Re: lingo-l RESEND - creating a handler that executes on everyframe
Buzz Kettles wrote: the actorlist method seems like too much trouble. Since the messaging hierarchy sends enterFrame/exitFrame to every sprite, use a dummy sprite. Put an unfilled shape, linewidth = 0 in the score and spread it across the frames you want to watch. put an 'on enterFrame me' handler on it do your Lingo watching ... Or, End your enterFrame behaviours with 'pass' and use an enterFrame handler in a movieScript -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 Depend upon it, there comes a time when, for every addition of knowledge, you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. -Sherlock Holmes in 'A Study in Scarlet' [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 Type 2 Crash. a cautionary tale
Two days ago I started getting catastrophic crashes on my Mac that made
Director simply vanish from my screen with a Type 2 error*. After
placing debugging commands that wrote out to a text file (so I could
read it after the crash). I tracked it down to a single line. This line
would execute fine any number of times, and then for no apparent reason,
would fail and take Director with it. Sometimes the whole machine.
Sometimes the machine would hang a couple minutes later.
The line was something very like:
sprite(29 + x).setprops(foo, bar, rabnicky)
('setprops' is a handler in one of the behaviours attached to the sprite)
even when crashing, the values for foo, bar and rabnicky were always valid.
It was suggested that calling a handler that way, while it works most of
the time, is not actually supported and that 'call' or 'sendsprite' are
the ways to go. (thanks Dan S.)
now I use:
sendsprite(29 + x,#setprops,foo, bar, rabnicky)
and there are no more crashes.
There you go, FWIW.
* a type 2 is when a program tries to access a word of memory starting
at an odd address. It only works from even ones.
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Re: lingo-l Type 2 Crash. a cautionary tale
Slava Paperno wrote: I haven't done the tracing that you have, but I think my Type 2 crashes of D8 on Mac OS 9.04 started when I started using the same type of calls... Does this Cautionary Tale apply to D8.5? I suspect so. I tried opening it with 8.5 and had the same crash. (the project is in 8) At 12:43 PM 7/26/2001 -0400, you wrote: Two days ago I started getting catastrophic crashes on my Mac that made Director simply vanish from my screen with a Type 2 error*... The line was something very like: sprite(29 + x).setprops(foo, bar, rabnicky) It was suggested that calling a handler that way, while it works most of the time, is not actually supported and that 'call' or 'sendsprite' are the ways to go. (thanks Dan S.) now I use: sendsprite(29 + x,#setprops,foo, bar, rabnicky) -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 Depend upon it, there comes a time when, for every addition of knowledge, you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. -Sherlock Holmes in 'A Study in Scarlet' [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 Controlling Flash Buttons?
Chris Aernoudt wrote: Carl, Why do it in lingo?? Because I don't do Flash and the Flash assets have already been delivered to me as buttons. I'm already talking to the artist about getting them as straight animations that I _can_ control with Lingo. (They're more than up/hilite/down buttons, they animate on mouseover, and this way they can animate on mouseleave too) I'd like to learn Flash too, but right now I can't afford to. See the .sig below. -Original Message- ... Dear List, In D8. Cross-platform. I have some .SWF members that are Flash buttons. Can I control them from Lingo? ... -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 Depend upon it, there comes a time when, for every addition of knowledge, you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. -Sherlock Holmes in 'A Study in Scarlet' [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 Controlling Flash Buttons?
Kerry Thompson wrote: Steve's helpful hints about flash buttons deleted ... However, I'd like to add a word of caution. Don't go overboard with your Flash assets. ... At one point I decided to try Flash for the other 44 sprites, to smooth out the on-the-fly resizing. Big mistake. My frame rate went from about 30 fps to about 4 fps. Mind you, the Flash sprites were single-frame static Flash movies. Direct to stage, idleHandlerPeriod = 0, 4 fps (the motion was being driven by a timeout object, not the frame rate). Did you use .static ? The book claims it will help a great deal. I haven't messed with it yet. Won't for the prototype. Keep their expectations down. Surpass their expectations later. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 Depend upon it, there comes a time when, for every addition of knowledge, you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. -Sherlock Holmes in 'A Study in Scarlet' [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 Controlling Flash Buttons?
Steven Sacks wrote: I'd like to learn Flash too, but right now I can't afford to. See the .sig below. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones Flash is cake. I remember everything about Director, and, if anything, programming in Flash has improved my object oriented programming skills which is directly applied to programming in Director. Nothing useless about Flash. I didn't mean to say that Flash doesn't teach useful skills, I meant to say that my head is already full. I have neither the application nor the time to learn it before my prototype is due. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 Depend upon it, there comes a time when, for every addition of knowledge, you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. -Sherlock Holmes in 'A Study in Scarlet' [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 child object
Pascal, Could you set the year on your computer to 2001? I usually view the newsgroup by date and _all_ your messages are crammed together at the end because they're all dated 2003. Thanks -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 Depend upon it, there comes a time when, for every addition of knowledge, you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. -Sherlock Holmes in 'A Study in Scarlet' [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 Controlling Flash Buttons?
Dear List, In D8. Cross-platform. I have some .SWF members that are Flash buttons. Can I control them from Lingo? What I'd like to do is make it stick in the 'down' state when clicked. I can play with the buttonsenabled property, and that's a start, but setting the .frame doesn't finish the job, and nothing else seems applicable. Is this possible? Have I missed something? Or should I just have them as straight Flash animations that I _can_ control with Lingo? I bet it's no harder than trying to mess with the buttons on the fly. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 Depend upon it, there comes a time when, for every addition of knowledge, you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. -Sherlock Holmes in 'A Study in Scarlet' [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 Something is divisible by a number
R. Bhakti Klein wrote:
...
but seriously folks. you mean divisible evenly, i presume, for any
number is divisible by any other number, if uneven-itude counts...
a couple ways that come to mind:
assume x and y are integers and you want to see if x goes into y evenly.
if y.float/x = y/x then {it divides evenly}
and if y mod x = 0 then {it divides evenly}
If you can't make the assumption that the numbers are integers, you
could use something like:
on EvenlyDivisible x,y
return (float(x)/y = integer(x/y)) -- returns a boolean
end
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Re: lingo-l QUICKTIME questions
the nightboy wrote: I have several DV questions. I have a quicktime that I have cued by buttons to go to a certain timecode point. First it will take up to 10 seconds to get there. Then it will freeze on the first frame, and when it finally plays, jerk up to 3 seconds ahead. the quicktime is 125 MB and when I try to preload my machine freezes up. I assume that the video is just not loaded for the lag. Depends on the compression too. For example, Sorensen makes a really small file but it does it by forcing the host computer to do a _lot_ of calculation to get to any particular frame (the further past a keyframe the more it has to calculate). You can sometimes get better response by easing up on the compression and having a larger file with more key frames, or if you know _exactly_ where you want to go in the DV, be sure to have a keyframe (or two) right there. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 Depend upon it, there comes a time when, for every addition of knowledge, you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. -Sherlock Holmes in 'A Study in Scarlet' [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 variables from behavior to behavior
Michael Nadel wrote: Whenever I pass a command from one behavior to another with a variable, the variable turns up all messed up! For example, when I write in a behavior on sprite 3: sendSprite(3, #checkRight, 15) And then on another behavior on sprite 3 I write: on checkRight whatNumber put whatNumber end This is what I get in the message window! -- offspring findSound 4 125c4b8 All I want is the number 15, not this weird line. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong please? How do I pass a variable from behavior to behavior? try this on sprite 3: on checkRight me,whatNumber put whatNumber end the spew you're getting is the object reference for the instance of 'findsound' attached to sprite 3 -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 variables from behavior to behavior
Irv Kalb wrote: Others have already pointed out the need for the me variable. But I'll add something else. If you have a behavior where to want to send something to the same sprite number, instead of hard coding the sprite number, use the built in spriteNum variable. For example, instead of: sendSprite(3, #checkRight, 15) use sendSprite(spriteNum, #checkRight, 15) And be sure to declare property spriteNum as the top of the script. This makes the behavior much more general. You could use it in any channel, and it will continue to work if you move your sprite from channel 3 to some other channel. Irv This works when the behaviour is applied to the sprite during authoring, and it's a wonderful thing. But, if you apply the behaviour on the fly with Lingo, 'spriteNum' doesn't get a value. You'll need to set the property explicitly. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 list uses
Tyler F Gamsby wrote: ...I have a grid, 20x20, that I want to have a sprite navigate around -- in fact, the sprite is a boat. Can I use a list to keep track of what grid squares are land and what are water, and use that information to create a path for the boat to follow (so that the boat does not drive across land)? You could use a list of lists (a 2D array) a 3x3 might look like: thelist = [[1,1,0],[1,0,0],[0,1,1]] 110 100 011 and you can easily look at any 'square' with: thelist[y][x] You could replace each of the 'squares' with a property list and be able to keep track of all manner of terrain information. And you could have lists in those lists that keep track of how many of each kind of fish there are... -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 Draging sprites
Gavin Sim wrote: Is it possible to drag a sprite and then when you release the mouse the sprite will return to its original position? I know how to drag them but not return it to the position. - at the beginning of the mouseDown handler, record the sprite's loc - in the mouseUp handler put the sprite back to it's original loc. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 Quicktime question
Brian Farmer wrote: Hello list, I have the following code: on preparemovie if quickTimeVersion()4 then alert You need QuickTime 4, here's your chance to install it. open QuickTime Installer.smi halt end if end All works well...But I want to put in a warning box to tell the end user that the program will quit and install Quicktime. Where do I pu this code? -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 Sound control slider
John Trentini wrote: Hi guys, My project needs a sound control Vertical slider constrained by the locV of a moveable graphic; no problem here but.. Setting the volume of sound(1) to the locV of a sprite makes the volume increase as the locV increases. I need the slider to work in reverse; that is I need the volume to increase as the slider moves from the bottom-Up and vice versa. Any help? -Measure the distance the slider is from the bottom of the track -divide that by the length of the track -multiply the maximum sound number (7 or 255, depending on the commands you're using) by the result -That's your new sound setting -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 settings props of a dyanmically attached script
Bill Numerick wrote: ... How can i set properties of a dynamically attached script to a sprite? sendsprite(spritenum, #setBehaviour1Props, argument1, argument2) in the behaviour: on setBehaviour1Props me, arg1, arg2 property1 = arg1 property2 = arg2 end If you have multiple behaviours on a sprite whose props need to be set later, be sure the 'setProps' handlers all have different names. There are scarier ways of doing it, but I don't recommend them. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 urgent pleasesssssssssss
Awais Irshad wrote: ... i want to open the webpages offline in my projector not in internet explorer or any other programm. I need to open it in the projector. If the HTML pages have images in them, you're going to need an Xtra. Look at the messages on this list with the subject: Supported HTML tags some helpful information was posted just yesterday. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 Adding a value to a list if it's not already there
Bastien Bouchard wrote: Can someone tell me how to go about checking a list for a value, and adding it only if it isn't in it yet? An easy way to find if a value is in the list is to use the getPos. In my stupid Lingo: valueexist=Getpos(mylist,myvalue) --this will return valueexist=0 if the value is'nt in the list if valueexist=0 then --add it to the list else nothing I usually just: if not getpos(list, value) then add(list, value) -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 Need help with a RAM hog on Windows
Colin Holgate wrote: Seems to be hairier than that. The QA house is unable to run it on a machine that has less than 80MB. How much swap file space is there on that machine? I can't quite see why a PC with 80 MB would fail. Exactly, there shouldn't be a problem, but _something_ is sucking up memory in a big way. And I'm at a loss for techniques for finding it. I don't have the particulars on the machines that are failing, the QA folk are in California, I'm in Massachusetts. The report I've got says that on their 128MB machine there was a pause while the OS adjusted the size of the swapfile. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 Don't Need help with a RAM hog on Windows anymore
Found it. An innocuous little script that ran through _all_ the members of _all_ the casts and set the fontsize of some them. It wasn't unloading the members. chagrined face -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 Don't Need help with a RAM hog on Windows anymore
clars danvold wrote: Carl West wrote: An innocuous little script that ran through _all_ the members of _all_ the casts and set the fontsize of some them. Just curious... I have lots of innocuous little scripts that run through all the members of all the casts, and do stuff like unlink flash members, or make a list of occurrences of a specific member type... an example: a handler that searches the casts for members of a certain type, whose names contain a certain string: on sweepCastsForNameStr aType, aStr tFoundMemList = [] tLibCount = the number of castLibs repeat with tCast = 1 to tLibCount tMemCount = the number of members of castLib(tCast) repeat with tMem = 1 to tMemCount if member(tMem, tCast).type = aType then if member(tMem, tCast).name contains aStr then tFoundMemList.add (member(tMem, tCast).name) end if end if unloadMember(member(tMem, tCast)) -- * end repeat end repeat return tFoundMemList end * This is essentially what I did to mine and it fixed my problem. (not pointing it at the 20MB cast that had no textfiles I needed to adjust the fontsize of helped, improved the load time too) I found my problem by opening the memory inspector, then I watched for when the memory got hogged and put a debug breakpoint a little before that and stepped through until the memory used by castmembers jumped to 40MB. Using these two tools together this way is painfully obvious now that I've done it. Ah, well, another trick in the bag. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 qt movies on pcs
ray barker wrote: - - Original Message - From: Andy Grogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 4:45 PM Subject: lingo-l Quicktime link on PC fails after burning CD Hi guys Just a small wierd problem I've made a presentation on a mac with 7.0. I imported some quicktime movies. These movies are linked to external files. When I burn up a CD it works fine on the mac but the PC asks me to locate the files - it can't find them, even though they are in the same directory as the .dir file. I've tried changing the path structure in the info part of the movie, reimporting - everything. Wierder still i've never had this problem before. Any ideas? Many thanks in advance __ I don't know if it helps but I remeber pulling my hair out with a similar problem on a x-platform cd befor I realised that the quicktime movies didn't have a .mov extension! Being a mac type person I was unused to such things. cheers Ray Barker _ Also, be sure the movies are saved 'self-contained'. And if you have the option with whatever QT tool you're using, be sure they're 'flattened'. Movieplayer for QT4 doesn't give the 'flatten' option, It seems to just do it. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 simulating the user pressing the TAB key
Gene Fritzinger wrote: Actually, all I'm trying to do is to tab to the next editable field and set selStart and selEnd after the character count in the first field reaches 10 characters. I've got the char.count part OK but I'm having trouble activating the next field. Sorry for my round-about approach. set the keyboardFocusSprite -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 Need help with a RAM hog on Windows
I'm having a problem managing RAM usage on Windows. My Director 7.0.2 Mac stub projector is set to use 12MB RAM, by the time it gets to the splash screen it's using 17MB, then, after going through a couple of submenus to a QuickTime activity, it's using 56MB! Going to further activities doesn't seem to make any difference, it's happy at 56MB. The guy at the QA house suggested I uncheck the Use System Temporary Memory box when I make the projector. It was a good suggestion, now the problem doesn't happen. On a Mac. It switches movies a little more slowly but it works in the space allotted to it. My problem now is that it's hogging RAM on Windows too, in what appears to be the same way. And there's no little box to uncheck. Is there some way to tell the projector to be satisfied with 18MB? Right now it needs a machine withat least 80MB of RAM to run at all. I have a large (21MB) shared cast, could _that_ be getting loaded all at once? I'm stuck for an approach to this thing. Help? hints? pointers? keywords to search with besides RAM, windows, management, hog, leak? And places to use them? -- Carl West [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 Easy math problem
Teo Petralia wrote: Hi! I would like to find out the price of an item or better a number of this items accordingly to their weight. In other words looking at the table below: 0.5kg = $49.00 1kg = 63.70 1.5kg = 78.35 2kg = 93.00 5kg = 165.45 10kg = 275.00 15kg = 375.10 20kg = 468.45 how can I know the price of an order that weight 3kg or and order that weight 12.3kg. Interesting. These prices aren't linear versus the weights. I'm guessing that these are price-break points (If you order this much, we'll give you a break on the price, if you order this much more, we'll give you this even better break) If that's the case, the question is: Would a 7kg item cost 7/5 of what a 5kg item costs? or would it be 7/10 of the 10kg item? I would expect (using these numbers) the 3kg item would cost 1.5 times what the 2kg item cost (139.50), and 4kg would cost more than 5kg (186!!). That's how it works when I buy rivets. make a property list* of the weights with their price per kilo find where in the list your order weight would be get the price per kilo from the next lower weight and multiply it by the order weight *or two parallel lists, one of weights, one of prices per kilo. Whatever works better in your head. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 loop question
N. Taylor wrote: To the list: I cannot call sprite by their number but instead need to check collisions by castNumber. This is a major problem. You need to restructure your project. Members can't intersect each other, only their sprite-instances can intersect. Maybe you can put sprites in channels that match their castnumbers. This is the loop I've created, but it's not working. Any advice? You've got some confusions here... i = sprite(mySprite.castNum) You're setting i to the sprite that's in the channel that has the same number as the cast number of mySprite... are you sure you want to do this? Setting i to a sprite isn't something you want to do anyway, you need to set it to a number, but... for i = 6 to 8 it doesn't matter much because you're trying to loop with i set to 6,7 and 8, overwriting the value for i from the first line. except that this line is not proper Lingo, Try repeat with i = 6 to 8 ... if sprite(i).memberNum = 8 then kill me end if As far as I know 'kill' isn't a lingo command (D7) and even if it were, trying to 'kill' an object from within itself is a recipe for disaster. Assuming the code you posted _would_ work, you'd have to finish the if statements and the repeat statement. Take advantage of the lingo compiler and let it tell you where your major syntactic mistakes are. i = sprite(mySprite.castNum) for i = 6 to 8 if sprite(mySprite).intersects(i) then if sprite(i).memberNum = 7 then sprite(mySprite).width = sprite(mySprite).width * 1.1 sprite(mySprite).height = sprite(mySprite).height * 1.1 end if if sprite(i).memberNum = 8 then kill me end if something like this (non functional code): repeat with i = 6 to 8 if sprite(mySprite).intersects(i) then if sprite(i).memberNum = 7 then sprite(mySprite).width = sprite(mySprite).width * 1.1 sprite(mySprite).height = sprite(mySprite).height * 1.1 end if if sprite(i).memberNum = 8 then kill me end if end if end repeat You're used to coding in some other language aren't you? You need to spend some more time with the Lingo books and tutorials. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 returning to dir: making a grid with an array
Colin Holgate wrote: I need to make a grid of squares 50 x 50 and all need to be referenceable as when each one is clicked on it needs to change colour. It needs to be in some kind of array as i need to check the state of the squares surrounding each square that is selected. Is there a way to produce this grid without having to draw out 2500 squares? Any ideas? There are so many ways to do this, but if you literally mean that it's a 50 x 50 area of solid colors that need to change, an easy and fun way would be to use setpixel on a 50x50 pixel bitmap. You then place the bitmap onto the stage and scale it up somewhat. Here, I went ahead and made a movie: http://staging.funnygarbage.com/colin/colorgrid.dir The one and only sprite is 400 x 400, with source bitmap of 50 x 50. The script on the sprite is this: on mouseUp s = the currentspritenum m = the member of sprite s x = (the loch of the clickloc - the left of sprite s)/8 y = (the locv of the clickloc - the top of sprite s)/8 setpixel member(m),x,y,random(256)-1 end The movie is a D7 one. and you can use member(m).getpixel(x,y) to get the data back out of the bitmap -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 Problems with QuickTime on Mac
Carl West wrote: I have a QT movie as a sprite whose movietime is used to control the locations of scrollbar knobs and the scrolltop of a transcript of the movie. It runs fine for a while, but after intense manipulation of the movietime (back and forth, jumping around) I get the error: Property not found: #movietime and the movie hangs. As a projector it often fails a force-quit, forcing a re-boot. It's worst as a projector on a CD, less frequent as a projector on the HD, and sometimes it'll do it in authoring. D7.0.2 Mac QT 4.x I'm looking for clues to diagnose this thing. Found it. The projector needed more RAM. Doh. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 Problems with QuickTime on Mac
I have a QT movie as a sprite whose movietime is used to control the locations of scrollbar knobs and the scrolltop of a transcript of the movie. It runs fine for a while, but after intense manipulation of the movietime (back and forth, jumping around) I get the error: Property not found: #movietime and the movie hangs. As a projector it often fails a force-quit, forcing a re-boot. It's worst as a projector on a CD, less frequent as a projector on the HD, and sometimes it'll do it in authoring. D7.0.2 Mac QT 4.x I'm looking for clues to diagnose this thing. Help? -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 Another weirdness
Victor Iwan wrote: Am I doing something wrong again... I create behaviors such us On mouseenter cursor(280) End On mouseleave cursor(-1) End hmmm... try: On mouseenter me cursor(280) End On mouseleave me cursor(-1) End and be sure the script is a behavior script, not a movie or parent script -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 Marker deletion by lingo?
mare wrote: David Pexton kindly wrote: Hello I need a script which finds those markers in my movie that are marked in the score but have no name. I would then like to have lingo delete them. Is this possible? I think you could do it with scorerecording. But AFAIK the only way to delete a marker is by using deleteFrame. So you might need to recreate the deleted frame (if there are 1 frame spritespans in your movie) after the deletion. Not very easy. Actually, not too hard: on cleanlabels beginRecording repeat with i = (the labelList.line.count) down to 1 go marker(the labelList.line[i]) if the frameLabel = "" then duplicateFrame deleteFrame end if end repeat endRecording end cleanlabels Works for me in D7.0.2, but have a backup copy. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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:
limiar40 b wrote: hi list!!! Haw can i burn a hybrid cd, to work in PC's and Mac's i write this script to check the platform. on checkMachine if the platform contains "windows,32" then set gQualpath = the pathname "data\" --pc else set gQualpath = the pathname "data:" --mac end if end you could do this: on checkMachine set gQualpath = the pathname "data" the last char of the pathname end -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 MOD tricks
I just stumbled onto this: In D7.02 'mod' works not only on integers but on lists of integers, rects and points foo = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7] bar = [4,4,4,4,4,4,4] put foo mod bar -- [1, 2, 3, 0, 1, 2, 3] a = point(23,48) b = point(40,40) put a mod b -- point(23, 8) I found this useful for wrapping a moving sprite's loc back onto the other side of the stage: untested sample stageCorner = point(800,600) newloc = spriteloc + locModifier sprite(x).loc = newloc mod stageCorner /untested sample If someone hits on a use for 'mod'ing rects, I'd be curious to see it. but it doesn't work with rgb triads. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 closing miaw windows
Tab Julius wrote: You would think so. In fact, in a projector, though, this can cause the app to crash. The safer way is to do something like this: (in miaw) on mouseUp global gWindowToKill gWindowToKill =the activeWindow end (in main program) on idle global gWindowToKill if (gWindowToKill) then forget gWindowToKill gWindowToKill =VOID end if end This puts the "killing" of the window in the context of the stage, not the window itself, and won't crash. So long as the second 'main program' portion is in a cast that isn't shared by the MIAW. Chased that one for a day. :-6 I'm still having trouble with 'forget' When the MIAW is re-opened it often crashes, even in Director. Because the MIAW is bound to get re-opened (the dictionary on a language CD), I just use 'close'. I don't _like_ it. but it works. Any other gotchas for closing MIAWs? -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 Strange Sprite positions
pete carss wrote: ... Cheers Irv, I have tried both the above - good to know that I'm thinking in the right direction - is it possible that even after "startMovie" some sprites have not been set up yet? Have you tried placing the sprites in a prepareMovie handler? The one awkwardness I've found with that is that you can't place one sprite relative to the coordinates of another 'cause there not there yet. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 problem with 'new' Solved!
Irv Kalb wrote: Yup. You probably have what you think is a parent script that you have not set to be of type parent script. The "new" handler in the script is being called using as an argument. When the "return me" executes, it returns #bitmap. Look through your scripts that have "on new me" handlers and you will find one (or more) that are set to be movie scripts instead of parent scripts. Irv ... foo = new(#bitmap) put foo -- #bitmap and no new castmember. There's ample room for it in the cast. ... Bingo! I did a Find on 'on new me' and command-g'd my way through all the casts and sure enough there was _one_ behaviour masquerading as a movie script. now it works fine. Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 burning hybrid CD. . .
jsweeney wrote: on 2/8/01 7:55 PM, Roy Pardi at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a MAC. . .got Toast. . .and a bottle of good wine. (no caviar though ;-) Here goes from memory (done a thousand of these darn things, but not of late) I do it almost daily with Toast 4.1.2 and have a couple of additions: Create a temp Mac partition quit Toast and save the partition Open the partition and copy you stuff to it Set up you window to look the way you want it too when the CD is first put in a MAC. (Do this BEFORE YOU OPEN TOAST) Open Toast Select Hybrid as your type If you want the CD to load with it's window open on the Desktop, have it open Now. Drag the icon for the temp partition that you just made onto the Toast Window, the window will close, if you want the CD to load with it's window open on the Desktop, Open it Now. Click the "Data..." button and choose 'Optimize on the fly', this assures that the disc will be HFS and not HFS+ which IIRC System 7x can't read. Assuming that matters to you. Drag whatever PC-specific stuff you've got (executables and READMEs with CRLFs for example) onto the Toast window Then click on the PC data button[labled "ISO..."] Add all your data by browsing/clicking on the data in the Temp partition Or drag them from the temp partition onto the Toast window. N.B. If you want to have the Mac window open in Icon view on the CD, never let Toast 'see' it in List view. That is, if you go to the Finder and change the view of the temp partition to get to files that aren't visible in Icon view, drag them onto the Toast window while staying in the Finder, then switch back to Icon view before leaving Finder and activating Toast. You can mess with the layout of the files on the CD to improve performance... Click 'ISO...' and the 'Layout' tab. Files at the top of the list are nearest the center of the disc and supposedly quicker to access. (I think I've got that right, seems to work for me anyway) when you come back to the top, under the PC side you we see how many megs of stuff that is SHARED is being used you will have MAC executable stuff and PC executable stuff and they will both share the data -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 another way to DTS
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there another way to get graphics infront of a movie in Director then using directToStage = FALSE ? It used to be (D4) that 'directToStage = FALSE' had no effect on QT sprites on Windows. Has that changed while I wasn't looking? A Very Special Case workaround: If the movie can be 'paused' while the graphic is over it you can set the QT's trails to true and move it off the stage, then put up the graphic. But if you move the graphic, bad things will happen. When you're done, bring the movie back and turn off it's trails -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 Having trouble managing my director file
Nigel wrote: ...I am using Lingo for just about everything, and find that I hate opening the script window because of the big mess waiting for me when I open it. Hmmm... Maybe you already know these things but if you don't, you should, they make my life easier. You can sort scripts out into different cast members. (and different casts too, for that matter) Option or Alt double-clicking on handler names will let you 'navigate' among your scripts. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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: fonts for Director
On Macromedia's Fontographer forum... Fontmeister wrote: Carl Can someone point me to info on this 'recordable outlines' concept? This just means you must have the outline font rather than only the screen font. Regards, Jim Gallagher Macromedia Tech Support Hmm... Putting this tidbit together with what the Director tech note said and the fact that only TrueType fonts show up as embeddable in Director suggests that PostScript fonts don't have outlines, and I know that's not the case. Either there's more to this 'recordable outline' business than that OR it's just an obscure way of saying "we don't support embedding PostScript fonts in Director" Is it possible to make a PostScript font with a 'recordable outline'? While this's all very interesting, my real question is still: "What do I have to do to get Director to pick up my edited bitmap fonts that go with my TrueType font?" Please pardon/understand my crankiness, I've got pressure from my client to do something that the documentation says I can do, but it's not working and nobody seems able to help me do it or explain to my client why I can't. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 Embedding Bitmap Fonts
I'm having trouble getting bitmap fonts to embed in my movie. D7.0.4 Mac My client has supplied PostScript fonts and wants them used in their CD product. But they don't show up in my Insert Media Element Font... dialog. The tech note says: Issue When attemtping to embed a font in a movie (Insert menu Media Element Font), some fonts may not appear in the list of "eligible" fonts which are listed in the "Original Font" field. Reason Director can only embed fonts that have recordable outlines and not all fonts have these recordable outlines... A search found no Fontographer tech note with 'recordable' as a keyword. I used Fontographer to make a TrueType version of the font and edit the 16 and 18 point bitmaps. I put the bitmaps in the suitcase with the outline and installed it on my system. Works great, the 16 and 18 point look great. Embed the font, specifically including the 16 and 18 point bitmaps, and they're not making it. They display in neither field nor text members. What am I doing wrong? If I re-export the font from Fontographer as Postscript might it have the 'recordable outline'? -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 Doubled messages
Is it just me? I'm getting most of the posts on this list twice. The second of which is always one or two K larger than the first. Probably because it has stuff like this added into the header: Received: from brockman.tinet.ie (brockman.tinet.ie [159.134.237.30]) by mail1.fcgnetworks.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA04879 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 11:42:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from p830.as1.cra.dublin.eircom.net ([159.134.179.62] helo=fdsonline.com) by brockman.tinet.ie with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #23) id 14EDSk-000175-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 16:42:02 + Received: from mail.sirius.com [205.134.253.132] by fdsonline.com [192.168.0.1] with DomainPOP (MDaemon.v3.5.0.R) for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 04 Jan 2001 16:40:14 + Received: from mail2.fcgnetworks.net (mail2.fcgnetworks.net [208.210.86.12]) by mail1.sirius.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA14740 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 08:41:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.fcgnetworks.net ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [192.168.40.6]) by mail2.fcgnetworks.net (8.9.2/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA74408; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 11:34:34 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail1.fcgnetworks.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA02118 for lingo-send; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 11:34:04 -0500 (EST) -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 Doubled messages
Tab Julius wrote: Yes, I noticed this - am looking for a pattern. They all seem to have the extra stuff in the header that starts with: Received: from brockman.tinet.ie (brockman.tinet.ie and they've all got two of these on the end [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!] They're getting re-posted, but it's only a single echo, not a feed back loop. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 Can somebody help please ?
Jonathan wrote: I am coming towards the final stages of my dir. project and I still have not got my scripts to stop my main charecter when he hits a wall or an object. I have tried so so many ways. Can anybody give me some examples of such scripts. Not specifically. It's a classic problem. The man gets into a position that satisfies the 'stop moving' handler and stops. That's good. But, when you try to move the man, he's still triggering the 'stop moving' handler. You either need to back the man out of the 'stop zone' after stopping him or check _before_ moving him whether he will collide and stop him before he does. try this: Move a 'footprint' bitmap _behind_ the background layer, check for a collision, if there isn't one, move the man onto the footprint, if there is a collision, move the footprint back under the man. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 What Is the Best File format for Images???
Jon Paul Alongi wrote: hi jon... if your image is less than 256 colors then use gif more than 256 use jpg... the lowest compressed format that suports transpaerency is Gif other than that its PSD (maybe Png, cant remember) TIFF also carries an alpha channel -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 Simple text highliting problem/bug
Irv Kalb wrote: I've got a very simple requirement, but I've run into what I believe is a bug in text members It's been s bug for a while. Requirement: I need to have multiple text members on the screen, and give the user the ability to highlight any amount of text within any one. This should work identically to highlighting text within a browser window. (Then the user can copy text - but I've got this taken care of). ... What I see: I can click on either text member, and drag across any amount of text, and the selected text does get highlighted correctly. However, when I click on either text member, the background rectangle of the member becomes white. That is, it loses it background transparency. Interesting thing is that if you click back and forth between these two text members, when you click onto one, the other one (non-active) goes back to being background transparent. Anybody have an easy work-around? Use a white-background movie. Place the 'background' as a colored shape in a channel higher than the text sprites and set it to darken. Plan on using text darker than the background. I don't know if that fixes everything, but it's a start. This only works with colored shapes. Bitmaps of any bitdepth obscure and interfere with making the selection. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 My last point
"Rees, Jonathan" wrote: ... Does anybody know how I can record the point in a list so when the on detcetcollision handler is called I can set him to the say a point of 3 locations before. or is there a way of recording the position one or three places or pixels or points or whatever before the current position of the sprite, so for instance I can place the value of the loc or point into lets say property "last_loc" but how do actually make this always be the one or third point (whichever) point before the one its currently at. I would like to use this so that when the sprite interacts I can instruct it to go here You've described it almost exactly. Now translate it into code. Have a list for each moving sprite. Whenever you move the sprite, add its new location to the end of its list and take the first value off the list. Whenever the sprite collides with something, set its location to the first one in the list (and re-build the list with the three items all being that new location). When you first create the list, make it with the three items all being the start location of the sprite. It's a short trail of breadcrumbs. When you find that the trail was bad (caused a collision) you wipe it out and start a new one. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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: Font Help (Fontographer)
Brian Farmer wrote: Hello, I am having problems embedding a custom font that I made in Fontographer. I am getting the following message:"Internal error...Details: This font can't be embedded because it is missing certain glyphs that are required for proper hinting." I looked in the manual and cannot find anything on this. Anyone know? Know? no. But I have a guess. It may be looking for these characters: HOno10 The characters you made, what character locations are they in? Can you turn the hinting off in Fontographer? Macromedia has a Fontographer newsgroup on their server: forums.macromedia.com -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 HELLPP!!
Tony Eggleston wrote: .. however there is a freezing of the timer as director pulls questions from a pre-randomized list (this is done in the begging of the game before we start the timer). It then jumps ahead to where the timer is supposed to be but this is unacceptable. The timer needs to be the most critical function that director performs. on showTime -- I'm calling a showTime from each enterFrame how involved is the 'question pulling' routine? could it be broken up so that you could 'showTime' part way through? or just have 'showTime's sprinkled through it? It's gross, but it could work. What version of Director? -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 case command
Leon McComish wrote: a pretty thorough description of using the case statement You can also use the case statement for very disparate conditions: case TRUE of (x=y): do something ((the moveiname).char(1) "A"): do something else (the soundenabled): do some other thing end case -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 INternational Chars in Field
Kerry Thompson wrote: I'm having some troubles with INternational Chars in Field, it only occurs in Win2K. I've seen several posts in the last couple weeks about similar problems on Win2K. I'd like to find out what's going on, too. Which characters are you having problems with? Are they characters from the Portuguese alphabet, or another Western European language (i.e., Spanish, French, German, etc.) And which font(s)? We've had problems with 14 point Arial that (I didn't do _exhaustive_ testing) didn't show up in other fonts or other sizes. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 me
"Mark R. Jonkman" wrote: valuable insight into 'me' deleted Normally, one would declare the spriteNum property as a property to the behaviour and thus make it accessible without the need to include the me reference. ie. property spriteNum on mouseUp me set the foreColor of sprite(spriteNum) = 156 end mouseUp This works for behaviours that are dropped on sprites during authoring, because the act of dropping the behaviour on the sprite tells it where it is. If, on the other hand, you are assigning the behaviours at run time with a statement like: add(sprite(x),scriptinstancelist, new(script "TheBehaviourInQuestion")) The instance of the behaviour will have no idea what its spriteNum is, it'll have to be told explicitly. For example, add the behaviour to the sprite with: add(sprite(x),scriptinstancelist, new(script "TheBehaviourInQuestion",x)) and in the behaviour have: property spriteNum on new me, passedSpriteNum spriteNum = passedSpriteNum return me end more valuable 'me' info deleted -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 Select Folder Dialog
Luiz Gustavo Castelan Póvoas wrote: thanks for your help, but I think that my previous message was not clear enought. I want to make the user select a FOLDER, without having to select a FILE inside of this folder. FileIO's DisplaySave with a "don't worry about the filename" message in the filename field is what I use on my in-house tools. Just strip the last item off the returned pathname. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 AppleScript and Director
Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions wrote: Perverse curiosity: Is it possible to make a Projector AppleScriptable? ... We sell an AppleScript Xtra (zScript) that adds additional functionality to it though. For example, zScript allows you to compile and send applescript commands to other applications. To receive AppleScript events, we have a helper app named zQueue. ... You can download demo versions from our web site at: http://www.zeusprod.com/ftp/zscptdem.sit That's the kind of answer I was looking for. A solution exists. Cool. Now I have to go find the problem. ;) -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 Printing
"LYNN L." wrote: I'm not sure that I can fully appreciate the POM xtra. Maybe someone can help me with this surely simple problem. I need to print 5 seperate text fields (each it's own seperate cast member) on seperate lines on the same page(document). I've figured out how to print them and can set up a document with frames. What i can't figure out is how in the heck can I print each of these seperate members on it's own seperate line (like forcing a return). The way they are printing now is one text field prints immediately after another in a continuous line. The seperate cast members form what looks like a solid paragraph. I need a command similar to BR in HTML. Have you tried tacking a couple of returns onto the ends of the first four text fields? repeat with x = 1 to 4 member(fieldx).text = member(fieldx).text Return Return end repeat -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 AppleScript and Director
Perverse curiosity: Is it possible to make a Projector AppleScriptable? I don't have a project in mind, I've just started messing with AppleScript and I'm curious. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 setfiltermask on a Mac
Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions wrote: From: Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm trying to show only Quicktime movies in the dialog: foo = new(xtra "fileio") setfilterMask (foo, "MooV") proposedFilename = displayOpen(foo) openfile(foo, proposedFilename, 0) put "proposedFilename",proposedFilename, getfinderinfo(foo) this shows everything in the directory and I get this in the message window: - -- "proposedFilename" "Projects:Extracurricular:cinepak2x.MOV" "MooV TVOD" I'm clearly doing something wrong here but I have no idea where else to look for an answer, I tried DOUG, updateStage, the Macromedia site, Director help, the manuals, Director Demystified, another third party book... no luck My tests confirm what you are seeing, and you're not doing anything wrong. Try shutting off the "Automatic File Translation" in the Mac OS Easy Open control panel and that should solve your problem. The OS is showing you all the files that can be recognized or translated into the desired type, or something like that. Thanks Bruce, that was it. Under OS 9.04, the control panel is File Exchange File Translation, uncheck "Translate documents automatically'. Now setFiltermask works as expected. I'm not sure how I feel about having to turn that off. I'll try running without it for a while. Can't count on the user having it unchecked. grump. ... Don't use "TVOD" and "ttxt". Those are creator codes and not file types. I had reached the shooting-in-the-dark stage of testing. Looks like I need to add that to Lingo in a Nutshell... ;) -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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: Lingo-L Digest V1 #1675
Jonas Brink Worsøe wrote: - Original Message - From: Philip Phelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsuscribe [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!] Sorry, couldn't help responding to this. I just always get a kick out of seing that line right above that footer! I don't know which amuses me more, that or the spelling. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 setfiltermask on a Mac
Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions wrote: ... The setFilterMask accepts up to four "filter types" at once. I don't think you can filter for more than four different types using it. You might need to resort to a third-party Xtra. If nothing else, you can read in a file list using FileIO and then manually contruct the file browser using the desired types. Here is an example off the top of my head. Many more details in Chapter 14 of LiaN... fileIOinstance = new (xtra "fileIO") if the platform contains "Mac" then -- displays text, PICT, BMP, and TIFF files setfilterMask (fileIOinstance, "TEXTPICTBMP TIFF") (I'm working on a Mac so I'll stop here) I'm trying to show only Quicktime movies in the dialog: foo = new(xtra "fileio") setfilterMask (foo, "MooV") proposedFilename = displayOpen(foo) openfile(foo, proposedFilename, 0) put "proposedFilename",proposedFilename, getfinderinfo(foo) this shows everything in the directory and I get this in the message window: -- "proposedFilename" "Projects:Extracurricular:cinepak2x.MOV" "MooV TVOD" when I use: setfilterMask (foo, "MooV TVOD") or setFilterMask (foo, "TEXT") it shows everything in the directory. when I use: setfilterMask (foo, "MOOV") or setFilterMask (foo, "ttxt") it shows only the subdirectories in the directory, no files at all. I'm clearly doing something wrong here but I have no idea where else to look for an answer, I tried DOUG, updateStage, the Macromedia site, Director help, the manuals, Director Demystified, another third party book... no luck -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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: Lingo-L Digest V1 #1672
roy crisman wrote: www.ajitkhimjigroup.com Can't see it in netscape, because the dcr is being served out as text/plain, not x-application/shockwave or whatever. Ahh... perhaps that 'splains the broken icon and the re-direct to the plugin site. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 using field
vedanta ulises wrote: ... I make it clear. if my field only can show 5 lines and my list are 20 lines. how the script (lingo) can make my field shows only line 6 and 10. Look up scrollTop and scrollByLine. scrollByLine is probably what you want for this These work with boxtype = #fixed or #scrolling -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 problem lingo
We'd love to help you. Can you give us a little more information? If you can describe what you are trying to do, and the problems you are having, in more detail, we will be better able to help. How to call the picture in folder to interface by typekeyborad Sounds like Patchareepan wants to import a bitmap that is in an external folder and show it on the screen, I can't tell whether (s)he wants to do it in authoring mode or in the executable though. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 HELP: dividing up a character string
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have incoming data from an external device...Data will be arriving in the following as below: RAE 123 LLF 225. In this example RAE is a variable and 123 is it's value. I'd like to look for it in a string and record it's value. Hmm... you want the 'word' after the variable name ... return DataString.word[1 + (DataString.char[1..(offset(VariableName,DataString))]).word.count] -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 help with Script Error:
"LYNN L." wrote: I'm a somewhat newbie and I'm taking over this project from a predecessor. It's a Match Game. You know, select the card, and try to match images. Here's the error: "Script error: Comma expected. You may need to convert to member reference syntax: member(a,b) set memDefault = member(the membernum of member memref + 1) of castlib? castlibnum" Hmmm... try moving the right parenthesis: set memDefault = member(the membernum of member memref + 1 of castlib castlibnum) -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 keyPresses
Ask Møller wrote: If you want to you can test different machines on this site (a small shockwave test site I made)... http://www.ultimatum.dk/ask/director/ click on "Keyboard Tester" I just checked my mac (blue G3, os8.6), and found that I couldn't detect all 4 arrow keys at once, but most of the time 3 of the keys were detected!!! My G4 with a macally keyboard showed all combinations of the arrow keys in any order. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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: chaps
sam wrote: When I said hello chaps I, of course, meant chaps and chapesses! 'chapesses'? wow. I don't wear chaps. Though sometimes my lips get chapped. (urm... that's starting to make a strange picture, I'd rather my lips got chapessed) Yup, it's Friday, and I'm waiting for feedback from a client. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 repeat question
Magnus Ewald wrote: Whats wrong with this syntax: repeat with i = 1 to 10 getat(gbildspel, i) end repeat Director doesnt seem to understand the "i"mmmkay ? Are you sure it's the 'i' it doesn't get? what does gbildspel look like? That is the error you are getting? -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 Performance--clear difference
Brutish and a cpu hog, but pretty smooth: on startmovie -- setup the picture and choose directions HdirectionList = [] VdirectionList = [] repeat with x = 1 to 30 sprite(x).loc = point(random(600),random (440)) add(HdirectionList,[-2,-1,1,2][random(4)]) add(VdirectionList,[-2,-1,1,2][random(4)]) end repeat -- do the animation repeat while not the mousedown -- gotta have some way to stop it repeat with x = 1 to 30 sprite(x).loc = sprite(x).loc + point(HdirectionList[x],VdirectionList[x]) if sprite(x).loch 0 then HdirectionList[x] = HdirectionList[x] * -1 else if sprite(x).loch 600 then HdirectionList[x] = HdirectionList[x] * -1 end if if sprite(x).locv 0 then VdirectionList[x] = VdirectionList[x] * -1 else if sprite(x).locv 440 then VdirectionList[x] = VdirectionList[x] * -1 end if end repeat updateStage end repeat end see it at: http://people.ne.mediaone.net/eisen/badIdeas/30bounce.dcr 12 circle bitmaps with background transparent ink 18 square bitmaps with copy ink -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 following sprites
Colby Dodson wrote: I am working on a project and I have built my own scroll buttons for text and my text is a totally different sprite and I need it to follow my scroll button which is a separate sprite also and I need to be able to set boundaries. the 'scrolltop' property will let you control the scrolling of the text member through lingo. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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: lingo-l case question
Kerry Thompson wrote: All the other solutions posted so far do not do what the orignal will. You're right, Ike. I was making an assumption, based on his indentation, that he wanted an either-or solution. Your solution, like the original post, will assign a varying number of sprites. If, for example, gAntbild = 3, it will assign members to sprites 60, 61, and 62. It looked like a potential bug to me, and probably to some of the other posters. Most of the solutions we posted will assign only one sprite member. Is that what he wanted? Only he knows for sure :-) When he asked for a case statement, I figured that he wanted only one of the results. Fun exercise. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 Transparency with 3 layers?????
Nikaj Wiggers wrote: Thanks! But how can I move the Alpha channel as a mask? nikaj Carl West wrote: Easy enough to do using mask ink on im3 and changing the regPoint on im3's mask according to the movement of im2 over im1. You don't move the alpha channel, you move the mask. If the distinction isn't clear, read a bit about the mask ink effect. The only alpha channel might be on im2, im3 would be behind im2 and in front of im1. im2 will cover the aliased edge on im3 The mask for im3 would be a 1-bit image that is bigger than the hole in im2 but smaller than the outside of im2 Sort of a cross-section of the image: (the image is viewed from here) im2 ...__... ...... ..im3-. im1 the dotted parts of im3 are invisible because of the placement of the regpoint on im3's mask member. the dotted parts of im2 are the antialiasing from its alpha channel when im2 gets moved: im2 ...__... ...... .im3-.. im1 -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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: lingo-l case question
Magnus Ewald wrote: Hey there.. This should be an easy one How do you "case" the following script - on rumpan if gAntbild0 then sprite(60).member=member getAt(gValda, 1) of castlib "internal" if gAntbild1 then sprite(61).member=member getAt(gValda, 2) of castlib "internal" if gAntbild2 then sprite(62).member=member getAt(gValda, 3) of castlib "internal" if gAntbild3 then sprite(63).member=member getAt(gValda, 4) of castlib "internal" if gAntbild4 then sprite(64).member=member getAt(gValda, 5) of castlib "internal" if gAntbild5 then sprite(65).member=member getAt(gValda, 6) of castlib "internal" end if end if end if end if end if end if end -- on rumpan case true of (gAntbild0) : sprite(60).member=member getAt(gValda, 1) of castlib "internal" (gAntbild1) : sprite(61).member=member getAt(gValda, 2) of castlib "internal" (gAntbild2) : sprite(62).member=member getAt(gValda, 3) of castlib "internal" (gAntbild3) : sprite(63).member=member getAt(gValda, 4) of castlib "internal" (gAntbild4) : sprite(64).member=member getAt(gValda, 5) of castlib "internal" (gAntbild5) : sprite(65).member=member getAt(gValda, 6) of castlib "internal" end case end or, on rumpan if gAntbild0 then theValue = min(gAntbild,6) sprite (59 +theValue) .member = member getAt(gValda, theValue) of castlib "internal" end if end -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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: lingo-l case question
Carl West wrote: Magnus Ewald wrote: Hey there.. This should be an easy one How do you "case" the following script - on rumpan if gAntbild0 then sprite(60).member=member getAt(gValda, 1) of castlib "internal" if gAntbild1 then sprite(61).member=member getAt(gValda, 2) of castlib "internal" if gAntbild2 then sprite(62).member=member getAt(gValda, 3) of castlib "internal" if gAntbild3 then sprite(63).member=member getAt(gValda, 4) of castlib "internal" if gAntbild4 then sprite(64).member=member getAt(gValda, 5) of castlib "internal" if gAntbild5 then sprite(65).member=member getAt(gValda, 6) of castlib "internal" end if end if end if end if end if end if end -- on rumpan case true of (gAntbild0) : sprite(60).member=member getAt(gValda, 1) of castlib "internal" (gAntbild1) : sprite(61).member=member getAt(gValda, 2) of castlib "internal" (gAntbild2) : sprite(62).member=member getAt(gValda, 3) of castlib "internal" (gAntbild3) : sprite(63).member=member getAt(gValda, 4) of castlib "internal" (gAntbild4) : sprite(64).member=member getAt(gValda, 5) of castlib "internal" (gAntbild5) : sprite(65).member=member getAt(gValda, 6) of castlib "internal" end case end OOPS!! that'll stop at the first case every time it's 0. It should be: on rumpan case true of (gAntbild=1) : sprite(60).member=member getAt(gValda, 1) of castlib "internal" (gAntbild=2) : sprite(61).member=member getAt(gValda, 2) of castlib "internal" (gAntbild=3) : sprite(62).member=member getAt(gValda, 3) of castlib "internal" (gAntbild=4) : sprite(63).member=member getAt(gValda, 4) of castlib "internal" (gAntbild=5) : sprite(64).member=member getAt(gValda, 5) of castlib "internal" (gAntbild5) : sprite(65).member=member getAt(gValda, 6) of castlib "internal" end case end or, on rumpan if gAntbild0 then theValue = min(gAntbild,6) sprite (59 +theValue) .member = member getAt(gValda, theValue) of castlib "internal" end if end -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 Whats the difference? the currentSpriteNum and me.spriteNum
Paul Steven wrote: Paul, check if you didn't forget the "me" on your sprite's handler, that could be your answer. Nope - I didn't forget the me Here is the exact handler I have -- on Change_Sprite_To_Appropriate_Note_Member me case pInstrument_Icon_Number of 1: sprite(me.spriteNum).member="Instrument1_Note" 2: sprite(me.spriteNum).member="Instrument2_Note" 3: sprite(me.spriteNum).member="Instrument3_Note" 4: sprite(me.spriteNum).member="Instrument4_Note" end case end Change_Sprite_To_Appropriate_Note_Member -- Even though it works fine now replacing me.spriteNum with the currentSpriteNum, I am still curious as to why it doesn't work with me.spriteNum! Getting back to the original question: If you are dropping the behaviours on the sprites on the stage by hand or assigning them in the score, they'll know their own spriteNum. But if you're assigning them on the fly with Lingo they won't, you'll need to do it with something like: add(sprite(x).scriptinstanceList, new(script "foo"),x) And it'll have to have the property 'spriteNum' declared and set explicitly in the 'new' handler property spriteNum on new me, x spriteNum = x return me end Have I struck close to the problem? -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 Whats the difference? the currentSpriteNum and me.spriteNum
(I tried to send this a few minutes ago, and something I posted subsequently has shown up, so I'm trying again -cw) Paul Steven wrote: Even though it works fine now replacing me.spriteNum with the currentSpriteNum, I am still curious as to why it doesn't work with me.spriteNum! Getting back to Paul's original question: When you drop the behaviours on the sprites on the stage by hand or assign them in the score, they'll know their own spriteNum and your script should work. But if you're assigning them on the fly with Lingo they won't. You would need to do it with something like: add(sprite(x).scriptinstanceList, new(script "foo"),x) And the behaviour'll have to have the property 'spriteNum' declared and set explicitly in its 'new' handler property spriteNum on new me, x spriteNum = x return me end Have I struck close to the problem? -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 OT googols
Kerry Thompson wrote: The largest number mathematicians usually deal with is a googolplex (really). That's 10 to the 100th power, and as Colin noted, greater than the total number of elementary particles in the known universe (about 10 ^ 80). Let's get really OT--the name googolplex was invented by the American mathematician Edward Kasner's 9-year-old nephew. Kasner asked the boy to invent a name for a very large number, bigger than anything that can be put into words. His nephew called it a "googol," and mathematicians have been calling it googolplex ever since. Nit picking: If I recall correctly googol = power(10, 100) googolPlex = power(10, googol) which gives us: put googol -- 1.00e100 put googolplex -- INF Hmmm... put power(10,1000) -- INF put googolplex = power(10,1000) -- 0 put googolplex + power(10,1000) -- INF put googolplex - power(10,1000) -- NAN Hmmm... -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 OT googolplex : was - pixels
Tim Forster wrote: Kerry, Almost but not quite correct. A googol is 10 to the 10th power. and a googolplex is 10 to the 10th power raised to the 100th power ! Wrong on the googol, right on the googolplex googol = power(10, 100) googolPlex = power(10, googol) http://public.logica.com/~stepneys/cyc/g/googol.htm http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~fp/Tools/Googool.html http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~fp/Tools/GetAGoogol.html in D7.02: googol = power(10, 100) googolPlex = power(10, googol) this is amusing: put googolplex -- INF but this is more amusing: put googolplex = googolplex -- 0 put googolplex - googolplex -- NAN -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 RGB commands
Blank Colt wrote: Hey all, I'm working on a project in D8.0 in which I need to gain the individual values of a pixel in the their respected R,G,B components, from each pixel on a 640x480 member. I am using the getPixel command to pull the combined RGB value. What I would like to know is, what type of varible or object is the result?: vColor = rgb( 123, 234, 45 ) I have tried to use the getAt to remove items from the list. But to no avail. I came up with a crude way to parse out the values by converting the above to aq string and ripping off the forward and back chars and using item delimitation. Like below. vColor = rgb( 123, 234, 25) vColor = string(vColor) vCountChar = vColor.char.count delete vColor.char[vCountChar-1..vCountChar] delete vColor.char[1..5] vRed = value(vColor.item[1]) vGreen = value(vColor.item[2]) vBlue = value(vColor.item[3]) Now I am able to do calulations with the different components. What I am looking for is a quicker way, and I think it exists. When I type the words, red, green, blue; they become hot, like commands, yet I can't find any documentation on them. Can anyone help? Thanks. In D7: On a whim I tried this and it worked: color = rgb(23,34,54) put color.green -- 34 put color.red -- 23 put color.blue -- 54 -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 removing spaces from a string
Colin Holgate wrote: One method that nobody mentioned in any of the replies to your question is extracting the words from the string rather than deleting the spaces: I thought of that too, but didn't post it because it would also get rid of returns. I'm pretty sure that he wants to get rid of returns as well, but he didn't ask for that, so I let it go. Use the itemdelimiter and you can leave the returns: This one is fastest by 40 to 50% in all cases I tried, I think that's largely because it only counts the items in the text once: on removespaces1 theText the itemdelimiter = " " newtext = "" wordTotal = theText.item.count repeat with x = 1 to wordTotal newText = newText theText.item[x] end repeat return newText end For short strings this is faster than the recursion but slower on large chunks of text: on removespaces2 theText the itemdelimiter = " " newtext = "" repeat with x = 1 to theText.item.count newText = newText theText.item[x] end repeat return newText end The first of these recursive methods is a hair faster (~4%) than the second, but both do too much item counting. on killSpaces inStr the itemdelimiter = " " if inStr.item.count 2 then return inStr.word[1] return inStr.item[1] killSpaces(inStr.item[2..the maxInteger]) end on removespacesrecursively theText the itemdelimiter = " " if theText.item.count 1 then theText = theText.item[1] removespacesrecursively (theText.item[2..the maxinteger]) end if return theText end -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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 animating sine waves.....
grimmwerks wrote: Ok, because I'm pretty dopey about SOME things (read: most), I'm looking to understand the prerequisite sin, cos, etcand how to animate sine wavesbut rather than have a sine wave appear to be flat, I'd like it to appear 3 dimensional, meaning the center of the stage being the infinate point, and a sine wave animating from there to the side, the waves larger, the 'closer' (read: to the edge) they are This looks like a job for... quads! But you'll get some weird distortion if you put the whole series of waves in one image and stretch it from center to edge. It'll probably look pretty good though if you 'tile' them out to the edge with images that have just one wavelength on them. You could either have the image be an animation of a single wavelength going through a cycle and nail down the quads of each of the sprites, OR you could have just the one image of a wavelength and march the quads of the sprites out from the center, dealing with the proportions on the fly. Did that make any sense? -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [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!]
