externalCast doubled

[mark verhoef]

Hello,
There's something weird going on.
I've made A external cast with contentMovies of
105Mb.But it took to long to load.So,I made an
extra external cast and put half of the movies
into the second external cast.
BUT,when I ckecked the size the first external cast
(after I made the second) with less movieContent,
it's all of sudden TWICE as big.It's 210Mb now.
How the F... it that possible.

Thanks,
Mark

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Re: AW: editable text set to active

[Slava Paperno]

This has been discussed many times, and there is no pretty solution. One 
that is suggested most often is to use Lingo to select a portion of the 
text in the field that you want to have the focus. This mostly works, but 
the downside is that you always see the flash as the text is selected. Even 
if you select and immediately deselect it, or select only one character, or 
select "no characters," there's still a flash, when the frame is displayed. 
The only way I was able to get rid of it is to set a timer so the text is 
selected a split second after the frame is displayed. But that also has its 
ugly side. The most annoying thing is that it's inconsistent. Sometimes 
there is no flash!

S.

At 01:17 AM 3/1/02 +0100, you wrote:
> > look up 'the keyboardFocusSprite'
>
>Hi Buzz,
>
>it wasn't me who asked the question, but I have the same problem with the
>editable text sprite (Dir 8.5 German, win2k). For me 'the
>keyboardFocusSprite' has no or no reliable effect.
>
>Just now I have the problem that my movie starts with an editable text field
>sprite, that enables the user to input his name. When the movie starts,
>there is a text cursor on the field (even without using the
>keyboardFocusSprite). But when the user jumps back to that frame, the cursor
>is not there anymore. (Although he still can enter his data). With any minor
>change that I make in my movie, the strange behaviour changes. Sometimes,
>the cursor isn't there at the beginning, sometimes it is there, but input is
>only possible if the user clicks on the text field, sometimes the field
>can't be edited at all.
>
>In all cases where the text field reacts strangely the keyboardFocusSprite
>was of no use. Once I inserted a stop script (go to the frame) to check at
>what frame the error occurs or what script might cause the strange
>behaviour. The pure fact of inserting the go to the frame script made the
>text cursor behave normally. When I removed the stop script, the movie
>continued to behave normally, although the code was not different from
>before my debugging effort.
>
>As this is not the first time that I had problems with editable text
>cursors, I do think that there is a bug in Director.
>
>If there was a solution to this, I'd be glad someone told me ...
>
>Michael
>
>
>-Buzz
>
>At 2:50 PM -0800 2/28/02, you wrote:
> >Hi-
> >
> >I'm using a sprite with editable text. I want the sprite to be active with
> >the cusor blinking.
> >But at the moment, this only happens when the user clicks on the sprite. Is
> >there a lingo command that will set the editable sprite to active with
> >blinking cursor, so that the user can just start typing in the field
>without
> >having to click on it first?
> >
> >thanks
> >
> >Thomas

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AW: editable text set to active

[Michael von Aichberger]

> look up 'the keyboardFocusSprite'

Hi Buzz,

it wasn't me who asked the question, but I have the same problem with the
editable text sprite (Dir 8.5 German, win2k). For me 'the
keyboardFocusSprite' has no or no reliable effect.

Just now I have the problem that my movie starts with an editable text field
sprite, that enables the user to input his name. When the movie starts,
there is a text cursor on the field (even without using the
keyboardFocusSprite). But when the user jumps back to that frame, the cursor
is not there anymore. (Although he still can enter his data). With any minor
change that I make in my movie, the strange behaviour changes. Sometimes,
the cursor isn't there at the beginning, sometimes it is there, but input is
only possible if the user clicks on the text field, sometimes the field
can't be edited at all.

In all cases where the text field reacts strangely the keyboardFocusSprite
was of no use. Once I inserted a stop script (go to the frame) to check at
what frame the error occurs or what script might cause the strange
behaviour. The pure fact of inserting the go to the frame script made the
text cursor behave normally. When I removed the stop script, the movie
continued to behave normally, although the code was not different from
before my debugging effort.

As this is not the first time that I had problems with editable text
cursors, I do think that there is a bug in Director.

If there was a solution to this, I'd be glad someone told me ...

Michael


-Buzz

At 2:50 PM -0800 2/28/02, you wrote:
>Hi-
>
>I'm using a sprite with editable text. I want the sprite to be active with
>the cusor blinking.
>But at the moment, this only happens when the user clicks on the sprite. Is
>there a lingo command that will set the editable sprite to active with
>blinking cursor, so that the user can just start typing in the field
without
>having to click on it first?
>
>thanks
>
>Thomas
>
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Re: editable text set to active

[Buzz Kettles]

look up 'the keyboardFocusSprite'

-Buzz

At 2:50 PM -0800 2/28/02, you wrote:
>Hi-
>
>I'm using a sprite with editable text. I want the sprite to be active with
>the cusor blinking.
>But at the moment, this only happens when the user clicks on the sprite. Is
>there a lingo command that will set the editable sprite to active with
>blinking cursor, so that the user can just start typing in the field without
>having to click on it first?
>
>thanks
>
>Thomas
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editable text set to active

[Thomas Williams]

Hi-

I'm using a sprite with editable text. I want the sprite to be active with
the cusor blinking.
But at the moment, this only happens when the user clicks on the sprite. Is
there a lingo command that will set the editable sprite to active with
blinking cursor, so that the user can just start typing in the field without
having to click on it first?

thanks

Thomas

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RE: Director University

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Using Director for Hybrid DVD

[Geoffrey B. Holland]

Has anyone on this list ever used Director to create an interface for the
purpose of interfacing with Video DVD files in order to create a hybrid DVD
(different versions for Set-top players vs. PC DVD Roms) ?

Geoffrey B. Holland
Interactive Multimedia Specialist
K-fx², Inc.
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Re: Re : surplus txt characters during file i/o

[Cole Tierney]

Yes, you need to delete the file before writing to it. If that 
doesn't taste good, then try BinaryIO xtra from updatestage.com. 
Among other cool things, it lets you set the file length.

Cole

>Hi all, another question,
>
>I am saving the text of a field to the hard drive, the
>contents of this field change throughout the movie.
>When the text file is imported back into director,
>there are extra characters at the end of each string.
>It appears that fileI/O doesn't completely re-write
>the text file, it only rewrites the the old characters
>with the new ones, so if there are fewer characters
>the older characters that made up the longer original
>string are retained at the end.
>
>Is there a way of stopping this, perhaps a way of
>clearing the file before the new one is written.
>
>Pete Crowhurst
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Re: Re : lingo or film loop for sound files

[Cole Tierney]

I would first try unload to release memory not currenting being used. 
If you then want to force director to do it's garbage collection, try 
go movie some blank movie then return.

Oh, I wish there were some lingo that could do this.


>Hi all,
>
>I recently read that Director doesn't always purge
>looped sound files from RAM memory, often causing slow
>downs.
>If the looped sound file was included in the score as
>a film loop, (in either channel 1 or 2), would it be
>removed from RAM when the film loop is stopped in the
>score?
>
>Also, can anyone give me any guidance on how to purge
>looped soundfiles via lingo. Is it just a case of
>"sound stop"?
>
>Pete
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Re: Best way to find if an application is installed.

[Cole Tierney]

You might take a peak at the registry and if the app leaves any 
droppings when installed.

>I am creating an installer.
>Currently, I am using buddyapi and the
>baFindFirstFile and then supplying the
>application's executable name. I first check the
>program files folder and if this doesn't work then
>I check the whole c drive. This as you can guess
>can take a very long time if your dealing with a
>full messy 40 GB HD. I assume there is a better
>way to do this by accessing some windows info???
>Any ideas would be much appreciated.
>
>Jason
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Best way to find if an application is installed.

[Jason Gruhl]

I am creating an installer.
Currently, I am using buddyapi and the
baFindFirstFile and then supplying the
application's executable name. I first check the
program files folder and if this doesn't work then
I check the whole c drive. This as you can guess
can take a very long time if your dealing with a
full messy 40 GB HD. I assume there is a better
way to do this by accessing some windows info???
Any ideas would be much appreciated.

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White flash

[Kevan Dettelbach]

In the next couple of weeks, I'll be starting on  a project that supports
two languages. Instead of switching external casts, I'm planning to have two
versions of each asset whose name is prefixed with a language identifier
tag. (e.g. e for english and a for arabic). When the language is switched,
I'll use sendallsprites to send a message telling the sprites to change to
the proper version. Also, each sprite will initialize on beginsprite to the
proper version depending on which language is chosen.

While swapping an external cast is a option, I've had one to many problems
with external casts in the past.

Kevan Dettelbach
Lunny Communications


---
I've made a project in several languages. When they f.ex choose for english
the external cast will switch to the english version. Common thing I think.
I used this isn several other projects too and it always worked. Now in this
project when I change from movie to movie I always get a white flash between
the two movies. I've never had that before.

This is the script I use

on preparemovie
  set the filename of castlib "switch.cst" to "switch" & string(glanguage)
&".cst"
  updatestage
end

the cast has just a 30 text-castmembers so It's not loaded or something.


When I remove the script the flash is gone

Any suggestions?

Tom


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Re: Custom icon for Projector

[Carlos Bernardo Junior]

Search for a program called Microangelo this is help...

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Custom icon for Projector

[Umed Zokirov]

Hi there

I have a windows projector to which I 'd like to have a custom icon. My 
background is Mac so I use Resourcerer
to do that in Mac. I was wondering how can I do it in Windows?

Thanks in advance, Umed

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Re : surplus txt characters during file i/o

[Pete Crowhurst]

Hi all, another question,

I am saving the text of a field to the hard drive, the
contents of this field change throughout the movie.
When the text file is imported back into director,
there are extra characters at the end of each string. 
It appears that fileI/O doesn't completely re-write
the text file, it only rewrites the the old characters
with the new ones, so if there are fewer characters
the older characters that made up the longer original
string are retained at the end. 

Is there a way of stopping this, perhaps a way of
clearing the file before the new one is written.

Pete Crowhurst 

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Re : lingo or film loop for sound files

[Pete Crowhurst]

Hi all,

I recently read that Director doesn't always purge
looped sound files from RAM memory, often causing slow
downs.
If the looped sound file was included in the score as
a film loop, (in either channel 1 or 2), would it be
removed from RAM when the film loop is stopped in the
score?

Also, can anyone give me any guidance on how to purge
looped soundfiles via lingo. Is it just a case of
"sound stop"?

Pete

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windows language

[limiar40 b]

This is all explained in the help, the next time i'll start looking for  the 
stuff i need there, sorry about the wasted time...

tkx ppl






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RE: windows language

[séb]

Hi limiar,


> how can i detect in what language is the windows system, there's
> a specific
> script or where can i download some xtra for this ?

it's what 'the environment' is for:
put (the environment)[#osLanguage]
-- "English"

and it has many other interesting information:

put the environment
-- "[ \
#shockMachine:0, \
#shockMachineVersion: "", \
#platform:"Windows,32", \
#runMode: "Author", \
#colorDepth:  32, \
#internetConnected:   #online, \
#uiLanguage:  "English", \
#osLanguage:  "English", \
#productBuildVersion: "178" \
]"

so you see I'm using an english OS with an english release of Director 8,
and d8.5 has bring up some additional datas:

-- Bienvenue dans Director --
put the environment
-- "[ \
#shockMachine:0, \
#shockMachineVersion: "", \
#platform:"Windows,32", \
#runMode: "Author", \
#colorDepth:  32, \
#internetConnected:   #online, \
#uiLanguage:  "French", \
#osLanguage:  "English", \
#productBuildVersion: "102", \
#productVersion:  "8.5.1", \
#osVersion:   "Windows 2000,5,0,148,2,Service Pack 2" \
]"


hth,
.séb

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AW: windows language

[Michael von Aichberger]

put the environment.oslanguage

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Hi ppl

how can i detect in what language is the windows system, there's a specific
script or where can i download some xtra for this ?

tkx in advance
Limiar

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Re: Resizing Lingo problem!

[James Newton]

Jayp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> if its still larger than a certain size it doest repeat the
> processdo I need some dsort of repeat loop...

Hi Jayp,

Don't use a repeat loop, use a ratio.  Presumably you also want to limit the
height.  The following handler does not work off exitFrame, so you can call
it only once, and pass a member number as a parameter.


on mSetMember(me, aMember)
  tSprite = sprite(me.spritenum)
  aMember = member(aMember)
  tSprite.member = aMember
  
  maxWidth  = 350
  maxHeight = 174
  
  tWidth  = aMember.width
  tHeight = aMember.height
  
  -- Constrain width
  if tWidth > maxWidth then
tHeight = (tHeight * maxWidth) / tWidth
tWidth  = maxWidth -- in other words: (tWidth * maxWidth) / tWidth
  end if
  
  -- Constrain height
  if tHeight > maxHeight then
tWidth  = (tWidth * maxHeight) / tHeight
tHeight = maxHeight
  end if
  
  tSprite.width  = tWidth
  tSprite.height = tHeight
end


Cheers,

James

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Re: problem with picture of stage in MIAW

[James Newton]

Leah Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I wrote a MIAW that has some code in it to send a picture of its stage to
> the printer...
> 
> set the picture of member("Stage Drawing Area") to the picture of the stage

Hi Leah,

Does it help to use "the activeWindow" rather than "the stage"?  Assuming
that the code is triggered from an event in the MIAW itself (such as a
mouseUp on a button), the activeWindow will be the MIAW.  If the event is
triggered from elsewhere (eg. a mouseUp on a button on the stage), you might
need to use the name of the window itself.

You might also find that "image" works better than "picture".

In dot syntax (to avoid wrapping the text to the next line):

  member("Stage Drawing Area").image = (the activeWindow).image
OR
  member("Stage Drawing Area").image = window("").image

If you use the second line, remember to replace "" with the
real name of the window.

Cheers,

James

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windows language

[limiar40 b]

Hi ppl

how can i detect in what language is the windows system, there's a specific 
script or where can i download some xtra for this ?

tkx in advance
Limiar

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rotating quicktimeVR

[Heike Schmidt]

hello list .-)

here's another silly question from me:
i've got a quicktimeVR sprite depicting a planet on the stage. i'm
auto-rotating that sprite by incrementing it's pan value every time it
enters the frame it sits in.

on enterFrame
sprite(1).pan= a
a= a+1
updateStage
go to the frame
end
that sort of thing. works just fine.

by puppeting the tempo i can control the speed of the rotation.
that works just fine, too.

now, the problem is that whenever the mouse is within the VRsprite (and the
little hand-cursor appears) the rotation slows down to a snail's pace. why
is that? is it something to do with things being in front of a quicktime
movie making updateStage harder to calculate? but i need updateStage to
rotate, dont i? is there a remedy?
please go on and impress the hell out of me once more...
thank you!
heike .-)



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Re: white flash

[Tom Vandenbossche]

It's indeed the color of my stage
and I don't have a blank first or last frame.

Tom

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> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 03:53:18 -0600 (CST)
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> Subject: Re:  white flash
> 
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> 
> Is the white flash the color of your stage? Make sure that you don't have
> a blank first frame in the new movie or blank last frame in the one you're
> coming from.
> 
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Tom Vandenbossche wrote:
> 
>> I've made a project in several languages. When they f.ex choose for english
>> the external cast will switch to the english version. Common thing I think.
>> I used this isn several other projects too and it always worked. Now in this
>> project when I change from movie to movie I always get a white flash between
>> the two movies. I've never had that before.
>> 
>> This is the script I use
>> 
>> on preparemovie
>> set the filename of castlib "switch.cst" to "switch" & string(glanguage)
>> &".cst"
>> updatestage
>> end
>> 
>> the cast has just a 30 text-castmembers so It's not loaded or something.
>> 
>> 
>> When I remove the script the flash is gone
>> 
>> Any suggestions?
>> 
>> Tom
>> 
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Re: white flash

[grimmwerks]

Is the white flash the color of your stage? Make sure that you don't have 
a blank first frame in the new movie or blank last frame in the one you're 
coming from.

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Tom Vandenbossche wrote:

> I've made a project in several languages. When they f.ex choose for english
> the external cast will switch to the english version. Common thing I think.
> I used this isn several other projects too and it always worked. Now in this
> project when I change from movie to movie I always get a white flash between
> the two movies. I've never had that before.
> 
> This is the script I use
> 
> on preparemovie
>   set the filename of castlib "switch.cst" to "switch" & string(glanguage)
> &".cst"
>   updatestage
> end
> 
> the cast has just a 30 text-castmembers so It's not loaded or something.
> 
> 
> When I remove the script the flash is gone
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Tom
> 
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RE: passiing parameters to a shockwave movie

[séb]

Hi Michael,

> > where in the Macromedia file they use
> > document.write("$PR");
> I don't understand the "$PR" - what kind of variable is this?
> PHP? I didn't see any declaration.

it's a variable parsed by Director when publishing


> In your suggestion:
> document.write('\n');
>
> nYourParameter is passed as a text to Shockwave - how do I pass the value?
> I suppose you expected me to declare like this:
> var nYourParameter = navigator.appName();  (for example)

you're supposing very well ;¬)

> Sorry, I am new to web programming and rather confused.
I'm not very advanced into javascript boring stuffs, but I've done a quick
demo to show you how this works:

you'll have the .dcr that get and show the sw1 parameter, and the .htm page
use this javascript technique to set the javascript var varSw1 to
navigator.appName .

hth,
.séb




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white flash

[Tom Vandenbossche]

I've made a project in several languages. When they f.ex choose for english
the external cast will switch to the english version. Common thing I think.
I used this isn several other projects too and it always worked. Now in this
project when I change from movie to movie I always get a white flash between
the two movies. I've never had that before.

This is the script I use

on preparemovie
  set the filename of castlib "switch.cst" to "switch" & string(glanguage)
&".cst"
  updatestage
end

the cast has just a 30 text-castmembers so It's not loaded or something.


When I remove the script the flash is gone

Any suggestions?

Tom

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