Julian,
It's a long shot but does anyone have a copy of the 7.0.2
updater lying around?
I'm wondering whether it might fix the cast lib update issues.
There isn't anything in the D7 ReadMe nor found in a quick search of the
bug base that seems to match your problem description (thus no fix
Just wondered if this list is still alive...
I think its just you and me.
There's a few others
I'm still here.
cough
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/thiggins/archives/2006/07/new_director_an
.cfm
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/thiggins/archives/2006/07/more_news_about
.cfm
/cough
Cheers,
I thought first half of 2007 was actually quite encouraging, the
months seem to fly by at the moment. If MacDobe think this is
a realistic target release time, it would certainly do no harm to
announce officially to the community on the adobe site.
Agreed (I agree, Adobe agrees). We've been
Can Adobe give an idea of when the next release might happen that just
might contain Unicode support?
No, not really. What I can offer is the same information we were sharing
at the Casuality game conference last week: next major release of
Director in the first part of 2007. I cannot get more
Lee,
I've only got DIR MX , should I be able to download Flash 8
asset xtra and use it ?
Sorry, the answer to that question is no as the Xtra can only be used
under player version 10 (Director MX 2004, its projectors and Shockwave
10). Authoring with Director MX only allows you to
DPLib and IMLib...
those libs are called iml32.dll and DynaPlayer.dll
Minor correction, on Win they are iml32.dll and dirapi.dll
(DynaPlayer.dll is not the Win version of DPLib is my point). Other than
that the answers given are spot on and seem to have worked.
Cheers,
Tom Higgins |
sorry
No apologies needed. ;P
by the way, what 's happening in DynaPlayer.dll?
IIRC it's a binding layer between the plugin/activex control and the
actual player code itself (IML and DirAPI/DP), Win only.
Cheers,
Tom Higgins | Product Manager | Director the Shockwave Player
Adobe Systems
The old vbscript now fails to detect the new shockwave version.
Does anyone have a working detect shockwave sniffer?
Can you cite what specifically fails? A code snippet perhaps? Give this
a look for a test that works just fine:
http://www.macromedia.com/go/tn_15722
Cheers,
Tom Higgins |
Jamie,
Just wanted to let you know that there is a bug in the ilk()
function
Yup, that's a known issue that we're strategizing on how/when to post a
fix (I have your bug report as well but this was brought to our
attention within hours of posting the 10.1.1 update). A Tech Note is
also
What am I doing wrong?
As I understand it the Mac is far less tolerant of you trapping
execution in repeat loops like that, you may also get the spinning beach
ball if you're not too careful. I tend to feel as if sitting in a repeat
loop like this is a bit dangerous on either platform and that
Subject says it all.
New bits:
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/
Blog post:
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/thiggins/archives/2006/03/shockwave_1011r.
cfm
I'm here for any additional questions in the meantime, either here on
list of via comments on my blog.
Cheers,
Tom Higgins |
What didn't work? Sorry but I'm confused as to what code you've tried,
your recent handler still has the isOKToAttach arguments a bit wrong as
there _is_ a reference to the script member passed as the first
parameter. For example, I make this as a behavior (named isOKToAttach
Test:
function
Soon, stay tuned as I hope to explain that in more detail
quite soon.
Soon is ever so close:
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/thiggins/archives/2006/02/coming_soon_sho
.cfm
(watch for line wrapping on that link)
While you're at the soons is there any chance at all we'll
see a fix for
I have a project that could benefit greatly by using the On2
video encoder for Flash 8 instead of the Spark for 7. Just
curious, when will the Flash 8 xtra be available?
Soon, stay tuned as I hope to explain that in more detail quite soon.
:)
Cheers,
Tom Higgins | Product Manager |
Adobe doesn't seem to care about the few customers (still) tied to
director
Geez people, that's so not true. We just had a tech convention where a
whole section was dedicated to the fact that we simply cannot abandon
anyone, that all products that continue to have user bases and are
Ever noticed how Flash, along with Acrobat Reader and AcrobaPDF
online all get nice graphic buttons on the home page, but Shockwave
only gets a manky little text link. Not that I'm a paranoid
conspiracy freak or anything, but it does give the impression of
Shockwave been some legacy
Mark and others,
Thanks, sending in some emails wouldn't hurt from my point of view. :)
Having said that please note that we've had one dev center article this
year already, another is slated for posting later this month and then
yet another is in the queue for early March. So we are in fact
Combine that with the fact that you cannot have a MacIntel
native app (Safari) load Rosetta-emulated plugins (Shockwave)
it my not yet be the best time to jump, at least as far as
Director Shockwave are concerned, but you may have other
reasons that encourage you to do so.
Actually
@ Thomas:
Yes, it seems that the BuddyApi Messagebox causes the problem.
Thank you too. But what is your different way, you mentioned?
no idea, if this would change anything regarding closeRequest, but
here a MUI xtra substitute for baMsgBox:
...
Well, my other way was to simply
Ive previously used flash and attachMovie to fully dynamically attach
the new sprite to the stage.
I take it that's not possible in director and I must use
these *PUPPET* sprites?
Yup, mostly correct. In Director there is the legacy puppetSprite
function, but in MX 2004 we added
David,
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
Using 'the selStart' and 'the selEnd' is for editable fields only, if
this is editable text then use the member's selection property.
Cheers,
Tom Higgins | Product Manager | Director the Shockwave Player
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Thanks for responding. I have no idea why it returned []. Anyway, I
switched the code to reference the scriptList instead, and I'm able to
do what I want that way. It's a mystery why scriptInstanceList isn't
working there, because it works everywhere else I use it. Perhaps
you're right in
any ideas on how to avoid this?
What type of windows are they? Do you have them set to be dockable at
all? My concerns are that the authoring environment itself may be
tracking the windows within the authoring UI space, this feels
especially possible if you have them set to tool windows that are
it's just a regular window, and docking is disabled.
Ok, that definitely lessens my concerns over the authoring environment
tracking it in some way (lessens, not removes ;) ).
i've noticed this behaviour before, but now it's especially
anoying because the window is playing back a large
-- builds a simple two-sided triangle mesh
on buildTriangleMesh (tWorld, tMaxDim)
...
end buildCylinderMesh
:-)
how misleading, Mr.Higgins !
Ahhh yes, that right there is a copy/paste error. I've made a number of
simple mesh generation functions for the various provided
_global.pinch = script(pinch).new()
_global.pinch.destroy()
And to fill out the story then, your pinch script's sole purpose is to
copy/paste between windows then? You don't have any timeout object
references that get left dangling or anything inside that script object
despite calling
now that's a really great suggestion.
i understand that you want to understand and solve the
bug/problem i posed, but this i a great way for me to get
around the need to restart director each time. and is this
possibly also more efficient than using a MIAW?
Helping find and isolate bugs is
Anyone out there know what effect Rosetta will have on the running of
Director on the new MacBookPro? Is it worth upgrading or just
stick with my PB for the time being...
Deciding to make that jump is entirely up to you but honestly, at this
point neither Shockwave nor Director currently
Teo,
There is only one doubt that comes in my mind from the below message
sent from Tom Higgins, I have updated the Director application to
10.1 (at least it what the about Director windows says), is there
also the 10.1.0r11 version.
The latest update for authoring and Shockwave is
I'm just a bit flabbergasted that this is the way we have to compare
symbols in js syntax. It would be nice if, in the next version, js
syntax viewed the # as a *legal* character, since it's such a
huge part of every script. A good wish list item, I suppose.
Unfortunately we didn't want to
Nik,
... and I am thinking: No, it's not. It's quittingbecasue I clicked
quit.
Are you certain? Sure, you clicked a button that triggers a series of
events that culminate in exiting the application, but have you done due
diligence to ensure that you're not experiencing some errors during your
Teo,
I'm working on a Macintosh G5 with 2GB RAM and a lot of hard disk
running OSX 10.4.3. I'm using Director 2004 version 10.1.
The story is this: I have two field member on the stage on a frame
with the command go to the frame, these two fields are editable,
now when I press any key
Mario,
I have a problem with the cursor. The problem is present
when I want to convert the arrow in a little finger when there
are a link. When I stay over a sprite (with link), the cursor is
280 (a little finger). When I go to another sprite the cursor (in
the on mouseLeave script) change
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
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
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
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
Michael,
I'm taking a stab at converting my lingo scripts to javascript
syntax. I started with a very easy one. My question is why does
on beginSprite(me) NOT translate to function beginSprite(this){}.
That returns an error of missing formal parameter, and function
beginSprite(){} compiles
Michael,
I think I mostly understood that. But, I don't understand:
you *don't* have to declare your script's properties at the
beginning of a js script?
Here is an example behavior:
function beginSprite () {
this.pMember = sprite(this.spriteNum).member;
this.pText =
One thing I'd like to suggest, is that in the script window, the
js syntax doesn't seem to auto-indent when, in my case, I actually
get it correct.
Believe me, I realize the pain induced by the level of auto-formatting
for JS in the Script window (or rather the lack thereof). The only
Darren and others,
On a side note Tom, how do I get on the director beta testing
list. I've been submitted for the past five years, are there
certain criteria.
Well, I'm going to admit that as of today I'm not clear on what the
official process for doing this will be under Adobe. Under
Any ideas?
Yes, write yourself a Lingo utility handler that walks all images
(English and French) and combines them as desired using imaging Lingo.
Specifically you'll need to make your new image using the image()
function at the desired double-size, then use copyPixels() to copy the
Bart,
just looking at using a List flash component. Have been
able at feeding data to the list but now I wonder how I can
change the hilite color for the component?
More general question
Any good resource for looking at flash components and lingo ?
In general your best bet for
Darren,
I hope this helps some one out, as this bugged me for day's,
or if someone has a better idea please reply
I'm dynamically swapping out a sprite with a flash member the
asking it to goToFrame(x), this causes director throw an error.
Even if you use `sprite.member.type =
When ever I've had the flickering issue with a rollover,
its always been that the first castmember is slightly
larger than the second (or swapped castmember).
If that's not the problem, what else could cause it? I have
the same issue, but the idle and roll states are exactly the
Someone told me that the command:
_player.debugPlaybackEnabled opens the
message window in a projector, but where do I put this code?
In the ini file? on startMovie?
Put it anywhere, and be sure to realize that is a property, and you must
set its value to TRUE in order to open the Message
Developers,
December of 2005 marks an important milestone in the history of the
Shockwave Player, specifically it's the ten year anniversary of the it's
first public release in 1995. In order to help celebrate we are hosting
a contest to highlight the best and/or most memorable examples of
All,
of course one might ask ... Why isn't this the default setting?
(multi-instance is certainly the non-standard usage for Projectors
AND for Auth)
It's tough, which way is best to have it the default? Given your post
and then Daniel's that came after it's obvious that one setting or the
My perfect solution would be to not have the #document MIAW
disappear behind the stage.
Tool windows layer with tool windows, document windows layer with
document windows, tool windows are always on top of document windows. If
you want to enforce layering order within a particular window type
Nik,
I am still looking fore a solution to overlay a menu over a DVD video
sprite in Dir MX 2004.
See my reply on DirGames-l. In short, try using a MIAW that appears on
top of the stage window that is masked and thus tries to act like your
dropdown menu. The MIAW will draw on top if you keep
All,
Every post I make to this list garners me a response from
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s AntispamUOL service asking me to validate myself or
something. Quite frankly this is not something I'm going to do and as
such I'm seeking list advice/opinion, is it good form to use these
services for _list_ email?
I'll give you 10 to 1 odds that crisnmd doesn't realize that list
e-mails are being challenged, though.
And attempts to email him will likely garner another challenge! Doh! ;P
Cheers,
Tom Higgins - Technical Product Manager
Macromedia Director and the Shockwave Player
Would it somehow be possible to get a screen grab of the frame of the
DTS video as the drop down menu is initiated.
Not using Lingo as-is, you can't image the member and the sprite is
DTS-only so you can't get a stage image either.
Cheers,
Tom Higgins - Technical Product Manager
Macromedia
Would this work?
put ((member does not exist).number 0)
-- 0
Nope, that will fail if the scriptExecutionStyle is set to 10 as the
invalid member reference returns VOID, and VOID does not have a number
property and so a script error will occur. The problem here is that
prior to MX'04 all the
Roy and others,
[EMAIL PROTECTED], your email messages are coming
through to us as complete garbage. You have some
sort of encoding setting set in a non-standard
way that isn't working with the listserv.
What's even more odd than the garbled messages you're reporting is that
I have never
I've seen a few of you post replies like Roy's, but I have yet to see
one of his messages myself.
I'll bet your server is rejecting them as spam based on the encoding.
I thought that as well. Some spam gets filtered into a folder called
Spam and I can go in there and choose to allow those
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
All,
*
1st Place
Sony Marketing Resource Toolkit
developed by Blueburst Ltd.
2nd Place
Swarovski's Introduction to Digiscoping
developed by Sony DADC
3rd Place
Weber Knapp Video
developed by Chase Information Systems, Inc.
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
Thanks for that. Would you agree that this particular
method (property?)
I would too and as such I long ago filed a bug against that but don't
see a TN about it so I'll see about having one posted.
Cheers,
Tom Higgins - Technical Product Manager
Macromedia Director and the Shockwave Player
Any rumors on a Flash 8 xtra?
I dunno, let me know if you hear any though... ssshhh!
:P
Sorry, but at this point there's no official word for me to share on
this front. There will be a Tech Note posted soon that covers this,
saying that at this time no Xtra is available. Believe me, as
Believe me, as soon as we
have any bits like this to share publicly I'll come running and
screaming about it. :)
Thanks.
That would be appreciated.
And for reference:
http://www.macromedia.com/go/aee1675c
No news but at least there's a searchable document in the support center
that
I keep trying things like document.styleSheets(0).rules(u) but I can't
seem to get it.
I believe that's supposed to be document.styleSheets[n] and the rule
syntax choice will vary between browsers. Some browsers use rules[]
while others use cssRules[], here's a link that covers some of this
Does anyone know a workaround for preventing Quicktime from
resetting to the begginning of the clip if the user clicks
within the movie.
I'm not aware of that as any sort of a general issue so it leaves me to
wonder what's unique about your movie in particular. You have a QT
sprite on stage,
if it is for 'offline' use - intranet install, you can use an
offline installer without all this crap.
For corporate/educational intranet installs or for fixed media
distribution this is correct, you can use our free-license form and get
silent installers for use in those cases.
if it is
Alex,
these URLs where people can install the SW player silently are kept
secret I guess ?
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
What would be the logic in Macromedia first releasing an
installer that BEGS such alternatives, and then sticking
with it through all of these complaints?
To be clear, these notions about alternate install procedures has been
around since the Shockwave 7 days, just making sure that's out
PS As much as I know, MIAW isn`t real multi window ... it is able
to open many windows on a movie, but can`t open another movie on
another window and make then exchange and share info.
But you can exchange and share info between MIAWs. You can do that
either via Xtras (Multiuser and peer
Saw this crazy forum post on Google Groups... quite funny I thought...
tell me its not true... hehe!
http://tinyurl.com/9g5a2
Yup, it's all true. The little known fact is that I recently broke my
collar bone in order to fully QA the EZ-Meds-4U Shopping Assistant
feature for that release, so
Laurie,
First off, when replying please do not reply directly to me and to the
list, simply reply to the list and I'll notice your post come through.
Sending to me directly bypasses the filters I have set up and as such
things like this can clog my normal Inbox as opposed to being routed to
my
I published for Shock10,
I have a np32dsw.dll 10.1 and a shockwavePlugin.class of
2/10/2003 10:00PM (dont know what this class is for?)
Don't do the above when needing to verify which player version you have
installed. Either make a simple test movie of your own that checks the
player version
Laurie,
I see that it is the player that is the problem and not the engine. I
definitely noticed a difference between the player used in the
development environment and the player in a browser: if I remember
one of them was key events and text manipulation that appear to
behave differently.
Is there a specific list for shockwave engine question?
Not that I'm immediately aware of, but hopefully others will chime in if
they have suggestions. The truth is that Director, projectors and
Shockwave all share the exact same engine so there isn't really a
Shockwave engine, just the player
Is there another way to do this that would test if the user is
approximately almost exactly within the rect of the invisible
sprite?? (not exactly, but approximately exactly?)
Can't you compare the area of the interset rect with the area of the
exact invisible rect and when the interset rect
Tim,
Also does anybody know of any licensing issues or things that I must
include in an EULA in respect of crediting or mentioning
Macromedias in regards to the Director platform?
If you are using Director MX or earlier then your obligations with
respect to crediting Macromedia are outlined
Which ones, Tom?
Do you see discrepencies somewhere as of today? Sorry but I haven't
given those docs a close inspection recently so I thought I'd ask as you
seem to indicate confusion (yes, I too will give them a look but I
believe it's still worth asking for your input).
Cheers,
Tom Higgins
If you make a little state machine ...
Yup, I'd say that's the best way to go in order to ensure proper
behavior, although I'd still like to expect better out of the player
itself in that it should queue up as many net requests as you like, even
if only a certain number are processed at a time.
I remember Tom Higgins posting an undocumented feature for
the windows OS where you can set the blend for the window,
it was at www.markme.com/thiggins ...
Hmmm, we've switched blog URL's so the new one to use is:
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/thiggins/
But the old URL (the markme.com one)
Update:
Theese filenames work:
stig_.mov
jenge2_a.mov
Theese crash:
nygre_01.mov
aker_17.mov
Then that would seem to indicate that it's not a problem with setting
the file name but rather with the media, no? Have you made test cases at
all that use the crashing files to begin with (so
So again, any clues, anyone ?
Yes, something is wrong with your movie other than this code that's
preventing you from seeing the alert (my best guess). I took your code,
commented out the extraneous parts that don't deal with timeout objects
and used that as a behavior on a QuickDraw sprite on
I tried to run the projector on another (older) mac and it works as
expected. Now the machine that doesn't play along is a G4 QuickSilver.
I must confess that when coming out I tried to make MX2004 run on this
machine and I never could get it to work. Now I would like to try out
the
Bart,
Like the home page for example:
http://poppy.macromedia.com/~thiggins/
Not Found
The requested URL /~thiggins/ was not found on this server.
Apache/2.0.53 (Unix) DAV/2 Server at poppy.macromedia.com Port 80
:_(
Ack, I'm off to bug IT to find out what's going on as the site
but i posted the question becuase i asumed there must be much more
efficient way to do it
In addition to PregEx if you're in DMX'04 you could create a JavaScript
syntax regular expression object and do all this a bit faster and
cleaner.
Cheers,
Tom Higgins - Technical Product Manager
And since timeout objects get system calls as timeout object
generated in the beginsprite event would exist when the
startMovie call is sent out and if the timeout object does
not specifically trap for a startMovie call that gets passed
along to the movie script. The result is 2 startMovie
Luke,
Can you also confirm the safari/ shockwave mouseDown bug is still
present in Safari 2.0 under tiger? (you can test it here
http://www.lingoworkshop.com/testzone/mousedownbug.php)
This appears to be fixed. Your movie always shows me mouseDown when I
click, no need to move the mouse (I
How does the OS X string look like, and more interesting Tigers?
dunno about tiger, but for 10.3:
put (the environment).platform
-- Macintosh,PowerPC
put (the environment).osVersion
-- Macintosh OS 10.3.8
And as might be expected it's a simple extension to how it appears on Tiger
While you are looking at tiger, can you confirm that the safari/
shockwave 3d offset bug is still present in Safari 2.0 under tiger?
Yes, and what's worse is that it seems to be even more exagerated than
before. Ugh... :( We've been in recent contact with Apple regarding this
(we've pushed
Thanx, I'll try this. Shockwave can read files that are
below a folder named dswmedia, so I've placed my videos
on a dvd beneath a folder named dswmedia, workes like a
charm when the paths are correct.
In the case of DVD media you don't need a dswMedia folder at all, the
security sandbox has
unfortunately mouseWheel didn't work at all.
Oh well. Thanks anyway, Valentin. I think I'll note that on the wish
list...
I believe this is because of the fact that Director/Shockwave first trap
mouse events and process them as needed (per your movie's code), then events
are forwarded on
Havok has dropped sw3d support and MM no longer distribute the havok
xtra with the authoring tool or the shockwave installer.
That's not completely true. It is true that the Havok Xtra is no longer
delivered with authoring but it is still available as part of the Shockwave
Player. Last year
Lars,
You can't sit in a repeat loop as no other code gets serviced while doing
that, thus the Flash Asset Xtra (which you are using in this case) doesn't
get serviced and therefore cannot issue the expected callback. In the case
you are describing it seems that you'll need to either use frames or
Thanks God, i figured out the solution now.little
later - only for the exe... .
What might that be?
But the published shockwave in browser-ie- still looks
awkward.
Just as I asked with projectors, how are you having your Shockwave movie
stretch if at all? What specifically do you mean
Biju,
I have a w3d sprite with a size 320x240 in the stage.
In the authoring mode, i can see
the sprite in its original size. But when i create a
projector, the sprite gets zoomed to
fill the mnitor size, as i opted for fullscreen, no
title, no window, no border etc...
I think more
Can I paraphrase it this way: ...the highest sprite channel that is
available... That is I don't necessary need to use it. Is it coorrect?
That is coorect (typo intended!).
Cheers,
Tom Higgins - Technical Product Manager
Macromedia Director and the Shockwave Player
In the Message Window of D8 if I do:
the lastChannel = 200
I get a script error: Cannot set this property.
Aha, I found an error in my earlier post on this one. The 'lastChannel'
property is a *get* only property (open the PI, view the movie tab in list
view mode [that shows what Lingo/JS
Does anyone know if it is a setting i've missed ...
Check out the Movie tab of the Property Inspector, there's a field for
Channels if in normal view or an entry for lastChannel if in list view. This
sets the total number of sprites your movie will use (note that this number
is only editable in
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