lingo-l Unicode in Director
Hi all, Does Director 8.5 support Unicode? I can not read XML file has unicode. Have you ever meet this problem? Please show me. Thanks a billions Hung Hoang. [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 script check in runtime
hi can anybody tell me how i can check my script before playing my movie. i m giving one script option to user in which he can wright his own script can change property of sprite. like color, position etc. but problem is when user wright script in projector (EXE) and spose he give wrong parametters or script (exe) gives a error ask you want to continue or not spose i choose not it close exe file completely exit is there any idea or way to check his(user) script by that he can check his script has any error or not lot of thanks in advance nitin __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.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 script check in runtime
look into the alertHook... nitin sharma wrote: hi can anybody tell me how i can check my script before playing my movie. i m giving one script option to user in which he can wright his own script can change property of sprite. like color, position etc. but problem is when user wright script in projector (EXE) and spose he give wrong parametters or script (exe) gives a error ask you want to continue or not spose i choose not it close exe file completely exit is there any idea or way to check his(user) script by that he can check his script has any error or not lot of thanks in advance nitin __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.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!] [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 Director and OS X
Anybody knows when director will release for OS X? (and perhaps dreamweaver for OSX?) Tom [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 projector questions
Usually it is bad form to modify the user's computer settings. You would need an Xtra to do so anyway, but presume it's 256 colors because either: 1) The user likes it that way 2) Their video card only supports 256 colors (at least at that resolution), and can't be changed. or sometimes (3) It came that way and the user just doesn't know how to change it. At any rate, it's not appropriate to change their system. What you can do is one of the following: A) Put up a message saying This program requires your monitor to be set to display thousands of colors or better. Use Settings | Control Panel | Display | Settings to change your color setting, then exit. If the user really wants to run your program, let THEM do the change and then re-run it. B) Create a duplicate set of art that works in 256-colors and use that art for 256-color systems. Or, modify your art so that it doesn't have gradients and uses colors from the standard palette, so at least your art looks better. Creating duplicate art is the best quality solution, but a lot of work if you're not making a commercial product. - Tab At 06:27 PM 4/15/02 +0800, noelle cheng wrote: Hi, Before creating a projector, is there any way to check the end user's system via lingo and modify its computer settings especially its color settings? I found that a projector that I had created looked very ugly on another computer. It was set at 256 colors. I had used a reverse background which did not appear at all and the color was missing. When I searched the Lingo-l archives and Direct-L archives, I could not find anything. Maybe I am wrong and nobody modifies the end-user settings? Short of re-doing the whole piece of work? Another thing - I used QT movies in my movie. When an .exe file is created, QT files need to accompany this. I actually placed my QT movies in a folder. And every time the movie reached a screen where a QT movie was required, the box saying where is this file to be found opens up. I have to tell the computer to look into the accompanying file every time. How do I not allow it to open in a projector? It looks very terrible in a presentation. TIA. Noelle. [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 Re: Director 8.5.1 in os x environment
Ehm, Re: Lingo-l digest, Vol 1 #199 - 19 msgs = Re: Director 8.5.1 in os x environment Sorry 'bout that. [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 Re: Lingo-l digest, Vol 1 #199 - 19 msgs
I'd be interested to hear of others who have Classic, who have fired up the extensions manager and disabled all the MS inits (list following), and specifically whether it worked. Warren, You're definitely on the right track.. I already had a stripped down classic set in my extensions manager But after disabling ALL the MS components (before i kept a few) , rebooting and such , i am now working a few days without a single director-breakdown and also (as you mentioned) window-redrawing in all classic apps seems Faster indeed. Thanx. ( you might consider posting it to www.macosxhints.com ) Here are the inits I disabled: Microsoft Component Library Microsoft Framework Microsoft Hyperlink Library Microsoft Internet Library Microsoft OLE Automation Microsoft OLE Library Microsoft RPC Runtime Library Microsoft Structured Storage +-- + E.junior-developer + + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + +32 3 470 26 13 + +http://www.alligence.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 script of mousewithin
It probably depends on where the script is. on mouseWithin me -- end is best used in a behavior attached to a sprite. Then it will be called when the mouse is within that particular sprite. If you want to detect which sprite the mouse is within from a movie script or some other global script you need to use the mouseMember to find out what member the mouse is within, and then figure out which sprite that uses that member. -A. i want to give scripting facility to user by that he can make little changes in sprite property like color or position ect. for that i m useing the text of field a to the script of sprite 1. all is fine but when i use on mousewithin set the forecolor of sprite 1 to 6 end its no effect but when i m use on mouseup set the forecolor of sprite 1 to 6 end its work fine can't we give mousewithin command in our scripting text. [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 Message Window
I apologize if this is not a true Lingo question. I frequently use the Message window to debug programs. I will run the program once and get a bunch of data in the Message Window. If I then run the program again, the new data gets placed below the old data, but I often find it difficult to distinguish the new from the old data. Is there a simple way to clear the Message window? Thank you. Robert S. Rycroft Dept of Economics Mary Washington College Fredericksburg, VA 22401 540-654-1500 [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 projector questions
You're right, I was thinking of screen-size, but it was generally true on Windows anyway. On the Mac you can change it without too much problem (just remember to set it back when you're done!). On Windows, it used to NOT work for many systems - nowadays it's more likely to work. It used to be that most systems were not capable of going over 256-colors, not true now. But, I would still say that if the system is set to 256, there's probably a reason for it - my guess is that they don't have the hardware to do better than that, so if you ultimately want to run in 256 you'll need 256-color art for best results. - Tab At 07:52 AM 4/15/02 -0400, Colin Holgate wrote: Usually it is bad form to modify the user's computer settings. That may often be the case (for example, resizing their desktop may be bad, or changing their sound level to super loud wouldn't go down too well), but in these days I don't think that setting the colordepth is that bad a thing. It's also a built in function, no Xtra required, and it's likely to work on most modern systems. So, try to set the colors if you can, and if that fails, tell the user to change it for you. One important thing, don't use the projector option for changing the color depth, because it won't let you reset it to how it was before. Change it using the colordepth function, but remember what it was set to, and reset it to that when they quit the projector. On the other problem, read up on 'the searchpath' in the Lingo dictionary. [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 Message Window
Sure - select all in the message window before you run it again. On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Robert Rycroft wrote: I apologize if this is not a true Lingo question. I frequently use the Message window to debug programs. I will run the program once and get a bunch of data in the Message Window. If I then run the program again, the new data gets placed below the old data, but I often find it difficult to distinguish the new from the old data. Is there a simple way to clear the Message window? Thank you. Robert S. Rycroft Dept of Economics Mary Washington College Fredericksburg, VA 22401 540-654-1500 [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: lingo-l using the debugger
Hi, Thanks Florian and Tab for helping to solve my problem. Sorry, Florian for not replying earlier. I think Tab explained very good what to do. Also be sure to include the script member scriptb in your movie. Yes, Tab did explain it very well. In fact he hit the nail on the head. As I has copied the contents from another file, there were now actually two 'start movie' scripts. Wow, you are all very good at debugging scripts. You were able to pinpoint my mistakes very quickly. Anyway, after I corrected this, I ran the movie again and the error message was : Error: cast member not found. I think I can't do anything anymore. Thank you for helping me learn. Yes, I spent hours on it but I believe that it was worth the trouble. First thing I've learnt is that I must never copy code blindly. There will definitely be errors. Something more general Noelle: what is it you want to do? No offense meant, but you seem to be a very beginner with Director and Programming. It might not be the best idea to use quite complicated object orientated scripting. We all gladly help, but using more simple lingo might do a better job for you to learn lingo. Thank you for your concern. To be honest, I was trying to create a quiz in my .dir movie. I wanted to create something nice instead of using PS and embed everything in the score to do it. I wanted it to be interactive. But my knowledge of lingo is very very limited. Initially, Irv was kind enough to send me his file. I studied it and tried to modify and fit it into my movie. No, the debugger didn't appear when I ran the movie. Instead the tempo was all wrong and the scenes were not smooth. The sequencing of events was wrong. Well, I couldn't very well ask Irv what he put inside his movie, now, could I? It was very embarrassing. Then I was very fortunate to receive another quiz .dir file. But this time I made the mistake of not testing it by saving it after copying it in. It worked after I copied it in. If I had saved it and ran it, I would have known of the errors then . But I didn't do so. This is another lesson learnt. After I saved it I do not run it but immediately started modifying the questions etc - after all it was something like a 'generic file'. Only after I tried to run this file did the errors come out. Well, it was in a way better than Irv's so I immediately started using the debugger. The same thing with the volume control script. I still can't make it work properly. But I am not giving up. I still want to try. I'm sorry. I know that this is definitely not the way to learn lingo. And I wouldn't have said anything if you hadn't asked me. I'm very afraid that I may be wasting your time. May I ask a question? Is math required for lingo? In the university, I only studied statistics. But I studied some general math during my 'A' levels. Is this still too little? Noelle [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 using the debugger
At 09:24 PM 4/15/02 +0800, noelle cheng wrote: May I ask a question? Is math required for lingo? In the university, I only studied statistics. But I studied some general math during my 'A' levels. Is this still too little? Absolutely not, unless you're planning on programming things that require math (physics apps or animations require physics math, financial programs require financial math, etc.). I was never particularly great at math - from calculus on I got lost easily. What I always WAS good at was geometry, particularly the part about proving theorems. That requires a step-by-step proof, not unlike a basic program. Programming is logical thinking, the ability to break apart and analyze problems. You will first have to learn how the machine processes instructions and does things, and then it will be easier to understand how programs work. Everything must be broken into little steps, and steps within steps. A good suggestion is to not tackle anything too large at once. Of course, some people don't understand what goes into writing programs, so it's hard to tell how difficult a job can be. Imagine building a house. If you don't know anything about home construction, then you're asking for trouble trying to design and build the house you will live in from scratch. First, learn about electricity and wire up a little switch that makes a light turn on and off. Then do some experiments with plumbing. Learn how to pour a small amount of concrete. Maybe make a tiny little house on a little bit of concrete, and one light switch. It'd be too small to live in, but you'd start to see how the process works. Then, as you work with it, you learn what you need to know to build larger houses. The programs I write now are nothing like the ones I first wrote 25 years ago. Only bite off as much as you can chew. Too many people get discouraged by attempting something overlarge. Trying something large does let you get a feel for how much work a project is, but you will still be more productive quicker by doing small projects. - Tab [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 Re: lingo-lsearchpath (was projector questions)
Hi, On the other problem, read up on 'the searchpath' in the Lingo dictionary. I found this in the Direct-L archives. on preparemovie set the searchpaths = [the moviepath, the moviepathVideo the last char of the moviepath] end as in : on preparemovie set the searchpaths =[D:\,D:\Video\] where Video is the folder name of the external cast member. I used this in a lingo.ini file and it didn't execute. Where do I place this statement? I also set the cd to autorun in an autorun.inf file. This worked. I then used this command : on startup the searchCurrentFolder = TRUE end in a lingo.ini file. This didn't work either. How, then do I do it? TIA Noelle [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 Re: purging memory
Micheal, if pSprite.membernum pEndMember then pSprite.membernum = pSprite.membernum + 1 unloadMember member pSprite.membernum - 1 end if I would suggest adding the following after the unload statement: set the purePriority of member pSprite.membernum - 1 = 2 I still think next means next to be purged. Let me know if this helps, so I can be convinced otherwise :) 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!]
lingo-l Where is the list archives? Trying to find info on printingfrom shockwave.
I know that the printing issues has been on this list before...is there an archive of the list that I can search? If not, how can I print from shockwave? Are there any free xtras out there? James Tu [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 Re: lingo-lsearchpath (was projector questions)
Hi, Are you talking about the File IO Xtra? And when you talk about the first movie, is it in a movie script file within the .dir file? Thanks. on preparemovie set the searchpaths =[D:\,D:\Video\] where Video is the folder name of the external cast member. I used this in a lingo.ini file and it didn't execute. Where do I place this statement? Put it in your first movie, not in the lingo.ini file. Keep reading though, because it does get a little trickier. For example, your above script would only work if the CD drive was letter D. [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 Unicode in Director
The XML Parser Xtra supports the UTF-8 and UTF-16 encodings of the Unicode character set. It also supports ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1), US-ASCII, and EUC-JP and SHIFT-JIS (for Japan). It also supports an encoding named x-director-lingo I think. But I can't locate the documentatioin for that right now, or I'd point you to it. ¯¯¯ Christopher Watson Sr. Software Engineer Interactive Web Media Lightspan, Inc. Tel 858.824.8457 Fax 858.824.8001 ___ -Original Message- At 12:41 PM +0700 4/15/02, you wrote: Hi all, Does Director 8.5 support Unicode? I can not read XML file has unicode. Have you ever meet this problem? Please show me. Thanks a billions Hung Hoang. [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 using the debugger
At 00:12 +0800 04/15/2002, noelle cheng wrote: Somehow or other the parent script reference that *should* be in the goMulti object variable didn't get instantiatiated. This means (probably) there is a line of Lingo that reads something like: goMulti = new ( script blablabla ) ...and that this line is in a handler that didn't execute. Is the execution of the code from top to the bottom within the code? Yes, Lingo is not like a line-numbered language where you can jump from one line to another when you are working in a more or less linear way. But there are ways you can make operations repeat within a segment of code until a condition is met; and there are ways you can have one segment of code access another entirely. Is it possible for two programs with the same code to yield different results? Well, as you have found, yes and no. It's not always safe to believe that a copy/paste operation has resulted in the *same* state being created in two different files. And since variables are, well, variable, it is possible for their contents to alter dynamically, which means it is usually quite rare that the same code will yield the *same* results. (If it did, computer games would be boring...) Anyway, after I corrected this, I ran the movie again and the error message was : Error: cast member not found. Yes, this is because the scriptb parent script member that was being referenced and instantiated in the goMulti object is not present in your current file. To be honest, I was trying to create a quiz in my .dir movie. Those can be fun, but they do require a bit more programming than you might think at first. It seems simple to present a true/false or multiple-choice quiz, but if you want to make it something that can change over time, it requires a fairly substantial degree of planning. May I ask a question? Is math required for lingo? In the university, I only studied statistics. But I studied some general math during my 'A' levels. Is this still too little? Ha, you've got stronger math than most of the people I know! You certainly do not have to be able to do differential equations in your head to work with Lingo. I believe Tab mentioned that mathematics helps best by giving you a solid foundation in logic more than anything else. Math, like programming, requires a lot of precision, and generally only yields one correct result (and an infinity of incorrect ones ;). Before creating a projector, is there any way to check the end user's system via lingo and modify its computer settings especially its color settings? Well, you can probe the colorDepth and warn the user with an alert box if there are problems. But your situation is easier to handle, I believe. I found that a projector that I had created looked very ugly on another computer. It was set at 256 colors. I had used a reverse background which did not appear at all and the color was missing. Yes, these are due to palette issues. If you set the default palette of your movie to Web216, you will find that most of these problems will go away. What is happening (probably) is a system component, such as the taskbar, is interfering with the way Director draws its colors, when there are not enough available to use the full range you have selected in your graphics. Using Web216 for the palette will guarantee that the system-specific colors remain intact, and will allow your movie to appear more or less normal during playback, even on low-color systems. Another thing - I used QT movies in my movie. When an .exe file is created, QT files need to accompany this. I actually placed my QT movies in a folder. And every time the movie reached a screen where a QT movie was required, the box saying where is this file to be found opens up. I have to tell the computer to look into the accompanying file every time. Well, the best approch with this is to place the QT movies in a folder alongside your Director file itself as you are authoring it, then import those movies as you go. So the directory might look like this: noelle.dir media movie1.mov movie2.mov ...assuming you have named the movie folder media. Then when you make your projector, save it alongside the media folder: noelle.dir noelle.exe media movie1.mov movie2.mov When you are ready to make your CD, copy the projector and the media folder to the same location and burn the disc: CD noelle.exe media movie1.mov movie2.mov This will keep the QuickTime movies in the same *relative* location -- that is, they will always be alongside the Director movie/projector, and will always be in a folder named media. This lets both your Director movie and your projector find and use the QuickTime movies without having to put up a dialog box every time. And when you talk about the first movie, is it in a movie script file within the .dir file? That is what Colin was
Re: lingo-l script check in runtime
At 00:12 -0700 04/15/2002, nitin sharma wrote: can anybody tell me how i can check my script before playing my movie. Short of writing a Lingo syntax parser, no. I'd suggest strongly restricting what the user can enter. For instance if s/he wants to change the color of something, use color chips like a paint program does. You can even take a screenshot of the Director color palette and use that, getting the RGB value of any pixel under the mouse as the user clicks. This will have two advantages: 1. It prevents the user typing in something boneheaded (for instance teenagers might try entering obscenities just to laugh at the messages; and 2. Color chips are much more evocative of hues (as James Newton mentions) than rgb ( 254, 17, 38 ). i m giving one script option to user in which he can wright his own script can change property of sprite. like color, position etc. You can set the position just by letting the user drag the sprite, and getting its final location on mouseUp. Again, no need to run the risk of the user typing in bad code. but when i use on mousewithin set the forecolor of sprite 1 to 6 end its no effect If you are using a behavior you have to append the 'me' keyword: on mouseWithin me set the forecolor of sprite 1 to 6 END mouseWithin -- 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: lingo-l Re: purging memory
No, next doesn't mean next to be purged, it means that it's the next highest priority of purging after all the cast members whose purge order is set to normal are purged. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group http://www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Cole Tierney Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 1:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l Re: purging memory Micheal, if pSprite.membernum pEndMember then pSprite.membernum = pSprite.membernum + 1 unloadMember member pSprite.membernum - 1 end if I would suggest adding the following after the unload statement: set the purePriority of member pSprite.membernum - 1 = 2 I still think next means next to be purged. Let me know if this helps, so I can be convinced otherwise :) 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!] [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 projector questions
The thing to remember with using QT videos is that you need to start out authoring with them in the location you intend to publish them in. In other words, if you intend to have all of the QT videos on the CD in a subdirectory called media under the directory in which the projector is located, then when you originally import them into Director to begin authoring, you need to have them in a subdirectory called media under the directory your .dir file is in. That way, when you move them to the CD for the final product, the relative path to your projector is the same as it was to your authoring file. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group http://www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of noelle cheng Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 6:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l projector questions Hi, Before creating a projector, is there any way to check the end user's system via lingo and modify its computer settings especially its color settings? I found that a projector that I had created looked very ugly on another computer. It was set at 256 colors. I had used a reverse background which did not appear at all and the color was missing. When I searched the Lingo-l archives and Direct-L archives, I could not find anything. Maybe I am wrong and nobody modifies the end-user settings? Short of re-doing the whole piece of work? Another thing - I used QT movies in my movie. When an .exe file is created, QT files need to accompany this. I actually placed my QT movies in a folder. And every time the movie reached a screen where a QT movie was required, the box saying where is this file to be found opens up. I have to tell the computer to look into the accompanying file every time. How do I not allow it to open in a projector? It looks very terrible in a presentation. TIA. Noelle. [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 bitmap cast member width = 4096 pixels
Hi everybody! While I have no problems in creating image objects wider than 4095 pixels, I get a script error message -2147219502 when I try to allocate such an image object to a bitmap cast member. x = image(4096, 20, 24) y = new(#bitmap) y.image = x No problem for picts 4096 px (Win2K, 512 MB RAM) Is this a bug? (I suppose it's not a feature) And if so, is there a workaround? Thanks for your help! Michael von Aichberger [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 always on top
Hi, please, there is a way to do a projector that is always on top, not going to a second plane when other window is active? 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: lingo-l always on top
please, there is a way to do a projector that is always on top, not going to a second plane when other window is active? Buddy API. Find it at: http://www.mods.com.au The function/call you want is: baSetWindowState( baWinHandle(), StayOnTop ) (it's free for 2 functions, so you're OK with the above) HTH, -Sean. [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 always on top
Hi... MasterAPP's mappKeepOnTop does the job... You can get it from http://www.updatestage.com/xtras/masterapp.html Below are from the MasterAPP Manual --- mappKeepOnTop ( windowIDNum ) windowIDNum: integer window ID obtained from another method Returns: OK or string beginning with Error: Win32-only method. Window is displayed on top of all other windows, even when other app's windows are activated. Useful for making a Director projector behave like a floating tool palette. Example: on startMovie set windowID = mappDirectorMainWindow mappKeepOnTop(windowIDNum) end --- HTH Jason _ 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!]
lingo-l MUI Xtra and MacOs
When the user clicks on the Yes button or on the No button we got an error: Director Player Error Handler not defined return answer #gMac ScriptError. Continue We don't understand nothing at all. What are we doing wrong? It only happens in runMode (MacOs 8.6 and 9.0), and the xtra is well placed at the xtras folder. Please Help! We need to solve this problem I reported this bug when I was testing Director 8. Have you by any chance got the Script for instantiating the MUI in an external cast (or a cast other than the Internal cast)? I seem to recall that this error occurs if the script is in an external cast. I worked around the problem by copying the script to the internal cast of every movie of my project. Not a neat workaround, but it does work. Cheers, Daniel ___ Software Development Manager * Courseware Development Services TeLaRS. Information Division * email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The University of Melbourne * phone: (613) 8344 7591 Parkville, Australia * fax: (613) 8344 4341 [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!]
