Re: lingo-l OT: Director QuickTime and Sorenson 3

2005-11-22 Thread Thomas W.J.C. McCrystal
I've been having a problem with a projector crashing on XP Pro machines. I ended up calling the Macromedia support line. The tech says to me that Macromedia has never recommended using QT's compressed with Sorenson 3 in Directorperiod There IS an issue with using SV3 Pro QuickTime files, IF

Re: lingo-l RE: Projector expiration date

2005-10-28 Thread Thomas W.J.C. McCrystal
If you don't want to do the hard work yourself you can use Crypto++ http://www.sampson-multimedia.com/xtras.html Well, as long as you only need to do it on Windows... [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 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 RE: OT::Shockwave director install (Thomas Higgins)

2005-09-07 Thread Thomas W.J.C. McCrystal
Ah, this takes me back. My papa would say something like this just before he whipped me. Out of love, of course. We have the same father?!?!?!?!? :-) [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: OT: Email Lag on this List? (was: RE: lingo-l Shockwave engine, Director engine)

2005-08-09 Thread Thomas W.J.C. McCrystal
yet it only appears to arrived today. What? Huh? yeah, my copy just arrived at 1246 EDT. [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]).

Re: lingo-lscript error in projector only

2005-07-26 Thread Thomas W.J.C. McCrystal
I'm having an issue were there is a script error when I create a projector and try to run my project. It runs fine when editing it in Director? Any ideas? Missing xtras is always a good place to start. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

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

2005-07-13 Thread Thomas W.J.C. McCrystal
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? Put your plain text into a text member, not a field. This line of lingo wil then put the html-formatted text into a variable, where you

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

2005-06-19 Thread Thomas W.J.C. McCrystal
How can i make the user only run the projector from CD drive and sere the presentation and prevent him from making copies of the file/s onto HDD / another CD. That's not hard. Somewhere in your startup script, attempt to write a file to a directory underneath (the moviePath). If it fails, you're

Re: lingo-l event driven lingo and event queues.

2005-05-30 Thread Thomas W.J.C. McCrystal
i'm working on a project in which i need stuff to happen event driven. i send requests to a server, and have to wait for a respons before sending a new event, and ofcourse this new event can depend on the previous respons. I almost always use a state engine for something like this. The state

RE: lingo-l Member.erase()

2005-04-19 Thread Thomas W.J.C. McCrystal
Thanks, Buzz (and Alexx). That's sort of what I've decided to. I've got a placeholder bitmap that I'm just changing the image of. Why erase()? Unless I'm missing something, can't you just use member().filename? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l OT - Adobe and Macromedia

2005-04-18 Thread Thomas W.J.C. McCrystal
I'll gladly take that bet. I could use some pocket money. :) I wouldn't mind getting in on some of that action, if Roger's going to make book on it. [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 [Slightly OT] cd/dvd-rom path on OS X

2005-04-12 Thread Thomas W.J.C. McCrystal
Granted unique permission That works for me. I just wanted to point out that hole made me a tad queasy. We're one Flash zealot with google away from Well, I read where the Shockwave Product Manager admitted that there's a security hole in DVD... [To remove yourself from this list, or to change

Re: lingo-l file in RAM

2005-04-11 Thread Thomas W.J.C. McCrystal
?php @extract($_POST); One thing to be aware of is that there are security implications to using extract(); if you use it (like here) to grab post and get variables, you've essentially returned to a register_globals = TRUE regime. A malicious user could inject suspect data into your

Re: lingo-l Zip files

2004-12-23 Thread Thomas W.J.C. McCrystal
Also Director's Unzip Xtra Have you actually gotten this to work reliably? [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

Re: lingo-l Re:soundlevel and Mac speed

2004-11-28 Thread Thomas W.J.C. McCrystal
Please help! Project is due tomorrow! Is this a class project, or are you a commercial developer? Why? If it's commercial then I can't ask on this list? It happens to be commercial. Actually, the other way around. It sounded like a homework problem due on Monday, and a not very tough one, at