Re: lingo-l asigning castmember to sprite

2005-12-19 Thread nik crosina
Sounds like the way to go then - thanks for helping me out in this moment of dark winter numbness of the senses . ;) Guess if you don't feel like a complete beginner from time to time you have stopped moving along On 12/19/05, John R. Sweeney Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 12/18/05

lingo-l getPropertyDescriptionList: js syntax

2005-12-19 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Hi list... I'm trying to convert a GPDL handler from lingo syntax to js syntax. I keep getting illegal character errors. I've tried many different combinations of quotemarks and pound signs denoting symbols as lingo symbols or strings, but I can't figure this out. Anyone done this before?

Re: lingo-l getPropertyDescriptionList: js syntax

2005-12-19 Thread Valentin Schmidt
hi michael, you have to use something like: function getPropertyDescriptionList(){ var pl = propList(); tmp = propList(); tmp.setAProp(symbol(comment), symbol(What file to open?)); tmp.setAProp(symbol(format), symbol(string)); tmp.setAProp(symbol(default), ); pl.setAProp(symbol(pFile),

RE: lingo-l A Question

2005-12-19 Thread Thomas Higgins
Michael and others, Now that Adobe bought Director, will Director and Lingo continue to be used and will new versions of Director continue coming out, or is there some truth to the rumors I once heard that Director will slowly become an outdated program? Because my whole job depends on

RE: lingo-l Shockwave installed

2005-12-19 Thread Thomas Higgins
Is there a way in HTML or somehow to check if the user's computer has Shockwave installed, and if not, to redirect the page to another URL? Or does the user manually have to choose which site he wants, the Shockwave or regular... Look at MACR for tech notes - it has changed over time

RE: lingo-l getPropertyDescriptionList: js syntax

2005-12-19 Thread Thomas Higgins
Bingo! Valentin hit the nail on the head. You must (a) make a _property_list_ (not an Array with named entries), and (b) use symbol(someString) as the # character is not supported within JS scripts (although the symbol data type is via the symbol() function). Cheers, Tom Higgins | Product Manager

RE: lingo-l Missing formal parameter

2005-12-19 Thread Thomas Higgins
See, Tom? I knew it wouldn't be long before I had another js question. Sheesh... rolling my eyes j/k Say I declare a global variable called gData in a movie script written in Lingo syntax. I want to access gData in a behavior written in js syntax. Is it declared at the beginning