Intersecting multiple sprites

2002-02-26 Thread Randy Gillis
I am trying to get the correct syntax for a particular sprite intersecting multiple sprites, but the same cast member. For instance, if I have five circles on the stage, all the same cast member, can I write one statement which flags if my sprite in question intersects any of the five circles. H

Re: problem with imaging lingo

2002-02-26 Thread Eva Crawford
on 2/27/02 1:45 AM, Kurt Griffin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> property not found >> if pImage list [i].width > pImage list [i].height then > > Looks like the pImageList is breaking... probably because the import of the > images is failing. His code works for me. Two questions - one, did you >

Re: problem with imaging lingo

2002-02-26 Thread Eva Crawford
on 2/27/02 1:08 AM, Andreas Gaunitz P11 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> property not found >> if pImage list [i].width > pImage list [i].height then > > Hm, this line makes no sense. > > >> #width >> Script error >> >> I feel like it must have something to do with the actual photos themselves

Re: passiing parameters to a shockwave movie

2002-02-26 Thread Jason Je
Hi... Check out the MM site for 'Parameters accessible from Lingo' at http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/how/shock/lingoparam.html It might not 100% you want, but you will get the idea... HTH Jason _ Get your FREE downloa

Re: problem with imaging lingo

2002-02-26 Thread Kurt Griffin
> property not found > if pImage list [i].width > pImage list [i].height then Looks like the pImageList is breaking... probably because the import of the images is failing. His code works for me. Two questions - one, did you maintain the relative path to the images when you made your projector (i

Re: Very basic variable question.

2002-02-26 Thread two two two
Hey, thanks for all the help on this basic question. I'm trying to get adjust from the perl way of doing things. -Garman === Message: 3 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 23:09:39 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Tab Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Very basic variable question. Cc: <[

Re: problem with imaging lingo

2002-02-26 Thread Eva Crawford
yes I did type it. Sorry xtra space. It should indeed be pimagelist >> property not found >> if pImage list [i].width > pImage list [i].height then >> >> >> #width >> Script error > > > Did you type this or copy it to get it into the e-mail? Should it say > pImageList[i].height, instead o

Re: problem with imaging lingo

2002-02-26 Thread Andreas Gaunitz P11
>property not found >if pImage list [i].width > pImage list [i].height then Hm, this line makes no sense. >#width >Script error > >I feel like it must have something to do with the actual photos themselves >but I just don't get it. I even tried to replace Will's images in the >sample movie he

Re: problem with imaging lingo

2002-02-26 Thread Colin Holgate
>property not found >if pImage list [i].width > pImage list [i].height then > > >#width >Script error Did you type this or copy it to get it into the e-mail? Should it say pImageList[i].height, instead of pImage list [i].height? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode,

Re: setaProp Question...

2002-02-26 Thread Andreas Gaunitz P11
>on setBlockOff varName, spriteNo > global Blocks > > set the member of sprite spriteNo to member("Off") > -- Blocks.setaProp(varName, 0) -- false > -- setaProp Blocks, varName, 0 -- false > Blocks[varName] = 0 -- false > updateStage >end > >--- > >as you can see I was playing with setBlockO

RE: (no subject)

2002-02-26 Thread Kerry Thompson
> Sorry, I missed the earlier posts so I may be missing something, but > shouldn't you be re-initializing the "i" variable at the top of the > "a" loop in test2 and test5? > D'oh! Good catch, Ken. Here are the adjusted results. The still show that it's faster to manually increment the counter th

passiing parameters to a shockwave movie

2002-02-26 Thread Michael von Aichberger
Hello everybody! I want to run a shockwave movie in a browser. I need to display the browser type and version in the shockwave movie. As I think that shockwave cannot get this information on its own (can it?) I want to pass that information as a parameter to the movie. Now I know of the line (fo

setaProp Question...

2002-02-26 Thread Jason Je
Hi, Guys... I have a setaProp question... I have 10X5 blocks in array and the way I represent them in director is using the list, and I have some problem now... Two of my array is set to like this...(from the initializing function...) Blocks list holds a value 0 being not clicked, and 1 being c

Re: problem with imaging lingo

2002-02-26 Thread Eva Crawford
I'm sure it is not memory related because on adding the director.ini to my folder to do some more error checking I came up with this when I clicked on any of the links to the problem gallerys... property not found if pImage list [i].width > pImage list [i].height then #width Script error I fee

Re: problem with imaging lingo

2002-02-26 Thread Andreas Gaunitz P11
A loong shot: Are you on a Mac? Are you making projectors? If so, try to increase the projector's memory allocation, or check the "Use system memory" box when creating the projector. -A. >Okay: > >Scratch part of that previous post. Now the problem seems to be with any >gallery that exceeds

Re: Editing the projector ICON on a mac?

2002-02-26 Thread Chad Mefferd (Morris Publishing)
on 2/26/02 10:14 AM, Buzz Kettles at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 10:18 AM -0500 2/26/02, you wrote: >>> I know how to edit the project32.skl to modify the Icon for a projector on a >>> PC, but how the hell do you do the same thing on a mac??? Iconographer from Mscape Software at www.mscape.com

problem with imaging lingo

2002-02-26 Thread Eva Crawford
Okay: Scratch part of that previous post. Now the problem seems to be with any gallery that exceeds 5 images...??? What the?? I've read through Will's code about a billion times and that definately is not in it. Also note everything still works just peachy in authoring mode. the link to the

RE: (no subject)

2002-02-26 Thread Ken Prat
Sorry, I missed the earlier posts so I may be missing something, but shouldn't you be re-initializing the "i" variable at the top of the "a" loop in test2 and test5? > It does seem to be a triple-nested loop, but only if the outer loop is > static. I don't think you need to rewrite your loops unl

problem with imaging lingo

2002-02-26 Thread Eva Crawford
Hi everyone: Currently I am implementing Will Turnage's article on "Creating a digital portfolio, part 2". The problem is I need multiple image gallery's to cover 15 different areas. Everything works great in authoring mode, but when I make a projector from the project each gallery gives me a "

RE: (no subject)

2002-02-26 Thread Kerry Thompson
> And please: post the results of your tests! > Some more results--it appears to be a triple-nested loop with two of the loops "loop with" and one "loop while". on test6 ms = the milliseconds a = 0 repeat while a < 1 repeat with i = 0 to 99 repeat with j = 0 to 4

RE: (no subject)

2002-02-26 Thread Kerry Thompson
> thanks for your re-check... And I too find it absolutely > counter-intuitive. I'll also do some more tests, and if this keeps > true, I will go and re-write some loops... > > And please: post the results of your tests! > Ok ^_^ It does seem to be a triple-nested loop, but only if the outer lo

RE: Problem with Font- Very Urgent-Pls help me out

2002-02-26 Thread Kerry Thompson
> The language im working with is Telugu. Its one of the local language > in India and used in the state Andhra Pradesh. > Ok, I know a little about Telugu--it's one of the Dravidian languages. I don't know if there is a standard single-byte encoding for the Telugu script--it's in Unicode at 0C05

Re: (no subject)

2002-02-26 Thread Andy Fuchs
at 26.02.2002 21:02 Uhr, Kerry Thompson wrote: > Does it have to do with the triple-nested loop, I wonder? I'm going to > run some more tests. Hi Kerry, thanks for your re-check... And I too find it absolutely counter-intuitive. I'll also do some more tests, and if this keeps true, I will go an

RE: (no subject)

2002-02-26 Thread Kerry Thompson
> Hm... - from a logical point of view, the first loop uses a static > count, > while the latter loop always has to check the value of i and we have > to > increment manually... > > Although my tests show something different ?:-o > Mine too--can this be right? test -- 7251 -- "100 / 5 / 10001"

RE: illegaloperation error

2002-02-26 Thread Kerry Thompson
> I have put this files Dirapi.dll , DirHelp.dll , FSWebLnk.dll , > Iml32.dll , m5if32.dll , msvcrt.dll , PluginPing.dll , Proj.dll , > Projctrc.dll , SwDir.dll, lingo.ini & Director.ini file as my > projector name. This file i put with projector(exe) file. & in xtra > folder i put this dll file.

RE: Really Hard Question !

2002-02-26 Thread Jayp
If u are interested in helping me I would gladly send u my source file for u to seethanx Jayp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Andreas Gaunitz P11 Sent: 25 February 2002 19:06 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Really Hard Question

Re: Editing the projector ICON on a mac?

2002-02-26 Thread Buzz Kettles
At 10:18 AM -0500 2/26/02, you wrote: >>I know how to edit the project32.skl to modify the Icon for a projector on a >>PC, but how the hell do you do the same thing on a mac??? > > >Copy whatever you want the icon to look like, from any program you >like, select the projector and Get Info on it.

Re: Using properties (was Very basic variable question)

2002-02-26 Thread Kurt Griffin
> apart from religion - I was just wondering what the advantage might be of > using a property in this case. It's mainly about encapsulation. There may be a reason to make this a global (if it is going to accessed by a number of scripts, perhaps - though I personally would still favor the object-

Re: Editing the projector ICON on a mac?

2002-02-26 Thread Colin Holgate
>I know how to edit the project32.skl to modify the Icon for a projector on a >PC, but how the hell do you do the same thing on a mac??? Copy whatever you want the icon to look like, from any program you like, select the projector and Get Info on it. Click on the current icon and do a Paste.

RE: do command execution in list assignment?

2002-02-26 Thread Matthew DeSimone
Definatley an option, and I've tried it with much success. I just wanted to see if I could make this truly type agnostic, with no testing of xtra/script/etc... needed. Looks like I'm not able to though. ~matt desimone [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.syrupnyc.com > -Original Message- > From: [EM

RE: do command execution in list assignment?

2002-02-26 Thread Matthew DeSimone
Xmlparser is the xtra included with Director which handles xml function calls. It basically does a lot of work for you when you are using xml in director. As for the purpose of xml in director, it allows multiple systems to communicate, all using the same data format. For instance, in this movi

AW: Very basic variable question.

2002-02-26 Thread Michael von Aichberger
Hi Kurt! apart from religion - I was just wondering what the advantage might be of using a property in this case. I seem to be using much more globals than you guys do. I've often asked myself if I was missing something. Please explain! Thanks Michael von Aichberger -Ursprungliche Nachric

Re: Very basic variable question.

2002-02-26 Thread Kurt Griffin
> you have to give the variable an initial value, and also you will need to make > it global. > > global gIncre > on mouseUp > if gIncre=VOID then gIncre=0 > gIncre=gIncre+2 > put gIncre > end Actually, you don't have to give gIncre an initial value, though it's probably good practice to do so.

Editing the projector ICON on a mac?

2002-02-26 Thread Iain Sheild
I know how to edit the project32.skl to modify the Icon for a projector on a PC, but how the hell do you do the same thing on a mac??? Thanks Iain [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 [EM

Re: do command execution in list assignment?

2002-02-26 Thread mike ang
whats an xmlparser? whats the purpose of an xml in director? mike ang --- Irv Kalb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi Matthew, > >I don't think you really need to use the "do" statement here at all. >I really don't understand what the "stackobject" variable is used >for, but here's a wa

RE: Problem with Font- Very Urgent-Pls help me out

2002-02-26 Thread sreedhar reddy
Dear Kerry I do got only reply last week for this question from Howdy, but thats confusing for me and there he mentioned that there may not be an appropriate solution for this problem. The language im working with is Telugu. Its one of the local language in India and used in the state Andhra Prade

.text cast members hungry for RAM??????

2002-02-26 Thread Nikaj Wiggers
Hi List, D8.5 Any platform I am building a presentation CD-ROM with different language versions on it. We use a castLib for each language. If the user chooses a language the castLib "eng" (English) is used to get al the data from. The strange thing is that if I change my language by choosing a

Re: (no subject)

2002-02-26 Thread Andy Fuchs
at 26.02.2002 8:45 Uhr, Jason Je wrote: > Is there any specific reason you saying that the former loop is much > faster??? I'm just curious... :) Hm... - from a logical point of view, the first loop uses a static count, while the latter loop always has to check the value of i and we have to incr

Re: illegaloperation error

2002-02-26 Thread mitesh
Hi friends, I have put this files Dirapi.dll , DirHelp.dll , FSWebLnk.dll , Iml32.dll , m5if32.dll , msvcrt.dll , PluginPing.dll , Proj.dll , Projctrc.dll , SwDir.dll , lingo.ini & Director.ini file as my projector name. This file i put with projector(exe) file. & in xtra folder i put this dll fi