Re: lingo-l Scaling down the stage
on 10/17/06 9:59 AM, Pedja at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hope this will help...it's quick and dirty but should do the job Pedja I'll try it too. :) Thanks, John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Tablet PC
on 9/12/06 11:29 PM, Dave Miller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HTH, Dave Thanks. I'll file that under things to watch out for. Much appreciated, John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l mp3
on 6/9/06 11:34 AM, Michael Nadel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pause and play commands doesn't seem to work with MP3??? Also, can I play from a specific cue point? If not mp3, can I do this with wav? how do I figure out the starttime from the place of the cuepoint... anyone? .wav .aif Both support cuepoints. .mov (audio track) lets you cue off of the movietime Later, John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l video formats
on 5/4/06 12:02 PM, Kurt Griffin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to mention FLV. Though it requires the Flash asset xtra (QuickTime and AVI require xtras as well), and I believe must be loaded and run by an embedded swf. But all of those extras are included with Director. No third party expense. John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l How to know when a Flash movie finished playing
on 3/31/06 6:20 AM, Diego Landro at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colisters, maybe this is a stupid question, but what i need is my director to play a Flash movie over which i have no control -i recieved it as a flash movie and can't meddle with it- So the question is, i place it on a sprite frame and i want it to play fully before i move to the next frame. With Lingo, how can i know when it finished playing, becuase ic ould not find any way to do it, because if i use the percentstreamed property i get to see a few frames cause the streaming is really quick since it is not over the net, but from the local disk. As for now i use atimer to wait for the appropiate amount of time and then move on, but i think in slower machines i can have a problem since in that amount of time the animation won't play fully. Any ideas??? Thanks Diego Landro You can try: sprite(flashsprite).playing // true or false === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Video performance
on 2/3/06 8:09 AM, Mendelsohn, Michael at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all... I'm seeking advice about how best to decide whether to stretch out the drawRect to the dimensions of the monitor. I think factors would include amount of video ram and the processor. I have 35 sprites and a DTS flash sprite on the stage. When I test on my system (Pentium 4, 2GB RAM, 1600x1200 monitor), it's a little sluggish, but not too bad. I'm currently writing a handler to figure this out based on aspect ratio, but I think I also may need to include hardware configuration factors. I know that my projector will mostly be deployed on 1024x768 notebooks, which is the original size of the stage, but I'm trying to cover all bases. So, any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks, - Michael M. I've always let the user make the final decision. I play the video in the dimensions that it was compressed to run in and below it put a little instruction that always them to either click on the video or hit their spacebar to toggle to full screen. If after doing that, they don't like the performance or quality, they just toggle back. It covers both scenarios and let's the user have the ultimate control over their viewing experience. Good luck, John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground
on 1/23/06 3:23 AM, Tim Welford at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This will produce better results, especially when you have multiple internet browser windows open. Alternativly, you could create a small html page with an auto forward javascript script in the distribution of your movie, call your html page with the desired url as a parameter, use Javascript to set the focus of the window to the front before forwarding to the site you want to send them to. HTH Tim Do you happen to know that if I try this approach, is it applicable to WinXX, OS9 and OSX? Thanks, John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Re[2]: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground
on 1/23/06 3:44 AM, Duck at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then wait a moment, giving the window a chance to open, then call some javascript: gotoNetPage(javascript:windowName.focus()) Doesn't the JavaScript have to be placed in the html page that you are calling? These are commercial websites out on the net that I don't have any access too. Thanks, John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground
on 1/23/06 9:05 AM, Stephen Ingrum at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact, I can't get it to fail. Are you doing anything special with the Director window? (Stay on Top, ???) HTH, Stephen Nope. We are testing on WinXP and I've had three friends try it with FireFox and all three have the same problem. Browser comes to foreground the first time, but alt-tab back to director and make another selection and the browser loads the page, but stays in background. I've tried these in several combinations: gotoNetPage baOpenURL baWinHandle baWindowToBack baWindowToFront baWindowList After a couple of toggles and minimizes, same problem, sooner or later. The BEST one is I have it working on IE perfectly, send it to my client (also using IE and WinXP) and its doesn't work for her. :( Fun stuff..grr John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Re[2]: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground
on 1/23/06 9:51 AM, Valentin Schmidt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK the JS-focus() idea wouldn't really help, because in firefox window.focus() only gives focus to a window IN THE REALM of the browser, but it doesn't steal the focus from other applications (I think that's differenet with IE PC?). cheers, valentin That's what I've found out. :( === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground
on 1/23/06 10:20 AM, Kevin M. Dean at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could have an html with the following: SCRIPT type=text/javascript focus(); window.location.replace(http://www.yoururl.com/;) /SCRIPT That gives that page the focus in the browser, but its still behind Director. :( This is NUTZ... === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground
on 1/23/06 2:19 PM, Mark Hagers at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One more thing to try (but it's what we call in dutch a 'horse remedy'): if the user's browser is firefox, test to see if it's currently active, and kill it's process before calling gotonetpage (or baOpenUrl). Not exactly playing nice, but perhaps it will do the trick? How would you go about killing the process? John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground
on 1/23/06 3:17 PM, Valentin Schmidt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: baCloseApp( WinHandle ) would kill the app, but I wouldn't recommend this, as the user might be pissed if he had other important browser windows (or tabs) opened. Valentin I know. :( Thought of that one already. :) John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground
on 1/23/06 3:31 PM, Mark Hagers at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's why I called it a horses remedy ;-) Clients. We can't live without them and we can't SHOOT them. :) Thanks, John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground
Howdy all, I'm using the standard gotoNetPage(myURL) to launch a couple of weblinks. In IE it works everytime correctly. With FireFox (on a PC), the first call launches the browser just fine in foreground. Then if a user clicks on the task bar back to my program and clicks another link, the site is accessed, but the browser stays behind Director. You have to toggle back to the browser. The average user thinks that the link didn't work. With IE, each click brings the browser to the foreground over Director. How can I get that same result with FireFox, so each call puts the browser in foreground. If you close the browser is works everytime, but if you toggle over, it stays in background. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground
on 1/22/06 5:26 PM, Mark Hagers at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you bring the browser's active window to the front immediately *after* issuing a baOpenUrl call, that window should contain the webpage you just opened. Is this not what you're seeing? Same intermittent results. :( === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l strange QUIT message ...
on 12/30/05 6:46 PM, nik crosina at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... and I am thinking: No, it's not. It's quittingbecasue I clicked quit. Becasue the thing is that when I use it, all functions are working perfectly, it uses the PDF Xtra as it should, and there is not much more in there that could go wrong (or so I am thnk ing currently...) Have you heared or experience dthat before? Thaks and a happy and enjoyable start to the new year all of you Try HALT. I had problems years ago with quit, changed to halt and perfect. Plus during development, quit makes Director close if you encounter it, so that is a GOOD thing as well. Happy New Year to EVERYONE. John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l asigning castmember to sprite
on 12/18/05 7:31 PM, Rob Romanek at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as other ideas for dealing with language, I work with English and French versions of programs all the time and I have 2 external casts, one English, one French they have their equivalent members named exactly the same and residing in the same positions. That's the way I've always done it as well. I had 4 languages, 4 identical casts, changed the castlib and everything worked great. John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l flickering button (was: a question)
on 12/7/05 3:44 PM, Thomas Higgins at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In reply to Kerry's issues, different reg point locations might also be at play in addition to whether the images were the same size before importing into Director and somehow one had extra white space trimmed on import/insert while the other did not. Either of those an issue in your case Kerry? Agreed. If you didn't select trip white space on one or both of them, that could cause them to be dissimilar. John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l 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). One pixel can make the difference in any direction. Trim down the first castmember (the one being initially rolled over) and your problem will go away more than likely. Best of luck, John Your members are different sizes. When it changes to the rollOver member, the mouse is no longer over the sprite because, I am guessing, the rollOver sprite is smaller. -Jeremy Aker Mario Arreseygor wrote: Hi all: I have the same problem in different movies. I have a button that when de mouse is over (rollover) it member change. When I use on mouseLeave the member change again. The problem is that when the mouse is over the button limit (bottom) the members change quickly between one member and the other. I tried with different method but the results are the same. Can you help me? (Excuse me for my English) Thank you in advanced Mario Arreseygor === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l a question
on 12/6/05 1:41 PM, Mario Arreseygor at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all again: First: ¡¡THANK YOU!! The problem was the first member a little larger than the second. ¡¡Thank you again!! Mario Arreseygor Great! Glad to help. Take care, John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: 网易邮箱自动回复: lingo-l Screensaver made with Director
on 10/23/05 12:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry... Can't read this one. :( === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l stopping multiple clicks
on 10/6/05 12:47 PM, Diego Landro at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well you could erase the part about while the mousedown, if you just want the child to go one by one, the following should work: on mouseDown me go to the frame + 1 end if, on the other hand, you want the child to be able to move JUST one frame no matter how many times he has pushed the button, you should erase the behavior from the button sprite when you click on it, thus allowing the child to click as many times as he wants, start a timer , say for 5 secs, and then reattach the behavior to the button sprite. This is the only way i can think of right now for avoiding multiple clicks resulting in multiple jumping from one frame to the next. Other thing is change the next button between one frame and the next, but this could be a little confusing, especially if we´re talking children as end users. Diego Landro This is simple and does the trick. on mouseDown if the doubleClick then exit startTimer repeat while the mouseDown end repeat if the timer 20 then exit end if go to the frame + 1 end Instead of 20, you can set a variable then globally change the timing sequence, however you want it. You use this for all your arrows, test the timing and set the variable. L8R, John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l just testing aliveness AGAIN
on 10/5/05 11:19 AM, Rob Romanek at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Buzz, I got both your tests. As a result I have determined that you are definitely alive. Rob I concur. ;) === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l just testing aliveness AGAIN
on 10/5/05 3:12 PM, Buzz Kettles at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This seems to happen periodically to my Lingo-L account. Anyone else get behavior like this? tia -Buzz I've only noticed a gap in mail and then sometimes a bunch of past dated posts. But never a complete shutdown. Sorry, John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-lscript error in projector only
on 7/26/05 2:11 PM, Thomas W.J.C. McCrystal at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Missing xtras is always a good place to start. That's always my FIRST place to look. :) === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Page Turning effect
on 7/6/05 7:57 AM, Mike Blaustein at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DMTools (http://www.dmtools.com) has several packs of transitions. The one called DM Transition Pack 2 has several page peel effects. Sorry, but its been my experience that the DMTools can be flakey. I've been called upon to fix several programs, written by another developer and the first thing I've had to do was remove those DM transitions. They were one of the primary causes of failures and problems. When we test the program on several machines, we found inconsistencies of performance that cleared up after removal of those transitions. Just food for thought, but by NO means cut in stone or to be considered absolute. Just my personal experience. Have a good day, John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l Othello game
Hi all, I'm trying to build an Othello game and a Tetris like game. Anyone have a suggestion on where I can read up on the logic behind these games. I've got a good resource for the imaging lingo part (graphics), but the game logic is where I'm not sure how to get started. Any suggestions or resources would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks in advance, John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Dev Center Newsletter (Director is more visible)
on 6/20/05 12:18 PM, Thomas Higgins at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go here: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/ And you'll get an overview of the Developer Center as a whole (for all products). Then scroll down a bit and under More Developer Center Resources you'll see a link to sign up for the free update email (the newsletter folks are talking about). Thank you VERY much. L8R, John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Dev Center Newsletter (Director is more visible)
on 6/16/05 1:00 PM, Emmy Huang at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the Developer Center Newsletter I'm unfamiliar with this newsletter. Where can I get more information about what it is and how I can obtain a copy? Thanks in advance, John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l StartMovie Problem
on 5/18/05 4:05 PM, Bryan Thompson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it just me, or is everyone getting ten million copies of this message? Some are doubled, but not all. Weird??? L8R, John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Future of Lingo-L (was: Old lingo-l emails showing up now?)
on 5/13/05 12:09 PM, Tab Julius at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alternatively, maybe we should wait and see what shakes out of this Adobe thing. Could be terrific for Shockwave, or just one more move away from Director. - Tab I've been on the list for years. Have found it ever, so useful and will be here till the last day. Long live LINGO-L. One vote for keep going. John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l QuickTime version detection problem
on 3/29/05 4:44 AM, Ross Clutterbuck at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John: If I understand you correctly, you're going to be installing QT6 on a machine that doesn't have QT5 or higher yeah? So why not simplify your code to just check the quickTimeVersion against 5 then install if need be? The logic checks that you have seem a little over the top as you really only have two states the user will be in: they've got QT5 or above, or they don't. You misunderstood. If the user has QT 5 or higher, then do nothing. If they have a lower version, then install QT5. The problem is not the logic structure of lower version or NO version. The problem is, the test for lower than version 5 fails, when a machine has version 4. And that makes NO sense. John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l QuickTime version detection problem
on 3/29/05 5:07 PM, Ross Clutterbuck at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See what quickTimeVersion() serves up with QT4 installed and we'll go from there. Anybody else had problems with this? Ross I made an app for the client to put on those test machines with the QT4. It will tell me what Director is seeing and then I'll go from there I guess. Thanks, John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l QuickTime version detection problem
Howdy all, I have a small app that tests for the present of QT and version. If its lower than 5 (this is a legacy program) it launches the installer on the CD. If the user has QT 6, the app quits and doesn't run the installer. If the user doesn't have QT at all, it quits and runs the installer. But if the user has version 4, it doesn't run the installer. on exitFrame currentVersion = quickTimeVersion() gQTState = #unKnown if currentVersion 0 then if currentVersion = 5 then gQTState = #QTPresent else gQTState = #wrongVersion end if else gQTState = #notPresent end if if gQTState = #QTPresent then halt else set Drive = baFindDrive( c,\QT\QuickTimeInstaller.exe ) open Drive:\QT\QuickTimeInstaller.exe halt end if End If I manually set the value of #QTPresent to 4.999, the code works and launches the installer, but on user machines, it doesn't not. So now I'm stumped.. Any ideas or suggestions other than QT6. :) Thanks, John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l full screen projector problem
on 3/27/05 5:00 AM, david.graham18 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, when I have a movie size of 1024 by 768 on the same screen resolution (1024 by 768), instead of a neatly fitting movie covering the entire screen I get a movie of about 75% of the screen size and stuck tight to the top left corner of the screen - so tight that the title bar is out of sight. Anyone know what to do to fix this please? David That doesn't sound Full Screen. That sounds like in a window if you have a title bar. Are you sure of your settings? John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l number of sprite channels.
on 1/11/05 12:31 PM, Lee Blinco at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go to the Property Inspector Movie Tab and set your number of channels desired. L8R, John In the help (dirMX) it clearly states that up to a 1000 channels cann be used, i am only allowed to use 150 though, the score window stops at this number. Does anyone know if it is a setting i've missed or if the help has led me up the garden path, i need to get 2500 (only upto 300 at a time)objects accurately positioned by tommorrow lunch and now i've sorted out the script to do it i cant as i'm only allowed 150 sprites at a time. On the same subject can you create a sprite dynamically or can you only have a 'sprite holder' which you can change the member of dynamically. cheers for your thoughts Lee Blinco Multimedia Developer AVR Productions +44 (0)1462 819603 [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l re number of sprite channels
on 1/11/05 1:32 PM, Lee Blinco at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cheers guys for pointing out what i should have seen, didn't think it would be there for some reason, tahnks again. Lee Blinco Multimedia Developer AVR Productions +44 (0)1462 819603 I can lend you my Walgreen's readers. :) I've done that before, where I look and look and look and then I found it, I go, How the heck did I MISS THAT?. Been there, done that (more than once ;). Have a good day, John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Disabling printscreen
on 1/11/05 4:51 PM, Zebin Ayinikat at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi How do do you disable the printscreen key.. it tried to get its keycode in director ..but couldnt get it(might be keyboard specific)... Using buddy api going through its docs ..i found the keycode for printscreen is 44. but when tested it doesnt work... You guys have any idea about this... When I've had to work with system keys like that in the past (like disable CNTRL-ALT-DEL to simulate and Windows NT training on a Win9X box), we had to write our own custom keyboard.dll. Invoke it when our program started and replace it with the system one, when we where done. Not an easy solution to implement, but it worked. Good luck, John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
