lingo-l Soundbusy returns TRUE on PCs with no soundcard
Hi, There seems to be a problem with testing for soundbusy(channel) in certain cases. I don't recall this happening pre MX- has anyone seen it in older versions? The problem scenario is: The soundDevice is set to use QT3mix (I haven't tried it without) call- puppetsound(1,membername) test for soundbusy(1) in a frame script If the PC is without a soundcard, or the soundcard is not working Director will return TRUE for soundbusy(1) for as long as I have been willing to wait. The problem doesn't happen if the sound is not a puppet sound. Regards Cath Sample Director Phosphor Essence Level 1, 27 Dacre St PO Box 68755 Newton, Auckland http://www.phosphor.co.nz P: +64 9 377 4626 F: +64 9 377 4991 M: 021 748 774 The material in this email is confidential to the addressee and may be protected by legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that you may not use any material in this message nor pass it on to others. If you have received this email in error, please delete it and notify us immediately by telephone or email ([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 Flash components: mouseUp and mouseUp Outside
I am finally getting some time with DMX 2004, and one thing I noticed was that the old fashioned hypercard pushbutton from the toolpalette has been replaced by a flash component. (You can still get the old hypercard button from the Insert menu). Onto the nub of my gist: If you put a lingo script on a flash component push button, say on mouseUp alert mouseUp end ...and then click down on the button, but release outside it, you still get the mouseUp event. That's surely not correct. I should get 'mouseUpOutside', and absolutely not 'mouseUp' under those circumstances. What's up with that? Worse; I don't get a 'mouseUpOutside' message either. That could be very problematic. I am inclined to lock all GUI elements while tracking the mouse. The way this is working, you can mouse down on one button, and mouseUp on another. The one you mouseUp on responds when your mouse enters it, but it's the one you clicked first that gets the mouseUp message. Ugh! Presumably a Flash component doesn't have to behave this way, it's just sloppy design, but can this be fixed by us, or do we have to wait for macromedia to do it? BTW 'Hypercard' style buttons behave 'properly' (except that they too 'rollover' when you've clicked something else. Brennan [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 Flash components: mouseUp and mouseUp Outside
On May 10, 2004, at 10:32 AM, Brennan wrote: I am finally getting some time with DMX 2004, and one thing I noticed was that the old fashioned hypercard pushbutton from the toolpalette has been replaced by a flash component. Yeah. Those are neat. Take a look and play around. Then, never ever use them again. Add just one of those things to a Director project and watch the performance hit. Their Tree, or Listbox? Forget them. They are so slow, and have so many caveats to their use that they can kill an otherwise good Director project. Somehow Macromedia missed it, but Imaging Lingo's time has finally come. It really shows just how bad Flash's performance is in the UI field. The tool palette should have IL components in it, not Flash. -- 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: lingo-l Flash components: mouseUp and mouseUp Outside
At 11:05 Uhr -0400 10.05.2004, Troy Rollins wrote: On May 10, 2004, at 10:32 AM, Brennan wrote: I am finally getting some time with DMX 2004, and one thing I noticed was that the old fashioned hypercard pushbutton from the toolpalette has been replaced by a flash component. Yeah. Those are neat. Take a look and play around. Then, never ever use them again. Add just one of those things to a Director project and watch the performance hit. Their Tree, or Listbox? Forget them. They are so slow, and have so many caveats to their use that they can kill an otherwise good Director project. Somehow Macromedia missed it, but Imaging Lingo's time has finally come. It really shows just how bad Flash's performance is in the UI field. The tool palette should have IL components in it, not Flash. -- sic ! just paying a bit attention to linked director movies, better spoken the ability of importing director movies, not just linking them, would lead to the encapsulation, we need so badly in director. fixing the remaining few issues with LDMs would open up the door for teamwork and protected components. when people say they need something like movieclips, they do not mean they need flash in director, but rather something LIKE movieclips, but with directors flexibility. unfortunately the descision makers at macromedia seem to think, that it is the name 'flash' which sells and nothing else. so instead of offering a tool, which is an evolution for a flash user, they make director a flash player, which is (and can only be) worse than taking the flash player in the first place. translating lingo into javascript doesn't help much, IMHO. it is not the language difference between lingo and AS, which make me stick to director, I just don't know flash that well and do not know the keywords and functionality of flash that well, rtegardless, if they resemble lingo, javascript or C, if I would dig into flash, it would be the easiest part. I don't care if I have to learn: 'movieclip.tell.something()' or 'tell something to movieclip' I'd have to learn both of them in the first place. of course that is just my personal opinion. I wouldn't complain, if hundreds of thousands of flash users would rather switch to director because of javascript syntax, than because of the coolness of IL and sw3d and the frightning abilities it offers. but I doubt it. -- ||| a¿ex -- [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 Flash components: mouseUp and mouseUp Outside
On May 10, 2004, at 2:11 PM, Alex da Franca wrote: just paying a bit attention to linked director movies, better spoken the ability of importing director movies, not just linking them, would lead to the encapsulation, we need so badly in director. fixing the remaining few issues with LDMs would open up the door for teamwork and protected components. when people say they need something like movieclips, they do not mean they need flash in director, but rather something LIKE movieclips, but with directors flexibility. unfortunately the descision makers at macromedia seem to think, that it is the name 'flash' which sells and nothing else. so instead of offering a tool, which is an evolution for a flash user, they make director a flash player, which is (and can only be) worse than taking the flash player in the first place. translating lingo into javascript doesn't help much, IMHO. it is not the language difference between lingo and AS, which make me stick to director, I just don't know flash that well and do not know the keywords and functionality of flash that well, rtegardless, if they resemble lingo, javascript or C, if I would dig into flash, it would be the easiest part. I don't care if I have to learn: 'movieclip.tell.something()' or 'tell something to movieclip' I'd have to learn both of them in the first place. of course that is just my personal opinion. Agreed. Macromedia doesn't seem to recognize that Director without Flash is still very much an option - maybe now more than ever. Processor speed and general system speeds have benefited all the cool stuff Director has been able to do before, but can do much faster now. Imaging and 3D are both dramatically faster now. Flash, is still a pig, even on a fast system (when it comes to heavyweight processing... like the Flash Tree component.) Comparing Flash components to native lingo components is quite comical. Flash benefits from encapsulation... that is about the only place it wins. With proper LDM support, it wouldn't even have that. I don't mind using Flash for things that Flash is good for... we include lots of interactive animations in our Director stuff, it is great for that. But for data handling UI components? Please. That is no solution. Native stuff both looks better, and performs better. Director deserves better. -- 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!]
lingo-l Playback platforms.
Hi all, Can Director run on Windows CE? Didn't find anything on the MM site, so I thought I'd ask the masses. Thanks in advance for any help, John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [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 Why not?
Hi, Just curious why not launch some Director/Lingo community like this one at http://www.codewarrioru.com? Cheers Premium [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 Playback platforms.
On May 10, 2004, at 4:38 PM, John R. Sweeney Jr wrote: Can Director run on Windows CE? Didn't find anything on the MM site, so I thought I'd ask the masses. No. Werner Sharp's site has an xtra for PocketPC conversion, but the site looks a bit stale. I recently did a project in Flash for PocketPC. It went OK, but Flash is a processing pig on any platform. It doesn't get made better in PocketPC processors. -- 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!]
