RE: the text of the frame script

2001-07-20 Thread Mark R. Jonkman
In addition to Colin's suggestion, if you are using D8 or above, then check out the markerList which unlike the obnoxios labelList is actually a property list that contains the marker name and its corresponding frame number. Makes it a heck of a lot easier to do what your asking. Plus if you just

Re: the text of the frame script

2001-07-20 Thread Colin Holgate
Is there some reason you can't just use markers? Put a marker on each frame you have as a stopping point, and then use go next or go previous to do the navigation. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages t

Re: the text of the frame script

2001-07-20 Thread Irv Kalb
Sounds like a job for score recording. I would build an author-time utility that builds your list. I had forgotten about "the frameScript" but you could easily use that to get the name of the behavior. Something like this (untested): on BuildListOfKeyFrames beginrecording MyStack =

Re: the text of the frame script

2001-07-20 Thread Slava Paperno
Thanks, Irv! I didn't know that the frame script channel was channel 0, that really helps. However, if I only wanted to learn the text of the script of the current frame, I could use "the frameScript." But I need a way to get the text of the script of frame "MyFrame," not just the current fram

Re: the text of the frame script

2001-07-20 Thread Irv Kalb
I can't imagine why you would want this. But assuming that you have a good reason - here's an untested approach ... The frame script channel is zero. So first you get the scriptInstanceList of sprite 0 lBehaviors = sprite(0)scriptInstanceList This returns a list, but frame scripts only

the text of the frame script

2001-07-20 Thread Slava Paperno
I can't find out how to refer to the text of the frame script. script(frameLabel).scriptText?? Help, anyone? Thanks! Slava [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prob

Re: [ANN] vList Xtra - saves and retrieves list datawith optional encryption

2001-07-20 Thread Roy Pardi
At 4:25 PM -0400 7/20/01, Al Hospers wrote: >Daniel Devolder and updateStage, inc. are happy to announce the >release >of vList Xtra. vList Xtra saves and retrieves Lingo lists and other >data >types in binary format using either an external file or a cast member >for sound like a good xtra! Con

[ANN] vList Xtra - saves and retrieves list data with optional encryption

2001-07-20 Thread Al Hospers
Daniel Devolder and updateStage, inc. are happy to announce the release of vList Xtra. vList Xtra saves and retrieves Lingo lists and other data types in binary format using either an external file or a cast member for storage. Lists are a powerful and fast way to manage all kinds of information i

RE: Repeating through hilited lines to get the text of each line

2001-07-20 Thread Mark R. Jonkman
Hi Gene YOu might not need to construct a repeat loop at all, rather, copy the text straight across put field(x).line[a..b] after field(y) might do the trick for you (off the top of my head.. which isn't saying much ;-) sincerely Mark R. Jonkman -Original Message- From: Gene Fritzinge

RE: Splash Screen and "otto.ini" file

2001-07-20 Thread Bastien Bouchard
> >The one issue that I'm aware of, that I think hasn't been > mentioned yet in > >this thread. It is that a full screen Windows projector will not show > >the splash screen. Not everywhere. Works perfectly for me with D8 projects on both Win 2k and 98. BTW, i tested the "otto.ini" file funct

Re: Repeating through hilited lines to get the text of each line

2001-07-20 Thread Slava Paperno
How about: member("AccountsSelected").text = member("Accounts").line[a..b] (Untested email Lingo, as they say :-) S. At 03:06 PM 7/20/2001 -0400, you wrote: >Hi List, >I'm having trouble constructing a repeat loop to copy the text of the >hilited lines of one field to another field member. I

RE: Thanks Mark!! Is this type of hiliting & selecting possible?

2001-07-20 Thread Mark R. Jonkman
Hi Gene If you do scroll by line and hide the hiliter sprite while the hilited line is not visible would be my first choice. If that is not possible, then you need to be prepared to monitor the position and height of the line in question and collapse the hiliter to a height of 1, or have a bitma

Repeating through hilited lines to get the text of each line

2001-07-20 Thread Gene Fritzinger
Hi List, I'm having trouble constructing a repeat loop to copy the text of the hilited lines of one field to another field member. I have a field member "Accounts", the user can click on a line in the field to hilite it, then holding down the SHIFT key, click on another line below to select a

Thanks Mark!! Is this type of hiliting & selectingpossible?

2001-07-20 Thread Gene Fritzinger
Thanks Marks for your explaination. I've gotten as far as the third from last paragraph and everything is working well. Although I was wondering, how would you go about handling the scrolling of the hiliter sprite since one of the fields has over one thousand lines? Thanks again, Gene >>> "M

RE: Splash Screen

2001-07-20 Thread Kerry Thompson
>The one issue that I'm aware of, that I think hasn't been mentioned yet in >this thread. It is that a full screen Windows projector will not show >the splash screen. Ah! That's the problem, then. Our projectors are full screen. That's ok--I've written a stub that shows a bitmap. Took me al

record sound

2001-07-20 Thread akumet
hi. how do i make a cdrom which the users ccan record their voice in it. I tried using the audio xtra (demo ver), it work OK but i cant get it to plot the 'wavey' graphics... like those we get in sound forge. please advice anybody. _ Free email with pe

RE: Splash Screen

2001-07-20 Thread Kerry Thompson
>You're including filename extensions, right? What, you think I'm a Mac user? ;-) (Please, no religious wars--I'm OS agnostic). Cordially, Kerry Thompson [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the

Re: IVR presentation

2001-07-20 Thread Tim Ennis
Have you investigated using VMXL? I use this outside of Director, it might work inside. Just curious... - Original Message - From: "toxic soldier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lingo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 8:25 AM Subject: IVR presentation > hi, list > > i'm jus

RE: Retrieving HTML parameters from URL

2001-07-20 Thread Pekka Buttler
Umm. According to the documentation Syntax member(whichCastMember).URL the URL of member whichCastMember Description Cast member property; specifies the URL for Shockwave Audio (SWA) and Flash movie cast members. For Flash movie members, this property is synonymous with the pathName memb

RE: IVR presentation

2001-07-20 Thread Kafka's Daytime
I've been using DirectXtras XtrAgent which takes advantage of Microsoft's speech recognition and agent technologies to build accessible apps for the vision impaired. You can use XtrAgent to build speech navigation into your presentation. You can't detect if a mic is connected on using a Windows P

AVI Sound problems

2001-07-20 Thread Grant Gelech
Hi: I'm having problems with getting the sound to play on and AVI file. The intro movie, which has an AVI in it plays fine then it goes to another movie opens and plays the AVI, no sound. I have tried vitrually everything that I know with no luck. I am using Director 7.0.2 any suggestion on wh

Re: Retrieving HTML parameters from URL

2001-07-20 Thread grimmwerks
You might actually want to look at php instead - pretty simple. Then if you have something like entry.php?name=bob Then that variable name will actually be seen by the php page itself, so that if you have 'name' in your php and for the shockwave embed (ie embed src="movie.dcr" param1=name) then

Re: Retrieving HTML parameters from URL

2001-07-20 Thread Colin Holgate
>I have the situation where on starting a shockwave game, the engine gives me >a parameter in the URL like >http://xxx/numbers1.htm?lmsid=3 > >Now I need to be able to get the data from the URL, especially the >characters which come after the question mark. >I'd hate having to use Javascript for i

Retrieving HTML parameters from URL

2001-07-20 Thread Pekka Buttler
Sorry people. I might me dumb, blind or tired (probably tired) I have the situation where on starting a shockwave game, the engine gives me a parameter in the URL like http://xxx/numbers1.htm?lmsid=3 Now I need to be able to get the data from the URL, especially the characters which come after t

RE: field-contents -> emailBody

2001-07-20 Thread Al Hospers
> Does anybody know how to specify an attachment though? from everything I know you will need an Xtra to do this. the DirectEmail from Direct Xtras does this. hth Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alcambersoftcom http://www.cambersoft.com A famous linguist once said: "There is no language wherein a

RE: field-contents -> emailBody

2001-07-20 Thread Ian Lloyd
Good info! Does anybody know how to specify an attachment though? Thanks, Ian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Buzz Kettles Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 9:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: field-contents -> emailBody I searched

Re: Splash Screen

2001-07-20 Thread Charlie Fiskeaux II
I often use full screen Windows projectors and splash screens work fine with them. One other thing that might be helpful is that a .bmp only works on Windows, on a mac it has to be a .pct. Charlie Fiskeaux II The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054 x29 cell: 859/312-3883 - O

IVR presentation

2001-07-20 Thread toxic soldier
hi, list i'm just working over a presentation for IVR systems, and i want to ask you about something like this: 1. is that possible to navigate this presentation by voice (with our custom phrazes)? any ideas, solutions, extras... 2. how can i detecting that microphone is connected or not?

Re: Cast & behaviour's icon

2001-07-20 Thread pranavn
Pretty easy to do that. Import an image file into Director, right click on its thumbnail in the property inspector and click copy. Similarly select the behavior script, right click on its thumbnail and click paste. Regards, Pranav --- Samue

Re: Cast & behaviour's icon

2001-07-20 Thread Eric Choy
Hi, Read this To create a custom cast member thumbnail: 1 Select the bitmap image to use as the new thumbnail and copy it to your system’s clipboard. You can copy the image from any bitmap editor, including the Paint window. The image can be of any size, but smaller images look better b

Cast & behaviour's icon

2001-07-20 Thread Andrea Boratto
I'd like to free distribuite my Director 8 behaviour library... easy you can say save it as cast... But I'd like to associate a icon to my behaviour, exactly like Macromedia behaviours Library. Is there a way to do that? Thanks. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go