lingo-l Stage Background transparent

Hi , I would to animate some stuff directely on the desktop without the stage background of the projector. (Some walking and flying giraffe) http://www.lecielestbleu.com/zoo The background need to be transparent . Any idea ? -- Week-end http://www.lecielestbleu.com/weekend

RE: lingo-l win XP and video for windows problem...

Hi, Do you have added the right xtra in your shockwave or project distro ? Go to modify movie xtra : select xtra and check include in the project. You can also copy all xtra u use and distribut in a sub-directory names xtra @ the root of your director's .exe Best Regard, MaDmIkE

Re: lingo-l win XP and video for windows problem...

yes extra's are there... I can't even play the video files within director by dubbleclicking them... really weird Martijn - Original Message - From: MaDmIkE [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 2:31 AM Subject: RE: lingo-l win XP and video for windows

lingo-l Hex to decimal formula

Memo from Chris Couldridge of PricewaterhouseCoopers Start of message text Not being very maths-oriented, I've been trying to decipher some formulae I found online which convert hex to decimal numbers, with a view to re-writing it in lingo, but my head

Re: lingo-l Help! List madness.

Not sure if this is appropriate in your project/product or not, but why not just check to verify it doesn't already exist before adding it in? if (not getPos(myList, someNumber)) then add(myList, someNumber) end if And just avoid the whole culling-out thing altogether... At 10:14 PM

Re: lingo-l Hex to decimal formula

Memo from Chris Couldridge of PricewaterhouseCoopers Start of message text Well I ended up working it out for myself... on hexToDec hexNumber hexToDecList = [0:0, 1:1, 2:2, 3:3, 4:4, 5:5, 6:6, 7:7, 8:8, 9:9, A:10, B:11, C:12, D:13, E:14, F:15]

RE: lingo-l linked director movies

Thanks all! I have a great place to start. --carol -- From: Rob Romanek Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 6, 2002 4:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l linked director movies Hey Carol, If you haven't had a read of my

Re: lingo-l Hex to decimal formula

Well, you can do small chunks of numbers by co-opting the rgb function, as in: put rgb(A9) -- rgb( 0, 0, 169 ) The problem is that when you go over one byte, then you get each byte individually, and of course, it doesn't go over three bytes total put rgb(F31AA9) -- rgb( 243, 26,

lingo-l XP again

Hi all We´re in the middle of a project. We work in win98 and director 8.5 Must we update to 8.5.1 to run our final .exe in a XP user PC? Or It´s only needed if we´d have installed XP in our PC? Thanks a lot [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l Xtranet limits

Does anyone know the character limits of quires done with Xtranet? We're seeing a crash if the quiry string is long. The crash goes away when using GetNetText(). I think it's 1024 bytes. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi

lingo-l lingo-lgarb a frame from a videofile?

Hi again, is it possible to grab a certain frame from an avi-file and save it as a bitmap member? Or do I need an xtra for that? Thanks Martijn PS: still didn't solve the video/XP problem... - Original Message - From: Cole Tierney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

Re: lingo-l XP again

At 15:03 +0200 06/07/2002, Preconet wrote: We´re in the middle of a project. We work in win98 and director 8.5 Must we update to 8.5.1 to run our final .exe in a XP user PC? It would be a good idea. 8.5.1 fixed some issues on XP. I'm unclear on what, but that's because I don't use XP, so the

Re: lingo-l Stage Background transparent

At 08:36 +0200 06/07/2002, Frederic Durieu wrote: I would to animate some stuff directely on the desktop without the stage background of the projector. (Some walking and flying giraffe) http://www.lecielestbleu.com/zoo The background need to be transparent . Any idea ? Not easily done.

lingo-l avi and blend of text felds on mac (ctd)

hello, thanks very much for your replies to my avi post... i have since checked whether the video runs ok on its own on the mac... lo and behold, it does. the quicktime player opens and it is displayed. does that mean, that it's not a case of the codec extensions missing? or could it still be

Re: lingo-l lingo-lgarb a frame from a videofile?

I think you can use '(the stage).image' to grab a frame. So, for example hypotheticaly you could test the movietime of your video and at the precise moment grab the image If the movietime = x then MyVideoStill = (the stage).image End if Don't know if this will work... But that's where I

RE: lingo-l XP again

- Original Message - From: Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 5:17 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l XP again Ok 8.5.1 fixed some issues on XP but my question is: a Director 8.5 .exe works in a PC with XP or not? I´m sorry we can test it because

Re: lingo-l Hex to decimal formula

put xHexToDec("F31AA9") -- 15932073 But no limit version: on xHexToDec(sHex) sHex = (sHex.string) nLength = sHex.char.count sNum = sHex.char[nLength] nNum = offset(sNum, "0123456789ABCDEF") - 1 if nLength = 1 then return nNum else return nNum + xHexToDec(sHex.char[1..(nLength

Re: lingo-l lingo-lgarb a frame from a videofile?

jep, that works only if the videomember is set to play directToStage Thanks! - Original Message - From: Joshua Race [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 8:30 AM Subject: Re: lingo-l lingo-lgarb a frame from a videofile? I think you can use '(the

lingo-l Quicktime evil bastion of animation

hey list -- Seems like i have been working around this for a while and figured that now is the time to set it right. I have a continuous animation going on in in my background (just a bunch of lines moving horizontally across the stage). I have set this up in a pretty small repeat loop that

Re: lingo-l Quicktime evil bastion of animation

At 11:15 -0400 06/07/2002, Carol Mahaffy wrote: hey list -- Hey, Carol. ;) Would you mind updating your address book? Your note went to Lingo List (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED], but the list address is now [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the reason we occasionally get double replies from people as

RE: lingo-l XP again

At 18:00 +0200 06/07/2002, Preconet wrote: Ok 8.5.1 fixed some issues on XP but my question is: a Director 8.5 .exe works in a PC with XP or not? I believe there are problems with custom icons for 8.5 on XP and there might be some memory issues resolved. Since the download of 8.5.1 from

Re: lingo-l XP again

heh. famous last words... Preconet wrote: ok if does not adversely affect Director 8.5, I¨ll do it. 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,

RE: lingo-l 3D Modeling Software

Why don't you have a look at this? http://www.amabilis.com/products.htm Great tool, cheap tool! Juan Lopez TELSIA multimedia [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 Help! List madness.

Not sure if this is appropriate in your project/product or not, but why not just check to verify it doesn't already exist before adding it in? if (not getPos(myList, someNumber)) then add(myList, someNumber) end if And just avoid the whole culling-out thing altogether... Since we're on

RE: lingo-l XP again

one thing the upgrade did fix that i know of off the top of my head (the guy with the xp machine is out) was when you open two casts side by side and try to drag cast members from the one cast to the second cast it would crash -- hasn't happened since the upgrade. And i remember thinking that it

lingo-l Mpeg PlayBack

Hello, Can any body recommend a good way (the best way) to play mpeg files in director with out requiring QuickTime? Is This a good way to go? OnStage Media for Director Manufacturer: Visible Light http://www.visiblelight.com/products/visiblelight/ My goal to to play Mpeg-1 files with no

lingo-l Javascript to refresh Shockwave?

I haven't done a lot of javascript/Shockwave interaction, so maybe someone here has... If I have a page, with an embedded Shockwave movie, and some params to it, is it possible to issue a Javascript command (and if so, WHICH command) to basically refresh the embedded Shockwave, with a new

Re: lingo-l Mpeg PlayBack

I always use DirectMedia Xtra http://xtras.tabuleiro.com/products/direct/index.tdb Leif Hello, Can any body recommend a good way (the best way) to play mpeg files in director with out requiring QuickTime? Is This a good way to go? OnStage Media for Director Manufacturer: Visible Light

Re: lingo-l Javascript to refresh Shockwave?

With some cgi calls to change the params first, of course. [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

Re: lingo-l Javascript to refresh Shockwave?

With some cgi calls to change the params first, of course. There I go again, throwing in my 2 cents without reading the whole thread. What is initiating the refresh? The shock, or the HTML? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

RE: lingo-l Mpeg PlayBack

Hello Kerry others Thank you your email(s) I downloaded the demo version of DirectMedia 1) it works great on most of my computers but I have a PIII 300, 98 computer, media player 7.0 that I use to test projects I get a DirectMedia unknown error after the Mpeg start to play and/or it plays

RE: lingo-l Mpeg PlayBack

1) it works great on most of my computers but I have a PIII 300, 98 computer, media player 7.0 that I use to test projects I get a DirectMedia unknown error after the Mpeg start to play and/or it plays very poorly with a low frame rate. I need a higher version of MediaPlayer? Does Mpeg-1

RE: lingo-l Mpeg PlayBack

Kerry, the video is 512 x 256 rendered from Mediacleaner with charger, defualt settings pretty much? 30 fps maybe the size is the problem, the sample 320x240 mpeg with the demo plays fine? Tom -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kerry