Re: lingo-l Still Alive

2006-07-27 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 27.07.2006 um 18:45 schrieb grimmwerks: Cough cough. macnn.com/articles/06/07/26/director.coming.to.mactels/ see, how the world was eagerly awaiting any news about director...? --- ||| a¿ex [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode,

Re: lingo-l Bye....

2006-06-02 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 02.06.2006 um 11:48 schrieb Bart Pietercil: Now for me as a longtime Director developer this sounds worrisome Macromedia applications that Adobe is evaluating for Intel support include Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, Flash Basic, Fireworks and Contribute. Is it just me, or is there

Re: lingo-l Bye....

2006-06-02 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 02.06.2006 um 13:12 schrieb Bart Pietercil: I stand corrected :-) http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/05/31/adobe/index.php?lsrc=mwrss which reveals, that this is news from Feb. 1. http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/02/01/adobeplans/index.php anyway, the absence of any official adobe

Re: lingo-l Bye....

2006-06-02 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 02.06.2006 um 17:28 schrieb Bart Pietercil: I'm off, back to improving my java skills looks like being the best thing to do right now --- ||| a¿ex [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi

Re: lingo-l alpha

2006-05-21 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 21.05.2006 um 12:22 schrieb Michael Nadel: Hey guys, I'm having some trouble with transparency in Director. If you can please go to: http://www.mediarthome.com/mediart/work.htm to see my problem / question... If anyone can help I would appreciate it. either use fireworks to make

Re: lingo-l spheroid distortion

2006-05-09 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 08.05.2006 um 23:22 schrieb Christoffer Enedahl: here's what gave me the best results: I did a small optimization that made it even faster! (Avoiding one sqrt() in some cases) good idea ! thanks. --- ||| a¿ex [To remove yourself from this list, or to

Re: lingo-l spheroid distortion

2006-05-09 Thread Alex da Franca
Hi Chris, here are some simpler math methods: -- xx on floor me, num return integer(num - 0.5) end -- xx on ceil me, num return integer(num + 0.5) end -- xx on round me, num return

Re: lingo-l smearing stuff

2006-05-09 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 09.05.2006 um 11:33 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, While we’re still on the subject, anyone has suggestions on the approach to a mouse-dragging-driven smear effect? Maybe copypixelling a small region around the cursor, do some pixelpushing on that, and copy it back

Re: lingo-l spheroid distortion

2006-05-08 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 08.05.2006 um 14:45 schrieb Valentin Schmidt: notice: code not optimized for speed yet simply replacing the flash object with a lingo function for asin speeds the thing up by 70%. I know, that using flash is slower, than using lingo, but that much ? is that one of those mac things ?

Re: lingo-l spheroid distortion

2006-05-08 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 08.05.2006 um 19:58 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, As mentioned on Direct-L, you can create a Math object from a JS script, (not using flash asset??). with math=getMath() and a JS script: function getMath() { return Math; } It takes about 1780 ms for the script to run, against 2580

Re: lingo-l getNetText() not working, but it is, but it isn't any more

2006-04-28 Thread Alex da Franca
there is nothing wrong with using getnettext and nettextresult to load an xml file, but just to be sure: you know about the parseURL method of the xml parser xtra ? [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

Re: lingo-l strange behaviour...

2006-04-25 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 25.04.2006 um 10:35 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I’m using the ProgressDialog Version 0.2 parent script by Luke Wigley, and strangely, on some computers it doesn't work for no apparent reason. The script calling it just stops executing without throwing an

Re: lingo-l Please help with UpdateStage Lingo syntax in Mac version

2006-03-31 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 31.03.2006 um 01:15 schrieb Paul Fretheim: I have been running kiosks which run on Win XP for a long time. I need to create a Director movie that is cross platform. I have both Mac and Win versions of Director MX 2004. When I try to use the same utility scripts I have been using for a

Re: lingo-l saving castmembers

2006-03-02 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 02.03.2006 um 17:00 schrieb Michael Nadel: If I have a cast of 1000 bmps pictures and I want to save each cast member as a jpg or gif (or even as bmps, if I have to) onto my computer somewhere as individual files, Is there a way? Can anyone help me with the code to do this? here's my

Re: lingo-l [Off Topic] Adobe web site

2006-02-09 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 09.02.2006 um 10:28 schrieb Tim Welford: , yet they are happy to push Fireworks at the same time as Photoshop. I was thinking the exact same a few minutes ago. I never would have thought, that Adobe would promote fireworks and ignore director. I thought fireworks and freehand would have

Re: lingo-l prop list to xml

2006-01-26 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 26.01.2006 um 17:32 schrieb Michael von Aichberger 2: Is there an Xtra or script out there that does that for me? Here's the script I use: http://www.farbflash.de/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/Dokumente/Director/ Snippets/pseudoxml.html --- ||| a¿ex [To remove

Re: lingo-l scriptInstanceList

2006-01-17 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 17.01.2006 um 15:53 schrieb Mendelsohn, Michael: Hi list... I'm running into an issue with scriptInstanceList. Sprite(1) has a behavior with some params, and sprite(2) has a behavior with no params. Putting sprite(1).scriptInstanceList gives the expected array. Putting

Re: lingo-l 2d Lingo generateNormals

2006-01-17 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 17.01.2006 um 18:56 schrieb Thomas Higgins: -- builds a simple two-sided triangle mesh on buildTriangleMesh (tWorld, tMaxDim) ... end buildCylinderMesh :-) how misleading, Mr.Higgins ! coming up with normals for a cylinder mesh is much more funky, if you don't want to see the seam

Re: lingo-l A new question

2005-12-20 Thread Alex da Franca
there are two things: one is the cursor of sprite x which takes automatically care to change the cursor if you roll over the sprite and reset it, if you roll out (at least this is the theory and the way it is supposed to work ;-) in the cases, where this doesn't work correctly (as sometimes

Re: lingo-l setPrefs to write to a specific location?

2005-10-29 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 29.10.2005 um 23:07 schrieb Michael Nadel: The setPref() / getPref() commands cause a folder to be created in the same folder as the application. But what if it's running of a CD ROM? It can't create the text file on the CD. Is there a way to get setPrefs to write to a specific

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

2005-10-06 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 05.10.2005 um 22:27 schrieb Buzz Kettles: Here's my 'true' dot syntax solution : (using 'put' feels like cheating to me) someString = someString.char[1..4] - someString.char [6..someString.char.count] but it does something slightly different, in that it allocates a new string and

Re: lingo-l date and time

2005-09-22 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 22.09.2005 um 03:33 schrieb Daniel Nelson: _movie.systemDate() thanks, somehow I missed that. in the _movie object I tried it only as property _movie.systemdate, which yields an error. it makes totally sense, that it is a function rather than a property, as it creates and returns an

Re: lingo-l Tools for DMX 04 Authoring Environments

2005-09-22 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 22.09.2005 um 14:22 schrieb Tim Welford: That's a great start Kraig, thanks Now I have just got to find some lingo to replicate the use of the go to handler button in the script window. the UIHelper xtra is your friend here. activateScriptEditor memberNum, castlibNum, fromChar, toChar

Re: lingo-l date and time

2005-09-21 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 22.09.2005 um 01:34 schrieb Sean Wilson: the systemDate seems to be another of the omissions in the current round of docs but remains *much* more useful than most of the other date/time format offerings. not only it is missing in the docs, but also is this extremely useful global

Re: lingo-l OT::Shockwave director install

2005-09-06 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 06.09.2005 um 01:53 schrieb Rods: What I really want is... There's a way to do a silent install of the shockwave director plugin? Or my destine will be been spanked by the client because I didn't developed in Flash?!?!? :D if it is for 'offline' use - intranet install, you can use an

Re: lingo-l OT::Shockwave director install

2005-09-06 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 06.09.2005 um 18:41 schrieb Thomas Higgins: We have repeatedly stated that we're willing to work with folks on a case-by-case basis to see about alternate install experiences for specific clients and projects. We've done this repeatedly throughout the years (yes, as far back as SW7!) and

Re: lingo-l OT::Shockwave director install

2005-09-06 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 06.09.2005 um 19:53 schrieb Thomas Higgins: The URLs are in fact kept a bit private, they are for the client/ project only and we do detection of referrers to ensure that others don't point into someone else's silent install proces. This is usually sought after by the folks arranging

Re: lingo-l making html page from txt inside dir

2005-07-13 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 13.07.2005 um 18:58 schrieb JOHN HART: Hi List... D8.5.1/WinXPpro I have plain text in a field, in a projector. Is there any way, using Lingo or Javascript, to extract the plain text and create a new html page from that text? My next step would be to upload the html page to a server

Re: lingo-l XML parser, script errors in callback handlers

2005-07-01 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 01.07.2005 um 01:50 schrieb Brennan: Thanks Alex, for the info about MUI. Does this mean it applies to all Xtras that have a callback mechanism? I am not an xtra developer so I can't tell, whether an xtra can use directors debugger, but I can imagine, that it may be very difficult or

Re: lingo-l Buying MX 2004

2005-06-26 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 26.06.2005 um 12:28 schrieb James Newton: As a result of this re-(dis)-organization, I find that I use the DMX 2004 printed documentation very little. Hi James, thanks for the info. I've never heard anyone speaking of the printed manuals, therefore I asked. I used the printed books

Re: lingo-l How to prevent copying a file from CD to HD or anotherCD

2005-06-20 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 20.06.2005 um 11:34 schrieb Ross Clutterbuck: Well if this is all you want to do why don't you create a demo only version, such as putting a great big splash screen at the beginning and end of the project saying approval demo version only! not for commercial use or something similar.

Re: lingo-l Shockwave and External Casts issue

2005-06-01 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 01.06.2005 um 04:25 schrieb Bryan Lowes: Thanks again! If you have any further suggestions I would appreciate them very much. it looks like the server isn't aware of the mime type for the cct. AFAIK at least on some windows servers you get a file not found, if the extension isn't

Re: lingo-l Shockwave and External Casts issue

2005-06-01 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 01.06.2005 um 17:43 schrieb Bryan Lowes: If you are ever in Philadelphia please email me, I owe you a drink! I will do that, but don't worry, I am very, very far away from Philadelphia and director jobs do not pay much these days, so I don't know, when I can make the journey :-)

Re: lingo-l standard path's

2005-05-25 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 25.05.2005 um 15:27 schrieb Cole Tierney: At 1:42 PM +0200 5/25/05, Ueliisa wrote: But it is not in the list. I tryed BuddyAPI and could find it with the next start of Director. You might to double check that you've got the OSX version of the xtra. it is the one with (Carbon) in

Re: lingo-l standard path's

2005-05-24 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 24.05.2005 um 13:08 schrieb Ueliisa: Hi I can remember but Ican not find it! There are some variabe to find path for desktop, system HD, user Directory, ... ??? with built-in xtras there is only the ancient getOSDirectory() method of the fileIO xtra, which returns the directory,

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 Old lingo-l emails showing up now?

2005-05-13 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 13.05.2005 um 17:48 schrieb Tab Julius: On Tuesday, suddenly Eudora started crashing upon startup - no amount of reboots would fix it, and I couldn't seem to trap the error. Finally I decided the heck with it (there are a lot of things I like about Eudora, but it has a few facets I can't

Re: lingo-l3D direct to stage

2005-04-14 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 14.04.2005 um 16:48 schrieb Colin Holgate: At 2:24 PM + 4/14/05, Jonathan Rees wrote: If there is a 3D member on the stage, how can i drag a normal sprite over it and have it still visible. It will work with direct to stage switched off but the 3D scene slows down a lot. You can get the

Re: lingo-l [Slightly OT] Os string

2005-04-13 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 13.04.2005 um 20:36 schrieb Thomas W.J.C. McCrystal: In the short-term, one ugly hack of a workaround is to get the Apache user agent environment variable, and scooch the 3D sprite around based on that. This bit of PHP will do it: ?php echo $HTTP_USER_AGENT; ? For instance, Safari 1.0

Re: lingo-l [Slightly OT] Os string

2005-04-13 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 13.04.2005 um 22:53 schrieb Roger Jones: On Apr 13, 2005, at 1:35 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: As a reminder, this particular nasty problem can show up even with html links, let alone Flash or Shockwave content. It is puzzling that the Safari engineers themselves don't get troubled by this

Re: lingo-l joining lists in lingo

2005-04-12 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 12.04.2005 um 10:16 schrieb Tim Welford: I don't particularly dislike repeat loops, I was just wondering if there was a more efficient way. let me rephrase it in another way: what leads you to the assumption, that a repeat loop is inefficient ? I think I am going to investigate the pRegEx

Re: lingo-l SES 10 questions

2005-04-11 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 11.04.2005 um 21:36 schrieb Thomas Higgins: Is there a new DOM replacement for 'the systemDate'? Yes, in the form of _system.date(), but it does not offer 1-for-1 functionality. The older 'the systemDate' returned a date object whose properties you could query (year, month, day) whereas the

Re: lingo-l joining lists in lingo

2005-04-11 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 11.04.2005 um 23:42 schrieb Buzz Kettles: I was going to mention this aspect too, but figured the performance difference was enough of a good enough reason. after all I don't quite understand, what is so bad about the little repeat loop. I for one like repeat loops... ;-) if only I could

Re: lingo-l completely kill shockwave machine

2005-03-07 Thread Alex da Franca
At 20:37 Uhr +0100 07.03.2005, Richard van Harten wrote: the crash occurs on all machines I've tested. Try it , load a shockwave containing 3D , hit the refresh button, it will crash. If it doesn't please tell me ! maybe you can tell us, which shockwave pieces lead to a crash and on what OSs.

Re: lingo-l finding the coordinates of a trimwhitespace result relative to the source image

2005-02-14 Thread Alex da Franca
At 16:06 Uhr +0100 14.02.2005, Michael von Aichberger wrote: Hi List, I have an image object img1 and perform this command: img2 = img1.trimWhiteSpace() Is there a way to have the coordinates of the img2.rect relative to img1.rect? Any ideas? Thanks in advance! you need trimwhitespace twice

Re: lingo-l scale member in director

2004-12-29 Thread Alex da Franca
At 23:12 Uhr -0800 28.12.2004, Ali Aghighi wrote: Hi I want when change members in specific sprite, new member don't scale to prev member size, as soon as you have set the rect (or the width or height) of a sprite (or any other sprite property for that matter) it overrides the *default*

Re: lingo-l MUI #label attributes

2004-12-09 Thread Alex da Franca
At 11:43 Uhr +1300 09.12.2004, Sean Wilson wrote: If Tom is listening, it would be great to have it completed! And with some additional features while I have your attention... ;-) #mask attribute for #editText, anyone? and a shockwave save version of mui with the file access dialogs