I'd like to add this to Tom's note:
Stage layering DOES occur based on sprite channels.
Just placing a sprite into a channel auto-magically sets the locZ
equal to the channel number unless you use Lingo to specify a
different locZ.
Using the Lingo property provides an override on the 'natural
One could also put a list of cuepoints into the comment tag of an ID3
tag within a mp3, then use Director 8.5 to extract that and use
Timeout objects to trigger events whenever the 'cue points' occur.
But using cue points in SWA is a LOT easier ...
btw - What kind of audio files (aif, wav, swa
At 6:45 PM -0400 8/13/01, the nightboy wrote:
>Does anyone happen to know if, after using imaging lingo to create a new
>bitmap, I can save it to an external file/cast?
after you make the image what you want
then determine
which castLib you want {= castLibNumber),
which cast position you want (=
Hi Pekka -
I'd suggest: go forward ->
d702 had MANY issues that got addressed in d8 (more effort was
placed on addressing older bugs than in any other release of
Director) and there's no way to know if your code/project was not
dependent on something that got fixed in d8. Therefore, I'd consi
my toe's fault.
helpful?
-Buzz
At 10:29 AM -0700 8/2/01, R. Bhakti Klein wrote:
>hey buzz,
>i know it's been discussed before, but do you want to give us a quick
>reminder of what the media loading issue that can be revealed by sounds
>is???
>
>thanks,
>--bhakti
>
&g
Use the sin(x) function built into Lingo to manipulate (sprite n).loc ?
hth
-Buzz
>To the list:
>
>I am trying to create the program for the outline here (phase one):
>
>http://j.parsons.edu/~ntaylor/diagram.html
>
>I need to create a user input (easy enough) and have that number
>split into 4
I'm glad that worked.
I tend to ignore ch 1 & 2 also, but as you can see, there are some
special benefits due to their legacy.
-Buzz
At 1:48 PM -0400 8/2/01, Roy Crisman wrote:
>Indeederoni!
>
>(I tried it as soon as I replied...I'm not one of those guys who
>wants someone else to do the wo
If you mean the particle thing, it's over.
But if you still want to know more info, the URL was mentioned on the
3D list & Intel said that an archive of it should be available
tomorrow.
(no URL for this yet)
-Buzz
At 12:01 PM -0500 8/2/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Where is it again?
the milleseconds is also resets by reboot
(& works better than the ticks).
-Buzz
At 2:22 PM -0700 8/2/01, Morgan Bonar wrote:
>Steve,
>Can you use "the ticks"?? This is a running count and can only (I think) be
>reset by re-booting the computer.
>
>-Original Message-
>From: [EMAIL PROT
At 4:00 PM +1000 8/1/01, Mark Jenkinson wrote:
>Hi, I'm wandering how do you create .dxr movies, do you need the full non
>educational version of director?
>Also is there some way to save text field data when jumping between movies,
globals get preserved across movies so they can be used to carr
0, so you
probably want to only run your checking code when sprite(the
currentSprite) <> 0.
hth
-Buzz
At 8:49 PM -0700 7/30/01, Buzz Kettles wrote:
>after the GPDL props are returned to the score, they get put in the
>sprite's scriptList.
>(sprite(1).scriptlist)
>
>one
At 3:27 AM +0100 7/28/01, LePhuronn wrote:
>The only way I could get the routines I wanted to run ONCE was to call them
>from the "isOKToAttach" handler, although this may cause some erratic
>behaviour
like to live dangerously, eh?
-Buzz
>if you're cropping images through Lingo - it was fine f
after the GPDL props are returned to the score, they get put in the
sprite's scriptList.
(sprite(1).scriptlist)
one could call a movie script to fiddle with them.
hth
-Buzz
At 8:50 AM -0700 7/30/01, Morgan Bonar wrote:
>I like your ideas, but unfortunately, I do need to have access to the
>pr
as a behavior is
>> >attached(after getPropertyDescriptionList has been initialized) to a sprite
>> >in authoring?
>>
>> I think Buzz Kettles posted something about this the other day. If I
>> remember right, he said that GPDL is called twice--once to put up th
What you are asking for was functionality that was available in
Director 6, but hasn't worked since.
You used to be able to create a Dir movie (such as a set of scripts)
& save it & then in the Finder's getInfo, you could mark it as a
Stationary file.
Then when you opened this file, the OS wo
MIAWs open at their own screen location -
to have them track the stage,when you move the stage, send tells to the MIAWs.
-Buzz
At 4:28 PM +0100 7/30/01, Paul Fletcher wrote:
>Hi guys,
>
>I have a small problem where MIAW's are concerned. I have a main
>control movie - which opens center screen
This is one of the reasons that prepareMovie was introduced.
prepareFrame also happens before startMovie
For these and other reasons, many people have decided it's just
easier to not use frame 1 (beginning all sprites in at least frame 2).
hth
-Buzz
At 2:07 PM -0400 7/27/01, Slava Paperno wr
At 1:13 PM -0700 7/27/01, Kerry Thompson wrote:
>>btw (sprite -5) is the frame channel
>
>You can also address a frame script by sendSprite(0, #someMessage)
>
>So I guess the frame channel is both -5 and 0?
yup
>
>Cordially,
>
>Kerry Thompson
>
>
>[To remove yourself from this list, or to chan
-9054 x29
>cell: 859/312-3883
>
>
>- Original Message -
>From: "Buzz Kettles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: "Kendall Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 2:17 PM
>Subject: Re: RE
the actorlist method seems like too much trouble.
Since the messaging hierarchy sends enterFrame/exitFrame to every
sprite, use a dummy sprite.
Put an unfilled shape, linewidth = 0 in the score and spread it
across the frames you want to watch.
put an 'on enterFrame me' handler on it & do you
There is a new survey up -
http://www.macromedia.com/software/director/special/survey/
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Al -
It's an 80 kbps stream - that's probably way too much for a modem.
Most 56k modems deliver about 48 max on a good connect.
Try your player w/this URL:
http://audio.macromedia.com/samples/classic.swa
(It delivers a 16 kbps stream & therefore should play even in the hinterland.)
BTW you can g
Are you sure that you've got a frame script in place to do looping?
(and it's not just working in auth because of the Control Panel's
loop button...)
* a long shot, but I've done this to myself "
-Buzz
At 12:21 PM -0400 7/25/01, Allard, Simon wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Is it possible to create the "me
Doh! What was I thinking?
Kerry's right - the #range parameter can used to filter the values
and the standard place to re-verify props is in the beginSprite
handler (or call a verification/initializer handler from there).
-Buzz
At 12:17 PM -0700 7/25/01, Kerry Thompson wrote:
>>How can I ge
Only call checkParams if the values of the GPDL parameters are non-blank.
At 8:36 PM +0200 7/25/01, Enrique Nivasch wrote:
>Hello again,
>
>I'm posting again my question.
>
>I would like to check some parameters that a behavior gets through a
>getPropertyDescriptionList.
>
>What I did is create
Just don't your get your ascii in a not.
At 1:31 PM -0400 7/25/01, Colin Holgate wrote:
>>Maybe Colin's gone all 'sensitive' ?
>
>That could be the case. Sometimes I'm case sensitive.
>
>
>--
>
>[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to
>http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/li
If someone is selling cross-platform projectors, they need to buy both sides.
Since this expense is being driven by the client's requirements, it
could logically be passed back upon them.
-Buzz
At 3:00 PM +0200 7/25/01, Florian Bogeschdorfer wrote:
>I knew, there had to be something wrong. Wha
Maybe Colin's gone all 'sensitive' ?
At 11:57 PM -0700 7/24/01, R. Bhakti Klein wrote:
>well, i just didn't read anyone explicating it like that, and maybe it's
>the teacher in me, or maybe i like this list best when it's educational
>or theoretical like that, and not just people writing code for
If your STOP button sets whereto = "Go Loop", you could just move
this line to the top of the case statement.
Basically, since you want your STOP button's condition to rule, it
needs to be the first condition of your case statement.
- I added a new case "I Stopped" that will keep you on the sa
At 7:23 PM +0300 7/22/01, Pekka Buttler wrote:
>Hi and thanks for the tip.
>Sadly I could not make it work, and have to admit that although I havve been
>programming CD-ROM's for what seems like ages, all this web-stuff is 'new'
>to me. Is there anything else I need than a default HTML for the SW?
select the sprite in the score & copy paste it - that will make more of them
BUT ...
If you are trying to make 'perspective' (a 3D tilted grid) ...
I'd make a big flat 2d image of a grid then tilt it as a Quad.
-Buzz
At 8:58 PM +0200 7/22/03, Pascal Deraed wrote:
>Hi there!
>
>I want to make
Have you considered moving to Syracuse?
At 7:13 PM +0200 7/22/03, Pascal Deraed wrote:
>oh yeah! i forgot to tell...:-)
>I´d like to be able to develop simple kids game, most educational.
>
>Pascal
>
>
>- Original Message -
>From: Pekka Buttler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
you can use ResEdit or Resourcerer or a number of other utilities.
In ResEdit, select File > Get File/Folder Info & find your file &
mark the 'Invisible' checkbox (lower right of the dialog), close,
save, quit
or as easier way (on older Macs) -
Install 'Snitch' (shareware) -
It expands your ge
I searched the web for "mailto protocol" & found an IE doc that mentions:
The Recipients field can be blank, a single e-mail address, or
multiple e- mail addresses separated by semicolons (;).
PARAMETER DESCRIPTION
- --
CC= Carbon copy
getPrefs
At 11:35 AM +1000 7/20/01, Brendon wrote:
>I want to make my next director project a little more reuseable. i was
>wondering if any one had any links to sites or ini file reading functions
>that could help with storing settings externally. Do i need an xtra to read
>text/ini files of th
n.
Thanks Fumio for the additional information.
((myFloat -.5) mod 2) should then work.
-Buzz
>_
>Buzz Kettles wrote:
>>
>> Did you try the mod function? It can accept floats as well as integers.
>> (it throws away the non-integer part & then evaluates)
>>
Did you try the mod function? It can accept floats as well as integers.
(it throws away the non-integer part & then evaluates)
i.e.
myFloat = 7.3
put ilk(myFloat)
-- #float
if (myFloat mod 2) then put "not even"
-- "not even" -- ( 7 is an odd number )
hth
-Buzz
At 9:56 AM -0400 7/17/01, Cole
>Okay,
>
>Well, no responses.
>
>Anyway. I have a theory.
>
>I was wondering if the puppet sound stops playing because another
>movie window is openning and then it works fine the second time
>because I do not have the MIAW set to "forget" upon returning to the
>main menu. So the second time it
please look in the manual under SWA control
duration isn't available until the SWA has started been preloaded or is playing
(state = > 1)
-Buzz
>Hi,
> Can anybody please tell me how I can control .swa files, controls
>like play, pause, determining the end of the swa so that i can play
>a sli
that capability is not built in
export only outputs the stage image in 2 formats: bitmap & dig vid
-Buzz
>Hi,
> Can anybody please tell me how can I batch export internal cast
>members like images, sound, etc, so that they are in a file format
>outside the .dir. Thanks in advance.
>
>
>Salm
if
put tx.charPosToLoc(274)
(the 2nd character after the last) returns the same point, then I'd
say it's a feature - it shows you where the end of it is
(where the insertion cursor would blink after the last char ?)
-Buzz
At 5:42 PM -0700 7/16/01, Kerry Thompson wrote:
>Did you know this?
>
>
If a track is playing (or paused), then you can't switch tracks until
you've done a stop().
as for your question, if you are changing songs (URL =) then add a
re-setup for the button too.
hth
-Buzz
At 3:36 PM -0500 7/16/01, Craig Wehr wrote:
>hello,
>I'm trying to set up a jukebox player wit
There's currently no runtime creation/manipulation of the cue points
lists (names or times).
It's a great potential future feature, and it's already been included
into the Director wishlist.
-Buzz
At 11:18 AM -0400 7/9/01, Kafka's Daytime wrote:
>This question has come across a few times in t
your projector will have to launch an external ripper.
For Macintosh, SoundEdit 16 included (& it's still offered for
download) a batch processor for doing this.
'The SWAtomator'
-Buzz
At 10:11 AM -0500 7/16/01, Robert Wright wrote:
>I need to find a way from a projector to record audio an
and one can check to find a blank channel by using
on findEmptyChan
mt = (member 0 of castLib 0)
last = the lastChannel
repeat with i = last to 1
if (sprite(i).member = mt) then exit
end repeat
return i
end
At 1:05 PM -0400 7/16/01, Bill Numerick wrote:
>>I know, create sprit
the 'a' is your number & 'b' is the divisor & the result is the remainder.
so 7 mod 3 = 1
hope this helps
-Buzz
At 10:05 AM -0700 7/16/01, Irv Kalb wrote:
>If you are using integers, use the "mod" function, as in
>
> if (a mod b) = 0 then
> -- divisible
> else
> -- not evenly div
Toast is the standard burn app on mac
-Buzz
At 12:29 PM -0700 7/6/01, Stephen Recker wrote:
>Bastien,
>
>Thanks. Now we're talking. I remember enhanced CDs from my musician days,
>but back then (we had to program by candlelight) enhanced CDs were not an
>easy thing to make.
>
>I have a PC but wou
Sorry Kerry (et al).
A full compiler doesn't really seem like the way to go.
I have to agree w/Brennan's suggestion.
Being able to take a script member & export/compile it out as an new
type of 'Xtra' would be a great feature!
It's also something they could PUT ON THE BOX & in the PR RELEASE!
If performance becomes an issue,
a big case statement might execute faster (no conversions)
-Buzz
At 3:39 PM +0200 7/4/01, Milo Mineur wrote:
>Thanx Pranav!
>
>works perfect.
>(I was searching for a function instead the solution)
>
>
>Milo
>
>
>
>on UCase(MyChar)
> -- Convert the character to
Eric,
There's a backdrop layer for 2d backgrounds
(& an overlay layer for 2d foregrounds)
anything that can be a .image can be put into either
hth
-Buzz
At 10:39 AM +0800 7/4/01, Eric Choy wrote:
>Hi All,
>I use Dir8.5 create alot of object and do some programme on it
>already. However, I wol
There's a 'Password Entry' behavior the Text tab of the Library Palette.
-Buzz
At 10:23 AM +1000 7/4/01, brett wrote:
>Hi all ..
>
>would anyone know of a script or have a script that masks a password Field ?
>I have a User Detail screen that pulls their details from a database,
>however I woul
Have you tried a URL such as "http://www.cnn.com";?
(almost always guaranteed to be there)
What does netError() return? -- validate the URL)
What does netDone() return? -- validate that the process has finished
What does put netTextResult() return? -- validate the stuff you got back
-Buzz
>
Terry forgot to answer one question.
The 'place' that one gets this info from is the Director application.
Copy the Director application (the authoring executable).
Open the copy in ResEdit or Resourcerer and examine the BNDL resource, ID 128.
On Macs, every application that wants to inform the
use Quicktime to play your AVI file?
At 9:28 AM +0200 6/29/01, Kamil Dabkowski wrote:
>Hi Buzz,
>
>As I wrote I tried this but then the Avi sound is not playing. The silence is
>ofcourse in different channel.
>
>take care
>
>Kamil
>
>Buzz Kettles wrote:
>
>>
What have you heard hints of?
some things have become fairly well know within the public lists and
can be searched for (such as creating irregular shaped MIAWs)
hth
-Buzz
At 11:33 AM +0200 6/29/01, Andrea Boratto wrote:
>Hi list,
>where can I find some information about "Undocumented Lingo".
eat it?
At 6:01 PM -0700 6/28/01, R. Bhakti Klein wrote:
>Buzz Kettles wrote:
>>
>> & hidden doesn't mean safe. erasing a hard drive will destroy it.
>>
>> If you want to keep it safe, take it with you.
>
>but what if you get mugged or something?!?
& hidden doesn't mean safe. erasing a hard drive will destroy it.
If you want to keep it safe, take it with you.
-Buzz
At 4:49 PM -0700 6/28/01, Kerry Thompson wrote:
>>What I was meaning (in some way) was that if you make a .zip, anyone can
>>delete it.
>
>Fred didn't say why he wanted to kee
stuff it or zip it w/a password
At 4:44 PM -0500 6/28/01, Fred Westermeyer wrote:
>Hi List,
>
>How do I or can I lockout someone from getting in to my dir file and
>editing them when I'm not around?
>
>Thanks
>
>
>
>Fred Westermeyer
>Slot Graphics
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Grand Casino Biloxi
>265 Bea
Apparently one can send/rcv data chunks from babelfish from within Director.
see http://www.babelfish.com/
maybe that would help ...
-Buzz
At 1:57 PM -0700 6/28/01, Kerry Thompson wrote:
>>There's a way to create a autocomplete feature, the user begin type and see
>>grayed the possible matchs f
AND ... you fixed a typo in the second version sent!
So for your question:
Considering that one can't usually map words one-to-one across
languages, you might be trying to do something impossible.
There's also the larger issue: word order
English changes it's meaning when word order is chang
Colin's correct. I was thinking of edited members and had forgotten
about deleted.
BTW: the append-style Save is what MS Word does and one can see their
older edits if they open an edited Word doc into a raw text processor
such as BBEdit.
hth
-Buzz
At 12:00 PM -0400 6/28/01, Colin Holgate w
Upgade.
At 2:09 PM -0300 6/28/01, Luiz Gustavo Castelan Póvoas wrote:
>and what do I do in director 7?
>
>[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to
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untried (as I've never heard of your symptom before):
play some silence after the AVI to clear out the buffers?
-Buzz
At 10:58 PM +0200 6/27/01, Kamil Dabkowski wrote:
>Hi,
>
>At the begining of presentation I play avi with sound. The I want to
>start a main sound that will play during the whole
'Save' is a quick Save, appending changes to the end of the existing file.
'Save & Compact' reintegrates the changes and rewrites the file.
If a file is large, or there were lots of edits, this could take
appreciable time.
'Save As' reintegrates the changes and writes a new file.
hth
-Buzz
A
Kamil,
I think the point was that:
you didn't even look into the Help System.
If you had looked for the ESC key (which you knew about), you would
have found the property you had wanted no matter what it's particular
name was.
(i.e. 'the blockESC' or 'the notQuit' or whatever)
Complaining ab
At 6:25 PM -0700 6/26/01, R. Bhakti Klein wrote:
>"R. Bhakti Klein" wrote:
>>
>> yeah! the sound is fine!
>
>that wasn't sarcastic, by the way, just exclamatory and silly.
>not sure if that came across on email.
I heard it as you had intended.
>--bhakti, evincing his imminent breakdown by respo
releasing bug fixes for one
>version not as a patch, but in the next paid version. first happened
>with 6.5 as i recall. kinda insidious, if you ask me.
>
>no offense to the fabulously helpful former MM employees who are on
>this list...
>
>--bh
>
>Buzz Kettles wrote:
>&
Irv's correct - this was addressed in d8.5
And please note:
It wasn't a SOUND bug -
It was a LOADING bug, that became most obvious while playing a sound,
because we humans are so sensitive to sound gaps because sound is
continuous media.
*a guy who's sick of sound taking the blame*
-Buzz
It's in the background because Flash is probably DTS.
It's supposed to cover the whole stage
The lagging may be that you have Snap-To-Grid on ...
-Buzz
At 12:43 AM +0200 6/27/01, schmidt-r wrote:
>i have two vector-sprites, three bitmap-sprites and one flash-member.
>altogether they build an an
in the MWM (Made With Macromedia) agreement
Somewhere on the CD (depending on which Director you are running),
there's a folder describing the rules & including some images to use.
hth
-Buzz
At 2:14 PM +0100 6/25/01, Jason [JZway Interactive] wrote:
>Ooops sorry, forgot to change the sub
At 4:54 PM -0600 6/22/01, Tom Richardson wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Can some one please help me understand something about using the
>"Dither" feature
>in the properties settings on a bit map cast member?
>
>Here is my question,
>
>I am using all 24 bit images in my director project, if the monitor is
>set
If either is set to Director To Stage you will get this.
At 10:48 AM -0400 6/21/01, Nicolas S.-Roy wrote:
>Is there a known problem with putting a Quicktime 5 movie (in Direct to
>Stage mode) over a playing Flash cast member ?
>
>As soon as I put the Quicktime movie in Direct to Stage mode, it st
Yes, after the score order has been used, the cast order comes into play.
Palettes & Fonts get an exception & come down first, because any
bitmap or Text member could need that corresponding associate member.
One byproduct of knowing that the score order is primary, is that you
can control thi
I've worked with both (Authorware & Director)
& I agree w/Pekka.
Authorware's strong suit is that it keeps score of tons of stuff
under the hood automatically.
Director can keep score too, but have to set up the variables.
Not that this is hard, but it's not done for you.
More importantly for m
At 5:22 PM +0100 6/20/01, Alexandre Cop wrote:
>Have you tried clearing the playlist first, i.e.
>sound(1).setPlayList([])
sound().stop() does this automatically
& in general, don't use soundbusy() - use sound().isBusy()
- it's more responsive - soundbusy() is slow.
-Buzz
>Hope this helps.
>
>
If you don't know that it needs to be updated, then ... ?
At 10:51 AM -0700 6/20/01, Kerry Thompson wrote:
>>Kerry is asking if the older version of the FileXtra still works
>>with the newest version of Director.
>
>And with good reason. I'm in the process of using some legacy code
>in 8.5. The
if member(nextSprite).mediaReady = TRUE then
> stop member "sound"
> go next
> end if
>end mouseUp
>
>-Original Message-
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>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
>Behalf Of Buzz Kettles
>Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 7:19 PM
At 5:32 PM -0700 6/19/01, Irv Kalb wrote:
>At 5:13 PM -0700 6/19/01, Buzz Kettles wrote:
>>OUCH!
>>You're being mean today, Irv.
>>
>
>Hey Buzz. No, not really, this is all in jest. Bhakti made a
>reference to the TV Show "The Weakest Link" and I wa
try adding this script into the script channel of the marker frames:
on exitFrame me
if the frameReady = FALSE then go the frame
end
When you jump to a marker (such as when your button does 'go next'),
this will cause the playhead to loop on that frame until the sprites
are loaded.
hth
-B
Are the jpegs internal or linked?
-Buzz
At 4:01 PM -0500 6/19/01, Mike Hiatt wrote:
>I've built a shocked slideshow that's playing a series of swas
>and jpegs. I'm swapping out the swas in a member called "sound"
>and changing the member number of my jpegs on each marker.
>
>My routine works fin
OUCH!
You're being mean today, Irv.
btw - I just suggested the same thing offline (use the File Xtra)
note: this Xtra is included in D7 & D8 in the Save As Java folder.
In D8.5, I think the File3 Xtra (updated) is in the Goodies or Partners folder.
-Buzz
At 4:56 PM -0700 6/19/01, Irv Kalb wro
goToNetPage URL
hth
-Buzz
At 6:42 PM + 6/19/01, Jasper Verhulst wrote:
>Hi there Lingo-masters...
>Does anyone know if its possible to launch a webpage (wich is local
>on my harddisk) with my standard webbrowser (Internet Explorer) from
>a Projector-file?
>I mean opening the Projector.exe
what's the error?
At 8:40 PM -0700 6/18/01, JUAN COLON wrote:
>how can i include miaws in a projector. i made a projector and when
>you click the button that calls the miaw it gives me an error.
>
>JUAN-NYC
>_
>Get your FREE downloa
the Clipboard ... is a single entity.
It works for me to & from external apps.
As for the number of chars, you can count those before & after ...
-Buzz
At 6:29 PM -0400 6/18/01, Slava Paperno wrote:
>Right, Court. This works for copy-and-paste within my movie, and I
>got that part working. Bu
As of Director 8, you can mark the 'Enable Edit Shortcuts' checkbox
on the Movie tab of the Property Inspector.
Then the standard shortcut keys can be used for cut/copy/paste within
that movie after it's been projectorized or Shocked.
hth
-Buzz
At 2:41 AM -0400 6/18/01, Slava Paperno wrote:
At 10:06 PM +0100 6/16/01, LePhuronn wrote:
>But perhaps, Mr Kettles, you are somehwat biased given your previous status
>as Director Quality Architect.
I certainly do agree.
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At 9:42 PM +0200 6/16/01, Kamil Dabkowski wrote:
>Dear list,
>
>Simple question. Which approach for creating animation is better (more
>efficient) for director:
>- frame by frame animation created in Score and then "saved" as film
>loop
>- or creating an animation gif and importing it to Director.
VERY IMPORTANT!
The printed manuals: 'Using Director' & 'Lingo Dictionary' didn't
change between d8.0 & d8.5.
The electronic Help got a ton of corrections and so is more definitive.
-Buzz
At 6:30 PM -0400 6/17/01, Colin Holgate wrote:
>>put sprite(1).member.line[1] --text member
>>--This is L
At 10:06 PM +0100 6/16/01, LePhuronn wrote:
>But perhaps, Mr Kettles, you are somehwat biased given your previous status
>as Director Quality Architect.
I certainly do.
But please realize that also means that I probably have awareness of
many more issues in the product than most people.
This i
check setting the windowtype.
if there isn't a standard type that satisfies, you could use the
undocumented & unsupported 'irregular shaped MIAW' technique.
btw - this technique can also be used to create border-less projectors ...
(a recent discussion topic)
hth
-Buzz
At 12:10 AM -0700 6/16
check setting the windowtype.
if there isn't a type that satisfies, you could use the undocumented
& unsupported 'irregular shaped MIAW' technique.
-Buzz
At 12:10 AM -0700 6/16/01, William Miller wrote:
>is there a way to have the window launch without the size bar on the
>bottom of the windo
perhaps one could read the Lingo Dictionary?
puppetSound whichChannel, whichCastMember
But instead, I would suggest using the new Sound Control Lingo
introduced in Director 8.
sound(whichChannel).play(whichCastMember)
-Buzz
At 11:58 AM -0700 6/14/02, William Miller wrote:
>When ever I use th
At 5:50 PM +0300 6/14/01, Pekka Buttler wrote:
>I know. I've withnessed the following !free! updates myself:
>4.04
>5.01
>6.01
>6.02
>(D6 projector patch)
>7.02
>
>What greatly annoys me, is that D7.02 did not fix even half of the known
>problems, and included support for new media types, making i
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>- Original Message -----
>From: "Michael Nadel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Buzz Kettles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: "HandyMan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAI
At 4:11 PM -0400 6/11/01, Gene Fritzinger wrote:
>Hello List,
>I have 365 sprites in one frame. Each one of those sprites has a
>property called myRedBoxDate which is actually a date object (each
>sprite represents a day of the year). At a point in the movie, I
>create a linear list which conta
I'd guess that you have streaming ON & your media is not here yet.
please go to http://www.macromedia.com/support/director & search.
TechNote #13122 will should be helpful.
Additionally, TechNote #12109 has a lot of QT answers.
hth
-Buzz
At 12:20 AM +0800 6/12/01, lamwk wrote:
>?Hi all,
>
>I
In the Library palette > Controls group, there's a Dropdown list behavior.
Drag it into your cast & then use the Behavior Inspector to read how to use it.
hth
-Buzz
At 2:37 PM -0500 6/13/01, Fred Westermeyer wrote:
>I need some info on doing a dropdown list. I looked in the help in
>D7.02 and
Could you have accidentally zoomed in too far ?
(@ 50% score view the keyframes are tiny and at 25% they are not shown).
*just an idea*
-Buzz
At 10:09 AM +0100 6/13/01, Malcolm Beddows wrote:
>Hi people -
>
>One quick question to you all. Q: As i was working on a project yesterday, i
>suddenly
At 12:48 AM +0200 6/13/01, Michael Nadel wrote:
> > >on playSound
>> > repeat with count = 1 to 30
>> > sound(4).queue([#member: member(count, "sound"), #which: count ])
>> > end repeat
>> > sound(4).play()
>> >end
>
>> >Let's say I want to set a global variable called soundCount
At 6:58 PM +0200 6/12/01, Michael Nadel wrote:
> > Or at
>>least, is there a way where I can get Director to execute a some handler or
>>command each time it starts a new sound from the list of 32 sounds that
>were
>>queued? (Like every time a new sound from the list is played, something
>>shoul
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