Re: lingo-l not statement
hey list -- simple question.. i thought i saw something a while ago... a simple toggle using a not to swap sprites but i am really getting the syntax wrong. can anyone help? heres the code on mouseUp me member(music_on).name = not member(music_off).name end i know i am not calling the sprites right but i have spent a good portion of the last 2 hours looking for where i saw the reference and have come up empty. thanks Note that the above statement using the Name property will not switch cast members, only change the members' names. About not: Not can only switch between 1 and 0 (True and False). not will work best with statements that toggles True/False conditions, like on exitFrame me the visible of sprite(me.spriteNum) =\ not the visible of sprite(me.spriteNum) -- Blinking sprite! go the frame end However, if you know you are using members 10 and 11 you could create a True/ Flase condition by offsetting the member numbers: on mouseDown me sprite(me.spriteNum).member = \ not (sprite(me.spriteNum).member.memberNum - 10) + 10 -- Mem 10 or 11 end The problem is that you need to hard-code the member number. If you want a more general script (that works with any combination of 2 members in sequence) here's a modified version of JHM's suggestion: on mouseDown me sprite(me.spriteNum).member = sprite(me.spriteNum).memberNum\ + [1, -1][sprite(me.spriteNum).memberNum mod 2 + 1] -- Toggling member num end -A. [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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l Change Full Screen or ina window in run time.
As set in run Time if the projector comes in: Full Screen or in a window thanks. -- Renato Tegon Forti [EMAIL PROTECTED] [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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: lingo-l not statement
this worked perfectly! thanks guys for the input. Is this considered like a push or pop in a list? I am asking that beasuse my strength is in javascript and i would have never thought to use that logic for solving this. thanks again guys -- carol -- From: Daniel Plaenitz Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 6:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Lingo List (E-mail) Subject: Re: lingo-l not statement At 18:32 24.01.2002 -0500, Carol Mahaffy wrote: hey list -- simple question.. i thought i saw something a while ago... a simple toggle using a not to swap sprites but i am really getting the syntax wrong. can anyone help? heres the code on mouseUp me member(music_on).name = not member(music_off).name end i know i am not calling the sprites right but i have spent a good portion of the last 2 hours looking for where i saw the reference and have come up empty. thanks --carol Carol, supposed you have named the members 0 and 1 you might use a behavior like this one: --- property mySprite on beginsprite me mySprite = sprite(me.spritenum) end on mouseUp me mySprite.member = \ member([0,1][(not([0,1].getPos(mysprite.member.name)-1)+1)]) end --- best regards daniel plaenitz [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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l creating QT with multiple videotracks: QtPro crashes when using Sorenson 3
A little OT but following on from the earlier inquiry... Has anyone else found that adding tracks in QtPro is very unstable if the video track was compressed with Sorenson 3? I've contacted Sorenson about this and they say they will get back to me. I have no problem if I compress the same video material with Sorenson 2. Sorenson 3 Qts also playback fine when I don't try to add tracks. I haven't been able to get on the SVUsers List for Sorenson Video since they changed their email server last year. thanks -- Richard Tribe, BBC Interactive dept. -- From: Andreas Gaunitz P11 Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 13:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l How to create a QT with multiple video tracks? OK, using google.com to search news groups I probably found the answer: I should use Quicktime Pro. -A. This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this. [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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l lingo-lQuicktime ? Best compression program
Hello List, Whats the best compression program to use for quicktime? The reson im asking is that I need to match the video in the director movie to background color. I tried using mpegs but thay dont keep a color value between computers. The other problem is that I have a lot of video in the project. So, Can A quicktime movie be compressed down to the size of an mpeg or close to it? And if so whats the best program that some of you have used? Thanks for your help, Matie Wells [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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l lingo-lQuicktime ? Best compression program
on 1/25/02 3:12 PM, Matie Wells at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And if so whats the best program that some of you have used? Thanks for your help, Matie Wells I've had great results with Media Cleaner Pro from Terran. And Sorenson is the best codec I've used. Hope this helps, JRS === 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: lingo-l not statement
Carol, et al, While these solutions do work, they are not very clear about what is really going on. I've always felt that it is much more important to write code that can be read easily both by yourself and by others that may follow, than to try to write an obscure single line that works, but is unreadable. It is also a good goal to write code that is generic, that is, it will work in many cases. You are basically talking about a toggle button - a button with two states. There are two parts to this, what you see on the screen, and the internal state of the button. First thing to do is to come up with a naming convention for the two states, for example Some base name on and Some base name off. Given a naming convention like this, here is a start at the behavior (with minor testing): property pMemberOn property pMemberOff property pState -- TRUE for on, FALSE for off property spriteNum on beginSprite me -- First determine if we are starting in the on or off state -- and find the matching alternate state button theName = sprite(spriteNum).member.name theBaseName = word 1 of theName theCurrentState = word 2 of theName if theCurrentState = on then pMemberOn = sprite(spriteNum).member pMemberOff = member(theBaseName off) pState = TRUE else pMemberOff = sprite(spriteNum).member pMemberOn = member(theBaseName on) pState = 0 end if end on mouseUp me -- Now toggle the state and show the new button on the screen pState = not(pState) if pState then sprite(spriteNum).member = pMemberOn else sprite(spriteNum).member = pMemberOff end if -- now send out a special call to a sibling sprite to say that the toggle was hit. sendSprite(spriteNum, #mHitToggleButton, pState) end This way you can re-use this same behavior on every toggle button in your project. When you attach this behavior, then you need to attach another behavior to say what should be done when this button is hit. Something like this: on mHitToggleButton me, TrueOrFalse if TrueOrFalse -- do something here else -- do something else here end if end Hope this helps. Irv At 11:19 AM -0500 1/25/02, Carol Mahaffy wrote: this worked perfectly! thanks guys for the input. Is this considered like a push or pop in a list? I am asking that beasuse my strength is in javascript and i would have never thought to use that logic for solving this. thanks again guys -- carol -- From: Daniel Plaenitz Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 6:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Lingo List (E-mail) Subject:Re: lingo-l not statement At 18:32 24.01.2002 -0500, Carol Mahaffy wrote: hey list -- simple question.. i thought i saw something a while ago... a simple toggle using a not to swap sprites but i am really getting the syntax wrong. can anyone help? heres the code on mouseUp me member(music_on).name = not member(music_off).name end i know i am not calling the sprites right but i have spent a good portion of the last 2 hours looking for where i saw the reference and have come up empty. thanks --carol Carol, supposed you have named the members 0 and 1 you might use a behavior like this one: --- property mySprite on beginsprite me mySprite = sprite(me.spritenum) end on mouseUp me mySprite.member = \ member([0,1][(not([0,1].getPos(mysprite.member.name)-1)+1)]) end --- best regards daniel plaenitz [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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] -- Lingo / Director / Shockwave development for all occasions. (Home-made Lingo cooked up fresh every day just for you.) [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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
AW: lingo-l lingo-lQuicktime ? Best compression program
Grimmwerks wrote (about Sorenson codec): Nice small files yet look fantastic; you can even scale them up and they look great. Interesting. We also use Sorenson codec and find that Sorenson coded video looks great, but only as long as it is NOT SCALED. As soon as you scale it, you have nasty horizontal stripes, - looks similar to combining two half frames of video into one still frame. And this doesn't look great at all. The effect is clearly visible even if the footage was taken in full frames. And this is a specific behaviour of Sorenson. Whereas other codecs give you other artefacts. In my experience for scaling there's nothing better than MPEG. Michael von Aichberger www.aichberger.de [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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l lingo-lQuicktime ? Best compression program
Use sorenson for quicktime at 15 fps(frames per second)at 320x240 frame size. it'd worked pretty good on all my projects! --- Matie Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List, Whats the best compression program to use for quicktime? The reson im asking is that I need to match the video in the director movie to background color. I tried using mpegs but thay dont keep a color value between computers. The other problem is that I have a lot of video in the project. So, Can A quicktime movie be compressed down to the size of an mpeg or close to it? And if so whats the best program that some of you have used? Thanks for your help, Matie Wells [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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] __ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: lingo-l not statement
At 12:38 -0800 25/01/02, Irv Kalb wrote: Carol, et al, While these solutions do work, they are not very clear about what is really going on. I've always felt that it is much more important to write code that can be read easily both by yourself and by others that may follow, than to try to write an obscure single line that works, but is unreadable. It is also a good goal to write code that is generic, that is, it will work in many cases. Couldn't agree more... would've never used such a single line beast myself ;-) I also store the stateMembers in a beginSprite handler, usually in one property list, but while the member-naming scheme may be pedadagogic and communicative, I use the sequence of adjacent members to signify their state. So the member actually attached to the button is the default state, and the next is down, or whatever and so forth. This can even be quite self-documenting: tNummbr = pSprite.member.number repeat with tState in [#up, #down, #left, #right, #exploding] pStateMemberPList[tState] = member tNummbr tNummbr = tNummbr + 1 end repeat The later on: pSprite.member = pStateMemberPList[pCurrentState] This suits my style better than the rigorous naming. Decide on your button-conventions early, and be consistent. Jakob [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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l Rotate, Height, Width, and ACK
Since I just butted my head up against this, I thought I'd share this with everyone: the .width and .height properties of a sprite on stage are of the un-rotated image. If you need the real 'width' of the rotated sprite, you have to do the math your self, subtracting the left from right, etc. Below is an example, of a long menubar shaped sprite, which when rotated 45 and then 90 degrees, still reports the width and height that the unrotate image had. Only stumped me for a day or two of heavy trigonometry. -- Welcome to Director -- put sprite(1).rect -- rect(237, 229, 680, 265) put sprite(1).width, sprite(1).height -- 443 36 put sprite(1).rotation -- 0. sprite(1).rotation = 45 put sprite(1).rotation -- 45. put sprite(1).rect -- rect(289, 78, 628, 417) put sprite(1).width, sprite(1).height -- 443 36 sprite(1).rotation = 90 put sprite(1).rotation -- 90. put sprite(1).rect -- rect(439, 26, 477, 469) put sprite(1).left, sprite(1).top, sprite(1).right, sprite(1).bottom -- 439 26 477 469 put sprite(1).width, sprite(1).height -- 443 36 sprite(1).width = sprite(1).width * 0.25 put sprite(1).rect -- rect(440, 191, 476, 303) sprite(1).height = sprite(1).height * 0.25 put sprite(1).rect -- rect(454, 191, 463, 303) Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to go call my highschool trig teacher and tell her that I lowe her. roymeo - Roy Crisman Senior Macromedia Programmer (585)724-4054 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Damn, kids...
Well howdy Warren! Nice to have you back [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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Charts
I am trying to make some traditionals bussiness chart, like 3D pie char, or 3D Bar chart. I couldn't find any xtra that do that. Does Anyone know a xtra that can help me ? any thing? No need for xtras. Just some lingo knowledge. Check out DOUG (http://www.director-online.com/), I know they have some solutions for those types of things (though they may be a bit dated... imaging lingo solutions would be a better option, IMHO). Just search the site for charts. -Kurt [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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Damn, kids...
So this is a big, fat THANK YOU to all Macromedian Directorites, present and past. Thanks for working on this thing, be it version 4 or version 7, and thanks for the late nights, shot weekends and overwired caffeine fuelled discussions of what to do next with it. Welcome home, Howdy man. Did you give Tab his props in the creds? It would be nice to have you back in the fold, as long as you play nice - given the fact that you've now produced a book for beginners, I would guess you've mellowed some... please contribute to the list again - just try to ignore beating on the RTFM questions. -Kurt [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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
