power point to flash
Hi, Can you tell me if it's possible to create an application in Director to import slides from power point and to convert them into flash files. every spare must be converted into flash file, and the whole stage will be also a flash file regards, Andrii Umrik [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: Planning a project: repeated
I think the reason you are not getting many responses is because the topic that you bring up could fill a whole book. But if you are asking about overall structure, here's what I typically do. I often work on projects that are made up of many movies. So, I typically organize each one to have a single internal cast that contains nothing (actually a single text member with my name in it), a "local" code castlib, a "local" assets cast, a "global" code cast, and a "global" assets cast. The movie really exists to maintain the score. In this structure, the global code castlib contains code that is available to be shared across all movies. I typically put main objects, behaviors, movie level scripts, and utility code in here. The global assets cast contains graphics, sounds, shapes, vectors, anything that might appear in more than one movie. Then the local code cast contain only code that is specific to this movie. And the local assets cast contains assets that are used only in this movie. Hope that helps give you a start. If you want to learn more about OOP, feel free to check out my on-line E-Book on OOP in lingo at: http://www.furrypants.com/loope Irv At 10:27 AM +0600 4/25/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Sorry if I double posted this message but I haven't seen it on the list, so >I decided to repeat the question. > >-- >Good day/night, developers. > >Sorry for such a kind of question in this list, however it is directly >connected with Lingo and any Director project. >The question is: what tools/methods/techniques do you, the experienced >ones, use to plan your projects, especially your scripts? The answer 'paper >and pencil' is not sufficient, because I need to know some more for >implementing any Lingo project. > >I've just started to make myself familiar with OOP in Lingo and have been >working over a Director project, but now I've stumbled with inability to >plan it properly. I can't get the overall view of my application and I'm >afraid that if I keep on without planning and organizing my staff, I'll >lose track on the projects' code and won't be able to use it later in other >projects. > >Some time ago I obtained a Universal Modelling Language 1.2 specification >(from Visio CD), which I looked through and decided it was too difficult to >learn (and not needed as for I'm not a software developer). From the >specification and the Visio documentation I got the idea that UML and some >other techniques let developers have different views of the project, but >I'd like to have 'real world' examples. I don't have programming >background, so I have no idea what to do. > >I can't describe the interaction between movie scripts, frame scripts, >objects, sprites, cast members, occuring in time. I have it in my mind, but >not as a whole picture. What is the way out? Share your experience, please. > -- Lingo / Director / Shockwave development for all occasions. (Home-made Lingo cooked up fresh every day just for you.) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: external casts
> yes, i know it looks weird, but that happened. i've spent > hours because of > that, digging into scripts, etc., and then occurred to me to > try to move it > without zipping, and it worked. not much 'scientific', i > know, but... well, > i tried to unzip it on a different folder now, and it works. > argh, computers... when you ZIP a directory that has folders in it using Win Zip there is a setting for "Save full path info." if you don't check that you end up with everything in a single archive. if you DO check it & then you simply dump everything out of the ZIP & not EXTRACT you also get a mess. HTH Al Hospers http://www.NEClimbs.com The home of New England climbing [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games." -- Ernest Hemingway To subscribe to the White Mountain Report send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with SUBSCRIBE as the subject. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: external casts
>>ZIP is a lossless compression, so zipping and unzipping won't make a >>difference. Also, with WinZip, you need to check the box that says "Save Folder Information" or something similar. There's also an option on unzipping to unzip into the original folder structure, if you set it up that way. Cordially, Kerry Thompson Learning Network [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Planning a project: repeated
Sorry if I double posted this message but I haven't seen it on the list, so I decided to repeat the question. -- Good day/night, developers. Sorry for such a kind of question in this list, however it is directly connected with Lingo and any Director project. The question is: what tools/methods/techniques do you, the experienced ones, use to plan your projects, especially your scripts? The answer 'paper and pencil' is not sufficient, because I need to know some more for implementing any Lingo project. I've just started to make myself familiar with OOP in Lingo and have been working over a Director project, but now I've stumbled with inability to plan it properly. I can't get the overall view of my application and I'm afraid that if I keep on without planning and organizing my staff, I'll lose track on the projects' code and won't be able to use it later in other projects. Some time ago I obtained a Universal Modelling Language 1.2 specification (from Visio CD), which I looked through and decided it was too difficult to learn (and not needed as for I'm not a software developer). From the specification and the Visio documentation I got the idea that UML and some other techniques let developers have different views of the project, but I'd like to have 'real world' examples. I don't have programming background, so I have no idea what to do. I can't describe the interaction between movie scripts, frame scripts, objects, sprites, cast members, occuring in time. I have it in my mind, but not as a whole picture. What is the way out? Share your experience, please. Slava [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: external casts
yes, i know it looks weird, but that happened. i've spent hours because of that, digging into scripts, etc., and then occurred to me to try to move it without zipping, and it worked. not much 'scientific', i know, but... well, i tried to unzip it on a different folder now, and it works. argh, computers... At 23:40 24/04/01 -0400, you wrote: >ZIP is a lossless compression, so zipping and unzipping won't make a >difference. > >HOWEVER, one way you can mess things up when zipping and unzipping is if >you use long filenames and they get lost or changed. If your zip doesn't >support long filenames, then a file linked as "My Special File" won't >exist anymore. MYSPEC~1 will exist, but Director won't know about it. > >- Tab > > >At 12:25 AM 4/25/01 -0300, Quixadá wrote: >>hi, mark >>thanks for your response, but i think that what has caused the problem is >>the fact i compressed the files with zip; if i only move the files >>without compressing, there's no error. >> >>At 10:43 24/04/01 -0600, you wrote: >>>Hi Quixada >>> >>>If you go to MACR site and the director support area then run a search on >>>relative paths, you should be able to locate the information specific to >>>external castlibs losing their relative paths when moving from one directory >>>or computer to another.. (authoring problem). There are some suggestive >>>workarounds/fixes, including renaming the castlibs using saveAs to restore >>>the links. >>> >>>Sincerely >>>Mark R. Jonkman > > >[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, >email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) >Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] []'s Quixadá web site - http://www.alternex.com.br/~quixada [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: external casts
ZIP is a lossless compression, so zipping and unzipping won't make a difference. HOWEVER, one way you can mess things up when zipping and unzipping is if you use long filenames and they get lost or changed. If your zip doesn't support long filenames, then a file linked as "My Special File" won't exist anymore. MYSPEC~1 will exist, but Director won't know about it. - Tab At 12:25 AM 4/25/01 -0300, Quixadá wrote: >hi, mark >thanks for your response, but i think that what has caused the problem is >the fact i compressed the files with zip; if i only move the files without >compressing, there's no error. > >At 10:43 24/04/01 -0600, you wrote: >>Hi Quixada >> >>If you go to MACR site and the director support area then run a search on >>relative paths, you should be able to locate the information specific to >>external castlibs losing their relative paths when moving from one directory >>or computer to another.. (authoring problem). There are some suggestive >>workarounds/fixes, including renaming the castlibs using saveAs to restore >>the links. >> >>Sincerely >>Mark R. Jonkman [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: external casts
hi, mark thanks for your response, but i think that what has caused the problem is the fact i compressed the files with zip; if i only move the files without compressing, there's no error. At 10:43 24/04/01 -0600, you wrote: >Hi Quixada > >If you go to MACR site and the director support area then run a search on >relative paths, you should be able to locate the information specific to >external castlibs losing their relative paths when moving from one directory >or computer to another.. (authoring problem). There are some suggestive >workarounds/fixes, including renaming the castlibs using saveAs to restore >the links. > >Sincerely >Mark R. Jonkman > > > >[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, >email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) >Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] []'s Quixadá web site - http://www.alternex.com.br/~quixada [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: Fireworks Animation
-- >From: "Erin Weller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Fireworks Animation >Date: Tue, Apr 24, 2001, 5:49 PM >The animation is saved as a PNG32 graphic. Do we need to convert it to an >animated GIF to get it to work --- Try exporting it from FireWorks as a Flash or GIF animation rather than a,,, PNG image. Steve Bennett www.ifmp.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Fireworks Animation
Clint, The animation is saved as a PNG32 graphic. Do we need to convert it to an animated GIF to get it to work Erin Erin, So what format is it in right now? - -- Clint >I have my students working on a portfolio project using Director 8. One of >the pieces that they are trying to add is a simple fireworks animation >that they created. Several students are having a hard time getting it to >play. It is coming up as a still only. What should I have them do when >they import the fireworks animation? Should they convert it to another >format, or will it work as is? any advice would be appreciated [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: Fireworks Animation
>X-Authentication-Warning: mail1.fcgnetworks.net: majordomo set sender to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] using -f >X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 5.5.3.1 >Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 13:37:29 -0500 >From: "Erin Weller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Fireworks Animation >X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail1.fcgnetworks.net >id OAA26154 >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Erin Have you considered using Flash as the firework animation, then embeding the finished flash animation into your Director show. You can achieve some interesting animations in Flash and the animations will work faster.. good luck john >I have my students working on a portfolio project using Director 8. One of >the pieces that they are trying to add is a simple fireworks animation that >they created. Several students are having a hard time getting it to play. It >is coming up as a still only. What should I have them do when they import >the fireworks animation? Should they convert it to another format, or will >it work as is? any advice would be appreciated > >Erin Weller > >[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: Open Explorer
At 13:28 4/24/2001, mitesh wrote: >In my projector one "Explorer the CD" option is there so click on that >Explorer is open & You can see the cd by explorer. >So if You have that then tell me. You haven't mentioned which platform you're targeting in any of your messages, so I'm going to assume you're asking about Windows. Here are some steps you can take to learn the Lingo yourself. 1. See 'open' in the Lingo Dictionary -- Important! 2. Determine which path you would like Explorer to open 3. Determine which program is running when you're using Windows Explorer 4. open thatPath with thatProgram Hint: Your subject line comes very close. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: Fireworks Animation
At 1:37 PM -0500 4/24/01, Erin Weller wrote: >I have my students working on a portfolio project using Director 8. One of >the pieces that they are trying to add is a simple fireworks animation >that they created. Several students are having a hard time getting it to >play. It is coming up as a still only. What should I have them do when >they import the fireworks animation? Should they convert it to another >format, or will it work as is? any advice would be appreciated Erin: Are you referring to an animation created in Macromedia Fireworks? Regards, Terry -- [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Open Explorer
Irv Kalb wrote: Thanks Ivr for help & fast help. But I want to open explorer by clicking on button which is in my projector like we click on explorer icon on desktop. In my projector one "Explorer the CD" option is there so click on that Explorer is open & You can see the cd by explorer. So if You have that then tell me. Mitesh [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: Finding the Hard Drive Name
File IO has a built in function for this. Here's how to use it. pDelim = the last char of the moviePath OSPath = getOSDirectory() where = offset(pDelim, OSPath) HDName = char 1 to where of OSPath And, no, the hard disk is not always C on PC's. Irv At 2:48 PM -0400 4/24/01, The Team wrote: >I have written a little front end program that will run off of a CD-ROM >and I need to store a small text file on the hard drive of both Mac & >Windows machines. I am using File I/O and everything works to this >point. It looks like I should use the searchPath to set up an absolute >path but every Mac hard drive is a different name. and is it just >c:\programs for Windows? > >Thanks for any assistance in advance. I think I have tried about >everything but I can't make it work. > > >Again thanks > > >David Rosenblatt >(7270 298-0079 > > >[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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 / Director / Shockwave development for all occasions. (Home-made Lingo cooked up fresh every day just for you.) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: linePosToLocV() difficulties
Thanks Mark
That's exactly what the problem seems to be. what I've done is revised my
code so every line in the text member has the same number of cells per row
in the table. In my case there are 5 cells per row now.
so the following code seems to work quite nicely now. at least after 10
minutes of testing, I suppose we'll see! It even seems to handle rows being
different heights.
pointClicked=the MouseLoc
currentMember=sprite(spriteNum).member
lineNum=sprite(spriteNum).pointToLine(pointClicked)
newV_Loc=member("txtList").linePosToLocV(max((lineNum-2)*5,0))
I need to have the Max function in there to handle the case where the user
clicks on either of the first two rows of the table. the first of which is
empty and the second contains headings.
thanks again
regards
Ian
>Hi Ian
>
>My memory is a little foggy on this one, but I ran into something similar a
>few months back when I was trying to display information from a sequel
>database in an HTML text member. If memory serves me right, you will find
>that the first line is a real line (the empty space that the table puts into
>the member at the start of a table). Then for each cell of the table, it
>should generate approximately 1 line per cell therefore if you have an html
>member then line 1 is the first line or empty space, line 2 is row 1, cell1,
>line 3 is row1 cell 2 and so forth repeating with each row in the table.
>Just screwy enough to drive a person to drinking when you try to figure it
>all out and even then there is no guarantee that it will hold true. Once you
>get out of the table, the line number seems to work again. Now one other
>thing to consider, is that if you choose a spot that is close to the end of
>the text of the line (or just after it) then it will go to the next line.
>Similar to the way a return at the end of a text line is really the first
>character of the next line and so forth. I wish you good luck on figuring
>that thing out... I wasted a lot of time trying to nail it down.. I just
>can't remember if I ever got it working reliably or just finally abandoned
>it.. the project eventually got abandoned anyhow.
>Sincerely
>
>Mark R. Jonkman
>
>
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Re: Finding the Hard Drive Name
Hi I am in search of, On click to open explorer so your budapi xtra... can do anything for me & from where i can get that please inform me as fast as possible. If other know about this then please inform me as fast as possible. Mitesh [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: linePosToLocV() difficulties
Hi Ian My memory is a little foggy on this one, but I ran into something similar a few months back when I was trying to display information from a sequel database in an HTML text member. If memory serves me right, you will find that the first line is a real line (the empty space that the table puts into the member at the start of a table). Then for each cell of the table, it should generate approximately 1 line per cell therefore if you have an html member then line 1 is the first line or empty space, line 2 is row 1, cell1, line 3 is row1 cell 2 and so forth repeating with each row in the table. Just screwy enough to drive a person to drinking when you try to figure it all out and even then there is no guarantee that it will hold true. Once you get out of the table, the line number seems to work again. Now one other thing to consider, is that if you choose a spot that is close to the end of the text of the line (or just after it) then it will go to the next line. Similar to the way a return at the end of a text line is really the first character of the next line and so forth. I wish you good luck on figuring that thing out... I wasted a lot of time trying to nail it down.. I just can't remember if I ever got it working reliably or just finally abandoned it.. the project eventually got abandoned anyhow. Sincerely Mark R. Jonkman [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: Finding the Hard Drive Name
Personally I would use the budapi xtra...say you want to store the text file
on the desktop
buddy = new(xtra "budapi")
-- say you want the text file on the desktop
tDesktop = baSysFolder("desktop")
-- now you've got the desktop folder regardless of platform/drives
you can use the fileio now to create the file at tDesktop &
"yourfilename.txt"
But with the crossplatform thing, best thing is:
tFileChar = the last char of the moviepath -- ":" for mac, "\" for win
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linePosToLocV() difficulties
Hi I have a text member displaying tabular information. i'm using the html property to create the formatting needed. The plan is to allow the user to click on part of the table and then position an appropriately sized text box over the piece of table data to allow the user to enter data. Everything works great with the exception of vertically positioning the text box. The problem is that linePosToLocV() doesn't seem to produce a predictable result, this is documented in the read me for version 8 (which, naturally, i only read after a couple of hours of fighting with this). I have the line number that the user clicked on, so my next thought was to use LocVTolinePos() and start at 1 and iterate through the pixels until I reached the current line number. However it seems like this doesn't work very well either. for some reason between pixel 26 and 27 it jumps from line 2 to line 7. it seems as though the line height is variable for the text member I am using, otherwise I would simply multiply the row height by the row number. Specifying a fractional row height seems to get it pretty close, but pretty close is not what I'm after. Are there any other obvious things I'm overlooking? Could there be anything in the html that might cause this problem. I'm generating the html so that's under my control if revisions are required there. thanks in advance Ian -- Ian Jempson Senior Developer Media-X Systems Inc. (613) 722-9990 ext. 17 http://www.media-x.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Finding the Hard Drive Name
I have written a little front end program that will run off of a CD-ROM and I need to store a small text file on the hard drive of both Mac & Windows machines. I am using File I/O and everything works to this point. It looks like I should use the searchPath to set up an absolute path but every Mac hard drive is a different name. and is it just c:\programs for Windows? Thanks for any assistance in advance. I think I have tried about everything but I can't make it work. Again thanks David Rosenblatt (7270 298-0079 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: Fireworks Animation
Erin, So what format is it in right now? -- Clint >I have my students working on a portfolio project using Director 8. One of >the pieces that they are trying to add is a simple fireworks animation >that they created. Several students are having a hard time getting it to >play. It is coming up as a still only. What should I have them do when >they import the fireworks animation? Should they convert it to another >format, or will it work as is? any advice would be appreciated [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Fireworks Animation
I have my students working on a portfolio project using Director 8. One of the pieces that they are trying to add is a simple fireworks animation that they created. Several students are having a hard time getting it to play. It is coming up as a still only. What should I have them do when they import the fireworks animation? Should they convert it to another format, or will it work as is? any advice would be appreciated Erin Weller [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Sv: SV: Dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder, but a inkproblem on some machines
I'm using mask ink 'cause I'm having 8 bit greyscale mask's for the anti ali'. I import a jpg picture and create the jigsaw pieces using 8 bit greyscale mask's. It's the new pieces created that's has the problem, but only in 32 bit ... I'm going to work on it again tomorrow. I report back to thew list. Thanks again. John > I've seen this happen with 32 bit bitmaps imported using photocaster. > If you set the ink to matte, you'll get unremovable white around the > edges. > > If this is the cause take the pieces and edit them in Fireworks: set > Fireworks as your bitmap editor and open and resave each member as a > 24 bit PNG. No more white goo. > > If it's a different problem then I have no idea. > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: new(#type) madness!
Glad to help. I have started a new chapter in my OOP book called "Tips and Tricks" and added this one to it. http://www.furrypants.com/loope Irv At 5:41 PM -0400 4/23/01, Dierdre Dixon wrote: >I must, in this moment of extreme joy and relief, express my most >sincere thanx to those involved in posting this little thread (looks like >way back in january). First, To Bryan for having the dang problem in the >first place, and to Irv for having the answer to it. You have truly saved me >from throwing myself out a window! Finding this little gem makes me feel a >little less embarrassed about not cleaning up so much back e-mail... > -- Lingo / Director / Shockwave development for all occasions. (Home-made Lingo cooked up fresh every day just for you.) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: Movie TIME out !!!
yes, that will work. i will leave the translation of pseudocode to lingo as an exercise for you. fun *and* educational. you may want to encrypt the date, by the way... OH and why don't you deliver this via shockwave?!?!?!?!? then you can just remove the movie from your server whenever you darn well feel like it! -bhakti Jon Paul Alongi wrote: > > hi people > > i building a test projector for a possible client accross the net > to make sure they dont use the software with out paying me...i want to > be able to have the program TIME OUT after about 7 days and not be able > to open again > > ive got my theories how to do this but its all Pseudo code...i dont > really know the reall code > > i would imaine something like this: > > on startup... > if there is a textfile called "myprefs.txt" then > read my text file. > > if the text file contains nothing then > write the date to the file. > > else > read date into memory and compare with toadys date. > calculate number of days. > > if number of days is => 7 then QUIT > if number of days is < 7 then continue. > > > Thankyou in advance for your help > > > Jon > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to > http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, > email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] -- R. Bhakti Klein Multimedia Programmer http://www.DLWorkshop.net Baritone, Wicki6 http://www.wicki6.com "On Earth, you can only do little things; but you can do them with a lot of Love." -- Mother Theresa [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: Recompiling scripts with lingo
well, that *is* a good reason. one of the (probably) several that i hadn't thought of... so you don't know about errors until you try to run the scripts? or are you talking purely cosmetically? --bhakti Luke Wigley wrote: > > >> Hi Listers, I was wondering if anyone knows a way of re-compiling scripts > >> using lingo only? (eg. the equivalent to either hitting tab on an open > >> script, or choosing 'recompile all scripts' from the menu) > > R. Bhakti Klein wrote: > > excuse me for asking, but why would you ever want to do this? would it > > really be more convenient to type in a word than to close the script > > window or use the menu? and i can't think of a reason to do this at > > runtime... > > Hi Bhakti, > The reason I want to do this is I've been writing a little authoring tool > for generating scripts -- running as an 'Xtra', it generates scripts from > some templates and user settings. It also does some error checking, > documenting and formatting of existing scripts. Its been working well, > except that the code it generates needs to be 're-compiled'. Its not a major > issue, really - I just wanted the code it generated to line up nicely. > > Luke > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to > http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, > email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] -- R. Bhakti Klein Multimedia Programmer http://www.DLWorkshop.net Baritone, Wicki6 http://www.wicki6.com "On Earth, you can only do little things; but you can do them with a lot of Love." -- Mother Theresa [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: OH no not again... Printing
On 4/24/01 7:25 AM, "John Horn (Home)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick, I did some tests with buddyapi xtra a few months ago and the printfile > command. My question with that is does the end user need to have acrobat to > be able to print the pdf, or is buddyapi smart enough to print without > acrobat being installed? > > Thanks, No you definitely need acrobat. BuddyAPi only prints any file with the software that it's associated with, so to print an .html file it would launch a browser, print, then quit the browser. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Open Explorer
Hi Friends, I want to open Explorer By lingo so i need that code if anyone know then tell me i am in trouble Mitesh [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: external casts
Hi Quixada If you go to MACR site and the director support area then run a search on relative paths, you should be able to locate the information specific to external castlibs losing their relative paths when moving from one directory or computer to another.. (authoring problem). There are some suggestive workarounds/fixes, including renaming the castlibs using saveAs to restore the links. Sincerely Mark R. Jonkman [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
DUN
>Hi, you need to use an xtra to control the dialing process. try the >DirectConnection xtra from www.directxtras.com > >Rodrigo Peres Thanks Rodrigo. Dennis Lucero Mediastreak __ www.edsamail.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
external casts
arghhh, after hours spending time trying to figure out what could possibly have happened to my projector and protected files, that lost track of one external cast, i found out that it's what happens when you zip all the files and their directory structure, and unzip them elsewhere. can someone confirm that? tia []'s Quixadá web site - http://www.alternex.com.br/~quixada [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: SO SORRY
is there a way to resize a mask bitmap cast member. i am trying to have a mask reveal a sprite but I can't animate the mask, itried switching the picture, having a library of 1 point different masks, but this seems rather inefficient and the regpoint was always set at center instead of aligning at the point i wished for. Flash/Director/JavaScript GUY Imaginary Studio http://www.imaginarystudio.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
resizing mask
is there a way to resize a mask bitmap cast member. i am trying to have a mask reveal a sprite but I can't animate the mask, itried switching the picture, having a library of 1 point different masks, but this seems rather inefficient and the regpoint was always set at center instead of aligning at the point i wished for. Flash/Director/JavaScript GUY Imaginary Studio http://www.imaginarystudio.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: OH no not again... Printing
> Nick, I did some tests with buddyapi xtra a few months ago and the printfile
> command. My question with that is does the end user need to have acrobat to
> be able to print the pdf, or is buddyapi smart enough to print without
> acrobat being installed?
>
Hi John,
Acrobat must be installed on the user's computer. Buddy is smart enough to know
that files with the ".pdf" extension should be printed with acrobat. If acrobat
is not installed, there is no application or file type for the PDF extension &
nothing will print.
We always check for acrobat at the start of the projectors using:
if baFindApp("pdf") = EMPTY then
we always give the user the opportunity to install acrobat (an installer is on
the cd-rom). If they don't choose to install Acrobat Reader and nothing prints,
well then that is their own fault (and I don't want to hear it) :-)
The best thing about the baPrintFile is that it will determine if there is an
application associated with this particular file extension and print using that
application. We have used to print PDFs as well as MS Word Documents & MS Excel
Spreadsheets -- with only minor changes to the code.
let me know if you have further questions.
Nick Youmans
FutureMedia
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Re: Dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder, but a ink problem on somemachines
Ditto for me...white background... PIII 600 on WinNT 4 SP6 128MB RAM Diamond Stealth III S520 with 8MB of VRAM Regards, Pranav --- "Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation." --Norman Augustine No transparancy .the pieces have a white background manisha -- On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:23:35 John Kanding wrote: .on some machines the >transparency doesn't work. Have a look at the beta at >http://test.advertainers.dk/arlagames/pusle/... [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: SV: Dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder, but a inkproblem on some machines
I've seen this happen with 32 bit bitmaps imported using photocaster. If you set the ink to matte, you'll get unremovable white around the edges. If this is the cause take the pieces and edit them in Fireworks: set Fireworks as your bitmap editor and open and resave each member as a 24 bit PNG. No more white goo. If it's a different problem then I have no idea. Rob [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: OH no not again... Printing
Nick, I did some tests with buddyapi xtra a few months ago and the printfile command. My question with that is does the end user need to have acrobat to be able to print the pdf, or is buddyapi smart enough to print without acrobat being installed? Thanks, John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nick Youmans Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 4:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OH no not again... Printing > From: "John Horn (Home)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ok, before I start beating my head against the file cabinet again this year > because printing in Director is such a pain. I used POM on the last project > I needed printing, but it seemed like I was constantly running around in > circles trying to figure out the POM coordinet system. Let me explain what > I need to do. I need to take 8.5 x 11 forms, display them on-screen, have > text fields that can be filled in by the user, and then print the form and > the text fields out. Yes indeedy, PrintOMatic is a pain for everything except the simplest things. I have several horror stories my own self! ;-) You might want to look into using PDF forms. You can take user data (from director) & slap it into a pre-designed PDF form document. I have never done this in a production piece, but I have experimented a bit. It isn't super hard. There is an article on how to do this at http://www.director-online.com/accessArticle.cfm?id=878 Once you have the PDF form data, it should be simple enough to print the form using the Buddy Xtra. Which, by the way, is how we now print everything -- PDFs via buddy... Good luck, Nick Youmans FutureMedia [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: Director 8.5 is live on the web site
>This is a a totally unofficial announcement. But since I am up and I >got the email > >http://dynamic.macromedia.com/bin/MM/macromall/scripts/catalog_page.jsp > >Pretty cool if you ask me, but I am totally biased. It is? Must get it then... By the way, when will shockwave be no longer beta?: http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/ [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
SV: Dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder, but a ink problem on some machines
My guess is that you are in 32 bit screen resolution that's seems to be the problem. Our 16 bit jpgs on a 32 bit resolution screen. I don't know why this happens here, might be som alpha thing. We will s new jpg later. Just for fun try to change to 16 bit and do the puzzle gain. Thanks John > > > No transparancy .the pieces have a white background > manisha > -- > > On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:23:35 > John Kanding wrote: > > > >I'm working on this dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder where the client just > >uploades a jpg and we cut it into pieces, but on some machines the > >transparency doesn't work. Have a look at the beta at > >http://test.advertainers.dk/arlagames/pusle/, and if you got the time, > >report back to me if it looks OK or if theres a white retangle > around every > >piece. > > > >Has anyone experienced anything like this before? > > > > > >cheers > > > >John > > > > > >BTW, been a while since I've been here, but it's nice to write > here again. > >Bad circumstances on the other hand ;-) > > > > > >[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to > >http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, > >email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > > > > > > > Get 250 color business cards for FREE! > http://businesscards.lycos.com/vp/fastpath/ > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to > http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: CROSS-PLATFORM ISSUES
>Yes. > >Look to director-online.com and do a search for hybrid cd-rom. Or use Toast on the Mac and select Hybrid from the Format menu. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: Changing the color of a variable
Hi All,
I have a text member which has a list of multiple choice answers. When the
user clicks on the answer the place where the
user clicked and the correct answer should change their color. I have been
able to get the user click to change the color, but
i am unable to change the color of the Correct Answer.
Any help would be appreciated.
Ravi
-- Stripped down
on mouseValue me
pointClicked = the mouseLoc
currentMember = sprite(spriteNum).member
paragraphNum = sprite(spriteNum).pointToParagraph(pointClicked)
put paragraphNum into LineNumber
member("Answer display").line[lineNumber].color = rgb(0,180,0)
paragraphText = currentMember.paragraph[paragraphNum]
if paragraphText = correctAnswer then
--Correct Answer is a variable which has the correctAnswer stored
changeColor
else if paragraphText <> correctAnswer then
changeColor
else
pass
end if
end
on changeColor me
--Code goes here
end
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RE: Dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder, but a ink problem on some machines
> report back to me if it looks OK or if theres a white > retangle around every > piece. > > Has anyone experienced anything like this before? No problem here: windows 98, PII 300, Double monitor system, RAGE II AGP & RAGE II PCI. Karina [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: Dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder, but a ink problem onsome machines
> >I'm working on this dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder where the client just >uploades a jpg and we cut it into pieces, but on some machines the >transparency doesn't work. Have a look at the beta at >http://test.advertainers.dk/arlagames/pusle/, and if you got the time, >report back to me if it looks OK or if theres a white retangle around every >piece. Nice looking pieces by the way. How are the graphics done? 16 or 24 bit JPEGs can lead to opaque white areas. 32 bitmaps made as JPEGs should have a good alpha channel, or you could use Flash sprites and have nice looking JPEGs (Flash sprites that contain JPEGs render much nicer looking in 8 bit color than regular JPEGs do). [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder, but a ink problem on somemachines, solved...?
We are using 16 bit jpgs on a 32 bit resolution screen and that's a problem. I don't know why. I haven't seen it in a browser ever, but then again I never work in 32 bit resolution. So we might redo the jpg's in 32 bit and try again. Thanks to every one who tested it cheers John [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: SV: Dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder, but a ink problem on somemachines
Oh yaI use IE 5.5 too with SW3D Preview. Regards, Pranav --- "Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation." --Norman Augustine WinME IE 5.5 Shockwave 3d prewiev Matrox G450 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
SV: Dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder, but a ink problem on some machines
Hi John, No transparency here. WinME IE 5.5 Shockwave 3d prewiev Matrox G450 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: Dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder, but a ink problem on some machines
No transparancy .the pieces have a white background manisha -- On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:23:35 John Kanding wrote: > >I'm working on this dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder where the client just >uploades a jpg and we cut it into pieces, but on some machines the >transparency doesn't work. Have a look at the beta at >http://test.advertainers.dk/arlagames/pusle/, and if you got the time, >report back to me if it looks OK or if theres a white retangle around every >piece. > >Has anyone experienced anything like this before? > > >cheers > >John > > >BTW, been a while since I've been here, but it's nice to write here again. >Bad circumstances on the other hand ;-) > > >[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, >email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) >Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > > Get 250 color business cards for FREE! http://businesscards.lycos.com/vp/fastpath/ [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
setting focus back to the main window after closing MIAW
Hello lists, Hope you can help me with this problem of bringing back the focus on the main window after closing a MIAW which called another MIAW. There is no problem now with crashes when closing MIAWs and no problem on setting focus if the MIAW to be closed does not call or open another MIAW. The problem only happens when that closed MIAW called another MIAW. The focus is set on any application that is running in the task bar. If i had opened a Windows explorer or the director or other applications before i execute the projector, then it will activate any of those applications in the task bar except the main projector. This will misled the user to open again the same application (projector) thinking that it quits. Is there any command that closes or detects another opened application before the projector will run? (desperate attempt...) I tried having this code on the close button of the first level MIAW, thinking that when i close this MIAW it will activate the stage/main window, no error, but still the same problem, it will not focus. Is something wrong with this code also? Result = baActivateWindow(baStageHandle()) I really needed your help experts :-( BTW, thanks Tab. in debt, ellen [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Open Explorer
Hi friends, In cd an Explorer cd one option is there so i also need to open explorer so i am in search of that script so please help me Mitesh [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: Dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder, but a ink problem on some machines
Pentium 3 600 matrox g400 1024*768 16 bit color depth Win Me (ita) Internet Explorer 5.50 (ita) it works fine bye rbx [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: Dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder, but a ink problem on some machines
John, > report back to me if it looks OK or if theres a white > retangle around every > piece. it seems to work fine here Win 2K Advanced Server NVidea video card IE 5 16 bit color however I do have problems finding white pieces against a white background at times. HTH Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alcambersoftcom http://www.cambersoft.com A famous linguist once said: "There is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative." YEAH, RIGHT [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder, but a ink problem on some machines
I'm working on this dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder where the client just uploades a jpg and we cut it into pieces, but on some machines the transparency doesn't work. Have a look at the beta at http://test.advertainers.dk/arlagames/pusle/, and if you got the time, report back to me if it looks OK or if theres a white retangle around every piece. Has anyone experienced anything like this before? cheers John BTW, been a while since I've been here, but it's nice to write here again. Bad circumstances on the other hand ;-) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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 8.5 is live on the web site
This is a a totally unofficial announcement. But since I am up and I got the email http://dynamic.macromedia.com/bin/MM/macromall/scripts/catalog_page.jsp Pretty cool if you ask me, but I am totally biased. Peri [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
wallpaper
hi, i use basetwallpaper to set the wallpaper from D8, but the xtra just can use bmp(is it?), i try to use jpg..(cau the bmp file size is much much larger then jpg), but fail... so is that any solution for me to use jpg to set wallpaper..i am in D8.pc.. thank _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Movie TIME out !!!
hi people i building a test projector for a possible client accross the net to make sure they dont use the software with out paying me...i want to be able to have the program TIME OUT after about 7 days and not be able to open again ive got my theories how to do this but its all Pseudo code...i dont really know the reall code i would imaine something like this: on startup... if there is a textfile called "myprefs.txt" then read my text file. if the text file contains nothing then write the date to the file. else read date into memory and compare with toadys date. calculate number of days. if number of days is => 7 then QUIT if number of days is < 7 then continue. Thankyou in advance for your help Jon [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: resize whole dir movie
Hi Sundeep, > i'll definately try that out and if > i just could > not make it right i'll ask u to elaborate more.u'll b > there for me > ...right. > many thanx again > regards > sundeep Just a notice, as drawRect is sometimes hard to understand (for me... hope you'll be more lucky) Actually the sourceRect someTimes trouble me, but in your case it should be no matter. The easiest to do your stuff, is someTghing like that: on switchStage (aRect) -- 1 - check inputs if (aRect.ilk <> #rect) then exit -- 2 - change stage rect (the stage).rect = aRect -- 3 - update the drawRect (the stage).drawRect = rect(0,0,aRect.width, aRect.height) end -- switchStage handler Haven't tried it, but the (my... hope it's the good one) idea is there Cheers, Séb [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: resize whole dir movie
hi seb many thanx for the reply. i'll definately try that out and if i just could not make it right i'll ask u to elaborate more.u'll b there for me ...right. many thanx again regards sundeep Hi Sundeep, Look the help for (the stage).drawRect -> it's an easy way to shake the stage, but also to scale down the whole stage (you can also try to scale it up... but you should go far from your screen if you don't want to be eye injured !) HTH, Séb >i want to create a presentation that would b like a showcase >of my work. >this would be a dir movie of 640X480 size having various links of the >companies i have worked for. i want the user to click on a >link and i want >to open a miaw in which the respective presentation i made >for that company >plays. now the problem is that those presentations are of >size 800X600 size >i want to scale them down to 400X300 along with the avis in those >presentations in perfect ratio of 4:3. >is there any xtra by which i can achieve this or instead of >miaw any other >workaround by which i can play those presentations without >taking the viewer >away from my companie's presenation. >kindly help. i m desperate. >i think it should not b impossible for lingo to achieve this. >regards >sundeep >___ _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: field chars
Hi Manisha, Just do a little behavior to filter the inputs onthe field, something like: property gpdlMaxCharCnt property pMember on beginSPrite me pMember = sprite(me.spriteNum).member end -- beginPSrite on keyDown me if (pMember.text.char.count < gpdlMaxCharCnt) then pass end if stopEvent end -- end keyDown handler on getPropertyDescriptionList me propL = [:] proL[#gpdlMaxCharCnt] = [\ #comment : "max nb of chars",\ #format : #integer,\ #default : 20,\ #range : [#min : 1, #max : 256]\ ] return propL end Note that this keyDown script is very simple... you should ask a test to pass also the arrows keys, DELETE and BACKSPACE even if the number of max chars is already reached HTH, Séb > can anyone tell me the script to limit the no of characters in a field > > thanx > manisha > > > Get 250 color business cards for FREE! > http://businesscards.lycos.com/vp/fastpath/ > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to > http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
field chars
hello list can anyone tell me the script to limit the no of characters in a field thanx manisha Get 250 color business cards for FREE! http://businesscards.lycos.com/vp/fastpath/ [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
subscribe Lingo
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Re: Recompiling scripts with lingo
> Doesn't saving a movie recompile? At least in authoring, there are > alerts if the are script errors. Doubtful at runtime- they probably > don't do that sort of check- easy enough to test though. I think saving does re-compile all scripts, but I'd rather not save -- even though my code for multiple undo's works flawlessly ;) -- I'd rather not force the end user to save their file after my software has gone through and altered every script castmember. Incidentally, the recompile isn't really necessary to run the scripts (it would just look nicer than going through and hitting tab on each edited script). My original post was probably named incorrectly. Constructing scripts from strings, then setting the string to be the scripttext of a member seems to work fine for creating executable code. For example, this will work to create an object instance on createScript str = "" str = str & "on new me" & return str = str & "return me" & return str = str & str & "end" & return str = "" & return str = str & "on mBarrack me" & return str = str & "alert " & QUOTE & "Kick it long to Richo" & QUOTE & return str = str & "end" -- tempMember = new(#script) tempMember.scripttype = #Parent tempMember.name = "TEMP-SAFE TO DELETE" tempMember.SCRIPTTEXT = STR <-- this seems to cause a compile of this script (since script errors will get reported) -- create instanced ObjInstance = script(tempMember.name).NEW() erase tempMember -- test instance ObjInstance.mBarrack() end (I got onto this a while back while experimenting with creating little 'virus-like' objects which could 'eat' other objects to gain handlers from their prey. Despite much experimenting, I couldn't get any emergent self-aware intelligence, alas :) Luke [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi 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: CROSS-PLATFORM ISSUES
Yes. Look to director-online.com and do a search for hybrid cd-rom. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
