1+(pVal0)]),pVal-integer(pVal+[.5,-.5][1+(pVal0)])] * With care you can even make it a 'case'-less 'case'. Ick. I'd hate to have to de-bug this kind of code. -- Carl West mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://carl.west.home.comcast.net [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-l Drawing curves on the fly
Diego Landro wrote: ... i have two maps, onw with roads and onw without and i thought Director should have some sort of masking like after effects, but the only mask effect i could find was mask ink which i cant vary through time. You want to work with the alpha channel of whichever map is on top. Use copy pixels to paint in the roads if they're on top or paint out the plain map if it is on top. If this is just a straight animation you could just chop up the art work and do it in the score. It bypasses a lot of elegant Lingo, and makes it hard to edit, but if you KNOW for sure what the animation will look like you can do it that way. The roots of MacroMind Director lie in frame animation. Sometimes it's easiest to go back to the roots. -- Carl West mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://carl.west.home.comcast.net [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-l D5-7 help files
Bertil Flink wrote: You may want the Dir 4 help file too. Quite a change btw D4 D5 with the introduction of behaviors (as I recall). Want it? If you really want historical, I may be able to dig out whatever there was for D3. But that'll mean digging out the old IIci I ran it on. Oh, I also have: Director 7.0 Help and Director 7.0 Help.1 another 15.9MB -- Carl West mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://carl.west.home.comcast.net [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-l excluding duplicates from a list
Brennan wrote: On 11/7/04 at 19:43, Matt Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: repeat with x = aa to ab boldListC.add(x) end repeat Why not check to see if the value is already in the list BEFORE you add it. repeat with x = aa to ab if boldListC.getPos(x) then next repeat end if boldListC.add(x) end repeat What the heck, shorten it to: repeat with x = aa to ab if not boldListC.getPos(x) then boldListC.add(x) end repeat -- Carl West mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://carl.west.home.comcast.net [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-l SIL again
Kurt Griffin wrote: ... t = script(MoveObject_Behavior).new(sprite(1)) sprite(1).scriptInstanceList.add(t) Or, if you know that this is the only behaviour you want on the sprite: sprite(1).scriptInstanceList = [t] -- Carl West mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://carl.west.home.comcast.net [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-l error messages
Howdy-Tzi wrote: ... Also note that parents which have not been cleared from memory can have the same effect, so if you happen to load one file at the beginning of the day with an alertHook or similar setting, then ext file you load, if you don't quit Director, will have that resident still. I've had instances of parent scripts hang around from one project to the next in a Director session. Weird errors, very confusing. Just issuing clearGlobals() in the message window has always solved it. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [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-l easing equations
Colin Holgate wrote: Hmm, no problem with this procedure here: W2K, DMX. Not sure why the File Open way didn't work, but a way that does work is to type this in the message window: go movie http://www.evanadelman.com/easing/easingEquations.dir; Heehee, too slick! Love it. I simply went to the .dir URL and used File Save As... and saved as 'source' Mac, Netscape 4.78, OS9.2 -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [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-l Write in order
Teo Petralia wrote:
Hello!
Another question for the day. I'm trying to write in a field on the
fly information about products. I would like to write this product in
a decent format, I mean in line like:
Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla
Paris NO Why Not That's fine
RomeOK So SO Maybe
Vancouver NNN DSD K
How can I get something like this. I tried to calculate the spaces
between a row and another and then add the missing spaces but I don't
know why it doesn't work.
It depends on the font the information is being displayed in. Most fonts are what's
called 'proportional', that is each letter gets the amount of space on the line
(setwidth) that it needs to look good. For example, the 'M' will get much more space
than the 'i'. Each letter has been adjusted to look its best and the quanta are
generally very small for these adjustments ( 1/1000 of a letter). A few fonts
('courier' for example) are what's called 'monospace', each letter has the same
setwidth as every other. Doing what you want with a monospace font should be
relatively easy, with a proportional font it is likely to be impossible to do by
simply adding spaces.
(I was a type designer at Bitstream for four years, every now and then I get to use a
little bit of what I learned there)
This is probably a place for imaging lingo. Or multiple fields, arranged dynamically.
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Re: lingo-l transparency in Mac OS X icons
Slava Paperno wrote: ... In OS 9 I used to be able to paste a PNG image into the Get Info Icon, and what was transparent in the PNG remained transparent in the icon. Hmmm. Where were you _copying_ the image from? All I've managed to get is rectangles with white where I wanted transparency. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [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!]
lingo-l Projectors for WinXP affected by custom icons?
The D8.5 projectors I'm sending to my client are being 'rejected' by his system as, not valid win32 application. They work on Win 98. He's running XP. Is XP more sensitive to the layout of custom icons? Could someone point me to a projector that is known to work on XP so I can look at the icon layout? -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [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!]
lingo-l Projectors for WinXP affected by custom icons? Addendum
I wrote: The D8.5 projectors I'm sending to my client are being 'rejected' by his system as, not valid win32 application. They work on Win 98. He's running XP. He's got DMX, I tried to tell him how to make his own stub projector, making sure that FileIO was included, but apparently the ModifyMovieXtras dialog is different in MX from 8.5 so I couldn't help him there. So I've told him to copy the Xtras folder from his Director into the folder of my stuff. Maybe that'll work. What're my chances? What've I missed? -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [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-l GetPixel() to compare colors
Howdy-Tzi wrote: On Wednesday, Jun 4, 2003, at 08:53 America/Chicago, Rodrigo Peres wrote: There's a way to compare if colors are greater than or darker than??? Try using color objects and palette index conversions: oColor = color(#rgb, 255,255,255) oColor2 = color(#rgb, 0,0,0) put oColor.paletteIndex oColor2.paletteIndex -- 0 put oColor.paletteIndex oColor2.paletteIndex -- 1 Works in the extreme case, but it gets shaky in the middle values unless you're using the greyscale palette: cyan = color(#rgb, 0, 255, 255) dkcyan = color(#rgb, 0, 204, 255) dkbrn = color(#rgb, 51, 0, 0) -- System - Win palette put cyan.paletteIndex -- 1 put dkbrn.paletteIndex -- 179 put dkcyan.paletteIndex -- 184 -- System - Mac palette put cyan.paletteIndex -- 180 put dkbrn.paletteIndex -- 179 put dkcyan.paletteIndex -- 186 -- Greyscale palette put cyan.paletteIndex -- 85 put dkbrn.paletteIndex -- 238 put dkcyan.paletteIndex -- 102 -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [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-l GetPixel() to compare colors
Colin Holgate wrote: Here's a possibly good way to do it (I say possibly, because I didn't test it, but it feels like it ought to work). If you're using 8.5 or later, you could do this: c1 = rgb(100,100,100) c2 = rgb(123,100,100) v1 = vector(c1.red,c1.green,c1.blue) v2 = vector(c2.red,c2.green,c2.blue) put v1.distanceto(v2) -- 23. You would count colors as being the same if their distance from the comparison color is less than a certain amount. Rodrigo asked: There's a way to compare if colors are greater than or darker than??? To compare lightness/darkness you'd need to get their distances from vector(0,0,0) and compare those Just totaling the r,g, and b values should give a reasonable measure of the lightness of a pixel. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [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!]
lingo-l Custom icon screwing up Windows projector
I'm using ResHack to change the icon on my standard windows projector. When I finally succeed, the projector errors saying that it needs the Shockwave Player. Where do I look for an answer to this? -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [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-l Custom icon screwing up Windows projector
Carl West wrote: I'm using ResHack to change the icon on my standard windows projector. When I finally succeed, the projector errors saying that it needs the Shockwave Player. Worked it out. Fortunately I'm using D8.5. The trick was getting ResHacker to look at the .skl file (All Files [*.*], doh. Hey, I'm a Mac user, I forget that stuff sometimes), Save out the existing icons as a .ico file, Use that file as a guide to building a new .ico file in Icon Edit Save _that_ .ico file Use ResHacker to put it into a copy of Projec32.skl (save the old one) and keep a copy of this new one in the project folder for later use. A bit of jiggering about, but it works. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [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-l Dynamic scripts?
Jeremy wrote: When creating dynamic sprites with puppet = true and setting the member and all, is there a way to then assign a script to the sprite so that I can give it rollover and mouse behaviors? Write the rollover and mouse behaviors as parent scripts and apply them thusly: sprite(x).scriptinstancelist = [new(scriptrolloverParent),new(scriptmouseyStuffParent)] or sprite(x).scriptinstancelist.add(new(scriptrolloverParent) sprite(x).scriptinstancelist.add(new(scriptmouseyStuffParent) Same result, the latter's more flexible, the former's more exact. Watch you don't apply a script twice if you use .add, it can lead to very weird behaviour and it's hard to find. G'night. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [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-l masking out video background
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you basically want to chromakey out the background, only showing the video foreground - the 3d animation. Could I ask, since it's a 3d generated fire thing, why can't you render out a number of png/alpha'd files and create an animtion from that either using lingo (thereby having no directToStage problems) or bringing the sequence into flash and thereby retaining your alpha'd background? He's on the right track, I'd say. You can get away with a very few frames of fire, say, 12 or so and show them randomly or psuedo-randomly whilst varying the amount they're squashed, squeezed and flipped. Hmm... playtime. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [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!]
lingo-l Making fire was:masking out video background
Carl West wrote: ... He's on the right track, I'd say. You can get away with a very few frames of fire, say, 12 or so and show them randomly or psuedo-randomly whilst varying the amount they're squashed, squeezed and flipped. Hmm... playtime. Playtime is over. Spent too much time on the pot. Oh well. http://h00050207be9f.ne.client2.attbi.com/fire/index.html -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [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-l Why do fonts change appearance when embedded?
Daniel Plaenitz wrote: On Monday, Mar 17, 2003, at 23:42 America/Chicago, Alan Neilsen wrote: Why does text appear to lose quality of appearance when I change the font from say Arial to embedded Arial *. ... This was discussed when director got font embedding (d6 ? d7) and there should be a technote about his at www.macromedia.com (The last time I checked it /support was accessible with unsupported browsers like opera) There should be, perhaps, but I can't find it, I've got a project with an embedded font whose letterspacing is so bad it's considered a bug. I've gotta do something. I'm left to wonder if Director's 'goofing' of the font on import is the same every time or can I try again and again until I get a useful version? The project doesn't have a huge amount of text. I'm toying with writing a processor that goes through and fixes the charspacing on the offensive characters. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [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!]
lingo-l Cross-tool question: alphaThreshold
Does Authorware have an equivalent to Director's alphaThreshold property for bitmaps with alpha channels? -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [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-l wait
Irv Kalb wrote: The best way to achieve something like this is to do move the sprite at every frame event... If you know how far you want it to go and how long you want it to take to get there, at each enter/exitframe you can check the current time/tick/millisecond and compare that to the start and end times, get a factor out of that and apply it to the loc of the sprite taking into account the start and end locations. Hmm... where should the sprite be _now_? The motion will be as smooth as the speed of the machine will allow and still end when and where you want it to. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [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!]
lingo-l Apple Menu/Clipboard Persistence?
I've written a little piece that takes the text from the clipboard, processes it and writes the result back to the clipboard. In general, it works fine. I select and copy the text I want processed, double-click my projector, it pops up, does the thing and quits. When I paste again, I get the processed text. BUT! If I put the projector or an alias of it into the Apple Menu Items folder and actually access it through the Apple Menu... It works the first time. After that, regardless of the text I've selected (and pasted again just to be sure it's in the clipboard) I get that same text from the first time, re-processed. If I run the projector directly again, it works. If I run it from the Apple Menu again, I get the text from the most recent directly-launched run, re-processed. I'm missing something here. How is it holding onto this information? And more importantly, what can I do to stop it? MacOS 9.2.2, Dir 8.5, standard projector, minimal Xtras included. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [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-l Re: Apple Menu/Clipboard Persistence?
Brennan wrote: On 18/03/2003 at 12:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've written a little piece that takes the text from the clipboard, processes it and writes the result back to the clipboard. ... BUT! If I put the projector or an alias of it into the Apple Menu Items folder and actually access it through the Apple Menu... ... I've observed - especially in more recent versions of OS9 - that 'old' clipboard text sometimes hangs around on a per-app basis. Yeah, come to think of it, I've seen that. ... I use a neat little utility called OSA Menu which allows me to run scripts from the menu bar at any time. Interestingly, all clipboard operations run from this menu fail. It's a known issue, and may be related in some way to what you are seeing. ... (Maybe you should switch to Applescript, which is arguably more suitable for tweaking strings than launching a whole multimedia engine). There's that. I'm swatting a mosquito with a shovel, but, hey, I'm pretty good with a shovel. Sorry I can't be of more help. Pointing out to me that I'm not actually missing something and that it really is a wall that I'm beating my head against is a huge help. I'm just going to leave my shovel on the desktop. It's not quite as convenient, but it _works_ from there. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [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-l line break
DT-Rene Vazquez wrote: Hi, how can I insert with lingo in a string expression a line break after a word and then another word thisText = some amount of text return Another line of text -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [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-l was comparing 2 images
Take Seb's plan and modify it slightly: Have a list of rects, one for each checkbox on the form. Be sure each rect is big enough to handle variations in the printing and scanning of the form. If you can, be sure the form is designed with these problems in mind (lots of white space around the check boxes). Cycle through the list of rects and use them in place of 'startImg.rect' in line 2 of the second section of Seb's averaging technique (below) to look at each rect and see if it is dark enough to be considered marked. It would be a very good idea to have a portion (or two or three) of the form that is supposed to be white, then you can check those first and use the result for a reference. If someone copies the form on a crappy copier or colored paper, you want to be able to handle it. - Carl Sebastien Portebois wrote: Hi rodrigo, I don't need to compare two images but confirm if the checkbox is filled or not. For example, someone fill a test and then I scan the page and check throw the checkboxes for it answers and returns that was filled, so I can compute if the answer is right or not. if your working from scans, then checking for identical images would return wrong values, as two scans of the same image might differ. IMHO an other approach would be to test the average value of this checkbox : if it's still withe/light gray (e.g. it's not ckecked), the value will be very different from a checked box (darker color) the idea then is to read the average color of the image, and then compare with a threshold. To set this threshold, the best thing is to choose a set of various scans, then read all the average values, and see where unfilled values are situated, as well as checked ones. at last, here comes a little handler to return you a 1x1 image filled with the average colo of the input image. you just have to getPixel this single pixel to know the avergae color of the whole image you've send to this function hope that make sensen seb on average (startImg) -- ACTION : -- return a image which color is the average of the whole pixel -- panel of the startImg given. -- -- INPUT : -- startImg #image : the image to parse -- -- RETURN : -- VOID : startImg is not an image -- #image : the resulting image --- -- 1 - check input if (ilk(startImg) #image) then return VOID -- 2 - do the average stuffs average = image(1,1,startImg.depth) average.copyPixels(startImg, average.rect, startImg.rect) returnImg = image(startImg.width, startImg.height, startImg.depth) returnImg.copyPixels(average, returnImg.rect, average.rect) -- 3 - return the result return returnImg end -- average method -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [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-l Is this an error?
Kurt Griffin wrote: on prepareMovie on keyDown --yada yada end keyDown end prepareMovie And, by the way, which event triggered --yada yada? If all the previous discussion is correct, 'keyDown'. The 'on keyDown' would end the 'prepareMovie' handler and the 'end prepareMovie' would be superfluous. Works that way for me, I can throw in as many 'end's as I like. Mac D8.5 -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [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-l object / stopmovie question.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I create a script object -- you know, the whole 'me' thang - would the object receive a 'stopmovie' call? A quick test says no. The movie script 'on stopMovie' would have to call the object's 'stopMovie' handler. Or more manageable: it calls the 'stopMovie' in an object that's been kept apprised of the births of the objects... in the Objects' parent scripts: global Census -- the instance of the tracking object on new me Census.newBirth(me) end on stopMovie me Yadda Yadda end in the Census object: property censusList on new me censusList =[] end on newbirth me, newbornName censusList.add(newbornName) end on stopMovie me repeat with x = 1 to censuslist.count censusList[x].stopmovie() end repeat end in the moviescript: on stopMovie Census.stopMovie() end Seat of the pants code. Untested. Good luck. Many possible error conditions not tested or accounted for. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [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-l LDM and Child Script Objects
Eric Greene wrote: I'm trying to import a Director file by using 'Link to External File', but am not having any success. The behavior scripts in the LDM won't run. I've made sure 'Enabled Scripts' is on in the property inspector. The LDM is a Director movie that has two simple Parent Scripts and some sprites. When the mouse activates the 'on mouseEnter' or 'on mouseUp' handlers, the sprites call new child objects that attach themselves to the sprites and de-attach themselves once they are done. Everything works fine in the original movie, but when I put it as an LDM in another movie the behaviors do not run. Is it not possible to do this? In my experience, you're going to have to find a way to make whatever you want to have happen in the LDM, happen in terms of members or objects, not sprites. When it's an LDM, _everything_ in it has just the one sprite number that the LDM has on the stage. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [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-l Creating a cuepointing tool
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately I think that's the only way you'll be able to do it (applescript). I've been wanting direct hooks into qt editting for a while - ie copying from one video and creating a new one, or taking bits and pieces of an mp3 and making a new file with all those sequenced bits. To do it from Director, you'd probably have to use Glen Picher's BinIO Xtra and bury yourself fairly deeply in the QuickTime file spec for a long time to pull it off. Neat and fun to do? Yes, in a perversely geekish way. Commercially worth the time spent? I'm dubious. There's a supposedly cross-platform scripting language/tool like unto AppleScript that might be useful. I've never messed with it and I've forgotten it's name at the moment, but it is regularly mentioned on the various AppleScript lists. Good luck Kurt. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [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: AW: lingo-l create a mask of an image
Andreas* Gaunitz* wrote: http://lumpymuffins.home.attbi.com/masking It's a little bit rude, it's on a tight repeat loop, but it listens at the end of a cycle. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com Looks nice! It closed it's own window immediately and then froze explorer. My comp crashed. :-/ In Opera it looked pretty though. Ooh. sorry about that. I've made it more polite now. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [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-l content of the TextMember2
universal2001 wrote: ... but I have 4 cast libabries and the one that I want is the first word of the first member of the 4th castLib This worked for me: firstWord = (member text of castlib 2).text.word[1] -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [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: AW: lingo-l create a mask of an image
Michael von Aichberger wrote: 'Massage' the 24-bit image first, thinking out loud: Make another image object the same size that is some appropriate shade of grey Copy the second image onto the first using an appropriate ink (probably blend, lighten or darken) Copy the resulting image into a 1-bit image Hi Carl, thanks for your answer, I have played a lot with these inks, but I just don't get it. If you or someone else could be a little more specific, I'd really appreciate it. Works on my machine: on makemask mem, thresh -- thresh is the threshhold value where the mask changes from black to white (0..256) original = member(mem) hite = original.height wdth = original.width thresh = thresh + 4 -- fudge factor, dunno why, but it works amount = abs(128 - thresh) theInk = [33,35][1 + (thresh 128)] -- either Add Pin or Subtract Pin tempImage = image(wdth, hite, 32) tempImage = original.image.duplicate() greyImage = image(wdth, hite, 32) greyimage.fill(original.rect, rgb(amount,amount,amount)) tempImage.copypixels(greyImage, original.rect, original.rect, [#ink:theInk]) maskmem = new(#bitmap) maskmem.Image = image(wdth, hite, 1) maskmem.image.copyPixels(tempimage, original.rect, original.rect) tempImage = void greyimage = void end You could even skew the mask toward different colors by messing with the rgb value greyImage gets filled with. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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: AW: lingo-l create a mask of an image
I had some fun with it at http://lumpymuffins.home.attbi.com/masking It's a little bit rude, it's on a tight repeat loop, but it listens at the end of a cycle. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [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-l create a mask of an image
Michael von Aichberger wrote: ... Imagine a 24-bit color image. If I copyPixel this image into a 1-bit image, then I get kind of a mask, some pixels are white, others are black. ... Now to my question: How can I achieve the same effect, but define another threshold for the separation, lets say a very bright grey? 'Massage' the 24-bit image first, thinking out loud: Copy your image into an object Make another image object the same size that is some appropriate shade of grey Copy the second image onto the first using an appropriate ink (probably blend, lighten or darken) Copy the resulting image into a 1-bit image -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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-l [OT]Exporting sound from mpg file.
Brennan wrote: Andreas Gaunitz wrote: Elvin Certeza wrote: Hello list, I have been trying to export sound from my mpg movie... using premier 6, ... 1) Try to export the whole movie + sound as a quicktime (standard procedure). Re-import the quicktime, then export sound. This wont work. QuickTime can't demux these files when exporting so you always lose the sound. If you're using a Mac, try using a utility like bbDEMUX http://sourceforge.net/projects/macbbdemux Andre's procedure worked for me in Premiere 6 with Quicktime 5 on Win 98 in fact, it's not clear I even had to do the double export. (It was a quick test, not an exhaustive survey) macbbdemux is not working for me on my G3 running 9.2.2 with QT 5.02. Any idea what the system requirements are for it? I can't find any documentation. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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!]
lingo-l Director/Authorware/Other Question
I'm writing an article for a graphics magazine that'll have a title something like: How to make buttons that will keep your programmer happy. I know that the techniques I plan to describe work in Director, I'd like to find out how they'll play in Authorware or for that matter other multimedia authoring tools. Director handles images with alpha channels and lets you set the Alpha Click Threshold. What about Authorware? Other tools? Off-list replies are probably appropriate. Up to you. TIA. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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-l FindingNotWantedFonts
Bruce Powell wrote: ... QUESTION: Is there some way for me to locate all font typefaces used by castmember? It could even be a space with a not wanted font on it. I was unable to put the font of a particular character in a field so I took this route (tested in 8.5 Mac): on findfont cLib, soughtFont mems = the number of castmembers of castLib cLIb put soughtFont found in: repeat with x = 1 to mems if getpos([#field, #text, #richtext, #button], member(x).type) then testmem = duplicate(member(x, cLib)) charCount = member(testmem).text.char.count repeat with y = 1 to charCount if member(testmem).font = soughtFont then put member(x, cLib) character y end if delete member(testmem).char[1] end repeat erase member(testmem) end if end repeat end example call: findfont(1,Arial) It's pretty verbose, but it's pretty thorough too. Have a ball. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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-l Percentage calculations
Brad Hile wrote: Just wondering if anyone has a better way to work out percentage values. ... I've tried set the floatprecision=2 eq=PercentAddition)/100 but it always returns 0.00 To avoid getting an integer result you need to introduce a non-integer. You could use: eq=PercentAddition/100.0 or eq=PercentAddition/float(100) or eq=float(PercentAddition)/100 But this won't work because the result is already an integer before you take the 'float' of it: eq=float(PercentAddition/100) -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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-l Writing sound members
Evan Adelman wrote: ... gotta love email misunderstandings. i was curious about what the original poster, Carl, was trying to do. i should have stated more clearly: all true. now, Carl, you've got my curiosity going ... though -- if you're not providing samples, where is the origination of the sound? through different clips the user supplies? just tones? .? In fairly close succession I did a project that assembled audio clips into sentences, and I built a tool that reads in an AIFF file of say a vocabulary list being read and writes out the individual words to individual AIFF files. In the process of learning to write AIFF files at all, I was generating samples by formula (mostly sine waves), saving them to external files and playing them back to make sure they worked. With those two concepts floating in my head I started to think about stringing phonemes together, trying to find formulae for phoneme waveforms, and maybe, just maybe, synthesizing speech (or music). All idle thoughts really, pie-in-the-sky stuff. A slightly more down to earth use might be the ability to produce sound effects as needed and appropriate to changing situations. Yeah, it would be a lot like imaging lingo, but for sound. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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-l Writing sound members
Andreas Gaunitz P11 wrote: This is a matter of curiosity right now. In the past, I've used Glen Picher's BinIO Xtra to read and write external .aif files and have since been intrigued by the idea of using lingo to create or modify a sound member directly in the cast. Possible? Where would I start? Is there an Xtra? First I want to say is I don't know. But I can do some reasoning: Changing something in the cast means that you will have to either a) change the projector binary on the disk (not what you want) or b) Find the audio file representation in RAM and write to that RAM spot. That's what I was suspecting. AFAIK there are no inbuilt methods and no Xtras for altering an audio file/ RAM chunk, like eg imaging lingo does with an image. And that's what I feared. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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-l Trying to recreate this in Lingo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I'm currently trying to use Lingo to recreate this interactive piece that I found on the internet a while ago - http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/digital/yourwork/a_anthony.shtml Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone could help me with creating this, any example code or files would be greatly appreciated (and I'll be forever in your debt!). So far, my attempts have been fairly unsuccessful. I've got a start at it here: http://lumpymuffins.home.attbi.com/squares/sensitiveSquares.html I didn't deal with sound. You could write an object to keep track of the sounds or you could kick a global around to keep track of which channel has the oldest sound in it, either to interrupt or to see if it's done. Eight sounds should be more than enough to play at one time. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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-l how to get the brows window open?
Evan Adelman wrote: ahhh - that would make so much more sense. lewis, to get a file open dialog box i've used the mui xtra, w/ code something around: g=new(xtra mui) filename = FileOpen(g,C:\) Or filextra3 but neither seems to be shockwave-save. And therefor no help here. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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!]
lingo-l Writing sound members
This is a matter of curiosity right now. In the past, I've used Glen Picher's BinIO Xtra to read and write external .aif files and have since been intrigued by the idea of using lingo to create or modify a sound member directly in the cast. Possible? Where would I start? Is there an Xtra? -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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-l pointToChar with centered text members
Jim Schwartz wrote: I'm having a problem with pointToChar when the user clicks to the left of the text in a one word text member sprite. It returns 1 just as if the user has clicked on the first letter. The contents of the member change dynamically, but always consists of one word. The text is center justified, so there's empty space both to its left and right. ... Any ideas? Lead the word with a space (and follow it with one too to keep the balance) and offset your character counting by one. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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-l randomize
Roland wrote: Hello all I do have 4 text labels and 4 small graphics (which do belong together) that I would like to place on the stage at random. Could someone give me a pointer on how to approach this? seat-of-the-pants code, possibly full of syntax errors: locList = [a list of at least four points] textOffset = point(how far from the graphic the text label should be) repeat with x = 1 to 4 randNum = random(locList.count) sprite(x).loc = locList[randNum] -- place the graphic sprite(x + 4).loc = locList[randNum] + textOffset -- place the text label locList.deleteAt(randNum) end repeat This will place the graphics with their labels at a random four of the locations in the list in random order. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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-l Message BOX ?
Or maybe, depending on what you want, a text or field member whose text gets changed by code. something happens, either an event or a calculation member(MessageBox).text = Hey! Something happened the message will stay there until you change it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure. Alert Whatever Or if you want more control, look at either: 1) Buddy Api xtra (baMsgBox()) 2) Mui xtra (really great control but a bit complicated) 3) using a movie in a window. On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Meiky - wrote: Hi, any ideas how to make message box in director? 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: lingo-l script errors
kevin pyatt wrote: Below is the sample code. Part 1 works, part 2 does not.When i run part 2 i get the Script error: object expected member(Eqnm1box).text=gquestion. Any ideas. I greatly appreciate your time. It doesn't look like gquestion is actually being declared as a global or a property. Without that 'gquestion[rnum3]' is probably void. Try putting this in before the offending line: put gquestion[rnum3], gquestion, rnum3 And watch the mesage window. then put : global gquestion global comboquestion global decompquestion global rnum1, rnum2, rnum3 in at the tops of the scripts involved and see if it works any better. - Carl [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-l 1000 sprites - there must be another solution
Michael von Aichberger wrote: Hi list! I want to create a form that enables the user to edit database entries. For that I have a grid of 25 rows and 40 lines. Gives you 1000 cells. If I use 1 editable text sprite per cell, I need all possible 1000 sprite channels and I haven't any left for background and title graphics. There must be another solution to this - can anyone help? You'd have to do a little more keeping track of your data and probably disallow the use of the Return character, but you could do it with 25 text members of 40 lines each. -- Carl West mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.ne.mediaone.net/eisen Wann ich aufhöre zu lernen, begrabe mich. [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!]
