from:"Howdy\-Tzi"

Re: Protect content outside Director

2003-10-25 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Oct 23, 2003, at 1:54 AM, Univision wrote:

I'm using video (mpg) in director movies, is there a way to protect 
this
media, so  they only can use it in the movie.
Not really. Use QuickTime instead. You can attach a "media key" that 
prevents playback through any but approved means, such as your 
projector.

Warren Ockrassa | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Publisher, nightwares eBooks
  A division of | http://www.nightwares.com/ebooks/
 nightwares LLC | http://www.nightwares.com/
[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi  To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]  (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo.  Thanks!]

Re: [OT][XPOST] For a Linux Player

2003-10-16 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Thursday, October 16, 2003, at 02:27 PM, John Dowdell wrote:

At 6:21 AM 10/16/3, Mathieu Senidre wrote:
It's time to (re-)send a wish for a Linux Shockwave Player :)
Don't forget to tell how much you'd pay in compensation. Right now 
we're
probably up to about a thousand dollars just from reading the flooding 
the
wishlist is getting this week, and after that we can start saving for
engineering
Well, you know, John, we all have work to do.

Warren Ockrassa | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Publisher, nightwares eBooks
  A division of | http://www.nightwares.com/ebooks/
 nightwares LLC | http://www.nightwares.com/
[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi  To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]  (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo.  Thanks!]

Re: Those OS's again and a question

2003-10-16 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Thursday, October 16, 2003, at 01:31 PM, Peter Witham wrote:

I'd love it, personally, but that's because I'm a 'nix fan at heart
and
have been since I first installed Slackware on an ancient 486/33 with
8
MB back in the mid 90s. (That was a fun system -- it triple booted:
Win3.11/DOS6, OS/2 Warp, Slackware. And the installation took
*forever*
since everything came in from hand-fed floppies... I had to upgrade it
to 16 MB to get OS/2 to work reasonably well on it, though.)
I'd think personally that it would be a real good move for
Macromedia to
get a foot in the 'nix door before Adobe :)
Yes, it might help them sidestep another potentially messy lawsuit at
least. ;)

And given that the OS X is as
based around a 'nix core, I would imagine that it would now be easier
than
before to start looking at that avenue of porting the applications?
Probably not. It would probably be about as tricky as porting from Win
to Mac or vice versa. A lot of what goes on with OSX in the GUI level
is quite disparate from what happens on UNIX; the OSX GUI is not an
xWindows build. Apple has released a freeware X11 server but it's in
beta; there's a third-party X11 server out there someplace too. The
ports seem to work. But the point is that in order to get Director to
run on a 'nix GUI it would have to be converted to run under xWindows,
and that might be a major reason why Macromedia hasn't done it. It
would be pretty costly.

However, there's not as much preventing them from creating a *player*
that would run on 'nix. That would be like the pre-4 days, when you
could make a runtime-only exe for Windows from the Mac side (before
version 4 Director was Mac-only for authoring). Since many of the lower
level routines for handling the *filesystem* on OSX are already in
place, and since adapting those from the BSDish Darwin to a wider Linux
distro would probably be a lot more feasible than doing an X11 port, it
would make a lot of sense to allow us to create *projectors* that work
on X11, even if the author environment isn't ported right away.

Warren Ockrassa | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Publisher, nightwares eBooks
A division of | http://www.nightwares.com/ebooks/
nightwares LLC | http://www.nightwares.com/
[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]

Re: Those OS's again and a question

2003-10-16 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at 10:42 AM, Peter Witham wrote:

1. It ain't the OS you use it's the ideas in your head and what you do
with
em. Do we ever hear artists defending to death their particular
paintbrush
or palette knife?
A good point.

5. What we all gonna do and say when maybe just maybe Director appears
for
Linux? Will there be a joining of the Mac and Win clans to defeat the
penguin? Lol
I'd love it, personally, but that's because I'm a 'nix fan at heart and
have been since I first installed Slackware on an ancient 486/33 with 8
MB back in the mid 90s. (That was a fun system -- it triple booted:
Win3.11/DOS6, OS/2 Warp, Slackware. And the installation took *forever*
since everything came in from hand-fed floppies... I had to upgrade it
to 16 MB to get OS/2 to work reasonably well on it, though.)

Actually a question for you all, what's your opinion on what appears
to be
the new tactic of having to upgrade Director everytime a new version of
Flash comes out rather than just updating the Xtra like in the old
days?
It's a little frustrating but I'm not sure I'd read that as a marketing
or sales drive on the part of Macromedia in the sense of trying to
force a purchase of Director to work with Flash. DirMX was necessary
from the Mac perspective to provide an OSX version; 8.5 included the 3D
engine that got a *lot* of people very excited.

Re: Autorun/icon inconsistency

2003-10-14 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 07:18 PM, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote:

How many other OSes are run on 90+% of the world's personal computers?
UNIX. PCs and servers. Why are you being so defensive? Do you own MSFT 
stock?

Do remember that mass appeal does not equal value.

With that kind of coverage, any OS would be the target of malicious 
programmers.
It was. The last major UNIX attack was a sendmail bug that was nailed, 
I think, in 1988 or '89 or so. Since then attacks have failed. Hmm. 
Wonder why. Either no one uses 'NIX or it is damn close to impervious.

The other OSes don't have enough coverage to warrant virus programmers'
[bla de bla de bla, typical MS apologist rant]

Oh! sig block! Sorry, I thought you were going to raise a cogent point 
before you finished your note, one subject, topic or idea that had 
never been discussed before, ever, in this entire tired debate.

Guess not.

Warren Ockrassa | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Publisher, nightwares eBooks
  A division of | http://www.nightwares.com/ebooks/
 nightwares LLC | http://www.nightwares.com/
[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi  To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]  (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo.  Thanks!]

Re: Autorun/icon inconsistency

2003-10-14 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 05:39 PM, Colin Holgate wrote:

Anyone have any insight as to why the My Computer window would *only
sometimes* show the custom icon for the CD drive?
Because Windows, in general, sucks?
Hey, them's fighting words! What do you mean "in general"?
It's superior in meaning to "in private", though not as heavy in intent 
as "in commander-in-chief". Perhaps I should have been more circumspect 
and instead said "in captain" or "in major" -- though the latter might 
have implied a majority, and we know that in the US we *must* have 
proof that majority opinion exists (or a Supreme Court ruling, rendered 
by nine elderly conservative Caucasians, to the same effect) before we 
can make such assertions.

-- 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!]

Re: Autorun/icon inconsistency

2003-10-14 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 05:40 PM, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote:

If people have bad experiences with Windows, I've found it's usually 
because
their computing practices contribute heavily to it's instability and
seemingly negative qualities.  I've never had a copy of Windows that 
was
less stable than Macs.
Actually neither have I. However, that's because of my background with 
UNIX, OS/2, DOS, PRODOS and other CLI and semi-fragile OSen in years 
previous. Because of that experience I know what stupid things not to 
do.

Any given OS is stable out of the box. How breakable it becomes due to 
user stupidity is another factor entirely, and it's indisputable that 
of all the current OSen extant, Windows is the most breakable. It's 
very aptly named.

How many other OSen can you list that are prone to viruses by simply 
retrieving and reading email?

-- WthmO

[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi  To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]  (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo.  Thanks!]

Re: Autorun/icon inconsistency

2003-10-14 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 03:45 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote:

Anyone have any insight as to why the My Computer window would *only
sometimes* show the custom icon for the CD drive?
Because Windows, in general, sucks?

Warren Ockrassa | President,  nightwares LLC  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 nightwares LLC | Consulting  Programming http://www.nightwares.com/
 Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide
Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com/director_beginners_guide/
[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi  To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]  (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo.  Thanks!]

Re: OSX baShortFileName

2003-10-14 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 09:06 AM, Alex da Franca wrote:

I pulled out some of my favorite hair of the very few remaining I 
got... ;-)
--

  |||
a¿ex
 --
Yes, I see you did. Pretty soon you'll look like Colin, and then like 
me.



-- 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!]

Re: OSX baShortFileName

2003-10-13 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Monday, October 13, 2003, at 07:16 PM, Alex da Franca wrote:

At 10:57 Uhr +1300 14.10.2003, Sean Wilson wrote:
The thing I *always* miss with this function is that the file _must_ 
exist before you can obtain its shortName - at least this is the case 
with the Windows version. Perhaps this is your problem too - if the 
same requirement applies to OSX?
thank you Sean, but I tried it with existing files.
the docs say, that if I provide the short name, I will get the short 
name.
What happens when you do

  put baShortFilename ( the applicationPath )

?

-- 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!]

Re: thanks

2003-10-13 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Sunday, October 12, 2003, at 09:38 PM, director wrote:

well i do use director and i know this not a porn list
or anything of that kind.
Depends on when you read it. It can get a bit racy.

however, i do appreciate the
fact that the people of this list take their time to
help those with less fortunate knowledge. as for my
email address well i have had that for many years,
even before i started using director.
Not to add to your misery, but I find it an astonishing coincidence 
that, years before you used Director, you had an email address like 
that one. "directorshock"? Try not to get too sensitive to goads, 
especially so sensitive that you declare highly improbable things as 
facts.

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!]

Re: [X-Post] QuickTime and path length on Windows rant!

2003-10-10 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 09:45 AM, Alexandre Cop wrote:

Hi Warren,

Hope all is well with you!
Meh. ;)

Really, nobody has ever had an issue with this? Damn, I must be
unlucky!!
You are, but it's a known issue anyway.
Have you considered  converting
the video to spark in Flash MX?
I haven't (never touched Flash MX), but I can look it up.
It does a fairly decent job, but you need DirMX for playback.

Or, since MP4 appears to work for you,
why not use that?
Well I would, if we had DirMX :¬(
But I thought you wrote that it worked fine in DirMX with MP4. Doesn't 
that mean you have DirMX?

The other thing is that it affects one of our authoring software, so 
other
than appending this to the FAQ I can't guarantee that they'll do the 
right
thing.
Not sure what you mean by that, but in general pathnames > 127 chars 
seem to fail in Director, as you've noticed. It's rather irksome.

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!]

Re: [X-Post] QuickTime and path length on Windows rant!

2003-10-10 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 03:19 AM, Alexandre Cop wrote:

Really, nobody has ever had an issue with this? Damn, I must be 
unlucky!!
You are, but it's a known issue anyway. Have you considered converting 
the video to spark in Flash MX? Or, since MP4 appears to work for you, 
why not use that?

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!]

Re: Lingo

2003-10-09 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 05:07 PM, Andrew Dempsey wrote:

You probably don't want to go there... Because then it opens up
all kinds of lingo issues, like "the width of member", "show locals",
"the score", "hotspot"... Uh, I'd better stop there before the 
moderator
kicks me off the list.  We're talking LINGO here... really...
Heh. Just remember that even a 1-pixel member is technically larger if 
it's 32-bit.

You gotta admit, though, it's nice being a cunning Lingoist.

-- 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!]

Re: Lingo

2003-10-09 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 01:07 AM, Andrew Dempsey wrote:

My wife keeps telling me at the end of the day to please STOP
thinking and talking freely in lingo... Go figure.
Which makes me think of rude things having to do with "intersects" 
testing. No wonder she's tired of the mumbling. ;)

-- 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!]

Re: TRUE or FALSE

2003-10-06 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Sunday, October 5, 2003, at 08:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Setting vars to void on purpose makes absolutely no sense to me. It
never has and it probably never will. Void means "I haven't even been
touched by code yet, so don't use me", while some other value (0 pr
#null or "") means *something* has manipulated the variable and the
person who wrote the code stands a reasonable chance of knowing what
its value is (or should be) from line to line in the code that handles
it. That implies a programmer who knows what his code is purportedly
doing at all times, and it's the kind of person I'd be more likely to
want working on a project.
I pretty much agree. But let me play devil's advocate.

When I kill an object, a timeOut, a MIAW, or something else I want to 
be rid
of permanently, is there a harm in setting the holder variable to 
void? I know
the same thing can be done by setting the variables to 0, but is there 
any
harm in voiding them? That's assuming, of course, that you (1) won't 
be using
the variable again, or (2) you know that, if it's void, the object 
doesn't
exist.
That's a little like asking if there's harm in not providing internal 
documentation for your code, or so I believe.

Again, to me void means uninitialized, which basically translates to 
programmer or program error. A variable that is *expected* to live part 
of its life with a void value means that the code generating or 
handling it is probably not rigorously defined, at least by my 
(admittedly uptight) standards.

There's no *harm* per se, but if someone who happens to follow my 
philosophy comes along he might wonder what went wrong with the code at 
some point: "Huh, look at all these voids..."

Thing is that putting a 0 or #null or "" into a variable lets you (and 
other programmers) know that you know the var exists, that you've got 
code handling it, etc. Void doesn't have the same quality of awareness 
to it.

So no, not *harmful* like not documenting your code isn't harmful 
either, but possibly a little, er, careless.

Can I work on your project? ^_^
Heck, not if I have to go through all these explanations first of the 
value of knowing what's in your variables at all times... ;)

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!]

Re: TRUE or FALSE

2003-10-05 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Sunday, October 5, 2003, at 07:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

mAHandler gets its value from objectB.mAnotherHandler, which in turn 
gets its
value from objC.mYetAnother, and so on down the line. Something at the 
end of
the call chain is supposed to return a value. But, because of an 
exponential
number of branches, you can't be sure you'll eventually get a return. 
You
gotta check for voidP then.
Of course. That's the reason to have a void test. Beats the tar out of 
C, which can give you garbage. But testing for void is not at all the 
same thing as saying

  thisVar = void

...which is not, to me, good design. It makes more sense to do this:

  thisVar = #null

...which still gives you a testable value and occupies the same amount 
of memory, time, etc. In your example if the var in question begins 
with that value before the cascade failure you describe, it stands a 
better chance of still ending up with a testable value that doesn't 
indicate program (prorgammer) error.

As a bonus if it *does* return a void at the end of it all, you have a 
much better chance of finding where it happens by stepping through the 
code and seeing where its value stops being #null and starts being void.

Setting vars to void on purpose makes absolutely no sense to me. It 
never has and it probably never will. Void means "I haven't even been 
touched by code yet, so don't use me", while some other value (0 pr 
#null or "") means *something* has manipulated the variable and the 
person who wrote the code stands a reasonable chance of knowing what 
its value is (or should be) from line to line in the code that handles 
it. That implies a programmer who knows what his code is purportedly 
doing at all times, and it's the kind of person I'd be more likely to 
want working on a project.

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!]

Re: TRUE or FALSE

2003-10-05 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Sunday, October 5, 2003, at 06:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Actually, TRUE = anything non-zero (& <> VOID since that's also
treated as zero)
Ooh, Buzz, be careful there. I found out the hard way not to treat 
VOID as 0
or false. It most definitely is not. I reported this about 18 months 
ago, and
it raised quite a ruckus.

It is treated differently on Windows and Mac. I had a 2-day bug in an
inherited project on 8.5 that I finally tracked down to this.
I forget the exact code, and I can't wade through 4,000 lines of 
legacy code
to track it down at the moment, but it was something like:

if NOT (pSomeValue) then

or it may have been: if pSomeValue

and it evaluated to true on Windows, false on Mac.

Whatever the case, if you're going to use a variable in a boolean, and 
there
is any chance at all it could be void, do a check for voidP first.
Yeah, I might have contributed to this ruckus too. I consider it bad 
design to let any variable have a void (i.e., uninitialized) value. ;)

Deliberately setting a variable to void seems just screwy to me.

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!]

Re: cast member list

2003-10-02 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 09:42 AM, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote:

or better yet:

global gMemberList
on enterFrame
  gMemberList=[]
  lcastLib=1
  repeat with m=1 to 1000
if member(m, lcastLib).type<>#empty then
  gMemberList.append(member(m, lcastLib).name)
end if
  end
end
Uh, no. That will rebuild the list every time the frame refreshes.

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!]

Re: RE: Concatenating property list values (mavinson@ra.rockwell.com)

2003-09-26 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 11:37 AM, Mindy McCutchan wrote:

--only stores the tag title
thisString = tempList[#tagTitle] & " - " & tempList[#tagArtist] & 
RETURN

No matter what method I use to store the information from the list, it
won't even store anything that appears after the first "&". It does the
same even if I do something like this:
thisString = tempList[#tagTitle] & "hi"

Put thisString
"Splish Splash"
Is there some kind of escape sequence needed or something related???
If I recall correctly, you can't do list access quite that way for 
modifying list contents. You need a temporary container for what you're 
pulling and modifying:

modString = tempList[#tagTitle]
thisString = modString & "hi"


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!]

Re: Autorun

2003-09-25 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 03:29 AM, Anand Ravi wrote:

Hi everyone,
I was wondering if there is a way to know within a projector if the
CD-ROM has the autorun, or autoplay capabilities enabled.
You could lok for the presense of the file autorun.inf in the root (on
windows) to check if the CD-ROM is autorun enabled. You will need to 
look
for a similar file for Mac.
All that will tell you is if the autorun file is present. It won't tell 
you if autorun is enabled on a given system, which was the question.

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!]

Re: Autorun

2003-09-24 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 11:10 AM, Fabiano de Aguiar 
Aniceto wrote:

I was wondering if there is a way to know within a projector if the
CD-ROM has the autorun, or autoplay capabilities enabled.
My first guess would be no. That's a system setting. I suppose if you 
really wanted to you could try reading the user's registry, but that 
seems like an awful lot of work.

I want to show the user that he can enabled it to start the CD-ROM
automatically
Most have this set to on by default. In general those who have autorun 
turned *off* have done so deliberately, are well aware of what autorun 
is and does, and have deactivated it specifically because they don't 
like it. So odds are very good that such a message to such users would 
not be regarded as helpful or desirable.

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!]

Re: Miaw @ Daniel

2003-09-23 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Tuesday, Sep 23, 2003, at 10:39 America/Chicago, Florian 
Bogeschdorfer wrote:

One of the strange things about lingo-l is that I don't get all posts.
Another one is that the answer comes usually before the question.
That's because you've got your tachyon filter turned off. If you get 
into "System settings" -->  "Non-Einsteinian" you'll see a radio button 
that lets you change the setting.

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!]

Re: Open a folder

2003-09-22 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Monday, Sep 22, 2003, at 13:59 America/Chicago, Mendelsohn, Michael 
wrote:

I thought there would have been a method somewhere to open a
folder...maybe in buddyAPI or the fileXtra or something.  Is there any
way to open a folder (not a file)?
On Win it would be something like:

  open theFolder with "explorer.exe"

I believe there are Xtras that let you do something similar on Mac; 
check the Mile High Table.

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!]

Re: MIAWs: close, forget....and VOID?

2003-09-19 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Friday, Sep 19, 2003, at 20:56 America/Chicago, Daniel Nelson wrote:

That's correct; the same thing happens with parent scripts as well. If
all their internal props aren't zeroed first,
An internal property only needs to be cleared if there is a circular 
reference or in cases such as the one I mentioned, in which an object 
reference points to another object created from the scope of a MIAW 
that is to be forgotten.
Actually I've had problems in the past with non-garbage collected lists 
contained inside objects; if the lists aren't zeroed as part of the 
parent destructor, they seem to stick around the next time the object 
is instantiated. :\

That can really get confusing, too...

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!]

Re: MIAWs: close, forget....and VOID?

2003-09-19 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Friday, Sep 19, 2003, at 19:38 America/Chicago, Bruce Mitchener
wrote:

Daniel Nelson wrote:
Just this morning, I solved a baffling bug related to this. If an
object in a MIAW passes its instance to an object held in another
window (or maybe if the window is referenced in some other window...I
didn't resolve which reference was actually causing the problem),
then all references to the MIAW resident object must be cleared
_before_ forget() is called on that MIAW. Otherwise, the next time
you try to create that MIAW, an error occurs saying "file is already open with write permission by another
user." Clearing the references on endSprite doesn't free up the MIAW
file.
If need be, you can also get around that error message by marking the
.dir/.dcr as read-only in your file system.
Our updater app enforces read-only status on any .dcr files to help
avoid that very problem.
That may not be the best plan. That error surfaces because there's
something fundamentally wrong with the *code* trying to close or open
the MIAW file. It makes more sense to track down the location of the
code error (and this block a potential memory leak) than try to make
the file readonly.

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!]

Re: MIAWs: close, forget....and VOID?

2003-09-19 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Friday, Sep 19, 2003, at 18:20 America/Chicago, Daniel Nelson wrote:

Just this morning, I solved a baffling bug related to this. If an
object in a MIAW passes its instance to an object held in another
window (or maybe if the window is referenced in some other window...I
didn't resolve which reference was actually causing the problem), then
all
references to the MIAW resident object must be cleared _before_
forget() is called on that MIAW. Otherwise, the next time you try to
create that MIAW, an error occurs saying "file is already open with write permission by another user."
Clearing the
references on endSprite doesn't free up the MIAW file.
That's correct; the same thing happens with parent scripts as well. If
all their internal props aren't zeroed first, you can set the script's
reference to 0 but you won't free up memory; you'll get leaks, and you
can even get cases of a new instance of the parent script having its
variables cluttered by residue from the previous instance.

As Tab's said before, it's best to destruct objects (including those in
a MIAW) in the reverse order of implementing them:

1. Zero all props first
2. Nuke the reference
For a MIAW it would be a similar procedure:

1. Zero props in the MIAW's parent objects
2. Zero its objects
3. Nuke the MIAW
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!]

Re: MIAWs: close, forget....and VOID?

2003-09-19 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Friday, Sep 19, 2003, at 13:23 America/Chicago, Agustín María 
Rodríguez wrote:

	Hi. Check this post from Jakob Hede Madsen:
Jakob's behavior is a groovy one, allowing MIAWs to close and forget 
themselves without crashing director; however the original question was 
whether a MIAW's variable needed to be zeroed after the MIAW was closed 
and forgotten normally, or whether Director garbage collected the 
reference on its own.

Still it's nice to see I'm not the only one who appreciates Jakob's 
code. ;)

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!]

Re: MIAWs: close, forget....and VOID?

2003-09-19 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Friday, Sep 19, 2003, at 12:16 America/Chicago, Mendelsohn, Michael 
wrote:

Hi list...

When closing a MIAW, is it necessary to void a global variable for it
after you do the close() and forget() methods on it?
Rather than void I use 0. I don't let uninitialized (void) variables 
float around in my code; void to me means I forgot to do something or 
there's been a program error.

As far as getting rid of the MIAW officially, I believe the close and 
forget calls do that for you.

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!]

Re: accessing scriptInstanceList in a MIAW: Bug...or just me?

2003-09-17 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Wednesday, Sep 17, 2003, at 13:57 America/Chicago, Mendelsohn, 
Michael wrote:

In author mode, I'm trying to debug something within a MIAW that was
launched from the stage (i.e. a separate dir file).  The breakpoint
works, but the variables in that MIAW all display void, and so I can't
debug because nothing works, even though it works in projector mode.
Anyone have this issue?  How can I get those variables to display as
they are?
The Debugger doesn't seem to like MIAWs in general. :( I've also had 
many, many problems accessing MIAW scripts with the "Script..." button 
in the error dlog; I get an open, blank script window from the stage 
movie's cast, not the MIAW.

I don't know of a workaround. This makes creating extensive MIAW-based 
projects considerably more painful than it needs to be, unfortunately.

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!]

Re: SV: QT Controls problem - no need to answer.

2003-09-15 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Monday, Sep 15, 2003, at 13:13 America/Chicago, Kristian wrote:

It wasn't that straightforward, as it turned out. The QT sprite was
loaded in frame 1 of Kristian's MIAW, and essentially hadn't fully got
itself onscreen in time to receive his script's movieRate command. The
solution appears to have been to move the QT sprite into frame 2 and
give it a beginSprite call that set the movieRate there.
Now I need to ask this. I'm sure you are right about the QT sprite not
getting fully loaded and your solution helped me, but should it play
even if it isn't fully loaded? Cause that is what happened... can it
start to play with the movieRate but still not fully load? (thinking
about that the controls didn't respond but it played)
I should have made it more clear; mea culpa. Ideally a QT video will in
fact stream off disk in playback, but Director itself needs a few ticks
to initialize the sprite and its parameters. Thus all the code
functions you can apply to a QT sprite might not be available the
instant it appears onscreen, particularly if it's loading in frame 1 of
a MIAW, because of course Director has to set up and load the MIAW
before it can do anything at all with the QT.

In general if you have a lot of code-driven components you want running
in a MIAW, it's a good plan to load, in frame 1, just the background
graphics. A sort of static screen that doesn't do anything except
present the user with something to look at. Put the code-driven stuff
in frame 2 or later.

It's a good idea to have your projectors (main movies) do the same
thing. Years ago it was actually a bad idea to have any code taking
place in either the very first frame of a movie, or the very last one
(assuming truly linear playback). That's not such a limitation any
longer, but since it does take time for the extra sprites with their
code to get into memory (or back out of it again), you can cover the
apparent initialization/de-init lag by putting dead graphics onscreen
in frame 1 or the last frame.

Kerry also mentioned something about your Flash sprite and how it
closes your MIAW. Self-forgetting MIAWs will crash in playback with
almost total consistency, so make sure your MIAW is not 'forgetting'
itself or telling the stage to forget itself. Either one will kill your
app almost instantly.

Jakob Hede Madsen has posted (to Direct-L, I believe) an elegant and
simple workaround to this problem that involves using a timeout object.
Search the D-L archives for more on that.

Re: QT Controls problem - no need to answer.

2003-09-15 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Monday, Sep 15, 2003, at 12:23 America/Chicago, Kristian wrote:

Sorry about the confusing "straightforward problem"...

No need to answer this, I got help in the [DIRECT-L] list. If anyone is
interested in the "real" problem and the solution I will post/mail it.
It wasn't that straightforward, as it turned out. The QT sprite was 
loaded in frame 1 of Kristian's MIAW, and essentially hadn't fully got 
itself onscreen in time to receive his script's movieRate command. The 
solution appears to have been to move the QT sprite into frame 2 and 
give it a beginSprite call that set the movieRate there.

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!]

Re: undocumented Lingo

2003-09-15 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Monday, Sep 15, 2003, at 10:27 America/Chicago, Thomas Higgins wrote:

It's not that Macromedia as a company doesn't want you to know about 
these
items
[...]

We're not trying to be sneaky here. :)
Riiight. We all know Macromedia is engaged in a massive 
disinformation conspiracy. Obviously it would be to their benefit to 
not document interesting bits of Lingo. (I'm not sure how, but hey, 
conspiracy theories don't have to be *logical*. In fact illogic is a 
hallmark of paranoia.)

;)

BTW Tom, you forgot the 1-bit MIAW mask trick as well.

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!]

Re: using protected quicktime video in Director.

2003-09-11 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Thursday, Sep 11, 2003, at 22:31 America/Chicago, biju george wrote:

But how can we protect the .avi / divx files. I think only .mov can 
support protected video.
You can't. At some point or another a dedicated cracker will make it 
past your security. The question is how much you're willing to make 
yourself suffer.

Best advice? Fuck it. If the client demands outrageous security, demand 
an outrageous price with the caveat it's still not ironclad protection. 
Else, don't worry about or bother with it. It's not worth your time.

Period.

(Full stop to you europeans.)

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!]

Re: Bundles for osx and os classic

2003-09-11 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Thursday, Sep 11, 2003, at 15:12 America/Chicago, Johan Torstensson 
wrote:

I actually had the same problem today. On OS9 the application appears 
as
"installer.app" with a "greyish paper" icon. Clicking on it just
produced an error. After re-reading the "Director Tech-Note:
Considerations for creating a Macintosh projector bundle" a few more
times I realised that I had the alias for the "stub9" in the wrong
directory.
Yeah, that'll do it. It needs to be at the top level of the .app.

I'm still a bit puzzled about how the applicaton decides what files to
use. The OSX executable is stated in the info.plist, but how do the
application figure out to use the alias in the root?
It doesn't. The system does. It's an OS-level thing, not something that 
happens on the application level.

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!]

Re: Bundles for osx and os classic

2003-09-11 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Thursday, Sep 11, 2003, at 03:34 America/Chicago, Kristian wrote:

Does anyone know about any good docs/resources on this??
Not yet, but practice is helpful, as is looking over how other .app 
bundles are made on OSX.

Well it's all together but i
seems like on os9.x it doesn't work just klicking the "xname.app" - 
which I
supposed it would. It works fine placing an alias besides it but that
doesn't count.
By this description it's nearly impossible to guess what might be going 
wrong. You should be able to have the .app work like a regular program 
on OS9.

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!]

Re: FW: File IO - bad filename

2003-09-10 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Wednesday, Sep 10, 2003, at 15:16 America/Chicago, Andy Talbot wrote:

On my machine and every other machine I've tested this on it works 
fine. However the clients PC seems to be different, i'm using the 
traceLog to see what they're up to and basically fileIO is returning 
'bad filename', however looking back through the traceLog I noticed 
the client had managed to save a file previous to this with no 
problems. So it only appears to be that when saving an additional file 
(different filename) that it messes up.
Count the chars in the name of the file being saved *plus* the full 
path to the file's location. If it exceeds 127, that's the likely 
reason.

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!]

Re: attaching behaviors at runtime

2003-09-10 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Wednesday, Sep 10, 2003, at 12:19 America/Chicago, Craig Taylor 
wrote:

Seems to work during authoring, but
not at runtime.
Have you used Score recording to make the attachments permanent, 
followed by a saveMovie call?

saveMovie, BTW, will not work with any movie file rolled into the 
projector -- you can do it with externals only.

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!]

Re: any body knows a good source of the info onprevaling wages

2003-09-07 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Sunday, Sep 7, 2003, at 20:17 America/Chicago, matt johansson wrote:

alot of your US clients are getting work done down here in New Zealand 
and Australia. Taking advantage of the Exchange rates, getting work 
done for almost half the price of US Developers. We're run off our 
feet down here
theres so much work.
If you or anyone you know wants to pay moving expenses, I'll be happy 
to add my feet to your ranks.

Seriously.

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!]

Re: Acrobat installer.

2003-09-06 Thread Howdy-Tzi

My concern there is about Adobe's Licensing Cops. Do they send them 
after you for doing that, or is it kosher with them? (Never tried it 
myself; I'm basically too chicken. ;)

On Saturday, Sep 6, 2003, at 20:31 America/Chicago, Stephen Ingrum 
wrote:

...

basically, install Acrobat onto the CD, and then when my users need to 
view
a PDF-
...

From: "Diego Landro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

What i have done whenever i needed to use acrobat i just sent it 
bundled
with the CD.
...

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!]

Re: Acrobat installer.

2003-09-05 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Friday, Sep 5, 2003, at 12:05 America/Chicago, Kristian wrote:

Anyone stumbled into this or has an earlier version to share? (Have 
accepted
and sent in the license agreement for distribution).
If you have an older set of Mac OS system installers you might find a 
copy of Acrobat Reader on it. Third-party installers could include the 
same. And now that i think of it even older versions of, say, a 
Photoshop installer disc might contain what you need.

Just some thoughts in case you happen to have any old CDs lying around 
(that have not been pressed into service as coasters).

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!]

Re: unexpected selection of a text member

2003-09-05 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Friday, Sep 5, 2003, at 11:22 America/Chicago, jean-louis valero 
wrote:

Please list
How to avoid the unexpected selection of a text member after we click 
on the stage previously in the background ?
I've seen this discussed before but don't recall that there is any kind 
of certain way to prevent it happening.

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!]

Re: detecting quicktime player

2003-09-03 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Tuesday, Sep 2, 2003, at 17:10 America/Chicago, matt johansson wrote:

Cath has shown the 'quickTimeVersion', whats the other method?
There's quickTimePresent, but that only tells you whether QT is 
installed or not (true/false), not the version. I was being a little 
tongue-in-cheek there and implying you could look up 'quicktImeVersion' 
in the docs.

Warren Ockrassa | President,  nightwares LLC  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 nightwares LLC | Consulting  Programming http://www.nightwares.com/
 Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide
Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com/director_beginners_guide/
[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi  To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]  (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo.  Thanks!]

Re: cpu usage

2003-09-03 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Tuesday, Sep 2, 2003, at 18:55 America/Chicago, Tony Åström wrote:

I check the topic on Direct-L and be back if I find an solution.
If the program does not have to update its stage with regularity you 
can use 'pause' instead of 'go the frame'.

If it does have to update its stage you might be able to use a 
combination of 'pause' and timeout objects.

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!]

Re: detecting quicktime player

2003-09-02 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Tuesday, Sep 2, 2003, at 15:39 America/Chicago, matt johansson wrote:

can anyone point me to a good script that detects the quicktime player 
from a projector?
With or without using 'the quickTimeVersion'?

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!]

Re: using an non standard shape as a button

2003-09-02 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Tuesday, Sep 2, 2003, at 15:37 America/Chicago, Jeremy P. McKay 
wrote:

Hi All,

I want to use a star shape for mouse events?  Is there any way to do
this other than using a bunch of squares and rectangles?
Umm, if you mean make a shape visually cut out on the screen, look at 
matte ink. If you mean make a shape sensitive to the mouse based on its 
perimeter, look at vectors.

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!]

Re: Erratic behavior with fileIO xtra

2003-09-02 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Monday, Sep 1, 2003, at 18:51 America/Chicago, Tab Julius wrote:

Which brings another thought to mind.  FastFiler's (whatever that 
annoying app is that catalogs your app), as well as anti-virus 
programs may well open and scan your file.
I was also thinking about the 127-character limit on long filenames and 
paths on Windows (including directory delimiters and extensions). If 
your file path and name exceed that limit, FileIO will fail. You can 
use BuddyAPI's baShortFileName call to work around that.

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!]

Re: Erratic behavior with fileIO xtra

2003-09-01 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Monday, Sep 1, 2003, at 15:51 America/Chicago, Tab Julius wrote:

Does it always delete the file?  If the file is in use (for instance, 
some process has it open - you perhaps, if you didn't close it) - it 
won't be able to be deleted, at least not without rebooting in between 
or killing the process that has it open.
Mm. This can also potentially be a problem in networks, I think, if the 
network is slow to either acknowledge the file is closed, or slow to 
understand it should be deleted. So if you're trying this with a file 
located on some kind of remote-mounted volume, you could be getting 
into trouble. Also if you're trying to write to something that the 
system, for whatever reason, wants to use, you could still be getting 
into trouble.

What kind of file are you writing, and what is its expected path 
and//or name?

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!]

Re: field and miaw

2003-08-31 Thread Howdy-Tzi

on getValue me value
 -- do whatever, such as
 put value
end
Sorry. Don't use the 'me':

on getValue value
 -- do whatever, such as
 put value
end
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!]

Re: field and miaw

2003-08-31 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Saturday, Aug 30, 2003, at 23:15 America/Chicago, director wrote:

a MIAW has a field. the value of that field changes
with a slider. I want to be able to get that value and
use it with my main movie.
Good, that's a workable statement.

The most efficient way would probably be to use a 'tell the stage' call 
when the user let go of the slider (mouseUp). Updating constantly as 
the slider moves can work, but it's terribly inefficient and will 
really make your program crawl while it's happening. Timing-critical 
events will suffer.

Simplest scenario is to have a handler like this in a movie script in 
your main (stage) movie:

on getValue me value
 -- do whatever, such as
 put value
end
... and in the slider, have a call like this, on mouseUp or whatever:

value = { the value in the field }
tell the stage
  getValue( value )
end tell
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!]

Re: field and miaw

2003-08-30 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Saturday, Aug 30, 2003, at 15:19 America/Chicago, director wrote:

hi everyone,

how do you get the value of a field in a MIAW.
Would you clarify your question please?

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!]

Re: printing from shockwave

2003-08-30 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Friday, Aug 29, 2003, at 11:54 America/Chicago, Luiz Gustavo 
Castelan Póvoas wrote:

How can I print something from a shockwave movie?
Apparently PrintOMatic works on the Windows side to do that.

is there a Picture exporter that works with shockwave?
Yes, there is. I believe ShockFiler can do that.

You should be able to find links to both from the Mile High Table at 
updatestage.com

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!]

Re: Slide Show question

2003-08-30 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Friday, Aug 29, 2003, at 21:54 America/Chicago, Pier de Sanctis 
wrote:

I have a relatively simple question regarding the creation of a slide 
show.
Search through the articles at director-online.com

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!]

Re: re deleting from a text file with fileIO -is this a bug ?

2003-08-28 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Thursday, Aug 28, 2003, at 12:11 America/Chicago, Charlie Fiskeaux 
II wrote:

I think the PropSave Xtra is one of the least known yet most useful 
secrets
in all Xtra-dom.
Yes, it's quite a useful tool... And at a great price! ;)

It's located at http://pimz.com/?id=xtras§ion=propsave


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!]

Re: Bloody stupid HP drivers

2003-08-26 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 11:40 America/Chicago, Kerry Thompson
wrote:

Yeah. Avoid HP unless you're worried about fuel to weight ratios in a
small fixed-wing hop from San Jose to El Paso, or want to calculate
amortization rates on your Epson printer.
It's such a nice machine, though
Except it crashes your system.

Maybe it's worth having to reboot.
That's a joke, right? You *do* know that every crash corrupts your HD?
Why d'you think you have to reformat every few years because of sector
failures, and spend a frantic week restoring what was lost? (Well,
unless you're Zav, in which case you've gone through enough HDs to make
a home out of the drive enclosures.)

Saves clutter in the office, and the hardware is the pick of the
litter.
And you get to spend all that time at the coffee machine while you wait
for a restart. Me, I go to make tea when I want, not because my machine
has forced me to take a break. I work without trouble for hours, leave
five minutes at my discretion, come back and pick up where I left off.
Wow, my digital life so does not suck.

Re: Creating PDF's on the fly

2003-08-26 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 11:31 America/Chicago, Vargas Media wrote:

Hi,
Is there a way to create PDF's on the fly from within Director? I read 
there
was an article written about this but couldn't track it down.
I think it might be on DOUG, director-online.com .

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!]

Re: Bloody stupid HP drivers

2003-08-26 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 11:07 America/Chicago, Mathew Ray wrote:

Are you printing from director, or just general printing in other apps?
My guess is from Director. The failure rate with Director and HP 
drivers is legendary. Nearly 100 percent, and that's a very impressive 
level of consistent malfunction.

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!]

Re: Bloody stupid HP drivers

2003-08-26 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 10:46 America/Chicago, Kerry Thompson
wrote:

This is XP Pro, the closest Microsoft has come to a stable OS yet.
And it still crashes.

Curse HP. Why do they make such great hardware and such lousy software?
A question for the ages. My HP32s is a brilliant calculator. They make
well trusted flight computers. The HP financial calculators are so
legendarily well put together they haven't seen a form factor upgrade
in something like 20 years. They're like the abacus of calculators: Why
improve on a clearly perfect design?

But their printers suck serious scum.

I use an Epson. It's the bottom of the line model, given away *free*
when I got my iBook.

Problems? Let me count. Zero. Hmm, let me count again. Oh, look! It's
zero!

No real point to this. Just a rant. And a heads-up.
Yeah. Avoid HP unless you're worried about fuel to weight ratios in a
small fixed-wing hop from San Jose to El Paso, or want to calculate
amortization rates on your Epson printer.

Re: BaFileList() and .sort

2003-08-26 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 10:39 America/Chicago, Kerry Thompson 
wrote:

They *are* in order, alphanetically speaking.
We have a new word for the English language! I like it! 
"Alphanetically"
is something my [Chinese] wife would come up with ^_^
Listen, just because you're hooked up with Lucy Liu is no reason to 
boast.

-- 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!]

Re: sorting is such sweet sorrow

2003-08-26 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 10:02 America/Chicago, grimmwerks wrote:

Intersting.

["1", "10", "2", "3", "4", "5"]  is correct.
[1, 2, 3,4,5,10] is correct.
Hmmm...now I gotta figure out a way of dealing nicely with this.
Context?

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!]

Re: RGB codes - got it

2003-08-25 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Monday, Aug 25, 2003, at 13:24 America/Chicago, Peter Bochan wrote:

Thank you all for the help
That's nice, but you still haven't said what exactly it was you were 
looking for. Care to share?

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!]

Re: RGB codes

2003-08-23 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Saturday, Aug 23, 2003, at 15:29 America/Chicago, Peter Bochan wrote:

Hi Lingo Developers!
I was just curious how can I figure out the list of RGB colors codes?
What do you mean by "RGB color codes"?

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!]

Re: fill me in on how to do this

2003-08-21 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Thursday, Aug 21, 2003, at 12:44 America/Chicago, Colin Holgate 
wrote:

http://staff.funnygarbage.com/colin/dialogmania.dcr

At 2112 bytes big, this is smaller that even one of those boxes, let 
alone all the ones you'll see. BTW, this may induce nausea.
Why? There are no images of you in there.

:D

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!]

Re: Hijacked e-mail

2003-08-20 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Wednesday, Aug 20, 2003, at 16:47 America/Chicago, Colin Holgate 
wrote:

This is a nasty one.
 www.messagelabs.com/viruseye shows worldwide stats and displays them 
graphically. They have to adjust the scale every some hours ...
I went there and it crashed my Netscape. I had to restart. Oh the 
irony.
I got a blank frame in Safari. One can only assume the site's been 
tested in IE only, and probably built in FrontPage.

-- 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!]

Re: Superscript caracters

2003-08-19 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Tuesday, Aug 19, 2003, at 16:02 America/Chicago, Luiz Gustavo 
Castelan Póvoas wrote:

is there some other HTML tags/codes that I can use instead of the 
formatting in order to represent the SQUARE (^2) in a good manner?
Not that I've ever found. What I ended up having to do was parse the 
RTF in the #text member and set the superscript offset by hand. It's a 
massive pain in the shorts but it does produce acceptable results.

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!]

Re: Director Programmer Position

2003-08-19 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Tuesday, Aug 19, 2003, at 14:14 America/Chicago, Luiz Gustavo
Castelan Póvoas wrote:

I found this posting this morning on Monster.
It's looking for a Director programmer in Northern California.
Before you all rush, it's $15-20 per hour, 10-20 hours per week.

Is it bad at all??
The hourly wage at its lower extremity is about half what a good
Director hacker's time is worth (ideally). US$20 isn't ghastly, but
NoCal is not a cheap place to live. In fact most of California is
outrageously expensive. A part time position at the rate given is not
enough to sustain one comfortably there, and would be hard to live on
just about anywhere else in the US either, especially if one has a
family and/or debt load typical of the US consumer prior to the stock
market foldup in 2000.

sad that it requires to be elegible to work in the states thou
There've been times recently when I've been tempted to move to India,
since the job market there is a flaming hell of a lot better, and their
power grid's really no worse than our own. Besides, I've always been
partial to pappadams. ;)

Re: Director Programmer Position

2003-08-19 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Tuesday, Aug 19, 2003, at 11:40 America/Chicago, Colin Holgate wrote:

I found this posting this morning on Monster.
It's looking for a Director programmer in Northern California.
Before you all rush, it's $15-20 per hour, 10-20 hours per week.
And you need to be a resident of NoCal already; they aren't paying 
moving expenses.

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!]

Re: Extract media files from cast

2003-08-18 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Monday, Aug 18, 2003, at 14:01 America/Chicago, Lutz Paelike wrote:

is it possible to extract media files from a director cast ?
Kerry mentioned Werner's Xtra for images; you can save the #text 
members out as RTF and #field members as plain ASCII.

But I think it might be a better approach to consider *why* you want to 
do this. As mentioned external links will mean a performance hit, and 
if your movie gets separated from its assets in one way or another, 
it'll stop functioning completely.

If you're stuck with a monster huge fat cast, and want to try to break 
things into logical pieces to make them more manageable, consider using 
multiple internal (or external) casts. You can drag and drop from the 
main cast into those and the references will be updated, you'll have 
your logical containers, and you won't have to worry as much about 
performance issues.

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!]

Re: help - emergency flash sound problem

2003-08-18 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Monday, Aug 18, 2003, at 13:02 America/Chicago, grimmwerks wrote:

Already do, but the battery is frelled.
Oho, another _Farscape_ geek.

Why not get a new battery?

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!]

Re: scroll bar for lingo 8.5

2003-08-17 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Sunday, Aug 17, 2003, at 05:34 America/Chicago, Batsheva Evers wrote:

Does anyone have a ready scroll bar? I am looking for a scroll bar 
that moves a number of sprites (dynamical amount) either left-right or 
up-down.
Hm. What solutions have you tried up until now? Have you looked over 
the included behaviors with Director? Have you looked at the various 
support sites (including Macromedia's) for alternatives? Have you 
looked at what might be achievable by Xtras?

Does anyone have such a script for me??
Probably not. We don't exist to just hand out scripts at random 
(especially complex ones) for free.

Build some collateral. Help others on this and other lists, then start 
asking for free help. Meanwhile, if you're not willing to try even a 
little, flunk your class or tell your client you just don't know how to 
do it.

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!]

Re: government / video question

2003-08-16 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Sunday, Aug 17, 2003, at 00:48 America/Chicago, grimmwerks wrote:

Has anyone developed any cd-roms/cbts for the government?
Grimm, surely you know that given the current state of paranoia in the 
US, we're ALL doing video for the government, advertently or in.

I'm actually finishing up something I need to hand in (not 
subcontracted or anything) and I'm trying to figure out the best type 
of video to use...

of course personally Sorenson / QT can't be beat; especially for it's 
scaling feature...but I've no way of knowing if these users have - or 
would be allowed to - install QT on their machines.
Um, maybe you should ask someone, such as the group for which you're 
making the production? Or did you just start creating stuff without any 
idea at all what your final user base would be? (I'd find that hard to 
believe of you.)

I mean really, how could you get this close to finishing something but 
still not know what your final target platform was?

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!]

Re: QT conundrum

2003-08-16 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Saturday, Aug 16, 2003, at 15:59 America/Chicago, Kerry Thompson 
wrote:

Is there some code around to do a QT slider?
There might well be in the D-L archives, or perhaps the L-L archives. 
I'm pretty sure it's been done before.

Or is there a way to get the slider with a non-dts sprite?
Nope. But can you toggle the DTShood of the sprite long enough for your 
screengrab, then reset it to its DTS state?

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!]

Re: Pass?

2003-08-14 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Thursday, Aug 14, 2003, at 16:56 America/Chicago, Andreas™ Gaunitz™ 
wrote:

What can I say? It works in a projector. What happens if you move the 
mouse when passing the clicks? (There's a SW bug that doesn't catch 
clicks without a mouse motion.)
Heh, this wasn't easy to perform lying on the back, holding the tibook 
vertically to the chest, using the touch pad... but no I couldn't see 
a difference.
Wow, you must be on vacation. ;)

On a side note... it feels like the SW plug in safari is really heavy 
on my machine. Is this to be expected?
Probably, depending on your definition of "heavy". It's rather sluggish 
on startup, it seems to me, though still not so slow to load as a Java 
applet.

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!]

Re: Save as binary file

2003-08-14 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Thursday, Aug 14, 2003, at 18:12 America/Chicago, David Benman wrote:

Not so fast. The DirectImage Xtra is a good xtra solution, but for a 
free xtra solution you can use the Sharp Image xtra available at:

http://www.sharp-software.com/

I've used both recently, and they performed well.
There's also an article on DOUG describing how to save .BMP formatted 
images using FileIO. It's slow, but it works.

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!]

Re: Pass?

2003-08-14 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Wednesday, Aug 13, 2003, at 16:56 America/Chicago, Andreas™ Gaunitz™ 
wrote:

That's the way behaviors work. There's an article on DOUG regarding 
this very issue, written by Yours Truly. Look it up. ;)
I looked it up, but I'm sorry to say it doesn't work on my computer! 
The last, moving, animation only says "hi from sprite 2" no matter 
when I click it.
It doesn't seem to work in Shockwave with complete reliability. I have 
absolutely no idea why. Works fine in *some* Win browsers and, AFAIK, 
all Mac ones.

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!]

Re: Pass?

2003-08-14 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Thursday, Aug 14, 2003, at 14:42 America/Chicago, Andreas™ Gaunitz™ 
wrote:

It doesn't seem to work in Shockwave with complete reliability. I 
have absolutely no idea why. Works fine in *some* Win browsers and, 
AFAIK, all Mac ones
On my comp it doesn't work with
Safari 1.0 (v85)
Mac-OS X 10.2.6
Shockwave 8.5.1
Well crap.

What can I say? It works in a projector. What happens if you move the 
mouse when passing the clicks? (There's a SW bug that doesn't catch 
clicks without a mouse motion.)

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!]

Re: animating scaling of sprites

2003-08-14 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Tuesday, Aug 12, 2003, at 17:26 America/Chicago, Kerry Thompson 
wrote:

I guess pain leaves a lasting impression, no?
Which is why you're sure to be immortalized.

;)

-- 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!]

Re: Mpeg pathing problem

2003-08-14 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Tuesday, Aug 12, 2003, at 11:22 America/Chicago, John R. Sweeney Jr
wrote:

My problem is that everything I've tried has failed to link this video
to
the program. I've had to hard code the path of the video, in order for
Director to be able to find it. It wasn't a problem, because the
clients
user base SUPPOSEDLY had all their CD drives labeled as D:. Well now we
found out that there are machines that have E: labeled CD drives. What
a
surprise.
At what point has a client *ever* offered valid feedback regarding the
technical status of any machine anywhere?

Anyway, Director can't find the video in a video folder below its
subdirectory and it can't even find it in the SAME directory that my
projector is in. The ONLY way we've ever gotten this video to be found
is a
straight hard-coded path. (ie. D:\Main\video\video.mpg)

Has anyone ever work with this Xtra and can offer any idea or suggest?
Have you tried contacting the tech support folks at the company that
made the Xtra?

Re: Pass?

2003-08-14 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Wednesday, Aug 13, 2003, at 09:24 America/Chicago, Mendelsohn, 
Michael wrote:

I have a text member -- sprite(8), sitting on top of a graphic --
sprite(3). Sprite(8) is preventing sprite(3) from doing its behavior.
That's the way behaviors work. There's an article on DOUG regarding 
this very issue, written by Yours Truly. Look it up. ;)

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!]

Re: search pdf files

2003-08-05 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Tuesday, Aug 5, 2003, at 01:49 America/Chicago, Anand Ravi wrote:

Sorry to ask such a simple question, but why don't you use the Very
Extensive text searching facilities "built into" Acrobat?
Acrobat can do full text searching over single files or large indexs
of
files.
To convert the PDF to Director or XML would be a complete waste of
time.
Download a demo copy of Acrobat ( not the reader but the full version)
and take a look at it's capabilities.
Thnks for the info. On previous occasions I have used adobe catalog.
But,
this time round, my clients is insisting on specific ways to search,
rank
the search results, and display the search results. I fully understand
that
this would involve duplicating the content 100%, but I don't see any
other
way. Any thoughts will be really helpful.
Charge them an insane amount of money, and demand half up front before
you start.

Really.

If you must do it as they insist, then set the bill at a price that
will cover twice your longest estimate of development time, plus
testing, and don't deliver the beta until they've paid half that.

Because they will either pull out right away, or get skittish towards
the end and decide they "want to put it on hold" for a while. In the
first case you're immediately free to pursue other deals. In the latter
(more likely) scenario, since you got half up front anyway, your time
hasn't been entirely wasted.

Worried about losing the client? Don't. There are others to be had, and
you don't need to spend 80+ hour weeks developing something at a
slave's wage that will ultimately be rejected. Clients don't usually
care about your welfare; they're greedy and prefer to keep all the
money to themselves. So you have to insist that your welfare is part of
any business deal you forge. If you don't have the brass to do that
you'll end up working for starvation fees, burned out and bitterly
resentful.

Better to lose a client than to lose your stomach lining, your head or
your heart.

Re: getnettext and asp pages

2003-08-04 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Monday, Aug 4, 2003, at 14:59 America/Chicago, Stephen Ingrum wrote:

I'm having trouble with getnettext and asp pages. I'm not getting 
anything-
neterror=4165

the url in question is http://www.dlp.com/about_dlp/about_dlp_story.asp
or anything on the dlp site.
any thoughts?
Personally I think I'd like to know what code you've tried so far, how 
you've set it up, and whether you have proxies going.

Kind of hard to intuit what's wrong without some examples of the 
failing source code.

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!]

Re: Multiuser xtra wait full data

2003-07-31 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Thursday, Jul 31, 2003, at 21:11 America/Chicago, Rodrigo Peres 
wrote:

My problem is that my script is sending only  part of
the barcode and receiving only a piece of information. How can I make 
my
script wait the end of transmission (13 bytes) before execute anything 
else
and more important how I tell it to wait the full response (57 bytes) 
before
"go to ..."
Hm. My telepsychic helmet appears to be malfunctioning. I can't seem to 
intuit what exactly your code looks like as it exists now. Would you 
care to post it so it can be read, analyzed and critiqued by less 
metaphysical means?

(Or, in plain english, post the code that's giving you trouble if you 
really want help with it. Make sure to include some descriptions of how 
the code is executing currently, i.e., as a frame script, a sprite 
behavior, etc.)

Warren Ockrassa | President,  nightwares LLC  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 nightwares LLC | Consulting  Programming http://www.nightwares.com/
  Developer | Structor, a presentation development/programming tool
  Info and demo | http://www.nightwares.com/structor/
 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!]

Re: when/why is pupperSprite necessary?

2003-07-30 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Wednesday, Jul 30, 2003, at 14:22 America/Chicago, Mark A. Boyd 
wrote:

Another thought. Since #text members are Direct-to-stage by default
They are?

Um, then why do ink effects work on them?
Uh oh. I can't get to Director right now to verify, so I could be 
wrong about the default. Am I thinking of text member's scroll bars?
Quite possibly. The scrollbars on both #text and #field members are DTS 
(and that can't be changed), and that's a pretty annoying habit of 
Director, as anyone knows who's tried to dynamically set or move those 
member types around on the stage -- you have to refresh the stageColor 
to get the scrollbars to disappear.

But I've not yet come across a #text member with DTS on by default. 
That would seem to belie the value of the antialiasing they offer, 
particularly over textured backgrounds.

-- 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!]

Re: when/why is pupperSprite necessary?

2003-07-30 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Wednesday, Jul 30, 2003, at 13:01 America/Chicago, Mark A. Boyd 
wrote:

Another thought. Since #text members are Direct-to-stage by default
They are?

Um, then why do ink effects work on them?

-- 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!]

Re: giving information from DB

2003-07-30 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Wednesday, Jul 30, 2003, at 06:47 America/Chicago, margarida g i r ã 
o wrote:

This code works fine to give one video:
myDBValue = dGRSGetFieldValue("video" rsvideo)
 str = the itemDelimiter
 the itemDelimiter = "/"
 myCast = myDBValue.item[1]
 myVideo= myDBValue.item[2]
 the itemDelimiter = "."
 myCast = myCast.item[1]
 myVideo = myvideo.item[1]
 the itemDelimiter = str
 set the member of sprite 12 to member (myvideo,myCast)
Now we want the same but giving 3 images.
This is the sql query:
set sqlString="SELECT imagem FROM (gesto INNER JOIN imgpicto ON 
gesto.IDgesto = imgpicto.IDgesto) WHERE gesto.Designacao Like '" & 
pesquisa & "'"
set rsImagem = DGCreateRecordset(sqlString, dbHandle)
It would be EXTRAORDINARILY helpful if you could give an example of the 
actual string you're parsing. All we've got now is a variable that 
contains Mystery Text. Since my crystal ball is currently in the shop 
for repairs I can't guess what 'rsImagem' contains, nor can anyone 
else, which makes it pretty difficult for anyone to offer you 
assistance.

And the final code:
[...]

This code gives 3 images but the same one. How can we tell lingo to 
retrives the 3 different images that are on DB?
Have you looked into repeat loops? Have you looked into ways to load 
lists or property lists with variables? Have you looked into 
rudimentary text parsing with Lingo via 'offset' or more advanced 
parsing using an Xtra such as PRegEx?

Warren Ockrassa | President,  nightwares LLC  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 nightwares LLC | Consulting  Programming http://www.nightwares.com/
  Developer | Structor, a presentation development/programming tool
  Info and demo | http://www.nightwares.com/structor/
 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!]

Re: when/why is pupperSprite necessary?

2003-07-29 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Wednesday, Jul 30, 2003, at 00:19 America/Chicago, Slava Paperno
wrote:

The movie is kind of heavy and full of handlers and stuff (tens of
thousands of lines of Lingo), maybe that has something to do with it.
Uh.

If you come across a bizarre situation like this, it is *always* a good
plan to try to replicate it using a *bare bones* movie. That means:

1. Exit Director entirely to make sure all memory is purged.
Clearglobals ain't enough.
2. Re-load Director, but NOT with the movie that's having troubles.
Just a new blank movie.
3. Try to replicate the problem using the simplest means available. In
this case that would mean using two cast members, one sprite and
Message window code.

It's almost certain, in fact darn near 100 percent certain, that one of
the many many lines of code you're referring to is responsible for this.

Can you run a trace on the Lingo and see if anything's interfering?

BTW what exactly are you working on? (I'm curious. ;)

Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/
Developer | Structor, a presentation development/programming tool
Info and demo | http://www.nightwares.com/structor/
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!]

Re: Determine where cast members are used

2003-07-26 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Saturday, Jul 26, 2003, at 19:44 America/Chicago, Buzz Kettles wrote:

there's no easy way to do using Lingo

The only way is to 'walk the score' & check each sprite, accumulating 
a list of frame#,sprite# each time you find a match to the member you 
are looking for.
Hey Buzz, you might remember the Lingo at this link:

http://www.nightwares.com/faq/faq5.htm#2.%20Score%20issues

This is an ancient script I came up with to determine which was the 
last sprite used in a given channel. You (Buzz) sent some suggestions 
for optimization.

I think with a little hacking it could be used to make a list of 
members associated with each sprite.

Warren Ockrassa | President,  nightwares LLC  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 nightwares LLC | Consulting  Programming http://www.nightwares.com/
  Developer | Structor, a presentation development/programming tool
  Info and demo | http://www.nightwares.com/structor/
 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!]

Re: MIAW and "script error"

2003-07-22 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Tuesday, Jul 22, 2003, at 17:30 America/Chicago, Locke Morgan wrote:

I have 8 movies that I am trying to tie together under an initial 
console.
The main console has buttons that open a MIAW for the individual 
movies.
All works well until I try to open a 2nd movie.
Would you care to share the actual text of the error message you 
receive, or are we supposed to guess it?

-- 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!]

Grammar parser in Lingo...?

2003-07-16 Thread Howdy-Tzi

Howdy all. Wondering if anyone's heard of a grammar parser behavior,
object or script in Lingo.

What I mean is something that can analyze the syntax of a given
plain-english (!) sentence and break it down into the appropriate parts
of speech:

"He went to the grocery store"

might be broken down as such:

He: Subject
went: Verb
to the grocery store: Prepositional phrase
to: Preposition
the: Definite article
grocery: Adjective
store: Object of preposition
...and other such joys. Simple subject/verb/object or
subject/verb/adjective constructions shouldn't be a big deal ("Warren
is insane") but for compound and complex sentences I'm not quite sure
how to really begin the approach. Though in some ways the
compound/complex parsing wouldn't really be all that different from the
basic parsing; it would, however, have to know when it was looking at
such a construction before it could break it into its smaller
components.

Obviously there'd have to be a dictionary as well that could recognize
individual words and slot them into their likely categories based on
context. That's not a big problem either (just tedious to produce).

The idea is that this would be some kind of code that could be used to
generate a pre-translation table of words, which would then be
converted into another language. (That's not all that difficult to
conceive either; it's simply an output generator based on the input...
it's the input side of things that I'm most interested in...)

Re: Error I haven't seen before

2003-07-16 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Wednesday, Jul 16, 2003, at 19:49 America/Chicago, Mark A. Boyd 
wrote:

At 12:53 2003-07-16, Kurt Griffin wrote:
"The application can not start as it
cannot create needed files. There may not be enough free disk space."
Another possibility is that if you've created a Standard projector, it 
still needs to unpack the .dll files to the temp folder. This /may/ 
cause problems for users with restricted access.
But why would the error happen on duplicated CDs, but not with the 
duplication master?

-- 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!]

OT-ish: Call for book submissions

2003-07-12 Thread Howdy-Tzi

nightwares eBooks continues to produce small-market press eBook
releases. We'd like to remind you that if you have a technical book or
tutorial in mind, your submission is welcome.

We specialize in titles that are not likely to be accepted by
conventional publishers, who often want a title to sell 10,000 copies
and more.

We do not pay advances but offer substantial royalty benefits.
Currently we publish in Palm Reader and PDF formats, and we're looking
at expanding into hardcopy POD.

So if you have a Director title -- or a well-written story -- and don't
want to have to deal with agents, market-driven publishers and
six-month waits for responses to queries, we hope you'll consider us.

We're offering a free preview of an upcoming title, _Allasnu Nomu_. By
following the download link you'll find a 40+ page PDF that offers an
introduction to the language used in the story (Delphic) and the first
chapter.

_Allasnu Nomu_ takes place in a distant human future and is the logical
extension of _The Beasts of Delphos_, another title we offer. Its
setting is a planet made of diamond orbiting an unstable red giant.

In it Adessa Tetrostsionu, a cultural anthropologist from the
semi-pariah world of Delphos, braves the censure of Allahu'akhbar to
study that world's ways and learn how they are different from his own.

In this companion volume to _The Beasts of Delphos_, we learn what has
happened to that world and its freed slaves after the Uprising, share
with them their joy of cultural discovery, and see how a godless planet
can be unlike one governed strictly by religious rule -- and how they
can be similar as well.

Preview link:

http://www.nightwares.com/ebooks/special/Allasnu_Nomu_preview.pdf

Re: Databases in Lingo

2003-07-09 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Wednesday, Jul 9, 2003, at 12:21 America/Chicago, Diego Landro wrote:

I am working on a project where i need to manage a huge quantity of 
images,
so i need to use a databse to sort the images. Question is: can i use
databases with lingo.
Yes. Have a look at the Mile High Table at updatestage.com to find 
several database handling Xtras. You can compose your own in Lingo as 
well using lists and property lists; my intro book (link in the sig) 
has some chapters on the topic and I discuss it under "others" on 
nightwares. Some of the sample chapters on my site go into the concept 
as well.

Warren Ockrassa | President,  nightwares LLC  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 nightwares LLC | Consulting  Programming http://www.nightwares.com/
  Developer | Structor, a presentation development/programming tool
  Info and demo | http://www.nightwares.com/structor/
 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!]

Re: OSX/9 bundle puzzle: foo.app = foo.app SOLVED (sort of)

2003-07-09 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Wednesday, Jul 9, 2003, at 10:22 America/Chicago, Slava Paperno
wrote:

If someone at MM wants to improve their write-up at
http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/
bundle_proj.htm my experience may be useful.
The writeup is imperfect; however, examining a few .app bundles can be
very useful in figuring out how to assemble your own. (Evidently you
did that yourself. ;)

Under Getting This on a CD, the MM writeup says that the alias to the
OS 9 projector should be placed "at the root," and in the same
paragraph, it says the alias should be placed "at the same level as
the bundle." In fact, it should be placed at the same level as the
Contents folder.
Yes; that's not the clearest paragraph, but the alias does need to be
alongside the Contents folder inside your app bundle, and the graphic
that accompanies the article does show the alias in the correct
location (but the expanded folder views make it hard to see that).

What the writeup actually says at that point is this:

The "stub9" alias at the root will have to created from a disk image,
otherwise the alias will point to the original hard drive location of
the original projector. Use the OS X application Disk Copy to create a
disk image to be burned to the CD. Once a disk image is created,
create an alias to the OS 9 projector and place the alias at the same
level as the bundle.

The "stub9" alias referenced is at the root of the app bundle; that is,
it's right inside it. It seems the term "the bundle" is here referring
to the Contents folder, which is imprecise.

It also seems that the alias to the OS 9 projector has to have the
filename extension ".alias" although I'm not entirely sure about this.
No. Just the word "alias". That is, make an alias of your OS9 program
and don't change its name. Just put it alongside the Contents folder.

While the illustration that accompanies the page shows the alias being
renamed, there's no reason to change it, really. As you suggest it's a
dubiously wise thing to do...

The MM write-up says nothing about the contents of the plist files and
does not explain which properties must match which filenames, etc.
That's true; however, Mac's OSX is crawling with plist files that can
be copied and altered.

Much of the info in the plist files is optional, but some of it seems
crucial. (E.g., what in the world is "com.macromedia.Otto"--do we need
to use that?)
That is the name of your preferences file. You can rename it anything
you want, since you can't change the file's contents anyway.
Information on how to properly name preferences files is available from
Apple, but briefly they follow the Java scheme of your domain name
backward, finished by the name of the app. So if I had a program named
"goofball" I'd use the name com.nightwares.goofball for the prefs file.

(This is not the same as files written using setPref.)

The MM downloadable example does not use a custom icon, which requires
another property added to info.plist:

key: CFBundleIconFile
string: MyIconFilename
Also true. It would be nice if the writeup could include a properly
formatted plist that contains all the necessary references, along with
some kind of icns file.

Re: where is the file start.dir?

2003-07-06 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Sunday, Jul 6, 2003, at 20:52 America/Chicago, Bastien Bouchard 
wrote:

I use go movie "somemovie" Lingo.
The movie you're trying to navigate to doesn't happen to have the same 
name as the projector, does it?

  theMovie.dxr
  theMovie.exe
If so, that's your problem. Rename one or the other.

-- 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!]

Re: menu across movies

2003-07-03 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 20:35 America/Chicago, Phil Gross wrote:

Does anyone know if there is a way to install a menu and have it stay 
installed across movies? So I don't have to reinstall it every time I 
jump to a new movie?
Only if you load it in a stage file and do everything else via MIAW -- 
then the menu can conceivably remain omnipresent.

Otherwise I've never heard of a way to do it. :(

Warren Ockrassa | President,  nightwares LLC  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 nightwares LLC | Consulting  Programming http://www.nightwares.com/
  Developer | Structor, a presentation development/programming tool
  Info and demo | http://www.nightwares.com/structor/
 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!]

Re: basic question: Lingo to test authoring or projector mode

2003-07-03 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 16:52 America/Chicago, Karina Steffens 
wrote:

It's worse. Movies made in MX can even be opened and edited in 8.5.1
provided you haven't used the Accessibility or Flash MX Xtras. You
don't get the snotty "This file was made using a newer version of
Director and I'm going to pick up my marbles and go home now" dialog
any more.
So, does that mean they actually didn't add any new lingo at all?
That's correct. The only additions were in Xtras, which have their own 
interfaces, of course (and which will not work in prior versions of 
Director, so the MX Accessibility or Flash Xtras can't be used in 8.5 
or 8.5.1, just as the Shockwave 3D Xtra from 8.5 can't be used in 8.0). 
Lingo itself in MX is the same as it was in 8.5.

-- 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!]

Re: basic question: Lingo to test authoring or projector mode

2003-07-03 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 12:54 America/Chicago, Karina Steffens 
wrote:

That's D8.5 - MX might be different.
No, it's the same. MX didn't change existing Lingo. Not even line
continuation characters got re-redone this time... ;)
What?? But that means... Old projects could actually be compatible 
with MX?
We must complain to the manager at once!
It's worse. Movies made in MX can even be opened and edited in 8.5.1 
provided you haven't used the Accessibility or Flash MX Xtras. You 
don't get the snotty "This file was made using a newer version of 
Director and I'm going to pick up my marbles and go home now" dialog 
any more.

What, o what is the world coming to...?

-- 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!]

Re: basic question: Lingo to test authoring or projector mode

2003-07-03 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 10:25 America/Chicago, Karina Steffens 
wrote:

The runMode strings are:
 Author-The movie is running in Director.
 Projector-The movie is running as a projector.
 Plugin-The movie is running as a Shockwave plug-in or other scripting
environment, such as LiveConnect or ActiveX.
 Java Applet-The movie is playing back as a Java applet.
That's D8.5 - MX might be different.
No, it's the same. MX didn't change existing Lingo. Not even line 
continuation characters got re-redone this time... ;)

-- 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!]

Re: Event Order

2003-07-02 Thread Howdy-Tzi

[re stepframe]

They aren't? I use them all the time to get objects to work in synch
with the score.
Oops, sorry, I though they'd been deprecated. My mistake.
I was thinking of perFrameHook! Dang, talk about a neuronal misfire...

-- 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!]

Re: Event Order

2003-07-02 Thread Howdy-Tzi

On Wednesday, Jul 2, 2003, at 10:33 America/Chicago, Kerry Thompson 
wrote:

Yeah, it's workable as well, of course. You can tell the MACR
docs are somewhat dated as they include stepFrame events, which aren't
commonly used any more. Ah well.
They aren't? I use them all the time to get objects to work in synch
with the score.
Oops, sorry, I though they'd been deprecated. My mistake.

-- 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!]

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 >

1 - 100 of 1026 matches

Mail list logo