Re: Word problem -not OT-

2004-07-26 Thread Diego Landro
Thanks, guys, for your answers,and Ross, i tried to explain how things go with Director and Microsoft software but you know they don´t always listen to what you say, but ill try your ideas and let you know how they worke out Diego - Original Message - From: "roymeo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To

Re: projector icon formats in OS X

2004-07-26 Thread Tony Bray
I thought there was an icon editing utility in OS X, but I cant find it... Slava Select the file icon and ctrl-Click (or right click) to display the Context Menu. Edit Icon should be the last option in the Menu. HTH [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://ww

Re: Word problem -not OT-

2004-07-26 Thread roymeo
save the word documents as .rtf and read the text with FileIO and set the member().rtf of the text member(s) to that text? roymeo At 03:52 PM 7/26/2004, you wrote: Dear colisters, I´m working on a simpe project which is turning a little more complicated that i thought. I need to creat a CD co

Re: Word problem -not OT-

2004-07-26 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
What about the Word viewer? Not sure if it's available for the later versions of WOrd but I do believe Office 2000 came with a viewer to read Word format. Couldn't you launch your Word document from the CD using that? And if the client is gonna kill you then perhaps you should set him straight on

Re: Word problem -not OT-

2004-07-26 Thread jscript
On the windows platform, you can use activex to display Microsoft Word files, assuming the end user have Microsoft word on their machine. If I remember correctly, the files can be displayed, BUT not editable. Playing with activex controls with Director isn't the easiest thing, so some people pre

Re: Sprite Toolbar vs PI

2004-07-26 Thread Buzz Kettles
At 10:17 AM +1000 7/26/04, you wrote: I'd bet that this doesn't get fixed - the workaround is to easy to access ... :) Heh, and even if it was going to get fixed, do you really want to wait till 2007 *snicker* what happens in 2007? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to diges

Re: Word problem -not OT-

2004-07-26 Thread Troy Rollins
On Jul 26, 2004, at 3:52 PM, Diego Landro wrote: My client does not want to convert files to PDF format and display them with the PDF Xtra, he wants them displayed in a customized UI, so PDF Xtra does nort fit in the category. Impressario will allow you to use PDFs and a custom UI. It's impossibl

Re: misbehaving scrollbar on Mac OS X

2004-07-26 Thread Sean Wilson
The problem I see is that when the text member is given a #scroll boxType, the scrollbar that appears looks like a portion of the normal scrollbar: it has only the up-arrow, and a portion of the slider. While requiring more work to implement, could you use an OSControls scroll bar to replace th

Re: Esc key and exitLock in Dir 10

2004-07-26 Thread Sean Wilson
It seems that even in Dir 10 there's no way to trap the Esc key when exitLock is set to false. I other words, suppose I want to enable the standard OS X ways of quitting the application--the X button and the Quit command in the system menu--but don't want Esc to close the projector. Is there a

Word problem -not OT-

2004-07-26 Thread Diego Landro
Dear colisters, I´m working on a simpe project which is turning a little more complicated that i thought. I need to creat a CD containing various word documents which the user can read, but not modify. The problem im facing is that i can´t find an Xtra that would allow me to read Word documen

Re: Hyperlinks in LDM and stage bleed through

2004-07-26 Thread Jeremy Aker
I think what you want to do is change the cursor not change the cursor of the sprite. -- Set to pointer cursor = 0 -- Set to finger cursor cursor = 280 -Jeremy On Jul 26, 2004, at 11:28 AM, Baker, Geoff wrote: Situation: Text member on stage with a hyperlink which opens an LDM with a hyperlink t

Hyperlinks in LDM and stage bleed through

2004-07-26 Thread Baker, Geoff
Situation: Text member on stage with a hyperlink which opens an LDM with a hyperlink text member. Once the LDM is overtop of the stage text member, the stage's hyperlink bleed's through the LDM (shows the hand cursor)AND the LDM hyperlink fails to show the bloody cursor. The relevant code: on m

Re: misbehaving scrollbar on Mac OS X

2004-07-26 Thread Colin Holgate
The problem I see is that when the text member is given a #scroll boxType, the scrollbar that appears looks like a portion of the normal scrollbar: it has only the up-arrow, and a portion of the slider. I see that too. My work around is to only set the boxType to scroll when there are enough li

Re: baOpenURL() fails for local file in Panther

2004-07-26 Thread Alex da Franca
At 2:02 Uhr -0400 26.07.2004, Slava Paperno wrote: In my movie, both in projector and authoring, baOpenURL() works for remote Web pages ("http:// etc") but fails for a local file. It returns 1 as if the browser was successfully opened, but in fact the browser is closed. This is under OS X 10.3

RE: Dir MX 2004 UI question

2004-07-26 Thread Johan Verhoeven
count me in.. seems to happen on win as on mac.. weird and annoying that one.. (the message window has that same behaviour as well.) J. -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buzz Kettles Verzonden: vrijdag 23 juli 2004 23:48 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onde