RE: lingo-l Runmode with respect to scriptExecutionStyle

2004-09-22 Thread Alex da Franca
At 12:30 Uhr -0400 22.09.2004, roymeo wrote: the scriptExecutionStyle does leave out some, though. My first test to see if D10 was going to improve a project kept running into problems with the 'cheater-navigation' MIAW I had in it for authoring. no amount of scriptexecutionstyle = 9 was able

Re: lingo-l shockwave3d texture problems solved

2004-09-19 Thread Alex da Franca
At 18:40 Uhr +0200 18.09.2004, Lutz Paelike wrote: That works but it has to be done every time you start the movie in director. It seems the best way is to do it in the startMovie handler therefore or in a beginSprite handler of an attached behavior. you could try to set the undoced member

RE: lingo-l Buddy API

2004-09-18 Thread Alex da Franca
At 12:00 Uhr +0100 18.09.2004, Petro Bochan wrote: I guess your speculations are quite reasonable, cause let's consider the following. I've got a PC Samsung SyncMaster 172s flat display. My current screen res is 480x460 c'mon, you're taking us for a ride, aren't you ? even if 480x460 is meant to

Re: lingo-l Buddy API

2004-09-18 Thread Alex da Franca
At 15:24 Uhr +0100 18.09.2004, Petro Bochan wrote: Hi Alex, You see, the point is that i've got only one old computer at home and it's not only me that uses it. I didn't want to sound offensive. I just can't imagine (remember) getting any work done at 640x480. once you get used to a higher

Re: lingo-l RE: on stopMovie problem in projector

2004-09-14 Thread Alex da Franca
At 1:08 Uhr -0400 14.09.2004, KLGC Studio wrote: on stopMovie If (NOT DialogL.dialogSvd) AND (DialogL.targetSrc #unk) then reply = ShowAlert(1) if reply then SaveDialog() end if end if end stopMovie I think you can't 'stop' the stopmovie event in that way. the propcess of stopping the movie is

Re: lingo-l Best place to store a cross-platform INI file

2004-09-14 Thread Alex da Franca
At 11:45 Uhr +0100 14.09.2004, Ross Clutterbuck wrote: Hi List The subject line says it all really! I'm going to be setting an INI file using BuddyAPI for my cross-platform project. Where would the best place for this INI file be? Usually I'd put them into the OS folder but I don't want to start

Re: lingo-l Best place to store a cross-platform INI file

2004-09-14 Thread Alex da Franca
At 13:28 Uhr +0100 14.09.2004, Ross Clutterbuck wrote: Alex: Already got the baSysFolder route covered, just working out which folder to use. baSysFolder(prefs) is a good place to store a settings file So that would return the Windows folder on Windows and the Preferences folder on the Mac. Will

Re: lingo-l LDM's and TELL is NOT obsolete whatever MM says

2004-09-13 Thread Alex da Franca
At 16:43 Uhr +0100 13.09.2004, Evil Kosh wrote: perhaps they should work a little bit harder at MM to earn that paycheck they think they deserve. I'm sure it is a statement like this, which will lead to more enthusiasm in the director team to fix thissue. perhaps they didn't know until now,

RE: lingo-l LDM's and TELL is NOT obsolete whatever MM says

2004-09-13 Thread Alex da Franca
At 14:02 Uhr -0700 13.09.2004, Thomas Higgins wrote: For me personally, this one feature is at the top of my list of things to do as I've been a big proponent of it all along. I'm going to continue pushing for it (and 3D improvements!) as hard as ever. Yikes ! ...need some pushing help for both

Re: lingo-l baOpenFile, a level up

2004-09-03 Thread Alex da Franca
At 10:38 Uhr +1200 03.09.2004, Sean Wilson wrote: you can't use the @ identifier for the moviepath with xtras. With version 3.6 (Windows), Buddy API added support for the @ operator. I stand corrected, somehow I missed that. -- ||| a¿ex -- [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to

Re: lingo-l baOpenFile, a level up

2004-09-03 Thread Alex da Franca
At 9:27 Uhr -0400 03.09.2004, Baker, Geoff wrote: Alex, Thanks much. Code worked great! Sean, With version 3.6 (Windows), Buddy API added support for the @ operator. Yet it does not seem to work going up a level, just down.? (Director MX, Buddy API Xtra 3.51) maybe that's because 3.6 is

Re: lingo-l baOpenFile, a level up

2004-09-02 Thread Alex da Franca
At 12:20 Uhr -0400 02.09.2004, Baker, Geoff wrote: I'm trying to open a pdf that is one level up from the current movie via: baOpenFile(@//M1T2_03_210a.pdf , ) or baOpenFile(@::M1T2_03_210a.pdf , ) I've tried a bare bones movie using the message window. I've tried using the moviepath and lingo's

Re: lingo-l duplicate cast members

2004-08-16 Thread Alex da Franca
At 14:38 Uhr -0700 15.08.2004, Buzz Kettles wrote: note: there already are two kinds of graphical feedback. 1. The member selection changes to the new member ( the member hilight changes accordingly). 2. the appropriate menu header flashes ... (at least on Mac) - Save flashes the word 'File'

Re: lingo-l duplicate cast members

2004-08-16 Thread Alex da Franca
At 9:50 Uhr -0700 16.08.2004, Buzz Kettles wrote: I use duplicate all the time, but I do it by dragging with the option/alt key ... I've been bitten by the cmd-S/D issue more times than I'd like to remember - it's a real annoyance. My personal solution was to use QuickKeys to override cmd-D

Re: lingo-l duplicate cast members

2004-08-15 Thread Alex da Franca
At 17:32 Uhr -0700 14.08.2004, Buzz Kettles wrote: My guess is that you thought you did cmd-S (to save) when actually did cmd-D (duplicate) . At least that's what makes the most sense to me (who has also noticed this situation gotten into some massively

Re: lingo-l how to crash Dir MX 9 and 10 in Mac OS X

2004-08-01 Thread Alex da Franca
At 15:52 Uhr -0400 31.07.2004, Slava Paperno wrote: My movie was written entirely in Windows--first in Dir MX 9, then in MX 10. I've just started testing it in Dir MX 9 and 10 under Mac OS X and discovered that a certain block of Lingo always crash Director, causing it to close without a

Re: lingo-l 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

RE: lingo-l Dir MX 2004 UI question

2004-07-21 Thread Alex da Franca
At 13:32 Uhr +0100 21.07.2004, Pedja wrote: Thanks Séb Damn...I knew it would be like that and it will anoy me forever!:) but at least you know now, that you're not the only one. count me in, too ! but I was told once by Buzz, that it has been like this before and really it has been like that in

Re: lingo-l get and set pixel.

2004-07-15 Thread Alex da Franca
At 20:36 Uhr +0300 15.07.2004, thor wrote: I am not sure what you mean by ink modes in copypixels. Any examples? it depends on what you're after with the: At 13:47 Uhr +0100 14.07.2004, thor wrote: rgbval = member(firstImg).image.getPixel(xx, yy) -- some calculations here and then

Re: lingo-l get and set pixel

2004-07-14 Thread Alex da Franca
At 13:55 Uhr +0200 14.07.2004, Christoffer Enedahl wrote: I am using this code similar to this : repeat with xx = 1 to 450 repeat with yy = 1 to 400 rgbval = member(firstImg).image.getPixel(xx, yy) -- some calculations here and then

Re: lingo-l Fontmapping on the fly

2004-06-24 Thread Alex da Franca
At 10:18 Uhr +0100 24.06.2004, James Newton wrote: The code is based on the handlers with similar names in the Chat Input and Chat Output behaviors in the Internet|Multiuser section of the Library Palette. David Simmons provided suggestions for the coding of the original handlers. I don't know,

Re: lingo-l Fontmapping on the fly (is Chat)

2004-06-24 Thread Alex da Franca
At 11:31 Uhr +0100 24.06.2004, James Newton wrote: That means using 20 times the bandwidth. you're right. there's always a disadvantage, when doing such things for lazyness reasons ;-) the only backdoor left for me now would be to recommend stripping the html header and the font tag before

RE: lingo-l dual monitor projector?

2004-06-23 Thread Alex da Franca
At 9:51 Uhr +0200 23.06.2004, Florian Bogeschdorfer wrote: Cath, Windows has overtaken the Mac's capabilities with 2 monitors already as long as you use XP and a modern dual head graphic card. overtaken ? just out of interest: do you care to elaborate, what are the advantages of windows in

RE: lingo-l dual monitor projector?

2004-06-23 Thread Alex da Franca
At 16:04 Uhr +0200 23.06.2004, Florian Bogeschdorfer wrote: Why I say overtaken is simply, that 1. cards are faster 2. cards are much cheaper (a 49.99 USD will do) 3. There are more settings (like the one huge desktop) 4. At least on my macs I have to reboot or go asleep and wake up to use a

Re: Re: lingo-l Event processing

2004-06-11 Thread Alex da Franca
At 12:25 Uhr +1200 12.06.2004, Tony Bray wrote: On 12 Jun 2004, at 4:01, Robert Tweed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, in part: No matter what tests I do, the order is always: [prepareMovie] beginSprite, prepareFrame, [startMovie] enterFrame, exitFrame - although obviously if you don't use frame one

Re: lingo-l Event processing (was: pass with prepareMovie not possible?)

2004-06-10 Thread Alex da Franca
At 15:50 Uhr +0100 10.06.2004, Robert Tweed wrote: 1 - Sprites (highest sprite has priority) 2 - Frame script 3 - Movie script: castLib 1 (n+2) - Movie script: castLib n JFTR, I tested and this does work with sprite-level events such as mouseUp, as well movie-level events like prepareMovie. Does

Re: lingo-l Verbose vs Dotose

2004-06-02 Thread Alex da Franca
At 19:58 Uhr -0400 02.06.2004, roymeo wrote: I've always (and it doesn't seem like it's been broken) used member(whatever) = member(THIS_MEMBER_HAD_BETTER_NOT_EXIST_OR_THIS_CODE_WILL_BE_BIT_BY_A_MOOSE) if they are equal, then the whatever member doesn't exist. Then they can change those types

Re: lingo-l Shell Xtra

2004-05-28 Thread Alex da Franca
At 16:34 Uhr +0200 27.05.2004, Valentin Schmidt wrote: Hi list, I'm working on an cross-platform (win and mac os x) scripting xtra called Shell Xtra that can be used to execute command line programms (hidden) and return the output back to director. On mac os x (only tested on jaguar, so far) it's

RE: lingo-l Location of Pref files

2004-05-26 Thread Alex da Franca
At 12:32 Uhr -0400 26.05.2004, Sean Wright wrote: For windows 2k and xp(i think) it should be here: C:\Documents and Settings\-whatever user you are logged in as-\Application Data\Macromedia\Director MX 2004\Prefs I don't know where it is on a Mac the 'same' place:

Re: lingo-l turning off useHypertextStyles thru Lingo

2004-05-24 Thread Alex da Franca
At 0:46 Uhr -0400 24.05.2004, Slava Paperno wrote: This must be a known quirk: in Dir MX (9), when member().useHyperTextStyles is turned off through lingo at runtime, the Property Inspector shows it to be off, but the text of the member still shows all hyperlinks in blue and underlined. I

Re: lingo-l linked assets in shockwave: server problem

2004-05-22 Thread Alex da Franca
check the mime type settings of the server. some recent microsoft server software does return a 404 if the requested file has an unknown extension for security reasons. somehow the quys in redmond manage to patch their software in a way, that they leave the security holes open for malicious

Re: lingo-l Flash components: mouseUp and mouseUp Outside

2004-05-10 Thread Alex da Franca
At 11:05 Uhr -0400 10.05.2004, Troy Rollins wrote: On May 10, 2004, at 10:32 AM, Brennan wrote: I am finally getting some time with DMX 2004, and one thing I noticed was that the old fashioned hypercard pushbutton from the toolpalette has been replaced by a flash component. Yeah. Those are neat.

Re: lingo-l net webcam img into director

2004-04-12 Thread Alex da Franca
At 18:45 Uhr +0200 12.04.2004, thor wrote: Do you have any tips on how to solve this problem? as far as I remember there's a movie method 'cachedocverify' it defaults to: put cacheDocVerify() -- #once set it to #always like so: cacheDocVerify #always I can't tell how reliable it is across

Re: lingo-l PrintOMatic and Panther

2004-03-31 Thread Alex da Franca
At 12:45 Uhr -0500 31.03.2004, Kurt Griffin wrote: register xtra PrintOMatic, ... 1. april again ? -- ||| a¿ex -- [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

Re: lingo-l Knowing when text wraps

2004-03-16 Thread Alex da Franca
At 11:43 Uhr -0500 16.03.2004, roymeo wrote: Is there a way to detect via Lingo whether a line of text has wrapped? you mean something like: if theLine 1 then first = textmember.line[1 .. (theLine - 1)].char.count + 2 else first = 1 last = textmember.line[theLine].char.count + first - 1 put

RE: lingo-l Search function (trying again)

2004-03-02 Thread Alex da Franca
At 10:50 AM -0500 3/2/04, Kerry Thompson wrote: I don't want to discourage you. We do like to help people. kerry is absolutely right with what he wrote. you can't expect, that we write your movie. we can help with specific problems and discuss many long e-mail about the best OS or whatever ;-)

lingo-l RE: Director and Winhelp (chm)

2004-03-01 Thread Alex da Franca
At 9:02 AM -0800 3/1/04, Kraig Mentor wrote: Disclaimer: This is not supported Lingo. It is under the category of undocumented and may not exist in future releases. Use at your own risk, etc. Hi Kraig, now that you speak of undoced UIHelper methods... do you want share some hints about

Re: lingo-l RE: Director and Winhelp (chm)

2004-03-01 Thread Alex da Franca
At 6:32 PM +0100 3/1/04, Alex da Franca wrote: Hi Kraig, ups. didn't bloody me change the addresse ?! :-( sorry about that -- ||| a¿ex -- [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 Search function (trying again)

2004-02-29 Thread Alex da Franca
At 11:08 AM + 2/29/04, chris stewart wrote: Hi all the ringing silence about my last post tells me that maybe I failed to make myself clear . Sorry if that is the case. I'll try to do better, and would very much appreciate any help anyone can offer. The first thing I need to do is to

Re: lingo-l Accessing sprite(x) properties via variable

2004-02-20 Thread Alex da Franca
At 15:22 Uhr -0500 20.02.2004, roymeo wrote: I would like to be able to access the SPRITE properties like blend, locH, color, not the script property-properties. x = #fontSize put sprite(21).member.getProp(x) will return my fontsize, just as if I'd typed in put sprite(21).member.fontsize your

Re: lingo-l MX 2004 LDMs (was: Merits of JS in Director)

2004-02-12 Thread Alex da Franca
At 11:05 Uhr -0500 12.02.2004, Mathew Ray wrote: Mark (and others), Have you had a chance to play around with the new LDMs and confirm that any existing quirks have been fixed? new LDMs ? there are no new LDMs to my knowledge. some quirks have been fixed. although not explicitely for LDMs, but

Re: lingo-l Director MX 2004 - LocalConnection

2004-02-12 Thread Alex da Franca
At 12:41 Uhr -0500 12.02.2004, Mathew Ray wrote: What other thoughts do people have about using this new feature in DMX2K4? I saw it lately to fix the _since the beginning_ broken evalscript and externalevent functionality, which was very impressing. director communicating with javascript in

Re: lingo-l Small reproducible bug - is this known?

2004-01-23 Thread Alex da Franca
At 11:31 Uhr +0100 23.01.2004, Brennan wrote: I shall be reporting it, because it hints at something messy underneath the cast member naming/reference resolving mechanism which is not particularly comforting. I think there is a difference between both names. although the output after the

Re: AW: lingo-l 3D newbie questions

2003-12-21 Thread Alex da Franca
At 20:01 Uhr +0100 21.12.2003, Michael von Aichberger wrote: Thanks to all for your answers to my first question! Anybody with an answer to my second question (how to increase the number of slices a cylinder primitive is made up of)? modelresource.resolution is the number of radial slices and

Re: lingo-l baOpenURL and hyperlinkClicked

2003-12-15 Thread Alex da Franca
At 10:22 Uhr -0500 15.12.2003, Slava Paperno wrote: Thanks, but yes I have--and in any case, this wouldn't explain why the same function works fine in the same projector and the with the same Xtras when it is used in a button scripts rather than in a hyperlinkClicked handler. Can someone

Re[2]: lingo-l importing 32 bit PNG's with lingo

2003-12-12 Thread Alex da Franca
At 9:09 Uhr -0800 12.12.2003, Luiz Gustavo Castelan Póvoas wrote: m = new(#bitmap) importfileinto m, c:\test_file.png 'm' becomes the bitmap of the 'test_file.png' without the alpha channel... am I missing something? yes, reading more carefully, Luiz. colin didn't write about importfileinto,

Re: lingo-l geometry question

2003-12-12 Thread Alex da Franca
At 22:38 Uhr +0100 12.12.2003, Valentin Schmidt wrote: hi list, is there anybody out there who is good at geometry? I need a solution for the following problem: I have a list of points [p1,p2,...] which form a polygon. The points can be arbitrary, the only restriction is that the lines between

Re: lingo-l accessing the timeoutlist, part II

2003-12-11 Thread Alex da Franca
At 15:29 Uhr -0500 11.12.2003, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: I figured out a workaround to my previous email: repeat with i = 1 to (the timeoutlist).count -- here the timeoutlist is [timeOut(wiper)] theItem = string(the timeoutlist[i]) if

RE: lingo-l accessing the timeoutlist, part II

2003-12-11 Thread Alex da Franca
At 15:27 Uhr -0800 11.12.2003, Irv Kalb wrote: Can one imply from this statement, that JT has returned to the nest? if so then hopefully not only for a visit... ;-) -- ||| a¿ex -- [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 setScriptList

2003-12-06 Thread Alex da Franca
At 17:06 Uhr -0500 05.12.2003, Clay Atfield wrote: Hello all, I have been trying to attach a behavior dynamically to a sprite with the properties of the behavior also dynamically added/changed using values from a db at runtime. I've been using setScriptList and at first am having wonderful success

Re: lingo-l Lingo equivalent to scrollIntoView

2003-11-21 Thread Alex da Franca
At 13:39 Uhr -0500 21.11.2003, Slava Paperno wrote: Would someone please share their script or strategy for scrolling a *text* member so that member.word[X] becomes visible? I know how to do this when the text lines are short, but line wrapping for longer lines breaks everything I tried.

Re: lingo-l scrollIntoView

2003-11-20 Thread Alex da Franca
At 0:24 Uhr -0500 20.11.2003, Slava Paperno wrote: Would someone please share their script or strategy for scrolling a *text* member so that member.word[X] becomes visible? Thanks! mScrollToWord member(myText), 10 on mScrollToWord textmember, whichWord whichChar = textmember.word[1 ..

Re: lingo-l the pauseState?

2003-11-14 Thread Alex da Franca
At 13:55 Uhr -0500 13.11.2003, Cole Tierney wrote: Once upon a time (pre D7), the pauseState could be used to see if a movie was currently playing during author time. Now it only returns true after pausing with the deprecated lingo command, pause. Anyone know of an alternate method? Thanks

Re: lingo-l Timeout object question

2003-11-12 Thread Alex da Franca
At 16:32 Uhr -0500 11.11.2003, Mathew Ray wrote: Google to the rescue: http://maclux-rz.uibk.ac.at/maillists/direct-l/msg03740.shtml Is that kind of what you mean? yes, thanks, but I know, that it can be done with lingo. it would be easier, if it would just be built in somehwere. when I write a

RE: lingo-l Packaged movie (was: no subject)

2003-10-23 Thread Alex da Franca
At 9:31 Uhr -0400 23.10.2003, Kerry Thompson wrote: .dsr? I'm afraid I'm no closer to enlightenment. I've never heard of a .dsr movie. .dcr, yes, but not .dsr. Have I been missing something for the past n years? shouldn't that read: 's years' ? the whole thread reminds me a bit of a tv show, that

Re[2]: lingo-l Packaged movie (was: no subject)

2003-10-23 Thread Alex da Franca
At 19:10 Uhr +0400 23.10.2003, Igor wrote: Hello Kerry, Thursday, October 23, 2003, 5:31:03 PM, you wrote: Well, packaged movie is a .dsr Director Movie. KT .dsr? I'm afraid I'm no closer to enlightenment. I've never heard of a KT .dsr movie. .dcr, yes, but not .dsr. KT Have I been missing

Re: lingo-l Open file window (osx) w/multiple return?

2003-10-20 Thread Alex da Franca
At 6:22 Uhr -0400 20.10.2003, grimmwerks wrote: Is there any xtra that allows this? what do you expect is the answer ?? buddyApi, OF COURSE ! ;-) don't know, which version it was implemented, but I triedit with 1.5 (the most recent) and it works like a charme. just provide a flag to

Re: lingo-l dcr security

2003-10-19 Thread Alex da Franca
At 11:41 Uhr +0530 19.10.2003, Anand Ravi wrote: I was wondering if I should author the content is dirctor and use some sophesticated encryption algorithms to encrypt the dcrs and develop a rendering emgine that will decrypt the dcr's and display them...my next project may involve very sensitive

Re: lingo-l Timeout object question

2003-10-19 Thread Alex da Franca
At 12:53 Uhr -0300 19.10.2003, Agustín María Rodríguez wrote: grimmwerks wrote: on test me, what put this is: this End I guess you meant: on test me, what put this is: WHAT End if only he had found something like: pBlinker = timeout(blinker).new(1000, #test, me)

Re: lingo-l Timeout object question

2003-10-19 Thread Alex da Franca
At 13:57 Uhr -0400 19.10.2003, grimmwerks wrote: I mean, the work around is to have an object with properties AND a timeout as a child, and it just functions as a pulse, checking the properties the object changes (which is how I do it) which might be how we all do it: using either a property or a

Re: lingo-l OSX baShortFileName

2003-10-14 Thread Alex da Franca
At 21:03 Uhr -0500 13.10.2003, Howdy-Tzi wrote: What happens when you do put baShortFilename ( the applicationPath ) put baShortFilename(the applicationPath) -- Void -- ||| a¿ex -- [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi

Re: lingo-l OSX baShortFileName

2003-10-14 Thread Alex da Franca
At 16:04 Uhr +1300 14.10.2003, Sean Wilson wrote: Did you try mailing Gary directly, or checking his forum (I'm not sure whether it's still active) for more help? I checked the forum, but did not find anything concerning baShortFileName on the mac (only windows). I'll contact him now. I wanted

Re: lingo-l OSX baShortFileName

2003-10-14 Thread Alex da Franca
At 16:04 Uhr +1300 14.10.2003, Sean Wilson wrote: Did you try mailing Gary directly, or checking his forum (I'm not sure whether it's still active) for more help? as it turned out now baWindows OSX xtra was the culprit. Gary asked if I have an old version installed, which I hadn't. it was the

Re: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency

2003-10-14 Thread Alex da Franca
At 18:40 Uhr -0400 14.10.2003, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: If people have bad experiences with Windows, I've found it's usually because their computing practices contribute heavily to it's instability and seemingly negative qualities. that's by design. while some OSes help you to get your work

Re: lingo-l Utility scripts

2003-10-13 Thread Alex da Franca
Hi list, I can't for the life of me get buddyApis function baShortFilename() to work on OSX. the docs say clearly, that it should work on OSX, but the only thing I get from this function is void :-( regardless what I do. what am I missing ? how's it supposed to work ? help ! ;-) OK =

lingo-l baShortFileName (NOT Utility scripts)

2003-10-13 Thread Alex da Franca
sorry, Kerry. i didn't mean to steal your subject. simply not my day...:-( -- ||| a¿ex -- [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 OSX baShortFileName

2003-10-13 Thread Alex da Franca
At 10:57 Uhr +1300 14.10.2003, Sean Wilson wrote: The thing I *always* miss with this function is that the file _must_ exist before you can obtain its shortName - at least this is the case with the Windows version. Perhaps this is your problem too - if the same requirement applies to OSX? thank

RE: lingo-l Lingo

2003-10-09 Thread Alex da Franca
At 15:52 Uhr -0700 08.10.2003, Thomas Higgins wrote: Peter, So my question is: how can I learn (if it's possible, of course) to think and freely talk Lingo? I think you just need to continue a spoken language analogy here. but fortunately there's a compiler, which tells you instantly, when you

Re: lingo-l MIAWs: close, forget....and VOID? (going OT)

2003-09-20 Thread Alex da Franca
At 1:22 Uhr +0200 20.09.2003, Jakob Hede Madsen wrote: I guess, at some point soon, I will fade away completely from these lists, but maybe just for the social value keep 'hopping' at one. Hi Jakob, thank you for all the knowledge you shared with the community and the things I learned from you.

Re: lingo-l only erase in Internal castLib or

2003-08-27 Thread Alex da Franca
At 9:50 Uhr -0400 27.08.2003, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: The result is that after creating and deleting members numerous times in a cast, it can become large and bloated. the trick is to replace the space. so you'll *only* loose the space which gets fragmented. just like a save as writes a fresh

Re: lingo-l fill me in on how to do this

2003-08-21 Thread Alex da Franca
At 2:41 Uhr -0400 21.08.2003, Colin Holgate wrote: are you using image.fill() and getting the content of the circle transparent and the rest opaque, Colin ?? Yes, if I stick the image into a bitmap cast member, there's no thumbnail, but the paint window has the circle. If I select all and

Re: lingo-l fill me in on how to do this

2003-08-21 Thread Alex da Franca
At 9:35 Uhr -0400 21.08.2003, Colin Holgate wrote: although I have no clue, why it would draw an 'inverted' circle mask into the alphachannel...? which boils down to: is there really something like 'alphainvert' (and why didn't I find it myself... ;-) We could go back to the original problem, and

Re: lingo-l fill me in on how to do this

2003-08-21 Thread Alex da Franca
At 13:44 Uhr -0400 21.08.2003, Colin Holgate wrote: The thing I was playing with was a routine to create some rounded rect dialog boxes, to save having to have a bitmap for each size or color arrangement we would need. Here's a test (it uses your fill routine for the corners):

Re: lingo-l fill me in on how to do this

2003-08-21 Thread Alex da Franca
At 13:28 Uhr -0400 21.08.2003, Colin Holgate wrote: maybe it is a matter of my english skills, but that's exactly what I didn't understand in your first post, because I don't believe, that you just want to draw a 'matte' solid circle to the stage, like: on getMatteCircle radius, color The

Re: lingo-l fill me in on how to do this

2003-08-20 Thread Alex da Franca
At 20:23 Uhr -0300 20.08.2003, Diego Landro wrote: yes you can set the alpha to invert or not oçinvert but i think it works only with bitmaps. The lingo command, if im not mistaken is mypicture.image.alphainvert=true or something like it. i don´t remember i exactly right now and dont have the

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

2003-08-18 Thread Alex da Franca
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 after 256th time installing the menu, because it stops

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

2003-08-18 Thread Alex da Franca
At 3:31 Uhr -0400 18.08.2003, 2702NET wrote: Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see any way to do this w/o causing a conflict w/the menus or nixing the menus entirely. Hi 2702NET, leave it as it is now and ADD your own key triggering. now you have a function assigned to each shortcut. you

Re: lingo-l when/why is pupperSprite necessary?

2003-07-30 Thread Alex da Franca
At 11:41 Uhr -0400 30.07.2003, Slava Paperno wrote: Thanks, Mark, At 07:32 AM 7/30/03 -0700, you wrote: Does it work any better if you swap out members of the same type? I seem to recall that D7 would actually bug out if you swapped a sprite's member type out from under it. I avoid it so I

lingo-l FileIO and bundles

2003-07-09 Thread Alex da Franca
Hi all, did someone already figure out a way to select an application from within a director projector on OSX, which is a bundle ? I can select applications with fileio's displayOpen(), filextra4's fx_FileOpenDialog() and buddyApi's baGetFilename(), but I can't select bundled applications (and

Re: lingo-l FileIO and bundles

2003-07-09 Thread Alex da Franca
At 21:42 Uhr +0200 09.07.2003, Alex da Franca wrote: and buddyApi's baGetFilename() one should never blame buddyApi, without checking the website for the latest beta ;-) Gary is simply the best ! he already adressed most of the issues with the current OSX version of the buddyApi xtra and added

Re: lingo-l x-post: DMX issues (summary)

2003-06-20 Thread Alex da Franca
At 0:52 Uhr -0400 20.06.2003, Tab Julius wrote: I've noticed that occasionally commands issued in the message window are ignored. I haven't figured out the rhyme or reason to this, but in testing various command-line Xtras, occasionally, a call garners no result at all. A breakpoint and/or

Re: lingo-l MUI Xtra on OSX

2003-06-12 Thread Alex da Franca
At 13:05 Uhr -0400 12.06.2003, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: widget.attributes=[#popupStyle:[#normal],#valueList:[1,2,3],#layoutStyle:[#centerH]] try a symbol as parameter for #popupstyle instead of a list: widget.attributes=[#popupStyle:#normal,#valueList:[1,2,3],#layoutStyle:[#centerH]] it's the

Re: lingo-l CGI challenged

2003-06-09 Thread Alex da Franca
At 20:54 Uhr -0700 08.06.2003, Phil Gross wrote: I'd like to test the getNetText and postNetText commands on a CGI script, but don't know anything about writing cgi scripts. Hi Phil, I am not the perl geek per se, but as you didn't get an answer yet, I can share my little knowledge. Is it

Re: lingo-l Dynamic scripts?

2003-06-06 Thread Alex da Franca
Hi Jakob, At 13:25 Uhr +0200 06.06.2003, Jakob Hede Madsen wrote: Did you ever try to empty the scriptInstanceList of your puppet (deleteAll), before leaving it, and see if that cured the problem? the problem does not only show, if you add an instance to the SIL, simply a: put

RE: lingo-l The value of void?

2003-04-02 Thread Alex da Franca
At 22:46 Uhr -0500 01.04.2003, Kerry Thompson wrote: In the code that started this thread, we were checking the value of an empty string. and at the end of the thread several macromedia engeneers abandoned the list, as I recall... ;-) -- ||| a¿ex -- [To remove yourself from this list, or to

Re: lingo-l Image size

2003-03-27 Thread Alex da Franca
At 8:48 Uhr +0100 27.03.2003, Brennan wrote: Basically these are the steps for doing it 'properly': 1) Make sure you Photoshop file has one layer (with transparency) ... 7) Save and import into Director and wonder at its beauty. ..or open the psd file with fireworks, which used to be in your

Re: lingo-l Image size

2003-03-26 Thread Alex da Franca
At 14:17 Uhr -0800 26.03.2003, Buzz Kettles wrote: Note: Director can Import 4-channel (RGB+A) Photoshop files w/o the Photocaster Xtra Director has included the Photoshop 3.0 Import Xtra for this since d6. It's in the \Xtras\Mix\ folder. although it doesn't do the job very well. photoshop files

Re: lingo-l Next up: a MUI question

2003-03-25 Thread Alex da Franca
At 4:20 Uhr + 25.03.2003, James Newton wrote: I try to use memory on a just-in-time basis. As soon as a memory-consuming object has finished its job, I get rid of it to free up memory. I make only one exception: POM, which takes some time to initialize (I think the time is needed to query

Re: lingo-l Text/Integers?

2003-03-19 Thread Alex da Franca
At 19:37 Uhr +0100 19.03.2003, Brennan wrote: Strings are passed by value, not by reference, so they are not particularly efficient. We all know that strings can be very long (as in 'how long is a piece of...'), so an assignment involving the concatentation of two long strings must be quite

Re: lingo-l Vector out of a field or text cast member

2003-03-18 Thread Alex da Franca
At 14:22 Uhr -0600 17.03.2003, Howdy-Tzi wrote: On Monday, Mar 17, 2003, at 13:52 America/Chicago, Sean Wilson wrote: I think there is an undocumented (= unsupported) command to do this, or something akin to it. See: http://www.shockwavemovies.com/undocd/fonts_text/ generateOutlines.htm Wow,

Re: lingo-l Text/Integers?

2003-03-18 Thread Alex da Franca
At 15:37 Uhr -0500 18.03.2003, Tab Julius wrote: But this WOULD work: member(MyTextBox).text =The answer is c As would this: member(MyTextBox).text =string(c) The last was mentioned already, but the middle example is taking a text string, concatenating a number on (so an implicit conversion

Re: lingo-l symbol(s01.mp3) vs. symbol(01.mp3)

2003-02-26 Thread Alex da Franca
At 14:59 Uhr -0500 26.02.2003, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: yes, it is automatically converted to a symbol. hum, at least NOT to a LINGO symbol ! -- ||| a¿ex -- [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

Re: lingo-l Problems with the getpropertydescriptionlist...

2003-02-08 Thread Alex da Franca
At 14:00 Uhr +0100 08.02.2003, Richard Hebert wrote: Has anyone tried to add more than one boolean property? It doesn't works to me: try symbols instead: property pLlar, pParvulari, pPrimaria, pESO, pBatx, pCFGM, pCFGS, pUni on getPropertyDescriptionList -- you don't need 'me' here, since

RE: lingo-l How to open Message window by Lingo?

2003-02-05 Thread Alex da Franca
At 14:20 Uhr +0530 05.02.2003, Sathya Murthy wrote: open castlib1 or something like tht ? AFAIK you need the UIHelper Xtra for this kind of lingo control over the authoring environment. You didn't tell us which version of director you use nor on which platform. in this case this information

Re: lingo-l drag 3d model in shockwave

2003-02-02 Thread Alex da Franca
At 13:37 Uhr -0300 02.02.2003, Agustín María Rodríguez wrote: Hi. Here´s an example with code from James Newton. You´d have to add some mouse picking to it. http://perso.planetb.fr/newton/mousebox.dir or this one to drag a model constrained to a given plane:

Re: lingo-l timeOut object

2003-01-02 Thread Alex da Franca
At 15:05 Uhr -0500 02.01.2003, Craig Taylor wrote: Happy New Year to All, Very quick question. Will I run into any potential mishaps if I have a timeout object forget itself? i.e. timeout(thisTimer).new(1000, #handlerToCall, me) on handlerToCall doThisStuff timeout(thisTimer).forget() end

Re: lingo-l Dictionary behavior

2002-10-23 Thread Alex da Franca
At 12:53 Uhr -0700 22.10.2002, Buzz Kettles wrote: At 1:45 PM -0500 10/22/02, you wrote: I'm having a great deal of trouble getting a dictionary to work correctly. Here's the scenario... Text cast members at the top of the screen representing the alphabet. User clicks on a letter. A field cast

Re: lingo-l OT pregex mailing list

2002-10-05 Thread Alex da Franca
At 14:13 Uhr +0800 04.10.2002, Brad Hile wrote: ... 2) Ravi, one of the co-authors, reports that he is working on making PregEx shockwave-safe. If anyone needs this sooner rather than later, I'm sure he'd welcome contributions, especially financial ones. :-) great news ! 4) Probably we'll

Re: lingo-l Tie to system clock

2002-09-25 Thread Alex da Franca
At 7:27 Uhr +0200 25.09.2002, Alex da Franca wrote: At 0:02 Uhr + 25.09.2002, Tony Indelicato wrote: YES! That is it. ups, not at all :-( I forgot to multiply the timeoutperiod with 1000 since the timeoutperiod is measured in milliseconds not in seconds ! so you'll have to change

Re: lingo-l textfield1 is full, lets use the second

2002-09-24 Thread Alex da Franca
At 9:03 Uhr +0200 24.09.2002, Fabrice Closier wrote: Hi all, i wonder if there is a way to count visible lines into a textfield. textfield ? somewhat misleading. #text OR #field ? in case of #text you can use the charPosToLoc() function and search for the first char, which is not within the

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