Re: lingo-l Quicktime issues using MPEG

2002-08-17 Thread Buzz Kettles
At 6:56 AM +0200 8/17/02, you wrote: Hi Buzz Thanks very much for the help. It's all working now. You really helped a lot with the suggestions. Thanks again. Just one point - i used QuickTimePresent() which is indeed boolean. QuickTimeVersion, hower, gives the version number and is not

Re: lingo-l Flickering Quicktime Movie

2002-08-17 Thread Andreas Gaunitz P11
On the Mac there's an App called Mediacleaner (don't know if there is a Win adaption) that is _very_ useful. In Mediacleaner you can open a QT or other format, and resize, crop, set compression method etc for audio and/ or video. Then just hit the Process button and go have a coffee. If

Re: lingo-l Flickering Quicktime Movie

2002-08-17 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 8/17/02 5:32 AM, Andreas Gaunitz P11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] decreed thusly: Can anyone tell me why my QuickTime move is flickering in the projector? I plays fine in the dir file but not in the actual projector. Thanks in advance Rather than compression it sounds more to me like either 1)

Re: lingo-l Flickering Quicktime Movie

2002-08-17 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 8/17/02 10:11 AM, Andreas Gaunitz P11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] decreed thusly: Wow. I really wonder what you mean. Do you mean flash in a lower sprite channel than video? -A. No, not in a sprite channel, but ...aw crap. on the stage. Say if flash had a rect(0,0,320,200) and the quicktime had

Re: lingo-l Flickering Quicktime Movie

2002-08-17 Thread Andreas Gaunitz P11
OK, thanks. This is really muddy waters. Good to know. -A. On 8/17/02 10:11 AM, Andreas Gaunitz P11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] decreed thusly: Wow. I really wonder what you mean. Do you mean flash in a lower sprite channel than video? -A. No, not in a sprite channel, but ...aw crap. on the

Re: lingo-l Flickering Quicktime Movie

2002-08-17 Thread Buzz Kettles
DTS sprites can't overlay - they will fight each other to try draw on top hth -Buzz At 4:11 PM +0200 8/17/02, you wrote: Grimmwerks, laasssh video video video Wow. I really wonder what you mean. Do you mean flash in a lower sprite channel than video? -A. [To remove yourself from this

RE: lingo-l better to make spritenum a property or use me.sprit enum?

2002-08-17 Thread roy crisman
but can't you do the same contrived goofiness with me.spritenum? And why are you bothering to set spriteNum to me.spriteNumthat's already given to you by the act of property spriteNum. I admit that this is 95% preferencethough I don't understand why people demand to have two different

Re: lingo-l is there a cross platform border Xtra?

2002-08-17 Thread roy crisman
This BTW is why art directors need to make up their minds *before* the program is written. ;) And why they need to work hand in hand with the programmers (same with sales people) instead of just tossing stuff over the wall to the programmers and going home. They think it's just a wall.

RE: lingo-l Trouble importing W3D files on-the-fly

2002-08-17 Thread Andreas Gaunitz P11
The file name of the w3d file has proven to have great impact on the success too. No spaces allowed! But I'm up and running! (Well mostly walking so far, but I expect to Run soon.) -A. Andreas, Sorry for the delayed response on this one, but I just don't get the same results as you do. I

lingo-l Change of address / Cambio de dirección

2002-08-17 Thread Enrique Nivasch
Hello everybody, Due to technical problems my SrEnrique address is not operational at the moment. Please address all your e-mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please resend any messages you sent between Tuesday August 13, 2002 and today. Thank you, Enrique Nivasch

lingo-l Opening an .exe file

2002-08-17 Thread Beertje
I am trying to open an .exe file (the Shockwave Installer or the QuickTime Installer) from within a movie. I have tried open, play and go to and all tell me Frame not defined Obviously I am not doing this right. Director Help says open (whichDocument with) whichApplication but what application do

Re: lingo-l Opening an .exe file

2002-08-17 Thread roy crisman
How about: Open Drive:\pathname\filename.exe (on the PC) or open (the pathname filename.exe) if it's next to the projector? I just tried open c:\winnt\notepad.exe and it worked just fine to launch my notepad.exe in the windows directory. roymeo At 02:49 PM 8/17/2002 -0400, you wrote: I am

Re: lingo-l Opening an .exe file

2002-08-17 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Help says open (whichDocument with) whichApplication but what application do you use to open an .exe file? The whichDocument bit is used if you're trying to open a document with a specific application, therefore is not required when calling executables, so you just call open and specify your

Re: lingo-l Opening an .exe file

2002-08-17 Thread Agustín María Rodríguez
Beertje wrote: Director Help says open (whichDocument with) whichApplication but what application do you use to open an .exe file? Just use open qtinstaller.exe. The with is optional. You can also use Buddy Api xtra for opening files. hth -- + + * + _// *+

Re: lingo-l Opening an .exe file

2002-08-17 Thread Beertje
I am keeping the app in the same directory as the movie and I have tried open @/sFill.exe, open sFull.exe, open @\sFull.exe and several other vvarieations, all with no response. This will be on a CD so I can't assume that the CD Drive will be D Drive either. George - Original Message -

Re: lingo-l Opening an .exe file

2002-08-17 Thread Beertje
GOT IT. I had the exe file in the wrong directory. I used open @/sFull.exe It works fine. Thanks for all your help. George - Original Message - From: Ross Clutterbuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 16:25 Subject: Re: lingo-l Opening an .exe file

RE: lingo-l better to make spritenum a property or use me.sprit enum?

2002-08-17 Thread Daniel Plaenitz
At 13:56 17.08.2002 -0400, you wrote: I admit that this is 95% preferencethough I don't understand why people demand to ... always use me.spriteNum which I believe has been shown to be slower. Just to set the relation: we are talking about an action that takes about 1 millionth of a