Re: lingo-l GetNetText bug?
you have gNetId = getNetText(url) in an on beginSprite, right? Can't just have it out in no handler like you've pasted... -evan Rodrigo Peres wrote: Hi list, I'm using getNetText to return a xml from a php script. When I try to use the script director open debuger and tells that my var (gListaXML) is empty when I try (gListaXML[1].memoria.cartas[3].carta2[2]). But If I use the same script, line by line in message window everything works fine. Can someone has an idea? gNetID = GetNetText(http://www.rodrigoperes.com.br/desen/games/php/memoria_xml.php?a tividade_id=12) Global gXml on exitFrame me if(netdone(gNetID) = true AND netError(gNetID)=OK) then gXml = netTextResult(gNetID) interpretaXml else go to the frame end if End on interpretaXml global gListaXML, gXml parseObj = new(xtra xmlparser) erro = parseObj.parseString(string(gXml)) if parseObj.doneParsing() then if erro = void then gListaXML = parseObj.makeList() gNetID = -1 go carrega_cartas else put error in xml halt end if end if End Thank's Rodrigo [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *m u t a n t m e d i a* /solutions for success // // / *Evan Adelman* | 646.894.3106 | 303 E 71st St NY NY 10021 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 Ethernet HW Address? (xpost-ish)
Hi Warren - ifconfig on osx (or is it ifup?), and ipconfig on the pc also will spit out this information - both are accessible to each environment's shell, and you can easily write to a text file w/ the shell - on windows something along c:\ipconfig -all c:\ipinfo.txt would do it - but the problem w/ starting down this approach is that it's the shell that's handling the i/o (with the in windows, and pipe in osx), not ipconfig or ifconfig themselves. So, 1) it's hard to get director to run 'ipconfig -all c:\ipinfo.txt' with the command prompt. You can do open 'cmd' , and you can do open 'ipconfig' with success through the message window, but you have no ability to direct where ipconfig is throwing it's info. (Afaik, it's not possible to do something like OPEN 'ipconfig -all c:\ipinfo.txt' WITH CMD (perhaps MasterApp? is that cross-plat?) Since Director doesn't (afaik) handle i/o, you need to find a way to execute either of those programs w/ a program that can. I thought of pre-compiling some PERL just because it came to my mind first as a good i/o handler. I may be thinking about this wrong and don't have a ton of time on hand to try something out (when I do, I will though!), but it may start you on the right track...oh - and opposite of what everyone was saying about no eth card, I'd worry more about multiple cards... Cheers, Evan Warren Ockrassa wrote: Asked this on Direct-L yesterday but no one seemed to have the answer I was looking for. I'm wondering if anyone knows of a means (ideally with an Xtra, not something like AppleScript or VBScript) to find out the hardware address of a given system's ethernet card. Bonus points for finding out things like CPU and HD serial numbers! I know it's doable in theory; I'm just wondering if anyone's actually managed it in practice. Thanks! 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!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *m u t a n t m e d i a* /solutions for success // // / *Evan Adelman* | 646.894.3106 | 303 E 71st St NY NY 10021 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 Stage.rect stage.image.rect?!?
that's messed up - perhaps a dual monitor issue or something? -evan grimmwerks wrote: Explain this to me (and NO, I'm not zoomed, it's 100%) clearglobals put the stage.image -- image:6441e40 put the stage.image.width -- 1024 put the stage.rect -- rect(1342, 52, 1982, 532) put the stage.rect.width -- 640 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *m u t a n t m e d i a* /solutions for success // // / *Evan Adelman* | 917.916.7378 | 303 E 71st St NY NY 10021 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 ball and paddle problem
Without looking at code, or having that particular book on hand, it sounds like you've probably got a object reference to your mouse position instead of a onetime integer value of the mouse's x,y position to start your calculations. If it's the animation equations you're having problems with, feel free to download http://www.evanadelman.com/easing/index.html hth, Evan Steve Rachels wrote: Been beating my head over this. Making a version of paddle bricks (from Rosenzweig's Advanced Lingo for Games). No problem until I decided to make the ball shoot on the left mouse click _and_ come from the center of the paddle. Once the ball is in play, I don't want it to be guided by the mouse movement (other than rebounding, of course). I can make the mouse shoot the ball. I can make the ball come from the center of the paddle. But I can't free the ball from the movement of the mouse after release. Clues, anyone? Trails to follow? 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!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *m u t a n t m e d i a* /solutions for success // // / *Evan Adelman* | 917.916.7378 | 303 E 71st St NY NY 10021 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 english to spanish / spanish to english translation in director
Actually, both Kerry and Daniel responded pretty much in line w/ my solution, which would be to hijack (borrow, use, license, whatever) net services that do such things invoking the magic of getNetText. Unless you're going for your doctorate in over-extending languages and re-inventing the wheel ;-) Even then, however, Kerry's examples fail pretty miserably in Babel Fish (English-Spanish-English = The alcohol is arranged, but the meat is weak. He lead a block and gave return in a small restaurant.) Good luck, Evan Daniel Nelson wrote: Find another Lingo project, or find another language to do your translation program. One day computers will translate natural language. Just not now, and probably never with Director. I'd take issue with that. Natural Language Processing isn't overly computationally taxing, no more than a lot of other things that we've written in Lingo. It's mainly table lookups. The problem is not the amount of computation but the number of entries that need to be coded. If you could get an open source version of the tables used by an existing Natural Language Processing program, then you could read them into Director. Otherwise, the project would be an enourmous amount of work. If you want to see what is possible, try Babel Fish: http://babelfish.altavista.com/ 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!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *m u t a n t m e d i a* /solutions for success // // / *Evan Adelman* | 917.916.7378 | 303 E 71st St NY NY 10021 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 Getting externalEvent to work
posted on direct-l too...:
i have an example of dcr-swf -javascript communication working at
http://www.evanadelman.com/swf-dcr-communication/test.html
The example covers IE, Netscape 4.xx but not Netscape/Mozilla 6+ (afaik,
External Event is flawed for all these browsers and variants). If anyone
checks Safari and gets positive or negative results, let me know.
The keys to working in IE are: must have vbscript that has a function
whateveryourmovieidis_ExternalEvent to catch external events - this
function can do whatever it wants. In mine, I call a javascript function
that calls the originally intended function - just to make it easier to
read.
If the script is too complicated and anyone needs more explanation,
please feel free to ask.
Evan
Andrew Dempsey wrote:
Hi all,
I can't figure out why I am having trouble with externalEvent in
shockwave. Having spent the last 24 hours searching online for help, I
turn to you all for help! I've done projectors for a couple of years,
but am fairly new to shockwave and especially getting a movie to
interact with the browser it's embedded in.
I have a shockwave movie embedded in a browser window. In the movie I
have this simple behavior attached to a button:
on mouseUp me
externalEvent(openNewWindow('alphabet.htm'))
end
In the head section of the webpage, I have the following script:
script language=JavaScript
function openNewWindow(newURL) {
window.open
(newURL,alphabet,toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=yes,men
ubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,width=450,height=450);}
/script
However, when I click on the button that has the mouseUp behavior, and
hold my breath waiting for the new browser window to pop open, nothing
happens (and I eventually exhale). I am sure there's something really
simple that I am missing here, but I have been looking at it for too
long, and I probably also need some caffeine detox (the diet coke/coffee
diet catches up eventually...).
The actual shockwave applet is located at
www.egyptianarabic.com/wordofday/index.asp, if it helps to look at it to
understand what I am saying. The button that has the externalEvent
behavior is the little one with the key shape on it. The site is set to
go live this week, and I want to get this ironted out.
Thanks,
Andrew
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ICT and Education Consultant
Cairo, Egypt
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Re: lingo-l [XPOST] FileIO Xtra wrapper: writeFile() solution
huh - just tested it really quickly on win2k, d8.5.1, looking at the file in notepad, and no go - just left the 'goodbye' in there...if i look at it in wordpad, same thing except now goodbye has a block in front of itany ideas? evan Daniel Nelson wrote: Hello Lists, A recent thread on Lingo-l set me to thinking about overwriting files using FileIO Xtra (particularly files that are longer than the string to be written). The standard solution seems to have been to delete the file before writing it again, but this seems scary if one doesn't have a backup system built. While walking my dogs this morning, it struck me that if the string to be written were shorter than the existing file, one could simply append the EOF character to that string before writing it. My newly modified FileIO Xtra wrapper class implementing this technique is available from the below URL. It must be saved first to a local hard drive, since the text file will be created using the moviePath. It also requires BuddyAPI. Once saved, entering test() into the message window will print hello world gooodbye followed by hello world if the test is successful. These are the results of successive writeFile()/readFile() commands and indicate that a longer file has been successfully replaced by a shorter file. http://www.bluejade.com/public_resources/director/fileioxtra.html Thank you for any feedback. I hope some of you find the wrapper useful in your own work (please send me an e-mail if you do). 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!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *m u t a n t m e d i a* /solutions for success // // / *Evan Adelman* | 917.916.7378 | 303 E 71st St NY NY 10021 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 Attach behavior to sprite...
hi Kristian, When generating objects of scripts on the fly to attach to sprites, you're actually invoking the 'new' handler, not the beginSprite handler: xCursor = (script flaCursorScript).new(2) This almost makes sense if you think about it - the sprite has already begun (it's on the stage, and your movie is playing). What you're doing is creating a new script object and attaching that to an already existing sprite. therefore, I'm guessing (without looking at your whole movie) that the beginSprite isn't executing at all and you should add the following handler to your behavior: on new me return me end then in your calling script, refine it to read: ... xCursor = new(script flaCursorScript) sprite(2).scriptInstanceList.Add(xCursor) sendSprite(2, #beginSprite) Don't be tricked into thinking you can just shortcut the last step and put your 'beginsprite' code in your 'new' handler - remember, the script hasn't been attached to a sprite yet and will puke when you try to reference stuff like me.spriteNum. check out this quite ugly movie (i keep reusing it, so i should really clean it up one of these days): http://www.evanadelman.com/puppetTest/puppetTest.dir If you want further reference... hth, Evan Kristian wrote: Hi, Below I have attached some simple code... The purpose with the code is to (at runtime) be able to attach a behavior to a puppeted sprite containing a flash member. The code works as long as I do not use the 'pSpriteRef' variable and say instead type '2' or '3' (in the exitFrame handler in the BEHAVIOR CODE below)... Unfortunately this will not work for me because this behavior will be attached to more than one sprite (and the purpose of using a behavior would be lost if I need to hardcode object references)... The error message complains about the #hitTest which to me sounds like it does not recognize the sprite as a flash sprite. Anyone? Suggestions? //Kristian -- PART OF MOVIE SCRIPT CODE puppetSprite 2, TRUE sprite(2).member = puppetName sprite(2).width = 220 sprite(2).height = 491 sprite(2).locH = 5 sprite(2).locV = 76 if member(puppetName).loaded = TRUE then flaSetActiveSubItem(gAMemList.aSubMain,gAMemList.aSubSub, AMemList.aCastPage) end if xCursor = (script flaCursorScript).new(2) sprite(2).scriptInstanceList.Add(xCursor) -- BEHAVIOR CODE property spriteNum, pSpriteRef on beginSprite me pSpriteRef = me.spriteNum end on exitframe me if sprite(pSpriteRef).hitTest(the mouseLoc) = #button then if sprite(pSpriteRef).cursor 280 then sprite(pSpriteRef).cursor = 280 end if else if sprite(pSpriteRef).cursor -1 then sprite(pSpriteRef).cursor = -1 end if end if 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!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *m u t a n t m e d i a* /solutions for success // // / *Evan Adelman* | 917.916.7378 | 303 E 71st St NY NY 10021 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 attaching behaviors at runtime
Not to be rude, but are my messages not coming through? Or perhaps I'm not explaining things well ... I don't know. Let me know if there's something that I've explained that doesn't apply, let me know and I'll try again... here's another reference movie http://www.evanadelman.com/scriptInstanceList/scriptInstanceList.dir -Evan Craig Taylor wrote: Hey Rob, on mouseDown me pCounter = pCounter + 1 if pCounter mod 2 then pSL = sprite(1).scriptInstanceList sprite(1).setNum(random(100)) sprite(1).scriptInstanceList = [] else sprite(1).scriptInstanceList = pSL end if end Had a similar sample that also worked fine, aong as you hard-coded the spriteNum. The problem seems to arise if you use me to reference the sprite from where you are executing the code. It simply fails to recognize that sprite. I just sent a response back to Kristian, as such. In other words, if you hardcode the spriteNum or even use sprite(the currentSpriteNum) as an alternative, it works fine, as long as you don't reference the object?? Weird... -_Craig [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *m u t a n t m e d i a* /solutions for success // // / *Evan Adelman* | 917.916.7378 | 303 E 71st St NY NY 10021 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 attaching behaviors at runtime
hi craig - there was a fairly in depth discussion a couple months ago on this - end of June to be exact w/ subject akin to scriptInstanceList. During that discussion, I posted a movie http://www.evanadelman.com/puppetTest/puppetTest.dir that's crap at best, but demonstrates adding scripts dynamically. taking the script out on exit frame rather than on mouseUp shouldn't make one bit of difference in the following example - --- property addScript on beginSprite addScript = 1 end on mouseUp me -- save the scriptList for later use and then wipe out existing scripts i=1 -- put previously saved scripts back if addScript then y = new(script counter) sprite(i).scriptInstanceList.add(y) addScript=0 else sprite(i).scriptInstanceList.deleteAt(1) addScript=1 end if end cheers, Evan Craig Taylor wrote: Hello List, I am building a program where I need to remove the behaviours from a sprite at one point and then reattach further down the score. This all takes place within the same sprite span. The much simplified version of how I was trying to handle it, is as follows: global gBehaviorScriptsToReattach on mouseUp me -- save the scriptList for later use and then wipe out existing scripts gBehaviorScriptsToReattach = sprite(x).scriptList llDummyList = [] sprite(x).setScriptList(llDummyList) end on exitFrame me -- put previously saved scripts back sprite(x).setScriptList(gBehaviorScriptsToReattach) end In actuality, this process takes place by calling different methods from the same object, but the logic is there. Seems to work during authoring, but not at runtime. However, I didn't see any documentation as such? I have also tried using scriptInstanceList, but ran into errors when it tried to execute the reattached behaviours. Just looking for the best way to handle this! Thanks! -_Craig Craig Taylor Renegade Digital Media inc. www.renegadedigital.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!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *m u t a n t m e d i a* /solutions for success // // / *Evan Adelman* | 917.916.7378 | 303 E 71st St NY NY 10021 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 OT: Adios
Ok, so this brings up a question in my head: for all you successful full time Director dev's, are you finding Director work through current relationships, or do you have a different strategy to open new markets? Do you bring Director to the table through pre-built projects (We sell Kiosk applications. or We sell the majestic music video mixer 2000, build with Director or Rob's Presentations for sales reps.) or through custom engagements? And Rob, are you out there promoting your example as a product vs. a custom solution from scratch? Care to share? Evan Rob Romanek wrote: 11/08/2003 9:16:50 AM, Tab Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree, it's clear the market is dramatically reduced. Just curious, compared to a couple of years ago, where do people think it is? 30% of what it was? 10%? 60%? Where do you think it will be in two years? Specifically the Director/Lingo market. It's clear the Flash market is much stronger. It's funny but my contracts seem to have gone opposite the market. For the 3 years prior to this one I was doing mostly net work... a bunch of e- commerce/product configurators with a tool called intershop and coldfusion and html stuff. A few cds and a bit of flash work thrown in here and there. The owner of the shop got nervous with the downturn in the market and changed directions (let's do banner ads instead, his primary company was an ad agency and he never really understood what we were doing) Anyway I've done nothing but director work this year. A big sales kiosk/ sales closing application and a bunch of cd and DVD-Roms. Currently the DVD-Rom market seems to be hot as far as learning tools for sales rep who are on the road all the time. Most of the IT departments I've worked with don't have their reps on the latest and greatest tech, they prefer a conservative tried and true approach so Flash MX is useless to me as far as internet stuff. That and for most of these reps there is no guarentee they'll get more than 56 k dial-up connnection while on the road and since most of the training tools have a lot of video CD/DVD-ROM is the answer (and flash can't handle the amount of video so that and other reasons leave me with Director). I think I can rely on that market for the next couple years, I'll see... I may have to do more flash work again then but for now I'm extremely happy to be back in the director world!! Rob [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *m u t a n t m e d i a* /solutions for success // // / *Evan Adelman* | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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: AW: lingo-l Re: Triggering a Director movie from the internet
Ok - let's review first what you'd like to do, what you have available as resources, and how I'd approach it: 1) User has form box in html. Nothing else. No shockwave movie. 2) User enters text and submits. 3) A director application running on your server needs to process that text. 4) The application needs to communicate with the client. You have php, multiuser server, full access to your server. Using php, you need to create a socket, open a connection with a multiuser server, send a message to a script that's functioning on that server, get the message back from director, and relay some information back to the client. You need php or a socket opening capable server side language because there's no easy way that I know to relay an open connection from a un-shocked client (thus the connection would not be direct and would be through your web server, Apache, IIS, etc) to a server side Director program. You could fuss around with it for days with opening text files and storing data and status in those, and still probably end up w/ synchronization issues if you have more users than one at a time. So I'd create a script that opens a socket to the director server. A good place to start with PHP is http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ref.sockets.php . You need Director to be listening on a port for a message and respond in a certain way. A good place to start learning about the MUS is here: http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/multiuser/chatinminutes/chatinminutes02.html . The connection between php and your MUS is local. So after all the details get worked out, the path would be something like so: 1) PHP script accepts message from client. 2) PHP opens socket w/ MUS and forwards the message (which contains your string) 3) A script running on your server, processes the message into an image, and saves the image on the server in a directory available to your web server. 4) Director responds back to the php script (remember, we have a connection open between the two still) with the location of the new image. 5) The php script responds back to the client w/ the location of the new image. If you need help beyond this, or it looks too daunting, feel free to email me off list. Cheers, Evan Michael von Aichberger wrote: Hi Cole! Or if the internet user doesn't do it directly, how could a PHP Server connect to a Director projector via the MUI? I'm sure it could be done with php's fgets and fputs socket commands. Thanks for your answer. I am not a PHP geek, I just know that fgets and fputs are used to read and write to files. What exactly would be their purpose in connecting to a Director projector running an instance of the MUI Xtra? 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!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *m u t a n t m e d i a* /solutions for success // // / *Evan Adelman* | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 Triggering a Director movie from the internet
If you're willing to run around the DMX support issues (I believe it still works but you need a D8.5 serial or something), I'd look into the multiuser xtra and server. -Evan Kerry Thompson wrote: So how can I tell a Director movie from outside to do a special task? And outside means from somewhere in the world! There is no way to send a message to a Director projector that I know of. What I've done in a similar situation is to have the projector check periodically for the existence of a file. When that file appears, Director goes off and does its thing. I used that for load testing on a LAN-based program, but I don't see why you couldn't do it on an Internet server. Of course, it would have to be a Windows or Mac server since Director doesn't run on any flavor of eunuchs. 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!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *m u t a n t m e d i a* /solutions for success // // / *Evan Adelman* | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 Archives?
everyone in unison: It's in the header of every email from the list! http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/archives/lingo-l/ Cheers, Evan Kerry Thompson wrote: I should know this. Where are the archives for this list? 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!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *m u t a n t m e d i a* /solutions for success // // / *Evan Adelman* | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 need to attach a behavior
specifically, make sure you create an instance of the script you're attaching to the sprite like so: y = script(stuff).new() sprite(newChannel).scriptInstanceList.add(y) You can download a sample movie which creates a sprite on the fly and then uses scriptInstanceList here: http://www.evanadelman.com/puppetTest/puppetTest.dir Just make sure you don't judge my lingo skills by my design skills - and the whole example makes a lot more sense once you look at the code (I hope). The main magic is located in a script called sparksFly. Evan Kerry Thompson wrote: Is there a way for lingo to attach a behavior to a sprite and then unattach it as well? Check out the scriptInstanceList. 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!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *m u t a n t m e d i a* /solutions for success // // / *Evan Adelman* | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 scriptInstanceList
check out the movie at http://www.evanadelman.com/puppetTest/puppetTest.dir - do you experience the similar problem w/ that movie. it's ok on my win2k, d8.5 Quixadá wrote: hi, folks it seems i´m going around in circles, so here it is: i´m creating sprites on the fly, then adding a script to them using the scriptInstanceList; that´s ok, it works. the problem comes when i try to change a parameter inside that script in only a specific sprite, because all the sprites have their parameters changed. here´s the handle that changes it: sendSprite(pProxima,#revert,1) and here´s the handler that´s on the script added on the fly to several sprites: on revert me,a pChave = a end pProxima is a parameter that changes the number of the sprite to be changed (because they have to be altered based on time), and it doesn´t matter, because if i change this parameter for a number, say 2, the effect is the same: not only sprite 2 pChave is changed. the result is that pChave is changed to 1 on every sprite created on the fly, no matter what. it only doesn´t happen on sprite 1, because it was not created on the fly: the pChave parameter on it remains 0. i tried something like on revert me,a sprite(the currentSpriteNum).scriptInstanceList[1].pChave = a end but same results. i think i don´t need to put the entire behaviors here, because it´s all about how on-the-fly scripts deal with sendsprite messages. win xp, d 8.5.1 thanks, q [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *m u t a n t m e d i a* /solutions for success // // / *Evan Adelman* | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 scriptInstanceList
ok, so my movie, while needs much explaining on it's own, shows a method of puppeting a sprite, then adding an instance of a script directly after. in short, you just need to do something like... y = new(script zoom) sprite(i).scriptInstanceList.add(y) Cheers, Evan Quixadá wrote: hi, rob yes, you´re right, that´s exactly my problem. i´ve made a simple dir just to show what´s happening. here are the scripts: movie script --## on startMovie repeat with i = 1 to 3 puppetSprite i,TRUE sprite(i).member = member 1 of castLib 1 sprite(i).loc = point(400 + random(70),300 + random(70)) sprite(i).scriptInstanceList.add(script(zoom)) sendAllSprites(#change,1) updateStage end repeat end --## the script attached to the sprites, named zoom --## property pTest on beginSprite me pTest = 1 end on change me,a pTest = a end on findout put pTest end --## just create a bitmap on cast member 1 of castlib 1, and if you like put it on channel 4, upper left corner (doesn´t matter where) and assign the script above. it´ll show you how a sprite that was not created on the fly behaves. use sendSprite(anynumberfrom1to4,#change,anyparameteryouwant) on the message window to test. if you type sendSprite(2,#change,10) and hit enter, and then type sendSprite(3,#findout), you´ll see that sprite 3 pTest has changed and are equal to 10, and it shouldn´t, because i´ve sent a message to sprite 2 only. all sprites have changed, except sprite 4, that was not created on the fly. thanks and regards, q At 16:42 24/6/2003 -0400, you wrote: Hi, Kerry suggested one possibility but I think I'm reading your problem a little differently. You have a bunch of sprites lets say 1 to 10 which are all created on the fly sending a message to one of them affects them all right? Kerry I think the problem you are describing is if you create a sprite on the fly in channel 2 frame 5, lets say, and then jump to fram 500 where a score created sprite exists, the script instancelist applied in frame 5 mucks up the score one in frame 500. Let me know if I'm wrong. Anyway I think the problem Quixada is having stems from how the behaviours are attached to the sprite on the fly. Sounds to me like each sprite is not getting a unique instance of the behaviour but rather pointers to the same instance. Quixada if you can post some of your code you use to attach the behaviours that may help us solve the problem. -Rob 24/06/2003 3:42:56 PM, Quixadá [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, folks that´s ok, it works. the problem comes when i try to change a parameter inside that script in only a specific sprite, because all the sprites have their parameters changed. but same results. i think i don´t need to put the entire behaviors here, because it´s all about how on-the-fly scripts deal with sendsprite messages. win xp, d 8.5.1 thanks, q [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: editable of member
you mean computers aren't magic? Kevin McFarland wrote: 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!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *m u t a n t m e d i a* /solutions for success // // / *Evan Adelman* | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 Multiuser Xtra and databases
uh oh. someone asked how i'd do it w/out a webserver!? craporific. this is gonna be a hack fest, and it's not clean, and is ugly as sin, but hell Rodrigo, you asked for it. since the project is a kiosk, you'll know what OS it's running on. if it's windows, you can just create a batch file that reads something like: c:\PHP\php.exe c:\PHP\test.php C:\test.txt this file in my setup is called test.bat, it's one line. it outputs test.php to test.txt. test.php contains: Hello World pretty impressive, huh. it doesn't even use php, it just outputs the text (whaddaya want, i'm going fast). then, in director, you can just write in the message window: open C:\test.bat and whammo, php.exe executes test.php and outputs: Content-type: text/html X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.2 Hello World to test.txt. Pretty tricky, eh? (btw, if it's not obvious, the locations of the files are not really important - they could be in any directories) I would really recommend installing apache and php and play around - it takes all of a day to get it up and running. you can talk to your webserver locally by invoking the god of http://localhost and do this cleanly. please don't do it the way i described above outputting to a test file. it will just plain suck. do it right. on the install from cd scenario, that's a bit harder but i think it can be done with a little testing. evan Troy Rollins wrote: On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 03:38 PM, Rodrigo Peres wrote: This project will be running from Kiosk. It will among other things check prices. The client use the barcode in package, and the system go to the database and get the price, description and present on screen. I've never heard about PHP executable where I can find it?? Or Perl executable?? And how can I send it with instalation CD?? And more important deal with webserver is ok, but how can I talk to the .exe to grab the retieved information from database? I'm not sure I have an experienced answer to supply if you don't want to use PHP as CGI. In theory, it could be distributed independently as described, but I haven't done it that way. Used as CGI the process is very clean and straightforward, with Director doing all the thinking, and PHP acting as a phone line to the DB. -- 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!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *m u t a n t m e d i a* /solutions for success // // / *Evan Adelman* | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 Multiuser Xtra and databases
is that really the case? if the solution involves ASP, you're probably right, you need a webserver. but php, perl, and the like are actually separate executables that you could include (1. the distribution licenses are pretty loose if i remember, and 2. all the perl executables and lib that come in the distro i have are 13MB - good enough to include on a cd) if writing in those languages is a problem, then that's a different matter. chiming in for no particular good, evan Rodrigo Peres wrote: First, thank's for the answers use PHP or ASP is not the case here, because I need a quick response and this aproach can delay things a little. The other problem is that there's no way to put a webserver in this project. on 6/17/03 2:00 PM, Mathew Ray at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with Troy...I am using php/mysql and it works pretty well. I've heard you can do similar things with flash and coldfusion, but it seems much more expensive without a big payoff. If you are using some complicated SOAP-compliant app or something, flash may be easier to interface with, but for simple database stuff posting to a web form and getting a reply is usually good enough. Although, I seem to remember reading something quite a while ago about MUS being able to access databases and stuff, but I can't recall in what capacity or technically how it was done :0/ Overall though, the end product is much more flexible if done with some sort of full-featured middleware like php or asp. ~Mathew - Original Message - From: Troy Rollins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 12:12 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l Multiuser Xtra and databases On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 12:01 PM, Rodrigo Peres wrote: Is it possible to use multiuser xtra to connect to databases like mysql, oracle etc. I need to connect and retrieve some data. If possible I'd like to run away from third part xtras, but... You'll probably want to use a PHP/ASP intermediary. ps: DirectorMX doesn't use multiuser anymore?? Yes it does (on all platforms), but the xtra has been moved to the goodies folder on the distribution CD. Macromedia needs to reconsider this. That xtra can serve many purposes - more than what the Flash Communications Server alone can offer. -- 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!] -- Rodrigo Peres www.rodrigoperes.com.br escritório/office: +55(11) 3781.7017 celular/mobile: +55(11) 9108.6169 -- [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *m u t a n t m e d i a* /solutions for success // // / *Evan Adelman* | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 easing equations
I've taken Robert Penner's easing equations, implemented in ActionScript for Flash - http://www.robertpenner.com/easing - and ported many of them to Lingo for use in Director. I've posted a sample movie that I plan on using primarily to test the anim's and select which one I want to use for any particular project - http://www.evanadelman.com/easing/index.html and source file http://www.evanadelman.com/easing/easingEquations.dir The resulting animations are actually pretty fun to play with, and I've added the ability to control horizontal and vertical movement independently - even more entertaining. You can drag the red square to where you want the ball to go, select your equations (the lame looking check box, when checked, indicates that you'll use the same equations for horizontal vertical movement) and hit animate to square button. So have fun, feel free to download and use - keep the credits to RP where you can. No need to make fun of my implementation, and of course, if there are mistakes, they are probably mine, not Mr. Penner's. sharingly, evan -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *m u t a n t m e d i a* /solutions for success // // / *Evan Adelman* | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 easing equations
yup - or you can grab the zipped file i just posted: http://www.evanadelman.com/easing/easing.zip Jorge Pena wrote: Kerry, I had the same problem and this is how I solved it: In dreamweaver or any other HTML program create a link that points to Evan's URL... then open that file in your browser, right click on the link and select save as... should pop open the file dialog. HTH Jorge -Original Message- Hey, Evan, that's really cool. Nice job. I can't get at the source, though--going to the .dir file launches the Shockwave animation. I'd love to have the source--I'm sure a lot of us would. What's the procedure to dl it? 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!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *m u t a n t m e d i a* /solutions for success // // / *Evan Adelman* | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 easing equations
i apparently have the slowest posts in the world. an hour after i hit send, the mssg comes into my client, so here's my hour delayed response: nope - just added easing.zip to the folder. it contains the dcr, html, dir files. glad everyone's enjoying -- warm fuzzies all around :-) -evan Curiously, after doing the go movie way, the File Open way then worked. Any chance the file changed in the last half hour? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *m u t a n t m e d i a* /solutions for success // // / *Evan Adelman* | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 Custom icon screwing up Windows projector
hi jumping in late on this, but just fyi for windows users: if I remember my problems doing this a while back, the root cause of my troubles seemed to be not having all the same sizes/colors of icons as the original icon group (i had created an icon group from scratch). so, yes, starting from the default director icon group and *not* deleting icons you don't think you'll need avoids problems. evan Carl West wrote: Carl West wrote: I'm using ResHack to change the icon on my standard windows projector. When I finally succeed, the projector errors saying that it needs the Shockwave Player. Worked it out. Fortunately I'm using D8.5. The trick was getting ResHacker to look at the .skl file (All Files [*.*], doh. Hey, I'm a Mac user, I forget that stuff sometimes), Save out the existing icons as a .ico file, Use that file as a guide to building a new .ico file in Icon Edit Save _that_ .ico file Use ResHacker to put it into a copy of Projec32.skl (save the old one) and keep a copy of this new one in the project folder for later use. A bit of jiggering about, but it works. -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *m u t a n t m e d i a* /solutions for success // // / *Evan Adelman* | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 Flash xtra breaking?
I was most surely using the older xtra - i tried using dir 8.0 and dir 8.5, but don't have documented xtra versions. If there's a new xtra out, I'd most definitely use that. since there wasn't a good way to determine failure/stuttering at run time, i didn't try leaving the sprite and coming back. what i did do was break the flash movie up in more pieces (so individual file size was lower - thus lower memory stress) and that helped alleviate the problem. but yes, you're right, once it started stuttering, it never recovered. is your flash sprite all that large? i think mine were around 5MB base size, probably around 20-30MB in memory (while they were playing). I guess I didn't mention before, but I could also get the stuttering w/ a Dell Web PC - like low of the low line - 32MB memory, 400 mhz celeron, crap video card, crap sound card. but again, it was never like - Ohhh- there's the problem! I would have to watch the thing over and over and over and over and...well you get the idea. cheers, Evan Mathew Ray wrote: Wow, thanks for the info Evan, Thankfully this project is not yet in the client's hands, but it will be shortly... Gotta love the thing about Palm as well...geez. One other question, if you were to leave the flash sprite that was having the problem and to to a frame and return to a different flash sprite, did you still experience the problem? That is one of the weirdest things that I have noticed is that it seems like once it happens, flash from that point forward is screwed up. You mentioned you were using flash 5, but were you using the newer flash xtra or the one from dir 8.5.1? Thanks, Mathew - Original Message - From: Evan Adelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 5:32 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l Flash xtra breaking? Mathew, I've had the same problem, and, perhaps like you, didn't know there was a problem until the project was in the client's hands (and we did a *lot* of qc). I found that there was definitely some kooky kooky problems with largish flash movies and the flash 5 player. i tried hundreds of variations of bug fixing and i got the issue down to a manageable level (but never fixed quite right). hotsync for palms running at the same time as my movie exacerbated the problem (i know this sounds crazy, but trust me, i verified on a couple different platforms - and don't ask me how long it took to figure it out ). also, ibm thinkpads (again, don't ask me why, but this one i think was related to their soundcards) experienced the problems more. and windows ME flash handling is a joke. I found that I could *occasionally* (and i can't emphasize that enough) could get the problem to occur on my win2k machine by stressing memory levels ( i would open up every large psd i could find, have a large flash movie open in authoring mode, play music through winamp, any taxing thing i could think of). i would watch the memory climb as the flash movie streamed, then if it hit a particularly cpu taxing moment in the flash animation, everything would start stuttering like a drunken me at Lucky Chengs. shudders anyway, look for high memory usage, cpu overload, sound compression issues, and the like. hth, evan Mathew Ray wrote: Hi all, Having a bit of a flash crisis here... for some reason on SOME machines, flash elements of my project will play fine and then with no discernable cause, they will start this studdering type thing where the sound seems to be stopping and restarting several times a second. the visuals continue(albeit slowly) and the sound continues, but with a very annoying tat-tat-tat. Once this happens, it happens for ALL flash sprites in a movie, even if going to a frame where the flash does not exist and then going to a different movie. The flash movies are all time-based motion and have a streaming sound in their base timeline. I make sure to wait until the entire flash is preloaded before playing and set a flag so that flash will not be played again. I have tested to see what would happen if mysprite.play() was being called on every enterframe, and the result is not the same as the behavior we are seeing on some machines. I am also using global flash objects in the movie to set the volume, but I am not messing around with playback at all. I would love to get this to happen on my development machine, but it seems like none of my testing machines on any os or my dev machine can recreate the problem. I am running dirMX on winXP pro, problem in my office all have XP, but specs vary widely. What concerns me is that the problem can start occuring at any point (even if user has already seen flash in the movie before) and will not go away until the whole projector is restarted :0o Any possible suggestions? TIA, ~Mathew -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ m u t a n
Re: lingo-l Flash xtra breaking?
just a last thought, i would also try, if you haven't already, isolating the problem to the director/flash interaction in general -- see if the swfs play ok in the flash player standalone? Mathew Ray wrote: Hi Evan, Yeah, I am using the new flash Xtra that comes with DirMX, and it appears as if macromedia has put an update on their website this month to fix several issues... All of the problem machines are running WinXP Pro, but then again, that's just what we have in the office. Here are the other specs for the problem machines: 1 x Celeron 1.8 gHz, 256 MB RAM, SiS 650_651_M650_740 integrated graphics 2 x p4 2.8 gHz 512 MB RAM, Matrox Parhelia 128MB 1 x p3 500 mHz, 128 MB RAM, NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 My Testing machines that have multiple OSes on em haven't exhibited the problem once: (PII 300, 128 MB RAM, Win 95/98/ME/NT4/2000Pro/XPPro) (G3 500, 128 MB RAM, OS9.2/OSX.2). The swf files are all less than a meg... so it seems like that may not be the issue... And what is weird is that it would happen on some high end machines, but just as rarely as low end machines. I am going to try several things like the soundKeepDevice, and the soundMixEnabled, just to see if that helps... If I find anything I will be sure to post it. Thanks, Mathew - Original Message - From: Evan Adelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 11:51 AM I was most surely using the older xtra - i tried using dir 8.0 and dir 8.5, but don't have documented xtra versions. If there's a new xtra out, I'd most definitely use that. since there wasn't a good way to determine failure/stuttering at run time, i didn't try leaving the sprite and coming back. what i did do was break the flash movie up in more pieces (so individual file size was lower - thus lower memory stress) and that helped alleviate the problem. but yes, you're right, once it started stuttering, it never recovered. is your flash sprite all that large? i think mine were around 5MB base size, probably around 20-30MB in memory (while they were playing). I guess I didn't mention before, but I could also get the stuttering w/ a Dell Web PC - like low of the low line - 32MB memory, 400 mhz celeron, crap video card, crap sound card. but again, it was never like - Ohhh- there's the problem! I would have to watch the thing over and over and over and over and...well you get the idea. cheers, Evan [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 Flash xtra breaking?
Mathew, I've had the same problem, and, perhaps like you, didn't know there was a problem until the project was in the client's hands (and we did a *lot* of qc). I found that there was definitely some kooky kooky problems with largish flash movies and the flash 5 player. i tried hundreds of variations of bug fixing and i got the issue down to a manageable level (but never fixed quite right). hotsync for palms running at the same time as my movie exacerbated the problem (i know this sounds crazy, but trust me, i verified on a couple different platforms - and don't ask me how long it took to figure it out ). also, ibm thinkpads (again, don't ask me why, but this one i think was related to their soundcards) experienced the problems more. and windows ME flash handling is a joke. I found that I could *occasionally* (and i can't emphasize that enough) could get the problem to occur on my win2k machine by stressing memory levels ( i would open up every large psd i could find, have a large flash movie open in authoring mode, play music through winamp, any taxing thing i could think of). i would watch the memory climb as the flash movie streamed, then if it hit a particularly cpu taxing moment in the flash animation, everything would start stuttering like a drunken me at Lucky Chengs. shudders anyway, look for high memory usage, cpu overload, sound compression issues, and the like. hth, evan Mathew Ray wrote: Hi all, Having a bit of a flash crisis here... for some reason on SOME machines, flash elements of my project will play fine and then with no discernable cause, they will start this studdering type thing where the sound seems to be stopping and restarting several times a second. the visuals continue(albeit slowly) and the sound continues, but with a very annoying tat-tat-tat. Once this happens, it happens for ALL flash sprites in a movie, even if going to a frame where the flash does not exist and then going to a different movie. The flash movies are all time-based motion and have a streaming sound in their base timeline. I make sure to wait until the entire flash is preloaded before playing and set a flag so that flash will not be played again. I have tested to see what would happen if mysprite.play() was being called on every enterframe, and the result is not the same as the behavior we are seeing on some machines. I am also using global flash objects in the movie to set the volume, but I am not messing around with playback at all. I would love to get this to happen on my development machine, but it seems like none of my testing machines on any os or my dev machine can recreate the problem. I am running dirMX on winXP pro, problem in my office all have XP, but specs vary widely. What concerns me is that the problem can start occuring at any point (even if user has already seen flash in the movie before) and will not go away until the whole projector is restarted :0o Any possible suggestions? TIA, ~Mathew [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 Lingo and SOAP?
but, if i read this article right : http://archive.devx.com/webdev/articles/ib100201/ib100201-1.asp , Flash 5 (dunno if it changed in MX) can't process XML tag namespaces, so you'd have to have alternate code on your server customized for your Flash UI. Good luck if that code is supposed to be cross-app. Also, in the past w/ Flash 5 (and again, if anyone knows if MX 'fixed' this, pls let me know), you couldn't open a XML Socket to a different domain than the swf's host. This really bungled me up when trying to get a news feed from Reuters. To fix, I abandoned flash for the xml comm and had a mangy mess of code that used a fscommands, a java applet, and javascript in a browser. I'd love to hear if there's a better solution, btw. pause for surfing the net answering my own questions about MX.. On MCR's site, specifically, http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/flashremoting/consuming_ws_using_cfmx/consuming_ws_using_cfmx03.html they recommend using ColdFusion for remoting out to babelfish. Which sounds to me like they still want you to communicate from Flash to your server (briefly looking at it, their solution is Flash - CF on your server - another domain (BabelFish) - your server - Flash client). Efficiency at it's best. I have lots more rants on this that I'll spare everyone Blabber blabber blabber on my part, Evan Buzz Kettles wrote: At 4:21 PM -0500 3/10/03, you wrote: Hi all: Does anyone on the list have experience interfacing with SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) using Lingo? There seems to be plenty of Visual Basic and PERL code examples to use SOAP, but unable to find anything regarding Lingo. Oh, I did find something in the Macromedia DB about FLASH MX handling SOAP requests. FLASH? Yikes. Surely, the Director Team has something in mind for SOAP. Nowadays the logic would be for you to get at your SOAP using a Flash Asset member from within Director. I believe that with MX it doesn't need to have actual Flash graphics or be a sprite or anything - it can just be a new(#flash) that you address to get your SOAP stuff. hth -Buzz Any ideas, suggestions, rumors, etc.? TIA, John Hart John Hart Send email, get paid! Sign up with my id, please: http://www.zwallet.com/join.html?user=johnhart __ Get Paid... With Your Free Email at http://www.zwallet.com/index.html?user=johnhart [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 generic error
Double check that your xtra's are in order -- it fails in win2k, netscape 7.0, ie 6.0, too - maybe an xtra not coming down the pipe? but jeeze - it really dies -- error reads exactly: This Shockwaave movie has errors that have caused playback problems. Please contact the author of this content regarding this problem. Shockwave is unable to continue. a sliver of light, evan Fletcher Moore wrote: Hi all, I'm working on a set of interactive music guides, and the material I have thus far works perfectly on my own machine (a Mac), but crashes on the client's machines' (PCs running Win98). A rather generic error is created -- something like this shockwave movie can't run because of an error. I don't have a Win98 machine for testing purposes, though I'm in the market for one. In the meantime, can anyone shed a little light on this problem? I wish I could offer more information, but that's about all I have. The guilty file: http://saltydogdesign.com/kerman/beethoven06.html Thanks, Fletch [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 Writing sound members
ha! never mind. i wasn't asking about beatnik. i've used it. gotta love email misunderstandings. i was curious about what the original poster, Carl, was trying to do. i should have stated more clearly: all true. now, Carl, you've got my curiosity going but thanks for the effort Andreas, it was a good description ;-) regards, evan Andreas Gaunitz P11 wrote: Wow, I'm not sure I can explain this more clearly... I'll try though: There is a program supplied with the Xtra, called Beatnik Editor Pro. In BEP you import midi files and samples. You create instruments from the samples, by giving them a key range, filter settings, loop settings etc. The midi notes, and the instruments they will use, are then compiled into a file called RMF file. The .RMF file is what the Xtra plays, and what I would call a MIDI file on steroids. -A. all true. now you've got my curiosity going though -- if you're not providing samples, where is the origination of the sound? through different clips the user supplies? just tones? .? -evan Andreas Gaunitz P11 wrote: I have the beatnik Xtra. IIRC it cannot alter sounds at all in the sense of writing a sound to a member or a RAM slot. What it does is it lets you import sound setups made up of samples (cycled or one shot), and it can apply filtering and some fx (a rudimantary reverb etc) to the sounds. It's good for what it does - sort of a quicktime instrument/ midi file on steroids, but all setup work with the samples needs to be done beforehand and then compiled into a file (like a midi file w/ sounds included) and supplied to the xtra. -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!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 windows icon question....
hey grimm - sorry i can't be of more help on this as i'm slightly bogged down but a PC/Windows possible path might be to use the vb extra (off hand i don't know where it is, but it's affordable if a client is paying) (this xtra allows you to call a vb method) and use vb to pull out the icon resource. a quick search on google saving icon resources from dll points to http://vbaccelerator.nuwebhost.com/codelib/shell/shelicon.htm which has at least a start on the code you'd need to modify. if i get freed up here, i'll try to do more (as it would be a very handy function to have for me too) evan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any way of grabbing a file's icon from the dll via an xtra? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 Writing sound members
of course there's always the defunct beatnik xtra that allows for user interaction with and manipulation of sound, but then that would be a whole nother pack of treats (like getting your hands on the right tools, getting your hands on a fully functional xtra, etc, etc). and i don't *think* beatnik allows for saving of what the user has done to external filesbut it may be worth a look? -evan Carl West wrote: Andreas Gaunitz P11 wrote: This is a matter of curiosity right now. In the past, I've used Glen Picher's BinIO Xtra to read and write external .aif files and have since been intrigued by the idea of using lingo to create or modify a sound member directly in the cast. Possible? Where would I start? Is there an Xtra? First I want to say is I don't know. But I can do some reasoning: Changing something in the cast means that you will have to either a) change the projector binary on the disk (not what you want) or b) Find the audio file representation in RAM and write to that RAM spot. That's what I was suspecting. AFAIK there are no inbuilt methods and no Xtras for altering an audio file/ RAM chunk, like eg imaging lingo does with an image. And that's what I feared. -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 Writing sound members
all true. now you've got my curiosity going though -- if you're not providing samples, where is the origination of the sound? through different clips the user supplies? just tones? .? -evan Andreas Gaunitz P11 wrote: I have the beatnik Xtra. IIRC it cannot alter sounds at all in the sense of writing a sound to a member or a RAM slot. What it does is it lets you import sound setups made up of samples (cycled or one shot), and it can apply filtering and some fx (a rudimantary reverb etc) to the sounds. It's good for what it does - sort of a quicktime instrument/ midi file on steroids, but all setup work with the samples needs to be done beforehand and then compiled into a file (like a midi file w/ sounds included) and supplied to the xtra. -A. of course there's always the defunct beatnik xtra that allows for user interaction with and manipulation of sound, but then that would be a whole nother pack of treats (like getting your hands on the right tools, getting your hands on a fully functional xtra, etc, etc). and i don't *think* beatnik allows for saving of what the user has done to external filesbut it may be worth a look? -evan Carl West wrote: Andreas Gaunitz P11 wrote: This is a matter of curiosity right now. In the past, I've used Glen Picher's BinIO Xtra to read and write external .aif files and have since been intrigued by the idea of using lingo to create or modify a sound member directly in the cast. Possible? Where would I start? Is there an Xtra? First I want to say is I don't know. But I can do some reasoning: Changing something in the cast means that you will have to either a) change the projector binary on the disk (not what you want) or b) Find the audio file representation in RAM and write to that RAM spot. That's what I was suspecting. AFAIK there are no inbuilt methods and no Xtras for altering an audio file/ RAM chunk, like eg imaging lingo does with an image. And that's what I feared. -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 how to get the brows window open?
Hi Lewis, To just open a browser, check out the gotoNetPage method. Are you planning on using the browser to import an image into director? Well, there should be an easier way w/ the the importFileInto method -- from my handy dir8 black book, importfileinto imports new media from an external file or internet location into a member. but using this method a while ago, i found the sample movie included in macromedia's tech note helpful http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/sample_importfileinto.htm hth, Evan Lewis Fleming wrote: Hi, I am trying to put together something in shockwave that imports an image file from the users computer. How do you open the brows window from director? thanks Lewis BBCi at http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 how to get the brows window open?
ahhh - that would make so much more sense. lewis, to get a file open dialog box i've used the mui xtra, w/ code something around: g=new(xtra mui) filename = FileOpen(g,C:\) cheers, Evan Tab Julius wrote: I think he means the file browser, to choose a file. At 01:10 PM 1/6/03, Evan Adelman wrote: Hi Lewis, To just open a browser, check out the gotoNetPage method. Are you planning on using the browser to import an image into director? Well, there should be an easier way w/ the the importFileInto method -- from my handy dir8 black book, importfileinto imports new media from an external file or internet location into a member. but using this method a while ago, i found the sample movie included in macromedia's tech note helpful http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/sample_importfileinto.htm [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 how to get the brows window open?
oh man, you expect me to *think* before replying? jeeze ...the high
standards on this list :) uhh...Lewis, how much flexibility do you have
on the interface? the only way i know of opening a file open dialog
box in a browser (even after some looking around) is to use the
pre-built html input taglike so:
body
form onsubmit=sendAway()
INPUT TYPE=file NAME=dialogOpener
input type=submit value=send to shockwave
/form
and then the javascript function sendAway() would send the file name to
shockwave..which would then use that string to import the file ...
convoluted to say the least...if you think you'll use this method,
there's a thread in the archives (
http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/archives/lingo-l/ ) on shockwave/javascript
interaction if you need it.
btw - for ie only, it might be possible to do this automagically through
a hidden layer of html and a bit of javascript. you can send a message
(which can originate in shockwave, but for this example i'm just
starting it w/ the hey link) through javascript to open this dialog
box w/out seeing the html, but not cross browser in anyway...
script
function doit() {
document.forms[0][0].click();
}
/script
style
#hiddenForm {
position:absolute;
visibility : hidden;
}
/style
/head
body
a href=javascript:doit()hey/a
div id=hiddenForm
form onsubmit=checkFile()
INPUT TYPE=file NAME=dialogOpener
input type=submit value=send to shockwave
/form
/div
i pray that someone responds w/ a better way of doing thisperhaps
another xtra that i'm not thinking of is shockwave safe?
Evan
-who, today, only has two empty halves of coconut and bangs them together
Carl West wrote:
Evan Adelman wrote:
ahhh - that would make so much more sense. lewis, to get a file open
dialog box i've used the mui xtra, w/ code
something around:
g=new(xtra mui)
filename = FileOpen(g,C:\)
Or filextra3
but neither seems to be shockwave-save.
And therefor no help here.
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Re: lingo-l A new Mothership?
shiversugh./shivers -e Fraser Campbell wrote: an interesting article about Microsoft possibly considering a hostile takeover bid for Macromedia: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.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!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 Irregular shape of rollover
the way i've done it in the past is track the mouse position when over a sprite, setting up semi-elaborate logic statements...dunno if this is the best way or not, but workslemme know if you need a code sample if you want to do it this way... -evan universal2001 wrote: Hi everyone, It's been a long time since I played with Lingo. It is possible to create irregular hotspots (for mouserollover)? thanks, Uni [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 Irregular shape of rollover
ah yes - that mode of thinking works if you have areas of the sprite you can knock out, like just a circle w/in a rectangular sprite-- i was thinking Uni wanted one sprite to respond in different ways w/ irregular hotspots - more like an html image map... -evan Cole Tierney wrote: It's been a long time since I played with Lingo. It is possible to create irregular hotspots (for mouserollover)? You might check out the matte ink. If that doesn't work with your image, you could put a 1 bitdepth member under your background and attach scripts to that. -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 asleep at the wheel?
http://www.macromedia.com/software/director/ was i asleep or was this just updated? anyway, watched the little flash tour -- looks like some pretty neat stuff (esp nice flash integration). now if i can only figure out how to put the bill for this in a client contract somewhere ;-) -evan [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 more than 1 ancestor
but you can add scripts to sprites on the fly w/ something like: y= new (script newScript) sprite(me.spriteNum).scriptInstanceList.add(y) where newScript holds the unique behaviors that you want to add but, w/out hand written code, the scripts won't be dependent on each other -e Irv Kalb wrote: Only one. There is just a single ancestor keyword. You can really nest ancestor scripts, but an ancestor script can set its own ancestor, etc. But it sounds like you are looking for multiple inheritance - and Lingo does not allow that. Irv At 4:24 PM + 10/28/02, Jamie Dyer wrote: Is it possible to have more than 1 ancestor script? e.g. me.ancestor1 = new(script blah) me.ancestor2 = new(script blah2) I know that you can nest ancestor scripts but this is not what I want. What I want to do it to have a library of scripts and then add them to other scripts as and when needed. Cheers JamieD -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:evan;mutantmedia.com | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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: 8.51 Crashing in Windows 2000 (all Winsults accepted)
i think a more useful path might be to take the same project that's causing problems and try compiling it on a different platform. then see if the project still crashes win2k. is it only one project that's causing problems or can you take an old project and replicate the problem? are you watching memory or cpu cycles at any point? do you have a second win2k box that you tested on (your email seemed to allude that you already did this, but just to clarify)? Also, just a from experience deal, don't trust that windows update has the latest drivers for your hardware...go to the hardware manufacturer's sites btw - i had a similar problem about a year and a half ago on win2k -- i don't think i ever solved it (but was able to work around it) but when i moved on (stopped working on that particular project) all problems went awayi think i remember narrowing it down in that case to a really wierd fluke - (i was puppetting a bunch of sprites and after i'd puppet 60 or so, any time i'd puppet this one text box, everything would die)...anyway, i'm authoring in win2k today w/ no problems...knock on wood -Evan Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: You don't need to get a mac, just a different version of Windows. Windows 2000 is not a good platform to use for multimedia in general, because it wasn't created for that purpose. Get a copy of Win 98 Second Edition if you want a stable Windows machine (XP might work as well, but I haven't used it). Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message - From: Allen Stare-IMM [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 11:21 AM Subject: lingo-l Re: 8.51 Crashing in Windows 2000 (all Winsults accepted) Yeah, I know, get a Mac. I've got a Mac...I need to upgrade. My Mac's just not as big or as fast as my Win machine so I live with the Win headaches. Except for this one. Anybody got any info? I'm using Director 8.51 on Windows 2000 Vers. 5.00.2195 Service Pack 2. Processor is an AMD Athlon with 512MB RAM and an NVidia PCI Vid Card with 32MB. Problem 1: I can run in author mode for hours on end without a problem...as long as I'm authoring. As soon as I run anything in author mode (for testing purposes, animation movement, etc) I've only got a few minutes before I receive an alert box: A fatal error has occurred. Director will quit now. Director very courteously gives me the chance to save what I was working on before it completely closes down. There is no pattern as to when the stop occurs. Doesn't matter what I'm doing and time varies with each crash. Problem 2: When I launch a project out of a stub projector (standard projector - created on the Win2000 machine with 8.51) it will only run on the Win2000 machine for a few minutes before I get the alert box: [Projector.exe] has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. An error log is being created. (I added the brackets. It actually names the projector.) The same set-up, when put on CD and run on Win98 or Win95 machines, will run without error for hours. When running the CD on the Win2000 machine (instead of off the hard drive), it does the same thing. When crashing out of the stub projector, an error log IS created but it can't be open. I always get the message that it's in use by another program, even when I close everything and reboot before attempting to view it. Are these known errors? Is there a patch/upgrade/workaround/setting that I'm missing or don't know about? As usual, all help is greatly appreciated. Al Allen Stare [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!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 I beam missing
Sharon - From your earlier post of your code, I notice that you're setting the color of the sprite over and over and over and well you get the idea. If you make this color change occur only when necessary (like don't do it when it's the right color already) then your cursor will blink again.. -Cheers Evan Sharon Moeller wrote: I have an text cast member. The member, when on the stage is set to editable. However, the I beam is not showing up at all, even after the user types a few letters. What would cause this to happen? Sharon Moeller [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 scaling images question...
this is a function for scaling up to a size while maintaining aspect ratio that seems to work pretty well - i'm sure you can rework to scale down on scaleSprite me,spriteToScale -- updateStage newW = pMemberToChangeTo.width newH = pMemberToChangeTo.height if pMemberToChangeTo.height400 or pMemberToChangeTo.width 774 then perH = float(pMemberToChangeTo.height-400)/float(pMemberToChangeTo.height) perW = float(pMemberToChangeTo.width-774)/float(pMemberToChangeTo.width) if perW=perH then --use perW newW = 774 --pMemberToChangeTo.width - (pMemberToChangeTo.width*perW) newH = pMemberToChangeTo.height - (pMemberToChangeTo.width*perW) else newW = pMemberToChangeTo.width - (pMemberToChangeTo.width*perH) newH = 400 --pMemberToChangeTo.height - (pMemberToChangeTo.width*perH) end if end if spriteToScale.width=newW spriteToScale.height=newH end g r i m m w e r k s wrote: I've been trying to do this all sorts of ways and now my brain is locked. I'm sure once the answer comes back at me I'll feel like a dope. Thanks in advance for killing my self esteem. I've got a bunch of images that I need to scale to fit a maxWidth and maxHeight; trouble is these images are all sorts of possible dimensions. Say we want to fit a 320x240 area, if I request a rescaling for a rect of 640x480, it will of course check for whether the requested rect is landscape or portrait, and scale it to meet the 320x240. This works fine for this: (taken from the handyman's digital portfolio at doug and changed slightly, whereas tMax and tMin are passed in): -- if tMem.width tMem.height then --newHeight = (tMem.height * pMax)/tMem.width --offset = (pMax - newHeight)/2 --imRect = rect(0,0,pMax, newHeight) --destRect = rect(0,0+offset, pMax, newHeight + offset) -- else --newWidth = (tMem.width * pMin)/tMem.height --offset = (pMin-newWidth)/2 --imRect = rect(0,0,newWidth, pMin) --destRect = rect(0+offset, 0, newWidth + offset, pMin) -- end if but this really doesn't work, as the image passed in might not fit perfectly to a max/min -- it's really got to scale the image to fit whichever - the maxwidth or maxheight, no matter what the image dimensions are, ie: tPerc = (maxWidth/float(theRect.width) return(rect * tPerc) ? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com http://www.mutantmedia.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 sound latency problems
Hi all -- I'm working on a cd-rom Director 8.5 piece -- I have little sound files that I'm playing on rollover of closely packed sprites. In Windows 2k I'm setting the soundDevice to QT3Mix and getting the performance that I want (which is pretty much uber-low latency). On Mac however, I'm getting a freaky buildup of the notes as the user mouses over the sprites quickly...then after you annoy it for a while (in the Projector only), Director starts generating script errors (which I've logged to a trace file -- no real useful message outputs (plus I kind of forget what it said ;) ). Then to make my life worse, I tried the Beatnik xtra only to get latency on PC (haven't tried it on mac yet). These sound files aren't large at all and this really shouldn't be that hard...anyone have similar experiences/tips? Do you all typically put the sound files in the score and not try to setup sounds through Lingo? Isn't Beatnik supposed to be the bomb at doing this stuff? Does anyone have an example of something like a shockwave piano or something where you play the instrument by mousing over the keys or strings or by clicking stuff and getting virtually instantaneous sound? Do I really belong in third grade? Thanks tons, - Evan -- ... m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.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 sound latency problems
Thanks tons -- Thanks for the comments -- based on Grimm's question about the queue, it turns out on inspection that I had some leftover code that was indeed adding to the list. I belong in third grade. As suggested, I just moved everything to a play(member(xyz)) command and everything's cool. I'm using aiff files that are internal cast members (they're really small) and didn't even know about the playFile command until Warren's note, but again, thanks for the comments - every bit helps in spurring the brain along ;) another satisfied customer (or at least it's better than going to walmart and asking), Evan Howdy-Tzi wrote: On Monday, September 30, 2002, at 01:38 PM, Evan Adelman wrote: These sound files aren't large at all and this really shouldn't be that hard...anyone have similar experiences/tips? If you are using SWA or MP3, there is a bit of a lag as the compressed files begin playing. Try using an uncompressed sound format. Also, don't do sound playFile. That makes Director get things off disk, rather than running it via puppet sound calls. Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill http://shop.osborne.com/cgi-bin/osborne/0072195622.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!] -- ... m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.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 flash fscommand calling function in Director shockwave..inNetscape?
nope - from technote: http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/externalevent_samples.htm 8 None of the above outlined techniques will work in Microsoft browsers (Internet Explorer) on Macintosh systems. Microsoft browsers that are being run on Apple computers utilize plug-ins for embedded Shockwave movies. In order for a plug-in based object to issue an externalEvent command that can then be received by a scripted function, the browser must support liveConnect. Microsoft browsers do not support liveConnect and therefore this functionality is not available. Due to this limitation, the externalEvent command is ignored when Microsoft browsers are being used on Macintosh operating systems. As for Netscape 7, I have tested in Mozilla 1.1 and N7 w/out success, but, as I haven't really needed this function in a long time, I haven't really put my thinking cap on for it...should do that soon. -evan .seb wrote: Hi Evan, here's a better version of a flash mx swf and a director 8.5 dcr chatting with one another: http://www.evanadelman.com/swf-dcr-communication/test.html This completely avoids any server interaction - the mediator between the two is of course javascript, and to make it cross browser, you've got to know a bit about how the two different browsers handle ExternalEvent (for Director) and FSCommands (for Flash). (...) I tested my example in Netscape 4.7 and IE 6.0 and everything migrated well. Let me know if this answers your question, or if you have problems or questions about the flash, director, or vb/javascript... have you also tried it on IE5 on Mac? and with NS6.2 or NS7 on any platform? I _never_ managed to have any externalevent to work with these browsers?! (sorry to ask, but as I have not the time to test your demo now, I was wondering if you've already did this test) I'm hoping you've found a way to do this that I've missed! thanks, seb [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 fscommand calling function in Director shockwave..inNetscape?
here's a better version of a flash mx swf and a director 8.5 dcr
chatting with one another:
http://www.evanadelman.com/swf-dcr-communication/test.html
This completely avoids any server interaction - the mediator between the
two is of course javascript, and to make it cross browser, you've got to
know a bit about how the two different browsers handle ExternalEvent
(for Director) and FSCommands (for Flash). The file is called
test.html, it contains directorMovie.dcr and flashMovie.swf. The
source files are also in the same directory --
http://www.evanadelman.com/swf-dcr-communication/flashMovie.fla
http://www.evanadelman.com/swf-dcr-communication/directorMovie.dir
Ok - so the trick that allows this to be cross browser is a timeout in
your javascript receivers like this:
function setFlashVariable(aString,bBeenHere) {
if (bBeenHere) {
document.flashMovie.SetVariable(externalString,aString);
} else {
setTimeout(setFlashVariable('+aString+',1), 300);
}
}
and in your embed tags for the dcr and swf, you need the addition:
swLiveconnect=True
I tested my example in Netscape 4.7 and IE 6.0 and everything migrated
well. Let me know if this answers your question, or if you have problems
or questions about the flash, director, or vb/javascript...
-evan
Evan Adelman wrote:
alright - i didn't have a ton of time to modify this from it's
original version which was pieced together through macromedia
technotes and
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/publishexport/scriptingwithflash/scriptingwithflash_03.html
(and obviously was done very quickly) and i've got to run now, but
hope it helps -- feel free to ask questions back on this list since i
haven't been able to explain well here - try to get to it soon --
http://www.mutantmedia.com/swf-dcr-communication/test.html
evan
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Netscape version 4.7...
sorry for not following the thread earlier -- which versions of
netscape are you looking to have this work in?
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Re: lingo-l Director projector Vs. Windows Me
oh the fun of quick retorts -- anyway, any chance this mini presentation has flash in it? i've noticed that Win Me.uhsucks. Oh and the flash xtra is handled by Me like...wellturds. But, Jean-François, without more info, it's kinda difficult for us to refrain from making fun of you in your hour of pain. But if you give us more info, we're generally a bit more helpful (and even nice (as long as you know Monty Python jokes anyway (and you don't mind people who next side thoughts out to oblivion))). Oh, and Warren, when you turn the key (you are putting the key in the ignition and turning it right?) if you hear a click and slight .....it might be your battery... if you hear the starter going and going but engine doesn't start, try unscrewing a spark plug, put the boot of the spark plug wire back on, ground the plug and crank the engine - if there's a spark, there might be a fuel problem...add a bit more info and we might be closer...actually come to think of it, your example should have read my car doesn't work -- that would have given us less to go on... -evan Howdy-Tzi wrote: On Wednesday, Sep 25, 2002, at 18:08 US/Central, Jean-François Dumas wrote: I've got a mini presentation with director, but it wont run with windows Me. Does anyone know why? My car doesn't start. Anyone care to guess the reason? -- 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 flash fscommand calling function in Director shockwave..inNetscape?
sorry for not following the thread earlier -- which versions of netscape are you looking to have this work in? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just can't seem to get a string from inside a flash movie in a web page frame to a Director movie playing in another frame. Fscommand works fine in IE but not Netscape. It seems that direct communication is not possible to embeds but is possible to activeX controls.. Would anyone know of an indirect method of passing a string from flash to director as an argument for a lingo function? I have tried using the local shared object (no luck - director apparently does not read that type of file with getNetText())... EvalScript() does not seem to get to the embed object when called from a javascript function outside the fscommand script. Trying to access the browser status line or other variables from a listener object in Director did not work. And trying to set a param dynamically in the embeds does not work.. There must be a way...but my brain is fried ...would there be a way with CGI - or ASP if so how would that work? Hoping for useful insights..Thanks for any suggestions.. -Boyd Speer [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] -- ... m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.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 flash fscommand calling function in Director shockwave..inNetscape?
alright - i didn't have a ton of time to modify this from it's original version which was pieced together through macromedia technotes and http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/publishexport/scriptingwithflash/scriptingwithflash_03.html (and obviously was done very quickly) and i've got to run now, but hope it helps -- feel free to ask questions back on this list since i haven't been able to explain well here - try to get to it soon -- http://www.mutantmedia.com/swf-dcr-communication/test.html evan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Netscape version 4.7... sorry for not following the thread earlier -- which versions of netscape are you looking to have this work in? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] -- ... m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.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 any archive
if you look at the email header, you'd see there's lots more info than just from, to, and subject. there's also!the list archive url!...which is http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/archives/lingo-l/ in case (menu) -view- -- -headers- -- -all- or something similar depending on your email prog doesn't work for ya... cheers, evan sandeep wrote: dear list is there any archive for the list so that the questions that r answered a number of times before should not be asked time and again thanx [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 changing icon of projector
you can also use a free program called reshacker to alter either a) the projec32.skl file that sits next to Director.exe or b) the produced exe itself -- this is assuming you use any icon program (microangelo,Axialis IconWorkshop, etc, etc) to produce your icon first. if you alter the projec32 file, make sure you back up the original file as it doesn't always save the file correctly (but I've got it to work on win2k, sp2) - also w/ this method, your projector will compile w/ the new icon which is really spiffy... -evan Howdy-Tzi wrote: On Wednesday, Sep 18, 2002, at 08:32 US/Central, nik crosina wrote: I am wondering whether there is a way of changing the icon for PC projectors,.. I believe Tab wrote something that can; check penworks.com for more info on that. Barring that there *used* to be a program called Microangelo that could do it, but I don't know if it's still around or not. Also look over the list at updatestage.com/products and see if there are any entries there. I imagine there are. Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill http://shop.osborne.com/cgi-bin/osborne/0072195622.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!] -- ... m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.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: AW: lingo-l OOP question
i think an even more sure fire way to see if all images dealt w/ are the same object, is if you just throw in a put imageXYZ command. if you have your image contained in variable x and you pass x to a new object, and the new object holds the image in variable y, if, from each object you put xy respectively, you should be able to compare what comes out. and yes, as long as you aren't specifically duplicating your image, it should be the same object (thus is a reference w/in your scripts, not actually occupying more and more memory). Evan Michael von Aichberger wrote: Hi Daniel! You could easily test it by a) watch the freebytes / freeblocks both commands don't work in Windows (at least not for me: win2000, Dir 8.5G) I would be lucky if I could use them change the image good idea, maybe I'll do that, unless someone else confirms the impression you're under ... Thanks anyway 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: lingo-l quicktime video
Yep, I checked that too after I wrote the email. Same thing. Loaded and mediaReady are responding the same. Very odd functionality. Also, when I switch the sprite's member (when the member comes back loaded), the screen hangs, doesn't respond to rollovers, etc - but i know it's actually working behind the scenes - again just by looking at the memory crawl up in win2k monitor. Maybe it's just too much stress for the box to actually preload 50MB off a cd, but I couldn't find anything that says that I'm doing stuff beyond Director's means so..anyone actually ever try to do this successfully before? thx again, Evan Buzz Kettles wrote: what happens to the member().mediaReady? (when does it go true) hth -Buzz At 4:46 PM -0400 9/3/02, you wrote: hi all - i'm trying to load a somewhat heavy quicktime video off a cd through lingo (~30MB). I have a static sprite (a regular old bmp) sitting on the stage, i turn on the preload property of the qt, preload the member, and then switch the static sprite's member to the qt video once the quicktime's loaded property is true. my problem is, it seems that the loaded property returns true before the video is actually loaded into memory, causing a nice blank type appearance while it finishes loading. I've been watching win 2k pro's memory inspector, and it shows the memory climbing (about the size of the movie file size) after loaded returns true. is there a better way? i've tried checking the streaming property, but it seems from reading d8.5 help that steaming applies to network steaming. i'm preloading w/ pMemberToChangeTo.preload=1 preLoadMember pMemberToChangeTo where pMemberToChangTo is a reference to the video member i'm check the load status w/ if pMemberToChangeTo.loaded1 then pStatus=12 put loading else put loaded pStatus=11 end if where pStatus just indicates to other code where to go. Any help/advice is very much appreciated, Evan [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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!]
lingo-l scriptInstanceList
Howdy all - Having a bit of a problem w/ setting a sprite's scriptInstanceList. I want the new sprite to have a bit of exitFrame functionality, but no mouse functionality so that sprites under it act under their own control. Typically I've done this just by not including mouse behaviors. So, anyway, I guess it would be quicker to show w/ code: behavior creating the new sprite where x is the next empty channel aScript = script(aTest).new(x) sprite(x).scriptInstanceList.add(aScript) then aTest has only on new me, aNumber put aNumber return me end on exitFrame put i have exitFrame Func end now when I do this, i get no passing of mouse events. It's like setting the scriptInstance list fills in the mouseEnter methods if they aren't thereAny ideas? Evan stacey wrote: hahhah- thanks Warren!! I am currently trying to use buddy api- but for whatever reason, i can't get it to recognize that combo - or even control or alt keys- I am using controlDown...putting the focus on the stage... any suggestions? This should be stupidly easy- but now its stupidly stumping. thanks again! s On Tuesday, August 20, 2002, at 12:11 PM, stacey wrote: is it possible to disable the good - ole crtl alt delete command? any suggestions on how to do it? I seem to recall there are Xtras that can -- Buddy API might be one, in fact -- you can hit the list at http://www.updatestage.com/products and see if anything looks promising. Not sure why someone would want to do this- but all the same... The Vulcan nerve pinch isn't just for bailing frozen apps. It can also be used to bypass splash type lockouts, which is not always desirable. Think of a kiosk with an unprotected desktop that has just had its program force quit by a thirteen year old with anger issues. Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill http://shop.osborne.com/cgi-bin/osborne/0072195622.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!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] -- ... m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.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 scriptInstanceList
Thanks tons -- I guess I'll have to figure out a different way I think -- there could be up to 50 different sprites under the covers waiting for mouse direction. I could cycle through them to see if the clickloc intersects w/ their rectangles, but that seems rather intensive? dunno maybe not so bad when i think of it - maybe that's what I'll end up doing - thanks much, Evan (yeah, sprite(x) actually is puppeted and assigned a member earlier ;) Kerry Thompson wrote: Howdy all - Having a bit of a problem w/ setting a sprite's scriptInstanceList. I want the new sprite to have a bit of exitFrame functionality, but no mouse functionality so that sprites under it act under their own control. Typically I've done this just by not including mouse behaviors. So, anyway, I guess it would be quicker to show w/ code: Not too hard. First, though, I assume there actually is a sprite in channel x. You have to explicitly handle mouse events, unless the sprite is invisible. To pass it on up the chain of command (e.g., from a sprite script to a frame script--check Bruce's book for the right order), you would do something like: on mouseUp me pass end on mouseDown me pass end U.S.W. If you want to pass it to a sprite underneath it--that is, in a lower channel, but covered by your sprite--you have to do a little fancier footwork. Something like: property pTargetSprite -- a sprite number on new me, targetSprite pTargetSprite = targetSprite end on mouseUp me sendSprite (pTargetSprite, #mouseUp) end 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!] -- ... m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.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 scriptInstanceList
Ah - see, I don't want a mouse event in this sprite -- i just want it automatically passed to a lower channel sprite that has a mouse event (like it would if i attached a similar sprite by dragging on the stage or score). If, in authoring, you have in sprite 1 a box w/ a mouse Enter handle that says put hey, where'd the fax machine go then in sprite 2 place a circle that completely covers sprite 1 w/ just the handler exit frame that says put it's in the field getting stomped on to really fine music when you hit play, in the message window you'd see the exitFrame message in sprite 2 a whole bunch of times, and as you roll over the combo, you'd see sprite 1's message (if in fact you roll over sprite 1's rectangle). That's exactly the functionality i want via scriptInstanceList, and it doesn't seem to be avail. Thanks though, Evan brian wrote: aScript = script(aTest).new(x) sprite(x).scriptInstanceList.add(aScript) then aTest has only on new me, aNumber put aNumber return me end on exitFrame put i have exitFrame Func end now when I do this, i get no passing of mouse events. It's like setting the scriptInstance list fills in the mouseEnter methods if they aren't thereAny ideas? No where in this code do you make reference to a mouse event. try having a mouse event and then see if you lose mouse functionality. that would be my first suggestion. Brian Douglas (:ub) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] -- ... m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.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 weird flash thang ...
er - what is the error exactly? invalid parameter? w/ flash sprites, i just set flash variables (using the setVariable() method) and let actionscript do the rest of the work (not using tellTarget,gotoFrame, and endTellTarget). I'm assuming you're expecting tellTarget,gotoFrame,and endTellTarget to command the internal flash time line? afaik (and that's a big afaik), that's not what those methods are there for - they control miaw's and ldm's. go figure if it works for you though. if i were you, i'd try to just use the message window and try the methods you're using straight out (tellTarget,etc,) w/ nothing else going on in the stage - isolate the problem as much as possible. if it works through the message window, then the methods you're using are correct and something's wrong w/ variables (you seemed to have ruled that out) or the order of execution. -evan g r i m m w e r k s wrote: Ok, I'm using some flash 5 members in an 8.5 project. Basically this flash sprite is being used as scrollbars, turning them off/on based on the amount of text to display. Nothing fabulous or anything, simple. It does this by flipping different scrollbar movieclips on and off. It gets it's directions to flip these from a sprite one channel higher, a text sprite. Both sprites set themselves on beginsprite as to the channel, etc on beginsprite me pBox =sprite(me.spritenum) end And that's fine, nothing more there. Besides the first sprite is set before the higher one is... Now in one case I get a function error, and that's when we jump to this frame with a bunch of text in memory to display. On the flash sprite I've got: on setScrollButtons me, whichBut, whichWay put whichBut whichWay pBox pBox.member.type ilk(whichBut) pBox.tellTarget(whichBut) pBox.gotoFrame(whichWay) pBox.endTellTarget() end scrollButtons me and the text member does beginsprite finds the text to display. sets its text then tells the flash sprite to flip the movieclips by doing sendsprite. When it does the setScrollButtons call I'm getting a function error, yet in the moviewindow/debugger: --scrollUpMc off (sprite 10) flash string pBox is sprite 10 (correct) pBox.member.type = #flash (correct) scrollUpMC = movieclip to tell target (correct) off = frame to go to (correct). It's almost as if the flash movie (INTERNAL by the way), although set as a sprite's member, seen as flash, etc, isn't seeing it's own movieclips / ability to tell target at the very beginning of it's existence? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] -- ... m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.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 dear macromedia (bug again)
Hmmm...this seems to be slightly obscure logic, and I'm not even arguing this because I care - I haven't run into the problem yet, but just for argument's sake - and running the risk of getting to be known as a nit picker ;) -- Just because developers understand a problem with an application, it doesn't necessarily mean it's not a bug with the application, does it? You seemed to answer that question yourself when you formulated your hypothetical functionality request: ...so that semi-transparent surfaces don't render incorrectly... IMHO, if something can be classified as doing something incorrectly, it's a bug w/ the application. If your stock broker used an 1920's algorithm to buy and sell stocks for you that was proven to not work correctly (whoops, it's selling low and buying high), you'd certainly think there was a bug in the process of buying and selling your stocks. Sure his algorithm is working as expected: it's losing money. And it's still incorrect for your broker to use an algorithm. huh - nuff rant, like i said, just playing devil's advocate :) Evan Thomas Higgins wrote: All, more details are probably required with your description ... what is this Z-buffer bug on transparent surfaces that you are referring to? I'm pretty sure it means in a 3D sprite. It's a seriously limiting aspect of the current SW3D. FYI: this is not a bug, it's expected functionality due to the z-sorting algorithms being used. No, it is not necessarily optimal and does need changing, but this is more of a feature request than a bug report: please change your z-sorting algorithms so that semi-transparent surfaces don't render incorrectly. This is an issue that we are well aware of and have been for quite a while. Example: Make two sphere models that are both semi-transparent, make one of them large (radius = 50) and the other small (radius = 10), then put the smaller one entirely inside the larger one but with its position closer to the camera. The smaller sphere, despite being completely contained within the larger sphere will sometimes render polys _in_front_ of the larger sphere 'cause we sort on a model level and not a face/poly level. Cheers, Tom [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] -- ... m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.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 ATTN : All Interactive CD Authorers
Ok - devil's advocate time, just get the juices flowing a bit: Why the hell would you create a bottom baseline for ALL of the interactive cd's that's just goofy if you ask me. So maybe I'm just misunderstanding your email now that I look at it a bit more -- you say the QA boxen are just going to be for those projects where you have to develop for everyday joe's? Or are you actually planning to test ALL cd's on these box? I hope your QA system is being developed for more than just one spec - what happens when you want to develop for a trade show where you get to pick the spec's of the computer? Are you still going to sacrifice bitchin graphics, sound, etc just cause it doesn't run on joe blow's computer? And what happens if you develop for a financial company who has not much better than 486's (yes, I've witnessed traders using what I'd consider a bar stool (or a really big beer coaster (how many layers can I nest side comments and still get away with it?)))? My point is, you should make sure your boss, who is inconveniently on your butt (bad place for bosses to be, if you ask me), understands that different clients/projects can, and often do, have different spec's. Then if she/he still wants to create a base QA system, it's understood that not everything you make has to go through the crud comp. Anyway, enough of the diatribe, I don't want to go in the cart! Evan ... m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.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 Repost - system spec question
stupid html formatting!!! here let's try this... Evan Adelman wrote: Dunno if this will help, but I've had some nasty experiences with the Flash xtra and lower grade machines -- actually, I never figured out if it was just Flash or Director's Flash Xtra, but either way it was a little over 3 weeks extra work (2 trying to find the phantom problem, and 1 reworking the Flash to get it to work). If you go low, I'd say test early and test very often on your target platform and, best case scenario, work into the spec's the words best effort on environment xyz. I don't think the lower order of processor was the problem, I think it was a combination of low memory and crap-o-rific sound card (cause there was a decent size voice over in the Flash movie). Anyway, I'd be wary of any development for machines 4 years old for advanced stuff -- the reason they might treat Director like PowerPoint is that nothing else works in their environment. In retrospect with my client, I would have requested one of their target machines to test on (or you work on site) cause even if you try to replicate their systems (which I did), you have no idea what they have done to those machines since they bought them (added new hardware, spilled coffee on them, had drunken office parties and used it as an ashtray). Oh, and by the way, I tried reverting to 8.0 from 8.5 when experiencing the problem to no help -- again though, I'm still not sure where the real problem was, flash or director. Good luck, -Evan So here's the list of questions: I see that 8.5 has lower requirements than 8.0 (133mhz vs 200mhz Pent - small difference), and 7 has Pentium (no speed) listed. I'm going to lean toward authoring in 8.5 rather than 7 (because hell I can't remember all the changes since then anyway) -- now for a plain vanilla director app I can go by the Macromedia specs...but what should I think in terms of video (mpg1 or QT sorenson or cinepak) Audio (mp3 compression or not) Flash (if at all playing in director, ie no alphas) PDF (play within the app via pdf xtra which is slow or launch externally -- what are the system requirements of the pdf xtra?) Powerpoint (using Ravware's PPViewer Xtra to play within the app or launch externally) Let's just say that the client I'm dealing with isn't very tech-savvy and don't know director's capabilities -- they've been using it as powerpoint -- and it's one of those cases that I can make recommendations without hard specs and they look at me like a dog who lost his food bowl. -- ... m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.com -- ... m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 917.916.7378 | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutantmedia.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 Web browser with Director mac kiosk?
uh. just throwing this out there since it seems there isn't a flood of ideas already coming in...perhaps you could grab the source of mozilla and try to find the code for mailto: and comment it out...wow...that would probably be a lot of effort that wouldn't necessarily work for all cases...another option might be to skin up a new version of the netscape browser so it looks even more artsy fartsy than it already does...but that doesn't really solve functionality stuff like your mailto example...another option may be to do the skinning in conjunction w/ something like a sub program using masterApp, and when you know the user is surfing w/ the skinned browser, check the active program list (dunno if this functionality works w/ macs or even if masterApp is x-platform) every second and whack anything you don't want running (that isn't planned to be running)...that would be fun too...let's seewhat else can come out of this nicotine induced brainstormwell my idleness answers nothing moreso ...yeah, good luck - let me know if you come up w/ anything good evan From: Jeff Gomes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l Web browser with Director mac kiosk? Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 19:53:57 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from mail4.fcgnetworks.net ([208.210.86.41]) by mxsmta01.inithost.com (InterMail vM.5.01.03.06 201-253-122-118-106-20010523) with ESMTP id [EMAIL PROTECTED] for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 23:11:48 -0400 Received: from mail4.fcgnetworks.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])by mail4.fcgnetworks.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g5R2s4Wr004141;Wed, 26 Jun 2002 22:54:04 -0400 Received: from smtp.fea.net (smtp.fea.net [216.115.224.15])by mail4.fcgnetworks.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g5R2r7Wr004130for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 22:53:08 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.2] [216.115.228.154] by smtp.fea.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.04) id AF762A5E015A; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 19:59:02 -0700 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: p0510030fb9402a28e9a8@[192.168.10.2] In-Reply-To: 008c01c21d5a$4eab0c50$0200a8c0@danya References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 008c01c21d5a$4eab0c50$0200a8c0@danya Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.7 Precedence: bulk List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=help List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe: http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/listinfo/lingo-l,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscribe List-Id: Lingo programming discussion list lingo-l.mail4.fcgnetworks.net List-Unsubscribe: http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/listinfo/lingo-l,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe List-Archive: http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/archives/lingo-l/ Hi All! I've just been blind-sided by my client's client's client! So I've come to the brain trust for ideas. Been working on a kiosk type of thing that runs as a Dir 8.5 projector, but needs to display live web sites also (sites that we don't control). Need to control what user can do while in browser. User only has a mouse -- no keyboard -- but client does not want e-mail program opening if a mailto link is clicked, doesn't want multiple browser windows popping up, etc. Our client initially said we could pick the machines we want it to run on, so we bid it and have been developing with the plan to use Windows machines and Web Browser ActiveX control to keep the browsing inside Director where we have better control. Well, it seems the end client wants to take this thing to Mac World for its debut (the products they're selling are cross-platform). And it turns out there is some problem like Mac World won't let them use Windows machines, even if they are hidden in a cabinet! (I can't swear that this is the exact reason...I'm getting this info 3rd or 4th hand.) So suddenly our great plan just went to hell. Please tell me...HOW can I get that tight of control over a browser when running on a Mac??! I researched LiveCD, but it looks like its HTML support is way out of date. This is an artsy fartsy kiosk and the client is not going to be satisfied with half-assed rendering of web pages. TIA. -Jeff --- Jeff Gomes MultiMedia Magic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Giving Life to Your Ideas --- [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to
Re: lingo-l off topic: fonts
perfect- this util (cross-font) is exactly what i was looking for...a much belated thanks, - evan From: Charlie Fiskeaux II [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l off topic: fonts Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 14:37:27 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from mail4.fcgnetworks.net ([208.210.86.41]) by mxsmta02.inithost.com (InterMail vM.5.01.03.06 201-253-122-118-106-20010523) with ESMTP id [EMAIL PROTECTED] for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 14:51:55 -0400 Received: from mail4.fcgnetworks.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])by mail4.fcgnetworks.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g5DIb4Wr006247;Thu, 13 Jun 2002 14:37:04 -0400 Received: from cre8tivegroup.com ([63.170.130.18])by mail4.fcgnetworks.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g5DIb0Wr006236for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 14:37:00 -0400 Received: from ajax ([192.168.1.20])by cre8tivegroup.com (8.11.4/8.9.3) with SMTP id g5DIaOI16012for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 14:36:24 -0400 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: 008001c21309$5e6b02e0$[EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600. X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600. Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.7 Precedence: bulk List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=help List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe: http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/listinfo/lingo-l,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscribe List-Id: Lingo programming discussion list lingo-l.mail4.fcgnetworks.net List-Unsubscribe: http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/listinfo/lingo-l,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe List-Archive: http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/archives/lingo-l/ I have a utility called cross-font that converts PC and Mac fonts back and forth, both Type1 and TrueType. It's shareware/freeware and should be available at downloads.com. It's a PC utility, so you have to stuff your mac fonts before you transport them over to the PC (their data is in the resource fork, unlike most files, so if you just copy a Mac font normally, it will be empty). When converting to Mac fonts, the utility outputs Mac binary files which you simply unstuff on the Mac end. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message - From: Evan Adelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 2:18 PM Subject: lingo-l off topic: fonts Hi all - I know this is kinda random, but I figured this is as good of a group as any to ask this since you're more than likely to be in my shoes from time to time. What I'm experiencing is cross platform font issues when authoring movies. We have mac dudes and dudettes here and pc folks like myself trying edit movies simultaneously and at times it gets to be plain horrendous. Besides the obvious answers (like just use common fonts, dummy), how do you folks deal w/ font issues like on mac Interstate-Bold and the bolded up Interstate on pc being different? Are there any font conversion tools that would change the Interstate-Bold mac font to Interstate-Bold pc version as it's own entity (i.e. not just having Interstate, then having the alternate option of bolding it)? Answer if you feel like it, like I said, I know this isn't lingo related so feel free to ignore... Evan _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.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!] _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.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 off topic: fonts
Hi all - I know this is kinda random, but I figured this is as good of a group as any to ask this since you're more than likely to be in my shoes from time to time. What I'm experiencing is cross platform font issues when authoring movies. We have mac dudes and dudettes here and pc folks like myself trying edit movies simultaneously and at times it gets to be plain horrendous. Besides the obvious answers (like just use common fonts, dummy), how do you folks deal w/ font issues like on mac Interstate-Bold and the bolded up Interstate on pc being different? Are there any font conversion tools that would change the Interstate-Bold mac font to Interstate-Bold pc version as it's own entity (i.e. not just having Interstate, then having the alternate option of bolding it)? Answer if you feel like it, like I said, I know this isn't lingo related so feel free to ignore... Evan _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.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 Sending data to linux webserver?
er...through web browser/shockwave combo or projector? seems to me that you could either a) use the web browser's function for uploading files just like on a web page if you're doing a shockwave type implementationor b) use the multiuser xtra (doc: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/director/documentation/mu_server_30.zip) and get that multiuser server for *nix that i see advertised on director-online.net every so often... http://xtras.tabuleiro.com/products/nebulae/index.tdb hope this starts you off right... =evan www.mutantmedia.com From: Rajiv Ranjan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l Sending data to linux webserver? Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 12:58:49 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from mail4.fcgnetworks.net ([208.210.86.41]) by mxsmta03.inithost.com (InterMail vM.5.01.03.06 201-253-122-118-106-20010523) with ESMTP id [EMAIL PROTECTED] for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 21 May 2002 07:19:45 -0400 Received: from mail4.fcgnetworks.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])by mail4.fcgnetworks.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g4LAu5Wr028328;Tue, 21 May 2002 06:56:05 -0400 Received: from mail2.fcgnetworks.net (mail2.fcgnetworks.net [208.210.86.12])by mail4.fcgnetworks.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g4LAt4Wr028317for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 21 May 2002 06:55:04 -0400 Received: from mail3.fcgnetworks.net (mail3.private.fcgnetworks.net [192.168.40.42])by mail2.fcgnetworks.net (8.9.2/8.9.0) with ESMTP id GAA93352for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 21 May 2002 06:55:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (host234-83.pool80207.interbusiness.it [80.207.83.234])by mail3.fcgnetworks.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g4LAt3Oq015271for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 21 May 2002 06:55:04 -0400 Received: from infmedia.it ([192.168.211.111])by localhost.localdomain (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g4LB0NQ23234for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 21 May 2002 13:00:24 +0200 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Infmedia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.7 Precedence: bulk X-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=help List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe: http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/listinfo/lingo-l,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscribe List-Id: Lingo programming discussion list lingo-l.mail4.fcgnetworks.net List-Unsubscribe: http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/listinfo/lingo-l,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe List-Archive: http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/archives/lingo-l/ HI List , Can I send data to Linux web server through Director,Data is not just text it could be any thing like images , text etc. thanx Rajiv Rajiv Ranjan 83,San Martino Pisa, ITALY-56125. Ph:-0039-3406779749. URL:-http://www.geocities.com/rajiv_soft. === Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. === There is something to learn everyday! === [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.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 imaging lingo
Hi all - just a quick question to see if i'm missing something lame before i throw in the towel and really learn imaging lingo (as opposed to just knowing the basic commands around copypixels() ). Here's my trouble - if i want to create an image based on let's say a square 15x15 and a line of text 100 pixels wide 10 pixels high, my resulting image is always cropped to the smaller image. my ex code: --member(square) = the 15x15 square, --member(text) = the text aNewMember = member(square).duplicate() newRef = member(aNewMember) --(image).copyPixels(sourceImage, destRect_or_quad, sourceRect) (newRef.image).copyPixels(member(text).image,member(text).rect,member(text).rect) gives me a 15x15 image in newRef w/ the text chopped at 15 px. I tried forcing the rect of newRef open wider prior to copyPixels() by setting it's rect explicitly (which d. doesn't allow me to do, apparently), turning off trimwhiteSpace, stuff like that...w/ no fix... any ideas? if this is a massively replicated question, no worries, lob a holy grenade and i'll find it... tia, -evan [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 Disable Printscreen
Hitesh, (novel follows:) Unfortunately, I believe that each program in Windows controls it's own printing. For example, if you work in PhotoShop, you may see a custom print dialog where you get different options than in, say, Director, even though PhotoShop is open at the same time. I don't believe that the Windows API allows for an override to their operating system backbone. I think the most feasible solution for you is to delete any registry key with the word print in it. Maybe then different applications that are designed to print will either just crash on opening or not allow printing (maybe). Another method may be to block the combination of the control and printscreen keys which would allow for very limited annoyance for the user who wants the information (although I don't know if you can do that, or if you can, what the corresponding number to printscreen is). But then again What about cameras? If I'm running the cd, and I pull out my digital camera and take a few shots of the screen, you can't stop me. Actually, maybe if you could somehow generate a microwave blast on start-up, you could disable all electronic devices in a certain area (but then I have my handy single reflex canon too, so try again). Maybe your client shouldn't be sending trade secrets, CIA Intelligence, and whatever else they're wanting to protect on inherently un-secure media like CD's (probably want to try to rephrase that for who you're building it for :) And then, if you have external documents on the cd (I don't know if you do or not) you're doubly in trouble because people could navigate to those documents without ever opening your executable. I *really* think the question your asking is like asking how to go over Niagra Falls without a really strong barrel and live. Maybe with super human powers, you might, but otherwise good luck becoming one w/ the Maid Of the Mist. Contentiously, Evan : http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/archives/lingo-l/ How do you plan to prevent people who have screen capture software from capturing screen shots? I could have FullShot open while running the program and get images that way. Something else to think about I guesss... Joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 10:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l Disable Printscreen Basically, I want the printscreen button to be disabled when my projector starts. Till the time my projector is running the printscreen button should not work at all, even in any other application. So I would need a windows API to do it. I need more info on the same. Looking forward to hearing from you. Thanking you. Yours truly, For WITS Hitesh Director Ph: (91 - 22) 878 6319 / 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.witsindia.com -- From Dreams to Reality the Realisation of Innovations All the data/ material provided above is under the copyright of M/s WITS and should not be reproduced in any form, electronically or in print or in any other way, without the prior consent of any authorized representative of M/s WITS. Suitable action will be taken against those failing to comply. © WITS 2002 - Original Message - From: Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 8:34 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l Disable Printscreen At 09:48 +0530 04/27/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The CD has some very important technical data. The client doesn't want to enable printscreen till the time the CD is on. I really do not understand what this means. What exactly do you want to protect? If it's the contents of the CD itself, then there's no point whatsoever in trying to do anything through Director, because it can all be bypassed. What precisely is intended to be protected here? -- Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill http://www.osborne.com/indexes/beginners_guides.shtml [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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!]
lingo-l linked director movies
Hi - Has anyone played with workarounds for the mouseEnter, mouseLeave problems that Rob Romanek mentions in his article on Linked Director Movies, http://www.director-online.com/buildArticle.cfm?id=439? I have one that uses the rollover method sitting in my frame script of the linked movie, but, hating to bog down exitframes, I was looking for a more elegant solution...any ideas? (Unfortunately the d-o.com threads and discussions on the article are playing dead for me) tia, - evan _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.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 continuous data feed wonderment
h activeX control you say?i totally forgot that it was an option...i think i might like it...but in those cases (activeX, dll, text file, database), i still have to have Director ask if there's new data out there even if there's not (possibly resource wasteful), right? I threw out the text file option cause i was worried about synchronicity and file lock outs...not sure if it was a valid fear, but since i have the more direct option of querrying the data source, i thought i'd go that way preferrably. thanks for the idea spark, i'll investigate more... Evan Evan, I was just saying earlier that I can access a dll (which is what the client is planning on writing and providing to me) through the GLU32 Xtra. That's option A for me. You could also have the client make an activeX control out of it, insert that into Director and make calls directly to the control. Something like: put sprite(1).getInfo() (assuming sprite 1 is the control and getInfo is a method in the control) or doing the same with good old text files (which I've already thrown out as an option, before it even broke the .5 second it took to become a conscious thought). Just out of curiosity, why'd you throw the text option out? Seems like a simple solution. I'm not sure what you're ultimately trying to do (or what the environment you're running this thing in looks like), but I've done this in the past where I've had another application write data to a text file and a Director app reading the file every exit frame with fileio. If your frame rate is 30 you can get data 30 times a second (possibly faster if you upped the rate -- I don't know, I used 30). I've run it for hours at a time and it seems to work pretty solid. Bob [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.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 continuous data feed wonderment
Which seems to put me into learning C++ landcould be worse I suppose. Unless there's a generic xtra out there that forwards any C++ message into Director? Seems generic enough that I can't find it, anyway. Thanks much, Evan The external code object should have a means to send messages to Lingo or Director as well. I mean there's no reason for it to sit there and be passive, hoarding data until Director asks for it. It should be quite possible for the Xtra to send messages out to handlers, with parameters and so on. That way your movie just sits there on a frame, doing nothing in particular, until the Xtra sends a message to it. -- Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill http://www.osborne.com/indexes/beginners_guides.shtml [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.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 continuous data feed wonderment
Yeah, I don't really have an Xtra programmer...all I know is that some dude off in the depths of client land knows enough C++ to create a dll...not that I don't have faith in clients, I just don't like to depend on them all that much... Evan Which seems to put me into learning C++ land... Why? Your Xtra programmer should be able to make use of the XDK from Macromedia to learn how to make his Xtra send messages to Director. You don't have to know diddly from squat about C++. All you have to do is know how to make an acceptor or callback function -- basically, how to write a handler. ;) -- Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill http://www.osborne.com/indexes/beginners_guides.shtml [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.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 continuous data feed wonderment
mmm background eh? ;) I knew that a dll wasn't an Xtra (in this case, the dll is being written in C++, as well as most Xtra's I believe)- I was just saying earlier that I can access a dll (which is what the client is planning on writing and providing to me) through the GLU32 Xtra. That's option A for me. Option B is to find or write an Xtra that takes the information in the custom dll and pipes it to Director. I checked the Xtras list, and around the web in general, prior to writing earlier post...no luck in finding something suitable. Does anyone know of just basic basic examples of Xtras? I subscribed to a list, but its not so active. The data feed looks like it's going to be two arrays of integers. It's actually data that's being collected from Nautilus (workout) equipment. That collection part is being taken care of by the client, and, since they're writing the collector in C++, have a couple options on how to give me that data. Some options that crossed my mind were an XML stream (probably brought into Director through a Flash Asset), accessing the dll directly with GLU32, writing my own Xtra that incorporated their code, or at least communicated with their code, dumping data into a database, or doing the same with good old text files (which I've already thrown out as an option, before it even broke the .5 second it took to become a conscious thought). Hope that provides fuel :-) Thanks again, Evan OK. Note, BTW, that a DLL is not an Xtra. Whatever you use in Director, if it's an external code object, it almost certainly is not a DLL. It might not hurt to hit the Xtras lists at Macromedia, partly to see what can be done, and partly to see what other products exist. Could be someone already wrote what you need. It's also possible, if you were to describe what this data feed was coming from, what its natuire would be and what you needed to do with it, that you could garner some reasonable suggestions here about how to go about doing it. ;) -- Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill http://www.osborne.com/indexes/beginners_guides.shtml [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.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 continuous data feed wonderment
Hey all - I'm in the initial phases of planning a gnarly Director project that has a continuous data feed. The data is being generated out of several data stations that will be fed into a C++ *.dll (which I'm not coding myself). Now I'm kinda stuck on the different methods I can use to yank the data out of that dll (or how I can give direction to the developer in terms of the most useful way to package up the information)...I know there's an xtra out there, GLU32 something or other that lets you query a dll. So my thinking is that if I use this method, it will be kinda resource wasting - I'll be querying the dll even if no new data exists (which will happen from time to time). So, I was trying to dream up of some way that I can get an outside resource to call a method in Director that will say Yo, don't hit, don't run by the pool, don't lie, spit, or cheat. Drinking and smoking is fine, oh yeah, user5 just changed his swing data to 10. Smoke break time.. See what I mean? Wouldn't that be more efficient to tell Director something new, instead of having Director being like one of my ex-girlfriends...(what have you done for me lately, what have you done for me lately, times infinity). Um...let's see what else can I say...oh past data history is irrelevant too...this project only cares about what's happening now - it could care less about past history, so I don't need to worry if I lose a few data points on the way (when I say on the way, I mean, if my frame rate is 30 frames per second, I'd like to at least be able to keep up with half that for my data retrieval). The data stream will most likely be a flood (strings, integers, arrays) of new information at time 0 seconds, a trickle (perhaps a couple integers for each user) from time 1 to 90, and another flood (again, strings, integers, arrays) at 91 seconds. Then repeat. So, if anyone has any questions, beautiful, shiny pearls of wisdom (or even a funny, wise ass remark), please let me know... Thanks, Evan _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.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 Tracking a Button
Fred- Which part of this are you having trouble with? Writing to a text file is pretty basic and pretty well covered in this list, even in March -archive is at http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/archives/lingo-l/ Accessing your network resources is a different issue - haven't really had to do internal network operations like this through director...if it were me, i'd probably just run a server that, in essence, listens for the click, but you could probably hack your way around it w/out if you have the right network permissions and know the name of all boxen that you want to listen to if you have more info about how you're approaching this, that'd be cool Evan m u t a n t m e d i a solutions for success Evan Adelman | 598 Broadway NY NY 10012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.mutanmedia.com From: Fred Westermeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l Tracking a Button Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 12:34:32 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from mail4.fcgnetworks.net ([208.210.86.41]) by mxsmta03.inithost.com (InterMail vM.5.01.03.06 201-253-122-118-106-20010523) with ESMTP id [EMAIL PROTECTED] for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 19:06:20 -0500 Received: from mail4.fcgnetworks.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])by mail4.fcgnetworks.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g2IIa3Wr001975;Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:36:03 -0500 Received: from mail2.fcgnetworks.net (mail2.fcgnetworks.net [208.210.86.12])by mail4.fcgnetworks.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g2IIZeWr001964for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:35:40 -0500 Received: from mail3.fcgnetworks.net (mail3.private.fcgnetworks.net [192.168.40.42])by mail2.fcgnetworks.net (8.9.2/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA52202for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:35:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from ppextfw.ppemidsouth.com. ([208.164.148.34])by mail3.fcgnetworks.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with SMTP id g2IIZdw7023716for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:35:40 -0500 Received: from [10.51.16.21] by ppextfw.ppemidsouth.com. via smtpd (for mail1.fcgnetworks.net [208.210.86.6]) with SMTP; 18 Mar 2002 18:35:39 UT Received: from GP51_Dom-MTA by mail1.grandcasinos.comwith Novell_GroupWise; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 12:34:50 -0600 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.0.1 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.7 Precedence: bulk List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=help List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe: http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/listinfo/lingo-l,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscribe List-Id: Lingo programming discussion list lingo-l.mail4.fcgnetworks.net List-Unsubscribe: http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/listinfo/lingo-l,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe List-Archive: http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/archives/lingo-l/ Tracking a Button I have a program made in D702 (Windows) and I would like to track the amount of people that are using the program. The program is on a stand along computer but is networked to my working system in my office. I would like to add a counter to one of the buttons track how many people using the program. I do not wish for the count to be seen. I would like it to go to a counter.txt file on the computer that I can call up daily. Counter may not be the name I am looking for here. Fred Westermeyer, CNA Slot Graphics [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grand Casino Biloxi 265 Beach Boulevard Biloxi, MS 39530 1-800-WIN-2-WIN ext.1592 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 protecting bitmaps ???
Sure, I'm assuming that you want to keep this information longer than the user has your movie open, and your users are users of the movie, not developers (you could have a similar concern if you had a semi-big dev team). You could either create a list of approved bitmaps and store it in a txt file (with any liked file xtra, perhaps filextra3) and iterate through that list when the user tries to import, or you could just flip the read only tag w/ filextra3 (the xtra that I know that can do this, any other will probably be fine too), and make sure to check it's read status before allowing the user to import. If you need more details, feel free to ask, Evan From: Chris Aernoudt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l protecting bitmaps ??? Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:57:14 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from mail4.fcgnetworks.net ([208.210.86.41]) by mxsmta02.inithost.com (InterMail vM.5.01.03.06 201-253-122-118-106-20010523) with ESMTP id [EMAIL PROTECTED] for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 06:15:48 -0500 Received: from mail4.fcgnetworks.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])by mail4.fcgnetworks.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g2DA63Wr007561;Wed, 13 Mar 2002 05:06:03 -0500 Received: from mail2.fcgnetworks.net (mail2.fcgnetworks.net [208.210.86.12])by mail4.fcgnetworks.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g2DA5GWr007550for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 05:05:16 -0500 Received: from mail3.fcgnetworks.net (mail3.private.fcgnetworks.net [192.168.40.42])by mail2.fcgnetworks.net (8.9.2/8.9.0) with ESMTP id FAA62282for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 05:05:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.pixellink.be ([212.65.37.227])by mail3.fcgnetworks.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g2DA5E0Z032009for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 05:05:14 -0500 Received: from chrislap [194.78.207.51] by mail.pixellink.be (SMTPD32-7.00) id A53B7B00DA; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:08:59 +0100 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: 002901c1ca75$7a2e17b0$7c01a8c0@chrislap X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600. X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600. Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.7 Precedence: bulk List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=help List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe: http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/listinfo/lingo-l,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscribe List-Id: Lingo programming discussion list lingo-l.mail4.fcgnetworks.net List-Unsubscribe: http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/listinfo/lingo-l,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe List-Archive: http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/archives/lingo-l/ Hi guys, Does anyone have a suggestion on how to mark(or whatever) a bitmap, so that from within a projector you can check the file to be OK to import, so the user cannot import non-marked bitmaps? TIA, 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!] _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.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 protecting bitmaps ???
What is your criteria for acceptance? How do you plan on telling the difference between a ready to import, and not ready to import image? You can dynamically pull in all the names of the files in a folder, but it sounds like that's not going to cut it. Like I said, you can always flip a read-only tag on and off too... Evan From: Chris Aernoudt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l protecting bitmaps ??? Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:10:25 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from mail4.fcgnetworks.net ([208.210.86.41]) by mxsmta03.inithost.com (InterMail vM.5.01.03.06 201-253-122-118-106-20010523) with ESMTP id [EMAIL PROTECTED] for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:19:18 -0500 Received: from mail4.fcgnetworks.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])by mail4.fcgnetworks.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g2DGJ2Wr012813;Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:19:02 -0500 Received: from mail.pixellink.be ([212.65.37.227])by mail4.fcgnetworks.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g2DGHxWr012794for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:18:00 -0500 Received: from chrislap [194.78.207.51] by mail.pixellink.be (SMTPD32-7.00) id AC98EB015A; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:21:44 +0100 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: 007f01c1caa9$961cacf0$7c01a8c0@chrislap References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600. X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600. Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.7 Precedence: bulk List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=help List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe: http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/listinfo/lingo-l,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscribe List-Id: Lingo programming discussion list lingo-l.mail4.fcgnetworks.net List-Unsubscribe: http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/listinfo/lingo-l,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe List-Archive: http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/archives/lingo-l/ This is not an option, since I cannot know the filename of them' bitmaps in advance. It should be something on the file-level, but it must not alter the appearance of the image. - Original Message - From: Evan Adelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] You could either create a list of approved bitmaps and store it in a txt file (with any liked file xtra, perhaps filextra3) and iterate through that list when the user tries to import [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.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 xml file xml xtra - african swallows may be holding my file hostage
Hi list - I'm having a fun little problem -- an xml object holding on to an xml file w/ a death grip. It (either Director or the xml object) won't let it go until I quit director. Unfortunately, this poses a bit more of a problem than just an inconvience cause I'd like my projector to delete the xml file (which it obviously can't do if it's closed). Any ideas? Background: I'm reading in an xml file that holds information for copying some files. Once I get through copying all my files (thus the xml file's mission in life is complete), I want to delete the xml file (for which I'm using filextra3). I verified that Director was holding the file by opening the xml file in a text editor (in this case HomeSite). If I open a fresh copy of my Director project (without hitting run) I can edit and save the XML file in HomeSite to my heart's content. Once I hit play in Director, I can no longer save the XML file in HomeSite until I quit Director. So far, I've tried setting my xml object to 0(zero), and void. I've also just gone to the next frame and tried to delete the file from there (after setting the xmlObj variable to 0(zero) in the previous frame. Is there something like pXMLObj.releaseAll() or pXMLObj.noIReallyWantYouToLetGoOfThisFile(theFile) or pXMLObj.manAreYouGreedyMrXMLObj-ShareTheFileIfYouArentUsingIt()? I wish there was if there isn't. Thanks for your help, Evan Adelman _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 Parsing help PLEASE !
Hi all, desperate for help. Ive got an email address combined with an extention .txt Ie: [EMAIL PROTECTED] assuming this email addy is in a string? if so emailAddy = [EMAIL PROTECTED] emailAddy = emailAddy.char[1..emailAddy.char.count-4] --get rid of last .txt how do I parse this to STIP the .TXT off. Thanx Ive been sat here hours.. JAYP [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
