RE: lingo-l HELP! - Network: find server by name and map to local drive
Hi, Under windows you have to use, in a shell command net use [drive name]: \\computer_name\share_name. If you have any problem type net use /? Regards Jean-Charles -Message d'origine- De : Steven Sacks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé : mercredi 18 juillet 2001 22:38 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : RE: lingo-l HELP! - Network: find server by name and map to local drive Sorry, this is for D6.5 on Windows NT 4. Thanks! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steven Sacks Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 4:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l HELP! - Network: find server by name and map to local drive Hello, I've been asked to find a server across a network by the name of the server (not drive number) and then map it to a local drive (not even sure what all that means). This is to save a simple comma delineated list in a text file that needs to be saved into a specific folder on a named server and this needs to work in many different networks where the server might be a different drive letter. Also, it needs to check on start-up whether or not the network is connected. Any ideas? Is this possible? Thanks in advance, Steven [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!] [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-l Database connectivity
Hello Lingo users Can any one teach me how to connect a Director .exe with the databases in access or SQL server. That is, if i have certain text fields in my movie and i want to retrieve data in those from some database, or insert data from those fields in to database, how this would be done? Help me plz plz plz quickly Sheraz Email me at : [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.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: lingo-l Database connectivity
chk out this site www.shocknet.org.uk should answer most of your questions without the need for an xtra b. Hello Lingo users Can any one teach me how to connect a Director .exe with the databases in access or SQL server. That is, if i have certain text fields in my movie and i want to retrieve data in those from some database, or insert data from those fields in to database, how this would be done? Help me plz plz plz quickly Sheraz Email me at : [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.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!] [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-l DID YOU KNOW there was Lingo for animated gifs?
Hi guys, I wanted to share this with everyone, 'cuz it can really be a life saver for those who want to use animated gifs in Director!! Thanks to the HandyMan! We found out that there is a way to rewind, start, and pause an animated GIF. It's just a sprite command in lingo, so you could say: property pSprRef property pPlaying on beginSprite me pSprRef = sprite(me.spriteNum) pPlaying = false me.updateGIF() end on mouseUp me pPlaying = not pPlaying me.updateGIF() end on updateGIF me if pPlaying then pSprRef.resume() else pSprRef.pause() end if end The only downside is that you have to write your own controls to keep track of what frame they're on, but at least you have the start and the stopping under control. Looks like we both learned something new today, -Will Michael Nadel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mediart - Multimedia as an Art Form [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: lingo-l directoryToList in FileXtra3
Hi... In FX3 directoryToList() goes by the name fx_FolderToList(). Regards, Pranav --- Samuel Colt - the inventor of the point and click interface. snip I took a glance into a documentation of FileXtra3. But I could not find out an equivalent method to 'directoryToList' in FileXtra 2 snip [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: lingo-l directoryToList in FileXtra3
Thank you, Pranav. You are right. I had thought that 'fx_FolderToList' method would have returned only folders. But a returned list contains files as well. _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi... In FX3 directoryToList() goes by the name fx_FolderToList(). Regards, Fumio Nonaka Attain Corporation Phone: +81-3-3255-4941 Fax: +81-3-3255-5998 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.attainj.co.jp [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-l multi-page forms
Hi all! I'm trying to use Director's (8.0 on Win2k) built-in Form Post actions to process a multi-page form and send to a cgi script for database processing. Understandably, these are only built for single-page scripts, i.e. all form items on the same page as the submit button. My question is this... has anyone successfully modified these scripts, or know of others, that will let me accomplish this? Thanks! Ian [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-l integer to RGB
Hi, Anyone have a script to convert an integer value to RGB components?? TIA, Chris * Chris Aernoudt Multimedia, Web Application Developer Pixellink nv Interactive Communication Projects Noorkaai 22 B-8870 Izegem Belgium Tel.: + 32 (0)51/32 02 25 Fax.: + 32 (0)51/32 02 26 email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pixellink.be * This email is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. You are explicitely requested to notify the sender of this email that the intended recipient was not reached. * [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: lingo-l multi-page forms
Hi all! I'm trying to use Director's (8.0 on Win2k) built-in Form Post actions to process a multi-page form and send to a cgi script for database processing. Understandably, these are only built for single-page scripts, i.e. all form items on the same page as the submit button. My question is this... has anyone successfully modified these scripts, or know of others, that will let me accomplish this? I don't know what built in actions you are referring to here. is this something from the library? if so it is a behavior(s), a quick mod would be to turn the properties containing the variables into globals. then they would persist between pages which I assume are markers in your movie. hth Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alatcambersoftdotcom 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!]
Re: lingo-l DID YOU KNOW there was Lingo for animated gifs?
Wasn't simpler to press the categorized Lingo button then choose the Animated Gifs menu? All commands are listed there. Btw - Animated Gifs is the very 1st voiceof lingo dictionary by feature. Doei Faisal Hi guys, I wanted to share this with everyone, 'cuz it can really be a life saver for those who want to use animated gifs in Director!! Thanks to the HandyMan! We found out that there is a way to rewind, start, and pause an animated GIF. It's just a sprite command in lingo, so you could say: property pSprRef property pPlaying on beginSprite me pSprRef = sprite(me.spriteNum) pPlaying = false me.updateGIF() end on mouseUp me pPlaying = not pPlaying me.updateGIF() end on updateGIF me if pPlaying then pSprRef.resume() else pSprRef.pause() end if end The only downside is that you have to write your own controls to keep track of what frame they're on, but at least you have the start and the stopping under control. Looks like we both learned something new today, -Will Michael Nadel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mediart - Multimedia as an Art Form -- [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: lingo-l integer to RGB
Here's something Colin had posted on the list a while back... on inttorgb int b = int mod 256 int = int / 256 g = int mod 256 int = int / 256 r = int mod 256 return rgb(r,g,b) end Regards, Pranav --- Samuel Colt - the inventor of the point and click interface. snip Anyone have a script to convert an integer value to RGB components?? snip [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: lingo-l integer to RGB
Thanks Pranav, I knew I saw it somewhere... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 3:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l integer to RGB Here's something Colin had posted on the list a while back... on inttorgb int b = int mod 256 int = int / 256 g = int mod 256 int = int / 256 r = int mod 256 return rgb(r,g,b) end Regards, Pranav --- Samuel Colt - the inventor of the point and click interface. snip Anyone have a script to convert an integer value to RGB components?? snip [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!]
lingo-l Passing data to a shockwave movie using querystrings
Hello all, My first post here. I want to pass data into a shockwave movie that is embedded in an html page. I am using ASP scripting on the sever side. Can I just append a query string to the movie URL to get data into the movie (like I can with flash)? If not is there another way to get data into the movie like this? I just want to pass and ID number to movie when it starts up. Thanks in advance Nick [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: lingo-l integer to RGB
Ur welcome Chris I think Colin deserved some thanx too...he _wrote_ it! :-) Regards, Pranav --- Samuel Colt - the inventor of the point and click interface. snip Thanks Pranav, I knew I saw it somewhere... snip [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-l Re: HELP! - Network: find server by name and map to local drive
Steven, You might want to check out the latest version of Kent Kersten's FileXtra3. http://kblab.net/xtras/ UNC volume names are now supported, which means you you can test for the presence of a network volume without mapping it to a drive letter. set f = new( xtra filextra3 ) set netVolumeExists = fx_VolumeExists( f, \\SERVERNAME\ShareName\) Not sure how to map it to a drive. Maybe BuddyAPI can help there. You may even find that you don't need to map the volume to a drive letter. Good luck, Cole Hello, I've been asked to find a server across a network by the name of the server (not drive number) and then map it to a local drive (not even sure what all that means). This is to save a simple comma delineated list in a text file that needs to be saved into a specific folder on a named server and this needs to work in many different networks where the server might be a different drive letter. Also, it needs to check on start-up whether or not the network is connected. Any ideas? Is this possible? Thanks in advance, Steven [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: lingo-l Finding If a _huge_ float is divisible by anumber
So, if you don't want the rounded number, subtract .5 from the float before the mod function. I am afraid that I do not think so. myFloat = 7.5 put ilk(myFloat) - -- #float if not (myFloat mod 2) then put even - -- even The mod function seems to round a float number before evaluation. _ Buzz Kettles wrote: Did you try the mod function? It can accept floats as well as integers. (it throws away the non-integer part then evaluates) i.e. myFloat = 7.3 put ilk(myFloat) -- #float if (myFloat mod 2) then put not even -- not even -- ( 7 is an odd number ) [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: lingo-l Hotmedia?
I tried it once, didn't work So I ended up linking to an html file, where it did work. But this was more than a year ago, so it might have been a bug, that has been fixed now. -Natalia -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Cory Caplan Sent: 19. juli 2001 15:48 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l Hotmedia? Has anyone had any experience integrating hotmedia files into Director? Cory [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: lingo-l Recording sound.
I´ve been trying to find an xtra that records the sound of a projector or a shockwave movie onto the harddisk. Not just one sound, but the whole lot that is happening if, say, the user is mixing few sounds in the movie. (and that could include QuickTime Sound) Well, unfortunately I just found out that the Audio Xtra only records from one input at a time, whatever the card provides, like microphone or cd audio. It doesn't have a way to mix sound output, like the sound from the projector or shockwave, with mike input. Sorry, Al Hospers Marketing Associate UpdateStage alhospersatupdatestagedotcom http://www.updatestage.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: lingo-l Passing data to a shockwave movie using querystrings
I want to pass data into a shockwave movie that is embedded in an html page. I am using ASP scripting on the sever side. Can I just append a query string to the movie URL to get data into the movie (like I can with flash)? you could do this If not is there another way to get data into the movie like this? I just want to pass and ID number to movie when it starts up. you could also embed the data in the Embed/Object tags read them in as the movie starts. hth Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alatcambersoftdotcom 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!]
RE: lingo-l Re: HELP! - Network: find server by name and map to local drive
Thank you. I looked over this xtra but it doesn't have any commands to read/write a text file over a network. How can I do that? Should I move/create the file on the C:\windows\desktop and then make my edits there and then move the file back to the network folder? The text file needs to be named what I need it to, and all it will contain is a comma delineated list. This file will be checked for when a user logs in, and, if it exists, the list will be loaded by Director and parsed, probably using value() to convert the string to a list. If the file doesn't exist, it needs to be created based on the user information. Any help would be much appreciated. All of this needs to go on in the background with no user interaction. Thanks in advance, Steven Sacks [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-l Windows Font Woes
D 8.5, Windows. We have Comic Sans MS embedded in a movie. It works fine when we display it #plain, but not #italic on Windows. We're using this code to italicize some words: pTextMember.char[startOfRange..endOfRange].fontStyle = #italic It looks ok on the Mac, but on the PC, italicizing it makes a major change--the font doesn't look like Comic Sans MS at all. It's smaller, and several pixels below the other text, almost like subscript text. The text is all antialiased. If I remove the antialiasing, the font lines up better, and the size is ok, but the lines are much thinner than the #plain style. It looks like Comic Sans MS doesn't have an italic style built in--the choices when you import it are plain and bold. Somebody must have run into this before, though I can't find a reference to it in the archives. Any ideas? Cordially, Kerry Thompson [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: lingo-l Re: HELP! - Network: find server by name and map to local drive
Thank you. I looked over this xtra but it doesn't have any commands to read/write a text file over a network. How can I do that? Should I move/create the file on the C:\windows\desktop and then make my edits there and then move the file back to the network folder? The text file needs to be named what I need it to, and all it will contain is a comma delineated list. This file will be checked for when a user logs in, and, if it exists, the list will be loaded by Director and parsed, probably using value() to convert the string to a list. If the file doesn't exist, it needs to be created based on the user information. this Xtra doesn't write files. you need to create the file in Director, use FileIO to write it to disk and then copy it where you want using the Xtra. IMNSHO if you don't want the user to know about it then I personally wouldn't writer it on the Desktop... hth Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alatcambersoftdotcom 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!]
Re: lingo-l Windows Font Woes
in the font cast member, in the bitmaps radio button part, select sizes instead of none. bold and italic should become available. Kerry Thompson wrote: D 8.5, Windows. We have Comic Sans MS embedded in a movie. It works fine when we display it #plain, but not #italic on Windows. We're using this code to italicize some words: pTextMember.char[startOfRange..endOfRange].fontStyle = #italic It looks ok on the Mac, but on the PC, italicizing it makes a major change--the font doesn't look like Comic Sans MS at all. It's smaller, and several pixels below the other text, almost like subscript text. The text is all antialiased. If I remove the antialiasing, the font lines up better, and the size is ok, but the lines are much thinner than the #plain style. It looks like Comic Sans MS doesn't have an italic style built in--the choices when you import it are plain and bold. Somebody must have run into this before, though I can't find a reference to it in the archives. Any ideas? Cordially, Kerry Thompson [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 Instructional Media Developer, Distributed Learning Workshop 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: lingo-l Windows Font Woes
Kerry, Even when an italics version of the font is installed on the system, or is embedded in the movie, it is not used by Director, when you apply the #italic transform. Instead, pseudo-italics is auto generated. With some fonts this is results in a decent-looking slanted version, but with many it doesn't. Perhaps that is the issue here: that's a hard font to italicize. And you're right--Windows doesn't include an italics version. If it did, you could assign the italics version (by name) specifically to your selected chunks of text. Of course, something else may be going on. I haven't tried to italicize COmic Sans, and can't test it right now. Slava At 10:50 AM 7/19/2001 -0700, you wrote: D 8.5, Windows. We have Comic Sans MS embedded in a movie. It works fine when we display it #plain, but not #italic on Windows. We're using this code to italicize some words: pTextMember.char[startOfRange..endOfRange].fontStyle = #italic It looks ok on the Mac, but on the PC, italicizing it makes a major change--the font doesn't look like Comic Sans MS at all. It's smaller, and several pixels below the other text, almost like subscript text. The text is all antialiased. If I remove the antialiasing, the font lines up better, and the size is ok, but the lines are much thinner than the #plain style. It looks like Comic Sans MS doesn't have an italic style built in--the choices when you import it are plain and bold. Somebody must have run into this before, though I can't find a reference to it in the archives. Any ideas? Cordially, Kerry Thompson [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: lingo-l Recording sound.
And I can't see a way of defining the input anyway, ie the output of another file. I was hoping to create an audio file of a beatnik mix, but no go. [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: lingo-l Recording sound.
Hmm, I have in my sound options the choice of selecting Stereo Mixer. I just did a test and it actually recorded everything that was playing... mp3, swa from dir and QT moive with sound. I'm not sure if this option is available on all computers... I'm working on a HP, 500 MHz, win2000, Riptide Sound Card. I haven't tried the audio xtra but if you can select the source as if you were in the volume-recording panel of windows then I guess you will also find a Stereo Mixer option. HTH Jorge -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Al Hospers Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 12:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: lingo-l Recording sound. I´ve been trying to find an xtra that records the sound of a projector or a shockwave movie onto the harddisk. Not just one sound, but the whole lot that is happening if, say, the user is mixing few sounds in the movie. (and that could include QuickTime Sound) Well, unfortunately I just found out that the Audio Xtra only records from one input at a time, whatever the card provides, like microphone or cd audio. It doesn't have a way to mix sound output, like the sound from the projector or shockwave, with mike input. Sorry, Al Hospers Marketing Associate UpdateStage alhospersatupdatestagedotcom http://www.updatestage.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!]
lingo-l Is this type of hiliting selecting possible?
Hello List, I've been putting off this part of my project because I don't know if it's even possible, but now it's time to give it my best shot. I have two fields on a screen (1 on left, 1 on right) with four buttons in between. The field on the left is populated with various geographical V12 database files. The user needs to be able to select geographies from the left and move them to the field on the right which displays selected geographies. The ways in which a user can select geographies are as follows: 1; When they click on a geography, the entire line needs to hilite (the hiliter bar needs to be dark blue and the text changes to white- this is important because it emulates the actual software package for which this project is a CBT). They need to be able to SHIFT click to select a range, and CONTROL click to select multiple non-contiguous geographies. When the items appear hilited on the left, the user can click on the Select button in the middle to move he selected geographies t! o the field on the right. When an items appears on the right, it becomes grayed-out on the left and can no longer be clicked on. The 4 buttons in the center are Select, Select All, De-select, and De-select All.2: The user can double-click on an item on the left and it should be copied to the right and again, grayed-out on the left. 3: The user can click on one or more geographies on the left, and while they appear hilited, be able to drag they to the right. Again, any geographies on the right should appear grayed-out on the left and no longer selectable. So what do you think? Is this even possible? Someone suggested the hiliting may require imaging lingo. Words could never express the gratitude I'd feel for anyone who tries to help me get closer to achieving this design. humbly, g fritzinger [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-l Splash Screen
Hello all-- Another shoulda-known-this question. There is a way of getting a projector to show a splash screen immediately while the program loads in the background. I thought it was just putting a bitmap in the projector's directory with the same name as the projector, but that doesn't seem to work. Yep--checked the docs, didn't find anything, and it looks like the achives are down. Thanks. Cordially, Kerry Thompson [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: lingo-l protecting external media?
just a quickie, has anyone any experience in protecting external media i.e. movies soundtracks so the end user can't steal them use them for their own personal gain? Hi, One way to do this would be using the BinaryIO Xtra from UpdateStage. BinaryIO was designed to read, write and edit binary files on the Mac and the PC. Any file that is not a plain text file - for instance a PowerPoint file, Microsoft Word file, sound, image or application, is a binary file. If your media files reside on writeable media, or are small enough to be copied to writeable media, another alternative is to use BinaryIO Xtra to alter files to make them unplayable when opened outside of the Director projector. You can do this by replacing a small amount data at the beginning of the file with filler, and storing the real data that should be in that section of the file, in a field in your Director movie. At runtime you write the valid data into the file to make it readable, then at projector quit, you write the filler back out to the file to protect it again. This technique works with any file - not just QuickTime, although the amount of filler you have to write will vary depending on the file format. The following code protects and unprotects a file with BinaryIO. You can read more information about this usage and download an example here: http://www.updatestage.com/previous/981101.html#item2 Price: $149.00 Type: Xtra Platforms: 32-bit Windows,Win 31,Mac Director versions supported: 5,6,7,8,8.5 Author: Glenn Picher You can view the documentation, download a fully functional demo or purchase the product here: http://www.updatestage.com/xtras/binaryio.html HTH, Al Hospers Marketing Associate UpdateStage alhospersatupdatestagedotcom http://www.updatestage.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: lingo-l Splash Screen
At 1:00 PM -0700 7/19/01, Kerry Thompson wrote: Hello all-- Another shoulda-known-this question. There is a way of getting a projector to show a splash screen immediately while the program loads in the background. I thought it was just putting a bitmap in the projector's directory with the same name as the projector, but that doesn't seem to work. Yep--checked the docs, didn't find anything, and it looks like the achives are down. hi Kerry - its undoc-ed but it works. On the PC it needs to be a bmp on the Mac a pct (use the extensions) There is a confirmed problem however with it on Win2000 (or NT, I forget) where the directory the projector is launched from comes to the front. I've seen it myself on a current project- may try something with MasterApp to correct it- otherwise it works. -- Roy Pardi[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: lingo-l Splash Screen
That's right. You just need a bitmap file named the same as the projector... The only catch is that only .bmp files are supported. HTH Jorge -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kerry Thompson Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 3:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l Splash Screen There is a way of getting a projector to show a splash screen immediately while the program loads in the background. I thought it was just putting a bitmap in the projector's directory with the same name as the projector, but that doesn't seem to work. Thanks. Cordially, Kerry Thompson [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: lingo-l Is this type of hiliting selecting possible?
Hi Gene What you are asking is entirely possible. Several ways to do it perhaps the simplest is to use a field and a quickdraw shape member. My approach would be to set the shape (which would be dark blue, in a sprite channel below (lower in number) then the field sprite. Set the field sprite to non wordwrap - extended lines would be cut off. Create 2 behaviours and tell each behaviour via the gpdl or hardcoded what the spriteNum is of the other sprite (for communication purposes). Set the hiliter to the width of the field sprite and the height of the lineHeight of the field sprite. Assuming that you would either start it with hilite set to first line you would position your hilite sprite to the exact same loc as the field members loc. You would set the forecolor of line(1) of field(somefield) to x x being whatever white's index value is - to brain dead to remember .. either 0 or 255 The field will need to be background transparent. That sets your initial condition. On mouseDown on the field, you look for the mouseLine, to a linePosToLocV to gets its vertical drop from the top of the field, set the hilite sprite's loc to the locH of the field and the locV of the field + the linePosToLocV, set the mouseLine 's forecolor to white. And set the previous hilited line to black if it wasn't sent over to the other side. You will need to store the current hilited line (1 on initialization) into a property variable. Assuming you know the gray color that you will use (again index value), whenever you select a line to move to the other side, you would set the forecolor of that line to gray and on each mouseDown, you simply check the forecolor of the mouseline and make sure it aint the gray color's index value before you move the hiliter or set the property variable containing the line number. You might put an accessor mtethod into your field behaviour so that your buttons can call it and request the active line number and set the line to gray etc... That should you a rough idea as to how I would approach it.. Sincerely Mark R. Jonkman -Original Message- From: Gene Fritzinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 1:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l Is this type of hiliting selecting possible? Hello List, I've been putting off this part of my project because I don't know if it's even possible, but now it's time to give it my best shot. I have two fields on a screen (1 on left, 1 on right) with four buttons in between. The field on the left is populated with various geographical V12 database files. The user needs to be able to select geographies from the left and move them to the field on the right which displays selected geographies. The ways in which a user can select geographies are as follows:1; When they click on a geography, the entire line needs to hilite (the hiliter bar needs to be dark blue and the text changes to white- this is important because it emulates the actual software package for which this project is a CBT). They need to be able to SHIFT click to select a range, and CONTROL click to select multiple non-contiguous geographies. When the items appear hilited on the left, the user can click on the Select button in the middle to move he selected geographies! t! o the field on the right. When an items appears on the right, it becomes grayed-out on the left and can no longer be clicked on. The 4 buttons in the center are Select, Select All, De-select, and De-select All. 2: The user can double-click on an item on the left and it should be copied to the right and again, grayed-out on the left. 3: The user can click on one or more geographies on the left, and while they appear hilited, be able to drag they to the right. Again, any geographies on the right should appear grayed-out on the left and no longer selectable. So what do you think? Is this even possible? Someone suggested the hiliting may require imaging lingo. Words could never express the gratitude I'd feel for anyone who tries to help me get closer to achieving this design. humbly, g fritzinger [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: lingo-l multi-page forms
And just for the sake of completion, here's the solution: repeat with i = 1 to fieldCount addProp fieldList, member(i,2).name.symbol, member(i,2).text end repeat By appending .symbol to member(i,2).name, it generates the necessary # syntax for PostNetText. What started this morning as 24 pages of code is down to a mere 8 lines of Lingo! Thanks, everyone, for your help. -Ian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ian Lloyd Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 12:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: lingo-l multi-page forms Okay, I'm really close to figuring out this problem. I sort of decided to back up and punt, as it were... I've moved all of the fields from the multi-page form into their own cast, which we'll call Application Fields. I have abandoned the internal, pre-made Lingo (from Library Internet Forms) in favour of this approach. My thought, at this point, is that I can use the names and contents of the fields to generate my property list, which I can then pass to my database via PostNetText. So, here's my current state: I'm using a counter to step through the members of the cast and extract the information I need, using the following code: fieldCount = the number of members of castlib(Application Fields) fieldList = [:] repeat with i = 1 to fieldCount addProp fieldList, member(i,2).name, member(i,2).text end repeat Where 2 (in member(i,2).name, etc.) is the number of the cast. The problem I'm having now is that member(i,2).name is being treated as a string, rather than a property and is, therefore, not being handled correctly by PostNetText. So, any clues? My first thought was that putting the names into a linear list would remove the offending double-quotes (what _seems_ to be causing the data to be interpreted as a string), but that didn't work. I then tried to just cut the quotes out, using: delete char 1 of nameList[i] Which was in a repeat loop similar to the one above, and where nameList was a linear list that held the names of the fields, but Director just choked. Whoa... didn't mean for this to get so long. Anyhoo, any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! Ian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 8:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: lingo-l multi-page forms From: Roy C. Crisman Ian, I haven't used the behaviors you are talking about, but maybe try this: Have the Fields that are filled in by the user as single, long sprites. As you come to page one, you fill in page one's sprites. As you go to page two, those sprites are still there, but you've moved them off the screen (still a single sprite span), and the page two fields start. Page three has page one and page two sprites moved off screen and new page three field sprites. Then when the submit behavior fires, it gets the field information from ALL the sprites, cause they're all still on the page, just off screen. Or you could write some custom lingo to store all the field information as you go, but you didn't sound too confident about programming custom Lingo, which is why I suggest this work-around. roymeo [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!] [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-l Printomatic question
Grimm, A director question, since I recall you responded to my last printomatic inquiry. Do you know if it is possible to appendFile a .txt file, so I can store all my text externally? Brian Douglas (:ub) I refuse to use code as a method to describe myself. instead, I will use noises: rant = [teewart/blamberDOH!!!/crrrleftnk/erop] http://www.imaginarystudio.com --check it out! [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: lingo-l Re: HELP! - Network: find server by name and map tolocal drive
Thank you. I looked over this xtra but it doesn't have any commands to read/write a text file over a network. How can I do that? FileIO also supports UNC naming. As long as the user has write access to the net volume in question, you should be alright. Cole [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-l field-contents - emailBody
Hi all, can I put the field-contents into the emailBody with lingo(dir 8.0) but and without an Xtra? Somethings like goToNetPage mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=hopefully the field-contents thanks in advance Tony [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: lingo-l protecting external media?
has anyone any experience in protecting external media i.e. movies soundtracks so the end user can't steal them What about the possibilities of either using baEncryptFile() on them, or storing them in a protected cast? Or both? Folks like us could crack a .dxr, but the remaining 99.99% couldn't. Rob /* * Rob Wingate, Software Human* * http://www.vingage.com * * mailto:[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: lingo-l Splash Screen
There is a way of getting a projector to show a splash screen immediately while the program loads in the background. I thought it was just putting a bitmap in the projector's directory with the same name as the projector, but that doesn't seem to work. It should work, but yes, I think it's undocumented, meaning maybe it breaks sometimes. It has worked for me in the past anyway, although I haven't yet tried it with D8.5. Projector name: Proj.exe Splash name:Proj.bmp As long as you're naming the files right, you should be good to go. You're including filename extensions, right? Rob /* * Rob Wingate, Software Human* * http://www.vingage.com * * mailto:[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: lingo-l Re: HELP! - Network: find server by name and map to local drive
IMNSHO if you don't want the user to know about it then I personally wouldn't writer it on the Desktop... I only want the user not knowing about it insomuch as they don't see any prompts or Director losing focus. I just want it to take place in the background without requiring any interaction. I'm guessing the right order is to check for the file existing across the network, and if it does, copy it to C:\ and then load it into Director (still fuzzy here), and if it doesn't exist, I am going to create it on C:\ and write the basic data into it and then copy it across the network to the proper folder. Does anyone have any tips for reading/writing text files using FileIO? I only need a one line comma delineated list in the file. Should I do a lot of error checking and such? I've seen some FileIO scripts that do that. Thanks, Steven [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: lingo-l Splash Screen
The splash screen feature has now been documented in a TechNote. How to use an image as a splash screen for a projector (TechNote 14955) http://www.macromedia.com/go/14955 The one issue that I'm aware of, that I think hasn't been mentioned yet in this thread. It is that a full screen Windows projector will not show the splash screen. Best Regards, Aaron Jones Director Technical Support m a c r o m e d i a -Original Message- From: Robert Wingate Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 3:57 PM Subject: RE: lingo-l Splash Screen snip It should work, but yes, I think it's undocumented, meaning maybe it breaks sometimes. snip [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: lingo-l Finding If a _huge_ float is divisible by a number
At 6:40 PM +0900 7/19/01, Fumio Nonaka wrote: ?I am afraid that I do not think so. myFloat = 7.5 put ilk(myFloat) -- #float if not (myFloat mod 2) then put even -- even The mod function seems to round a float number before evaluation. Thanks Fumio for the additional information. ((myFloat -.5) mod 2) should then work. -Buzz _ Buzz Kettles wrote: Did you try the mod function? It can accept floats as well as integers. (it throws away the non-integer part then evaluates) i.e. myFloat = 7.3 put ilk(myFloat) -- #float if (myFloat mod 2) then put not even -- not even -- ( 7 is an odd number ) Good luck, Fumio Nonaka Attain Corporation Phone: +81-3-3255-4941 Fax: +81-3-3255-5998 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.attainj.co.jp [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!]
lingo-l Reading from an ini file
I want to make my next director project a little more reuseable. i was wondering if any one had any links to sites or ini file reading functions that could help with storing settings externally. Do i need an xtra to read text/ini files of the same cd? i'd prefer not to. Cheers Brendon [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: lingo-l Reading from an ini file
any links to sites or ini file reading functions that could help with storing settings externally. Do i need an xtra to read text/ini files of the same cd? i'd prefer not to. Buddy API has some built-in ini file functions: baReadIni(), baWriteIni() and baFlushIni() You say you'd rather not use an Xtra. If this is because you don't want to pay, then Buddy comes with 2 functions for free. Try it - you won't be able to survive without once you look at what it can do. http://www.mods.com.au For the general projector.ini file, look at: http://www.zeusprod.com/nutshell/otto.html Face it - if you want to read an external text/ini file, other than the projector's own ini file, you'll have to use one Xtra or another. FileIO is another possibility, it's free, but you'll have to do some more work with it to have it read specific [sections] of an ini file. HTH, -Sean. [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: lingo-l Reading from an ini file
Hi Brendon In todays day and age, you have additional options (some at no cost) that might perform better then reading ini files and parsing text. Depending on need, you might take a look at http://www.updatestage.com and see if you can find a list saving xtra. I know they sell an xtra called vList ( its on the very bottom of the left hand frame of the main page of their xtras section). This is one hell of a nice xtra that can be used to read and save to lists in their native binary format. Since most reuseable data that you are looking at most likely will be internalized within Director as a list, this option makes a lot of sense. It saves the hassles of dealing with differences cross platform differences and text parsing and all that stuff... just shove the data into a list and give it a filename and send a saveList command and your done. I've used this xtra for some time now and I have to say its been a pleasure to work with.. not sure how I worked without it. (No I don't work for updatestage.. its just an excellent tool... and for what you described, I believe its free). Sincerely Mark R. Jonkman -Original Message- From: Brendon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 7:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l Reading from an ini file I want to make my next director project a little more reuseable. i was wondering if any one had any links to sites or ini file reading functions that could help with storing settings externally. Do i need an xtra to read text/ini files of the same cd? i'd prefer not to. Cheers Brendon [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: lingo-l Reading from an ini file
Thanks Mark and sean :) We don't use director often, a few times a year at most. i just made a mpeg player with it a while back that we could reskin with a clients graphics when needed thats why i was looking for the free options first :). Hopefully i can make it further customizable by just changing some settings in a txt file. Things like. Showing out own splash screen. Number of menu's and what video those buttons play. And make it simpler to change. and bascially make the product a little more professional for myself. (a look at how i layed out the movie originaly makes me cringe now) Cheers Brendon - Original Message - From: Mark R. Jonkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 12:07 PM Subject: RE: lingo-l Reading from an ini file Hi Brendon In todays day and age, you have additional options (some at no cost) that might perform better then reading ini files and parsing text. Depending on need, you might take a look at http://www.updatestage.com and see if you can find a list saving xtra. I know they sell an xtra called vList ( its on the very bottom of the left hand frame of the main page of their xtras section). This is one hell of a nice xtra that can be used to read and save to lists in their native binary format. Since most reuseable data that you are looking at most likely will be internalized within Director as a list, this option makes a lot of sense. It saves the hassles of dealing with differences cross platform differences and text parsing and all that stuff... just shove the data into a list and give it a filename and send a saveList command and your done. I've used this xtra for some time now and I have to say its been a pleasure to work with.. not sure how I worked without it. (No I don't work for updatestage.. its just an excellent tool... and for what you described, I believe its free). Sincerely Mark R. Jonkman -Original Message- From: Brendon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 7:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l Reading from an ini file I want to make my next director project a little more reuseable. i was wondering if any one had any links to sites or ini file reading functions that could help with storing settings externally. Do i need an xtra to read text/ini files of the same cd? i'd prefer not to. Cheers Brendon [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!] [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-l Problem with text cast members
Hi I am using Director 7.02 for Windows. I am creating a writing program for children in which a sentence is read (spoken) and each word highlighted by changing its colour from black to red as the word is spoken. This works fine if I put the text into a field cast member but if I use a text cast member I get the following problem: with many fonts - especially if I use a bold fontstyle - the word that is changed colour moves (to the left) - and then moves back when returned to black. I change the colour of the word and then reset the colour of the whole cast member to reset its colour (this is faster than resetting the colour of just that word back to black). I change the colour of words using member(textbook).word[ia..ib].color = rgb(255, 1, 1) and reset to black with member(textbook).color = rgb(0, 0, 0) The problem does not occur with all fonts but happens with fonts such as Comic Sans and most fancy fonts. There seems to be an issue here with the anti-aliasing of text members in Director 7. I also notice that often the lower part of the descenders in the letters remain black when a word is set to red. Does anyone have any experience of this? I want to use text members whenever possible because with the large font sizes needed for children the anti-aliasing makes such a difference. Any suggestions on how I can get around this (other than warning the user some fonts will give problems)? While on this I also have encountered an issue with field cast members. If you use an italic fontstyle and then set the fontstyle to bold the italic style is not reset - you get bold,italic! Only by setting the style to plain first can you remove the italic setting. In this case text cast members are better - choosing [#bold] clears the italic setting. Any comments appreciated Trevor Geddes -- We produce computer programs for language development. Look us up at http://geddesproductions.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: lingo-l Reading from an ini file
I want to make my next director project a little more reuseable. i was wondering if any one had any links to sites or ini file reading functions that could help with storing settings externally. Do i need an xtra to read text/ini files of the same cd? i'd prefer not to. Hi Brendon, Check out the vList Xtra from UpdateStage. As Mark pointed out, for what you need, it is FREE! The vList Xtra saves and retrieves Lingo lists and other data types in binary format using either an external file or a cast member for storage. Lists are a powerful and fast way to manage all kinds of information in Director. Since lists can hold Director's rich media and data types they are the natural solution for creating Director databases, yet few developers use them this way. Why? Because saving and retrieving lists at runtime using Director's built-in string() and value() methods is slow and limited. In demonstration mode most vList functions will cause a demonstration dialog to display the first time they are used. A limited set of vList commands are free to use and do not display a demonstration dialog. The free commands allow you to save a list to a file and retrieve it in authoring and from a projector but not in Shockwave. They are: new(xtra vList,filename) write read Price of basic version: $149.00 Price of full version: $299.00 Platforms: 32-bit Windows,Mac Director versions supported: 6,7,8,8.5 Shockwave-safe, Shockwave auto-install Author: Daniel Devolder To read the full docs on line, download an evaluation version or purchase the Xtra go here: http://www.updatestage.com/xtras/vlist.html HTH, Al Hospers Marketing Associate UpdateStage alhospersatupdatestagedotcom http://www.updatestage.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: lingo-l Reading from an ini file
getPrefs At 11:35 AM +1000 7/20/01, Brendon wrote: I want to make my next director project a little more reuseable. i was wondering if any one had any links to sites or ini file reading functions that could help with storing settings externally. Do i need an xtra to read text/ini files of the same cd? i'd prefer not to. Cheers Brendon [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!]
lingo-l How to connect with Database
Hi all, I've just started to learn Director..Coz now I have a project..to create a program to search maps running on CD. I have data in the database, but i'm not sure how lingo script working with database?? Also what kind of database that supported by lingo?? If anybody know the source of this information, pls kindly let me know. Any comment would be appreciated Chutima T. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/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: lingo-l field-contents - emailBody
I searched the web for mailto protocol found an IE doc that mentions: The Recipients field can be blank, a single e-mail address, or multiple e- mail addresses separated by semicolons (;). PARAMETER DESCRIPTION - -- CC= Carbon copy BCC= Blind carbon copy SUBJECT= Subject text BODY= Body text -- And I tried this from d8 mac it worked: goToNetPage mailto:Buzz [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Åström [EMAIL PROTECTED]?[EMAIL PROTECTED]?[EMAIL PROTECTED]?SUBJECT=test email?BODY= member(myField).text however, it might be easier to construct the string first: x = mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=test email?BODY= member(myField).text goToNetPage x hth -Buzz At 11:57 PM +0200 7/19/01, Tony Åström wrote: Hi all, can I put the field-contents into the emailBody with lingo(dir 8.0) but and without an Xtra? Somethings like goToNetPage mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=hopefully the field-contents thanks in advance Tony [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: lingo-l protecting external media?
you can use ResEdit or Resourcerer or a number of other utilities. In ResEdit, select File Get File/Folder Info find your file mark the 'Invisible' checkbox (lower right of the dialog), close, save, quit or as easier way (on older Macs) - Install 'Snitch' (shareware) - It expands your getInfo box to include the basic Finder props. hth -Buzz At 12:10 PM -0700 7/19/01, Garman Herigstad wrote: How is this done on a Mac? Ian Lloyd wrote: In the past, I've just marked them as Hidden and Read-Only within the File Properties. If you turn on Show Hidden Files, you'll be able to see them (and place them on a CD, for instance). Most normal users have Show Hidden Files turned off, so they won't see them. And you can't steal what you can't see (or something like that). -Ian __ Garman [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: lingo-l integer to RGB
Ur welcome Chris I think Colin deserved some thanx too...he _wrote_ it! :-) Why 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: lingo-l field-contents - emailBody
Thank you Buzz! / Tony Buzz Kettles wrote: I searched the web for mailto protocol found an IE doc that mentions: The Recipients field can be blank, a single e-mail address, or multiple e- mail addresses separated by semicolons (;). PARAMETER DESCRIPTION - -- CC= Carbon copy BCC= Blind carbon copy SUBJECT= Subject text BODY= Body text -- And I tried this from d8 mac it worked: goToNetPage mailto:Buzz [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Åström [EMAIL PROTECTED]?[EMAIL PROTECTED]?[EMAIL PROTECTED]?SUBJECT=test email?BODY= member(myField).text however, it might be easier to construct the string first: x = mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=test email?BODY= member(myField).text goToNetPage x hth -Buzz At 11:57 PM +0200 7/19/01, Tony Åström wrote: Hi all, can I put the field-contents into the emailBody with lingo(dir 8.0) but and without an Xtra? Somethings like goToNetPage mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=hopefully the field-contents thanks in advance Tony [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!] [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!]
