lingo-l controlling (the stage).drawRect in a projector

2005-10-05 Thread Cole Tierney
Hello, I'm experimenting with inflating the stage's drawRect to fit the user's current monitor resolution, but the stage is being clipped by the size of my stub projector's stage. I seem to be missing a piece of the puzzle. Could someone give me a nudge in the right direction? -- Cole

lingo-l what's going on?

2005-10-05 Thread arjen
hi i'm working on a project and am experiencing strange behaviour; some of the lingo in a handler doesn't get excecuted. director just exits the handler without any error, and continues running. right now director exits on a line that says someting linke this: modulename =

lingo-l controlling (the stage).drawRect in a projector - solved

2005-10-05 Thread Cole Tierney
I'm experimenting with inflating the stage's drawRect to fit the user's current monitor resolution, but the stage is being clipped by the size of my stub projector's stage. Never mind. Helps to change (the stage).rect as well as (the stage).drawRect. -- Cole [To remove yourself from this

lingo-l on activate/deactivate application

2005-10-05 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Hi list... In my movie script, I have on activeApplication and on deactivateApplication handlers. I have one MIAW running, and the stage is closed (not forgotten). These handlers work fine if I do the following: on activateApplication put a end on deactivateApplication put d end I get

lingo-l xtra to read data from a USB/Serial device?

2005-10-05 Thread Mike Warner
Hi all, anyone know of an xtra (besides DirectStage's DirectCommunication Xtra) that will allow me to read the data being sent from a USB and/or serial device? Thanks, Mike [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post

lingo-l Passing strings from XML attributes

2005-10-05 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Hi list... I have a projector that's told what to do via XML. Each node has a command parameter like so: theNode command=gTools.mMethod(want_a_string_here)/ ...where my main engine reads the value of the command attribute and does a do(whatsInsideCommandQuotes). The question is, I'd like to

lingo-l PDL and range

2005-10-05 Thread Flom, Todd
Hey everyone, I've got a unique scenario where I'm generating a list of files for the range of a property in the PDL. What I was wondering is there a way to configure the range to also be able to type in an entry as well - something obviously not in the list of files. I'm pretty sure I'm out of

lingo-l just testing aliveness

2005-10-05 Thread Buzz Kettles
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lingo-l setting the properties of me by a variable

2005-10-05 Thread Michael von Aichberger 2
Hi List, in an object, I can easily set a property like this me.pSomething = 1 But what, if I have the name of the property in a variable? Like myProp = symbol(pSomething) Writing me[myProp] = 1 doesn't work, set myProp of me to 1 doesn't work either. Any solution? Thanks in advance!

Re: lingo-l what's going on?

2005-10-05 Thread Aleksey Linetskiy
Can you please show the line exactly as it is? It will also be good if you show the code surrounding the problem line. -- Aleksey Linetskiy -- http://grumpytech.blogspot.com hi i'm working on a project and am experiencing strange behaviour; some of the lingo in a handler doesn't get

Re: lingo-l what's going on?

2005-10-05 Thread James Newton
On 27/9/05 6:14 pm, arjen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: some of the lingo in a handler doesn't get excecuted. director just exits the handler without any error, and continues running. Hi Arjen, Where does the event originate? If it originates in an xtra (Multiuser, Flash, TreeView, OSControl,

Re: lingo-l what's going on?

2005-10-05 Thread Diego Landro
if your variables is a string i suggest converting it to string modulename=string(whatevervar1var2) and see is this fixes the problem, sometimes some stupid thing as this solves the problem. You have code under this line? It does ot get executed whatsoever? Because if this is the thing you may be

Re: lingo-l what's going on?

2005-10-05 Thread Thomas W.J.C. McCrystal
modulename = somestringwithanamevar1var2 modulename = somestringwithaname string(var1) string(var2) ...especially if there's a chance that your vars may be void or a list. Director usually does a good job with data typing, but sometimes things go a bit wonky in my experience. [To remove

RE: lingo-l just testing aliveness

2005-10-05 Thread Mentor, Kraig
You appear to be alive. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo.

Re: lingo-l PDL and range

2005-10-05 Thread Jeff Gomes
Not directly AFAIK. I know its not too elegant or satisfying, but you could create an second property that accepts a string that defaults to empty. On beginSprite if the second property contains an empty string, you use the value from the first one. Otherwise, use what was entered in the

Re: lingo-l controlling (the stage).drawRect in a projector

2005-10-05 Thread Stephen Ingrum
the right direction would be more like + rect(200,0,0,0) Stephen Christoffer Enedahl wrote the following on 10/5/2005 10:13 AM: *nudge up left 200px* Cole Tierney wrote: Hello, I'm experimenting with inflating the stage's drawRect to fit the user's current monitor resolution, but the

Re: lingo-l just testing aliveness AGAIN

2005-10-05 Thread Rob Romanek
Hey Buzz, I got both your tests. As a result I have determined that you are definitely alive. Rob On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 14:08:38 -0700, Buzz Kettles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: since I had never rcvd my other test, I signed up again am verifying testing turnaround [To remove yourself from

Re: lingo-l xtra to read data from a USB/Serial device?

2005-10-05 Thread Bart Pietercil
The serial XObject once published by Macromedia :-) No really, I have had good experiences with the directcomm xtra Bart On 28 Sep 2005, at 19:06, Mike Warner wrote: Hi all, anyone know of an xtra (besides DirectStage's DirectCommunication Xtra) that will allow me to read the data being

RE: lingo-l on activate/deactivate application

2005-10-05 Thread Thomas Higgins
Michael, on activateApplication put a window(theTOC).blend = 255 end on deactivateApplication put d window(theTOC).blend = 128 End My immmediate suggestion is to do this sort of testing using something other than an unsupported and undocumented property. ;) For example, try

RE: lingo-l Winners announced - INM Impressario Project Contest

2005-10-05 Thread Thomas Higgins
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Re: lingo-l setting the properties of me by a variable

2005-10-05 Thread Cole Tierney
Hi Michael, But what, if I have the name of the property in a variable? Does the following work? me.setAProp(myProp, some value) -- Cole [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email

Re: lingo-l xtra to read data from a USB/Serial device?

2005-10-05 Thread Aleksey Linetskiy
Hello Mike, I've used SerialXtra for working with serial port. Worked OK for me. -- Aleksey Linetskiy -- http://grumpytech.blogspot.com Hi all, anyone know of an xtra (besides DirectStage's DirectCommunication Xtra) that will allow me to read the data being sent from a USB and/or serial

Re: lingo-l setting the properties of me by a variable

2005-10-05 Thread Irv Kalb
I believe that Jeff's suggestiong of using getAProp and setAProp will work. However, by doing this you are really breaking encapsulation. That is, you are allowing code outside of an object to reference property variables inside the object directly. A different approach is to use a case

Re: lingo-l just testing aliveness AGAIN

2005-10-05 Thread John R. Sweeney Jr
on 10/5/05 11:19 AM, Rob Romanek at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Buzz, I got both your tests. As a result I have determined that you are definitely alive. Rob I concur. ;) === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive

Re: lingo-l on activate/deactivate application

2005-10-05 Thread Bertil Flink
Is it any code or just the blend property? Have you tried blendLevel, which has a range of 0 - 255 instead of blend which (I think) is limited to 0 - 100. Perhaps the illegal blend values are messing things up? Bertil Flink Creative Media - Original Message - From: Mendelsohn,

lingo-l dot syntax to replace a char in a string?

2005-10-05 Thread Cole Tierney
Just can't seem to get it. The following verbose works, so I should just use it and be done with it. But I'm still curious. How would the following look in contemporary syntax: put - into char 5 of someString -- Cole [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

RE: lingo-l dot syntax to replace a char in a string?

2005-10-05 Thread Thomas Higgins
put - into char 5 of someString put - into someString.char[5] There are operators like this in dot-syntax environments that don't require all items to be connected by dots, the above is about as full dot as you'll get with the put operator (different than the put() function which dumps

Re: lingo-l dot syntax to replace a char in a string?

2005-10-05 Thread Cole Tierney
put - into someString.char[5] Thanks Tom and Daniel! -- Cole [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning

Re: lingo-l xtra to read data from a USB/Serial device?

2005-10-05 Thread Buzz Kettles
I agree - directComm worked great for me too -Buzz At 10:06 AM -0700 9/28/05, you wrote: Hi all, anyone know of an xtra (besides DirectStage's DirectCommunication Xtra) that will allow me to read the data being sent from a USB and/or serial device? Thanks, Mike [To remove yourself from this

Re: lingo-l just testing aliveness AGAIN

2005-10-05 Thread Buzz Kettles
At 12:36 PM -0500 10/5/05, you wrote: on 10/5/05 11:19 AM, Rob Romanek at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Buzz, I got both your tests. As a result I have determined that you are definitely alive. Rob I concur. ;) thanks all who responded. here's my results: 1) Lingo-L msgs stopped

Re: lingo-l dot syntax to replace a char in a string?

2005-10-05 Thread Buzz Kettles
At 2:33 PM -0400 10/5/05, you wrote: Just can't seem to get it. The following verbose works, so I should just use it and be done with it. But I'm still curious. How would the following look in contemporary syntax: put - into char 5 of someString -- Cole Hi Cole, Here's my 'true' dot

Re: lingo-l just testing aliveness AGAIN

2005-10-05 Thread John R. Sweeney Jr
on 10/5/05 3:12 PM, Buzz Kettles at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This seems to happen periodically to my Lingo-L account. Anyone else get behavior like this? tia -Buzz I've only noticed a gap in mail and then sometimes a bunch of past dated posts. But never a complete shutdown. Sorry, John

Re: lingo-l Passing strings from XML attributes

2005-10-05 Thread John Mathis
-- theNode command=gTools.mMethod(want_a_string_here)/ Put the command in a node (not an attribute) and use CDATA: theNode![CDATA[gTools.mMethod(Here's your string.)]]/theNode Attributes are best for things like ids, names, etc. Not recommended for something like this. If your string

Re: lingo-l dot syntax to replace a char in a string?

2005-10-05 Thread Cole Tierney
At 1:27 PM -0700 10/5/05, Buzz Kettles wrote: someString = someString.char[1..4] - someString.char[6..someString.char.count] That having been said, 'put' works so straightforwardly that the hybrid (verbose + dot) seems like a much better approach. :) Thanks for pitching that in, Buzz. I