Re: LiveUpdate

2002-01-24 Thread grimmwerks
Sure, look to member.filename stuff. On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Tony Åström wrote: > Hi List, > > anybody who knows how to update cast members and text files from a > remote file on the internet? > Can this be done without an Xtra? > > TIA > Tony > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change t

Re: not statement

2002-01-24 Thread Jakob Hede Madsen
At 18:32 -0500 24/01/02, Carol Mahaffy wrote: >hey list -- >simple question.. i thought i saw something a while ago... a simple toggle >using a "not" to swap sprites but i am really getting the syntax wrong. can >anyone help? heres the code > >on mouseUp me > member("music_on").name = not member

LiveUpdate

2002-01-24 Thread Tony Åström
Hi List, anybody who knows how to update cast members and text files from a remote file on the internet? Can this be done without an Xtra? TIA Tony [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: SOME ITEMS THAT YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN OR BE ABLE TO ADVISE ME ON

2002-01-24 Thread Tab Julius
No need to bother the list with it - in fact, I think the list is just ignoring it. Kriss Rollo is not a list member, and probably never was. I currently am allowing posts from non-list members. I had restricted it to list-only members but too many members were prohibited from posting (beca

RE: SOME ITEMS THAT YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN OR BE ABLE TO ADVISE ME ON

2002-01-24 Thread Kerry Thompson
> These are the items that iam interested in selling.. > I'm surprised nobody has publicly flamed this jerk. I won't--but it irritates the hell out of me. I'm not the list mom, so I'm not going to censor the list. However, I do call these shameless spams to the list owner's attention, and he w

Re: Lingo vs. PHP

2002-01-24 Thread Christian Wach
Hi Erik, > I want to send a post/getNetText from director Director actually has lots of capabilities for checking what's going on during a net operation. As a first start, you could look at: by Zac Belgado, which is a fairly comprehens

Lingo vs. PHP

2002-01-24 Thread Erik Verschueren
Dear people, If i wouldn't have a problem ya'll ain't be readin' this... Concerning the following : I want to send a post/getNetText from director To a php-server (in this case my own (osX with PHP configured) but i don't think that is revelant) Using the following(test-setup) global gnetID on

Re: shapes and ink

2002-01-24 Thread James Newton
Rodrigo Peres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've built a dropdown menu using shapes to simulate the hilite effect. I > putted a yellow shape (copy) behind and a black shape (reverse) in front > appear blue, that was my goal. But now I need my text to be white under the > shape Hi Rodrigo, I use t

djvu photos in director?

2002-01-24 Thread Takis Tsougrianis
Hello all, I want to view compressed in djvu format photos from a director 8.5 projector. Is there a way to achieve it? Does anybody know of any xtra imortikng djvu images in Director? Thanks for any help, Takis [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://w

Re: Resetting behaviour parameters

2002-01-24 Thread James Newton
Tom Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Once a behaviour has been assigned to a sprite and the parameters set via the > Parameters dialog pop-up window, can those initial parameter values be > set to different values without having to reassign the behaviour to the > sprite? Hi Tom, Select the sp

RE: Speed of text member formatting

2002-01-24 Thread Brian Romanko
Kendall, Basically, the application has a series of office suite components (flow chart tool, test creation wizard, etc). In each of these areas, users can enter in text plus format in subscript, superscript, and italics. This all has to then be savable to an XML document (which is used by anoth

XML Problem!

2002-01-24 Thread Jan-Erik Lauding
PROBLEMS WITH XML!! First... global gParserObject gParserObject = new(xtra "xmlparser") I call this function with two parameters. i.e "set getXML = xml_dialog(5,1)" The function "search" my XML file(code) for the node named "stage" with the attributeValue "5" and wich contain a child node na

modem check

2002-01-24 Thread Tom Vandenbossche
What Xtra do I need to check if there's a modem installed on a Mac. Attention not a connection test. Just the hardware check. (only for mac) Tom [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 [EMA

RE: Resetting behaviour parameters

2002-01-24 Thread Sandeep Khomne
The answer to both your problems is same... Yes, you can change the initial values assigned. You can view those values and change them through the "Behaviour Inspector" window [ctrl + Alt + ;]. And since you can see the initial values that are set, you need not remember them. Click on the sprite

shapes and ink

2002-01-24 Thread Rodrigo Peres
List, I've built a dropdown menu using shapes to simulate the hilite effect. I putted a yellow shape (copy) behind and a black shape (reverse) in front appear blue, that was my goal. But now I need my text to be white under the shape, actually it is black and remains black even after I cover it w

Resetting behaviour parameters

2002-01-24 Thread Tom Hines
Once a behaviour has been assigned to a sprite and the parameters set via the Parameters dialog pop-up window, can those initial parameter values be set to different values without having to reassign the behaviour to the sprite? Also, how is one supposed to know the initial value of a given par

Re: displaying HTML in director

2002-01-24 Thread nik crosina
Thanks Bill, That confirmed my suspicions! I am now - as you recommended sticming to th emost basic html possible. I simplyfied all tables,etc and it seems to be working fine. The only reason I am using html in Director is because I could very easily use OCR software to scan the the engine spe

A question of colour

2002-01-24 Thread Tom Hines
Hi everyone, I have a few questions about sprite/member colours: 1) If a vector/shape member is filled/stroked a certain colour with the foreground/background colour chips, will that member colour always display the same on another computer/platform? 2) If a vector/shape member or bitmap spri

How to Create a continuos ripples effect on mouseWithin event

2002-01-24 Thread matteo
Hi list, I've a problem creating an expanding ripples effects that starts on mouseEnter event and stop on mouseLeave event. The problem occours on mouseWithin: I want a continuos expanding effect if mouse is on rollover; I'm able to make first ripples sequence appear on mouseEnter and stop on mou

Re: dynamic Lingo ?

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Gruhl
I'm not sure about dynamic variable names... However it sounds like you could utilize parent scripts for this. What you do is make a parent script like this: property variableName property value on new(me, iVariableName, iValue) variableName = iVariableName value = iValue end Then whereever