RE: lingo-l Whiteboard, how do I get a brush to only appear once on mouseDown?
I may have already asked this question, sorry if I have. How do I get the brush tool to only appear once on mouseDown on the canvas without the image dragging across the screen. I have used all the default behaviours to build my whiteboard, can anyone help? Cheers Chris Angle Agenda Multimedia [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 MIAW.forget() error: object expected?
Hi list, I've tried to work out the problem i have when forgetting a MIAW. It gives me the dialog box error of 'Object Expected' whenever i tried to 'forget' the MIAW. If i take out the .forget() line and leave it with only .close(), it works fine. Here's the scenario: i have a button on stage that opens up a MIAW: ( i also have another 3 buttons opening different MIAWs ) - global gAirMiaw on mouseUp me gAirMiaw = window (Air Review 1) gAirMiaw.filename = the moviePathdirsthe itemDelimiterairreview1.dir gAirMiaw.windowType = 2 set aRect1 = rect (400,80,600,480) set gAirMiaw.rect = aRect1 gAirMiaw.visible = true end - Then on the MIAW itself i have attached the following script on the 'CLOSE' button: - global gOpenMiaw, gAirMiaw, gCloseMiaw on mouseUp me tell the Stage gOpenMiaw = gAirMiaw gCloseMiaw = 1 end tell end - Again, on the main movie i put a framescript like this: - global gOpenMiaw, gCloseMiaw, gAirMiaw on exitFrame if gCloseMiaw then gOpenMiaw.close() gOpenMiaw.forget() end if go the frame end - I've searched the archives and posted a kinda same problems with the stopping sound with miaw long time ago but couldnt find the solutions to this problem. This is my second director project, so... any input is greatly appreciated =) Martha _ 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!]
lingo-l MIAW.forget() error: object expected?
Hi list, I've tried to work out the problem i have when forgetting a MIAW. It gives me the dialog box error of 'Object Expected' whenever i tried to 'forget' the MIAW. If i take out the .forget() line and leave it with only .close(), it works fine. Here's the scenario: i have a button on stage that opens up a MIAW: ( i also have another 3 buttons opening different MIAWs ) - global gAirMiaw on mouseUp me gAirMiaw = window (Air Review 1) gAirMiaw.filename = the moviePathdirsthe itemDelimiterairreview1.dir gAirMiaw.windowType = 2 set aRect1 = rect (400,80,600,480) set gAirMiaw.rect = aRect1 gAirMiaw.visible = true end - Then on the MIAW itself i have attached the following script on the 'CLOSE' button: - global gOpenMiaw, gAirMiaw, gCloseMiaw on mouseUp me tell the Stage gOpenMiaw = gAirMiaw gCloseMiaw = 1 end tell end - Again, on the main movie i put a framescript like this: - global gOpenMiaw, gCloseMiaw, gAirMiaw on exitFrame if gCloseMiaw then gOpenMiaw.close() gOpenMiaw.forget() end if go the frame end - I've searched the archives and posted a kinda same problems with the stopping sound with miaw long time ago but couldnt find the solutions to this problem. This is my second director project, so... any input is greatly appreciated =) Martha _ 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!]
lingo-l Quicktime language
Hi List Is it possible to start the Quicktime Installer in a specific language? I have downloaded the full Installer from their website in English, but if I run the installer on a Machine with a Danish operating system, it will show the license agreement in Dutch, probably because it is trying to show Danish text, can't find it, and then finds Dutch to be the nearest available option. Maybe there is a parameter I can use, i.e. open(quicktimeInstaller.exe, #English)?? -Natalia [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 OOP and ancestor access
Getter and Setter methods are evil or something to that effect. Essentially it says that if you have a method that simply returns any private data (such as properties in a lingo object) that this is essentially just a cheat for making private data public. Wow! Pretty strong statement. But it made me think. It goes on to say that when one object requests another object's private data so that it can perform a task with that data, there is a fundamental flaw with your OOP structure (I'm paraphrasing here). Instead you should modify either the object structure or move the task into the object that has the required property. snip That was exactly the point which got me thinking too. Some of the other stuff in that article (particularly to do with GUIs) is less relevant in a Director context because almost everything is part of the GUI anyway, but this is the suggestion that made the most impact on me: Never ask an object for the information you need to do something; rather, ask the object that has the information to do the work for you. SNIP OK, so I've read Meyer's Object Oriented Software Construction. I write a lot of OOP code for all of my projects. tho I admit not all because like others I need to get things done sometimes. I would definitly say I am into the OOP concepts. still, this absolutely no Get/Set data statement is one of those purist things that is so difficult to implement in real life, that I have a difficult time adhering to it. for example, imagine that you have an object to manage some MPG or QT movies. you have an object that monitors the state of the movie, contains all the play/pause/stop type of functionality and keeps track of the current position. you have a behavior that moves a slider around that needs the current position data. would you 1) have the object publish the data publicly to a global variable? this will work fine, tho I just try to keep globals down. 2) have an accessor method in the object so the slider can get the data as needed? this one goes against all the OOP principles that are expoused by the big guys/gals, but it works well. 3) duplicate the movie location monitoring functionality in the slider behavior? this is OK but I hate duplication, and keeping this functionality in the main object means that I only have to update it in one place. 4) include the slider functionality in the object? IMHO this makes the object way too big unwieldy. 5) something else? is there something that I am missing, is there some other ground here? hmmm... 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 MIAW.forget() error: object expected?
Hi Martha, I've tried to work out the problem i have when forgetting a MIAW. It gives me the dialog box error of 'Object Expected' whenever i tried to 'forget' the MIAW. If i take out the .forget() line and leave it with only .close(), it works fine. snip add on exitFrame if gCloseMiaw then gOpenMiaw.close() gOpenMiaw.forget() gCloseMiaw = 0 end if go the frame end after the forget command, otherwise you'll be forever trying to close and forget the window. Christian Christian Wach m: +44 (0) 7980 549 556 [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 OOP and ancestor access
snip 1) have the object publish the data publicly to a global variable? this will work fine, tho I just try to keep globals down. snip This one works just fine if speed is the issue here. Kerry had mentioned a project he tackled a while back which illustrates this point very nicely. He had a sprite bouncing around on stage amongst other sprites and he simply used a global to remember the position of the main sprite. A pure OOP method meant using a sendAllSprites (there were 40 sprites if I remember correctly) or a call on the list of sprite behaviors. Globals made things easier for code management and also took fewer processor cycles. I think I still have that thread saved on my machine at home. snip 2) have an accessor method in the object so the slider can get the data as needed? this one goes against all the OOP principles that are expoused by the big guys/gals, but it works well. snip I use this method when writing generic behavior libraries. In fact, even if the method simply returns a single property without performing any other steps on it, I prefer this method. The reason being this: When I write the script, I may want it to perform only one activity - return a particular property as is. But later if I need to do some pre-processing on the property before returning it, its more difficult to go and change the accessing syntax in the rest of my scripts. For example: foo = gObject.someProperty This will return only the property as is. foo = gObject.SomeHandler() - In foo on SomeHandler() -- Process property -- Return new value instead of original property end SomeHandler() This one saves me a few steps that I might have to put in my other scripts that use the data returned by the foo object. Execution speed does suffer, though. Small price to pay for reusability. snip 3) duplicate the movie location monitoring functionality in the slider behavior? this is OK but I hate duplication, and keeping this functionality in the main object means that I only have to update it in one place. 4) include the slider functionality in the object? IMHO this makes the object way too big unwieldy. snip I agree with Al on these two counts My general opinion is that globals are good when speed is of importance. However, too many globals are a strict no-no. How much is too much? That depends on the size of the project and the comfort of the programmers. Objects are good while building reusable code libraries. [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 OOP and ancestor access
I've come from a smalltalk background (not that it is useful for anything anymore) which has to be one of the most anal OOP environments there is... in Al's example: you have a behavior that moves a slider around that needs the current position data ...Maybe your approach is still too procedural. Can the slider not just tell the object its new position once it gets moved and have the object calculate the new movie position from this. These kind of discussions are hard with hypothetical examples. Its also very difficult for us lingo OOP people because we only have half an OOP environment. If you want to make a subclass of a text box so that you don't have to re-invent the textbox wheel, but you want to add a few funky methods of your own...Where do you go? Pete [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: SV: lingo-l collisions ?
hi I have a car-model which is moved around using buttons. I also have a regular box on stage which the car can collide with. The problem is that the collisions only occures in an area at the centre of the box (In the field of wiev of camera(1)I think.? ) Could i have been forgetting any setting that creates this strange collision area of the box ? thanx /magnus -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: Agustín María Rodríguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Skickat: den 10 augusti 2001 18:15 Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ämne: Re: SV: SV: lingo-l collisions ? Just tell me what kind of movement you want for the box. Magnus Ewald wrote: thanx. Now i have the problem of moving box to a new position if a collision occurs, any suggestions? -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: Agustín María Rodríguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Skickat: den 9 augusti 2001 19:08 Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ämne: Re: SV: lingo-l collisions ? I´ve modified this example from balls to boxes and some other things. I hope it solves your problem. Behavior attached to some sprite: on mouseUp me w=sprite(me.spriteNum).member w.resetWorld() box=w.newModelResource(box, #box) box.radius=1 box1=w.newModel(box1, box) box2=w.newModel(box2, box) box1.addModifier(#collision) box1.collision.enabled=true box2.addModifier(#collision) box2.collision.enabled=true box1.collision.resolve=true box2.collision.resolve=true box1.collision.setCollisionCallBack(#col, (callscript)) box2.collision.setCollisionCallBack(#col, (callscript)) end Movie script: on CallSpcript me on col me, colData beep datlist=[coldata.modela, coldata.modelb, coldata.pointOfContact, coldata.collisionNormal] sendAllSprites (#collisionNotification, datlist) end Another movie script puts the info into the stage: on collisionNotification me, collisionData sprite(me.spritenum).member.text = string(collisionData) end on beginsprite me sprite(me.spritenum).member.text = end Agustín Magnus Ewald wrote: Hi List Im a 8.5 newbie and i am trying to get the collision detection working with a setCollisionCallback(), but i cant get it to work. I have 2 models, box and box2, how do I easyest ,to say, show an alert message when these collide ? thanx /magnus [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!] [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 Thanks! and another :(
Thanks list for the help for jumping to a particular marker in a movie. I am beginning to suspect the inbuilt behaviours are not the help they first seem:( I have a set of bitmap members representing a tango dancing couple. all goes well with the direction changes e.g. keycode for left arrow they dance away to the left. I have a rhomboid dance floor thinking I could use the constrain to sprite behaviour to stop them dancing up the walls, I have constrained the sprite with the bitmap to the rhomboid. Now if use the direction keys the tangoing sprite scales up with each keypress. What have I misunderstood? I am using Director 8.5 with movies converted from version 8 I do want to scale the sprite up and down as they dance in and out of the screen. but I'll use quads to do this (unless someone knows a better way...) Best doodahs from Andy on the sunny coast of East Sussex. [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 MIAW.forget() error: object expected?
Thanks Dave, i used gOpenMiaw because i have 3 other MIAWs open from other buttons. This is to keep reference to which MIAW is to close when the 'close' button is pressed. I've tried the code you gave me, but still doesnt work. I use 'put ' command to check which MIAW window it's refering to, and it's the right one. But why is it not able to find the same miaw to 'forget' ? global gOpenMiaw, gCloseMiaw, gAirMiaw on exitFrame if gCloseMiaw then gOpenMiaw = gAirMiaw (for other miaws, i use gOpenMiaw = gSecondMiaw or gOpenMiaw = gThirdMiaw) gOpenMiaw .close() put gOpenMiaw -- this gave me (window Air Review 1) in the message window gOpenMiaw .forget() end if go the frame end Martha It looks like you are very close to the right sort of code, but I wonder if the reference gAirMIAW is still pointing to the window as you are then using gOpenMIAW.close() and gOpenMIAW.forget() And the object error is seeing this. Why have you used gOpenMIAW instead of the original gAirMIAW. Try the following code, sorry haven't tested it but I had the same problem and this is the way I resolved it. global gAirMiaw on mouseUp me gAirMiaw = window (Air Review 1) gAirMiaw.filename = the moviePathdirsthe itemDelimiterairreview1.dir gAirMiaw.windowType = 2 set aRect1 = rect (400,80,600,480) set gAirMiaw.rect = aRect1 gAirMiaw.visible = true end on mouseUp me tell the Stage -- remove the following line and just keep gAirMiaw as the reference to your MIAW --gOpenMiaw = gAirMiaw gCloseMiaw = 1 end tell end global gOpenMiaw, gCloseMiaw, gAirMiaw on exitFrame if gCloseMiaw then -- change the MIAW ref to gAirMiaw gAirMiaw .close() gAirMiaw .forget() end if go the frame end Dave MacDougall _ 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: SV: SV: SV: lingo-l collisions ?
Hhmmm... Have you set the collision mode? member(whichCastmember).model(whichModel).collision.mode This can be: member(3d).model(yourModel).collision.mode = #mesh (#box or #sphere). But this does not seem to be your problem. Other option is to use the Havok Xtra. Magnus Ewald wrote: hi I have a car-model which is moved around using buttons. I also have a regular box on stage which the car can collide with. The problem is that the collisions only occures in an area at the centre of the box (In the field of wiev of camera(1)I think.? ) Could i have been forgetting any setting that creates this strange collision area of the box ? thanx /magnus -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: Agustín María Rodríguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Skickat: den 10 augusti 2001 18:15 Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ämne: Re: SV: SV: lingo-l collisions ? Just tell me what kind of movement you want for the box. Magnus Ewald wrote: thanx. Now i have the problem of moving box to a new position if a collision occurs, any suggestions? -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: Agustín María Rodríguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Skickat: den 9 augusti 2001 19:08 Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ämne: Re: SV: lingo-l collisions ? I´ve modified this example from balls to boxes and some other things. I hope it solves your problem. Behavior attached to some sprite: on mouseUp me w=sprite(me.spriteNum).member w.resetWorld() box=w.newModelResource(box, #box) box.radius=1 box1=w.newModel(box1, box) box2=w.newModel(box2, box) box1.addModifier(#collision) box1.collision.enabled=true box2.addModifier(#collision) box2.collision.enabled=true box1.collision.resolve=true box2.collision.resolve=true box1.collision.setCollisionCallBack(#col, (callscript)) box2.collision.setCollisionCallBack(#col, (callscript)) end Movie script: on CallSpcript me on col me, colData beep datlist=[coldata.modela, coldata.modelb, coldata.pointOfContact, coldata.collisionNormal] sendAllSprites (#collisionNotification, datlist) end Another movie script puts the info into the stage: on collisionNotification me, collisionData sprite(me.spritenum).member.text = string(collisionData) end on beginsprite me sprite(me.spritenum).member.text = end Agustín Magnus Ewald wrote: Hi List Im a 8.5 newbie and i am trying to get the collision detection working with a setCollisionCallback(), but i cant get it to work. I have 2 models, box and box2, how do I easyest ,to say, show an alert message when these collide ? thanx /magnus [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!] [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!]
RE: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access
in Al's example: you have a behavior that moves a slider around that needs the current position data ...Maybe your approach is still too procedural. Can the slider not just tell the object its new position once it gets moved and have the object calculate the new movie position from this. ah, DOH of course. you are absolutely correct. I just wasn't seeing it... put all of the control of the movie in the object, as it currently is. then the behavior on the slider just monitors where it is on its slide. when you move the slider it sends the position on its slide to the object as a % (or something) and the movie object figures out where that is in the movie does the correect thing to the movie. now how to address the slides moving as the movie plays. one method may be to register the appropriate slider method sprite with the object. then the object would send the current movie position to the slider at regular intervals. the slider would perform the calculations to display itself appropriately. that would require no additional globals. interesting thread. I haven't really thought about some of these baseline issues in a while. 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 OOP and ancestor access
interesting thread. I haven't really thought about some of these baseline issues in a while. I think OOP is only just coming of age - its only now that us normal programmers start hashing out the issues. This is a particularly interesting thread because Director isn't locked into any real OOP metaphors yet. Pete [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 CurrentScript
Message did not seem to arrive, 2nd attempt... Dear All, This is a long desired feature - currently only available using server-side Lingo and the Multiuser Server. Best approach (sloppy but it works) is to have each handler post their symbol (or other ID) to a global variable when they start running: on yourHandler ... gCurrentHandler = #yourHandler -- actual code goes here end yourHandler Indeed a very desired feature, and so I have decided to let lingo generate those scripting additions rather then typing it manually into each handler... the addHandler will add a line to each script regsitrating its names, all sent variable names and their values in a global string to use at the alerthook: on addHandlerRegistration temp=the itemdelimiter the itemdelimiter=, repeat with c=1 to the number of castlibs repeat with m=1 to the number of members of castlib c mem=member(m,c) if mem.type=#script then t=mem.scriptText memnam=mem.name if memnam= then memnam = string(mem) repeat with l = 1 to t.line.count th=t.line[l] if th starts on then if offset((,th)0 then put space into char (offset((,th)) of th if offset(),th)0 then put space into char (offset(),th)) of th nam=th.word[2] if nam=addHandlerRegistration or nam=removeHandlerRegistration or nam=regisrateHandler or nam=getPropertyDescriptionList or memnam=show error or nam=alertHook then next repeat rest=th.word[3..th.word.count] if rest starts -- then rest = if offset(--,rest)0 then rest=rest.char[1..(offset(--,rest)-1)] varstr= repeat with v=1 to rest.item.count if rest= then exit repeat var=rest.item[v] repeat while var.char[1]= delete char 1 of var end repeat varstr=varstrquotevar = quotestring(var)return if vrest.item.count then varstr=varstr end repeat isvars= if varstr then isvars=,varstr zin=regisrateHandler(quotenamquote,quotememnamquoteisvars) if t.line[l+1] starts regisrateHandler then put zin into line[l+1] of t else if t.line[l+1]zin then put returnzin after line l of t end if end if end repeat mem.scriptText=t end if end repeat -- members end repeat -- castlibs the itemdelimiter=temp end --- to clean the program after debugging on removeHandlerRegistration repeat with c=1 to the number of castlibs repeat with m=1 to the number of members of castlib c mem=member(m,c) if mem.type=#script then t=mem.scriptText if not (t contains regisrateHandler) then next repeat repeat with l = 1 to (t.line.count-1) th=t.line[l+1] repeat while th.char[1]=space delete char 1 of th end repeat ch=th.char[1..16] if ch=regisrateHandler then delete line (l+1) of t end if end repeat mem.scriptText=t end if end repeat end repeat end this is the registering handler itself, being called from each handler at runtime on regisrateHandler nam, mem, vars global continueRegistrating if not continueRegistrating then exit global ErrorString ErrorString=handler nam of member mem:returnreturnVars end on alertHook me, err, msg global continueRegistrating continueRegistrating=0 -- making sure registration stops after the error errorReport=errreturnmsgreturnErrorString -- here you can do whatever you wish with the resulting error string end --- it does work wonderfully, even if slowing the application quite a bit. another option is to add a first line to scripts that should not be marked for registration, either because they happen to often and therefore will slow the whole too much, or simply if they are not likely to produce an error. I wonder if macromedia is working on lingo tools for shockwave debugging at all. these seem quite nesseccary considering the amount of time it takes to trace a simple bug in such a 'minimal feedback' environment. Best Regards to all, Enjoy, Yariv Alter Fin [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 MIAW.forget() error: object expected? - solved
Of course! Thanks Christian. add on exitFrame if gCloseMiaw then gOpenMiaw.close() gOpenMiaw.forget() gCloseMiaw = 0 end if go the frame end after the forget command, otherwise you'll be forever trying to close and forget the window. Christian _ 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!]
lingo-l MIAW.forget() error: object expected? - solved
Of course! Thanks Christian. Martha add on exitFrame if gCloseMiaw then gOpenMiaw.close() gOpenMiaw.forget() gCloseMiaw = 0 end if go the frame end after the forget command, otherwise you'll be forever trying to close and forget the window. Christian _ 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!]
lingo-l lingo and coldfusion
I am working on a lingo game to create a highscore table for the game using cold fusion. Where Can I find an example? Fran [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 OOP and ancestor access
Al Hospers wrote: now how to address the slides moving as the movie plays. one method may be to register the appropriate slider method sprite with the object. then the object would send the current movie position to the slider at regular intervals. the slider would perform the calculations to display itself appropriately. that would require no additional globals. I may be missing something, but (as the subject line implies) how about making the monitoring object an ancestor of the slider object? If the slider 'inherits' all the methods and properties of the monitoring object, then surely there's no need for the global... and no need to do the registration. Christian Christian Wach [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 XML object to file again
My first questions to you would be: 1) What are you using to the perform the parse? 2) How are manipulating the data in the document? Christopher Watson Sr. Software Engineer Lightspan, Inc. -Original Message- From: Aulis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 6:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l XML object to file again Hi all. I'm alright with parsing the XML file. I can parse it and get the object finally. After that I change some attributes and values, and now I need to transform my changed object to XML file again. How to do this? Anyona has light and pretty idea? Thank you all, Sergey. [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 OOP and ancestor access
I may be missing something, but (as the subject line implies) how about making the monitoring object an ancestor of the slider object? If the slider 'inherits' all the methods and properties of the monitoring object, then surely there's no need for the global... and no need to do the registration. I was thinking of what you refer to as the monitoring object as really the object that contains all of the code to play/Paue/Stop/revind... monitor the status of the movies. that's a lot of stuff to have as a part of the slider code, yes? saying this I show my ignorance of really using ancestor functionality. I need to go back read the section on that prehaps Irv's book. Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alatcambersoftdotcom http://www.cambersoft.com Shockwave and Director development, Lingo programming, CGI scripting. 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 OOP and ancestor access
Brennan Young wrote: Glad you brought this up again, Colin. I'm sure others are not so happy;) 1) It's more difficult to program (but so was switching to OOP for me a few years back and now I never program without it). Perhaps, yes. I've found it easier than I expected to take this approach to the centre of my practice. There are certainly some hairy moments, but the discipline is delicious when you really have a completely opaque implementation working. I concur completely, there was always something that nagged me the wrong way when I used getter methods in the past and now I feel that by forcing myself to not use them has made my objects better, stronger, faster (ok, not necessarily faster but I could not resist the 6 million dollar man reference) Something I forgot to mention in my original post -- I do anticipate that programming with this technique will eventually get easier for me. 2) It seems to increase the size (lines of codes) of my objects. I found this too, but then I also found that I could break down the objects further than I had expected, and in ways I hadn't considered at first. Because they were well-encapsulated to start with, I could do this without fear of 'breaking' something else. I agree. I knew that somehow, with time and effort I could break my larger object back down to the smaller objects that I use to enjoy so much. But deadlines have prevented me from doing this. Fortunately, I am currently working on an ongoing project, that with each client, I get to refine as I go along. I will get the chance to see if I can further refine my objects while still attempting to avoid getter methods. I'm actually enjoying the challenge. For me, it's been useful to think about how my active objects can provide 'services' to other objects, rather than acting as mere data wrappers or gatekeepers. The encapsulation should never be in question. If I start asking 'should the object let others see this propertyby using a getter method?' then I know I didn't encapsulate properly. Bingo! This is exactly the same the same litmus test I use as well. and it all comes down to knowing *why* the 'foreign' object needs that private data. If you know what it's going to be used for, there's no longer any need for a get function. Canasta (sp??? Just didn't want to say bingo again) It would be interesting to hear what else you discover. If any further enlightenments come my way I will let you know. and what others think. It appears that Al has started an interesting thread on the topic. ck [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 CMYK exports via Xtras?
Hi. I'm working on a project that results in both print and web media components. For the print side, it would be awesome if I could take an rgb/jpg file and convert it to a cmyk/jpg. Does anyone know of any xtras with this functionality? Or should I focus on ye olde image batch process via photosomething? :) Thanks, Scott Southworth [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 pacth
I created a projector that i comercialise Did a little program whose which I commercialized, there were some bugs in this program. I alread fix these bugs, therefore i don't want to send a NEW program for all of my clients, my question is the following : how do I do to create a pacth (a little program) that when it runs it correct the bugs ? [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 CMYK exports via Xtras?
Hi. I'm working on a project that results in both print and web media components. For the print side, it would be awesome if I could take an rgb/jpg file and convert it to a cmyk/jpg. Does anyone know of any xtras with this functionality? Or should I focus on ye olde image batch process via photosomething? :) well... searching the Mile High Table at UpdateStage.com here http://www.updatestage.com/products_table.html yields: DirectXport Xtra: BMP, BMP24, DCX, DIB, EPS, EPS2, EPSF, EPSI, EPT, GIF, GIF87, HTML, JPEG, JPEG24, MIFF, PCD, PCDS, PDF, PICT, PS, PSD and TIFF. RavWare: JPEG, PNG, TIFF, CUR, ICO, BMP/DIB, RLE , TGA and others. both export files in a lot of formats. explore them see if they can do CMYK. hth Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alatcambersoftdotcom http://www.cambersoft.com Shockwave and Director development, Lingo programming, CGI scripting. 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 pacth
how do I do to create a pacth (a little program) that when it runs it correct the bugs ? well, there are some products out there that do this kind of thing, I think RTPatch is one. dunno if it works on Director projectors tho. if you were smart enough at the beginning to make the program use a stub projector separate movies external castlibs you could just update the pieces you need to for customers. if not then it's RTPatch or the whole enchilata. grin hth Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alatcambersoftdotcom http://www.cambersoft.com Shockwave and Director development, Lingo programming, CGI scripting. 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 pacth
Daniel, eggOnFace sorry about the X-Post message I sent. I was futzing with my rules it seems my emailer put stuff into the wrong in-basket. I thought you posted the original message I replied to onto Direct-L. apparently it was here on Lingo-L. please accept my apologies. /eggOnFace Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alatcambersoftdotcom http://www.cambersoft.com Shockwave and Director development, Lingo programming, CGI scripting. 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!]
lingo-l powerpoint files
Hi there! I'm now starting to use Director, but I'm having some problems to understand how it works. So, if you know any beginner's tutorial I'll be very happy with it. For now, I'ld like to introduce a powerpoint file into a director file. Is there anyone who can help me? Thanks for your time. M. Segadaes [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 pacth
no problem, 10x for the tip anyway Daniel - Original Message - From: Al Hospers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 5:00 PM Subject: RE: lingo-l pacth Daniel, eggOnFace sorry about the X-Post message I sent. I was futzing with my rules it seems my emailer put stuff into the wrong in-basket. I thought you posted the original message I replied to onto Direct-L. apparently it was here on Lingo-L. please accept my apologies. /eggOnFace Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alatcambersoftdotcom http://www.cambersoft.com Shockwave and Director development, Lingo programming, CGI scripting. 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!] [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 powerpoint files
Marta: As I understand it director will only accept powerpoint 4 documents. Just go to xtras/import powerpoint file. The macromedia manuals explain the specifics of importing PP files if you need further clarification. Eva Crawford (Head of Interactive media) Opfer Communications Inc. [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 pacth
Daniel, tho it is surely enticing to post the same question to a lot of lists, it is generally better form to post one wait to see if you get any responses. at the very least put a X-Post in the subject. I made some suggestions on Direct-L. Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alatCamberSoftdotcom http://www.cambersoft.com Shockwave and Director development, Lingo programming, CGI scripting. 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 pacth
eggOnFace sorry about the X-Post message I sent. I was futzing with my rules it seems my emailer put stuff into the wrong in-basket. I thought you posted the original message I replied to onto Direct-L. apparently it was here on Lingo-L. please accept my apologies. /eggOnFace Al Hospers Sorry Al, but you do not get to close the eggOnFace tag for that one:) ck (The HTML cop) [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 pacth
I am from brasil, besides all the stuff i produce here, i consider myself a newbie in lingo. By the way, where do i get this file ? if you are talking about RTPatch, it is a commercial product. you can get it here: http://www.pocketsoft.com/ BTW- you should always post follow-up questions back to the list so that others can benefit from the response it gets into the archives. hth, -Original Message- From: Daniel Campos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 4:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: lingo-l pacth Hi , Daniel [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 pacth
Sorry Al, but you do not get to close the eggOnFace tag for that one:) oh please, oh please. I fessed up officer. I'll TRY not to do it again. please let me off this time... g Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alatcambersoftdotcom http://www.cambersoft.com Shockwave and Director development, Lingo programming, CGI scripting. 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 powerpoint files
At 06:02 12/08/2001, Marta Segadães wrote: For now, I'ld like to introduce a powerpoint file into a director file. Is there anyone who can help me? Thanks for your time. In addition to the others' suggestions, you might want to take a look at several articles on the DOUG site: PowerPoint Quick Links http://www.director-online.com/quickLink.cfm?id=237 -- 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: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access
At 11:56 13/08/2001, Colin Kettenacker wrote: It appears that Al has started an interesting thread on the topic. Indeed, and speaking as one who's OOP light bulb is not just popping on as I've seen mentioned in several places (it seems to be on a dimmer switch) , I always read these threads with much interest. I've created several object scripts in my experimentation and even have a few out there on published CDs, but this most recent thread has given me more confidence in my structuring of the objects. I was starting the scripts with the getter/setter methods, but by the time the scripts were done, I didn't really have any use for the methods. I've always left them in just in case, though. I agree. I knew that somehow, with time and effort I could break my larger object back down to the smaller objects that I use to enjoy so much. But deadlines have prevented me from doing this. Fortunately, I am currently working on an ongoing project, that with each client, I get to refine as I go along. I will get the chance to see if I can further refine my objects while still attempting to avoid getter methods. I'm actually enjoying the challenge. In my case, all my projects could be considered 'on going' since they all use Director movies from a large library of modules we've created over the years. I find the biggest challenge here is updating such projects later. My version tracking leaves a lot to be desired. When I add a module with the new and improved or refined code, it sometimes doesn't fit well within the older project. And deadlines usually put a crimp on bringing older projects fully up to date in the code. Client: We just want to add some of your new stuff and update some of our old stuff on the existing CD. That should only take a day or two, right? I AM finding that OOP is making this much easier, and I expect it will get much smoother as I implement more of it. Just my acknowledgement and a big thanks to all the OOPers out there who discuss these things on line. My OOP light is beginning to illuminate my world now. -- 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!]
lingo-l I SEARCHED THE archives...
Does anyone happen to know if, after using imaging lingo to create a new bitmap, I can save it to an external file/cast? also, is it possible to script a sprite to span 1000 frames? or does there already have to exist a sprite with that span? tia, b Brian Douglas (:ub) Programming such sites as: http://www.imaginarystudio.com http://www.redflowerworld.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 Re: Lingo-L Digest V1 #2108
Pete Carss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Its also very difficult for us lingo OOP people because we only have half an OOP environment. If you want to make a subclass of a text box so that you don't have to re-invent the textbox wheel, but you want to add a few funky methods of your own...Where do you go? ... or a subclass of a digital video movie that sends messages to a dedicated slider regularly... OK, we can do something like that with a behavior, which is fine as long as you are thinking of sprites all the time, but I still miss the ability to create our own subtypes of cast members. You can (of course) set an ancestor to one of Director's own object types, such as member, list or rect. Alas, cast members do not inherit the properties and handlers of cast member scripts (stupid stupid stupid), so using a member as an ancestor is not very useful. Even so, try this: -- script xyz property ancestor on new me, str f = new(#field) f.text = str ancestor = f return me end on doit me put me.text end -- message window code follows: a = new(script xyz, test) a.doit() -- test BTW, One of the best ways to avoid 'get' functions is to use callbacks. An object asks another object to call him when she's done with his task, then goes into some kind of waiting state. In some cases, such as with timeout objects, the callback itself is the service provided, but usually you'd want a little more. Check out these hypothetical examples: Example 1; ObjectA updates itself every frame with data it gets from ObjectB by calling ObjectB's getData() function. Example 2; ObjectA registers itself for callbacks with ObjectB. Every frame, ObjectB sends a message to the callback handler of ObjectA with some data as a parameter. If ObjectA is the slider, and ObjectB is a wrapper behavior for a Quicktime sprite, then we have an opaque implementation in Example 2. Example 1 would work, but there's data being sneaked out of ObjectB, whose role is more that of 'sloppy gatekeeper' which makes me wonder why ObjectA doesn't just poll the Quicktime sprite directly. Can anyone suggest a thorny example - from a real world project perhaps - which absolutely could not be implemented without 'get' functions? -- _ Brennan [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 puppetSound vs forget window
I recently was given the answers to my questions about adding volume controls to my puppetSounds (thank you). I am now facing a new problem. I have 6 buttons each one of which opens a different MIAW and at the same time closes any other MIAW that may be open. When I used the close window command to close the preceding the active puppetSound is unaffected and will play through, however when I create my projector my individual MIAW's do not run correctly. I solved the MIAW problem by using the forget window command but this will stop any puppetSound from playing?. Is there some way around this? Thanks again for you help in the past [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 XML object to file again Message 1.2
Hello, thank you for reply. Here are the answers: 1) What are you using to the perform the parse? importFileinto member(2), xml.xml gParserObject = new(xtra xmlparser) gParserObject.parseString(member(2).text) This way, so I use XMLParser extra. 2) How are manipulating the data in the document? I want to order directly what a object point value is to be. Something like this: gParserObject.child[1].child[1].attributeValue[1] = DESIRED TEXT sprite(1).member.text = gParserObject.child[1].child[1].attributeValue[1] But this doesn't work unfortunately - I cannot manipulate gParserObject elements. After changing the Object, I need to transform it to XML file onto hard disk. What is the way to perform these tasks? Sergey. [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 I SEARCHED THE archives...
At 6:45 PM -0400 8/13/01, the nightboy wrote:
Does anyone happen to know if, after using imaging lingo to create a new
bitmap, I can save it to an external file/cast?
after you make the image what you want
then determine
which castLib you want {= castLibNumber),
which cast position you want (= castPosition),
use these:
newMemb = new(#bitmap, member (castPosition, castLibNumber))
newMemb.image = image_to_be_saved
hth
-Buzz
also, is it possible to script a sprite to span 1000 frames? or does there
already have to exist a sprite with that span?
tia,
b
Brian Douglas (:ub)
Programming such sites as:
http://www.imaginarystudio.com
http://www.redflowerworld.com
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RE: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access
this is a good idea. let's talk thru an analysis of a real-life useful OOP module. that should get this thread hoppin, right. I'll start it up. let's take the example that I mentioned before, the QT/digital movie object? let's not write any code yet, let's just do a sketch. here are the various methods that I can think of that we'll need: 1 - instantiation: setup initial property values 2 - monitorPlaybackStatus: is it playing, stopped, paused 3 - getCurrentPosition: what is the current position of the movie 4 - play: start playing at the current location 5 - stop: stop playback reset to start 6 - pause: pause playback at current location 7 - rewindToStart: reset the current time to the beginning 8 - jumpToPosition: jump to an arbitrary position in the movie 9 - fastForward: play the movie at a fast rate 10 - rewind: play the movie backwards at a fast rate 11 - playDone: handler to execute when the movie is finished 12 - killObject: cleanup the object when you are done with it OK, that is a start. can anyone think of anything else? Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alatcambersoftdotcom http://www.cambersoft.com Shockwave and Director development, Lingo programming, CGI scripting. 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!]
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Does anyone happen to know if, after using imaging lingo to create a new bitmap, I can save it to an external file/cast? sure you can. you just need an Xtra to do it. from what I understand you can do it with the MUS Xtra if all you need is JPEG. otherwise go to the www.updateStage.com site look at the Mile High Table O Products under graphics. there are a couple of Xtras there that will do the job. hth Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alatcambersoftdotcom http://www.cambersoft.com Shockwave and Director development, Lingo programming, CGI scripting. 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!]
lingo-l Hiding Cursor - in Password field
Dear Friends, I am using two fields, one for username and the other for password. For Password Entry, I am taking keystrokes in keydown event and changing them to *. while doing this my cursor appearing at starting point of the field. Also, i used sprite(2).cursor = 200 in enterframe script and in my keydown event script too, still it is not working. Can anyone help me to hide the cursor while typing into a editable field or suggest me to proceed. Thanks Regards, Shaik ilyas. _ For Rs. 2,000,000 worth of Aptech scholarships click below http://clients.rediff.com/clients/aptechsch/index.htm [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!]
