lingo-l 'silent' video installs?

2005-05-19 Thread julian weaver
Hi, I have a client looking for video playback without having the user go through the video installation. Despite the norms of not installing software without explicitly informing the user, has anyone done this installation for eitther windows media or quicktime? thanks Julian [To remove

RE: lingo-l 'silent' video installs?

2005-05-19 Thread Johan Verhoeven
you could do it using QT. If you use the standalone player you can place an ini file next to it (QuickTimeInstaller.ini) containing: [QTSETUP] license_option=0 no_dialogs=true registration_dialog=false supress_speed_dialog=true install_qtjava=false install_qd3d=true show_sample=false

Re: lingo-l 'silent' video installs?

2005-05-19 Thread ifmp
RE: I have a client looking for video playback without having the user go through the video installation. - Use Flash - Flash MX (.flv) video. The video can run inside a .swf file with other video, images, graphics, etc, and used as a Flash Sprite in Director.

Re: lingo-l 'silent' video installs?

2005-05-19 Thread julian weaver
That's the (illegal) ticket. thanks Johan. thanks all for your advice. On 19 May 2005, at 08:18, Johan Verhoeven wrote: you could do it using QT. If you use the standalone player you can place an ini file next to it (QuickTimeInstaller.ini) containing [To remove yourself from this list, or to

Re: lingo-l 'silent' video installs?

2005-05-19 Thread arjen
definately flash! it's amazing how high quality video you can get, especially if you have/own (and use) Sorenson Squeeze. arri On 19 mei 2005, at 09:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use Flash - Flash MX (.flv) video. The video can run inside a .swf file with other video, images, graphics, etc, and

Re: lingo-l castmember creation sometimes fails ..

2005-05-19 Thread arjen
yes, this was indeed the problem. actually two parentscripts were of type moviescript. thanks again arri On 18 mei 2005, at 02:45, arjen wrote: thanks for respons, what irv writes could be possible cause, i'll look into that tomorrow, it happened to me before that i created a new script, not

lingo-l Syntax of lingo question

2005-05-19 Thread Yvan Caron \(Alphatek\)
I have noticied in many posts recently that people prefix some lingo statements with an underscore like in _movie.???. Is this sysntax used only with the most rescent version of Director ? BTW, I am using Director MX, the version before MX 2004. Thanks - Yvan [To remove yourself from this

Re: lingo-l Syntax of lingo question

2005-05-19 Thread Colin Holgate
At 9:23 AM -0400 5/19/05, Yvan Caron \(Alphatek\) wrote: I have noticied in many posts recently that people prefix some lingo statements with an underscore like in _movie.???. Is this sysntax used only with the most rescent version of Director ? BTW, I am using Director MX, the version before

Re: lingo-l Syntax of lingo question

2005-05-19 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 19.05.2005 um 15:23 schrieb Yvan Caron ((Alphatek)): I have noticied in many posts recently that people prefix some lingo statements with an underscore like in _movie.???. Is this sysntax used only with the most rescent version of Director ? BTW, I am using Director MX, the version before

Re: lingo-l StartMovie Problem

2005-05-19 Thread Rob Romanek
Did prepareMovie always exist? Deep in my memory I seem to remember only startMovie at some point. And I thought that preparemovie was introduced to get rid of some of these problems. It seems that the order of events is that sprites initialize themselves prior to startMovie. As a result you

RE: lingo-l Open pdf to specific page

2005-05-19 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Forgive me list, I figured it out. I had the params coming after the file, but the params need to come after the app. RIGHT: theApp /A page=8 thePath WRONG: theApp thePath /A page=8 I would have checked the archives, but it seems like Lingo-L search archives isn't working. Oh well. Have a

Re: lingo-l Syntax of lingo question

2005-05-19 Thread Rob Romanek
Yes this is MX2004 syntax. I would highly recommend the upgrade to MX2004. I was using 8.5 prior to this version, I dabled with MX but found it did not give me any significant features for the upgrade. However I personally find the changes to MX2004 well worth it. I very much like to use the

Re: lingo-l Open pdf to specific page

2005-05-19 Thread Stephen Ingrum
from a BuddyAPI forum post In recent versions of Acrobat, I don't think you can do it- unless you are running acrobat in a web page (which it sounds like you are not doing). This is the best answer I found in a brief web search: http://www.acrotips.com/acrofaq/general/index.php There are

Re: lingo-l Open pdf to specific page

2005-05-19 Thread Stephen Ingrum
d'oh... yes, of course that works too ;) I'll forward it to the buddy forum Stephen Mendelsohn, Michael wrote the following on 5/19/2005 10:12 AM: Forgive me list, I figured it out. I had the params coming after the file, but the params need to come after the app. RIGHT: theApp /A page=8

Re: lingo-l Open pdf to specific page

2005-05-19 Thread Bertil Flink
This is what may have been in the archives, it's my reply the last time this was asked: 8 - OK, I did some tests in the message window based on the info in this doc:

Re: lingo-l Open pdf to specific page

2005-05-19 Thread Bertil Flink
Yes, the order of the arguments (of which the document itself is the second) is obviously important. Come to think of it, switches are usually the first arguments, aren't they? I may be wrong, but I can live with that... (-; Bertil Flink Creative Media - Original Message - From:

Re: lingo-l Open pdf to specific page

2005-05-19 Thread Bertil Flink
Oh, just something that may go unnoticed depending on how your mail is formatted. Note the spaces padding the argument string: theArgs = /A page=5 Better (as you may have figured out already): theArgs = /A page=5 open theApp theArgs theDoc Bertil Flink Creative Media

Re: lingo-l StartMovie Problem

2005-05-19 Thread Mauricio Piacentini
Did prepareMovie always exist? Deep in my memory I seem to remember only startMovie at some point. And I thought that preparemovie was introduced to get rid of some of these problems. It seems that the order of events is I think it all boils down to planning. But I have no idea about the inner

Re: lingo-l StartMovie Problem

2005-05-19 Thread Rob Romanek
Hi Mauricio, Thanks for that info. I never do put any sprites in frame 1 but have been burned by not remembering the event order during inter-movie navigation and I think that's what I ulitmately wanted to point out that it is not just a frame 1 issue but a _first_ frame issue and event order

lingo-l Thanks For keeping it alive

2005-05-19 Thread Zebin Ayinikat
Hi Tab Thanks for keeping this List alive...I once had a nasty problem ..which was solved by one of the list members..Its time like when you face a dead end the list comes to save you thanks Z [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to