Re: lingo-l multiuser

2002-06-10 Thread James Newton
DrEvil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to ... have the html page the movie is embedded in to pass arguments to the movie when it runs? Hi Jeremy, You can find a movie that does this (plus plenty of other multiuser stuff at: http://nonlinear.openspark.com/book/Multiuser.sit

lingo-l API calls in double-byte operating systems

2002-06-10 Thread chris . couldridge
Memo from Chris Couldridge of PricewaterhouseCoopers Start of message text First, thanks for all your help on my hex to dec question, ended up amending my own code to include some useful bits from all your advice. For my next trick I am

lingo-l Lingo source to read ZIP archive directories

2002-06-10 Thread Kendall Anderson
Hey all - I just wanted to let you guys know I've put up some more source code on my site. This time it's a parent script which uses the BinaryIO (and ConvertData) Xtra to directly read the directory of a .ZIP archive. (ie: it returns a list of the files within the ZIP archive, along with their

Re: lingo-l Mpeg PlayBack

2002-06-10 Thread Charlie Fiskeaux II
I would recommend against the OnStage Xtra simply because of the cost. They require you to buy special stickers to put on the outside of your CD, and you have to use their branding software to somehow brand the CD you're making for it to be legitimate. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The

RE: lingo-l multiuser

2002-06-10 Thread matt desimone
For booting someone else out of chat: --set this when you setup your connection to the server gmultiuser.setnetmessagehandler(#recievekick, script multiuserobject, kick, ) On kickuser username If adminflag = TRUE then Gmultiuser.sendnetmessage(username, kick, ) End

lingo-l Detecting CD free space

2002-06-10 Thread ModelBBoy
Is there any way to detect available free space on a CD-R from director? (For instance, if I burn a 1 meg session on a 650 meg CD-R, is there any way an Xtra or some extention could detect there is 649 megs still available on the disk?) Thanks in advance, Darl [To remove yourself from

Re: lingo-l Detecting CD free space

2002-06-10 Thread Neil
You can try BuddyAPI. It may work for you. I'd test it and let you know but I don't have any multi session CD-R's on the go right now. Here's the code freeSpace = baDiskInfo( D:\, free ) put freeSpace You can get BuddyAPI from http://www.mods.com.au/budapi HTH ...Neil At 12:42 PM 6/10/2002

RE: lingo-l multiuser

2002-06-10 Thread matt desimone
*--* Sorry about the resend, but I just wanted to clear something up. In the setnetmessagehandler call, make script multiuserobject into whatever cast member is holding the handler #recievekick. That's what I get for

lingo-l API calls in double-byte operating systems

2002-06-10 Thread Kurt Griffin
For my next trick I am creating a CD-ROM which will have global distribution, nothing to complicated or tricky, just video in an interface and subtitles (which will be graphics as opposed to live text), apart from one part which requires copying some files across to the desktop (they are

Re: lingo-l API calls in double-byte operating systems

2002-06-10 Thread Kerry Thompson
Word doc was *mostly* fine. There were character substitutions in the higher chars, but if your stuff is in English, you're only likely to have problems with things like en and em dashes. Also smart quotes, and some other stuff. Most multibyte encoding schemes include Roman characters in the

Re: lingo-l is there a linecount for text members?

2002-06-10 Thread grimmwerks
You have to play with the locPosV or something like that... [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 Rounding (unusually)

2002-06-10 Thread roy crisman
This is called a Ceiling function. The opposite, where you want to lop off the non-integer part is called a Floor function. Looking in my Math library of code, I see that my Floor and Ceiling functions aren't correct, so let's see I just leveraged the working Floor function to create the

Re: lingo-l duration member property

2002-06-10 Thread Leah Kramer
Sorry that I wasn't clear... I didn't mean that I was going to try to SET duration. I meant that if I had a list of things in a queue like: [sound1,flash1,sound2,flash2] I would: A. get the duration of the sound1 (call it N milliseconds) B. start the sound playing C. spawn a timeout to

Re: lingo-l is there a linecount for text members?

2002-06-10 Thread Rob Romanek
Hi Charlie, Getting a line count for text members is doable if all the text is formated to the same font and line spacing. If that's the case then the following should work on getTextLineCount aTextMem --fixedLineSpace will return 0 if the line spacing was set automatically, so need

Re: lingo-l Javascript to refresh Shockwave?

2002-06-10 Thread Rob Romanek
Hey Tab, Did you ever resolve your javascript issues. As Robert mentioned evalScript falls short because of browser issues. His suggestion for the layer trick will work in NS4, NS6 and IE 5+ (on both PC and Mac as far as I know/remember). It means a reload of your shockwave movie each time

lingo-l Field member property name for drop shadow (not the text)

2002-06-10 Thread John Erazo
Peace... Sorry for this basic question but I can't seem to find it in the online help. What is the property name for the drop shadow of the box (not the text) of a field cast member? I'm creating this field on the fly and I need to set some properties via lingo. Thanks in advance. - John

RE: lingo-l Field member property name for drop shadow (not the text)

2002-06-10 Thread Sean Wilson
What is the property name for the drop shadow of the box ... boxDropShadow Easiest to see when a field member/sprite is selected in the cast/score, the PI is in list view, and the Field tab is selected. -Sean. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l Javascript to refresh Shockwave?

2002-06-10 Thread Tab Julius
No, I haven't resolved it yet (haven't tried evalScript).. Open to any and all suggestions. At 10:00 PM 6/10/02 -0400, Rob Romanek wrote: Hey Tab, Did you ever resolve your javascript issues. As Robert mentioned evalScript falls short because of browser issues. His suggestion for the

lingo-l Editable fields

2002-06-10 Thread DrEvil
How can I enable a user to paste text data that has been copied elsewhere into an editable field in a movie? 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 Field member property name for drop shadow (not the text)

2002-06-10 Thread John Erazo
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sean Wilson Easiest to see when a field member/sprite is selected in the cast/score, the PI is in list view, and the Field tab is selected. gee, I forgot. the list view mode! Thanks, Sean. :) -