Re: lingo-l Protect content outside Director
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: lingo-l Those OS's again and a question
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: lingo-l [OT][XPOST] For a Linux Player
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: lingo-l OSX baShortFileName
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. http://www.nightwares.com/who/howdy.jpg -- 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-l Autorun/icon inconsistency
On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 03:45 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Anyone have any insight as to why the My Computer window would *only sometimes* show the custom icon for the CD drive? Because Windows, in general, sucks? Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com/director_beginners_guide/ [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency
On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 05:40 PM, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: If people have bad experiences with Windows, I've found it's usually because their computing practices contribute heavily to it's instability and seemingly negative qualities. I've never had a copy of Windows that was less stable than Macs. Actually neither have I. However, that's because of my background with UNIX, OS/2, DOS, PRODOS and other CLI and semi-fragile OSen in years previous. Because of that experience I know what stupid things not to do. Any given OS is stable out of the box. How breakable it becomes due to user stupidity is another factor entirely, and it's indisputable that of all the current OSen extant, Windows is the most breakable. It's very aptly named. How many other OSen can you list that are prone to viruses by simply retrieving and reading email? -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency
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: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency
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: lingo-l thanks
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: lingo-l OSX baShortFileName
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: lingo-l [X-Post] QuickTime and path length on Windows rant!
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-l [X-Post] QuickTime and path length on Windows rant!
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: lingo-l Lingo
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: lingo-l Lingo
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-l TRUE or FALSE
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: lingo-l TRUE or FALSE
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: lingo-l RE: Concatenating property list values (mavinson@ra.rockwell.com)
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: lingo-l Autorun
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: lingo-l Autorun
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: lingo-l Miaw @ Daniel
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: lingo-l Open a folder
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: lingo-l MIAWs: close, forget....and VOID?
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: lingo-l MIAWs: close, forget....and VOID?
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 file path leading to the.dir 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: lingo-l MIAWs: close, forget....and VOID?
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 file path leading to the.dir 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: lingo-l MIAWs: close, forget....and VOID?
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: lingo-l accessing scriptInstanceList in a MIAW: Bug...or just me?
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: lingo-l undocumented Lingo
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: lingo-l QT Controls problem - no need to answer.
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: SV: lingo-l QT Controls problem - no need to answer.
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. 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-l using protected quicktime video in Director.
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: lingo-l attaching behaviors at runtime
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: lingo-l FW: File IO - bad filename
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: lingo-l any body knows a good source of the info onprevaling wages
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: lingo-l Acrobat installer.
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: lingo-l unexpected selection of a text member
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: lingo-l cpu usage
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: lingo-l detecting quicktime player
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: lingo-l Erratic behavior with fileIO xtra
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: lingo-l using an non standard shape as a button
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: lingo-l detecting quicktime player
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: lingo-l Erratic behavior with fileIO xtra
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: lingo-l field and miaw
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: lingo-l Slide Show question
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: lingo-l printing from shockwave
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: lingo-l field and miaw
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: lingo-l re deleting from a text file with fileIO -is this a bug ?
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=xtrassection=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: lingo-l sorting is such sweet sorrow
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: lingo-l BaFileList() and .sort
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: lingo-l Bloody stupid HP drivers
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. 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-l Bloody stupid HP drivers
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: lingo-l Creating PDF's on the fly
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: lingo-l Bloody stupid HP drivers
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. 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-l RGB codes - got it
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: lingo-l fill me in on how to do this
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: lingo-l Hijacked e-mail
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: lingo-l Director Programmer Position
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: lingo-l Director Programmer Position
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. ;) 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-l Superscript caracters
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 sup 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: lingo-l help - emergency flash sound problem
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: lingo-l Extract media files from cast
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: lingo-l government / video question
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: lingo-l scroll bar for lingo 8.5
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: lingo-l QT conundrum
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: lingo-l Mpeg pathing problem
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? 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-l Pass?
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: lingo-l animating scaling of sprites
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: lingo-l Pass?
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: lingo-l Save as binary file
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: lingo-l Pass?
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: lingo-l search pdf files
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. 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-l Multiuser xtra wait full data
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: lingo-l giving information from DB
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: lingo-l when/why is pupperSprite necessary?
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: lingo-l when/why is pupperSprite necessary?
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: lingo-l when/why is pupperSprite necessary?
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: lingo-l Determine where cast members are used
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: lingo-l MIAW and script error
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!]
Re: lingo-l Error I haven't seen before
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!]
lingo-l Grammar parser in Lingo...?
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...) 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: lingo-l OSX/9 bundle puzzle: foo.app = foo.app SOLVED (sort of)
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. 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: lingo-l Databases in Lingo
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: lingo-l where is the file start.dir?
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: lingo-l basic question: Lingo to test authoring or projector mode
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: lingo-l basic question: Lingo to test authoring or projector mode
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: lingo-l menu across movies
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: lingo-l Event Order
On Wednesday, Jul 2, 2003, at 08:08 America/Chicago, Kerry Thompson wrote: Oddly, Kerry seemed to forget reading page 402 of my book. I say oddly because he was the technical reviewer on it! ;) Oh, I remember it, all right. Unfortunately, there are still a few wretched souls who haven't be blessed by the [Ockrassa] enlightenment. Actually it's not that much of a trick to gain that kind of enlightenment. One can do scripts with put messages as you did, or one can also check out page 395 of the Using Director MX book what comes in da' box wit da' software. It's doc'd in the 8.0 and 8.5 manuals too. Since I don't want to wait 3.72 hours for Apple's Help system to load I won't check the eDocs but I suspect a keyword search for message would turn up a similar list there. Bruce Epstein covers event order well in Director in a Nutshell. It hasn't been updated since D7, I believe, but I still use it 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. 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: lingo-l Registering fonts
On Wednesday, Jul 2, 2003, at 08:06 America/Chicago, Andrew Dempsey wrote: I am using the buddy xtra to install a font on the user's machine by copying the font from the CD into the PCs fonts folder (win). On some machines this seems to do the trick, and the font is immediately available for use by the projector. On a few other test machines, it is not. Some machines? Other machines? Would you care to describe what the differences and similarities are? OS version? Add-ins? Hardware types? My crystal ball is in the shop this week... -- 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-l Event Order
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!]
Re: lingo-l Event Order
[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: lingo-l Event Order
On Tuesday, Jul 1, 2003, at 23:46 America/Chicago, Anand Ravi wrote: Thanks a lot for this info Kerry. I am sure this come in useful for a lot of us. :) Oddly, Kerry seemed to forget reading page 402 of my book. I say oddly because he was the technical reviewer on 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: lingo-l flash object..
On Tuesday, Jul 1, 2003, at 23:47 America/Chicago, grimmwerks wrote: Yeah, thanks for the huge slap to my head. Damn. Grimm was getting slaps to he head and I missed 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!]
Re: lingo-l Archives?
On Monday, Jun 30, 2003, at 13:48 America/Chicago, Cole Tierney wrote: I should know this. Where are the archives for this list? http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Or for Idioms around the world and how they compare: http://postal.tamu.edu/archives/lingo-l.html One can also look at the full headers for each note propagated by this list to see the archive links. -- 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-l setScriptList
On Monday, Jun 30, 2003, at 15:06 America/Chicago, Matt Wells wrote: --But, Shouldn't this remove it??? on endSprite me (7).setScriptList([]) end endSprite Not if you haven't specified that 7 is a sprite: sprite(7).setScriptList([]) However, again, check this list's archives, Macromedia's technotes and/or DOUG. There are problems with setting a scriptList to [] -- specifically, your later ability to add more scripts to that sprite (and possibly others, I don't recall) can be compromised. 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: lingo-l totally stumped
On Monday, Jun 30, 2003, at 15:31 America/Chicago, Neil wrote: Hi Chris Here's some code for you to play with in an empty movie. Hopefully it shows how you can set your #qualifications property up and be able to access and set the data inside of it. In addition to the samples and suggestions you've received on the topic already, part 4 of my book addresses using lists as databases contained in parent script objects. Earlier chapters address using lists themselves, including some pitfalls, such as setting one list variable equal to anoher rather than using duplicate(). Might be worth your time to explore it. Link in the sig. 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: lingo-l script error
On Thursday, Jun 26, 2003, at 05:06 America/Chicago, Prasis wrote: What I cannot figure out is, these codes run on the director stage but when I make a projector file and click on the specific button then it gives the message script error. Have you included the Buddy API Xtra in your projector? 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: lingo-l UpgradingOldProjects
On Wednesday, Jun 25, 2003, at 11:13 America/Chicago, Bruce Powell wrote: I've been asked to upgrade a CD (projector) done in 8.5 to MX for use on System X and multiple platforms. Haven't upgraded my 8.5 to MX yet. Very intimidated by the Macromedia Tech Note on creating projectors with MX, system X for multiple platforms. Don't be. The first time can be a little tricky, but after that it's cake. After reading many discouraging notes on several forums about developing with MX my instincts say forget about it. Use 8.5 and system 9.2 for another year until MX gets simplified; you know, autostart issues, multiple QuickTime installers, blinding array of xtras, etc. You don't need to worry about multiple QT installers. You won't find an OSX install without QuickTime; at the most you might need to provide an installer for pre-X systems. As for autostart -- that's never been a feature in wide use on Mac anyway. Mac users know how to locate a CD when it's inserted and how to locate and run an application. Maybe I'm suffering from upgrade burnout. I guess I would just like to hear from some of you who have had the courage to move up; how has it worked out? Apart from the UI issues in author I have had no troubles whatsoever with DMX. 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: lingo-l baVersion( os )
On Wednesday, Jun 25, 2003, at 13:11 America/Chicago, Liz wrote: Code below. Your code's too complex. All you need is this: on exitFrame me myOS = the environment.osVersion go to frame myOS end Part of the problem is you're using 'contains', and it's likely that since the osVersion will *always* contain Windows on a Win system, your code is kicking out of the loop when it hits Windows 98, which is the first item in your OS list and which does in fact contain the word Windows. Don't bother with the test unless you want to guard against the possibility of there being some OS or other you can't recognize. In that case you can use contains, but in a different way: on exitFrame me lOSenIKnow = [ 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 ] myOS = the environment.osVersion repeat with nItem in lOSenIKnow if myOS contains lOSenIKnow.nItem then go to frame myOS else ALERT I don't recognize this OS... end if end repeat end myOS doesn't need a string conversion; it's already a string. 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: lingo-l baVersion( os )
On Wednesday, Jun 25, 2003, at 21:18 America/Chicago, Liz wrote: Here's the deal. I have a small executable and several dcr files. When I open the dcr file from my executable I get 98 detected. If I create a projector instead of a dialer I get ME detected. OH! OK. OK. Back in the day there used to be a command called 'the platform' for Lingo, and it would tell you the platform (Mac, Win, varieties thereof). HOWEVER... it didn't report necessarily the platform on which the movie was running; it reported just the platform on which had been compiled into an EXE. So a projector running on Win98 might report WinNT as the platform if the projector had been compiled on WinNT. I don't know but I'm wondering if you're not hitting a residual flavor of that. You're using DCRs. Stop doing that. Use DXRs instead; you don't need the Shockwave compression. I'm wondering if the DCRs aren't remembering the OS under which they were compressed, in other words, as opposed to the one on which they're currently running. It's crazy. Try DIRs even if you have to. But try not using the compressed DCRs for a while and see if that doesn't help. 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: lingo-l [OT] UK Kiosks
On Tuesday, Jun 24, 2003, at 10:45 America/Chicago, Ben Wakeford wrote: Hi all - sorry for the slightly OT, but does anyone have an experience with producing Director presentations for kiosks? Where's the best place to buy (UK based), any common pitfalls, average costs etc. The Elo touchscreen monitors are pretty decent. I'd recommend using an LCD rather than a phosphor display, because LCDs don't have the burn-in problems and in my experience run cooler. Do NOT let anyone sell you a Windows box. Use a Mac for your CPU. It'll be a heck of a lot more reliable. Virtually every problem I've ever had with kiosk installs is in dealing with stupid Windows crashes. (The client wanted Windows, it's cheaper, bla bla bla, ignoring the real costs of downtime when the systems would fold up for hours on end.) *Always* make sure your CPU enclosure has superb ventilation. A few holes drilled in the sides do not suffice; you've got to have a couple fans in there to force air around. As for UI on the kiosk display, remember most users won't have time to learn or memorize the display controls. Make all the choices very simple, have a very large home button that essentially resets the display so when one person wanders off the next doesn't have to figure out how to start over again, and always make your buttons obviously buttons. Give them a raised or 3D look. Also keep the choices brief. Don't present the user with 15 buttons on one page. That's too many. Try to keep it less than 5. Beware of parallax. The screen glass itself is pretty thick, which means that buttons that are relatively short in height might be very hard to hit accurately with a finger. Make 'em tall, ideally more or less square or circular. Test, test, test. Bring in chuckleheads from off the street who've never seen the display before and pay 'em a few bucks (or quid) to mess around for a while. See where they get lost or where they seem to be unable to understand what's going on with the program. End users will behave in exactly the same fashion with the kiosk. I don't mean focus group here -- focus groups rarely yield useful advice (look at the improvements made with MS Word over the years if you don't believe that) -- but do pay attention to how they respond and, if you need to rehack the UI based on their failures to comprehend it, 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: lingo-l scriptInstanceList
On Tuesday, Jun 24, 2003, at 16:11 America/Chicago, Quixadá wrote: hi, rob yes, you´re right, that´s exactly my problem. i´ve made a simple dir just to show what´s happening. here are the scripts: The very first thing you should do is put the sendAllSprites call *outside* of your repeat loop. Try this. on startMovie repeat with i = 1 to 3 puppetSprite i,TRUE sprite(i).member = member 1 of castLib 1 sprite(i).loc = point(400 + random(70),300 + random(70)) sprite(i).scriptInstanceList.add(script(zoom)) end repeat updateStage sendAllSprites(#change,1) end 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!]
