Re: lingo-l script error at runtime but not in Dir.

2001-08-24 Thread Nick Youmans

 I am getting a script error at runtime but not when I
 am authoring in Director.  It runs great there.  How
 can I tell what the problem is if it only happens at
 run time and gives no clue as to what is wrong?

it could be that you are missing an xtra that is missing from the project (or
the xtras folder). You will get this result if, for instances, you call the
gotonetpage function and do not have the internet xtras available during
run-time...

hope that helps,
Nick Youmans
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Re: lingo-l xtra problem

2001-08-21 Thread Nick Youmans

 if I remember correctly the DirectEmail Xtra does this.
 I'm sure somebody will correct me if I am wrong tho... grin

it sure does. DirectEmail needs to have an object declared 1st:

oEmail = new(Xtra DirectEmail, getUserEmailPref(2),,) 

then you can do cool things, like actually sending mail:

sendEmail(oEmail, From, sendTo, sendCC,sendBC,subject,body,attach)

it is all very exciting ;-)

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Re: lingo-l BUSINESS PROPOSAL.

2001-08-16 Thread Nick Youmans

sounds like a deal...where do I sign?? I have a ton of money sitting in old
pickle jars in my basement just waiting for an opportunity like this!!
WOO-HOO!!! I will be RICH!!!


- Original Message -
From: kexdonald manfab [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 10:12 AM
Subject: lingo-l BUSINESS PROPOSAL.


 DEAR SIR,

 THIS LETTER MAY PROBABLY COME TO YOU AS A SURPRISE
snip
snip
and more snip
 AM WILLING TO PAY UP TO (10%)OF THE
 TOTAL AMOUNT TO YOU AS COMMISION AFTER THE FUND
 TRANSFER IS CONCLUDED WITH YOUR ASSISTANCE.I LOOK
 FORWARD FOR A HEALTHY BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP.



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Re: lingo-l list and variable

2001-07-26 Thread Nick Youmans

 how can i find if there an item taht i'm looking for in a list if i don't
 know it's position
 
 example
 mylist = [a, d, p, o]
 and i want to know if d is in the list but it could be in any position in
 the list

position = 0
repeat while i = 1 to mylist.count
if mylist[i] = d then
position = i
exit repeat
end if
end repeat

you can then take position and do anything you want with it...

good luck,
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Re: lingo-l Adding YES and NO buttons to an alert message

2001-06-08 Thread Nick Youmans

 Is it possible to add more than just one (OK) button to
 a standard alert message?  I'd like to replace the OK
 button with a YES and NO button and ideally have to
 YES button in the hilited mode, sp the user can simply
 hit the Enter key.

you can easily do this with the buddyAPI Xtra  the command
 baMsgBox( Message, Caption, Buttons, Icon, DefButton )

you can set the button argument to 1 of 6 different options, including
YesNoCancel or OKCancel

it might be possible use the MUI Xtra (which, if I remember right) is what
director uses to make it's own dialog boxes), but I have never tried it.

good luck,
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Re: lingo-l Appologies to all

2001-05-15 Thread Nick Youmans

 Blocked before it made it to the list.  Be glad you didn't get it.
 Multiple 500k files.  It didn't get past me.

 Was it interesting stuff? Could you post a link somewhere?


if it's anything like what I get (daily) from my family, it is probably just
20-30 500k bitmaps featuring some disgustingly cute animal with the caption
you need a hug or some other similar new-act mumbo-jumbo ;-)

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Re: lingo-l Fireworks Animation

2001-04-25 Thread Nick Youmans

 The animation is saved as a PNG32 graphic. Do we need to convert it to an
 animated GIF to get it to work
 ---

(this may have been mentioned already) if you have the fireworks importer for
Director, you can import a Fireworks PNG file directly into direction. When
importing there will be a check box saying something like import to score
which should import all the images (slices) and build your animation into the
score.

I have never tried this, but it should work...

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Re: lingo-l OH no not again... Printing

2001-04-24 Thread Nick Youmans

 Nick, I did some tests with buddyapi xtra a few months ago and the printfile
 command.  My question with that is does the end user need to have acrobat to
 be able to print the pdf, or is buddyapi smart enough to print without
 acrobat being installed?


Hi John,

Acrobat must be installed on the user's computer. Buddy is smart enough to know
that files with the .pdf extension should be printed with acrobat. If acrobat
is not installed, there is no application or file type for the PDF extension 
nothing will print.

We always check for acrobat at the start of the projectors using:
if baFindApp(pdf) = EMPTY then
we always give the user the opportunity to install acrobat (an installer is on
the cd-rom). If they don't choose to install Acrobat Reader and nothing prints,
well then that is their own fault (and I don't want to hear it) :-)

The best thing about the baPrintFile is that it will determine if there is an
application associated with this particular file extension and print using that
application. We have used to print PDFs as well as MS Word Documents  MS Excel
Spreadsheets -- with only minor changes to the code.

let me know if you have further questions.

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Re: lingo-l OH no not again... Printing

2001-04-20 Thread Nick Youmans

 From: "John Horn (Home)" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Ok, before I start beating my head against the file cabinet again this
year
 because printing in Director is such a pain.  I used POM on the last
project
 I needed printing, but it seemed like I was constantly running around in
 circles trying to figure out the POM coordinet system.  Let me explain
what
 I need to do.  I need to take 8.5 x 11 forms, display them on-screen, have
 text fields that can be filled in by the user, and then print the form and
 the text fields out.

Yes indeedy, PrintOMatic is a pain for everything except the simplest
things. I have several horror stories my own self!  ;-)

You might want to look into using PDF forms. You can take user data (from
director)  slap it into a pre-designed PDF form document. I have never done
this in a production piece, but I have experimented a bit. It isn't super
hard. There is an article on how to do this at
http://www.director-online.com/accessArticle.cfm?id=878

Once you have the PDF form data, it should be simple enough to print the
form using the Buddy Xtra. Which, by the way, is how we now print
everything -- PDFs via buddy...

Good luck,
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Re: lingo-l Print PDF

2001-03-29 Thread Nick Youmans

 Can anyone tell me the easiest way to print a pdf file from Director8 I
 am on mac platform?  I am trying to use the Buddy API xtra now but I can
 not get it to work at all.

look into the baPrintFile command in the buddy help. It is a cross platform
command (assuming you have the Mac xtra) that will print any file with an
extension (or creator type) that the computer understands. The application
you wan to print with MUST be installed.

We use it all the time. I always check if Acrobat is present before
attempting to print a pdf. (if baFindApp("pdf") = EMPTY AND
baFindApp("CARO") = EMPTY then). If the app is not installed to print that
file, the baPrintFile will do nothing...but I always check -- just to be
safe (and to alert the user to install acrobat so they can print the pdfs).

if you have any other questions, please feel free to email off list...

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Re: lingo-l the tale of two sounds

2001-02-28 Thread Nick Youmans

 Have you tried using lingo to preload the linked sound before it's needed?
 It's probably just stuttering because it can't pull it off of the CD as
fast
 as it can from the HD.

yes, I did. Unfortunately, the same thing happened. Also long as the sound
is externally linked, I get the stutter. None of the QuickTime videos
stutter and they have higher data rates. The sound format we use (16-bit
mono, 22.05 kHz aif) has been our standard for years  this is the 1st time
we have had a problem with it...

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Re: lingo-l the tale of two sounds

2001-02-28 Thread Nick Youmans

 Try using an mp3.  The smaller file size might help.


At this point, I am willing to give it a shot, but I am not sure if that
will matter. Once the narration file is loaded (initiated) the rest runs
smoothly...

Are there any other considerations I need to know about if we switch to MP3.
(I remember a post today about 'em but didn't read it because it didn't
really concern me -- figures!)


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Re: lingo-l File Dialog?

2001-02-27 Thread Nick Youmans

 I know buddy API will let me pull up a 'select folder' dialog inside
windows
 PCs, but is there some way to pull up a file dialog on MACS through
 director?
 Any Ideas?
There is a slimmed down version of the Buddy Xtra for the Mac. It gives you
some of the functional of the Windows version (but not all). You can use the
following commands (among others) x-platform without difficulty:
baSysFolder
baGetFolder
baFileExists
baCopyFile
The syntax will be exactly the same for both platforms. Check the Mac buddy
xtra docs for more details.

 We're basically trying to write a multi-platform routine to let the user
 specifiy a folder on their harddrive in which to save a file from the cd.

We have done a several projects like this. The buddy xtra was the perfect
solution for us. If you would like additional information, feel free to
email me off-list.

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Re: lingo-l File Dialog?

2001-02-27 Thread Nick Youmans

 On 2/27/01 2:54 PM, "Nick Youmans" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  following commands (among others) x-platform without difficulty:
baSysFolder
baGetFolder
baFileExists
baCopyFile

 All this is good for the file save/exists, etc...but I don't think any of
 them offer the filesave dialog, correct?

On the windows side, you can use the baGetFilename command...which is nice
because you can specify if you want the save as or open dialog...

but on the Mac side, you are right, you cannot use baGetFilename. But
depending on your application, this may not be an issue -- it wasn't on the
projects we did...

I vaguely remember being able to do this on the Mac side...but I do not
remember if it was buddy or something else... (sorry)

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Re: lingo-l File Dialog?

2001-02-27 Thread Nick Youmans

 From: "g r i m m w e r k s" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 My apologies Nick - you're absolutely right that you can set a file/folder
 with the win side of budapi.

no problem ;-)

 As always, I'm a jackass.

depending on who you talk to, the same could be said about me (although they
lie!)

nick




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lingo-l OT: good Online Flash resources

2001-02-20 Thread Nick Youmans

Hey All,

I know this is slightly Off Topic, but I was wondering if anyone could
suggest a good flash reference site. I am looking for something along the
lines of this mailing list or something like director-online.com

any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks!!

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Re: lingo-l Sending E-Mail from a Kiosk

2001-02-01 Thread Nick Youmans

 From: "Fred Westermeyer" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 I have a stand along kiosk that runs a Information Center. The Information
 Center is made in D7.02, and its hooked into the network system. What I
 need to do is make it able to send a message to someone e-mail address,
 when a button is press. Can this be done and how? I would like to type
 the e-mail address in the coding and can I have it to send to multiple
 people at the same time?

The DirectEmail xtra should easily do this...check it out @
www.directxtras.com

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Re: lingo-l Sending E-Mail from a Kiosk

2001-02-01 Thread Nick Youmans

 I wrote:
 I am not sure of your application, but it sounded like you wanted the
email
 to be sent behind the scenes, without using an email client. if that is
the
 case, DirectEmail IS your best (and easiest) bet.

 daniel plaenitz wrote:
 Unless you have a cgi-bin on some *nix server under you're control ( and
 are online, of course ) For, if so, a simple perl script and
 get/postNetText will do. Steal it from http://www.lingo.de/shockmail.htm


that's true...being that 99% of our director works ends up on CD-ROM, I
never think of those clever web answers...I am humbled  ;-)

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Re: lingo-l Sending E-Mail from a Kiosk

2001-02-01 Thread Nick Youmans

 Thank you, I will check it out. Do I have to you [use?] a xtra?


I am not sure of your application, but it sounded like you wanted the email
to be sent behind the scenes, without using an email client. if that is the
case, DirectEmail IS your best (and easiest) bet. The xtra is easy to
program  tech support is great...it is worth the money -- even if I had to
buy the DirectOs xtra as well (but we covered that earlier this week, didn't
we) ;-)

I have used DirectEmail on 2-3 projects without any problems. if you have
any questions about, feel free to email me off-list and I will help when I
can.

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Re: lingo-l Fwd: RE: GLS

2001-01-31 Thread Nick Youmans

 Now you all know I don't have insurance. Fantastic.

that's ok...you are probably not the only one ;-)

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Re: lingo-l PRETTY URGENT QUESTION: DirectEmail

2001-01-29 Thread Nick Youmans

 I'm working with the DirectEmail Xtra on PC (D8
 When I hit the send button with the script on it.
 I always get the message "Xtra not found, pEmail = new (Xtra
"DirectEmail",
 "mymailserver", "", "")"

"mymailserver" need to be replaced with the name of your default email
server. Luckily DirectEmail comes with the commands "getUserEmailPref".
Unfortunately, it doesn't work on the PC (check  the docs for why!). BUT the
directEmail sample movie has a handler called getUserEmailPref that will
determine your Windows email serverunfortunately, you need the DirectOs
xtra for this to work

-- it's starting to sound like one of the excuses I used as a kid ;-)

but once you have the directOS xtra (I think it is part of the DirectEmail
Download), and the getUserEmailPref handler (windows only), just issue this
command:

Email = new(Xtra "DirectEmail", getUserEmailPref(2),"","")

and it should work

good luck,
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Re: lingo-l Direct Email Xtra Problem

2001-01-29 Thread Nick Youmans

 Anyway I am using the Direct Email Xtra for some projector games. Is it
 necessary for the child playing the game to be online for the Direct Email
 Xtra to function properly???

 If they are not online are they going to be faced with some awful error
 code??


You don't have to be online for directEmail to work. It can (and will) send
the email directly behind the scenes without telling the user anything...you
will probably want to do some error trapping (just in case)...but like most
things, you can tell the user as much or as little as you want...I always
let the user know that we are sending info, but that is up to you (and your
clients)..

good luck,
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Re: lingo-l movie hack/director request

2001-01-25 Thread Nick Youmans

 Is there anyway to save a 'watcher window list' of globals/etc, so that
 upon opening the movie it's preset for you? Or anyway of creating a util
 script to do it for you? I've got a number of things I'm trying to hash
 out and have to keep adding one by one when I start up the appafter a
 crash.

there are a few articles about debugging @ www.director-online.com (search
using "debugging"). I am not sure if that is what you are looking for, but
they have helped me in the past.

good luck,
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lingo-l dueling sound().fadeOut() commands

2001-01-23 Thread Nick Youmans

Howdy All,

I was working on fading out a sound channel this morning (something I have
done many times) when I noticed this -- 2 different commands for fading
out -- that use the same syntax...

check this out
==
Lingo Dictionary Page 171 (also online lingo Dictionary "fadeOut")
Syntax: sound(channelNum).fadeOut({milliseconds})

Description This function gradually reduces the volume of sound channel
channelNum to zero over the given number of milliseconds, or 1000
milliseconds (1 second) if no value is given.

==
Lingo Dictionary Page 470 (also online lingo dictionary "sound FadeOut")
Syntax sound(whichChannel).fadeOut(ticks)
   sound fadeOut whichChannel, ticks

Description Command; fades out a sound in the specified sound channel over a
period of frames or ticks.

==
so:
When I used sound(2).fadeout(4000)   -- milliseconds works ok...
When I used sound(2).fadeout(4*60)   -- ticks - works but sound fades VERY
quickly ;-)
When I used sound fadeout 2, 4*60-- tick works ok

It appears that that the dot syntax only works with milliseconds and old
syntax works with ticks (regardless of what the docs say)...

It makes sense (to me) that the new dot syntax should use milliseconds, but
I was just curious if anyone else noticed this?

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lingo-l Re: Setting Boundries (constraining sprites)

2001-01-17 Thread Nick Youmans

 I am having trouble setting boundaries as to how far it can scroll up or
 down. Can anyone help?

There may be other ways, but I usually create a vector shape (rectangle)
with the tool palette. I size the vector shape to the limit you want your
sprite to move...then check out the constraint command. it works something
like this.

sprite 11 = is the shape that limits movement
sprite 12 = is the "moveable" sprite

sprite(12).constraint = TRUE
sprite(12).constraint = sprite(11)

first you tell it that you want to constrain the movement of sprite 12, then
you tell it what constrains it. This works great for me...

good luck...

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Re: lingo-l Opening an application from Director 8

2001-01-09 Thread Nick Youmans

 wants me to create a way of opening a Powerpoint slideshow from within
 the dossier

If you use BuddyAPI xtra, you can test to see if PowerPoint is installed
(baFindApp) and then launch the PowerPoint file (.ppt/.pps) with the open
command, by using something like this:

x = baFindApp("ppt)
if x  "EMPTY" then
  -- file exists...open it
   Result = baOpenFile( PowerPointFileName , State )
   -- check results just in case it craps out
end if

BuddyAPI comes with Director  you are allowed 2 free commands. I would
recommend HIGHLY the Buddy xtra.

if you don't have buddy, you should be able to use:

open "PowerPointFileName" with "powerPointAppPath"

one of the problems with this is that there is no guarantee that :
a) PowerPoint is installed on the machine (I think it will just do nothing,
but not positive)
b) "PowerPointAppPath" is in the same location on every machine..

I hope this helps...

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lingo-l loosing flash sounds....

2000-11-06 Thread Nick Youmans

Hi All,

I have a little quirkiness with Director 7.02 (PC) using flash sounds. I was
wondering if anyone could offer a few suggestions.

We have a small flash element that has a rollOver effect  rollOver sound
(done in flash) that we have incorporated into a Director Projector. The
Projector basically plays a series of QuickTime videos. When the projector
starts, the flash rollover sound plays but after a short time, the flash
sound stops  the sound in the QuickTime videos are unaffected. Sometimes
the flash rollOver sounds continue to play, but most of the time they do
not. The flash element is from a client. I don't think that we have the
ability to change it ;-( I have looked at the macromedia website, but
haven't really found anything that helped. Any suggestions would be
appreciated...

Thanks,
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Re: lingo-l loosing flash sounds....

2000-11-06 Thread Nick Youmans

 Heh, guess you missed the flash drama I posted on
 Direct-L over the last 2 weeks.

nope...I guess I wasn't paying attention ;-) Last week was pretty nuts
here...

 I suggest you ask
 them for the .fla file OR ask them to send you an .swf
 and the sound effect file,

I will see what if I can get a master file from them ;-)

 and to reprogram the flash
 movie to play an actionscript instead of the sound effect.
 The actionscript should be
 getURL("event: playFlashSound");

 Then, put a behavior on the flash sprite that looks like this:

 on playFlashSound me
   puppetSound 3, "flashSoundEffect"
 end


Thanks for the info...I will give it a try...

Nick Youmans
FutureMedia


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lingo-l OT: Mac Projector Go movie weirdness

2000-09-29 Thread Nick Youmans

 Hi All,

 I am experiencing a little weirdness with a projector popping between
 director movies. The projector is a stub that jumps to a movie "main.dir"
 after showing a splash screen opening qt video. There is also on other
movie
 "certification.dir" that main.dir goes.

 Everything works well in authoring mode (both PC  Mac), but when I make a
 projector on the Mac, we are getting some very weird errors like:
 - "disk read error"
 - "illegal cast member"
 - "bad chunk" or something like that.
 Everything works ok on the PC side...

 I tried everything I can think of. Has anyone experienced a similar
 problem???


OOPS...sorry...I forgot to say...we are using D7.02  MacOS 9

 Any advice would be appreciated

 Nick Youmans
 FutureMedia




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