Re: OT:: Chinese Text

2005-04-13 Thread Daniel Nelson
Director will not support it natively. If unicode, then that is true, but Director can certainly handle Big5 and GB, as long as those fonts are installed on the target machine. When I did a project that couldn't accept that limitation, I generated text members in authoring mode, made copies of

Re: OT:: Chinese Text

2005-04-13 Thread Anand Ravi
Hi! Director will not support it natively. Embed the text in Flash and import the swf into Director. Regards, Anand Ravi -Original Message- From: Rods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 22:37:16 -0300 Subject: OT:: Chinese Text > Hi lIst, > > Sorry for the OT but I've tried a

Re: OT:: Chinese Text

2005-04-13 Thread Cath Sample
What Platform? And does the text need to be dynamic? Cath At 10:37 p.m. 13/04/2005 -0300, you wrote: Hi lIst, Sorry for the OT but I've tried all the web and couldn't found nothing. I have some chinese text (.doc) and need to import it into director. I've tried copy/paste, import, Ole object but n

OT:: Chinese Text

2005-04-13 Thread Rods
Hi lIst, Sorry for the OT but I've tried all the web and couldn't found nothing. I have some chinese text (.doc) and need to import it into director. I've tried copy/paste, import, Ole object but nothing works. Can someone help?? Thank's in advance Rodrigo [To remove yourself from this list

Re: [Slightly OT] Os string

2005-04-13 Thread Mark Whybird
Thomas Higgins wrote: put _system.environmentPropList.platform -- "Macintosh,PowerPC" put _system.environmentPropList.osVersion -- "Macintosh OS 10.4.0" DMX'04 10.1.0r11 on a pre-relase version of OS10.4, aka "Tiger". Oooh, Tom - you get all the fun toys! -- insanely jealous Mark Whybird [To rem

Re: [Slightly OT] Os string

2005-04-13 Thread Luke
Tom, Can you also confirm the safari/ shockwave mouseDown bug is still present in Safari 2.0 under tiger? (you can test it here http://www.lingoworkshop.com/testzone/mousedownbug.php) Cheers, Luke On 14/04/2005, at 3:58 AM, Roger Jones wrote: Tom, While you are looking at tiger, can you confirm

Re: [Slightly OT] Os string

2005-04-13 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 13.04.2005 um 22:53 schrieb Roger Jones: On Apr 13, 2005, at 1:35 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: As a reminder, this particular nasty problem can show up even with html links, let alone Flash or Shockwave content. It is puzzling that the Safari engineers themselves don't get troubled by this symptom

Re: The plot thickens some what!

2005-04-13 Thread roymeo
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The plot thickens some what!

2005-04-13 Thread Dan Sheridan
Hi again! After getting the files to copy to the users hard drive, I now have to check to see if a previously installed file is on the system already. I have been testing with BuddyAPI with the baFindFirstFile function, however I am not sure if I have got the scripting correct to get what I n

Re: [Slightly OT] Os string

2005-04-13 Thread Roger Jones
On Apr 13, 2005, at 1:35 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: As a reminder, this particular nasty problem can show up even with html links, let alone Flash or Shockwave content. It is puzzling that the Safari engineers themselves don't get troubled by this symptom. I believe that bug is fixed in tiger. rj [

Re: [Slightly OT] Os string

2005-04-13 Thread Colin Holgate
At 10:27 PM +0200 4/13/05, Alex da Franca wrote: and the various bugs with shockwave/safari can't be worked around that easy. how can you work around not getting mouse events until the user moves the mouse after he clicked ? As a reminder, this particular nasty problem can show up even with html

Re: [Slightly OT] Os string

2005-04-13 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 13.04.2005 um 20:36 schrieb Thomas W.J.C. McCrystal: In the short-term, one ugly hack of a workaround is to get the Apache user agent environment variable, and scooch the 3D sprite around based on that. This bit of PHP will do it: For instance, Safari 1.0 returns this: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh;

Re: [Slightly OT] Os string

2005-04-13 Thread Roger Jones
On Apr 13, 2005, at 11:36 AM, Thomas W.J.C. McCrystal wrote: In the short-term, one ugly hack of a workaround is to get the Apache user agent environment variable, and scooch the 3D sprite around based on that. That doesn't work for me. Offsetting the 3d sprite still results in the bottom 20 pixe

RE: [Slightly OT] Os string

2005-04-13 Thread Thomas W.J.C. McCrystal
>> While you are looking at tiger, can you confirm that the safari/ >> shockwave 3d offset bug is still present in Safari 2.0 under tiger? > >Yes, and what's worse is that it seems to be even more exagerated than >before. Ugh... :( We've been in recent contact with Apple regarding this >(we've pus

Re: [Slightly OT] Os string

2005-04-13 Thread Colin Holgate
At 10:58 AM -0700 4/13/05, Roger Jones wrote: While you are looking at tiger, can you confirm that the safari/ shockwave 3d offset bug is still present in Safari 2.0 under tiger? From what I've heard from those naughty don't respect their NDA Tiger beta sites is that the problem is worse. That's

RE: [Slightly OT] Os string

2005-04-13 Thread Thomas Higgins
> While you are looking at tiger, can you confirm that the safari/ > shockwave 3d offset bug is still present in Safari 2.0 under tiger? Yes, and what's worse is that it seems to be even more exagerated than before. Ugh... :( We've been in recent contact with Apple regarding this (we've pushed be

Re: [Slightly OT] Os string

2005-04-13 Thread Roger Jones
On Apr 13, 2005, at 8:34 AM, Thomas Higgins wrote: as might be expected it's a simple extension to how it appears on Tiger (seeing as that's currently slated to be version 10.4): put _system.environmentPropList.platform -- "Macintosh,PowerPC" put _system.environmentPropList.osVersion -- "Macintos

RE: RE: Buddy API Help!

2005-04-13 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Side note to this post: I recently did a project that sounds similar to this. One caveat: the users of my DVD-ROM that copies files sometimes copy a PowerPoint file with linked videos. In a nutshell, be sure that files with linked assets that are copied from the disc, whatever type of files they

RE: [Slightly OT] Os string

2005-04-13 Thread Thomas Higgins
> > How does the OS X string look like, and more interesting Tigers? > > dunno about tiger, but for 10.3: > > put (the environment).platform > -- "Macintosh,PowerPC" > put (the environment).osVersion > -- "Macintosh OS 10.3.8" And as might be expected it's a simple extension to how it appears on

RE: Buddy API Help!

2005-04-13 Thread Dan Sheridan
Actaully solved it - being an idiot I omitted some code! set OK = baXCopy( the moviePath& "boo", thomas&"boo\", "*.*", "Always", true ) works! Cheers, Dan ;) -- Spinningaweb:- Inspiration Through Expression Web: http://www.spinningaweb.co.uk Tel: (+44) 07974977627 Fax: (+44) 08717333988 [To

Re: OT: Printing from Powerpoint .PPS

2005-04-13 Thread Elvin Certeza
Hi, Nick. -- right clicking whilst on slideshow. I have tried this before i posted my queries.and don't see the print option. -- printing from powerpoint. it can not be under .ppt as the client would like it run on fullscreen mode when launching the application -- i will look into Chuck's extra.

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Re: BuddyAPI Help

2005-04-13 Thread Daniel Nelson
If you mean you want "mike" to be a variable, to which the directory is assigned, then yes, but lose the quotes around the variable: set OK = baXCopy( the moviePath & "boo", mike, "*.*", "Always",true) I can just use the following in the below script: set OK = baXCopy( the moviePath& "boo", "m

BuddyAPI Help

2005-04-13 Thread Dan Sheridan
Hi People! Me again! I have a script setup that copies files from the cd to a defined directory using buddyAPI. Is it possible to assign a variable to the destination directory, so instead of using a path like c:/windows/blah I can just use the following in the below script: set OK = baXCop

Re: OT: Printing from Powerpoint .PPS

2005-04-13 Thread Chuck Neal
If you want to do it in Director you can also use an Xtra like VB Script (which I market, just FYI) to control the PPT for print, open, advance etc. Actually the new version with its OLE Xtra can also embed it Directly in the projector so you can view and print that way. -Chuck ---

RE: Extenral Application prob

2005-04-13 Thread Tim Welford
Maybe it would help to use buddy to copy the executable to the system temp folder, run it then delete it afterwards. Tim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Sheridan Sent: 13 April 2005 10:00 To: lingo-l@lists.fcgnetworks.net Subject: Ext

Extenral Application prob

2005-04-13 Thread Dan Sheridan
Hi List, I have a prob with director opening an external setup file from a director menu. Basically when you run the setup the external application loads, you then click to install and it pops up an error saying file not found and crashes. When you run the setup from the cd independently with

Re: [Slightly OT] Os string

2005-04-13 Thread Luke
How does the OS X string look like, and more interesting Tigers? dunno about tiger, but for 10.3: put (the environment).platform -- "Macintosh,PowerPC" put (the environment).osVersion -- "Macintosh OS 10.3.8" Luke -- * Mecca Medialight

Re: OT: Printing from Powerpoint .PPS

2005-04-13 Thread nik crosina
juswt right click and select print (on a PC, that is) N ___ Create your own safe chat rooms. http://www.homemaster.net - Homemaster. Come Together. Online. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http:

[Slightly OT] Os string

2005-04-13 Thread Christoffer Enedahl
How does the OS X string look like, and more interesting Tigers? My system shows: put _system.environmentPropList.platform -- "Windows,32" put _system.environmentPropList.osVersion -- "Windows XP,5,1,148,2,Service Pack 2" We'll prolly invest in a mini mac with Tiger only to test on. But we'll have