Re: lingo-l Bug of the week
Kerry Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2/10/04 9:53 AM wrote: I managed to get the startMovie handler called 7 times. I'm willing to let you guess how I managed that before I reveal yet another Stupid Lingo Trick. on stupidTrick me repeat with i = 1 to 7 startMovie end repeat end stupidTrick Kidding... really:) ck -- Cheap Domain Registration | Web Hosting | Email Packages | + more Fantastic prices -- Even better service. http://www.hosttohost.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!]
lingo-l X-Post: MIT: launches OpenCourseWare: 500 courses free online
Wow! Sorry for the X-post but... WOW! I grabbed this from another mailing list. MIT has launched their OpenCourseWare program -- over 500 courses available free on the Web. By 2007, MIT predicts that all of the courses will be published/available. OpenCourseWare home page: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html Wired News piece [could not get this to load up in Win IE6, though loads fine in moz/firebird] Issue 11.09 - September 2003 _MIT Everyware_ By David Diamond [quote]Every lecture, every handout, every quiz. All online. For free. Meet the global geeks getting an MIT education, open source-style.[/quote] http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/mit.html [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 MX opinion!!
Peter Witham [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/19/02 8:10 AM wrote: I don't know how well received the idea of shipping Flash Communication Server instead of Fireworks will be with people, I was a quite bummed about this. I have come to *really* appreciate the power of Fireworks. It took me a while, as I used Photoshop for years and resisted using Fireworks because I was not as familiar with it. Now that I have finally got into using Fireworks (I find that I use it almost exclusively now and almost never use PS anymore), it is no longer bundled in DMX. Very disappointing. To top it off *if* I buy a Mac version and PC version of DMX (a big if, by the way) I will be saddled with two versions of The Flash Communication Server, neither of which will work on the Mac. At least with previous versions of Director bundles you got a Mac version and PC version of Fireworks, MUS and an audio editing package, which you can install on both your Mac and PC. Very handy. To say that I was very disappointed in this bundled package is putting it mildly. but I'm happy since I got Fireworks MX with my copy of Director 8.5, just my two cents on that one. You lucky bastard! When I purchased D8.5 I got Flash 4. #*%$#^* ck [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l MX opinion!!
Mark R. Jonkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/19/02 11:30 PM wrote: Hey Colin You lucky bastard! When I purchased D8.5 I got Flash 4. #*%$#^* ck I highly doubt that Macromedia would have shipped Flash 4 with Director 8.5.. just don't see it happening. Guess the excitement over the new flash features has you spitting out Flash instead of Fireworks ;-) (Dang West coast Canucks can never get things right!!) Sincerely Mark R. Jonkman Yeah, well you east coast expatriate Canucks really get my knickers in a twist... mostly 'cause your always right! I stand corrected. I did indeed mean Fireworks 4. Thanks Mark:) ck [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 fileIO brain teaser
Brad Hile [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/2/02 5:45 AM wrote: Colin you're brilliant! (fading memory or not) *Blushing* Naaah, I just bumped into the same problem you have. As to why I would possibly want a path over 126 chars? It's just a case of better sure than sorry as the app I'm building will allow users to choose a destination for their files to be saved. This is precisely what had happened to me a couple years back. I built an app that would automatically create a text file in a sub directory at the root of the app. When testing on Windows, some people placed the app in a relatively deep directory path. FileIO could create the text file well enough but could not open it (if the file path was longer than 126 characters). Now to add to this, I believe that other media types that use file paths have the same problem on windows machines. I have seen this for instance with QT cast members not being able to find the external QT file if the file path was longer than 126 characters. So this problem is not exclusive to fielIO. This is not a minor issue as any standalone director project you've created could potentially break if the user decides to put the app in a relatively deep directory (I say relatively because 126 characters is really not that deep of a file path). I know for a certainty that this will break fileIO openFile() and QT's and quite possibly other externally linked media types on windows machines. Take this as a cautionary warning. ck [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 fileIO brain teaser
The baShortFileName only returns a truncated name from a file that already exists I did not know that. I thought it would create a short file path even if the actual file did not exist. I must admit though that I have only used the function on file paths that did exist. Therefore I can't create the file because I can't trucate the path and I can't truncate the path because I can't create the file! (oooh my head hurts) I could be wrong about this (it's been a while since I've used fileIO) but I thought fileIO only had a problem with long file paths in the openFile() function. With the createFile() function you should be able to use a normal file path without having to resort to the baShortfilename() function. I'm at home right now (no PC here, only a Mac) so I can't test this theory. If I'm wrong then you can blame my memory on the aging process. I am off to bed now (another reason to blame my short memory... lack of sleep). I hope this helps. ck [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 scaling images question...
g r i m m w e r k s [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/8/02 10:58 AM wrote: On 10/8/02 1:32 PM, Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] decreed thusly: grimmObj2 = grimmwerks.duplicate() Repeat as necessary. :) Then who needs porn?!? LOL! That's about the funniest thing I have heard in a while... Thanks for the laugh! ck [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 Coding challenge - zip code field
Irv Kalb [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 4/26/02 10:21 AM wrote: I did a similar thing for 5 digit zip codes. But now the client comes back and says that we must allow for 5 digit or 9 digit zip codes (Zip + 4 as in d-). And here's the tricky part, they want the hypen to work automatically. That is, the user would just type digits, and the hyphen should appear only if and when the user types the sixth character. The user interaction of the field seems pretty clear, but I'm having trouble coding this behavior. Here is some quick, not thoroughly tested, code for you to try. I will now take a closer look at your behavior and see what you got there. In the mean time does this work for you? ck property pFldM on beginSprite me pFldM = sprite(me.spriteNum).member pFldM.text = EMPTY end on keyDown me -- Your key filtering routine -- Pass any valid number pass end keyDown on keyUp me fldTxtSt = pFldM.text if fldTxtSt.length = 5 then fldTxtSt = fldTxtSt - pFldM.text = fldTxtSt the selStart = 6 the selEnd = 6 end if end keyDown [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 Dir 8.5 and Windows 95
Can someone tell me if projectors made from a Director 8.5.1 movie are supposed to able to run on Windows '95? Yes they are supposed to. I'm in beta testing on a large project and we're getting reports of Director player error, file not found messages on one or more Window 95 systems. I don't have a system running Windows 95 to test it on. I don't think this is the same thing, but we have had reports of Illegal Operation errors reported with projectors created in D8.5.1 and only on *some but not all* Win 95 machines. It seems that the SHOCKWAVE 3D ASSET.X32 is causing the conflict. This only happens when the playback head moves into a frame with SW3D sprite. We have done some barebones testing and this occurs only when the SW3D cast member has at least one model in it. An empty SW3D cast member on stage will not trigger the error. As I say, this does not sound like the same problem you are having. Have you created a barebones projector yet. I'd be happy to test it here on our Win 95 machine if you wish. ck [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
