Re: detecting quicktime player
You can check for quicktimeversion(),which is good because you can check for a specific version -- if quicktimeversion() < 4 then --install quicktime or... end if Cheers Cath At 08:39 3/9/2003 +1200, you wrote: can anyone point me to a good script that detects the quicktime player from a projector? Cheers Fozzybear [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: detecting quicktime player
I think quicktimeversion() returns 0 or Void if there is no quicktime. Like you say, try it and see. Cath At 13:16 3/9/2003 -0700, you wrote: It's my remembrance that one needs to verify 'the quicktimePresent' before trying 'the quickTimeVersion' or else you can get a Lingo error since the QT Xtra can't load if QT's not installed (the version detection method isn't accessible since resides within the Xtra). Of course the final answer is to try it. hth -Buzz At 12:17 PM -0500 9/3/03, you wrote: On Tuesday, Sep 2, 2003, at 17:10 America/Chicago, matt johansson wrote: Cath has shown the 'quickTimeVersion', whats the other method? There's quickTimePresent, but that only tells you whether QT is installed or not (true/false), not the version. I was being a little tongue-in-cheek there and implying you could look up 'quicktImeVersion' in the docs. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com/director_beginners_guide/ [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: Chinese Text Input Quirks
Hi, I hope this might be some help. We do a kiosk which is in Chinese in Hong Kong and Taiwan. It is a ticketing kiosk and takes langauage from an mdb database and Movie names and variables from a server which outputs info also in mdb format. Initially I had the same experience as you, some characters worked and some not. In the end I was able to make it work with the following set up. These are my notes for Win 2K: System settings: Windows 2000 English version with Chinese languages installed User locale: Chinese Hong Kong Input locale: default English(New Zealand)(probably only matters while authoring in Director) System Locale(default in general): Chinese Hong Kong On XP the crucial setting is under Regional and Language options/ Advanced/ Language for non-unicode programs. (set to Chinese Big 5) (On XP, the program actually crashes (fatal error) if the computer is not set up properly. ) Cath At 19:13 4/9/2003 +0200, you wrote: This may be a bit offtopic but I hope someone with experience with Chinese and director (Kerry?) might help me decide if this is an accidential or an essential problem: I see serious problems with the input and display of certain Chinese characters into director (and Flash) editable fields / texts. The setup is: w2k_tw (Taiwan localization) with both traditional and simplified Chinese installed. MS Global IME with hanyuPinyin as input method. 2 barebone projectors in a window with just four inputs, both field and text and with MS Sans Serif and SimHei as fonts. One projector has been created from a German localized Director MX, the other one from a Korean localized Director 8.51. Both projectors seem to behave identically here. In all tests the combination of #text and font SimHei didn't work at all while the other combinations showed the same result. Test 1: nihao (hello) in simplified: works Test 2: weishenme (why) in simplified: fail with the wei character (displaying just a question mark instead) Test 3: weishenme (why) in traditional: fail with the wei character and the me character (displaying just a question mark instead). Test 4: wuwei in traditional: fail with the wei character Test 5: wu wei in traditional: displays correct and remains correct even when I take out the additional space afterwards. Test 6: trying the same expressions in an .swf input: same results. Test 7: trying the same examples in wordpad, notepad, uedit, word, ... no problem whatsoever. So my question is: is it me? is it something about my choice of tools? is there some lucky combination which I failed to find yet? or is there no hope to do a Chinese text input with macromedia products? TIA Daniel Plaenitz [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: any body knows a good source of the info onprevaling wages
Well we are pretty busy (in NZ) but we are not really getting any work out of the US-- Aquent just published their Asia Pacific salary monitor a couple weeks ago. It compares salaries for most creative industries in Australia, NZ, Singapore and Hong Kong. Maybe they have it on their website? I don't know if they do a Northern Hemisphere version. For 'New Media' Junior Web Designer in Auckland, the range is $25,000 to $35,000, abit higher in Australia.For 'mid-weight' it's 35,000 to 50,000. We have had a few English people apply for work lately -- Judging by their expectations incomes in UK are higher. Cath At 01:17 p.m. 8/09/2003 +1200, you wrote: alot of your US clients are getting work done down here in New Zealand and Australia. Taking advantage of the Exchange rates, getting work done for almost half the price of US Developers. We're run off our feet down here theres so much work. Tab Julius wrote: > If you're in MA, and want a job as a content integrator / junior multimedia > developer, with all due respect, I'd say you'd consider yourself lucky to > even get employed at the moment. That said, anywhere from $10/hr to $20/hr > would probably be the range. If you haven't noticed, the market is > particularly tight right now, and there's a lot of talent chasing a small > amount of opportunities. Of course, $10/hr won't get you too far in the > Boston area, as I'm sure you know. Such is the market nowadays. > > - Tab > > At 01:18 PM 9/5/03, Irina Danilova wrote: > >Folks, > > > >any body knows a good source of the info on prevailing wages? Or knows > >what's the average wage for, say content integrator/ junior multimedia > >developer? > > > >--- > >Irina L. Danilova > >Programmer > >VPG Integrated Media > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >(617)262-8830 x254 > >www.vpg.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: HELP with ActiveX - Microsoft Web Browser
What path are you giving for the local content? At 06:18 a.m. 10/09/2003 +1200, you wrote: We're doing a PC project and are using the inserted "ActiveX - Microsoft Web Browser" to browse content off the CD. The problem is that i'm getting a DNS error from local content, rather than being able to browse the CD HTML content. "res://C:\WINNT\System32\shdoclc.dll/dnserror.htm" Any ideas anybody? Cheers Matt J [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: HELP with ActiveX - Microsoft Web Browser
Try putting the full path-- the moviepath & "htm/intro.htm" Cath At 08:34 a.m. 10/09/2003 +1200, you wrote: i'm using Navigate() put Navigate(Sprite 36, "htm/intro.htm") put Navigate(Sprite 36, "pdf/bro.pdf") the folders are at the same level as the projector Thanks for the help Valentin Schmidt wrote: > hi matt, > > i think this error just means your path is incorrect. or maybe some > strange/unallowed filename? is it an absolute or a relative path? how do you try > to open the file, by Navigate()/Navigate2()? > > valentin > > - Original Message - > From: "matt johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 8:18 PM > Subject: HELP with ActiveX - Microsoft Web Browser > > > We're doing a PC project and are using the inserted "ActiveX - Microsoft Web > Browser" to browse content off the CD. > > The problem is that i'm getting a DNS error from local content, rather than > being able to browse the CD HTML content. > > "res://C:\WINNT\System32\shdoclc.dll/dnserror.htm" > > Any ideas anybody? > > > > Cheers > > Matt J > > > > [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!]
Re: Talking between Apps
Depending what the other app is and what you want it to do, the vbscript xtra may be helpful. http://www.xtramania.com/ Otherwise Masterapp definitely works, or possibly Buddy API. Cath At 08:43 a.m. 16/09/2003 -0500, you wrote: I have tried Buddy API but it seems to be a dead end for what I am trying to do. Essentially, I would like to be able to, from a projector, make a non-Director App active, send a few commands and have the projector become active again. (I wouldn't mind if the different programs did not switch "activeness," just so long as I can send the commands to the outside App). I am looking at updateStage's MasterApp, but would like to find something less expensive. (or even make Buddy API do the job) Regards, W. Locke Morgan [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: Concatenating property list values
Hi,
I think you are writing over each entry as it is made. Use 'line' instead of 'item'.
Try
global gmusiclib
on fillmusic
member("musicLibrary").text=""
repeat with i = 1 to gmusicLib.count
member("musicLibrary").line[i] = gmusicLib[i].tagArtist & " - " &
gmusicLib[i].tagTitle & RETURN
end repeat
end
for me this returns
Bobby Darin - Splish Splash
Dion - Runaround Sue
Cath
At 05:28 p.m. 25/09/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm having problems with the output of a value from a property list.
Well, actually I have a linear list and each index is a property list.
gmusicLib = [[#tagTitle: "Splish Splash", #tagArtist: "Bobby Darin",
#tagAlbum: "The Bobby Darin Story", #tagYear: "1961", #tagGenre:
"Oldies", #tagFilePath: "D:\My Music\old school\Bobby Darin - Splish
Splash.mp3"], [#tagTitle: "Runaround Sue", #tagArtist: "Dion",
#tagAlbum: "Runaround Sue", #tagYear: "1961", #tagGenre: "Oldies",
#tagFilePath: "D:\My Music\old school\Buddy Holly - Runaround Sue.mp3"]]
That's just an example once the file info is loaded.
I'm trying to output some of the values in to a text field member using
this:
repeat with i = 1 to gmusicLib.count
member("musicLibrary").item[i] = gmusicLib[i].tagArtist & " - "
& gmusicLib[i].tagTitle & RETURN
end repeat
All that outputs is the artist name.
I found an example similar in Director 8.5 Studio that used apostrophes
inside the quotes, but I can't get that to work. I'm using MX, if that
makes a difference.
I'm just a student learning director, so any explanations would be
really great :)
Thanks,
Mindy
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Re: Accessing global variables with sent parameters
Hi, The best way I have found of doing that is to make your global a list: so Global gstandardDatalist gstandardDatalist=[data1,data2,data3] on LoadDataSet stdnum Currentdata= gstandardDatalist[1] End Cath Sample Phosphor Essence Limited http://www.phosphor.co.nz At 02:36 p.m. 20/10/2003 -0500, you wrote: Hi all, I have an embarrassing question that I should know the answer too but my memory is wy faulty today. Below is a code snippet, what I'm trying to do is access a global variable to use it's value for something in a function but part of the variable name is being sent as a parameter, it's a number from 1 to 10. So the code below for example should be accessing this Global gStandard1DataRef If I use LoadDataSet 1 Here's my faulty code on LoadDataSet stdnum Global "gStandard"&stdnum&"DataRef" End Needless to say this does not work and I've tried all string variations using the static text either side of the parameter and I just cannot seem to access the global variable within the function..help! :) Thanks in advance and feel free to slap if I'm doing something so obviously wrong! Peter Witham Internet and Multimedia Solutions (817) 280 9367 http://www.evolutiondata.com icq: 4436851 MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member: National Association of Photoshop Professionals [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [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: video seizing in Windows kiosks
Hi, We have been doing the same sort of thing for many years, and have only been having problems since upgrading to Win 2K from Windows NT. We always include an automatic daily restart in the kiosks, which has probably made the problem less obvious. I was just in the process of trying to figure out whether the problem is related to one of the many dlls used. Now your email leads me to think that perhaps the mpeg is the problem. Are you using an xtra to play the mpeg? Maybe Tabuleiro have some insight into getting around this problem, since they make several of the mpeg xtras. Perhaps there is a difference between using the DirectMedia xtra, which we were using, and the MpegAdvance Xtra, which we use now but haven't yet put it to a full test. In our case it would be relatively simple to convert to Quicktime, which we have avoided because of previous memory leak problems. I would appreciate it if you could tell me what functions you used to prevent the memory leaks with Quicktime? Regards Cath Sample Director Phosphor Essence At 06:38 p.m. 20/01/2004 -0500, you wrote: This is a question about running Director long-term on a touch-screen kiosk. We have an exhibit which is a basic push-a-button-see-an-mpeg2 movie situation. The movies are very short, like under a minute. There is a pause function and a stop function. Shortly after installation, we got reports of the program freezing. We could not reproduce this in-house. We were referred to another developer who advised us that this has happened to them with both mpegs and .avis in Windows 98, 2K and XP. They said that it usually happens after quite a few cycles, and that it was a Windows multimedia problem, not a Director problem. So we built a little tester with the MPEGs, which monitored freebytes, freeblock and bytes lost. Our results were interesting: Running one movie after another constantly: never froze, no major memory leak Running movies constantly but with pauses and continues: didn't freeze, no major memory leak Running movies constantly but with stopping movies in the middle: freezes after 150-350 plays, no major memory leak Stopping movies by jumping to the end and allowing them to finish "naturally": freezes after 1,500 plays or so So we tried QuickTime, and we did see some memory loss. So we added some functions to clear the memory, and we haven't seen much memory loss until about 40,000 plays, and then the numbers of bytes lost become some crazy number at least 6 or 7 digits long. However, it didn't freeze, but the screen started showing some screen and stage refresh problems and I got the sense system stability was at risk. This museum gets thousands of visitors a day, and each visitor might see up to 10 movies, or more. Before we go all the way and change the exhibit to use QuickTime and recompress quite a few movies and reinstall, as well as recommend daily restarting, I wanted to check to see if anyone has any insight into a) the "known problem" with Windows and movies (we've been doing this for 6 years and didn't "know" about it) and b) to see if anyone has any suggestions to try. [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: video seizing in Windows kiosks
Hi, I've done a test with mpeg here, just using the same system with DirectMedia xtra. The 10 second mpeg was interrupted several times on the first day, and has since been running for 7 days. Does it have to be interrupted every usage in order to fail? Cath At 08:36 p.m. 20/01/2004 -0600, you wrote: On Jan 20, 2004, at 8:10 PM, Cath Sample wrote: In our case it would be relatively simple to convert to Quicktime, which we have avoided because of previous memory leak problems. How about installing QT6 on the PCs and playing the MPEGs through the QT plugin that ships with Director, rather than converting? Also, I believe DirectMedia has been replaced more or less officially by MPEGAdvance, for what it's worth, to support the newer MS OSen. Finally, next time go Mac for the kiosk installs. Much more stable and no QT playback problems. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com/director_beginners_guide/ [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!] 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!]
Re: vList xtra
I have just started using vList a couple months ago, and I use it all the time now for saving encrypted lists of text, pointers to files, etc. I don't use it for general list handling--I couldn't see any real reason to... I did try using the function which allows you to save the media of a castmember to a Vlist, and just couldn't get it to work the way it seemed to say it did in the docs - no matter how I did it it always attached to a pointer in memory rather than the media. Cath At 07:04 p.m. 26/01/2004 -0500, you wrote: Hey all, So, I've recently added vList xtra to my Director repertoire (previously devoted to propSave for such functions.) But now, after fully reading the docs, it has me wondering - how are people employing this tool? The question comes from the fact that vList supports a lot of new list handling methods. Are you using vList only for saving files, or do you use vList in memory as well for general list handling? I'm about to rework an application to support a more complex file format, but I'm wondering if it might be worthwhile to redo some of my other lists which don't get saved, but could benefit from some of vLists functions... which got me to wondering the above question. In a nutshell - do you end up using vLists for all of your lists? Thanks for any input. -- 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!] 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!]
RE: screensavers retrieving data from the web
Likewise, we've used it for years with no problems, it used to be called cineMac. It is even easier to use now. I haven't tested with web data, however, it should work as it does in the projector. Also I have always bundled the xtras with the projector--not sure what it does with external files. Cath At 14:47 27/01/2004 +, you wrote: I use Screentime for Director http://www.screentime.com/ScreenTime_D/screentime_director.html to convert .exe files into screensaver files all the time. works like a charm and have never had any problems with it. You build your Director projector as usual, whack into this application and voila. very easy. cheers Fraser [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!] 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!]
Re: Changing icon on exe
Try Microangelo. You can download a demo version to try it. http://www.microangelo.us/ Cheers Cath At 13:48 20/02/2004 +1100, you wrote: When I create an exe, how do I change its icon? I want to use my own custom icons on my projects rather than the standard Director icon that is automatically assigned. Cheers Alan Alan Neilsen Multimedia Developer Learning Services Deakin University Geelong Waterfront Campus Geelong, Victoria 3217 Telephone : +61 03 5227 8155 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please feel free to visit us at - Learning Services: http://www.deakin.edu.au/learningservices Exemplars of our work: http://cowan.ls.deakin.edu.au/exemplars/ [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!] 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!]
Re: MIAW, Flash and redrawing (SOLVED)
Is there a problem with using Flash DTS? (other than this redraw issue which I have not seen) I would have thought DTS would be the best way to go? Cath At 11:26 p.m. 7/03/2004 -0500, you wrote: Thanks It worked perfectly after I have used the "the stageColor = the stageColor" command, I wander way there is not documentation about this very useful command. It's not normally something you would ever set (unless you were maybe reproducing the A Clockwork Orange title sequence). Nobody seemed to mention that the cause of the problem was having a DTS Flash sprite. Did it really need to be DTS? [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: Need Help On Mpeg
QT 6.4 will play mpeg 1 no problem on Windows, I'm not sure about 2. Cath Sample Phosphor Essence At 04:54 p.m. 16/03/2004 -0500, you wrote: > Allow me: You need to be licensed to play MPEG-2, which you do by > buying the MPEG-2 extension from Apple. Assuming you've done that, > MPEG-2 can play in QuickTime in Director. Thanks, Colin. Does that cover Windows QT also? Historically, QT Windows has lagged behind the Mac by about a generation. 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!]
Re: QuickTime & Director
We have the same problem with a particular type of kiosk except it is with sound. The sound stutters and plays as though it is a gigantic file. Setting the sound Device to Quicktime and installing Quicktime improves the situation slightly, -- turning off hardware acceleration on sound fixes it. Apparently upgrading the drivers would also fix it, if there were any new drivers. Cath Phosphor Essence At 11:04 a.m. 18/03/2004 -0500, you wrote: For what it's worth, we had a similar problem (wonkey playback) on "some pc notebooks." We "solved" it by having the end user lower their hardware acceleration from the maximum setting to mid-level... GSB Geoffrey S. Baker Multimedia Programmer Accelera 2400 Boston Street Suite 310 Baltimore, Maryland 21224 Toll Free: 866-422-2353 ext. 1110 www.accelera.com gbaker @ accelera . 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!]
dial-up connection setup
Hi, I need to make a CD which will set up temporary dial up connection and then connect to a web page. I have tried the demo of DirectConnection xtra , which opens a window so the user can input the phone number, etc, but I would really like to do this without making the user input the phone number. Has anyone done anything like this? 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!]
Re: dial-up connection setup
Hi Valentin, Thanks for all the information! I have been looking at creating an .INS file and running it to set up the connection, but that brings up a number of dialogue messages which I would rather avoid, so I will try creating a *.DUN file and installing it. Alot of these users will probably not have a dial-up connection as yet, so will they have the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\RemoteAccess\Profile\ entry? Where are installed modems found in the Registry? Cath At 02:11 a.m. 19/04/2004 +0200, you wrote: Hi Cath, did I understand your question right that you want to provide your own Dialup-connection instead of using the system's default internet connection method? If yes, here some ideas: - first you should check if the target computer actually uses DialUp-Networking and has a modem installed, eg. by checking some registry values. If Dialup Networking is installed, the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\RemoteAccess\ has to exist, otherwise it doesn't exist. All existing connections (connectoids ) are listed under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\RemoteAccess\Profile\ - you could try to provide your own *.DUN file (which is a special INI that contains dialup-connection-infos). you can easily generate such a DUN file by creating a Dial-Up connection (connectoid ) with the correct settings on your own system and dragging it to any folder or the desktop. You can install this DUN file on the user's system with calling Win 9x: RUNDLL32.EXE RNAUI.DLL,RnaRunImport "" Win XP (and propably NT/Win2k): RUNDLL32.EXE NETSHELL.DLL,InvokeDunFile "" you can do this with Buddy API like baRunProgram( "RUNDLL32.EXE RNAUI.DLL,RnaRunImport ", hidden", false ) baRunProgram( "RUNDLL32.EXE NETSHELL.DLL,InvokeDunFile ", "hidden", false ) A problem might be that a DUN file also contains information about the modem to use, in section [Device]. Maybe you could find out the installed modems from the registry and generate a DUN file with the apropriate modem on the fly. You could even generate the full DUN-file with Buddy API's baWriteIni(). After the DUN-file is imported, you can open a dialup connection by using the entry name that is specified in the DUN file (line "Entry_Name=..." in section [Entry]). On Win9x you start a DialUp-connection with calling RunDLL32 RNAUI.DLL,RnaDial eg. with Buddy API: baRunProgram( "RunDLL32 RNAUI.DLL,RnaDial ", hidden", false ) On Win NT/2k/XP with: RASDIAL.EXE eg. with Buddy API: baRunProgram( "RASDIAL.EXE ", hidden", false ) To uninstall the temporary connection, you can use RASPHONE.EXE -r for Win NT/2k/XP, but I don't know how you could do this on Win 9x. Good luck, Valentin Cath Sample wrote: > Hi, > I need to make a CD which will set up temporary dial up connection > and then > connect to a web page. I have tried the demo of DirectConnection xtra > , > which opens a window so the user can input the phone number, etc, but > I > would really like to do this without making the user input the phone > number. Has anyone done anything like this? > > > 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!] [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: Checking file (and path) validity
Or DirectOS xtra dosisfileExist(). You can also use this to get a list of drives and check the drive type to find the CD-Rom. At 10:33 p.m. 18/04/2004 -0400, you wrote: Can't you use the Buddy API function baFileExists()? At 12:15 PM 4/19/04 +1000, you wrote: Hi list I am looking for a way to test if a movie name (and it's file path) are valid, and if so, go to that movie [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: Soundbusy returns TRUE on PCs with no soundcard
Hi, Thanks, that should solve the problem. The project I am currently working on is a kiosk designed to run only on machines with soundcards - but I added a variable they could set if they wanted to run without sound. A check for a sound card would be a good idea just in case. At 11:20 a.m. 11/05/2004 +0200, you wrote: - Original Message - From: "Cath Sample" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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? > Hi Cath, As I recall, Director has had a problem with missing or nonfunctioning sound cards since Dir 7 when they introduced the new sound() object. Director would actually cause a script error with the new sound object and a missing sound card. In your case, you are using the older syntax which isn't working but doesn't cause an error either. I suggest you use BuddyAPI xtra to check for a soundcard: if baSoundCard( ) then -- play sound else -- do this end if There might be a lingo way of checking, but for me, Buddy did the trick. Frank [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: Language and DoubeByte Language
Hi, A kiosk product we have was translated into Chinese a few years ago and has been running well since then. We had 2 small problems: PC setup - The Regional and Language settings need to be set to use Chinese (or whatever) as the language for non-unicode programs. Our program uses an embedded Chinese font and sometimes crashes if the setup is wrong. This is not a big problem for us because it is on a kiosk- on a CD you might need to check. Another problem we had was to do with saving a string as an Access file. This works on every platform except Chinese, where it causes the mdb to fail to open with a password required error. We had to make a workaround for that. So it was not as bad as I thought it might be. good luck 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 At 04:41 p.m. 11/05/2004 -0400, you wrote: So, I'm working on a software product (in Director, mainly). Been brought into the project, this is something that is already up and running and architected and shipping. This product is quickly being translated from English to German, Italian, French, Spanish, as well as Japanese and both Simplified and Traditional Chinese. I've done English/Spanish/Portuguese products for Latin America before, so I imagine the G,I,F,S's will be more or less ok. Where do I even start for J,SC,TC? Any Tips, Caveats, Haranging to Test Early, Test Often, Test On Real Not Simulated Systems, etc. would be greatly appreciated. PC Only. roymeo --- Roy Crisman Macromedia Director Programmer, Lingo Guru, Multimedia Producer Greater Rochester Macromedia User Group (GRMMUG.org) Coordinator 277 N. Goodman St. Rochester, NY 14607-1162 (585)473-3492 home (585)615-2873 cell roymeo(AT)brokenoffcarantenna.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!]
Re: Soundbusy returns TRUE on PCs with no soundcard
Buzz, sound().play() and sound().isBusy() still have the same problem. Thanks for the update on the lingo. Cath At 08:57 a.m. 11/05/2004 -0700, you wrote: At 11:20 AM +0200 5/11/04, you wrote: - Original Message - From: "Cath Sample" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? Hi Cath, As I recall, Director has had a problem with missing or nonfunctioning sound cards since Dir 7 when they introduced the new sound() object. Director would actually cause a script error with the new sound object and a missing sound card. In your case, you are using the older syntax which isn't working but doesn't cause an error either. I suggest you use BuddyAPI xtra to check for a soundcard: Cath - What does sound().isBusy() do in the 'no sound card' situation? btw - When the sound() object was introduced in d8, it was suggested that soundBusy() should be replaced with sound().isBusy(). The primary reason was that soundBusy() was slow enough to give incorrect returns (it's always been pretty slow). This could be another good reason. also - puppetSound() now only exists as an alias - the code actually calls sound().play(). hth -Buzz if baSoundCard( ) then -- play sound else -- do this end if There might be a lingo way of checking, but for me, Buddy did the trick. Frank [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!]
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!]
RE: Black flashes in MX2004
Hi! The movies share a cast of artwork. There are 2 different backgrounds, which are on stage at start and end of each movie. In some cases there is a problem when the background changes, in some cases it is the same background. I have taken out all the prepareMovie scripts - which didn't make a difference. All the movies share a startmovie script, which is in a shared cast. I have tried taking out the startmovie script - it also didn't help. It's odd, because it has worked in the last 4 versions of Director, and it still works in Authoring. Regards Cath At 06:08 p.m. 3/05/2004 -0400, you wrote: > Hi! > I have just translated a large project from MX into MX2004. > It has a number of dirs which go from one to the other, and > casts which are > shared. The casts are being switched depending on what > language is being used. > > It works well in authoring, but in the projector, there is a > lengthy black > flash between some of the dirs. I've seen this some times when there is a blank frame at the end or beginning of a movie, or you are manipulating a lot of assets in a prepareMovie or beginSprite handler. Do you have a bitmap that you can be sure is on stage when you call go to movie, and is on stage in the first frame of the next movie? 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!]
Black flashes in MX2004
Hi! I have just translated a large project from MX into MX2004. It has a number of dirs which go from one to the other, and casts which are shared. The casts are being switched depending on what language is being used. It works well in authoring, but in the projector, there is a lengthy black flash between some of the dirs. It is only some of them, and they can change. I stripped one down to nothing, and it still flashed. I started again from nothing, and it was fine for a while, but now it is flashing again. Sometimes it looks like a black flash with a white horizontal line accross it. Has anyone seen this? Any ideas of what could be going wrong here, or how I can fix it? I have spent quite abit of time rebuilding, saving and compressing, have tried taking out the cast switching scripts, switching Flash files. The only thing which made a difference was saving and compacting, which fixed one of the movies, possibly temporarily. 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!]
Black flashes in MX2004- solved
Well I finally found out what was causing the Flash- or at least it appears to be fixed. In publish settings choosing Lock Stage Size to Movies size Makes the problem go away. The movies were all the same size anyway but Cath At 11:27 a.m. 4/05/2004 +1200, you wrote: Hi! The movies share a cast of artwork. There are 2 different backgrounds, which are on stage at start and end of each movie. In some cases there is a problem when the background changes, in some cases it is the same background. I have taken out all the prepareMovie scripts - which didn't make a difference. All the movies share a startmovie script, which is in a shared cast. I have tried taking out the startmovie script - it also didn't help. It's odd, because it has worked in the last 4 versions of Director, and it still works in Authoring. Regards Cath At 06:08 p.m. 3/05/2004 -0400, you wrote: > Hi! > I have just translated a large project from MX into MX2004. > It has a number of dirs which go from one to the other, and > casts which are > shared. The casts are being switched depending on what > language is being used. > > It works well in authoring, but in the projector, there is a > lengthy black > flash between some of the dirs. I've seen this some times when there is a blank frame at the end or beginning of a movie, or you are manipulating a lot of assets in a prepareMovie or beginSprite handler. Do you have a bitmap that you can be sure is on stage when you call go to movie, and is on stage in the first frame of the next movie? 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!] [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: anyone using D8 on XP?
I have used 8 on XP but it is abit of a pain - especially the path issue if you protect movies the names come out all wrong. At 12:24 p.m. 4/05/2004 -0700, you wrote: At 10:10 AM -0700 5/4/04, you wrote: is anyone using Director 8 on WinXP? I just ordered a laptop and it comes with XP, but Macromedia's site says only 8.5 and up are XP-compatible (http://www.macromedia.com/support/general/ts/documents/win_xp.htm). Anyone know for sure? I have no prob blowing away XP and putting on Win2K, but if I don't have to... Thanks, Mike Mike, Hopefully the MACR web site actually mentioned d8.5.1 ... Director 8.5.1 was the first Director version that was qualified for XP. (XP hadn't been released when previous Director versions were shipped) hth -Buzz [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: Black flashes in MX2004- solved
No, I tried that on and off before - it made no difference. Cath At 10:46 p.m. 4/05/2004 -0400, you wrote: Well I finally found out what was causing the Flash- or at least it appears to be fixed. In publish settings choosing Lock Stage Size to Movies size Makes the problem go away. The movies were all the same size anyway but Any chance you also changed the Reset color option too? [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: Problem with "goToNetPage" on OSX
Hi, I'm no Mac guru, but in what way is it not working? In my experience the browser on the Mac is much more picky about how you format URLs, names of files, etc. Cath At 12:48 p.m. 7/06/2004 -0400, you wrote: New to the list, so bear with me if my protocol is not correct :) I'm having a problem getting the "goToNetPage" command to work in an OSX projector. My code is rather simple and works on PC as well as in a classic projector both on a 9.x OS and a 9.x OS run through OSX. on mouseUp me gotoNetPage "http//www.google.com","_blank" end Do the xtras differ on Classic vs. OSX? Does the code differ? Anyone know an alternate way of opening a browser (instead of using "goToNetPage")? I'm a PC guy, any help from you Mac gurus will be much appreciated! --James [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!]
dual monitor projector?
I am about to start a project which will use two monitors - one will run video and the other the interface. Has anyone done this? Is the best way to treat the stage as one large stage covering both monitors? Any pitfalls? Advice? 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!]
RE: dual monitor projector?
Thanks for all the advice! I am looking forward to getting it going! Cath At 11:24 a.m. 22/06/2004 -0400, you wrote: > I am about to start a project which will use two monitors - > one will run > video and the other the interface. Has anyone done this? Is > the best way to > treat the stage as one large stage covering both monitors? > Any pitfalls? Advice? Colin gave you some good advice. I would emphasize Colin's advice about checking the deskTopRectList. Some people will have their two monitors set to different resolutions, even on a Mac, so full-screen really isn't an option. 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!]
Re: dual monitor projector?
Hi Tony, I don't have the option to use a Mac for this project, but I will be trying all the options to see what works best on whatever final platform is chosen. Thanks for the offer of help! Cath At 01:06 p.m. 23/06/2004 +1200, you wrote: Hi Cath Nice to see another Kiwi "Director" ;-) I am about to start a project which will use two monitors - one will run video and the other the interface. Has anyone done this? Is the best way to treat the stage as one large stage covering both monitors? Any pitfalls? Advice? I have done this with two monitors. My main experience has been using a laptop, as one screen, and digital projector as the other screen. I use the laptop for the "controlling interface" and the projector to display the video ( and the graphic display of the Director movie) to my audience. I create two Director movies: One is the projector and contains the interface controls, This movie opens a MIAW which is used for the "display". You can then define exactly where the MIAW will be located in releation to the controlling movie. The controlling movie then "talks" to the MIAW. I have found that using a large stage causes all sorts of problems with getting the "split" correctly. My experience has been with using Macintosh computers ( the Mac has very good control and many options for dual monitor display). If you need any further help or info please contact me. Regards Tony "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. -- Sir Winston Churchill" [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: Hi-res printer fonts
if your Quark file is going from PC to Mac, you may need to reset the fonts in the document. More often than not it seems that the Mac and the PC treat the same font in different ways. There is a section in Quark where you can check files and fonts for output -to check there to see if it has found your font. Cath At 01:22 p.m. 24/06/2004 -0400, you wrote: > Wouldn't the problem be the resolution you are printing at? > > I mean, if you are using POM to print the director screen, > you have only > the number of pixels as the screen size. I'm using POM, but I'm not printing the screen. I'm setting up a table and populating it with text. I'll run some tests. It may work just fine if I set the printer to high-quality text. TT is vector-based, so it should work. I think the difficult I ran into was that I was working on Windows, and Quark was on the Mac. I expected the Russian text to show up on the Mac (it's just Times New Roman, which has Cyrillic in it, at least on Windows). Also, I'm not very familiar with Quark, and I don't know if it has the same font capabilities as Word. I'll have to experiment. 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!]
Re: OT: junk - was Seeking Shockwave math website
Hmm- sleeping on the keyboard leaves imprints in your face after 40... Cath At 10:08 p.m. 24/06/2004 -0500, you wrote: ummm years. No kids yet, we're still practicing. WOW 3am??? I program better than I did when I stayed up till 3, but I haven't seen the other side of 1 in a while. Two quotes that I repeatedly say: "Nothing good ever happens after midnight" "You should never see the sunrise without a fishing pole in your hand" Stephen Troy Rollins wrote the following on 6/24/2004 8:18 PM: On Jun 24, 2004, at 9:00 PM, Stephen Ingrum wrote: Only problem is that I can't remember which formula is for which problem(almost 40) Almost 40 formulas? Or years? I turned forty this year, and I've never felt so... old. My kids complain because I have to turn my techno and house music up so loud. I have a hard time dragging myself out of bed in the morning if I've stayed up past 3am. It sucks. -- 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!] [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: Projector problem
I recall that with really old versions on the PC you had to open it in Director 7 and save it first. Then open in a more recent version. I'm not sure what the cut off version was. could be 4 or 5... Cath At 07:05 p.m. 13/09/2004 -0400, you wrote: On Sep 13, 2004, at 6:00 PM, Teo Mattiozzi Petralia wrote: I'm working on a G5, running OSX 10.3.2. I'm trying to update a project done several years ago using Director 5 or 6, using Director MX 2004. All I have to do (I thought) is to open the .dir files with MX 2004 and save them. (I have done that, and everything was all right). Then I have opened the stub.dir file and try to publish it for OSX and classic versions, but here the problem; as soon as the program start (just the black screen of the stub file), it crash. This happen with both projectors, OSX and classic, the only difference is that in classic mode, there is a message coming up saying "There is an invalid castmember [] in this movie" and then crash. Can be a missing xtra - particularly if the xtra was of the type which adds other types of cast members. If I run the project in authoring mode through Director it works fine. Then you probably have the needed xtra, but it isn't available to the projector. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Projector on NT Problem
What version of Director are you using? Regards Cath At 09:14 a.m. 14/09/2004 +0530, you wrote: Hi List, As part of a setup for a project, I launch a projector from installshield that copies some files from the CD to the HDD using buddy. It is working fine on all the test systems here and on almost all the test platforms on the client end. Unfortunately, on Win NT, SP6 - the moment the projector is launched, a Dr. Watson error is thrown. (This does not happen at our end). Any thoughts will be highly appreciated. Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi [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!]
