Re: lingo-l Hi-res printer fonts
Wouldn't the problem be the resolution you are printing at? I mean, if you are using POM to print the director screen, you have only the number of pixels as the screen size. If you want to print a 800x600 screen at 1200dpi, then it is up to you to make up a lot of pixelsor end if with a postage stamp size image. roymeo At 09:03 AM 6/24/2004, you wrote: Have you tried other fonts? Perhaps those that you are using are lacking the outlines or something. Newer verions of quark support both TrueType and PostScript...do you have any font tools that will let you get any more info about what is included with them? I have ATM at home (just lite version here) and I belive it can give you some info about a font... It used to be that PS fonts could be a pain in quark cause if you aren't printing to a PS printer, the screen fonts would be used instead - causing less than optimal output. What ver of quark are you using, perchance? ~Mathew Colin Holgate wrote: I need to get a high-res (1200 dpi) printer font for Chinese and Cyrillic--we need to do high-quality print output. Does anybody have any ideas how to get those? I've only dealt with on-screen fonts. Either TrueType or Postscript fonts should do all that automatically. [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: lingo-l Fontmapping on the fly (is Chat)
URLEncode/Decode? At 03:55 AM 6/24/2004, you wrote: At 11:31 Uhr +0100 24.06.2004, James Newton wrote: That means using 20 times the bandwidth. you're right. there's always a disadvantage, when doing such things for lazyness reasons ;-) the only backdoor left for me now would be to recommend stripping the html header and the font tag before sending and adding it after receiving, but I confess, that would be even more hackish... ;-) -- ||| a¿ex -- [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: lingo-l The Xtras
this may not apply any more, but it was once recommended to NOT include Xtras that you don't need. Maybe with today's processors it isn't that big a deal, but if you're not using PNG's, why have all that code at the ready. roymeo [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 The Xtras
BTW, Petro: the MUI xtra is not needed for projectors unless you explicitly use it in your code. The UIHelper Xtra is mostly used in authoring. It has some neat features for 'tool movies' (such as opening a cast member's default editor or bringing authoring windows to the front). This Xtra (and the name has bounced around a bit from 8.5-mx-mx04) also is part of the solution for ending the CPU Hog with an on idle sleep 1 end script. roymeo [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 Can I use a xtra so I won't have to install Quicktime?
I THINK that this only happens if you use sound channel 1 or 2. If you use 3-8, the sound isn't interrupted by creating or forgetting a MIAW. Give it a try, at least. roymeo [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 Movie transparency
To the best of my knowledge, and despite QT having alpha or transparency in their spec, you cannot actually have transparent, alpha-like behaviour from QT. You can mask, but not transparency. Maybe instead of trying to answer your question I should ask you to be more specific: do you care what kind of video it is, do you mean 1-bit masking, or true 256 level alpha, etc.? roymeo At 03:58 AM 1/30/2003 -0500, you wrote: What type/format can I render out a movie in after effects in order to have transparency within director? J [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: lingo-l Change ScreenRes in Win XP
don't know how to do it, and am greatly suspicious of people who think they ought to change my screen resolution (1600x1200 or greater) and move all my damn icons around. roymeo At 10:36 PM 1/22/2003 +, you wrote: Hey all, Trying to simply change the user's screen res using DMX and Win XP. Tried BuddyAPI, no luck --- tried changeres from DMTools, again, no luck. ;( Any tips would be great. TIA. _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail [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: lingo-l Cast Members and Case
I would like to know how to tell Director 8.5 that cast member A is different from cast member a. How do I do this? compare the charToNum()'s put charToNum(A) = charToNum(a) -- 0 roymeo [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 upgrade price
Well, they could price fairly by platform...in which case the PC version which didn't change much would be about $25 a copy, and the Mac version which had to be overhauled in india, could cost $3000 or so a copy... I wonder what the sales volume per platform is today. Charted back in time, too. roymeo At 06:14 PM 11/30/2002 -0600, you wrote: You know, I just realized there's no osx/mac version of flash comm. SO, being that the price is with a flash comm server, and that's only win, is it fair that both platforms be the same price? [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: lingo-l find behavior shortcut
Can someone remind me if there is a keyboard shortcut to find sprites that use a behavior selected in the Cast? The context menu for a behavior's cast member has Find in Score, and repeating that does the trick, but it seems like there should be a keyboard shortcut, and also one for Find in Score Again. (With the cast member selected), use Command-H In D8+ (or did the change happen between 8 and 8.5?), you have to keep jumping back to bring the cast to the top-front when you CTRL-H. Prior to that, you could CTRL-H a bunch of times and it would just step through all the instances. So just remember to keep the mouse over the cast-menu-bar or cast-member to reselect that in-between CTRL-H's. roymeo [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 - Best agencies or ways to seek freelance or contract work
I see a lot of shorter contract stuff advertised at jobserve.com (UK and Australia versions) The following IT vacancies have been advertised new today. Visit Jobserve UK at www.it.jobserve.com. roymeo At 08:34 AM 11/18/2002 -0800, you wrote: Hi there I am currently out of work and seeking freelance or contract work doing director or flash development in the South West area of the UK (or anywhere else if remote working is possible). If anyone can suggest any good agencies (if such a thing exists) or any good resources for finding work of this type I would be extremely grateful. Examples of my work can be seen at http://www.themediakitchen.co.uk Thanks in advance Paul [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: lingo-l Definite Bug in IML32.dll/DirAPI.dll v8.5.1.104
The non-standard upgrade was the instruction set that I got from Macromedia. They (Tom) posted a link to the technote with the instructions for the two new net xtras (for development and shockwave). Installing them alone caused errors. Macromedia Tom said Oh yeah, you'll need these two dll files and pointed me to them. That fixed the New Net Xtra problem, but caused this debugger issue. I'm pretty sure Tom also mentioned using the wish list as a bug reporting listfinding that address took enough time, you mean i've got to go much around their site looking for a bug-report address, too? roymeo At 05:51 PM 11/11/2002 -0500, you wrote: Roy, 1) I don't think wish-director is the place to report bugs 2) Where did you get new DLLs? Did you use a standard upgrade install? Were you going from 8.5 to 8.5.1, or did you just grab some DLLs and do a home-upgrade? Because if so, you probably have a number of things out of whack and I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't work. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you said you did, but you're describing a non-standard upgrade. - Tab At 05:25 PM 11/11/02, roy crisman wrote: Last week I installed the 2 new Networking Xtras, and the 2 new DLL's (IML32 and DIRAPI) in my Director 8.5.1 PC Win2000 developing environment. On 3 different Win2000 PC's with D8.5.1. Now, I can no longer use the debugger when an error happens (clicking [script] or [cancel] is ok, but not [debug]). I also can't use the debugger by setting a breakpoint. When I try to, I get a WindowsUI message: Director 8.5 (it's 8.5.1, of course) A fatal error has occured. Director will quit now. [OK] To help narrow down the problem, I created a new movie, with only on startmovie a = 1 b = 2 c = 3 end in a movie script. Setting a breakpoint on the second line causes the crash above. I CAN however open the debugger window via the menu or CTRL-`, but it's blank, of course. It's entirely possible that I've somehow screwed things up somewhere else, but since my computer at home is doing the same thing, I'm beginning to suspect that I couldn't have possibly screwed something up twice the same way (3 times when you count the other work computer that I saw the behavior on but it's currently out of commission due to hardware issues). === some testing happens === Switching back to the old IML32.dll and DirAPI.dll and 2 network Xtras, and the Debugger does not 'fatal error'. Switching just the IML32 and DirAPI to the new versions, and it errors again. For reference (cut n pasted version numbers from the info box): New DirAPI.dll version: 8.5.1.104 New IML32.dll version: 8.5.1.104 (cause crash) Old DirAPI.dll version: 8.5.1.102 Old IML32.dll version: 8.5.1.102 (no crash) This problem on Win2000 PC's D8.5.1 has been reported to wish-director AT MACR. roymeo [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!] [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 Definite Bug in IML32.dll/DirAPI.dll v8.5.1.104
At 10:58 PM 11/11/2002 +, you wrote: - Original Message - From: roy crisman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Last week I installed the 2 new Networking Xtras, and the 2 new DLL's (IML32 and DIRAPI) in my Director 8.5.1 PC Win2000 developing environment. Yeah, you shouldn't do that. The files were released to fix a bug in Shockwave that does not, and never has, affected either the authoring environment or projectors. I don't know why the technote tells you to copy the files to your Director folder as well as Shockwave, but it's clearly wrong. At least, I'm assuming you're referring to this: http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/sw_xtraupdate_v106.h tm Although it doesn't mention an update to any DLLs, just the Xtras. Where did the updated DLLs come from? Updating just the two Xtras caused an alert-type message in Director (and Shockwave, I believe), because they were also supposed to be paired with the two new DLLs. Macromedia Tom pointed me to the two DLL's when I whined about it not working on another list. roymeo I had to reinstall Director as a result of this (didn't back up the old files), but I got an error on startup (as did at least one other poster on m.d.l). Fortunately, the Xtras do fix the Shockwave problem. However, I don't know why they haven't updated the standard download yet (auto-update doesn't work reliably as stated in the technote (at least not immediately): you have to apply the patch manually to every system). - Robert [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!]
lingo-l Definite Bug in IML32.dll/DirAPI.dll v8.5.1.104
Last week I installed the 2 new Networking Xtras, and the 2 new DLL's (IML32 and DIRAPI) in my Director 8.5.1 PC Win2000 developing environment. On 3 different Win2000 PC's with D8.5.1. Now, I can no longer use the debugger when an error happens (clicking [script] or [cancel] is ok, but not [debug]). I also can't use the debugger by setting a breakpoint. When I try to, I get a WindowsUI message: Director 8.5 (it's 8.5.1, of course) A fatal error has occured. Director will quit now. [OK] To help narrow down the problem, I created a new movie, with only on startmovie a = 1 b = 2 c = 3 end in a movie script. Setting a breakpoint on the second line causes the crash above. I CAN however open the debugger window via the menu or CTRL-`, but it's blank, of course. It's entirely possible that I've somehow screwed things up somewhere else, but since my computer at home is doing the same thing, I'm beginning to suspect that I couldn't have possibly screwed something up twice the same way (3 times when you count the other work computer that I saw the behavior on but it's currently out of commission due to hardware issues). === some testing happens === Switching back to the old IML32.dll and DirAPI.dll and 2 network Xtras, and the Debugger does not 'fatal error'. Switching just the IML32 and DirAPI to the new versions, and it errors again. For reference (cut n pasted version numbers from the info box): New DirAPI.dll version: 8.5.1.104 New IML32.dll version: 8.5.1.104 (cause crash) Old DirAPI.dll version: 8.5.1.102 Old IML32.dll version: 8.5.1.102 (no crash) This problem on Win2000 PC's D8.5.1 has been reported to wish-director AT MACR. roymeo [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 List archives?
At 11:12 AM 10/25/2002 +0200, you wrote: Am 25.10.2002 10:51 Uhr schrieb Brad Hile unter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there a searchable archive of this list available somewhere? I need to find a special mail which got lost in my own archive. the headers say: http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/archives/lingo-l/ I also have this bookmarked: http://www.mail-archive.com/lingo-l;penworks.com/ Sorry, I don't get this header. And on penworks there is no link to an archive. Thank you very much Florian you probably get it, but your mail program probably hides it. roymeo Brad [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!] [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 Help with lists **bad getaProp
But wouldn't [#someProp:0] or [#someProp:VOID] still report that a valid value is there when he seems to be saying that it isn't? roymeo At 12:11 AM 10/22/2002 -0500, you wrote: Lots of hoops for a simple concept. use findPos() Can you store a zero in your list to show the absence of an object, rather than storing VOID as the value? If you can do that, then as Tab said, you can tell the difference between you conditions. You need two checks, first to see if the if the property exists, then if the property exists then you need to check if the value is 0. Something like this: on GetMyValue someProp, aPropList theValue = getAProp(aPropList, someProp) if voidp(theValue) then alert(No such property someProp) return #errorNoSuchProperty -- or do whatever you want for this case end if if theValue = 0 then alert(No object available for someProp) return #errorNoSuchObject -- or do whatever you want for this case end if return theValue -- OK, return the value end Irv [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: lingo-l Re: 8.51 Crashing in Windows 2000 (all Winsults accepted)
Sharon Moeller [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The problem is not your pc. The problem is certain bugs in director on a 2000 machine. I have found that an imported flash file will crash director on a 2000 machine in the running environment. I have also found that a sound file, created in Sound Forge, that has markers in it, will also crash director. I had a Win2K sound related problem, too. I wasn't using markers or anything, but I did resample the sounds in SoundForge. After 2 to 48 hours of automated testing, the projector would lock upsometimes a CTRL-ALT-DEL would be able to bring up the taskmanager window, sometimes there was nothing to do but physically turn the machine off. I found that importing the sounds so they were no longer external .wav files solved the problem. roymeo [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: 8.51 Crashing in Windows 2000 (all Winsults accepted)
And I'd suggest you log virtually every action in your project and use this to narrow down where it's locking up. roymeo [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 defaults
Unless of course she's doing a touchscreen, or many other things. Don't assume you know enough about the situation to scold others. roymeo At 04:05 PM 9/26/2002 +0100, you wrote: Hi Sharon Sorry I have no idea how to change the default however:- The design guidelines for both Mac and PC require that you use the on mouseup event to trigger actions, the on mousedown event should be used to do things like change the button image to the downstate. While you may prefer some other way, nearly if not all of your users are going to be used to being able to roll off a button in the down state and not have the action initiate (try it anywhere). Breaking this expected action is seen as bad. Hope that helps. Dave - Original Message - From: Sharon Moeller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lingo-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 3:33 PM Subject: lingo-l Script defaults Is there a way to change the default of on mouseUp me when clicking on a sprite to create a script to on mouseDown me. I prefer to put actions on the mouseDown rather than the mouseUp. Sharon Moeller [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!] __ __ This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com __ __ This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.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!] [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 the itemDelimiter Part II
sOldDelim = the itemDelimiter sOldDelim is the CHARACTER STRING, not a pointer. sOldDelim will stay that character unless you explicitly change sOldDelim roymeo At 02:37 PM 9/25/2002 -0400, you wrote: Hi Howdi-Tzi Colin... Thanks for the replies. I think WthmO is right in that my variable sDelimSave wasn't a global. (Shame on me.) However, consider this movie script: global gID on startMovie gID = the itemDelimiter end on someBehaviorCalledFromSomewhereInTheMovie the itemDelimiter = h end on stopMovie the itemDelimiter = gID end What I'm questioning is this: When the movie starts up, gID is a global that records whatever the itemDelimiter is. Then, somewhere along the lines, the itemDelimiter is set to h. When the user quits the projector, the itemDelimiter is set back to gID. BUT, since the itemDelimiter was changed to h, could the value of gID change to h during the movie, since gID is a pointer to what the itemDelimiter is? That seems to be what was happening for me, i.e. gID isn't permanently set, but rather a pointer to whatever the itemDelimiter is at a given time. - Michael [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: lingo-l Just out of curiosity (repeat loop)
I'd also be careful of: repeat with i = 1 to thisList.count because this is depending upon thisList to not change size, and is actually slower than: iMax = thisList.count repeat with i = 1 to iMax because you're not accessing the .count of the list multiple times. roymeo [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 fileio/projectors
At 09:44 AM 9/10/2002 -0500, you wrote: On Tuesday, September 10, 2002, at 02:28 AM, Fabrice Closier wrote: Ok guys, but what about my questions? I rather thought Buzz and I answered them. Were you reading different notes? I mean that according to M technotes, the Fieio xtra needs to be put into the xtra list from popupmenu, but option include into movie or dowload if needed needs to be both unchecked. I didn't write that technote and Buzz didn't either. We're right, it's not. Select Include in projector and forget about making a separate folder. It's superfluous. When you mark any given Xtra to be included in the projector, it is... included... in... the projector. Hence the name of the option. That means you don't have to make an Xtras folder that includes that Xtra. There are reasons for NOT doing the include method, and for having the external folder, too. But you don't need to do both. roymeo [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 miaw question
or tell myWindow to SendAllSprites(#handler, var1, var2) roymeo At 11:30 AM 8/22/2002 +0200, you wrote: Am 22.08.2002 10:00 Uhr schrieb g r i m m w e r k s unter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've been trying to get the miaw to call a function to a text sprite within it -- but everytime I tell the window to do the handler, I get 'no function' as a response. If I get you right you do something like Tell myWindow to call() I have experienced problems with this syntax before, I guess the stage tries to do the call first and then the tell. Try making a movie script in the miaw like on callMyFunction Call(...whatever you want to call) end In your main movie write Tell myWindow to callMyFunction Regards, Florian Can I only set globals for the damn thing to see? [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!] [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 CTRL-ALT-DELETE again
Once I thought about this a bit, I realized it's not as easy (post-Win98) as I thought. We use the Microsoft Management Console Snap-In (MMC Snap-In or something like that) to configure what things are visible in the start menu, and you can even lock out all the options in the thing that pops up when you do CTRL-ALT-DELETE, but if the keyboard has those keys, you still get that window popping up no matter what. It's too 'important' to the OS to disable completely (as far as we've figured out) to disable completely. Our kiosk is going to have a keyboard which has a switch in the back which disables those keys in order to allow a service tech to use the same keyboard. The earlier solution was a custom keyboard for the user which didn't have those funky keys on it and a keyboard line splitter to a separate keyboard (which can be a pain in the neck when you want to service the kiosk). roymeo [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 ctrl alt delete
check out the MCC Snap In I think it's called...built in functionality of the NT-branch of the windows tree. Or for non-NT-branch windows, StormWindows will do it (along with lots more). roymeo At 01:45 PM 8/20/2002 -0500, you wrote: On Tuesday, August 20, 2002, at 12:53 PM, stacey wrote: I am currently trying to use buddy api- but for whatever reason, i can't get it to recognize that combo - or even control or alt keys- I am using controlDown...putting the focus on the stage... That won't work -- by the time you've detected that sequence in Director you're on the way to force quit. You need to block it before it gets there. If there isn't a native function in BAPI to trap the sequence you'll have to use an Xtra (assuming there is one) or some kind of third-party utility that locks out the sequence on the Windows system level. 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://shop.osborne.com/cgi-bin/osborne/0072195622.html [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: lingo-l better to make spritenum a property or use me.sprit enum?
but can't you do the same contrived goofiness with me.spritenum? And why are you bothering to set spriteNum to me.spriteNumthat's already given to you by the act of property spriteNum. I admit that this is 95% preferencethough I don't understand why people demand to have two different properties on a behavior to get the spriteNum or always use me.spriteNum which I believe has been shown to be slower. I always default to property spriteNum on whatever thisAttrib = sprite(spriteNum).whatever end etc. You don't need to tell the behavior that spriteNum = me.spriteNum...that's given by the act of declaring property spriteNum. The only time I specifically use me.spriteNum is when a particular behavior is known to be something that will be inherited...because as an ancestor, it won't have that property spriteNum. So, I can understand 'preparing for inheritance' and defaulting to me.spriteNum, but I've used that so seldom, that I don't bother. roymeo At 02:39 PM 8/15/2002 -0700, you wrote: I prefer to not use spriteNum as a property. Here is an example, albeit contrived, of what is improper about it. The thing to bear in mind is that the terms spriteNum and rect are a Lingo key word... Here is a demo behavior... ___ property spriteNum property rect on beginSprite(me) spriteNum = me.spriteNum rect = sprite(spriteNum).rect put Rect = rect end on doit1(me) put spriteNum end on doit2(me) put me.spriteNum end on setIt(me) spriteNum = 7 rect = sprite(me.spriteNum).rect put Rect = rect end __ Now, from the message window... -- StartUp Rect = rect(11, 87, 61, 152) sendSprite(1, #doit1) -- 1 sendSprite(1, #doit2) -- 1 sendSprite(1, #setIt) -- Rect = rect(-142, -4, -142, -4) So, you can see that the property spriteNum value has been set to 7, yet the sprite is in channel 1. This is an undesirable situation that is very easily avoided by not using key words as properties. sprite(me.spriteNum).rect is straightforward to use but has become convoluted due to the usage of keywords as properites. Why set oneself up for the error for the possibility of this trouble? It is just as easy to use... property pSpriteNum property pRect and keep me.spriteNum alone and happy. Regards, Kraig [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: lingo-l is there a cross platform border Xtra?
This BTW is why art directors need to make up their minds *before* the program is written. ;) And why they need to work hand in hand with the programmers (same with sales people) instead of just tossing stuff over the wall to the programmers and going home. They think it's just a wall. They don't realize it's actually 2 walls, each 20 feet high and 30 feet apart. With a moat in the middle. Filled with alligators. And flying airborne blood-sucking leech-bat-frogs. roymeo [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 Opening an .exe file
How about: Open Drive:\pathname\filename.exe (on the PC) or open (the pathname filename.exe) if it's next to the projector? I just tried open c:\winnt\notepad.exe and it worked just fine to launch my notepad.exe in the windows directory. roymeo At 02:49 PM 8/17/2002 -0400, you wrote: I am trying to open an .exe file (the Shockwave Installer or the QuickTime Installer) from within a movie. I have tried open, play and go to and all tell me Frame not defined Obviously I am not doing this right. Director Help says open (whichDocument with) whichApplication but what application do you use to open an .exe file? Thanks in advance, George Carlile [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: lingo-l video question
At 11:56 AM 7/30/02, Paul Fletcher wrote: Hi guys, just a quick question. Is it possible to blend images on to a playing .mov file? ie. A 3D animation moving down a street and then blend people onto that street on the fly? Thanks in advance Paul Absolutely. Just set the QT video to NOT play Direct To Stage. Then you can do whatever you would do with any other sprite over the animation. This may impact performance. roymeo [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 **still have** problems to attach castlib in windows
I'm not convinced that the .cst is necessary...depends on your code. Makes it a bitch when you protect them and they turn into .cxt's if it is required to be that way. Sounds like your problem is in the drive variable... MAYBE the mac is getting it's full day supply of vitamin : while (as Howdy will remind us) Bill Gates is stealing an extra \ in the Win side. You have two choices: Keep dropping little clues for us to try and guess what the heck you are doing, OR maybe post a little more code so we don't have to guess...depends on how much time you want to spend feeding us clues... roymeo At 12:37 PM 7/31/2002 -0300, you wrote: Hi Howdy... I did what you sugest but the problem still there, only in windows. on 7/29/02 12:56 PM, Howdy-Tzi at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:04 -0300 07/29/2002, Rodrigo Peres wrote: Does anyone knows what could be wrong?? If the cd is the right one them AttachCastLib(baixacast, drive baixacast) AttachCastLib(altacast, drive altacast) You need to include the file extension as well -- particularly on Windows. Without that .cst extension Director's likely, on Win, to not know that you have actually attached a cast file. Rename the casts so they all have .cst extensions, even on Mac, and try again like: AttachCastLib(baixacast, drive baixacast.cst) AttachCastLib(altacast, drive altacast.cst) Should do it... -- [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: lingo-l shut down a kiosk?
Start logging everything that's going on in your kisok, then when you find it down you can see what the last thing that was done. roymeo [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 shut down a kiosk?
No, no, no. I'm doing it in my current kiosk. Every significant thing (such as added into my generic button class) that happens logs to a file. WRITES to a file. As it happens. So, when external .wav files were completely locking up my kiosk (had to turn the computer off, half the time), I could eventually see that the last thing done was the command before the sound playing command. You'll write to the hard disk file a line which tells you what the last successful line of code is...which quickly points you to the next line of code which may be your problem. and write to a log (same, different, whatever) the information from your alerthook roymeo At 09:06 PM 7/18/2002 +, you wrote: Start logging everything that's going on in your kisok, then when you find it down you can see what the last thing that was done. That's a great idea...unfortunately I'm already doing that as well. The problem is that most times the computer is turned off. If the comp. loses power, then Dir. just quits with it and doesn't know to write before closure. Is it possible to write a .txt file describing where in the movie Dir. is immediately before a script error? --Probably pretty basic, but my brain is a little fried at this point. TIA _ Join the world's 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!] [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 IPIX Xtra for Director ??
I believe they stopped selling it about 3 weeks after I used it in a project in 2001. They've had a pretty rough ride lately. I'd suggest giving them a call directly...sometimes we get too caught up in looking at web pages when most companies don't have any problem helping out a potential customer. But, I think they may no longer be selling it. roymeo At 01:34 PM 7/18/2002 -0500, you wrote: Hello, Does anyone know about the availability or lack thereof of the IPIX xtra for Director. I have a potential project requiring the use of this technology (for CD) and am beginning to look into the possibilities. I went to the website for IPIX and apparently it exists, but couldn't find any more about it. Thanks in advancd, Geoffrey B. Holland Interactive Multimedia Specialist K-fx², Inc. www.kfx2.com v: 225.927.4463 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[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: lingo-l Using Buddy API's baEncryptFile
You can also protect stuff with some of the MPEG codecs. The Indeo one should do that for you. roymeo At 01:22 PM 6/28/2002 -0400, you wrote: Hi Howdi-Tzi and Neil... Thanks for the responses. As a user who would want to do something like that myself, I have to ask you why you feel it's necessary. It's not necessary at all. I just thought it might be a good way to control/protect the assets on the CD, but your explanation convinced me not to do it. My project must stay as mpg's, so I can't try the QT solution, but thanks anyway for the advice. - MM [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: lingo-l preventing double projector loading
At 13:49 -0400 06/28/2002, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: Didn't work; has anyone used it successfully before? I use it, but it isn't necessarily the most reliable (on the PC side, at least). I've been able to quadruple-double-click 2 or 3 copies open before one is apparently open enough for the INI setting to stop more from opening. roymeo [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 Editable fields
copyToClipboard and pasteClipboardInto may be helpful, too. roymeo At 08:24 AM 6/11/2002 -0500, you wrote: At 21:37 -0400 06/10/2002, DrEvil wrote: How can I enable a user to paste text data that has been copied elsewhere into an editable field in a movie? Thanks! Believe it or not you don't have to do anything special. The editShortCutsEnabled property defaults to true in Director, and it allows users to hit ctrl/cmd-v to paste, and ctrl/cmd-c to copy, just like anywhere else in the universe. I suppose, if you want to provide a button or something, you could get the ASCII code for that metakey sequence and experiment with a sendSprite call to a behavior attached to the #text or #field sprite in question. -- 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://shop.osborne.com/cgi-bin/osborne/0072195622.html [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: lingo-l Rounding (unusually)
This is called a Ceiling function. The opposite, where you want to lop off the non-integer part is called a Floor function. Looking in my Math library of code, I see that my Floor and Ceiling functions aren't correct, so let's see I just leveraged the working Floor function to create the Ceiling function. This is hopefully a little easier to read that a huge string of math operations (I'll leave it to someone else to test which is faster). -- -- Floor Ceiling v1.1 -- 020607 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Director 8.5 -- USAGE/DESCRIPTION: -- Floor (round any non-integer down) and Ceiling (round any non-integer up) fn's -- returns the integer value -- REQUIRES: -- nothing -- CAST CONVENTIONS: -- none -- SCORE CONVENTIONS: -- none -- USEFUL MESSAGES: -- Floor(float) -- Ciling(float) -- PARAMETERS: -- none -- OWNER: roymeo -- HISTORY/NOTES: -- 010426-roymeo v1.0 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 020607-roymeo v1.1 corrected ceiling function in response to Lingo-L question -- PROPERTIES --none -- HANDLERS on floor x return integer(x - .5) end on ceiling x if x integer(x) then return (floor(x) + 1) else return integer(x) end if end -- At 10:01 AM 6/5/2002 -0700, you wrote: if x integer(x) then x = x+1 Colin Holgate wrote: put integer(1.9 + 0.5) -- 2 Regards, Pranav Negandhi Unfortunately that would not work out: put integer(1.0 + 0.5) -- 2 The goal was to let 1.0 be 1. Here's something that does work, but I feel sure there's something simpler (it can be simpler in two lines, but just for the fun of it I'm trying one line): put n - (n - integer(n-.5)) + 1 * ((n - integer(n-.5))0) It may take a moment or two to see why it works. [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!] [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 lingo-lJob advice...sorry off topic please help
Here's a job post from a brit place that I getI've seen a LOT of Director jobs come by an here in the past 6 months. roymeo // The following IT vacancies have been advertised new today on our web // site on www.it.jobserve.com // // To receive 'Jobs by Email' for other professions send a blank email // to: // // [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.accountancy.jobserve.com // [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.engineering.jobserve.com // [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.sales.jobserve.com // [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.financial.jobserve.com // [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.secretarial.jobserve.com // [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.legal.jobserve.com // [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.medical.jobserve.com // // Please note, for jobs listed below that are based in the UK it is // unlawful to employ a person who does not have permission to live and // work in the UK. Unless the advert states otherwise, please ensure you // have this permission before applying. // Your Domain limits the size of email messages which can be sent. // We have sent only a maximum of the top 1000 Adverts as posted in the issue. // You can now alter your Email Subscription filter using the // Jobserve Candidate features. Log in to use the new service. Ty: Contract Po: Macromedia/Lingo Designer Sk: Contractor required for educational CD ROM work. Must have experience of educational software and must have extensive recent Macromedia Director and Lingo exp for CD ROMs (the client will need to see examples of work). Unfortunately we cannot accept applications from candidates with out recent educational CD exp. Please send CV with a brief outline of educational CD-Rom exp. Lo: London St: 2 Weeks Du: 6 months Ag: Lorien Cn: Daniel Halstead Te: 0207 654 1114 Fa: 0207 654 1011 Em: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: JSDH50039290 Lk: http://www.it.Jobserve.com/jobserve/EmailJob.asp?jobid=J052F5075BF595F00 // For more information about Jobserve, please send a // blank email message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit // our web server at: http://www.it.jobserve.com/ // // Jobserve is a registered trademark of Jobserve Ltd. // Copyright (c) 2002 Jobserve Ltd. All rights reserved. // // -- // Jobserve Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Tel: 01621 817335 // Fax: 01621 813357 // http://www.it.jobserve.com/ At 04:40 PM 6/9/2002 +0100, you wrote: Sorry to be off topic but need ur help Im a multimedia developer mainly director but know many other apps too. I live in Bristol but moving to London. Does anyone know where I could look for jobs in London. Anyone know the best way too look for this sort of field I really appreciate the advice. Thanx people... Jayp [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: lingo-l [Q] How to trap Close action for MIAW
.forget() is the command you want to get rid of the window from memory. Just make sure that that isn't directly (in the MIAW) or indirectly (MIAW calls a handler in the stage which will try to return to the MIAW when completed) being called from the MIAW itself, but rather do something were the MIAW sets a global which is polled by the stage and .forget() it when the global is set from the stage. roy crisman At 07:26 PM 5/24/2002 -0400, you wrote: Hi... I am getting a name of the directory and the name of the file from the Flash movie within the Director projector to open a MIAW by using this line of code... on openThis temp theDelimiter = getDelimiter(integer(string(temp).char[1..1])) theDirName = getDirName(integer(string(temp).char[2..2])) theFileName = getFileName(integer(string(temp).char[3..4])) thePath = the moviepath theDirName theDelimiter theFileName put thePath if string(temp).char[3..3] = 1 then dotIs = offset(., theFileName) window(theFileName.char[1..dotIs - 1]).fileName = thePath window(theFileName.char[1..dotIs - 1]).open() window(theFileName.char[1..dotIs - 1]).windowType = 8 else fxObj = xtra(FileXtra3).new() fxObj.fx_FileOpenDocument(thePath) fxObj = 0 end if end That is working just fine... I am getting different new windows on different clicks from Flash movie file... The problem is... when I close that MIAW window by clicking on the [X] button the name of that window still exists in the windowList, which means that the window is still in the memory... So... I was thinking if there is any way I could trap that close action, I could put this code to close and remove from the memory... window(theFileName.char[1..dotIs - 1]).clse() window(theFileName.char[1..dotIs - 1]).forget() That's what I can think of to solve the problem... I'd appreciate if there is any other way to close and forget that window... Thanks a lot... Jason _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.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!] - Roy Crisman Senior Macromedia Programmer (585)724-4054 [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!]
Re: lingo-l parsing excel data
I believe in an app where I'm importing data from Excel spreadsheets which were exported as tab-delimited, I run a parseOutQuotes on the data as it is read in (either line-by-line or file-by-file). Works great, othervise. roymeo At 07:48 PM 5/21/2002 -0700, you wrote: Hello list, i am currently working on a program that will ultimately be a search engine for media elements. In its final form, i will build a custom interface to input data, but for the moment, i need to parse data that is easily exported from Excel. Two likely possibilities - CSV or TAB delimited. Some of my data contains commas, so Excel inherently puts quotes around these elements. I am parsing this data into a property list. (Thanks to Irv for his article on data cast members - fit this app perfectly). Two questions: Do I need to check for quotes around the data before it parses and eliminate them if they exist? Should I just check the first character and if it is , then eliminate the first and last char or is there and easier way? Thanks, --Craig Craig Taylor Managing Director Renegade Digital Media Inc. 30 Summerset Drive Barrie, ON, L4N 9L7 C: 416.930.5206 T: 705.733.1996 | F: 705.733.0503 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (digital).video | (interactive).multimedia | (web).solutions (DVD).authoring | (live_event).media_support [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!] - Roy Crisman Senior Macromedia Programmer (585)724-4054 [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!]
Re: lingo-l Interesting Question...
And instantiated scripts will also pass. So if a global holds the reference to an instance of a parent script, that code-object will continue to be available, even though the 'cast member' which holds the script for it isn't in the new movie. roymeo At 11:45 AM 5/22/2002 -0500, you wrote: At 17:05 +0100 05/22/2002, Jayp wrote: Does that mean globals from my MAIN movie will pass to the subordinate shockwave movie? If the two files are running under the same shock session, yes. That is, if movie 1 did a play movie, go movie or gotonetmovie, yes, the globals pass, just as they do in a projector or author session. -- 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://shop.osborne.com/cgi-bin/osborne/0072195622.html [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!] - Roy Crisman Senior Macromedia Programmer (585)724-4054 [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!]
lingo-l Rotate, Height, Width, and ACK
Since I just butted my head up against this, I thought I'd share this with everyone: the .width and .height properties of a sprite on stage are of the un-rotated image. If you need the real 'width' of the rotated sprite, you have to do the math your self, subtracting the left from right, etc. Below is an example, of a long menubar shaped sprite, which when rotated 45 and then 90 degrees, still reports the width and height that the unrotate image had. Only stumped me for a day or two of heavy trigonometry. -- Welcome to Director -- put sprite(1).rect -- rect(237, 229, 680, 265) put sprite(1).width, sprite(1).height -- 443 36 put sprite(1).rotation -- 0. sprite(1).rotation = 45 put sprite(1).rotation -- 45. put sprite(1).rect -- rect(289, 78, 628, 417) put sprite(1).width, sprite(1).height -- 443 36 sprite(1).rotation = 90 put sprite(1).rotation -- 90. put sprite(1).rect -- rect(439, 26, 477, 469) put sprite(1).left, sprite(1).top, sprite(1).right, sprite(1).bottom -- 439 26 477 469 put sprite(1).width, sprite(1).height -- 443 36 sprite(1).width = sprite(1).width * 0.25 put sprite(1).rect -- rect(440, 191, 476, 303) sprite(1).height = sprite(1).height * 0.25 put sprite(1).rect -- rect(454, 191, 463, 303) Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to go call my highschool trig teacher and tell her that I lowe her. roymeo - Roy Crisman Senior Macromedia Programmer (585)724-4054 [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!]
