Re: Invisible sprites and mouse events

2005-08-25 Thread James Newton
On 8/25/05 9:19 PM, "Kerry Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody know why an invisible sprite would be getting mouse events? Because it's a text sprite... > The only invisible sprite that is responding to mouse events is a text > sprite. ... with hyperlinks? [To remove yourself fr

Invisible sprites and mouse events

2005-08-25 Thread Kerry Thompson
Does anybody know why an invisible sprite would be getting mouse events? I'm trying to make some inherited code work, and the previous coder has dozens of invisible sprites on-screen. Personally, I prefer to hide a sprite by moving it off-screen, but I'm kinda stuck with what I've got. The only i

RE: DMX Projector running as a windows service

2005-08-25 Thread roymeo
Oh...there's also hardware things designed just for this purpose that'll do the same thing, btw. So if your projector quits writing a timestamp, then this external thingy reboots the machine. at this point, you should be seriously looking into the kiosk world for information, answers, produ

RE: DMX Projector running as a windows service

2005-08-25 Thread roymeo
I'd suggest getting a c++ type service to do this, too. Looks like a kiosk to mefield support is expensive to do, you want as robust a system as possible. Shouldn't take too much money to get something simple that does what you want.if director hasn't written a time stamp to a file or

[Fwd: RE: DMX Projector running as a windows service]

2005-08-25 Thread erik
Hey, Google says goto www.firedaemon.com "FireDaemon is a utility that allows you to install and run virtually any native Win32 application or script (eg. BAT/CMD, Perl, Java, Python, TCL/TK) as a Windows NT, 2000, XP, 2003 & Vista service. FireDaemon features easy configuration (via GUI or XML),

RE: DMX Projector running as a windows service

2005-08-25 Thread Darren Pearce
Hey Tim, Are you using director because that's what you know. Director is amazing but other languages would give you better control C++ or even Java. Keep us posted if you decide to stick with Director. I'm sure everyone would be interested how it turns out. It's good to see people pushing the nor

RE: DMX Projector running as a windows service

2005-08-25 Thread Tim Welford
Darren, Well, I can't give too much away, but basically, it's a bit like a kiosk - well is a kiosk, but mounted on a special bus system, it takes GPS feeds and such and displays route position + adverts for shops \ services available at the next stop etc etc. I take into account what Bart was sayi