Child objects and the scriptInstanceList

2003-02-07 Thread Eric Greene
Thanks for the help guys. I was able to get back at it today and I found that I'd put the lines in the wrong order. My line 'add Sprite(pThisSpriteNum).scriptInstanceList, me' sent pThisSpriteNum = VOID and so Director attached the behavior to Sprite 0. I had my watcher looking at Sprite(pThisSpri

Re: projecter running very slow from cd.

2003-02-07 Thread Javier R. Buzzalino
First of all, sorry of mi English speach. I'm from Argentina and I speak a little English. I recommend you to put a pre-loader in the frame 1 of the stage. Here you make in flash or anywhere a .swf where you tell the user that the application is loading. Meanwhile, in the first frame's script you

Re: director books

2003-02-07 Thread Fabrice Closier
oo?? Great! Fabrice On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 11:52 PM, Buzz Kettles wrote: At 8:41 PM +0100 2/5/03, you wrote: I've started learning 3d in director with Phil Gross's book. got all i needed to know in the book. even if its quite a big one, found it not big enough on certain issue

Re: director books

2003-02-07 Thread Buzz Kettles
At 8:41 PM +0100 2/5/03, you wrote: I've started learning 3d in director with Phil Gross's book. got all i needed to know in the book. even if its quite a big one, found it not big enough on certain issues, if Phil's planning to expend it, i'll certainly wil buy the sequel. I understand that he

Re: fader hardware that works with Director

2003-02-07 Thread grimmwerks
I don't know of any - I think you're going to be hard pressed to find one unifed piece. I'm guessing OMS/Midi xtra on os9, what you've got for win...and hell if I know what could do it with X other than the OS's coremidi stuff. I don't think there is a midi xtra for X which brings us to a differen

fader hardware that works with Director

2003-02-07 Thread Charlie Fiskeaux II
Along similar lines of the recent barcode scanner discussion, I'm looking for external fader hardware with 16 channels to be used as an audio mixing board with a piece of software I'm developing. I've discovered some that have MIDI output that I can use with the MIDI Xtra on the mac, and use with

Re: director books

2003-02-07 Thread Fabrice Closier
i'am reading right now; OOP with As by S.Wan and Branden Hall. Also great, Colin Moock AS... bu there are tons of great FlashMX books just peek at your level, there is one for every step. Fabrice On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 05:24 PM, Quixadá wrote: hi, guys thanks to all who answered my qu

Re: value or reference?

2003-02-07 Thread Slava Paperno
Many thanks to everyone who responded. It was all very helpful, and Tab's write-up was especially educating; you can tell he's an author and a teacher :-) Slava At 05:03 AM 2/7/03 -0500, you wrote: They're not different. They do behave the same. Test =[#a : ["a", "b"]] Test1 = Test[#a]

Re: director books

2003-02-07 Thread Pixelchurch New Media
I'm using Kerman's ActionScripting in Flash MX (New Riders) - v. good. A - Original Message - From: "Quixadá" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 6:24 PM Subject: Re: director books > hi, guys > thanks to all who answered my question. i´ll get bot

Re: barcode reader and other devices

2003-02-07 Thread roy crisman
Sure you can. Just get someone to program an activeX bit and pop that into Director. My current kiosk is interacting with a digital camera, proprietary printing services set up, and proprietary rendering engine via ActiveX. roymeo At 12:49 PM 2/6/2003 -0200, you wrote: Does anyone knows if i

Re: projecter running very slow from cd.

2003-02-07 Thread Tab Julius
Two things. First, you don't say at what point it's slow. Do you mean at startup? If so, do NOT bundle your Xtras into your executable. Instead have them exist ON the CD under the projector in an Xtras folder. Otherwise it will spend a good 30 to 60 seconds on a slow machine trying to unpa

Re: director books

2003-02-07 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 10:24 AM, Quixadá wrote: thanks to all who answered my question. i´ll get both. and btw, if you could recommend a good book for flash mx actionscript, i´d be more thankful. Colin Moock's _ActionScript: The Definitive Guide_ from O'Reilly. Warren O

Re: projecter running very slow from cd.

2003-02-07 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 11:38 PM, nitin sharma wrote: my friend working on a cd persentation. when he run it directly by computer its work fine but when it run from cd it takes 50 and 60 secs any idea. Slow loading projectors off CD are pretty common, actually. There's a technote som

Re: director books

2003-02-07 Thread Quixadá
hi, guys thanks to all who answered my question. i´ll get both. and btw, if you could recommend a good book for flash mx actionscript, i´d be more thankful. regards, q [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

Re: barcode reader and other devices

2003-02-07 Thread Cole Tierney
crumbs! thats pretty cool. Can you connect a GPS unit to the USB port? I think the USB device would need to be designed to behave as a keyboard. -- Cole [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: Default to Direct to Stage

2003-02-07 Thread Colin Holgate
Is there any way to tell Director to automatically place flash and quicktime sprites as Direct to Stage. It's getting really annoying to have to re-check that every time I re-import a movie. QuickTime usually is DTS (at least it should stay at what you had it at, and be DTS if you never set i

Protecting external assets

2003-02-07 Thread Alexandre Cop
Hi all, I'm sure this question has been around before. One of our products is using external assets (pictures, audio, video, Flash) and links to them when opening the course. We are currently protecting them by encrypting the file, so that it cannot be reused by unlicensed parties. However, on la

RE: Slightly OT: Detecting Codec

2003-02-07 Thread Chris Aernoudt
>I believe MS discontinued distributing it with WinXP. Not true. But it is not included in nt4 for sure, possibly even non updated win98 & 95 machines. It's definitely not safe to assume it will be there. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penwork

Flash flicker

2003-02-07 Thread Kyle Smeby
Anyone know how to eliminate the flicker of a flash sprite when it shows up on screen? I have a matching bitmap underneath it which takes care of it on the Mac, but on Windows (XP at least) the sprite itself seems to flash white or something. It's set to Direct to Stage, although I tried it t

Re: value or reference?

2003-02-07 Thread Tab Julius
They're not different. They do behave the same. Test =[#a : ["a", "b"]] Test1 = Test[#a] put Test1 -- ["a", "b"] At this stage, Test1 points to the list ["a", "b"]. That particular list exists somewhere in the ether, and is referenced by two objects - one is 'Test' (where it is part

Re: value or reference?

2003-02-07 Thread Buzz Kettles
Assignment of a list does a reference (link) unless you use duplicate. The reason Number 1 'works' is because you changed the link that gets assigned to Test1. If you want Test1 to contain a copy of ["a", "b"], then you need to use .duplicate hth -Buzz At 12:19 AM -0500 2/7/03, you wrote: A L