RE: scriptList vs. scriptInstanceList

2003-11-18 Thread Sathya_Murthy
Thanks kerry ... regds, sathya. [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 programming Lingo. T

Re: 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

'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 sound.p

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 Lingo

Re: 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: 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 (m

Re: 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 you'

Re: '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 a

RE: '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: '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

Re: '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: 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 Li

Re: '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 com

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 fold

Re: dumb question - opening a folder

2003-11-18 Thread Sean Wilson
How do you open a folder for browsing with director? 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 folder and let the user browse on their own using the Explorer window. Using DirectorMX, WindowsXP Pro Here's

Re: dumb question - opening a folder

2003-11-18 Thread Troy Rollins
On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 07:38 PM, Todd Culley wrote: 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. ?? You use buddy, baGetFile, or baGet

RE: dumb question - opening a folder

2003-11-18 Thread Todd Culley
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RE: dumb question - opening a folder

2003-11-18 Thread Todd Culley
> You use buddy, baGetFile, or baGetFolder... set a "default directory". > The file browser opens. If you use "*.*" as the file type, it shows all > files and folders. Besides that, what more are you trying to do? Like > allow double-clicking to launch a file or something? What do you want > t

Re: dumb question - opening a folder

2003-11-18 Thread Troy Rollins
On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 11:43 PM, Todd Culley wrote: You use buddy, baGetFile, or baGetFolder... set a "default directory". The file browser opens. If you use "*.*" as the file type, it shows all files and folders. Besides that, what more are you trying to do? Like allow double-clicki

Re: dumb question - opening a folder

2003-11-18 Thread Neil
If all you want to do is open up a particular folder on your CD you can use this open "path to your folder" with "explorer.exe" That will open the folder you specify. Try this in the message window. open "c:\" with "explorer.exe" ...Neil but I just want to open the folder and let the user brows

Re: dumb question - opening a folder

2003-11-18 Thread Sean Wilson
Don't forget, you can also get a folder list, and "roll your own" file and folder browser - for instance if the aesthetics of the native Windows one hurts your sensibilities, and blows the "nice interface" you have going. And then you could go nuts and use updatestage's excellent TreeView xtra t