RE: lingo-l Really Hard Question !

2002-02-27 Thread Jayp
If u are interested in helping me I would gladly send u my source file for u to seethanx Jayp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Andreas Gaunitz P11 Sent: 25 February 2002 19:06 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l Really Hard

Re: lingo-l Editing the projector ICON on a mac?

2002-02-27 Thread Fabrice
On the fly, apple/info select icon, paste is ideal voor quick custom icons. using aan app like iconographer, iconedit etc, changes the app buildin icon within the resource fork Custom icon is next to app in same directory, invisible but there. No one sees difference if file is not shared on

RE: lingo-l passiing parameters to a shockwave movie

2002-02-27 Thread séb
Hi Michael, Now I know of the line (for IE Explorer): PARAM NAME = sw1 VALUE = something and its evaluation with externalParamName/externalParamResult but as I don't know in advance what that VALUE = something is, how can I pass the content of a javascript variable or the result of the

Re: lingo-l problem with imaging lingo

2002-02-27 Thread Andreas Gaunitz P11
Eva, Could it be a memory issue? It seems strange that 3-5 images work fine in one of my gallerys but exceeding that number so far has always given me the error. I also find it strange, and I don't thjink it's likely to be a memory issue, beacuse you aren't straining the computer very hard.

lingo-l Sprite channels more than 1000 in D8

2002-02-27 Thread Stanly Kadamala
Hi All, I just want to know how we can handle if we need to use more than 1000 channels. Because the project I am working on, D8 under windows, is a Math Tool where I have different objects. For example I got an object representing 100s if I drag one and I click on it, it will break into

Re: lingo-l from .dir to .dir frame?

2002-02-27 Thread Andy Fuchs
at 27.02.2002 12:11 Uhr, mark verhoef wrote: So my question is how can I go to an specific position (frame)in another movie(.dir). go to frame 23 of movie Start -- Andy Fuchs -- silent movie media -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.silent-movie-media.com [To remove yourself from this

Re: lingo-l Sprite channels more than 1000 in D8

2002-02-27 Thread Andreas Gaunitz P11
Stanly, I don't know of a way to get more than 1000 sp channels. When I run into this kind of problem, I use Imaging Lingo to create one complex image member, rather than a lot of sprites. Thank GOD for Imaging Lingo!!! -A. Hi All, I just want to know how we can handle if we need to use

Re: lingo-l from .dir to .dir frame?

2002-02-27 Thread Andreas Gaunitz P11
Mark, Check the online help for go command. -A. hello, I'm making 2 movies.The first movie contains 2 buttons.one button says go to Movie start. The second one SHOULD say go to Movie start FRAME 23. So my question is how can I go to an specific position (frame)in another movie(.dir). [To

lingo-l the sudden cesation of go to url behaviour

2002-02-27 Thread Wobbly
Dear list the title say it all, having functioned both in a projector and in the director editor, the go to url behaviour has started throwing up script errors :( I use it in a MIAW that acts as the navigation bar for the main movie. the same sprite has a tooltip behaviour and a rollover

Re: lingo-l from .dir to .dir frame?

2002-02-27 Thread Nayibe Sellek
go to frame 23 of movie start - Original Message - From: mark verhoef [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 3:11 AM Subject: lingo-l from .dir to .dir frame? hello, I'm making 2 movies.The first movie contains 2 buttons.one button says go to

Re: lingo-l Resizing Lingo problem!

2002-02-27 Thread Colin Holgate
sprite (me.spritenum).member.width = (thenewwidth)** * sprite (me.spritenum).member.height = (thenewheight)** You don't set the width of a bitmap member, you just set the width of the sprite. Things like Text members are different, with them you would

Re: lingo-l Sprite channels more than 1000 in D8

2002-02-27 Thread Colin Holgate
I don't know of a way to get more than 1000 sp channels. When I run into this kind of problem, I use Imaging Lingo to create one complex image member, rather than a lot of sprites. Thank GOD for Imaging Lingo!!! Two other solutions are Film Loops (where you have the say 10 x 10 arrangement

Re: lingo-l Sprite channels more than 1000 in D8

2002-02-27 Thread James Newton
Stanly Kadamala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want to know how we can handle if we need to use more than 1000 channels. Hi Stanly, You can use #filmloop and #movie members (Linked Director Movies or LDMs) to create sprites which have their own internal sprites. Try this experiment with

Re: lingo-l Resizing Lingo problem!

2002-02-27 Thread James Newton
Jayp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What am I doing wrong here... sprite (me.spritenum).member.width = (thenewwidth) sprite (me.spritenum).member.height = (thenewheight) Hi Jayp, You are instructing Director to change the size of a member. Director much prefers to change the size of a sprite.

lingo-l Dynamic text formatting

2002-02-27 Thread steve
Hello all, I've been trying to build a project with a student that write's to a text / field cast member in real time, the problem arise's when we try to format ( size ) the text input dependent upon another input. We seem not to be able to have multiple size's or colors within the same

AW: lingo-l passiing parameters to a shockwave movie

2002-02-27 Thread Michael von Aichberger
Thanks Sebastien, interesting idea, but I have no idea how to implement javascript code in the param tags, as all and everything I write after value = will literally be passed to my shockwave movie, but not interpreted as a javascript code. Does anybody know how to work around this?

lingo-l lists

2002-02-27 Thread Dustin Harris
I'm putting together a program that needs to know where on the stage the mouse has been when it was down. It's definitely buggy, any help would be great. property pLayerList, pLocList, pLayer global gLayer on startMovie pLocList = [] pLayerList = [] repeat with addLists = 1 to ((the number of

Re: lingo-l mmessageList Xtraname ERROR?

2002-02-27 Thread Howdy-Tzi
At 12:16 -0500 02/24/2002, Colin Holgate wrote: Error Dialog reads: Script error: Handler not defined put mmessageList(Fileio) #mMessageList Solution? I've never hear of mMessageList You haven't? That was the old xObject interface. As you mention the 'interface' call is the way to do it

Re: lingo-l simple question

2002-02-27 Thread Howdy-Tzi
At 11:21 -0500 02/24/2002, Douglas Seib wrote: my main navigation uses this simple behavior: 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.

RE: lingo-l passiing parameters to a shockwave movie

2002-02-27 Thread séb
Hi Michael, interesting idea, but I have no idea how to implement javascript code in the param tags, as all and everything I write after value = will literally be passed to my shockwave movie, but not interpreted as a javascript code. Does anybody know how to work around this? you

Re: lingo-l mmessageList Xtraname ERROR?

2002-02-27 Thread Howdy-Tzi
At 05:00 +1100 02/26/2002, Perry wrote: 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. Well, you know there's this yahoo from

Re: lingo-l Sprite channels more than 1000 in D8

2002-02-27 Thread Howdy-Tzi
At 17:16 +0530 02/27/2002, Stanly Kadamala wrote: I just want to know how we can handle if we need to use more than 1000 channels. You've seen a copuple suggestions now, but what I'd recommend is a complete reconception of what you're doing. I remember when Director 4 introduced 48 sprite

Re: lingo-l lists

2002-02-27 Thread Agustín María Rodríguez
Dustin Harris wrote: I'm putting together a program that needs to know where on the stage the mouse has been when it was down. It's definitely buggy, any help would be great. I didn´t checked your code a lot, but for what you´re saying, it looks like this will do what you want:

Re: lingo-l Dynamic text formatting

2002-02-27 Thread Howdy-Tzi
At 14:23 + 02/27/2002, steve wrote: I've been trying to build a project with a student that write's to a text / field cast member in real time, the problem arise's when we try to format ( size ) the text input dependent upon another input. We seem not to be able to have multiple size's or

lingo-l Off topic

2002-02-27 Thread Fabrice
I must leave Dir 8.5 aside for a little while...(aaargh) busy on some html/flash project right now... but i read the list everyday I have this little problem, you probably all know flash 5... but this one's tough: how to pass variables from 1 swf to another one on a different open browser

Re: lingo-l problem with imaging lingo

2002-02-27 Thread Eva Crawford
on 2/27/02 11:01 AM, Andreas Gaunitz P11 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eva, Could it be a memory issue? It seems strange that 3-5 images work fine in one of my gallerys but exceeding that number so far has always given me the error. I also find it strange, and I don't thjink it's

Re: lingo-l Sprite channels more than 1000 in D8

2002-02-27 Thread Rob Romanek
Hey James you missed a link to another good aritcle. :-) Stanly, If you want a detailed step by step process for creating LDM and an overview of some of their special considerations then check out: http://www.director-online.com/accessArticle.cfm?id=439 along with the two excellent links

Re: lingo-l Dynamic text formatting

2002-02-27 Thread Kurt Griffin
I've been trying to build a project with a student that write's to a text / field cast member in real time, the problem arise's when we try to format ( size ) the text input dependent upon another input. We seem not to be able to have multiple size's or colors within the same member.

Re: lingo-l problem with imaging lingo (people from the future)

2002-02-27 Thread Agustín María Rodríguez
Hi, Eva. May I ask you to set your date to the year 2002? Most of us live in the present. Thanks! -- Agustín María Rodríguez http://cablemodem.fibertel.com.ar/agustinmr/ (en construcción) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

lingo-l globals

2002-02-27 Thread Dustin Harris
anyone know how to name a list that is also a global... is there a way to add globals on the fly? on startMovie repeat with addLists = 1 to ((the number of members of castLib 1) - 1) gLocList addLists = [] LocLists = gLocListaddLists gLayerList = [] add gLayerList, LocLists end repeat gpLayer

Re: lingo-l globals

2002-02-27 Thread Howdy-Tzi
At 09:55 -0800 02/27/2002, Dustin Harris wrote: anyone know how to name a list that is also a global... is there a way to add globals on the fly? Hmm, based on the sample you sent along with this you might want to look into using a global property list instead. What is it you want to do,

Re: lingo-l problem with imaging lingo

2002-02-27 Thread Andreas Gaunitz P11
Eva, It doesn't seem to be catching on any particular image. OK, so it's not the images. It seems to be directly related to the volume of images. For example initially the smaller galleries work fine but if I continue through and look through the other galleries (granted the larger

Re: lingo-l Dynamic text formatting

2002-02-27 Thread Andreas Gaunitz P11
I read it as some imported formatting instructions. In that case, you don't really need the selection commands. What you want to look into are the chunk expressions and formatting commands Actually you don't even need that, if what you're importing is either RTF or HTML, since #text members

Re: lingo-l globals

2002-02-27 Thread the nightboy
anyone know how to name a list that is also a global... is there a way to add globals on the fly? Yes, and yes. 1) global g_list g_list =[] 2) setAProp the globals, #fred, 2 Brian Douglas (:ub) [To

Re: lingo-l globals

2002-02-27 Thread the nightboy
then put the globals.fred -- 2 Brian Douglas (:ub) [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

Re: lingo-l globals

2002-02-27 Thread Rob Romanek
As Howdy says, the prop list is probably the way you want to go, I too am not sure what exactly you are trying to do but here is some other info about globals Using the globals director returns an object that contains all the globals, try the following in the message window (remember any

lingo-l Catmull-Rom Splines

2002-02-27 Thread nik crosina
Dear List, I trying to create a horse racing track with 3D lingo and am using the Catmull Rom Spline formula as suggested by Barry Swan. It seems to work fine, with the only problem being that on the straight stretch of the track the interpolated points are still wavy and not straight. The

AW: lingo-l passiing parameters to a shockwave movie

2002-02-27 Thread Michael von Aichberger
Hi Seb! where in the Macromedia file they use document.write($PR); I don't understand the $PR - what kind of variable is this? PHP? I didn't see any declaration. In your suggestion: document.write('PARAM NAME=sw1 VALUE='); document.write(nYourParameter); document.write('\n');

lingo-l problem with picture of stage in MIAW

2002-02-27 Thread Leah Kramer
Hello all, I wrote a MIAW that has some code in it to send a picture of its stage to the printer. This is what the code basically looks like: set the picture of member(Stage Drawing Area) to the picture of the stage ... printomatic stuff to send member(Stage Drawing Area) to the printer ... (

Re: lingo-l problem with picture of stage in MIAW

2002-02-27 Thread Agustín María Rodríguez
Is there a way to specify that I want a picture of the MIAW's stage and not the main movie's stage? member(someEmptyBitmap).image = (window MIAWname).image Hope that helps -- Agustín María Rodríguez http://cablemodem.fibertel.com.ar/agustinmr/ (en construcción) [To remove yourself from this

RE: lingo-l problem with picture of stage in MIAW

2002-02-27 Thread Kraig Mentor
Sure! x = window(foo).image :o) -Original Message- From: Leah Kramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 1:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l problem with picture of stage in MIAW Hello all, I wrote a MIAW that has some code in it to