lingo-l New Comer : Introduction first posting
Hello People in lingo-l, My name is Viktor and i'm new in lingo scripting, last time i'm using director was 2 years ago (in Director 8).. but now i would like to know much deeper about director. Within this 2 years i learn a lot about web and i do learn a lot about Flash MX Actionscript.. so no wonder when i want to get used with Lingo again..my mind is framed with a lot of Flash Method which is unable (or i still don't know) on how to implement my idea. Ok, right now i have an idea(which also a problem for now). I want to create an engine(back office) based on php-mysql to supply data for all Multimedia-CD that we're going to produce. The method was.. all the data need are process via php-mysql... than all the data required for Multimedia CD is made by generating static XML file. Then XML file wil parsed on event prepareMovie. There are problem with this method: i already parsed the XML with parseString() method. for example , the main navigation. by XML, i create the list data required for the button. but the problem are: 1. How the method i have to learn to generate the buttons on-the fly ? When i do it manually, I create a button..then i put some instances on different chanels in Sprite.. buat when i try to change the text for the button : sprite(1).member(thebutton).text , all the instance suddenly change ... how to create a copy of a member in a cast with different name then put the instance on the movie ? (it's like an equall of attachedMovieClip/duplicateMovieClip in Action Script) 2. Do you have any better idea to create a system like point no.1 ? or you think FlashMX-DirectorMX Integration will do the job easier ? Thanks for any input ! Viktor Iwan Kristanda Doxadigital [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 New Comer : Introduction first posting
deeper about director. Within this 2 years i learn a lot about web and i do learn a lot about Flash MX Actionscript.. so no wonder when i want to get used with Lingo again..my mind is framed with a lot of Flash Method which is unable (or i still don't know) on how to implement my idea. Hi Viktor, If you have spent a lot of time recently on Actionscript, you might find the new JavaScript syntax in Director MX 2004 to be more to your liking. 1. How the method i have to learn to generate the buttons on-the fly ? When i do it manually, I create a button..then i put some instances on different chanels in Sprite.. buat when i try to change the text for the button : sprite(1).member(thebutton).text , all the instance suddenly change ... how to create a copy of a member in a cast with different name then put the instance on the movie ? (it's like an equall of attachedMovieClip/duplicateMovieClip in Action Script Did you try sprite(1).text =? 2. Do you have any better idea to create a system like point no.1 ? or you think FlashMX-DirectorMX Integration will do the job easier ? Depends on your goals. For system standard buttons, OSControl Xtra buttons are a snap. Using the behavior that comes with OSControls, you can set the text of individual sprite instances of the same member. http://xtras.openspark.com/index.php?page=OSC_home For custom bitmap, vector shape, or text member buttons, I use my own custom button code; in those cases, changing the member affects all instances of the same button, so I would create as many as I need and work with them, just to keep it simple. You can use the new member command, but I try to avoid that when possible because the documentation recommends against deleting members during run-time (although, with a global, dynamic member object, they can be cleared and recycled, so it is workable). 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: lingo-l unable to load movie playlist (on Mac OS X)
We had a case recently, that if an individual folder name is longer than 27 chars (or something close) that this would cause problems on the Mac as well. Ken -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Slava Paperno Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 12:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l unable to load movie playlist (on Mac OS X) Thanks for writing, Ken, but the cause must lie elsewhere. I found numerous posts about this error being caused by long paths on Windows, and none on the Mac. Besides, on my Mac, all paths are below 60 chars long, let alone 126. Gratefully, Slava At 12:51 AM 4/8/04 -0400, you wrote: The file causing the error is nested too deep in a file path. If the path to your executable is more than 127 characters (on the PC, not sure the full count on the MAC) the error you are experiencing will occur. This path INCLUDES the name of the executable. I filed this bug several months ago with Macromedia (before they shipped the MX2004) but apparently it has not been fixed. Ken -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Slava Paperno Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 10:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l unable to load movie playlist (on Mac OS X) This is on a OS X machine. A Director MX (9.0) stub projector displays this error message when I attempt to start it, and quits: Unable to load the movie playlist. Does the INI file exist? It must contain a section [Movies] with an entry 'Movie01=pathname.dir' I confess that even though an INI file named the same as the projector exists in the same folder, it does not contain section [Movies], but I tend to think that the problem is elsewhere. I found a technote about this very error message at the MM site, but that note is about Windows and a long path, which is not the case here. The reason I think the message is frivolous is that I have two identical partitions on this Mac, with identical contents. The same projector runs fine in one of them, but aborts with this error message in the other. The only difference between the two is that this stub projector was created in the partition where it runs successfully. The projector was made as described in the technote on fast-start projectors, last updated in 2004. The four library files are in the Xtras folder. There's 90 MB of free space on the partition. The projector is in the root folder of the partition. What am I doing wrong? What else should I check? Gratefully, Slava [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 unable to load movie playlist (on Mac OS X)
Search the Lingo-L and Direct-L archives on this one. The problem has been around since D7. But there are some recent postings on it, at least one of which was mine. It happens on Windows too. http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/director/digest/index.html HTH Rob [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 Problems making Mac Classic projectors from OSX
I've never been able to create Mac Classic projectors with third party Xtras from OSX Dir MX, so whenever I've needed to, I've gone back to Dir 8.5 on a Classic machine to make them. But I know other people must do it from OSX, so it's very frustrating. This issue is a major roadblock to me upgrading to MX2004, because it's not backwards compatible with 8.5 like MX is. The Xtras I'm dealing with are Impressario and V12 DBE. The V12 DBE package automatically comes with separate folders for the Carbon Xtra and PPC Xtra (which one is for Classic? Carbon?), but the Impressario package doesn't. There are two Impressario packages, one for OSX and one for Classic, so I unzipped them both and put them both under the Xtras folder. I can create an OSX projector with Xtras packaged into the projector, and it works fine, but I can't for Classic. When trying to make the Classic projector, it adds Macromedia's Xtras fine, but when it tries to add Impressario and V12 DBE, it give me an error of -50 Can't write the file (paraphrase). I tried not packaging the Xtras, and just placing the Xtras folder under the projector (which is how I normally do things), but then more things break. With this non-packaged Xtras method, the OSX projector loads all the Xtras except the V12 DBE successfully, but the Classic projector can't load any of the Xtras, even Macromedia's. What's the secret here? Charlie Fiskeaux II Interactive Media Developer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.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!]
lingo-l director-bug: contains() and offset() mix up chars
hi list, i just wondered, is the following a known director bug? c=numtochar(138) put (c contains numtochar(154)) -- 1 put offset(numtochar(154),c) -- 1 and also c=numtochar(154) put (c contains numtochar(138)) -- 1 put offset(numtochar(138),c) -- 1 (tested on dmx, win xp pro) valentin [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 director-bug: contains() and offset() mix up chars
i just wondered, is the following a known director bug? c=numtochar(138) put (c contains numtochar(154)) -- 1 put offset(numtochar(154),c) -- 1 That is odd, but not as disturbing as the fact that you can't do option-u u (to get a ü) in Director now. [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 director-bug: contains() and offset() mix up chars
Hi Valentin, I reported something similar in DMX a few weeks before the DMX2004 release. It had to do with i and some higher range character. However, with that one, there was further weirdness in that aList.findPos(i) returned TRUE for a list with that higher range char as a property, but i = higher range char returned FALSE. It was confirmed as a bug. In this case, is it possible that these two characters (138 and 154) are lower and upper case versions of one another? Regards, Daniel On Apr 8, 2004, at 7:56 PM, Valentin Schmidt wrote: hi list, i just wondered, is the following a known director bug? c=numtochar(138) put (c contains numtochar(154)) -- 1 put offset(numtochar(154),c) -- 1 and also c=numtochar(154) put (c contains numtochar(138)) -- 1 put offset(numtochar(138),c) -- 1 (tested on dmx, win xp pro) [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 New Comer : Introduction first posting
Hello Daniel, Thanks for your input ! Hi Viktor, If you have spent a lot of time recently on Actionscript, you might find the new JavaScript syntax in Director MX 2004 to be more to your liking. For me, the problem about JavaScript syntax is reference... there still few reference on Internet from people using JavaScript Syntax.. if had to 'convert' everything i read about Director related material to JavaScript Syntax it will consume time... also i had reference in my bookshelf (Director 8 Demystified, SE using director 8) which still use the old verbose syntax..and that's sometimes already made me confuse.. btw about lingo in DirectorMX and DirectorMX 2004 .. is there much different ? i spend time on Amazon.com but only find few reference about director (only 1 or 2). (it's like an equall of attachedMovieClip/duplicateMovieClip in Action Script Did you try sprite(1).text =? yes. it returned Property Not Found.. it still gives me error. Using Flash mindset..there is a way to gives value on instance.. like _root.mc_name.var_text.text =content ... is it possible to do it in director ? For custom bitmap, vector shape, or text member buttons, I use my own custom button code; in those cases, changing the member affects all instances of the same button, so I would create as many as I need and work with them, just to keep it simple. how about using OOP ? have you tried.. i'm still exploring OOP in DirectorMX Daniel THanks for sharing, Danie Regards, Victor [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 Shape Projector
Hello, This is a quick question... in creating Projector (i'm using Windows), which one is the best XTRA to create a shape-like projector (the one like Windows Media Player 9 or When running WinOnCD).. i'm sure there's plenty.. but may i know what yours and why ? Thx. Victor [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 director-bug: contains() and offset() mix up chars
hi daniel, no, those are the mac char codes for the german special chars ä (a umlaut) and ö (o umlaut), both lower case. valentin In this case, is it possible that these two characters (138 and 154) are lower and upper case versions of one another? [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!]
