Re: lingo-l Three Questions

2003-06-11 Thread pranavn
Answer 1 - Check the Printomatic website to see if it has been updated to run on OSX. Many xtras have yet to be carbonized. Answer 2 - Try the DirectEmail xtra from www.directxtras.com. Answer 3 - I think the DirectConnection xtra lets you check the status of internet connectivity. Again, hit

Re: lingo-l from variable to script

2003-06-11 Thread Anand Ravi
Hi! The easiest thing would be to traverse the list line by line and add the lines to the text member. This way you can format the contents anyway you want. Hope this helps. Regards, Anand Ravi - Original Message - From: Jussi Jokinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

lingo-l French, German, Greek text in the same field.

2003-06-11 Thread Takis Tsougrianis
Hello all, I'm trying to display french, german and greek characters in the same director field and the application has to play in Windows and Mac. I have the text in Microsoft Word(Windows) and it looks fine(using the Arial Unicode font), but when i import it in Director it's giving me problems.

RE: lingo-l from variable to script

2003-06-11 Thread Jussi Jokinen
Thanks for an advice, thought I found another way around. I copy-pasted the text from message window to Word and removed all the line breaks. It's not a perfect one, but it's a solution anyway.. BR, Jussi -Original Message- From: Anand Ravi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11. kesäkuuta

Re: lingo-l French, German, Greek text in the same field.

2003-06-11 Thread Anand Ravi
Hi! The easiest way to do this is to embed the fonts and copy paste the text from word into the Director Text cast member. You will need to reset the font to the embedded font. It works fineI used this mtd to package content in japanese as well as local indian languages. Regards, Anand Ravi

RE: lingo-l French, German, Greek text in the same field.

2003-06-11 Thread Takis Tsougrianis
Thanks for the reply. But i've already done this and the problem is that when i import the font, copy paste the text ane reset to the embedded font then some characters are changed in other wrong characters. It seems like the embedded font does not include all the characters sets for all the

lingo-l : lingo-l French, German, Greek text in the same field.

2003-06-11 Thread Takis Tsougrianis
Let's explain the problem a little bit more. I've got Greek, English, French and German characters to the same field. Setting the Default System Locale(from Control Panel-Regional Settings) to Greek, and embedding the Arial Font then Greek and English characters are working fine but French and

lingo-l (no subject)

2003-06-11 Thread Maurizio Manuzzi
hi Folks, I've a nice problem to be solved in a short time: For a director project underway, the client is asking me, the possibility of addressing and play Two or more different video and two or more audio (stereo) output via different sets of video and audio card sets (qty 2 each), or

RE: lingo-l French, German, Greek text in the same field.

2003-06-11 Thread Kerry Thompson
I'm trying to display french, german and greek characters in the same director field and the application has to play in Windows and Mac. I have the text in Microsoft Word(Windows) and it looks fine(using the Arial Unicode font), but when i import it in Director it's giving me problems. I

Re: lingo-l from variable to script

2003-06-11 Thread mavinson
Jussi, try this ... on ListIO global gList, gNewList gList = [a,b,c] new(#field, member(10)) member(10).name = myList member(myList).text = string(gList) put field contents = member(myList).text gNewList = value(member(myList).text) put new global contents = gNewList put new

Re: lingo-l (no subject)

2003-06-11 Thread grimmwerks
If it's on mac you can use the asio xtra. [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 is for learning and helping with

RE: lingo-l (no subject)

2003-06-11 Thread Kerry Thompson
If it's on mac you can use the asio xtra. That's nice. It'd be even nicer if we knew what you were referring to ^_^ Cordially, Kerry Thompson [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 (no subject)

2003-06-11 Thread Karina Steffens
Have you thought of using external DVDs? You can get a DVD that can hook up to a serial port, and control it via the DirectComm Xtra (available from DirectXtras). It's tricky but not impossible - done it in a previous incarnation.

lingo-l easing equations

2003-06-11 Thread Evan Adelman
I've taken Robert Penner's easing equations, implemented in ActionScript for Flash - http://www.robertpenner.com/easing - and ported many of them to Lingo for use in Director. I've posted a sample movie that I plan on using primarily to test the anim's and select which one I want to use for

RE: lingo-l easing equations

2003-06-11 Thread Kerry Thompson
I've taken Robert Penner's easing equations, implemented in ActionScript for Flash - http://www.robertpenner.com/easing - and ported many of them to Lingo for use in Director. I've posted a sample movie that I plan on using primarily to test the anim's and select which one I want to

RE: lingo-l easing equations

2003-06-11 Thread Jorge Pena
Kerry, I had the same problem and this is how I solved it: In dreamweaver or any other HTML program create a link that points to Evan's URL... then open that file in your browser, right click on the link and select save as... should pop open the file dialog. HTH Jorge -Original

lingo-l MUI Xtra on OSX

2003-06-11 Thread Charlie Fiskeaux II
Has anybody used the MUI Xtra on OSX? I'm trying to port an app I created on Windows to OSX and the MUI is the only thing not working. The Xtra is initialized fine and I set up the dialog, but the initialize() and run() functions don't do anything, as if there's no Xtra really there. It does

RE: lingo-l OT: 'endianness' and FileIO Reading shorts andlongs-

2003-06-11 Thread John Aquilina (JMW)
I'm pretty impressed with fileIO being able to do this stuff. When I get my code working I will be happy to share it. I have a parent script wrapper for fileIO featuring handlers like 'readByte()' 'readCstring()' and (coming soon with your help) 'readShort()' and 'readLong()'. Brennan I

RE: lingo-l easing equations

2003-06-11 Thread Colin Holgate
I can't get at the source, though--going to the .dir file launches the Shockwave animation. I'd love to have the source--I'm sure a lot of us would. What's the procedure to dl it? The procedure should be: copy http://www.evanadelman.com/easing/easingEquations.dir File/Open/Internet paste OK but

Re: lingo-l easing equations

2003-06-11 Thread Bertil Flink
Hmm, no problem with this procedure here: W2K, DMX. Or in IE; right click on the mail link save. Bertil Flink Creative Media - Original Message - From: Colin Holgate [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 6:27 PM Subject: RE: lingo-l easing equations

RE: lingo-l easing equations

2003-06-11 Thread mavinson
Kerry, couple of ways to snag .dir's from a browser (IE 6.0, in this case) 1 - c:\Documents and Settings\_your_user_name_\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\easingEquations.dir 2 - (a little goofy but...) follow the link, hit reload button, then use file - save as ... --mv PS - very nice

Re: RE: lingo-l easing equations

2003-06-11 Thread Rob Romanek
Even easier... open director, select the open command, hit the internet button on the lower right, put in the url for the dir, wait a bit... and there you have it open in director just save to your hard drive -Rob 11/06/2003 12:19:35 PM, Jorge Pena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kerry, I had the

Re: lingo-l easing equations

2003-06-11 Thread Evan Adelman
yup - or you can grab the zipped file i just posted: http://www.evanadelman.com/easing/easing.zip Jorge Pena wrote: Kerry, I had the same problem and this is how I solved it: In dreamweaver or any other HTML program create a link that points to Evan's URL... then open that file in your

Re: lingo-l MUI Xtra on OSX

2003-06-11 Thread Tom Jacobs
Charlie, It works for me on OS X. Make sure you've got the correct Mui Dialog xtra in your Xtras folder. Do a get info on it; for OS X it should be version 9.0r383 (instead of 8.5.1r102 which is the Classic version). Tom On 6/11/03 at 12:24 PM, Charlie Fiskeaux II shared the following: Has

RE: lingo-l easing equations

2003-06-11 Thread Colin Holgate
copy http://www.evanadelman.com/easing/easingEquations.dir File/Open/Internet paste OK Thanks, Colin--that procedure worked for me. I got it with D MX on Win XP. Curiously, after doing the go movie way, the File Open way then worked. Any chance the file changed in the last half hour? [To

Re: lingo-l MUI Xtra on OSX

2003-06-11 Thread Tab Julius
Works fine for me - just tried a quick fileOpen, and then an alert with an alert list. Didn't try building a whole one from scratch, though. Does your same code work properly in D8.5? At 12:24 PM 6/11/03, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: Has anybody used the MUI Xtra on OSX? I'm trying to port

Re: lingo-l easing equations

2003-06-11 Thread Carl West
Colin Holgate wrote: Hmm, no problem with this procedure here: W2K, DMX. Not sure why the File Open way didn't work, but a way that does work is to type this in the message window: go movie http://www.evanadelman.com/easing/easingEquations.dir; Heehee, too slick! Love it. I simply

Re: lingo-l easing equations

2003-06-11 Thread Evan Adelman
i apparently have the slowest posts in the world. an hour after i hit send, the mssg comes into my client, so here's my hour delayed response: nope - just added easing.zip to the folder. it contains the dcr, html, dir files. glad everyone's enjoying -- warm fuzzies all around :-) -evan

RE: lingo-l easing equations

2003-06-11 Thread Buzz Kettles
worked for me in d8.5 mac At 12:27 PM -0400 6/11/03, you wrote: I can't get at the source, though--going to the .dir file launches the Shockwave animation. I'd love to have the source--I'm sure a lot of us would. What's the procedure to dl it? The procedure should be: copy

RE: lingo-l easing equations

2003-06-11 Thread Buzz Kettles
At 1:03 PM -0400 6/11/03, you wrote: copy http://www.evanadelman.com/easing/easingEquations.dir File/Open/Internet paste OK Thanks, Colin--that procedure worked for me. I got it with D MX on Win XP. Curiously, after doing the go movie way, the File Open way then worked. Any chance the file

Re: lingo-l MUI Xtra on OSX

2003-06-11 Thread Charlie Fiskeaux II
I had the same problems in 8.5, and I double checked the Xtra version, and it is the MX xtra. Here's the code I'm using to build the dialog box. It works fine on Windows: gMUI=0 gMUI=xtra(MUI).new() lwindow=gMUI.GetWindowPropList() lwindow.name=Programs lwindow.callback=chooseProgramCallback

Re: lingo-l MUI Xtra on OSX

2003-06-11 Thread Charlie Fiskeaux II
I forgot to add that gProgramList that's duplicated below is a list of strings. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Charlie Fiskeaux II [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: lingo-l MUI Xtra on OSX

2003-06-11 Thread Sean Wilson
I had the same problems in 8.5, and I double checked the Xtra version, and it is the MX xtra. Here's the code I'm using to build the dialog box. It works fine on Windows: In your windowPropList you don't specify anything for the modality of the dialog. In my experience, run() expects the

Re: lingo-l French, German, Greek text in the same field.

2003-06-11 Thread Anand Ravi
I'm trying to display french, german and greek characters in the same director field and the application has to play in Windows and Mac. I have the text in Microsoft Word(Windows) and it looks fine(using the Arial Unicode font), but when i import it in Director it's giving me problems. I

RE: lingo-l French, German, Greek text in the same field.

2003-06-11 Thread Kerry Thompson
Another way to accomplish this is to embed the text in flash and import the flash movies. Flash supports unicode text. I am not sure if Flash 5 supports unicode though. Have you done that successfully, Anand, with characters beyond the ISO 8859.1 range? My understanding is that it won't work