Re: lingo-l (-1) or-(- 1)?
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 18:52:40 -0500, Tab Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:59 PM 3/22/04, Warren Ockrassa wrote: Of course, two wrongs still don't make a right,* but that's another topic entirely. ;) But three lefts make a right.. right? :) I heard about someone who went to a Sierra Club get-together and pulled aside three members. He ended up with a single Republican with environmentalist tendencies. The guy even sold his Navigator SUV in favor of an Explorer. So I'd say yeah, right. I was referring to turns. If you're referring to politics, then two wrongs might not make a right, but one right makes a wrong, and one (or more lefts) would be right. I'm confused. Did you write that right or did you right that wrong? -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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 Resource Hacker
At 04:58 PM 2/22/2004, Alan Neilsen wrote: Unable to load movie playlist. Does the .INI file exist? It must contain a section '[Movies]' with an entry 'Movie01=Pathname.dir'. In addition to the other comments, I think you'll see this error if you try to edit a Shockwave Player projector. You can edit (a copy of) the Projec32.skl and still use it to create Shockwave Player projectors. Or create Standard projectors. I don't recall whether Shockwave Compression had any effects. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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 FileIO limits
At 08:37 AM 2/11/2004, Kerry Thompson wrote: I don't know of any other way to read a text file in Director. Sounds like it would be a welcome addition to Buddy--yet another reason to buy it. It's the first Xtra I ever bought. I'm pretty sure it's on the way into Buddy API if past history of the free beta Xtras from Gary Smith are any indication. I haven't played with it or tested it for the long path issue, but check out Buddy File. http://www.mods.com.au/budapi/future.htm Any chance that setting the fileName property of a #text member gets around the long path issue? -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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 PowerPoint from within director
At 03:07 2003-12-01, Tom van Gemert wrote: I wondered if there is somebody that has some code about opening powerpoint presentations from within director movies, I'm trying a lot of methods using Buddy API but keep on bumping into script errors. Maybe someone already has good working code, or a good working method, or some general advise? My general advice is to determine what is causing those script errors and correct the scripts (may require reading the text of the error dialogs). If it only happens in projector mode, then there's a good chance you forgot to include the Xtra with the projector. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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 PowerPoint from within director
At 10:12 2003-12-01, Warren Ockrassa wrote: What? Reading the text of error dialogs? Jee-bus, man, next you'll be asking us to THINK or something! Not until you've had /at least/ half a pot of coffee. I can't ask anyone to do something I wouldn't be able to do myself. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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
At 12:39 2003-10-15, Todd Culley wrote: I would say that the system isn't refreshing its system icon cache for one reason or another. Maybe the system has a lot of processes running. I suspect this is the case, too. I only recently figured out that the icons were cached when my CD showed the wrong icon on my old Win2K computer. I was really spooked since it was an icon for one of the client's competitors. Double checking showed that the CD did indeed have the correct icon and I knew that I had just recently tested the other CD on this machine. Hmmm. Must be a cache somewhere. I didn't know about the ShellIconCache file itself until today. Now I make sure that the icon always has a unique name. Where I used to use: icon=folder\CD.ico I now use something like the companies name or initials. icon=folder\MAB_CD.ico And, yes. Backslash \ is the correct one. Especially since autorun.inf is still stuck in the old 8.3 days (at least through Win2K, I haven't tested it for long filenames spaces on WinXP). -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Stage not refreshing??
At 05:08 2003-09-18, Andy Talbot wrote: My first thought was to do an updatestage, though this doesn't refresh what i'm guessing is the image buffer of director in the OS, if I minimise director and the then restore the white rectangles have gone. Any better luck if you set 'the stageColor = the stageColor' ? updateStage seems to update only the pixels that Director knows have changed while setting the stageColor forces a complete redraw. Since Flash assets are, like digital video, running in a guest application Director may not know to change those pixels. Not sure why you get that white rect in the first place, though. Unless you're placing the sprite there and moving it elsewhere after it has already allocated that rect for the Flash sprite? -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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
At 19:11 2003-09-02, matt johansson wrote: Good point! From your experience mark, which 3rd party xtra would be the best option for doing something like this? The one I've been using is Buddy API. At the time I purchased it, it was the easiest to use since it didn't require digging around in the Registry (QT2 and QT3+ can coincide on the same Windows system). You'll want to take a look at its features and compare them with the other similar Xtras to decide which is best for you. Particularly if you're doing cross-platform work. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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
At 16:51 2003-09-02, Sean Wilson wrote: (Most) third party xtras require payment before you can use them. This is the only real disadvantage. And I can't see any advantage between different methods. The advantage of using a 3rd party Xtra is that you may not need to restart the projector after installing QT. As you said, quickTimeVersion() depends on the QT Xtra and actually kick-starts the Xtra. If you find that you have to install QT then you'll have to quit the projector before that Xtra can work. Using a 3rd party Xtra allows you to determine which version of QT (if any) exists, install if needed, and continue without restarting the projector. This assumes that the QT install does not force a restart of the computer. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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
At 08:41 2003-08-26, Mathew Ray wrote: Which brings up another question: Anybody have good efficient lingo utilities for doing different types of sorting? Uhoh, I feel the a flashback coming on...DFS, BFS, red-black BSTs, bubblesorts, mergesorts, oh my! Maybe I should pull out my old notes. They are in a box somewhere The only one that pops into my mind is David Mennenoh's found here: http://www.crackconspiracy.com/%7Edavem/dave/davedir2.htm I really haven't read through that page, but on another page, davedir.htm, he says You'll find code for the infamous Bubble Sort, Insertion Sort, Shell Sort, and Quick Sort along with a couple more little things if you download the Director cast. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l OT: Adios
At 10:02 2003-08-11, Evan Adelman wrote: Ok, so this brings up a question in my head: for all you successful full time Director dev's, are you finding Director work through current relationships, or do you have a different strategy to open new markets? Do you bring Director to the table through pre-built projects (We sell Kiosk applications. or We sell the majestic music video mixer 2000, build with Director or Rob's Presentations for sales reps.) or through custom engagements? In my case, it's a combination of creating customized CDs for the client with a bunch of our pre-built, ready made content thrown in. They are primarily Presentations for sales reps on my end, too. We do the marketing via networking methods as well as cold-calling (our sales guy is very well known in the industry). Like Rob, our CD/DVD-ROM market has not waned in the least. We have taken on extra help in recent years, too. We dabble in Internet stuff, but these days CD/DVD-ROM development takes up the vast majority of our time. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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?
At 00:49 2003-07-31, Anand Ravi wrote: Easiest thing for me is to simply avoid such oddities by swapping like member types. I've worked on a project where I've placed a number of blank bitmaps on the score and swapped them with text, bitmap, and flash members on the fly based on user action. I've used this in D 7, 8, and 8.5. My bet is that if you try the swapping with a blank bitmap it will work. (This might be a little clumsy though! But u can avoid using puppetsprite.) I also use the blank bitmap method. I could swear I ran into problems swapping out a different member type in the past, though. Maybe it was only when swapping to a DirectMedia or other video member? Ah well, I rarely use Flash or Director's #text members anyway, but next time I come across a sprite member-swapping design scenario, I'll give it a try. Don't let me get stuck in a rut I've created for myself! -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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?
At 13:16 2003-07-30, Howdy-Tzi wrote: On Wednesday, Jul 30, 2003, at 14:22 America/Chicago, Mark A. Boyd wrote: 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. ... or display any sprites on top of them. I never use Director's scroll bars anymore. Hooray for OSControls! 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. It seems I was at least one cup-o-joe shy of an acceptable awareness level when I wrote that. You're right, they're not set to DTS by default. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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 what is happening with my fonts ?
At 04:07 2003-07-30, Lee Blinco wrote: 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. Check out the Quirks Lists at http://www.updatestage.com This quirk has been around for several versions, so if you don't see it described in the MX quirks, look in previous versions of the list. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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?
At 19:06 2003-07-29, Slava Paperno wrote: This used to work without puppetting sprite(1).member = member(MyText, Texts) --you see the text of the member on the stage sprite(1).member = member(MyBitmap, Bitmaps) updateStage --you see the bitmap on the stage Does it work any better if you swap out members of the same type? I seem to recall that D7 would actually bug out if you swapped a sprite's member type out from under it. I avoid it so I don't know how newer versions behave. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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?
At 08:41 2003-07-30, Slava Paperno wrote: I thought that I may have some code somewhere that keeps reversing the member swap or the visibility setting, e. g. in an exitFrame handler, but there's none. The exitFrame calls are not responsible, and I don't have any idle handlers. I hate to ask the obvious, but is there a chance that you puppeted that sprite channel earlier and forgot to unpuppet it? Another thought. Since #text members are Direct-to-stage by default, I wonder if replacing 'updateStage' with the old 'the stageColor = the stageColor' trick might work? -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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?
At 11:35 2003-07-30, Howdy-Tzi wrote: 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? 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? Or maybe Slava has set the member's DTS property anyway? Easiest thing for me is to simply avoid such oddities by swapping like member types. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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
At 18:24 2003-07-16, Howdy-Tzi wrote: 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? It doesn't make much sense, does it? There must be something abnormal going on at the duplication center. Or something odd about the CD-R burning software or drive? I would probably try a different dupe house, burn a CD from a different machine with different software, and/or try a shocked projector - given time and budget anyway. If they're like my local dupe center, they handle short runs in-house and out-source large quantity orders. Once in a while I get an error report from a large run order if there is the slightest flaw on the CD-R. I wonder if there might be a slight flaw that gets amplified somehow in the duplication process? Just a single bit that forces that error. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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
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. Can you create a Shockwave Player projector and include the .dll files in the Xtras folder for a test? (I believe the details regarding which .dll files to include are in the technotes about creating a Fast Start projector) -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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 Minimizing a fullscreen projector.
At 04:51 2003-07-14, biju george wrote: The client, after getting several feedback from users wants to have a button in the home page of the projector, which on mouseclick should get minimized and thus alow the user to show the word/mail documents which are there in the background. See appMinimize in the docs. In short, how i can show the user the taskbar, with out compromising on fullscreen windowless play back? If you don't want to minimize, I think the Buddy API Xtra can do some tricks with the task bar. I haven't tested those features, though. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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 draw extra
At 07:02 2003-07-14, director wrote: im using the draw xtra by tabuleiro. it works fine however, i cant seem to get the colors right. is it possible using this xtra to do a color picker. using a bitmap. if anyone can help me i would appreciated. I don't know about the Xtra, but here's my favorite color (colour) picker: http://www.lingoworkshop.com/code/widget_colourpicker.asp Luke did it all with imaging Lingo and a single sprite channel. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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.ini -- necessary?
At 08:43 2003-07-09, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: In Bruce Epstein's book Lingo In A Nutshell, page 566, it talks about including the lingo.ini file alongside the projector. Just to throw another $0.02 in the pot, there was a quirk with some computers several versions ago that the Lingo.ini was able to work around. IIRC, it could even be a completely empty text file. You can read about it at http://www.updatestage.com/501list.html Look for Win Desktop Managers. I'm pretty sure I still included it in D6.x, but I don't use it these days (unless I want to take advantages of its features). -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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 )
At 10:44 2003-06-23, Liz wrote: Hi, I'm using the code below, but on a win ME machine its detecting Win 98. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong or why its doing that. Hmm. It returns WinME as expected on my ME machine. You might want to use baVersion(Windows) as Luke suggested or even Lingo's (the environment).osVersion. BTW, what will your program do if somebody runs it in a few years on Windows ZZZ or Windows 2005 or whatever the current OS is at the time? You might want an otherwise clause in there. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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 buddyAPI's baDisableScreenSaver
At 07:10 2003-06-16, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Hi all... Anyone ever use buddyAPI's baDisableScreenSaver before? I have an 11 minute self running demo CD being deployed to machines in house that are very locked down. It would be nice to avoid the screen saver turning on as they are watching it. So, can I rely on this method, or would/could it give me any surprises? I found that it wasn't all that reliable on all systems, though I didn't take the time to discover what the differences were. I have had 100% reliability using the other two methods, though. baSetScreenSaver() baScreenSaverTime() -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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 from text member to field... it's possibile?
At 01:34 2003-06-16, Francesco Scarfato wrote: it possibile to convert textmember with its own text formatting into a field cast member with that retain the most of text formatting like bold italic and so on? with lingo or with an extra? i've a lot of html file and i need to print them but print-o-matic doesn't print them as text but a bitmap and the result is very low quality output any suggestion to print these html files with print-o-matic As others have suggested, it can be done with some limitations. I suggest that if you're going to have to go through that, you might as well use PrintOMatic's layout features instead. Either method will be a bit labor intensive at the start, but you'll get excellent results with POM's features. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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: silent alert boxes in Shockwave
At 10:25 2003-05-28, Valentin Schmidt wrote: strange, for some reason all the colons dissapeared in my mail, although it was direct copy/paste from lingo. That's the way it works with top-post centric, Outlook Express. I think it usually uses double line spacing, too - at least in the newsreader client portion. To avoid it you can paste into a text editor first, then copy/paste from there to MSOE. Or you can use the message window as the stepping stone. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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 buddy api lingo help
At 00:03 2003-01-16, Brad Hile wrote: Actually you'll need Maximised (note the s instead of z) unless there's a US version of the xtra for download. BuddyAPI is from an Australian developer and we speak funny sometimes ;) Good catch. I probably would not have noticed it since I always use normal. I wasn't any more accurate than the original poster's maximsied ;-) -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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 buddy api lingo help
At 17:57 2003-01-14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I think when you created projector you don't check to option: Include in projector on ControlMovieXtras. Since Marcus mentioned that he created a projector, I'd bet you're right. I prefer marking all those xtras NOT to include in projector and copy the necessary Xtras into an Xtras folder next to the projector. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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 buddy api lingo help
At 17:00 2003-01-14, marcus brooke wrote: set OK = baOpenFile(thepathName test.txt, maximsied You don't say, but I imagine the error dialog gave more hints as to what went wrong - at least in authoring. 1. You didn't close your parentheses. 2. thepathName should be two separate words or you'll get Script error: Variable used before assigned a value. with a question mark immediately following thepathName. OK = baOpenFile(the pathName test.txt, maximized) 3. Even though the Buddy API help file still use it, the pathName is obsolete. Substitute it with the moviePath. OK = baOpenFile(the moviePath test.txt, maximized) -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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 Can Lingo call a function in a swf sprite?
At 06:13 2002-12-16, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: I would like to be able to do something like sprite(5).doActionScript(_root.foo(param1)). Does this ability exist? I suspect that is one of the new features with DirMX. Perhaps item 4 from http://www.macromedia.com/software/director/productinfo/newfeatures provides that capability. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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 DOS and Tracert
At 23:41 2002-10-18, Robert Tweed wrote: No, there is a difference. is the standard redirect operator in DOS, and overwrites the specified file. appends data, rather than overwriting the file. I've never encountered in DOS before Mark mentioned it, so I don't know if it works with old versions, but I do know that goes right back to version 1 (I was using it in version DOS 3.3 anyway). It goes back as far as I can recall (became DOS savvy with 3.3). I used to create entire menus with batch files and edlin scripts that could create dynamic menus on the fly. With ANSY.SYS graphics and colors, of course! For quickie text or bat files I seem to remember trapping STDIN with the redirect. Something like: copy * somefile.txt And hitting ^F6 to save the file and return STDIN to the console (or keyboard)? The memories fade s fast. If I didn't learn in a DOS book or one of Peter's books, I probably got it from the old Power DOS book - which just hit the dumpster last month! P.S. It's nice to see my messages getting here in reasonable time again. For the longest time here, my messages lagged so far behind that digest readers' responses showed up before mine. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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 new / repeat while Lingo waits / esc ...
At 09:12 2002-10-03, John Silva wrote: When i use the repeat while Director will not accept any other action, now my question ist, if i can solve this problem by calling up a new object which will do the action just on exitframe, so i'll not have to deal with a repeat ... Yes, that's one of the best ways to handle it. Of course, if it's an object created from a parent script, you may want to put it into the actorList and act on the stepFrame event. An interesting question i've read in a internet-forum: What ist the keycode of ESC (Escape-key) ? 53 -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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 imaging lingo
At 18:20 2002-09-24, another toad wrote: I was just curiouse if it is possible to do media labs Effector Set style effects without the xtra? I'm not familiar with the Xtra, but see if this example by Luke Wigley provides some inspiration: http://www.lingoworkshop.com/code/imaging_imagefx3.asp -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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 Installation utilities
At 10:19 2002-09-24, Sharon Moeller wrote: Believe it or not in 8 years of doing this wonderful thing we all do in Director, I've never made a CD that installs anything on the users computer. Just lucky I guess. Sorry to be off topic, but what do you guys use to install onto the users HD and then have the program run off the CD? I've been using the Buddy API Xtra and rolling my own installer. There are occasional Windows only projects where I've used InnoSetup. For a free installer maker, it's quite well done. http://www.innosetup.com -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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 Just out of curiosity (repeat loop)
At 21:18 2002-09-21, Colin Holgate wrote: on repeatList aList repeat with i in aList put aList.getPos(i) end repeat end Buzz's hidden counter will work, but this one may fail. What happens if a later entry in the list is a repeat of an earlier entry? As I said in the sentence immediately preceding that code, Of course, this will not work for lists with duplicate entries. Immediately following that code was a demonstration of what happens. To put it in words, getPos() will return the only first occurrence of the parameter supplied. Following that was a hidden counter snippet that works just as Buzz's does, though it was initiated as 1 and incremented at the end of the repeat rather than at the start. He beat me by two minutes. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: AW: lingo-l OOP question
At 06:28 2002-09-11, Michael von Aichberger wrote: You could easily test it by a) watch the freebytes / freeblocks both commands don't work in Windows (at least not for me: win2000, Dir 8.5G) I would be lucky if I could use them Yea, they've returned bogus information on every Win system I've tried - ever since D7. I use Buddy API's baMemoryInfo(). It doesn't have an equivalent for the intended function of freeBlock, though. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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 Spurious doublets (was: xtra for writing image files)
At 20:24 2002-08-30, Daniel Plaenitz wrote: That's Shift/Ctrl on windows in case anyone hadn't found that out (like ie, me, after so many years of using Eudora and always copy/pasting that line) THANKS! I had resorted to hitting the Reply All button to get that line. No more, thanks to you. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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 cursor and Windows
At 07:03 2002-08-14, Rodrigo Peres wrote: Hi list, I have made a set of cursor to use in my project all of them in 16 x 16 pixels 1 bit (win pallete). Guess what?? Mac works fine bu windows doesn't show nothing..only the default arrow. What is wrong? How about if you set the sprite's cursor in the beginSprite event rather than the mouseEnter event? -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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 Stupid script window!
At 08:08 2002-08-11, Robert Tweed wrote: I get really annoyed by the key bindings in the script editor. Does anyone know how, without using an external editor (which is even more irritating) I can set keys like [ctrl]+[right-cursor] to the Windows default of next word, instead of next script. I just can't get out of the habit because this is a shortcut I use all the time when editing other files. If there's a way, I'd love to hear it, too. In case you aren't aware, though, you can use [Alt]+[Cursor keys]. I haven't been able to train my muscles into that tiny variation, but you might have more success. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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 preventing double projector loading
At 08:19 2002-07-01, roy crisman wrote: I use it, but it isn't necessarily the most reliable (on the PC side, at least). I've been able to quadruple-double-click 2 or 3 copies open before one is apparently open enough for the INI setting to stop more from opening. I find that the most reliable method on the PC side is to use the free FastSplash program. It also displays a splash screen (BMP) without the problem (reported by some) of the projector opening behind other windows when using the projectorname.bmp method. The program has other .ini settings that you may find useful. http://bwsmith.com/index.php?t=2 FWIW, I've been using the combination of both FastSplash and projectorname.ini. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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 htap error in win98?
At 08:38 11/06/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey I've got a client that got some work from another director guy (that'll learn ya!) and he says he's getting htap errors in Win98. Now, I don't know what version of Director this is yet, nor what's trying to be done. Just putting out feelers if anyone else has seen this, under what circumstances before I get the files. I saw that error when I updated a D7 project to D8.5.1 forgot to update the .dll files included with the project (dirapi.dll, etc). Somebody else mentioned that they saw this error when using Shockwave compression on the projector and it went away when they removed the compression. I haven't heard back from them whether they included the necessary Xtras/dll files when creating a Fast Start stub projector. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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 Refreshing Screen Problem
At 07:16 28/05/2002, Howdy-Tzi wrote: At 08:13 + 05/28/2002, Shaik wrote: I am using a projector which internally calls my DXR files. If I am navigating fastly from slide to slide after some random time my screen content is not refreshing and sometimes it says screen buffer full , this is only happening in Window 98 systems. Can we clear screen buffer occupied for my DXR files when I exit from my DXR file or is there any alternate way for solving this problem. I am stuck here , can anyone suggest me to proceed. For starters, waht are these slides displaying? Are they displaying media internal to each file, for instance, or are they linked media instead? Second, are you using LIngo to manually preload any Cast members? If so, perhaps you should not do that any more. Finally, have you changed the purge priority of any Cast members? Additionally, are you using the Play command without terminating each and every Play with a Play Done? -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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 with BUDDY API anyone?
At 14:11 13/05/2002, Carlos Lorenz wrote:
Alright that´s the idea:
I have this TV Tuner that accepts keyboard shortcuts to manage controls at
GUI.
So I may issue a baSendKeys(3) and it´s the same as user have pressed
key pad 3 to tune channel 3. This works fine but when it´s time to turn
audio ON/OFF using MULTIPLY KEY in num pad (as GUI manual explains) i have
no success :(
I have no idea if this works, but what if you include it in the curly
brackets like for the Fkeys?
baSendKeys({*})
I typed that in the Message window, using the number pad * and it appeared
as expected, but I don't know if your external app will see it as the same
char as ~8.
Or maybe there's some way to use Buddy's virtual keys?
baSendKeys({vk_Multiply})
baSendKeys({106})
Just shootin' in the dark.
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Re: lingo-l baOpenFile question
At 13:31 01/05/2002, you wrote: on 5/1/02 3:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try this: baRunProgram(the moviepath CDresources/advancesales.pdf , \ maximised, false ) It is the Wait parameter. If true, it will wait for the external program to exit before continuing the script. Both commands are in Buddy API's very thorough Help file accessed via the Xtras menu in Director. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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 baOpenFile question
At 13:50 01/05/2002, you wrote: More learning. So will @ work with Buddy API? I thought I'd try it so here's what I changed it to. on mouseUp me baOpenFile @:CDResources:advancedsales.pdf, end According to the Lingo Dictionary, the @ pathName operator should work fine when navigating between movies, but will not work with fileIO or or other functions are used outside those available within Director. Which I take to mean that it will not work with Xtras such as Buddy API. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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 Can't Start Projectors in XP
At 16:52 01/05/2002, Silver Image Interactive, inc. wrote: I get errors saying The Instruction at 0x77f536F7 referenced memory at 0x the memory could not be written. The numbers change from test to test be every time it doesn¹t work. That is a nasty one. I almost hate to mention this since you're an old D4 user (me too), but I just did it a week or two ago. When you updated your projects, did you remember to update the Xtras in the Xtras folders with them? -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
