lingo-l Director and XMLHttpRequest

2005-04-25 Thread Mike Warner
Hi, I'm working on Ajax (asynchronous javascript/XML) for a web app I'm building and was wondering if Director had that capability? I'm at work and don't have Director here, so I can't try it to see and a search on macromedia.com turned up nothing. Thanks, Mike [To remove yourself from this

lingo-l Director and XMLHttpRequest (part II)

2005-04-25 Thread Mike Warner
what I meant to ask, was whether Director's javascript included support for XMLHttpRequest and the related bits. --- original message Hi, I'm working on Ajax (asynchronous javascript/XML) for a web app I'm building and was wondering if Director had that capability? I'm at work and don't have

lingo-l Interpret a string as a variable?

2005-04-25 Thread Stephen M Taylor
Hi, all. I have an existing local variable by name xyz. I have a list containing the message This is xyz in context. When I call it, the complete phrase arrives as a string. I need a way to 'interpret' the 'xyz' portion of the message as the local variable. Any suggestions? Thanks, in advance.

Re: lingo-l Director and XMLHttpRequest (part II)

2005-04-25 Thread Valentin Schmidt
AFAIK, no, not as native javascript object. But since Director (or a Shockwave app) is not a web page, you can easily rebuild this functionality with techniques like MU Xtra, XMLParser Xtra or Flash Asset. Valentin Mike Warner wrote: what I meant to ask, was whether Director's javascript

RE: lingo-l Interpret a string as a variable?

2005-04-25 Thread Charlie Fiskeaux II
Try this: This is value(xyz) in context I think it should work. Charlie Fiskeaux II Interactive Media Developer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054 x29 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen M Taylor Sent: Monday,

Re: lingo-l Interpret a string as a variable?

2005-04-25 Thread Mathew Ray
Has anyone build sprintf() function for director yet? ( http://us3.php.net/sprintf ) Seems like it may be very useful for this sort of thing... Thanks, ~mathew Valentin Schmidt wrote: one possible way to do it: template = This isQUOTE xyz QUOTEin context. xyz = foo s=VOID do (s= QUOTE template

Re: lingo-l Director and XMLHttpRequest (part II)

2005-04-25 Thread John Dowdell
Mike Warner wrote: what I meant to ask, was whether Director's javascript included support for XMLHttpRequest and the related bits. ? If the goal is to retrieve data from the server, then Shockwave has had this for years. (XmlHttpRequest is a recent Microsoft interface, now approved by

Re: lingo-l Interpret a string as a variable?

2005-04-25 Thread Luke
On 26/04/2005, at 5:55 AM, Mathew Ray wrote: Has anyone build sprintf() function for director yet? Yeah - http://www.lingoworkshop.com/code/classes/index.php? ClassName=PHPTextLib (though I haven't got around to implementing argument swapping) Luke --

Re: lingo-l Interpret a string as a variable?

2005-04-25 Thread Buzz Kettles
At 1:05 PM -0400 4/25/05, you wrote: Hi, all. I have an existing local variable by name xyz. I have a list containing the message This is xyz in context. When I call it, the complete phrase arrives as a string. I need a way to 'interpret' the 'xyz' portion of the message as the local variable.