zip xtra download package?
is there one? Macromedia perhaps? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
in shockwave - open dialog?
What xtras will do the open dialog box to a file? I know that DirectFTP does, but will it return the path to the sected file, or merely skip it and start uploading it directly? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
open file in shockwave?
Is there any xtra/way to get a user to have an open file dialog and return the path to the file in shockwave? I know that directftp can have the chooser select a file, but it's for immediate upload, ie there's no passing of the file to shockwave. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: in shockwave - open dialog?
Someone else threw me this: - I figure call the javascript function as external event, this is part of the function that makes that a variable, and then pushes it back to the shockwave, right? On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Jamie Dyer wrote: > I have written a director file that uses javascript to pop up a file > browse dialogue box, then passes the url to director. The file is > actually uploaded through a form in a hidden frame. Its a way of doing > it without an xtra. If you want the code then let me know. > > Jamie Dyer > Senior Web Designer > University of Plymouth > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: 15 January 2002 08:12 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: in shockwave - open dialog? > > > > > > > > What xtras will do the open dialog box to a file? I know that > > DirectFTP > > does, but will it return the path to the sected file, or > > merely skip it > > and start uploading it directly? > > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest > > mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post > > messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, > > email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and > > helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
update
from macnn: Ambrosia releases Coldstone gaming engine Ambrosia has released its Coldstone game engine, which "brings professional-quality game building tools to the masses. No programming is required to produce polished, stand-alone games that run on Mac OS, OS X, and Windows." A demo of the $50 application is available online.Ê[22.9 MB] Macromedia Shockwave Studio 8.5.1 update Macromedia's Director Shockwave Studio 8.5.1 updater brings anti-aliasing as well as OS X playback support to the authoring environment for creating 3D entertainment, interactive product demonstrations, and online learning applications for the Web, CD, DVD and corporate intranets. Ê[5.5 MB] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: I have not created a Shockwave projector
You checked the compress projector option when you built it. On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Tony Åström wrote: > Hi List, > > I'm have created an app. to run on Windows and Mac. The app. runs fine > on 98 and NT, but > returns an error on some Windows 2000. > "Application Error > This application requires the shockwave 8 player, which is not > installed. > Click ok to down load it" > I have not created a Shockwave projector only a start.exe -> intro.dxr > with > Director 8.0 > > Has anybody any idea about this? > > Thanks in advance > Tony > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
yoinks! macromedia:
Macromedia today reported a third-quarter net loss of US$42.9 million as revenues declined nearly 30 percent from the year-ago quarter to $73.3 million. "The economy continues to affect our short-term results, but not our optimism about the future," Macromedia Chairman and Chief Executive Rob Burgess said in a statement. Macromedia expects revisions to some of its core products, including Flash and Dreamweaver, will allow the company to return to profitability within two quarters. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
creating a file with filextra3?
Can it be done? Doesn't seem to be able to do it like the old fileio. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: creating a file with filextra3?
The Sequencer Xtra should write midi files to disk, and hte binaryio xtra (updatestage) does binary files. On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Andreas Gaunitz P11 wrote: > No, FileXtra just browses filenames on disk, or open files in their > native application. > > BTW does anybody know a free way to write binary (not text) files? Or > to save a MIDI (Sysex) file to disk. Or is there a Sysex format that > is essentially a text file? > > -A. > > > >Can it be done? Doesn't seem to be able to do it like the old fileio. > > > >[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go > >to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the > >list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with > >programming Lingo. Thanks!] > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Director and web data sources
You could make calls to some kind of middleware like php, jsp or asp pages and have the returns back to director - although there is an odbc xtra for director; just doesnt' work well on mac. On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Colin Eyre wrote: > Is there a way for a Director multimedia kiosk/CD to link and call records > and image references from a SQL database (or similar). If Director cannot > handle this requirement directly, is there an Xtra to do the job? > > Thanks > > -- > > Colin Eyre > > Creative Director > Little Duck Studios > > Unit 9, BASE Enterprise Centre > Ladyswell Road, Mulhuddart > Dublin 15 > > T: (01) 822 6780 > F: (01) 822 6780 > > M: 087 682 2673 > > e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > w: www.littleduck.ie > > > > Communicating your message regardless of the medium. > > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: creating a file with filextra3?
Hmm...no, but isn't there a site (something like whatis.org) that tells all the specs of each type of file? I'm more interested in QT in a way - since qt on the system/app level (both mac and win) can copy and past tracks, etc into a new file, shouldn't there be a new quicktime xtra that can take that midi file you created, create a file that is a .mov file and paste that midi info into a midi track? On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Andreas Gaunitz P11 wrote: > Hi Mr Grimmwerks man, > > Yes, yes, but none of them are for free. I won't earn a penny on this > project so I'm reluctant to fork out $s for Xtras. > > To tell the truth, I was hoping that there should be a SMF (standard > midi file) format that is ASCII text. But I haven't tried all > possible settings yet. Do you know if? > > -A. > > > >The Sequencer Xtra should write midi files to disk, and hte binaryio xtra > >(updatestage) does binary files. > > > > > >On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Andreas Gaunitz P11 wrote: > > > >> No, FileXtra just browses filenames on disk, or open files in their > >> native application. > >> > >> BTW does anybody know a free way to write binary (not text) files? Or > >> to save a MIDI (Sysex) file to disk. Or is there a Sysex format that > >> is essentially a text file? > >> > >> -A. > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
zip xtra
Hey - trying to use this guy, but the files I'm getting from playing with it aren't the zipped files. I know it's unsupported, but is there anything on DOUG, etc that perhaps overviews this? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: zip xtra
James, that would be wonderful - I've been trying all kinds of different syntax to create a zip of files I've created - it does create a zipfile, (with nested folders mirroring the original folder path) but the files zipped seem to be blank. I'd really appreciate the help. On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, James Newton wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey - trying to use this guy, but the files I'm getting from playing with > > it aren't the zipped files. > > > > I know it's unsupported, but is there anything on DOUG, etc that perhaps > > overviews this? > > Hi Grimmwerks, > > I've written a wrapper script that produces valid files, using the following > flexible syntax: > > on createZip(zipFileName, itemToZip, itemIsFolder, allFiles) - > -- INPUT: > -- Absolute path where the zip file should be created > -- Absolute path to a file or folder whose contents > --are to be zipped > -- TRUE if itemToZip is VOID or EMPTY and the user is > --to be offered a choice of folders to zip > -- If a folder is selected for zipping and > -- is TRUE, then all sub-folders > --will be included in the zip. > -- ACTION: > -- Executes the command... > -- > -- zipInstance.jarFiles(zipFolder, zipFileName, fileTree) > -- > -- ... where is the folder or the parent > -- folder of the file , is a list of relative > -- paths to files to zip, starting in > -- > -- RETURNS: if successful, VOID if not > > > > If there is interest for this, I'll put the script on line. > > Cheers, > > James > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Beatnik Xtra
I think it's in the process of (hopefully) going open source. I'm not sure if Ian Chia is still on the list? check sonify.org. On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, James Tu wrote: > I can't seem to find a place to download...Beatnik's site said they no > longer support it. Just a few days ago I was able to find at least Beatnik > Pro on their website... > > Does anyone know what the story is? > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
ogg vorbis xtra
Hey - just poking at directordev.com and found it - neat! Thanks guys. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
chartonum 0?
What's the ascii equivalent of chartonum = 0? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
speaking of open source: is shockwave.com dying?
No chance of the creativity xtras becoming open to developers, eh? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: Beatnik Xtra
I think I have the latest versions of both the lite and pro xtra - course the pro version wouldn't work for you without a serial number. Thing I would be worried about is if Beatnik will keep hosting the download packages as well. I think in buying the pro you get the packages too, but I don't remember. Is Ian Chia still on this list? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
shockwave updater
DOG SLOW 31 minutes on a fast cable connection??!? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
a little director/flash help
I'm hoping Darrel might be up ;P Ok, here's the deal. I've got a bunch of named movieclips that are, of course, the same movieclip library object. Within the movieclip is a button. I want the button to send a geturl of the movieclip's name. No biggie, right? WELL... first I put in a simple geturl(_name) (yeah, as expression is checked) Well, as a test movie, it launches netscape and tries to find a server with the movieclip name - no go. Great! Fantastic! Now I import it into director, do the old -- ah wait a minute, I think I answered my own question. THis is a f5 movieclip in d8 rather than 8.5. I've either got to save as f4 or up to 8.5. Hang on. Yup! That was it - new actionscript, not seen as f4. Gonna post this just as a reminder to others not to be as stupid as me. Think big. Be stupider. Or more dumb. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: LiveUpdate
Sure, look to member.filename stuff. On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Tony Åström wrote: > Hi List, > > anybody who knows how to update cast members and text files from a > remote file on the internet? > Can this be done without an Xtra? > > TIA > Tony > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Quicktime ? Best compression program
Well, for batch processing Media Cleaner is great, but I've actually been using Quicktime Pro for compression, especially it's mpeg2 extension with dvd studio pro. I find that it's 4x faster than Media Cleaner. But you'd probably want to look at using Sorenson codec for your compression. Nice small files yet look fantastic; you can even scale them up and they look great. On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Matie Wells wrote: > Hello List, > > Whats the best compression program to use for quicktime? The reson im asking > is that I need to match the video in the director movie to background color. > I tried using mpegs but thay dont keep a color value between computers. The > other problem is that I have a lot of video in the project. So, Can A > quicktime movie be compressed down to the size of an mpeg or close to it? > And if so whats the best program that some of you have used? > Thanks for your help, > Matie Wells > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: AW: Quicktime ? Best compression program
Really strange, because I recently did an enhanced cd that had 2 music videos in sorenson, compressed at 320x240 -- I played them at the original size, 640x480 and 800x600 and they looked fantastic. On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Michael von Aichberger wrote: > Grimmwerks wrote (about Sorenson codec): > > "Nice small files yet look fantastic; you can even scale them > up and they look great." > > Interesting. We also use Sorenson codec and find that Sorenson coded video > looks great, but only as long as it is NOT SCALED. > > As soon as you scale it, you have nasty horizontal stripes, - looks similar > to combining two half frames of video into one still frame. And this doesn't > look great at all. The effect is clearly visible even if the footage was > taken in full frames. > > And this is a specific behaviour of Sorenson. Whereas other codecs give you > other artefacts. In my experience for scaling there's nothing better than > MPEG. > > Michael von Aichberger > www.aichberger.de > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Damn, kids...
Well howdy Warren! Nice to have you back [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Copy files in shockwave?
Well, the DirectFTP xtra does allow the user to specify a file that they want to import, I believe; the trouble is it happens right before upload, so no filepath/size is returned to the shockwave, understand? I was trying to do something similar, even tried doing it in javascript and pushing the filepath into the shockwave - no go. On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Ian Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > anyone know if it is possible to copy files (with the user's consent) into > the shockwave safe folder, from a shockwave app? > > I know I could use an xtra to import a graphic then export it to the > shockwave safe folder but I'm trying to avoid constant dialog boxes. > > I plan to get the user to import an image, then possibly use directftp or > something to send it up to the server at the end of the process (from the > shockwave safe folder so no dialog is presented). > > The os xtras I've seen up to now are not shockwave safe (for obvious > reasons). > > Also, is it possible to check the compressed size and type of an image. > Importing a file into the director environment and checking its size > attribute only gives the uncompressed size. I am aware that binaryIO can > check the header of an external file but it ain't shockwave safe. > > Any ideas? > > :) > > Regards, > > IanMJ > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: imma.dk problems
Strange though, how it translates to imma dick. On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Howdy-Tzi wrote: > Hey all. The problem is with their server. It translates the @ symbol > as the , symbol. I tried to contact the sysadmin there, but got an > unresoved bounce like the ones we've been seeing for root,imma.dk. > > Dang. Just when you thought the net was standardized, someone goes > and changes the character mappings! > > Interestingly I seem to recall very similar -- if not identical -- > problems cropping up on this list several years ago from imma.dk. > > Huh! > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: SMTI switch
Do you mean smpte code? Maybe the sequence xtra could send mtc over midi? On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, the nightboy wrote: > I am creating an application with Director that would be triggered by SMTI > time code. I am searching for xtras to bridge the two. Can anyone offer any > suggestions? > > b > > > Brian Douglas (:ub) > > > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: SMTI switch
Well, if you want to control a vcr or laserdisc, there's a freebie extra on the mac - check updatestage.com On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, the nightboy wrote: > >At 12:36 -0500 01/29/2002, the nightboy wrote: > > > >>I am creating an application with Director that would be triggered by SMTI > >>time code. > > > >Do you mean SMPTE time code? > YES > >What is it you're looking to do, tie in a projector with a VCR? > YES > > > Brian Douglas (:ub) > > > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: SMTI switch
Well that's a good point - does the thing you want to control generate smpte? If it does, then what kind of connections does it have? For instance, my da88 can send/receive smpte commands, but it does it over the midi on the sync card, so any midi device can send midi machine control. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: SMTI switch
What kind of connection does the vcr have? On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, the nightboy wrote: > >Well that's a good point - does the thing you want to control generate > >smpte? If it does, then what kind of connections does it have? For > >instance, my da88 can send/receive smpte commands, but it does it over the > >midi on the sync card, so any midi device can send midi machine control. > > > > I have described the scenario incorrectly. I want the vcr to send the smpte > to the application. Then based on the timecode, it would execute a command. > > > > Brian Douglas (:ub) > > > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: linked director movie question
I'm coming in late on this thing - but you're trying to link a member in a
LDM on the fly? Are all the LDM in the same path? Are the linked members?
Can you put teh path in a global and each LDM links a member via
member.filename=global & "membername"?
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, the nightboy wrote:
> >I think this works, but I'm not current on LDM quirks:
> >
> >tell sprite(intLinkedMovieSpriteNum)
> > importFileInto member("toImportinto", "internal"), strFileName
> >end tell
> >
> >A number of different ways to set this up, but the basic thing to remember
> >is that between "tell" and "end tell" the context of lingo switches from
> >the current movie to the ldm in the targeted sprite. You could also call
> >a handler in the ldm in this manner.
> >
> >Steph
>
>
> I have a behavior in the LDM that calls it from itself, but it does not
> recognize the path. Are you saying that I have to have the current movie
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Re: SMTI switch
Yeah, honestly this sounds like a hack - given the size of harddrives and video cards today, I think any control of a laserdisc/vcr is pre '90. Can't you encode the movie and keep it uncompressed? I mean, an hour of video is 12 gigs, right? Something like that? And honestly too, if you even compress it with mpeg2, with 10 bitrate it's going to look pretty good. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: SMTI switch
So the vtr has midi connections? Then I'd look to the SequenceXtra -- I think that can send midi machine control from smpte, could be wrong though. But it does support system exclusive messages. Then, if it does send smpte over midi, you just have your director app have a proplist playlist with smpte timecodes as marks to do whatever animations you want, and on enterframe compare the incoming messages to see if it's past a marked playlist time. On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, the nightboy wrote: > it will definitely be using midi. > > b > > > Brian Douglas (:ub) > > > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Time Machine
Yeah, we know it won't last that long (sigh). On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yeh, I'm having trouble with installing Director 13. Can any one help? > > > > > On 30 Jan 2002 at 13:52, Tab Julius wrote: > > > We might have over-optimized it to where it exceeds the speed of light and > transcends time. > > How's that for efficiency? > > > At 07:21 PM 1/30/02 +0100, Florian Bogeschdorfer wrote: > >I wonder who created this Time Machine on the list. > > > >Very often I get the answers to some questions before I ever saw the > >question. I would also like to help you out a little and betatest your > >code since apparently there are also some messages disappearing into > >nirwana. Maybe we could get it to beam false messages back or get the > >news from tomorrow... > > > >Just wondering about this black holes on "my" list. > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to > http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo- > L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: Time Machine
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Howdy-Tzi wrote: > -- Welcome to Director -- > oNewMe = new ( me ) > > Need we say more? As long as the new(me) is not a -(new(me)) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: Time Machine
Recursive? Warren uses enough naughty words as it is...plus, I think he can only print. On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Kerry Thompson wrote: > > As long as the new(me) is not a -(new(me)) > > > Enough with the negative stuff, ok? ;-) > > Let's just hope new(me) isn't recursive. We love Warren, but one is > enough ^_^ > > Cordially, > > Kerry Thompson > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: importFileInto
I wouldn't do it that way, I'd do member("whatever").filename = the
moviepath & externalFileName
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Re: Xtra that will zip external files?
Zip Xtra is installed wih Director. Check the media folder inside of the xtras folder. On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Jonathyn B. Tellez wrote: > Hi Lingo L, > > A project I'm working on could potentially generate a lot of data that will need to >be archived. I'd prefer to store it in some compressed form (i.e. zipped) but I >can't find an Xtra that will handle the job. Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > JB Tellez > Lead Multimedia Programmer > Scientfic Learning Inc. > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Xtra that will zip external files?
Yeah, but buddy is for only pc, what of us macheads? On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Howdy-Tzi wrote: > At 09:53 -0800 01/31/2002, Jonathyn B. Tellez wrote: > > >A project I'm working on could potentially generate a lot of data > >that will need to be archived. I'd prefer to store it in some > >compressed form (i.e. zipped) but I can't find an Xtra that will > >handle the job. Any ideas? > > I thought Buddy API's author had written a zip Xtra too. > > Hmm, have ytou looked over the list at http://www.updatestage.com/products/ ? > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Xtra that will zip external files?
Buddy ZIP for mac? On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Howdy-Tzi wrote: > At 14:21 -0600 01/31/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Yeah, but buddy is for only pc > > No it's not. I have a perfectly workable version running under 8.5.1 > / classic/ X.1 right now... > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: Xtra that will zip external files?
BUT THERE'S A ZIP XTRA ALREADY! Straight from macromedia. sigh. no one listens to me... On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Howdy-Tzi wrote: > At 16:34 -0500 01/31/2002, Erik Sandbergen wrote: > > >>Yeah, but buddy is for only pc > > > >>> No it's not. I have a perfectly workable version running under 8.5.1 > >/ classic/ X.1 right now... > > > >I think he meant to refer to Budzip/BudUnzip, which are Win only,, and not > >Buddy itself... > > Ah! Yes, that is sadly true. But then on X I imagine one could create > an AppleScript that tars and zips at will. Of course this does not > help with earlier Mac versions. Sigh. > > I sure do hope Director for X will let us talk to the UNIX subsystem. > Imagine being able to monitor processes, copy files, create > directories, etc. all through calls right from Director. > > My my my. > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: Xtra that will zip external files?
Well, you have to zip all the files at once, not add them piece by piece. I've used it by creating a folder (file xtra), adding files there, zipping the folder (jar works, zip doesn't seem to) then deleting the original folder. On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Erik Sandbergen wrote: > > BUT THERE'S A ZIP XTRA ALREADY! Straight from macromedia. > > > sigh. no one listens to me... > > I did: The Zip Xtra (Mac and Win) that ships with Director is listed as > Authoring only, and "Enables Director to compress Bitmaps when publishing a > DCR." A quick test revealed that you can create a zip file in Authoring and > Projector mode as well, but didn't have much luck with adding files into the > zip file. Perhaps someone else will have a better result, or prove that no > result can be had... > > Erik > INM > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Surplus characters with FileI/O
Sure. if the file exists, delete it before rewriting. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: midi-sync
Sure, there's a few; the best one being sequence xtra, but there's also midio. Check updatestage.com for links. On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, lpovoas wrote: > Is there an xtra that would allow me to trigger events in director > using the midi interface? > I want to control the 'sequence of facts' depending on wich midi > signal is received from another computer (or a keyboard) > > > > Luiz Gustavo Castelan Póvoas > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
3d groove/nick game
Hey all - a link was put up yesterday for a 3d groove nickonline game; what was the link? Not trying to be sneaky or anything (hey Chris!) but I got an error when shockwave was instantiating, NOT in the shockwave itself (if you get my drift). I'm wondering if it's 1) not supported on mac 2) a problem with the 8.5.1 version of shockwave 3). a 3dgroove xtra problem 4) just me. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
integer/string question
I just noticed this and I'm curious if it was always this way since I don't recall it happening before: h = 5 put h -- 5 put h + 10 -- 15 all well and good h = "5" put h -- "5" put h+ 10 -- 15. Yeah, I know about float precision, integer(h) and all that, I just don't remember strings defaulting to floats when added; I always thought they stayed integers? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Director multiuser talking to Flash XMLSocket via aJava server
I'd do something like myText = "text you want to send" & numToChar(0) then just send the myText variable -- no? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: sure-fire cross platform video support?
Sure, if they don't mind installing quicktime. I've also used mpg for video, playing back through QT on mac and video for windows on pc. On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Clars Danvold wrote: > Hello all- > I was wondering there was anyone willing to discuss a general approch, > that resulted in a sure-fire, fool-proof way of supporting digital > video, running in a projector on cross-platform CDrom. > > I would go with QT and use quickTimePresent() and quickTimeVersion() to > check the plugin, then provide standalone installers for the weak in the > faith. > > Is this sufficient? > > Regards, Clars > > > > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
quicktime sprites question..
If you had quicktimes in multiple channels, but all save one are invisible, didn't that use to work? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: saving files from a projector
yeah, you can do this but you do need an xtra- the filextra is a freebie and can do it; otherwise a bunch can such as buddy api, binaryio, etc. check updatestage.com/xtras/ for links. On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I know that it is possible to save a .dir file from a Projector/Executable, but > is it also possible to save files in different formats? I am hoping to be able > to create .txt files and files that use ASCII text. The Macromedia websote > doesn't have much information beyond just using the save lingo command. I am > also hoping that this can be done without the aid of alot of Xtras as the > program I am writing has to run as lean as possible to fit on a buisness card > CD. As it stands, beyond the basic Xtras for a stand-alone I am using the Flash > Asset Xtras and the Font Asset Xtra (custom fonts). > > Thanks, > william m- > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
xl_syntaxcolor = 0?
What's this global from? Nothing I've created 8.5.1 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
8.5.1 weirdness
Ok, other than that xl_syntaxcolor thing which shows up as a global once in a while, there's some weirdness I'm experiencing on mac with quicktime. I _thought_ that you used to be able to have 2 directtostage quicktimes on top of each other in different channels, and if the topmost channel was invisible it would work. Doesn't seem to anymore, but I could be wrong about that. However I havea movie with 2 markers - the first marker is just a go the frame script at frame 2 with NO sprites. The second marker is named 'gui', at around frame 7 with quicktime in it. On starting director, I hear a quick note of the quicktime's soundtrack before going to the first marker. The start movie isn't specifically CALLING any frame, it's just allowing the normal linear play of frames. There is NO qt in the channels when the playback head starts... [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
my fault
I had an old script duplicating the sprite behavior as an object. It's still a bit weird however, as the script object controls a quicktime movie in a sprite channel that has NO sprite, and yet I hear a little of the sound. Ah well. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
swa export xtra
Ok, I'm a tad confused... I know of two non-macromedia apps that use the SWA Export xtra from Soundedit fame to compress aiff to mp3 (mp3 encoder and Peak use it as a regular plugin). The xtra itself doesn't have an 'interface' so I don't know how these programs hook into the xtra and export the mp3 -- any ideas? Would seem that director would be able to export mp3 as well... [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: ALPHAMANIA substitute
How bout that Fireworks to Director xtra from macr? On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Howdy-Tzi wrote: > At 13:19 -0500 02/19/2002, the nightboy wrote: > > >Does anyone know of an Xtra besides alphaMania that will antiAlias Bitmaps > >in director on Runtime. We have been looking at alphamania, but the problem > >is that you can not introduce new castmembers into their format on runtime. > > You mean you can't do something like > >mNewMember = new ( #alphaMania ) > > ...and then set the AA and other options that way? I seem to recall > doing something like that, but it would have been in 1998 or so, so > my recollection could well be faulty. > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
swa export xtra
Hey anyone (Howdy?) -- that swa export xtra that used to be with soundedit and is now used with peak - there's a little application that some guy wronte (NOT director) that uses it to compress aiff to mp3 - I wrote to him and he said he 'back engineered the COM' - which tells me nothing. I figure if HE can do it, why can't a director file use it to compress to mp3? Yet there's no interface (using the xtralist.dcr and showxlib) -- anyone have any ideas? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: swa export xtra
That's not what I was asking for though ...I was thinking Director could record audio and compress to mp3. I'm aware that I can use masterapp to control external appsjust asking specifically about the swa export xtra. On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: > For windows, the best MP3 application I've found is DBPowerAmp. It integrates with >Windows to offer options in your right-click > menu that allow you to convert just about anything to MP3 or WAV formats. And best >of all...it's free! > > Charlie Fiskeaux II > The Creative Group > www.cre8tivegroup.com > 859/858-9054 x29 > cell: 859/312-3883 > > > - Original Message - > From: "Buzz Kettles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 3:55 PM > Subject: Re: swa export xtra > > > At 6:41 PM -0600 2/17/02, you wrote: > >Ok, I'm a tad confused... > > > >I know of two non-macromedia apps that use the SWA Export xtra from > >Soundedit fame to compress aiff to mp3 (mp3 encoder and Peak use it as a > >regular plugin). The xtra itself doesn't have an 'interface' so I don't > >know how these programs hook into the xtra and export the mp3 -- any > >ideas? > > The information you desire is not publicly available info. > > 'mp3 encoder' hacked the SWA Export Xtra's interface. > 'back engineered the COM' means 'reverse engineered the Xtra interface'. > > BIAS, Inc. has cross technology/product agreements with MACR. > > >Would seem that director would be able to export mp3 as well... > > It certainly could. > > Director DOES know how to make mp3 from 'traditional' sound formats. > > 1. the SWA Compression Xtra gets called deep within the Publish > function to compress the internal sound cast members into compressed > sound cast members & then the compressed data gets written into a DCR > or CCT. > > 2. Director Windows ships with an Xtra that can convert .WAV files to .SWA. > This Xtra could certainly be modified to offer .mp3 files as output > (as well as SWA) or it could accept .aif (Audio Interchange Format) > as input. > note: both of these ideas have been suggested as ECRs & got deferred. > > btw: If what you need is to make .mp3 files, I believe that there are > available squishin' applications out there ... even DOS ones which > can run batch files driven by text files ... > > hth > > -Buzz > > > > >[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go > >to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the > >list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with > >programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the > list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). >Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming > Lingo. Thanks!] > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: swa export xtra
Oh, you mean mac director natively can record audio? I was thinking Audio xtra to record the aiff/wav, then (originally) using the swa export to compress. But of course, yes, I can use masterapp and a standalone mp3 encoder. T'would be nice if macr added that since it's already there (the swa export). [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: refreshing image info - Additional Q
Why can't you just do something like. sprite(x).member.filename=whateverfile sprite(x).rect = sprite(x).member.rect -- that might shift the location so perhaps sprite(x).member.filename=whateverfile tLoc = sprite(x).loc sprite(x).rect = sprite(x).member.rect sprite(x).loc = tLoc or do sprite(x).width=sprite(x).member.width and sprite(x).height=sprite(x).member.height You get it. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: OT: wireless network
Honestly, any wireless network device uses 802.11b at the moment (linksys, apple). I've got an airport basestation here that I use with both mac and pc, wired and -less. On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, lpovoas wrote: > Sorry about the OT, i don't know were else would I ask it. > > I am working with a neighboor (he is a designer, i am the lingo guy) > and his house is about 60meters from mine. We intend to make a > WAN or a wireless LAN connection beetween our computers, so we would > not need to rent an office yet. > Which wireless solutions would be suitable for us at a reasonable > price? we intend to spend arround uS$150 for both points. > > PS: we use PC's, win 98 and/or 2000 > > > thanks in advance > Luiz Gustavo Castelan Póvoas > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: OT: wireless network
The first rev of the basestation has gone down in price; I could be wrong but I remember seeing it at dealmac.com for $189. Not bad. On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Howdy-Tzi wrote: > At 02:17 + 02/22/2002, lpovoas wrote: > > > I am working with a neighboor (he is a designer, i am the lingo guy) > >and his house is about 60meters from mine. We intend to make a > >WAN or a wireless LAN connection beetween our computers, so we would > >not need to rent an office yet. > > Which wireless solutions would be suitable for us at a reasonable > >price? we intend to spend arround uS$150 for both points. > > The wireless cards are all more or less interchangeable and go for > US$50 to US$100 apiece. It's the base station that's going to gouge > you. AirPort is US$300. I wouldn't expect any other brands to be less > than US$200. > > There's probably no way you could get it going -- with brand new > equipment -- for under US$500. > > Remember too you get what you pay for. If you buy really cheap > equipment, you can probably expect exasperatingly common comm > failures. > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: white flash
Is the white flash the color of your stage? Make sure that you don't have a blank first frame in the new movie or blank last frame in the one you're coming from. On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Tom Vandenbossche wrote: > I've made a project in several languages. When they f.ex choose for english > the external cast will switch to the english version. Common thing I think. > I used this isn several other projects too and it always worked. Now in this > project when I change from movie to movie I always get a white flash between > the two movies. I've never had that before. > > This is the script I use > > on preparemovie > set the filename of castlib "switch.cst" to "switch" & string(glanguage) > &".cst" > updatestage > end > > the cast has just a 30 text-castmembers so It's not loaded or something. > > > When I remove the script the flash is gone > > Any suggestions? > > Tom > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Audio extra?
Can't be done as far as I know. There was a MOTU 2408 xtra that came with the motu 2408 setup, but it merely sets the banks for the audiocards - you can't route the audio. On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Gabs Cool wrote: > > I have a soundcard with 8 phisical outputs and I would like to be able to > route the internal Director channels onto an output each, in order to > produce, for instance, surround content. > > Director only has one stereo output where all the sound channels are mixed > onto by default, so I should need an extra. Anybody knows any? > > > _ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.; > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Flash MX--less likely to slow Director projectors?
the flash player still has weird fps issues on the mac. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: The new director?
But y'all have to agree that Flash has had more high-profile exposure than director, and seems to have been helped along by Macromedia as well. I don't blame them, as I too would push the product that was getting attention. With that in mind, it's sometimes been a hard sell with director in terms of what a cleint may want - ie shockwave flash / shockwave director branding. Personally I find that the years of director programming help out with my flash stuff, and I'll concentrate on more flash work since there are more paying gigs for flash right now than director. You've got to at least admit that - buzzword and all. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: xml file & xml xtra - african swallows may be holdingmy file hostage
Laden or unladen swallows? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: smpte switch
The midi Sequence Xtra does system exclusive stuff. check updatestage.com On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, brian wrote: > Does anyone know of an xtra similar to this for the PC? > > http://www.rfbl.demon.co.uk/ > > > Brian Douglas (:ub) > > > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
to macromedia: jumpstart kit PC ONLY!?!?
Well I got my jumpstart kit for Maya today and I'm disgusted to see that it's pc only -- ok, I can understand teh exporter being pc only, but COME ON, the content, the interactive presentation is pc only? Really dissappointed in this. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: to macromedia: jumpstart kit PC ONLY!?!?
What exactly does this mean? Doesn't change my complaint. On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Jason Je wrote: > >From AW... > >Maya is available for these platforms: > >Windows® NT, Windows® 2000 Professional, IRIX, Linux and Macintosh OS X. > > Does this make you feel any better??? :) > Have a nice weekend!!! > > Jason > > > _ > Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Re: [3DDirector-L] to macromedia: jumpstart kit PCONLY!?!?
Ne-ope - the return address is Macromedia, Inc, 600 Townsend Street unless Alias' new office is in your basement;P On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Peri Cumali wrote: > > Uhm, that as far as I know it was made by Alias/Wavefront. I would > think so anyway, if it came with Maya. But I'm not exactly clear what it > is anyway. > > > You can be sure that we would try and make that kind of stuff available > for both platforms. > > PC > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Well I got my jumpstart kit for Maya today and I'm disgusted to see that > >it's pc only -- ok, I can understand teh exporter being pc only, but COME > >ON, the content, the interactive presentation is pc only? > > > >Really dissappointed in this. > > > > > >--- > >The 3DDIRECTOR-L support area is available at http://www.directoru.com/community/ > > > > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
powerpoint and director question - runtime?
Is there any way of importing a powerpoint presentation into a projector, not just during authoring? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: kiosks
Hey hey...I don't go for that kind of talk. It's DIRTY. OhROSTRUM. Like in the shining? On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, bhakti wrote: > i'll see your podium and raise you one rostrum. > > Kerry Thompson wrote: > > > > > looks a bit like a speaker's pedestal, or whatever it's called. > > > > > Podium. > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: 'go to the frame' from an on stepframe handler
Why even do it that way? Why not create a frame script that takes that list of cue times, create a timer/timeout object, and when that cue time is reached, flip to the next slide and restart the timer? you could do it in one frame. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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: 'go to the frame' from an on stepframe handler
I don't think a stepframe handler in a parent script will do it - surprisingly enough. I think you might have to do something along the lines of a global spread across all frames, that if it's true, go the frame, if not continue on. Then that global is triggered by the other media/parent script. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Silly Mac users
Oh please - let's get off this now. Besides you still sound like an ass. You like Windows 2K? Fantastic. Still a rip off of the mac os, which is a rip off of a xerox idea. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Silly Mac users
Yes, sorry. It's pointless, I agree. Tired...so tired... On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Kerry Thompson wrote: > Please, please, can we stick to Lingo and Macromedia? Religious wars are so > irritating, and seem to just end up with good people calling other good > people bad names. > > Back to Lingo? Please? > > Cordially (really) > > Kerry Thompson > > >Hi Howdy, > > > >Well you sounded like an > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
bowing out (mac vs pc)
Sorry all. No more. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Silly Mac users
(Tab and everyone, forgive me for posting this to the list; I was actually sending this directly until I saw the last post went to the list.) -- and this will be the last thing I'll say - I've got better things to do. But as I wrote this out I think I somewhat made a point with the target machines. First off, I'm not Howdy -- something I could never live up to -- but you're showing one more mistaken assumption. Second Mr. Bill has always made it habit of plundering the work of others. He's a fantastic salesman that way. But past that not much more. Windows came from Jobs coming to Gates and asking him to design apps for his new Mac project from that Apple 2 projects. Gates not only fell in love with the mac but the system, tried to copy it and came up with Windows. Of course WinXP is another mock-off of OSX, but I'm talking Windows birth was illegitimate, just like Apple's was of Xerox Parc. No big dealbut realize that before Windows became Windows, it was DOS. WINDOWS. Meaning the macintosh interface. As to mac vs windows, the difference is of one made up of components that are user definable but yet the OS has to support - a pc can be of any chips, any sound cards, vid cards, roms, etc. The other are components that the company creating the operating system is putting together itself. Now which do you think would make sense? Being the lingo programmer you are, how bloated would your OS be if you had to make sure that ANYTHING could be supported? I've used a number of cross-platform xtras -- Scott Kildalls' Audio Xtra worked flawlessly for a project on a mac in 3 days work. I then spent the following 2 months trying to figure out what machines and what sound cards wouldn't work (damn those Crystal Sound cards) -- then I had to do hacks with allowing a certain buffer amount to go past no matter what was being recorded. Still some pcs wouldn't work. I've had work with a video card not working with an xtra whereas on another machine with the same video card it worked perfectly -- and we couldn't find any difference between the two machines. Besides what it comes down to is the damn things are just tools. Yeah I could build a house with some cheaper tools, get a planer, a saw, etcor I can spend a little more and get a really good table saw. Colin made a good point about the difference, but I wanted to add one more thing... As to mac users not knowing anything -- well I love taking apart all my macs - hell I've got about 20 powermacs in the toolroom waiting to be poked and prodded; I've moved mac motherboards into 9bay atx cases so I could have more drives - scsi and ide. Hmmmwow, as soon as I'm writing this directly to you since your email stated you were writing to me directly, I get another one being sent to the list...so I guess this isn't being sent directly to me. I can't see how my last message had an arrogant attitudemore so than yours. By the way; isn't so great how Microsoft is preaching against Unix, spending 25 million in the marketting campaign only to not notice that the servers they're running it on are on Unix? Brilliant, right? On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, js33 wrote: > Hi Howdy, > > Well you sounded like an ass yourself that > is why I replied to you. > I'll get off it if you do. There is no need to cluter > up the fine Lingo list with your arrogant attitude. > Well Win2k looks nothing like XP which is what > you're referring to. Also you're right the Mac > totally ripped of Xerox Parc and now they're > ripping off Unix. Think different. Hehehee. > > Cheers, > JS > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Oh please - let's get off this now. Besides you still sound like an ass. > > > > You like Windows 2K? Fantastic. Still a rip off of the mac os, which is a > > rip off of a xerox idea. > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: The Wonders of Squeak - Was: Silly Mac users
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Mathew Ray wrote: > > ~Mathew J. Ray > Senior Interactive Design Student > www.seriphdesign.com/mathew Sorry - but I'm really curious about this - senior interactive design STUDENT? I mean are you in your senior year, or do you tell the other students what to do...? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Quicktime Xtra memory problem
Hey all - I've just been told by a company I did 2 apps for that they get crashes with a memory not being free error for the QT xtra -- basically I'm flipping the qt member to new Qt's by changing the filenameand there are a LOT of QT. Is the problem one where the video is not getting unloaded? They fixed the problem by going old school and splitting the one quicktime flip to multiple qt/frames, but it's kind of a 'dumb' fix [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: The Wonders of Squeak - Was: Silly Mac users
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Mathew Ray wrote: > > ~Mathew J. Ray > Interactive Design Student Who Happens To Be In His Final Quarter of > Enrollment > (I like the other one better) heh - IDSWHTBIHFQoE is so much more fun to say thoughtry it, you sound like a Superman villain [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Push Lingo to the limit - Was: (Re: Silly Mac users)
Trouble is the FFT Xtra only gets the bands of whatever's coming in through the audio in of the machine -- not from what's playing out -- so the only way you'll get one is if you put the audio out to the audio in of the computer...not elegant... [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
powerpoint and external app control
Ok, so I'm working on a sort of presentation creator using director...in other words I'm using one tool to make another tool that would allow users lowlevel control over a presentation sequence. The client wants me to be able to allow as assets video, images, sound, flash and most importantly powerpoint files. I know that Director can import powerpoint but imports it into the presentation as assets -- which is great for translating from one to another -- but there's no way of allowing pps presentations to be added at runtime, right? So my thought was to use budapi or a similar xtra that would allow external control of a powerpoint player, when a pps asset is hit in the sequence, to flip from director to the external viewer, and when finished, flip back to director and continue on Thoughts? Am I nuts? I mean about this [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
ravware ppviewer xtra
Hey all - if you got my last post (don't all reply at once!!!) I'm trying to control powerpoint files during runtime rather than importing during authoringI've downloaded and tried to test the PPViewer but the demo doesn't even workanyone ever tried this? If I can't control Powerpoint files during a dynamic sequence, this whole thing is screwed [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
print from dir...
Ok, I'm a pain in the ass today So I can print from director using the old internal frame printing -- or the printomatic xtra (which I could never get working properly) -- is there any way else to print specific media/assets -- like imaging Lingo? Like if I want to print a frame from QT, how would I do that? I'm guessing turn off directToScreen, grab an image of it, then either slap that into printomaticor? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Masterapp -- mappGetTaskWindowList probs
I've been trying to do mappGetTaskWindowList(taskid) on mac9.2.2 and I keep getting "" as a return. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Passing Parameters into Flash from Director
getproperty/setproperty and of course any variable you create, ie _root.whateverVariablename=whatever On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Chris Rasmussen wrote: > I'm aware of the callFrame command, used to call an ActionScript from a > Director event. But is there a way to pass variables directly to an > ActionScript? > > My client wants to use a Director slider to control the volume of sound > in a SWF, and he doesn't want to put it in the Flash movie itself. > > Thanks. > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
integers are symbols?
Hey all - just trying to figure out the best way of keeping a faked timecode to trigger animations, and in testing in the message window, I was going to keep the timecode as the property (I know, not the best way of doing things) with the animation to trigger as the value. Tried putting in #133 but dir sees it as 133, whereas "133" is correct as a string g[#1333]="14.1" g[#hep]="3" put g -- [#hep: "3"] g[133]=3 g["133"]=3 put g -- [#hep: "3", "133": 3] put #133 -- 133 Is this correct, meaning integers are symbols? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: integers are symbols?
Yeah; easier to deal with flipping to integers from strings rather than having the extra char to remove. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
appending one list with another...
so I've got 2 prop lists; I'd like to append one to the other witout having to do the 1 to count of the secondthere's no other way, right? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Good compression vs quicktime
I think DirectMedia handles mpeg 1, not mpeg 2. On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Manisha Sinha wrote: > > > But i wan't to program a director movie "installation free" (no quictime > > installation require). > > I once faced the same problem and found out that there is no way to avoid QT > installation unless you use a lower version ( I can get you the version if > you want) ... but that does not solve the "space problem" ... > > > What is the best compression in this case (MPEG 2?). > > I feel mpeg will solve the purpose and to play it "direct on stage" you will > need DirectMedia Xtra else you want to get it played in Windows Media Player > (which I feel looks shabby for a decent project). > > > Are you recommand to use DirectMedia in this case or director make a good > job > > by himself? > > There seems to be no way Director can play a video directly on stage. I have > been using DirectMedia Xtra for the past one year without any problems. > > Cheers > > Manisha > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
andradedarts - enhancer/res xtra registration....
Hey, sorry to bring it to the public list, but if the creator of the res xtra is subscibed -- a company I'm doing some quick fixes for need a response asap for a registration tonite for the res xtra. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
resolution xtra bug...
when you set a flash movie to not direct to stage, it flips the res back to the original [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Suppress error messages
Ah yeah - I was trying to remember what to look up in Bruce's LIAN ...but if you create a script for the alert hook, you have 3 different ways of returning the error to the user. On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Howdy-Tzi wrote: > At 23:51 -0700 04/13/2002, Kerry Thompson wrote: > > >When I ship my final product, I think there is a setting to suppress > >error messages (script error and the like). How do I do that? > > Write bug-free code. ;) (I know, I know, "If I could write that way I > wouldn't need the after-shave lotion...") > > Barring that take a look at alertHook. I believe that's what thou seekest. > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Message Window
Sure - select all in the message window before you run it again. On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Robert Rycroft wrote: > I apologize if this is not a "true" Lingo question. > I frequently use the Message window to debug programs. I will run the program once >and get a bunch of data in the Message Window. If I then run the program again, the >new data gets placed below the old data, but I often find it difficult to distinguish >the new from the old data. Is there a simple way to "clear" the Message window? > > Thank you. > > Robert S. Rycroft > Dept of Economics > Mary Washington College > Fredericksburg, VA 22401 > 540-654-1500 > > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: getPropertyDescriptionList code error
The problem is with the way director sees the line continuation or \ character. TAke out all of them (so that you have one long line) and I'll bet you'll be fine. On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, noelle cheng wrote: > Hi, > > I do regret posting this but I am confused. > > on getPropertyDescriptionList me >lProps = [:] >lProps.addProp( #pnMySoundChannel, [#default: 1, \ > #format: #integer,\ > #comment: "Which sound channel sprite?",\ > #range:\ > [#min:1, #max:(the lastChannel)]) > > > When I write the above, there is a script error stating that there is a > comma expected. > > I know that #default, #format, and #comment is correctly written. It is > #range which has a problem. > > But why do I need a comma there? There is already one between #min and #max. > > > Then I tried doing something else. > > > on getPropertyDescriptionList me >lProps = [:] >lProps.addProp( #pnMySoundChannel, [#default: 1, \ > #format: #integer,\ > #comment: "Which sound channel sprite?",\ > #range:\ > [#min:1, #max:(the last Channel)]) > > Now I receive an error stating that there is a script error: property > modifier expected. > > Then when I did this, > > on getPropertyDescriptionList me >lProps = [:] >lProps.addProp( #pnMySoundChannel, [#default: 1, \ > #format: #integer,\ > #comment: "Which sound channel sprite?",\ > #range:\ > [#min:1, #max:(thelastChannel)]) > > > the error message was variable used before assigned a value. > > > > This leads me to guess that the first getPropertyDescriptionList I have > written may be correct, so I checked everything in the code. But I believe > that there is no mistake and I have copied and pasted exactly from the > script. And I don't think I am short of a comma? > > Noelle > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: sequenceXtra problem URGET!!!!!!!!
WEll, is the instance of the seq xtra a global? Is the midi file done playing? I'd void out all that before clearglobals. On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, brian douglas wrote: > could anyone with any experience to sequenceXtra please reply. I am getting > a fatal error, that did not exist before. when fine, but if I clearglobals, it crashes the program. Baffled and in > surefire need of help. > > b > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
saving images...
What are my options (other than the $350 for the DirectImage xtra stuff) for saving a member's image/picture, etc to a file? Doesn't have to be a true image file but something director can read, ie using BinaryIO to take a member.picture, save it as a string, etc etc. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Refreshing sprites after use?
If you jump to a different frame with the same flash member but a 'different' sprite -- meaning it can be the same channel but on a keyframe - it will be a virgin again. Personally if you're doing a lot of dynamic text inside of it, I'd rather stay on the same frame/sprite and do sendsprite to it to blank it all out, or blank out whatever it is you've changed. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Refreshing sprites after use?
Well I hear if you have a sprite you haven't used in a year or so, it automatically becomes a virgin. Or something like that. On Mon, 6 May 2002, bhakti wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > - it will be a virgin again. > > > > > wow, i wish i'd have known it was that easy... > > > > --bh, singing old madonna to himself > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for >learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
