MouseUp vs. rightMouseUp/Down
SYSTEM: WIN XP Pro, 256Mb RAM, D851
Project: Projector
I have a checkbox sprite with the following script as part of the member:
on mouseUp
member("firstStoryCheckbox").hilite = TRUE
member("secondStoryCheckbox").hilite = FALSE
end
Attached to the sprite is a help tip behavior that only functions when rightMouseDown
is clicked over the sprite.
The problem is, when rightMouseDown is clicked over the sprite, it drops a checkmark
in the sprite. I thought that would only happen on mouseUp. But no. So my question
is, how do I prevent rightMouseDown, or up, from dropping a checkmark in the sprite?
Or put another way, the checkmark should appear in the sprite only when leftMouseUp is
used.
Thanks in advance to all...
Perplexed in Portland,
John
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windowType on projector? How 'bout scrollbars for stage?
Hi all: System: WinXP, D8.5.1, 256k ram; 1024x768 res Is it possible to specify the windowType for a projector? It seems to default to the "0" type, that is a title bar with minimize and close box and inactive zoombox. I'd like to get a title bar with an active zoom box, but after much experimentation it doesn't seem doable. If specifying windowType for a projector isn't possible, I'd like to create a routine to show horizontal and vertical scrollbars that move the stage, as in authoring mode. Has anyone done this? Example: projector is 1000 x 700, and with scrollbars, user can move stage to see additional material, left and right, up and down. Just typing that it sounds harder than trying to find WMD. Thanks all for the help, John Hart SixBrowser.com __ Get Paid... With Your Free Email at http://www.zwallet.com/index.html?user=johnhart [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Subject: Web Broswer in Director MX
Tom, I just finished a project using WebXtra from Tabuleiro and I thought I would share these thoughts: 1. It works as advertised. 2. It will not show sites using Shockwave since that would mean Director would be showing Shockwave inside a Projector or Shockwave inside a Shockwave site using WebXtra. Can't be done. 3. It shows Flash just fine. I cannot find a single site where WebXtra fails to show Flash. 4. The right-click context menu can be enabled or disabled. 5. You cannot attach Behavior Scripts to WebXtra sprites. 6. You can block easily block sites from showing in WebXtra with a list of sites you create. 7. You can set the sprite visible, sprite loc, sprite height, and sprite width of WebXtra while projector is running. 8. Tech support is good, but takes about 24 hours to answer. If you'd like to download my project that uses WebXtra to see what it can do, please feel free: www.SixBrowser.com, and if I can answer any other questions about WebXtra, let me know. John Hart, developer SixBrowser.com John Hart Send email, get paid! Sign up with my id, please: http://www.zwallet.com/join.html?user=johnhart __ Get Paid... With Your Free Email at http://www.zwallet.com/index.html?user=johnhart [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
capturing IE contents
Hi all, I've been playing with WebXtra on Win/D85, trying to build a projector. My problem is WebXtra doesn't have a Lingo function that will let me capture the raw html of the url I'm looking at. I assumed that since the webpage is in my local machine memory, I ought to be able to get at the raw html somehow, as in "getNetText", etc. So my questions is, if I have called for a url in WebXtra, or for that matter on IE itself, is there a way to perform a contents dump or capture the memory of the page I'm staring at into a variable? TIA John __ Get Paid... With Your Free Email at http://www.zwallet.com/index.html?user=johnhart [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Lingo and SOAP?
Hi all: Does anyone on the list have experience interfacing with SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) using Lingo? There seems to be plenty of Visual Basic and PERL code examples to use SOAP, but unable to find anything regarding Lingo. Oh, I did find something in the Macromedia DB about FLASH MX handling SOAP requests. FLASH? Yikes. Surely, the Director Team has something in mind for SOAP. Any ideas, suggestions, rumors, etc.? TIA, John Hart John Hart Send email, get paid! Sign up with my id, please: http://www.zwallet.com/join.html?user=johnhart __ Get Paid... With Your Free Email at http://www.zwallet.com/index.html?user=johnhart [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
create multiple sprite instances during runtime
Thanks Tab and Jeremy for your responses. I have a question, tho...
doesn't Jeremy's code below, and the concept submitted by Tab require that a sprite be
present in the frame channel before it will work? I was looking for a way to create a
sprite instance at runtime, assign that instance to the same image( folder icon) and
so on. But further research on the web tells me that creating a sprite instance and
placing it in a specific spot at runtime can't be done, apparently.
Jeremy asked how the list was obtained, so here's the code called from a
"beginSprite" behavior in the frame. I'm excluding two files in the count, btw as you
can see below. After the count is done, the remainder of the behavior establishes the
position for each image. However, I have put 10 sprites off stage, as you can tell,
plus 10 more for the image icons, and I'm just calling them on stage as neeeded. The
loch is already lined up off stage, btw.
on countFiles
fileList = [ ]
i = 1
repeat while TRUE
filename = getNthFileNameInFolder(the moviePath&"\"&"Links"&"\", i)
if filename = EMPTY then exit repeat
if fileName = "MyPrefs.txt" or filename = "myPaper.htm" then
i = i+1
next repeat
else
fileList.append(filename)
end if
i = i+1
end repeat
vLOC = 125
i = 1
repeat while fileList <> []
sprite(i+10).member.text = getAt(fileList,1) --put a name in a field sprite
deleteAt(fileList,1) --del one from the list
sprite(i+3).locv = vLOC -- move the folder icon's locv on stage
sprite(i+10).locv = vLOC-5 -- move the title on stage
vLOC = vLOC + 24 -- add 24 pixels for the next round
i = i + 1 -- increment var i
end repeat
return fileList
end countFiles
Thanks again, guys...and I like the new look and feel of the list. Haven't been on for
awhile, and the new organizational feel is great.
John Hart
>Message: 9
>From: "Jeremy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: create multiple sprite instances during runtime
>Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 08:43:04 -0500
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>This might help
>
>-- Find a free sprite channel to puppet
>-- Choose a range of numbers you arent using for other sprites
>-- and a range large enough to accommodate however many of them you are
>anticipating
>repeat with i = 100 to 200
>if sprite(i).puppet = FALSE then exit repeat
>end repeat
>sp = sprite(i)
>-- puppet it
>sp.puppet = true
>-- set the member.
>sp.member = member("folder")
>sp.loc = point(x,y)
>sp.ink = whatever inkmode you need
>sp.blend = whatever other properties you need
>
>
>J
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create multiple sprite instances during runtime
Hi all:
System is Win98SE, D8.5
I'd like to use Lingo to create multiple sprite intances of an image member, during
projector runtime. The image is the typical PC folder icon and is positioned as
sprite(4)in the score, frame 7. The number of folder icons to be shown is based on a
linear list of filenames I've already retrieved. But...short of manually placing
multiple instances of the member image ("folderIcon" ) offstage and relocating the
points at runtime, I can't figure this one out. The objective is to create a vertical
stack of folder icons with the corresponding folder name after it, just like Explorer.
Any help is most appreciated.
Thanks,
John
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Re: Concept help, please
Mark, John, Thanks for your response. Mark, your assumptions 1 and 2 below are correct. Also, the script is attached to the sprite I'm pushing off stage, not sprite 150. Additonally, I'm not trying to move sprite 150 off the stage. I am delighted that it stays within the stage area and happy with its natural offset. However, my stage is the size of my monitor, a fact I omitted earlier, and I've been trying to get sprite 150, the field sprite, to update with data while pushing the underlying sprite off stage. It not only doesn't work going 'left' but all other directions as well. So, it appears that it can't be done. In summary: once the mouse crosses the Director stage edge, in any direction, with stage at full monitor, one cannot get the loc or name of the underlying sprite the mouse is hovering over. I'll try setting the stage at slightly less than the size of my monitor as an experiment, and see what happens when I push a sprite off the edge. (I hope the sprite doesn't scream much.) Thanks for your help. Most sincerely appreciated. John Hart -- > 1). I'm assuming this behaviour is attached to the sprites that you are > attempting to get values for member name and loc for. > > 2). sprite(150) is infact the field sprite that is following the mouseLoc > around on the stage. Because there is no offset value, the field will always > appear to begin drawing to the right and below the tip of the arrow cursor. > > - so the larger question that you have, is whether or not mouseEnter, > mouseWithin, mouseLeave and mouseDown events work for sprites that are > offstage.. vs whether or not the mouseLoc gets updated while your offstage. > And if I read your code correctly, the biggest culprit is whether or not > mouseWithin would continue updating when offstage as that is what is feeding > your field information on mouseLoc and moving your field around the stage. > I've never seen them not work while not offstage and have just made a sample > movie based on your code and my tooltip continues to work offstage (at least > in authoring). > > However, John Trentini pointed out a major potential flaw / misunderstanding > in your code, that is that you are reporting only the loc of the sprite you > are hovering over, you aren't reporting the mouseloc in the output field. > Therefore it is entirely understandable that your reporting field would > continue to display the current items loc even if you move the mouse > offstage provided of course the sprite is also covering the area that your > mouse is over in the offstage area. > > Now there is one thing that is exceptionally confusing to me, and that is > your description of the fact that the field does not leave the stage area > and does not update while the mouse is offstage. Unless you have constrained > sprite(150) to stay onstage as John Trentini has hypothesized. There is one > other potential explaination that better describes what you are seeing. > > If your stage is the size of your monitor, or you are positioning the left > side of the stage against the left most edge of your monitor. You will > notice, that the mouse stays at the left most edge of the monitor and does > not continue to move into no mans land when you leave the monitor (or the > left most monitor in multimonitor displays). At least that is the case under > Win2K, the tip of the arrow is just off screen). If you take a sprite and > move it entirely or partially offstage to the left as described above, then > you can get a situation where the mouse does not update when it is against > the left bound of your display giving the exact behaviour that you described > in your earlier emails. > > Not sure if any of this helps you > > Sincerely > Mark R. Jonkman -- __ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: concept help, please
Tab, Mark,
Thanks for replying. I've enclosed the code I've been using for edification. In
the code below, sprite(150) is a small field that follows the mouseloc when the
mouseloc is over a sprite. The sprite(150) contains info about the underlying sprite's
loc and name. Also, "gmiawcp" is an miaw control panel. The behavior is used in a Win
projector. And as I said in the first message, on mouseDown, my sprite tip field --
sprite(150)-- just disappears once my mouse crosses any edge of the stage in authoring
or the projector. The objective here is to have the sprite Tip (sprite 150) continue
to report the off stage sprite's "point" loc and "name."
property spritenum
global gmyName,gmiawcp
on mouseEnter me
if gmiawcp <> void then
gmyName = sprite(me.spriteNum)
sprite(150).visible = TRUE
end if
end
on mouseDown me
if gmiawcp <> void then
sprite(150).loc = the mouseloc
member("spriteTIP1").text = gmyName.member.name &","&& gmyName.loc
end if
end
on mouseWithin me
if gmiawcp <> void then
sprite(150).loc = the mouseloc
member("spriteTIP1").text = gmyName.member.name &","&& gmyName.loc
end if
end
on mouseLeave me
if gmiawcp <> void then
sprite(150).visible = FALSE
end if
end
Obviously, if the mouseloc continues to report back data while off stage -- and it
does in the message window -- then some part of my behavior is wrong.
Thanks for your attention and help...
John H.
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moving a sprite from off to on stage
Hi All: SYS INFO: D85, WIN98SE, 128Mbs RAM I need to move a sprite from off stage to a specific location on stage, pH, using Lingo. I've tried several ideas,but can't get it. Need some ideas, please. Here's part of a behavior I'm calling with sendSprite, but the sprite appears to quick! --from another script I use this: sendsprite(21,#motion, "left", pH) --and here's part of that #motion behavior: case(whichDirection) of "left": repeat while sprite(21).locH <> pH sprite(21).locH = sprite(21).locH + 1 updateStage end repeat end case What I get is sprite 21 appearing instantly in position pH, as opposed to sliding on stage, or flying-in smoothly. Can't use Score/sprite spans. Would rather use Lingo anywho. Tried a couple of ideas to slow down the repeat loop, but timeout() doesn't do it, the timer doesn't do it. Shirley, there is a way to make this happen in Lingo. Thanks much for your ideas and comments, John H...stranded on Lingo Island. -- __ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
importing pix to projector
Hi all... and thanks in advance for your excellent help. Just one quick question: Isn't there a method or workaround to import a .jpg into a projector (windows OS, D8.5) short of using an Xtra? The objective is to allow client photos to be imported and available in the projector on a permanent basis. I would like to import from a folder on the client's HD, into the projector, but losing hair over many failed experiements of my own, and you know how high the cost of hair is these days. Again, thanks.. John -- __ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Get 4 DVDs for $.49 cents! plus shipping & processing. Click to join. http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/990-1736-3566-59 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
3 questions: menus, error msg, & cast sort?
Good morning, all... SPECS: D8.5, Win98SE, 2.2GhzCPU, 128Mbs mem Three questions: menus, error msg, cast sort 1. I have an installmenu member "menubar" in my projector, which also calls an miaw. This miaw has an installmenu member "miawmenu" but it loads in place of the projector menu. I have tried placing installmenu in various other positions, such as startmenu, but I have tried more positions than Kama Sutra and get the same results. Which operator error am I guilty of? Or is this just a plain violation of the Lingo Laws. 2. In author mode of my miaw, I repeatedly get the error "Unable to load "c:\blah, blah" because it is already open with write permission by another user" while I am playing with the miaw. I get the same error when I call the miaw from the authormode of the projector. I had assumed that because I was bouncing back and forth between the two, my 128Mbs of ram was hanging on to several instances of the miaw. My bad, I guess. I should be doing a "forget window such and such" each time I bounce around, yes? This error does not occur in run-time mode, which should probably frighten me. Perhaps if I test it on another machine, I can sleep at nights. 3. This one is very anal retentive. I frequently program from the hip. You know, start typing without a plan, adding casts willy-nilly. Then, suddenly a plan appears in the distance and now I have cast titles all out of alphabetical order. I can't stand it! My world is neatly alpha'd and in somewhat perfect order. Isn't there a way to re-alpha the list of casts, moving that infernal "internal" to the "i's, and the "a's" to the top of the list in authormode? And by the way, how do I get my wife to stop leavig hair strands in the bathroom sink? This too makes me howl at the Portland moon. Blessings to all in advance... Sincerely, John Hart Lingo Monk -- __ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Save up to $160 by signing up for NetZero Platinum Internet service. http://www.netzero.net/?refcd=N2P0602NEP8 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
