Re: lingo-l Shockwave and Internet Database
hi matt, here some sample code (php) that worked for netscape as well: object classid=clsid:166B1BCA-3F9C-11CF-8075-44455354 codebase=http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/director/sw. cab#version=8,5,0,0 width=718 height=370 param name=src value=mixer.dcr?foo=?=$foo; ?!--Anti-cache-- param name=swStretchStyle value=none param name=bgColor value=#00 param name=sw1 value=?=$host;?!--Backend-URL-- param name=sw2 value=?=$lang;?!--Sprach-ID-- param name=sw3 value=?=$start_mix_id; ?!--Soundcard-ID-- param name=sw4 value=?=$skin_id;?!--Skin-ID-- param name=sw5 value=?=$set_id;?!--Set-ID-- param name=sw6 value=?=$host;?!--Converter-URL-- param name=sw7 value=?=$mode;?!--Debugging-Switch-- embed src=mixer.dcr?foo=?=$foo; ? bgColor=#00 logo=FALSE width=718 height=370 swStretchStyle=none bgColor=#00 type=application/x-director pluginspage=http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/; sw1=?=$host;? sw2=?=$lang;? sw3=?=$start_mix_id;? sw4=?=$skin_id;? sw5=?=$set_id;? sw6=?=$host;? sw7=?=$mode;?/embed /object valentin - Original Message - From: Matt Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 3:40 AM Subject: lingo-l Shockwave and Internet Database Hello, I have a site were the user signs in under an asp page and pulls there information form a database. With this I need to integrate shockwave into it. The only way I have found to do this is the externalParamValue(sw1). And for some reason it will not work in the Netscape browser. The reason for the externalParamValue(sw1) is to pull the sql statement into shockwave so that shockwave will pull the correct information form the database according to the users login. Is there a better way to do this? Or am I doing something incorrectly? Thanks, Matt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l SWA parser + MP3 parser
Hi list, I've written a little lingo script for converting MP3 files to SWA files by adding a SWA header. It's main benefit is that you don't need any audio editor for inserting cuepoints (especially on the mac, where Director lacks a AIFF to SWA conversion functionality), and that you can add, delete or change cuepoints in SWA files at anytime (even at runtime). Another benefit is that you can create SWA files that have ID3v1 tags (which you can't when using Director for wav to swa conversion on windows). The script uses binaryIO xtra (or alternatively fileIO for small files). The zip also contains a MP3 parser that can read and write ID3v1 tags, read ID3v2 tags and retrieve various other properties from mp3 files. I hope some of you find this usefull. download: http://staff.dasdeck.de/valentin/lingo/mp3_swa/ Please report any problems and bugs. The script worked ok with my test files, but, as there are no public specs for the SWA format, I had to reverse engineer the SWA header by trial and error method, and there are some bytes left I don't know what they are good for. Best, Valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l preserve regpoint with imported png at runtime
Hi Frank, you can set mymember.centerRegPoint=false. or you could import the new png offstage (or with sprite.visible=0), set the correct regpoint with mysprite.regpoint=point(x,y), and then show the sprite. if all your images need different regpoints, you could store them in a (property) list, like regpoints=[first.png:point(x,y), ...] valentin Frank Di Luzio wrote: Hi List, I'm putting together a product catalog which imports png images as overlays for an underlying image. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary that I preserve the regPoint of the png. In Authoring mode, I can set the filename or use importFileInto to load the images into the application and all images align properly. However, in a projector, the regpoint is centered for imported images. I tried turning the trimWhiteSpace off before importing, but that didn't help. I'm using Dir 9.0 on a Windows machine. Do you know of any solution, or do I have to tell the artist to insert a pixel in the top left and bottom right of all the images. (I always test early, so no images have been created yet). Thanks, Frank [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l preserve regpoint with imported png at runtime
hi frank, a quick test showed me that it's important that your image is linked as external file from the beginning (even the dummy, if there is one). with code like the following you can restrict the sensitive area to the non-transparent part of the image: on mouseUp me s=sprite(me.spriteNum) m=s.member col=m.image.extractAlpha().getPixel(the mouseloc-point(s.left,s.top)) if col=0 then return -- or use ilk(col)#color if col.paletteIndex=0 then return alert(MOUSEUP) end valentin Frank Di Luzio wrote: - Original Message - From: Frank Di Luzio [EMAIL PROTECTED] surprised that it works with bitmap member (i.e. it doesn't appear in the list view of the property inspector). I found it. I was looking at the member and not at bitmap properties Well, I almost got it to work. The trimwhiteSpace is doing the trick but not the first time around. Its seems very sensitive as to where it is set. So I will figure it out, BUT now the entire bitmap area is sensitive to the mouse! I got it all regisitered, but the transparent areas are not invisible for the mouse! Now I have to figure that out. BTW, I have the same mouse sensitivity problem with the pixel in the corners trick. I'll see what I come up with. Frank [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Lingo discourse paradigm
Hi Peter, I couldn't replicate this bug on my machine, neither with dir8.5.1 nor with dir mx, and neither with win xp nor with win 98. some thoughts: - maybe something is screwed with the font that is used? you could check if you get the same result when you change the system's default font for dialogs (Tahoma 8pt on my computer) in the System settings. - what about the property inspector (which uses another font)? do you have the full how many there? - you could try if changing [#comment: ... to [comment: ... makes a difference (you never know...) Valentin Peter Bochan wrote: Hi all, Well, I guess the time has come when Director can really be considered a wise application. Buggy times are left far away in the dismal past and bright future prospects are seen in the two handwritten letters confined in a round circle saying di. So, what am I driving at: I'm not quite sure whether it's the di or win03 but gpdl method definitely didn't go to primary school in the year of two thousand and four. I have previously posted a similar issue connected with the phrase sound channel and now I have been playing with different combinations of words and arrived at the following outcome: In the blank movie make the behavior with the only lines in it: property p on getPropertyDescriptionList(me) description = [:] description.addProp(#p, [#comment:how many, #format:#integer, #default:1]) return(description) end drag it to anything you like and you'd obviously get a parameters window saying how many, dude. But that's not how it turned out on my win03 machine. It says only how. If I try to put down how much in the #comment section, I still get how. If I write how huge, how tremendous, how man how mac (tough how win works... see below why), how mus, how numerous, how nominate don't work. If I write how few it works! If I write how little it works as well! So to draw the paradigm I have tested it for quite a bit and came to the following conclusion: In the #comment section of gpdl, to observe the mentioned malfunctioning you type the following combination of letters anyLetter and w (that is a,b,c,d,f,g,h,... + 'w') and the succeeding word should start in letter m. The m-word can be as long as you want provided it's not shorter than 4 chars and it doesn't contain chars e, i, otherwise it'll break the idyll. E.g. ow mkkk, bw macr, zw mrocks, hw mhavok. There are exceptions though, if you type hw mbed or mw mbid it won't work because e/i is succeeded by d. These samples show mentioned results on my machine, and I tried them on v. 8.5.1. on win98 and it still showed the same negative ones. What is characteristic though that if you type the m-word really long it'll stretch the parameters window accordingly but without being visible in there. You might think: so what? It's not a bug after all, just a minor authoring quirk, but, tomorrow I have sort of judgment day: I'll defend my M.A. thesis, so I made up my mind to post something to my favorite lingo-l and to try to connect lingo topic with English language topic, that's why it's somewhat about discourse. Best regards, Peter Bochan Master of Arts (tomorrow...hopefully...fingers crossed) College of Foreign Languages Chernivtsi National University Ukraine [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l clipboard xtra - mac version
as announced before, now there there is also a mac os x version (beta, or maybe alpha, not sure :-) http://staff.dasdeck.de/valentin/xtras/clipboard/macosx/ valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l clipboard xtra news
Hi List, sorry for the spamming, just a short note on my clipboard xtra: - the xtra can also be used to export VectorShape-members as SWF files (Flash movies), also at runtime (projectors). - the paste-path-into-VectorShape-member-functions also works with Photoshop (so the list of supported applications is now Illustrator, Freehand, Fireworks and Photoshop) maybe it would be nice to have a dockingEnabled Tool-MIAW for those VectorShape-import/export-features (just as inspiration :-) there are some new demo-movies in the recent zip (clipboardXtra_v3c.zip). And I've started to work on a mac version. Valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Shell Xtra
Hi Steve, thanks a lot for your donation! Such an asynchronous operation can't be achieved with the current version, but I think it's possible, and I will try to implement it (as an additional method) in the next version. thanks again, valentin Stephen Guerin wrote: Valentin, Fantastic! I messed around with v02 for the better part of the day interacting with python scripts. The _stdout and _stderr callbacks are working great. Very useful indeed. I sent a paypal to you as a small token of thanks. Is there a way to asynchronously call shell_cmd or shell_exec so that Director can play normally while the shell programs is running? Perhaps a threading feature for ver03? :-) Thanks again. -Steve http://www.redfish.com[EMAIL PROTECTED] 624 Agua Fria Street office: (505)995-0206 Santa Fe, NM 87501mobile: (505)577-5828 -Original Message- From: Valentin Schmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 5:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l Shell Xtra Hi Stephen, I've updated the win version of the xtra yesterday, the new version has callback functions for catching stdout and stderr output during execution (see new readme and demo.exe/demo.dir). But there is still no interactive access to stdin, I have to think about this for a while, I will let you know if I find out how this can be implemented. Valentin Stephen Guerin wrote: Cool work, Valentin. I liked the curl interaction in your demo. Any chance Shell xtra can be used to handle bilateral communications with a shell program while it's continually running(perhaps accessing stdin, stdout and stderr streams)? I'm interested in using Director for interactive visualizations of simulation models written in Java and C++. I'd like to handle mouse events in director and change the models during runtime. Conversely, I'd like to be notified by the programs if the model has changed so my visualization can update itself. Thanks, Steve http://www.redfish.com[EMAIL PROTECTED] 624 Agua Fria Street office: (505)995-0206 Santa Fe, NM 87501mobile: (505)577-5828 -Original Message- From: Valentin Schmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 8:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l Shell Xtra Hi list, I'm working on an cross-platform (win and mac os x) scripting xtra called Shell Xtra that can be used to execute command line programms (hidden) and return the output back to director. On mac os x (only tested on jaguar, so far) it's something like a hidden terminal window, on windows like a hidden DOS box. It's still very alpha, but I'm a bit stuck at the moment, and could use some feedback about bugs, improvements and its general usefulness. So if anybody has a bit time to spend for it, you are welcome to download and test the current version from http://staff.dasdeck.de/valentin/xtras/shell/ Valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Shell Xtra
Hi Stephen, I've updated the win version of the xtra yesterday, the new version has callback functions for catching stdout and stderr output during execution (see new readme and demo.exe/demo.dir). But there is still no interactive access to stdin, I have to think about this for a while, I will let you know if I find out how this can be implemented. Valentin Stephen Guerin wrote: Cool work, Valentin. I liked the curl interaction in your demo. Any chance Shell xtra can be used to handle bilateral communications with a shell program while it's continually running(perhaps accessing stdin, stdout and stderr streams)? I'm interested in using Director for interactive visualizations of simulation models written in Java and C++. I'd like to handle mouse events in director and change the models during runtime. Conversely, I'd like to be notified by the programs if the model has changed so my visualization can update itself. Thanks, Steve http://www.redfish.com[EMAIL PROTECTED] 624 Agua Fria Street office: (505)995-0206 Santa Fe, NM 87501mobile: (505)577-5828 -Original Message- From: Valentin Schmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 8:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l Shell Xtra Hi list, I'm working on an cross-platform (win and mac os x) scripting xtra called Shell Xtra that can be used to execute command line programms (hidden) and return the output back to director. On mac os x (only tested on jaguar, so far) it's something like a hidden terminal window, on windows like a hidden DOS box. It's still very alpha, but I'm a bit stuck at the moment, and could use some feedback about bugs, improvements and its general usefulness. So if anybody has a bit time to spend for it, you are welcome to download and test the current version from http://staff.dasdeck.de/valentin/xtras/shell/ Valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Shell Xtra
Hi Florian, just take it and use, it's freeware. In case you use it for a commercial project and make millions of dollars/euros with it, I wouldn't reject a little donation (I have a PayPal account for [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Valentin Florian Bogeschdorfer wrote: Hi Valentin! I love it! You are saving my ... . How can I buy it for using it next week in an existing project? Florian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Valentin Schmidt Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 4:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l Shell Xtra Hi list, I'm working on an cross-platform (win and mac os x) scripting xtra called Shell Xtra that can be used to execute command line programms (hidden) and return the output back to director. On mac os x (only tested on jaguar, so far) it's something like a hidden terminal window, on windows like a hidden DOS box. It's still very alpha, but I'm a bit stuck at the moment, and could use some feedback about bugs, improvements and its general usefulness. So if anybody has a bit time to spend for it, you are welcome to download and test the current version from http://staff.dasdeck.de/valentin/xtras/shell/ Valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Shell Xtra
Thanks for all your feedback. I've just uploaded a new version for mac os x: http://staff.dasdeck.de/valentin/xtras/shell/macosx/v02.sit New in this mac version: - no more external shell.bundle needed, just the xtra itself - callback function _stdout for linewise retrieving of stdout. Usefull for example for programms that give intermediary feedback (progress status etc.) during their execution. Unfortunately I couldn't find any way to separate the stout and stderr streams on the mac (where the implementation is totally different from the PC version). But you can use the operator to redirect the output: - adding 21 to your command will redirect stderr to stdout and return both to director (as function return value and as callback value). - adding 21 1myfile will redirect stderr to director and stdout to file myfile. For example. shell_cmd(curl -v myurl.com/myfile 21 1mypath/myfile) will fetch a file with curl and show download status information at stderr that is redirected to stdout so that you can catch it with the _stdout callback. Valentin Troy Rollins wrote: On May 28, 2004, at 7:47 AM, Valentin Schmidt wrote: I've updated the win version of the xtra yesterday, the new version has callback functions for catching stdout and stderr output during execution (see new readme and demo.exe/demo.dir). Outstanding. Can the same be accomplished with OSX? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Shell Xtra
Hi Peter, the xtra is only meant for execution of commandline programms, i.e. programms without a GUI, and to return their output to Director. To start applications like explorer, iexplore, notepad, msconfig, mmc etc. use the lingo open()-command or Buddy API's baRunProgram()-function.. Best, Valentin Peter Bochan wrote: Just downloaded the v02 one. Cool. Been playing around with it and the following issues popped up: Works: services.msc, cmd (though it become internal one, but cool), explorer, winver, notepad, dxdiag, mmc, calc. Throws an error (doesn't work): far, iexplore. Does nothing: msconfig. Yours is better (than the internal cmd one): ipconfig /displaydns (and many more), ping 000.0.0.0. Though I have no idea of what an xtra is, and I can't simply say This one is good while This one needs some improvements I should admit Good work. I classify these kind of things as: Know how Win03, DMX04 Cheers Peter Bochan [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l Shell Xtra
Hi list, I'm working on an cross-platform (win and mac os x) scripting xtra called Shell Xtra that can be used to execute command line programms (hidden) and return the output back to director. On mac os x (only tested on jaguar, so far) it's something like a hidden terminal window, on windows like a hidden DOS box. It's still very alpha, but I'm a bit stuck at the moment, and could use some feedback about bugs, improvements and its general usefulness. So if anybody has a bit time to spend for it, you are welcome to download and test the current version from http://staff.dasdeck.de/valentin/xtras/shell/ Valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l overwriting lingo commands
Thanks for all your replies. For the alert-example I could use the alertHook for the effect I want, but I was just wondering if there was any method that would work in general. I guess there is none for moviescripts, but I have to use parent-scripts. Colin: I couldn't get your solution to work, pass didn't work with alert (nor with put) (dir mx, win xp pro). Valentin Troy Rollins wrote: On May 18, 2004, at 8:18 PM, Valentin Schmidt wrote: on alert any alert(string(any)) end Don't you actually want alerthook? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Font problem
but you don't neccessarily need unicode, but you can embed a normal font that contains all the czech characters and make sure that the text you want to display is encoded with the codepage as required by the font (this works for kyrillic, greek text etc., so I guess it should work with czech as well). valentin Deane Venske wrote: Hi There, I have some bad news for you, and some good news. The bad news is the Director doesn't support unicode, and if you're using unicode characters they are not going to work in straight up text/field sprites. Good news is that you can embed flash into your director which supports unicode really well, we currently are using UTF16 encoded strings through flash in our director projects. Deane Venske [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l overwriting lingo commands
hi list, does anyone know if/how I can overwrite an existing lingo command with a custom function in a moviescript, but then use the original command inside my custom function (with dir version before MX2004)? what I want to do is something like: on alert any alert(string(any)) end which of course doesn't work, because it creates an recursive circle ad infinitum. any ideas? valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l director-bug: contains() and offset() mix up chars
hi roymeo, sorry, maye I was a bit unclear, those charcodes (0x8A and 0x9A, or in other words: #138 and #154) are the codes for german special chars ä (a umlaut) and ö (o umlaut) in the MAC ROMAN CODEPAGE. the letters you mention are correct for the ANSI CODEPAGE (iso-8859-1/windows-1251) . In fact, I discovered those bugs when I wrote a script that converts mac roman text to ansi text, and which works fine for all other letters except those. But anyway, it definetely is a bug, because I would expect that contains() and offset() work for all chars (except for 0x00), no matter what letter they stand for. it's a strange behavior to mix up chars in such basic string functions. valentin roymeo wrote: I just tested this on the PC those are the upper and lower case s with a reversed ^ over them. S and s This is confirmed by my HTML Reference book (up to HTML 4): #138; in HTML is Uppercase S with canon (nonstandard) #154; in HTML is Lowercase s with canon (nonstandard) along with the note: Note: in the standard, the values from 127 to 159 are not assigned. Authors are advised not to use them. Many of them only work under windows or produce different characters on other operating systems or with different default font sets. -- p 1008 in HTML: The Complete Reference, Second Edition, ©1999 I believe the regular place for the lowercase umlat characters are: 0228 = ä 0235 = ë 0239 = ï 0246 = ö 0252 = ü those characters have been typed in on the numeric keypad while holding the ALT key on a PC, so those numbers certainly work for me on a WinPC. I suggest you make sure you're using the correct character reference. (and when someone has a suggestion or question about what you're doing, you might consider double-checking your info...) rö¥meõ At 12:04 AM 4/9/2004, you wrote: hi daniel, no, those are the mac char codes for the german special chars ä (a umlaut) and ö (o umlaut), both lower case. valentin In this case, is it possible that these two characters (138 and 154) are lower and upper case versions of one another? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] - roymeo(AT)brokenoffcarantenna.com - i used to love you back when you wrote poetry [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l director-bug: contains() and offset() mix up chars - solved: no bug
I appologize, I should have read your mail more carefully, I've missed the point. Of course you are right, those codes are upper and lower case of the same weird (in ANSI codepage) char, and contains() and offset() both ignore cases. I don't know why I hadn't thought of that simple solution before. Thanks for opening my eyes. Sorry, director, for this calumny ;-) valentin roymeo wrote: I just tested this on the PC those are the upper and lower case s with a reversed ^ over them. S and s This is confirmed by my HTML Reference book (up to HTML 4): #138; in HTML is Uppercase S with canon (nonstandard) #154; in HTML is Lowercase s with canon (nonstandard) along with the note: Note: in the standard, the values from 127 to 159 are not assigned. Authors are advised not to use them. Many of them only work under windows or produce different characters on other operating systems or with different default font sets. -- p 1008 in HTML: The Complete Reference, Second Edition, ©1999 I believe the regular place for the lowercase umlat characters are: 0228 = ä 0235 = ë 0239 = ï 0246 = ö 0252 = ü those characters have been typed in on the numeric keypad while holding the ALT key on a PC, so those numbers certainly work for me on a WinPC. I suggest you make sure you're using the correct character reference. (and when someone has a suggestion or question about what you're doing, you might consider double-checking your info...) rö¥meõ At 12:04 AM 4/9/2004, you wrote: hi daniel, no, those are the mac char codes for the german special chars ä (a umlaut) and ö (o umlaut), both lower case. valentin In this case, is it possible that these two characters (138 and 154) are lower and upper case versions of one another? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] - roymeo(AT)brokenoffcarantenna.com - i used to love you back when you wrote poetry [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l vertexList of curve through arbitrary points
hi list, does anyone have a formula for generating the vertextList of a vectorShape that represents the smoothest curve (continuous slope) through a set of given points p1, p2,..., pn? thanks, valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l highlighting lines in a multi-line field
hi nik, here is a simple behavior that uses a shape-sprite (filled rect) in a higher channel than the field and with ink set to reverse ink:: --- property pS property pM property pShape on beginSprite me pS=sprite(me.spriteNum) pM=pS.member end on exitFrame me ln=pS.pointToLine(the mouseLoc) if ln0 then y=max(pS.top + pM.lineHeight*(ln-1) - pM.scrollTop,pS.top) pShape.width=pS.width+1 pShape.height=min(pM.lineHeight,pS.bottom-y) pShape.loc=point(pS.left+1,y) else pShape.rect=rect(-100,0,0,0) end if end on getPropertyDescriptionList me pl = [:] pl[#pShape] = [#comment:Shape-Sprite, #format:#sprite, #default: sprite(0)] return pl end - I also have a imaging lingo solution that allows multiline/multiple seperated line selects. valentin nik crosina wrote: Hi, I am trying to find a convenient way to highlight complete lines of field castmembers. I know I can use the .highlight, but would like to highlight the complete line and not just as much of the line as covered by words (e.g. a line might only be half full) Has anyoen of you done that before, or knows a script I can adapt? I am experimenting with shape castmembers put behind the lines, maybe that is a way? Thanks on a Sunday... Best NIk ___ Cost effective technology solutions for business. Sign up for a free trial today! http://www.officemaster.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!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l vertexList of curve through arbitrary points
hi dave, thanks, but I think it's not exactly what I'm looking for. I need a formula for connecting arbitrary points with a smooth curve, more like a function plot. valentin Dave McColgin wrote: Hi valentin, I'm not sure if this is what you want: http://tinyurl.com/3yab7 There are parameterized drawArc and a drawEllipse actionscript files for free with no restrictions. They use it to draw shapes, but I've used them to simply plug in y's and get back x's (or vice versa), like the set of points you said you wanted. It's Flash but they are generic algorithms, and you shouldn't need more math than Lingo provides. Hope it helps dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Valentin Schmidt Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 12:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l vertexList of curve through arbitrary points hi list, does anyone have a formula for generating the vertextList of a vectorShape that represents the smoothest curve (continuous slope) through a set of given points p1, p2,..., pn? thanks, valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l no subject
the font of word 23 of member myField = Arial the font of char 666 of member myField = Arial nik crosina wrote: Hi, Another question re fields (my favorite types, ...): can i control the font of field text with lingo down to a word level. I realised that in the field window I can select multimple fonts for the text of one field, so I am thinking there must be a way of doing it with lingo as well? needed for: a field that shows the results of a database search (one result per line) with the first character of each line being a tick box (font 'wingdings 2') which then I want users to be able to tick as well thanx seeyah Nik ___ Cost effective technology solutions for business. Sign up for a free trial today! http://www.officemaster.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!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Outlook error generated by Director
what's the exact name of your projector? Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Hi all... How could a Director projector possibly cause a Microsoft Outlook error: The command line argument is not valid. Verify the switch you are using. perplexed and becoming nervous, Michael M. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Outlook error generated by Director
my last mail took more than 6 hours to arrive at the list, seems to be some traffic jam somewhere. my first intention concerning the outlook bug was that there might have been some confusion with the app actually called, but of course it was something else, so never mind. valentin Valentin Schmidt wrote: what's the exact name of your projector? Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Hi all... How could a Director projector possibly cause a Microsoft Outlook error: The command line argument is not valid. Verify the switch you are using. perplexed and becoming nervous, Michael M. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l dial-up connection setup
Hi Cath, did I understand your question right that you want to provide your own Dialup-connection instead of using the system's default internet connection method? If yes, here some ideas: - first you should check if the target computer actually uses DialUp-Networking and has a modem installed, eg. by checking some registry values. If Dialup Networking is installed, the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\RemoteAccess\ has to exist, otherwise it doesn't exist. All existing connections (connectoids ) are listed under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\RemoteAccess\Profile\ - you could try to provide your own *.DUN file (which is a special INI that contains dialup-connection-infos). you can easily generate such a DUN file by creating a Dial-Up connection (connectoid ) with the correct settings on your own system and dragging it to any folder or the desktop. You can install this DUN file on the user's system with calling Win 9x: RUNDLL32.EXE RNAUI.DLL,RnaRunImport path-to-DUN-file Win XP (and propably NT/Win2k): RUNDLL32.EXE NETSHELL.DLL,InvokeDunFile path-to-DUN-file you can do this with Buddy API like baRunProgram( RUNDLL32.EXE RNAUI.DLL,RnaRunImport path-to-DUN-file, hidden, false ) baRunProgram( RUNDLL32.EXE NETSHELL.DLL,InvokeDunFile path-to-DUN-file, hidden, false ) A problem might be that a DUN file also contains information about the modem to use, in section [Device]. Maybe you could find out the installed modems from the registry and generate a DUN file with the apropriate modem on the fly. You could even generate the full DUN-file with Buddy API's baWriteIni(). After the DUN-file is imported, you can open a dialup connection by using the entry name that is specified in the DUN file (line Entry_Name=... in section [Entry]). On Win9x you start a DialUp-connection with calling RunDLL32 RNAUI.DLL,RnaDial entry name eg. with Buddy API: baRunProgram( RunDLL32 RNAUI.DLL,RnaDial entry name, hidden, false ) On Win NT/2k/XP with: RASDIAL.EXE entry name eg. with Buddy API: baRunProgram( RASDIAL.EXE entry name, hidden, false ) To uninstall the temporary connection, you can use RASPHONE.EXE -r entry name for Win NT/2k/XP, but I don't know how you could do this on Win 9x. Good luck, Valentin Cath Sample wrote: Hi, I need to make a CD which will set up temporary dial up connection and then connect to a web page. I have tried the demo of DirectConnection xtra , which opens a window so the user can input the phone number, etc, but I would really like to do this without making the user input the phone number. Has anyone done anything like this? Regards Cath Sample Director Phosphor Essence Level 1, 27 Dacre St PO Box 68755 Newton, Auckland http://www.phosphor.co.nz P: +64 9 377 4626 F: +64 9 377 4991 M: 021 748 774 The material in this email is confidential to the addressee and may be protected by legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that you may not use any material in this message nor pass it on to others. If you have received this email in error, please delete it and notify us immediately by telephone or email ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l dial-up connection setup
I think its HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\Modem here an excerpt from http://www.modemdoctor.com/html/news0998.htm: Modem Keys- The important information on how your modem works is saved in the key; HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\Modem. Under the Modem subkey, you will again find numerical entries that correspond to your modems. This area holds a wealth of information about your system including every important command and response string that your modem generates. This numeric subkey contains more subkeys that hold important command strings to answer incoming calls, hang-up the modem, initialize the modem, monitor for rings, response and init settings, and exact commands on how to turn on or off certain features of your modem. All of this information is created from the INF file used to install your modem. This section also holds the name of the vxd driver to use for communications, and the description of the type and manufacturer of your modem. Cath Sample wrote: Hi Valentin, Thanks for all the information! I have been looking at creating an .INS file and running it to set up the connection, but that brings up a number of dialogue messages which I would rather avoid, so I will try creating a *.DUN file and installing it. Alot of these users will probably not have a dial-up connection as yet, so will they have the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\RemoteAccess\Profile\ entry? Where are installed modems found in the Registry? Cath At 02:11 a.m. 19/04/2004 +0200, you wrote: Hi Cath, did I understand your question right that you want to provide your own Dialup-connection instead of using the system's default internet connection method? If yes, here some ideas: - first you should check if the target computer actually uses DialUp-Networking and has a modem installed, eg. by checking some registry values. If Dialup Networking is installed, the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\RemoteAccess\ has to exist, otherwise it doesn't exist. All existing connections (connectoids ) are listed under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\RemoteAccess\Profile\ - you could try to provide your own *.DUN file (which is a special INI that contains dialup-connection-infos). you can easily generate such a DUN file by creating a Dial-Up connection (connectoid ) with the correct settings on your own system and dragging it to any folder or the desktop. You can install this DUN file on the user's system with calling Win 9x: RUNDLL32.EXE RNAUI.DLL,RnaRunImport path-to-DUN-file Win XP (and propably NT/Win2k): RUNDLL32.EXE NETSHELL.DLL,InvokeDunFile path-to-DUN-file you can do this with Buddy API like baRunProgram( RUNDLL32.EXE RNAUI.DLL,RnaRunImport path-to-DUN-file, hidden, false ) baRunProgram( RUNDLL32.EXE NETSHELL.DLL,InvokeDunFile path-to-DUN-file, hidden, false ) A problem might be that a DUN file also contains information about the modem to use, in section [Device]. Maybe you could find out the installed modems from the registry and generate a DUN file with the apropriate modem on the fly. You could even generate the full DUN-file with Buddy API's baWriteIni(). After the DUN-file is imported, you can open a dialup connection by using the entry name that is specified in the DUN file (line Entry_Name=... in section [Entry]). On Win9x you start a DialUp-connection with calling RunDLL32 RNAUI.DLL,RnaDial entry name eg. with Buddy API: baRunProgram( RunDLL32 RNAUI.DLL,RnaDial entry name, hidden, false ) On Win NT/2k/XP with: RASDIAL.EXE entry name eg. with Buddy API: baRunProgram( RASDIAL.EXE entry name, hidden, false ) To uninstall the temporary connection, you can use RASPHONE.EXE -r entry name for Win NT/2k/XP, but I don't know how you could do this on Win 9x. Good luck, Valentin Cath Sample wrote: Hi, I need to make a CD which will set up temporary dial up connection and then connect to a web page. I have tried the demo of DirectConnection xtra , which opens a window so the user can input the phone number, etc, but I would really like to do this without making the user input the phone number. Has anyone done anything like this? Regards Cath Sample Director Phosphor Essence Level 1, 27 Dacre St PO Box 68755 Newton, Auckland http://www.phosphor.co.nz P: +64 9 377 4626 F: +64 9 377 4991 M: 021 748 774 The material in this email is confidential to the addressee and may be protected by legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that you may not use any material in this message nor pass it on to others. If you have received this email in error, please delete it and notify us immediately by telephone or email ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming
Re: lingo-l MPEG Media Viewer
- Is it possible to use the *.ini file that can be included with a projector for this purpose. I.e. including my own parameters? Or do I have better read in a separate (.txt?) file with MY data? Hi Nik, I don't think that you can include your own parameters in projectorName.ini. But you can define some globals in the StartUp-handler of a lingo.ini. And if you prefer ini-files to Director's getPref/setPref or using FileIO, you can use baReadIni()/baWriteIni() with Buddy API Xtra. Valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l SVG generation scripts
Hi biju, I guess the script error is not produced by the SVG creation scripts itself, but I use the Adobe SVG viewer to display the created files. You have to install the latest SVG viewer to make this work: http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/main.html otherwise you would have to uncomment the display code. valentin biju george wrote: Hi, The downloaded demo file produces Script error. Why? To view it should i install/download any activex/dlls? The zip package of Valentin does not say any thing on this issue. regards, Biju George. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l net webcam img into director
what I usually do in such a case is to append a random-parameter to the URL, which makes director bypass the cache: -- in moviescript, e.g. on prepareMovie the randomseed = the ticks -- when updating image member(webimg).filename= http://webcamurl/foo.cgi?; random(the maxinteger) (url could be *.php, *.asp or anything else instead of *.cgi) valentin Alex da Franca wrote: At 18:45 Uhr +0200 12.04.2004, thor wrote: Do you have any tips on how to solve this problem? as far as I remember there's a movie method 'cachedocverify' it defaults to: put cacheDocVerify() -- #once set it to #always like so: cacheDocVerify #always I can't tell how reliable it is across browsers, though :-( the other thing to try is to append a ? to the url, which is the common way to force a refresh. I's further recommend to use the filename property instead of importfileinto, but can not really tell why ;-) member(webimg).fielname = http: url of webcam image? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Reference on creating Navigation System
1. Is there any way to put an instance of a cast member via Lingo ? and does the instance behave like an inheritence object in OOP where the button could have multiple text/value on each instance. i try using sprite(x).member.text .. but all the instance also change for standard director buttons: no (but you can create new members on the fly with lingo) for flashComponent buttons in dmx 2004: yes for imported flash-buttons (swfs): yes you might also create your own buttons with imaging lingo (e.g. in a parent script) 2. Is there any way to attach behavior(script) in the instance via lingo (on-the-fly) ? yes: check out scriptInstanceList in director help. valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l director-bug: contains() and offset() mix up chars
hi list, i just wondered, is the following a known director bug? c=numtochar(138) put (c contains numtochar(154)) -- 1 put offset(numtochar(154),c) -- 1 and also c=numtochar(154) put (c contains numtochar(138)) -- 1 put offset(numtochar(138),c) -- 1 (tested on dmx, win xp pro) valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l director-bug: contains() and offset() mix up chars
hi daniel, no, those are the mac char codes for the german special chars ä (a umlaut) and ö (o umlaut), both lower case. valentin In this case, is it possible that these two characters (138 and 154) are lower and upper case versions of one another? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Charset: Spezialchars under Win-XP are 'mixed up'
I use german special chars all the time and never had this problem. I think something is wrong with the fonts you are using. Are you using embedded fonts or system fonts? Which ones? And where does the text come from? Is it set/changed at runtime? I have some lingo code for converting mac-strings to ANSI-strings and v.v., that I could send you. But propably it's better to find out what causes those troubles, instead of fixing the symptoms. Valentin Ueliisa wrote: Hallo I am near finished my Project for a CD-Rom and was testing it on different computers Mac(9.1/9.2/10.2/10.3) and Windows 98, NT4, XP). It was good looking at all - only Windows XP change all german spezial chars like ä,ö,ü to confusing/wrong symbols. Knows anyone how to fix it. Is it possible to give/define for the projector/project a chartable? To create bitmaps from the text is not a way because the the content change dynamically by runtime. Until know I found only UFT-8 support for XML dokuments but it is. Thanks Ueliisa [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Shockwave finding movies on CD-ROM
for windows and internet explorer you could embed some vbscript in the html page that checks for the cd-rom and opens the movie (e.g. in a new browser window). it would depend on the user's security settings if the script works seamlessly or if a security dialog pops up or if the script fails. valentin Alan Neilsen wrote: I can use BuddyAPI (BAFindDrive) in a projector to determine if the correct CD-ROM is in the drive; to then either open a specified movie from the CD-ROM, or alternatively, alert the user that the (correct) CD-ROM is not available. Can I do something similar with Shockwave? I would like to embed a little Shockwave file (looking like a disk icon) into a web-page as a link to external movies to be stored on a CD-ROM (delivered to students to use in conjunction with the web-site). My idea is to make it so when a user clicks on this icon, it determines the letter assigned to their CD-ROM drive, finds and opens a movie on that drive, or alternatively reports that the correct CD-ROM is not available if this is the case. Essentially, I want to make Shockwave files that work something like Quicktime Reference Movies, but for Director files. The problem seems to be that I can set the bupapi xtra to be included in the projector, but not to be downloaded if required. So it seems that using bubapi is not the answer, and I need to try and find another way of doing this. Cheers Alan Neilsen [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l SVG generation scripts
Hi list, I've taken an important step forward in fullfilling my ingenious plan to achieve world domination by means of lingo :-) I've written 2 classes (parent-scripts) for runtime generation of SVG-files: one for general SVG generation, the other for SVG graphs. Both are translations of existing PHP code. They are available from: http://staff.dasdeck.de/valentin/lingo/svg/ The scripts work on macs as well, but the demo-dirs and projectors use the Adobe SVG Viewer embedded as ActiveX Control to display the generated SVG-files, which of course doesn't work on macs. Regards, Valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l find property-names of flash obect
hi list, does anyone know a way to find out the existing properties (their names) of a flash object in dir mx/mx2004 by means of lingo? As they enumerated in the object inspector, there must be a way to find them, but can this be done with lingo? valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l find property-names of flash obect
thanx mark, that's what I was looking for. valentin myFlashObject.dbgPropList() Sincerely Mark R. Jonkman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Valentin Schmidt Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 11:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l find property-names of flash obect hi list, does anyone know a way to find out the existing properties (their names) of a flash object in dir mx/mx2004 by means of lingo? As they enumerated in the object inspector, there must be a way to find them, but can this be done with lingo? valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l FileIO Xtra trouble
Hi list, I have a very simple utility-function which uses fileIO Xtra to find out if a file exists (just for cases where Buddy API or FileXtra are not available): on fileExists fn fio=new(xtra fileIO) fio.openFile(fn,1) err=fio.status() fio.closeFile() fio=void if err=0 then return 1 else return 0 end if end Now I found out that this function always returns true if a file with the same filename as the filename in parameter fn (which is a full path) exists in the moviepath, i.e. if fn doesn't exist, but a file with the same name exists in the same folder as the *.dir, fileIO takes this one instead for openFile, writeString etc. (dir mx, win xp pro). Does anyone know a way to make fileIO stop behaving like that? Thanks, valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l FileIO Xtra trouble
As I've said, this function is only meant for cases where those xtras are not available. One possible reason is to keep my downloadable shockwave-projectors as small as possible. valentin Kerry Thompson wrote: Now I found out that this function always returns true if a file with the same filename as the filename in parameter fn (which is a full path) exists in the moviepath, i.e. if fn doesn't exist, but a file with the same name exists in the same folder as the *.dir, fileIO takes this one instead for openFile, writeString etc. (dir mx, win xp pro). Does anyone know a way to make fileIO stop behaving like that? I'm not sure, but is there any reason you don't want to use Buddy or FileXtra4? Both of them have fileExists functions. Cordially, Kerry Thompson [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l FileIO Xtra trouble
matthew, In this case is the name fully qualified, or relative? I want to use it as general function for checking the existence of files, specified by their full path. What about using fileName() to compare the filename to the one that was passed in? Of course, this won't work if fileName() only returns the name and not the path... Don't know any way to get the path+filename of a currently open file with just fileIO... this sounds like the right solution, but it doesn't work, filename returns the full path to a file that doesn't exist! This definetely has to be considered as fileIO xtra bug. buzz, If you can't verify the path-filename of what was opened then you could try this workaround: Open up the false file first (the one next to the DIR). This will either fail (not there) or will set your desired routine up for failure (because the false file has already been opened). I'm afraid that's what I have to do, but it makes my simple file-checking routine much uglier and more complicate. thanks to all for your help, valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l FileIO Xtra trouble - solved (without FileIO Xtra)
if anyone cares, here my solution for a lingo-based fileExists()-function. I've tried the proposal made my Buzz, but this would mean that I would need 2 instances of fileIO Xtra for every call of fileExists(), which seemed too ugly. now I simply use: on fileExists myFile pd = the last char of the moviepath the itemdelimiter = pd myPath = myFile delete the last item of myPath put pd after myPath i=0 repeat while TRUE i=i+1 f = getNthFileNameInFolder(myPath, i) if f = EMPTY then return false if myPath f = myFile then return true end repeat end valentin Buzz Kettles wrote: At 5:47 PM +0200 4/2/04, you wrote: Hi list, I have a very simple utility-function which uses fileIO Xtra to find out if a file exists (just for cases where Buddy API or FileXtra are not available): on fileExists fn fio=new(xtra fileIO) fio.openFile(fn,1) err=fio.status() fio.closeFile() fio=void if err=0 then return 1 else return 0 end if end Now I found out that this function always returns true if a file with the same filename as the filename in parameter fn (which is a full path) exists in the moviepath, i.e. if fn doesn't exist, but a file with the same name exists in the same folder as the *.dir, fileIO takes this one instead for openFile, writeString etc. (dir mx, win xp pro). Does anyone know a way to make fileIO stop behaving like that? Thanks, valentin If you can't verify the path-filename of what was opened then you could try this workaround: Open up the false file first (the one next to the DIR). This will either fail (not there) or will set your desired routine up for failure (because the false file has already been opened). hth -Buzz [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l FileIO Xtra trouble - solved (without FileIO Xtra)
year, of course you are right. here my latest version, including another little optimization: on fileExists myFile pd = the last char of the moviepath od = the itemdelimiter the itemdelimiter = pd myPath = myFile myFileName = the last item of myFile delete the last item of myPath put pd after myPath the itemdelimiter = od i=1 repeat while true f = getNthFileNameInFolder(myPath, i) if f = EMPTY then return false if f = myFileName then return true i=i+1 end repeat end Buzz Kettles wrote: very nice solution, however, I'd suggest the changes below so that the function can be called from within another routine that might already be using the itemDelimiter set to something else. -Buzz At 9:08 PM +0200 4/2/04, you wrote: if anyone cares, here my solution for a lingo-based fileExists()-function. I've tried the proposal made my Buzz, but this would mean that I would need 2 instances of fileIO Xtra for every call of fileExists(), which seemed too ugly. now I simply use: on fileExists myFile pd = the last char of the moviepath oldItemDelim = the itemDelimiter the itemdelimiter = pd myPath = myFile delete the last item of myPath put pd after myPath i=0 repeat while TRUE i=i+1 f = getNthFileNameInFolder(myPath, i) if f = EMPTY then the itemDelimiter = oldItemDelim return FALSE end if if myPath f = myFile then the itemDelimiter = oldItemDelim return TRUE end if end repeat end [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Javascript onSubmit() - notify Lingo?
Hi Rob, you can use either the status or the title of the page to communicate with lingo.. I've used the same trick before with the webbrowser control. But as the status text dispays all kind of status information and therefor changes all the time, I would suggest you use the title. Here is some code to notify lingo when the user has pressed the submit-button inside the WebXtra-Sprite: 1. setting the html-code for WebXtra-Sprite: s=sprite(1) s.html = htmlbodyform onsubmit=QUOTEdocument.title='_submit';return falseQUOTEinput type=submit/form/body/html 2. behaviour attached to WebXtra-Sprite: on titleChange me, newText if newText=_submit then alert(SUBMIT-BUTTON PRESSED!) end if end valentin Rob Wingate wrote: Hi All, I think I'm looking for a strategy on how to notify Lingo from a form tag's 'onSubmit()' event. Background: I'm building HTML forms on the fly with Lingo, and sending them to an Internet Explorer (Tabuleiro's WebXtra) sprite on the stage. Works beautifully. Then comes the Submit button. I could leave it alone and post the form data, but I'd rather intercept it and process the data locally. I know I can use form onSubmit=return false; to stop the post, but I don't know how to tell Lingo that Submit was clicked. IOW, how can the Javascript function I assign to onSubmit notify Lingo? I appreciate any leads--I'm in some new territory on this one. Thanks, Rob [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Javascript onSubmit() - notify Lingo?
Tab, if I understood it right, Rob is not asking for communication between an embedded shockwave movie and the browser, but between a WebXtra sprite inside a director projector and director. valentin Tab Julius wrote: Hi Rob, On Internet Explorer, you don't need an Xtra - you can call a function myMovieName.evalScript and pass it a string (which you can parse out later). It takes a return value. In Lingo, put 'on evalScript' in a movie handler. To send in the other direction (to IE) you call externalEvent and pass it a string (sorry, no return value there). Unfortunately this doesn't currently work in Netscape, since they changed their structure in Netscape 6+. But for Windows IE, you're okay. - Tab At 10:46 AM 3/26/04, Rob Wingate wrote: Hi All, I think I'm looking for a strategy on how to notify Lingo from a form tag's 'onSubmit()' event. Background: I'm building HTML forms on the fly with Lingo, and sending them to an Internet Explorer (Tabuleiro's WebXtra) sprite on the stage. Works beautifully. Then comes the Submit button. I could leave it alone and post the form data, but I'd rather intercept it and process the data locally. I know I can use form onSubmit=return false; to stop the post, but I don't know how to tell Lingo that Submit was clicked. IOW, how can the Javascript function I assign to onSubmit notify Lingo? I appreciate any leads--I'm in some new territory on this one. Thanks, Rob [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l OT: Distributed File Encryption
If you don't need to access the files with director, the simplest solution I can think of would be to put them in a password protected (self-extracting) archive (zip, rar, sit, ...). I think those are quite secure, especially if you use a long, unusual password. valentin Ross Clutterbuck wrote: Greets to all - bit of an OT query here. A client has asked me about encrypting files that are to be distributed on CD. The files are sensitive marketing and sales information for a major bank over here and usually the info is burned to CD and mailed out to all the Management bods. There is no front-end or anything like that, just a collection of data files (format unknown at this point) on a disc. The client has asked if it's possible to encrypt these files to add some security to the disc. Now encryption isn't one of my stronger points so I've not really got a good idea where to start. This needs to be as simple as possible (i.e. monkeys and Management type people can use it) in regards to encrypting AND decrypting the files. I'm not too bothered about which encryption method is used or anything like that, so has anybody got any ideas or places I should look? Ideally what I'm after is a utility where you literally point it to a file, enter an encryption key and it will encrypt the file, with decryption being exactly the same procedure. Am I asking too much? TIA Ross [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l Notice: PDFCreator,MP3Xtra,OggXtra,PostScript Xtra now DMX2004 compatible
Hi list, if anyone here does or will use one of my freeware windows scripting xtras (PDFCreator, MP3Xtra, OggXtra, PostScript Xtra, Cells), I've updated all of them today to make them DMX2004 compatible. There was just a little error in the director version check that wasn't compatible with director versions =10. The updated versions are all downloadable from http://staff.dasdeck.de/valentin/xtras/. Regards, Valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l What happend to fps?
if you set the framerate to a value like 200 fps that is higher than the rate that director can actually perform, it means you tell director to update/animate as fast as possible. if your machine is slow or has other processes running, this will result in jerks whenever something else interferes that diminishes the maximum possible speed. valentin biju george wrote: Hi, I had created a dir movie in Dir Mx on Win 98. The stage has one sprite in channel 2 which is a rectangle filled with red color (any bitmap). I attach the following behaviour to the sprite: property p1 on beginsprite me p1=sprite(me.spritenum) end on prepareframe me x=p1.loch x=x+1 if x800 then x=0 p1.loch=x end When i rewid and play the movie no problem.(fps=15 default). But when i opended the control panel and set fps to anything higher 30 or 200 etc... the sprite's movement is not smooth. It jerks at random positions. Why? Even puppettempoing results in same problem. Regards, Biju __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Midi and Director
some facts/thoughts about midi and director: - Beatnik xtra is still a great xtra, it's shockwave safe and it works in dmx2004, BUT, as mentioned by Johan, there is no OSX version - There is MIDIio X-Tra for realtime sending and receiving of MIDI messages (eg. to a MIDI synth, OMS on mac, system's default MIDI synth on PC), but I think it's not shockwave-safe and it has no OSX port. - Your best choice is propably Sequencer Xtra (http://www.sourceforce.nu/index2.htm), it's shockwave-safe and ported to OSX - There is unfortunately no easy way to use QT musical instruments interactively on windows, although this could be implemented, and in fact I'm thinking about trying myself to create a simple scripting xtra which can do it. At the moment, if you want to play notes with MIDIio and Sequencer Xtra on windows, you have to rely on the system's/soundcard's midi synth, which might or might not be crappy, and you don't have any extra/custom soundbanks. - if you like experimental stuff or don't want to pay for an xtra, I've created a little parent script (MIDI CLASS) for reading, analyzing, manipulating and creating Standard Midi Files (*.mid) at runtime, but of course this needs file system access and can't be used in a browser. it's available from http://dasdeck.de/staff/valentin/lingo/midi_class/ regards valentin -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] John Waller Verzonden: woensdag 17 maart 2004 7:25 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: lingo-l Midi and Director Hi, I was wondering if anyone could give me any advice regarding the possibility of using Midi sounds in Director. I have a situation where I would like to be able to play individual notes or chords (not necessarily sequences, though this might also be a possibility). I thought Midi files would be smaller than sound samples and would also offer greater flexibility and range of sounds. However I guess I also need to think of cross-platform playability. Most Macs will have QT installed and therefore I guess access to QuickTime's midi instruments (assuming this is still a function of QT) but PC's might have a problem with this - or are there common equivialents on the PC which play midi sounds? The final application will be both on the Web via Shockwave and on CD or hard-drive as a projector. I am vaguely aware of the old Beatnik plug-in but do not really know what it does or how it works. However it sounds defunct and probably not useful anymore. I am using Director MX on Mac OS X. Thanks in advance, John [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Midi and Director
one thing that I've forgotton : if you don't need a high level of interactivity, but e.g. you only want the user to select from a couple of different instruments and a couple of different notes, you don't need any Midi xtra, but you could create a quicktime file with multiple music tracks and switch them on and off with lingo according to your needs. this works for both mac and windows. valentin Valentin Schmidt wrote: some facts/thoughts about midi and director: - Beatnik xtra is still a great xtra, it's shockwave safe and it works in dmx2004, BUT, as mentioned by Johan, there is no OSX version - There is MIDIio X-Tra for realtime sending and receiving of MIDI messages (eg. to a MIDI synth, OMS on mac, system's default MIDI synth on PC), but I think it's not shockwave-safe and it has no OSX port. - Your best choice is propably Sequencer Xtra (http://www.sourceforce.nu/index2.htm), it's shockwave-safe and ported to OSX - There is unfortunately no easy way to use QT musical instruments interactively on windows, although this could be implemented, and in fact I'm thinking about trying myself to create a simple scripting xtra which can do it. At the moment, if you want to play notes with MIDIio and Sequencer Xtra on windows, you have to rely on the system's/soundcard's midi synth, which might or might not be crappy, and you don't have any extra/custom soundbanks. - if you like experimental stuff or don't want to pay for an xtra, I've created a little parent script (MIDI CLASS) for reading, analyzing, manipulating and creating Standard Midi Files (*.mid) at runtime, but of course this needs file system access and can't be used in a browser. it's available from http://dasdeck.de/staff/valentin/lingo/midi_class/ regards valentin -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] John Waller Verzonden: woensdag 17 maart 2004 7:25 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: lingo-l Midi and Director Hi, I was wondering if anyone could give me any advice regarding the possibility of using Midi sounds in Director. I have a situation where I would like to be able to play individual notes or chords (not necessarily sequences, though this might also be a possibility). I thought Midi files would be smaller than sound samples and would also offer greater flexibility and range of sounds. However I guess I also need to think of cross-platform playability. Most Macs will have QT installed and therefore I guess access to QuickTime's midi instruments (assuming this is still a function of QT) but PC's might have a problem with this - or are there common equivialents on the PC which play midi sounds? The final application will be both on the Web via Shockwave and on CD or hard-drive as a projector. I am vaguely aware of the old Beatnik plug-in but do not really know what it does or how it works. However it sounds defunct and probably not useful anymore. I am using Director MX on Mac OS X. Thanks in advance, John [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Movie Clip registration
you could attach a behavior script to the filmloops that reads the comments and automatically positions the sprite correctly. that way I don't see why setting regpoints would be less work. valentin The problem is that they're all different shapes and sizes, but I need to have the background centered on the stage. Right now I'm going through and positioning them manually, then putting the desired sprite loc into the member's comments. I'll read that and position the sprite based on that. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Knowing when text wraps
I've found this handler in my code repository, mabe it helps. valentin --- -- returns hardwrapped text of given field or text member --- on hardWrap m s= y=0 n=1 c=m.char.count repeat with i = 1 to c if charPosToLoc(m,i)[2]y then if y0 then put m.char[n..(i-1)] after s if m.char[i-1]RETURN then put RETURN after s end if y=charPosToLoc(m,i)[2] n=i end if end repeat put m.char[n..c] after s return s end roymeo wrote: Is there a way to detect via Lingo whether a line of text has wrapped? roymeo - roymeo(AT)brokenoffcarantenna.com - Flash MX Professional 2004 - Now Without Manuals! [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l lingo css-parser (alpha version)
Hi list, in case anyone has a need for it, I've finished the first alpha version of my lingo css-parser (CSS CLASS), which can be downloaded from http://staff.dasdeck.de/valentin/lingo/css_class/ it can be used to parse css-code (as string or as external file) and apply this style to a tagged text (html or custom tags) which will result in a text member accordingly formatted. criticism and bug reports welcome. valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l pull down lists (or whatever its called)
Hi Diego, those things are also called ComboBox. you have several opportunities: - you can use an xtra like OSControl (cross-platform) or cXtraComboBox (win only) - for windows you can use an activeX control - you can use an existing imaging lingo solution, like eg. the ONE-SPRITE POPUP WIDGET by Luke Wigley, which I could send you - i've created an LDM-combobox which you are welcome to use (most people don't trust LDMs, but I kind of like them) - for dmx2004 there is propably a flash component that you can use valentin Diego Landro wrote: People, i´m working on an educational app and im facing a problem when i want to make a fill in the blanks text. Those blanks i would like to make pull down lists so you can choose between three or four items, but the problem is i can´t find a way to do it in Director that does not involve programming the whole thing. I think it should be a way to do it or some Xtra or something, anyone has any idea how it can be done without having to program the pull down lists, or whatever they are called, from scratch? Thanks Diego Landro [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Using @//
it's just @//. valentin Kerry Thompson wrote: I'm trying to get the directory above the moviePath, and my brain is in vaporlock. I thought I could get it with pPath = @//the moviePath, but Director is choking on that, and every variation I can think of. This is on Windows, but it would be nice to work on Mac as well. Cordially, Kerry Thompson [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Using @//
I guess Buddy API simply doesn't support the @-syntax? e.g. getNthFileNameInFolder(@//, 1) works. valentin Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Mar 3, 2004, at 10:28 AM, Kerry Thompson wrote: it's just @//. I tried that and got a misplaced operator error. pUserPath = @// --misplaced operator pUserPath = @// Put baFolderExists(pUserPath) -- 0 I know I'm missing something obvious. Uh, yeah. That's not how the @ operator is meant to be used. :\ What do you want to do? Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com/director_beginners_guide/ [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l undocumented feature: ActiveX callSprite method [direct-l reposting]
Hi list,
I just found some undocumented feature in dmx2004 concerning
activex-controls: I had noticed that the properties-dialog for
activex-controls has 2 new tabs, CallString and Constants. Doing a
little google-research I found the following very interesting article:
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/education/articles/authorware6_msagent.
html
it deals with Authorware and ActiveX, but everything it says applies to
dmx2004 as well. I don't know why macromedia decided not to include it
in the documentation (at least I couldn't find it in the help), but
there is a new way to communicate with activex sprites that gives much
deeper access, the callSprite-method. As an example, the following code
lets you show the merlin-character as ms agent :
s=sprite(1) -- activex-control Microsoft Agent Control 2.0
s.Connected=1
s.RaiseRequestErrors=0
str=Characters.Load('Merlin','Merlin.acs')
s.callString(str)
str=Characters('Merlin').Show
s.callString(str)
the callSprite-method allows to use much more activex-controls than with
dmx or older versions. another example (semi-reply to grimmwerk's last
posting) is the MS ProgressBar control, which can now be used with code
like:
s=sprite(1) -- activex-control MS ProgressBar control
oldVal=sprite(1).CallString(Value)
newVal=min(100,integer(oldVal)+5)
sprite(1).CallString(Value(newVal))
valentin
[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to
http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL
PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping
with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l undocumented feature: ActiveX callSprite method - correction: callString
sorry, made a mistake, the method's name is callString, not callSprite. valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Bitmap Linking
Hi Yarif,
I wished there was a better solution. I tried to send all kind of
http-headers with php, like
Header('Content-Type: image/png');
Header('Content-disposition: inline; filename=pcw.png');
in conjunction with a fpassthru($fp) command, no success. I even tried
to fool director with fake urls like
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/pcwpng?foo.png
same result. I think director really needs a real file ending, or maybe
a certain server configuration. well, writing this one idea comes to my
mind, if you have full admin access to a webserver and can use your own
.htaccess files, it could work if you put there an php-script which
receives urls
(as get-parameters, like
...?imgurl=http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/pcwpng)
which it simply passes through:
?php
$fp=fopen($_GET['imgurl'],'rb');
fpassthru($fp);
fclose($fp)
?
without creating a local copy, and then rename this script to *.png (or
whatever your image-format is), and configure your webserver to
interprete all png-files in this directory as php-files. This could
work. You could even have 3 such renamed php-scripts, with file-endings
gif, jpg and png, and make the webserver interprete all of them as
php-scripts (only in this one directory).
If that's no solution for you, you could check if flash is able to
receive image data from CGIs, and if it does, use a flash-sprite to
display the images.
But in case your other project isn't shockwave-based, put based on a
projector, you can of course download the images, save them locally and
attach/import the local copies.
good luck,
valentin
Yariv Alter Fin wrote:
Valentin hi,
Thanks alot, its amazing and it works. it is abit of an overkill
however... indeed in the case of the one image i've sent its a
prefect solution, however i am working on another project that needs
to get a whole bunch of images from a cgi script... i could create a
php script that get sent the url of the original file and the name of
the local copy. but is there absolutely no way of reading the
original files directly in director, somehow adding the missing file
ending or something like that? or otherwise is there any xtra that
could help with this?
again thanks for the solution,
greetings to all (Alfred! Hi!)
Yariv
I think the problem is that the png is dynamically generated by some
cgi-script, but director needs correct file-endings, mime-types in
the http-header don't seem to be sufficient. if you have acces to any
web-space with php-support, you can put there the following little
php-script (pcw.php).
?php
copy('http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/pcwpng','pcw.png');
this creates a copy of the recent png in your web directory.
now, whenever you want to update the png in your shockwave movie,
use a script like the following (eg. attached to an update-button):
property pNetId
on mouseUp me
-- forces update of png
pNetId = getNetText(http//domain/path/pcw.php)
(the actorList).add(me)
end
on stepFrame me
if netDone(pNetId) then
-- use random to fool cache. set randomseed in prepareMovie
member(myPng).filename=http//domain/path/pcw.png?random(the
maxinteger) updateStage()
(the actorList).deleteOne(me)
end if
end
valentin
Yariv Alter Fin wrote:
Dear List,
I am trying to download and link an online image file with my
shockwave movie. the image adderss is:
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/pcwpng . however, it wont link
unless i download it to a known place on my harddisk and link it to
the member from there. this offcourse i can't do from a shockwave
movie... any idea's of how to be able to get this image into my
shockwave movie?
T.I.A,
regards,
Yariv Alter / alterFin
[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go
to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the
list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email
[EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with
programming Lingo. Thanks!]
[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go
to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the
list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email
[EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with
programming Lingo. Thanks!]
[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go
to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list,
email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email
[EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with
programming Lingo. Thanks!]
[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to
http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL
PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping
with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Director and Winhelp (chm)
try open(hh.exe mk:@MSITStore:path_to_chm_file::/page) example, opening director's help with topic member (german system): open(hh.exe mk:@MSITStore:C:\Programme\MACROMEDIA\Director%20MX\Help\dirusing.chm::/ 03c_m_21.htm) to find a the adress of a certain page (topic), do a right click-properties on that page, and copy the adress (URL) valentin Roland Blaettler wrote: Hello all Is there a way to call / open a *.chm help from director, passing a topic ID with it, in order to display a specific help pape? Thanks for your hints [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Bitmap Linking
I think the problem is that the png is dynamically generated by some
cgi-script, but director needs correct file-endings, mime-types in the
http-header don't seem to be sufficient. if you have acces to any
web-space with php-support, you can put there the following little
php-script (pcw.php).
?php
copy('http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/pcwpng','pcw.png');
?
this creates a copy of the recent png in your web directory.
now, whenever you want to update the png in your shockwave movie, use a
script like the following (eg. attached to an update-button):
property pNetId
on mouseUp me
-- forces update of png
pNetId = getNetText(http//domain/path/pcw.php)
(the actorList).add(me)
end
on stepFrame me
if netDone(pNetId) then
-- use random to fool cache. set randomseed in prepareMovie
member(myPng).filename=http//domain/path/pcw.png?random(the
maxinteger)
updateStage()
(the actorList).deleteOne(me)
end if
end
valentin
Yariv Alter Fin wrote:
Dear List,
I am trying to download and link an online image file with my
shockwave movie. the image adderss is:
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/pcwpng . however, it wont link
unless i download it to a known place on my harddisk and link it to
the member from there. this offcourse i can't do from a shockwave
movie... any idea's of how to be able to get this image into my
shockwave movie?
T.I.A,
regards,
Yariv Alter / alterFin
[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go
to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list,
email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email
[EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with
programming Lingo. Thanks!]
[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to
http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL
PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping
with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l Re: projector's filename - never mind
the applicationName, of course. sorry. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l EXE
yes, it's possible, even in a single exe, with the help of some commandline packer which is able to create self unpacking executables. You could eg. use winrar to create an sfx exe which contains your projector and an linked external dummy.cast: slide.exe (sfx-archive) - contains: - show.exe (projector) - data.cst (castLib) choose the following options in the sfx-options dialog: - unpack to current folder - ommit start-dialog - automatically execute show.exe after unpacking now, distribute this dummy slide.exe (which you could temporarily rename to eg. slide.dat, and later rename again) and the commandline-version rar.exe (tested with version 3.0, 273 kb) together with your slideshow-creator. when the user has created a new slideshow, save it as external castLib data.cst and run rar.exe (with lingo open ... command or with buddi Api) with the following parameters: rar.exe f slide.exe data.cst this will exchange (update) the dummy-castLib with the new castLib. slide.exe now contains the new data.cst. regards, valentin Sure. But not in a single file. What you will do is ship a playback projector / .exe that uses an external cast called slideshow (or whatever). Then from the authoring program you create that external cast and save it. - Tab At 01:34 AM 2/29/04, juan colon wrote: lets say a user creates a slide show with a Director projector. can that user create an exe. of his/her slide show. is this possible? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l EXE - addendum
1. you might also choose overwrite files without prompt in the sfx-settings when creating slide.exe. 2. using buddy Api to call rar.exe has the advantage that it can be hidden, without an ugly dos-box: baSetCurrentDir( the moviepath) baRunProgram( rar.exe f slide.exe data.cst, hidden, false ) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: some kind of bug??? WAS: Re: lingo-l OT: Windows media activex
hmm... if you got the cash :-), you could switch to dirMX2004 which has native windows media support and the mediaStatus-property for Windows Media cast members. valentin Rodrigo Peres wrote: Valentin, Thank's for the tip, but look what I've got: Put sprite(3).duration -- 282.989 After play all the movie Put sprite(3).currentPosition -- 282.899 So the script never intercepts the end of the movie [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: some kind of bug??? WAS: Re: lingo-l OT: Windows media activex
Actually I can't remember anymore why I had used the currentPosition/duration comparisson, there must have been some reason for it, but I did a quick test now with the wmp activex control, and the playState-property worked ok: video playing - myWmpSprite.playState=3 video done - myWmpSprite.playState=1 I'm on win xp pro with wmp 9.00.00.3075. valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l OT: Windows media activex
maybe there is a better way, but what I've done before is checking the currentPosition: if myWmpSprite.currentPosition=myWmpSprite.duration then -- movie done end if valentin Rodrigo Peres wrote: Hi list, I'm using the activex windows media control under director mx to play some mpg movies. There's a way to check if the video is still playing or already done?? I've tried some methods from the activex window but almost of then return errors. Thank's Rodrigo [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l accessing realtime decibel levels of QT audio
I don't think you that there's an easy way to get the amplitude value for a quicktime sprite. I've checked Livestage, there is no corresponding QScript Property. But for sound members (internal, external, swa) AmplitudeXtra does what you want: http://www.marmalademedia.com.au/ valentin Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: Does anybody know if it's possible to access the realtime decibel levels of the audio of a QuickTime sprite? I'd like to create a VU meter, and I know that QuickTime has one under Get Properties, so I'm curious if it's possible to access QT's built in VU meter. Or another option would be if there was a general way (via Xtra, maybe?) to access that data of all sounds in Director itself? I know there's an Xtra to read that data from sound input into the computer, but as far as I could tell, that Xtra didn't work for any kind of linked sound or video files. Ideas, anyone? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l RE: not knocking the Knock knock AI Cyc Xtra
Hi Justin, I doubt that you will find any OpenCyc-expert here on this list, although it's a very interesting subject, and I don't think there is something like a OpenCyc-Xtra. But maybe you could explain a bit, how you think the combination of director and OpenCyc could look like? Does OpenCyc have something like a web frontend? If you want to use the Java API, you might have a look at Moka Xtra by integration new media (http://www.integrationnewmedia.com/products/mokaxtra/). good luck, valentin Justin Olmanson wrote: Since the list seems to be slow with at least a few people looking to weigh in on something, I thought I would re-post a question I posted last weekend that met with no response. Does anyone know of an Xtra that will work with the OpenCyc project? http://www.cyc.com/cyc/opencyc No luck on the Mile High... thanks and enjoy... _ Find and compare great deals on Broadband access at the MSN High-Speed Marketplace. http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200360ave/direct/01/ [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l RE: not knocking the Knock knock AI Cyc Xtra
I've checked the OpenCyc-page, OpenCyc does have a web interface, which you can use from director with getNetText() and postNetText()-requests, something like pNetID = getNetText (http://localhost:3603/cgi-bin/cyccgi/cg?...;) valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l windows media player metafiles
I would assume that you can play them with the media player active x control. valentin Juan Pablo De La Fuente wrote: Hello list Does anybody know how to play Windows Media Player metafiles from Director MX? I must be able to point to .WVX files and embed the video window in Director MX project. Thanks! Juan Pablo [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l File storage
hi pranav, what I've done in a similar case is using ordinary castLibs with a certain member arrangment or naming convention as my own compound file format, and to attach and detach them at runtime with the freeware xtra CastControl. You can give them your own file type ending (eg. *.mix or whatever), so no one knows it's a castLib, and a doubleclick (on windows or os x) wouldn't open them in director, but you can still attach them as castLib, director doesn't care (for os 9 you could change the type/creator as well). if you need additional protection, you could eg. strip the first 4 chars (XFIR) with binaryIO, and add them again before attaching. it doesn't matter that you movies are protected, you can still use unprotected castLibs. valentin - Original Message - From: Pranav Negandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lingo-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 7:46 AM Subject: lingo-l File storage I'm building an editor that lets users create simple templatised presentations and publish them. Users can import their own backgrounds, images and video clips and place text in predefined fields. The presentation has a fixed number of screens of information. The movies will have to be protected ofcourse, so using savecastLib or saveMovie is out of the question. My plan is to make a playback engine that retrieves the contents of each screen and plunk them into their respective fields. The content files can reside in a subfolder, but I'd like to go for a safer solution such as combining all the images, text and video clips into one big data file. I know BinIO can do this...but there was a solution using FileIO for the same thing someplace. Can someone point me to that? As an aside, I've _never_ ever created binary files. So one thing stumps me off - how in heavens name will I know at which position does one file end and another begin? Is there a commonly used end-of-chunk character? I need to be certain that the same character will not be used in any of the other files too, else that info will go kaput. Pointers, pointers...anyone? I'm running this on Windows so far, but somewhere along the line I might have to make this x-plat. Pranav Negandhi concept-I www.cimultimedia.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Merits of JS in Director
Hi Mark, thanx for the detailed reply. no, I hadn't read your article yet, although I had it already bookmarked, and now I realize that it deals exactly with this issue. My favorite editor that I use whenever possible is UltraEdit (don't know if you know it, a good windows ASCII/Unicode/Hex editor, a bit like BBEdit for PC), and I think I will check out how good it gets along with DMX 2004 and how much of your article can be transfered to it. But I will give Dreamweaver a fair chance, too ;-) thanx again, valentin - Original Message - From: Mark R. Jonkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 12:35 AM Subject: RE: lingo-l Merits of JS in Director Hi Valentin The script formatting for JS Syntax is a bit more rudimentary then that of Lingo. But it does remember tab depth level for opening and closing the curly braces and does color the lingo keywords. You are right though, if you want more coloring and formatting control then you might wish to look at an external editor. I've written an article that provides some information on this exact issue. There were a variety of reasons that Macromedia didn't or couldn't put a lot of effort into this area. But there are still some uses for the internal editor and that is to set breakpoints etc for debugging. Not sure if you have read it or not: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/director/articles/js_syntax.html might provide a bit of information on using an external editor. It has a little utility that you can download as well as Rob Walch's Dreamweaver extension for using a non-standard JSL extension. It colors both JS and Lingo extensions of the JS Syntax language. It also offers autocomplete and code hinting for both JS Syntax and standard Lingo (LS files). The utility is specifically for JS syntax scripts but can easily be modified to use the LS extension. Maybe a half dozen small code changes and your there. My current preference is to use JSL extensions and Dreamweaver plus Rob Walch's Dreaweaver extension for editing JS Syntax files. Sincerely Mark R. Jonkman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Valentin Schmidt Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 4:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l Merits of JS in Director I've got the impression that syntax coloring and auto indent for JS code are still very rudimentary (no coloring of important key words like function, for,..., no auto indenting for opened and closed curly brackets etc - maybe someone could confirm this?). Guess this might be an obstacle for switching to JS (or a reason to check out using an external editor). valentin - Original Message - From: Colin Holgate [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 11:10 PM Subject: RE: lingo-l Merits of JS in Director I've been meaning to run some tests when I get time. For now, I choose to believe that there is no significant speed difference. It isn't significant, but it is easy to show: on timeit t = one two three m = the milliseconds repeat with a = 1 to 10 c = char 2 of word 2 of t end repeat m1 = the milliseconds - m m = the milliseconds repeat with a = 1 to 10 c = t.word[2].char[2] end repeat m2 = the milliseconds - m put m1 m2 end timeit -- 824 1028 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l password protection
Hi Craig, if you really want to follow the deleting idea, here's a quick'm'dirty hack for windows: after 3rd failure do 2 things in projector: a) write the following key to the registry, either with some capable xtra or by executing vbscript as external file (open ...) or with an embedded ScriptControl: key: HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\deleteProj value: c:\del.vbs here is the vbs-code that would do it (2 lines): Set shell = WScript.CreateObject(WScript.Shell) shell.RegWrite HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\deleteProj, c:\del.vbs, REG_SZ b) create a text-file (eg. with fileIO) with the following code and save it as c:\del.vbs (7 lines): Set shell = WScript.CreateObject(WScript.Shell) shell.RegDelete HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\deleteProj Set fso = CreateObject(Scripting.FileSystemObject) Set a = fso.GetFile(c:\myPath\myProjector.exe) a.Delete Set a = fso.GetFile(del.vbs) a.Delete the file would be automatically executed after the next computer restart. it deletes the registry key, deletes the projector file and deletes itself. but you would still need some other measures to deactivate the projector in the meantime before the next restart. valentin Craig Taylor wrote: Good Afternoon, I have a program that is password protected. Very simple structure at the moment - alerts the user that they entered an incorrect password and they have x attempts left out of a possible 3 trys. What the client wants is... if you fail on all three attempts the program will not launch again unless it is re-installed. I was toying with the idea of deleting the projector after three failures - write to an external file that prompts this action?? Is this possible or is there a better way altogether? Thanks, -_Craig Craig Taylor Renegade Digital Media Inc. E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Windows Desktop
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop is corect for W2k and XP (and propably NT as well), but only, if it's an english OS. On a german system for example it would be C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Owner\Desktop. For 95, 98 and probably ME as well it's C:\Windows\Desktop. And those pathes are defaults only, a user could rename it. It would be much safer to find out the actual Desktop-Folder with some xtra like Buddy Api: Result = baSysFolder( desktop) valentin Kyle Smeby wrote: I think that this is an easy question. I can't test it right now, but can someone tell me what the path to the windows desktop is? I think it's: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop But I'm not sure, and I'm really not sure if that applies to Win 98 through XP or if some of them are different. Anyone know the answer off hand? thanks, kyle [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l updating an online database
I havn't understood exactly what you want to do, but in general I would suggest that you send ALL you update-information only once in a SINGLE postnettext command (as a long list of post-variables) to your ASP-script, and then let the ASP-script do all the updates based on the recieved data. valentin Lee Blinco wrote: Hi list, i'm updating an online mysql database with 3 fields, in 982 records and basically its unreliable it doesn't manage top do all the updates or even a consistent numberit usually falls about 100 short. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l create and save pdf
hi mark, my lingo script for creating pdf you can find at http://dasdeck.de/staff/valentin/pdf_class/pdf_class_v102.zip but if your project is win only, and you use a lot of images, you would better use my pdfCreator xtra, a free scripting xtra based on PDFLib which you can find at http://dasdeck.de/staff/valentin/xtras/pdf/pdfCreator.zip regards valentin Mark van den Elzen wrote: Hello List, I'm hoping to find some help here, a client wants me to create a database driven application for his products. This is not the problem the problem is his demand for being able to export a page with images to a pdf file on his HD. I have been searching the internet for the best way to accomplish this task, the only xtra I have found that claims it could do the trick is the DirectImage xtra (used to be directXport). Is there anybody out there that has used this xtra to dynamically create/export a PDF? What are the limitations? Is there a better solution? I own a copy of PdfXtra (V. 2.2), but it seams to have no options to create/edit a pdf. Many thanks in for any help, Mark van den Elzen [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l MailIt or Zip Mail
there is a command line tool called blat.exe that supports attachments, but doesn't use MAPI. you could run it as hidden app (eg with Buddy API) with an smtp server of your choice: http://pages.infinit.net/che/blat/blat.zip the command line tool Swap uses MAPI and supports attachments as well, but you have to go through an interactive dialog (choosing an account etc): ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/softlib/mslfiles/smplmapi.EXE best, valentin Hiya Multimedia wrote: Hi everybody, I had placed my query before but my problem still stands there. I think i will reframe my problem in layman terms, to be more clear. I want a script or xtra or command line to execute 'Mail It' command or 'Zip Mail' command as in the context menu of Winzip or Powerarchiver. Zipping i have done through ZipXtra, But cant talk to MAPI for attaching my file from the given path opening a new Message window of Default Mail Program (e.g. Outlook). Please Help, I am Lost. Thank you. Modi Kalpesh [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l PostNetTest Issue
http://wkar.macq.com/beignprocess.asp is not reachable at the moment. if that's for another reason, try opening the url directly in a browser and check the result (you could make your asp-page return something like 1 or OK) Anand Ravi wrote: Hi List, I am using postnettext to send some text information to an asp page. All work fine when I post the text to the asp running on pws. The moment I switch to the web and post the text to a url (Eg. http://wkar.macq.com/beignprocess.asp) the function fails. Any thoughts on what is missing will be highly appreciated. I am developing in D8.5. Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Save or upload to the Internet
If the files you want to upload are rather small (smaller than 50 k), you can also send them as (binhexed) binary string with postNetText, and save the transfered data on the server as file again, eg with a simple PHP script. valentin Teo Petralia wrote: Hi! I'm wandering if is possible somehow to save a cast to the Internet with a projector or upload it? In general I would like to know if there is a way to make a projector update something on the Internet and not only download things from it. Thanks Teo [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Dir MX 2004 and MP3
Slava Paperno wrote: Can someone tell us if the new Director MX 2004, with its expanded media support, adds the capability to record sound and encode it to MP3? Or perhaps Ogg Vorbis is supported by MX 2004? I've written 2 very simple scripting xtras (OggXtra and MP3Xtra) for converting wav-files or internal director sounds to ogg vorbis or mp3 files. Both xtras are win only at the moment and can be downloaded from: http://dasdeck.de/staff/valentin/xtras/ogg/OggXtra.zip http://dasdeck.de/staff/valentin/xtras/mp3/MP3Xtra.zip [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Mailto script for atachment
Hi Hiya, I'm not sure if you can pass attachments with a mailto-url. but in case you want to try something different, I'm in the process of writing parent scripts (SMTP CLASS and POP CLASS) for sending and retrieving email with lingo and Multiuser xtra. Those scripts support sending and receiving of MIME mail and attachments. They are still beta, not sufficiently tested yet, but in case you are interested, I can send them to you. valentin Hiya Multimedia wrote: Hi everybody, I need help on how to attach a file to an html script with mailto protocol. I want to attach particular jpg, zip or rtf files to the mail. I am using this in a product catalogue to mail details with a single click Plz help me considering me as a layman with the code. Thank you Modi Kalpesh [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l DVD-ROM: hiding Windows files from Mac OS X
yes, I'm almost sure that's possible, but not with UDF file system, but with ISO. A DVD-ROM can have an ISO filesystem instead of UDF, and I think the computer doesn't care if it's a 700MB or a 4,7 GB volume, it just cares for the filesystem, so if it can read a hybrid cd-rom, it can read a hybrid dvd-rom as well. I could emulate creating such a hybrid-ISO dvd-rom with WinOnCd 6 without any problems, so I guess it should work with toast as well. valentin Slava Paperno wrote: This is slightly off the subject of Lingo, and I apologize for that, but still think the issue may be of interest to some members. Is there a way to produce a DVD-ROM that shows only the Mac files when used under Mac OS X, and only Windows files when used under Windows? In other words, is there such a thing as a hybrid DVD-ROM? I know how to make a cross-platform DVD-ROM (the UDF file system is itself cross-platform), and I have made a DVD-ROM using Toast 5.1.3 under Mac OS X that has both OS X and Windows projectors, and they run fine from this DVD, each under its own OS. I know I could place them in separate folders and call them Mac and Windows. But it would be even nicer for the end user if the files for the other OS were not visible, as on a hybrid CD-ROM. Is there a way to do this? (I don't need any info on video DVDs--this is only about DVD-ROM.) Thanks! Slava [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l fontStyle weirdness
the list syntax works for text members only, for field members you have to use a string instead: member(1).fontstyle=plain member(1).fontstyle=bold,italic Teo Petralia wrote: Hi there! I'm getting mad with this simple command that is fontStyle. It should change the fontStyle of a field member or word or char but it doesn't work. I have used all different kind of syntax but nothing, is always come up with the dialog String expected member(Storyteller).fontStyle = [#bold, #italic] member 44 of castLib 5 To me it doesn't make any sense. On the learning folder of the Director program there is a movie called text that does something like that and when I run that movie the command seems to work, but why in my movie it doesn't? I use the script as a castmember script, I work with Director MX on a Macintosh running OS 10.3.1. Thanks for any suggestions Teo [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l searching text inside an swf within director
in case you don't want to use an xtra like v12, you could also try a lingo based database and TextCruncher xtra for fast searching. valentin biju george wrote: Hi, I have an swf file with 11,758 frames. Its actually an e-book. I want to add a search facility in director in the form of a full text search like the one in google etc. Such that the use can key in any word and see the pages containg that word in a scroll box. Once a highlighted word is clicked, it should fetch to the frame in flash containing that word. Should I use V12 database xtra's full text search or any other better approach?...Any help will be much appreciated. Biju. __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l geometry question
Hi Alex, thanks a lot for your solution. I came up with another solution, using a scanline approach, following a horizontal scanline (with a random vertical coordinate within the polygon's drawrect) from outside the polygon and then finding the first line crossing with help of getPixel (the first point which doesn't have the backgroundcolor, and then taking the first point which has the background color again, which now should be inside the polygon, as long as the line crossing wasn't a (and was not too close to a) corner point. I will compare both approaches with random ploygons, and use the one producing less errors. Thanks again, Valentin Alex da Franca wrote: At 22:38 Uhr +0100 12.12.2003, Valentin Schmidt wrote: hi list, is there anybody out there who is good at geometry? I need a solution for the following problem: I have a list of points [p1,p2,...] which form a polygon. The points can be arbitrary, the only restriction is that the lines between the points (where lines are the connections from point n to point n+1) don't cross each other. my solution may seem clumsy and there sure is an easier one... ...but since nobody answered... below is a handler which checks if a given point is inside a polygon. now I think we can just take any of the lines of the polygon and check a point 'left' and 'right' to this line. below I do it with a point with the distance of 1 ( = point(cos(angle), sin(angle))) if you know that your polygon won't have very small angles you can simply multiply 'offs' by a higher value in order to get a point further away from the edge line, which may floodfill cause to fail when it 'touches' the edge line. pts = linear list with points center = (pts[1] + pts[2]) / 2.0 -- point between 1. and 2. point slope = pts[2] - pts[1] angle = atan(float(slope [2]), float(slope [1])) + (pi() / 2) -- vector angle + 90° offs = point(cos(angle), sin(angle)) checkpoint = center + offs if polygonContainsPoint(pts, checkpoint[1], checkpoint[2]) then return checkpoint else return center - offs a kind collegue once posted the following handler, which works so far (with the exception of crossing lines) unfortunately I can't remember where I picked it up once and only have the snippet without the name. so forgive me, author of these lines, not being able to mention your name, and instead take my kudos, since this handler does work very well (with some cosmetic changes from my part) in many of my movies ! :-) -- xx -- xx check if point(x, y) is inside of a poligon defined by a list of points pts on polygonContainsPoint pts, x, y j = pts.count tot = pts.count containsP = 0 repeat with i = 1 to tot yI = pts[i][2] yJ = pts[j][2] xI = pts[i][1] if ((yI = y) and (y yJ)) or ((yJ = y) and (y yI)) then if x ((pts[j][1] - xI) * (y - yI) / float(yJ - yI)) + xI then containsP = not containsP end if end if j = i end repeat return containsP end [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l setScriptList
try setting the scriptInstanceList instead: sprite(1).ScriptInstanceList=[script(foo)] or sprite(1).ScriptInstanceList=[script(foo).new()] -- for initializing some props in new handler and also: origScriptList = sprite(1).ScriptInstanceList ... sprite(1).ScriptInstanceList=origScriptList valentin Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Hi all... Anyone with any experience using setScriptList()? I checked the archives and couldn't find a clear enough answer. Below, I'm trying to make a sprite start off with just 1 behavior, out of the 6 I have attached to it in the score. I save a list of all 6, use just 1, and then I want to attach the other 5 at a later time. I can get the list of 6 and save it, but I'm unable to modify the sprite with setScriptList. In this case, doing a behavior active T/F won't work. Have a nice day, Michael M. Here's my lingo: on beginSprite(me) pSp = sprite(me.spriteNum) pSp.member = member(buttonGraphic,sharedAssets) pOrigScriptList = pSp.scriptList -- gets all instances and parameters theOnlyDisable = pOrigScriptList.duplicate() repeat with i = theOnlyDisable.count down to 1 if ((theOnlyDisable[i][1]).name contains disableEnable) then theOnlyDisable = theOnlyDisable[i] exit repeat -- new script list only contains this one behavior end if end repeat pSp.setScriptList(theOnlyDisable) -- Error: periods not allowed in symbols end [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l setScriptList
no, it's the other way round, script instances have properties, not scripts. just try: behaviour script of sprite 1 property pTest on beginSprite me pTest=XXX end on mouseUp me alert pTest end end behaviour script of sprite 1 and in the message window: l=sprite(1).scriptInstanceList sprite(1).scriptInstanceList=[] sprite(1).scriptInstanceList=l Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Thanks, Valentin. But, doesn't scriptInstanceList strip away the parameter values? I need to preserve the values of the properties, as they are all previously set with getPropertyDescriptionList. - MM [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l geometry question
hi list, is there anybody out there who is good at geometry? I need a solution for the following problem: I have a list of points [p1,p2,...] which form a polygon. The points can be arbitrary, the only restriction is that the lines between the points (where lines are the connections from point n to point n+1) don't cross each other. now I need to find a point that's definitely within the polygon, so I can use it for a floodfill. Does anybody have a formula for finding such a point? The focal point (the arithmetic mean of all x and y coordinates) obviously doesn't do it. thanx, valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l word-wrapping with hyphenation in Director
hi michael, glad you asked:-) I've written a little scripting xtra called hyphenator for this purpose. It uses a simplified version of the famous TeX hyphenation algorithm, that many professional dtp-programs use as well (eg. quark). It can be configured to work with arbitrary (almost) languages by way of external pattern files (which are included in TeX/LaTEx distributions) 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) best, valentin Michael von Aichberger wrote: Hi List! Does someone of you guys know of a way to do real word-wrapping in Director? I mean with a dictionary that tells where a word can be separated ... Maybe there is an xtra for it? Or a least a digital dictionary containing hyphenation information, preferably in numerous languages, that I could use to write my own code? Has anyone of you done this before? Thanks for any suggestions! Michael [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Multiple statements in one line
hi peter, you can easily simulate a multiline-command message window by your own tool xtra. I've send you an example, just put lingo.dir in your xtras folder, restart director and invoke it from the xtra menu. it supports copy and paste, and instead of a slow do() command it uses a faster: on mouseUp member(foo).scripttext=on fooreturnmember(input).textreturnend foo() end as a simple test, type e.g. repeat with i = 1 to 10 put 23 end repeat in the window and press the GO button. best, valentin Sébastien Portebois wrote: Hi Peter I wonder, can Director script window have multiple statements in one line? e.g. instead of varA = 5 varB = 10 yes you can, but is it totally inefficient ;¬) Here's the stupid workaround: do(varA = 5 RETURN varB = 10) Now that you've readi it, you can forgot about it :¬) cheers, séb [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Cps users?
very interesting technology, but unfortunately i never had a project where i could actually use it. but i have it installed (v1.30, on win xp pro), in case you just need someone to test some code for you. grimmwerks wrote: Anyone here using CPS from bonneville.nl? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l CD Burner controlled from Director
I've done some successful tests with CDWriterXP by NUGROOVZ (www.nugroovz.com), although the project never got realized. valentin Pixelchurch New Media wrote: Hi all I'm just wondering if anyone has successfully implemented an activeX control from inside a Director file to control a CD burner? I'm trying to find an Xtra that will do this, but have only come up with ActiveX controls thus far. A [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l PDF CLASS for creating PDF with lingo
Hi Grimmwerks, the script works on mac os x, too, I've tested it on Dir MX mac os x 10.3. As I've explained in the readme, you get an error message when opening the demo.dir on mac due to an activex control that is only used for the experimental implementation of deflate compression in test3, but you can just ignore this message (and delete the script control and the test3 button), test1 and test2 should still work. For some strange reason the embedded custom fonts (NuptialScript and Zurich BT in the test1 example in demo.dir) are not shown correctly when opening the created PDF in the mac os x preview, but they are shown in the acrobat reader 6 and in ghostview on both platforms. Any mac os x expert out there who knows why? Is this a known issue of the preview? Valentin grimmwerks wrote: It's a fantastic effort - much appreciated -- but as a mac osx guy, what do I need to do to make this work on our side? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l PDF CLASS for creating PDF with lingo
hi list, inspired by the daniel nelsons's approach, I've created another lingo parent script (class) for creating PDF files with pure lingo (only depends on fileIO xtra). It supports embedding of images and custom fonts, and works on both platforms. Instead of reinventing the wheel, I've translated an existing PHP class, FPDF by Olivier Plathey, (almost) line by line to lingo (which was still quite a lot of work, really need sleep now :-). A first version can be downloaded from: http://dasdeck.de/staff/valentin/pdf_class/pdf_class_v1.zip Included in the zip is a demo.dir (+demo shockwave projector for windows), some documentation and some other stuff. thanx in advance for your feedback, valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Importing Images
hi richard, as far as i know, when you import a jpg to a director cast, director stores both the jpeg data as well as the the image in uncompressed form. your jpgs are propably strongly compressed, that's why the file size difference is that big. but when you publish the the cast (shockwave, projector), the uncompressed image data is removed again and the filesize gets smaller (depending on your compression settings). best, valentin Richard Hebert wrote: I've already posted this on another forum. I've noticed that each time you import an image (for example a jpeg of 300KB and 24bits) Director stores it in the cast as a bitmap of 32 bits (OK, you can choose the 24bits option in the importing window, but it is a bitmap!!) that becomes about 7.3 MB!!! Each image I import, it always becomes about 20 times bigger. Besides that, I import the images dynamically, so I cannot select the colour bits of image...: newImage = new(#bitmap, castLib temp) newImage.filename = gPathActualgListaFotos[i] -- it is the correct path Really don't know how to solve this... Any idea??? TIA. Richard Hebert. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l ActiveX Control
What you are looking for is called a grid. check out the cXtraStringGrid Xtra (http://www.cxtra.net/). If you want to use ActiveX, try MS DataGrid. best, valentin Stephen Ingrum wrote: I'm trying to create an interface using column header like in Outlook Express (pc)- the from, Subject, etc.. resizable and sortable column headers. Is there an ActiveX component for this? Or, has anybody seen a good (or even better) solution for handling several columns of text? I don't mind recreating the wheel (I've got a recreated boat full of recreated wheels), but if I don't have to... Thank you, Stephen Ingrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LeagueofDesign.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Globals question
just a short complement, there is a very easy way to hack the globals used by movies inside a projector: just put a lingo.ini in the same folder as the projector containing the following code: on startUp the debugPlaybackEnabled=1 end which opens a message window, where you can put a showGlobals command. but to prevent this you can put a explicit on prepareMovie the debugPlaybackEnabled=0 end in a moviescript of the start movie. valentin Valentin Schmidt wrote: no, as far as i know, each projector has its own space in memory, to hack the globals you would need a tool like softIce. But someone could extract the dir-files from the projector (eg with Swifty Xena Pro, or simply with a hexeditor and some knowlege about projectors), open them as MIAWs in director and then easily get the globals. a simple improvement could be to give the global an unexpected name (eg. gRect), as none has access to the original lingo code, this would make things at least a bit harder. or bether, don't use a global, but some other data container (eg the property of a parent script, see http://www.director-online.com/buildArticle.php?id=8, or a text or field castmember...) to store the the authentification state (and of course you could also use encryption). valentin Andrew Dempsey wrote: Hi all, Is it possible for someone to hack into my globals if I am running a projector, by running another director movie they make (or any other type of program) and checking all the variables in memory? I am putting together an authentication routine to authenticate user priveliges online. The program makes a check once on startmovie to see if the user is authenticated, then uses a global variable (gAuthenticated, true/false) to keep the authentication state avaiable as the rest of the program runs. If gAuthenticated = true, then full functionality, else limited functionality. If someone could read the globals, then they could find the authenticating variable, and create an app that changes the variable to true as my program runs, n'est-ce pas? Anyone else have a better way of doing what I am trying to do? Andrew -- Andrew Dempsey ICT and Education Consultant Software Developer, Egyptian Arabic Vocab Clinic (www.egyptianarabic.com) Cairo, Egypt www.andrewdempsey.com, [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Globals question
no, as far as i know, each projector has its own space in memory, to hack the globals you would need a tool like softIce. But someone could extract the dir-files from the projector (eg with Swifty Xena Pro, or simply with a hexeditor and some knowlege about projectors), open them as MIAWs in director and then easily get the globals. a simple improvement could be to give the global an unexpected name (eg. gRect), as none has access to the original lingo code, this would make things at least a bit harder. or bether, don't use a global, but some other data container (eg the property of a parent script, see http://www.director-online.com/buildArticle.php?id=8, or a text or field castmember...) to store the the authentification state (and of course you could also use encryption). valentin Andrew Dempsey wrote: Hi all, Is it possible for someone to hack into my globals if I am running a projector, by running another director movie they make (or any other type of program) and checking all the variables in memory? I am putting together an authentication routine to authenticate user priveliges online. The program makes a check once on startmovie to see if the user is authenticated, then uses a global variable (gAuthenticated, true/false) to keep the authentication state avaiable as the rest of the program runs. If gAuthenticated = true, then full functionality, else limited functionality. If someone could read the globals, then they could find the authenticating variable, and create an app that changes the variable to true as my program runs, n'est-ce pas? Anyone else have a better way of doing what I am trying to do? Andrew -- Andrew Dempsey ICT and Education Consultant Software Developer, Egyptian Arabic Vocab Clinic (www.egyptianarabic.com) Cairo, Egypt www.andrewdempsey.com, [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l MU Xtra - peer to peer connection?
http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/multiuse_examples.htm grimmwerks wrote: I'm a bit rusty on this -- any good docs, urls on setting up one projector as the server? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l video with multiple language tracks (if not quicktime)
hi, does anyone know if there are ways to use video containing multiple language tracks in director, and switching between those at runtime, for other video formats than quicktime (wmv, avi, mpg, mp4?) thanx, valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
