Macromedia certification
hi, does anyone have any experience with Macromedia certification as related to getting a job (contract/freelance/permanent)? In other words has it helped anyone getting one? or do you know of anyone? thanks, nik ___ Web-based office space for rent. Free trial! http://www.officemaster.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: system disk
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system disk
Hi, How can I find out the drive letter of the crive that contains the currently running OS. We need to find this out as we develop a network app that might have the system run from other drives than the c:\ drive. Or is that not possible? Thanks for your help? Nik ___ Take your business online with Officemaster. Sign up for a free trial today! http://www.officemaster.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
LIST intersections
Hi All, I have got 5 list for which I have to find teh intersection reliably. I have found the code below on Intergration New Medias webstie in teh V12 DB support corner, as I am working with V12 databases in the saem project. I have modified the code to work on 2 lists, and am working on a model to make it work on 5lists, but it is becoming so unwieldy that I can't imagine that there is no simpler solution (mine being to keep the basic structure ofthe code as it is below, and comparing the first 2 list then teh result with the 3rd, the result of this with the 4rth , etc.) set field "result" = EMPTY -- Dir member. Can also be a Lingo list repeat while not V12Error() -- by "Next" on last rec of gT1 or gT2 set s1 = (mGetField(gT1, "RecipeID") set s2 = (mGetField(gT2, "RecipeID") if (s1 = s2) then put mGetField(gT1, "RecipeName")&RETURN after field "result" mGoNext(gT1) mGoNext(gT2) else if (s1 < s2) then mGoNext(gT1) else mGoNext(gT2) end if end repeat below my modified code for 2 lists (tComp_1 and tComp_2); tComp_1[i][1] refers to an index of the list; tCompResult being the list containing any intersecting elements + if (tComp_1 <> []) and (tComp_2 <> []) then set tCompResult = [] i=1 j=1 tError = 0 repeat while tError = 0 set s1 = tComp_1[i][1] set s2 = tComp_2[j][1] if (s1 = s2) then tCompResult.append(tComp_1[i]) i=i+1 j=j+1 else if (s1 < s2) then i=i+1 else if (s1 > s2) then j=j+1 end if if i > tComp_1.count then tError = 1 if j > tComp_2.count then tError = 1 end repeat else alert "No records found" end if + Thanks for any pointers in a direction Nik ___ Web-based office space for rent. Free trial! http://www.officemaster.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
no subject
Hi All, I have got 5 list for which I have to find teh intersection reliably. I have found the code below on Intergration New Medias webstie in teh V12 DB support corner, as I am working with V12 databases in the saem project. I have modified the code to work on 2 lists, and am working on a model to make it work on 5lists, but it is becoming so unwieldy that I can't imagine that there is no simpler solution (mine being to keep the basic structure ofthe code as it is below, and comparing the first 2 list then teh result with the 3rd, the result of this with the 4rth , etc.) set field "result" = EMPTY -- Dir member. Can also be a Lingo list repeat while not V12Error() -- by "Next" on last rec of gT1 or gT2 set s1 = (mGetField(gT1, "RecipeID") set s2 = (mGetField(gT2, "RecipeID") if (s1 = s2) then put mGetField(gT1, "RecipeName")&RETURN after field "result" mGoNext(gT1) mGoNext(gT2) else if (s1 < s2) then mGoNext(gT1) else mGoNext(gT2) end if end repeat below my modified code for 2 lists (tComp_1 and tComp_2); tComp_1[i][1] refers to an index of the list; tCompResult being the list containing any intersecting elements + if (tComp_1 <> []) and (tComp_2 <> []) then set tCompResult = [] i=1 j=1 tError = 0 repeat while tError = 0 set s1 = tComp_1[i][1] set s2 = tComp_2[j][1] if (s1 = s2) then tCompResult.append(tComp_1[i]) i=i+1 j=j+1 else if (s1 < s2) then i=i+1 else if (s1 > s2) then j=j+1 end if if i > tComp_1.count then tError = 1 if j > tComp_2.count then tError = 1 end repeat else alert "No records found" end if + Thanks for any pointers in a direction Nik ___ Cost effective technology solutions for business. Sign up for a free trial today! http://www.officemaster.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Fields & Fonts
Hi, Has anybody set the font on onlt characters of a field with lingo? I want to do the following: a field is populated with the resultsof a search. the items are names of video clips which the user can select by clicking on tick boxes next to them. I want these tick boxes to be part of the field as I want to be able to scroll the whole properly ( at the moment I am using 2 fields, and a self-made scrolling feature put together by individual scrollbar bits, etc. - works but not as smooth as I'd like it). One can change the font on character level manually, but what would be thelingop for that? Any sugestions much appreciated, Best Nik ___ Cost effective technology solutions for business. Sign up for a free trial today! http://www.officemaster.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: autoTAB
On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 10:24:13 -0400 , roymeo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>wil try your script, but I am not sure why i would need something of that >>length to shift the cursor from oneto the next text field > >you get what you pay for... > >roymeo > well, that was not really ment to offend, I am really just not sure,.. because if i have to write something of the length you went to then that prety much obliterates the need to have 'the keyboardfocus', as the 'simply behaviours / situations' can in most cases be dealt with with the auto TAB enabled and the sprites in the convenient order. anyway, back to work, i am sure there is a way to make it happene, and yes, thanks for your sript, nik ___ Cost effective technology solutions for business. Sign up for a free trial today! http://www.officemaster.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: autoTAB
>You know, Director can't read your mind as to which editable field to use >next :) you have to tell it somehow or other. This behavior uses the >sprite order as the order of precedence, lowest numbered sprite with this >behavior is the first one to highlight. > well i thought that I am actually telling Driector exactly that by saying something like: set the keyboardFocusSprite = 12 in english: 'plesae move the cursor to field/ sprite number 12' or have i misunderstood this now for years, I am just trawling my project / scripts agaion, to see what might be the problem, but i am arriving at the highly unusal state of having no idea, wil try your script, but I am not sure why i would need something of that length to shift the cursor from oneto the next text field hm.. i really must be overlooking something here, thanks, Nik ___ Web-based office space for rent. Free trial! http://www.officemaster.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: autoTAB
>-catch the key stroke with a keydown handler, either on the frame or the >sprite itself > >-knowing which sprite you're on, set the keyboardfocussprite, >you may also have to play with the editable property of the fields This TAB thing does not work. I am using Dir8.5, W2K, here is the srcipt I am using: As you can see I am - checking whether the keyboardFocus is on a field, - if it is, I check for the visibility of the next field down (on screen; or down in channel number -- the other way round to how TAB would normally work), as if that sprite is not 'switched' on there is no use having the focus on it. - if it is, I switch the focus to it. - I exit the handler (as further execustion would only have the next if statement execute and shift the focus again) I get erratic bahaviour, and at best a jump of teh cursor from a lower field (lower channel number) to a higher field (again, that is on screen as wel in teh score), here ist goes: -- TAB advance on checkTAB -- KEYCODE FOCUS if the framelabel = "search2" and (the keycode = 48) then if (the keyboardFocusSprite = 25) then if (Sprite(24).visible) then set the keyboardFocusSprite = 24 put "FOCUS "the keyboardFocusSprite end if return end if if (the keyboardFocusSprite = 24) then if (Sprite(23).visible) then set the keyboardFocusSprite = 23 exit end if return end if if (the keyboardFocusSprite = 23) then if (Sprite(22).visible) then set the keyboardFocusSprite = 22 put "FOCUS "the keyboardFocusSprite exit end if return end if if (the keyboardFocusSprite = 22) then if (Sprite(21).visible) then set the keyboardFocusSprite = 21 exit end if return end if if (the keyboardFocusSprite = 21) then if (Sprite(25).visible) then set the keyboardFocusSprite = 25 exit end if return end if end if put "FOCUS "the keyboardFocusSprite pass end checkTAB I hope that helps and there issomeone who can shed some lightonto the issue, BEst Nik ___ Cost effective technology solutions for business. Sign up for a free trial today! http://www.officemaster.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
autoTAB
Hi, I have a problem with teh AUTOTAB, as I cannot really control it as I thought it is possible. I have 5 fields that I want to use the tab to have the cursor jumpfrom field to field, but as I have to have the topmost (on-screen) field in teh highest sprite channel and vice versa, the tab jumps in the wrong direciton (from the lower fields up). Can that be changted - how do i set teh tab myself / catch the key code, etc? thanks Nik ___ Reduce your company's IT costs today with Officemaster. Sign up for a free trial! http://www.officemaster.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
no subject
Hi, I have a problem with teh AUTOTAB, as I cannot really control it as I thought it is possible. I have 5 fields that I want to use the tab to have the cursor jumpfrom field to field, but as I have to have the topmost (on-screen) field in teh highest sprite channel and vice versa, the tab jumps in the wrong direciton (from the lower fields up). Can that be changted - how do i set teh tab myself / catch the key code, etc? thanks Nik ___ Build strong relationships with your customers on Officemaster. Free trial! http://www.officemaster.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: html in D8 or D9
Hi Mike, I had to use HTML in Drector once (well, it was either that or converting 100s of files to text, and pic and reconstruct them in director 8.1 dir is not veyr good at rendering anything but VERY basic HTML, maybe you can look into using th eweb Xtra. it uses IE to display webpages, and works great with webpages. i see no reason why it could not be used to display local files as well. best r nik On Thu, 20 May 2004 10:09:40 -0700 (PDT) , Mike Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello all, ... Does anyone know of a good resource for html in >Director? ___ Take your business online with Officemaster. Sign up for a free trial today! http://www.officemaster.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
playing MPEG from server
Hi, does anyone know a reliable Xtra that does streaming and mpeg playback? I know of direct emdia xtra, streaming media xtra, mediaplay xtra, etc but none of them seem to do it either reliably or with a low enough spec. thanks nik ___ Web-based office space for rent. Free trial! http://www.officemaster.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: scrolling driving me mad
>How come that whe I scroll a field with 'scrollbyLine', the lines that scroll out of >view at the top also scroll out of everything! They don't seem to exist anymore! > I think it is the replacing of the tick-box symbol into the field of a ticked- box symbol that is does not like, this resets the scroll top to 0, and messes everything up. I am still using Dir8.5 - hope that the instabilities and bugs with fields are gone in the later(test) versions of Dir. Best Nik ___ Cost effective technology solutions for business. Sign up for a free trial today! http://www.officemaster.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
scrolling driving me mad
Hi, How come that whe I scroll a field with 'scrollbyLine', the lines that scroll out of view at the top also scroll out of everything! They don't seem to exist anymore! I need to - at all times - know how many lines a complete field has not only how many lines are VISIBLE. I need that as the scrolling field contains checkboxes, and when they are ticked I need to know how many lines down the tick is, as that references to items in a list! HELP, is this a bug or a feture! and in any case: how do I drive 'round it! Best and Thanks Nik ___ Take your business online with Officemaster. Sign up for a free trial today! http://www.officemaster.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
no subject
Hi, Another question re fields (my favorite types, ...): can i control the font of field text with lingo down to a word level. I realised that in the field window I can select multimple fonts for the text of one field, so I am thinking there must be a way of doing it with lingo as well? needed for: a field that shows the results of a database search (one result per line) with the first character of each line being a tick box (font 'wingdings 2') which then I want users to be able to tick as well thanx & seeyah Nik ___ Cost effective technology solutions for business. Sign up for a free trial today! http://www.officemaster.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
highlighting lines in a multi-line field
Hi, I am trying to find a convenient way to highlight complete lines of field castmembers. I know I can use the .highlight, but would like to highlight the complete line and not just as much of the line as covered by words (e.g. a line might only be half full) Has anyoen of you done that before, or knows a script I can adapt? I am experimenting with shape castmembers put behind the lines, maybe that is a way? Thanks on a Sunday... Best NIk ___ Cost effective technology solutions for business. Sign up for a free trial today! http://www.officemaster.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: MPEG Media Viewer + One
Thanks Troy and Valentin for your suggestions. In the meantime I have discovered the DataSafe Xtra and am considering it to encrypt all config files (there is the one settng my custom parameters, and then some database files and grtaphics) with an agreed key only known to me and my clients. This should allow the media viewer to descrypt the files correctly as the key will be built into it, as well as alllowing my client to keep encrypting the files correctly for each time they customise the media viewer. Has any of you experience with this Xtra? I don't need a weapons licence or something silly like that to use it for this applicaiton? ;-) Now the '+ One question': How would you implement a splash csreen that you want to pop up as the application launches? I faintly remember thast there was a way of doing that .. I'll look into the archives.. Have a nice sunday all (raining here in UK, good coding whether) Cheers Nik >You could also use something like the vList xtra to contain and save >the cast members with encryption... it could also save your INI >settings. > > You might consider providing your client an authoring tool which would >allow them to set up the casts and the INI files, and save the vLists. ___ Web-based office space for rent. Free trial! http://www.officemaster.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
MPEG Media Viewer
Hi guys, I am working on an MPEG media viewer for a client of mine. This is ment to work as a template so they can customise it for their clients. The customisation is going to be done by dropping the graphics into an 'assets' folder and configuring functionality of the projector with an ini / config file. Here my questions: - Is it possible to use the *.ini file that can be included with a projector for this purpose. I.e. including my own parameters? Or do I have better read in a separate (.txt?) file with MY data? - My client wants to be able to protect the viewer once the customised content is put in place (video files, graphic files and the .ini / config file) and we are thinking of authoring a separate application that creates a checksum that is stored with all the files and used to verify that the viewer or any of its contents have not been changed (e.g. by a third party substituting its graphics and video files, and passing it off as their work). Does any of you have any experience with that? Any hints much appreciated, I will continuew my research in the archieves in the meanwhile! Thanks, Nik ___ Take your business online with Officemaster. Sign up for a free trial today! http://www.officemaster.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: DVD Creation
To clear things up and cover all cases: yes you can combine DVD_ROM and DVD_Video content on one disk. A DVD player will ignore all content but the Video_TS and Audio_TS folder. It is not interested at all what other folders you put on the disk, and how many. As long as there is a correctly authored (e.g. with a DVD Authoring aplication such as DVD Creator from Sonic) Video DVD on the disk, your DVD player (hardware or set-top as well as software or computer based) will play it as DVD_Video title. As DVD players really only ignore what else is on the disk, it leaves you with a lot of freedom to put whatever other content you want on there. In other words, there are hardly any restrictions on the Director_based projects you might want to place there. Only thing is, - I think - , you can't make folders invisible, and to create x-platform disks (Mac and PC) the filestructure needs to be UDF rather than ISO. There are even Xtras out there that allow you to create your own DVD players (for Video DVDs that is) with Director. Nik ___ Reduce your company's IT costs today with Officemaster. Sign up for a free trial! http://www.officemaster.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: DVD Creation
>I can create a project with director that will play on my home DVD >Player? And if so is there a good tutorial out there? Hi, No you can't create tittles that play on your home DVD player. That is becasue to your DVD player conforms to the DVD-Video playback standard that governs the authoring of movie titles. Director can be used to develop basically and amongst other things ROM disks, be they CD or DVD. That does not mean that you can't combine DVD Video and DVD ROM content. e.g. titles that play like a DVD Video on your DVD player and like CD ROM on your computer. Hope that helps, Nik ___ Take your business online with Officemaster. Sign up for a free trial today! http://www.officemaster.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: PDF CLASS for creating PDF with lingo
... due to an activex control that is only used >for the "experimental" implementation of deflate compression in test3, >but you can just ignore this message (and delete the script control and >the test3 button), test1 and test2 should still work. ... Hi Valentin, Fantastic what you have done. Some Feedback to your PDF creation, then again you might know that already. The demo application, test 3 gets caught by Norton AntiVirus as malicous script. Otherwise works reallt well! Regards,. Nik ___ Build strong relationships with your customers on Officemaster. Free trial! http://www.officemaster.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: HTML and email
I've noticed that Earthlink will let me >send to a non-Earthlink mail server multiple times before the messages >begin to be blocked. Not sure why that is - but I can generally squeeze >out a few emails - at least w/that particular ISP. Hi there, I haven't been following this thread closely, so I might suggest something irrelevant or already mentioned: Why don't you send the email without a mailserver. That's possible with the DirtectEmail Xtra. I have done this many times for CD-ROMs and never had any problems so far. It might be a touch slower but works fine. Best Nik ___ Take your business online with Officemaster. Sign up for a free trial today! http://www.officemaster.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: browser embeded inside director
Hi there, That's a nice control, I have not used ActiveX too much, How can I find out what Lingo is available for the web control? Thanks, Nik On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 10:24:47 +0530 , "Anand Ravi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi! > >Assuming that you have placed the web browser control on sprite 5, > >Call 'navigate(sprite 5, "www.google.com")' or whichever url you want to >display. > >Regards, >Anand Ravi > >- Original Message - >From: "Prasis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 3:28 PM >Subject: browser embeded inside director > > >> >> Hi, >> >> I saw that browser can be embded inside the director. I had tried to do >> that but I cannot find the way. Can anybody help me to do so.(calling html >> file and displaying inside the stage) >> >> thank you >> prasis >> >> >> [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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!] > ___ What is a perfect score in ten-pin bowling? Find out at postmaster.co.uk http://www.postmaster.co.uk/cgi-bin/meme/quiz.pl?id=234 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Fwd: ipix
Hi I am just wondering: Has anyone used the iPix Xtra before? On their web site it says that they don't sell it anymore (but it seems come as standard part of the pro-ipix app). Also, is this crossplatform or just Mac? Thanks for the help!! Nik ___ What is the only mammal which can fly? Find out at postmaster.co.uk http://www.postmaster.co.uk/cgi-bin/meme/quiz.pl?id=202 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
linking of cast - can't get it to work...!
Hi,
I am trying the following:
After developing a project with all mvies (stub + main + a number of MIAWS) at the
same folder level, the client has decided that all but the stub have to go into a
folder called 'data'.
I have a 'scripts.cst' which is used by the main movie only and this is proofing teh
problem for me.
Everytime the stub is now opening the main .dir that resides in the data folder, it
asks me where the cast 'scripts.cst' is, by opening the folder navigtion box
displaying the folder level of the stub (so that I can clearly see the data folder
diplayed on the list).
It is doing this even though I have (on startmovie) set the filename of the
castlib("scripts.cst") to the moviepath & "data\scripts.cst"
This does only occur once I burn the project on to a CD (or run it over a network),
not when I run the stub in my development machine.
Any ideas, anything i am missing here?
Thanks guys,
Nik
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Re: Web Broswer in Director MX
hI tOM, Its easy with tabuleiro web xtra. since all windows machines have the IE browser installed, there are (hardly) any compatibility issues. have used it on many occasions. you can custom build your brwser in director and limit the URLs the user can use very nicely. custom design web sites for the dir projector, etc. all very straight forward, nik [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
escape key code
Hi, I would like to implement a quit whenescape is being pressed. I am using a n Xtra that is playing back video at full screen and for some reason disables ESC, but still receives keycodes / keydowns. Does anyone know what the ESC keycode is? Where can I find a list that corresponds to teh numbers Director uses? Thanks, Nik [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: UDF file structure PC and Mac share an Xtras folder?
I'd sure try it to see if it could be done -- just be sure the UDF can handle files with resource forks (which some of your Xtras will probably have). having one xtras folder for both works fine. i've tried running the mac projector across my network from my pc and it worked fine. liekwise the pc projcetor. tomorrow we'l find out how it's going to run from a disk with UDF file structure. let you know, nik [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
UDF file structure PC and Mac share an Xtras folder?
Hi List, I've got an interesting problem: We are burning a DVD ROM and these disks use the UDF file structure (asopposed to ISO or HFS, ot else) and if a Mac has the UDF extension installed which most macs do, it can read it. Problem is, if I want to make that crossplatform with both projectors (mac / pc) at rootlevel for convenience,then I have to put all Xtras into one Xtas folder (as I can't have 2 folders with the same name and how would the OSs distinguish anyways). Is that possible? Thasnk Nik [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
flash sprite problem - strange morphings going on
Hi , I am not entirelysure whether that is a question for a flash or director list, but since the problem really only occurs once the flash movie is imported into director, i'll post it here... I am using flash to create a continous loop between 2 jpegs. the flash movie is very simple ahs 2 channels with one of thejpegs serving as a background and the other one being faded in and out (converted into a symbol using the alpha). [i know the ahole thing can be done in director just as nicely, but i wanted to do it in flash; even more so as i thought it should be easy... and work). it works fine in flash and when i play it back in a browser or stand-alone. once imported into director, the faded in jpeg (the one that is a symbol) is stretched either horizontally or vertically. the whole flash movies dimensions basically pulsate with the rtansitions between the jpegs. what is happening here? flash thing,? director thing? hm, thanks for any ideas? nik [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: drop down menues
Haben Sie in das OSControl Xtra von peghole.com geschauen? -- WthmO well done and thanks! posted that accidentally to the wrong list (or not as it turned out...)! Nik [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
drop down menues
Hallo, mal eine schnelle frage: Hat wer schon mal eine drop down list (im detail gehts hier um eine laender liste) in Director gebastelt? Hab das grad vom client erfahren, dass der das gerne haett', aber nocjh nicht mal zeit gehabt mir das genau zu ueberlegen. Das muesste ja von greund auf gecoded werden, oder? Xtra moechte ich aus kostengruenden wenn geht vermeiden, aber gaebe es da ueberhaupt eines das das auf windows macht (Win98 aufwaehrts). Danke, Nik [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Mac OS X development
Make a bundle. It should work on Macs pre-X with CarbonLib, and will ... have you done that before? It's about 1am in the morning and my bloodshot eyes browsed over the page you send, but my brain is beginning to be a bit blur. Or is there anyone else who has done bundling before and cam across anyissues with it? Any hints very much appreciated! Thanks, NIk [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Mac OS X development
Hi, I would like your general opinion on something: Do you think that it is worth developing an educational application for the general public (schools and corporate training) across the globe specifically with OS X in mind or could I do projector for the 'old' Mac OS and have Mac OS X users run it in classic mode? The project is to be cross-platform (PC/Mac) and I am trying to figure out what the best solution is on this, as I am not sure of the Mac OS X penetration of an already fairly small Mac user community (and any increase of it over the next 3-4 years). Thanks for your thoughts on this! Nik PS: are there any resources / stats for installed Mac OSs? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: URGENT - creating screen saver from .dir movie
Thanks, Charlie I found it but it is not free, or did i get te wrong one here (its called screen saveer maker) nik [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
URGENT - creating screen saver from .dir movie
Hi , An urgent question: Just got a call from a client who wants to turn an existing .dir movie (a linear presentation) into a screen saver for a trade show. I know there are Xtras (? or utilities) out there that do the job. They usually also convert flash files. As I am tryoing to research which on eis best, does anyone have already got positive or negative experiences with any of them? quick thoughts extremely appreciated!! thanks nik [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Dir. movies for Mac X
You'll hopefully just need to make the projector under OS X. You can also make the OS 9 projector under Director MX. Thanks Colin That's bad enough! So tp recap: For a truly xplatform CD-ROM, I'll need to make a Windows OS projector, a Mac OS 9 and a Mac OS X projector (with possibly having to debug the whole thing (and buy extra Xtra versions!?) for OS 9 and OS X separately?? Hm.. do I like that? Nik [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Dir. movies for Mac X
Hi, I want to know (having developed a director movie last on a Mac with OS 8.6): In order for a projector to run properly without any performance problems on a Mac X machine, do i have to develop it (ideally) on a Mac X machine as well and / or compile the projector with Dir MX? Thanks Nik [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: icon question
How do you create a custom .skl file? Got me thinking here for a while! I think used Michelangelo for that, yes I am quite sure. Let me know if it does not work (unlikely though...) Nik -- How many satellites does the planet Uranus have? 0, 5 or 15? Find out at postmaster.co.uk http://www.postmaster.co.uk/cgi-bin/meme/quiz.pl?id=211 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: icon question
#What's the best way of changing icons for a pc projector? I've used microangelo in the past, but it seems to kill projectors now... Hi Grimm, I do it by creating a custom 'Projec32.skl' file for th eproject in question. This file determines which icon the finished projector will have -Director uses it when you compile a projector. So iyou don't have to fiddle with projector once its finsihed. I keep them (the icons for my current projects) in a folder in the Director older and swap them out with the original Projec32.skl to suit the project. It is a bit tedious to constantly copy and rename this file, but its the easiest and most reliable way of doing this I have found so far (bless all Mac users here!!) greetings Nik -- How many satellites does the planet Uranus have? 0, 5 or 15? Find out at postmaster.co.uk http://www.postmaster.co.uk/cgi-bin/meme/quiz.pl?id=211 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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- interactive TV on DVD - with Lingo??
> It's Sonic Solutions, and the product is DVD Fusion. Easy to get > confused with the company named Sonic Fusion! > > In any case, I couldn't figure out what the price was (late breaking > news, some prices here: http://www.sonic.com/). It's probably not the kind of prgramme you want to buy because you have one project to do (unless you are financially carefree orthe project long and financially worth the investment). It costs around £2000.00 upwards as far as I know, and there is a huge choice of additional hard and software to fit your exact needs. For professional looking video work you will need a whole lot of video editing equipment (decks, format converters, reference monitors, etc., etc). There are cheaper options, but these are usually only feasable if you use them for small, shirt projects (generally where there is little workload / priority on the gear). Best thing to do might be to go to a prfessional video post house and get it done there if is a one off anyway. Nik [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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- interactive TV on DVD - with Lingo??
> Alternatively, does anyone know what software is used to make interactive > DVDs for TV (y'know, the movie, the outtakes, the interview with the > director/the star/the babe, and a menu to tie it all together)? > > Plenty of advance thanks, > What you want to use is Sonic Fusion or any of their high -end DVD authoring system. Sonic is by now one of the 2 (or 3?) companies that make really heavy-weigth DVD authorig software that allows access to all csriptable features of DVD. The scripting of DVD Video is very complex while at the same time not very far reaching. In other words, it (almost) needs a degree in computer science to do what loks like a basic thing for a lingo programmer. A bit of an overstatemetn, but that's what it looked to me when I got into DVD video authoring. There are DVD Xtras for Director out there but they are of no use to you as Colin pointet out, as they allow full access to the 'DVD video' specific files from wihtin a director projector so you can build your own DVD player (for example). Hope that provides another prespective. Nik [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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 issue
> It's common for hardware accelerated codec to clear the video buffer > to a color, so that's one possibility. Another one is that MPEG1 used > to do its thing by keying through one color in the video. Either way > it relates to video hardware. Thanks Colin! where do you learn this things from? amazing, anyway,.. that sounds like one ofthe most plausible explanations so far. it is not really disturbing or anything i'll spend time fixing, too minor an issue, but interesting to know... Nik [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi 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 issue
Hi List, I experience a peculiar thing with QT. I am playing back a MPEG on one frame and as I leave the frame by clicking on a button (on mousUp, go "somewhere_else", end), the following hapens: - the MPEG stops playing - the QT sprite background goes DARK GREEN - the new frame (somewhere_else) is displayed Of course all of this is taking place in a split second - just slow enough to be noticed by a quick eye. No background is set to green, the background before the QT is playing is black graphic that incorporates other interface elements, all inks are copy. Does anyone know where the green is coming from? Thanks Nik [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Create TxtMember ON THE FLY - adding mouseUp - CONTINUE
> property pValue > property spriteNum > > on beginSprite me >sName = sprite(spriteNum).member.name >theValue = value(the last char of sName) > end > > on mouseUp me >SomeHandlerThatWillCheckForCorrectness(pValue) > end should that be: pValue = value(the last char of sName) ?? Nik [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
DIrector MX development
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Director coded where??
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Re: xml in foreign languages
> I want to put all the text in XML. > Is there anybody who has encountered any kind of problems along this line. > (meaning in XML and in Director) > I expect trouble because char's are displayed well in the xml (using UTF-8) > and browser > but not in director . that's why i ask . > > thanx > > erik. Hi Erik I have not used it but apart from the XML parser in Director, there is an XML Xtra in beta development from a company called Dom Lingo (http://www.dom-lingo.webhosts2000.com). If you use it it would be nice to let us know how you got on with it. Nik [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: ANN: Director MX
> > http://www.macromedia.com/software/director/ I read it on a german lingo list few hours ago, think being based in london and speaking german gave me a bit of an time based adavantage here... basically it is just a new interface with minor updates (OS X support - big plus for some, I guess). but not enough to justify a few hundred quid for an update. but see for yourselves. nik [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Please give me a clue on how to proceed with this.
> -- if there is a connection, then the app: > > - checks for previously saved info and uploads that I'd add to that: - and destroys the previously saved information if uploading was successful. can you actually be sure that, if teh user is not on-line at the time s/he is doing the test, s/he will EVER be on-line to submit the questions? intersting Q Nik [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: opening pdf's from director
hi you could always you PDF Xtra. you can then open PDFs and go to the page you want to display with 2 lines of lingo at the most. youhave to buy this xtra, but thats the same with buddapi if you are using more than 2 of their routines... nik [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
hiding folders with resources
Hi, I am wondering: has nayone on the list tried the following: the project we are working on at the moment is quite 'all over the place'; there are movies that call movies and external resources arejust sitting on the same level as teh main movie. to clear up this clutter we are thinking of placing everything in a folder called 'data' and then hiding this folder so that the user only has to deal with the stub projector and the autorun file. did anyone try this and had probs, or does it run into problems on certain operating systems (we only develop for win)? thanks nik [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
video conferencing
Hi, Has anyone tried to include a video conferencing feature in a director project? If so, any thoughts on that would be very much appreciated. I am working on a project that would benefit greatly if it was possible to set up video links with a predetermied central computer. So that every CD-ROM that carried the Director projector can be made link to that central computer regardless on which other machine it is run. Thanks Nik -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: sound latency problems
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> on mouseEnter me
> sound(1).play("whatevermember")
> end
>
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probably you have checked this already, and i am just talking nonsense, but have you
checked that there is actually no silence in the beginning of the sound file before
the actual sound starts?
nik
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Re: converting 8.5 files to 8.0
> Brian's said that it worked out for him. If you tried it and failed, > I guess you must have missed a step, or typed a wrong number. possibly, colin, but by then i had spent too long finding installing and getting my hed around resource editors, and finding the right number configurations,... nik -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: converting 8.5 files to 8.0
hi, i tried the method of resource edinting, etc. unfortunately it didn't quite work for me, as i ran out of time and could not keep trying something i couldn't be sure to work for me. but: i came up with the desparate idea to simply copying assets from v8.5 to v8.0, and as far as i can remember it worked (with some adjustments to the score) i did it on the computer that v8 installed; downloaded and installed the v8.5 trial version (from the macromedia site), opened the 8.5 file and a new 8.0 movie and started copying! that was definitely the fastest method i can recommend.. if the movies you have to convert are very big / complex, etc. then that is quite probably a long process ;-) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
info from mothership
PICKED THAT UP FROM THE GERMAN LINGO LIST 'STARTMOVIE.NET': nik [[[} In addition to the forthcoming new Director version, Macromedia is also currently working on producing the Flash MX Asset Xtra for Director. Details regarding a potential release date, functionality, and version compatibility of the Xtra have not yet been made public. I will notify this list when this information becomes available for me to communicate. I understand the frustration of not knowing potential release dates and functionality, and I'm doing what I can on this end to see what if any further information I may communicate at this time. All I can say now is; the forthcoming new Director version and the Flash MX Asset Xtra for Director are both currently under development. Everyone involved here is working very hard to adhere to aggressive production and release schedules. The forthcoming new Director version will be OS X compatible. Regards, Bob Tartar Macromedia Developer Relations [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
changing icon of projector
Hi, I am wondering whether there is a way of changing the icon for PC projectors,.. Thansk NIk [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
director 8 - 8.5 compatibility
Hi, Thought I let you know what I just found out! Director 8.5 is not backward compatible with version 8 as I presume many of you have found out. Well, apart from the method that involves editing the hex-code of the files, etc. there is something else I have found: I needed to transfer Dir 8.5 / PC files to a Dir 8 / Mac environment. I downloaded Dir 8.5 trial version (mac) from macromedia, opened the pc files with it. At the same time I opened my Dir 8 version (so I had 2 'Directors' running on my Mac), and then tried to 'select all' and 'copy' the score from the 8.5 version into the 8 version. And - it works! You can transfer the score, scripts can be manually copied, as they are text and if you have got your cast members outside director then you are really lucky and just ned to import them into the version 8. I am ecstatic that this worked as it saved me a few days re-doing everything - so I just have to spend time going over the movie smoothing out any rough edges that might have aoccured in teh procedure... Thouht I let you know.. Nik -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: CTRL-ALT-DELETE again
maybe another solution would have been to create an onscreen keyboard and use a touch screen, but i am sure that that was considered... ;-) or not nik -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: look of sprites.. solved it!
found the feature, soemhow my sprite prefs were set to show sprite frames, switched that of and everything is fine now, also foundout that i can swich between the views with edit spriteframes and edit entire sprites what a feature,.. nik -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: look of sprites in the score
> PS: how did you get the inspector inside (above) the score window? Never > seen that either. Might be helpful on windows, where authoring with 2 > screens is somehow annoying > if you mean the sprite tool bar, then just go to the view main menu, and check the sprite toolbar option (or ctrl-shift-h) nik -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: look of sprites in the score
oh, and split, join or any other 'sprite' related menu does not have any effect on this 'other' sprite presentation... nik -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: look of sprites in the score
thanks florian, but keyframes, splitting and joining sprites is something i use a lot and have no problems with. also i realise that my problem may easily be confused with it. i have put a screenshot of what i mean at: http://www.multimediaworkshop.co.uk/screenshot/ you can see there that some sprites are drawn in a long uninterrupted line, with a keyframe at certain frames. but if you look at the sprite in channel 5, you see this 'other' incarnation of sprites i am talking about. each individual cell can be selected indiviually, will (probably) have its own begin/end sprite event, etc. these sprites still have keyframes as you can see from frame 150 in channel 20. i have not found anything about this way of sprite presentation in the help files or on macromedia.com. and it annoys me that i can't (quickly) figure out howe to convert them back to the 'standard' presentation, as te way they are presented here sprite animations cannot be re-sized as keyframes that are 'in the way' when shortening the animation are simply erased hope that helps! thanks nik. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
look of sprites in the score
hi, maybe a stupid question.., but what is the reason that some sprites show up as a smooth line with e.g. a keyframe at the beginning and one at the end, and others show up as a line made up of little boxes? when i select the latter one, only one sprite is selected, instead the whole 20 or whatever frames the sprite might last across. what's the use of this feature, can i convert from oneto the other? thanks, nik. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
look of sprites in score -am i missing something?
hi, maybe a stupi question.., but what is the reason that some sprites show up as a smooth line with e.g. a keyframe at the beginning and one at the end, and others show up as a line made up of little boxes? when i select the latter one, only one sprite is selected, instead the whole 20 or whatever frames the sprite might last across. what's the use of this feature, can i convert from oneto the other? thanks, nik. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
scrollTop and many other text / field format properties
hi list, does anyone know what the heck is goingon with the text and field format properties, such as scrolltop, font, line height, etc, etc, (the list is long). it seems if i change one of them, 3 others change as well, i can't set for the life of me the scrolltop of some sprites to 0, i go to the sprite on stage, move it all up (to 0), go to the text (or field castmember for that matter) cast, move it to 0, and the moment i choose 'save' -- everything goes back to where it was; scrolltop of said text-/ field castmember-/ sprite is were it was before -- at some ridiculas 666 (is it a sign?) it really, really annoys me becasue it is now 1 o'clock at night and i have dozens of text castmembers to format and its like playing a mean game... any ideas? thanks!!! nik -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: importing htmls
> When i import i loose the images. what shud i do to ensure that images stay > in place. Hi, I imported html some time ago and found that Director only implements html v1.x. And I don't think that images are possible at all. I had to stick with very simple tables, in-line formatting of fonts and text styles (like 'bold'). The reason I used html at all was, because I had to display a large number of engine specifications (all in tables) and it would have been a nightmareto try and recreate this layout in Director in any other way (althought there is an Xtra somewhere that simultes tables) Hope that helps, Nik -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: (no subject)
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 13:05:37 -0500 "Eric Terry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone show me the way to find the member name of the sprite when this > rollover is done? > Is there a way to use that name in my case statement? hi, this should give you the name of the sprite in question, you can then use the nameof the sprite in your case statement. sprite(currentSprite).member.name nik -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Cross platform video CD
> I have a cross platform CD to complete in short order. The CD will contain [] Hi Jim, I did a few CDs with your requirement and found that having just one set of movies is enough as I simply produced the mac version with quicktime and the pc version with direct media xtra. All my movies were mpeg 1 files and it worked a treat. Cheers, Nik -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
onstage products
hi there, just to find out whether any of you have used any 'onstage' xtras from a company called 'visible light'? we are just about to try the 'onstage osdvd for director professional edition', and i thought i ask whether there are any known issues beforehand. much appreciated, nik -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
importing / dealing with excel and word docs
hi list, just wanted to know whether anyone has had the oportunity to import, display and possibly even manipulate excel or / and word docs in director? cheers, nik -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: text field scroll bars
Thanks, but has anybody else expreienced that, is it a bu8g in director, or am I alone in this? Thanks, Nik Buzz Kettles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > after you turn off the visible for the scrolling sprite, try > > the stageColor = the stageColor > > (this causes a repaint of the stage) > > hth > > -Buzz > At 12:22 AM +0100 6/18/02, you wrote: > >hi list, > > > >just a minor, but annoying feature of Director and how to possibly avoid it: > > > >has anyone experienced that if you switch off the visible of a text > >castmember, that had its 'boxtype' set to 'scroll', its scroll bar > >remains on the stage?, and that ifd you then swithc on another (or > >the same) textcastmeber, you can't scroll it anymore. > > > >it seems that director has to go through a complete frame redraw to > >get rid of the scroll bar, or am i wrong here? is this a feature or > >a g ;-)? > > > >thanks for any comments or tips to aviod this. > > > >nik. > >-- > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
opening a new browser window
Hi List, I am working on a project that requires a web page to be opened by a projector. I know the gotonetpage lingo, and have used it before, but maybe there is a way of doing what I need to do right from within Director: I need to open a browser window that appears at a particular position on the screen, and is of a particular size with no toolbars showing and not resizable. At the moment I am working on a work-around, where I am calling a dummy page which in turn opens the final web page with the right size and position. Problem is that if I use 'window.self.close()' after the 'window.open()' in the dummy page (javascript), Internet Explorer asks the user in a dialogue box whether they want to close it. This is what I want to (have to, really) avoid. Hm, do you know whether this is possible? Many Thnax Nik -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: backward compatibility of director versions
> Did you change one pair of numbers or two pairs of numbers? One pair > wouldn't do the job. > yes when i first tried it i changed the two pairs, as you said in your article. Haven't had a chance to try again, but will do today... cheers, nik -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: backward compatibility of director versions
> Well, I do, and it's good for you to prove you read to the end. Did > you modify two sets of numbers? Are you on a Mac, and if so did you > change the type and creator? > yes, I did change what I believe to be the right set of numbers. Using the program(s) that you suggest in your article and doing a search on the sequence revealed that there were a few instances of the sequence, but only one whichhads the other 2 sets of same combinations. Also changed the creator and type, so the file shows up with the right icon. I am transferring from a PC to a Mac. I'll try again and let you know how it went! would be really great if it worked! thanks fo your help, Nik -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: backward compatibility of director versions
Thanks all of you for the hints and tips,
I tried the procedure outlined by Colin in the articel, buit still get an error saying
the file is too new. ("Director PLayer Error. Movie PATH cannot be loaded. The file is
too new.")
Anyone knows the guy in Siberia? Maybe he can help me - I'd even send some sweets ;-)
Best Nik
>
> Read this article, especially the second half:
>
> http://www.director-online.com/accessArticle.cfm?id=1034
>
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backwards compatibility between Dir v8.5 PC and v8 Mac
Hi, I have an urgent problem which is that I have developed a project on a PC with Director v8.5 and now have to make it xplatform for the Mac. BUT I only have Director v8 on the Mac and it tells me that the file is too new to open!!! Is there any way to make this happen as I do not fancy to redo the whole thing apart form there not being enough time between now and the deadline!!! Thanks a million, Nik -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
backward compatibility of director versions
Hi, I have an urgent problem which is that I have developed a project on a PC with Director v8.5 and now have to make it xplatform for the Mac. BUT I only have Director v8 on the Mac and it tells me that the file is too new to open!!! Is there any way to make this happen as I do not fancy to redo the whole thing apart form there not being enough time between now and the deadline!!! Thanks a million, Nik -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: random text movie
hi, still studying at SAE? If your animation is all framebased, then you can easily use directors export feature (file main menu) and select which frames you want ot export and select the file type (series of stills images, quicktime, or .avi) hopethat helps, nik ":: v e r n x s ::" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dear all, does anyone know how to convert/export an animation generated with > lingo to quicktime/avi? > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: meber changing its type - like magic
ahhrg, there is a script with that name. didn;t see the wood for the trees, ..at 3.30am 8-0 > Have you checked to see if you have any other cast members named "mainmenu"? > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
meber changing its type - like magic
hi list,
i have a strange occurance in my project: i am using a text cast member, whose
multiple lines serve me as a menu list. i am using
member("MainMenu").color = rgb(102,102,102)
and similar syntax to change the color of the line over which the mouse is moving.
a miaw is used as part of the project that shares 2 external casts with the main
movie: 'shared_assets' and 'scripts'.
in the scripts cast is a startmovie handler which (executes twice: main movie, miaw)
that resets the color of the text member in question.
no my problem: this only works when the main movie starts, but when the miaw opens i
get a 'property not found' error and on checking the type f the castmember with a
'put', i realise that the #text castmember has changed to a #script castmember!!!
am i missing something here, has someone experienced this before?
thanks for ANY hints!
nik
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Re: QT communicating with Director
Might be wrong completely, but if QT can talk to Flash, then u could try to embed the QT in a flash moive end embed that in Director, because Flash can talkt o director and vize versa, -- a bit longwinded but poss worth a try nik > Is there any way for a quicktime movie, when it is done playing or when the > user does something, to communicate with Director? > > I have a QT movie that is 4 min long inside of director. i need a way for it > to trigger something in the director movie when it's done playing OR when > the user does something. From my experiments, a flash geturl inside of the > QT won't do. > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Wav file playback issue followup
> As in previous posts I am having trouble with a Director project that has > all the sound files playing back at double the normal speed. Nothing I > have done has made any difference. > > > Operating System is Win 2000 Professional with SP1 Hi Debi, I might not have the solution toyour problem, and maybe mine is comp[letely unrelated to it, but there I go: My workstation also plays back sound AND video files at double speed, it also is a Pentium 4 processor and Windows 2000 professional. So maybe there is a more general problem. Though I have not done any troubleshooting yet as I use it for coding only so I am not so concerned about how the sound/ video play back... Good luck, maybe you can post a quick pointer here as to what the problem was should you be able to fix it.. Many thanks, and best regards, nik -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: re: bitmaps showing up white II
hi heike, if you think it's to do with memory i am sure you also by now tried to unload each member once the user clicks to go to the next screen (page)? that'll keep the memory usage roughly the same for each screen, rather than filing it all up until it runs into problems... tschuess, nik > hello again, > > thanks for your responses! > > i've tried chaning my dummy to all sorts of different members with no > results (still white squares). > then i thought the whole thing through overnight and it seems to me that it > could really be a memory problem. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Re: bitmaps showing up white II
hi heicke, you could try changing the dummy to a different color (if it is not transparent) to find out whether it's the dummy, or simply set the member to "". also, do you puppet everytime you change the members? should only be necessary once. caio, nik > hi there nic, > > dankeschön für die schnelle antwort .-)) > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: bitmaps showing up white II
Heike, Had another idea: Have you double checked the sprite puppeting? Is it REALLY necessary? I found that it sometimes caused me more trouble, because you need to be careful as to when you set it to true or false. Try a small version of your project (couple of screens) without puppeting but with some alternative - don't know how you structured your piece. guessing from your name we probably could discuss that in german was it not fo this fab list!" cheers, Nik > hello there, > > it's not just random pixels but the whole area the image should be covering > which is white. > i tried reimporting the images into the same movie to no avail. my > import-settings are 8-bit, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: bitmaps showing up white II
what does the effect look like? like some pixels just turned white for no apparent reason? had that before, and trying to remember what the reason for that was. i fixed it in the end. might be to do with the color pallete(s) you bitmaps are using. did you try reimporting them, with slightly different settings? > > i just looked at my project some more: > it's not just bitmaps that show up white, it's also text members. > > *oh no no no no no* > heike > -- "If it's not a bug, it must be a feature." [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
importing vector graphics into Director
Hi, I got stuck with a logo that has to resize and twist around would like to know whether there is a way to import a vector graphic into Director from - say -illustrator rather than creating it in director? Many thanks, nik [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
moving an object in a 3D world
Hi list, I need your opinion on the matter of moving objects through the 3D world: I am faced with having to move objects along a certain path which is calculated in its deviations from a guide path (just a series of vertices really) at runtime. These deviations are the distance to the guide (offset) and the speed along the path (including ease in/ -out from one speed into the next). I am now thinking that it might be better to create a set of motions in e.g. 3D studio Max and calculate the deviations and stick them into a motion list rather than moving the object along a set of vertices which I currently calculate from the guide path. Any ideas of how this might be done 'normally' - this is my first 3D Lingo project! Many thanks, Nik [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Catmull-Rom Splines
Dear List, I trying to create a horse racing track with 3D lingo and am using the Catmull Rom Spline formula as suggested by Barry Swan. It seems to work fine, with the only problem being that on the straight stretch of the track the interpolated points are still wavy and not straight. The way I have set it up is that I have created 16 control points that describe the track: 6 points describing a half circle each side and in between these I have put one control point on in the middle of the straight run of the track. Did anyone experience simmilar problems? Do I need to increase the number of control points? Any input appreciated! andmany Thanks, Nik [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Catmull-Rom Splines
Dear List, I trying to create a horse racing track with 3D lingo and am using the Catmull Rom Spline formula as suggested by Barry Swan. It seems to work fine, with the only problem being that on the straight stretch of the track the interpolated points are still wavy and not straight. The way I have set it up is that I have created 16 control points that describe the track: 6 points describing a half circle each side and in between these I have put one control point on in the middle of the straight run of the track. Did anyone experience simmilar problems? Do I need to increase the number of control points? Any input appreciated! andmany Thanks, Nik [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
DVD Xtra
Dear List, I have a quick question regarding Director and DVDs. Does any of you know whether there is an Xtra that allows Director to read the Video_TS (or Audio_TS) folder on a conventional DVD disk? In other words: Is there a way of extracting e.g. the mpeg streams of the DVD and use them in a Director applications that sits on tesame disk in the 'DVD other' area? Thank you very much for your suggestions /refereneces.. Nik [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: displaying HTML in director
Thanks Bill, That confirmed my suspicions! I am now - as you recommended sticming to th emost basic html possible. I simplyfied all tables,etc and it seems to be working fine. The only reason I am using html in Director is because I could very easily use OCR software to scan the the engine specification tables I needed in Director and save them as html from MS word. After cleaning that crap up it works reasonably well in Director. Will look at the Xtras as well! Thanks, Nik On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 15:24:38 -0500 "Bill Numerick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Nik, > > If your trying to do anything besides very basic HTML your going be tearing > your hair out :). I have done quite a bit of research on this because of a > project I'm currently working on and didn't really find any one source that > could tell me a whole lot. What people on the list told me (and i found to > be true for the most part) is that it uses HTML 1.0 basically. I'll see if > I can help any with what I remember about that nightmare :). > > As far as tables go keep them VERY basic and you'll be ok but as soon as you > start to do nested tables or rowspan/colspan its going to puke. I found it > to be pretty inconsistent with using table widths also. > > A lot of things that is standard now for closing tags for example > Director reads as . Things it doesn't understand it simply rips out the > code and continues on which can leave you wondering, "Hey where did that > go?" If your using lists in your html make sure they are unordered lists or > at least they make sense as one (because Director will turn it into one). > As i'm sure you know or have found out the image tag does not work either. > > If you stay real basic you will be ok but more than that and your better off > getting an Xtra right now. There are a few out there that do more than > Director but are still pretty limiting (at least for what I needed). > > You can try looking for: > > HTML Xtra (just returns coords for images and no table support, unless its > been updated) > > Web Xtra (PC Only, enough said) > > LiveCD (no table background colors and text cannot be selected) > > Or you can do what we did and have an Xtra developed that suites your needs. > If I can help anymore let me know. > > HTH > > Bill > > > > >From: "nik crosina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: The Lingo List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: displaying HTML in director > >Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 18:48:08 + > > > >Dear List! > > > >I would have looked up the mailarchieve, but that seems to be undergoing > >maintenance at the moment as I am sure this a common question: > > > >is there somewhere a low-down on what and how director can display html? i > >found it gets stuck already with tables that have rows spanning several > >rows and i don't want to waste my time working this out by trial and error. > > > >many thanks, > >Nik > >[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to > >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L > >is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > > > > > _ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.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!]
displaying HTML in director
Dear List! I would have looked up the mailarchieve, but that seems to be undergoing maintenance at the moment as I am sure this a common question: is there somewhere a low-down on what and how director can display html? i found it gets stuck already with tables that have rows spanning several rows and i don't want to waste my time working this out by trial and error. many thanks, Nik [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
regarding creating cue points
list! i found out: sound forge can be used to create cue points and cool edit pro, so no probs, see you, nik [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
how to create cue points for sound file
dear list, i came across a little problem: i need to sync animation to sound and want ot do it with cue points placed in the sound file. i know in the mac i can use sound edit 16, but which application can i use in the pc (which i am currently working on) is there one at all? thanks, list! nik [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
