UpgradingOldProjects
I've been asked to upgrade a CD (projector) done in 8.5 to MX for use on System X and multiple platforms. Haven't upgraded my 8.5 to MX yet. Very intimidated by the Macromedia Tech Note on creating projectors with MX, system X for multiple platforms. After reading many discouraging notes on several forums about developing with MX my instincts say forget about it. Use 8.5 and system 9.2 for another year until MX gets simplified; you know, autostart issues, multiple QuickTime installers, blinding array of xtras, etc. Maybe I'm suffering from upgrade burnout. I guess I would just like to hear from some of you who have had the courage to move up; how has it worked out? Thanks, Bruce [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!]
popmenu
Meiky, I see that Sebastien recommends MenuDemo9 which is an amazing piece of work. However, if you don't need the icons then download MenuDemo8. I didn't know about 8 and spent a couple weeks taking out all the icon stuff from 9. Now trying to figure out how to get it to pop up to the right instead of below the original button. Sure wish I could code like this guy. Bruce [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!]
FindingNotWantedFonts
Thanks all for the input. Turns out that I solved my own problem the same day and posted it, but I didn't have my email set to plaintext so it didn't get posted. I will modify the below code later with input you all provided. This turns out to be a handy piece of code for sloppy typists like me. First go to the computer that has the missing fonts. In this case my PC. Add this code to the movie script and execute from the message window: on FindFonts repeat with i = 1 to the number of castmembers of castLib 4 if the castType of cast i of castLib 4 = EMPTY then nothing else if the castType of cast i of castLib 4 = #richText then put the memberNum of cast i of castLib 4 && Member(cast i of castLib 4).missingFonts end if end if end repeat end This saved me tons of work. I went into two of the members found and could not manually find those fonts! However when I reselected the text and changed to the correct fonts and resaved my problem was solved. Point being that I would have never found the problem by going through each text member manually. Bruce [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!]
FindingNotWantedFonts
When testing a project (created with Director 8.5 on a Mac) on a PC (win98) the error code stating "This movie uses fonts that are not available on this system. Director will use a default font to display the following: Geneva" appears during startup. Geneva is not suppose to be in this project. I used this code to find where it was being used in my 1900 cast members (all in cast library 4): on FindFonts repeat with i = 1 to the number of castmembers of castLib 4 if the castType of cast i of castLib 4 = EMPTY then nothing else if the castType of cast i of castLib 4 = #richtext then put the memberNum of cast i of castLib 4 && the textFont of cast i of castLib 4 end if end if end repeat end This works but only gives me one font per cast member. If I pick a cast member and, for test purposes, place three or four different fonts in it, only the first one is identified with this code. QUESTION: Is there some way for me to locate all font typefaces used by castmember? It could even be a space with a not wanted font on it. Bruce [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!]
