Re: lingo-l passwords
On Wed, 17 May 2006 09:30:27 -0400, Daniel Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, if you are storing information locally, then at some level it is vulnerable, even if it takes more sophistication than simply opening in Notepad. If you are truly concerned about security, then you may Just to be clear on the opening with notepad to read strings within your code... As far as I can tell in a dxr you can read the string but in a dcr you can not. Am I just missing something here? Rob [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 Finding the closest point from a list of points in lingo
Hi Tim, Just off the top of my head this might get you started (email lingo, watch for typos) on getNearestPoint aListOfPoints, aRefPoint d = the maxInteger tWhichPoint = 0 repeat with i in aListOfPoints a = aRefPoint[1] - i[1] b = aRefPoint[2] - i [2] c = a*a + b*b if c d then tWhichPoint = aListOfPoints.getOne(i) end if end repeat return tWhichPoint end hth, Rob On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 19:26:13 +0100, Tim Welford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to find the closest one (radius) to any given point - i.e. the mouseLoc - it needs to be fairly efficient as I will need to do it every frame \ couple of frames. Can someone point me in the right direction please. [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 Finding the closest point from a list of points in lingo
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:41:33 +0200, Valentin Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but this means you first have to convert your poibnts to vectors, so it doesn't make sense if all of the points change all the time. Hey, I took Valentin's code and threw in the point to vector conversion just to see what kind of time that gave but I also changed his long equation for the distance to a shorter one by storing a and b instead of calculating them twice. The results are: -- points long equation: -- 83 -- points using variables: -- 58 -- vectors: -- 30 -- pts to vectors: -- 116 on test p1 = point(1,2) p2 = point(6,10) put points long equation: ms = the milliseconds repeat with i = 1 to 5 dq = (p1[1]-p2[1])*(p1[1]-p2[1]) + (p1[2]-p2[2])*(p1[2]-p2[2]) end repeat put the milliseconds-ms p1 = point(1,2) p2 = point(6,10) put points using variables: ms = the milliseconds repeat with i = 1 to 5 a = p1[1]-p2[1] b = p1[2]-p2[2] dq = a*a + b*b end repeat put the milliseconds-ms v1 = vector(1,2,0) v2 = vector(6,10,0) put vectors: ms = the milliseconds repeat with i = 1 to 5 d = v1.distanceto(v2) end repeat put the milliseconds-ms put pts to vectors: ms = the milliseconds repeat with i = 1 to 5 v1 = vector(p1[1], p1[2], 0) v2 = vector(p2[1], p2[2], 0) d = v1.distanceto(v2) end repeat put the milliseconds-ms end [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 QT 7 issue? browser crash on reloading Shockwave
I'm on Win xp and have tried it in both IE and opera and the browser does not crash but the video does disappear on reload and I can't seem to get it back. Rob On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:59:05 -0500, Slava Paperno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This can be tested at http://132.236.21.62/collt/QTTest.htm Is this a known issue, and does that page indeed crash other people's browsers when Reloaded? Thanks for any tips! Slava [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 Sprite(-5) stealing the show
Hey Irv, the channel(6) syntax is correct since makescripted takes over the whole sprite channel, with the new DOM that's how you access it, sounds are accessed by _sound.channel(1) or just sound(1) Rob On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:41:18 -0800, Irv Kalb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll bet that the problem is in the single line that you showed us: channel(6).makeScriptedSprite(member(video.mpg)),point(499, 257)) The syntax for makeScriptedSprite is: spriteChannelObjRef.makeScriptedSprite(memberObjRef, loc) So, try replacing your line with: sprite(6).makeScriptedSprite(member(video.mpg)),point(499, 257)) The word channel refers to a sound channel, so I'm guessing that your code is trying to go into sound channel 6 and trying to make it a scripted sprite - which fails miserably. If that does't do it, show us the 5 lines of code in the handler in the parent script. Irv [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 GetPropertyDescriptionList runPropertyDialog
Hi Daniel, I have written some code which works with Director's property inspector and will allow you to select the value of a property and then that selection will impact what else displayed in the PI. This will allow you to create some pretty complicated decision making scenerios as to what properties and values are stored by a behaviour, without getting into custom mui dialog box. You can download a barebones example at: www.manibus.com/codeSamples/dynamicGpdl.zip If you have any questions about it fire away. hth, Rob On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 10:37:29 -0600, Daniel Villarreal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to create a behavior that allows the user to select a field member from a dropdownlist. This member contains a property list that would be used to generate a dropdown menu for the next selection in the getPropertyDescriptionList dialog box. (this is for use at authoring time only) [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 Dynamically duplicating SWF in Director
Hey Alan If you are using DMX 04 check out channel(x).makescriptedSprite(memberRef, loc) channel(x).removeScriptedSprite() hth, Rob On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:31:20 -, Alan Skinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems I have to have some sprites on the stage already I then download the swf, create a dynamic member and then I can switch these sprites members to the new dynamic one, bit sucky I think! 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? Cheers alan -Original Message- From: Valentin Schmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 January 2006 14:54 To: Lingo programming discussion list Subject: Re: lingo-l Dynamically duplicating SWF in Director hi alan, you can duplicate an existing flash member either with oldFlashMem.duplicate(newMemPosition) or with new(#flash, member(newMemPosition, newMemCastlibNameOrNum) ).media = oldFlashMem.media cheers, valentin Alan Skinner wrote: I think I found it tMember = new(#flash, castLib LibName) -Original Message- From: Alan Skinner Sent: 18 January 2006 14:18 To: Lingo programming discussion list Subject: RE: lingo-l Dynamically duplicating SWF in Director Bit of background which I should have mentioned. My XML file contains a list of buttons which I want to create on the stage. Each button (where button=flash object!) will call a specific callback and perform some function. Each button is actually some text and 2 inner buttons, the button name and back/forward Ie colour width Etc... I was hoping I could just create my flash buttons using newObject or something then I could position them on the stage somewhere. But I don't think this is possible. Do I have to draw them manually using lingo image stuff? -Original Message- From: Alan Skinner Sent: 18 January 2006 14:10 To: Lingo programming discussion list Subject: lingo-l Dynamically duplicating SWF in Director Hi everybody. I have a .swf clip that I want to be able to dynamically add to my director scene. I want to add as many as my .xml config specifies. Is this possible? If so how would this be done? Cheers alan -- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the originator of the message. This footer also confirms that this email message has been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifies and with authority, states them to be the views of DA Group. [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!] [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!] [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 Dynamically duplicating SWF in Director
Hey Alan If you are using DMX 04 check out channel(x).makescriptedSprite(memberRef, loc) channel(x).removeScriptedSprite() hth, Rob On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:31:20 -, Alan Skinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems I have to have some sprites on the stage already I then download the swf, create a dynamic member and then I can switch these sprites members to the new dynamic one, bit sucky I think! 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? Cheers alan [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 scriptInstanceList
Hey Michael, I don't think that should be happening. You should still get a list, I just did a quick test to confirm on Win XP D10.1 Having a behaviour with no params gives me -- [offspring test 1 3731674] Any way you might be clearing out the scriptInstanceList via code? Even earlier on in another part of the score? What if you put sprite(2).scriptList? Rob On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:53:09 -0500, Mendelsohn, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list... I'm running into an issue with scriptInstanceList. Sprite(1) has a behavior with some params, and sprite(2) has a behavior with no params. Putting sprite(1).scriptInstanceList gives the expected array. Putting sprite(2).scriptInstanceList gives []. Why? Thanks, - Michael M. [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 maintaining proportions
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:27:44 -0800, Buzz Kettles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 5:06 PM +0100 1/16/06, you wrote: On 16-jan-2006, at 16:34, Rob Romanek wrote: Actually you don't need to use the syntax of float(1.1) above. Just use 1.1, any time you put a float into your operation the result will be a float value. Try it in the message window. Hey, you're right! I'm pretty sure this used to be different in version ??? (i've used dir for more time than I care to remember) Never noticed it had changed. it's always been this way - I've never used float - I just multiply by 1.0 Me too. My guess is that the original posts use of float() appeared when doing division put 3/2 --1 put 3/float(2) --1.5000 and then just got incorporated into other math functions. But adding that good ol decimal place is enough to guarentee float results put 3/2.0 --1.5000 Rob [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 maintaining proportions
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:27:35 +0100, Mark Hagers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the confusion. Whew, what a great first posting to the Lingo-L list that was :-( Hey I've lost track of the number of times I've posted confusing things. Rob [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 multi threaded is Director/Lingo and mutexes..
If my memory serves me correctly timeouts are actually called in reverse order that they are in the timeout list. This makes sense in that if one of the processes called by the timeout has the timeout forget itself then it would be removed from the list and this would screw up the current position in the timeoutlist as it is being processed. You should test this to confirm but I'm pretty sure that's how it works. Rob On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 11:10:10 -0500, Cole Tierney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 3:27 PM + 12/20/05, Alan Skinner wrote: Does director run them off a single thread or might it possibly use multiple threads to run them? Just a hunch, but I think timeout objects are serviced sequentially. [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 multi threaded is Director/Lingo and mutexes..
Just to confirm that my memory was working correctly I tossed this little test together. Create a parent script, called parent --parent property pId on new me, aId pId = aId return me end on prepareFrame me put prepareFrame, pId, _system.milliseconds end on timedEvent me put timedEvent, pId, _system.milliseconds end --- then a movie script: on timeTest p1 = script(parent).new(1) p2 = script(parent).new(2) _movie.timeout().new(p1, 10, #timedEvent, p1) _movie.timeout().new(p2, 10, #timedEvent, p2) end run it and the results I get are -- timedEvent 2 11138493 -- timedEvent 1 11138496 -- prepareFrame 2 11138500 -- prepareFrame 1 11138504 -- timedEvent 2 11138512 -- timedEvent 1 11138516 if I reverse the order of creating the timeout objects to _movie.timeout().new(p2, 10, #timedEvent, p2) _movie.timeout().new(p1, 10, #timedEvent, p1) then as the results become: -- prepareFrame 1 11458783 -- prepareFrame 2 11458786 -- timedEvent 1 11458807 -- timedEvent 2 11458811 -- prepareFrame 1 11458816 -- prepareFrame 2 11458820 -- timedEvent 1 11458824 -- timedEvent 2 11458827 So yes the timeoutlist is called in reverse order. Rob [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)
Do you have different alpha thresholds for the 2 members? Rob On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 15:56:54 -0500, Kerry Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 exactly the same size. They're 32-bit with an alpha. Could that have something to do with it? Cordially, Kerry Thompson [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
Hey Buzz, I got both your tests. As a result I have determined that you are definitely alive. Rob On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 14:08:38 -0700, Buzz Kettles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: since I had never rcvd my other test, I signed up again am verifying testing turnaround [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 Help with LDMs
Ross, Check out this link: http://www.director-online.com/dougwiki/index.php/Linked_Director_Movies There's a link there to my original, now very old but still useful, article. If you have questions keep proding me and I'll try to expand the information on the wiki. (Although I am about to head off on vacation for a week so don't expect too much in the very near future. -Rob On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:39:21 +0100, Ross Clutterbuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greets to all I'm after some help with LDMs. For some reason I've never really used them before and now I find myself having all manner of basic problems. I've been trying to find some good resources on the web to help me with the basics of LDMs so I can get even the simplest of things to work but no joy. Anybody got any links? The main problem I have is that the simplest of scripts go to the frame just doesn't seem to work! As soon as the script is encountered it seems as if the playback head just stops. I've got enabled scripts turned on and other scripts I've used for trial - such as Fade In/Out - work fine if the the playback head runs freely across the score (so as a fudge I've used Lingo to loop over a couple of frames instead of looping inside the same one, but it's a bit messy). I think before I can really start doing what I wanted to do with this LDM I need to learn more about them. ANy advice, tips, links and resources are much appreciated. TIA Ross [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 fastest method for comparing values in two lists
Hey John, Not sure if I'm understanding you correctly but... list1 = [[#name:a], [#name:b]] list2 = [[#name:b], [#name:c]] tTest = [#name:b] if list1.getOne(tTest) + list2.getOne(tTest) = 2 then put A match is found end if -Rob On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 13:45:25 -0700, JOHN HART [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, all, D8.5.1 / XPPro I'm looking for a fast way of comparing two string values in two lists. Each list is a prop list wrapped inside a linear list. The slow way is to step through each value in one list, comparing it to values in the second list. But this is so slow, cumbersome, in inelegant. Example: repeat with x in firstList repeat with n in secondlist if the name of x = the name of n then do stuff here... exit repeat etc. It would be sweet if I could tell ask the SecondList right off the bat, do you have this value in your list? without using a repeat loop, then compare it to the value in firstList. I've tried getOne, getPos, and getOutOfTown, but nothing works the way I expected on a proplist inside a linear list. Must I remove each proplist one-by-one, use getOne on the proplist, then continue on? Gads. That still involves a repeat loop. [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 fastest method for comparing values in two lists
Sorry that test statement is a bit off should be something like if not(list1.getOne(tTest)) + not(list2.getOne(tTest)) = 0 then put Match or some such thing, you get the idea anyway. -Rob On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 17:38:14 -0400, Rob Romanek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey John, Not sure if I'm understanding you correctly but... list1 = [[#name:a], [#name:b]] list2 = [[#name:b], [#name:c]] tTest = [#name:b] if list1.getOne(tTest) + list2.getOne(tTest) = 2 then put A match is found end if [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 menubar
On Sat, 2 Jul 2005 15:18:01 +0200, arjen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks xavi, but that's what i started with. on osx it seems you have the choice between 1) no background, but with menubar 2) no menubar, but with background i want to get rid of both. so what i want is: a fullscreen projector, that is partly transparent, showing the desktop, or any application behind it. is that possible? anyone? I remember Tom Higgins posting an undocumented feature for the windows OS where you can set the blend for the window, it was at www.markme.com/thiggins which doesn't seem to want to connect for me now. I think you are out of luck on the Mac. You might try an xtra like scrnXtra (don't know if that is OSX compatible) which will give you a screen grab so you can fake it and put the grab into a member then in sprite 1. -Rob [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
Did prepareMovie always exist? Deep in my memory I seem to remember only startMovie at some point. And I thought that preparemovie was introduced to get rid of some of these problems. It seems that the order of events is that sprites initialize themselves prior to startMovie. As a result you see the beginsprite handler fired prior to startMovie on sprites in frame 1. PrepareMovie fires before anything else that's why it is good practice to put all your variable initialization here and not in startMovie. Then any beginsprite scripts can use those variables without choking. Eliminating frame 1 would not be the cure since as I mentioned yesterday you get the same problem with intermovie navigation if you specifically jump to a frame other than 1. It all comes down to the sequence of events. As long as any dependancies in your beginsprite code have be set up in prepareMovie and not startMovie you should be okay If you set up the movieevent traps in your timeout objects and follow the above rule I don't think you'll run into any problems with sprites on frame 1. Okay here is a possible problem scenario. You have sprites on frame 1 that have beginsprite which manipulate some variable you set up in prepareMovie, but you startMovie handler has a go(someFrame) and because of that you thought frame 1 is skipped all together and won't affect your variable set in prepareMovie so you jump to someFrame only to find your variable to not be what you expected it to be. I think it all boils down to planning. But I have no idea about the inner workings in Director I can only make best guesses by observing what happens on the outside. (Boy this is amazingly similar to my previous career in biochemistry/cell biology where I used to poke cells with electrodes run some current, see what happened and made best guesses as to what was going on inside the cell) -Rob On Thu, 19 May 2005 08:41:30 -0400, Mentor, Kraig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since the problem was so deep, there was, at one time, discussion of changing the score, so that frame one just didnt exist anymore on the Director interface. It would just have been moved off to the left with frame 2 becoming the new frame one. K [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 Syntax of lingo question
Yes this is MX2004 syntax. I would highly recommend the upgrade to MX2004. I was using 8.5 prior to this version, I dabled with MX but found it did not give me any significant features for the upgrade. However I personally find the changes to MX2004 well worth it. I very much like to use the new DOM (director object model) and my brain has slipped into that gear quite naturally. So Colin, sorry that my posts tend to slip into that syntax first. I guess the problem is I'm not set in my ways. -Rob [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
Hi Mauricio, Thanks for that info. I never do put any sprites in frame 1 but have been burned by not remembering the event order during inter-movie navigation and I think that's what I ulitmately wanted to point out that it is not just a frame 1 issue but a _first_ frame issue and event order planning is important to sort that out. I most definitely never have any xtra sprites sitting in frame 1 so I've never thought about the problem from the xtra point of view. Even with internavigation movies I don't think I ever navigate directly to a frame holding an xtra sprite, I assume that would cause the same kind of grief and an invisible frame 1 would not fix the issue in that case either. -Rob On Thu, 19 May 2005 14:17:30 -0300, Mauricio Piacentini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might be right if you consider only Lingo, but some of these subtle issues affect C++ code inside Xtras (3rd party or from Macromedia.) The internal MOA interface does not have a prepareMovie, the MOA sprite/asset events are the same since Director 5. Xtra sprites are initialized in paused state when on frame 1, among other differences. I understand that a fix would potentially break existing content as well, so... I don't think there is an easy way out for this issue, or MM would certainly have implemented it so far (having an invisible frame 1 on the score was a suggestion at some point in the past, but it could break stuff like score recording IIRC.) I remember discussing frame 1 issues with engineers since D5, and they are still around today. Nowadays I just assume everyone is aware of problems with content in frame 1 and start placing scripts and Xtra sprites on frame 2... [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
Well don't just restrict this to frame 1. As I mentioned in an earlier e-mail, and have now tested to confirm.. _movie.go(frameNum, movie) will have the same results in the frame you are jumping to even if it isn't frame 1. It all comes down to order of events... so is this a bug or expected behaviour? Maybe it should be termed The first frame anomaly -Rob On Wed, 18 May 2005 11:10:22 -0400, Mentor, Kraig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a long standing, deeply embedded bug in Director that can cause this when sprites are in frame one. It is affectionally referred to as The Frame One Bug. Kraig [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 GPDL Multiple Selecection?
Hi Anthony, Here is a solution for multiple selection in a GPDL. It requires that you work through the PI and not the dialog box but it should do the trick for you. www.manibus.com/codeSamples/dynamicGpdl.zip -Rob On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 08:31:51 -0600, Anthony W. Fouts, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working on a solution to create a mulitple selection within a GPDL? For example: /snip/ I realize the above code does not exactly work. Also, the colors list in the above is only an example. The actually list might actually have 50 or more items to choose from. Any thoughts? Anthony www.lifelinestudios.com [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 sprite communication syntax?
Hi Anthony In the handler being called include the following statement put me You will see that in the sendSprite approach me is a reference to the instance of the behaviour while in the sprite(x).call approach me is sprite(x). This can cause some confusion as to what the rest code is referencing. I used to use sprite(x).call on occasion but now avoid it completely. -hth Rob On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 10:45:42 -0600, Anthony W. Fouts, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been using the following syntax for quite some time for calling methods in behaviors attached to sprites: -- sendsprite(spriteNum, #callSomeMethod, someParameter) It occurred to me that I call methods in child objects stored in variables using dot syntax . So I tried the following to call a method in a behavior attached to sprite: -- sprite(spriteNum).callSomeMethod(someParameter) However it produced unexpected results. How does the second differ from the first? [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 Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:18:24 -0800, Thomas Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the same subject can you create a sprite dynamically ... There is score recording which is generally an author-time routine that you can use that doesn't require place-holder sprites, during recording sessions you can build your stage and sprites as needed and then when done, save your file. Give that a look in the docs and let us know if you have any questions. Don't forget about that great little combo in DMX04 makeScriptedSprite and removeScriptedSprite -Rob [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!]
