lingo-l Implementing multi-Language in Director.

2002-02-25 Thread Sandeep Khomne
Hello All, I would like to load text from external text files into Director [shockwave] at runtime. This is fine, but the problem is that the text can be in different languages like Spanish, German, Japenese etc. Further the language could be Eastern [double-byte] or western [single-byte]. I

Re: lingo-l mmessageList Xtraname ERROR?

2002-02-25 Thread Perry
mMessageList is obsolete. interface() is the replacement code and sounds more professional. mMessageList doesn't work with dot syntax: put xtra(fileio).mMessageList -- script error Seeya, Pez Anybody know the difference between mMessageList and interface though??? What would be the reason

lingo-l Play by email

2002-02-25 Thread Peter King
Im thinking of using Director to create a play by email game. I was wondering what my options are for using email from director. If need be I could always post to an intermediate ASP page which would then do the emailing, but Ive heard about a bug with PostNetText that limits the number of

lingo-l illegaloperation error

2002-02-25 Thread mitesh gajjar
hi friends, i have put all dll files ini file but still error has come. sometime if i click on exe file to start projet it's give error on click on exe file. so please give me any solution. i am at outside so i can't check mail at my local id [EMAIL PROTECTED] so please send me mail at my yahoo

Re: lingo-l (no subject)

2002-02-25 Thread Andy Fuchs
at 25.02.2002 11:41 Uhr, mike ang wrote: int i for (i=0, i100, i++) { int j for (j=0, j5, j++) { then do something } } repeat with i = 0 to 99 repeat with j = 0 to 4 ... do something end repeat end repeat or repeat while i 100 j = 0

Re: lingo-l (no subject)

2002-02-25 Thread Perry
Sure, -- repeat with i = 0 to 99 repeat with j = 0 to 4 -- do something end repeat end repeat -- Catchya, Pez im just wondering if this java code can be converted to director lingo. int i for (i=0, i100, i++) { int j for (j=0, j5, j++)

lingo-l Directcomm Xtra

2002-02-25 Thread Tom Vandenbossche
Hi We have bought the DirectComm Xtra and I was wondering I need to find the port where the modem is installed. so I do a repeat function to read COM1 through 9. He finds my modem at port 3. Now if there are other devices installed like a handheld or a mouse they are also connected to a COM

lingo-l sandglass cursor?

2002-02-25 Thread Tom Vandenbossche
What's the code to change the cursor into a sandglass? It's not in the lingodictionary so... 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL

Re: lingo-l simple question

2002-02-25 Thread Douglas Seib
thanks jason and buzz, just what i was looking for. thanks again... D on 2/24/02 5:25 PM, Jason Je at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi... :) What about something like this in lingo??? on StartMovie global theFlag theFlag = 1 end on mouseDown me global theFlag if theFlag = 1 then

lingo-l Looking for an analysis tool.

2002-02-25 Thread Centre Generation Emploi
Hi, We are working on a project that has a lot of movies and casts, lots of cast members. We want to do a clean-up. So we need a tool that can produce a report that lists for each cast member the movies that are using that cast member. Thanks for your help. [To remove yourself from this list,

Re: lingo-l sandglass cursor?

2002-02-25 Thread Genevieve Young
What's the code to change the cursor into a sandglass? It's not in the lingodictionary so... The cursor number is 4. You may check this out at: http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/setting_cursor.htm Hope this helps. Genevieve

Re: lingo-l sandglass cursor?

2002-02-25 Thread Christian Wach
Tom Vandenbossche wrote: What's the code to change the cursor into a sandglass? cursor 4 hth Chris [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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL

Re: lingo-l External Shockwave Files

2002-02-25 Thread Kurt Griffin
1) If I have a Shockwave game that uses an external shockwave audio sound file to play music within my game, what happens when that game is saved from the web page to a local hard-drive? The movie will then surely generate errors if the external file is not to be found (assuming the file was

Re: lingo-l invisible sprite flashes

2002-02-25 Thread Andreas Gaunitz P11
I'm not sure what you mean... Are you in http://www.dougseib.com/shockv.html or in http://www.dougseib.com ? In http://www.dougseib.com/shockv.html I don't see any flashing when clicking contact. But the Contact sprite flashes when I click about, portfolio or links the second time. Does it

Re: lingo-l invisible sprite flashes

2002-02-25 Thread Douglas Seib
yes, tried to have it a few frames after home starts, but still clicking others makes it blink - I had originally had it stretched over the timeline, but being centered as I wanted would sometimes leave links/interactivity covered and not useable.h.has to be an answer...thanks for the

RE: lingo-l Descriptive Script Meesage with Executable

2002-02-25 Thread seb
Hi Another question is: Is there a way to get the message on an execuatble to be more verbose in the script error message. (...) Create a text file named after your projector, but with the extension ini. So if your projector is My groovy program.exe, your ini file would be My groovy

Re: lingo-l mmessageList Xtraname ERROR?

2002-02-25 Thread Kurt Griffin
mMessageList doesn't work with dot syntax: put xtra(fileio).mMessageList Actually, it does. The error in the above is a common one, so I thought I'd point it out (more than once I've forgotten the parens in a call and chased the debugger through a few loops). mMessageList is a function, not

lingo-l using a varaible to refer to aproerty list name

2002-02-25 Thread Wobbly
Dear list my hair lays around my ankles: in essence how do I use a variable name to refer to an individual list?? I Declare a bunch of property lists thus: set obstacle3=[:] setaprop obstacle3,#Lname,3g setaprop obstacle3,#lstat,good setaprop obstacle3,#Ltime,40 setaprop

lingo-l re:Implementing multi-Language in Director

2002-02-25 Thread Iain Sheild
As far as I know there is no imbuilt support for multiple languages. As long as your movie is not too large I would suggest you use text as graphics imported from photoshop as psd. Is your biggest problem not going to be embedding fonts? Not only are people not going to have the fonts you need,

Re: lingo-l Agent - Xtra

2002-02-25 Thread Andy Fuchs
at 25.02.2002 16:36 Uhr, Ravindra wrote: PS - Just hit the URL www.emazines.com and boy, watch the fun. The fun results in an all-white rectangle :-{ -- Andy Fuchs -- silent movie media -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.silent-movie-media.com [To remove yourself from this list, or

Re: lingo-l invisible sprite flashes

2002-02-25 Thread Andreas Gaunitz P11
yes, tried to have it a few frames after home starts, but still clicking others makes it blink - I had originally had it stretched over the timeline, but being centered as I wanted would sometimes leave links/interactivity covered and not useable.h.has to be an answer...thanks for the

Re: lingo-l mmessageList Xtraname ERROR?

2002-02-25 Thread Perry
Thanks for that info, Kurt. I've just started using Director again after a 2 year lay-off. Putting () after function calls is one of the things I've forgotten. Hmm. I feel like a newbie all over again. Scary stuff. Pez Actually, it does. The error in the above is a common one, so I thought I'd

Re: lingo-l Converting D7 to D8.5

2002-02-25 Thread Colin Holgate
What is the best way to convert a lot of shows from D7 to D8.5 at one time. or do I have to do them one at a time ie open up one in D85 and save and then open the next ..and so on..and so on You don't have to, an 8.5 projector can go to a 7.0 movie, and 8.5 shockwave can play

Re: lingo-l Agent - Xtra

2002-02-25 Thread Charlie Fiskeaux II
I can get the Flash intro and the home page, but anything past that doesn't work. Charlie Fiskeaux II The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054 x29 cell: 859/312-3883 - Original Message - From: Andy Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 25,

RE: lingo-l simple question

2002-02-25 Thread Kerry Thompson
on mouseDown go to link end I'm hoping to find out how to have it go back to main page on second click - simply put, click once brings you to marker link, click again brings you back to marker home. on mouseUp if the frameLabel = home then go to link else if the

Re: lingo-l Really Hard Question !

2002-02-25 Thread Andreas Gaunitz P11
Hi people. Im trying to build an isometric map. Ive constructed the following using an example source file of the net. To understand what I was doing ive printed out the code and re annotated to my understanding and I think im doing ok. APART from 1 aspect. I changed the size of my isometric

RE: lingo-l (no subject)

2002-02-25 Thread Kerry Thompson
repeat with i = 0 to 99 repeat with j = 0 to 4 -- do something j = j + 1 -- sorry, no increment operator in Lingo end repeat i = i + 1 end repeat Dang, I'm not awake yet. You don't need to re-increment in the loop. This will do fine: repeat with i = 0 to 99 repeat

Re: lingo-l Agent - Xtra

2002-02-25 Thread Tab Julius
Please send feedback on this directly to the original poster, not to the whole list... thanks [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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL

lingo-l do command execution in list assignment?

2002-02-25 Thread Matthew DeSimone
I've run into a snag here with the modified stack manager code that Irv proposed a few days ago. As follows is my script for a type agnostic object stack manager. The problem lies in the fact that I need to say stack[somestackpoint] is equal to a new object of type typeofstack and name

RE: lingo-l (no subject)

2002-02-25 Thread Kerry Thompson
Kerry, you're incrementing by 2! Doh! Well, it's Monday, and it's early (for me). Ah, well, at least I caught it and corrected it ^_^ Reminds me of a story about James Maxwell, the Scottish scientist who developed the mathematical formulations of Faraday's magnetic field discoveries. He was

lingo-l Quick Time loading question

2002-02-25 Thread Nmuta Jones
After looking through the QuickTime section on Apple's site, I still have not figured out the loading process for a quicktime movie that loads off a CD. Everything there seems to speak to QuickTime loading off of a web site. (Progressive download, streaming, etc.) I am creating two or three

RE: lingo-l do command execution in list assignment?[quick followup]

2002-02-25 Thread Matthew DeSimone
Sorry. Make the error function not defined. Also, I have attempted the following syntax change on the code, to no avail: Stack.append(do (typeofstack ( objectofstack ).new())) Making the command do type(object).new() ~matt desimone [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.syrupnyc.com As follows is my

Re: lingo-l using a varaible to refer to aproerty list name

2002-02-25 Thread Wobbly
- Original Message - From: Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 6:34 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l using a varaible to refer to aproerty list name in essence how do I use a variable name to refer to an individual list?? In your particular

RE: lingo-l do command execution in list assignment?

2002-02-25 Thread Sean Wilson
I don't always know that it is going to be a script. There are times when I want to use this to instantiate a stack of xtras, in which case I would need: newStackObject = new(xtra stackScrip/XtraName) I tried to address this by using typeofstack, which would be either xtra or script,

RE: lingo-l ExitLock in D8.51?

2002-02-25 Thread Kerry Thompson
Has anyone heard anything about exitLock having issues in Director 8.x? I have a product that was fine under D7, but with the port to D8.51, now exitLock seems not to be working - you can use ctrl-F4 (or is it alt-f4?) to shut it down; never used to, and we haven't touched that code. I

lingo-l Very basic variable question.

2002-02-25 Thread two two two
I have a very very basic lingo question. -- on mouseUp gIncre = gIncre + 2 put gIncre end -- I'm trying create a lingo script where every time I click on text, the number increment. Here I'm just trying to put the updated number in the message window. Any

Re: lingo-l Very basic variable question.

2002-02-25 Thread Christopher
on mouseUp gIncre = 0 --give your variable a value first gIncre = gIncre + 2 --what are you adding 2 to? put gIncre end [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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lingo-l Very basic variable question.

2002-02-25 Thread Christopher
Or better yet, listen to Charlie! [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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo.

Re: lingo-l Very basic variable question.

2002-02-25 Thread Colin Holgate
you have to give the variable an initial value, and also you will need to make it global. global gIncre on mouseUp if gIncre=VOID then gIncre=0 gIncre=gIncre+2 put gIncre end As it happens, if you intend the variable to start at zero you don't have to initialize it. Don't even be

Re: lingo-l Very basic variable question.

2002-02-25 Thread Tab Julius
You have discovered what's known as a local variable. The variable is local to the handler (in this case, 'mouseUp') and doesn't persist past the end of the handler. It goes what is known as out of scope and no longer exists. The next time in, a new one is created, and initialized to VOID