Re: Multiuser Xtra and databases
On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 12:01 PM, Rodrigo Peres wrote: Is it possible to use multiuser xtra to connect to databases like mysql, oracle etc. I need to connect and retrieve some data. If possible I'd like to run away from third part xtras, but... You'll probably want to use a PHP/ASP intermediary. ps: DirectorMX doesn't use multiuser anymore?? Yes it does (on all platforms), but the xtra has been moved to the "goodies" folder on the distribution CD. Macromedia needs to reconsider this. That xtra can serve many purposes - more than what the Flash Communications Server alone can offer. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Multiuser Xtra and databases
On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 02:58 PM, Evan Adelman wrote: is that really the case? if the solution involves ASP, you're probably right, you need a webserver. but php, perl, and the like are actually separate executables that you could include (1. the distribution licenses are pretty loose if i remember, and 2. all the perl executables and lib that come in the distro i have are 13MB - good enough to include on a cd) if writing in those languages is a problem, then that's a different matter. chiming in for no particular good, Actually, that is pretty much what I considered as well. I only originally mentioned ASP at all because some folks use it. Here at my place it wouldn't even be considered, since we are a "PHP house" for that type of authoring. I also don't see the speed hit as having significant impact - after all *something* will be communicating with the database. PHP is designed to do that job. It is extremely responsive with Director requests for data. No webserver or webserver technologies? mySQL will be running somewhere... locally? But PHP can't? I'd have to agree, "if writing in those languages is a problem, then that's a different matter." -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Multiuser Xtra and databases
On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 03:38 PM, Rodrigo Peres wrote: This project will be running from Kiosk. It will among other things check prices. The client use the barcode in package, and the system go to the database and get the price, description and present on screen. I've never heard about PHP executable where I can find it?? Or Perl executable?? And how can I send it with instalation CD?? And more important deal with webserver is ok, but how can I talk to the .exe to grab the retieved information from database? I'm not sure I have an experienced answer to supply if you don't want to use PHP as CGI. In theory, it could be distributed independently as described, but I haven't done it that way. Used as CGI the process is very clean and straightforward, with Director doing all the thinking, and PHP acting as a "phone line" to the DB. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: linking of cast - can't get it to work...!
On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 09:28 PM, nik crosina wrote: This does only occur once I burn the project on to a CD (or run it over a network), not when I run the stub in my development machine. Any ideas, anything i am missing here? Have you tried adding the various folders to "the searchPaths"? -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: : DMX issues (summary)
On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 01:34 PM, Kevin McFarland wrote: I'm trying to summarize known DMX issues, here is what I have come up with so far, from looking at past threads and notes. Any others I'm missing? * font width on OSX * exitLock broken on OSX? * modifier key bugs on OSX, fixed by rebooting * inaccurate soundLevel value returned on OSX * some Buddy issues on OSX Maybe I'm the only one seeing this one - idle projectors in OSX consuming huge CPU resources for no apparent reason. I notice on my Powerbook that the CPU fan comes on whenever there is a projector running, or even a shockwave in the browser - my own, or anyone else's. CPU averages 80% utilization when the projector is in the background looping on a frame with no scripts (other than go to the frame.) If this doesn't qualify as an "issue" to be reported, does anyone see similar results, or have found a way to eliminate the CPU hogging? -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: : DMX issues (summary)
On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 12:41 AM, Howdy-Tzi wrote: The way Macromedia has explained this is that Director projectors don't actually hog the cpu, they just eat up unused cycles. If I recall correctly, this is aimed to handle animation. Yeah; I believe taking the framerate down can reduce it, as of course can unchecking "animate in background" but if you have processes that must be running, that's not such a hot plan of course. ;) Also looking over the cpuHogTicks setting might be of value here. Thanks, I'm looking into this. I would agree that it does seem to "play nicely" most of the time. The disconcerting part is primarily the fact that projectors and shockwaves (nearly) always trigger a Powerbook's CPU fan. So whenever you launch a Director based app, after a few seconds it sounds like a little airplane revving up - something I normally associate with rendering in 3D or other computational heavy tasks... not something caused by a little app or utility. It is not so big a deal in projectors which have a lot of video or real time animation. The ones that bother me are the little tools that I write which use OSControl xtra for all the interface components. They are so lightweight that it seems crazy to start the fans blowing - which also reduces laptop battery time, of course. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: : DMX issues (summary)
On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 10:43 AM, Daniel Nelson wrote: Yes, I wish there were an option to say "hey, this is just a regular app, not a multimedia project". It's so very easy to make great looking and functioning stuff in Director that it would be nice if it had the ability to act just like other applications. Exactly, DMX (with some xtras) is capable of very credible cross-platform shareware utilities. The versatility of powerful multimedia options, as well as OS native behaviors creates a compelling reason that it not only could - but *should* be used in this way. In the past, I have used alternate authoring tools to create "utilities" and Director to create "multimedia." It is a really nice benefit to do both in the same package - and then, when one wants to create a multimedia enabled utility, it starts to get great. Many of the small utilities I write are meant to be running pretty much all of the time... minimized, in the dock, offscreen, whatever. The fan-starting, CPU-hogging behavior prevents anything like that from being distributable. Even if it is actually "playing nice." What's the wish list URL? Since Macromedia changed their site around, I don't visit too often. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: : DMX issues (summary)
On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 12:17 PM, Daniel Nelson wrote: You can send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Done. Thanks. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Flash animation in Director
On Friday, July 4, 2003, at 01:21 AM, Rishi Jindal wrote: I am working on a presentation that involves a lot of Bitmap (800 X 600) coming after one another (Like Powerpoint) I am wanting to use Flash animation at the same time as when my bitmap show on stage but I notice that the Flash animaton tends to slow down or stop wherever there is a transition frame . Any comments or ideas on how to improve performance It sounds like you are using Director transitions. They will hold the playhead in place until they are complete, which will stop everything else. You'll probably want to use imaging lingo for your bitmap transitions, if you don't want to try that, you could also get a dissolve for your bitmaps by tweening the blend values over time. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: It's not about Breeze - it's about the Breeze pitch
On Friday, July 18, 2003, at 01:36 PM, Allen Stare-IMM wrote: I have a problem with the tone of the 'Breeze' presentation and the implication that a multimedia designer/consultant is a *BAD* thing. Macromedia appears to be interested in trying to become a tool for everyone, rather than just "developers." Who can blame them for that? In turn, they decided that the appropriate marketing strategy to make that point was to publicly put a big knife in our backs. The Breeze marketing approach is absolutely traitorous. THAT I can blame them for. I have been getting emails from my clients and associates, regarding their receipt of the Breeze marketing. They were offended, for me. Macromedia has placed its stake in the ground. I am now placing mine. Macromedia will see no more of my company's money. We've now purchased alternate tools, and mandated their use over Macromedia tools wherever possible, and have mapped a permanent migration plan away from all Macromedia products. It is expensive and difficult, but Macromedia has forced the issue by clearly identifying where they stand. Is that the result you were looking for Macromedia? Do you think you are so big and important that you can blatantly screw your customer base, and expect us to bend over? Time will tell. But you won't be getting my thousands of dollars per year anymore. We have multiple developers, all currently using MM products. I'm willing to replace every piece of software we own before writing you another check. We DO have alternatives. PLUS, we'll be starting a new marketing campaign of our own... you'll be reflected in it equally as well as you have portrayed companies like mine. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Xml parser xtra question
On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 03:07 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: When debugging, is there any way to see the structure of parsed xml under the variable tabs (DMX interface). Currently, all I see there is the instance of the xtra: . I'd like to be able to see a tree view of the data. Am I missing something? When you parse the data, you parse it into an object variable... drag that into the object inspector, and viola ... tree-viewed for debugging. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: XML heirarchy in object inspector / Was: Xml parser xtra question
On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 08:53 AM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: I must be missing something. I'm not seeing how to display parsed XML as a tree view in the object inspector. Anyone know? (In my lingo, the instanced/parsed xtra is named gXML.) If you are sure that is what contains the parsed data, and not the Xtra itself, then you have several ways - Highlight and drag the variable name to the Object inspector. Highlight the name, and click the "view in Object Inspector" icon in the script window toolbar. Type the variable name into the left column in the Object Inspector. It works - I do it all the time. Try this test - instantiate the XTRA into a variable. Parse the data. Use the "makeList" function to move the data into a new variable. Take a look at that variable's contents in the Object Inspector. You might get different results. If that doesn't work, post your parsing code. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: XML heirarchy in object inspector / Was: Xml parser xtra question
On Monday, August 4, 2003, at 02:14 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: I took your suggestion and did a makeList() function in the object inspector, and it worked (thank you). However, I'd rather not look at the data that way. I'd still just like to get a simple tree view. Is this possible? Not too sure how the object inspector is displaying it differently than a tree view. While the top line will attempt to display the data as a horizontal list, you should be able to use the disclosure arrows to look at the file more in tree format. If that still doesn't meet your needs, look into the TreeView XTRA and "roll your own." (Personally, I think the OI does a fine job of allowing me to drill down through an XML. Perhaps you haven't fully examined the "spin down" triangles?) -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: XML heirarchy in object inspector / Was: Xml parser xtra question
On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 08:32 AM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: The top line just displays the instance of the xtra, without any spin down/tree view widgets. In the OI, I can see the tree with the makeList() method, but not any other way. Any thoughts, or should I just figure out the tree view in my head, which is what I've been doing. ;-) Here is what I do. Parse the XML. Use makeList() Null out the original XML XTRA (myXML = 0) Manage the list in the OI. Use the list as the data source - NOT the original XML. Refresh list as necessary. So, what about that approach doesn't work for your project? Note that XML will frequently have some extra layers of parent nodes that you don't need once you have things in Director. The makeSubList() is an excellent opportunity to trim off that fat. Then your list is a cleaner list to parse through normal program operation, and helps to keep your XML paths shorter. The point is - once the XML is parsed, you don't need to have the Xtra around anymore. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: cpu usage
On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 05:48 PM, Mathew Ray wrote: There was just a lengthy discussion of this very topic on Direct-L. Rather than me rehashing all the details, See the thread titled "CPU usage on OSX": http://listserv.uark.edu/archives/direct-l.html Check out that thread. I started it, and the general consensus was that was the way Director is built to work. I'm not sure we have any means of changing its behavior, and it rules out using Director for any type of utility application which is meant to be run all of the time. Especially on notebook computers, including Powerbooks. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: cpu usage
On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 07:55 PM, Tony Åström wrote: By the way, the Windows clients have notis the 100% cpu usage and what shall I tell them? - "Modern CPUs run HOT when idling at 100% continuousl" - Yep. That's what you tell them. That and the fact that the CPU fans in notebooks will start up shortly after launching your program, and will not shut off until shortly after you quit it. The CPU and fan combination will use up notebook batteries at faster than twice their normal rate. I don't imagine they will be too happy. Unfortunately, I've yet to hear of a fix. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Director MX - 2004
On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 10:15 AM, Dan Sheridan wrote: Does anyone know if Macromedia will be updating Director MX - to the new 2004 product line? And does Director MX now require a new Flash Asset Xtra to use Flash 2004 swfs etc? Macromedia posted a FAQ somewhere that says there will indeed be such a Director version. It is the general belief that there would need to be a new Flash asset xtra to support any new features in Flash. The Director dev team is aware of that also. I'm in somewhat the same boat. We currently use DMX, but our Flash developers are chomping at the bit for 2004 studio. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Director MX - 2004
On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 10:40 AM, Kraig Mentor wrote: Flash MX 2004 allows for exporting in earlier Flash formats, if thats any help in your situation. Maybe. We'll probably pick up a copy and test. Flash MX would export as Flash 5 as well, but if you scripted anything against the Flash 5 rules, you had problems. One of the biggest strengths that Director has enjoyed is the full compatibility with the latest Flash version. Everybody else had to work with a version back and Flash 5. Now even Director is in the version back mode. ;-( -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: fill effect
On Sunday, September 14, 2003, at 01:26 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: is it possible to do a fill effect with a bitmap (not regular color). ie. i have a bitmap that i would like to use as a fill effect. is it possible for the bitmap to cover were you click, just like you would with a regular fill effect. Take a look over copyPixels() and floodfill(). That is a good place to start. I'll admit I'm a relative newbie at imaging lingo, but what you are asking doesn't seem too hard. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: undocumented Lingo
On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 09:39 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't tried floodfill().. but it may be useful on a project I am starting. What are the parameters(arguments) that it requires?? According to James Newton's book - imageObject.floodfill(, ) -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Cursor property - solved
On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 01:27 PM, Peter Bochan wrote: This makes code less redundant, and, what was my aim, reauable. Not to mention appropriate and functional. ;-P -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: 8.5 3D recommended book?
On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 05:26 AM, Robin Pereira wrote: Director's Third Dimension: Fundamentals of 3D Programming in Director 8.5 (With CD-ROM) by Paul Catanese (Author) (Paperback I've read just about all of them. Paul Catanese's book is by far the most comprehensive and advanced. It lays open on my desk right now, and I can't say enough about its quality and coverage of the subject. I also found James Newton's book quite good, but Paul's is more focused on 3D, and touches on imaging lingo, while James' book is the other way around. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: english to spanish / spanish to english translation in director
On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 11:21 AM, Evan Adelman wrote: Even then, however, Kerry's examples fail pretty miserably in Babel Fish (English->Spanish->English => The alcohol is arranged, but the meat is weak. & He lead a block and gave return in a small > restaurant.) Ya. That ampersand really threw me. ;-) -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Mousedown safari bug
On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 02:09 PM, grimmwerks wrote: Hey - has anyone seen the weird mousedown bug in safari where you have to move the mouse during a mousedown in order for it to register? You can see an example at lingoworkshop.com I've seen it in more than Safari. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: buttons in front of videos
On Sunday, October 12, 2003, at 03:53 PM, director wrote: im trying to put graphics (buttons)in front of video. is this possible. i know there is a mask feature. i have tried this feature but no luck. thanks Not sure where you normally hang out, director, but we generally frown on the anonymous folk around here. The lack of signature and a yahoo address kind of suggests that you don't even own Director. This isn't a porn list. I'm surprised the other guys even answered you, they usually have better ways to use their time. You'd also be advised to supply some information. Platform, Director version, type of graphics you are using, what type of video, what you've already tried... -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: thanks
On Sunday, October 12, 2003, at 10:38 PM, director wrote: i am not the best at it but i give it my best and if i get stuck i turn to the pro's "you guys" thanks DS-NYC OK then DS-NYC - is your question answered? If not, you should supply a few more details on what you are trying to do. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: OS wars
On Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at 10:34 AM, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: There are plenty of cogent points, the most important being (in the words of Mac's OSX campaign), WinXP just works, OSX doesn't, regardless of what Apple says. Boy, you do make an excellent and well qualified point there. "OSX doesn't." Personally, I think you should keep believing that. I rue the day I pitched every PC my company owned in to the dumpster and replaced them with these darn elegant, crash-free Macs. I keep getting all these irritating emails from my staff thanking me. Now, they are getting all superior and having contests in continuous up-time and "most applications running concurrently," broken up by fits of laughter about how easy stuff is to do. I hate that. And the G5 speed myth? Don't believe it. Speed isn't everything after all. Stay on WinXP. You sound the sort that is poorly suited to such experiences. In fact, I join you in slamming the Mac arbitrarily and without salient points. Trust us folks, enhanced productivity isn't the last word in computing. Your PCs will serve you better in the long run, and poor highly productive environments like those at my shop are nothing to be envied. Windoze Rulz!! (And that is the last point I'll make in these insipid troll-baits.) -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Those OS's again and a question
On Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at 11:42 AM, Peter Witham wrote: Actually a question for you all, what's your opinion on what appears to be the new tactic of having to upgrade Director everytime a new version of Flash comes out rather than just updating the Xtra like in the old days? It sux. Not because I don't want the new version of Director - I always do, and always will. But because it causes a compatibility gap for too long. I think Flash should come with a replacement Director Xtra when it is released to maintain compatibility. Director upgrades are worth the money to me, and it doesn't take the Flash xtra to make it so. In fact, what it does is prevent me from upgrading multiple seats of Flash until the new version of Director is released. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Giving back
(Since some of you guys aren't on Direct-L) This community has been exceedingly generous over the years. The folks on this list alone remind me on a daily basis why I choose Director as my authoring tool of choice. While I can't offer as much in the way of Lingo expertise as some of the others, being only "experienced" and not "geek/genius", I have always looked for an opportunity to return the favor, in some way. I guess today is that day. I've taken a little time to write a utility that should be of assistance to any Director developer who creates CDs (and maybe other projects.) I know that other utilities of the same nature as this one have cropped up over the years, but I don't know of any freely available current version - so I made one. Xtra Xporter examines your movie for required xtras (those listed in your Movie/xtras panel), and makes copies of them into your movie's distribution folder - supporting "fast start" projector distribution. I've always found this part of development to be a PITA, so I figured others might as well. Here are some notes on usage- - Requires DMX, running on OSX or Windows (OSX will also compile your OS9 xtras for distribution) - Requires BuddyAPI (Uses 4 or 5 Buddy functions) - Runs as an MIAW from your xtras menu - Allows inclusion of Xtras not in your movie's list - Allows removal of Xtras in your movie's list for the purposes of Xport - Recursively searches within your Xtras folder (or in the case of Classic, your Classic Xtras folder) - Creates an Xtras folder alongside your movie file and copies your xtras to it - Saves you time, and reduces the distribution PITA - Is something many of you could obviously write for yourself, but this saves you the time and effort - Is distributed as a DXR, but a DIR will be available for anyone seriously willing to improve and return (without copyright statements added) - It ain't FileXtra4 (a truly generous and inspiring "Give back"), but it is pretty cool - Has the Zav stamp of approval and is compatible with his ToolOpener thingie, in fact, Zav will have a version made available with his tools which has been "sexed up" with his cool Asset Generator, providing much more stylish buttons. Xtra Xporter is available for a limited time for just $49.95... (kidding)... Xtra Xporter is free (as in beer.) I'll probably post this thing for download somewhere, but for now, email me offlist if you would like a copy. I'll put a bow on it, and send it right over (all 32k.) Thanks again for a great list, folks! -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: SMUS
On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 02:48 AM, Peter Bochan wrote: If SMUS should be installed on a special pc, then will the IP address for dependant computers be the # Server IP address and port: 127.0.0.1 of the initial computer? I mean via which IP address will dependant computers connect to the main pc? I may not fully understand what you are asking, but it sounds as though you are intending to use a SMUS, but are considering the issues as though you would not be, and would be making peer level connections. If you use the SMUS, each client does not need to know the IP address of the other clients, only that of the server, which becomes the "mailman." To reach beyond your router, assuming the server is also using a "local" IP, you would need to set up port forwarding on the router to the port that the SMUS is using on the server. HTH. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: parent
On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 04:32 PM, Peter Bochan wrote:
Just to make sure I understand this properly:
member("3d").model("Father").parent = member("3d").model("Child") -
this
statement means that the "father" is the parent of/to "child"? If yes,
then if I change the father, the child will change as well, right? And
can one child have many parents?
OK. Now I think you are just goofing on us.
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Re: parent
On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 05:03 PM, Colin Holgate wrote:
Just to make sure I understand this properly:
member("3d").model("Father").parent = member("3d").model("Child") -
this
statement means that the "father" is the parent of/to "child"? If yes,
then if I change the father, the child will change as well, right? And
can one child have many parents?
On the off chance you are serious, then no, changing Father would not
change Child. And no too, any object can only have one parent. That
parent can have a parent too though.
Additionally, the lingo stated would set the child as its own grandpa.
Well, actually it would set the child as the parent of the father...
so, close enough.
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Re: parent
On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 05:27 PM, Thomas Higgins wrote:
Just to make sure I understand this properly:
member("3d").model("Father").parent =
member("3d").model("Child") - this
statement means that the "father" is the parent of/to "child"?
Nope. It makes "child" the parent of "father" (you set the "father"'s
parent property to the "child" model). Switch it around if you want
"father" as the parent model:
Thomas, I am officially appointing you my public relations person and
translator.
Didn't like the "its own grandpa" explanation, huh?
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Re: parent
On Saturday, November 1, 2003, at 02:46 AM, Peter Bochan wrote:
OK. Now I think you are just goofing on us.
I made that comment because everything in the first example of
"understood" items was SO wrong, it seemed improbable that you were
even serious. No, I doubt the list moderator would kick you out for
that. Though list participants may not enjoy untangling such conundrums
enough to actually help you - on the other hand, some might. When not
too busy, I enjoy a good coding conundrum.
member("3d").model("Child").parent = member("3d").model("Father") -
here
Father is parent. That means that the Child has property of a parent,
and transfers/gives that property to Father, right?
This example is the reverse/inverse of the first, and is more correct.
When you say "transfers/gives the property", yes, it adds itself to the
list representing the children of the parent object, and is another way
of accomplishing the same thing "addChild()" performed from the parent
end of the equation does.
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Re: parent
On Saturday, November 1, 2003, at 03:50 PM, Peter Bochan wrote: No, I doubt the list moderator would kick you out for that. Though list participants may not enjoy untangling such conundrums enough to actually help you - on the other hand, some might. When not too busy, I enjoy a good coding conundrum. Thanks all for the answers. And Troy, you'll see, one day, I'll be able to participate in discussions just like all other experienced users. Peter, don't take me so seriously (lord knows I don't.) The fact is, I found your first example funny. People who work in Lingo all day every day end up having an odd sense of humor. You got good answers on both your recent questions - from a Macromedia Representative, a guru who makes some cool online coloring books, and a yahoo like myself. And, I still think you were goofing on us with that first one. ;-) -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Mac 10.3 and Director MX Bugs...
On Thursday, November 6, 2003, at 10:03 AM, Baker, Geoff wrote: Anybody else notice these three bugs in MX and OS 10.3? 1) When you first open a cast in list view you don't see all your cast members. You have to toggle between views to "see" all of them. 2) In the cast window, in list view, you no longer can see cast member icons. 3) In the debugger window, no matter how hard you try you can't make the name field bigger which is a real P.I.A. Not running Panther, but I would say these are "operating system incompatibilities" and not "bugs." AFAIK, DMX has not been approved or updated to run on Panther. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Shockwave Multiuser Server 3.0 and Lingo for Multi-user interfaces
On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 12:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just begun to work with development for my first multi-user interface. I am using Shockwave Multiuser with Director. My question is if anyone reccomends any documentation that I should review to better understand what I need to do. http://www.shocknet.org.uk/index.asp -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: HTML and email
On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 10:40 AM, 2702NET wrote: The only reasonably reliable method is to use the DirectEmail Xtra from www.directxtras.com (there are some other free ways to attack the problem - but I don't recommend them). This is definitely your best bet, but even w/the Xtra you'll need to be aware of Port 25 blocking issues (many ISPs block users from sending email through any mailserver but their own). One option is to allow the user the option of entering their own mailserver to avoid the Port 25 issue. Much more on this in the excellent and comprehensive DirectEmail documentation. I agree. The other reasonable option is to use a server-side script and SendMail on the server. Simply have your Director app "postNetText" to the script, and let your (or your client's) server do the work. The port 25 blocking thing is a real thorn, and it is pretty arguable whether or not it actually achieves its intended purpose. But there you are. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: dumb question - opening a folder
On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 07:38 PM, Todd Culley wrote: How do you open a folder for browsing with director? I know how to open a file in Director using fileIO, filextra, fileXtra4, and buddyAPI but I don't see any commands to open just the folder. ?? You use buddy, baGetFile, or baGetFolder... set a "default directory". The file browser opens. If you use "*.*" as the file type, it shows all files and folders. Besides that, what more are you trying to do? Like allow double-clicking to launch a file or something? What do you want the folder dialog to return? I'm missing the problem because this "just works." -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: dumb question - opening a folder
On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 11:43 PM, Todd Culley wrote: You use buddy, baGetFile, or baGetFolder... set a "default directory". The file browser opens. If you use "*.*" as the file type, it shows all files and folders. Besides that, what more are you trying to do? Like allow double-clicking to launch a file or something? What do you want the folder dialog to return? I'm missing the problem because this "just works." Thanks for the response Troy, I wasn't intending to get a folder directory but open to a folder in windows explorer. I have a project where version 1.0 was just a data dump of a lot of files with a nice interface, like what you would see on a CD-ROM when you buy a book. I see. Well, sounds like you have a plan. Don't forget, you can also get a folder list, and "roll your own" file and folder browser - for instance if the aesthetics of the native Windows one hurts your sensibilities, and blows the "nice interface" you have going. Either way, good luck with it ! -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: HTML and email
On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 11:29 AM, Diego Landro wrote: Now i get the point, thanks "2702Net", though i have a valid email account it wont work because the end user ISP would block the use of another mail server, and i just can´t work that around, can I? Well i guess ill have to have an error check (suppose i get some error when this blocking happens) and if it occurs then ill have the user assign its own smtp adress. That should work, right? Diego, you would seriously be better off having a server-side script. This would allow Director to do the network stuff natively and "behind the scenes", while the server could do what it does well - and you would avoid ALL of the issues and downsides. The user would not need to know any technical info... that's what developers are for, right? Director is really good at posting information to servers, and the script required on the server is relatively simple - certainly simpler than what you are trying to do. If you don't know how to do that part, such scripts are out there and available for modification, or you could have one custom written for you by any savvy web author in under an hour's time. No xtras (or related expense) required, either. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Object inspector
On Friday, November 21, 2003, at 11:38 AM, grimmwerks wrote: Is there going to be a quick fix for the panther/OI problem? Seems a f$cken shame that the only...er..sorry BEST new feature can't even be used properly I would doubt that they will do any patches for DMX, as it does work properly in the OSen it was designed for. My guess would be that the upcoming version will be Panther compatible. Of course, you'll have to pay for it. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Panther - object inspector
On Saturday, November 22, 2003, at 05:42 PM, Tony Bray wrote: So as the Mac OS was updated Word "broke". Apple, at the time, did some "fiddles" so that Word would work. Eventually, however, Apple told Microsoft that if they didn't fix their Word program then Apple would recommend and support Word > Perfect. Funny -- Word became 32 Bit compliant!!! Unfortunately I can't find a Director Perfect ;-( No, it ain't perfect. ;-) But if you've played with the alternatives, you know it is the closest thing. Plus, anybody taken by surprise that Panther broke some stuff in Director should probably take "OS Upgrades 101." Definitely not a good thing, but also definitely not a surprising thing. While getting panther compatibility is gonna require paying for an upgrade, maybe that upgrade will have some cool new features and workflow improvements. Personally, I'm looking forward to a second OSX compatible version. There is room for improvement in what we have now, and lots of opportunity for things we've never had. Stuff which didn't exist when DMX came out, and stuff that just wouldn't go in to what was effectively a "1.0" release. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Tweening a bitmap image using lingo
On Saturday, November 22, 2003, at 11:45 PM, Blake Coglianese wrote: Is it possible to move a bitmapped sprite across the stage using lingo. I know I can use locH and it will put the sprite in a specific place on the stage but can I use lingo to move that sprite from one point to another and make it look like its animated? The short answer is yes. The thought provoking answer is - consider doing what you already know, but incrementally, and over a period of time. I believe if you know enough to formulate this question, you know enough to formulate the answer. Perhaps read the manual. Remember what animation is: movement, and time. And consider the elements of your question. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Flash file in Director.....after done playing how can I make it go to the next frame.
On Monday, November 24, 2003, at 03:31 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote:
Another alternative is to make a behavior and put the goToNextFrame in
the behavior, and put the behavior on the flash sprite and then within
flash, say getURL("event: goToNextPage");. If that doesn't work, try
this: Make a global variable like such:
On startMovie
gGoAhead = FALSE
End
Perhaps make the global as such -
global gGoAhead
Wouldn't want anyone thinking that a lower case g makes a variable
globally scoped.
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Re: Sending xml data
On Wednesday, November 26, 2003, at 10:54 AM, nomshar wrote: How to send xml data from one movie to another? Use a file, a socket connection via MUS or MU xtra, or an XML socket. If you want more specifics, we're probably going to need more info to go on. Two local movies? Networked movies? CD-ROM? Hard disk? ShockWave safe? Same machine? Different machines? -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: AW: Sound recognition and comparison
On Thursday, November 27, 2003, at 03:19 AM, Florian Bogeschdorfer wrote: Just to be clear, though...this Xtra won't work for Mindy's project because it's only for analyzing audio at the audio input. No, you are wrong, sorry. With a couple of sound cards you can use files. That's what it says on the website. I think you'd have to admit, though, that the techniques described to accomplish this are somewhat less than typical for a standard computer user's configuration, and are only really useful on a system set up to be used specifically for the purpose. Perhaps not ideal for the discussed project as defined. That said, the xtra is extremely cool and impressive. Seems very fast and responsive. Also, I'm not clear from looking at its documentation whether or not it supports the generation of convenient list data for analysis in the way that AmplitudePro does. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: How to extend a score sprite through Code.
On Friday, December 5, 2003, at 11:46 PM, Saravanan appya wrote: I have some problems working with lingo through Code pls help me out from my issue. 1.) I want to increase the sprite frame through code. Consider "Puppeting" the sprite channel instead. 2.) I want to reduce the width of the flash file through Code by finding the sprite which contains width is equal to 800 and change that to 790. Change the rect or width property of the sprite. 3.) Is there any way to change the external cast link to another specified file.. Change the cast's filename property. To do these things, lookup "puppet", "rect", and "cast.filename" in the manuals. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Director vs realbasic
On Saturday, December 6, 2003, at 01:35 PM, grimmwerks wrote: So I've started thinking about realbasic, especially with the monkeybread plugins (4400 different cross platform calls to things like scanners, cameras, cd burning, etc)... Personally I'd prefer to see director step up since it's been around longer, but realbasic has been growing leaps in bounds in a short time. I'd like to hear what other director dev people think about realbasic -- shortcomings, where it works, etc. There's been a discussion about this on Direct-L. In a nutshell - My company supplements our coding efforts with RB (2 pro licenses and a bunch of plug ins.) It is nowhere near as fast or elegant to develop in as Director, but offers some capabilities that are hard to simulate. With the MBS plugs, it can do a lot - but really should only be used for stuff which looks OS native... like applications. It is weaker in multimedia and media support. Nice database connectivity, good speed of processing, and decently x-plat. (Director requires less OS specific tweaking though.) No internet browser delivery. Unless you primarily develop applications, you can really only add RB, not use it as a suitable Director replacement. To try making "Director style" apps in RB, Director will blow your doors off. We use it to develop internal utilities, and some client projects that need to look and work like "real applications" where OSControls xtra is not quite enough. Nice tool, I'm glad we have it in the toolbox. Not as broadly capable as Director (at least in the scope of projects we do at my shop.) -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Load XML document
On Monday, December 8, 2003, at 08:24 AM, nomshar wrote: When I run this movie in browser in Internet I see something like this: "Current load 0/0". And nothing else happend. Where is the error? The XML Parser Xtra is at its most buggy in ShockWave movies. I've used it very successfully in projectors - but the same techniques fail when put on the web. You will very likely find that it is unusable (at least reliably). Use the Flash XML Parser, or Andy White's XML parser, which has the benefit of being straight Lingo. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Strange error on XP with MPEG Advance Xtra
On Monday, December 8, 2003, at 06:18 AM, Brennan wrote: The problem seems to go away if I shift the MPEG one frame forward in the score (so that the full screen bitmap being used to conceal the hardware flicker appears first). This leads me to suspect some kind of incompatibility between MPEG advance and XP, but with the error message being in the system language, I also assume it is not coming from the Xtra. Since the Xtra uses DirectShow on Windows - maybe there is something about the installed version of DirectShow? I've had no problems with the MPEGadvance xtra on XP or XP Pro. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Load XML document
On Monday, December 8, 2003, at 10:42 AM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Right now, I'm using the XML parser xtra in a projector project, and I'm doing something at home that also uses the XML parser xtra, but in a Shockwave piece. I'm curious, what are the bug issues you've encountered for it in Shockwave? General failures. That xtra is well-known to be buggy. Check the archives on this list or Direct-L's. My experience in Shockwave has been that it will *almost* always work on some machines, while not working at all on others - especially if using "ParseURL" - sometimes the data simply never returns. That said, I've shipped several projector based projects that use it without a single complaint. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Load XML document
On Monday, December 8, 2003, at 11:33 AM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote:
I wonder if it would be worth it in Shockwave, to make a flash global
newObject("XML"), then getNetText(the xml on the web), then parse it
with in the flash newObject, thereby altogether avoiding using both the
XML parser xtra and Andy White's scripts in Shockwave.
Seems to be the course some folks have been taking. I actually do very
little web delivery, so fortunately my proving of the bugs were in a
test and not a delivered project - but they are indeed there.
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Re: word-wrapping with hyphenation in Director
On Tuesday, December 9, 2003, at 01:07 PM, Valentin Schmidt wrote: You can download a beta version from http://dasdeck.de/staff/valentin/xtras/hyphenator/win/ unfortunately no mac version yet, but it could easily be ported (as soon I find someone who actually needs it, so please send me a note if you need it for mac) Valentin, We need EVERYTHING for the Mac. ;-) Single platform tools in an x-plat development environment are just plain irritating. And yes, I can see a use for a tool like that. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: figuring out the previous handler
On Tuesday, December 9, 2003, at 04:32 PM, Warren Ockrassa wrote: Neat, so I'm wondering if Director has an equivalent. I have a handler that can be called by one of two other handlers, and I'd like to be able to find out which is the handler that calls the current one. I'm not sure if ancestor is the right term. I don't believe there is such a critter. Why d'you want to know? There might be other ways to deal with whatever it is you're trying to do. I have a program that has this need, too. Several handlers calling the same handler and that handler responds *slightly* differently depending which handler originated it. I resolved the issue by sending a parameter along with the call identifying the original caller. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: accessing the timeoutlist, part II
On Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 07:49 PM, Irv Kalb wrote: This is excellent news for the Director community! Sending one large e-cake to celebrate his return. Yes. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: accessing the timeoutlist, part II
On Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 11:24 PM, grimmwerks wrote: I _really_ don't want to be one of those troll naysayers -- hell I feed my family from ONLY director development -- but I've got to start facing facts that there are 1000 flash gigs to 1 director gig And probably 2,000 flash developers to 1 Director developer. ;-) I don't mean to sound negative -- but why exactly? Does this ensure that Director will see the rapid development that Flash has? Ensure that? No, I doubt it. But it *may* mean that Director will evolve in new and interesting ways. JT is undeniably an innovator with an advanced vision. Personally, I take his re-involvement as an extremely positive turn. DMX was basically just getting Director current with modern OSen, perhaps DMX2004 will see some exciting new capabilities in the tool, and help to carve itself a space which is less easily stepped-on by Flash and its ilk. Macromedia seems aware of the market's confusion, and yet decided to keep Director in the line-up. I'm convinced they have their reasons, and the news about JT only adds to that - IMO. Though to be honest, I still think Director is pretty darn cool right now. It can only get better with JT's involvement. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Changing name of a file
On Sunday, December 14, 2003, at 02:12 PM, Fabrice Closier wrote: The method Sean discribe, baCopyFile is the one i'am using now, Uh... baRenameFile? -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Flash not asynchronous within Director?
On Wednesday, December 17, 2003, at 12:26 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Anyone experience something like this? Flash has no means to know what the getURL Lingo call was supposed to do. No, it will not wait for Director to respond to it before moving to the next line. Why would it? -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Flash not asynchronous within Director?
On Wednesday, December 17, 2003, at 01:05 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Why would it? I just thought it would work like stepping into a script, but apparently not. ;-) No, as you've found, it won't really do that in this case. The GetURL could make a call that literally send Director off doing who knows what. You have to think of the Flash movie as an additional independent program running within your Director environment. Lots of communications options available, but they essentially process their scripts on their own timeframe. Maybe in the case you described, you could simply have Director inform Flash that the variable has been set, and to continue its thing. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: 3D newbie questions
On Saturday, December 20, 2003, at 02:30 AM, Peter Bochan wrote: 1. When the movie with the 3D member is running in authoring mode, all other applications significantly slow down (including os applications like the explorer). (Dir 8.5.1, win2k) Is this normal? Even in authoring mode, you may find you get better system behavior if you employ "Zav's Sleep Trick." Try putting the following in a movie script, and running your program - on idle sleep 1 end This curbs the CPU overdrive issue caused by Director in "play" mode in general, and helps a bunch when using 3D. This will also work for projectors, but in both cases, authoring and projectors, you need the watcherhelper xtra (AKA the UIhelper on some system types) available, as that is where the sleep function resides. For me, I wouldn't be doing 3D in Director without this technique anymore. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: 3D newbie questions
On Saturday, December 20, 2003, at 06:32 PM, Bruce Mitchener wrote: I've tried doing this using masterapp's mappFeedGenericTimeSlice, but it doesn't really seem to help. Is this because our app is already so overburdened that something like this wouldn't help because idle isn't called often enough to make a difference? Or does mappFeedGenericTimeSlice not do quite the same thing as the sleep from watcherhelper? I don't know, I don't have masterApp (I'm on OSX.) But, I can tell you that the sleep trick with the internal xtra, on my machine changes CPU usage from 100% to between 0-20%, depending on the actual content being displayed. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: 3D newbie questions
On Sunday, December 21, 2003, at 02:01 PM, Michael von Aichberger wrote: Anybody with an answer to my second question (how to increase the number of slices a cylinder primitive is made up of)? In my case, I'd likely import one!! ;-) (I'm not very good at modeling by script.) But, one idea is to look into subdivision surface values for the primitive. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Shockwave 3D: positioning textures
On Monday, December 22, 2003, at 03:54 PM, Michael von Aichberger wrote: Does anybody of those of you, who have already bought all presents and finished decorating the Christmas tree, know, how to do this? Let me start by asking if you have licensed 3DPI? If you haven't, and are working with SW3D, you *really* ought to. It will answer many of your questions before you have to ask them. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: the controlDown on a Mac
On Wednesday, December 31, 2003, at 09:42 PM, Slava Paperno wrote: I'm trying to understand why in my movie this works differently under Windows than under Mac OS X. In Windows, if I keep the Ctrl key pressed as I tap letter keys, each time a letter key is tapped, its keyCode appears in the message window. That's what I expect. The app I'm working on right now uses the command key in a similar way, and there are editable fields on the stage, and I don't get that behavior under OSX... in other words, I see the behavior more like the Windows behavior you described. But, that is the command key. Oh, and I use the stop event if the command key is down to prevent "bleed though" to the fields. So, apparently the control key may be governed by different rules. In fact, using control on Mac is not typical, generally used for context menus and right clicks, not commands... that would be usually done with the command Key. That is how it would map if you used the command key in your app? Control on Windows and Command on Mac. Perhaps the solution is a search and replace? -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 viewer
On Friday, January 2, 2004, at 10:18 AM, Emre Eldemir wrote: I try to find "dir viewer" (shockwave files) like "swf viewer" There isn't one. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 viewer
On Friday, January 2, 2004, at 10:29 AM, Troy Rollins wrote: I try to find "dir viewer" (shockwave files) like "swf viewer" There isn't one. What I should have said is "there isn't an official one from Macromedia, similar to the Flash Player." There are, of course, ways for you or others to write your own. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 MX 2004 and MP3
On Tuesday, January 6, 2004, at 11:22 AM, Thomas Higgins wrote: Adding MP3 encoding would not benefit as many people as will the MIAW changes we implemented this release, nor would that come close to range of effect that our projector publishing changes will have. I see the projector publishing... but what are the MIAW changes? Docking? For tool xtras? -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Truth or fiction
On Tuesday, January 6, 2004, at 05:40 PM, Matt Wells wrote: I did not say my software would grab any email addresses nor would I attempt to invade anyone's privacy. The reason I'm looking to find out how this is done is because a competitor's software claims this and I would like to find out the definite truth behind this. It surprises me that you would make these claims so easily against me when you have no idea what I'm trying to do or where my intentions lie. It saddens me that someone that is so prominent in this list is so quick to throw down false accusations and would take the time to look on my website to do so. You *did* appear rather adamant about finding out specifically *how*, while several people assured you of it quite surely being possible. I imagine Kerry has experienced spam (or dinner-time telemarketing) from your industry, as have we all. Those two things together *do* sound like they add up to a new "creative" marketing "concept." I don't know that he was making any claims as much as pointing out a "coincidence." (Someone in a well known spamming industry being adamant about getting the specific technique to create a spamming engine.) I'd add my confirmation that without a doubt it is possible, I haven't done it, as it would be unethical, but I do know how. There is nothing hard about it, and your competition probably has a reasonable success rate with achieving that goal on the poor unwary consumer who has autorun enabled. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
DMX04 & Third Party Xtras (Thomas?)
OK Thomas, here's some for the FAQ - For those of us who's third-party xtras collection is an even higher investment than Director itself, how should we expect our transition to go? Currently I have many OSX & Win32 xtras, fully functional in DMX. Will these continue to work properly - or will there be pain and expense? Oh, and, speaking of transitions... any chance those have been fixed for OSX? AND, should we expect the same ol' 1980's paint window? Or any improvements with connectivity to Fireworks? Flash member grouping under one Flash xtra instance? -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
2004 - OK Tom, QuickTime.
Please tell us about any improvements in the QuickTime xtra, specifically performance, and ability to work with "wired" quicktime media. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
One more biggie for DMX2004 Tech FAQ - MU xtra.
All that cool Flash functionality is great, but a lot of us use, the Multi-User Xtra... and enjoy the fact that we can do things which can't be done (easily) with the Flash solution. I won't hold out hope that support for the server will return anytime soon, but I HAVE to hope that the Xtra is still supplied and functional in peer-to-peer and server connectivity and communication. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Scrolling without tears
On Thursday, January 8, 2004, at 12:20 PM, Tony Wilson wrote: The problem I have is that the images appear to tear when they are moved at anything other than the slowest speed of 1 pixel per frame. Is there any way to stop this tearing effect? You may find that the best results could be achieved by off-loading the graphics work to openGL. Consider using SW3D for this - even though it is a 2D effect. Just a thought. To be honest, I was kind of hoping that DMX2004 would allow the use of openGL for "2D" image layers without using the 3D API, but that is one for Mr. Higgins. ;-) -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Fscommand? Event? getURL? Href?
On Thursday, January 8, 2004, at 02:52 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote:
Fscommand(\"linkFromFlash\","hello\")
Fscommand("linkFromFlash","hello")
Fscommand("event:linkFromFlash","hello")
Fscommand(\"event:linkFromFlash\",\"hello\")
It gets reimported into Director, and makes that link in the swf sprite
not visible! Huh?!?!
Any advice on this one is *greatly* appreciated.
Dude, you are making it too hard. Director isn't a browser and
FScommands don't work here.
Lookup "getURL" and "lingo:"
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Re: Re: Prevent second click
On Friday, January 9, 2004, at 12:43 PM, Cole Tierney wrote: (Better late than never :) You could temporarily disable all mouseDown events with: set the mouseDownScript = "dontpassevent" ...then when you get back to your thumbnails: set the mouseDownScript = "" If you happen to be using the mouseDownScript, you'd need to save and restore it. Happy Friday! On this topic, anyone know of a good way of preventing the escape key from registering and quitting the projector? the ExitLock = TRUE is not a good choice, as it prevents the window's close box (or red ball on OSX) from closing the window (= abnormal behavior.) Catching (the keyPressed) for charToNum(27) doesn't seem to work either. To get my app to behave more like an "app", I'd prefer it if the escape key didn't instantaneously kill the projector, but that the rest of the ways to quit continued to work normally. Anyone got a technique? -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: multi-select dropdown menus?
On Saturday, January 10, 2004, at 02:53 PM, Frank Coleman wrote: I need something quick and dirty that works without me having to do a massive retrofit -- I just don't have time to deal with it. One would think this would have been solved long ago, but I've been scouring the web to little avail. I have about a half-dozen different examples from here and there, each with one fatal flaw or another. Even the wonderful OS Control Xtra has every widget imaginable -- except this one! I don't know of any technique which is going to be doable in a day (or less.) But Jim Andrew's "Windows for ShockWave" has a fast, flexible approach to putting these types of things together. But even that would be like "rolling your own, with assistance." http://www.vispo.com/wfs4/documentation/tutorials/WFS40a.htm -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Re: Prevent second click
On Sunday, January 11, 2004, at 09:50 PM, Alan Neilsen wrote: I am not sure if this helps Troy, but in the Macromedia/DirectorMX folder is an ini file called DIrector ini. This can be copied and packaged with the projector (same directory) and must be named the same (ProjectorName.ini). Within this ini file, the relevant bit you need is: [Settings] ; EscapeOk=1 ; This property is only used by projectors. ; Overrides the projector's escape lock setting. Thanks Alan. That is too funny, I came across this same stuff today, and tried it earlier. It seems to be just another way to "exitLock = TRUE"... in other words, while shutting off the escape key behaviors, it also shuts down the close box (or ball) in the window title bar. At this point I'm still being forced to accept the ol' "escape key insta-close" as the least of available evils. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Re: Prevent second click
On Sunday, January 11, 2004, at 10:12 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: Are you sure about that? If you set EscapeOk=0, wouldn't the close box still work, but escape would not quit? That is not the results I saw today (Virtual PC, Win98SE) I'd love for it to work as described, I just didn't see that in my tests. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Re: Prevent second click
On Sunday, January 11, 2004, at 10:50 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: I'd love for it to work as described, I just didn't see that in my tests. Yes, it does seem to lock out the close box as well (even on the Mac). I appreciate the confirmation. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
DMX 2004 question for Tom
Hey Tom, One more - Has anything been done about the ability for MIAWs and even the stage windows to rob focus from the message window? Or certain types of MIAWs preventing text entry into entire other windows? Just happen to be struggling a bit with that now, and using silly workarounds, so it was at the front of my thinking. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: why palletized images?
On Friday, January 16, 2004, at 12:17 PM, Slava Paperno wrote: What else should I check? Shockwave compression settings for the bitmaps? -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: why palletized images?
On Friday, January 16, 2004, at 12:33 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: What else should I check? Shockwave compression settings for the bitmaps? That wouldn't explain why they look wrong in authoring. Shooting in the 8-bit dark. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
vList xtra
Hey all, So, I've recently added vList xtra to my Director repertoire (previously devoted to propSave for such functions.) But now, after fully reading the docs, it has me wondering - how are people employing this tool? The question comes from the fact that vList supports a lot of new list handling methods. Are you using vList only for saving files, or do you use vList in memory as well for general list handling? I'm about to rework an application to support a more complex file format, but I'm wondering if it might be worthwhile to redo some of my other lists which don't get saved, but could benefit from some of vLists functions... which got me to wondering the above question. In a nutshell - do you end up using vLists for all of your lists? Thanks for any input. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: vList xtra
On Tuesday, January 27, 2004, at 04:41 AM, Luke wrote: I'm a big-fan of vList (I think vList members should become a standard generic 'data' type cast member for Director). If it was, how would you use it differently, or do you already use it now in that way? (Notwithstanding the cool pregEx techniques you described.) What I'm trying to determine is since I have to do some rework on my project to integrate vList anyway, is there any advantage to taking it deeper and modifying some of my other lists in the project to be using vList - even though I don't really need those lists as external files. This project makes extensive use of lists, including many member.media instances. Using vList for external files is a no-brainer, that's why you buy it. I honestly had no idea it was a cast member xtra until I started working with it, and then it made me begin to wonder where its place was... as a file format, or as a general list tool in addition. Some of its built-in methods would seem oriented to the latter. As an example, using propSave xtra, you use Director internal lists, and then call propSave to save the Director list to a file. vList however, has methods to allow it to actually BE the internal list if desired, as well as the ability to behave as a substitute cast file as grimm mentioned. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Flash components
On Friday, January 30, 2004, at 02:17 PM, grimmwerks wrote: There's no way of using the built in flash components in fmx04 (ie popup) within director, is there? They seem to be as2. Not DMX, no. DMX2004 is supposed to allow this. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Flash components
On Friday, January 30, 2004, at 02:44 PM, Warren Ockrassa wrote: There's no way of using the built in flash components in fmx04 (ie popup) within director, is there? They seem to be as2. Some but not all components are FlashMX, not MX04. Try saving them back a step and see if they still work. But of course, that would be using it as an SWF - and not actually as a component. Don't I read correctly that DMX2004 allows use of components as components? -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Flash components
On Friday, January 30, 2004, at 03:14 PM, Thomas Higgins wrote: That having been said, we do have support for the general component architecture (write a SWC, have it publicly expose certain properties and methods, have those props initializable via the Property Inspector in Director), so folks can write their own, use some they found on-line, etc. It's just that a lot of the current SWC files in Flash MX 2004 were written with the specific intent of only using them in Flash authoring thus excluding use in Director unless exported first as normal SWF files, ugh. Should work fine for us. We write our own SWC files, and are anticipating doing updates to some of our custom stuff to support their use in Director. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Parallax
On Thursday, February 5, 2004, at 04:28 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: I used 2d, three sprites on top of one another and with a left and right button, moved the top one 3px, the middle one 2px, the bottom one 1px either left or right depending on whether or not the directional buttons are pressed on exitframe. The text in my foreground is one big see through 1-bit bitmap. http://www.mmwebsite.com/work/timeline.html That effect works. Pretty cool. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Help needed
On Saturday, February 7, 2004, at 04:35 AM, Saravanan appya wrote: I am creating a tool to get datas frm a xml file and generate a xml file as i discribed if any one have used a xmlparser pls send me a code sample file with all the xml funtionality.. Like, one that parses *your* data? The parser is built-in to Director, or there are several alternative tools. Unfortunately, you pretty much have to tell it what you want it to do with each specific XML file. No one can provide you a parser for your specific data... certainly not without seeing a sample of the data and XML formatting. XML is a standard, but it isn't *that* standard. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: XPOST: Audio Xtra interest
On Tuesday, February 10, 2004, at 09:35 PM, Neil wrote: In it's initial release it would be a windows only xtra. A possible Mac version is currently being investigated. Make it OSX / Windows and name your price. Yep. I could use that. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: password protection
On Wednesday, February 11, 2004, at 10:38 AM, Craig Taylor wrote: Also, I know there have been threads about this, but the conclusion is that there really is no way of protecting video files (MPEG-1) from being accessed outside of the protected program. Correct? "Protect" to what degree? You can't make it impossible, but you can make it harder to get them. There have indeed been such discussions, and the results range from changing the file extensions of the movies, to encapsulating the movies in a database or vList file, to modifying their headers with BinaryIO xtra. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: password protection
On Wednesday, February 11, 2004, at 12:34 PM, Craig Taylor wrote: Troy, you mentioned changing the headers - new ground for me - relatively easy process? Is there somewhere you can direct me for more info? UpdateStage has the BinaryIO xtra. Its documentation has some links that are useful when working with binaries. I am using the xtra, but not in the way described (not for copy protection), but I did take a look at it, and it seems doable - by someone with the inclination (or contract.) -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: password protection
On Wednesday, February 11, 2004, at 01:24 PM, Mathew Ray wrote: Since you don't mind writing to disk, hopefully it won't be a problem to write these videos to the hard disk... Since you can't collage video together in memory (pity), you actually have to place it on a disc so that director can get a path to the file. I was thinking about this earlier this week. It is a shame "RAM disks" fell out of fashion, would be useful to construct a completely virtual path to a file held only in RAM. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: password protection
On Wednesday, February 11, 2004, at 05:22 PM, Deane Venske wrote: Why not think about using Valentina DB, you could store the MPEG videos into the database as BLOB and even encrypt this. That way your video can't be accessed outside your program. How exactly would you then access them yourself? How would you set a file path for the video which is contained in the DB, Valentina or otherwise? -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: MX 2004 LDMs (was: Merits of JS in Director)
On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 01:05 PM, Kraig Mentor wrote: JS was actually put in to encourage the transition to VB as MS is buying Macr. That's not even a little funny. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Merits of JS in Director
On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 02:21 PM, Mathew Ray wrote: and verbose syntax has been depricated, so you can't rely on it being around for any future versions. Even for text and fields and all the things that ONLY verbose seemed to work with...? I know, RTFM. ;-) -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: Merits of JS in Director
On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 05:20 PM, Kerry Thompson wrote: It isn't significant, but it is easy to show: timeit -- "824 1028" I'd say that is significant. It shows dot syntax, in that example, to be about 25% slower. Ugh. The "Zork code" really needs to go away. "Put the key in the backpack." I hate coding like that. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Director MX 2004 - LocalConnection
On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 09:04 PM, Thomas Higgins wrote:
If you're in MX 2004 why not do these instead of using tell or
LocalConnections:
window("foo").movie.someHandler()
window("foo").movie.castLib[2].member["foo"].property
This is very good.
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Troy
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Re: Dot syntax (was: Merits of JS in Director)
On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 11:32 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: Dot syntax really comes into its own with lists and accessing 3D members. Without dot syntax things would be painful, but it doesn't mean you can't use verbose if you're in the mood to do so, especially if you get a speed advantage. Speaking of 3D... I really like the fact that in DMX2004, I can have a custom 3D panel set which includes 3DPI, and ShapeShifter, and it loads them up for me, and docks them properly - all with one menu selection. (Would have loved assignable hot keys though.) This is looking like the DMX we really wanted. It isn't perfect, but it comes a lot closer than anything else available. It would seem that the Director team has both been listening, and doing a little thinking of their own. ;-) -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: MU xtra for 04?
On Wednesday, February 18, 2004, at 04:16 AM, grimmwerks wrote: Is there an ..cough ...updated MU xtra able to be recognized by 04 even though it's no longer supported? I haven't done anything serious yet, but it seems to be working. Mauricio from Tabuleiro said things looked good as well. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
