Re: lingo-l camera spline movement and pointAt() (was: wd3 fileto director)

2002-10-23 Thread Agustín María Rodríguez
Jamie Dyer escribió: Is it possible to make the camera move along a path (spline)? and possibly keep it pointed at the same point? Yes, it is possible. Barry Swan have in his site an algorithm for spline movement. It is implemented for 2D but I´ve made a 3D version and works fine. You can

Re: lingo-l Getting rid of Internal?

2002-10-23 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Rob Romanek [EMAIL PROTECTED] a) is no problem, just click on the internal cast to make it the active window, then use the Property Inspector to change the name. D'oh! Why did I think that couldn't be done? I'm certain I must have tried it before sometime...

Re: lingo-l Global vs local

2002-10-23 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Shailendra Vijayvergia [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want to pass a value from one sprite to another sprite located in another channel. Is there any way to pass this without using global variable, because i don't want to keep that variable other than those two frames.

lingo-l Distressflag (request)

2002-10-23 Thread bspeer
I am writing an application to help a severely disabled child communicate with a head switch. He only has access to Mac computers and I develop on a Windows machine. The software is completed and I have ordered the Mac version of Director but the supplier says it won't be in for about a week

Re: lingo-l Distressflag (request)

2002-10-23 Thread Tab Julius
Even if it's for a good cause, it's technically a license violation and/or illegal, so I have to ask that you not use the list for this sort of thing. Anyone who wishes to respond should not reply via the list. Thanks - Tab At 09:40 AM 10/23/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing an

Re: lingo-l Distressflag (request)

2002-10-23 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Tab Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] Even if it's for a good cause, it's technically a license violation and/or illegal, so I have to ask that you not use the list for this sort of thing. Anyone who wishes to respond should not reply via the list. Couldn't the 30

lingo-l xtranet xtra for pc?

2002-10-23 Thread grimmwerks
Say, its now defunct, free, etc...I'm onsite and actually am using it in a project, but can't grab it from my home... Does anyone have it available? [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

Re: lingo-l Distressflag (request)

2002-10-23 Thread bspeer
Ok. Tab. My mistake... Sorry, my apologies to the list. -Boyd - Original Message - From: Tab Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 9:04 am Subject: Re: lingo-l Distressflag (request) Even if it's for a good cause, it's technically a license violation and/or

Re: lingo-l xtranet xtra for pc?

2002-10-23 Thread Colin Holgate
Say, its now defunct, free, etc...I'm onsite and actually am using it in a project, but can't grab it from my home... Does anyone have it available? I've sent it. -- [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages

Re: lingo-l xtranet xtra for pc?

2002-10-23 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 10:38 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Say, its now defunct, free, etc...I'm onsite and actually am using it in a project, but can't grab it from my home... http://www.blackstone.ca/staff/kenpweb/xnetfix.html This is a version that's got some code fixes in

Re: lingo-l Getting rid of Internal?

2002-10-23 Thread Buzz Kettles
At 12:46 PM +0100 10/23/02, you wrote: - Original Message - From: Rob Romanek [EMAIL PROTECTED] a) is no problem, just click on the internal cast to make it the active window, then use the Property Inspector to change the name. D'oh! Why did I think that couldn't be done? I'm

RE: lingo-l wd3 file to director

2002-10-23 Thread Buzz Kettles
At 10:36 AM +0100 10/23/02, you wrote: Thanx, That was exactly what I wanted. My next question is this: Is it possible to make the camera move along a path (spline)? and possibly keep it pointed at the same point? use pointAt ... the manual Thanx JamieD Jamie Dyer escribió: How do

Re: Wishlist gloom (Was lingo-l Getting rid of Internal?)

2002-10-23 Thread Brennan
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 09:52:18 -0700, Buzz Kettles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: don't hold your breath on it getting removed I wouldn't bother with wishlist - there's no way your request would get addressed. Buzz, this strikes me as rather gloomy, especially coming from an ex-Macromedia guy. I

Re: Wishlist gloom (Was lingo-l Getting rid of Internal?)

2002-10-23 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 01:12 PM, Brennan wrote: On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 09:52:18 -0700, Buzz Kettles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: don't hold your breath on it getting removed I wouldn't bother with wishlist - there's no way your request would get addressed. Buzz, this strikes me as

Re: Wishlist gloom (Was lingo-l Getting rid of Internal?)

2002-10-23 Thread Rob Romanek
- Original Message - From: Brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 09:52:18 -0700, Buzz Kettles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: don't hold your breath on it getting removed I wouldn't bother with wishlist - there's no way your request would get addressed. Buzz, this strikes me

Re: lingo-l Getting rid of Internal?

2002-10-23 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Buzz Kettles [EMAIL PROTECTED] why didn't you notice it when I mentioned it early yesterday ;) 'Cos someone (i.e., you) decided to top and bottom post in the same message ;-) Actually, I just noticed because you mentioned it. At the time I assumed your top

Re: Wishlist gloom (Was lingo-l Getting rid of Internal?)

2002-10-23 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are fundamental realities about the Director architecture, and the internal cast is one of them. I think what Buzz is indicating is that it would essentially require a top-down rewrite of the entire Director engine -- while

Re: Wishlist gloom (Was lingo-l Getting rid of Internal?)

2002-10-23 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 01:59 PM, Robert Tweed wrote: - Original Message - From: Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are fundamental realities about the Director architecture, and the internal cast is one of them. I think what Buzz is indicating is that it would essentially

Re: lingo-l Getting rid of Internal?

2002-10-23 Thread Kurt Griffin
a) is no problem, just click on the internal cast to make it the active window, then use the Property Inspector to change the name. D'oh! Why did I think that couldn't be done? I'm certain I must have tried it before sometime... Something else that might be useful is if you could reorder

Re: lingo-l Getting rid of Internal?

2002-10-23 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 03:10 PM, Kurt Griffin wrote: Brennan has been after this kind of thing at a more meta level for a while - the ability to script Director. If we could script Director, you could run a script on startmovie that would check to see if the activeCastLib (already

Re: Wishlist gloom (Was lingo-l Getting rid of Internal?)

2002-10-23 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] On what do you base that assessment? Well, there are no dependencies on casts, as such, as far as I am aware. There may be dependencies on members, and there needs to be a default cast (which is the current active cast, not

Re: lingo-l Distressflag (request)

2002-10-23 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
To my knowledge, Macromedia has repeatedly said they have no objection to projector sharing. Regards, Bruce At 12:01 PM -0400 10/23/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even if it's for a good cause, it's technically a license violation and/or illegal, so I have to ask that you not use the list for

Re: Wishlist gloom (Was lingo-l Getting rid of Internal?)

2002-10-23 Thread Buzz Kettles
At 8:12 PM +0200 10/23/02, you wrote: On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 09:52:18 -0700, Buzz Kettles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: don't hold your breath on it getting removed I wouldn't bother with wishlist - there's no way your request would get addressed. Buzz, this strikes me as rather gloomy,

Re: Wishlist gloom (Was lingo-l Getting rid of Internal?)

2002-10-23 Thread John Dowdell
At 11:12 AM 10/23/2, Brennan wrote: If macromedia really are ignoring requests and the wishlist, we ought to organize to let the management know our dissatisfaction. We've already seen some kind of response to complaints about poor developer support. I'm not Buzz either, but I read it as Rob

Re: lingo-l Distressflag (request)

2002-10-23 Thread matt johansson
Thats good to know. Where have Macromedia stated that Bruce, i'd like to take a look. cheers Matt Johansson Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions wrote: To my knowledge, Macromedia has repeatedly said they have no objection to projector sharing. Regards, Bruce At 12:01 PM -0400 10/23/02,

Re: Wishlist gloom (Was lingo-l Getting rid of Internal?)

2002-10-23 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 04:56 PM, Robert Tweed wrote: - Original Message - From: Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] On what do you base that assessment? Well, there are no dependencies on casts, as such, as far as I am aware. I think I see what you're saying here; however I

Re: Wishlist gloom (Was lingo-l Getting rid of Internal?)

2002-10-23 Thread Buzz Kettles
At 7:59 PM +0100 10/23/02, you wrote: - Original Message - From: Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are fundamental realities about the Director architecture, and the internal cast is one of them. I think what Buzz is indicating is that it would essentially require a top-down rewrite

lingo-l digital video not working when in external cast

2002-10-23 Thread Michael von Aichberger
Hi list, In a CD-ROM project I had 3 digital video cast members (2 x QT, 1 x MPEG/tabuleiro directmedia) in my internal cast, had them in sprites on the stage, everything worked fine (Win2K, Dir 8.5.1). Now I have to make a hybrid version of the cd-rom. The DirectmediaXtra not being available for

Re: Wishlist gloom (Was lingo-l Getting rid of Internal?)

2002-10-23 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, there are no dependencies on casts, as such, as far as I am aware. I think I see what you're saying here; however I believe it's fair to see Director as needing at least one cast in much the same way as it needs a stage

Re: Wishlist gloom (Was lingo-l Getting rid of Internal?)

2002-10-23 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 06:33 PM, Robert Tweed wrote: That's fine. I never suggested that a movie should have no casts, My misunderstanding then. just that there should be the option to delete the Internal cast after at least one other cast has been added. Or, barring that, to

Re: lingo-l Distressflag (request)

2002-10-23 Thread Randal
At 5:59 PM -0400 10/23/02, Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions wrote: To my knowledge, Macromedia has repeatedly said they have no objection to projector sharing. Regards, Bruce At 12:01 PM -0400 10/23/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even if it's for a good cause, it's technically a license violation

Re: lingo-l Distressflag (request)

2002-10-23 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 07:35 PM, Randal wrote: At 5:59 PM -0400 10/23/02, Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions wrote: To my knowledge, Macromedia has repeatedly said they have no objection to projector sharing. At 12:01 PM -0400 10/23/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even if it's for a

Re: lingo-l Distressflag (request)

2002-10-23 Thread Robert Tweed
Interestingly, there seems to be some disagreement on this, but some interesting legal points have come up... At 5:59 PM -0400 10/23/02, Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions wrote: To my knowledge, Macromedia has repeatedly said they have no objection to projector sharing. To my knowledge, it is

Re: lingo-l Distressflag (request)

2002-10-23 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 08:14 PM, Robert Tweed wrote: Interestingly, there seems to be some disagreement on this, but some interesting legal points have come up... You know, Robert, if you and I keep agreeing on things, we're going to bring about the end of the world. I think

Re: lingo-l Distressflag (request)

2002-10-23 Thread Fumio Nonaka
For your information: (B (B[DIRECT-L] director 8 stub mac (Bhttp://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0104CL=direct-lP=R16754 (B_ (Bmatt johansson wrote: (B (B Thats good to know. Where have Macromedia stated that Bruce, i'd like to take a look. (B (BGood luck, (B (BFumio

Re: lingo-l Dictionary behavior

2002-10-23 Thread Alex da Franca
At 12:53 Uhr -0700 22.10.2002, Buzz Kettles wrote: At 1:45 PM -0500 10/22/02, you wrote: I'm having a great deal of trouble getting a dictionary to work correctly. Here's the scenario... Text cast members at the top of the screen representing the alphabet. User clicks on a letter. A field cast

lingo-l Global vs local

2002-10-23 Thread Shailendra Vijayvergia
Hi all, I want to pass a value from one sprite to another sprite located in another channel. Is there any way to pass this without using global variable, because i don't want to keep that variable other than those two frames. I think sendsprite and sendallsprite works on all sprites located

RE: lingo-l wd3 file to director

2002-10-23 Thread Jamie Dyer
Thanx, That was exactly what I wanted. My next question is this: Is it possible to make the camera move along a path (spline)? and possibly keep it pointed at the same point? Thanx JamieD Jamie Dyer escribió: How do I get all the model's camera's etc. out of an imported w3d file. I want

Re: lingo-l Distressflag (request)

2002-10-23 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
If you search Direct-L archives for posts by John Dowdell you'll probbaly find it. It has come up at least half a dozen times over the years. At 06:43 PM -0400 10/23/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thats good to know. Where have Macromedia stated that Bruce, i'd like to take a look. cheers Matt