lingo-l Movies in a window - can this be done
I want to have a PC projector in a window with a title bar so it can be moved.This projector links to several MIAWs which should always be in the same relative position compared to the main stage, the problem is can the open MIAW position be made to update its position so it stays in its relative position while the main stage is being dragged. I have tried checking the stageLeft and stageTop in a on enterframe or on idle handler in a movie script but this only updates once the drag is finished, i tried on moveWindow but this doesn't seem to work with the main stage window , i've also tried a while the mouseDown loop but this doesn't seem to get an event if the mouse is down on the title bar of the main window. Can it be done ? Lee Blinco AVR Productions [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 01462 850608 [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 DPR.
DEPARTMENT OF PETROLEUM RESOURCES PLOT 225 KOFO ABAYOMI STREET VICTORIA ISLAND,LAGOS, NIGERIA. DIRECT FAX: 234 1 7590904. DIRECT TEL:234-1-7762182 RE: URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL Dear Sir, I am member Contract Award Committee of the above Department Terms of Reference My term of reference involves the award of contracts to multinational companies. My office is saddled with the responsibility of contract award, screening, categorization and prioritization of projects embarked upon by Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) as well as feasibility studies for selected projects and supervising the project consultants involved. A breakdown of the fiscal expenditure by this office as at the end of last fiscal quarter of 2000 indicates that DPR paid out a whooping sum of US$736M(Seven Hundred And Thirty Six Million, United States Dollars) to successful contract beneficiaries. The DPR is now compiling beneficiaries to be paid for the second Quarter of 2002. The crux of this letter is that the finance/contract department of the DPR deliberately over invoiced the contract value of the various contracts awarded. In the course of disbursements, this department has been able to accumulate the sum of US$38.2M(Thirty-eight Million, two hundred Thousand U.S Dollars) as the over-invoiced sum. This money is currently in a suspense account of the DPR account with the Debt Reconciliation Committee (DRC). We now seek to process the transfer of this fund officially as contract payment to you as a foreign contractor, who will be fronting for us as the beneficiary of the fund. In this way we can facilitate these funds into your nominated account for possible investment abroad. We are not allowed as a matter of government policy to operate any foreign account to transfer this fund into. However, for your involvement in assisting us with this transfer into your nominated account we have evolved a sharing formula as follows: (1) 20% for you as the foreign partner (2) 75% for I and my colleagues (3) 5% will be set aside to defray all incidental expenses both Locally and Internationally during the course of this transaction. We shall be relying on your advice as regard investment of our share in any business in your country. Be informed that this business is genuine and 100% safe considering the high-power government officials involved. Send your private fax/telephone numbers. Upon your response we shall provide you with further information on the procedures. Feel free to send response by Fax: 234-1-7590904 / TEL: 234-1-7591519 expecting your response urgently. All enquiries should be directed to the undersigned by FAX ,E-MAIL OR PHONE. Looking forward to a good business relationship with you. Sincerely, DR .OJO MIKE [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 DPR.
This apparently made it to the list because it doesn't have normal spam stuff (like attachments, html), but please don't respond to it - it is a scam, and one that the secret service is tracking. I have already reported it to them. - Tab At 12:21 PM 5/15/02 +0100, DR .OJO MIKE wrote: DEPARTMENT OF PETROLEUM RESOURCES PLOT 225 KOFO ABAYOMI STREET VICTORIA ISLAND,LAGOS, NIGERIA. DIRECT FAX: 234 1 7590904. DIRECT TEL:234-1-7762182 RE: URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL Dear Sir, I am member Contract Award Committee of the above Department Terms of Reference My term of reference involves the award of contracts to multinational companies. My office is saddled with the responsibility of contract award, screening, categorization and prioritization of projects embarked upon by Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) as well as feasibility studies for selected projects and supervising the project consultants involved. A breakdown of the fiscal expenditure by this office as at the end of last fiscal quarter of 2000 indicates that DPR paid out a whooping sum of US$736M(Seven Hundred And Thirty Six Million, United States Dollars) to successful contract beneficiaries. The DPR is now compiling beneficiaries to be paid for the second Quarter of 2002. The crux of this letter is that the finance/contract department of the DPR deliberately over invoiced the contract value of the various contracts awarded. In the course of disbursements, this department has been able to accumulate the sum of US$38.2M(Thirty-eight Million, two hundred Thousand U.S Dollars) as the over-invoiced sum. This money is currently in a suspense account of the DPR account with the Debt Reconciliation Committee (DRC). We now seek to process the transfer of this fund officially as contract payment to you as a foreign contractor, who will be fronting for us as the beneficiary of the fund. In this way we can facilitate these funds into your nominated account for possible investment abroad. We are not allowed as a matter of government policy to operate any foreign account to transfer this fund into. However, for your involvement in assisting us with this transfer into your nominated account we have evolved a sharing formula as follows: (1) 20% for you as the foreign partner (2) 75% for I and my colleagues (3) 5% will be set aside to defray all incidental expenses both Locally and Internationally during the course of this transaction. We shall be relying on your advice as regard investment of our share in any business in your country. Be informed that this business is genuine and 100% safe considering the high-power government officials involved. Send your private fax/telephone numbers. Upon your response we shall provide you with further information on the procedures. Feel free to send response by Fax: 234-1-7590904 / TEL: 234-1-7591519 expecting your response urgently. All enquiries should be directed to the undersigned by FAX ,E-MAIL OR PHONE. Looking forward to a good business relationship with you. Sincerely, DR .OJO MIKE [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 Timedout Demo HELP
Dave Mennenoh's Utlities cast had a time period restriction behavior. You can download the library at http://www.crackconspiracy.com/~davem/dave/davedir.htm HTH. Regards, Pranav Negandhi snip I am try to set a Project on a CD to run, 30 times, or for 30 days. Anyone got any ideas. Thanks in advance snip [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 sound MIAW's
Thanks. I will try the currentTime workaround. another workaround: if a high channel (3-8) is being used to play a sound, grab it's currentTime then tell the Stage to quickly fade out this high channel while fading in the same sound at the same currentTime into channel 1 or 2 then do the window manipulation. I know it's ugly, but it might work (I've never really tried it). hth -Buzz --- Carl D. Earnhart II Software Engineer DxR Development Group, Inc. 150 E. Pleasant Hill Rd. Carbondale, Illinois 62901 --- systemSpecs: PowerPC G4 400, 320RAM, OS 9.1 [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 Movies in a window - can this be done
At 09:33 +0100 05/15/2002, Lee Blinco wrote: I want to have a PC projector in a window with a title bar so it can be moved.This projector links to several MIAWs which should always be in the same relative position compared to the main stage, the problem is can the open MIAW position be made to update its position so it stays in its relative position while the main stage is being dragged. Probably not if you use the native title bar. However if you make a pseudo-title bar and then disable the show title bar option while making your projector, you should be able to have a draggable, usable title bar that also does mouse event recognition. Then you should be able to track the drag, do offset calculations, etc. Does that help? -- 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://shop.osborne.com/cgi-bin/osborne/0072195622.html [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 little OT: Director Lingo event names -- Flash 6ActionScript event names
Hello, I need to know what are the equivalent names of common Lingo events in
a Flash 5 Actionscript syntax:
example
on mouseEnter turns out to be on(rollOver){}
I need to know the following
on beginsprite
on enterframe/exitframe/prepareframe (i believe that flash has just one of those)
on endsprite
any other equivalences, please inform me - it will sure be helpfull.
Luiz Gustavo Castelan Póvoas
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Re: lingo-l Three-behavior communication model
Hi, At 01:46 PM 5/14/2002 -0500, you wrote: So if I have 10 QT sprites in a frame, I can display 10 QT sprites on the stage at the same time? There is nothing preventing you from putting 10 QT sprites in a frame, but in the specific cases of QuickTime and Flash, it's not a good idea to do so, because there will be performance problems on slower computers. This can result in jerky animation or audio stutters. Does that mean that the music will not play properly? But aren't you playing a QT file at a time? How is a user to know then which QT sprite to click on? You don't click the QT sprites for the audio -- you click buttons associated with those sprites. To concatenate is to link together, isn't it? Why would you want a variable to link together without a space? It was simply the way I chose to do that part of the behavior; there is no deeper mystery involved. I mean there is no technical reason to prefer doing it that way, just as there is no technical reason to us 'n' for integer variables. It's a question of style. Am I to understand that you can do it with variables with spaces? Actually, what is the purpose of concatenating variables? There I was concatenating items together into a single string. That's generally what concatenation is used for -- joining separate parts together to form one string. For example: on MakeRandomPhrase lSubjects = [ Noelle, Howdy, Lingo ] lVerbs = [ sleeps, eats, creates ] nSubj = random ( lSubjects.count ) nVerb = random ( lVerbs.count ) sSubj = lSubjects[nSubj] sVerb = lVerbs[nVerb] put sSubj sVerb . END MakeRandomPhrase How would I use this script? As a parent script? Concatenation of items are only done in parent scripts? This creates two lists of words, one of nouns (subjects) and the other of verbs. The simplest syntax for a legitimate English sentence is subject and verb, and what this does is make very simple, but randomly selected and grammatically valid, sentences -- which it then puts into the message window. (Of course some of those sentences -- Lingo eats -- are nonsensical, but they're still syntactically valid.) So the stringing of variables occur only at author-time? As you can see the 'put' statement uses both forms of concatenator, the first to string together the subject and verb into a phrase, the second to add a period to the end of the sentence. The script would be entered as a plain movie script, after which you could call it from the message window to see the sentences it builds. What is the purpose of a string in this context? Yes, the time I received an error message when I clicked both the volume up and down buttons. 'sprite a is not registered as a QT sprite.' I named it sprite 'a' for simplicity. Why did I receive this message? The QuickTime behavior, it would seem, was not attached to the QuickTime sprite, which prevented it from sending its own reference to the communication behavior, thus preventing the communication behavior from registering it as a QuickTime sprite. How may a behavior not be attached to a sprite? You mentioned before that it is highly unlikely to have spriteless behaviors... yet now I have one? What is the meaning ofplQTSpriteList = [:]? I'm setting a variable to an initial empty value. Why did you do this? It's good practice to do so. Theoretically one does not have to initialize variables like this, at least not especially rigorously, but I've found it's a good habit to do so. To initialize a variable, I set it to zero? Is it possible to initialize it to other than zero? I don't know. Nothing I wrote should have an adverse effect on anything else, but you should know that there can only be one *frame* script in a given frame. Yes the script you wrote for channel 0 right? Yes, exactly. In what way did you attach the behaviors? Using the PI . Is this incorrect? No, that should work properly. Did you get parameters dialog boxes, and did you set them up? The QT sprite, in the PI , under behaviors - there is a 'name of this sprite?' - I put a. The increase volume button sprite in the PI , under behaviors, -there is a 'name of target sprite?' - I put a there is a ' adjust sound down or up? ' - I put #up Actually there is an arrow button pointing downwards, and I have only two options - down or up. The decrease volume button sprite in the PI, under behaviors ' there is a 'name of target sprite?' - I put a there is a ' adjust sound down or up? ' - I put #down All those seem fine to me. All these items are in just one frame, along with the framescript? Yes, they are all in a single frame, and there is only one framescript. Why was the QT sprite not recognised? A good question. Start with the debugger -- set a breakpoint in the mouseUp handler for one of the volume buttons and step through the scripts. Perhaps in there someplace there will be
Re: lingo-l little OT: Director Lingo event names -- Flash 6ActionScript event names
beginsprite is on clipEvent(load) I think on clipEvent(enterframe) -- on clipEvent(unload) -- endsprite If you think about movieclips as sprites.. [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 scriptInstanceList mouseDown problem
At 9:48 AM +1000 5/15/02, Luke Wigley wrote: Cole Tierney wrote I've got a situation where adding a behaviour to a fully instaniated sprite causes it to block mouse events from other sprites in lower channels. The newly added behavior instance has no mouse events. Director 8 Mac authoring. Any thoughts or similar experiences? Hi, Does the behaviour you are adding have an ancestor property? (Director seems pass the events on to the Ancestors but then doesn't back-track and pass them on to other sprites in lower channels if the ancestor doesn't have the mouse event handler) Luke Bummer. No ancestors unfortunately. 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!]
Re: lingo-l random text movie
hi, still studying at SAE? If your animation is all framebased, then you can easily use directors export feature (file main menu) and select which frames you want ot export and select the file type (series of stills images, quicktime, or .avi) hopethat helps, nik :: v e r n x s :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dear all, does anyone know how to convert/export an animation generated with lingo to quicktime/avi? -- email [EMAIL PROTECTED] /email [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 Three-behavior communication model
At 22:20 +0800 05/15/2002, noelle cheng wrote: There is nothing preventing you from putting 10 QT sprites in a frame, but in the specific cases of QuickTime and Flash, it's not a good idea to do so, because there will be performance problems on slower computers. This can result in jerky animation or audio stutters. Does that mean that the music will not play properly? It might not. But aren't you playing a QT file at a time? If your user has several of them going at once, no. If you have several of them appear at once and have not explicitly paused them, no; or at least not necessarily. It was simply the way I chose to do that part of the behavior; there is no deeper mystery involved. I mean there is no technical reason to prefer doing it that way, just as there is no technical reason to us 'n' for integer variables. It's a question of style. Am I to understand that you can do it with variables with spaces? You can put almost anything you want to into a variable, including spaces -- but some data types won't accept some things, such as number or symbol formats. They won't lat you use spaces. Symbols won't allow punctuation either. on MakeRandomPhrase lSubjects = [ Noelle, Howdy, Lingo ] lVerbs = [ sleeps, eats, creates ] nSubj = random ( lSubjects.count ) nVerb = random ( lVerbs.count ) sSubj = lSubjects[nSubj] sVerb = lVerbs[nVerb] put sSubj sVerb . END MakeRandomPhrase How would I use this script? As a parent script? No, it's just a movie script. Nothing elaborate about it. After entering it you can call it in the message window. This creates two lists of words, one of nouns (subjects) and the other of verbs. The simplest syntax for a legitimate English sentence is subject and verb, and what this does is make very simple, but randomly selected and grammatically valid, sentences -- which it then puts into the message window. (Of course some of those sentences -- Lingo eats -- are nonsensical, but they're still syntactically valid.) So the stringing of variables occur only at author-time? No, it occurs when the handler is called, whether in a projector or not. But generally the only place you'll have a message window is in authortime. As you can see the 'put' statement uses both forms of concatenator, the first to string together the subject and verb into a phrase, the second to add a period to the end of the sentence. The script would be entered as a plain movie script, after which you could call it from the message window to see the sentences it builds. What is the purpose of a string in this context? I was using the term to imply the way one places beads on a string to make a necklace. In programming specifically, a string is any variable that is made of words or sentences (braodly speaking). Strings are indicated by double-quotes. The QuickTime behavior, it would seem, was not attached to the QuickTime sprite, which prevented it from sending its own reference to the communication behavior, thus preventing the communication behavior from registering it as a QuickTime sprite. How may a behavior not be attached to a sprite? The simplest way is for it to not have been attached in the first place. It's good practice to do so. Theoretically one does not have to initialize variables like this, at least not especially rigorously, but I've found it's a good habit to do so. To initialize a variable, I set it to zero? Is it possible to initialize it to other than zero? You can initialize a variable to contain anything, as long as you're taling about a valid type of data Director can handle. When I start with a zero value it generally means I'm about to do something else with the variable, such as put a nonzero in it. But I don't stick to zero. I do my initialization based on what is more or less the null value for the data type. That is, a list variable's empty state would be to contain an empty list, [] (or [:] for a property list). Hence these variables all have conceptually the same value -- null or empty -- but their initialization indicates the kind of data they're expected to hold later on: lOneList = [] lAnotherList = [:] sName = nDay = 0 fBankBalance = 0.0 yIndex = #null When I set the breakpoint in the mouseUp handler, this is the message I receive: me = offspring ' 34802b8 psTargetName= a pyMyDirection = #up spriteNum =11 on the left, it says onMouseUp This is for the increase volume button. Where is the error? The code does execute. You need to step through the code to see where it goes from there. Getting the debugger to open is only the first part of that process. -- 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
Re: lingo-l Three-behavior communication model
Hi, At 12:12 PM 5/15/2002 -0500, you wrote: There is nothing preventing you from putting 10 QT sprites in a frame, but in the specific cases of QuickTime and Flash, it's not a good idea to do so, because there will be performance problems on slower computers. This can result in jerky animation or audio stutters. Does that mean that the music will not play properly? It might not. But aren't you playing a QT file at a time? If your user has several of them going at once, no. If you have several of them appear at once and have not explicitly paused them, no; or at least not necessarily. Again I do not understand. How does the user have several of them going at once? Why do you write, 'at least not necessarily'? Users don't do such things. It was simply the way I chose to do that part of the behavior; there is no deeper mystery involved. I mean there is no technical reason to prefer doing it that way, just as there is no technical reason to us 'n' for integer variables. It's a question of style. Am I to understand that you can do it with variables with spaces? You can put almost anything you want to into a variable, including spaces -- but some data types won't accept some things, such as number or symbol formats. They won't lat you use spaces. Symbols won't allow punctuation either. The purpose of using variables then is to achieve a certain outcome? Which you wish to have? on MakeRandomPhrase lSubjects = [ Noelle, Howdy, Lingo ] lVerbs = [ sleeps, eats, creates ] nSubj = random ( lSubjects.count ) nVerb = random ( lVerbs.count ) sSubj = lSubjects[nSubj] sVerb = lVerbs[nVerb] put sSubj sVerb . END MakeRandomPhrase How would I use this script? As a parent script? No, it's just a movie script. Nothing elaborate about it. After entering it you can call it in the message window. Yes, it works as you said it would. This creates two lists of words, one of nouns (subjects) and the other of verbs. The simplest syntax for a legitimate English sentence is subject and verb, and what this does is make very simple, but randomly selected and grammatically valid, sentences -- which it then puts into the message window. (Of course some of those sentences -- Lingo eats -- are nonsensical, but they're still syntactically valid.) So the stringing of variables occur only at author-time? No, it occurs when the handler is called, whether in a projector or not. But generally the only place you'll have a message window is in authortime. When is this type of handler normally called? As you can see the 'put' statement uses both forms of concatenator, the first to string together the subject and verb into a phrase, the second to add a period to the end of the sentence. The script would be entered as a plain movie script, after which you could call it from the message window to see the sentences it builds. What is the purpose of a string in this context? I was using the term to imply the way one places beads on a string to make a necklace. In programming specifically, a string is any variable that is made of words or sentences (braodly speaking). Strings are indicated by double-quotes. But in the code you wrote, on InitializeMyProps me if voidP ( psMyName ) then psMyName = no_sprite_ (me.spriteNum) end if END InitializeMyProps Should there be two here? Your answer was : No, I wanted the variable to concatenate without a space, so I used the single , not the double. So the above is not a string? What is it then? The QuickTime behavior, it would seem, was not attached to the QuickTime sprite, which prevented it from sending its own reference to the communication behavior, thus preventing the communication behavior from registering it as a QuickTime sprite. How may a behavior not be attached to a sprite? The simplest way is for it to not have been attached in the first place. So how do I attach it in the first place? It's good practice to do so. Theoretically one does not have to initialize variables like this, at least not especially rigorously, but I've found it's a good habit to do so. To initialize a variable, I set it to zero? Is it possible to initialize it to other than zero? You can initialize a variable to contain anything, as long as you're taling about a valid type of data Director can handle. When I start with a zero value it generally means I'm about to do something else with the variable, such as put a nonzero in it. But I don't stick to zero. I do my initialization based on what is more or less the null value for the data type. That is, a list variable's empty state would be to contain an empty list, [] (or [:] for a property list). Hence these variables all have conceptually the same value -- null or empty -- but their initialization indicates the kind of data they're expected to hold later on: lOneList = [] lAnotherList = [:] sName = nDay = 0
