Hey James,
Had a quick look at your article, nice trick on changing script types.
I thought of one more issue that may come up with the code, it has to do
with using your sprite list to make a call. The code says to make a call use
call (#handlerName, sprites(#theName))
since sprites handle
At last, thanks to V12 Database Engine and OSControl Xtra,
you can deliver Director projectors and Shockwaves that look
and behave like standard MacOS and Windows applications.
V12-DBE has established itself as the multimedia world
standard with an impressive feature set:
- Ea
Penworks Corporation (www.penworks.com), developer of commercial and custom
Xtras is pleased to announce the availability of the VPlayer (tm) Xtra for
Macromedia Director on Windows.
The VPlayer Xtra can play back video files (MPEG, AVI, QuickTime (if
installed)) as a sprite, but can also app
At 18:54 -0700 06/12/2002, Buzz Kettles wrote:
>At 11:06 AM -0500 6/12/02, you wrote:
>>If you wanted to I suppose you could convert the list to a string,
>>then correct the spelling of the flooey term, then pass the list
>>through a value filter again. I don't know if that would be faster
>>
At 18:03 -0400 06/12/2002, DrEvil wrote:
>Is there a way to allow a user to drag-select text within a text box to
>highlight it so it can be copied and stuff?
In a #text member you can get the selectedText, slap that into a
variable, and then use the variable however it tickleth thy ribcage.
>
Penworks Corporation (www.penworks.com), developer of commercial and custom
Xtras is pleased to announce the availability of the VPlayer (tm) Xtra for
Macromedia Director on Windows.
The VPlayer Xtra can play back video files (MPEG, AVI, QuickTime (if
installed)) as a sprite, but can also app
>Ok so I've got a few nested proplists where the property is spelled wrong.
>I can get the property via gAreas[1].getPropAt(1), but there's no
>setPropat?
There is one in vList Xtra..
alist = [#a:0]
setPropAt (aList, 1, #b)
put alist
-- [#b: 0]
--
Daniel Devolder
Check my vList Xtra for savi
I've got a drag-selector posted at
http://kettles.best.vwh.net/dualList.proto.html
Is this what you want?
It doesn't perform any action(s) when the drag happens except move the strings
(but I have used it to trigger armloads of stuff)
-Buzz
At 6:03 PM -0400 6/12/02, you wrote:
>Is there a wa
Huh - gonna have to look at that. I've been using the freebie propsave
xtra, but the shockwave save support in vlist might be worth it...
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Daniel Devolder wrote:
> >Ok so I've got a few nested proplists where the property is spelled wrong.
> >I can get the property via gAr
They be around anywhere? Or does someone want to toss me some cross
platform code to save a text member to a file?
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Hi all -
I know this is kinda random, but I figured this is as good of a group as any
to ask this since you're more than likely to be in my shoes from time to
time. What I'm experiencing is cross platform font issues when authoring
movies. We have mac dudes and dudettes here and pc folks like m
> They be around anywhere? Or does someone want to toss me some cross
> platform code to save a text member to a file?
put interface(xtra "fileio")
I'll have a general purpose portable FileIO object online fairly soon - it's
been done/used/tested for ages, I just have to get around to documentin
Thanks Kerry - figured out the code, but now I'm adding em to my xtra
manual folder ;)
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I have a utility called cross-font that converts PC and Mac fonts back and
forth, both Type1 and TrueType. It's shareware/freeware and should be
available at downloads.com. It's a PC utility, so you have to stuff your
mac fonts before you transport them over to the PC (their data is in the
resou
Hi Evan,
What about limiting font usage to embedded fonts. Create an external lib
of only embedded fonts and tell your developers they can only use fonts
from that library.
hth
Rob
Evan Adelman wrote:
>how do you folks deal w/ font issues like on mac
> "Interstate-Bold" and the bolded up "
At 13:16 -0500 06/13/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>They be around anywhere? Or does someone want to toss me some cross
>platform code to save a text member to a file?
I've got links to the FIO docs on nightwares in my book support
section, and I've even got a chapter on the xPlat issues.
For
Does anyone know if it's possible to record the user on the fly in Flash (as
you would with the audio xtra in director) or from the browser via a plug-in
of some sort?
-Kurt
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On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Howdy-Tzi wrote:
>
> For instance hitting cancel on a save as dlog on Mac returns "" for
> the file path, and void on Win. Gotta look out for that.
>
Argh. Address book.
Thanks for the above, good to know.
Course I can't WRITE the correct carriage returns on windows so
Well the audio won't be recorded using flash as taht's an MX thing
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hi all
who can help me out.
i need an solution for this problem
let say there is an sentence wich has open spaces where the user has to fill
in one word.
after he or she has done this, the enter/return key is pressed and the
content is checked.
if the content (the word wich was filled in) is wr
> Course I can't WRITE the correct carriage returns on windows so that
> notepad sees it, otherwise it's all good.
Grimm,
On a PC, the EOL character is a combination of a Carriage Return and a
Line Feed. So, after each line you need to add a numToChar(13) &
numToChar(10). On the Mac it's just a
At 14:17 -0500 06/13/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Course I can't WRITE the correct carriage returns on windows so that
>notepad sees it, otherwise it's all good.
Yes you can. You can do a numToChar for the symbols. I don't remember
exactly the sequence, but that's actually online at the moth
> Yes you can. You can do a numToChar for the symbols. I don't remember
> exactly the sequence, but that's actually online at the mothership in
As I remember it (and from my fileio parent):
#mac: sCR = numtochar(13)
#win: sCR = numtochar(13) & numtochar(10)
#unix: sCR = numtochar(10)
Kenda
Note that fileio has some limitations on the length of a path it will
read/write to. On modern versions of windows, this can easily cause
problems since default save paths look like:
C:\Documents and Settings\Kenneth Prat\My Documents\...
I swapped out fileio read/writes for the ones in the Preg
What's the best way of scaling a sprite in lingo while keeping the same
centerpoint, ie
getting the centerLoc = point(s.rect[3] - s.rect[1], s.rect[4] -
s.rect[2])
Then doing the division against the sprites height/width, ie
scW = integer(s.width * .80) * .5
scH = integer(s.height * .80) *
for the new 'view in new window' ability.
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Hey -
> What's the best way of scaling a sprite in lingo while keeping the same
> centerpoint, ie
Strangely enough, I have a function for that very purpose:
-- Scale the given rect by given factor, from specified registration point
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At 15:28 -0500 06/13/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>for the new 'view in new window' ability.
No doubt. I like it too.
Nice address update, BTW.
Re your sprite scaling question -- if it's a registration point
issue, why not set the regPoint on the member to 0,0 before you
begin? Or would th
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Howdy-Tzi wrote:
>
> Re your sprite scaling question -- if it's a registration point
> issue, why not set the regPoint on the member to 0,0 before you
> begin? Or would that not work for other reasons?
>
Well I'd really have to set the regpoint to be the center of the m
Can anyone else confirm that the popmenu member of the OSControl Xtra
won't allow "/" as text? Seems to be skipping it entirely. I understand
the '(' stuff (killed something else I was doing).
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So I've got this hugeass proplist. (although I have gained some weight
recently. As has my donkey.). I've been changing properties of it, then
making a member's text the string(proplist). All good. Course then every
once in a while I'd proplist = value(member.text), thinking it loaded in
>Any chance this might be fixed some day?
Doubt it. Could it be something to do with how Director remembers
symbols? Try this:
clearglobals
put #aSymbol
-- #aSymbol
clearglobals
put #asymbol
-- #aSymbol
Notice how it capitalized the S? That's because Director keeps a note
of symbols that ar
At 16:09 -0500 06/13/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Well I'd really have to set the regpoint to be the center of the member
>(still doing the div thing) in order to scale by sprite center rather than
>sprite top left corner, but sure.
What exactly do you want to do? If all you want to do is res
I don't understand what could be causing the problem you are seeing.
But, if speed is an issue for you, you might want to use a "data cast
member" instead of storing the list in a text member. Details are in
my article on DOUG:
http://www.director-online.com/accessArticle2.cfm?id=442
FWI
Rob Romanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The code says to make a call use
>
> call (#handlerName, sprites(#theName))
>
> since sprites handler returns a list of sprites in the form of [(sprite
> 1), (sprite 2), etc] then in the behaviours attached to the sprites the
> me in the handler is a refe
> let say there is an sentence wich has open spaces where the user
> has to fill
> in one word.
> after he or she has done this, the enter/return key is pressed and the
> content is checked.
> if the content (the word wich was filled in) is wrong the space must be
> empty again.
> if the content i
If your proplist is trying to make a prop out of a string that starts
with a number then it can't create a symbol prop, so it creates a
string prop
this can be saved as a string (one might say 'strung') into a field
or text member, but then using value() to reconstruct fails miserably
& the p
Thanks Buzz - but that's not it.
It's definately what Colin pointed out - director 'remembers' the actual
property spelling, etc.
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