lingo-l Fileflex
Hi, Does anyone have access to a reasonable tutorial for fileflex xtra... We are trying to produce a tutorial for students which enables a director movie to connect to an outside access database... Any help would be much appreciated we have tried the tutorial from www.fileflex.com and searched the web but to no avail as yet Cheers Clive Chandler [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
Sure, try it in the message window: put the number of castLibs -- 1 dummy = new(#bitmap) dummy.filename = the moviePath lib_01.cst dummy = VOID -- cleaning up put the number of castLibs -- 2 put castLib(2).name -- lib_01 Bertil Flink Creative Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +46 8 544 013 73 Mob: +46 706 92 18 95 - Original Message - From: Mike Gralish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 1:20 AM Subject: 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!]
lingo-l shaped stage
Hi list, Is it possible to have a diferent shape in the stage in a Macintosh. I've look in web and many other places but couldn't find anything other than information regarding PC. tks' Rodrigo [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 USB controlled robot arm?
Do any of you happen to know where to get info/ pricing about a nice USB controlled robot arm? I've been searching the web, but have had a hard time finding a) Control software later than win95/98 b) programmable, with a sort of generic interface reading text files from disc or some other way to change/ update it's movements periodically. c) Preferrably Mac (!) and/ or Director Lingo controlled -A. [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 shaped stage
Are you referring to a masked MIAW? As in setting a 1-bit cast member as the MIAW.windowType? If so, that *should* work on the Mac too, but I've never done it. Give it a try. Ross __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.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 shaped stage
Works. You can even animate it. -A. Are you referring to a masked MIAW? As in setting a 1-bit cast member as the MIAW.windowType? If so, that *should* work on the Mac too, but I've never done it. Give it a try. Ross [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
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? Maybe my script was confusing because I'm a bit confused myself ^_^ A couple of things. What are you trying to accomplish? Are you checking to see what the active window is? The system property the activeWindow will tell you that. Your script was returning the result regardless of what happened. The return goes to the calling routine, wherever it is located. You don't need to place it inside the tell. Your script will also crash if you run it from the stage without a MIAW open, because the windowList will be empty--i.e., [ ], so the windowList[1] doesn't exist. Maybe the root of your question is the sharing of a script cast. Even if you have the same scripts cast linked to the stage and MIAW, the particular instance of the script belongs to wherever it was called, the MIAW or the stage. Directing the return isn't an issue. Does that help? 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: lingo-l shaped stage
Works. You can even animate it. To be fair, how successful the animation is may depend on your video board or OS. When I've tried that on a Mac under OS 9, the window flickers noticeably. I suspect (I haven't tried it) that the same projector running under Classic would not flicker (because of the way OS X buffers things). I have seen animated MIAW's on PCs that did not flicker. [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: Your script was returning the result regardless of what happened. The return goes to the calling routine, wherever it is located. You don't need to place it inside the tell. Your script will also crash if you run it from the stage without a MIAW open, because the windowList will be empty--i.e., [ ], so the windowList[1] doesn't exist. Maybe the root of your question is the sharing of a script cast. Even if you have the same scripts cast linked to the stage and MIAW, the particular instance of the script belongs to wherever it was called, the MIAW or the stage. Directing the return isn't an issue. Your last paragraph is everything in a nutshell. The script I put in the email was a hastily written snippet to illustrate what I meant BUT I hadn't thought about the call to a nonexistent MIAW so I would have been caught out in the long run in think... I should use that squishy stuff between my ears more often. I had located my script in the stage internal cast and directed the response based on which window was active, but after yours Robert's response they all live quite nicely in their own little external cast and the response goes back to the calling routine without all the activewindow checking. Life is good.. Thanks 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!]
Re: lingo-l shaped stage
uhh!! If it's not ask too much, can someone tell me how to do it, so? I've tried the 1 bit mask trick, but doesn't work for me. tks' Rodrigo on 11/19/02 1:04 PM, Andreas Gaunitz P11 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Works. You can even animate it. -A. Are you referring to a masked MIAW? As in setting a 1-bit cast member as the MIAW.windowType? If so, that *should* work on the Mac too, but I've never done it. Give it a try. Ross [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 shaped stage
an article in Director-online explains it very well: http://www.director-online.com/accessArticle.cfm?id=332 hth Fraser [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 shaped stage
Create your 1-bit bitmap - anything black is going to be your MIAW shape. Now when setting the windowType of your MIAW, give it the member's name instead of the in-built numeric constants that Director uses: myMIAW.windowType = member(MIAW Mask) then open as normal - should work (unless I'm forgetting something - Flash and Director can't live in my brain at the same time!) Ross __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.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 linking casts - automated
Cool Bertil...it works! Interesting though, that New(#bitmap) cannot be new(#cast). By the way my linked casts are two folders up, like this: dummy.filename = @/// library.cst But I'm getting errors...basically it's complaining about the @ operator. Are there any other ways to set the path to go up folders? Thank you, Josh Sure, try it in the message window: put the number of castLibs -- 1 dummy = new(#bitmap) dummy.filename = the moviePath lib_01.cst dummy = VOID -- cleaning up put the number of castLibs -- 2 put castLib(2).name -- lib_01 Bertil Flink Creative Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +46 8 544 013 73 Mob: +46 706 92 18 95 - Original Message - From: Mike Gralish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 1:20 AM Subject: 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!] [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
SCratch that...I see my own mistake...the @/// must be a part of the string along with the cast filename. cheers, Josh Cool Bertil...it works! Interesting though, that New(#bitmap) cannot be new(#cast). By the way my linked casts are two folders up, like this: dummy.filename = @/// library.cst But I'm getting errors...basically it's complaining about the @ operator. Are there any other ways to set the path to go up folders? Thank you, Josh Sure, try it in the message window: put the number of castLibs -- 1 dummy = new(#bitmap) dummy.filename = the moviePath lib_01.cst dummy = VOID -- cleaning up put the number of castLibs -- 2 put castLib(2).name -- lib_01 Bertil Flink Creative Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +46 8 544 013 73 Mob: +46 706 92 18 95 - Original Message - From: Mike Gralish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 1:20 AM Subject: 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 owner- [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: lingo-l linking casts - automated
Glad to help. Yeah, it can be anything really, new(#text), for example. new(#castLib) or something similar, would be nice, though. Bertil Flink Creative Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Josh Race [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 7:43 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l linking casts - automated Cool Bertil...it works! Interesting though, that New(#bitmap) cannot be new(#cast). By the way my linked casts are two folders up, like this: dummy.filename = @/// library.cst But I'm getting errors...basically it's complaining about the @ operator. Are there any other ways to set the path to go up folders? Thank you, 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 linking casts - automated
I shier in fear...paths allways gets you into troubles as when lifting over cst-files to other medias; CD:s DVD:s. Best security is to set all cst-files into same directory as the projector-file. If you copy files here and there, they maintain in same reaching. Behind the backbone of the projector exe-file. Same with Shockwavers. If operative systems change in future, it's also better making same stonage-way. That give you a longlife program...running and running like a Japaneese car.. Quoting Josh Race [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Cool Bertil...it works! Interesting though, that New(#bitmap) cannot be new(#cast). By the way my linked casts are two folders up, like this: dummy.filename = @/// library.cst But I'm getting errors...basically it's complaining about the @ operator. Are there any other ways to set the path to go up folders? - 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!]
