RE: fun with director 7

Julian, > It's a long shot but does anyone have a copy of the 7.0.2 > updater lying around? > > I'm wondering whether it might fix the cast lib update issues. There isn't anything in the D7 ReadMe nor found in a quick search of the bug base that seems to match your problem description (thus no

RE: Still Alive

Ross, > I thought this was a Director FAQ, not a Google Toolbar > FAQ... I know, I feel your pain on that. My initial FAQ draft was a bit different but after passing through a lot of marketing/PR filters we arrived at the FAQ you see today. But in the end I'm hoping that folks walk away with one

RE: Still Alive

> Whoops. That should have been... > > As handsome as ever! A Kraig, now you're just getting fresh... ;P You're a handsome man yourself, when you're not climbing about in the trash: http://www.thiggins.com/photos/2002/10/31/DSCF0008.jpg :) zing! Good times, good times indeed. Cheers, To

RE: Still Alive

> > > Just wondered if this list is still alive... > > I think its just you and me. > There's a few others I'm still here. Cheers, To

RE: projector / laptop and DVD asset

Nik, Quite often computer configurations are such that you cannot project a playing DVD onto a nother monitor. We ran into this all the time while trying to demo/showcase 3D abilities within Director and in the end, it's not our application so much as the DVD frameworks themselves. Disabling overla

RE: virtual memory

Director 6 uses an integer value to store information about the amount of available memory (real and virtual) on the current machine. The problem with that is that some modern computers have "too much" memory and the value exceeds the maximum integer value and wraps negative, resulting in the memor

RE: Unicode Update

> I thought first half of 2007 was actually quite encouraging, the > months seem to fly by at the moment. If MacDobe think this is > a realistic target release time, it would certainly do no harm to > announce officially to the community on the adobe site. Agreed (I agree, Adobe agrees). We've be

RE: Unicode Update

> Can Adobe give an idea of when the next release might happen that just > might contain Unicode support? No, not really. What I can offer is the same information we were sharing at the Casuality game conference last week: next major release of Director in the first part of 2007. I cannot get mor

RE: Unicode Update

> Does anyone know whether there is a firm plan or commitment > to this issue from Adobe? Well, very similar to Macromedia, Adobe doesn't allow "firm commitment" to release features this far ahead of the next major release so I cannot say yes/no for sure on any specific feature. What I can tell yo

RE: can flash in director use an image cast member

> but, since the fileformat hasn't changed, in theory, you > could ... As I said in my email, the Xtra functions under the version 10 player only so if you have a D10 created stub then the Xtra will work with that projector and any movies it loads & plays. If you're the sort that wants to author

RE: can flash in director use an image cast member

Lee, > I've only got DIR MX , should I be able to download Flash 8 > asset xtra and use it ? Sorry, the answer to that question is no as the Xtra can only be used under player version 10 (Director MX 2004, its projectors and Shockwave 10). Authoring with Director MX only allows you to author/te

RE: strange behaviour...

> sorry No apologies needed. ;P > by the way, what 's happening in DynaPlayer.dll? IIRC it's a binding layer between the plugin/activex control and the actual player code itself (IML and DirAPI/DP), Win only. Cheers, Tom Higgins | Product Manager | Director & the Shockwave Player Adobe Systems

RE: strange behaviour...

> > DPLib and IMLib... > > those libs are called "iml32.dll" and "DynaPlayer.dll" Minor correction, on Win they are iml32.dll and dirapi.dll (DynaPlayer.dll is not the Win version of DPLib is my point). Other than that the answers given are spot on and seem to have worked. Cheers, Tom Higgins |

Advanced Apologies - No mail or unsub options?

All, I'm departing for a two week vacation and am setting up an auto-responder to notify folks that write me of that fact. Unfortunately this list is in a state where I cannot go into no-mail mode nor can I unsub from the list as the penworks.com site won't come up nor will the email list admin pag

RE: Bug in ilk() in director 10.1.1

Jamie, > Just wanted to let you know that there is a bug in the ilk() > function Yup, that's a known issue that we're strategizing on how/when to post a fix (I have your bug report as well but this was brought to our attention within hours of posting the 10.1.1 update). A Tech Note is also pen

RE: detect new shockwave version?

> The old vbscript now fails to detect the new shockwave version. > > Does anyone have a working detect shockwave sniffer? Can you cite what specifically fails? A code snippet perhaps? Give this a look for a test that works just fine: http://www.macromedia.com/go/tn_15722 Cheers, Tom Higgins |

RE: Please help with "UpdateStage" Lingo syntax in Mac version

> What am I doing wrong? As I understand it the Mac is far less tolerant of you trapping execution in repeat loops like that, you may also get the spinning beach ball if you're not too careful. I tend to feel as if sitting in a repeat loop like this is a bit "dangerous" on either platform and that

Shockwave 10.1.1r16 Update Available

Subject says it all. New bits: http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/ Blog post: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/thiggins/archives/2006/03/shockwave_1011r. cfm I'm here for any additional questions in the meantime, either here on list of via comments on my blog. Cheers, Tom Higgins | Pr

RE: Is not OK to attach?

What didn't work? Sorry but I'm confused as to what code you've tried, your recent handler still has the isOKToAttach arguments a bit wrong as there _is_ a reference to the script member passed as the first parameter. For example, I make this as a behavior (named "isOKToAttach Test": function isOK

RE: Is not OK to attach?

> I'm dabbling in the js syntax and I've found that adding the > below to a behavior won't allow it to attach to anything. > Am I missing something? > > - MM > > > > function isOKToAttach(spriteType, spriteNum){ > switch (spriteType) { > case symbol("graphic"): > retur

RE: Umm...gee...can I ask this question?

> > "Soon", stay tuned as I hope to explain that in more detail > > quite soon. Soon is ever so close: (watch for line wrapping on that link) > While you're at the "soons" is there any chance at all we'll > see a

RE: Umm...gee...can I ask this question?

> I have a project that could benefit greatly by using the On2 > video encoder for Flash 8 instead of the Spark for 7. Just > curious, when will the Flash 8 xtra be available? "Soon", stay tuned as I hope to explain that in more detail quite soon. :) Cheers, Tom Higgins | Product Manager | Dir

RE: [Off Topic] Adobe web site

> Tom, I've often wondered if you ever get tired of baby > sitting on three different lists (or more?) :-) To everyone, please note that it wasn't me that said "baby sitting"!!! I tend many different lists and forums (I've even monitored Spanish forums now and then, talk about a surprised gr

RE: [Off Topic] Adobe web site

> Ever noticed how Flash, along with Acrobat Reader and AcrobaPDF > online all get nice graphic buttons on the home page, but Shockwave > only gets a manky little text link. Not that I'm a paranoid > conspiracy freak or anything, but it does give the impression of > Shockwave been some lega

RE: [Off Topic] Adobe web site

> Adobe doesn't seem to care about the few customers (still) tied to > director Geez people, that's so not true. We just had a tech convention where a whole section was dedicated to the fact that we simply cannot "abandon" anyone, that all products that continue to have user bases and are profit

RE: [Fwd: Your Edge article]

Mark and others, Thanks, sending in some emails wouldn't hurt from my point of view. :) Having said that please note that we've had one dev center article this year already, another is slated for posting later this month and then yet another is in the queue for early March. So we are in fact gettin

RE: OT - Regarding Rosetta

> I think the only test that would be worthwhile would be with the > shipping HW/SW. A single p4 with 945 integrated graphics > won't inform us much about a dual 2.0 yonah with a 1600 card. > Likewise I suspect that the shipping 10.4.4 UB and rosetta are > significantly different than the versi

RE: OT - Regarding Rosetta

> > Combine that with the fact that you cannot have a MacIntel > > native app (Safari) load Rosetta-emulated plugins (Shockwave) > > it my not yet be the best time to jump, at least as far as > > Director & Shockwave are concerned, but you may have other > > reasons that encourage you to do so. > >

RE: Setting the Text Cursor

David, > Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Using 'the selStart' and 'the selEnd' is for editable fields only, if this is editable text then use the member's selection property. Cheers, Tom Higgins | Product Manager | Director & the Shockwave Player Adobe Systems Incorporated http://weblogs.macro

RE: Dynamically duplicating SWF in Director

> Ive previously used flash and attachMovie to fully dynamically attach > the new sprite to the stage. > > I take it that's not possible in director and I must use > these *PUPPET* sprites? Yup, mostly correct. In Director there is the legacy puppetSprite function, but in MX 2004 we added makeSc

RE: closeRequest

> > @ Thomas: > > Yes, it seems that the BuddyApi Messagebox causes the problem. > > Thank you too. But what is your different way, you mentioned? > > no idea, if this would change anything regarding closeRequest, but > here a MUI xtra substitute for baMsgBox: > ... Well, my "other way" was to s

RE: MIAW.forget() problem

> now that's a really great suggestion. > i understand that you want to understand and solve the > bug/problem i posed, but this i a great way for me to get > around the need to restart director each time. and is this > possibly also more efficient than using a MIAW? Helping find and isolate bugs

RE: MIAW.forget() problem

>_global.pinch = script("pinch").new() >_global.pinch.destroy() And to fill out the story then, your pinch script's sole purpose is to copy/paste between windows then? You don't have any timeout object references that get left dangling or anything inside that script object despite calling

RE: 2d Lingo generateNormals

> > -- builds a simple two-sided triangle mesh > > on buildTriangleMesh (tWorld, tMaxDim) > > > > ... > > > > end buildCylinderMesh > > > :-) > how misleading, Mr.Higgins ! Ahhh yes, that right there is a copy/paste error. I've made a number of simple mesh generation functions for the various p

RE: MIAW.forget() problem

> it's just a regular window, and docking is disabled. Ok, that definitely lessens my concerns over the authoring environment tracking it in some way (lessens, not removes ;) ). > i've noticed this behaviour before, but now it's especially > anoying because the window is playing back a large > qu

RE: MIAW.forget() problem

> any ideas on how to avoid this? What type of windows are they? Do you have them set to be dockable at all? My concerns are that the authoring environment itself may be tracking the windows within the authoring UI space, this feels especially possible if you have them set to tool windows that are

RE: scriptInstanceList

> Thanks for responding. I have no idea why it returned []. Anyway, I > switched the code to reference the scriptList instead, and I'm able to > do what I want that way. It's a mystery why scriptInstanceList isn't > working there, because it works everywhere else I use it. Perhaps > you're righ

RE: closeRequest

Michael, > But if I press "ALT+F4" and want to cancel it with clicking > on "no", the messagebox appears a second time. To cancel > the event I have to say "No" twice. > > All other Keys (ESC, STRG+ Q ...) are working fine! > > Why is this so? > Are there two closeRequest events? > Is this a bu

RE: 2d Lingo generateNormals

Alan, > Im creating meshes/models form lingo. > > I am having a bit of trouble with normals. > > Normally you set number of normals to 0 then call > generateNormals(#smooth) yeah > > Well basically I have the normal data already and want to use > that so I don't call generateNormals but I do

RE: OT - Regarding Rosetta

> Anyone out there know what effect Rosetta will have on the running of > Director on the new MacBookPro? Is it worth upgrading or just > stick with my PB for the time being... Deciding to make that jump is entirely up to you but honestly, at this point neither Shockwave nor Director currently f

RE: OSX Tiger with Director crash

Teo, > There is only one doubt that comes in my mind from the below message > sent from Tom Higgins, I have updated the Director application to > 10.1 (at least it what the about Director windows says), is there > also the 10.1.0r11 version. The latest update for authoring and Shockwave is

RE: [Lingo-L] strange QUIT message ...

Nik, > ... and I am thinking: No, it's not. It's quittingbecasue I clicked > quit. Are you certain? Sure, you clicked a button that triggers a series of events that culminate in exiting the application, but have you done due diligence to ensure that you're not experiencing some errors during you

RE: js syntax weirdness

> I'm just a bit flabbergasted that this is the way we have to compare > symbols in js syntax. It would be nice if, in the next version, js > syntax viewed the # as a *legal* character, since it's such a > huge part of every script. A good wish list item, I suppose. Unfortunately we didn't want

RE: A new question

Mario, > I have a problem with the cursor. The problem is present > when I want to convert the arrow in a little finger when there > are a link. When I stay over a sprite (with link), the cursor is > 280 (a little finger). When I go to another sprite the cursor (in > the on mouseLeave script) cha

RE: OSX Tiger with Director crash

Teo, > I'm working on a Macintosh G5 with 2GB RAM and a lot of hard disk > running OSX 10.4.3. I'm using Director 2004 version 10.1. > The story is this: I have two field member on the stage on a frame > with the command "go to the frame", these two fields are editable, > now when I press an

RE: Missing formal parameter

> See, Tom? I knew it wouldn't be long before I had another js > question. Sheesh... j/k > Say I declare a global variable called gData in a movie script written > in Lingo syntax. I want to access gData in a behavior written in js > syntax. > > Is it declared at the beginning of the js

RE: getPropertyDescriptionList: js syntax

Bingo! Valentin hit the nail on the head. You must (a) make a _property_list_ (not an Array with named entries), and (b) use symbol(someString) as the # character is not supported within JS scripts (although the symbol data type is via the symbol() function). Cheers, Tom Higgins | Product Manager

RE: Shockwave installed

> >Is there a way in HTML or somehow to check if the user's computer > >has Shockwave installed, and if not, to redirect the page to another > >URL? Or does the user manually have to choose which site he wants, > >the Shockwave or regular... > > Look at MACR for tech notes - it has changed over

RE: A Question

Michael and others, > Now that Adobe bought Director, will Director and Lingo > continue to be used and will new versions of Director continue > coming out, or is there some truth to the rumors I once heard > that Director will slowly become an outdated program? Because > my whole job depends on

RE: Missing formal parameter

> One thing I'd like to suggest, is that in the script window, the > js syntax doesn't seem to auto-indent when, in my case, I actually > get it correct. Believe me, I realize the pain induced by the level of auto-formatting for JS in the Script window (or rather the lack thereof). The only auto-f

RE: Missing formal parameter

Michael, > I think I mostly understood that. But, I don't understand: > you *don't* have to declare your script's properties at the > beginning of a js script? Here is an example behavior: function beginSprite () { this.pMember = sprite(this.spriteNum).member; this.pText = this.pMember.te

RE: Missing formal parameter

Michael, > I'm taking a stab at converting my lingo scripts to javascript > syntax. I started with a very easy one. My question is why does > on beginSprite(me) NOT translate to function beginSprite(this){}. > That returns an error of missing formal parameter, and function > beginSprite(){} compi

How to join a beta program (was: RE: Dynamic Flash in director calls an error!)

Darren and others, > On a side note Tom, how do I get on the director beta testing > list. I've been submitted for the past five years, are there > certain criteria. Well, I'm going to admit that as of today I'm not clear on what the "official" process for doing this will be under Adobe. Under

RE: Dynamic Flash in director calls an error!

Darren, > I hope this helps some one out, as this bugged me for day's, > or if someone has a better idea please reply > > I'm dynamically swapping out a sprite with a flash member the > asking it to goToFrame(x), this causes director throw an error. > > Even if you use `sprite.member.type =

RE: Flash components

Bart, > just looking at using a "List" flash component. Have been > able at feeding data to the list but now I wonder how I can > change the hilite color for the component? > > More general question > > Any good resource for looking at flash components and lingo ? In general your best bet fo

RE: interesting question

> Any ideas? Yes, write yourself a Lingo utility handler that walks all images (English and French) and combines them as desired using imaging Lingo. Specifically you'll need to make your new image using the image() function at the desired "double-size", then use copyPixels() to copy the English/F

RE: Adding 3D behaviours to Shockwave 3D object

> Am I missing something here or do behaviours purely only work > for imported Shockwave3D fiels and not Shockwave3D files > created in Lingo.. I'm guessing that the behaviors are referencing the camera on beginSprite, then some time after that you are calling resetWorld() which then invalidates

RE: flickering button (was: a question)

> > > When ever I've had the flickering issue with a rollover, > > > its always been that the first castmember is slightly > > > larger than the second (or swapped castmember). > > > > If that's not the problem, what else could cause it? I have > > the same issue, but the idle and roll states are

RE: _player.debugPlaybackEnabled

> Someone told me that the command: > _player.debugPlaybackEnabled opens the > message window in a projector, but where do I put this code? > In the ini file? on startMovie? Put it anywhere, and be sure to realize that is a property, and you must set its value to TRUE in order to open the Messa

Shockwave turns 10 - A Content Contest

Developers, December of 2005 marks an important milestone in the history of the Shockwave Player, specifically it's the ten year anniversary of the it's first public release in 1995. In order to help celebrate we are hosting a contest to highlight the best and/or most memorable examples of Shockwav

RE: no running program twice?

All, > of course one might ask ... "Why isn't this the default setting?" > (multi-instance is certainly the non-standard usage for Projectors > AND for Auth) It's tough, which way is best to have it the default? Given your post and then Daniel's that came after it's obvious that one setting or t

RE: no running program twice?

Michael, > Is there a way to asure that the user doesn't press on the > projector twice and run your program twice, once in the > background? (or auto-run plus clicking on the programn will > open it twice as well)... Make a .ini file with the following setting: [Settings] SingleInstance=1 Or

RE: Lingo Scripting of QTVR Fails with QT 7.x

Paul, > Has anybody else noticed that lingo scripting of the pan, > zoom, and tilt functions of QTVR panos appears to fail if > the newest version of QuickTime is installed under Windows > XP? Yup, we're aware of these issues with the QT7 player on Windows. I'll be working with tech support to g

RE: MIAW MX 2004 type #document

> My perfect solution would be to not have the #document MIAW > disappear behind the stage. Tool windows layer with tool windows, document windows layer with document windows, tool windows are always on top of document windows. If you want to enforce layering order within a particular window type

RE: dropDown menu over video/DTS sprites (--now WITHSUBJECT, sorry)

> Would it somehow be possible to get a screen grab of the frame of the > DTS video as the drop down menu is initiated. Not using Lingo as-is, you can't image the member and the sprite is DTS-only so you can't get a stage image either. Cheers, Tom Higgins - Technical Product Manager Macromedia D

RE: Email Confirmations? I'm being "challenged"?

> I'll give you 10 to 1 odds that crisnmd doesn't realize that list > e-mails are being challenged, though. And attempts to email him will likely garner another challenge! Doh! ;P Cheers, Tom Higgins - Technical Product Manager Macromedia Director and the Shockwave Player http://weblogs.macromedi

Email Confirmations? I'm being "challenged"?

All, Every post I make to this list garners me a response from [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s AntispamUOL service asking me to validate myself or something. Quite frankly this is not something I'm going to do and as such I'm seeking list advice/opinion, is it good form to use these services for _list_ email?

RE: dropDown menu over video/DTS sprites (--now WITHSUBJECT, sorry)

> So the 'dropped over' is going to be a DVD video sprite (and they are > alwasy DTS, aren't they?) Yes, they are. Thanks for clearing that up. Cheers, Tom Higgins - Technical Product Manager Macromedia Director and the Shockwave Player http://weblogs.macromedia.com/thiggins/ ... [To remove y

RE: dropDown menu over video/DTS sprites (--now WITHSUBJECT, sorry)

> or allow intereactive menus being placed over a .mov > file. Wait, are you talking about DVD videos or QuickTime videos? If it's QT then go non-DTS and you're done. If it's DVD then I suppose they may have made it possible, I do believe that we could have implemented support for non-DTS playback

RE: dropDown menu over video/DTS sprites (--now WITH SUBJECT, sorry)

Nik, > I am still looking fore a solution to overlay a menu over a DVD video > sprite in Dir MX 2004. See my reply on DirGames-l. In short, try using a MIAW that appears on top of the stage window that is masked and thus tries to act like your dropdown menu. The MIAW will draw on top if you keep

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (was: RE: ????????: Re: omittinglinked scripts as protection)

> >I've seen a few of you post replies like Roy's, but I have yet to see > >one of his messages myself. > > I'll bet your server is rejecting them as spam based on the encoding. I thought that as well. Some spam gets filtered into a folder called "Spam" and I can go in there and choose to allow t

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (was: RE: ????????: Re: omitting linked scripts as protection)

Roy and others, > [EMAIL PROTECTED], your email messages are coming > through to us as complete garbage. You have some > sort of encoding setting set in a non-standard > way that isn't working with the listserv. What's even more odd than the garbled messages you're reporting is that I have ne

RE: consistent way to check for existence of member

> Would this work? > put ((member "does not exist").number > 0) > -- 0 Nope, that will fail if the scriptExecutionStyle is set to 10 as the invalid member reference returns VOID, and VOID does not have a number property and so a script error will occur. The problem here is that prior to MX'04 all

RE: dot syntax to replace a char in a string?

>put "-" into char 5 of someString put "-" into someString.char[5] There are operators like this in dot-syntax environments that don't require all items to be connected by dots, the above is about as "full dot" as you'll get with the put operator (different than the put() function which dumps

RE: setting the properties of "me" by a variable

Michael, > But what, if I have the name of the property in a variable? Like > > myProp = symbol(pSomething) > > Writing > > me[myProp] = 1 > > doesn't work, Hmmm, seems to work for me in a behavior. For example, I attached the following behavior to a sprite: property pFoo on beginSprite (me

RE: Winners announced - INM Impressario Project Contest

All, > * > 1st Place > Sony Marketing Resource Toolkit > developed by Blueburst Ltd. > > 2nd Place > Swarovski's Introduction to Digiscoping > developed by Sony DADC > > 3rd Place > Weber Knapp Video > developed by Chase Information Systems

RE: on activate/deactivate application

Michael, > on activateApplication > put "a" > window("theTOC").blend = 255 > end > > on deactivateApplication > put "d" > window("theTOC").blend = 128 > End My immmediate suggestion is to do this sort of testing using something other than an unsupported and undocumented property. ;) For

RE: date and time

> Thanks for that. Would you agree that this particular > method (property?) I would too and as such I long ago filed a bug against that but don't see a TN about it so I'll see about having one posted. Cheers, Tom Higgins - Technical Product Manager Macromedia Director and the Shockwave Player

RE: Dir <--> Flash communication (static)

> In Director's object inspector, sprite(swfSprite).gTools, > when expanded, doesn't show pTrack. Ok, but can you use Lingo/JS to access pTrack regardless of the OI issue? I'm just trying to sort out if this is a OI display bug or if this is something more generic that's preventing even code-base

RE: Flash asset xtra

> > Believe me, as soon as we > > have any bits like this to share publicly I'll come running and > > screaming about it. :) > > Thanks. > > That would be appreciated. And for reference: http://www.macromedia.com/go/aee1675c No news but at least there's a searchable document in the support cen

RE: Flash asset xtra

> Any rumors on a Flash 8 xtra? I dunno, let me know if you hear any though... :P Sorry, but at this point there's no official word for me to share on this front. There will be a Tech Note posted soon that covers this, saying that at this time no Xtra is available. Believe me, as soon as we

RE: OT: javascript/CSS question

> I keep trying things like document.styleSheets(0).rules(u) but I can't > seem to get it. I believe that's supposed to be document.styleSheets[n] and the rule syntax choice will vary between browsers. Some browsers use rules[] while others use cssRules[], here's a link that covers some of this ma

RE: Quicktime resets on clicking video area using shockwave

> Does anyone know a workaround for preventing Quicktime from > resetting to the begginning of the clip if the user clicks > within the movie. I'm not aware of that as any sort of a general issue so it leaves me to wonder what's unique about your movie in particular. You have a QT sprite on stage

RE: OT::Shockwave director install

> What would be the logic in Macromedia first releasing an > installer that BEGS such alternatives, and then sticking > with it through all of these complaints? To be clear, these notions about alternate install procedures has been around since the Shockwave 7 days, just making sure that's out t

RE: OT::Shockwave director install

Alex, > these URLs where people can install the SW player silently are kept > secret I guess ? The URLs are in fact kept a bit private, they are for the client/project only and we do detection of referrers to ensure that others don't point into someone else's silent install proces. This is usua

RE: OT::Shockwave director install

> if it is for 'offline' use -> intranet install, you can use an > offline installer without all this crap. For corporate/educational intranet installs or for fixed media distribution this is correct, you can use our free-license form and get silent installers for use in those cases. > if it is

RE: Multiple Window

> PS As much as I know, MIAW isn`t real multi window ... it is able > to open many windows on a movie, but can`t open another movie on > another window and make then exchange and share info. But you can exchange and share info between MIAWs. You can do that either via Xtras (Multiuser and peer

RE: OT - Macrodobe

> Saw this crazy forum post on Google Groups... quite funny I thought... > tell me its not true... hehe! > > http://tinyurl.com/9g5a2 Yup, it's all true. The little known fact is that I recently broke my collar bone in order to fully QA the "EZ-Meds-4U Shopping Assistant" feature for that releas

RE: scriptExecutionStyle - browser focused Top windows

Laurie, First off, when replying please do not reply directly to me and to the list, simply reply to the list and I'll notice your post come through. Sending to me directly bypasses the filters I have set up and as such things like this can clog my normal Inbox as opposed to being routed to my care

RE: set the ScriptExecutionStyle to 10

> I published for Shock10, > I have a np32dsw.dll 10.1 and a shockwavePlugin.class of > 2/10/2003 10:00PM (dont know what this class is for?) Don't do the above when needing to verify which player version you have installed. Either make a simple test movie of your own that checks the player versi

RE: OT: Email Lag on this List? (was: RE: Shockwave engine, Director engine)

Thanks all, at this point I seem delay free as messages are coming through rather quick. Oh well, mysteries of the internet... :P Cheers, Tom Higgins - Technical Product Manager Macromedia Director and the Shockwave Player http://weblogs.macromedia.com/thiggins/ ... [To remove yourself from thi

OT: Email Lag on this List? (was: RE: Shockwave engine, Director engine)

Hey folks, Anyone else seeing tremendous lag in emails hitting this list? I sent my last reply on the "Shockwave engine, Director engine" thread last Friday yet it only appears to arrived today. What? Huh? Just wondering if it's just me or if it's happening for lots of folks... (hasn't happened fo

RE: Shockwave engine, Director engine

Laurie, > I see that it is the player that is the problem and not the engine. I > definitely noticed a difference between the player used in the > development environment and the player in a browser: if I remember > one of them was key events and text manipulation that appear to > behave differen

RE: shockwave

> Is there a specific list for shockwave engine question? Not that I'm immediately aware of, but hopefully others will chime in if they have suggestions. The truth is that Director, projectors and Shockwave all share the exact same "engine" so there isn't really a "Shockwave engine", just the play

RE: test almost within the rect ofanother sprite??

> Is there another way to do this that would test if the user is > approximately almost exactly within the rect of the invisible > sprite?? (not "exactly", but "approximately exactly?") Can't you compare the area of the interset rect with the area of the exact invisible rect and when the interset

RE: EULA for Director Software projects

> Which ones, Tom? Do you see discrepencies somewhere as of today? Sorry but I haven't given those docs a close inspection recently so I thought I'd ask as you seem to indicate confusion (yes, I too will give them a look but I believe it's still worth asking for your input). Cheers, Tom Higgins

RE: EULA for Director Software projects

Tim, > Also does anybody know of any licensing issues or things that I must > include in an EULA in respect of crediting or mentioning > Macromedias in regards to the Director platform? If you are using Director MX or earlier then your obligations with respect to "crediting" Macromedia are outli

RE: preloadNetThing more than one 'thing' at a timenotworking?

> If you make a little state machine ... Yup, I'd say that's the best way to go in order to ensure proper behavior, although I'd still like to expect better out of the player itself in that it should queue up as many net requests as you like, even if only a certain number are processed at a time.

RE: preloadNetThing more than one 'thing' at a time notworking?

> Anyone else had this problem? I'm not aware of this being a current problem in Director/Shockwave. How are you determining that only one gets preloaded? Are you using separately stored net ID numbers and only seeing one ever reach completion? Something else perhaps? Cheers, Tom Higgins - Techni

RE: Mac OS X, QT, SW and dswmedia bug

Christoffer, > I think is the _##.mov name combination that makes QT on OS X > to crash ... Do those same files work fine when renamed? For example, rename one of the currently problematic files to something without the _##.mov format then try again. That would seemingly clear things up as to wh

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