lingo-l flash members vs. bitmap members
I'd like to draw on the pool of experience here as I plan a project. I am trying to decide whether to use animated flash members or bitmap members to create an animation. There will be a screen on which there will be instances of an object being made by a parent script - up to say 50 on the screen at a time. Each of these instances will be represented on screen by a small animation (in the range of 15x15 pixels) of a person walking to random points on the screen. There will be 5 or 6 different people animations available that will be randomly chosen from for each instance. I don't have much experience yet using flash members (but just bought flash mx 2004 pro, eagerly working my way through the training), but my question is, is it better to use the trusty old way of using alternating bitmaps for this, or to use flash animations (imported SWF files). In terms of performance, memory, and any other considerations. thanks, Andrew [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 Font problem
This is a GREAT response, and should be codified somewhere in the www.macromedia.com/support/director site. Last month I ran into a huge problem with a projector running on a system in Slovakia, and it all boiled down to this. If I had had this info, it would have saved a lot of time and pain. Thanks Kerry. Andrew - Original Message - From: Kerry Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 5:36 PM Subject: RE: lingo-l Font problem I tried to use the Czech font in DirectorMX2004 - but some characters changes to other characters. Even by dynamically loading the text form XML or text files the characters like u changes to u. Please help me with this! Ah, if you could only wait a couple of months, you could read the article I just wrote. [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 bitmap distortion on zoomWindow and resizeWindow
Hi all, I am working in MX2004 on Win XP (although the problem also occurs in 2000 and 98), using that nice new 2004 feature where you can build projectors with maximize and normalize buttons in the title bar (using the Display Template). I have created a movie with a stage size of 1200 x 1024 pixels, but I run it out of a stub projector that is 800 x 600. So part of the movie is not showing at the beginning, when the user runs the projector. Initially, there is a menu bar (custom Director menu) and a toolbar showing, with a web Xtra member below that is sized to fit the 800 x 600 window. I am trying to achieve the effect that you get in, say, Internet Explorer, when you maximize a window and the interface expands (gets wider and longer), without resizing any of the toolbar buttons. In other words, all of the menus and buttons remain in the same locH and locV, but the width and height of the web xtra member below the menu/toolbar increases to fill the maximized projector. I first tried this with no bitmap members on the stage (I was using the osControl xtra for buttons and tabs instead) and it worked great. I could capture the changing of projector size using the on zoomWindow and on resizeWindow handlers, and change width and height accordingly. However, once I added bitmap members on the stage, I found that maximizing and normalizing the projector window caused all the bitmaps to become hugely distorted (expanded 2x or 3x their size). I have spent a few days trying to figure out how to prevent this bitmap distortion, but I now feel like I am going around in circles. Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks, Andrew [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 Is there no way to create a projector that maximizes?
Does anyone have any way to make a projector that maximizes? The maximize button in the upper right corner of projectors (on Win XP, 2000, 98 - haven't tried mac) is always deactivated. I would like to make a projector that I can have go full screen without resizing the user's desktop. I know I asked a question on the list last week related to this, and I appreciated the responses. I wasn't quite able to accomplish what I was hoping to, however, so I thought I would elaborate on my problem a bit more in hopes that there might be some solution floating around out there. So far I have tried (unsuccessfully): 1. using a normally created projector. Problem: the maximize button is inactive. 2. using a MIAW as my program, with a 1x1 pixel stage in the background, and setting the MIAW to a windowtype that has the title bar and buttons. Problem: this comes close to working, but the problem is that although the on zoomWindow handler detects the user clicking on the maximize button, it does not seem to detect when the same button is clicked with the window in maximized state (to normalize the window). The only other option I can think of is to create custom buttons that look like the normal windows buttons, and that resize the user's screen to maximize the program. All this is really doing is normalizing the user's desktop resolution. I have done this in past applications, but would prefer to avoid it this time around. Is this the only option? Looking forward to any suggestions, Andrew [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 (no subject)
Hi everyone, Here's a MIAW question for you - Is there any way of detecting when a windowType=6 MIAW is maximized by the user? Windowtype 6 means that there is a title bar with the maximize/minimize/quit buttons. I would like to figure out a way to detect when the user clicks maximize or normalize, in order to scale the screen accordingly, but can't seem to find a way. Alternately, is there anyway to create a projector with a fully functional title bar, meaning the maximize button works? Since the projectors seem to only have the minimize or quit button functional, I am making a 1x1 pixel stage and having the program run in a MIAW that can be maximized. If there's a smarter way to do this, let me know! King of the half-baked work-arounds, Andrew -- Andrew Dempsey ICT and Education Consultant Software Developer and Programmer, Egyptian Arabic Vocab Clinic (www.egyptianarabic.com) Cairo, Egypt www.andrewdempsey.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 (no subject)
Thanks, that works...almost. It fires for maximize and minimize, as you say, but doesn't fire for normalize (returning to an open but non-maximized state from other minimized or maximized state). I would need some way of detecting this normalize also. AD AFAIK, the on zoomWindow handler is supposed to fire when a window's maximize/minimize boxes are clicked. -- Andrew Dempsey ICT and Education Consultant Software Developer and Programmer, Egyptian Arabic Vocab Clinic (www.egyptianarabic.com) Cairo, Egypt www.andrewdempsey.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 zooming windows
Thanks Sean for your help. You have given me a great start. I'll let you know if I can come up with anything that works. AD Sean Wilson said: I'm not sure it would fire when returning to an open but non-maximized state from (a) minimized ... state, but activateWindow or activateApplication should fire when returning from a minimized state. I don't how to detect a return to normal from maximized if zoomWindow doesn't catch this transition. -Sean. [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 How to make Windows-style controls?
Just bought it and started playing with it. WHERE HAS THIS XTRA BEEN ALL MY LIFE! Amazed with the panoramic new vistas before me, Andrew I use the OSControl Xtra. Without doubt, it's the best for that task. It's easy to use, well-documented, and has plenty of sample code. www.openspark.com. 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 Scroll bar issues
Yes, this is extremely annoying - I had to figure out a work-around (also for a language program). The way I did it was clumsy, but seems to work. Whenever the scroll bar is covered by another sprite, I use a sendsprite to a custom handler in the text member to change it to a #fixed. Then, when it leaves, I sendsprite it back to #scrolling. I know, I know... not pretty. But it works. :) If you want to see it in action, you can download the vc2_setup.exe file at http://www.egyptianarabic.com/downloads/vc2/login.asp and run the demo version. When you get to the vocabulary list, click on the little + button by the waveforms at the bottom (thanks Gretchen for audio xtra :)) to see what happens when a sprite goes in front of the scroll bars. My sprite is not mobile, so I don't know if this would work or not for your popup keyboard. Hopefully this will get your creative processes going, and you can send me a better idea for our next upgrade. Regards, Andrew Dempsey - Original Message - From: Kerry Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:52 PM Subject: lingo-l Scroll bar issues I'm working on a Spanish-language project. To enter accented characters from an English system, we have a pop-up keyboard the user can click. The keyboard is just a sprite, and the user can drag it around the screen. Some of the screens have text with scroll bars. When the user drags the keyboard over the scroll bar, it slides under the scroll bar. I imagine it's because the scroll bar, being a system scroll bar, is dts, and no matter what the zLoc of the keyboard, it will always appear under the scroll bar. Ideas on how to get around this? 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!] [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 How to make Windows-style controls?
Hi all, I am interested in making a program in Director that looks and feels like a normal Windows program, i.e., where the buttons look like typical Windows buttons for whatever version of Windows the user has (98/ME/2000/XP), and forms, combo boxes, drop down lists, checkboxes, radio buttons, etc. all look like nornal controls for that version of Windows. Does anyone have any suggestions for this? Is there an xtra out there that does this? Should I use Active X controls? Other thoughts? Thanks in advance for sharing your experience. Andrew - Andrew Dempsey, Consultant Educational Technology and Software Development Cairo, Egypt [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.andrewdempsey.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 How to make Windows-style controls?
Great, thanks for the advice. Andrew - Original Message - From: Troy Rollins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 4:00 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l How to make Windows-style controls? On Apr 20, 2004, at 9:47 AM, Andrew Dempsey wrote: I am interested in making a program in Director that looks and feels like a normal Windows program, i.e., where the buttons look like typical Windows buttons for whatever version of Windows the user has (98/ME/2000/XP), and forms, combo boxes, drop down lists, checkboxes, radio buttons, etc. all look like nornal controls for that version of Windows. It's called OSControl Xtra. Get it. Use it, love it. http://xtras.openspark.com/index.php?page=OSC_home -- 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!]
lingo-l font problem in field member
Hi. (Win XP pro, ATI 64 mb video card, P4 1.6 Mhz processor, 512 RAM, Director MX, etc. etc.) I have a scrolling field member that contains a long list of words, and the font of these words is Arial. In some of the words, I have the character s followed by the character . This is to signify a diacritic mark from another language (transliterated Arabic), and for each instance of this character in the field, the font has been changed to times new arabic, which transforms it into a small line above the preceeding arial s. My problem is that although this combination of 2 fonts used side-by-side works fine when I am editing the field cast member, when I play the movie, on the stage the character in times new arabic font causes a gap of about 6 lines to be inserted between it and the next character. This occurs with and without word wrap, and in all framing states (adjust, scrolling, fixed, etc.). Anyone have any previous experience with this kind of thing? Thanks, Andrew - Andrew Dempsey, Consultant Educational Technology and Software Development Cairo, Egypt [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.andrewdempsey.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 password protection
My vote is for the vList xtra. I am using it in a pretty important project to do exactly what you are talking about, and it works great. Andrew Having said that, I am not looking to stop a determined party. Just looking to make it annoying or, at the very least, unobvious. Colin, you mentioned renaming the file - simply that just change the extension and make it an unexpected file name. Troy, you mentioned changing the headers - new ground for me - relatively easy process? Is there somewhere you can direct me for more info? [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 Globals question
Hi all, Is it possible for someone to hack into my globals if I am running a projector, by running another director movie they make (or any other type of program) and checking all the variables in memory? I am putting together an authentication routine to authenticate user priveliges online. The program makes a check once on startmovie to see if the user is authenticated, then uses a global variable (gAuthenticated, true/false) to keep the authentication state avaiable as the rest of the program runs. If gAuthenticated = true, then full functionality, else limited functionality. If someone could read the globals, then they could find the authenticating variable, and create an app that changes the variable to true as my program runs, n'est-ce pas? Anyone else have a better way of doing what I am trying to do? Andrew -- Andrew Dempsey ICT and Education Consultant Software Developer, Egyptian Arabic Vocab Clinic (www.egyptianarabic.com) Cairo, Egypt www.andrewdempsey.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 .epc format
Does anyone know if epc files (encapsulated photo collection) used in firehand lighting can be imported by any means into Director. What I mean is can they be opened in some way in order ot extract the photos, audio clips, text, etc? Has anyone done this? Thanks, Andrew -- Andrew Dempsey ICT and Education Consultant Software Developer, Egyptian Arabic Vocab Clinic (www.egyptianarabic.com) Cairo, Egypt www.andrewdempsey.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 Fluke in Windows XP
Yes, that's what it's starting to sound like. They were burned with a glass master. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christoffer Enedahl Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 8:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l Fluke in Windows XP It sounds like the cd's were replicated poorly, How did you replicate them? burn or glass-master? - Original Message - From: Andrew Dempsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Com [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Direct-L List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 11:28 AM Subject: lingo-l Fluke in Windows XP Hi all, I have a kind of strange situation involving Windows XP (no intent here to go back to last weeks border war skirmish between the forces of Windows vs. Mac). In the past month we released an application built in Director MX that was replicated commercially on 1000 CDs. It is for windows only, and operated fine on 98, 2000, Me, and XP home and pro versions during testing. So far we've sold about 70 copies, at least some of which are to XP users (I know this because some of them make use of the online features built into the application, which gives us info about their OS). No problems at all from any of the XP users until a few days ago, when one guy phones to say that the CD won't even show in his drive (he has winXP home version) when he clicks on My Computer (no icon, and a prompt when the drive is clicked saying there is no cd in it). It worked fine, however, in his laptop, which runs Windows ME. I had him return it to our rep in his city and exchange it. The new CD does the same thing, as well as when the rep tries the returned CD in his own windows xp (professional) it does the same thing on HIS computer, meaning it wasn't just an isolated hardware or software conflict on the first guy's system. Hmm. So I have him return the CDs to us, but when we test it here (in a computer running winXP pro outside of our office network, so as not to be a part of the development environment), it works fine. I'm not quite sure what we're up against here. I have had a few people confused when running the Installshield setup program on XP or 2000, due to user permissions, but that is easily solved by having them log in with administrative rights. This, however, doesn't even show the CD in the first place in the drive on a small number of computers. Anyone run into anything like this before, or have any suggestions? Thanks, Andrew -- Andrew Dempsey ICT and Education Consultant Software Developer Cairo, Egypt www.andrewdempsey.com, www.egyptianarabic.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!] [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 Fluke in Windows XP
Sorry... You don't BURN with a glass master... You duplicate (or was it replicate?) Whatever the wording, it was with a glass master, and we had 1000 copies packaged and delivered to us from the factory :) (stressed and slightly sleep deprived due to this CD problem...) Andrew -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Dempsey Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 9:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: lingo-l Fluke in Windows XP Yes, that's what it's starting to sound like. They were burned with a glass master. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christoffer Enedahl Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 8:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l Fluke in Windows XP It sounds like the cd's were replicated poorly, How did you replicate them? burn or glass-master? - Original Message - From: Andrew Dempsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Com [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Direct-L List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 11:28 AM Subject: lingo-l Fluke in Windows XP Hi all, I have a kind of strange situation involving Windows XP (no intent here to go back to last weeks border war skirmish between the forces of Windows vs. Mac). In the past month we released an application built in Director MX that was replicated commercially on 1000 CDs. It is for windows only, and operated fine on 98, 2000, Me, and XP home and pro versions during testing. So far we've sold about 70 copies, at least some of which are to XP users (I know this because some of them make use of the online features built into the application, which gives us info about their OS). No problems at all from any of the XP users until a few days ago, when one guy phones to say that the CD won't even show in his drive (he has winXP home version) when he clicks on My Computer (no icon, and a prompt when the drive is clicked saying there is no cd in it). It worked fine, however, in his laptop, which runs Windows ME. I had him return it to our rep in his city and exchange it. The new CD does the same thing, as well as when the rep tries the returned CD in his own windows xp (professional) it does the same thing on HIS computer, meaning it wasn't just an isolated hardware or software conflict on the first guy's system. Hmm. So I have him return the CDs to us, but when we test it here (in a computer running winXP pro outside of our office network, so as not to be a part of the development environment), it works fine. I'm not quite sure what we're up against here. I have had a few people confused when running the Installshield setup program on XP or 2000, due to user permissions, but that is easily solved by having them log in with administrative rights. This, however, doesn't even show the CD in the first place in the drive on a small number of computers. Anyone run into anything like this before, or have any suggestions? Thanks, Andrew -- Andrew Dempsey ICT and Education Consultant Software Developer Cairo, Egypt www.andrewdempsey.com, www.egyptianarabic.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!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l Fluke in Windows XP
Hi all, I have a kind of strange situation involving Windows XP (no intent here to go back to last weeks border war skirmish between the forces of Windows vs. Mac). In the past month we released an application built in Director MX that was replicated commercially on 1000 CDs. It is for windows only, and operated fine on 98, 2000, Me, and XP home and pro versions during testing. So far we've sold about 70 copies, at least some of which are to XP users (I know this because some of them make use of the online features built into the application, which gives us info about their OS). No problems at all from any of the XP users until a few days ago, when one guy phones to say that the CD won't even show in his drive (he has winXP home version) when he clicks on My Computer (no icon, and a prompt when the drive is clicked saying there is no cd in it). It worked fine, however, in his laptop, which runs Windows ME. I had him return it to our rep in his city and exchange it. The new CD does the same thing, as well as when the rep tries the returned CD in his own windows xp (professional) it does the same thing on HIS computer, meaning it wasn't just an isolated hardware or software conflict on the first guy's system. Hmm. So I have him return the CDs to us, but when we test it here (in a computer running winXP pro outside of our office network, so as not to be a part of the development environment), it works fine. I'm not quite sure what we're up against here. I have had a few people confused when running the Installshield setup program on XP or 2000, due to user permissions, but that is easily solved by having them log in with administrative rights. This, however, doesn't even show the CD in the first place in the drive on a small number of computers. Anyone run into anything like this before, or have any suggestions? Thanks, Andrew -- Andrew Dempsey ICT and Education Consultant Software Developer Cairo, Egypt www.andrewdempsey.com, www.egyptianarabic.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 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: lingo-l 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: lingo-l 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... sigh == 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: lingo-l Lingo
My wife keeps telling me at the end of the day to please STOP thinking and talking freely in lingo... Go figure. Andrew -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Bochan Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 11:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l Lingo Hi! I've got sort of unusual question. Lingo is a programming language that gives you much control in Director. To maintain a decent communication, you have to know this language (just like any other ones) good enough. The stereotype of learning human languages is covering the book lesson by lesson. When you pick up any programming book (Director Guide or whatever), it has chapters (or lessons) too. You study the material, memorize it, probably think it over and move on. To my mind, the drawback of such an approach is that you'll acquire only the skills of the book's author (whether it's a guide to learn a human language or a computer one). The hardest thing is to make yourself think in that language (again, human or computer). I work as a teacher of English in the university, and I perfectly know about this issue, namely: how to make the student think and talk English after he has covered the lesson. So my question is: how can I learn (if it's possible, of course) to think and freely talk Lingo? Thanks in advance for your suggestions Peter [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 Lingo
You probably don't want to go there... Because then it opens up all kinds of lingo issues, like the width of member, show locals, the score, hotspot... Uh, I'd better stop there before the moderator kicks me off the list. We're talking LINGO here... really... Which makes me think of rude things having to do with intersects testing. No wonder she's tired of the mumbling. ;) -- WthmO [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 Re: Getting externalEvent to work
Thanks for the Vbscript addition. Good article. AD This article has some foundation, workarounds and the VB: http://www.updatestage.com/previous/991201.html#item1 Shockwave to Java applet communication / browser scripting The Java part is just a small part of the article. Gretchen Macdowall updateStage, inc. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.516 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 9/1/2003 [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 Getting externalEvent to work
Hi all,
I can't figure out why I am having trouble with externalEvent in
shockwave. Having spent the last 24 hours searching online for help, I
turn to you all for help! I've done projectors for a couple of years,
but am fairly new to shockwave and especially getting a movie to
interact with the browser it's embedded in.
I have a shockwave movie embedded in a browser window. In the movie I
have this simple behavior attached to a button:
on mouseUp me
externalEvent(openNewWindow('alphabet.htm'))
end
In the head section of the webpage, I have the following script:
script language=JavaScript
function openNewWindow(newURL) {
window.open
(newURL,alphabet,toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=yes,men
ubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,width=450,height=450);}
/script
However, when I click on the button that has the mouseUp behavior, and
hold my breath waiting for the new browser window to pop open, nothing
happens (and I eventually exhale). I am sure there's something really
simple that I am missing here, but I have been looking at it for too
long, and I probably also need some caffeine detox (the diet coke/coffee
diet catches up eventually...).
The actual shockwave applet is located at
www.egyptianarabic.com/wordofday/index.asp, if it helps to look at it to
understand what I am saying. The button that has the externalEvent
behavior is the little one with the key shape on it. The site is set to
go live this week, and I want to get this ironted out.
Thanks,
Andrew
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RE: lingo-l Getting externalEvent to work
Thanks Jussi for your response.
I was using ie to check, but I just checked and found that NS7 doesn't
work either.
Vbscript is good, except that I want to open the new browser with
specific properties (no menu bar, not resizable, etc.) that I do not
think can be set in vbscript - it needs javascript.
I had gone through the article you mention in the technotes, but didn't
really find it solved the problems above.
AD
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Jussi Jokinen
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 3:48 PM
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Hi Andrew,
You are propably using Internet Explorer to test your pages,
since in Netscape Navigator your script should work just
fine. In IE externalEvent only triggers VBScript. That is,
you must either write your code in VBScript or just redirect
function call through a VBScript function.
I suppose you have missed the most obvious source of online
help, since there is a nice tutorial in TechNotes...
http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/extern
alevent_samples.htm
BR,
Jussi Jokinen
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Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 5:44 PM
Subject: lingo-l Getting externalEvent to work
Hi all,
I can't figure out why I am having trouble with externalEvent in
shockwave. Having spent the last 24 hours searching online
for help,
I turn to you all for help! I've done projectors for a couple of
years, but am fairly new to shockwave and especially
getting a movie
to interact with the browser it's embedded in.
I have a shockwave movie embedded in a browser window. In
the movie I
have this simple behavior attached to a button:
on mouseUp me
externalEvent(openNewWindow('alphabet.htm'))
end
In the head section of the webpage, I have the following script:
script language=JavaScript
function openNewWindow(newURL) {
window.open
(newURL,alphabet,toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=yes,m
en
ubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,width=450,height=450);}
/script
However, when I click on the button that has the mouseUp
behavior, and
hold my breath waiting for the new browser window to pop
open, nothing
happens (and I eventually exhale). I am sure there's
something really
simple that I am missing here, but I have been looking at
it for too
long, and I probably also need some caffeine detox (the diet
coke/coffee diet catches up eventually...).
The actual shockwave applet is located at
www.egyptianarabic.com/wordofday/index.asp, if it helps to
look at it
to understand what I am saying. The button that has the
externalEvent
behavior is the little one with the key shape on it. The
site is set
to go live this week, and I want to get this ironted out.
Thanks,
Andrew
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Cairo, Egypt
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RE: lingo-l any body knows a good source of the info onprevaling wages
US government contracts in Egypt aren't bad (that's where I am) if you're looking for warm... Then again, if you go the route of US gov, and warm, there's always Iraq (not sure what the use of Director is there currently, but there's LOTS of money heading over there) Andrew -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karina Steffens Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 10:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: lingo-l any body knows a good source of the info onprevaling wages At this rate, even the New Zealand market could get over flooded... ;) Karina (Now, weren't I going to move somewhere warmer?... Hmmm) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fletcher Moore Sent: 08 September 2003 20:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l any body knows a good source of the info onprevaling wages Yeah. If you New Zealanders need one more plus a good voice teacher and a one-year-old baby, toss me into the mix. From: grimmwerks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 14:26:06 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l any body knows a good source of the info on prevaling wages Ugh. Nevermind us that have been around for a bit. Hey if any New Zealander's want a 2-for-1 deal, count me in with Howdy. On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 02:11 PM, Fletcher Moore wrote: Fair enough. I'd hate to be just starting out in this field right now, though... [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!] --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.515 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 9/1/2003 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.515 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 9/1/2003 [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 Grammar parser in Lingo...?
Syntax was the course in my masters (linguistics) that put me to sleep on a daily basis (of course, we had our first baby also in the middle of that course, which may have contributed to the sleep-deprivation syndrome, but that's beside the point). The parser logic will not be hard for basic sentences, or even medium difficulty ones, but the real brain-busters are in the longer sentences that are grammatically ambiguous (even to the writers of the text book). Those will be pretty hard to come up with reliable logic for. Which is, I guess, the main challenge for any translation program, trying to deal with the subtleties of human language (us humans often don't get it right). I'd suggest getting your hands on a 2nd year linguistics text book that focuses on syntax (first year will be too basic), and start by formulating the structure for the easy sentences. Most of the formulas will already be laid out for you, you will just need to get inside the logic to create the parsing routine. After that, you can start wrapping your mind around the ambiguous stuff. I think you wrote before that your background was in English literature, so you will probably already have thought through those issues. As you said in your email, the logic itself shouldnt be too hard to create, as long as you have time to work through the sheer volume of possibilities. Having just completed a director project that is a vocabulary clinic for Arabic, I can also say that the most enjoyable part of this type of project (for me anyways) is programming the logic. The database of vocab that you create to help interpret your input will likely be hellishly tedious to create and check! :) (Interesting side note... Has anyone ever surveyed director-users, or lingo/director list subscribers, as to how many of us come from a non-technical background? I suspect it's high, but would be curious to see. Anyways...) If you move ahead with this project, and are open to keeping interested people in the loop, I'd be curious to see where it goes! Andrew -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howdy-Tzi Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 6:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l Grammar parser in Lingo...? Howdy all. Wondering if anyone's heard of a grammar parser behavior, object or script in Lingo. [snip] The idea is that this would be some kind of code that could be used to generate a pre-translation table of words, which would then be converted into another language. (That's not all that difficult to conceive either; it's simply an output generator based on the input... it's the input side of things that I'm most interested in...) Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Developer | Structor, a presentation development/programming tool Info and demo | http://www.nightwares.com/structor/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com/director_beginners_g uide/ --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.496 / Virus Database: 295 - Release Date: 7/3/2003 [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 Registering fonts
Hi all. I am using the buddy xtra to install a font on the user's machine by copying the font from the CD into the PCs fonts folder (win). On some machines this seems to do the trick, and the font is immediately available for use by the projector. On a few other test machines, it is not. Is there something else I need to do to make the computer recognize the font? I don't want to use an embedded font, because the embedded font doesn't seem to display correctly (whereas installing it on the machine makes it work fine). I have searched the archives, but can't seem to find anything on this topic. Appreciate any help out there. Andrew - Andrew Dempsey ICT and Education Consultant Cairo, Egypt [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.andrewdempsey.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.491 / Virus Database: 290 - Release Date: 6/18/2003 [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 Disney Interactive...not
(Written from the kids' computer with my morning coffee... all 3 kids happily (and for now quietly) watching spongebob Squarepants out in the livingroom)... Ah yes, Disney. Nice to hear you now have more variety than the Wiggles (for your sake). (have the wiggles actually made any CD-ROMs yet??) Amazing how you accumulate CDs in a few short years. We have here about 30 or so picks, and I just ran an informal survey of our 3 (ages 7,5,3) and found that: (a) their favorite CDs are generally made by infogrames (Tonka Series), Knowledge adventure (jump start series), Mattel (Barbie), and the Learning Company (Arthur). (b) their most WANTED games that we don't yet have (take note Santa) are ALL Disney. My observation of our library also yields the following observations: (a) at least half of the 30ish CDs are Disney (b) at least half of the Disney ones dont always run well (c) most of our Disney ones were from our earlier years of CD buying for the kids... Now we focus more on the labels mentioned above (d) part of the reason the kids like the ones they like is that they don't have to call us every five minutes to FIX it. Conclusions? 1. Disney has great marketing. Half our CDs were produced by them. Most of the ones our kids want to get are Disney ones. A lot of this comes from their videos and movies (which they are, technically speaking, brilliant at). 2. Disney has a POOR record for technical quality. At least 3 of the CDs are, in my opinion, total flops, and the kids (harshest judges of all) don't play them. Most of them experience crashes, re-installations, or unintelligent installations of older versions of quicktime, as you mentioned. We definitely are buying less of them now as a result. For any of you who have worked for Disney interactive, I am curious, are the quality issues due to non-negotiable deadlines for getting the product out, that just don't allow for sufficient testing/debugging time? I can't believe Disney doesn't have the budget to hire top quality programmers! With someone like Kerry Thompson on their team in the past, that obviously is not the case. So what gives? 3. Content-wise, in terms of learning quality plus innovation and interest of the games/activities, Disney does not score high either. The best one I've seen so far content-wise is Winnie the Pooh Math (Winnie da Pooh Bath in the words of my 3 year old), but even then as a former teacher I don't see it as being anything close to, say, the Jump Start stuff (Knowledge Adventure), Learning Company, Scholastic (Clifford), etc. Barbie's content is kinda...well... you know... Maybe not so cognitively challenging, but at least it works well, has great graphics and sound, and doesn't mess up your computer. So what are disney's CONTENT teams doing? Don't get me wrong... I am excited about the piglet movie. Really. We all need to be in touch with our inner piglet in deeper ways. But I think you've hit on something that's true in the real world... that no matter what a great programmer you are, you often work in a team that includes people like content specialists, lawyers, non-computer-guy production managers, bean counters, etc. And all your brilliant lingo goes unnoticed when the end user is scrambling trying cancel the installation of quicktime 3 on their brand new machine! Spongebob has now finished, so I better wrap this up. BTW, now that summer vacation is here, I am moving out of my home office into a real office (so I can play Castle Wolfenstein as much as I want without the kids asking why THEY can't work on the computer as much as me!!!). Andrew Ps. Had a great father's day yesterday! So I'm getting pissed. I've got a number of Disney cds (not for me, for my 3 year old daughter) and every so often they decide, yup, you gotta install me again buddy. Even though all the content (as far as I can see) is on the --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.487 / Virus Database: 286 - Release Date: 6/1/2003 [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: Re: lingo-l Getting rid of hypertext underline
Thanks Anand, Phil, and the others for your input. I got the help I needed. Much appreciated. Andrew - Andrew Dempsey ICT and Education Consultant Cairo, Egypt [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.andrewdempsey.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.487 / Virus Database: 286 - Release Date: 6/1/2003 [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: Re: lingo-l Getting rid of hypertext underline
Hey Anand, Thanks for the response. I have written a couple of custom behaviors, but haven't been able to emulate (a) the speed with which the hyperlinkstyles cause the letters to highlight, and (b) the cursor changing to the pointed finger over text. I'm using DMX, windows 2000, working on a #text member. In regards to (a), when I set *chunk*.color=rgb(n,n,n) it looks fine, but I find that putting this inside an exitframe handler makes the response time of the link changing color slightly slower than when the hyperlink styles are in effect. If the mouse moves quickly over the text, not all lines highlight due to the limitation of checking once per frame. As for (b), I can't figure out how to make the cursor change when it's over actual text only, not just the text member as a whole. In other words, I don't want to have a finger cursor over any of the white space in the member. Looking forward to hearing more from you or others, Andrew Hi! You need to deselect the use hypertext styles cast member property. You can then use a custom behaviour to capture the hyperlink clicked event. Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi - Andrew Dempsey ICT and Education Consultant Cairo, Egypt [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.andrewdempsey.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.487 / Virus Database: 286 - Release Date: 6/1/2003 [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 Web Broswer in Director MX
Hi Tom, Sorry to be a few days late in getting to you on this. I am currently using the Active-X browser control in a projector for a major project, and it seems to be working fine. We are beta-testing the software, and so far have only had one problem with it - it was on a WinXP professional system, and clicking to view the website in the active-x sprite caused the projector to hang. However, this was the only XP computer that did this, others worked fine. Also, this person had the same problem when they clicked a sprite that was supposed to open a web page in their default browser (i.e., not embedded in the projector, using gotoNetPage)... Again, not a problem on other XP systems. So this particular system may have had some kind of issue. It works fine also on win 98, win me, win 2000. I am having a hard time finding a win95 computer to test on. In terms of the internet connection, I am using directxtra's directconnect xtra. It's good... works well for detecting and/or connecting/disconnecting dial-up connections. However, to take into account non-dial up connections, there is no way to cover all the possibilities other than to call a test page somewhere online. I have set it so that when they go to the part of the movie that has the browser, if directconnection can't detect a dial-up connection, an attempt is made to access a one-character text file on my webserver. If it fails after 3 attempts, an html file is then accessed from the CD that says you are offline... please connect blah blah blah. I also have a refresh button in the projector that they can hit once they go online. One final note to anyone who's made it this far - I have a scrolling text member on the same page as the browser active-x control. When I scroll the text member, any graphics embedded in the web pages that are displayed in the active-x browser flicker. Not a big deal, but does anyone know how to fix this? Andrew - Andrew Dempsey ICT and Education Consultant Cairo, Egypt [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.andrewdempsey.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.478 / Virus Database: 275 - Release Date: 5/6/2003 [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 window title bar
Hi all, Does anyone know how to change the TYPE of window for the stage- specifically, I want to have a title bar on the window when it is in normal mode, and no title bar when it is in maximized mode. I can't seem to find a way to do this, with or without an xtra. I am running the movie in a projector (obviously!). I am guessing there is a relatively easy way, and I am just missing it. Thanks, Andrew [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l re: Please give me a clue on how to proceed with this.
I have done something similar to this using 2 xtras offered by directxtras. Using directOS, I encrypt a string that I want to send to the server. As the movie opens, I attempt to retreive a 1-bit text file from the server using getnettext. If the netresult is ok, then the encrypted string is posted to the server using postnettext. If it is not ok I assume there is not a connection (after 3 attempts), and use the directConnection xtra in a MIAW which asks the user to select a dial-up connection on their system and connect. The xtra allows you to retreive all the dial up connections set up on the system, dial any of them, hang up, test status, and all kinds of other useful things. Using directOs and directConnection xtras give me the capability to offer a complete connection solution - it's nice. They are a bit pricy, but worth it (especially if you can build the cost into your project fee). As you said, there are always risks involved when you decrease user interaction (try to do things seamlessly), but with the functionality of these xtras (there may also be other good ones out there - this is just what I happened to use and it worked for me) you should be able to make things work pretty smoothly. And you shouldn't have to require the user to reboot... It's annoying. I agree that the securenet xtra looks awesome - I want to give it a try soon. For what it's worth... andrew snip - We have done a similar project - we used vlist Xtra to save results in 128 bit encrypted vlist files. At the time we did the project, the SecureNet Xtra wasn't around, and it was a bit of a nightmare trying to find a good way of sending the datastream as encrypted - we ended up sending the encrypted vlist of the file over an unencrypted connection - Net Lingo does not support connections over https. However the SecureNet Xtra would now solve all those probs. It also solves the other main problem of firewalls/proxies - BUT the end-user HAS to somehow supply the firewall/proxy config info - unless you can come up with a reliable way of ripping the info from the local browser or somesuch. If you can work out a way of grabbing the proxy/firewall config details, you could probably make this transparent for the end-user, however, what if the end-user NEVER has a connection? What if they have a dial up connection? The dial up WON'T be connected on startup when you launch Director t! o check for one - it might be open later, when the user dials up to check their email, but you can't just leave a Director projector running in the background, forever checking for a connection... Basically, connecting to the internet is a manual thing for the vast majority of users - only those who set their connection to dial on demand don't have to manually click connect - or those on a LAN who have a permanent connection (and who will be behind a firewall and proxy). My compromise would be too check for a connection of completion of test - if their isn't one, prompt the user to dial in/connect. If they refuse, drop the projector in the startup folder. Then when they reboot, the projector will open and check for a connection - if on a dial-up, they WON'T have one as soon as they reboot, so I would then have the projector prompt to dial in again. This means that everytime they reboot, they will be prompted to dial-in. Futher issues are if you prompt them to dial in, they click OK or Connect, your app uploads the results, then do you prompt to disconnect? leave the connection open, and allow the user to decide when to disconnect (they may not realise they need ! to disconnect)? Disconnect without a pompt (hoping they don't happen to be checking their email at the time)? I won't hypothesise any further, but my point is that uploading files to the internet on an unknown connection (dial-up? permanent? proxy? firewall?) with NO end-user interaction is a BIG ask, and liable to many different problems, whereas a system that prompts the user to ensure an internet connection, and enter their proxy/firewall settings, is a lot more reliable, and allows the end-user to know exactly what is happening on their machine, and the status of their connection HTH, Ben PS With regard to destroying the file - as my projects are all CD based, I include an uninstaller on the CD itself - this allows you to delete any files you have created on their machine using a CD-resident app - therefore leaving the users hard drive clean...the only downside being the user has to insert the CD to uninstall (much like MS Office!) /snip... -- Andrew Dempsey IT and Education Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.andrewdempsey.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.419 / Virus Database: 235 - Release Date: 11/13/2002 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post
lingo-l Printing HTML with POM Lite
Hello Brad, First of all, the Wiggles truly are annoying but I also have a 3 year old son who's really into them... Especially the policewoman with the huge shoes. However I have just been working on a project in which I had hoped to print HTML as is using Print-O-Matic Lite (a 3rd party Xtra, for the uninitiated). Unfortunately, neither POM Lite nor the full version (as far as I can tell - someone please correct me if I'm wrong) support printing HTML in any way other than as a rendered bitmap. I had wanted to use an HTML table to neatly line up some printed columns and rows. The workaround I used required an upgrade from POM lite to the full version ($250 - ouch), and I was able to create a good table using the drawtext and drawline commands: thepoint = 80 pagenum = 1 repeat with i = 1 to wordlist_en.count --write text at specific points drawText doc, wordlist_en[i], Point(0,thepoint) drawText doc, wordlist_ar[i], Point((w/2)-18, thepoint) --draw line drawLine doc, Point(0,(thePoint+10)), Point(w,(thePoint+10)) thepoint = thepoint + 30 if thePoint 700 then thePoint = 80 pageNum = pageNum+1 newPage doc setpage doc, pageNum Hope this helps. Andrew G'day? Ah australian I now see Thought that would get your attention Mate ;) - well my daughter is now a big fan of the Wiggles, so all I've been learning of Au lately has been through either them or episodes of Farscape (r.i.p) My condolences...That Cptn Feather sword is real worry It's been so long ago, I'm not sure what I ended up doing; however I _think_ member.html for the most part is a rendered text object - ie a bitmap -- so whenever I printed out bitmap text (like if there was text on the stage and I printed the stage) the text would always look bad as it would cease to be postscript/font descriptions and become just a 72dpi bitmap. Unfortunately the only thing I way that text can be printed properly is by creating the text boxes in Printomatic's memory and populating them with text - which is both a hassle and not sure if you can do html formatting anyway. Sadly that pretty much confirms what I've found. My last effort is to try and extract the alpha and apply it an image of the member to create the anti-aliasing, then it's back to mono spaced fonts to get them all to line up. (I'm really only using the html to create a tabled order form) Thanks for the reply Brad -- Andrew Dempsey IT and Education Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.andrewdempsey.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.408 / Virus Database: 230 - Release Date: 10/24/2002 [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 right-to-left text and word-wrapping
Hello. Does anyone out there have any experience with using languages that go right-to-left (such as Arabic or Hebrew) in text cast members? I am using Arabic script in a non-Arabic windows setting. I have typed in the Arabic in a separate word processer that automatically converts the right-to-left of the Arabic into left-to-right, so that it functions properly in a normal windows setting. In other words, it's not just changing the justification, it's essentially reversing the order in which the characters appear (so that the first letter I type, on the extreme right in Arabic, will actually be the last letter in the text sequence in the display). What I then do it cut and paste the text from that word processor to director, and make sure the arabic font is selected, and it looks great. Until I write a line that is wider than the width of the text member. Then it word-wraps, and when it does, it chops the sentence in half at the wrong place (since the text is not REALLY going right to left, but only appearing to do so). If you have any experience with this, you probably know what I am talking about (and if not then just ignore me!). Does anyone know of a way to make this word-wrap properly? I would like to find one, since the text is loaded dynamically, and I can't just solve it by inserting RETURN at the appropriate points. Thanks, Andrew - Andrew Dempsey Software Developer and Multimedia Consultant Cairo, Egypt email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: (+202) 267-7691, (+2012) 713-3203 www.andrewdempsey.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.363 / Virus Database: 201 - Release Date: 5/21/02 [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 SSL
Does anyone know if a getNetText call from a projector can make an ssl request to a ssl encrypted web source? In other words, will the netText that comes in be secure? Thanks, Andrew Dempsey -- Andrew Dempsey Multimedia Developer and Consultant Cairo, Egypt Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone/Fax: (+202) 267-7691 Web: www.andrewdempsey.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!]
