Re: lingo-l html in D8 or D9
Thanks everyone for the commiseration regarding Director's poor HTML support. Too bad, too. I was pretty excited about it. Thanks, too, for the tip that Flash is no better (that was my next idea). Short of using a commercial (not free) web xtra or activeX, it looks like saving the HTML with FileIO and opening it via goToNetPage(example.html) is a viable option. I just tried it here and it opened the file using my default browser. I'd really like to display the HTML in the projector, too, though. I'll keep at it. Thanks again, Mike 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 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Domains Claim yours for only $14.70/year http://smallbusiness.promotions.yahoo.com/offer [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l html in D8 or D9
Please let us know what you discover, Mike, if you keep at it. I constantly use Director's HTML displaying capabilities because I have huge numbers of texts that are already formatted as HTML, including tables. Like you, I lament the incomplete implementation. I need a crossplatform solution and I don't need to put a browser on the stage--just nicely formatted HTML text. It seems like a very common need because of all those HTML pages that we use in so many other projects. Thanks, Slava At 10:37 AM 5/21/04 -0700, you wrote: I'd really like to display the HTML in the projector, too, though. I'll keep at it. Thanks again, Mike [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l html in D8 or D9
Hello all, been looking with HTML in Director for a product label (to be saved as html and displayed within the projector). When I set the html of a #text member, however, director changes my html and renders it worse than the older Netscapes did. Does anyone know of a good resource for html in Director? I tried searching the archives of this list, but, since all posts have links at the end, every single post was returned in the search result set. Director-online was no help, either. The cellpadding cellspacing options get stripped out and any td with a bgcolor gets turned into a th. What gives? Thanks muchly, Mike __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Domains Claim yours for only $14.70/year http://smallbusiness.promotions.yahoo.com/offer [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To 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 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!]
Re: lingo-l html in D8 or D9
On May 20, 2004, at 7:53 PM, nik crosina wrote: 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. The issue is really no better in D10. The above would seem to be an option on Windows, and I believe that Windows-only folks can do something with Active X and IE... though I wouldn't know, really, as that isn't a cross-platform solution, and I force myself to pretty much ignore such tools. Still, it would be VERY cool if there were a cross-plat plug in which had the same API, but used Active X on Windows, and Web Kit on OSX. I don't deliver on or even run OS9, so I can't speak for how important that is, or how many developers would pay extra for that compatibility. While HTML has its own issues with text rendering, it may open up some new solutions to otherwise difficult text display. Director's internal HTML support, which I do use, is... less than ideal. And Flash? Even less so, IMO. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.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!]
