RE: BUDDY API BUG -- NOOOOOOOOOOO!!
This may or not be related, but I have noticed that sometimes Buddy API returns 0 for baFileExists() even when its there. Have not narrowed down why yet (path length, folder depth, etc) but it may be related if the Xtra uses the same function internally to validate files. -Chuck -- Chuck Neal CEO, MediaMacros, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediamacros.com -- Check out the Developers Mall Your one stop shop for all your Director Xtra Needs http://www.mediamacros.net/customer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Ingrum Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 9:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: BUDDY API BUG -- NOOO!! OK, now you've got us confused- hmmm... seems to work for me (win2k, buddy 3.7- now with the MUCH BETTER non-swf help document) longFolder="d:\1dir\2dir\3dir\4dir\5dir\6dir\7dir\" aFile="afile.txt" put bafileexists(longFolder&aFile) --1 put baopenfile(longFolder&aFile,"normal") --44 (no error, opened fine) put bafolderexists(longFolder) --1 newFolder="d:\dir1\" put bacopyxfilesprogress(longFoler,newFolder,"*.*","always","my title",0) --0 (no error copied fine) Stephen Mendelsohn, Michael wrote the following on 10/11/2004 7:07 AM: >Ha! Yes, I realize that was a ridiculous typo on my part. My bad. >Wicked bad. > >However, there's still an issue with baCopyXFileProgress not being able >to get at items more than 5 levels deep. Sometimes when I post, I do >so hastily. > >- Michael M. > > >[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, >email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). >Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: Access Database?
ADO can do this. If you need to hit a server database for Mac and PC you can use MUS and the ADO for MUS Xtra to connect. Since the server connects and not the client its cross platform this way. -Chuck -- Chuck Neal CEO, MediaMacros, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediamacros.com -- Check out the Developers Mall Your one stop shop for all your Director Xtra Needs http://www.mediamacros.net/customer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Wells Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 3:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Access Database? Hello, I have built a shockwave application that needs to read and write to an access database. Is there a built in method of doing this or a good xtra that will do this? Thank you, 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: Flashpaper 2 in Director
I actually have a fixed version but not expanded to all the new goodies in FP 2, just makes all the Flash paper 1 stuff work in 2.0. If anyone is interested, email me off list and I can send over a copy. -Chuck -- Chuck Neal CEO, MediaMacros, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediamacros.com -- Check out the Developers Mall Your one stop shop for all your Director Xtra Needs http://www.mediamacros.net/customer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Emre Eldemir Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 10:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Flashpaper 2 in Director Thank you :) Emre ELDEMIR -Original Message- From: Chuck Neal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 4:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Flashpaper 2 in Director I promise I am working on an update. ;) -Chuck -- Chuck Neal CEO, MediaMacros, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediamacros.com -- Check out the Developers Mall Your one stop shop for all your Director Xtra Needs http://www.mediamacros.net/customer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Emre Eldemir Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 2:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Flashpaper 2 in Director Hello, i've seen and used the useful tutorial on using flashpaper 1.1 in director but the code doesn't seem to carry across to the latest version. i've tried to apply the flashpaper 2.0 API info but i can't seem to get it to work even on the simplest level... the first error is found on the line : pFlashPaper = pRoot.isFlashPaperDocument() and i can't hide print or zoomin icon . Best Regards, Emre ELDEMiR [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Flashpaper 2 in Director
I promise I am working on an update. ;) -Chuck -- Chuck Neal CEO, MediaMacros, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediamacros.com -- Check out the Developers Mall Your one stop shop for all your Director Xtra Needs http://www.mediamacros.net/customer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Emre Eldemir Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 2:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Flashpaper 2 in Director Hello, i've seen and used the useful tutorial on using flashpaper 1.1 in director but the code doesn't seem to carry across to the latest version. i've tried to apply the flashpaper 2.0 API info but i can't seem to get it to work even on the simplest level... the first error is found on the line : pFlashPaper = pRoot.isFlashPaperDocument() and i can't hide print or zoomin icon . Best Regards, Emre ELDEMiR [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: LDM's and TELL is NOT obsolete whatever MM says
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Evil Kosh Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 2:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LDM's and TELL is NOT obsolete whatever MM says >dude, just cause you noticed a bug doesnt discount what I said, we're in >version 10.0 and core issues like scope are not fixed yet. At version >10.0, ANY application should be going into maintanence mode on the older >features whilst introducing NEW features, not STILL fixing issues from >like 5+ years ago, thats just lazy/bad application development First, obsolete has never meant it won't work, just that its being phased out. Tell is not needed as Rob has shown you and LDMs, to my knowledge, have never been a fully supported feature. Its one of those things that was added in as a nice extra. I would certainly rather get a few half way features than not have any access to them because they could not be fully finalized. I have pages of things that I have used over the years that are either undocumented or unsupported. You have to be careful, but sometimes the reward far outweighs the risk. I would like these items cleaned up a bit as well, but don't start attacking the developers for this. They do a lot with the little they have. There is a problem with MM ignoring Director (I would say it comes from the CEO chair) but making attacks on the programmers is not going to help. Submit a bug report or ask for a solution, but the fact is many people are using the features you are complaining about just fine. Its simply a matter of understanding how they work and how to get them working the way you want. >> I'm sure it is a statement like this, which will lead to more >> enthusiasm >> in the director team to fix thissue. > >well it sure as hell couldnt do any harm could it! Yes it can hurt. The developers, especially Tom, have been great about listening to the community. If all we do is badger them I certainly would not expect them to keep being so helpful. :) -Chuck -- Chuck Neal CEO, MediaMacros, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediamacros.com -- Check out the Developers Mall Your one stop shop for all your Director Xtra Needs http://www.mediamacros.net/customer [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Time arithmetic
Why not subtract the second and the day, then add the seconds to the days * 86400? -Chuck -- Chuck Neal CEO, MediaMacros, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediamacros.com -- Check out the Developers Mall Your one stop shop for all your Director Xtra Needs http://www.mediamacros.net/customer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kerry Thompson Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 2:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Time arithmetic Is there a built-in way to do time arithmetic like you do date arithmetic? I can get the number of days between two dates with something like date(, mm, dd) - date (, mm, dd) (thanks to those who provided that info last week). Now I'm looking for a way to get the number of minutes, hours, or seconds between two times. The two times can be on different dates. If there's not a built in-way, or some old code lying around, I can figure it out easily enough. If it's already out there, though, I don't want to reinvent the wheel. 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: Request for Shockwave 10 Content Proposals [was: RE: Lingo-l digest, Vol 1 #1344 - 15 msgs]
Macromedia does something wrong we rant. Macromedia does something right we rant more. Macromedia offers us cold hard cash to help promote Shockwave and improve all our abilities to get work and there is mass doubt? If this is the way we think as a community then Director is dead, no matter how amazing it ever gets. Macromedia is making honest efforts to help. Tom has always been good about pushing Director and helping fix problems. We now have someone just focusing on Shockwave. That is something many of us have been asking for for a long time. What more do you people want?! Ok, back to working on my proposals... ;) -Chuck -- Chuck Neal CEO, MediaMacros, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediamacros.com -- Check out the Developers Mall Your one stop shop for all your Director Xtra Needs http://www.mediamacros.net/customer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pekka Buttler Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 12:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Request for Shockwave 10 Content Proposals [was: RE: Lingo-l digest, Vol 1 #1344 - 15 msgs] Hi. Not knowing MACR's take on the duell, I'd be extremely sceptical about this. Pekka Buttler BTW, I'm back (in case anyone remembers). But with a workload of 300+ hours/month don't expect me to do anything but lurk. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: Video Masking
QuickTime uses keys. You can also convert to flash video and import into your Director movie so its not available on the CD to copy off. -Chuck -- Chuck Neal CEO, MediaMacros, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediamacros.com -- Check out the Developers Mall Your one stop shop for all your Director Xtra Needs http://www.mediamacros.net/customer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anand Ravi Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 6:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Video Masking Hi All, Am working on this project where I am displaying a number of wmv (video files). My client want to somehow protect people from copying these files off the CD/DVD. I am unable to find any tra that can take up an encrypted stream (key based) and play the file! As an alternative I thought it may be possible to add a copyright layer when producing the video and trying to mask the layer in the wmv at run-time. Any thoughts on this will be highly appreciated. Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: OOP: shortest handler name
Its fine so long as you don't need the script reference for anything. If it needs to get properties from the behavior/script or needs a script reference then you need the "me" -Chuck -- Chuck Neal CEO, MediaMacros, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediamacros.com -- Check out the Developers Mall Your one stop shop for all your Director Xtra Needs http://www.mediamacros.net/customer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael von Aichberger Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 3:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OOP: shortest handler name Hi everybody, I have a baxic question about parent scripts. Until now, a typical handler definition in a parent script of mine looked like on mWhatToDo me ... end and it was run like that: me.mWhatToDo() Now I have a handler that is called very often so that it would be nice, if the handler name were very short. As short as possible that is. This could be: on x me ... end which could be run with me.x() Next I was asking myself, if the "me" could be omitted. I tried on x end and called it with: x() And it worked! However I am sure there must be something wrong with it. There must be a reason for the "me" after all. Can anybody enlighten me? Thanks! Michael [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: one more try...
Buddy API can do with with baOpenFile www.mods.com.au -Chuck -- Chuck Neal CEO, MediaMacros, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediamacros.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave McColgin (GATech) Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 1:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: one more try... Hey folks, I didn't get a response for my Qs, but there were some big threads going. I thought I'd try one more time: 2 questions. First, I've got someone else's projector on CD. It has a button that causes a .mpg video file elsewhere on the CD to play externally, i.e. in whatever video player the user has set for .mpg. I'd like to recreate this, how can I make a sprite on my stage do this on mouseup? Second, I have several video files that I've captioned using MagPie 2.0. Playing the .mpg itself is sufficient to get captions in Windows Media Player; it automatically finds the associated caption file. Real and QuickTime must instead open a coordinator file in their own .smil formats to view the video with captions. How can my projector tell the user's computer to open an external .smil file with the appropriate player? dave mccolgin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: File Properties
What kind of file? :) You can get things like "read only" and other attributes using Buddy API. If you mean documents like RTF or word, you would need to parse the file or use an Xtra like VB Script Xtra to open the doc and request that info from the application. -Chuck ------ Chuck Neal CEO, MediaMacros, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediamacros.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeremy Aker Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 10:54 AM To: Lingo-L Subject: File Properties Does anyone know of a way to read file's properties, such as a file's title, subject, and author? Jeremy Aker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: OT - UK Lingo Expert Required Aug 04
Bad experiences with agencies? ;) -Chuck -- Chuck Neal CEO, MediaMacros, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediamacros.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 8:26 AM To: Lingo-L Subject: OT - UK Lingo Expert Required Aug 04 NB: This is not an agency nor will we deal with them (sorry - don't even think about it!) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Html Editor
This is not Shockwave save, but the newer version of web Xtra would allow
you to edit the HTML of a page via lingo to get a more real time editor.
Still would need some back and forth so it may not be ideal, but worth a
try. There are also some nice Java ones out there as well.
-Chuck
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Wells
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 1:42 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Html Editor
Well, I think so. What I'm trying to do (and after working at it I have come
up with a solution with lists) is to create a "what you see is what you get"
html editor. So the user would never see the html code. If there are better
solutions than lingo please let me know. But, I've been using lingo for so
long that for me it seems like the best solution.
Thanks,
Matt
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rodrigo
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 12:04 PM
To: Lingo
Subject: Re: Html Editor
Hi, I know that this is a lingo list and before someone try to kick me I
love lingo :), but this project need to be in shockwave? There are amazing
tools for html editor for free on the web. Try the HTML Area
(www.interactivetools.com/products/ html area/).
Rodrigo
on 7/8/04 11:25 PM, Matt Wells at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Im tring to create a shockwave movie that is an html editor. So, when
> the user hilights a word in a editable text field all they would have
to
> do is select a button and it would change the color, bold, italic and
> size. And then take the text thay have created in shockwave and export
> it in HTML format. Now I thought I was home free by using the
> member("myMem").HTML but, when the user selects a size larger than
24pt
> the html output is only 7 no matter how high you what the font size.
> This won't work for the application.
>
> What im thinking is when a user hilights a word(s) I would use
> put...before. And add the tags. But this would only work
> once becouse
there
> are now 9 more chars before the rest of the text that user would see.
So
> know when you would hilight a word it would place it in the wrong
place.
>
>
> Would you see any solutions to this or do you know any freelancers
that
> would be willing to take on this problem?
>
> Thank you,
>
>
>
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RE: I'm on vacation
Can "the powers that be" shut this guy off please? This is going to get silly after a few days. Glad he gets a nice long vacation but I don't need multiple daily reminders. ;) -Chuck -- Chuck Neal CEO, MediaMacros, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediamacros.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 8:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I'm on vacation I'm on vacation until July 29th. I won't be answering emails until I get back. Enjoy the summer! -James [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: getting the last label name
I use... (the markerList).getAProp(marker(0)) -Chuck -- Chuck Neal CEO, MediaMacros, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediamacros.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Di Luzio Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 7:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: getting the last label name Hi list, This is the way I'm retrieving the last marker name. It seems a bit too complicated to me. Can you comment or share your method? the markerlist[the markerlist.findPos(marker(0))] Thanks, Frank [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: Video Recommedations in Director
Oh, forgot one thing. :) For size, it depends on the audience. If it's a kiosk and you control the hardware, then full screen 800X600 video is very doable. For a broader audience shoot for your lowest system spec and try to get a good file size to quality ratio. Also with MPEG and QuickTime you can often play back a video doubled in size with great results, just be very careful not to scale it in an irregular way. 1 pixel smaller on the width will kill performance on some codecs as the scaling is non-uniform. -Chuck -- Chuck Neal CEO, MediaMacros, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediamacros.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Sheridan Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 10:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Video Recommedations in Director Hi All, Just want to find out from people what type of video settings people use for CD-ROM playback. At the moment we are using Sorenson video 320x240... however I have seen some CDs out there that use dimensions of 400x300 etc... Cheers, Dan. -- Spinningaweb:- Inspiration Through Expression Web: http://www.spinningaweb.co.uk Fax: (+44) 08717333988 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: Video Recommedations in Director
Depends on the job, file size, length, compressor, etc. I use a lot of MPEG as its cross platform and the least hassle overall. After that I would look at QuickTime with Sorenson Pro, or for small size videos Flash files from Sorenson Squeeze are a great choice. If you are doing a commercial app like a game there are also some custom codecs you can use but they all require installers, so not ideal for mass free distribution like corporate presentations, etc. -Chuck -- Chuck Neal CEO, MediaMacros, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediamacros.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Sheridan Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 10:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Video Recommedations in Director Hi All, Just want to find out from people what type of video settings people use for CD-ROM playback. At the moment we are using Sorenson video 320x240... however I have seen some CDs out there that use dimensions of 400x300 etc... Cheers, Dan. -- Spinningaweb:- Inspiration Through Expression Web: http://www.spinningaweb.co.uk Fax: (+44) 08717333988 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: database lingo vs. xtra
I would use an Xtra. Director can search the data fairly efficiently but with extreme limits. If you need to do things like multi table searches or have a LOT of records it can bog lingo down. The ones I use the most are... ADO - (I market this so just my disclaimer that I have a vested interest in this one). Works great with standard Databases like Access, etc. Great if the client needs to use an existing DB and keep it in its native format. - PC only Arca - Tabuleiro's Arca is really nice. Been using it for a few months and its speed is great, easy to use and takes standard SQL. Inexpensive and cross platform. V12 - Also a good choice and is cross platform. My only negative is the lack of multi table joins. Valentina - Fast and effective. Also cross platform. There is good support and a pretty active group of users. One added bonus for Valentina is that it also comes in "flavors" for other languages like real basic, etc. I have my own lingo "database" objects as well but generally I find that they have too many limitations and the time to develop a good one is more than the cost of a good DB Xtra. Once you have the Xtra it's a LOT easier to just use it from then on out. Unless price is a huge issue on this I would recommend the Xtra. -Chuck ------ Chuck Neal CEO, MediaMacros, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediamacros.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Ingrum Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 9:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: database lingo vs. xtra I'm thinking about just doing the project with lingo and perhaps PropSave (and of course, some buddyAPI thrown in there for good measure), but I wanted to get the groups response before I start- Details: the "database" will be updated by only 1 (or maybe 2) people ever. it will contain 1200-1500 entries each entry will contain firstname, lastname, storenumber, images(anywhere from 0-5), other misc textbased fields The client *really* only wants the application to keep track of these images (he takes them throughout the year). The client will use the data at the end of the year to make a "yearbook" of images/quotes, etc... Anyway, does anybody have any good reasons that I should just create it with Lingo? or should I create it with V12 or one of the others? Stephen [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: turning off useHypertextStyles thru Lingo
Actually I have found that sticks too. Best bet is to turn it on first then off. That typically works. -Chuck -- Chuck Neal CEO, MediaMacros, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediamacros.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex da Franca Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 1:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: turning off useHypertextStyles thru Lingo >In spite of the "1" in the message box, you'll >see that ABC is still blue and udnerlined... at >least that's what I see. > >Any help will be appreciated. as far as I remember it helped to set it twice. dont ask why and don't ask which version of director it was. all I can remember is that I that the following once: member(1).useHypertextStyles = false member(1).useHypertextStyles = true member(1).useHypertextStyles = false -- ||| a¿ex [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: OT: panorama software
Not to confuse things further but I really like VR Toolbox from http://www.vrtoolbox.com/vrthome.html. Its reasonably priced, works great and is cross platform. :) Also has a free demo. -Chuck -- Chuck Neal CEO, MediaMacros, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediamacros.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lee Blinco Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 4:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT: panorama software Hi Guys, could use a bit of advice as to what panoramic stitching software to take the plunge with. I've been evaluating what i can this week and my results have been mixed, with the demo versions, so i'm hoping that some of you guys have been doing this for a while and can pass on your experience. Our requirement is to do full 360 x 180 panaromas, with qtvr hotspot functionality and to embed in director and also web pages. i think we've narrowed it done to a choice of four. 1 - QTVR authouring studio, - unfortunately cant find a demo program, it also appears like its not being pushed by apple very much and is quite old. 2 - realviz stitcher - currently our preferred pick, but the demo version fatally crashes as soon as you select quicktime format for rendering export, also its pricey and has no java player export for web delivery (am i right in thinking that Standard Win XP has no Java VM and therefore xp users would not be able to play these without downloading the java VM ?) 3 - 3dvista - sounds great with all the claimed capabilities and output formats, but the demo crashes a lot and the results dont seem as as good as realviz, anyone used the available xtra with this programs output ? 4 - panorama tools - nice and cheap, but we haven't been able to get as good results for spherical panaromas as with realviz stitcher. any thoughts/experience much appreciated lee 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: Why not?
Aside from the interface most all of this is on Director support sites. MediaMacros.com has free code. Director Online has articles. Many others have exmaples, links, articles, samples, Xtras, etc. What specifically from this are you wanting that you can't find in the Director community? -Chuck -- Chuck Neal CEO, MediaMacros, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediamacros.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Bochan Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 3:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Why not? Hi, Just curious why not launch some Director/Lingo community like this one at http://www.codewarrioru.com? Cheers Premium [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: updatemovies -> protect on the fly
No. This can only be done in Director. I thin doing this would possibly be against the licensing agreement as you could write a Director replacement In Director. ;) -Chuck -- Chuck Neal CEO, MediaMacros, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediamacros.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luiz Gustavo Castelan Póvoas Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 4:40 AM To: Cath Sample Subject: updatemovies -> protect on the fly How can I make a projector that Update cast libraries and protect them, so I don't need a director license to do that? (COMPACT AND PROTECT THE CAST) Luiz [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: doubleclick
If its all on a single sprite then use something like this... Property pLastClick On beginSprite me pLastClick = 0 End On mouseUp me if the milliseconds - pLastClick < 250 then --1/4 second put "doubleclick" end if pLastClick = the milliseconds End -Chuck ------ Chuck Neal CEO, MediaMacros, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediamacros.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexx Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 5:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: doubleclick >I have seen all kinds of strangeness with the doubleCLick. Some Macs >ignore it completely. Instead I use a timer. Each click I save the >time and if the click is less than 1/4 a second or so from the last >click then I use it as a custom double click. Hi, About clicks and double clicks : I'm trying to do a sort of 'Recorder' that catch each click from the user during a given duration But I still have problems to identify correctly single and double clicks. does anyone have a idea to have an accurate code ? thanks Alexx [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: doubleclick
I have seen all kinds of strangeness with the doubleCLick. Some Macs ignore it completely. Instead I use a timer. Each click I save the time and if the click is less than 1/4 a second or so from the last click then I use it as a custom double click. -Chuck -- Chuck Neal CEO, MediaMacros, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediamacros.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Schulman Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 4:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: doubleclick I will be using the sound().pan command in an experiment to get people to indicate the direction that a sound seems to come from. When they are satisfied that the sound is adjusted correctly, I want them to just doubleclick. and i want the script to recycle on to the next sound. But the doubleclick remains set at 1 and you can't write code to reset it. Is there any way around this? Can i use something other than a doubleclick? Paul Schulman Department of Psychology SUNYIT [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: decimal to binary conversion...
This is old and not really optimized, but may be what you want... on getBinary vNum, vDepth if vDepth = void then vDepth = 32 baseNums = ["0","1"] n = "" neg = 0 if vnum < 0 then neg = 1 vnum = integer(the maxInteger + 1.0 + vNum) end if vNum = integer(vNum) repeat while vNum nMod = vNum mod 2 put string(baseNums[nMod + 1]) before n vNum = vNum / 2 end repeat --add preceeding 0 repeat while n.char.count < vDepth - 1 put "0" before n end repeat if n.char.count < vDepth then put neg before n end if return n end on getInt vBinary baseNums = ["0","1"] if vBinary.char[1] = "1" then negative = 1 nConverted = 0 nMax = vBinary.length repeat with nIndex = 1 to nMax nConverted = nConverted * 2 nConverted = nConverted + baseNums.getOne(vBinary.char[nIndex]) - 1 end repeat return nConverted end -Chuck -- Chuck Neal CEO, MediaMacros, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediamacros.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 2702NET Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 6:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: decimal to binary conversion... Hi all, Anyone have code for decimal to binary conversion you wouldn't mind posting? TIA, J [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: Shockwave finding movies on CD-ROM
Buddy API is not shockwave safe for major security reasons. You also can not access the local drives or CD drives from Shockwave. -Chuck -- Chuck Neal CEO, MediaMacros, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediamacros.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Neilsen Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 1:40 AM To: mailto: Subject: Shockwave finding movies on CD-ROM I can use BuddyAPI (BAFindDrive) in a projector to determine if the correct CD-ROM is in the drive; to then either open a specified movie from the CD-ROM, or alternatively, alert the user that the (correct) CD-ROM is not available. Can I do something similar with Shockwave? I would like to embed a little Shockwave file (looking like a "disk" icon) into a web-page as a link to external movies to be stored on a CD-ROM (delivered to students to use in conjunction with the web-site). My idea is to make it so when a user clicks on this icon, it determines the letter assigned to their CD-ROM drive, finds and opens a movie on that drive, or alternatively reports that the correct CD-ROM is not available if this is the case. Essentially, I want to make Shockwave files that work something like Quicktime Reference Movies, but for Director files. The problem seems to be that I can set the bupapi xtra to be included in the projector, but not to be downloaded if required. So it seems that using bubapi is not the answer, and I need to try and find another way of doing this. Cheers Alan Neilsen [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Re: Macromedia Logo
Sorry, that is just ridiculous. We have been begging to remove this for years, Macromedia listens, and then you think it means the end of the software. There is just no pleasing some people I guess -Chuck -- Chuck Neal CEO, MediaMacros, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediamacros.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of F. Hebert Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 8:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Macromedia Logo Hi all! Someone can officially (with macromedia link) that no logo requirement in MX2004 (even in CDCover!?) It's cool, but strange(no?). Look at strategy for "future duscontinued product"...?! Have a nice day! [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: QuickTime & Director
Is the video being distorted at all or is it playing actual size? Is it Direct to stage? I would try a QT 6 but there are buggy version of QT out as well. The QT6 Asset Xtra is set to take advantage of QT 6 features though so you may get better playback with the newer builds. -Chuck -- Chuck Neal CEO, MediaMacros, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediamacros.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Lippert Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 8:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: QuickTime & Director Hi, I am working on a Director CD project and I am using an MX version. I develop on a Mac and movies look great. On the PC (my end-user machine) the QuickTime is looking strange. It is displaying noise on playback. These machines are using QuickTime 5.02 vs 6 or 6.5. I encoded the videos with Sorenson 3. Do I need to include a different QuickTime Asset (version 5). Or is there some other issue someone knows about. Thanks, Greg [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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!]
