message window with projector?

2002-07-29 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Can it be done with a mac projector using an .ini file or does that only work with pc? [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

RE: Ripping my hair out (re: imaging lingo and v-12)

2002-07-29 Thread Jason Whiting
Welp that makes sense. I'm done working on this stupid thing for the night but I'll give it a try tomorrow and let you know if I'm still having problems. Thanks for your help -Jason -Original Message- From: Tab Julius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 6:11 PM To: [E

Re: Ripping my hair out (re: imaging lingo and v-12)

2002-07-29 Thread Tab Julius
If the mouseUp handler that you're talking about is within the MIAW, then what is happening is that you are forgetting the very movie you are running, and after the command to forget is done, it gets lost because there's no place to go. Effectively, you're pulling the rug out from under your

Re: Ripping my hair out (re: imaging lingo and v-12)

2002-07-29 Thread Colin Holgate
>On mouseup > forget movie "display" >End > >The error happen right away after the click I'm sure you meant forget window "display". Generally you wouldn't want to close a window using a script that is in that window. It would be better to set a global variable and let the stage do the closi

Ripping my hair out (re: imaging lingo and v-12)

2002-07-29 Thread Jason Whiting
I keep getting this error. It happen 1 out of 5 clicks and on everymachine we test on. I have a main movie that open a MIAW. With in this window an image is loaded onto the screen. This image is swaped out on clicks. This error happens when the user clicks the close button. The script on the close

RE: prevent sound skipping: Macromix vs. DirectSound

2002-07-29 Thread Leah Kramer
Hi Michael, Good to know you're alive and kicking in Director-land! I'm grappling with some of the same issues right now -- preloading lots of stuff into memory, etc. I wish I could tell you conclusively what happens if you load a "dangerous" amount into RAM. We're finding that if Director can

RE: MUI Xtra

2002-07-29 Thread Kenneth Prat
You need to save the index of the edit field in a global via something along these lines: global gdlg, gdlgItems global gBrowseEditTextNdx ... temp = getItemPropList(gdlg) temp.value = "" temp.type = #editText append gdlgItems, duplicate(temp) gBrowseEditTextNdx = count(gdlgItems)

RE: Windows XP-Chinese Traditional

2002-07-29 Thread Howdy-Tzi
At 10:54 -0700 07/29/2002, Thomas Higgins wrote: >Unfortunately D7 was released long before WinXP and we had no way of >forseeing the bug, sorry. Like y'all couldn't forsee Java and thus make Lingo a lot more like its eventual design when JT et. al. were creating it back in the last century?

RE: Windows XP-Chinese Traditional

2002-07-29 Thread Kendall Anderson
Hey Thomas, > handled properly and we fixed this bug in the 8.5.1 release. > Unfortunately D7 was released long before WinXP and we had no way > of forseeing the bug, sorry. Just FYI, this bug exhibits itself in Director 7.02, under Win98SE and NT4sp6 as well, not just XP... Kendall [To remov

RE: Windows XP-Chinese Traditional

2002-07-29 Thread Thomas Higgins
> >Has anyone had trouble with Windows XP (Chinese Traditional) OS not > >able to find files in your Director projects? > > I have heard of XP projectors being unable to find files on paths > > 126 chars in length (including the filename!) -- so if your path to > the Xtras happens to be 120 ch

Re: spotlights vs. lowpoly objects ?

2002-07-29 Thread James Newton
Therese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've run into some trouble that concerns spotlights and large lowpoly > objects. It appears as when I animate a spotlight over the low poly > object the light just flickers as it crosses the polygons, and > sometimes it isn't visible at all. Hi Therese, A spo

RE: prevent sound skipping: Macromix vs. DirectSound

2002-07-29 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Hi Leah... How've you been? I hope all is well with you. Thanks for getting back to me. I've got 16 sound files that total about 45MB. In the Lingo dictionary, it says that preloadMember will load members up until RAM is full or it's done preloading everything. Most of the company's laptops

MUI Xtra

2002-07-29 Thread Alexandre Cop
Hey guys, I'm working on a dialog box with a 'Browse' button and a field that displays the file chosen (Using Rav's MUI Maker). Thing is, I don't know how to update field after I have clicked the 'Browse' button and retrieved the value! Can anybody help, or is this a lost cause? I'm using Dir 85

Re: Windows XP-Chinese Traditional

2002-07-29 Thread Howdy-Tzi
At 09:33 -0700 07/29/2002, Jonathyn B. Tellez wrote: >Has anyone had trouble with Windows XP (Chinese Traditional) OS not >able to find files in your Director projects? I have heard of XP projectors being unable to find files on paths > 126 chars in length (including the filename!) -- so if yo

Windows XP-Chinese Traditional

2002-07-29 Thread Jonathyn B. Tellez
Hi Slingers, Has anyone had trouble with Windows XP (Chinese Traditional) OS not able to find files in your Director projects? We've got a project written in Director 7 running over in Hong Kong. Unfortunately, an Xtra file isn't showing up to the OS. Other projects in different versions o

Re: buddy api time and date function crashing help!

2002-07-29 Thread Charlie Fiskeaux II
I'm not sure about what's going wrong with the BuddyAPI functions, but is there a reason you can't use Lingo's built in "the time" and "date" functions? Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message - From: "Lewis Fleming"

buddy api time and date function crashing help!

2002-07-29 Thread Lewis Fleming
I have used buddy api xtra to read the computers time and return it in the same format regardless of the format set by the operating system. The problem is that it crashers Director (fatal error) in authoring and when made into a projector, after they two hundred and fifty fith time it is accesse

Re: prevent sound skipping: Macromix vs. DirectSound

2002-07-29 Thread Leah Kramer
You should try calling preloadMember on the sound member before playing it. Also, you can call: sound(1).queue(myMember) sound(1).play() I'd be interested to hear if either of these help... > >I've got this perpetual sound skipping issue with projectors running from > >relatively slower cd driv

Re: problems to attach castlib in windows

2002-07-29 Thread Howdy-Tzi
At 09:04 -0300 07/29/2002, Rodrigo Peres wrote: >Does anyone knows what could be wrong?? >If the cd is the right one them > >AttachCastLib("baixacast", drive & "baixacast") >AttachCastLib("altacast", drive & "altacast") You need to include the file extension as well -- particularly on Wind

Re: prevent sound skipping: Macromix vs. DirectSound

2002-07-29 Thread Buzz Kettles
latency is the delay in starting up to play sounds low-latency means faster starting sounds At 8:45 AM -0400 7/29/02, you wrote: >Hello all... > >I've got this perpetual sound skipping issue with projectors running from >relatively slower cd drives. Having read up a bit on the sounddevice, it >

Re: Q: XML and adding children

2002-07-29 Thread Tanya Renne
the error I'm getting is this: Script Error: handler not found in Object xCount = gCompanyNode.child[1].child.count # getPropRef The additional child is in gCompanyNode.child[6].child.count Any thoughts? Tanya Renne wrote: > > I've been tasked to update a client's CD of member literature.

prevent sound skipping: Macromix vs. DirectSound

2002-07-29 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Hello all... I've got this perpetual sound skipping issue with projectors running from relatively slower cd drives. Having read up a bit on the sounddevice, it seems DirectSound is better than Macromix, allowing for low-latency audio, although I don't know what that means. I wrote a script to t

problems to attach castlib in windows

2002-07-29 Thread Rodrigo Peres
Hi list, I'm using the CastControl xtra to link external castlibs from cd on the fly. In Mac everything works great, but in windows it links the cast but when I try to change the member to one of the linked cast the project begins to ask for replacement files. Does anyone knows what could be wro

Flash MX Xtra

2002-07-29 Thread Dan Sheridan
Hi, Have the guys and gals at Macromedia made the updated Flash Asset Xtra compatible with MX ??? If so - is there a URL, and if not why not??? Is Director 9 coming out soon ;) Cheers, Dan ;) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.c

SV:spotlights vs. lowpoly objects ?

2002-07-29 Thread Therese
Från: Alex da Franca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Datum: den 28 juli 2002 18:53 Ämne: Re: spotlights vs. lowpoly objects ? >At 16:56 Uhr +0200 28.07.2002, Therese wrote: >>hi list. >> >>Ive run into some trouble that concerns spotlights and large lowpoly >>o

Re: Q: XML parser and children

2002-07-29 Thread Chris Aernoudt
Any high-asci or wierd chars in the node name or its values? Try opening the xml file in IE, it will inform you of any parsing errors. If you have wierd chars in the xml, you will need to escape them (eg URLencode) in the XML, and unescape them after parsing in director. - Original Message --