Re: lingo-l OT: Distributed File Encryption
On Mar 25, 2004, at 9:51 AM, Ross Clutterbuck wrote: 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? Check out the Buddy API encryption routines. 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!]
Re: lingo-l Re: Macromedia Logo
On Mar 26, 2004, at 4:34 PM, Thomas Higgins wrote: Director: Making Flash its byatch for half a decade. -- I think I'm going to make a t-shirt with that logo on it! 8-)) Please make sure to include a MWM logo on that shirt... No, you'd want to put a MWWthmO logo on it instead. Ok, can I have one please? ;P I'm thinking about putting something up on Cafe Press, but I don't want to violate any copyrights, so I don't think I could actually use a Macromedia logo. Or could I? Cause if I can, I'll have shirts available by Monday. -- WthmO Director: Making Flash its byatch for half a decade. -- [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 Macromedia Logo
On Mar 24, 2004, at 4:18 PM, Fred Westermeyer wrote: Where can I fine Macromedia Logo??? Depends on the format. The website's one place to look. Also you might want to check for a folder called MWM on your Director CD. That should have logos in several formats. Note if you're using DMX04, you don't have logo or MWM requirements any longer. 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!]
Re: lingo-l Re: Macromedia Logo
On Mar 25, 2004, at 6:27 PM, Tony Bray wrote: It's cool, but strange(no?). Look at strategy for future duscontinued product...? This must be a record? I don't believe the Director is dead thread has started so quickly after the release of a new version. I am sure we have usually gone at least 6 months in the past ;-) Actually you missed the DiD post that came up just *after* the announcement of MX04. Someone noted the inclusion of JS and took from that the idea that Director was going to be phased into Flash. Yes, you've read correctly. The ANNOUNCEMENT of a FORTHCOMING Director release was taken as evidence that Macromedia was unplugging Director. -- WthmO Director: Making Flash its byatch for half a decade. -- [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 Launching a UNIX program on Mac OSX
On Mar 24, 2004, at 6:42 AM, Chris Rasmussen wrote: We have a Director app that we want to use to launch a UNIX program under OSX using the BuddyAPI baRun() method, but it doesn't seem to work. Can you give me any idea of what I'm doing wrong? The same thing you were doing wrong yesterday when you were replied to the first time. 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!]
Re: lingo-l exit button
On Mar 24, 2004, at 12:40 PM, Fred Westermeyer wrote: Help! Ok, I lost my head some where on the road to work today. Well, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. How do i make a quit button or exit button with Yes or No button. Um, what do you mean? Do you mean one of those little dlogs that says Are you sure you want to quit? yes|no|cancel? For that you might look into the MUI Xtra. 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!]
Re: lingo-l title bar in Director mx 2004
On Mar 24, 2004, at 2:07 PM, William Miller wrote: does anyone know if there is any way to get ride of the title bar in a projector made in director MX 2004? Have you looked at the display options in the PI? I think the setting's in there. 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!]
Re: lingo-l Setting properties via a method's parameters
On Mar 23, 2004, at 9:44 AM, Kerry Thompson wrote: In version 2, you are restricting yourself to using the method within the object. In fact, I don't see any reason to have the pCurrent parameters. They're accessible within your object, if I understand yourself. You could just refer to them without having them as parameters, or needing to pass them as arguments. In version 1, you could call the method from any object, passing in any arguments you want. This may not always be what you want, but it's probably what you're looking for here. More importantly, in version 1 you can trap for voids being sent, or improper values, or unexpected values, and substitute defaults, a la: on mHandler(me, whichModule, whichSection, whichTopic) if voidP ( whichModule ) or stringP ( whichModule ) then pCurrent.pModule = #someValue else pCurrent.pModule = whichModule end if ... -- rest of the code end 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!]
Re: lingo-l Cursor command not working
On Mar 22, 2004, at 9:10 AM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Hi list... What would cause a cursor command not to work in a mouseWithin handler? Below, it gets to the cursor line, but doesn't do anything. Of course it doesn't. You have about six skillion conditionals to be tested first, with deep bracket access. The poor Lingo interpreter doesn't have time to get to the cursor command. Try switching to mouseEnter, which tests once, instead of mouseWithin, which tests every moment the mouse is inside the sprite. Also try preloading the areas you're testing into variables so you aren't trying to grab them live. You've got a lot of fairly chip-heavy stuff going on there. BTW when first looking at the code you sent, I toyed with the idea that you had to be joking. Uh, were you? 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!]
Re: lingo-l Cursor command not working
On Mar 22, 2004, at 10:20 AM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: WthmO: Would you have any suggestions to optimize this? I don't have the code before me any longer, so offhand no, but the suggestion to drop the within event and change to enter only is still a good one. Do you think it would work better if a timeout checked instead of mouseWithin (which I was reluctant to use anyway)? Possibly. There must be a way you can take a lot of the conditional testing out of that within event as well. Can you do some checking on enterFrame events, for instance, and set flags in properties, or stuff list values into prop vars so you've already got your items in memory and all you have to do is check? P.S. How many numbers are in skillion? I thought it was 1 google-google. Many more than a heap, but much less than a hillion jillion. -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 (-1) or-(- 1)?
How many Lingo geeks does it take to screw in a light bulb? Apparently a dozen, and they all do it in the same way, but over the course of several hours. -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 (-1) or-(- 1)?
On Mar 22, 2004, at 3:34 PM, Peter Bochan wrote: Warren Ockrassa How many Lingo geeks does it take to screw in a light bulb? Apparently a dozen, and they all do it in the same way, but over the course of several hours. Hi Warren, Can you paraphrase it, I don't understand it I was just making light of the way that your single question got about ten or 12 replies over the course of the day, all of which were more or less identical. The point that confused me was: at school teachers explained that two minuses can never give birth to a plus, so I was just thinking how come the mentioned issue would work. Your teachers were incorrect, as you have found. Two negatives can yield a positive. Of course, two wrongs still don't make a right,* but that's another topic entirely. ;) -- WthmO *Actually that's not true either. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 (-1) or-(- 1)?
On Mar 22, 2004, at 4:22 PM, Tab Julius wrote: At 04:54 PM 3/22/04, Warren Ockrassa wrote: The point that confused me was: at school teachers explained that two minuses can never give birth to a plus, so I was just thinking how come the mentioned issue would work. Your teachers were incorrect, as you have found. Two negatives can yield a positive. Unless they were talking about adding. Adding two negatives, you will always get a negative. Maybe that's what he's thinking of. D'oh! Yeah, of course. Sigh. Not enough Earl Grey today. Of course, two wrongs still don't make a right,* but that's another topic entirely. ;) But three lefts make a right.. right? :) I heard about someone who went to a Sierra Club get-together and pulled aside three members. He ended up with a single Republican with environmentalist tendencies. The guy even sold his Navigator SUV in favor of an Explorer. So I'd say yeah, right. -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 Frame events (was: What happend to fps?)
On Mar 18, 2004, at 9:35 AM, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: So do you go to the frame in the enterFrame handler when you want to loop on a frame? No, that goes in exitFrame. But if you have a stack of heavy Lingo to lift, it's better if possible to do it on enterFrame. Roy's right about that. 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!]
Re: lingo-l delayed messages
On Mar 18, 2004, at 10:22 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:33:59 -0500 It's taking over 45 minutes for messages to reach lingo-l at the moment. Strange. Not even remotely. I've seen delays as long as three hours and more. Characteristically my replies take at least 30 minutes to hit the list. -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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
On Mar 17, 2004, at 12:17 PM, Kerry Thompson wrote: I actually meant a film loop. No can do. -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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
On Mar 16, 2004, at 10:43 AM, roymeo wrote: Is there a way to detect via Lingo whether a line of text has wrapped? In a #field I believe you can do a count of the number of lines vs. the number of returns. It might be more kinky with #text. 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!]
Re: lingo-l MIAW, Flash and redrawing (SOLVED)
On Mar 7, 2004, at 10:26 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: It's not normally something you would ever set (unless you were maybe reproducing the A Clockwork Orange title sequence). That would be silly with QD shapes available. ;) Nobody seemed to mention that the cause of the problem was having a DTS Flash sprite. Did it really need to be DTS? Perhaps not. But this is an issue that comes up with digital video sprites as well, and they generally do want to be DTS. So this is really a multi-pronged tool. -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 MIAW, Flash and redrawing (SOLVED)
On Mar 8, 2004, at 10:45 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: So this is really a multi-pronged tool. Now you're just bragging. Me? Never. I've no reason to. My notoriety precedes me. (Or is that predeceases me?) ;) -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 MIAW, Flash and redrawing
On Mar 7, 2004, at 4:34 PM, Teo Mattiozzi Petralia wrote: Does anyone knows what can I do to get ride of this redraw problem? the stageColor = the stageColor? Warren Ockrassa | Publisher/Editor | nightwares Books [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://books.nightwares.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!]
Re: lingo-l cross platform xtras in external folder
On Mar 5, 2004, at 8:05 AM, Joe Lister wrote: That won't work. The files have to be joined together. and that can only be done on a Mac? I believe that was the reason Gretchen made the joiner program that she mentioned in her email. 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!]
Re: lingo-l cross platform xtras in external folder
On Mar 4, 2004, at 6:32 PM, Buzz Kettles wrote: Then how can one create a mac fast-start projector when authoring under Windows? One probably can't. Unless one uses Gretchen's utility, assuming that's what it's made it do. -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 cross platform xtras in external folder
On Mar 5, 2004, at 10:47 AM, Joe Lister wrote: I believe that was the reason Gretchen made the joiner program that she mentioned in her email. I think that program only works on a Mac! If you download it from the location she mentioned its a .sit file. So still no closer :( True, she did say it was for Mac users. I had the impression somehow that you had access to an OSX system. Mea culpa. :( So in some cases it looks like a fast-start option really isn't an option, unless one has not only a Mac handy, but possibly a Director as well. To be entirely honest I don't often see much use or call for fast start of late. CDs are faster all the time, and Dir10 even lets you publish with a splash screen image now so users get the sense that *something* is happening during app load. I realize it's not much consolation but it's something to consider. 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!]
Re: lingo-l finding the last substring within a string
On Mar 5, 2004, at 11:04 AM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: F:\All Risk Training\modules\serviceInterruption\serviceInterruption.cst The itemDelimiter = \ delete the last item of... 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!]
Re: lingo-l cross platform xtras in external folder
On Mar 5, 2004, at 11:08 AM, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: Warren Ockrassa wrote: Dir10 even lets you publish with a splash screen image now so users get the sense that *something* is happening during app load. All recent versions of Director let you use a splash image. Yes; however it's only with 10 that it's officially supported. The splash trick, for instance, does not work as expected on OSX using Dir9 (MX). The publish settings for 10 let you specify a frame for the splash as well, which is very nice. It's good to see it officially supported at last. :) 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!]
Re: lingo-l Window.forget() erases all globals? Was: finding the last substring within a string
On Mar 5, 2004, at 12:50 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Hello again... I'm running into a MIAW roadblock when forget() is executed. In my previous post, I spawned a MIAW (gMIAW). When I close it using this handler below, suddenly all becomes useless. Why? What does suddenly all becomes useless mean? 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!]
Re: lingo-l Window.forget() erases all globals? Was: finding the last substring within a string
On Mar 5, 2004, at 1:18 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: What does suddenly all becomes useless mean? Well, when gMIAW.forget() happens, seemingly all globals everywhere are voided. I'm using a couple of parent scripts that are instanced as globals, and they do a lot, so that's why I'm saying everything becomes useless. I get a bunch of object expected errors. I bet that you have a script something like this: on stopMovie global gYourObject gYourObject.forget() end and that's what's nuking you. When you issue the forget call to your MIAW, it triggers a stopMovie event. And probably the MIAW doesn't have a stopMovie script in its own cast file, so the event rolls to the next ... which is the one that's getting called and nuking your objects. IIRC the way to fix that is to do something like this in your MIAW: on stopMovie nothing end That should trap the stopMovie in the MIAw and keep it from propagating up. 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!]
Re: lingo-l Window.forget() erases all globals? Was: finding the last substring within a string
On Mar 5, 2004, at 2:02 PM, Kerry Thompson wrote: on mouseUp(me) -- close button is passed First question--where is your Close button? Is it in the MIAW or on the stage? Not so much of a problem with Director 10, fortunately. Though you're right to point out that with earlier versions a self-forgetting MIAW will kill a projector faster than hitting the system's power switch. 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!]
Re: lingo-l Window.forget() erases all globals? Was: finding the last substring within a string
On Mar 5, 2004, at 2:15 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: BINGO! That was the issue. I do indeed have an elaborate stopMovie handler that voids things, and it was being executed by the MIAW. Ah. Glad you got it then. Warren, you are a genius. No, just bitten by the same thing before. What got me thinking was your mention of objects that no longer worked. It reminded me of something that happened to me several years back that was as maddening, and as MIAW related -- I had Lingo-resident DB objects that were getting wiped and I was going ape trying to figure out where and why, when all I was doing was closing a MIAW... I will wrap all the voids in the stopMovie handler with an if it's the ABC MIAW then... That could work, or you could try just adding stopMovie to the MIAW as well. That might work too, and if it does it would probably be much faster. 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!]
Re: lingo-l Window.forget() erases all globals? Was: finding the last substring within a string
On Mar 5, 2004, at 2:17 PM, Kerry Thompson wrote: Not so much of a problem with Director 10, fortunately. Though you're right to point out that with earlier versions a self-forgetting MIAW will kill a projector faster than hitting the system's power switch. That's good to know. When MX 2004 was first announced, I asked Thomas Higgins three times on the other list if that was the case. He never answered, so I assumed the issue hadn't been addressed. I guess he was just busy answering the dozens of other questions. You just have to know how to ask. You were probably polite or something, weren't you? :D -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 cross platform xtras in external folder
On Mar 4, 2004, at 2:03 PM, Joe Lister wrote: However, I have had no success when authoring for Mac from Dir MX 2004 on PC while keeping the xtras external (ie putting the .data and .rsrc files for each extra in an xtras folder next to the projector). That won't work. The files have to be joined together. 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!]
Re: lingo-l Using @//
On Mar 3, 2004, at 10:03 AM, 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. That's because @/ already IS the moviepath. And the moviePath returns a string with the system's folder delimiters. If you want to go up a directory to a file, you'd do @//someFile.txt ...or a folder: @//someFolder/ Does that help? 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!]
Re: lingo-l Using @//
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!]
Re: lingo-l Using @//
On Mar 3, 2004, at 10:31 AM, Kerry Thompson wrote: If you want to go up a directory to a file, you'd do @//someFile.txt ...or a folder: @//someFolder/ Does that help? It's a start, but it still doesn't get me where I want: put baFolderExists(@//UserFiles) --misplaced operator put baFolderExists(@//UserFiles) -- 0 See my other note. The @ operator is internal to Director. I'm reasonably sure it's not intended to use with Xtras. -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 @//
On Mar 3, 2004, at 10:49 AM, Kerry Thompson wrote: Well, I think (haven't checked out) that @ is for Lingo only, and not really appreciated by Xtras... have you tried if getNthFileNameinFolder, or only baFileExists? Actually, I have. I usually don't post a question until it's stumped me for at least a half hour ^_^ fName = @//UserData/Users.xml put baFileExists(fName) -- 0 I know there's some secret combination to get that. Seems that baFolderExists doesn't work in the same way. Here's a stumper for *you*. Why are you doing a baFolderExists for the folder above the one containing your projector? Logically, it must exist. If it didn't, your projector would not be contained in anything and would not be present on the HD. What are you trying to do? There might be other ways. 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!]
Re: lingo-l Using @//
On Mar 3, 2004, at 10:46 AM, Kerry Thompson wrote: Uh, yeah. That's not how the @ operator is meant to be used. :\ What do you want to do? I want to store the path to the directory above the moviePath in a variable. Ah. You need to parse it then. You can't us @// in that way. Sebastién posted a method; here's another (which might be exactly like his, actually): on GetPath sDelimSave = the itemDelimiter the itemDelimiter = the last char of the moviePath sPathUp = the moviePath delete the last item of sPathUp delete the last item of sPathUp put the itemDelimiter after sPathUp the itemDelimiter = sDelimSave return sPathUp end put the moviepath -- nightbook_iii:Users:warren:Desktop: put GetPath() -- nightbook_iii:Users:warren: I have a directory structure something like this MyProgram MyCode start.dir UserData users.xml I simply want to open the users.xml file. That's easy. @//UserData/users.xml Does that do what you need it to? Or do you need to confirm that the UserData folder exists? Or that the XML file does? If the latter, it seems BAPI lets you. If the former, you might be able to do a getNthFileNameInFolder test for @// and see if the folder you want is present. 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!]
Re: lingo-l Using @//
On Mar 3, 2004, at 11:08 AM, Kerry Thompson wrote: What are you trying to do? There might be other ways. I'm trying to read a file from a folder on the same level as my movie. E.g.: MyProgram MyCode start.dir UserData users.xml I simply want to open the users.xml file from start.dir. Yeah, I think I got that at the end of my other note. It's @//UserData/users.xml You're not going up a folder; you're moving down into a folder stored alongside your movie. Remember @ is the moviePath, not the applicationPath, so to move up, sideways and in you'd just do the above. If you want to confirm the folder is there at all, you could try doing a getNthFileNameInFolder on @// or you could use the applicationPath as your starting point. 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!]
Re: lingo-l cross platform xtras in external folder
On Mar 2, 2004, at 8:17 AM, Joe Lister wrote: I am athoring a movie using Director MX 2004 on windows. I want to use a stub projector with the xtras kept externally. I have set this up for the pc projector - the necassary xtras copied into a folder called 'xtras', and the xtras removed from the 'Movie Xtras' dialog in director. How do I go about it for the OSX projector? I know there is a folder called '..Configuration\Cross Platform Resources\Macintosh' in the director application folder, but which files to copy, and to where? They'd go into an Xtras folder like the PC ones. As for which, most Mac filenames should be adequate, but you can also have a look at the xtrainfo.txt file to see where the Mac vs. Win filenames are different. I don't know if the OSX Xtras for DMX04 have been BinHexed or not. If so you;ll have to process them on a Mac before you add them to your projector's Xtras folder. However I'm betting they have *not* been binhexed and will work just fine as they are. 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!]
Re: lingo-l Search function (trying again)
On Mar 2, 2004, at 9:50 AM, Kerry Thompson wrote: I don't want to discourage you. We do like to help people. It looks to me, though, like you would gain a lot from working with a more senior programmer, or taking a class, or reading some books. Warren Ockrassa has written a good book for people at your level, Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide. There are other good ones, too. Check out Amazon.com, and ask us our opinions about books that look good. Thanks, Kerry. I also offered to consult on the program when the question was first asked, largely because there were a lot of questions in there that were very broad and that, were they to be answered, would have resulted in the entire program being produced here in Lingo-L. ;) I still think it's a workable book and relevant, since Dir85 files will work in MX and MX04. Those who might pick up a copy, though, don't give in to the temptation to buy used. I don't see any profit from that. That might sound selfish, but it's not. It's advertising. :D 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!]
Re: lingo-l absolute vs relative pathnames
On Feb 26, 2004, at 1:01 PM, roymeo wrote: Is this one of those times when you may need to download the file and it has to be in the dswmedia folder...? For QT? No. That's insanely impractical. The better suggestion is, as Irv mentioned, having the QT media alongside the DCR in playback rather than in a subdirectory. 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!]
Re: lingo-l search function in Director
On Feb 24, 2004, at 10:42 AM, chris stewart wrote: I hope this is clear and someone can help with the actual code. I've got a feeling it involves lists and defining global properties or something like that, but I can't get any further. Thanks in advance. It's quite clear, and eminently doable. Feel free to contact me offlist to discuss consulting fees for constructing your program for you. 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!]
Re: lingo-l Re: full screen video in the new Director MX 2004
On Feb 24, 2004, at 1:17 PM, Melinda Geare wrote: Now that Director can burn to DVD, I was hoping that I could play full screen videos for presentations. Umm, I'm reasonably certain Director cannot burn to DVD. It can certainly play them. However, unlike movies I rent that play great on my laptop dvd player, playing video in Director still is dependent upon the computer speed as in the past. Has anyone experimented with video play in new Director? Actually I've had little difficulty getting successful fullscreen playback in *older* versions. You just need to experiment with encoding and compression rates. 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!]
Re: lingo-l Re: full screen video in the new Director MX 2004
On Feb 24, 2004, at 1:25 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: Director could always burn to DVD-ROM, the new abilities don't change that. Colin, you're being a DA again. ;) -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: full screen video in the new Director MX 2004
On Feb 24, 2004, at 1:50 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: Director could always burn to DVD-ROM, the new abilities don't change that. Colin, you're being a DA again. INIA (I'm not into acronyms), what's a DA? Either District Attorney or Devil's Advocate, depending on your mood and/or familiarity with the legal profession. I just meant you were being both encouraging and misdirecting at the same time. ;) -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 sprite(x) properties via variable
On Feb 20, 2004, at 1:25 PM, roymeo wrote: Is there a way to do this without using do statements? ScriptList/setScriptList? My brain is itching in that way that means I'm either missing something obvious or due for my next trepanning session. Why do you presume it's an either/or proposition? ;) -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 sprite(x) properties via variable
On Feb 20, 2004, at 2:22 PM, roymeo wrote: But sprite(21) and #LocH don't work. x = #locH -- or #blend, or any sprite property put sprite(21).getProp(x) SYNTAX ERROR How about put the locH of sprite 21 and put the blend of sprite 21 ...? It's not .syntax but it orter work. Or is there a reason you need it all to be in .syntax? (The flash guy is already done with his code...his screen objects are full objects.) It's much easier to write code in Flash using the kiddy point-and-click UI, true. ;) -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 sprite(x) properties via variable
On Feb 20, 2004, at 4:19 PM, roymeo wrote: There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves. After investigating sprite properties, it seems they are not stored in sprites as proplists. That is why your getProp calls are failing. getOne won't work either. List manioulation in general for sprites won't work. You're going to have to approach this in a different way. The reason you can't get good (or bad) OOP practices to work with sprites here is that the information you seek is not stored in the way you think it is and is not available *at all* via OOPish .reference. 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!]
Re: lingo-l MU xtra for 04?
On Feb 19, 2004, at 10:25 AM, Troy Rollins wrote: On Thursday, February 19, 2004, at 05:30 AM, Daniel Plaenitz wrote: Especially the commonplayer seems to be a piece of dynamite. Yes. I played with it a bit, too. I think that feature will have to wait for some form of update. Ah, you mean MX05. ;) -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 Video in perspective
On Feb 16, 2004, at 4:21 PM, Brennan wrote: On 16/2/04 at 12:24, Ross Clutterbuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically I would like to skew a video sprite to simulate a perspective panel for video playback (I'll worry about performance issues a bit later). Anybody got any tips or pointers on the best way of approaching this? One thing that springs to mind is to play with the video track matrix in QuickTime. Another option might be to convert the video (if it's a short clip) to FlashMX and try manipulating the Flash sprite on the Stage. No idea if it'll work, but it's a thought anyway. 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!]
Re: lingo-l MX 2004 LDMs (was: Merits of JS in Director)
On Feb 12, 2004, at 12:20 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: JS was actually put in to encourage the transition to VB as MS is buying Macr. Could we not have a DOS syntax choice too? I'm looking forward to the Assembly compiler, myself. -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 [was: Dirctor MX 2004 - Anyone else frustrated by documentation]
On Feb 12, 2004, at 12:23 PM, Ross Clutterbuck wrote: I guess I'm still smarting from the small-minded interviewer who poo-pooed me because he said Visual Basic and Lingo are your primary skills? Same language aren't they?. Wow. Guess it's a good thing the UK isn't too keen on capital punishment. When you getting out? Or was it a justifiable homicide type argument? -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 Dot syntax (was: Merits of JS in Director)
On Feb 12, 2004, at 4:45 PM, Kerry Thompson wrote: Even before optimizing dot syntax, I would hope it would be completed. Does anybody know if MX 2004 has made any steps in that direction? Can I do things like castlib[1].member[5].name? -- Welcome to Director -- put version -- 10.0 put castlib(1).member[1].name -- foo put the name of member 1 of castlib 1 -- foo Returns if you do it on an empty member. One of the main thrusts (shaddup, Grimm ;) of MX04 was plugging the holes (I've warned you already) in .syntax. You should find that a lot of the issues (!) with #field members have been addressed as well. 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!]
Re: lingo-l password protection
On Feb 11, 2004, at 9:38 AM, Craig Taylor wrote: Also, I know there have been threads about this, but the conclusion is that there really is no way of protecting video files (MPEG-1) from being accessed outside of the protected program. Correct? Correct, for all practical purposes. Use QuickTime; it supports media keys that offer some measure of protection. If the pieces are short enough consider conversion to Flash MX video. You can import those directly into your cast and keep them internal. 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!]
Re: lingo-l FileIO limits
On Feb 11, 2004, at 10:37 AM, Kerry Thompson wrote: I don't know of any other way to read a text file in Director. Try importFileInto. You should also be able to set the member.filename of a #text member. You might still get the 127-char limit but baShortFileName can resolve that. 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!]
Re: lingo-l Bug of the week
On Feb 10, 2004, at 11:53 AM, Kerry Thompson wrote: I managed to get the startMovie handler called 7 times. I'm willing to let you guess how I managed that before I reveal yet another Stupid Lingo Trick. 7 MIAWs? ;) -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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
On Feb 10, 2004, at 3:43 PM, Craig Taylor wrote: 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? External cast file. It contains all your code except an autodestruct script. Fail on login and it deletes everything except the kill script from the external file. A more important thing to do is beat your client over the head. Imagine what would happen if ALL password protected items did that. Most people's hard drives would be erased after their operating systems kicked them out on try three. There's far too much opportunity for nasty jokes like some co-worker or whatever (or someone's child) getting the password wrong and destroying the software. This is a TERRIBLE idea. 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!]
Re: lingo-l Especial chars (ISO-8859-1)
On Feb 9, 2004, at 12:52 PM, Rodrigo Peres wrote: Put a = Ã -- 1 Put A = â -- 1 That shows up as false in the message window using the generic US keyboard as well, on Mac anyway. Try charToNum: put charToNum( a ) = charToNum( Ã) 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!]
Re: lingo-l another alternate chars question
On Feb 9, 2004, at 2:14 PM, Craig Taylor wrote: I had another inquiry with regard to alternate characters. I have a database program that contains a keyword search in English and French. I have written filters for the input field that isolate unusable chars, and/or options, etc. On the French side of the program, there needs to be the ability to input accented characters from a Windows-based English mapped keyboard. Easy fixes: 1. Code for Mac. Option-e gives you é, option-c is ç, etc. Just get the brain-damaged way Win takes keyboard input out of the loop entirely, deploy on Mac, and watch everyone heave a huge sigh of relief. 2. If you or your client believe that Win is the best OS ever, add buttons, clickable buttons that display the special chars. User clicks the button, et voilá, the character appears in the field. Any other options are probably too painful to consider. 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!]
Re: lingo-l another alternate chars question
On Feb 9, 2004, at 2:41 PM, Kerry Thompson wrote: 2. If you or your client believe that Win is the best OS ever Or believes that a substantial part of his market uses Windows. Reality, Warren. It's not a religion, it's a business. Sometimes, Kerry, reality can force a business to reconsider its installed machine base. I'm not sure where you get the religion crack from, and I don't much appreciate it. I'm pointing out a viable alternative. If -- IF this is a project that is being coded with control over final installation systems -- that is, if the end users will be given machines that are to run the project, why, it's eminently more sensible to sidestep the alt-key BS that Windows imposes. Furthermore, there isn't a question of religion when I state -- factually -- that the alt-key scheme Windows uses is functionally retarded. It's undeniable. Finally, I offered another suggestion that would get past the Windows issues, and yet you chose to overlook it and lecture me instead. I don't need your lectures. Get it? -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 another alternate chars question
On Feb 9, 2004, at 2:54 PM, Mathew Ray wrote: This is not a flame, or an invitation to start a platform war, but I have to concur with Kerry. So what is the reason you came in to point out the obvious? I'm aware of the statistics. They keep getting hammered home by MS's marketing droids. I'm also allowed to be fully convinced that the majority is wrong, and I am allowed the right in the US to protest the dominance of Windows in the OS market. I choose to do so by pointing out the problems with the OS and the way it functions, because I'm not sure many people realize just how cockeyed it actually is about so many things. As for which OS is the best: they ALL suck. OSX sucks the least currently, at least from my point of view, but the fact is they all make life a bit more complicated than it needs to be. That said I'm not sure how some flippant commentary suddenly became so damn serious. I answered a reasonable question with two reasonable alternatives, one of which was a programming (Lingo-based) solution. Neither you nor Kerry have contributed along those lines to this discussion. So even if I am an opinionated hole, at least in this particular case I added some useful data to my opinions. -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 another alternate chars question
On Feb 9, 2004, at 2:57 PM, Craig Taylor wrote: This particular program is built for a sales force all outfitted with Windows-based laptops. Ah well, I figured it was worth a shot. ;) Also, unfortunately, there is not enough room on the interface to put all the alternate characters in a typewriter-like layout. Maybe a MIAW solution, but would it be any less cumbersome in the long run??? Hmm. How many special chars are there? I can think of a couple possibilities. 1. A MIAW palette, as you mention, might do it; or 2. A popup that can be opened with a right-click. User's on the input field, needs a special char, right-clicks, chooses. That char is inserted at the end of the entry area's content. Do either of those options make sense? The advantage of the latter is that it doesn't need any externals (so would work in shockwave) -- you could jsut us a #text or #field member that stays invisible/offscreen until the right click is sensed in your input area. Oh, another option might just be a strip across the bottom a la: á ç é ...etc. It wouldn't have to be that large. Clicking a character (you could use the mouseChar with a #field member) would give you the char to insert as well. Wouldn't take up *too much* space. 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!]
Re: lingo-l Installing applications on OSX using Director MX
On Feb 6, 2004, at 8:27 AM, Dan Sheridan wrote: Hi List, Its me again with problems on OSX using Director MX. I am trying to launch an installation application for QuickTime when the user clicks on a button, basically everytime the user clicks on the button, the projector quits... and nothing happens... it only happens in OSX... Any ideas... ? Gosh, it would be nice if you could share the code you're using. It's kinda hard to telepathically debug program errors. 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!]
Re: lingo-l Parallax
On Feb 5, 2004, at 3:59 PM, Troy Rollins wrote: On Thursday, February 5, 2004, at 04:28 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: I used 2d, three sprites on top of one another and with a left and right button, moved the top one 3px, the middle one 2px, the bottom one 1px either left or right depending on whether or not the directional buttons are pressed on exitframe. The text in my foreground is one big see through 1-bit bitmap. http://www.mmwebsite.com/work/timeline.html That effect works. Pretty cool. Yeah -- it's pretty damn sexy all right. Well done, no 3D, and only three sprites! -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 rollover fade
On Feb 2, 2004, at 3:23 PM, Peter Bochan wrote: But when I drag the word and rollover the definition I want the definition to blend to 20 points or sth. Besides, the word should be centered in the definition when I release the mouse. OK, so you want lunch to cause the definition to fade when it's dragged over? First, you need not to be using pause if that's what you're doing. Second, you have to have a way for the definition to know which word it's supposed to respond to. I tried: sprite().within sprite() - didn't yield anything sprite().intersects sprite() - nothing Unfortunately you haven't provided any context. There's no way for anyone to know what this code is trying to do, because it's lifted so totally from the structure of your project that it's almost abstract expressionism. ;) Please provide a much better description of what you have actually done, including some indication of what code is attached to what sprites. It's hard to just sort of guess. BTW, while it's nice to have included a link to the Director movie itself ... well, you might be fortunate to find someone willing to do the work for you, but I wouldn't expect it to be free of charge. 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!]
Re: lingo-l Controlling flash with lingo.
On Jan 29, 2004, at 7:46 AM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Comprehend this article, and you'll be a pro. Works better in angle brackets for email that wraps at 72 chars: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/director/articles/ flash_in_director.html http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/director/articles/ flashobjscript.html -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 External Data
On Jan 29, 2004, at 4:40 PM, Mathew Ray wrote: ...too bad normal people can't use it yet :0) Are you suggesting something about my normalcy? Cause that news is about as fresh as the outcome of the Battle of Hastings. ;) Anyone heard of a possible ship date yet? I seem to recall hearing either late Jan, or maybe it was late Feb. (Of 2004.) -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 Flash problem in director - DUMB!
On Jan 22, 2004, at 10:44 AM, grimmwerks wrote: This is driving me crazy. Flash sprite in channel 1 in frame 1. Try it in frame 2 instead of frame 1. Leave frame 1 Flash-free. 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!]
Re: AW: lingo-l Flash problem in director - DUMB!
On Jan 22, 2004, at 11:34 AM, grimmwerks wrote: On 1/22/04 12:10 PM, Florian Bogeschdorfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Frame 1 is not a good place to do such things. Have you tried frame 2? Ok, lied. It's actually frame 5. Unless that's another 'bad' frame ;P Hmm. Check DTS, then, consider using the stagecolor trick, and/or sacrifice a virgin rooster at the next Samhain. -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: AW: lingo-l Flash problem in director - DUMB!
On Jan 22, 2004, at 12:16 PM, grimmwerks wrote: On 1/22/04 1:01 PM, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Hmm. Check DTS, then, consider using the stagecolor trick, and/or sacrifice a virgin rooster at the next Samhain. BUT. I've already tried dts, and the stagecolor, AND endsprite = pSprite.visible = false. Across how many frames is your Flash sprite spanned? -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: AW: lingo-l Flash problem in director - DUMB!
On Jan 22, 2004, at 2:00 PM, grimmwerks wrote: On 1/22/04 2:43 PM, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Ah. Spare your cock. Try extending the Flash sprite instead. Spare the cock, spoil the child. Uh... Hmm. Eww. Did it work? (Extending the Flash sprite I mean.) As to the misbehaving behavior -- any chance that the sprite with the malfunction is on the last frame of your score? BUZZZ! Oh, I'm sorry Warren, nice trythe answer is frame 15, the middle of the score. We have some lovely parting gifts for youJohnny, tell Warren what he's won... OK, and it's sprite 10. Is that the bottommost sprite in the frame? -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 why palettized images?
On Jan 16, 2004, at 12:30 AM, Slava Paperno wrote: This must be somethig very simple--something I accidentally messed up--but I can't find what. All of a sudden all images on the stage are palettized, look like 8-bit color or worse. Yet all bitmaps in the movie have member().depth of 32 bits. According to Properties Inspector, all bitmaps have paletteRef set to SystemWindows, yet everything looks like the VGA palette is applied to all. What could be causing this? What have I done? What's your monitor's color depth? 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!]
Re: lingo-l why palletized images?
On Jan 16, 2004, at 11:17 AM, Slava Paperno wrote: Thanks for responding, Warren. The monitor depth hasn't changed--it's 32 bits. And the same thing happens when I make a projector and run it elsewhere on 24-bit and 32- bit Windows installations. I have several successive versions of the movie dir file, and this palettizing shows up in one and then persists in all subsequent versions--but not in an earlier version of the same movie. So it must be some change in the dir file that's causing it--not a system problem. Besides, when the movie is running in authoring, and I reset an individual image's filename to point to the same file, it is displayed correctly. But when I restart the movie, all images again look like they have VGA palette. Wait a minute. You mean these are LINKED files? As opposed to being imported directly into the cast? Hm. Check the prefs and make sure you're not asking Director to do insane JPEG compression (it should be about 80% as default, I think). Also make sure that your graphics person hasn't changed file formats on you partway through the project and failed to tell you. Also make sure you're not actually using a system palette. You don't need it if you're running +8 bits, and if your movie properties are trying to impose a palette setting, you might be getting into trouble. Also make sure you don't have any palettes roaming about in the Score. 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!]
Re: lingo-l GetNetText bug (more strange)
On Jan 16, 2004, at 12:05 PM, Rodrigo Peres wrote: Hi list, In addition of my last post regarding GetNetText, I've tried a very simple script just to see what's happened. Rodrigo, this one works without any trouble. Just slap it into a frame script and see what happens for you. I can't swear to it, but I wonder if the 'halt' you're calling is hosing you. I've pretty much always done net operations in frame handlers, using properties, rather than trying to do it with globals c. PROPERTY pnNetID on beginSprite me pnNetID = getNetText(http://www.rodrigoperes.com.br/desen/games/php/ memoria_xml.php?atividade_id=12) END beginSprite on exitFrame me if (netdone(pnNetID) = true AND netError(pnNetID) = OK) then put netTextResult(pnNetID) end if go to the frame END exitFrame 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!]
Re: lingo-l Residual Flash Graphics in DirMX Windows
On Jan 16, 2004, at 2:09 PM, Trevor J. Lotz wrote: Okay, I finally got a chance to implement this, changed my updateStage command to the stageColor=the stageColor worked like a charm! Thank you guys so much for such a quick and easy fix! That really will save my skin. That's good, since I'll personally expect one pound of flesh in payment for services rendered. ;) Incidentally, not that it makes a difference, necessarily, but my Flash movies were NOT Direct To Stage. I didn't ever try making them direct to stage, as this solution worked. But it's possible that would do it also. Maybe or not, but they'll probably play back more smoothly as DTS items. Now, just so I can understand Director a little better, and hopefully alleviate issues like this more easily in the future, what was happening to cause this, from a technical standpoint? Prolly buffer issues, yeah. (I nearly wrote 'bugger'...) It's been around for a *very* long time, I think since ver. 5 at least, and possibly longer. You get the same kind of lingering image trailing from QT videos. It's obnoxious but, I'm guessing, a fact of life (or else it would have been fixed sometime in the last half decade plus). 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!]
Re: lingo-l Residual Flash Graphics in DirMX Windows
On Jan 15, 2004, at 5:21 PM, Trevor J. Lotz wrote: I've tried to force updateStage in several places, I've changed the method of opening the HTML files from DirectOS to gotoNetPage, etc. But I can't seem to see it make any difference. I'm stumped. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. the stageColor = the stageColor 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!]
Re: lingo-l Residual Flash Graphics in DirMX Windows
On Jan 15, 2004, at 7:13 PM, Kyle Smeby wrote: Mathew and Warren's advise sounds good--although I haven't tried their method. It's auld schoole, laddie. Since Dir4 at least methinks. 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!]
Re: lingo-l Residual Flash Graphics in DirMX Windows
On Jan 15, 2004, at 11:15 PM, macmec wrote: Mathew, when you say to set the stagecolor where I am updating the stage, are you suggesting that I do that in addition to the updateStage command, or instead? Instead of, not in addition to. 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!]
Re: lingo-l re: Dir MX2004 (Tom)
On Jan 7, 2004, at 3:53 AM, Lee Blinco wrote: Some of this I can answer. will projector windows be sizeable by dragging ? There are three types of window available -- regular document, tool and dialog. The regular document window has the option to be resized, and yes, it includes a drag thumb in the corner. Your other question is about scaling. TTBOMK resizing a window will do what it does now with MIAWs that have resize boxes -- enlarge the stage, but not scale content. Can the projector have a bitmap castmember for an icon or must we still use an icon editing program to create an ico file ? You can use bitmap cast members to create icons now. They get rolled into the projector at publish. also i wondered why with the mention of improved media support (wmv,real(?)mpeg2/dvd) i can not see mpeg 1 support, we find this the most reliable video format, is it supported now ? MPEG 1 is supported via QuickTime version 5 and up, Mac and Win. Since QT is free and freely available I'm not sure why you'd want Macromedia to rehack the annulus. I'd rather see more focus on Lingo bugfixes and stability than MPEG 1. 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!]
Re: lingo-l New Director MX
On Jan 7, 2004, at 9:27 AM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: How about 8-bit MIAW masks, like the latest Adobe splash screens? Not yet. Possibly a future version? -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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: re: Dir MX2004 (Tom)
On Jan 7, 2004, at 11:31 AM, Lee Blinco wrote: Hi warren, thanks for your answers, i can only find the method of altering the projec32.skl file for changing a projectors icon, yet you say it is possible with a cast member, could you point me where i can find out more about this. Sorry. By 'now' I meant with DMX04. When you upgrade (!) you'll be able to use a cast member to create projector icons. For the current version you need to edit files, yeah. My wish for mpg is that purely because you have to install QT on a win box which often creates problems when distributing due to company it policies, user competence/reluctance etc. I understand, believe me, but it *is* a free option. If it's too much of a hassle you can check out Tabuleiro's Xtras. They've got some damned fine MPEG add-ons that don't require any special handling at all on the Win side, but of course it's payware. Since the client gets the cost of such things, hey, why not? ;) 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!]
Re: lingo-l DMX2K4 Question
On Jan 7, 2004, at 3:13 PM, Trevor J. Lotz wrote: One of the features (which isn't really a feature, but an expected functionality these days) I've been waiting for since beginning my work on Director at version 7.02, will we FINALLY get multiple levels of undo? Nope. -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 Prevent second click
On Jan 7, 2004, at 6:04 PM, Alan Neilsen wrote: Within my program, users click on thumbnail icons to open audios. This creates puppet sprites and takes the play-head to a different frame where an audio begins playing automatically and a transcript, play, rewind, pause, ffwd and Close Audio buttons are available. On clicking the Close Audio button, the puppet sprites are set to false and the play-head returns to the frame it had been at when the thumbnail was originally clicked (gReturnFrame). The problem is that one of the thumbnail icons is positioned in roughly the same place as the Close Audio button (neither can be moved), and if the user happens to double-click the Close Audio button, the second click automatically registers on the thumbnail icon at the return frame and that audio starts playing. Have you tried something like this: on mouseUp me if the doubleClick then nothing else -- do whatever you normally do with a single click end if end ...? 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!]
Re: lingo-l Director MX 2004 Questions - day 3
On Jan 7, 2004, at 7:38 PM, Thomas Higgins wrote: All, My apologies for being good about answering questions in the morning and then dropping off today Yes, how dare you? Golly. No follow through or nuttin. It's like you have an actual job or something that involves more than just fielding queries from hither and yon. If I don't cover your questions tomorrow morning please feel free to provide a _gentle_ reminder as to what question(s) I may have overlooked. I'm wrapping my two-by-four in padding right now. ;) 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!]
Re: lingo-l Director MX04
On Jan 6, 2004, at 11:59 AM, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: I have one very important question about the new cross-platform publishing capabilities of Director. What about Xtras? Does Director have to have two Xtras folders, one for Mac and one for Win, so it can publish correctly crossplatform? Yes. On the Win side you can't publish Mac Classic projectors; on the OSX side you can publish everything. And I assume we still have to buy any third party Xtras for both platforms? Yes. 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!]
Re: lingo-l Truth or fiction
On Jan 6, 2004, at 3:10 PM, Matt Wells wrote: Thanks, I'll just figure it out for my self - which is not a problem - I just figured one of you would have a deeper knowledge base and be able to give me an answer of the top of your head with little or no effort. You'd be surprised. A user's email address isn't in a single predictable location. Assuming the user has Outlook you can probably get that information from a registry key, but different versions of Win might have that key in different locations; and security might or might not allow you to get the address in the first place. If the user does not have Outlook (or prefers not to use it), you won't be able to get the information you want. If the user is on a Mac, none of this information applies. It's not a simple process, and the program to which you refer is glossing over its needs. There's almost no way it could possibly be anywhere near as simple as the packaging implies. The easiest, most certain way to get a user's email address is ASK what it is. That way you don't have to worry about software or system versions, and you give the user a *choice* not to have his email address be known. I'm of the same inclination as Kerry on this one. There's no reason whatsoever for ANY program to be harvesting my email address, particularly against my will. Any program that did so would find itself deleted immediately. 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!]
Re: lingo-l RE: was Director MX04 now cross platform Xtras question
On Jan 6, 2004, at 5:59 PM, Peter Witham wrote: With the new version if I want to create a projector to run on OS-X using Director on a Windows platform it will not include the required Xtras for OS-X in the projector that I publish like it will when making the Windows projector for example the flash or text asset xtra? Yes, actually it will. It will publish two projectors, one for Windows (with the necessary Win Xtras) and one for Mac (with the necessary Mac Xtras). You don't get a single projector that can run on both platforms; you get two discrete projectors with their own respective resources. And if this is the case then I still need to publish the projector on a MAC if I want to include the standard shipping Xtras in the projector file for the MAC platform? No. It acts a little like how Flash does things when you publish a Flash projector for both Mac and Win from the same Flash authoring program. And if so, how is this different than using a stub projector created on both platforms and just using a dcr file for the main projector like we do now with MX and other versions? You only need one copy of Director on either platform to publish for both. That's a pretty substantial difference. Or are you saying that creating a MAC projector via the Windows platform does include the standard shipping Xtras within Director meaning I can send the compiled projector file to a OS-X user and it will be happy to run. That is correct. And it's only 3rd party Xtra's that we have to worry about which would make sense as that's not down to Macromedia. That is also correct. If you have third-party Xtras (BAPI for instance) you stick your BudApi.x32 file in your Win Xtras folder, and the BudAPI Xtra goes into another Xtras folder that exists alongside it for the Mac side. IIRC the Mac Xtras, on Win, need to be BinHexed, but on the Mac side there are no such restrictions. Thus it makes more sense to use DMX04 on Mac than Win. 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!]
Re: lingo-l Save or upload to the Internet
On Jan 5, 2004, at 8:28 PM, Teo Petralia wrote: I'm wandering if is possible somehow to save a cast to the Internet with a projector or upload it? Don't know about casts, but there's an Xtra listed at updatestage.com that can do net uploads. ...and I wish I could recall what its name is. :\ Check the Mile High Table there... 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!]
lingo-l A Polite Request to Those Leaving on Holiday
DO NOT forget to UNSUBSCRIBE from this list (and all the others you're on) BEFORE TURNING ON YOUR AUTORESPONDERS. There are literally *thousands* of us who do not care you will be out of the office until January 2nd or whenever. 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!]
Re: lingo-l Classic Mac and xtras
On Dec 17, 2003, at 1:25 AM, grimmwerks wrote: I've been trying to build a classic projector from MX with the Budapi xtra embedded; I've got the xtra in the classic mac xtras folder, but no matter what, I keep getting a 'problem writing Budapi Xtra' alert Are you sure it's the Classic version of the Xtra? It can be rather hard to tell... 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!]
Re: lingo-l Classic Mac and xtras
On Dec 17, 2003, at 10:31 AM, grimmwerks wrote: On 12/17/03 9:53 AM, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Are you sure it's the Classic version of the Xtra? It can be rather hard to tell... Sure was. Classic folder. Also attempted the 1.2 from mac9. Similar question surfaced on Direct-L today. (Actually identical.) Might be a bug in the classic Xtra. Do you have a fallback version (older version) you can try? 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!]
Re: lingo-l retrieve email
On Dec 31, 2003, at 8:12 AM, Craig Fisher wrote: Does anyone know how to retrieve email ??? I use Mail.app. Many seem to prefer Outlook Express, probably because it's free. Eudora's pretty good too. 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!]
Re: lingo-l Shared cast error
On Dec 15, 2003, at 7:23 AM, Michael Finlayson wrote: What's weird is that in backup copies of the movie, inside subfolders of other main folders, the same is true. To get another copy of the shared.cst file (needed to drag and drop into the other eight movies in the folder) I had to go back to a CD copy of the program. And that's the part that has me baffled too. :( I'm pretty sure this is not saving me time over the cut/paste/exchange method I was using prior to Warren's letter, although I appreciate his input. Yeah, I'd agree. But what you're seeing, if my understanding of the symptoms is correct, simply shouldn't be happening either. Oh wait. However, when you have an external cast shared by as many as twelve movies, it's a different story. Yeah, that'll be part of the problem all right (probably all of it). If you have one cast member in an external cast file that's being used in five movies, yeah, you'll want five copies of *that cast file* -- since the *first* drag/drop will empty it from the shared library that's currently open. Those gestures mean *move*, not copy. So for that the way to go would probably be to make multiple copies of the cast file itself, one for each movie that uses it. I was thinking that moving one member into an internal cast was emptying the entire external cast file, which definitely shouldn't take place. A more interesting question was whether the cast file was fully loaded in the shock session. Hadn't even occurred to me to wonder that... The other folders were for CD and Kiosk distribution, and I WANTED them to use the shared cast. They too lost access to the shared cast. Did they have their own copies? And were they actually pointing to those copies internally, or did they think they wanted the cast next door in the folder alongside themselves (that contains the one you're editing)? 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!]
Re: lingo-l Changing name of a file
On Dec 14, 2003, at 3:23 PM, Fabrice Closier wrote: i've rechecked the BA function list its true, its there... I'm glad. I was beginning to think I'd hallucinated it before. 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!]
Re: lingo-l Weird error code
On Dec 13, 2003, at 1:15 PM, grimmwerks wrote: I'm only checking a list to see what the count of something is (ie if gThisAssetList.assets.count) and I'm getting an alert of: is3dCastMember Unknown error code (-2147219478) ...and I'm not even DOING anything with 3d. Thoughts? I think it's time for you to post some more illuminating data, such as the code that's actually going wrong. Your question is FAR too obscure for anyone to answer. 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!]
Re: lingo-l Changing name of a file
On Dec 13, 2003, at 2:19 PM, Fabrice Closier wrote: is it possible to change the name of a file via Director? I think ByddyAPI can do it with baRenameFile. I think FileXtra can do it too. 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!]
Re: lingo-l Shared cast error
On Dec 13, 2003, at 6:48 PM, Michael Finlayson wrote: The first movie has no background picture (a member of the shared cast), and about the time it tries to load the second movie I get an error: Shared.cct is not a Director file. IIRC this can be due to one of two possible things. 1. Your server doesn't recognize the .cct extension and doesn't know it's meant to be binary data. 2. Your FTP program did more or less the same. That is, it looked at the .cct data and BinHexed it when it uploaded it, rather than leaving it alone. Try setting up your FTP app such that it won't BinHex, then try again. 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!]
Re: lingo-l Weird error code
On Dec 13, 2003, at 6:35 PM, grimmwerks wrote: It's happening all over the place, from start movie to just typing Put baGetSysFolder(prefs) in the message window while the movie isn't running -- I'd get that alert fired back immediately. Does it happen only with Xtras? Or does it also happen with things like put hello ? 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!]
Re: lingo-l Shared cast error
On Dec 13, 2003, at 8:00 PM, Michael Finlayson wrote: Now for option #1. Is that something I can ask my hosting company to set-up for me, or should I just give up and copy/paste/exchange all of the shared cast members? Well, if you give up you don't have to copy/paste/exchange. You can just drag and drop from your external cast to your movies' internal casts. If you drag a cast member from one window to another Director automatically updates its references. As to the rest ... well, one can only guess. Things should be working fine, or at least I'd hope so. Have you tried not protecting the external cast just to see if that makes a difference? 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!]
Re: lingo-l Sound throwing errors -
On Dec 9, 2003, at 9:18 AM, grimmwerks wrote: Any reason why a sound(1).queue(mysound) or sound(1).play(mysound) would throw 'handler not found in object'? Not a sound file? -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 Ethernet HW Address? (xpost-ish)
Asked this on Direct-L yesterday but no one seemed to have the answer I was looking for. I'm wondering if anyone knows of a means (ideally with an Xtra, not something like AppleScript or VBScript) to find out the hardware address of a given system's ethernet card. Bonus points for finding out things like CPU and HD serial numbers! I know it's doable in theory; I'm just wondering if anyone's actually managed it in practice. Thanks! 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!]
