Re: to macromedia: jumpstart kit PC ONLY!?!?
What exactly does this mean? Doesn't change my complaint. On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Jason Je wrote: > >From AW... > >Maya is available for these platforms: > >Windows® NT, Windows® 2000 Professional, IRIX, Linux and Macintosh OS X. > > Does this make you feel any better??? :) > Have a nice weekend!!! > > Jason > > > _ > Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.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!] > [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: protecting bitmaps ???
Sweet! It seems to me a while back there was a thread on one of the lists about random number algorithms changing (fortunately rarely) between certain versions of...was it Director or the OS? I can't remember. I'll have to check the archives. Obviously it could really screw this up if different flavors of Windoze or Macattack produced a different pseudo-random sequence from the same seed! At 1816 -0600 3/15/2002, Howdy-Tzi wrote: >OK, so I was kicking around a little for something to do. > >http://www.nightwares.com/beta/xOrPixel.dir >... >You might remember that since random numbers are algorithmically >derived, if you set up your randomSeed to a known value when you >begin (such as the h and w of an image!), you will get identical >"random" results on two runs, provided you run the random operations >in exactly the same way. >... >http://www.nightwares.com/beta/xOrPixel2.dir >... > Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ >... --- Jeff Gomes MultiMedia Magic [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Giving Life to Ideas" --- [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: need Lingo tutorials
one forum two fora one datum two data one graffito two graffiti one broccolus two broccoli Howdy-Tzi wrote: > > At 20:38 -0500 03/15/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Are there any free downloadable (PDF/Word) > >Lingo tutorials on the web? > >I am also looking for Lingo source > >code I could learn from. > > You have asked this question several times on two different fora now, > and have received a range of answers. Please look up the answers > you've already received. > > -- > Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ > Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting > Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide > Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill > http://www.osborne.com/indexes/beginners_guides.shtml > [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!]
Re: to macromedia: jumpstart kit PC ONLY!?!?
>From AW... >Maya is available for these platforms: >Windows® NT, Windows® 2000 Professional, IRIX, Linux and Macintosh OS X. Does this make you feel any better??? :) Have a nice weekend!!! Jason _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.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: need Lingo tutorials
At 20:38 -0500 03/15/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Are there any free downloadable (PDF/Word) >Lingo tutorials on the web? >I am also looking for Lingo source >code I could learn from. You have asked this question several times on two different fora now, and have received a range of answers. Please look up the answers you've already received. -- Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill http://www.osborne.com/indexes/beginners_guides.shtml [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!]
need Lingo tutorials
Are there any free downloadable (PDF/Word) Lingo tutorials on the web? I am also looking for Lingo source code I could learn from. Also, hows the Director/Multi-Media market anyway? Is it better than the IT/programming/Web market or is it going downhill aswell? I am thinking of taking Director courses. What are some good schools in NYC? Is a BFA/BA required to work for large corps or is a certificate enough? What degrees do people here have, what is your job description, and how do you utilize Director on the job? thank 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!]
Re: protecting bitmaps ???
OK, so I was kicking around a little for something to do. http://www.nightwares.com/beta/xOrPixel.dir This is Dir8.5 at the moment, as it is kind of a work in progress. About 160 Kb. Open source. However I've found that: 1. BitXOring pixels on images is pretty fast. 2. The image is NOT rendered to noise. Rather it looks like an effects color filter has been applied to it. I tinkered more and then realized I don't need to retain the key pixel at all! You might remember that since random numbers are algorithmically derived, if you set up your randomSeed to a known value when you begin (such as the h and w of an image!), you will get identical "random" results on two runs, provided you run the random operations in exactly the same way. This is interesting because if you xOr an xOr you get right back where you started. So I modified the file a bit and ended up speeding it up, with VASTLY satisfactory results: http://www.nightwares.com/beta/xOrPixel2.dir Do the xOr once and you get total garbage. Do it again and you get, ah, total garbage of a different kind. I swear I did not cheat and hide the image someplace in RAM or an undo buffer. You can see for yourself by running this movie in Dir8.5, xOring once, saving the file and quitting Director. When you load the movie again the image will still be garbage. When you run it through the xOr filter a second time, it's restored. So this, Chris, is one very nice way to prevent end users from frigging around with client bitmaps. This is also of interest, I suspect, to anyone wanting to protect client images being stolen by DXR crackers. Have fun. I am off to home now. -- Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill http://www.osborne.com/indexes/beginners_guides.shtml [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: open lingo keeps launching Internet Explorer
It sounds like that filetype is associated with IE somehow. At 7:09 PM + 3/15/02, you wrote: >Sorry I forgot the subject last time. > >I'm creating a project that requires the projector to open different types >of external documents and applications. For some reason when I use >any of the following 'open' lingo Microsoft Internet Explorer always >opens instead of or >as well as the document. This happens on my PC and Mac If anyone can tell me >why it will be much appreciated. > > >open "document" >or >open the movie path & "document" >or >open "document" with " application" > > > >_ >Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. >http://www.hotmail.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!] [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 macromedia: jumpstart kit PC ONLY!?!?
Well I got my jumpstart kit for Maya today and I'm disgusted to see that it's pc only -- ok, I can understand teh exporter being pc only, but COME ON, the content, the interactive presentation is pc only? Really dissappointed in 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!]
RE: help: display the message window THANKS!
Thanks a lot Kerry. Logical feature update in fact... Bastien [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: help: display the message window in runtime in D8.5
>Since a project upgrade from D8 to D8.5, i can't no more display the message >window in runtime with the "MessageWindow=1" line in the myprojector.ini >file as before. Why this? In your code, set the debugPlaybackEnabled = TRUE New feature for security. 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
printing RTF text members with Printomatic
Hi all, I just realized that if you send a whole FIELD member to Printomatic, it gets printed beautifully as "true text" with all formatting intact, etc. But if you do the same with a TEXT member, it sends a bitmap of the text member to the printer. So you see the formatting and eveything, but it looks no where near as nice. I'd really like to keep using text members (I've got them all programmaticly being filled and formatted on the fly) and not switch over to fields. Had anyone written a utility, by any chance, that will step through the contents of a text member and send the appropriate commands to Printomatic so that it all gets printed as true text with the correct formatting? Here's hoping! Leah __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.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!]
help: display the message window in runtime in D8.5
Hi all, Since a project upgrade from D8 to D8.5, i can't no more display the message window in runtime with the "MessageWindow=1" line in the myprojector.ini file as before. Why this? Bastien [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: Re: Flash MX, Director & Pocket PC OS
>One very cool aspect of Flash MX is that it claims to be able to put up >little 240x320 pixel web pages onto the Pocket PC systems, so far Casio >has licensed drivers(?). Yes, and others in the works (e.g., iPaq). >Is this something that is already being done with Shockwave sites & >Director graphics? No, and AFAIK it isn't in the works--at least that's what Macro said at their presentation. Director has so much more power, so the footprint of the Shockwave player is too big, and the processor on the Pocket PC's is too slow. 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: Re : Ram & film loops
At 10:47 AM +1300 3/15/02, Sean Wilson wrote: > > Does Director automatically pre-load the cast members >> used in a film loop when it is called in the score. > >Provided there is enough free RAM, yes. > >To do so manually, rather than resorting to creating a filmloop, look up >"preLoadMember()" in the Lingo dictionary. > >HTH, >-Sean. As I recall, preLoadMember() on a filmloop changed after the D7 rewrite. I believe it now only preloads the score data and not the actual members referenced by it. If you happen to know what members are used in the filmloop, you could preload those as well as the filmloop member. Prior to D7, preloading a filmloop would load _everything_, but unloading the member would only release the filmloops score data. The change in D7 was correct this inconsistancey. Cole [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!]
Tracking a Button
I have a program made in D702 (Windows) and I would like to track the amount of people that are using the program. The program is on a stand along computer but is networked to my working system in my office. I would like to add a counter to one of the buttons track how many people using the program. I do not wish for the count to be seen. I would like it to go to a counter.txt file on the computer that I can call up daily. Counter may not be the name I am looking for here. Fred Westermeyer, CNA Slot Graphics [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grand Casino Biloxi 265 Beach Boulevard Biloxi, MS 39530 1-800-WIN-2-WIN ext.1592 [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: Flash MX, Director & Pocket PC OS
Greetings- One very cool aspect of Flash MX is that it claims to be able to put up little 240x320 pixel web pages onto the Pocket PC systems, so far Casio has licensed drivers(?). Is this something that is already being done with Shockwave sites & Director graphics? Sorry for the ignorance if this is already do-able...I'm interested in finding out. -Mark Scott J/B Woolsey Associates Graphics that Educate http://www.jbwoolsey.com >Message: 9 >Subject: RE: My Crystal Ball >Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:17:48 -0800 >From: "Kerry Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Kurt Griffin wrote: >> >> >But, to answer your question, nothing (except for dealing with >> Unicode >> >> Umm, imaging Lingo? 3D? Score recording? There is a lot you can >> do in Director you cannot do in Flash. >> >Umm, Warren, the question was actually what can you do in Flash MX that >you can't do in Director. Kurt hit the main point for Flash MX--Unicode. >Can't do that in Director. In the next release? Can't say. > >I think Kurt hit the target on another point--Flash is being positioned >as a competitor to HTML, not Director. I saw the hotel reservation >system he mentioned, too, and it's a quantum leap beyond anything Orbitz >or Travelocity has. You have to see it to really appreciate it, but the >first major travel site to put up something like that is going to hit >the jackpot. It is really sweet. > >Back to the main point, though--I think Flash MX is good for the >Director community. It's not going to replace Director. It's going to >give us some competition in the low to low-medium range of Web apps, but >I see that as an opportunity for those of us willing to expand our >repertoire. You, like Kurt, Chris, myself, and a bunch of other Dir >developers, are primarily a programmer, I think. A lot of the changes in >Flash MX makes it more accessible to people like us--coders. I think >when we dig in, we'll be delighted at the goodies in the MX programming >box. > >If Flash MX really takes off the way it could, it could have an indirect >benefit for Director, too. The healthier Macromedia is financially, the >more money they have to spend on Director, even if some of the money >comes from Flash sales. > >(stepping down from his soap box), > >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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
open lingo keeps launching Internet Explorer
Sorry I forgot the subject last time. 'm creating a project that requires the projector to open different types of external documents and applications. For some reason when I use any of the following 'open' lingo Microsoft Internet Explorer always opens instead of or as well as the document. This happens on my PC and Mac If anyone can tell me why it will be much appreciated. open "document" or open the movie path & "document" or open "document" with " application" _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.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: My Crystal Ball
>Ok, I'll rise to the bait. > >Film clips. > >Vector graphics > >Vector-based text > >I'm gonna get creamed for this, but I think ActionScript is a better >language than Lingo. Allow me: You meant movie clips I guess. Between MIAWs, film loops, LDMs, and Flash if you must, Director doesn't do too bad. Director has shapes, vectors, and Flash. What do you suppose is going on behind the scenes when you use embedded outline fonts? Lingo can be used in a way that is easy for humans to understand, or in ways that are easier for geeks to understand. ActionScript is just geared towards geeks. -- [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: protecting bitmaps ???
At 12:14 +0100 03/15/2002, Andreas Gaunitz P11 wrote:
>You could use the alpha channel (the fourth "color" channel) to
>embed data, if it's not being used for transparency. Not all img
>formats support alpha though. Eps, Png and Tiff do, but not jpeg.
Well, you would not want to use JPEG for this anyway. You'd have to
do the stego on a lossless format. (You knew that though.)
I'd avoid using alpha too on the off chance that Director (or any
other image display program) would try to display it even on images
that didn't use it -- and you'd get all kinds of wacky noise onscreen
then.
>One advantage of doing this is that you could tell you customer to
>just paste you copy protection image into the alpha channel in ie
>Photoshop, so the image won't need to go through Director in the
>first place.
In order to make the alpha protector it would. But then you can sell
an entire package -- a creation engine and a distribution one -- and
make even more cashola. :)
There's another rationale though. If you start involving other
programs, and working with the assumption end users will follow
instructions correctly, you have two variables over which you have no
control.
For instance the third party program might silently change some of
its algorithms, hosing your methods. And I think we *all* know what
happens when you trust a user to follow instructions correctly. ("It
says press any key... where's the 'any' key?")
Thus it makes more sense (to me) to offer a complete production
package that -- as far as possible -- removes such variables from the
mix. After all, Director *can* do it. (In fact I was talking to a
colleague earlier and mentioned to him in passing that right now you
could practically write PhotoShop in Director.) So since it *can* do
it, well, why not let it do it?
--
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Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide
Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill
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Re: My Crystal Ball
>Now, can you think of anything besides Unicode that Flash can top Dir in? Ok, I'll rise to the bait. Film clips. Vector graphics Vector-based text I'm gonna get creamed for this, but I think ActionScript is a better language than Lingo. The implementation in Flash makes it slow (it's directly interpreted--not even tokenized), but I think it's an inherently better language for hard-core coders. Lingo is probably easier for beginning and intermediate programmers. 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Flash in Director = Slow ...MX?? Slightly OT
>I went to the Macromedia MX seminar this week (very impressed with MX) and >was slightly surprised to only hear two Director related questions That's interesting--the only person who asked a Director-related question at the demo I went to was me. My gut feeling is that there are a lot of Director users who incorporate Flash, but not a lot of Flash users who migrate to Director. Could be wrong--I'd be interested to hear otherwise. >My question was regarding Flash slowing Director up and if this had been >resolved Brian did a right nice job of answering that, so I'll approach it from another angle. Flash doesn't have to slow Director down. There are a number of techniques you can use: - Dont use too many Flash sprites. Right now, each Flash sprite launches an instance of the Flash Asset Xtra, which chews up memory, and indirectly slows Director. - Use the #static property when the sprite isn't doing anything. - Make your Flash dts - Don't do lockstep - To improve the Flash sprite's performance, slow the Director frame rate down to 4 fps 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: protecting bitmaps ???
At 19:54 -0700 03/14/2002, Jeff Gomes wrote: >Would you be using BinaryIO to check the stego before importing, or >using getPixel after importing? You could do either, I suppose. As far as color depth issues are concerned, I've wondered about that too. I think what happens is the image is imported at 24+ but displayed at 16. That is, the data remains intact. Particularly if you do a member.fileName rather than an importFileInto. Of course if that is not the case one could easily require 24+ bit color with a colorDepth test when the movie loads. Since all this stuiff is extremely processor intensive (by Director standards ;) you'd want to be doing it on a fairly late-model, fast machine anyway, which would mean it certainly could rez up to 24 or more bits color. -- Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill http://www.osborne.com/indexes/beginners_guides.shtml [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: centering miaw
>How can I do that?, open a MIAW centered? In your code to open the MIAW: stageRect = rect(the stageLeft, the stageTop, the stageRight, the stageBottom) DLOGRect = CenterRectWithin(dlogWindow.sourceRect, stageRect) DLOGRect = offset(DLOGRect, 0, -20) -- tweak dlog a little above dead center. dlogWindow.rect = DLOGRect and the handlers it calls: on CenterRectWithin aRect, inRect inRectCtr = RectCenter(inRect) return CenterRectAround(aRect, inRectCtr) end on CenterRectAround aRect, aPoint rectCtr = RectCenter(aRect) return offset(aRect, aPoint.locH - rectCtr.locH, aPoint.locV - rectCtr.locV) end on RectCenter aRect if not ilk(aRect, #rect) then alert "Non-rectangle passed to RectCenter function." end if topLeft = point(aRect.left, aRect.top) botRight = point(aRect.right, aRect.bottom) return topLeft + ((botRight - topLeft)/2) 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
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I'm creating a project that requires the projector to open different types of external documents and applications. Fore some reason when I use any of the following lingo Microsoft Internet Explorer always opens instead of or as well as the document. This happens on my PC and Mac If anyone can tell me why it will be much appreciated. open "document" or open the movie path & "document" or open "document" with " application" _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. [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: My Crystal Ball
At 17:17 -0800 03/14/2002, Kerry Thompson wrote: >Umm, Warren, the question was actually what can you do in Flash MX that >you can't do in Director. Well, OK, I misread it. Doesn't invalidate anything I sent, though, and the next time a Flash jockey starts gettin up in yo face about how Flash is allat an a bag o fries, you can say chill, byatch, I got yo Flash here. :D >Back to the main point, though--I think Flash MX is good for the >Director community. Wouldn't disagree there. At 21:56 -0500 03/14/2002, Kurt Griffin wrote: >Chill, brother, I love Director. Props to my peeps! >You need to >read, not scan, my opinionated volatile alter-ego. No, I'd rather not. That requires far too much effort -- effort I could spend on pontification. -- Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill http://www.osborne.com/indexes/beginners_guides.shtml [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: MIAW and prepareMovie, openWindow
At 11:28 +1300 03/15/2002, Sean Wilson wrote: >Would anyone else care to confirm that opening a MIAW from the stage's >prepareMovie handler causes the MIAW's prepareMovie handler to fail? >And when run as a projector, the openWindow, prepareMovie and beginSprite >(for a sprite in frame 1) events display a different order from the >authoring environment? > >A workaround is obvious - open it from startMovie. I didn't expect this and >hadn't read about it elsewhere. Actually a better workaround is to not use movie scripts at all and instantiate your MIAWs from sprite behaviors or in the script channel. You cna put a beginSprite event into the framescript, for instance, thus: PROPERTY pwMyWindow on beginSprite me pwMyWindow = window "Sean" pwMyWindow.filename = whatever pwMyWindow.type = whatever open pwMyWindow END beginSprite on exitFrame me go the frame END exitFrame on endSprite me pwMyWindow.close() pwMyWindow.forget() END endSprite You can do similar things in the framescript for your window file. This allows you to get out of prepareMovie, startMovie, stopMovie and so on, and allows you further to treat your windows as OOP objects. Stability issues become minimal when you do that. The one caveat is that you can have only one behavior in the framescript channel. The behavior can be referenced by doing sendSprite to sprite 0, which is pretty convenient. -- Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill http://www.osborne.com/indexes/beginners_guides.shtml [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: using mpeg in director
If at all possible I would use QuickTime with Sorenson compression I've found that mpegs have a few problems. The main one being that the colors don't always stay consistent between computers. Also, The quicktime movie is smaller than a mpeg, If you have a lot of video this could be a factor. [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!]
Auto Xtra downloading question.
Browser based query. Sorry that it's not really a lingo question. If I have a loader movie and a main movie, and the main movie uses an Xtra (XML parser, in case you're wondering) marked as 'download if needed', will this fail if the xtra is not flagged in the loader movie's xtra list too? I'm seeing exactly this issue - the error 'xtra not found' appears in the main movie even though it's flagged to download. Why else would an Xtra fail to download? Thanks in advance! Brennan [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: Flash in Director = Slow ...MX?? Slightly OT
> Does anybody know more than this regarding MX? Is it going to run normally in > Director or are we still going to have to wait for Hell to ice over before we can > sensibly use Flash in D? Iain, Over on Direct-L, there was much discussion about Flash MX a few weeks ago. Bob Tartar from Macromedia answered a few questions regarding this. Here are a few snippets: Flash MX Asset Xtra availability We know that many of you use Director and Flash together, so we're working on having the Flash MX Asset Xtra available to you as soon as possible. Specifically, the goal is to have the Flash MX Asset Xtra available within 90 days of the Flash MX ship. On MX performance in Director This is a question I am anxious to get answers to myself. At this point, with the Flash MX Xtra still under development, I can only tell you I will be working closely with the beta testers to determine what the performance differences may be. I'll be happy to communicate news in this regard to this community. Basically, no one will really know until the Xtra is released. Performance wise, I don't think we will ever see a Flash Xtra that runs as efficiently in Director as it does standalone. When you've got an engine running from within an engine, there are bound to be performance losses. The biggest fix I'm hoping for is some way for the Xtra to utilize one instance of the Flash engine for all Flash sprite's on-stage rather than a separate instance for each. This would improve quite a few issues, but I don't know how feasible it is. If you are interested in reading the whole thread from Direct-L, pop over to the archives at http://listserv.uark.edu/archives/direct-l.html and do a search for "Flash Mx ( Flash 6 ? ) Is Almost Here" in 2002. Brian Romanko Lead Developer - Neo/SCI Corporation Member - Greater Rochester Macromedia User 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Flash in Director = Slow ...MX?? Slightly OT
I went to the Macromedia MX seminar this week (very impressed with MX) and was slightly surprised to only hear two Director related questions, one of which was mine. My question followed another chap who asked if MX was supported in 8.5 which of course it isn't and a new importer is being worked on by Macromedia now (apparently). My question was regarding Flash slowing Director up and if this had been resolved or even addressed. I was told that Macromedia know about this and that it was high on the wishlist although the chap I spoke to did not know if it had been sorted out or not although suspected that it had. A bit vague for what I consider to be a major problem with Flash and Director. Does anybody know more than this regarding MX? Is it going to run normally in Director or are we still going to have to wait for Hell to ice over before we can sensibly use Flash in D? Iain [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: Removing applicaion from Taskbar?
Use quit comand - Original Message - From: "Shaik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 1:44 AM Subject: Removing applicaion from Taskbar? > Hello Friends, > > In my application I have 2 options like connect me to IE browser > and Notepad. When any of these options clicked my projectors(or my > application)'s name should disappear from my Taskbar and browser > or notepad should open. > > Can anyone suggest me how do remove my application from my > TASKBAR. > > Thanks in advance. > > --Shaik. > [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!]
RE: Command line arguments
Many thanks! -Original Message- From: rani op [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 15 March 2002 13:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Command line arguments Hi... use the system variable 'the commandline' to access the command line parameters in director.. .there is no documentation for this.. but it works... Rani On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 Peter King wrote : >Is it possible to get command line arguments that were used to >launch a projector, from inside the projector? > >E.g. > >c:\some folder\projector.exe -c -a > >Can I access these parameters? >[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!] [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: Command line arguments
Hi... use the system variable 'the commandline' to access the command line parameters in director.. .there is no documentation for this.. but it works... Rani On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 Peter King wrote : >Is it possible to get command line arguments that were used to >launch a projector, from inside the projector? > >E.g. > >c:\some folder\projector.exe -c -a > >Can I access these parameters? >[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!]
Re: protecting bitmaps ???
Hey, nice thread! You could use the alpha channel (the fourth "color" channel) to embed data, if it's not being used for transparency. Not all img formats support alpha though. Eps, Png and Tiff do, but not jpeg. One advantage of doing this is that you could tell you customer to just paste you copy protection image into the alpha channel in ie Photoshop, so the image won't need to go through Director in the first place. Then you'd need to use iLingo to look for the special pixel sequence in the alpha channel of the imported img. -A. >Would you be using BinaryIO to check the stego before importing, or >using getPixel after importing? If the latter, would you need an >xtra to make sure the image gets imported at 32-bit even if the >user's display is at 16? > >At 1124 -0600 3/14/2002, Howdy-Tzi wrote: >>... >>1. The program loads a target image file. >>2. The program tries to destego the identifier string. >>3. If it's there, you poroceed happily. Else, you kick up an alert >>talking about wrong formats. > [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: a horizontal kind of scrolling
Thank you, James! This works great! Using an auto-scroll in a one line high field is an approach I hadn´t thought of. A very well written behavior it is, too! Thanks for taking time to write such a complete behavior. > Hi Mats, > > Here's a behavior that will do what you want by setting the scrollTop > of the > field or text member that the text appears in. To change the text, you > can > use: > > sendSprite(x, #mSetText, "your new string") > > Cheers, > > James > > > > > -- SWAP LINES -- > -- > -- Simulates the way the LCD display in a cell phone will show a long > -- line of text in short chunks. > > > > -- PROPERTY DECLARATIONS -- > > property delay > > property pMember > property pScroll > property pLineHeight > property pTimeOut > > > > -- EVENT HANDLERS -- > > on beginSprite(me) > -- Initialize properties > pMember = sprite(me.spriteNum).member > pScroll = 0 > > -- Set the properties of the member so that the behavior will work > pMember.boxType = #fixed > pMember.wordWrap = TRUE > pMember.scrollTop = 0 > > -- Set the height of the sprite to show only one line of text > case pMember.type of > #field: > pLineHeight = pMember.lineHeight > tRect= pMember.rect > tRect.bottom = tRect.top + pLineHeight > pMember.rect = tRect > > #text: > pMember.topSpacing = 0 > pLineHeight= pMember.charPosToLoc(1).locV + 1 > pMember.height = pLineHeight > pMember.fixedLineSpace = 0 > end case > > -- Create a timeOut object to swap the lines on a regular basis > pTimeOut = timeOut(string(me)).new(delay, #mSwapLine, me) > end beginSprite > > > > on endSprite(me) > -- Prevent memory leaks > pTimeOut.target = 0 > pTimeOut.forget() > end endSprite > > > > -- PUBLIC METHODS -- > > on mSetText(me, aString) - > -- INPUT: should be a string > -- ACTION: Restarts the swap line cycle with a new text string > > > if stringP(aString) then > -- Reintitialize text display > pMember.text = aString > pMember.scrollTop = 0 > pScroll = 0 > > -- Reinitialize timeOut > pTimeOut.target = 0 > pTimeOut.forget() > pTimeOut = timeOut(string(me)).new(delay, #mSwapLine, me) > end if > end mSetString > > > > on mSwapLine(me) - > -- SENT BY: pTimeOut > -- ACTION: Shows the next line of text after the chosen delay > > > tHeight = pMember.height - pLineHeight > > if not tHeight then > -- There are no additional lines to swap in > pTimeOut.period = 0 > else if pScroll < tHeight then > -- Scroll down to the next line > pScroll = pScroll + pLineHeight > else > -- Scroll back up to the beginning > pScroll = 0 > end if > > pMember.scrollTop = pScroll > end mSwapLine > > > > -- PARAMETERS -- > > on getPropertyDescriptionList(me) > tPropertyList = [:] > > tPropertyList[ \ > #delay] = [ \ > #comment: "Milliseconds during which each line is shown", \ > #format: #integer, \ > #range: [#min: 0, #max: 1], \ > #default: 1000 \ > ] > > return tPropertyList > end getPropertyDescriptionList > > [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!]
Removing applicaion from Taskbar?
Hello Friends, In my application I have 2 options like connect me to IE browser and Notepad. When any of these options clicked my projectors(or my application)'s name should disappear from my Taskbar and browser or notepad should open. Can anyone suggest me how do remove my application from my TASKBAR. Thanks in advance. --Shaik. [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!]
Command line arguments
Is it possible to get command line arguments that were used to launch a projector, from inside the projector? E.g. c:\some folder\projector.exe -c -a Can I access these parameters? [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!]
