Re: lingo-l horizontal scrolling

2004-08-20 Thread 2702NET
On Friday, Aug 20, 2004, at 16:58 US/Eastern, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not with scrollbars, but like this: Sorry...Michael, missed this part. [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

Re: lingo-l horizontal scrolling

2004-08-20 Thread 2702NET
On Friday, Aug 20, 2004, at 16:58 US/Eastern, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried #adjust, #scroll, #fixed but none of those worked in the way mentioned above. However I recall having seen this behaviour in Lingo text fields before. Can anybody help? Thanks Michael Hear ya

Re: lingo-l horizontal scrolling

2004-08-20 Thread 2702NET
On Friday, Aug 20, 2004, at 16:58 US/Eastern, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried #adjust, #scroll, #fixed but none of those worked in the way mentioned above. However I recall having seen this behaviour in Lingo text fields before. Can anybody help? Thanks Michael ...and this behavior

Re: lingo-l duplicate cast members

2004-08-16 Thread 2702NET
On Monday, Aug 16, 2004, at 12:50 US/Eastern, Buzz Kettles wrote: I've been bitten by the cmd-S/D issue more times than I'd like to remember - it's a real annoyance. The worst is when you accidentally duplicate a movie script...then find yourself inadvertently editing the wrong one. You're

Re: lingo-l duplicate cast members

2004-08-16 Thread 2702NET
On Monday, Aug 16, 2004, at 14:12 US/Eastern, Buzz Kettles wrote: cmd-opt-D is now the way to get Delete if I want it to override, I selected the cast window menu item, but then changed the string in the QK dialog to be 'cmd-D', so when QKs fails to match it posts an error dialog = Cannot find

Re: lingo-l Multiple copies of director

2004-08-13 Thread 2702NET
On Friday, Aug 13, 2004, at 08:10 US/Eastern, Ross Clutterbuck wrote: Hi Tim I've never had any problems at all other than the file associations as you've mentioned. In fact I've got 8, 8.5, MX and MX2004 all installed and the only problem I've ever encountered is the application icon for MX and

lingo-l OOT: Xtra Custom Development (Audio TSM)

2004-08-13 Thread 2702NET
Hi Folks, Sorry for the off_off_topic posting. If anyone listening is willing and able to develop an Xtra for real-time Time Scale Modification of audio (or other workable solution e.g. Shared Libraries) please contact me off list. Target platform is Mac OS X. TIA, Joe [To remove yourself from

Re: lingo-l FIXED - WatcherHelper/UiHelper wirdness

2004-08-09 Thread 2702NET
On Monday, Aug 9, 2004, at 02:44 US/Eastern, Sébastien Portebois wrote: This is only a blind guess, but are youreally sure that your new (moved) idel handler really gets called? Indeed a possible eplanation of what happens is that you have an other 'on idle' handler, in a script after the very

Re: lingo-l WatcherHelper (UIhelper)

2004-08-08 Thread 2702NET
On Sunday, Aug 8, 2004, at 23:37 US/Eastern, Troy Rollins wrote: You need to manually put UIhelper in your projector's xtras folder. Ah, Troy...was hoping against hope you'd be awake and respond (I saw all of your related posts on Direct-L). I have WatcherHelper PPC Xtra in my projector's Xtras

Re: lingo-l WatcherHelper (UIhelper)

2004-08-08 Thread 2702NET
On Sunday, Aug 8, 2004, at 23:55 US/Eastern, Troy Rollins wrote: As I recall, I needed UIhelper to make it work. I suspect the sleep method moved around a bit as to which xtra it was included in. Try it with UIHelper in the projector's xtras folder. Ah...since UIhelper is gone...pull it from an

Re: lingo-l WatcherHelper (UIhelper)

2004-08-08 Thread 2702NET
On Monday, Aug 9, 2004, at 00:11 US/Eastern, Troy Rollins wrote: OK. It varies over platforms and versions. Is WatcherHelper manually placed in the Xtras folder? Hi Troy, Yep, WatcherHelper PPC Xtra is in there. Gilles [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

lingo-l WatcherHelper/UiHelper wirdness

2004-08-08 Thread 2702NET
Hi Troy, Here's something even weirder... sleep and other 'UIhelper functions like (getdate()) work fine from the message window...the error gets thrown when I try to use sleep in the 'on idle' handler. Hm. Flummoxed, Gilles [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l FIXED - WatcherHelper/UiHelper wirdness

2004-08-08 Thread 2702NET
down to the bottom again just to confirm and, sure enough, that was it. Seems weird and wrong. Perhaps I'm missing something. At least it's working now. Gilles On Monday, Aug 9, 2004, at 00:35 US/Eastern, 2702NET wrote: Hi Troy, Here's something even weirder... sleep and other 'UIhelper

Re: lingo-l FIXED - WatcherHelper/UiHelper wirdness

2004-08-08 Thread 2702NET
On Monday, Aug 9, 2004, at 00:59 US/Eastern, Troy Rollins wrote: That's the first I've heard of that one. Ah well, sometimes asking why just isn't worth it. ;-) I hear ya brother. Sounds like you found the workaround. Yes...and I now see what everybody's been talkin' 'bout. Been watching my app

Re: lingo-l Director Multilingual IDE

2004-07-28 Thread 2702NET
On Wednesday, Jul 28, 2004, at 12:08 US/Eastern, Kerry Thompson wrote: With a few exceptions, all Western European languages use the same character set, ANSI or ISO 8859.1 Hi Kerry, Norwegian included in this as well? Thanks, Gilles [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode,

Re: lingo-l Director Multilingual IDE

2004-07-28 Thread 2702NET
On Wednesday, Jul 28, 2004, at 13:04 US/Eastern, Kerry Thompson wrote: Norwegian included in this as well? Yes ^_^ Excellent...thanks Kerry. That'll save me a bit of trouble. Gilles [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post

Re: lingo-l clipboard xtra news

2004-06-02 Thread 2702NET
On Tuesday, Jun 1, 2004, at 22:35 US/Eastern, Valentin Schmidt wrote: And I've started to work on a mac version. Super. Thanks Valentin. Gilles [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

Re: lingo-l Shell Xtra

2004-05-28 Thread 2702NET
Likewise here. Thanks Valentin. Gilles On Friday, May 28, 2004, at 11:27 US/Eastern, Florian Bogeschdorfer wrote: I will donate you when the project is done. [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,

lingo-l zScript Xtra

2004-05-28 Thread 2702NET
Hi Folks, Sorry to ask this here on the list, but I can't get through to the vendor and know some of you are using zScript Xtra from Zeus Prod. (Bruce Epstein). I have the sample movie that came w/my registered version but can't seem to find any documentation. Is there any? (The site says

lingo-l zScript docs

2004-05-28 Thread 2702NET
Hallo, Never mind...I found the V1.4 doc. Gilles [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 zScript Xtra

2004-05-28 Thread 2702NET
Hi Colin, Nah, unfortunately it's not shipped w/the new OS X version. Looks like they're working on new docs. For the moment, I've located and will use the V1.4 doc. Joe On Friday, May 28, 2004, at 17:59 US/Eastern, Colin Holgate wrote: Sorry to ask this here on the list, but I can't get

Re: lingo-l Shell Xtra

2004-05-27 Thread 2702NET
Hi Valentin, Nice that you're developing this...potentially very handy. This is right in line w/a project I'm working on at the moment...so I can do some real world banging on it. I'll contact you w/any results offline. Thanks, Gilles On Thursday, May 27, 2004, at 10:34 US/Eastern, Valentin

Re: lingo-l OS X permissions issue? - projector -- launch app (OK) -- app to write txt file (NOT OK)

2004-05-25 Thread 2702NET
It's major text processing stuff - perfect Perl job. For me, at least, it'd be much harder (if possible) to do it in AppleScript. Probably even possible to do a native-lingo version but that'd be many more lines of codes and maybe (almost certainly) slower. I'm around the permissions thing

lingo-l [Slightly OT]: Projector launching mini app/permissions (Mac OS X/Unix)

2004-05-24 Thread 2702NET
Hi Folks, Slightly off topic - but I know there are some Mac OS X/Unix Jockeys out there who might be able to help with this/point me in the right direction. Here's the situation: I have a little mini app (not written in Lingo) that I am launching from a Mac OS X projector (DirMX[9]/Mac OS X

lingo-l OS X permissions issue? - projector -- launch app (OK) -- app to write txt file (NOT OK)

2004-05-24 Thread 2702NET
Hi Folks, I'm tying my luck w/this posting again...removed the Slightly OT prepended earlier in hopes of getting a taker. After seeing Kerry's permissions-related postings of earlier today, thought this might be in a similar vein...perhaps the experts might shine a little light this way.

Re: lingo-l [x-post] How do I get the metadata of a PowerPointPresentation?

2004-05-13 Thread 2702NET
Hi Alex, This is just off the cuff - but have you looked into using BinaryIO Xtra from updateStage i.e. reading this information from the PowerPoint file directly? You would need the PowerPoint file specification which I assume is publicly available. Gilles On Thursday, May 13, 2004, at

lingo-l charToNum() on very large string

2004-05-01 Thread 2702NET
Hi Folks, I need to grab ASCII codes for chars in a very large string and drop those codes into a list. At the moment, I'm doing the obvious and simple i.e. looping to the number of chars in the big string and returning the code for each char retrieved with charToNum() then appending the code

Re: lingo-l charToNum() on very large string

2004-05-01 Thread 2702NET
. Regards, Daniel On May 1, 2004, at 1:32 AM, 2702NET wrote: Hi Folks, I need to grab ASCII codes for chars in a very large string and drop those codes into a list. At the moment, I'm doing the obvious and simple i.e. looping to the number of chars in the big string and returning the code for each

Re: lingo-l charToNum() on very large string

2004-05-01 Thread 2702NET
Hi Colin, The biggest are about 7 bytes/characters...in one session there may be as many as 10 or 20 of these files to import and convert. Speed in the conversion is essential. Overnight, I've adjusted my code so that bytes from the files are read in (and converted) in 5000 byte chunks.

Re: lingo-l charToNum() on very large string

2004-05-01 Thread 2702NET
On Saturday, May 1, 2004, at 06:16 US/Eastern, Tab Julius wrote: Well, unless the string is changing in size right under your nose, you don't need to calculate the number of chars every single time. That's one small optimization you can do... numChars =the number of chars in reallyBigString

Re: lingo-l charToNum() on very large string

2004-05-01 Thread 2702NET
Whoa Nellie...that made a pretty noticeable difference. On Saturday, May 1, 2004, at 10:15 US/Eastern, 2702NET wrote: Well, unless the string is changing in size right under your nose, you don't need to calculate the number of chars every single time. That's one small optimization you can do

Re: lingo-l charToNum() on very large string

2004-05-01 Thread 2702NET
Hi Slava, No, unfortunately, I'm writing to a specification. I'm not doing the encryption...just the decryption. Normally I just use DirectOS or Vlist Xtras for that. On Saturday, May 1, 2004, at 10:40 US/Eastern, Slava Paperno wrote: Are you at liberty to use other encryption schemes that

Re: lingo-l charToNum() on very large string

2004-05-01 Thread 2702NET
Ultimately, I guess I'll probably look at cooking something up in RealBasic and launching that from my projector. It'd be nice to make it work natively in Lingo though. On Saturday, May 1, 2004, at 10:40 US/Eastern, Slava Paperno wrote: Are you at liberty to use other encryption schemes that

Re: lingo-l charToNum() on very large string

2004-05-01 Thread 2702NET
Finally got some sleep...woke up to get a glass of water...shuffled over to the computer to check email and Wow, what a nice surprise. I'm going to try dropping it in now. Thanks, Gilles On Saturday, May 1, 2004, at 15:25 US/Eastern, Colin Holgate wrote: I added this to your routine: As

Re: lingo-l charToNum() on very large string

2004-05-01 Thread 2702NET
of getting through a big string. Gilles On Saturday, May 1, 2004, at 11:32 US/Eastern, Troy Rollins wrote: On May 1, 2004, at 11:07 AM, 2702NET wrote: Ultimately, I guess I'll probably look at cooking something up in RealBasic and launching that from my projector. It'd be nice to make it work

Re: lingo-l charToNum() on very large string

2004-05-01 Thread 2702NET
Perfect!...I'll keep the chunks to that size. Thanks again Colin, Gilles On Saturday, May 1, 2004, at 16:24 US/Eastern, Colin Holgate wrote: and Wow, what a nice surprise. I'm going to try dropping it in now. To save you some time, the sweet spot seemed to be about 220 character chunks.

Re: lingo-l charToNum() on very large string

2004-05-01 Thread 2702NET
Thanks Buzz. Cool idea. #1 building a limited-size string-driven proplist that contains all 256 chars their charToNums(). (then the overhead for of the function calls is limited and DONE) What do you mean when you say limited-size? Won't the above prebuilt propList always be the same size?

Re: lingo-l charToNum() on very large string

2004-05-01 Thread 2702NET
Duh...never mind. sheepishly I've parsed it. You meant limited size as opposed to the arbitrary (most often large) sized list of charToNum values we were building before got it, Gilles On Saturday, May 1, 2004, at 17:33 US/Eastern, 2702NET wrote: #1 building a limited-size string-driven

Re: lingo-l charToNum() on very large string

2004-05-01 Thread 2702NET
Hi Buzz, You method - defying all logic (at least *my* logic) - is actually a good deal slower than calling the charToNum() function for each loop. It's about 3 times slower. Tried it a few times just to be sure. Gilles On Saturday, May 1, 2004, at 17:12 US/Eastern, Buzz Kettles wrote: I

Re: lingo-l charToNum() on very large string

2004-05-01 Thread 2702NET
Didn't see this until after I posted... Yep. On Saturday, May 1, 2004, at 18:06 US/Eastern, Colin Holgate wrote: #2 Use Colin's first-char approach to grab each char then use that as an index into the prooList to get it's charToNum() That wasn't my idea, but even so, the lookup table only

lingo-l decimal to binary conversion...

2004-04-28 Thread 2702NET
Hi all, Anyone have code for decimal to binary conversion you wouldn't mind posting? TIA, J [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]).

Re: lingo-l decimal to binary conversion...

2004-04-28 Thread 2702NET
Actually, Chuck...thanks, I think this'll do just fine. Thanks also Daniel for the response, I'll check your code out too. Gratefully, Joe On Wednesday, Apr 28, 2004, at 09:41 US/Eastern, Chuck Neal wrote: This is old and not really optimized, but may be what you want... [To remove yourself

Re: lingo-l decimal to binary conversion...

2004-04-28 Thread 2702NET
: On 28/4/04 12:23 pm, 2702NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have code for decimal to binary conversion you wouldn't mind posting? Hi J, This is about 30% faster than other leading brands :-) Cheers James

Re: lingo-l OS X Xtra to call UNIX shell?

2004-04-13 Thread 2702NET
Being able to invoke shell scripts from lingo would also make it possible for developers to extend Director with the C language and generic tools, instead of being forced to learn all the complexities of Macromedia's open architecture with CodeWarrior and/or Visual Studio (the only two

Re: lingo-l OS X Xtra to call UNIX shell?

2004-04-12 Thread 2702NET
Hi Brennan, How about an apple script executable (containing 'do shell script') which you can launch from your projector? J On Monday, Apr 12, 2004, at 05:37 US/Eastern, Brennan wrote: Hi folks, Does anyone know if there's an Xtra available which will allow us to make shell commands under

Re: lingo-l OS X Xtra to call UNIX shell?

2004-04-12 Thread 2702NET
, 2004, at 15:15 US/Eastern, Brennan wrote: On 12/4/04 at 10:06, 2702NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about an apple script executable (containing 'do shell script') which you can launch from your projector? How would I pass data to the applescript app? Text files? The clipboard? Ugh. It's doable

Re: lingo-l Merits of JS in Director

2004-02-12 Thread 2702NET
Hi Ross, You make some interesting points here...however, just wanted to mention for the record that you have the same RegEx power with Lingo using the free PRegEx Xtra (thanks to Thorman Singh) - w/which you can even use shorthand, Perl-ish syntax...so the RegEx stuff is not really new or

Re: lingo-l Merits of JS in Director

2004-02-12 Thread 2702NET
Ah, you're right...good point...it's not. J On Thursday, Feb 12, 2004, at 13:18 US/Eastern, grimmwerks wrote: Ah, but is the PregEx shockwave as well? On 2/12/04 12:57 PM, 2702NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Hi Ross, You make some interesting points here...however, just wanted

Re: lingo-l PC System Information

2004-02-10 Thread 2702NET
You can return all this information with DirectOS Xtra (www.directxtras.com)...also, check the lexicon for native Lingo for returning memory info (the freeBytes, etc.). You'll be able to return an *approximate* processor speed with DirectOS Xtra...but there'll be a slight variation for this

Re: lingo-l os x command line

2003-12-18 Thread 2702NET
Hi Thor, There is an Xtra which you can use to call Java classes... The Moka Xtra: http://www.integrationnewmedia.com/ However, for something so simple as what you'd like to do AppleScript, would be the way to go, right?...or maybe AppleScript and a shell script. J On Thursday, Dec 18,

Re: lingo-l Script window flushing

2003-12-05 Thread 2702NET
You can't, in my experience...I think saving and then relaunching works for me...but there's nothing else you can do AFAIK. J On Friday, Dec 5, 2003, at 16:07 US/Eastern, Peter Bochan wrote: Hi, Just a quick question: when working with big scripts how do I get rid of constant flushing (or

Re: lingo-l Script window flushing

2003-12-05 Thread 2702NET
Well, yeah...turning off syntax hiliting does the trick...but I find I rely pretty heavily on syntax hiliting. On Friday, Dec 5, 2003, at 18:14 US/Eastern, Warren Ockrassa wrote: Try turning off syntax hiliting and/or line numb [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go

Re: AW: lingo-l Sound recognition and comparison

2003-11-26 Thread 2702NET
On Wednesday, Nov 26, 2003, at 19:56 US/Eastern, Buzz Kettles wrote: right - as I said, it only measures volume ... -- ..and only at the input. It doesn't work on files, right? J [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To

Re: lingo-l HTML and email

2003-11-20 Thread 2702NET
Landro - Original Message - From: 2702NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 1:32 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l HTML and email Hi Diego, Yeah, you can have them enter their own mail server...just keep in mind (depending on your audience) some may

Re: lingo-l HTML and email

2003-11-19 Thread 2702NET
Actually, the name of the sender account is not the biggest issue...it's the *mailserver* being used to relay the mail that will getcha. Many ISPs require you to use their mailserver and only their mailserver. So, it might work fine on your own machine (since your mailserver, whatever it is,

Re: lingo-l HTML and email

2003-11-19 Thread 2702NET
Hi Diego, Yeah, you can have them enter their own mail server...just keep in mind (depending on your audience) some may not know their mail server. J On Wednesday, Nov 19, 2003, at 11:29 US/Eastern, Diego Landro wrote: Now i get the point, thanks 2702Net, though i have a valid email account

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 Autorun

2003-09-24 Thread 2702NET
Also, if your user is on a (Windows) LAN/corporate network, autorun is probably turned off for security reasons i.e. as I remember, unless you have administrator privileges under 2000 XP, autorun will be OFF. So, users w/o administrator privileges won't be able to do anything about the

Re: lingo-l Was: Prob w/key commands. Solved...well kind of

2003-08-18 Thread 2702NET
. On Monday, Aug 18, 2003, at 03:05 US/Eastern, Alex da Franca wrote: At 23:50 Uhr -0400 17.08.2003, 2702NET wrote: After looking around a bit more on the web and seeing instances of similar difficulties, I employed the oft recommended fix of removing and installing the menu. AFAIK you'll be out of luck

Re: lingo-l Was: Prob w/key commands. Solved...well kind of

2003-08-18 Thread 2702NET
Hi Alex, Thanks, that sounds like a plan. It''s a pain in the butt...but it's a plan. :-) If there are better solutions, I haven't been able to think of 'em. Cheers, J On Monday, Aug 18, 2003, at 07:01 US/Eastern, Alex da Franca wrote: At 3:31 Uhr -0400 18.08.2003, 2702NET wrote: Maybe I'm

Re: lingo-l Prob w/key commands w/install menu

2003-08-18 Thread 2702NET
Hi Daniel, I'm developing on Win 2000, where the problem is easily repeatable...but it's also happening on Win XP. Still need to test properly on Mac 9 X. I'll prob give The Logo Creator a try here today...however, keep in mind that I've been able to open forget MIAWs at least a couple of

Re: lingo-l Was: Prob w/key commands. Solved...well kind of

2003-08-18 Thread 2702NET
Right. That *does* still hold true in the current version...which is why I didn't see any solution earlier. On Monday, Aug 18, 2003, at 12:51 US/Eastern, Cole Tierney wrote: Be aware that the menu will absorb all command control key combo presses. Maybe this has changed in resent versions.

lingo-l Prob w/key commands w/install menu

2003-08-17 Thread 2702NET
Hi All, I've some installed menus (using installMenu) which include key commands. Key commands work fine until a MIAW is opened and then forgotten. After the MIAW has been opened and forgotten key, commands no longer work with the projector. Anybody have experience w/this? What am I doing

lingo-l Was: Prob w/key commands. Solved...well kind of

2003-08-17 Thread 2702NET
Hi Dan, I've got a solution...well kind of. It's clunky and unattractive but it's working. This is definitely a Director quirk that spans MX and recent (heh...and not so recent) Dir. versions across all platforms. After looking around a bit more on the web and seeing instances of similar

lingo-l Macromedia Breeze - response

2003-07-17 Thread 2702NET
Well, it might not be so cut and dry...though I'll agree that anyone that's in the multimedia consulting/contracting biz might prefer different wording. First, we have to grow and evolve as the products do...if Macromedia is selling a product that makes the deployment of simple Power Point

Re: lingo-l Regex xtra osx?

2003-06-24 Thread 2702NET
On Tuesday, Jun 24, 2003, at 20:47 US/Eastern, g schafer wrote: Where's the regular expressions xtra again, http://openxtras.org/pregex/ and is it osx? Yes [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,

Re: lingo-l Regex xtra osx?

2003-06-24 Thread 2702NET
BTW, the 'Table O' Products' maintained by Gretchen Macdowall is a great place to check for Xtras. Find it here: http://www.updatestage.com/products_table.html On Tuesday, Jun 24, 2003, at 20:47 US/Eastern, g schafer wrote: Where's the regular expressions xtra again, and is it osx? [To

Re: lingo-l Including Flash asset

2003-06-09 Thread 2702NET
You're better off storing your Xtras - including the Flash Asset Xtra - outside of the projector in an Xtras folder. This is generally regarded as the professional way to do it. Should also solve the Vector shape problem. HTH, J On Monday, Jun 9, 2003, at 09:29 US/Eastern, Jussi Jokinen

Re: lingo-l Authorware/Flash/Director job op in Arlington, VA

2003-06-07 Thread 2702NET
http://www.rhassociates.com/scorm.htm On Saturday, Jun 7, 2003, at 11:18 US/Eastern, Joshua Race wrote: What the heck is a SCORM compliant environment??? [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,

Re: lingo-l GetPixel() to compare colors

2003-06-06 Thread 2702NET
BTW, if you don't have James' book I highly recommend it. Plenty of nice imaging lingo stuff. Kerry's and Gretchen's reviews at Amazon say it all. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0072132655/104-9270019- 9338345?vi=glance Joe On Thursday, Jun 5, 2003, at 12:01 US/Eastern,

Re: lingo-l [XPOST] Director Product survey

2003-03-28 Thread 2702NET
'cept a follow up message confirming the survey was sent by Kraig Mentor at MM...no? On Friday, Mar 28, 2003, at 02:21 US/Eastern, Mayuresh wrote: I think MM would have hosted such a survey themselves because using something like this just seems a tad bit unprofessional. -- [To remove yourself

Re: lingo-l icon question

2003-02-27 Thread 2702NET
My favorite is Versiown from Goldshell. I've just used it recently under MX and distributed for 98,XP,2000...no problems yet. HTH, Joe On Thursday, Feb 27, 2003, at 15:35 US/Eastern, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the best way of changing icons for a pc projector? I've used microangelo in

Re: lingo-l was: Director TrueType support?...now: nevermind

2003-02-21 Thread 2702NET
Hi Javier, Thanks! I did end up going with the Flash text sprite. So far so good. J On Thursday, Feb 20, 2003, at 21:02 US/Eastern, Javier R. Buzzalino wrote: I think you should put all your texts in Flash, and when you are ready, you select the text and click in the option Break Apart

Re: lingo-l Director on Os X

2003-02-11 Thread 2702NET
Under Mac OS 9.2 (or earlier) or OS X, you can't open up more than one Director Movie at time. Also, you can't run multiple instances of Director as you can under Windows. J On Tuesday, Feb 11, 2003, at 15:45 US/Eastern, ives1026 wrote: In the past, on older OS versions, you could not open up

Re: lingo-l Director on Os X

2003-02-11 Thread 2702NET
ahhh.that *would* work wouldn't it? I need to be more creative. :-) On Tuesday, Feb 11, 2003, at 15:52 US/Eastern, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not true. Just copy the actual director app (not the rest of the files) and just open a second app. [To remove yourself from this list, or to

Re: lingo-l Director MX( 8.5) bug

2003-02-05 Thread 2702NET
Buzz doesn't mean that it's not annoying - just that it may be an (intended) design flaw rather than an (unintended bug). On Wednesday, Feb 5, 2003, at 21:43 US/Eastern, Jeremy wrote: I can understand calling whatever trim white space does if its enabled, but its really lame for director to

lingo-l Shockwave keyboard focus

2003-02-02 Thread 2702NET
Hi folks... Simple question (I think). I'm working on a Shockwave app that uses lots of keyboard control. Is there a way to give the Shockwave movie (running in a web browser) the focus so that the user doesn't have to mouse click on the movie interface to make keyboard control work? i.e. I

Re: lingo-l Shockwave keyboard focus

2003-02-02 Thread 2702NET
Ah! Thanks Colin. That *does* make a lot of sense. I tried a bunch of different kludges and settled on putting the following (for non-visual users) into the app's help doc: Maximize your browser window and click on the left side of the screen Makes me cringe, but I'm all out of cleverness and

Re: lingo-l Shockwave keyboard focus

2003-02-02 Thread 2702NET
grin thanks Buzz...I'm actually familiar with that method. ;-) The issue here was what to do for my audience of blind/visually impaired users who can't *see* a button. Spent a day's work on finding a solution in and out of Lingo. Having the b/vi users maximize the browser window and then click

Re: lingo-l speech

2002-12-20 Thread 2702NET
Are you running Windows? Do you have a Microsoft SAPI TTS engine installed? As described in the Macromedia Tech Note provided on the Director Support page, use the voiceInitialize() function to test for the required components. If this function returns false then you know you're missing

Re: lingo-l speech

2002-12-20 Thread 2702NET
ah. good man. Just out of curiosity...have you tried the voiceInitialize() function... what's that returning? On Friday, Dec 20, 2002, at 09:52 US/Eastern, Fabrice Closier wrote: no, mac OSX 10.1.5 2702NET heeft op vrijdag 20 december 2002 om 15:04 het volgende geschreven: Are you running

lingo-l Calling ActiveX DLLs

2002-12-06 Thread 2702NET
Hi folks.. I have what may be a somewhat naive and OT question, but here goes: Can GLU32 Xtra be used to call *ActiveX* DLLs? If not, is there an Xtra that can be used for this? Issues/gotchas I may need to be aware of? TIA, J [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode,

Re: lingo-l Calling ActiveX DLLs

2002-12-06 Thread 2702NET
or...can I use the MM ActiveX Xtra? A DLL is not a Control...but... On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 03:29 AM, 2702NET wrote: Hi folks.. I have what may be a somewhat naive and OT question, but here goes: Can GLU32 Xtra be used to call *ActiveX* DLLs? If not, is there an Xtra that can

Re: lingo-l Calling ActiveX DLLs

2002-12-06 Thread 2702NET
Oh...if it makes things any clearer...some semantics - an ActiveX control is aka a COM DLL. J On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 03:44 AM, 2702NET wrote: or...can I use the MM ActiveX Xtra? A DLL is not a Control...but... On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 03:29 AM, 2702NET wrote: Hi folks.. I

Re: lingo-l Calling ActiveX DLLs

2002-12-06 Thread 2702NET
Aaah...Thanks Fraser. That might be just the thing. J On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 09:40 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you could try the vbscript xtra which is $75 for custom dlls: http://www.xtramania.com/Products/VbScriptXtra/ very useful for communicating with ActiveX dlls hth Fraser

Re: lingo-l Calling ActiveX DLLs

2002-12-06 Thread 2702NET
on the stage, and move them off-screen if they aren't pixel creating activeX's. roymeo At 03:58 AM 12/6/2002 -0500, you wrote: Oh...if it makes things any clearer...some semantics - an ActiveX control is aka a COM DLL. J On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 03:44 AM, 2702NET wrote: or...can I use

Re: lingo-l ANN: Director MX

2002-11-25 Thread 2702NET
Hey...I'm happy to see it being released on OS X. Thousands of dollars or not...I've made much much more than I laid out for the tool. This is my livelihood and I'm happy to fork over a bit of cash to help in the effort to keep me gainfully employed. Als, re the changes - they're not

Re: lingo-l lingo-lOT:second hand Director ?

2002-11-24 Thread 2702NET
Just be careful... For one, I'm not sure if the Macromedia EULA allows transfer of license. As a connected issue, there might also be tech support issues (if you end up needing direct support)...so there's that to consider. Also, you should note that online auction sites have been identified

Re: lingo-l Start the PC-machine when dead.. Lost gone mci-commands

2002-11-06 Thread 2702NET
...or generated using a Markov Chain perhaps? On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 07:59 PM, Jakob Hede Madsen wrote: At 8:07 +0800 07/11/02, Brad Hile wrote: Looks like a bad case of freeonlinetranslationitis Actually I think it's just a troll. I think I recognize the style and the

Re: lingo-l jaugar and director

2002-11-05 Thread 2702NET
?!...is it Apple...or is it Macromedia not being ready for OSX? I've found that avoiding running D 8.5 under OSX (classic) entirely is the way to go. Booting from an external firewire drive containing OS 9.2 is a great, easy way to do it - running all my stuff (like D 8.5) not yet ready for

Re: lingo-l ANN: LingoFish available at last!

2002-10-30 Thread 2702NET
Dear Robert, This looks great and useful. I'll test it on our Macs here and send any feedback to you off list. Best Regards, Josie On Wednesday, October 30, 2002, at 02:26 PM, Robert Tweed wrote: OK, I've been saying I'll release this soon for months now, but finally it's up on my site.

Re: lingo-l changing icon of projector

2002-09-18 Thread 2702NET
careful though...Iconizer is great but won't work with an XP projector. Another option is Versiown from Goldshell - very easy to use and works with all Windows platforms. Check the updateStage Table O' Xtras (www.updatestage.com) for more options. HTH, Josey On Wednesday, September 18,

Re: lingo-l osx classic authoring question..

2002-08-09 Thread 2702NET
I tried both and found I got better results booting into 9. I'm in the same boat...Director and a few good MIDI/music apps holding me up from the big move. *sigh* Josey On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 05:24 PM, g r i m m w e r k s wrote: hey all - thinking of making the switch to total osx

Re: lingo-l osx classic authoring question..

2002-08-09 Thread 2702NET
save you from having to keep an OSX boot and a completely separate OS9 boot. Also, honing my ActionScript chops under OSX just in case...but let's not go down that cynical road again. :-P Josey On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 08:19 PM, 2702NET wrote: I tried both and found I got better results