Re: detect sprites with a certain property
Thanks all for all the answers guys, sendallsprites is the way i'm now using ( and should have been all along !!) but thanks for the tips on scriptInstanceList i hadn't realised its relevance to what i was trying to do. thanks again Lee Blinco Multimedia Developer AVR Productions +44 (0)1462 819603 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
detect sprites with a certain property
Hi is it possible to loop through all sprites in the score and detect whether each sprite has a certain custom property. If the sprite has any custom properties then i can use repeat with k = 1 to the lastChannel repeat with l = 1 to sprite(k).count() if sprite(k).getPropAt(l) = #myBuiltInCursor then sprite(k).cursor = sprite(k).myBuiltInCursor else nothing end if end repeat end repeat but this fails when a sprite has no properties as it returns a "handler not in object error". so is it poosible to test for whether a sprite has any custom properties at all or not. chhers Lee Blinco Multimedia Developer AVR Productions +44 (0)1462 819603 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
QTVR problems
Hi there, (sorry about the duplicate post - i used the wrong mail account first off) a few problems i'm experiencing with hotspots in QTVR. If i leave it to QT, when i click on a hotspot, QT always opens the linked movie in a browser, i want it to replace the movie that was clicked in director. I am using realviz stitcher to create the panaromas and if i adjust the settings there i can get the linked movie to replace the clicked movie in the QT player, but this doesn't work in director, it always opens the new movie in a seperate browser window. Does anyone know if it is possible to let QT handle the hotspots and replace the sprite in director ? Having failed with the leave it to QT approach, i set a handler for the QT sprite triggerCallback and using this i can swap the sprites member which is the effect i want, however as i'm creating a tour with several hotspots per movie i would like to be able to read from quicktime both the url/movie name of the link and the description associated with it. Is this possible ? all i can see at the moment is a simple numeric hotspot ID which will start at number one for each movie, i'm not sure at the moment how i can tell (by lingo)which numeric id corresponds to which actual hotspot and hence what to link to. cheers Lee Blinco Multimedia Developer AVR Productions +44 (0)1462 819603 Lee Blinco Multimedia Developer AVR Productions +44 (0)1462 819603 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
OT: panorama software
Hi Guys, could use a bit of advice as to what panoramic stitching software to take the plunge with. I've been evaluating what i can this week and my results have been mixed, with the demo versions, so i'm hoping that some of you guys have been doing this for a while and can pass on your experience. Our requirement is to do full 360 x 180 panaromas, with qtvr hotspot functionality and to embed in director and also web pages. i think we've narrowed it done to a choice of four. 1 - QTVR authouring studio, - unfortunately cant find a demo program, it also appears like its not being pushed by apple very much and is quite old. 2 - realviz stitcher - currently our preferred pick, but the demo version fatally crashes as soon as you select quicktime format for rendering export, also its pricey and has no java player export for web delivery (am i right in thinking that Standard Win XP has no Java VM and therefore xp users would not be able to play these without downloading the java VM ?) 3 - 3dvista - sounds great with all the claimed capabilities and output formats, but the demo crashes a lot and the results dont seem as as good as realviz, anyone used the available xtra with this programs output ? 4 - panorama tools - nice and cheap, but we haven't been able to get as good results for spherical panaromas as with realviz stitcher. any thoughts/experience much appreciated lee Lee Blinco Multimedia Developer AVR Productions +44 (0)1462 819603 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
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Hi, i'm experimenting with the amplitudePro xtra (which is great by the way) and i am having trouble getting rid of my objects without explicity naming them. i have tried global gAmpXtra -- current instance of the object if sound(1).status = 0 then put sound(1).status ClearAmpObject(gAmpXtra) -- pass the object to the ClearAmpObject handler end if and on ClearAmpObject(theampobject) if objectP(theampobject) then theampobject= 0 theampobject= VOID end if end i was hoping that this would substitute theampobject with a reference to the gAmpXtra instance and then clear it but it creates theampobject as another instance of the Parent Xtra object and then clears that instance but leaves me with my original object instance. Is it possible to pass my clean up handler a reference to the object i want to destroy so i can call it for differently named objects, I know i can substitute theampobject with gAmpXtra in my ClearAmpObject handler but i want to have multiple objects with different names and only one cleanup handler. cheers Lee Blinco Multimedia Developer AVR Productions +44 (0)1462 819603 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: updating an online database
Hi Irv net error being returned is = 1. the asp page is not set to return anything. if i use net manager then the db is not updated, if i use the single lingo command postNextText to the same page the db is updated. So i'm still not sure why the netManager call aways fails. Thanks for your tip Pedja i have now got a working system that uploads my data in one big list which i parse at the asp page but i'd like to understand why irv's netmanager is returning an error all the time. Lee Blinco Multimedia Developer AVR Productions +44 (0)1462 819603 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: updating an online database
to make sure i've created a new movie with just a preparemovie script like
this
global goNetManager
on PrepareMovie me
goNetManager = new(script"NetManager")
end
a parent script which is netMgr#6 from irvs' book and a single sprite with
the following code
global goNetManager
on mouseUp me
thelist = [#gameNo:84, #points:10 , #predID:23322, #twocorrect:1,
#place:1]
goNetManager.mPostNetText("http://www.mydomain.com/uploadPredData.asp";,
me,thelist)
end
on mNetEvent me, sText, errorCode
if errorCode <> 0 then
alert("Error:" && errorCode)
else
beep
-- Do whatever you want to with sText
end if
end
and i still get error = 1
if i simply change the line
goNetManager.mPostNetText("http://www.mydomain.com/uploadPredData.asp";,
me,thelist)
to
PredID = PostNetText("http://www.mydomain.com/uploadPredData.asp",thelist)
and i then check the database the data has been uploaded but this falls over
obviously withlots of repeated calls as in my application.
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Re: updating an online database
ok, so i read irvs' chapter and it seemed allright to me so i've had a go at it this morning and while it appears to be working in director its not updating the database. i copied irvs' net manager code into a parent script , initiated the global object on preparemovie and attached my code with a call to the net manager to my button sprite, i amended the mnetEvent handler to build a list of the error codes like so on mNetEvent me, sText, errorCode if errorCode <> 0 then gerrorlist.append(errorCode) else beep end if end i can see in the object inspector that the net manager object is there and stepping through the list of calls sent to it but it returns an error of 1 for every call. i can not see in the lingo help what a network error of 1 is equal to but i get this every time with irv's netmanager. i switched back to me previous code which posts to exactly the same url and it updated about 85% of my data so i'm confident that asp inserts into the database ok. I tried doing a single call rather than repeat through my 982 item list but this also did not work and returned an error code of 1. so anybody know what the error code of 1 is equal to and why i always get it now ? cheers Lee Blinco Multimedia Developer AVR Productions +44 (0)1462 819603 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
re updating an online database
hi chaps thanks for your comments i think i've dedcided to upload it all as massive string effectively in a single go and then split it all up in my asp page, irv thanks for the point to your chapter i'll give it a read tonite. cheers again Lee Blinco Multimedia Developer AVR Productions +44 (0)1462 819603 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
updating an online database
Hi list,
i'm updating an online mysql database with 3 fields, in 982 records and
basically its unreliable it doesn't manage top do all the updates or even a
consistent numberit usually falls about 100 short.
Tha data i want to upload is stored in an individual propertylist in a
second list which in turn is stored in a single master list ie the place
data is gmasterpredlist[i][j].place.
the approach i am using is to step through the masterlist and build a list
for each record and then use postnettext to an asp page that does a very
simple UPDATE command. I think that the problem is probably to do with post
982 records to the page in quick succession and either the asp or mysql not
being able to handle it well enough. I've put a little routine in director
to wait for the last network op being ok but i'd appreciate someone looking
at it and confirming the logic for me.
my director code is
webresults =[]
webpredresult = [#gameNo:1, #points:0 , #predID:2, #twocorrect:0, #place:1]
gmasterpredcount = gmasterpredlist.count
repeat with i = 1 to gmasterpredcount
areacount = gmasterpredlist[i].count
repeat with j = 1 to areacount
if gmasterpredlist[i][j].predID > 1 then
webpredresult.gameNo = gmasterpredlist[i][j].gameNo
webpredresult.points = gmasterpredlist[i][j].points
webpredresult.predID = gmasterpredlist[i][j].predID
webpredresult.twocorrect = gmasterpredlist[i][j].twocorrect
webpredresult.place = gmasterpredlist[i][j].place
webresults.append(webpredresult)
netID = postNetText("http://www.targetdomain.com/uploadthePredData.asp";,
webpredresult)
waitfornet()
timeout("intervalTimer").forget()
end if
end repeat
end repeat
put webresults.count
end
-- routines to make sure network operation ghas finished before next one is
called
on waitfornet ()
ok = false
ok = timeout("intervalTimer").new(100, #checknet)
repeat while ok = false
nothing
end repeat
return
end
on checknet ()
if netError() = 0 then
timeout("intervalTimer").forget()
return true
else
return false
end if
end
any suggestions for a more reliable way to do this much appreciated
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RE sorting through lists
Hi again thanks alex and irv for your comments, your both right the major factor here was the member.text instructions, ( i had just tried this and got the time down to well under ten seconds when i received the latest digest with your tips). I originally used this approach as i was going to use printomatic lite to do the printing and thought i could use a text members formatting capabilities to help me out but 72 dpi printing just doesn't cut it for me and i foolishly kept writing into a text member when i switched to creating an html file .. . . you live and learn. Thanks for the other tips, i use the lingo by feature option in the DMX help and list.addAt() is missing from the lists functions just to catch me out !! once again thanks for your help and have a nice weekend Lee Blinco [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
sorting through lists
Hi folks,
i am developing an application that takes in a load of footy score
predictions and then calculates points for each prediction once the games
have been played, it then works out the winners etc. Another factor is that
a player can belong to a team and teams themselves are in various local
leagues.
My problem is that once i've worked everything out i have to print various
tables including a table for each team showing every player in that team's
points awarded that week and i am finding that it takes my win 2k, pentium4
2.4ghz, 1Mb ram machine over two minutes to sort out these tables for only a
thousand predictions, so i'd like to know if thats what i should expect or
if my sorting code is awful and i'm missing several tricks !
i store an individual prediction in a list like
PredList = [#area : "", #gameNo : 0 , #pred1 : 0 , #pred2 : 0 , #pred3 : 0,
#pred4 : 0 , #pred5 : 0 , #pred6 : 0 , #pred7 : 0 , #pred8 : 0 , #pred9 : 0
, #pred10 : 0 , #pred11 : 0 , #pred12 : 0, #player : "", #team : "", #points
: 0,#place:1]
these are then grouped in another list as the game is split into local areas
and these local lists of prediction lists are the stored in one global
master list ie
gmasterpredlist[1][1].team is the team of the first prediction of the first
area.
by the time i want to print the team tables the data is sorted in the master
predictionlist by place in each area. I also have a similar global list of
area lists for the teams data for each league.
So thats my situation and here is my code which takes so long . . .
on printTeams3
-- sort the predictions list by team name
workingleaguelist = gfileleaguelist.duplicate() -- global list of the team
data in each league
templist = []
repeat with i=1 to workingleaguelist.count
templist[i] = []
repeat with j = 1 to workingleaguelist[i].count -- step through each
team in every league
thefilter = workingleaguelist[i][j][2]
slist = gmasterpredlist[i]
tempresult = filterList( slist, thefilter)
templist[i].append(tempresult) -- build a temp list where predictions
are grouped in lists by team name
end repeat
end repeat
-- start creating the html
member("temptext").text = "BR
{page-break-after: always} "
repeat with i = 1 to templist.count
repeat with j = 1 to templist[i].count -- now step through each team
list in templist
member("temptext").text =member("temptext").text & "" & templist[i][j][1][1] & "
Individual Team Tables"
member("temptext").text = member("temptext").text & "Game Number " & ggamelist.gameNo & " Weekend " &
member("datefield").text & ""
member("temptext").text = member("temptext").text & ""
member("temptext").text = member("temptext").text & "Team : " & templist[i][j][1][2] &
""
member("temptext").text = member("temptext").text &
"PlacePlayerPoints"
repeat with m = 1 to templist[i][j].count
member("temptext").text = member("temptext").text & "" & m &
"" & templist[i][j][m][3] & "" & templist[i][j][m][4] &
""
end repeat
tempteamlist= []
member("temptext").text = member("temptext").text & ""
put j
end repeat
put "area" & i
end repeat
member("temptext").text = member("temptext").text & ""
printfile = the moviepath & "\data\printteamfile.htm"
temptext = member("temptext").text
fileerror = baWriteFile(printfile, temptext) -- write to file for printing
end
on filterList sList, filterStr
rList = []
mx = count (sList)
repeat with k = 1 to mx
fName = [sList[k].area, sList[k].team, sList[k].player,
sList[k].points ]
if sList[k].team =filterStr then append rList, fName
end repeat
return rList
end
by looking at the output i can see that it is the parsing of the team lists
in templist that takes all the time. I have also tried to do this in other
ways,for instance not creating a list of lists grouped by team name but
simply taking a unique team name from gfileleaguelist and then going through
the master prediction list and adding every occurence of that team name to
my output and the repeating for the next team name but this takes a similar
amount of time.
Another difficulty i have experienced on this project is wanting to insert
a value in a list at a given point and not overwriting the existing data but
moving it and all subsequent data along one place. I have to do this with a
repeat loop every time so that in effect to insert a value in a list at a
given place i have to step through the whole list. Is there a better way to
do this ?
all comments much appreciated
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Re using the property value of one list as a property in another list
Hi again i've figured it out use "string".symbol(), hope know ones ansewered this before i did, cheers Lee Blinco Multimedia Developer AVR Productions +44 (0)1462 819603 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
using the property value of one list as a property in another list
Hi all, a problem i always seem to face but seem to sort out in different ways, is how to take a prop value from one list ie firstlist = [#county:"beds",#town:"ampthill"] and then to use this value as a property in a second list, (ie for the county property of firstlist i would take "beds" in this instance) ie secondlist = [#beds:[some_list_of_values_just_relevant_to_beds]] how can i acheive this ? cheers Lee Blinco Multimedia Developer AVR Productions +44 (0)1462 819603 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: re: Dir MX2004 (Tom)
Hi warren, thanks for your answers, i can only find the method of altering the projec32.skl file for changing a projectors icon, yet you say it is possible with a cast member, could you point me where i can find out more about this. My wish for mpg is that purely because you have to install QT on a win box which often creates problems when distributing due to company it policies, user competence/reluctance etc. cheers again Lee Blinco Multimedia Developer AVR Productions +44 (0)1462 819603 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
re: Dir MX2004 (Tom)
Hi Tom i too would sometimes like my projectors to ape windows applications and would like to know more about your following snippet - >Instead of a single "windowType" property you now have full control over >the elements that appear in your window: close box, minimize box, maximize >box, border or no border, etc., and a "metal" appearance (OSX only) and you >can define an icon (bitmap member) to be used in the MIAW's title bar (Win >only)! Will the maximize button scale or leave content in a fixed position or even move the content proportionally across the monitor ? will projector windows be sizeable by dragging ? Can the projector have a bitmap castmember for an icon or must we still use an icon editing program to create an ico file ? also i wondered why with the mention of improved media support (wmv,real(?)mpeg2/dvd) i can not see mpeg 1 support, we find this the most reliable video format, is it supported now ? cheers Lee Blinco Multimedia Developer AVR Productions +44 (0)1462 819603 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: database xtra
Hi Thanks for the repilies laurent and oliver, I should explain further that the app is not mass distribution, only one or two copies on machines we can set up which is why i thought that an odbc connector would be good as it would let me connect to the web mysql server and the local access db in a similar way. Laurent why do you warn against an odbc connector ? Olivier if i go a php/asp/cgi route this will mean i will still have a headache for writing data to the local access db ( i guess i could set up a web server and use netlingo to post the data to a local asp script but thiseems a lot more work than an xtra that connects directly to the database with little set up. cheers again Lee Blinco AVR Productions [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
database xtra
i'm doing a project where i need to do the following read in data/tables from a web based mysql server write data into the mysql server and a local access database i've seen two xtras, the ADO Xtra and the dataLinker Xtra which seem to do what i need. has anyone any experience with these xtras they would like to pass on? cheers Lee Blinco AVR Productions [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
re deleting from a text file with fileIO -is this a bug ? and Erratic behavior with fileIO xtra
Hi agian, excatly the same thing happens with fileXtra 4, so i've now come to the conclusion that fileIO can be relied on NOT to work properly if you use some other xtra which access the file system in some way as it always thinks the file just deleted in fact still exists if the circumstances i've described in the previous posts occur. I've redone my file writing with the Propsave xtra and it now works as i would expect ! thanks for suggestions. Enrique i found the error meesage code very useful in finding out what was happening with my fileIO problem filestatus = status(instance) alert schedulefile.error(instance) Lee Blinco Multimedia Developer AVR Productions +44 (0)1462 819603 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
re deleting from a text file with fileIO -is this a bug ?
hi again,
there still seems to be some confusion here. In my original post ( and in
the script that is showing this odd behaviour) i did close the file.
frame script on frame 2
on exitFrame me
set schedulefile =new(xtra "fileio")
createFile(schedulefile, "tempschedule.txt")
filestatus = status(schedulefile)
alert schedulefile.error(filestatus)
openFile(schedulefile, "tempschedule.txt", 0)
closeFile(schedulefile)
set schedulefile=0
set schedulefile =new(xtra "fileio")
openFile(schedulefile, "tempschedule.txt", 0)
delete(schedulefile)
closeFile(schedulefile)
set schedulefile=0
end
secondly to clarify, the variable gresult is NOT the FileIO text files'
filename but a name of a file to be stored within this file created by
fileIO.( iknow these scripts dont do that but the problem is there before
that stage so i kept it to a minimum to avoid confusion :) )
So to recap i beleive that the above code should create a file and then
delete it ( and i think you agree) BUT if you use a button script
on mouseUp
set gresult=""
set gresult = baGetFilename("select","","","",0,"Please select a
file",false,-1,-1)
go(1)
end
then if a file below the movies directory is selected with baGetFilename
then fileIO returns 'file already exists' this is what i can not understand.
why should buddy api or mui xtra (as the same thing happens)cause fileIO to
think the deleted file still exists, if you try it out and select files from
other folders or cancel then the file is created and edeleted as expected
but NOT if i select below the movie folder.
cheers again
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re deleting from a text file with fileIO -is this a bug ?
Hi again kerry - these scripts are there to show my problem, as you say a file should be created and then deleted so when the playhead returns to frame 2 after running the button script it should then do this again BUT if i have selected a file from a directory below the movies directory by either buddy api or Mui xtra ie gresult=the moviepath/somefolder/somefile , then fileIO returns 'file already exists' - try it for yourself and see if it happens to you. THe file does not exist we've deleted it , but it keeps telling me it does if i use either of the other two xtras in the way explained. thats my problem, hope that is clearer. Charles - the order change has no effect. I cant see either fileXtra4 or PropSave Xtra on macromedias xtra listing - where are they available ? cheers for your time Lee Blinco Multimedia Developer AVR Productions +44 (0)1462 819603 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: deleting from a text file with fileIO -is this a bug ?
Hi again,
right it simply wasn't working for me so i've eventually stripped it down to
what i see is causing the problem.Can anyone offer an explanation for the
following.
My project stores a schedule in a text file, one of the parameters stored in
the file is a filename input by the user for this i am using the MUI xtra or
BuddyAPI, i have traced the problem i'm experiencing to have something to do
with this, so i created a simple movie 10 frame movie with the following
script
frame script on frame 2
on exitFrame me
set schedulefile =new(xtra "fileio")
createFile(schedulefile, "tempschedule.txt")
filestatus = status(schedulefile)
alert schedulefile.error(filestatus)
openFile(schedulefile, "tempschedule.txt", 0)
closeFile(schedulefile)
set schedulefile=0
set schedulefile =new(xtra "fileio")
openFile(schedulefile, "tempschedule.txt", 0)
delete(schedulefile)
closeFile(schedulefile)
set schedulefile=0
end
frame script frame 10
go the frame
a button on the stage has the following script attached
on mouseUp me
-- set aMuiObj = new (xtra "MUI")
-- set fileString = "Open this file"
-- set gresult = fileOpen(aMuiObj, fileString)
set gresult=""
set gresult = baGetFilename("select","","","",0,"Please select a
file",false,-1,-1)
-- set aMuiObj=0
alert string(gresult)
go(1)
end
I get similar results when i use the MUI xtra script above.
If i pick a file in a sub directory of the movie file i always get "file
already exists" when i can see it does not. The movie directory and other
paths seem to return OK but can anyone tell me why, its taken me ages to
track this down and i can see no logic in it what so ever.
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re : deleting from a text file with fileIO
further observations - as i was getting nowhere i wondered if using buddy api would help me by copying a file over my original eg set schedulefile =new(xtra "fileio") createFile(schedulefile, "tempschedule.txt") filestatus = status(schedulefile) alert schedulefile.error(filestatus) openFile(schedulefile, "tempschedule.txt", 0) setPosition (schedulefile, 0) calendar_list_string = string(gcalendarlist) writeString( schedulefile, calendar_list_string) thepath = the moviepath sourcefile = thepath & "\tempschedule.txt" destfile = thepath & "\schedule.txt" closeFile(schedulefile) set schedulefile=0 ok=baCopyFile(sourcefile, destfile, "Always") alert string(ok) set schedulefile =new(xtra "fileio") openFile(schedulefile, "tempschedule.txt", 0) delete(schedulefile) closeFile(schedulefile) set schedulefile=0 what happens now is that if i have deleted the file tempschedule.txt once with the above code when i return quite some time later from another movie it alerts me that the file (tempschedule.txt) exists and doesnt therefore create it, IT definitely does not exist only in the mind of FileIO. Any suggestions lee Lee Blinco Multimedia Developer AVR Productions +44 (0)1462 819603 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
deleting from a text file with fileIO
Hi,
i see that the only delete capabilities of FileIO is to delete the whole
file, i need to rewrite a file with less data, so i thought delete the file
and then create it again with the new data. I am having no success here
though, i get a ' file exists' error if i try to create a file with the same
name as the one i've just deleted, so i put the create file command someway
down the timeline, tried repeat while the status <> 0 and even tried a
timeout to make sure that the old file is definitely deleted , but all to no
good my timeout just keeps saying that the file exists !
-- timeout function
set schedulefile2 =new(xtra "fileio")
createFile(schedulefile2, "schedule.txt")
--openFile(schedulefile2, "schedule.txt",0)
filestatus = status(schedulefile2)
alert string(filestatus)
if filestatus = 0 then
calendar_list_string = string(gcalendarlist)
writeString( schedulefile2, calendar_list_string)
timeout("fileTimer").forget()
end if
closeFile(schedulefile2)
set schedulefile2=0
I'm sure that there must be a way to do this, a search on macromedias site
said the way to shorten a file is to delete then recreate so does anyone
have a working method for replacing the contents of a file with a shorter
amount of data ie not leave unwanted extra characters when rewriting the
file from the beginning.
thanks a lot
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what is happening with my fonts ?
can anyone please explain this to me. i have a stub movie which runs a main movie which then opens some other movies for certain functions. The problem is that all of a sudden with definitely no editing of some of the movies by me all examples of the arial font on a button or checkbox are displayed as illegible multilines ie P owe r Po int instead of powerpoint. This only happens when opened by another movie, its fine in DirMX authoring and if i make a standalone projector of the individual movies they are ok. If i change the font in director it is also ok. I've burnt a cd and run it on another machine with exactly the same results and i've replaced my arial font. I am now at my wits end - any suggestions much appreciated. Lee Blinco Multimedia Developer AVR Productions +44 (0)1462 819603 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
active x
i've put in the MS active x calendar9.0 control in to my director project, but it always seems to be stuck on the date i first inserted the control into my movie and not the current date. Any one know how to make the calendar control show todays date at runtime ? on the subject of active x controls is it possible to turn of the sound in a ms web browser control. Also does any one know where on microsofts site ( or anywhere else for that matter) there is documentataion for the web browser active x control. Lee Blinco [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
acrobat ActiveX control
I've got an application that uses the activex control xtra to embed pdfs in the projector, this works fine apart from the following. At one location the user selects several documents which are then showed to the viewer in succesion when they click a next button. This button runs the lingo sprite(5).src = "pdfpath\pdffile.pdf" --(sets the src of the pdfviewer control to the new pdf file) This works fine if the user has acrobat 4 installed but crashes the projector if acrobat 5 is installed. Any ideas much appreciated Lee Blinco Multimedia Developer AVR Productions +44 (0)1462 819603 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
extract a font ?
If you have a director cast with embedded fonts is it possible to get them out some way so you can install them on your win machine and then use them in the authoring enviroment ? cheers Lee Blinco Multimedia Developer AVR Productions +44 (0)1462 819603 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
fonts not the same - how to change all text to embedded font
I've just done a movie in several languages and i didn't embed the font as
it was arial and i thought that this would be on all win machines. On nt
however spanish accented characters did not show properly, does this mean
that the arial font on nt is not the same as on other versions of windows ?
I tried to change all my text members ( a couple of thousand ) with the
following movie script. The script didn't return errors and i tested it to
see that it cycled through all the ast libraries and cast members but it
didn't change all the text members fonts from arial to arial * - Can this be
done with a bit of code ?
repeat with n = 1 to the number of castLibs
numberofmembers = the number of members of castLib(n)
repeat with m= 1 to numberofmembers
if (member(m).type=#text ) then
put member(m).font
if (member(m).font = "Arial") then member(m).font = "Arial *"
end if
end repeat
end repeat
cheers
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graphics optimisation
Hi i have a 3d animation at the start of a movie which is a series of fame by frame bitmaps. To my continual chagrin it stutters on older machines, can anyone give me a link to a good step by step tutorial on optimising frame graphic animations like this. cheers Lee Blinco AVR Productions [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 01462 850608 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
flash dont play in nt
i have a movie which has a flash movie and the a mpeg movie and then
another flash movie which play in a linear fashion at the start of the
movie. it works fine on win98/2000 but on win nt4 ( which our end client
uses) the second flash movie only shows the first frame but doesn't play.
There is a way to play the second flash movie without having finished
playing the first falsh swf and if you do this then the second flash movie
does play! i use the following script to wait for the end of the flash
movies. deadlines monday so any help much appreciated. -
fadeframes = (member("x2withintro").framecount - 20)
flashframes = member("x2withintro").framecount
if sprite(10).frame < fadeframes then
go to the frame
else
if sprite(10).frame < flashframes then
sound(4).fadeOut(1000)
go the frame
else
-- sound(1).stop()
go "themessage"
end if
end if
cheers
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loading loop while text files read
Hi i've got a movie which ids designed to be translatable. I read in several text files and then set a couple of thousand cast members text in a prepare movie script. How do i get some kind of loading loop to play while this is occuring? Lee Blinco AVR Productions [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 01462 850608 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Movies in a window - can this be done
>Probably not if you use the "native" title bar. However if you make a >pseudo-title bar and then disable the "show title bar" option while >making your projector, you should be able to have a draggable, usable >title bar that also does mouse event recognition. >Then you should be able to track the drag, do offset calculations, etc. >Does that help? yes thanks thats an approach i hadn,t thought of - but i reckon this pseudo title bar will have to be a MIAW as a movable sprite doesn't show off the stage. Also is there a way to move the stage in director's lingo(other than centered) i guess i can do it with buddy bamovewindow command. I'm suprised this is so complicated i wish there was a locktostageposition property of MIAW's - i'll have to get the wish list in. Lee Blinco AVR Productions [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 01462 850608 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Movies in a window - can this be done
I want to have a PC projector in a window with a title bar so it can be moved.This projector links to several MIAWs which should always be in the same relative position compared to the main stage, the problem is can the open MIAW position be made to update its position so it stays in its relative position while the main stage is being dragged. I have tried checking the stageLeft and stageTop in a on enterframe or on idle handler in a movie script but this only updates once the drag is finished, i tried on moveWindow but this doesn't seem to work with the main stage window , i've also tried a while the mouseDown loop but this doesn't seem to get an event if the mouse is down on the title bar of the main window. Can it be done ? Lee Blinco AVR Productions [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 01462 850608 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
