lingo-l OT - Best agencies or ways to seek freelance or contract work
Hi there I am currently out of work and seeking freelance or contract work doing director or flash development in the South West area of the UK (or anywhere else if remote working is possible). If anyone can suggest any good agencies (if such a thing exists) or any good resources for finding work of this type I would be extremely grateful. Examples of my work can be seen at http://www.themediakitchen.co.uk Thanks in advance Paul [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 Any spreadsheet type xtras?
Are there any xtras that allow a sort of spreadsheet type media element to be used in director and accessed through lingo? Or does anyone know of a way to simulate one. Thanks J [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 cursor trails
Some icetroll-Lingo... Well, 'trails' in the score buttoned or by Lingo is useful sometime. Particulary in Lingo coding way, in fadings off and so on. If you're using the actual 'delay' command, you will have problem. It's like a bit of the 'repeat...'-syntax. Locks everything up ! For animations in multiple stuff, I have abandoned reapeters and gone for using the time set in a variable or if wanted to be seen in checking ups, put into a field... depending on the processors capabilities you at least run 2-3 animations at same time. An animation could be stearing with the digits in seconds or minutes or decided in a specific number coming up (use the long time hh:mm:ss). The benfit is that the timer is the same even if you change to another faster or slower CPU mounted machine. The animation code just give a shit in what you are using in hardware, it follows the time synch strictly like a slave...! Don't know if I got close...eyh ? Quoting mike m [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hi, sorry if this is a bit basic, but i am new to lingo, and i am trying to create a mouse trail using a series of cast members. i tried placing them on the score and making each one Loch and Locv values follow each other and then use a delay commmand but this didnt seem to work. if anyone can help i would be really greatful. thanks in advance. mike ___ Mike Malinowski http://www.raynak.com/~mikesnail/test/index.htm [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail [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!] - FREE E-MAIL IN 1 MINUTE! - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.pc.nu [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 Ctrl+3 -Casts D7 lost External CST/CXT-files involved
Finally lost by shortcut in D7 Ctrl+3 (PC), the 'Casts' !? Using several CST-files for the database stuff, some 7 cst:s in heavvy use. Just throwing in a remark if same seen in later versions D8-D8.5 ? And it's bit 'Monday-saying' when using several CST-files aside, to actually call them all up by Ctrl+3, but at least the internal should be arriving when calling.. As a matter of fact something is trying to do some happenings in at least inflicting the cursor to react for assigning 'holdn'wait'. Then nothing...ztrange. Well, I still have the menu to go for.. - FREE E-MAIL IN 1 MINUTE! - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.pc.nu [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 OT - Best agencies or ways to seek freelance or contract work
I see a lot of shorter contract stuff advertised at jobserve.com (UK and Australia versions) The following IT vacancies have been advertised new today. Visit Jobserve UK at www.it.jobserve.com. roymeo At 08:34 AM 11/18/2002 -0800, you wrote: Hi there I am currently out of work and seeking freelance or contract work doing director or flash development in the South West area of the UK (or anywhere else if remote working is possible). If anyone can suggest any good agencies (if such a thing exists) or any good resources for finding work of this type I would be extremely grateful. Examples of my work can be seen at http://www.themediakitchen.co.uk Thanks in advance Paul [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 Ctrl+3 -Casts D7 lost External CST/CXT-files involved
Same here, D8.5 Ctrl + 3 is broken, funky... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:lingo-l- [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: maandag 18 november 2002 12:10 To: The LIngo-L Subject: lingo-l Ctrl+3 -Casts D7 lost External CST/CXT-files involved Finally lost by shortcut in D7 Ctrl+3 (PC), the 'Casts' !? Using several CST-files for the database stuff, some 7 cst:s in heavvy use. Just throwing in a remark if same seen in later versions D8-D8.5 ? And it's bit 'Monday-saying' when using several CST-files aside, to actually call them all up by Ctrl+3, but at least the internal should be arriving when calling.. As a matter of fact something is trying to do some happenings in at least inflicting the cursor to react for assigning 'holdn'wait'. Then nothing...ztrange. Well, I still have the menu to go for.. - FREE E-MAIL IN 1 MINUTE! - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.pc.nu [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 advice on parent script location
I am currently using a number of parent scripts in my project as well as MIAW's Both the stage and the MIAW need to access the parent scripts, currently I perform checking on the active window to format the return ie. if the activewindow=the windowlist[1] then tell windowlist[1] return the result end tell else return the result end if Is it better practice to locate parent scripts in linked casts as this seems to be a bit longwinded? I use linked script casts in MIAWs, and have had no particular problem, even if the stage is linked to the same script cast. You could shorten your script a bit, also: if the activeWindow=the windowList[1] then tell windowList[1] end tell end if return the result 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!]
lingo-l Re: question
Hi I read your posting in Director-L and I need some help. 1) How can I import (through copy-paste) some greek text which I have in Word ? IT looks fine but when I paste it into a greek font in Director it comes out all twisted and turned. Hi Jonas, I think the posting was on Lingo-L (not that it matters) ^_^ Anyway, I'm sending a copy of this to Lingo-L in case other people are having the same (or similar) problem. I'm making a couple of assumptions. (1) You are running on an English system (Windows?), (2) You are using a relatively recent version of director, i.e. 7.0 or later, and (3) it is a true Greek font--that is, it uses code page 1253. If that's right, the problem is the code page. Basically, Director looks at the code page to determine how to use upper ANSI characters. Step back a second. ASCII characters, the lower 128 characters, are pretty much the same for any character set--Greek, English, Turkish, even Hebrew. ANSI is a superset of ASCII. It contains all 128 ASCII characters, plus another 128. Those extra 128 characters all have a code value over 127--i.e., the high bit is set.--and that is where most language-specific characters are stored. In ANSI, those characters are mostly characters for Western European languages, like umlauted German characters. ANSI is pretty much the same as another international standard, ISO 8859.1. ISO 8859 defines 10 different character sets: 8859.1 is Latin 1, or Western European, and corresponds with ANSI. Greek is defined in ISO 8859.7. Now, back to your question. Your font's Greek characters are probably located on code page 1253, but you're running on code page 1252 (most Western European systems). Your font likely has ISO 8859.1 characters in the code page 1252 slot, if anything, so it's coming out jumbled. Now, something to try: 1. Embed the font 2. Copy and paste the Greek text into a text cast member 3. Select all the text and apply the Greek font. If it still comes out garbage, then you'll probably need to find a Greek system. Boot into Greek, run Director, and do the above. Your text should be fine. 2) I have someone who will do a translation into greek of lots of english text. Does he have to use the symbol font in Director, if he will write on a text cast member directly ? And will this font be correspondent to the keyboard ? No, don't use the Symbol font. It doesn't contain the entire Greek alphabet, and will not correspond to a Greek keyboard. Hope this helps. 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!]
lingo-l Confounding Error Msg.in Shockwave
In Shockwave (I.E.) I am getting a weird message shortly after the page loads... Internal error: Unexpected failure while compositing bitmap member 1 of PLAYER-CAST 1. after which shockwave quits... My flash movie on the same page is ok.. I'm using Dir 8.5 in Windows 2000 and have a simple looped animation tweened on a path... I'v tried changing bit-depth of the cast and fiddled with the lingo which controls the blend of the sprites but nothing seems to affect this. If I strip all sprites that have any changes in blend the movie plays ok on the web site... But.. a whole series of about 8-9 images seem to be scaled, rotated, and displayed with no problem then the next repeat of the display stalls with the above error message... If I take out the sprite holding the member mentioned in the error then the error happens with another sprite named as the culprit... The page works ok from my hard drive but not from the actual website. Has anyone ever seen this before?? Thanks for any input.. -Boyd Speer [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 linking casts - automated
Hi LIst, does anyone have some script idea for linking cast's to a movie in an automated way? ... I have tons of movies that need the same two casts linked to it... cheers, Josh [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 3D camera question
It might be the mapping style of your texture, try changing the textureMode of your shader. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message - From: Ya-Chun Lin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 2:05 PM Subject: lingo-l 3D camera question Hello! list, I am wondering if anyone has the similiar problem while dealing with 3D camera. I have a box with patterned wallpaper texture attached on it. When I looked at the box from the front side, the texture looks fine and clear, but when I rotate the box about 50 degrees to the right, the texture became blur and stretched. It looks like the camera is out of focus. Does anyone know how to increase focus area(depth of field )of camera with lingo? Any suggestions? Thanks! Thanks!! Yachun =) [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 3D camera question
Hello! list, I am wondering if anyone has the similiar problem while dealing with 3D camera. I have a box with patterned wallpaper texture attached on it. When I looked at the box from the front side, the texture looks fine and clear, but when I rotate the box about 50 degrees to the right, the texture became blur and stretched. It looks like the camera is out of focus. Does anyone know how to increase focus area(depth of field )of camera with lingo? Any suggestions? Thanks! Thanks!! Yachun =) [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: Any spreadsheet type xtras? (Jeremy)
Hi Jeremy I am currently teaching myself about ActiveX controls, and found the following under Using ActiveX Controls in the Director 8.5 help file. Using the FarPoint Spreadsheet control, you can create and access spreadsheets I hope this helps. Cheers Alan *** Alan Neilsen bmm(hon) Telephone : +61 03 5227 8155 Multimedia DeveloperE-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Learning Services Deakin University Geelong Waterfront Campus Geelong VIC 3217 Please feel free to visit us. See what we do at - Learning Services: http://www.deakin.edu.au/learningservices Exemplars of our work: http://cowan.ls.deakin.edu.au/exemplars/ [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 linking casts - automated
Does this work? If so, it's too cool this kills the need for the cast control xtra. why, MM, not say dummy = new(#cast) Mike You can try something like this: dummy = new(#bitmap) dummy.filename = the moviePath lib_01.cst Bertil Flink Creative Media [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 linking casts - automated
Well, if it's only in authoring mode, you could use our CastLink Xtra, which allows you to link casts on the fly. Normally meant for loading casts in at runtime, but you can try it in authoring mode for free. Since you're ONLY using it in authoring mode, then it wouldn't cost you anything! Get it at http://www.penworks.com/xtras At 04:58 PM 11/18/02, Josh Race wrote: Hi LIst, does anyone have some script idea for linking cast's to a movie in an automated way? ... I have tons of movies that need the same two casts linked to it... cheers, Josh [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 advice on parent script location
Kerry Thompson wrote: I use linked script casts in MIAWs, and have had no particular problem, even if the stage is linked to the same script cast. You could shorten your script a bit, also: if the activeWindow=the windowList[1] then tell windowList[1] end tell end if return the result Thanks for sharing your experience. I'm little confused about the revised script you posted though. I was thinking that if I linked the script it would remove the need to check the active window (apart from any specific stage or MIAW directed returns). Also I can see where else was redundant in my code but I would have thought I needed to place a return call before the end tell to direct the result to the MIAW or does the tell command give focus to the MIAW? Thanks for the advice, Brad [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: Any spreadsheet type xtras?
Depends on what you want to do. Look at the TableMaker Xtra ($245 per platform) See: http://www.xtramedia.com/TableMaker.html If you want a fully featured spreadsheet with formulas etc you can use an ActiveX control, but this is Windows only Otherwise - if you just need to display the data - possibly with editability: Read this Spreadsheet Lingo artice by Pat McClellan on DOUG This approach uses a grids of editable fields. Every field uses a sprite channel, so is probably only useful for a fixed amount of data. See: http://www.director-online.com/accessArticle.cfm?ID=883 If your HTML is good you can create the HTML for a text member on-the-fly to display the data in a HTML table - this takes one sprite and can even be editable. See: http://www.lingoworkshop.com/testzone/Spreadsheet.htm http://www.director-online.com/accessArticle.cfm?ID=816 There is the Table Xtra from Electronic Ink ($300 x-platform) See: http://www.printomatic.com/products.cfm Most of these methods assume that you already have the data in Director, or rely using delimited text for import. If you want to import XLS files, that is another story. HTH johnAq on 19/11/02 4:01 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any xtras that allow a sort of spreadsheet type media element to be used in director and accessed through lingo? Or does anyone know of a way to simulate one. Thanks J [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 [OT] video capturing advice
Something you didn't say was whether it was just jerky on record, or on playback too? [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 [OT] video capturing advice
Something you didn't say was whether it was just jerky on record, or on playback too? oops.. sorry,,, very loong night last night.. when i record, it shows some jerkiness... on playback,, yes it shows that jerkiness too. But the actual footage is smooth.. [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!]
