Re: editShortCutEnabled and edit menu
At 11:24 AM -0500 10/15/03, you wrote: Hi Jean-Louis, Yes, in my experience, installMenu short-circuits the text edit shortcuts. I, too, have written a behavior that correctly accomplishes these things, accounting for the selStart and the selEnd. If yours works, then you're all set, but if you'd like mine, I'd be happy to pass it along. By the way, I found that keyDown would not even receive the event if the command were down, so I had to check on exitFrame. Were you able to trap keydown events in a behavior with installed menus? In the project I'm working on now, I've got traps for keyDown when I've got userMenus installed. I've set the keyDownScript to create a handler full of single key global shortcuts and have several field behaviors which trap for RETURN or TAB to accept values &/or jump to the next field, etc. & YES, apparently one can't seem to trap for cmd-combinations (& probably ctrl-combos under Windows) in this situation. hth -Buzz Regards, Daniel [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!]
Giving back
(Since some of you guys aren't on Direct-L) This community has been exceedingly generous over the years. The folks on this list alone remind me on a daily basis why I choose Director as my authoring tool of choice. While I can't offer as much in the way of Lingo expertise as some of the others, being only "experienced" and not "geek/genius", I have always looked for an opportunity to return the favor, in some way. I guess today is that day. I've taken a little time to write a utility that should be of assistance to any Director developer who creates CDs (and maybe other projects.) I know that other utilities of the same nature as this one have cropped up over the years, but I don't know of any freely available current version - so I made one. Xtra Xporter examines your movie for required xtras (those listed in your Movie/xtras panel), and makes copies of them into your movie's distribution folder - supporting "fast start" projector distribution. I've always found this part of development to be a PITA, so I figured others might as well. Here are some notes on usage- - Requires DMX, running on OSX or Windows (OSX will also compile your OS9 xtras for distribution) - Requires BuddyAPI (Uses 4 or 5 Buddy functions) - Runs as an MIAW from your xtras menu - Allows inclusion of Xtras not in your movie's list - Allows removal of Xtras in your movie's list for the purposes of Xport - Recursively searches within your Xtras folder (or in the case of Classic, your Classic Xtras folder) - Creates an Xtras folder alongside your movie file and copies your xtras to it - Saves you time, and reduces the distribution PITA - Is something many of you could obviously write for yourself, but this saves you the time and effort - Is distributed as a DXR, but a DIR will be available for anyone seriously willing to improve and return (without copyright statements added) - It ain't FileXtra4 (a truly generous and inspiring "Give back"), but it is pretty cool - Has the Zav stamp of approval and is compatible with his ToolOpener thingie, in fact, Zav will have a version made available with his tools which has been "sexed up" with his cool Asset Generator, providing much more stylish buttons. Xtra Xporter is available for a limited time for just $49.95... (kidding)... Xtra Xporter is free (as in beer.) I'll probably post this thing for download somewhere, but for now, email me offlist if you would like a copy. I'll put a bow on it, and send it right over (all 32k.) Thanks again for a great list, folks! -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [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: editShortCutEnabled and edit menu
Try menu: edit Cut/X| nothing Copy/C| nothing Paste/V| nothing hth johnAq on 16/10/03 2:01 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Nobody answered... > My problem was (and still is) this one: > I have a text member with editShortCutEnabled set to true > So I can use the keyboard for copy,cut and paste > But when I install a menu with shortcuts for those functions, I can't > use anymore my keyboard, because the menu > sets editShortCutEnabled to false. > I tried this: > > menu: edit > Cut/X|pass > Copy/C|pass > Paste/V|pass > > An this: > > menu: edit > Cut/X| editShortCutEnabled =true > Copy/C| editShortCutEnabled =true > Paste/V| editShortCutEnabled =true > > But it does not work. > Do you think I'm obliged to write a behaviour(I did it) with keydown > etc... (tedious and overall slow), or is there a workaround ? > thank you very much > jean-louis valero [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: Flash Xtra Updates (was: RE: Those OS's again and a que stion)
I think much of this derives from the original understanding of Xtras, and the migration of a lot of Director functionality from within the runtime engine itself into Xtras (said migration occurred mainly between D5 and D6.x, complete with the engine overhaul in D7). The touted benefit was that the Xtras could be updated without revving the whole product, implying support for newer things without the need for a new product release (and/or bug fixes without having to re-QA the whole product). That's probably where the idea took hold that something like, say, the Flash asset Xtra, could be upgraded to the new release of Flash, without having to rev the whole product. I think people probably got the idea that you could put out a new QuickTime Xtra, or Flash Xtra or whatever without forcing people to wait for a new release of Director. I bet if I search my archives of lingo-l and mmxdk-l I can probably find messages to this effect. I'm not necessarily arguing against how things are done right now, I'm just trying to clarify why people have the impression about this subject that they do. - Tab At 05:30 PM 10/15/03, Colin Holgate wrote: Gee, catch questions are fun... Only if you get the catch. As you've read by now, the first catch was that the first Flash Xtra wasn't tied to any release. The second catch was more subtle, Flash 4 support in 7.02 fully complies with the non-paying non-major update that introduced new Flash support, but the catch is that you can make the argument that 7.02 was really the 7.0 that would have come out if it had stayed in beta another five months. So really the Flash 4 support sort of comes under the 7.0 major release, even though 7.0 only did Flash 3. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: Flash Xtra Updates (was: RE: Those OS's again and a que stion)
Gee, catch questions are fun... Only if you get the catch. As you've read by now, the first catch was that the first Flash Xtra wasn't tied to any release. The second catch was more subtle, Flash 4 support in 7.02 fully complies with the non-paying non-major update that introduced new Flash support, but the catch is that you can make the argument that 7.02 was really the 7.0 that would have come out if it had stayed in beta another five months. So really the Flash 4 support sort of comes under the 7.0 major release, even though 7.0 only did Flash 3. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: Flash Xtra Updates
That's what I meant by separate xtra update :) The two were: 6.02-ish. In other words, when the Flash Xtra first existed as a separate product, and as you said, 7.02, which had Flash 4 support. [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: Autorun/icon inconsistency
Bruce, as far as I know the correct way is with the backslash "\". This is typically used for local system references and the "/" forward slash used in UNC - Uniform Naming Convention for server directories and the web. I don't think it's either Director or MicroAngelo. If you can see the icon in your packaged director exe in the windows explorer then MicroAngelo did its job correctly. I would say that the system isn't refreshing its system icon cache for one reason or another. Maybe the system has a lot of processes running. Try running MicroAngelo's 'On Display' program on the affected system. Advanced>Rebuild System Cache and see if it will even display the icon. I would suggest scrolling through microsoft's MSDN developer site msdn.microsoft.com for more detailed info on the icon topic, as well as asking the folks at MicroAngelo if they can point you in some directions. todd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Collier Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 6:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Autorun/icon inconsistency >>Anyone have any insight as to why the My Computer window would *only >>sometimes* show the custom icon for the CD drive? I'm also having this problem... Autorun contains.. "icon=projector.exe" - projector is in root of CD - problem occurs on Windows XP Home and Professional - projector icon was created with Microangelo 5.5 Is it a Microangelo or a Director problem??? Any relevant ideas much appreciated, Bruce ps. I'm sure we'd all love to get a straight answer on this issue without it being hijacked by silly OS-advocacy posts. [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: Flash Xtra Updates (was: RE: Those OS's again and a que stion)
> Ok, quick quiz, name two occasions when a Flash Xtra change occurred > away from a major Director release. You could argue that both are > catch questions. A. Let's define "major Director release": a release in which new bits are released that you are required to pay for. Director 8.5 was a major release, whether you think "major" means 8.0 --> 9.0 or not, the number doesn't mean a thing, what's in the box and whether you have to pay define "major release" from my perspective (thus the argument that you've had to pay to get new Flash player Xtras). B. Are your sneaky questions ones where the Flash player _format_ was updated (i.e. from Flash player 5 to Flash player 6 as occurred in DirMX) or did they involve bug fixes? C. In these cases, where the next Xtras freely available to those with the most recently released major version? Gee, catch questions are fun... Cheers, Tom Higgins Product Specialist - Director Team Macromedia ... [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: Flash Xtra Updates (was: RE: Those OS's again and a question)
Quite right, I got myself in a twist on the Flash Xtra update. Even though the updated Flash Xtra is promoted as a big feature of any Director update. Although personally I think any Director update is a major deal as in my opinion it is still the best multimedia tool out there for serious development. I won't hold ya to ransom on the _company_policy_ debate as companies always do things that don't make much sense to the people working there (speaking from first hand experience). And I know from my many discussions and first hand experience of development that companies always listen to the financial department first and their developers advice second, not that I'm implying any one company in that statement. And as a closer, please continue to make Director a big deal internally in Macromedia as I hate it when my clients all say they want Flash because it's 'the thing' rather than the more powerful Director and shockwave and then they complain because they don't have access to all the really cool things Director does so easily. Regards to all, Peter --- Pardon me but what old days are you referring to? My recollection is that we've _never_ released an updated Flash Asset Xtra outside of a major product release so there's no "new tactic" here, thus I'm puzzled at your statements above. Last year we did try to get a new Flash Asset Xtra out for D8.5 users that supported Flash 6 player files (exported from Flash MX), but that effort didn't work out and so we did not do that release (it came out with Director MX). So we've had one attempt at doing this but we've never actually done it. Updating the Flash Asset Xtra is not an insignificant amount of work. There is a lot of development time and QA effort that go into ensuring that Flash playback is up to snuff before a new Xtra can go out and as such Macromedia has made the decision to provide the updated versions of the Xtra in major releases of Director. We could probably debate the benefits and problems with our current update model until the cows come home, but I'm not really into having that conversation today so hopefully folks don't take my having pointed out _company_policy_ as any sort of implied personal support for that distribution model. Again, just wondering what old times you're referring to as for at least the past 5 years over 5 releases of Director, I don't recall us ever having provided an updated Flash Asset Xtra outside of a major product release (thus you had to upgrade Director to get it). Cheers, Tom Higgins Product Specialist - Director Team Macromedia ... MAX, the 2003 Macromedia User Conference November 18-21, Salt Lake City, Utah Register today at http://www.macromedia.com/go/max/ ... [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: Flash Xtra Updates (was: RE: Those OS's again and a que stion)
> Ok, quick quiz, name two occasions when a Flash Xtra change occurred away from a major Director release. You could argue that both are catch questions. 8.5, if you consider a dot-release to not be a major release. I do consider 8.5 to be a major release, though. The other was either 6.5 or 7.02. I think. On the right lines. 8.5 really wanted to be called 9.0, but I would argue that 6.5 and 8.5 are major enough not to be the ones I meant. The two were: 6.02-ish. In other words, when the Flash Xtra first existed as a separate product, and as you said, 7.02, which had Flash 4 support. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: Flash Xtra Updates (was: RE: Those OS's again and a que stion)
> Ok, quick quiz, name two occasions when a Flash Xtra change occurred > away from a major Director release. You could argue that both are > catch questions. 8.5, if you consider a dot-release to not be a major release. I do consider 8.5 to be a major release, though. The other was either 6.5 or 7.02. I think. Xordially, Kerry Thompson [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Flash Xtra Updates (was: RE: Those OS's again and a que stion)
Again, just wondering what old times you're referring to as for at least the past 5 years over 5 releases of Director, I don't recall us ever having provided an updated Flash Asset Xtra outside of a major product release (thus you had to upgrade Director to get it). Ok, quick quiz, name two occasions when a Flash Xtra change occurred away from a major Director release. You could argue that both are catch questions. [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: OS wars
On 10/15/03 10:34 AM, "Charlie Fiskeaux II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth: > WinXP just works, OSX doesn't That's weird. I've got both, and although I like XP MUCH more than it's predecessors, my preference is totally the mac side of things. Course it's all just tools, what makes sense for you, and how adept you are at using them. [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: Those OS's again and a question
I stand corrected on the paintbrush and palette knife. But the principle statement still stands, it's about what you do with em not what you do it with. I could buy the best most expensive brush in the world and I'd still be a hopeless painter :) Peter Witham Internet and Multimedia Solutions http://www.evolutiondata.com icq: 4436851 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randal Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 12:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Those OS's again and a question At 10:42 AM -0500 10/15/03, Peter Witham wrote: >1. It ain't the OS you use it's the ideas in your head and what you do with >em. Do we ever hear artists defending to death their particular paintbrush >or palette knife? Actually, you do. As a painter and illustrator I know that finding tools that work right for your own technique and are not low-quality is one of the most important elements to doing good work. The standard rule of thumb for oil painters is to buy the most expensive oil paints you can afford, then spend money on good brushes and other materials. A good palette knife is important, but very dependent on personal preference (and generally very cheap). The idea that you can do good work with any tools is ridiculous, though obviously a professional artist will create a better picture with a 99¢ watercolor set than an amateur will. The question is, to what degree are you fighting the qualities and abilities of your tools and to what degree are they aiding you in your work. NO good graphic designer would willingly choose to lay out a brochure using MS Word rather than Quark or InDesign, and similarly most programmers who set up web servers and web services greatly prefer Unix to Windows. Of course multimedia programmers need to target the platforms that their users are on, but currently that is a very large argument for using Flash rather than Director -- as one of the best aspects of Flash is that you can author on any platform and their are very few cross platform issues for the final SWF file. That said, I love the capabilities of Director and hope it becomes MUCH easier to make cross-platform movies and projects so I don't have to move all my development over to Flash. -- Randal [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: Autorun/icon inconsistency
Anyone have any insight as to why the My Computer window would *only sometimes* show the custom icon for the CD drive? I'm also having this problem... Not sure this will help, but I usually use an external icon and haven't bumped into this problem. icon=some.ico -- 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: Those OS's again and a question
At 10:42 AM -0500 10/15/03, Peter Witham wrote: 1. It ain't the OS you use it's the ideas in your head and what you do with em. Do we ever hear artists defending to death their particular paintbrush or palette knife? Actually, you do. As a painter and illustrator I know that finding tools that work right for your own technique and are not low-quality is one of the most important elements to doing good work. The standard rule of thumb for oil painters is to buy the most expensive oil paints you can afford, then spend money on good brushes and other materials. A good palette knife is important, but very dependent on personal preference (and generally very cheap). The idea that you can do good work with any tools is ridiculous, though obviously a professional artist will create a better picture with a 99¢ watercolor set than an amateur will. The question is, to what degree are you fighting the qualities and abilities of your tools and to what degree are they aiding you in your work. NO good graphic designer would willingly choose to lay out a brochure using MS Word rather than Quark or InDesign, and similarly most programmers who set up web servers and web services greatly prefer Unix to Windows. Of course multimedia programmers need to target the platforms that their users are on, but currently that is a very large argument for using Flash rather than Director -- as one of the best aspects of Flash is that you can author on any platform and their are very few cross platform issues for the final SWF file. That said, I love the capabilities of Director and hope it becomes MUCH easier to make cross-platform movies and projects so I don't have to move all my development over to Flash. -- Randal [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Flash Xtra Updates (was: RE: Those OS's again and a que stion)
Peter, > Actually a question for you all, what's your opinion on what > appears to be the new tactic of having to upgrade Director > everytime a new version of Flash comes out rather than just > updating the Xtra like in the old days? Pardon me but what old days are you referring to? My recollection is that we've _never_ released an updated Flash Asset Xtra outside of a major product release so there's no "new tactic" here, thus I'm puzzled at your statements above. Last year we did try to get a new Flash Asset Xtra out for D8.5 users that supported Flash 6 player files (exported from Flash MX), but that effort didn't work out and so we did not do that release (it came out with Director MX). So we've had one attempt at doing this but we've never actually done it. Updating the Flash Asset Xtra is not an insignificant amount of work. There is a lot of development time and QA effort that go into ensuring that Flash playback is up to snuff before a new Xtra can go out and as such Macromedia has made the decision to provide the updated versions of the Xtra in major releases of Director. We could probably debate the benefits and problems with our current update model until the cows come home, but I'm not really into having that conversation today so hopefully folks don't take my having pointed out _company_policy_ as any sort of implied personal support for that distribution model. Again, just wondering what old times you're referring to as for at least the past 5 years over 5 releases of Director, I don't recall us ever having provided an updated Flash Asset Xtra outside of a major product release (thus you had to upgrade Director to get it). Cheers, Tom Higgins Product Specialist - Director Team Macromedia ... MAX, the 2003 Macromedia User Conference November 18-21, Salt Lake City, Utah Register today at http://www.macromedia.com/go/max/ ... [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: Those OS's again and a question
I'm glad that someone shares the exact same view point as me! I got 8.5 and was delighted when Macromedia sent me the MX upgrade for free, although would of paid for it in a second. However like you say, it holds back either my upgrades or creates problems for me with clients as they send me flash content using the latest flash and I have to explain why I cannot use it and request they re-compile it as an earlier version so I can work with it. I know there is a very valid argument from Macromedia and users for the continued development of both Director and Flash as separate applications i.e. one is for web and the other for CD. But personally I still think the major reason is two revenue streams and also fail too see why the development and release of both application updates cannot be timed a little closer to aid developers of both products, unless it is designed that way to improve and balance quarterly earnings? (nah that would silly :P) Regards to all, Peter Witham Internet and Multimedia Solutions http://www.evolutiondata.com icq: 4436851 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Troy Rollins Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 11:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Those OS's again and a question On Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at 11:42 AM, Peter Witham wrote: > Actually a question for you all, what's your opinion on what appears > to be > the new tactic of having to upgrade Director everytime a new version of > Flash comes out rather than just updating the Xtra like in the old > days? It sux. Not because I don't want the new version of Director - I always do, and always will. But because it causes a compatibility gap for too long. I think Flash should come with a replacement Director Xtra when it is released to maintain compatibility. Director upgrades are worth the money to me, and it doesn't take the Flash xtra to make it so. In fact, what it does is prevent me from upgrading multiple seats of Flash until the new version of Director is released. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [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: editShortCutEnabled and edit menu
Hi Jean-Louis, Yes, in my experience, installMenu short-circuits the text edit shortcuts. I, too, have written a behavior that correctly accomplishes these things, accounting for the selStart and the selEnd. If yours works, then you're all set, but if you'd like mine, I'd be happy to pass it along. By the way, I found that keyDown would not even receive the event if the command were down, so I had to check on exitFrame. Were you able to trap keydown events in a behavior with installed menus? Regards, Daniel [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: Those OS's again and a question
On Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at 11:42 AM, Peter Witham wrote: Actually a question for you all, what's your opinion on what appears to be the new tactic of having to upgrade Director everytime a new version of Flash comes out rather than just updating the Xtra like in the old days? It sux. Not because I don't want the new version of Director - I always do, and always will. But because it causes a compatibility gap for too long. I think Flash should come with a replacement Director Xtra when it is released to maintain compatibility. Director upgrades are worth the money to me, and it doesn't take the Flash xtra to make it so. In fact, what it does is prevent me from upgrading multiple seats of Flash until the new version of Director is released. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [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!]
Those OS's again and a question
Hi all, I've been following this and many other Director and dare I say Flash :P lists for years now, although I hardly ever post for one reason or another. And sure enough the OS debate never fails to raise it's head now and again. So I thought I'd give my thoughts once and for all (not that it really matters or amounts to anything). 1. It ain't the OS you use it's the ideas in your head and what you do with em. Do we ever hear artists defending to death their particular paintbrush or palette knife? 2. People who just say this or that OS is the best and the other sucks without reasoning why are wasting bandwidth. I've seen certain people on these lists go on a war cry every time the OS issue appears, and whilst I have the utmost respect for their knowledge of certain things like Lingo, their attitude of bash that system does nothing but detract peoples attention away from the persons talents. Honestly, you'd think that some people around here have major stakes in Apple or Microsoft :) 3. All OS's have highs and lows, personally I use Windows and Linux on my server. I've also used BeOS 4 and 5 pro and personally still think BeOS has some of the best ideas and only failed due to the terrible marketing within the company. That said, if someone offered me a Mac I'd take that too. If you're a developer you should be in a position to test on all the platforms you expect it to work on. 4. As I mentioned, I'm a Windows user but I'd buy a Mac If the price was more reasonable by comparison to the other choices out there and I didn't have to re-buy all the apps I use consistently. Personally I think the Mac is physically the best looking gear out there other than some of the SGI designs, but it doesn't make the apps run any better or worse. 5. What we all gonna do and say when maybe just maybe Director appears for Linux? Will there be a joining of the Mac and Win clans to defeat the penguin? Lol Well guess that's it, I'll disappear into the blue yonda again until I get around to posting again or get thrown off the list for such drastic statements. Actually a question for you all, what's your opinion on what appears to be the new tactic of having to upgrade Director everytime a new version of Flash comes out rather than just updating the Xtra like in the old days? Regards to all, Peter Witham Internet and Multimedia Solutions (817) 280 9367 http://www.evolutiondata.com icq: 4436851 MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member: National Association of Photoshop Professionals [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: OS wars
Well, I'm honestly happy that you can have a highly productive mac environment, because all of the many macs I've used and been around aren't anywhere near "crash-free", even the OSX ones. Thus the basis of my arguments. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: "Troy Rollins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 11:12 AM Subject: Re: OS wars > > On Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at 10:34 AM, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: > > > There are plenty of cogent points, the most important being (in the > > words of > > Mac's OSX campaign), WinXP just works, OSX doesn't, regardless of what > > Apple > > says. > > Boy, you do make an excellent and well qualified point there. "OSX > doesn't." > > Personally, I think you should keep believing that. I rue the day I > pitched every PC my company owned in to the dumpster and replaced them > with these darn elegant, crash-free Macs. I keep getting all these > irritating emails from my staff thanking me. Now, they are getting all > superior and having contests in continuous up-time and "most > applications running concurrently," broken up by fits of laughter about > how easy stuff is to do. I hate that. > > And the G5 speed myth? Don't believe it. Speed isn't everything after > all. > > Stay on WinXP. You sound the sort that is poorly suited to such > experiences. In fact, I join you in slamming the Mac arbitrarily and > without salient points. Trust us folks, enhanced productivity isn't the > last word in computing. Your PCs will serve you better in the long run, > and poor highly productive environments like those at my shop are > nothing to be envied. > > Windoze Rulz!! (And that is the last point I'll make in these insipid > troll-baits.) > -- > Troy > RPSystems, Ltd. > http://www.rpsystems.net > > [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: OS wars
On Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at 10:34 AM, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: There are plenty of cogent points, the most important being (in the words of Mac's OSX campaign), WinXP just works, OSX doesn't, regardless of what Apple says. Boy, you do make an excellent and well qualified point there. "OSX doesn't." Personally, I think you should keep believing that. I rue the day I pitched every PC my company owned in to the dumpster and replaced them with these darn elegant, crash-free Macs. I keep getting all these irritating emails from my staff thanking me. Now, they are getting all superior and having contests in continuous up-time and "most applications running concurrently," broken up by fits of laughter about how easy stuff is to do. I hate that. And the G5 speed myth? Don't believe it. Speed isn't everything after all. Stay on WinXP. You sound the sort that is poorly suited to such experiences. In fact, I join you in slamming the Mac arbitrarily and without salient points. Trust us folks, enhanced productivity isn't the last word in computing. Your PCs will serve you better in the long run, and poor highly productive environments like those at my shop are nothing to be envied. Windoze Rulz!! (And that is the last point I'll make in these insipid troll-baits.) -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [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: Director capability to determine pc perfomance
Peter Bochan wrote: My speculation on this was: 1. to determine the amount of RAM 2. to determine the cpu speed (whether it'll be able to manage the cast members 3. then to upload the needed cast into RAM I´ve used Buddy Api for similar tasks so I could decrease the quality of the Flash movies for the older machines. You can also use user´s specs for determining if you´re going to reproduce full screen videos or even the size of a 3D scene. My 2 cents, -- Agustín María Rodríguez | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.OnWine.com.ar [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!]
OS wars
There are plenty of cogent points, the most important being (in the words of Mac's OSX campaign), WinXP just works, OSX doesn't, regardless of what Apple says. I'm just defending worthwhile software that a lot of "creative people" seem inclined to attack. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: "Howdy-Tzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 10:48 PM Subject: Re: Autorun/icon inconsistency > UNIX. PCs and servers. Why are you being so defensive? Do you own MSFT > stock? > > Oh! sig block! Sorry, I thought you were going to raise a cogent point > before you finished your note, one subject, topic or idea that had > never been discussed before, ever, in this entire tired debate. > > Guess not. > > Warren Ockrassa | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Publisher, nightwares eBooks >A division of | http://www.nightwares.com/ebooks/ > nightwares LLC | http://www.nightwares.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!]
editShortCutEnabled and edit menu
Nobody answered... My problem was (and still is) this one: I have a text member with editShortCutEnabled set to true So I can use the keyboard for copy,cut and paste But when I install a menu with shortcuts for those functions, I can't use anymore my keyboard, because the menu sets editShortCutEnabled to false. I tried this: menu: edit Cut/X|pass Copy/C|pass Paste/V|pass An this: menu: edit Cut/X| editShortCutEnabled =true Copy/C| editShortCutEnabled =true Paste/V| editShortCutEnabled =true But it does not work. Do you think I'm obliged to write a behaviour(I did it) with keydown etc... (tedious and overall slow), or is there a workaround ? thank you very much jean-louis valero [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: Autorun/icon inconsistency
>>Anyone have any insight as to why the My Computer window would *only >>sometimes* show the custom icon for the CD drive? I'm also having this problem... Autorun contains.. "icon=projector.exe" - projector is in root of CD - problem occurs on Windows XP Home and Professional - projector icon was created with Microangelo 5.5 Is it a Microangelo or a Director problem??? Any relevant ideas much appreciated, Bruce ps. I'm sure we'd all love to get a straight answer on this issue without it being hijacked by silly OS-advocacy posts. [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: Autorun/icon inconsistency
Hi all... Moving back from the tangential ideological comments, including the inaccurately described demographic makeup of the United States Supreme Court... My icon is still delinquent! :-) === Todd had a good suggestion: is it "/" or "\", in other words, Icon=media\uth.ico Or Icon=media/uth.ico I've tried both with inconsistent results each way. Officially, which is it? > I typically set my icon equal to my projector's .exe file. Icon=myProjector.exe What a great suggestion! I didn't know you could do that. === Fraser, yes, my autorun is turned on. === Chris, I appreciate your sending the link, but I can't count on my users being able to do this...that would sooo not happen. === regards, - Michael M. I don't seem to notice these problems on my projects. However, I am assuming you made a typo when you entered your example: Icon=media/uth.ico It should read: Icon=media\uth.ico -- notice the use of the backslash and not the forward slash. todd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mendelsohn, Michael Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 1:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Autorun/icon inconsistency Hi list... == I sifted through the Lingo-L & Direct-L archives, and I couldn't find any previous posts answering my question, so I'm gracing Lingo-L with yet another autorun post... == On some CDs I've created, when you double click My Computer, autorun.inf makes my custom icon replace the generic icon for that drive (as it should), but on other CDs, autorun.inf fails to do this, and the icon for the CD drive is something ugly and generic, even though there's no difference between the two autorun.inf files. In my projects, I store my icons in a "media" folder on the root of the CD. The autorun.inf file always has this line: Icon=media/uth.ico (And, for what it's worth, I create the icons in Microangelo v5.55.) Anyone have any insight as to why the My Computer window would *only sometimes* show the custom icon for the CD drive? Thanks, Michael M. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Manipulating the play back of video in director
I have a question regarding manipulating video with lingo. I have a stream being captured then brought in to director which is fine, but what I would like to happen is have 2 instances of the video on the stage, one playing at full speed and the other playing at the same rate but skipping every other frame out so its 'juddery'. Is there something anyone might be able to suggest that might help? As you are reading the same file, it may even be possible to do what you want. Hold on, I'll try it... Yes, it works fine. This was my frame script: on exitFrame me set the movietime of sprite 2 to the movietime of sprite 1 go the frame end and this was a script on sprite 2: on beginsprite set the movierate of sprite 2 to 0 end You could have two members (I just had one) and set the second one to be paused, which would mean not needing the beginsprite script to stop it. When I run the movie the second copy of the video runs at the frame rate I set, so if I set it to 5 fps, it jerks along at 5 changes per second, with the other sprite playing smoothly (QuickTime is not limited by Director's frame rate, it updates the movie as often as it needs to). [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!]
Manipulating the play back of video in director
Hello All, I have a question regarding manipulating video with lingo. I have a stream being captured then brought in to director which is fine, but what I would like to happen is have 2 instances of the video on the stage, one playing at full speed and the other playing at the same rate but skipping every other frame out so its 'juddery'. Is there something anyone might be able to suggest that might help? Thanks very much -Lucy _ Hotmail messages direct to your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile [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!]
Director capability to determine pc perfomance
Hello Lingo Developers! In general, PC performance depends upon the initial system configuration (like cpu speed, amount of ram, video accelerator capabilities), but another constituent is software configuration (let's say Word 97 vs Word XP, the latter takes up to one minute to start on my pc). All this together defines the general pc performance. Now, I wonder, can Director determine the capabilities of speed of a computer so that it will use, let's say one UI (pc-lite), than the other. This is like in Win XP you go to Performance Options and select "adjust for best appearance" or "for best performance". I mean not the determination of cpu speed (it may be PIII at 1000, but if you launch some of AutoDesk products it will slow down your pc considerably) but the ability to perform a task so that the pc won't complain or slow down. My speculation on this was: 1. to determine the amount of RAM 2. to determine the cpu speed (whether it'll be able to manage the cast members 3. then to upload the needed cast into RAM 4. but then what? Thank you all in advance pb [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: Autorun/icon inconsistency
just to throw a question out there, is this happening on machines with autorun turned on? I don't know on PCs which have autorun switched off whether or not the autorun.inf file gets read at all. Fraser "Shot in the dark" Campbell [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: Autorun/icon inconsistency
Hi Michael, I don't know if this will help you at all, but it may be worth a look: http://tinyurl.com/qzoy Last time my icons started mis-behaving, this was the cause. Hope this helps. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Mendelsohn, Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 9:45 PM Subject: Autorun/icon inconsistency > Hi list... > > == > I sifted through the Lingo-L & Direct-L archives, and I couldn't find > any previous posts answering my question, so I'm gracing Lingo-L with > yet another autorun post... > == > > On some CDs I've created, when you double click My Computer, autorun.inf > makes my custom icon replace the generic icon for that drive (as it > should), but on other CDs, autorun.inf fails to do this, and the icon > for the CD drive is something ugly and generic, even though there's no > difference between the two autorun.inf files. > > In my projects, I store my icons in a "media" folder on the root of the > CD. > > The autorun.inf file always has this line: > Icon=media/uth.ico > > (And, for what it's worth, I create the icons in Microangelo v5.55.) > > Anyone have any insight as to why the My Computer window would *only > sometimes* show the custom icon for the CD drive? > > Thanks, > Michael M. > > [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: Autorun/icon inconsistency
Thank you for bringing this thread out of the mud (entertaining as it is... really, I get a good laugh out of it) and back to the issue. I have also found on occasion for reasons unknown to me, that sometimes the icon comes up perfectly in 9 computers, but on the 10th one (same OS, likely fiddled with by infinite number of users) it doesn't show. This happens (on occasion) even when I have set the icon equal to the exe. I have also wondered about it from time to time. That's all in windows (sorry, no experience in developing for Mac, although I'd rather use one as my developing platform in many cases), since less than 1% of our market uses Mac (except for universities, which rarely outsource any kind of development, at least in my part of the world). And for what it's worth, I have yet to see this problem in Windows XP. It seems from what I can remember to be a Windows 98 and under problem. Can't recall it happening with 2000 either. Andrew > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Todd Culley > Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 5:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Autorun/icon inconsistency > > > I don't seem to notice these problems on my projects. > However, I am assuming you made a typo when you entered your > example: Icon=media/uth.ico > > It should read: > Icon=media\uth.ico -- notice the use of the backslash and > not the forward slash. > > I typically set my icon equal to my projector's .exe file. > Icon=myProjector.exe > > todd > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Mendelsohn, Michael > Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 1:46 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Autorun/icon inconsistency > > Hi list... > > == > I sifted through the Lingo-L & Direct-L archives, and I > couldn't find any previous posts answering my question, so > I'm gracing Lingo-L with yet another autorun post... > == > > On some CDs I've created, when you double click My Computer, > autorun.inf makes my custom icon replace the generic icon for > that drive (as it should), but on other CDs, autorun.inf > fails to do this, and the icon for the CD drive is something > ugly and generic, even though there's no difference between > the two autorun.inf files. > > In my projects, I store my icons in a "media" folder on the > root of the CD. > > The autorun.inf file always has this line: > Icon=media/uth.ico > > (And, for what it's worth, I create the icons in Microangelo v5.55.) > > Anyone have any insight as to why the My Computer window would *only > sometimes* show the custom icon for the CD drive? > > Thanks, > Michael M. > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest > mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post > messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, > email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and > helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest > mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post > messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, > email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and > helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
