RE: lingo-l scriptList vs. scriptInstanceList

2003-11-18 Thread Sathya_Murthy
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Re: lingo-l Oops

2003-11-18 Thread Mathew Ray
Hi Rodrigo, For moving a character around in a tile-based environment, search for resources on pathfinding or a* searches. There are many theoretical approaches for what the cs people call search trees or shortest-path algorithms, but a* is guaranteed to find a solution with the drawback that

lingo-l 'Failure while compositing bitmap member' error message

2003-11-18 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Hi all... -- Hope everyone's having a nice day. Has anyone ever gotten this error message: 'Internal error: Unexpected failure while compositing bitmap member 7 of PLAYER-CAST 1' The technote (http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/sw_error.htm) says it's the result of a

lingo-l HTML and email

2003-11-18 Thread Diego Landro
Dear co-listers, I am working on a Project and i´m facing a problem. In my app i have to send an email through Director. The point is i could not find how to do this. I know i can put a link mailto into Lingo, but that would open my email clien and what i want is to send the mail via

Re: lingo-l Oops

2003-11-18 Thread Martin Pallett
Hi, Elia Morling posted a lingo implementation of A* on dirGames-L some time ago http://www.tildruin.com/sourcecode.asp terms of use and his contact information are on the site and in the download Hope this helps, Martin Pallett At 09:17 18/11/2003 -0500, you wrote: Hi Rodrigo, For moving a

Re: lingo-l HTML and email

2003-11-18 Thread 2702NET
Hi Diego, The only reasonably reliable method is to use the DirectEmail Xtra from www.directxtras.com (there are some other free ways to attack the problem - but I don't recommend them). This is definitely your best bet, but even w/the Xtra you'll need to be aware of Port 25 blocking issues

Re: lingo-l HTML and email

2003-11-18 Thread Troy Rollins
On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 10:40 AM, 2702NET wrote: The only reasonably reliable method is to use the DirectEmail Xtra from www.directxtras.com (there are some other free ways to attack the problem - but I don't recommend them). This is definitely your best bet, but even w/the Xtra

Re: lingo-l 'Failure while compositing bitmap member' error message

2003-11-18 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Nov 18, 2003, at 8:52 AM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Has anyone ever gotten this error message: 'Internal error: Unexpected failure while compositing bitmap member 7 of PLAYER-CAST 1' The technote (http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/sw_error.htm) says it's the result of

RE: lingo-l 'Failure while compositing bitmap member' error message

2003-11-18 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
More accurately I believe it's the result of a corrupted sound *member*. Try getting rid of/replacing that sound. Hi Mr. Howdy-Tzi... OK, I did. And it seems that a wav file imported (standard import) works without error. But, a shockwave audio castmember imported (linked to external file)

Re: lingo-l 'Failure while compositing bitmap member' error message

2003-11-18 Thread Kurt Griffin
Has anyone ever gotten this error message: 'Internal error: Unexpected failure while compositing bitmap member 7 of PLAYER-CAST 1' The technote (http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/sw_error.htm) says it's the result of a sound.playFile command. But when this occurs

Re: lingo-l 'Failure while compositing bitmap member' error message

2003-11-18 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Nov 18, 2003, at 1:20 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: More accurately I believe it's the result of a corrupted sound *member*. Try getting rid of/replacing that sound. Hi Mr. Howdy-Tzi... OK, I did. And it seems that a wav file imported (standard import) works without error. But, a shockwave

Re: lingo-l HTML and email

2003-11-18 Thread Anand Ravi
Dear co-listers, I am working on a Project and i´m facing a problem. In my app i have to send an email through Director. The point is i could not find how to do this. I know i can put a link mailto into Lingo, but that would open my email clien and what i want is to send the mail via Lingo,

Re: lingo-l 'Failure while compositing bitmap member' errormessage

2003-11-18 Thread Anand Ravi
Has anyone ever gotten this error message: 'Internal error: Unexpected failure while compositing bitmap member 7 of PLAYER-CAST 1' The technote (http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/sw_error.htm) says it's the result of a sound.playFile command. But when this

lingo-l dumb question - opening a folder

2003-11-18 Thread Todd Culley
Hello List,   How do you open a folder for browsing with director?  I know how to open a file in Director using fileIO, filextra, fileXtra4, and buddyAPI but I don't see any commands to open just the folder.   There are functions to return a list of folders or files but I just want to open the