RE: lingo-l net params
Here's a script to handle multiple parameters; queryArray results in an
array of the parameters:
script language=javascript
// use the following link to link to this page a
href=/thispage.html?paramName1=paramValue1paramName2=paramValue2
target=_top
queryArray = parseQueryString();
paramValue1 = queryArray[paramName1];
paramValue2 = queryArray[paramName2];
// write the code here, sample below
document.write('misc HTML code' + paramValue1 + 'misc HTML code' +
paramValue2);
function parseQueryString (str) {
str = str ? str : location.search;
var query = str.charAt(0) == '?' ? str.substring(1) : str;
var args = new Object();
if (query) {
var fields = query.split('');
for (var f = 0; f fields.length; f++) {
var field = fields[f].split('=');
args[unescape(field[0].replace(/\+/g, ' '))] =
unescape(field[1].replace(/\+/g, ' '));
}
}
return args;
}
/script
Charlie Fiskeaux II
Interactive Media Developer
Cre8tive Group
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Christian Wach
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 10:33 AM
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Subject: Re: lingo-l net params
On Friday, June 11, 2004, at 02:36 pm, Rob Walch wrote:
How to pass some params to the shockwave movie like in HTML pages:
http://www.mysite.com/mypage?param=1.
I think what Igor is looking for is a JavaScript solution. I'd be
interested in knowing how to do this too.
If you have a page when you address like this, can you have some
JavaScript in the page that would take that 'param' value, and then
write it into your SW object and embed tags (and if so how) ?
script language=JavaScript type=text/javascript
!--
// Get location string
myLocation = String(document.location.href);
// get query string
queryString = myLocation.substr( myLocation.indexOf(?) + 1 );
// get parameter value
paramValue = queryString.substr( queryString.indexOf(=) + 1 );
// then just write the sw1 parameter into your object/embed
tag // as normal using document.write()...
// --
/script
this does assume that you are only passing one variable in
the url, but it should be easy enough to adapt to handle more
parameters.
I'd favour a PHP approach myself, but this should do the trick.
HTH,
Chris
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RE: lingo-l Video in Director - more....
If you're targeting the machines below then I would avoid Sorenson like the plague - it requires a lot of overhead, so this speed of machine won't be able to play it well. I recommend MPEG for machines this old; it generally plays very smoothly on older machines (keeping in mind the 16px rule). Charlie Fiskeaux II Interactive Media Developer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Sheridan Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 7:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l Video in Director - more Hi, Actually, if I give you my target machine specs then you might be able to lend some advice? PC: 400mhz processor 64mb ram 800x600 display 8x cdrom win 98/me/2000/xp Mac: 350mhz processor 32mb ram 800x600 display 8x cdrom os 9 or higher. Cheers ears, Dan ;) [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 Video Recommedations in Director
For MPEG1, I would use 400x304 instead of 400x300. MPEG1 compresses in 16 pixel blocks, so for the best quality/most efficient MPEG1 you should always use dimensions that are divisible by 16. (If you need a good MPEG1 compressor, there's a free one called Tsunami MPEG Encoder that's one of the best I've seen, and it's free (although it's only for Windows).) http://www.tmpgenc.net Charlie Fiskeaux II Interactive Media Developer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Agustín María Rodríguez Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 11:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l Video Recommedations in Director Hi. All depends on the job... but for low spec machines and CD ROMs, you´re usually fine with a 400x300 15FPS MPEG1 video played with MPEG Advance xtra. -- Agustín María Rodríguez | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.OnWine.com.ar [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 OK...now I feel dimwitted
You need to set the colors of the text on the button, not the colors of the button itself. If this is in authoring mode, then try selecting the text of the button and then change the colors. If this is at runtime, you might be able to access buttonSprite.text.foreColor and such. Charlie Fiskeaux II Interactive Media Developer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Warner Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 4:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l OK...now I feel dimwitted Funny. I can get my database query results to look right and parse the prop list to get what I want but I can't change the colors in a button or a line. I'm using D8 on Win2K. Everything else works fine. The ink is set to copy the foreground color says it's blue and the background color says it's red (for testing only, don't get scared), but the dang button is still black text on white background. Lines are always transparent. Arrrgh! I don't see that I'm doing anything different than in the Demystified book that I dusted off for this specific reason. Anyone have a solution for this stupid human trick? Thanks, Mike __ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.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: lingo-l Director MX Online Live Seminar Series
Nope, I'm speaking of the one titled something like Introducing Director MX 2004 with a focus on Flash Integration. That's probably not the exact title, but it's similar. It was one of a pair; the other one was with a focus on the new DVD features, so, logically I assumed they would focus on the DVD features in the DVD features session and focus on the Flash Integration in the Flash Integration session. Everyone else who attended was as peeved as I was. (I'm not sure of the presenter's name; I had never heard of him before.) Charlie Fiskeaux II Interactive Media Developer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Higgins Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 7:54 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: lingo-l Director MX Online Live Seminar Series Charlie, I hate to be the cynical one, but don't bother attending the free webinar on Flash integration. I attended the one last Thursday, and all it actually focused on was the DVD features, with a short demonstration of Flash components thrown in. It was very disappointing, especially because the presenter didn't respond to our questions during-session asking if we could please focus on the Flash integration instead of the DVD features. The presenter said he was told it was supposed to be DVD focused, but he must have been pretty dim-witted not to have noticed that the Breeze window and presentation were both labeled ...with a focus on Flash Integration... Are you talking about the presentation that *I* gave last Thursday, the one titled Director MX 2004 New Features, Putting It All Together. Are you speaking of my presentation or another (I don't believe there were any other sessions)? The one with this description: Director MX 2004 New Features, Putting It All Together Speaker: Macromedia Product Engineer Thomas Higgins Director MX 2004 now includes support for DVD video playback, come see how quickly this new feature can be incorporated into your Director projects. This will be a walkthrough of how to use Flash Components, Movies in a Window, projector publishing and more to quickly and easily create a DVD viewer application for both Macintosh and Windows users. This session is meant to demonstrate some of the key changes found in Director MX 2004, there will be time left for questions and answers that can cover any and all topics related to Macromedia Director and the Shockwave player. Cheers, Tom Higgins Product Manager - Director Team Macromedia ... [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 copypixels on quads
This might be relegated to email Lingo, but have you tried it without the close bracket (]) after the first three values? It shouldn't be there. Charlie Fiskeaux II Interactive Media Developer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com targetImg.copyPixels(sourceImg, pointL, sourceImg.rect], [#useFastQuads : TRUE]) targetImg.copyPixels(sourceImg, pointL, sourceImg.rect], [#useFastQuads : FALSE]) targetImg.copyPixels(sourceImg, pointL, sourceImg.rect], [#dither : 1215]) targetImg.copyPixels(sourceImg, pointL, sourceImg.rect], [#dither : 1969]) [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 Dot syntax for 'delete the last char of...'
Try myString.char[myString.length].delete() Charlie Fiskeaux II Interactive Media Developer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Troy Rollins Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 3:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l Dot syntax for 'delete the last char of...' On May 26, 2004, at 3:09 PM, Tom Jacobs wrote: Actually, when I try this I get: Handler not found in object However, Jeremy's suggestion... delete myString.char[myString.length]) does the trick. This is the one I do, too. But I think it is debatable that the command is dot syntax. I would think that would look more like myString.delete(char[myString.length]) Wouldn't it? But using something like that gives a script error - expected OF. Not quite sure where OF belongs in the whole dot syntax scheme. -- 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: lingo-l bitmap distortion on zoomWindow and resizeWindow
See if you can reset the drawRect in the zoomWindow and/or resizeWindow handlers. The stage has two rect properties, (the stage).rect which crops/expands the stage, and (the stage).drawRect which actually scales the stage. It sounds like the auto maximize button is using both, when it should only be using (the stage).rect and not (the stage).drawRect. So if you can reset the drawRect in those handlers, it would take care of the problem (although it might flash big and then small again; I'm not sure of when those handlers are called in regards to the stage updating after the maximize button is clicked...) Charlie Fiskeaux II Interactive Media Developer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Dempsey Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 7:11 AM To: Lingo L submission Subject: 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!] [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 Hybrid DVD
He's probably referring to UDF, which I believe is the standardized data format for data DVDs. But ISO/Mac formats should work fine as well (on most computers), and you have to use them if you want a custom hybrid disc. Charlie Fiskeaux II Interactive Media Developer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054 x29 cell: 608-9194 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kerry Thompson Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 3:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: lingo-l Hybrid DVD But aren't DVD-R data discs burned in a different format that CD-ROM data disc's? Yes, but that shouldn't make a difference. CD-ROM, Zip Disks, hard drives, network drives--they're all different formats. As long as Windows or Mac can recognize it as a disk, and the read the files, it shouldn't make a lot of difference where they reside. Of course there are different formats for DVD, the plus and dash. I think most DVD writers and readers now can do both. Dual-layer writeable DVD's are coming, too, with 9 GB of storage. Still shouldn't make any difference. Just don't try to write to them at run time ^_^ 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: lingo-l is there an escape character in Lingo?
Sorry, there's no escape character, but it's not needed, as far as I know. If you're wanting to create quotes in a string via Lingo, you can use QUOTE as in myQUOTEnameQUOTEis Manny. If the quotes are in a string entered into a field by the user, you shouldn't need to escape them. Have you done tests with your database to test this? Charlie Fiskeaux II Interactive Media Developer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054 x29 cell: 608-9194 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Warner Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 2:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l is there an escape character in Lingo? Hello, I'm building a database-driven app, where the use can enter names and such. This leaves the door open to the single quotes and double quotes issue we've all faced. In other words, no matter how I slice it, I have to be on the lookout for one or the other. So, I'd like to escape the double quotes in the use input. Can't find it in my searches (Macromedia.com, director-online, etc). Anyone know it? Thanks, Mike __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25 http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash [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 highlighting lines in a multi-line field
Try field(myfield).line[1].hilite() In MX, that hilites the entire line. Charlie Fiskeaux II Interactive Media Developer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054 x29 cell: 608-9194 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nik crosina Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 5:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l highlighting lines in a multi-line field Hi, I am trying to find a convenient way to highlight complete lines of field castmembers. I know I can use the .highlight, but would like to highlight the complete line and not just as much of the line as covered by words (e.g. a line might only be half full) Has anyoen of you done that before, or knows a script I can adapt? I am experimenting with shape castmembers put behind the lines, maybe that is a way? Thanks on a Sunday... Best NIk ___ Cost effective technology solutions for business. Sign up for a free trial today! http://www.officemaster.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: lingo-l is there an escape character in Lingo?
I'm pretty sure it's possible to set the values of a MUI #editText widget,
but check out the official Macromedia PDF
(http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/how/d7/MUI.html) and this
article (http://www.director-online.com/buildArticle.php?id=888).
Charlie Fiskeaux II
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 1:18 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: lingo-l is there an escape character in Lingo?
Sorry, there's no escape character, but it's not needed, as far as I
know.
If you're wanting to create quotes in a string via Lingo,
you can use
QUOTE as in myQUOTEnameQUOTEis Manny. If the
quotes are in
a string entered into a field by the user, you shouldn't
need to escape
them.
Have you done tests with your database to test this?
Yep, I've tested it. In an SQL statement, strings have to be
surrounded by either single or double quotes. While single
quotes are the standard, the latter is often used. I've been
a web database programmer for a number of years and to get
around this, an escape char is used when the same
quote/doublequote is found within the string. The SQL gets built as:
SQL=insert into myTable(NAME, SIZE)
values('myName','mySize')
which will only be a problem when the value of myName and/or
mySize contain the same char used to surround the string in
the query, in this case a single quote. The database sees
this as the end of the string and throws an error due to what
it sees as bad syntax:
insert into myTable(NAME, SIZE) values('Bob O'Reilly','36L')
using your example, myQUOTEnameQUOTEis Manny, would give:
...values(mynameis Manny,... where the after my would
be seen as the end of the string.
In Perl and PHP, for example, this would be written
my\name\is Manny.
But, if there's no such creature as an escape char in Lingo,
then I'll just have to filter out the double quotes, as I
think single quotes would be more prevalent in this case.
So, I'm using the QUOTES, but to surround the strings in the
SQL as I build the variable:
SQL=insert into myTable(NAME, SIZE) values(QUOTEBob
O'ReillyQUOTE,QUOTE36LQUOTE) which sends the db the
following:
insert into myTable(NAME, SIZE) values(Bob O'Reilly,36L)
I just need to watch for the double quotes in the MUI window
when the user enters the name. Which brings me back to my
other question, for which I've found no solution in my
searches...How to set the value of an #editText widget in a
MUI window.
Thanks,
Mike
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RE: lingo-l capture RETURN key problem (D8)
You need to pass the event through the keyDown handler to the field: on keyDown -- put the key if the key = RETURN then DoIt end if pass end Charlie Fiskeaux II Interactive Media Developer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054 x29 cell: 608-9194 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Warner Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 10:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l capture RETURN key problem (D8) Hello, haven't used Director in a while (3 years), been in the PHP, PERL world. Now am building an app where there's an editable one-line text field where, when the user hits the enter/return key, the attached behavior calls the function DoIt. I took the code right from the Demystified book, but when I use on keyDown to check, I can't edit the field, and on keyUp allows the RETURN to be typed. Can someone less rusty refresh my memory? Many thanks, Mike Behavior follows: on keyDown --put the key if the key = RETURN then DoIt end if end __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25 http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash [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 Scroll bar issues
Well, there are the pre-made custom scrollbar behaviors that come with Director. If you don't want to use them, I have some pretty decent ones I made myself that require no customization to be able to drop on and use easily. Charlie Fiskeaux II Interactive Media Developer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054 x29 cell: 608-9194 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kerry Thompson Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 4:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: lingo-l Scroll bar issues Custom scroll bar. Ugh. Not really an option. Too much code, too little time. Any other way? 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: lingo-l communication between 2 shockwave movies on the same html page
If you have Flash MX or MX2004 you can use Flash LocalConnection objects to communicate directly between Shockwave movies. Charlie Fiskeaux II Interactive Media Developer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Buzz Kettles Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 12:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l communication between 2 shockwave movies on the same html page At 10:04 PM + 4/19/04, you wrote: hello all, I have 2 movies on the same html page and need them to communicate back and forth. I thought all that I would have to do is have one change a global and the other could pick up on it via a frame script that checked for changes. This does not seem to work. Are globals between simultaneously playing shockwave movies possible? Are there other ways of doing this? you can use setPrefs/GetPrefs between them ... hth -Buzz thanks! justin [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 Ideas on how Record User Setting
Use FileXtra4 and PropSave. They're both free; with FileXtra4 you can check to see if files and folders exist and issue open and save dialog boxes (if you wish), and with PropSave, you can save Director data (such as property lists, in your case) straight to disk, and later read them back in again. I'm using that combination on several projects, and it works extremely well. Charlie Fiskeaux II Interactive Media Developer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054 x29 cell: 608-9194 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Viktor Iwan Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 4:44 AM To: Lingo-l Subject: lingo-l Ideas on how Record User Setting hello, i want to create an application where user can save their setting for the application. using buddyapiXtra..i'm able to check folder, files if they're exist. but.. all the files and folder is predetermine by me..the author. Is there possible for user to determine where do they want to save their setting (the folder,etc) ? like open dialog box..choose the folder... and later on.. the projector could automatically use the folder everytime the projector start. thx [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 Problems making Mac Classic projectors from OSX
I've never been able to create Mac Classic projectors with third party Xtras from OSX Dir MX, so whenever I've needed to, I've gone back to Dir 8.5 on a Classic machine to make them. But I know other people must do it from OSX, so it's very frustrating. This issue is a major roadblock to me upgrading to MX2004, because it's not backwards compatible with 8.5 like MX is. The Xtras I'm dealing with are Impressario and V12 DBE. The V12 DBE package automatically comes with separate folders for the Carbon Xtra and PPC Xtra (which one is for Classic? Carbon?), but the Impressario package doesn't. There are two Impressario packages, one for OSX and one for Classic, so I unzipped them both and put them both under the Xtras folder. I can create an OSX projector with Xtras packaged into the projector, and it works fine, but I can't for Classic. When trying to make the Classic projector, it adds Macromedia's Xtras fine, but when it tries to add Impressario and V12 DBE, it give me an error of -50 Can't write the file (paraphrase). I tried not packaging the Xtras, and just placing the Xtras folder under the projector (which is how I normally do things), but then more things break. With this non-packaged Xtras method, the OSX projector loads all the Xtras except the V12 DBE successfully, but the Classic projector can't load any of the Xtras, even Macromedia's. What's the secret here? Charlie Fiskeaux II Interactive Media Developer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: lingo-l RE: QuickTime Director
If your problem is memory related, I would highly recommend not using Sorenson or Sorenson3. They both require a lot of memory to decode, and even though you might be able to alleviate some problems by tweaking your compression settings, I would recommend using a more memory friendly codec, like good 'ol MPEG. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Developer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of A. Rademakers Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 6:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l RE: QuickTime Director Hi Greg, it sounds like your problems with Sorenson3 in QT5 on the PC are memory related. Since you are using many QT members, I think what is happening is this: QuickTime is keeping the decompressed frames of the played Sorenson3 movies in memory until the instance of the QTmovie (the QT member) has been destroyed. The best option is to use only one QT member and switch the QT movies by setting the filename of that member: member(QT).filename = playlist[pointer] When you are not playing any QT free the memory needed for the QT member by switching to a one frame dummy QTmovie. Even then just one long Sorenson3 movie with a large resolution can eat up all your memory quicktime, because it (the bug) is keeping all the decompressed frames around. When this happens Director starts forgetting its own behavior properties and crashes. To overcome this problem you can set the use hardware acceleration property of QuickTime on the movie level, open the QTmovie, and choose: movie properties:video track:graphics mode:composition. This will also fix any color problems related with Sorenson3 using hardware acceleration. w.k.r. Alfred http://www.bellissima.net/mytime/ http://www.bellissima.net/bvdb/tapestreamer.htm http://www.emotioneelstadsplan.nl/amsterdam/ [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 Frame events (was: What happend to fps?)
So do you go to the frame in the enterFrame handler when you want to loop on a frame? Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Developer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of roymeo Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 10:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l Frame events (was: What happend to fps?) I used to be that way, too, James. But then I found a reference in a book combined with a post on one of the lists, and did some research and discovered that indeed, Director expects the heavy code to happen in enterFrame. Director expends it's idle time padding out the frame rate during the enterFrame time period (technically, after, I believe). If you've got lingo which takes a pretty hefty bite of CPU cycles, say 0.5 seconds, and put it in the exitFrame, Director's already expended its idle time necessary to pad out the frame rate to whatever setting you had, and then ka-chunk, it runs into this big, expensive, unknown lingo bite. Even running at say 2 FPS, you'll see that you're really only getting 1 FPS with the above scenario. But put that same chunk of code in the enterFrame, and Director won't spin it's wheels to try to waste idle time. Your use of time via Lingo is taken into consideration, and in the 2 FPS example, virtually no idle time is expended, and you end up much, much closer to the 2 FPS you've set. I used to do everything on exitFrame, too. Now, I have a little note I put on my cube wall (when I have a cube) that says avoid exitFrame or something like that (I don't have a cube, currently). roymeo At 09:45 AM 3/18/2004, you wrote: On 18/3/04 12:32 pm, Agustín María Rodríguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a reason why you reaaly need this on prepareFrame? If not then it would be better to put that code into an enterFrame handler because is where Director expects the heavy code. Leave prepareFrame just for stuff like 3D synchro with bones and exitFrame for navigation between frames. Hi Agustín, Why do you think Director expects to find heavy code in the enterFrame() handler? I understand why you use exitFrame() for navigation. Moving to a new frame triggers the prepareFrame() handler, so you cannot do this from the prepareFrame() handler itself. Moving to a new frame on enterFrame() would mean that the Director has to go through all the hassle of calculating the pixels to display for the current frame, only to discover that it's actually meant to be somewhere else. Personally, I only use prepareFrame() for actions that must be carried out between beginSprite() and displaying the first frame, such as finding other sprites in the frame with the same behavior. If I do this, I set a flag so that the code in the prepareFrame() handler is never executed a second time. (An alternative is to place the instance on the actorList, perform the one-off action on stepFrame(), then remove the instance from the actorList). I don't think I ever use enterFrame() at all, since by that time the current frame is already visible. What advantages do you see in using enterFrame() rather than exitFrame()? Cheers, 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!] - roymeo(AT)brokenoffcarantenna.com - ESC. Because the Scroll Lock key doesn't really do anything. ESC. [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 cross platform xtras in external folder
Warren Ockrassa wrote: Dir10 even lets you publish with a splash screen image now so users get the sense that *something* is happening during app load. All recent versions of Director let you use a splash image: on Windows, if your projector is 'start.exe', place 'start.bmp' next to the projector, on Mac, if your projector is 'start', place 'start.pct' (or maybe 'start.pic', I forget which) next to your projector. -- Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Developer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Search function (trying again)
Kerry Thompson wrote: repeat with i = 1 to the number of members of castlib 1 But won't this miss some if he has any empty cast slots between members? If he has something in cast member 1, nothing in member 2, and something in 3, I assume the above code would return 2, but he would need to go through slot 3 to test all of his cast members. The way I've done it, even though it's imprecise, is: (and this is assuming you aren't adding cast members at runtime with the chance of going past slot 512) repeat with m=1 to 512 if member(m).type#EMPTY then -- do search here end if end repeat -- Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l accessing realtime decibel levels of QT audio
Does anybody know if it's possible to access the realtime decibel levels of the audio of a QuickTime sprite? I'd like to create a VU meter, and I know that QuickTime has one under Get Properties, so I'm curious if it's possible to access QT's built in VU meter. Or another option would be if there was a general way (via Xtra, maybe?) to access that data of all sounds in Director itself? I know there's an Xtra to read that data from sound input into the computer, but as far as I could tell, that Xtra didn't work for any kind of linked sound or video files. Ideas, anyone? -- Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Movie playlist
Kerry Thompson wrote: My client is reporting an error I can't reproduce. Wow. I posted this yesterday. Waited a couple hours, nothing--no traffic on Lingo-L at all. My knock knock post seems to have been the first to get through yesterday. I got the answer--she had put the folder on her desktop, and was running into an ancient Director bug of file paths 127. Hmmm, I didn't get that post until about an hour ago (3pm EST), but I was going to recommend checking the path length, as well; I ran into that same message a few months ago. -- Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 [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 looking to speed up the search process in seudo db with what I have
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I am new on posting although I have follow the list for more than a year, so excuse me for wrong doings in the list protocols, plus my orthodox programming manners and technique plus my foreign English. My problem; I made out of 400 text cast members(with a property list in each of them) a kind of database. For searches of items in this text cast members, I used if member.xx.text contains. and it all worked find with the exception that it took around 30 seconds to do the searches into the 400 text cast members (each having a property list of around 20 items), one to twenty times depending of the number of items I was searching for. Once created a results list out of the search in the text cast members, I eliminated the text cast members found repeated, for the creation of a final list with the items I was looking for. An example of a list in a text cast member is: [#a1:2,#a2:2,#a3:2,#a4:2,#a5:2,#a6:2,#a7:2,#a8:2,#a9:2,#a10:2,#a11:2,#a12:2,#a13:2] /snip The first thing you need to do to speed up the search is get rid of the text cast members. At the very least, put that info in a handler in a movie script. Working with text members at any point in the process slows everything down. -- Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Director MX Cross Platform Scripting
Dan Sheridan wrote: I have ran into a bit of a platform dilema, at the moment i am using Director 8.5 and I have a quicktime detection script for mac and pc as follows: Behaviour on buttons: on mouseUp cursor -1 if the platform contains Windows,32 then GetQuickieWin else GetQuickieMac end if end Movie Script: on startMovie if quickTimeVersion() 5.0 then go to frame quicktime else go to frame 1 end if -- end on GetQuickieWin -- check that you have the correct -- path for opening the quicktime installer open the applicationPathxmovs\qt\QuickTimeInstaller.exe quit end on GetQuickieMac -- check that you have the correct -- path for opening the quicktime installer open the applicationPathxmovs:qt:QuickTime Installer quit end My problem is that my client is requesting that we produce an OSX compatible projector, and as far as I can tell I am limited to the following lingo either windows,32 or macintosh... there doesnt seem to be any lingo that can differentiate between mac classic and mac osx... Essentially I need a cross platform detect and install script that will run on Mac Classic, OSX and MS Windows. Any ideas on how i can solve this problem would be very appreciated... Kind Regards, Dan Sheridan [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!] You don't need to have separate code for QuickTime installer launching on Windows and Mac. Use this: on mouseUp cursor -1 open @/xmovs/qt/QuickTime Installer quit end The @ symbol is the moviePath/the applicationPath except it lets you use cross platform path delimiters (you can use /, \, or : on either platform). And if you name the Windows installer QuickTime Installer.exe and the mac installer just QuickTime Installer, it will work just fine (on Windows, you don't need to add the .exe to run an executable). -- Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 [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 streaming quicktime
Todd Culley wrote: In most cases your server will determine the bandwidth the user is at and stream the appropriate video. Don't know much about your streaming server but usually you would post a reference video. This video would reference the appropriate playback video for the user's connection. todd For streaming QT in a browser, your size and speed are set in your QT prefs (at least for the streaming trailers on QuickTime.com). I don't know if this carries over to stuff like Shockwave or not, but I would guess it does. You can set your speed there to be higher than it is if you want a higher resolution stream. -- Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l Director MX04
I have one very important question about the new cross-platform publishing capabilities of Director. What about Xtras? Does Director have to have two Xtras folders, one for Mac and one for Win, so it can publish correctly crossplatform? And I assume we still have to buy any third party Xtras for both platforms? -- Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 [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 Edit in flash 04?
grimmwerks wrote: Does this work? I must be retarded, but I removed flash mx from my pc, leaving 04. But now, when I try to edit a flash file, it just doesn't work...? [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!] When I upgraded to Flash MX04, I uninstalled MX first, and I wouldn't recommend it. Something happened in the uninstall/upgrade process that deleted all of my DreamWeaver MX preferences, including all the sites I had set up. I think it might be something about upgrading Flash, but not DreamWeaver; I think the install process for MX04 might be buggy in some way, not that gives you any helpful information, though. -- Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 [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 Mailto script for atachment
Hiya Multimedia wrote: Hi everybody, I need help on how to attach a file to an html script with mailto protocol. I want to attach particular jpg, zip or rtf files to the mail. I am using this in a product catalogue to mail details with a single click Plz help me considering me as a layman with the code. Thank you Modi Kalpesh [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!] Here's a tutorial on creating a basic form with file uploading capabilities: http://www.perlfect.com/articles/upload.shtml There's also a powerful yet simple script called Soupermail that you can get at: http://soupermail.sourceforge.net/ that I've used to upload and attach files to emails; it requires some knowledge of CGI to set it up, but it's not too difficult. For the Director side, check out postNetText() and getNetText(). -- Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 [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: database xtra
If you're only using this in one or two places, do you really need to use a database Xtra at all? Depending on the size of the database and how frequently it's accessed, I would recommend using Director's built in property lists. (If there's a lot of data or if it will be accessed frequently and needs to be very fast, property lists aren't the most efficient solution.) By nesting multiple property lists to form the database, and using the PropSave Xtra to write them straight to disk (and read them in again), it's a free and easy-to-implement solution. -- Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 [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 Shortcut name
I've never heard of doing that, and I would guess it's not possible to
find out the name of the shortcut that launched a program (although I
could be wrong). One way to do something similar, though is to use the
commandLine. For the application path in your shortcut, put any
arguments you want to pass to your app after the executable's name, like
C:\my directory\my app.exe myArg1 (or you may have to put them in a
separate pair of quotation marks, I'm not sure which), then once your
app launches, you can read those arguments by accessing the commandLine.
Tom van Gemert wrote:
Hi,
I have a director movie, somewhere on the users system, that is a
projector. To start this projector I created
a desktop shortcut (windows). Now my question is, does somebody know
if it is posible to read the name ('somefile.lnk')
of the shortcut when the projector is opened (so that it is a lingo
variable)? By doing this I could set a variable based on the
shortcut's name, which I would like to use to customize the
presentation which is started by the projector.
any clues on how to do this??
Thanks.
--
Charlie Fiskeaux II
Media Designer
Cre8tive Group
cre8tivegroup.com
859/858-9054x29
cell: 859/608-9194
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Re: lingo-l text display bug after 3000 words
I've experienced similar things in the script window with DirMX/WinXP. With long movie scripts, sometimes lines will white out and come back later. It's usually not too big of a deal, but one time it kept doing the same thing over and over again; it would crash Director and I would try the same thing again and it would crash again. I eventually had to edit the script differently (write parts of the script in a different order) to get it to not crash. jean-louis valero wrote: hello list In a rich text editable cast member, after about 3000 typed words, a great amount of the text suddenly disappears in the middle of the whole text. In place of the vanished text the user can see only a white area. If you type return at the beginning of that white sector, the text is coming back. Do you know a way to avoid that problem ? Thanks ! jean-louis valero -- Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Flash text / text object question
Try just referencing the texBox itself: _root.textBox.text grimmwerks wrote: So I'm trying to do a sort of flash/director interface module. In flash, I'm creating a global object (_global.fModule) that I'm going to use as a direct hook to the flash bits. I've got a text box on the flash stage I've named as textBox. I then did fModule.title = textBox; Thereby allowing me to see the fModule.title as a flash object. Should I not be able to set the text of that textbox by fModule.textbox.text = this from diector? [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!] -- Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 [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: lingo-lQT issues
I had similar issues with QT (albeit with Dir8, not DirMX); try turning off the streaming option for the QT videos. I've found that even though it's counterintuitive, QT videos play best streaming to a projector but NOT streaming to a shockwave. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell:859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Anand Ravi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 7:53 AM Subject: RE: lingo-l Re: QT issues Check the path and the Xtras being distributed! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 5:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l Re: QT issues I am working on a interactive project and I have went to test it online and the QuickTime .mov files will not show up. I exported out the .dcr file and it shows up on the preview test; however, when it is live the .mov files don't display audio or video.I have all the files that are associated with it uploaded online and Im sure thats not the issue. Does anyone have any suggestions to fix the problem??? [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 Any idea?
Using a flash member also has speed implications. If you have one large map with every little object on it, when it's zoomed out to see a lot of the map, there will be so many little objects visible that it will bog down the playback, possibly worse than an image would (you'd have to do some tests to see which is worse). I would probably go a different route altogether and use a copyPixels solution. Have one large map that is the whole map at as large a resolution as you would ever need, and then have another bitmap that is just for display. Then you can use copyPixels to copy different parts of the large map into the display bitmap for display. To zoom out, simply copy a larger rect of the source bitmap into the smaller one of the display bitmap and it will be resized to fit (antialiasing and all!). Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell:859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: emredk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 3:04 AM Subject: Re: lingo-l Any idea? Best way to zooming map, using vector flash member. it gives best quality. When you're using an image, on zoomstate %300 (any) set the flash movieclip.alpha down. It hides to image pixel problem. emredk® - Original Message - From: sasa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 6:41 AM Subject: Re: lingo-l Any idea? At 19:08 30. 11. 03, Diego Landro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the zoom option map the best way would be to use a big image and resize it as you use the zoom in-out tool, but that way maybe the image is too big and the app would slow down a lot because of the big image. If this happens i guess your best shot would be to use different images for different degrees of zooming, and you should be careful enough to register these variations between maps so you can then adjust your coordinates for object Yes, picture of the map is very big and it slow down any moving and resizing. it looks like more pictures will be better solution. for making n-markers (if i understand quite right what youre trying to do) your best possibility is to use lists (marker=[m1,m2,m3...]) if youre not familiar with lists check the lingo dictionary, is quite simple (again, i Ufff, my english, sorry. Markers are on the map annd they must be buttons. For example, i select from database all objects from group museums and have 34 results with x and y coordinates for display on the map (markers) and every dot on the map must be mouse clickable. I can handle more pictures and scaling between them and i can use loop: repeat with i=1 to GetRecordCount(ValentinaCursor) ... end repeat to display dots on the map: member(map).image.fill(rect(0,0,20,20).offset(x_koord, y_koord), [#color : rgb(255,0,0), #shapeType : #oval, #lineSize : 2]) but i have not any idea how to make them mouse sensitive - when you click on some map object you get more information about. Best posibble way is that click return some record ID and this is a reason to make sprites on the fly not to draw on the image. Alex [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 Dvd-rom
I've done ISO DVD-ROMs successfully... What's the OS of the machine you're testing on? And is the disc being read on a machine with a DVD burner or just on a DVD-ROM drive? Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell:859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: grimmwerks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lingo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 11:51 AM Subject: lingo-l Dvd-rom Just a question - burned a dvd-rom using iso 9660 and it's not recognized; does a dvd-rom (meaning just a bigger cdrom) HAVE to be DVD-ROM (UDF) format to be recognized by the pc? [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 Dvd-rom
I should've said that I've burned ISO DVDs before; but I got a warning (in Nero) that ISO DVDs won't be readable by every machine. It might be the lack of DVD-R drive that does it, I'm not sure. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell:859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: grimmwerks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lingo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 12:49 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l Dvd-rom It's a WinXP machine with a dvd-rom drive; iso 9660 dvd burned on Toast/mac. The UDF one seems fine, however. On 11/10/03 12:23 PM, Charlie Fiskeaux II [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: I've done ISO DVD-ROMs successfully... What's the OS of the machine you're testing on? And is the disc being read on a machine with a DVD burner or just on a DVD-ROM drive? [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 OS wars
There are plenty of cogent points, the most important being (in the words of Mac's OSX campaign), WinXP just works, OSX doesn't, regardless of what Apple says. I'm just defending worthwhile software that a lot of creative people seem inclined to attack. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 10:48 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency UNIX. PCs and servers. Why are you being so defensive? Do you own MSFT stock? Oh! sig block! Sorry, I thought you were going to raise a cogent point before you finished your note, one subject, topic or idea that had never been discussed before, ever, in this entire tired debate. Guess not. Warren Ockrassa | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Publisher, nightwares eBooks A division of | http://www.nightwares.com/ebooks/ nightwares LLC | http://www.nightwares.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: lingo-l OS wars
Well, I'm honestly happy that you can have a highly productive mac environment, because all of the many macs I've used and been around aren't anywhere near crash-free, even the OSX ones. Thus the basis of my arguments. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Troy Rollins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 11:12 AM Subject: Re: lingo-l OS wars On Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at 10:34 AM, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: There are plenty of cogent points, the most important being (in the words of Mac's OSX campaign), WinXP just works, OSX doesn't, regardless of what Apple says. Boy, you do make an excellent and well qualified point there. OSX doesn't. Personally, I think you should keep believing that. I rue the day I pitched every PC my company owned in to the dumpster and replaced them with these darn elegant, crash-free Macs. I keep getting all these irritating emails from my staff thanking me. Now, they are getting all superior and having contests in continuous up-time and most applications running concurrently, broken up by fits of laughter about how easy stuff is to do. I hate that. And the G5 speed myth? Don't believe it. Speed isn't everything after all. Stay on WinXP. You sound the sort that is poorly suited to such experiences. In fact, I join you in slamming the Mac arbitrarily and without salient points. Trust us folks, enhanced productivity isn't the last word in computing. Your PCs will serve you better in the long run, and poor highly productive environments like those at my shop are nothing to be envied. Windoze Rulz!! (And that is the last point I'll make in these insipid troll-baits.) -- 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: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency
Some of us have that opinion about Macs... You should try WinXP Pro... If people have bad experiences with Windows, I've found it's usually because their computing practices contribute heavily to it's instability and seemingly negative qualities. I've never had a copy of Windows that was less stable than Macs. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 6:02 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 03:45 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Anyone have any insight as to why the My Computer window would *only sometimes* show the custom icon for the CD drive? Because Windows, in general, sucks? 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!]
Re: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency
How many other OSes are run on 90+% of the world's personal computers? With that kind of coverage, any OS would be the target of malicious programmers. The other OSes don't have enough coverage to warrant virus programmers' attentions. Plus, with Microsoft endeavoring to create a seamless computing experience by integrating software with other software, Windows is bound to have vulnerabilities creep in. And from my view, they have done a better job of creating that seamless experience than any other OS (and all you have to do is buy an antivirus program and download software patches to get rid of the resulting problems). I've never had anything not work with WinXP, whereas I've had several pieces of hardware not work with OSX (but yet they still worked with WinXP), not to mention the crashing problems when trying to use OS9 and OSX programs on the same machine. Not exactly what I'd call ideal computing. I'm just going on observations... Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 7:32 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 05:40 PM, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: If people have bad experiences with Windows, I've found it's usually because their computing practices contribute heavily to it's instability and seemingly negative qualities. I've never had a copy of Windows that was less stable than Macs. Actually neither have I. However, that's because of my background with UNIX, OS/2, DOS, PRODOS and other CLI and semi-fragile OSen in years previous. Because of that experience I know what stupid things not to do. Any given OS is stable out of the box. How breakable it becomes due to user stupidity is another factor entirely, and it's indisputable that of all the current OSen extant, Windows is the most breakable. It's very aptly named. How many other OSen can you list that are prone to viruses by simply retrieving and reading email? -- 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!] [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 cast member list
Untested email lingo for a frame script: global gMemberList on enterFrame gMemberList=[] lcastLib=1 repeat with m=1 to 1000 gMemberList.append(member(m, lcastLib).name) end end Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Slava Paperno [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 11:27 PM Subject: lingo-l cast member list Is there a quick and efficient way to get the names of all members in a cast as a list? It seems there must be something better than looping through the cast, no? Slava [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l cast member list
or better yet: global gMemberList on enterFrame gMemberList=[] lcastLib=1 repeat with m=1 to 1000 if member(m, lcastLib).type#empty then gMemberList.append(member(m, lcastLib).name) end if end end Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Slava Paperno [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 11:27 PM Subject: lingo-l cast member list Is there a quick and efficient way to get the names of all members in a cast as a list? It seems there must be something better than looping through the cast, no? Slava [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Cursor property
Setting the cursor property of a sprite means that the cursor only changes when it's over that sprite, setting the cursor itself changes it for the whole movie (except when it's over sprites like Flash, that take control of the cursor themselves). Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Stephen Ingrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 10:19 AM Subject: Re: lingo-l Cursor property On a semi-related note. What's the difference between saying on mouseEnter me sprite(spritenum).cursor=280 end and on mouseEnter me cursor 280 end Why would you use one method over the other? Thank you, Stephen Ingrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LeagueofDesign.com - Original Message - From: Colin Holgate [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 9:00 AM Subject: RE: lingo-l Cursor property Sorry, folks, but sprite(me.spriteNum).cursor as well as sprite(spriteNum).cursor doesn't want to work. That's because you are saying on mousedown, and not on mousedown me. Try sticking some me's at the end of your handler's first lines. [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 Another cursor property question
what types of media do you have on screen when you're trying to hide the cursor? Do you have an item covering the entire stage? Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Steve Rachels [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 11:42 AM Subject: Re: lingo-l Another cursor property question Can't seem to find how to make the cursor disappear on my game when I start the 'play' frame. I want to use the mouse to shoot, but don't want it visible. I know the code is 200, but getting it to work sigh Hints? Steve Rachels [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-lTurning a string into lingo
Another way would be to create a custom script in the cast and then execute a handler that you created. This would be a good method if you wanted to have the code around later for whatever reason. new(#script, member(1,1)) myScriptText=on myCustomHandler RETURNput QUOTE my string QUOTE RETURN end member(1,1).scripttext=myScriptText Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 [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 return hilited text in a field
member(x).char[(the selStart)..(the selEnd)] Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Matt Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 7:37 PM Subject: lingo-l return hilited text in a field Hello, I have a question that I can't seem to find any answers to maybe you all can me help out. When a user hilites any set of char in field how can I return which set of chars are hilited. Thanks for the help. Matt, [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 QT and MIAW.
Perhaps you have the movieRate=1 repeating while the video is playing, so that when the user clicks a button on the controls, the video.movieRate is instantly set back to 1? Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Kristian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 3:55 AM Subject: lingo-l QT and MIAW. Hi, I have a bit of an issue here; from my main I open a MIAW containg just a QT-movie and a button for exit, when opening the MIAW I set the movieRate to 1 so it starts plaing BUT when I do this the controls does not work (except in authoring mode). Is there some trick to this? Am I doing something else wrong or is it suppose to be this way? //Kristian [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 FW: File IO - bad filename
What method are you using to obtain the path that the file is being saved to? If you aren't using FileXtra4, try it instead and see if anything changes. http://kblab.net/xtras/ Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Andy Talbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 4:38 AM Subject: RE: lingo-l FW: File IO - bad filename Cheers, Guys. Still no luck really, the file being saved is going into the users My_Documents folder, and the full path from c:\ to the end of the file extension is 68 characters when the file worked, and 70 characters when it fails. I did see someone mention about slow machines causing problems. Anybody? Regards, Andy. -Original Message- From: Daniel Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 September 2003 21:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l FW: File IO - bad filename Hi Andy, Was the problem encountered during createFile or openFile? I've recently found that using baShortFileName is necessary in openFile() on Windows machines, but needs to be avoided in createFile(). Are you using baShortFileName at all? If the path they are saving is longer than--if I recall correctly--127 characters, it will be a bad file name. It is very possible to have a problem on the same machine with two different filenames simply because one filename pushes the total file path above this maximum, and the other doesn't. Regards, Daniel [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [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 Acrobat installer.
Check out this link; it's Adobe's download page for all versions of Acrobar Reader, if it's not there, it doesn't exist: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/alternate.html Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Kristian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 1:05 PM Subject: lingo-l Acrobat installer. Hi, I am currently working on a director project that demands that the user have acrobat installed on the system; this is fine for OSX and Win, BUT I can't seem to get a hold of a complete installer for say... MAC OS 9.x or below - Adobe is only distributing an installer that connects to the web and downloads the program. This is not acceptabel for the project since I am not sure that a web connection is present. Anyone stumbled into this or has an earlier version to share? (Have accepted and sent in the license agreement for distribution). Regards //Kristian [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 using an non standard shape as a button
It's not always true that what's invisible to the eye is also invisible to mouse events. It's true with vectors, but not with images. Even with the matte ink applied to a 32-bit image, there's still the alpha slider which lets you control which levels of partial transparency are opaque and which levels are transparent. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Ron Woodland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 6:34 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l using an non standard shape as a button Is a vector star or a pixel image? I assume you want the mouse events to work only within the boundaries of the star. It's a non-issue when using a vector-based non-rectangular shape. You can draw the star in Director using its vector drawing tools, but I would suggest Illustrator 10 to create as fancy a star as you want (even with a soft-edged drop shadow), then export it as a SWF file. It works very, very, very well. Try it. Pixel images always exist as a rectangle, but it's not hard to limit the mouse events to the star part. With a white, black, or web-legal background color, the matte ink mode is the simplest way to go. The downside is that you often get a jagged fringe around the shape from the limited masking ability of that ink mode. You can also use an alpha channel to mask the shape you want with smooth edges and no fringe, but 32-bit images can be RAM and performance expensive. For best appearance of a pixel-based star, I would suggest an 8-bit GIF star image and an 8-bit grayscale mask in the very next slot of the cast after the star (then set the star's ink mode to mask). Half the memory of a 32-bit image, same result. Bottom line: the part that's invisible to the eye is also invisible to mouse events. Ron Woodland On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 02:37 PM, Jeremy P. McKay wrote: Hi All, I want to use a star shape for mouse events? Is there any way to do this other than using a bunch of squares and rectangles? - Jeremy [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 Flash text box link not triggering Director behavior
If you're using Flash MX (I'm not sure if this works in earlier versions), you can use asfunction. So if your function is named myFunction then you would put the following into the link field: asfunction:myFunction You can also pass arguments, if you'd like: asfunction:myFunction, arg1, arg2 So you could set up a function that always passes arg1 out as Lingo through the getURL command, for example. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Mendelsohn, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 11:46 AM Subject: lingo-l Flash text box link not triggering Director behavior Hi list... I have a Flash asset with a text box that has a link in it. In the Flash property inspector there's a link field, and I figured you could type actionscript there to be executed, just like the link field in the text inspector in Director where you can type a lingo handler. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but none of the below work when filled into that field in the Flash property inspector. I want the link in the flash text box in that Flash asset to trigger a Director handler. It's easy enough with getURL in Flash on a button, but apparently, this is not intuitively the case for text boxes!?!? Any tips are appreciated, as always. - Michael M. ___ event: linkFromFlash(www.eqsafetysys.com) -- error comma expected event: linkFromFlash(me, www.eqsafetysys.com) event: linkFromFlash(me, \www.eqsafetysys.com\) event: linkFromFlash(www.eqsafetysys.com) event: linkFromFlash(www.eqsafetysys.com); getURL(linkFromFlash(www.eqsafetysys.com)) -- does nothing, with or without the semicolon [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 Flash text box link not triggering Director behavior
Try either of these in the Flash inside Director: getURL(event: someLingoHandler\( + var_someFlashVariable + \)); or getURL(lingo: someLingoHandler\( + var_someFlashVariable + \)); Then in Director: on someLingoHandler me, FlashVar doSomethingWithFlashVar(FlashVar) end Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Kristian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 12:46 PM Subject: RE: lingo-l Flash text box link not triggering Director behavior look below for code. I am using a frame script in director for retrieving the variable(s) and then passing them on, don't know why I can not reach a movie script handler instantly. Anyone? Well the code works. //Kristain Hi list... I have a Flash asset with a text box that has a link in it. In the Flash property inspector there's a link field, and I figured you could type actionscript there to be executed, just like the link field in the text inspector in Director where you can type a lingo handler. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but none of the below work when filled into that field in the Flash property inspector. I want the link in the flash text box in that Flash asset to trigger a Director handler. It's easy enough with getURL in Flash on a button, but apparently, this is not intuitively the case for text boxes!?!? Any tips are appreciated, as always. - Michael M. __ _ event: linkFromFlash(www.eqsafetysys.com) -- error comma expected event: linkFromFlash(me, www.eqsafetysys.com) event: linkFromFlash(me, \www.eqsafetysys.com\) event: linkFromFlash(www.eqsafetysys.com) event: linkFromFlash(www.eqsafetysys.com); getURL(linkFromFlash(www.eqsafetysys.com)) -- does nothing, with or without the semicolon //flash getURL(event: someLingoHandler\ + var_someFlashVariable + \); //director frame script on getTheFlashVar me, getFlashVar doSomethingWithFlashVar(getFlashVar) end [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 Flash text box link not triggering Director behavior
Try it without the slashes; I wasn't thinking clearly, and they shouldn't be there: getURL(event: someLingoHandler( + var_someFlashVariable + )); or getURL(lingo: someLingoHandler( + var_someFlashVariable + )); Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Mendelsohn, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 2:35 PM Subject: RE: lingo-l Flash text box link not triggering Director behavior Hi Charlie... Thanks for responding. What you wrote below is precisely the problem I'm having. I thought you could put actionscript in the link there starting with event: to talk to the behavior attached to the sprite, but in Flash, escaped characters like \ cause the hyperlink text not to show up at all in the flash sprite. Any other thoughts? - Michael M. Try either of these in the Flash inside Director: getURL(event: someLingoHandler\( + var_someFlashVariable + \)); or getURL(lingo: someLingoHandler\( + var_someFlashVariable + \)); Then in Director: on someLingoHandler me, FlashVar doSomethingWithFlashVar(FlashVar) end [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 dynamic text fields, how-to...
That's exactly what I was talking about earlier. Erasing members at runtime leaves their memory unclaimable, so you get bloated files. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Daniel Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 6:06 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l dynamic text fields, how-to... Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: Members can be deleted dynamically during runtime, with member(x).erase(). From the docs: For best results, use this command during authoring and not in projectors, which can cause memory problems. Regards, Daniel [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [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 deleting from a text file with fileIO -is this a bug ?
Try this order and see if it helps: on exitFrame me schedulefile=new(xtra fileio) openFile(schedulefile, tempschedule.txt, 0) delete(schedulefile) createFile(schedulefile, tempschedule.txt) filestatus=status(schedulefile) alert schedulefile.error(filestatus) delete(schedulefile) closeFile(schedulefile) set schedulefile=0 end If you're trying to create a text file or other file for another program to read, then stick with FileIO. But if you're just trying to save out data that will only be accessed by your program, then I recommend using the PropSave xtra rather than FileIO. It easily saves out Director's native data types and reads them back in (so there's no converting needed). Also, using FileXtra4 for your file open dialogs and such might work better than the MUI xtra. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 [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 deleting from a text file with fileIO -is this a bug ?
I think the PropSave Xtra is one of the least known yet most useful secrets in all Xtra-dom. Because it saves and reads your Director data straight to disk, there's almost no chance of data loss, plus it's quick and easy. It's located at http://pimz.com/?id=xtrassection=propsave Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 [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 only erase in Internal castLib or
erase() does work in projectors, but there are several considerations. First, if the castLib you're deleting from is either in the projector or is protected or shocked, you won't be able to save the changes you make to the cast. Second, even if you have an unprotected/unshocked cast and use save(), you won't be able to regain the space left by the members you deleted. It seems elementary to be able to do so, but since in authoring mode the only function you can use to do so is Save and Compact, you can't do it at runtime because you can't compact. The result is that after creating and deleting members numerous times in a cast, it can become large and bloated. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Tony Åström [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 9:06 AM Subject: Re: lingo-l only erase in Internal castLib or I made this and in the author mode it erase all the members in the castLib all_folders . eraseMembers = findEmpty(member 1 of castLib all_folders) repeat with x = 1 to eraseMembers member(x, all_folders).erase() end repeat I hope that it also will work in the projector mode. /Tony tisdagen den 26 augusti 2003 kl 20.09 skrev Tony Åström: Hi List I create fields on the fly but can only erase them if they are stored in the Internal castLib, - findEmpty(member 1)-. I want to erase them in the all_folders castLib. How can I do this? repeat with i = 1 to baFolderList(gTextFolder).count newMember = new(#field, castLib (all_folders) ) newMember.name = score_ i end repeat TIA Tony [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 deleting from a text file with fileIO
When you attempt to delete the file, do you open the file first? The file has to be open in FileIO before you can delete it. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Lee Blinco [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 11:35 AM Subject: lingo-l deleting from a text file with fileIO Hi, i see that the only delete capabilities of FileIO is to delete the whole file, i need to rewrite a file with less data, so i thought delete the file and then create it again with the new data. I am having no success here though, i get a ' file exists' error if i try to create a file with the same name as the one i've just deleted, so i put the create file command someway down the timeline, tried repeat while the status 0 and even tried a timeout to make sure that the old file is definitely deleted , but all to no good my timeout just keeps saying that the file exists ! -- timeout function set schedulefile2 =new(xtra fileio) createFile(schedulefile2, schedule.txt) --openFile(schedulefile2, schedule.txt,0) filestatus = status(schedulefile2) alert string(filestatus) if filestatus = 0 then calendar_list_string = string(gcalendarlist) writeString( schedulefile2, calendar_list_string) timeout(fileTimer).forget() end if closeFile(schedulefile2) set schedulefile2=0 I'm sure that there must be a way to do this, a search on macromedias site said the way to shorten a file is to delete then recreate so does anyone have a working method for replacing the contents of a file with a shorter amount of data ie not leave unwanted extra characters when rewriting the file from the beginning. thanks a lot Lee Blinco Multimedia Developer AVR Productions +44 (0)1462 819603 [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 dynamic text fields, how-to...
Members can be deleted dynamically during runtime, with member(x).erase(). As another point, you can specify the member to be used when you create a new member, if you use new(#text, member(1, 3)) where 1 is the membernum and 3 is the castlibnum (you can use a castlib name, too); then you'll know which member number it is and in which cast it is. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Daniel Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 5:08 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l dynamic text fields, how-to... Dynamic member generation is fast enough. No need for asymmetry here. One note: create the dynamic members in a cast devoted to dynamic members. Then, during authoring, you can simply delete all the members in that cast without worrying about deleting other members. Note: Members cannot be dynamically deleted during runtime. As long as you don't save the cast in projector mode, they won't build up over time. Regards, Daniel [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [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 Projector vs. external cast
I'm not sure if this is your problem, but the only time I've found that you HAVE to include an external cast in the projector is if it contains elements that are present in frame 1 of your timeline. If the elements in an external cast aren't present on the main timeline until after frame 1, it should just load normally without needing to be included in the projector. Could this be your problem? Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Kristian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 8:55 AM Subject: RE: lingo-l Projector vs. external cast Hi again and thanks... seems strange to me that the only way to use external casts is to make a stub movie - is this assumption correct? But if this is the way to go I can live with that... Having the same trouble (not getting external casts to load) when using MIAW's that uses external casts... can't even get them to work during authoring (although they work separately - when not in the MIAW). Is there some good documentation regarding external cast issues on the web? Because the good old rtfm doesn't do it for me here... Another question has anyone worked with the CastControl Xtra? If so any specific issues (cross-platform or anything else) that is good to know? /Kristian -- Hi Kristian I have a project that uses external casts (I plan to use a stub projector in the end), but when I am trying to test the project it seems like the projector totally ignores the external casts. It works fine if I include them in the projector but then the point of having them external kinda vanishes. Does anyone have a solution or some tips to my problem? Authoring-environment works fine by the way. Make everything external: Create a stub movie, with the code: on startMovie go movie myMovie end Start movie Where myMovie is the movie you're working on now... ...And make a projector out of that. Question 2: Can I protect my *.cst-files? There are a couple of ways of doing it, my favourite is to convert them to shockwave (.dcr for .dir and .cct for .cst). These will behave like normal files when played within a projector. Just open your movie in director and hit the publish button on the taskbar (or select it from the file menu). The converted copies will appear in the same folder as the originals. You can also go to Xtras-Protect Movies and follow the instructions there, but then you have to be very careful with backing up your originals. Karina [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 Anyone know a good Flash list? - like lingo-L! and a Flash question...
Try Flasher-L. I haven't been on it long, but it seems like it's a good list. http://www.chinwag.com/flasher Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: AndreasT GaunitzT [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 9:03 AM Subject: lingo-l Anyone know a good Flash list? - like lingo-L! and a Flash question... I've recently been forced to do some Flash hacking. It's fun at times, dreadful at other times... I would say that the language itself and Flash' capabilities are fine. But the environment is programmer-unfriendly and counter productive. This leads me to the questions: 1) Do you happen to know a good list with Action-script programmers? Preferably exactly like lingo-L but for AS... (I've tried the Flash-Kit ones) 2) What external script editor do you use for AS and Mac-OS X? 3) Is there a way to search through every object on stage, or (even better) the whole movie, for setting a few properties? - Pretty much like you would in Lingo, looping through all the members or sprites. (I want to set all the text to selectable on a site with about 200 Flash movies.) Thank you for your time. -A. [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 detecting whether projector is running from write protected drive
You could also use FileXtra4 to do this same method (writing a file and then deleting it), and you can delete the file without opening it. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lingo-L Digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 7:34 AM Subject: lingo-l detecting whether projector is running from write protected drive Hi folks, I want to find out whether my projector is running from a write protected drive. I don't want to rely on Windows drive letters because I want a cross platform solution and in any case, an increasing number of people have more than one write protected drive on their windows box. (e.g. both a DVD and CD drive). This turned out to be trickier than I thought. I felt sure there would be some system property, or that buddyAPI or fileio would do it for me. In the end, I've opted for fileIO, but it's a bit messy. FileIO will not report an error if I try to open a file with the 'write' flag set to true, which strikes me as a bug. It will, however, cause an error if I try to create a file on a non-writable drive, although if the drive is writable, I then have to 'clean up' and remove the dummy file that got created, which requires also that I open it. (You can only delete a file that is open with fileIO). This seems like a lot of messing about, but it works. Here's my code, does anyone have a slicker approach? Suggestions for freeware xtras are welcome. on moviePathWritable f = new(xtra fileio) dummyFilePath = the moviepath zxxz.txt f.createFile(dummyFilePath) errCode = f.status() if errCode 0 then -- some error, assume that disk can not be written to return false end if f.openfile(dummyFilePath, 0) f.delete() return true end Brennan [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [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 Archives?
Try right-clicking on a list message, then select properties, and go to the details tab. The headers should be displayed there. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Kerry Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 3:16 PM Subject: RE: lingo-l Archives? everyone in unison: It's in the header of every email from the list! http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/archives/lingo-l/ Thanks. Now, if I could just get Outlook to show the headers like a real e-mail program, I'd be set ^_^ 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: lingo-l List bracket access
You're getting the same results from both examples. You're getting the value of the first property. In pl, the property is 31, and if you notice, you're not getting it returned. Likewise, with vpl, you're not getting the property returned, either. From what I understand, using getPropAt is the only way of obtaining the property name and value pair. If you don't need to access the data via property names, (i.e. vpl.TB199), then it would be easiest to just nest each entry inside another list, such as: vpl=[[TB199:[135, 137, 0, 0, 0, 0]], [TB53:[138, 158, 11, 92, 0, 0]]] But then I'm not sure why you'd want to use the property structure like you have it. You might want to do something like this: vpl=[[#name: TB199, #data: [135, 137, 0, 0, 0, 0]], [#name: TB53, #data: [138, 158, 11, 92, 0, 0]]] Then you can retrieve an entire entry by using vpl[1] or you could get just the name or data with vpl[1].name or vpl[1].data. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Kerry Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 12:41 PM Subject: lingo-l List bracket access I'm trying to retrieve a sub-list from a property list. My property list looks something like this: vpl= [TB199: [135, 137, 0, 0, 0, 0], TB53: [138, 158, 11, 92, 0, 0]] I though when I did bracket access, e.g. pl[1], I would get the first element in the list. In this case, TB199: [135, 137, 0, 0, 0, 0] But I'm not. I'm getting the value, i.e., [135, 137, 0, 0, 0, 0] What's really confusing me is that I'm getting what I expect from a higher-order list. In the example above, vpl is actually derived from a larger list which looks like this: pl = [31: [TB199: [135, 137, 81, 114, 0, 0], TB53: [138, 158, 81, 114, 0, 0]], n31: [TB199: [135, 137, 0, 0, 0, 0], TB53: [138, 158, 11, 92, 0, 0]]] In that case, pl[1] is [TB199: [135, 137, 81, 114, 0, 0], TB53: [138, 158, 81, 114, 0, 0]] So, how do I get the entire first element--the property list--from vpl? Do I have to cobble it together with getPropAt and bracket access (or getAt)? 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: lingo-l Fwd: ipix
I've used the PC version. I got a free copy right before they stopped distributing it by itself. It supposedly included a mac version, too, but the CD didn't include it. It worked well, but you have to put the xtra in an external Xtras folder; it won't work if you try to include it in the projector. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: nik crosina [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 9:21 AM Subject: lingo-l Fwd: ipix Hi I am just wondering: Has anyone used the iPix Xtra before? On their web site it says that they don't sell it anymore (but it seems come as standard part of the pro-ipix app). Also, is this crossplatform or just Mac? Thanks for the help!! Nik ___ What is the only mammal which can fly? Find out at postmaster.co.uk http://www.postmaster.co.uk/cgi-bin/meme/quiz.pl?id=202 [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 re: editable of member
I agree, mostly. I tend to use it if I'm altering stuff on stage that might bog down memory on slower machines, because it seems that slower machines sometimes have trouble compositing the stage correctly in low memory situations unless an updateStage() is forced. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Kevin McFarland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 12:25 PM Subject: lingo-l re: editable of member Sometimes updateStage() helps, even if it shouldn't be needed. It's over-used. Whenever I come across code with updateStage commands sprinkled liberally throughout, I become less sure that the author really understood how director works (event messaging, hierarchy etc). Now having said that, yes, every once in a blue moon there might be those oddball situations where it helps. But in general, IMO it's oftentimes used as a hedge for ignorance. [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 Editable of member
Have you included updateStage() calls after you change the editable properties of the fields? It seems like that might be the problem. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Teo Petralia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 2:21 AM Subject: lingo-l Editable of member Hi All! Something weird is happening. I'm working on a Macintosh computer running OSX using Director MX. I have got several fields on a screen and when I click on one of them I disable all the other (false) and I make the one where the user click active (true). Now everything is fine if I click always on a different one, instead if I click on a previously clicked one it doesn't work. Example: First I click on sprite 6 (where there is a field) and the field became editable and all the rest are not editable, then I click on the sprite 7 (another field) and this became editable and all the others became not, also the sprite number 6, but if now I click on sprite 6 again the sprite doesn't became editable. Also if at this point I click on a Director window like the message window or the score window and comeback to the stage window the sprite became editable. Does anyone come across a similar problem? Thanks for any advice Teo [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 re: Editable of member
Sometimes updateStage() helps, even if it shouldn't be needed. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Kevin McFarland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 3:21 PM Subject: lingo-l re: Editable of member Have you included updateStage() calls after you change the editable properties of the fields? It seems like that might be the problem. Wouldn't the editable property of a field work just like its text property? (i.e. would get updated immediately, no updateStage required) [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 rounding numbers....
It might have been different before the last couple of Director releases, but every time I've tested it recently, the integer() function rounds normally, both up and down. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Tab Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 8:04 AM Subject: Re: lingo-l rounding numbers The integer() function in Lingo happens to round UP (some languages it rounds down, or just acts as a trunc() (truncate) function. Lingo doesn't have a truncate function. To round up, just do: result =integer(myNumber) To round down, you have to subtract .5: result =integer(myNumber - .5) So since you're going up, just use the integer() function. - Tab At 07:13 AM 6/17/03, Chris Aernoudt wrote: Hi, Silly question; i need to round a number to the next integer... I'd use ceil(), but since lingo seems to lack actual rounding functions... How do you generally do this??? I thought of checking the first decimal for 0, adding 1 if so, setting the floatprecision to 0, converting to a string and back to a number, but that seems really messy for something this stupid... Thanks, Chris. [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 MUI Xtra on OSX
That did it! I didn't know there weren't supposed to be brackets around that property; it works that way on Windows... Thanks so much! I was going crazy trying to figure out what was wrong! Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Alex da Franca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 2:33 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l MUI Xtra on OSX At 13:05 Uhr -0400 12.06.2003, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: widget.attributes=[#popupStyle:[#normal],#valueList:[1,2,3],#layoutStyle:[# centerH]] try a symbol as parameter for #popupstyle instead of a list: widget.attributes=[#popupStyle:#normal,#valueList:[1,2,3],#layoutStyle:[#cen terH]] it's the only thing, which doesn't look familiar in your handler -- ||| a¿ex -- [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [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 MUI Xtra on OSX
Here's some test code I tried in a movie script that still doesn't work, even though it's just a popup List in a window, nothing else: global gMUI on startMovie me gMUI=new(xtra MUI) if not(objectP(gMUI)) then gMUI=0 alert ERROR: Xtra instance failure halt end if -- lsWindow=gMUI.getWindowPropList() lsWindow.name=My Dialog Box lsWindow.callback=myCallback lsWindow.xPosition=-1 lsWindow.yPosition=-1 lsWindow.width=0 lsWindow.height=0 -- lsDialog=[] -- formatter=gMUI.getItemPropList() formatter.type=#windowBegin lsDialog.append(formatter.duplicate()) -- widget=gMUI.getItemPropList() widget.type=#PopupList widget.attributes=[#popupStyle:[#normal],#valueList:[1,2,3],#layoutStyle:[#c enterH]] widget.value=1 lsDialog.append(widget.duplicate()) -- formatter=gMUI.getItemPropList() formatter.type=#windowEnd lsDialog.append(formatter.duplicate()) -- initialize gMUI, [#windowPropList:lsWindow, #windowItemList:lsDialog] run gMUI end I do everything exactly like it says in the articles and documentation I have, but it doesn't work. I did try a dialog box without a popup list, with only a text label and OK and Cancel buttons, and it worked fine. But as soon as I added the popupList, the whole window wouldn't work. This happened to me earlier on Windows, and I discovered it was because my attributes list for the popupList wasn't formatted correctly, but this time it is formatted correctly, at least according to the documentation. Could anybody test the above code on MX, OSX and see if they can get it to work? Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 [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 MUI Xtra on OSX
Has anybody used the MUI Xtra on OSX? I'm trying to port an app I created on Windows to OSX and the MUI is the only thing not working. The Xtra is initialized fine and I set up the dialog, but the initialize() and run() functions don't do anything, as if there's no Xtra really there. It does this in authoring and projector mode. I've tried a couple of different types of dialogs, but still to no avail. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 [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 MUI Xtra on OSX
I had the same problems in 8.5, and I double checked the Xtra version, and it is the MX xtra. Here's the code I'm using to build the dialog box. It works fine on Windows: gMUI=0 gMUI=xtra(MUI).new() lwindow=gMUI.GetWindowPropList() lwindow.name=Programs lwindow.callback=chooseProgramCallback lwindow.mode=#Data lwindow.xPosition=-1 lwindow.yPosition=-1 lwindow.width=300 lwindow.height=150 lwindow.closebox=true -- litem1=gMUI.GetItemPropList() litem1.type=#windowBegin -- litem2=gMUI.GetItemPropList() litem2.type=#groupVBegin -- litem3=gMUI.GetItemPropList() litem3.type=#label litem3.value=Choose a program: -- litem4=gMUI.GetItemPropList() litem4.type=#PopupList LProgramList=gProgramList.duplicate() LProgramList.addAt(1, ) litem4.attributes=[#popupStyle:[#normal], #valueList:LProgramList, #layoutStyle:[#centerH]] litem4.value=LProgramList[1] litem4.title=programListPopup -- litem45=gMUI.GetItemPropList() litem45.type=#groupHBegin -- litem5=gMUI.GetItemPropList() litem5.type=#defaultPushButton litem5.title=OK -- litem53=gMUI.GetItemPropList() litem53.type=#pushButton litem53.title=Cancel -- litem57=gMUI.GetItemPropList() litem57.type=#groupHEnd -- litem6=gMUI.GetItemPropList() litem6.type=#groupVEnd -- litem7=gMUI.GetItemPropList() litem7.type=#windowEnd -- ldialogItems=[litem1, litem2, litem3, litem4, litem45, litem5, litem53, litem57, litem6, litem7] -- gMUI.initialize([#windowPropList : lwindow , #windowItemList : ldialogItems]) gMUI.run() gMUI=0 I've run the debugger and can see that the Xtra appears to be instantiating itself, but that's as much as I can tell. The initialize() and run() functions fail silently. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Tab Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Lingo-L Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 12:55 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l MUI Xtra on OSX Works fine for me - just tried a quick fileOpen, and then an alert with an alert list. Didn't try building a whole one from scratch, though. Does your same code work properly in D8.5? At 12:24 PM 6/11/03, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: Has anybody used the MUI Xtra on OSX? I'm trying to port an app I created on Windows to OSX and the MUI is the only thing not working. The Xtra is initialized fine and I set up the dialog, but the initialize() and run() functions don't do anything, as if there's no Xtra really there. It does this in authoring and projector mode. I've tried a couple of different types of dialogs, but still to no avail. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 [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 MUI Xtra on OSX
I forgot to add that gProgramList that's duplicated below is a list of strings. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Charlie Fiskeaux II [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 2:20 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l MUI Xtra on OSX I had the same problems in 8.5, and I double checked the Xtra version, and it is the MX xtra. Here's the code I'm using to build the dialog box. It works fine on Windows: gMUI=0 gMUI=xtra(MUI).new() lwindow=gMUI.GetWindowPropList() lwindow.name=Programs lwindow.callback=chooseProgramCallback lwindow.mode=#Data lwindow.xPosition=-1 lwindow.yPosition=-1 lwindow.width=300 lwindow.height=150 lwindow.closebox=true -- litem1=gMUI.GetItemPropList() litem1.type=#windowBegin -- litem2=gMUI.GetItemPropList() litem2.type=#groupVBegin -- litem3=gMUI.GetItemPropList() litem3.type=#label litem3.value=Choose a program: -- litem4=gMUI.GetItemPropList() litem4.type=#PopupList LProgramList=gProgramList.duplicate() LProgramList.addAt(1, ) litem4.attributes=[#popupStyle:[#normal], #valueList:LProgramList, #layoutStyle:[#centerH]] litem4.value=LProgramList[1] litem4.title=programListPopup -- litem45=gMUI.GetItemPropList() litem45.type=#groupHBegin -- litem5=gMUI.GetItemPropList() litem5.type=#defaultPushButton litem5.title=OK -- litem53=gMUI.GetItemPropList() litem53.type=#pushButton litem53.title=Cancel -- litem57=gMUI.GetItemPropList() litem57.type=#groupHEnd -- litem6=gMUI.GetItemPropList() litem6.type=#groupVEnd -- litem7=gMUI.GetItemPropList() litem7.type=#windowEnd -- ldialogItems=[litem1, litem2, litem3, litem4, litem45, litem5, litem53, litem57, litem6, litem7] -- gMUI.initialize([#windowPropList : lwindow , #windowItemList : ldialogItems]) gMUI.run() gMUI=0 I've run the debugger and can see that the Xtra appears to be instantiating itself, but that's as much as I can tell. The initialize() and run() functions fail silently. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Tab Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Lingo-L Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 12:55 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l MUI Xtra on OSX Works fine for me - just tried a quick fileOpen, and then an alert with an alert list. Didn't try building a whole one from scratch, though. Does your same code work properly in D8.5? At 12:24 PM 6/11/03, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: Has anybody used the MUI Xtra on OSX? I'm trying to port an app I created on Windows to OSX and the MUI is the only thing not working. The Xtra is initialized fine and I set up the dialog, but the initialize() and run() functions don't do anything, as if there's no Xtra really there. It does this in authoring and projector mode. I've tried a couple of different types of dialogs, but still to no avail. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 [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: lingo-l Including Flash asset
I had a similar problem; when I had downloaded the Shockwave plugin more recently than the Flash plugin, everything worked fine, but then I updated the Flash plugin to the newest point revision, and I could no longer view Flash files, so I had to go reinstall the Shockwave plugin, and then I could view Flash files again... Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Luke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 12:12 AM Subject: Re: lingo-l Including Flash asset This is probably an age-old question, but still: I'm getting this This application requires an Xtra (Vector Shape) that either does not exist or failed to initialize properly - message with a shockwave movie containing vector elements. Hi, Just wondering... did your shockwave plugin update itself recently? My PC recently updated its shockwave plugin and broke something (the Flash Xtra I think) - no Flash or vector members would draw properly and I got an error message about a missing Xtra... I had to un-install Shockwave and re-install it again. A real pain. Just wondering if anyone else experienced this? Luke [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 =VOID vs. voidP
Given the debate about the value of VOID, here's a similar question. Is there any difference between the following two conditions? if voidP(myVariable) then... if myVariable=VOID then... I've always used the latter without any buggy results, but is it proper? Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 [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 Video / Platforms in Director
We always use Sorenson 3 for cross platform projects, but another possibility is MPEG, because it's native on both platforms. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message - From: Dan Sheridan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 6:25 AM Subject: lingo-l Video / Platforms in Director Hi, Just looking to find information on what set-ups people use for compressing digital video and using in director. At the moment we use Final Cut Pro / Digital Voodoo card for Capturing from Digi-Beta, and Discreet Cleaner 5 for compression with the Sorenson Codec. Could anyone suggest any alternative codecs to use, and or systems for capturing / compression for use in Director 8.5 Cross platform projects! Kind Regards, Dan ;) [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 Image size
I'm not sure what Photoshop you're using... Photoshop 7 (and all the other versions I've used since 3) discards the alpha channel when saving as a JPEG. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message - From: Buzz Kettles [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 5:17 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l Image size JPEG is an RGB format - Save As JPEG from Photoshop (and others) causes the alpha to be applied into the RGB channels before compression outputting. Director also uses it's loss-less 'standard' compression on the alpha channel so that it doesn't get JPEG-shmeared. The expanded RGB alpha get recombined when played back. Note: Director can Import 4-channel (RGB+A) Photoshop files w/o the Photocaster Xtra Director has included the Photoshop 3.0 Import Xtra for this since d6. It's in the \Xtras\Mix\ folder. Photocaster is for importing multi-LAYER documents into sequential cast member slots hth -Buzz Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message - From: Phil Gross [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 10:57 AM Subject: Re: lingo-l Image size Actually, to get the best quality images with the smallest filesize, do your compression in Photoshop or Fireworks or some application designed for such compression. Compressing images in Director is OK, and easy, but not ideal. If you import a compressed image, it will look big in Director while you are authoring, but will be the compressed size in your projector or Shockwave movie. If you use Director's compression, you will get some images looking better than others. Do check the Lingo-l archives, there are some good explanations of this. =Phil Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: To get the best quality images with the smallest filesize, you should leave the ones you're importing uncompressed, then when you import them, set their compression to JPEG and a quality around 60 or 70 (or lower if space is a premium), then when you create the projector, make sure to check the compress media box, and it will use your JPEG settings inside Director to compress the images. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message - From: Tab Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Mailinglist Lingo eng. 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 9:07 AM Subject: Re: lingo-l Image size At 08:37 AM 3/26/03, Alex wrote: Quick simple question that is bugging me, I have a series of Jpg images that in the windows folder register as being 12k in size the biggest ones being 96k. When I import them into Director each of the images shoot up to a massive 1.8mb in size? I wonder why it does that? Does it convert the jpg's from a compressed format to a bitmap or something??? That's it exactly. Director expands them in memory to be uncompressed. If you need to reduce it, consider changing the color quality from, say, 32-bit to 24 bit or 16-bit. - Tab [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!] [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
Re: lingo-l Image size
All in all, it saves a lot of time and headache to use Photocaster. It's not that expensive, and it allows you to pop your entire photoshop file into Director instantly, preserving every beautiful alpha channel exactly as it is in Photoshop. The biggest benefit, though, is the time it saves, keeping you from having to save out every layer as a separate image. (I realize that this can be done more easily with Fireworks than with Photoshop, but that still takes a couple of extra steps.) Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message - From: Brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 2:48 AM Subject: Re: lingo-l Image size On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 14:17:06 -0800, Buzz Kettles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note: Director can Import 4-channel (RGB+A) Photoshop files w/o the Photocaster Xtra Director has included the Photoshop 3.0 Import Xtra for this since d6. It's in the \Xtras\Mix\ folder. ... but this Xtra has an important bug: Photoshop RGB+A images are premultiplied with white, so any images imported in this way have a soft, milky halo around them. http://www.director-online.com/howTo/UD_articles/UD58/images/Fig2_sta.jpg After Effects offers 'premultiply' as a switchable option. Photoshop does not. (Stupid, stupid, stupid). This problem is discussed at length here: http://www.director-online.com/accessArticle.cfm?id=290 Basically these are the steps for doing it 'properly': 1) Make sure you Photoshop file has one layer (with transparency) 2) Load the transparency information (Select-Load Selection) 3) Save the selection in an alpha channel (Select-Save Selection) (Ensure that you only have ONE alpha channel) 4) Run 'Filter Factory' with settings R: r G: g B: b A: 255 ... or just download the ready-made plugin from the DOUG article and use that. 5) The image now looks HORRIBLE, but don't despair. It will come out alright. 6) FLATTEN the image (very important) 7) Save and import into Director and wonder at its beauty. Brennan [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [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 registration point
I'm not sure why, but here's a workaround. Put a behavior on the sprite you want to change the regpoint of, with this handler: (with sample values to be used if the video is 320x240, for example) on getLoc me tempH = sprite(me.spritenum).locH-160 tempV = sprite(me.spritenum).locV-120 return (tempH, tempV) end Then you can use the following code instead of the standard .loc property to get the new adjusted loc: sprite(x).getLoc() You can do something similar if you want to use an adjusted loc to set the sprite's position, too. Put this in the sprite's behavior: on setLoc me, destLoc tempH = destLoc[1]-pOffsetH tempV = destLoc[2]-pOffsetV sprite(me.spritenum).loc = point(tempH,tempV) end Then you can change the sprite's location with this: sprite(1).setLoc(point(0,0)) You might even want to use this behavior to have only one place to change the offset values: property pOffsetH, pOffsetV on beginSprite me pOffsetH = -160 pOffsetV = -120 end on getLoc me tempH = sprite(me.spritenum).locH+pOffsetH tempV = sprite(me.spritenum).locV+pOffsetV return point(tempH,tempV) end on setLoc me, destLoc tempH = destLoc[1]-pOffsetH tempV = destLoc[2]-pOffsetV sprite(me.spritenum).loc = point(tempH,tempV) end Or if you want to always reset the object's loc to the upper left corner, just use this behavior: property pOffsetH, pOffsetV on beginSprite me pOffsetH = -(sprite(me.spritenum).width/2) pOffsetV = -(sprite(me.spritenum).height/2) end on getLoc me tempH = sprite(me.spritenum).locH+pOffsetH tempV = sprite(me.spritenum).locV+pOffsetV return point(tempH,tempV) end on setLoc me, destLoc tempH = destLoc[1]-pOffsetH tempV = destLoc[2]-pOffsetV sprite(me.spritenum).loc = point(tempH,tempV) end Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message - From: Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mailinglist Lingo eng. 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 1:25 PM Subject: lingo-l registration point i already tried on startMovie me member(videomembername).regPoint = point (0, 0) end but nothing happend. That only works with images why? Tanx Alex [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 Image size
To get the best quality images with the smallest filesize, you should leave the ones you're importing uncompressed, then when you import them, set their compression to JPEG and a quality around 60 or 70 (or lower if space is a premium), then when you create the projector, make sure to check the compress media box, and it will use your JPEG settings inside Director to compress the images. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message - From: Tab Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Mailinglist Lingo eng. 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 9:07 AM Subject: Re: lingo-l Image size At 08:37 AM 3/26/03, Alex wrote: Quick simple question that is bugging me, I have a series of Jpg images that in the windows folder register as being 12k in size the biggest ones being 96k. When I import them into Director each of the images shoot up to a massive 1.8mb in size? I wonder why it does that? Does it convert the jpg's from a compressed format to a bitmap or something??? That's it exactly. Director expands them in memory to be uncompressed. If you need to reduce it, consider changing the color quality from, say, 32-bit to 24 bit or 16-bit. - Tab [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 Image size
Honestly, I can't tell that much difference in quality between Photoshop's JPEGs and Director's, at least when photographic images are used. The chief benefit of JPEGing in Director, in my opinion, is that you can import images with alpha channels (TIFs, Photoshop files through photocaster)) and JPEG them afterward, but you can't have alpha channels in JPEGs. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message - From: Phil Gross [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 10:57 AM Subject: Re: lingo-l Image size Actually, to get the best quality images with the smallest filesize, do your compression in Photoshop or Fireworks or some application designed for such compression. Compressing images in Director is OK, and easy, but not ideal. If you import a compressed image, it will look big in Director while you are authoring, but will be the compressed size in your projector or Shockwave movie. If you use Director's compression, you will get some images looking better than others. Do check the Lingo-l archives, there are some good explanations of this. =Phil Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: To get the best quality images with the smallest filesize, you should leave the ones you're importing uncompressed, then when you import them, set their compression to JPEG and a quality around 60 or 70 (or lower if space is a premium), then when you create the projector, make sure to check the compress media box, and it will use your JPEG settings inside Director to compress the images. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message - From: Tab Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Mailinglist Lingo eng. 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 9:07 AM Subject: Re: lingo-l Image size At 08:37 AM 3/26/03, Alex wrote: Quick simple question that is bugging me, I have a series of Jpg images that in the windows folder register as being 12k in size the biggest ones being 96k. When I import them into Director each of the images shoot up to a massive 1.8mb in size? I wonder why it does that? Does it convert the jpg's from a compressed format to a bitmap or something??? That's it exactly. Director expands them in memory to be uncompressed. If you need to reduce it, consider changing the color quality from, say, 32-bit to 24 bit or 16-bit. - Tab [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: lingo-l Carriage return using numeric keypad ENTER key
You're not addressing the member correctly. By using sprite(the currentSpriteNum).member you get this result: member x of castlib y try this: on keyDown me if the key=RETURN then member(sprite(the currentSpriteNum).membernum).text=member(sprite(the currentSpriteNum).membernum).text RETURN else pass end if end Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message - From: Alan Neilsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 11:51 PM Subject: lingo-l Carriage return using numeric keypad ENTER key Hi Can anyone help with a piece of lingo that will make the Enter key on a Windows numeric keypad work as a carriage return in an editable text box. I have tried a number of things such as - on keyDown me if the key = ENTER then set member(sprite(the currentSpriteNum).member).text = member(sprite(the currentSpriteNum).member).text RETURN -- (I also tried just the word RETURN or RETURN in lieu of the above line) else pass end if end Director help tells me - On PC keyboards, the element ENTER refers only to the Enter key on the numeric keypad. and The RETURN Constant; represents a carriage return. All I am able to get this key to do thus far is place a square box (unknown character) in the text. 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!] [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 Carriage return using numeric keypad ENTER key
A better way to do it would also be to use the put...after terminology (and you can compress the member reference, too): on keyDown me if the key=RETURN then put RETURN after sprite(the currentSpritenum).member.text else pass end if end Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message - From: Charlie Fiskeaux II [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 10:43 AM Subject: Re: lingo-l Carriage return using numeric keypad ENTER key You're not addressing the member correctly. By using sprite(the currentSpriteNum).member you get this result: member x of castlib y try this: on keyDown me if the key=RETURN then member(sprite(the currentSpriteNum).membernum).text=member(sprite(the currentSpriteNum).membernum).text RETURN else pass end if end Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message - From: Alan Neilsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 11:51 PM Subject: lingo-l Carriage return using numeric keypad ENTER key Hi Can anyone help with a piece of lingo that will make the Enter key on a Windows numeric keypad work as a carriage return in an editable text box. I have tried a number of things such as - on keyDown me if the key = ENTER then set member(sprite(the currentSpriteNum).member).text = member(sprite(the currentSpriteNum).member).text RETURN -- (I also tried just the word RETURN or RETURN in lieu of the above line) else pass end if end Director help tells me - On PC keyboards, the element ENTER refers only to the Enter key on the numeric keypad. and The RETURN Constant; represents a carriage return. All I am able to get this key to do thus far is place a square box (unknown character) in the text. 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!] [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 object inspector window
I have a related question; how is the object inspector used to watch variables when the movie is running? I know to see the inside of a 3D member I have to drag it to the object inspector, but I can't find information anywhere on how to use the object inspector to watch variables and such. How is this done? Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 2:27 AM Subject: lingo-l object inspector window hey - is there a way to unfold ALL items of an object? I've got a list of proplists I'd like to unfold... I should say this works on the mac - option-clicking on the main triangle, like the finder - but can't find the same on the pc. [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 window title bar
The way I did it once was by tracking the mouse's loc and changing the stage's rect accordingly. Find the rect when the mouse is clicked, then every so often check the mouse loc and if it has changed, get the difference between the new loc and old loc. Then use this difference to change the rect of the stage. Lingo you'll need to use: the mouseH the mouseV (the stage).rect Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 11:19 AM Subject: Re: lingo-l window title bar I know of the windowtype = integer that lets you specify window setup, but thats for miaw's. You might try removing the title bar altogether and creating your own custom title bar within the projector. You can use buddy api xtra to minimize/maximize and alow user to move your projector. I seem to remember there being a non-xtra way to move a window with out a title bar but when i checked i couldn't find it. --jR In a message dated 3/17/2003 2:33:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, Andrew Dempsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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!] [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 sprite().member
sprite(59).member = myCastMemberName will change the member of a sprite. If you want to change the name of a sprite's member, use this: sprite(59).member.name = myCastMemberName Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message - From: Simon Wheatley (lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lingo-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 3:05 PM Subject: lingo-l sprite().member Hello Is it possible to get the text name of a cast member? Ie I can say: sprite(59).member = myCastMemberName Can I then extract myCastMemberName given a sprite channel number? Thanks Simon [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 sprite().member
sprite(59).member.name=myCastMemberName put sprite(59).member.name -- myCastMemberName Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message - From: Simon Wheatley (lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 3:39 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l sprite().member Sorry, this is badly explained. I want to be able to do this: sprite(59).member = myCastMemberName put sprite(59).someProperty -- myCastMemberName - Original Message - From: Simon Wheatley (lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lingo-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 8:05 PM Subject: lingo-l sprite().member Hello Is it possible to get the text name of a cast member? Ie I can say: sprite(59).member = myCastMemberName Can I then extract myCastMemberName given a sprite channel number? Thanks Simon [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 OK to go from 8.0 to MX?
It's the only major difference besides the upgraded Flash integration. The other significant differences are the speech xtra, and UI changes, as well as adding editing integration with the other MX apps. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message - From: Fletcher Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 4:48 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l OK to go from 8.0 to MX? I began writing an app in Mx and was forced to move it to 8.5. To my surprise, 8.5 was able to open the MX file, and everything worked just as it had in MX. I wonder if maybe native OSX support is the only difference? f on 3/11/03 3:16 PM, Cole Tierney at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting ready to go prime time with a Director app written in 8.0 - does anyone see a reason why I shouldn't create the projector using MX? Would your answer hold true for both Mac and PC? Depends on your audience. The biggest benefit for the mac side is native support for MacOSX, which is becoming increasingly important. [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 Writing to the Windows registry
When you launch Acrobat, launch it with a /s parameter, and it will launch without a splash screen. c:\acrobat.exe /s d:\yourfile.pdfor just c:\acrobat.exe /s Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:16 AM Subject: lingo-l Writing to the Windows registry Hi all, I have a question about writing to the Windows registry on Windows 2000. I'm using PDF Xtra, but I am trying to prevent the splash screen from appearing when Acrobat first loads up. I'm using the script: result = baWriteRegString( Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\5.0\AdobeViewer, DisplayAboutDialog, 0, HKEY_CURRENT_USER ) but it doesn't seem to alter the registry correctly. I know I'm altering the right key, because if I do it manually (ie through Registry Editor) then it works properly and sets the value to 0, but when I do it with this script it jumps to some other value (hex 0x30) Anyone done anything like this before that can help? many thanks in advance Chris _ The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. [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 URGENT - creating screen saver from .dir movie
There's a free one called EXE Screen Saver Maker that will make a screen saver from any executable file on Windows. I've used it and it works well. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message - From: nik crosina [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 6:25 AM Subject: lingo-l URGENT - creating screen saver from .dir movie Hi , An urgent question: Just got a call from a client who wants to turn an existing .dir movie (a linear presentation) into a screen saver for a trade show. I know there are Xtras (? or utilities) out there that do the job. They usually also convert flash files. As I am tryoing to research which on eis best, does anyone have already got positive or negative experiences with any of them? quick thoughts extremely appreciated!! thanks nik [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 icon question
I just used Microangelo a few weeks ago and it worked fine on XP Pro. Do you have the latest version? Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 3:35 PM Subject: lingo-l icon question What's the best way of changing icons for a pc projector? I've used microangelo in the past, but it seems to kill projectors now... [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [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 icon question
5.5 is the latest version. What types of icons did you add to the projector? (color depth, transparency depth, etc.) Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 4:28 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l icon question It's 5. something, right? Always seemed to hose the projectors... On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: I just used Microangelo a few weeks ago and it worked fine on XP Pro. Do you have the latest version? Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 3:35 PM Subject: lingo-l icon question What's the best way of changing icons for a pc projector? I've used microangelo in the past, but it seems to kill projectors now... [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [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 symbol(s01.mp3) vs. symbol(01.mp3)
yes, it is automatically converted to a symbol. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message - From: Robert Tweed [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 2:55 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l symbol(s01.mp3) vs. symbol(01.mp3) - Original Message - From: Slava Paperno [EMAIL PROTECTED] I use symbol(MyFilename) as a property in a list. You know that you can use a string as a list index? i.e.: files = [:] files[ somefile.mp3 ] = whatever - Robert [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 weird bit o' lingo
try this: put a into value(theMember.line[1]) Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 2:08 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l weird bit o' lingo ...but I am? Figured it out, but curious as to what you meant by member.char[], when I am doing (member 1 of castlib 9).char[30], etc. On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Buzz Kettles wrote: you are trying to substitute characters? any reason why you're not using member.char[] ? -Buzz At 1:08 AM -0600 2/25/03, you wrote: Ok, so I've got all this text in one movie, english and spanish. The spanish version of the text has some odd non-english (?) characters that aren't displaying themselves properly in a flash movie. I've successfully ripped through all the text, making lists of all the weird characters, ie a cast with a new member for each character...ie member(å) (-- if that shows up) with a list such as this: (member 98 of castLib 4).char[66] (member 99 of castLib 4).char[60] (member 100 of castLib 4).char[66] (member 105 of castLib 4).char[105] (member 105 of castLib 4).char[160] (member 105 of castLib 4).char[237] (member 105 of castLib 4).char[260] now I can easily do something like put value(theMember.line[1]) line 1 being the (member 98 of castLib 4).char[66] above -- and this puts out the weird character that I found. But I'm now trying to write a script that I can repeat each line and flip that chacter to one I request, ie a instead of the å. I've tried set value(theMember.line[1]) to a -- no go value(theMember.line[1] = quote a quote) -- no command and do (themember.line[1] = quote a quote) but that doesn't work either what am I missing? [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: lingo-l Re: Binary files
I would guess that 8.5 crashed because of the MX Flash Xtras; 8.5 doesn't support Flash MX. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message - From: Kyle Smeby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 11:27 AM Subject: Re: lingo-l Re: Binary files You must be on Mac, because it loads OK under WinMX now. Yup, I'm developing on Mac OS X. I had an OS 9 box just for Director, but when I got MX we converted that into another OS X machine for our conference room. This means I could end up developing on our old OS 9 test machine which is a G3 upgrade (that would really suck). Earlier in the project I tried opening the file in Director 8.5 on one of out Windows test machines. It would open, but it would crash shortly after that. The only Xtras I'm using right now are FileXtra (4 on Mac, 3 on Windows), FileIO, and the Flash related Xtras. No MX specific Lingo that I'm aware of. If anyone is curious I am concatenating binary files, and FileIO works just fine, except for the numToChar(0) or end-of-string character which truncates the file I'm appending to the base file. If anyone has any other work arounds for this I'd love to hear them. thanks, kyle [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 playing more than 8 sounds
I'm finishing a 16 channel mixer application, and have been using QT audio to get 16 separate channels of audio, and was wondering if there's any other way to do this. I thought about using L R of the 8 sound channels, but that's a lot more difficult to implement than QT because of having to calculate pan settings, etc., and not as flexible. I don't think there's any other way, but can someone prove me wrong? Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 [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 sound loops
www.flashkit.com Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message - From: JerryZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 2:55 AM Subject: lingo-l sound loops Does any one have any favorite sites of sound loops for presentation music? [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 fastest computer system for Director applications
It seems that the stability depends on the user. Everyone has different computing habits, and some people's habits tend to make the computer unstable. I've seen this on both Macs and PCs. It's worse on a computer that is used by multiple people. Since I've switched to Windows XP, I've noticed that it's incredibly more stable then previous versions of Windows. Of course, this can change depending on what third party utilities you install. Most of the instability in Windows is because of poor programming of third party apps, it's not the fault of Windows itself. You're bound to get crappy programming sometimes with so many apps available on the internet. As far as affordability goes, I would definitely go with a custom built PC, but I wouldn't go with a major manufacturer. Me and my family members have ordered several custom PCs from http://www.acicomputerstore.com (go to the configurator), and they've always been top notch (they do assembly and burn-in before they ship them). Just recently I got a new PC from there for $1300 with the following specs: - Case with 300W power supply - Gigabyte mother board with front USB 2.0 ports - Athlon XP 2400 (runs at 2.0 GHz, and is as fast as a Pentium4 2.4 GHz) - 1 GB 266 DDR RAM - 80 GB ATA 133 IDE hard drive (7200 rpm) - DVD-R/RW superdrive (Toshiba) - Galaxy GeForce4 video card (AGP 2x/4x) with 64 MB DDR video RAM - Win XP Pro - floppy drive - cheap sound card and speakers If you dropped the superdrive, upgraded the video card to an 8x AGP card with more memory, and used a Pentium 4 at 2.4 or 2.54 GHz (to take advantage of the faster front side bus speeds), you could get a blazing system for around $1500. I wouldn't go for a 3 GHz processor because they're still very expensive. That's the best of both speed and cost. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 [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!]
