lingo-l Opening one projector from another projector
Hi all... Are there any caveats to opening one Director projector from another Director projector? Could anything like global or local variables or xtras get accidentally cross referenced? And is there a way to have one executable send another executable a sendSprite or other command? I know about buddyAPI's baSendKeys but the parameters seem to be just integers, where I'd ideally like to send another projector a string. Is this possible? Thanks, Michael M. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Opening one projector from another projector
Are there any caveats to opening one Director projector from another Director projector? Could anything like global or local variables or xtras get accidentally cross referenced? And is there a way to have one executable send another executable a sendSprite or other command? I know about buddyAPI's baSendKeys but the parameters seem to be just integers, where I'd ideally like to send another projector a string. Is this possible? I've never tried to share an xtras folder between to projectors, so not sure what would happen there. But each projector would have it's own private global name space. In windows you could pass a string on the command line when opening the other projector. Not sure about the mac, though. I know the mac will get commandLine info if it's in the form of a bundle and had a file dropped onto it. -- Cole [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Opening one projector from another projector
on 4/9/04 12:43 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all... Are there any caveats to opening one Director projector from another Director projector? Could anything like global or local variables or xtras get accidentally cross referenced? And is there a way to have one executable send another executable a sendSprite or other command? I know about buddyAPI's baSendKeys but the parameters seem to be just integers, where I'd ideally like to send another projector a string. Is this possible? Thanks, Michael M. When your projector starts up, it created temp files on the users hard drive. When the first one is quitting and the second is starting up, the second one can (and usually will) encounter problems trying to write its temp files, while the other projected has completed its clean up. (There are tech notes about this on the Macromedia site somewhere). What I've done in the past was utilize a little VB app that my first projector calls then quits. The VB app waits 10 or 15 seconds, (depending what I init it to do), then it launches the second projector. Problem solved. Since its two separate run-time experiences I'd write out a text file or setprefs to store variables or necessary data to be retrieved by the second projector. L8R, John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media Specialist OnDemand - Interactive, Inc. 847.651.4469 (cell) 847.310.5959 (office/fax) === [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Opening one projector from another projector
At 01:43 PM 4/9/04, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Are there any caveats to opening one Director projector from another Director projector? Shouldn't be, unless you count things like running out of memory. If Xtras are bundled, you'd have to test to make sure they properly got unpacked and deleted afterward, but that's about all. Could anything like global or local variables or xtras get accidentally cross referenced? No, they have their own process space. And is there a way to have one executable send another executable a sendSprite or other command? I know about buddyAPI's baSendKeys but the parameters seem to be just integers, where I'd ideally like to send another projector a string. Is this possible? There are lots of different ways, depending on how often they need to communicate. You can use files to pass info back and forth, you can probably find some Xtra somewhere - depends whether you're talking multiple times a second or only once in a great while. - Tab [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
