RE: Hybrid disc

2004-08-27 Thread Christopher Phillips
caution! some xtras don't like living in the same xtras folder (buddy api) the osx and classic versions can't exist in the same folder. i have bundled the problem xtras into the appropriate projectors. make sure you don't go all the way and then find this to be the case. -dr -Original Message-

RE: Retrieve Mac system information

2004-06-03 Thread Christopher Phillips
enhancer xtra. -Tidesand -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ross Clutterbuck Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 12:42 PM To: Lingo-L List Subject: Retrieve Mac system information Me again list... Currently working on a project that will make vario

RE: updating an online database

2004-02-05 Thread Christopher Phillips
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Irv Kalb Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 11:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: updating an online database I don't know if the problem is in your net routines or at the server, but I have have a diff

RE: OO programming

2003-01-03 Thread Watson, Christopher
Hmmm...how about a complete OO Lingo implementation of the Document Object Model (DOM)? http://www.dom-lingo.webhosts2000.com Christopher Watson Sr. Software Engineer Interactive Web Media Lightspan Acheive Now Online Lightspan, Inc. Tel 858.824.8457 Fax 858.824.8001

RE: MX opinion!!

2002-12-19 Thread Watson, Christopher
. I like to maximize my script windows as much as possible, so I leave my essential panels undocked so as to have as much client window space as possible. ¯¯¯¯ Christopher Watson Sr. Software Engineer Interactive Web Media Lightspan Acheive Now Online Lightspan, Inc. Tel

Just Testing

2002-12-10 Thread Watson, Christopher
My apologies for all these tests. My company has been goofing around with anti-spam filters, and they still haven't gotten it quite right. Christopher Watson Sr. Software Engineer Interactive Web Media Lightspan Acheive Now Online Lightspan, Inc. Tel 858.824.845

Test

2002-12-10 Thread Watson, Christopher
Test [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. Thanks!]

Watchpoints

2002-11-08 Thread Watson, Christopher
ts and readpoints, where a break occurs whenever a read or write from/to a variable occurs? Goodness knows pretty much all of us have worked ijn debugging environments that provide this capability. Share your secrets! Christopher Watson Sr. Software Engineer Interactiv

RE: ANN: LingoFish available at last!

2002-11-04 Thread Watson, Christopher
Well, download the Cast and the Test Movie and look into it. Pretty ding-dang cool, if you ask me. -Christopher -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:grimmwerks@;grimmwerks.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 12:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ANN: LingoFish

RE: ANN: LingoFish available at last!

2002-10-30 Thread Watson, Christopher
All tests passed. Windows 2000 Pro Pentium III, 500 MHz 128 MB RAM Nice job, Robert! Gotta love Lingo OOP for API implementations! Christopher Watson Creator, DOM-Lingo -Original Message- From: Robert Tweed [mailto:robert-lists@;killingmoon.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 11:27

Quickie Port for Lingo and C Expert!

2002-09-26 Thread Watson, Christopher
I need to duplicate this function precisely in Lingo. I know it can be done. It's the pointer math that's getting to me! If you're feeling altruistic today...give it a shot! -Christopher - /* The following function takes a (B-V)T value, i.e.,

RE: dear macromedia (bug again)

2002-08-02 Thread Watson, Christopher
emented -- it cannot be classified as a bug. As far as Macromedia's tracking databases are concerned, it shouldn't be. But it should most definitely be logged as a customer requirement not met by the development team, and an issue to be dispositioned in the next release. ¯¯¯

RE: Efficiency Questions

2002-07-17 Thread Watson, Christopher
bably just stick with the simple linear list approach. Faster ands smaller. The values aren't used as a point in the context of Lingo (they represent a location within the SVG coordinate plane), so I'll refrain from incurring the overhead of points. Thanks again! -Christopher [To remove yours

Efficiency Questions

2002-07-17 Thread Watson, Christopher
E = plotFunc(lfRAdeg, lfDEdeg) lfPlotRA = lpPlotRADE.h -- or lpPlotRADE[#h] lfPlotDE = lpPlotRADE.v -- or lpPlotRADE[#v] Christopher Watson [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 P

RE: What is the going rate for experienced Director now?

2002-07-16 Thread Watson, Christopher
et of particular circumstances, you might only see the bottom end. Under another set, the high. Overall, though, the Director contract climate is arctic. Christopher Watson -Original Message- From: brian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 3:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subjec

RE: Numeric Range Search in List

2002-06-27 Thread Watson, Christopher
So that's why I need to determine which GSC region a particular set of coordinates falls within. The GSC regions are only defined by their positional extents in the sky. I have to find where each galaxy goes. Thus, I need a good way to determine that, based on the list of region extents that I have.

Numeric Range Search in List

2002-06-27 Thread Watson, Christopher
d be the speediest way to perform this search? I'm sure there's a tricky way to do this. I just can't come up with it. ¯¯¯ Christopher Watson Sr. Software Engineer Interactive Web Media Lightspan, Inc. Tel 858.824.8457 Fax 858.824.8001 ___ [

RE: Lingo questions

2002-05-20 Thread Watson, Christopher
That would bew: http://www.furrypants.com/loope/ ¯¯¯ Christopher Watson Sr. Software Engineer Interactive Web Media Lightspan, Inc. Tel 858.824.8457 Fax 858.824.8001 ___ -Original Message- From: DrEvil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent

RE: XML Question

2002-05-03 Thread Watson, Christopher
ST request. ¯¯¯ Christopher Watson Sr. Software Engineer Interactive Web Media Lightspan, Inc. Tel 858.824.8457 Fax 858.824.8001 ___ -Original Message- From: brian douglas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 2:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

RE: beginSprite script

2002-05-03 Thread Watson, Christopher
>Are not these questions rhetorical? ¯¯¯ Christopher Watson Sr. Software Engineer Interactive Web Media Lightspan, Inc. Tel 858.824.8457 Fax 858.824.8001 ___ [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to h

RE: XML Question

2002-05-03 Thread Watson, Christopher
Take a look at DOM-Lingo: http://www.dom-lingo.webhosts2000.com It parses, serializes (writes), traverses, manipulates, etc. Everything you'd want to do, I'm sure...and all without an Xtra. ¯¯¯ Christopher Watson Sr. Software Engineer Interactive Web Media

RE: Lingo Gurus! Need some Input!

2002-04-24 Thread Watson, Christopher
aximum held within a property variable of the ItemManager object: property miNumItems miNumItems = goXML.getDocumentElement().getAttribute("NumItems") repeat with i = 1 to miNumItems ¯¯¯ Christopher Watson Sr. Software Engineer Interactive Web

Lingo Gurus! Problem Solved...For Now...

2002-04-23 Thread Watson, Christopher
nly. I now have the speed I need, without showing anything new on the stage, and without breaking QA Mode. Super-duper kludgey...but, hey...it works. I'm not asking any more questions. Just praying QA passes it. ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Christopher Watson Sr. Software Engineer Interactive

RE: Lingo Gurus! Need some Input!

2002-04-23 Thread Watson, Christopher
lves to Template objects, which ancestor themselves to SampleLayout objects, which ancestor themselves to IntroLayout objects. Everything is a parent script. The one and only movie script contains the startMovie handler, and a few global utility functions. ¯¯¯ Christopher

RE: Lingo Gurus! Need some Input!

2002-04-23 Thread Watson, Christopher
looking more and more like a by-product of my complex architecture. ¯¯¯ Christopher Watson Sr. Software Engineer Interactive Web Media Lightspan, Inc. Tel 858.824.8457 Fax 858.824.8001 ___ [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mod

RE: Lingo Gurus! Need some Input!

2002-04-23 Thread Watson, Christopher
it's not tied to writing to the stage or updating it. It's looking more and more like it's all about the ancestry tree I'm creating. It must just be too complex for these slower, older machines. But that just seems weird. ¯¯¯ Christopher Watson Sr. Softwar

Lingo Gurus! Need some Input!

2002-04-22 Thread Watson, Christopher
ocess bogging down? And morfe importantly, why does it NOT bog down if I'm writing strings to a text sprite? Please help. Someone! ¯¯¯ Christopher Watson Sr. Software Engineer Interactive Web Media Lightspan, Inc. Tel 858.824.8457 Fax 858.824.8001 ___ [To remov

RE: Unicode in Director

2002-04-15 Thread Watson, Christopher
that right now, or I'd point you to it. ¯¯¯ Christopher Watson Sr. Software Engineer Interactive Web Media Lightspan, Inc. Tel 858.824.8457 Fax 858.824.8001 ___ -Original Message- At 12:41 PM +0700 4/15/02, you wrote: >Hi all, >

RE: Text cursor still shows after moving text box offst age!

2002-04-09 Thread Watson, Christopher
Thanks, Buzz...the scrollTop force-feed worked. -Christopher -Original Message- From: Buzz Kettles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 4:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Text cursor still shows after moving text box offst age! have you tried either of

RE: Text cursor still shows after moving text box offstage!

2002-04-08 Thread Watson, Christopher
I'm having the same problem with the scroll bar for a scrollable text sprite. Visible/invisible, on-stage/off-stage...no matter what I try, that scroll bar is still there! ¯¯¯ Christopher Watson Sr. Software Engineer Interactive Web Media Lightspan, Inc. Tel 858.824

RE: Is there a Math.round in Lingo ?

2002-03-28 Thread Watson, Christopher
Running the integer function on any floating-point value will get you the rounded value. But be careful, the precision is only 16 decimal places. put integer(2.2) -- 2 put integer(2.5) -- 3 put integer(2.4999) -- 3 -Original Message- From: Kevin McCarthy [mailto:[EMAIL PR

RE: embedding fonts

2002-03-28 Thread Watson, Christopher
Make sure to include the Font Xtra and the Font Asset Xtra in that projector. Rules for Creating Projectors 1) If something suddenly doesn't work in your projector that worked in authoring or in a browser, check the Xtras. 2) See Rule 1. ¯¯¯ Christopher Wats

Time Stamping in Code at Publish Time

2002-03-18 Thread Watson, Christopher
a a global variable at runtime. That way, I could also display the "publish date and time" of the DCR when it was run in "QA Mode". Anybody got any tricks up their sleeves for doing this sor of thing? Any alternative ways of looking at this problem? Christopher Watson Sr.

RE: Tokenizer Optimizations Anyone?

2002-03-04 Thread Watson, Christopher
t's what I call "comin' in through the side door". Results later Christopher Watson Sr. Software Engingeer Director/Shockwave Development Lightspan, Inc. Tel: 858.824.8457 Fax: 858.824.8008 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http:

Tokenizer Optimizations Anyone?

2002-03-04 Thread Watson, Christopher
-- [DOM-Lingo] Tokenizer ------- -- Copyright ©2002 Christopher Watson -- All Rights Reserved Worldwide. ---

Re: Very basic variable question.

2002-02-25 Thread Christopher
Or better yet, listen to Charlie! [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.

Re: Very basic variable question.

2002-02-25 Thread Christopher
on mouseUp gIncre = 0 --give your variable a value first gIncre = gIncre + 2 --what are you adding 2 to? put gIncre end The above logic would then lead you to the next stumbling block, upon which a "global" gIncremust be used to store your iterations? Think about it? Then try agai

Re: Very basic variable question.

2002-02-25 Thread Christopher
on mouseUp gIncre = 0 --give your variable a value first gIncre = gIncre + 2 --what are you adding 2 to? put gIncre end [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] (Pr

mmessageList "Xtraname" ERROR?

2002-02-24 Thread Christopher
Pg 214 "Director 8 Using Director manual, syntax misprint? The command "mmessageList("Fileio") does not display a List of methods for "Fileio" Error Dialog reads: Script error: Handler not defined put mmessageList("Fileio") #mMessageList Solutio

RE: where are the Lingo-L archives?

2002-02-21 Thread Watson, Christopher
s for displaying the full message headers anywhere in the body of the message or the preview pane. Christopher Watson Sr. Software Engingeer Director/Shockwave Development Lightspan, Inc. Tel: 858.824.8457 Fax: 858.824.8008 -Original Message- From: Matthew DeSimone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

getNetText -> getStreamStatus -> error = 4152?

2002-02-07 Thread Watson, Christopher
ntion of a 4152 error code. Anyone care to tell me what the code means? Christopher Watson Sr. Software Engingeer Director/Shockwave Development Lightspan, Inc. Tel: 858.824.8457 Fax: 858.824.8008 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo

RE: XML with unkown amount of children (Follow-up)

2002-01-28 Thread Watson, Christopher
repeat The repeat loop would walk through all the children of the element (which is the parent root), and the call the loWalker.nextSibling() would return VOID when there were no more siblings. Christopher Watson Sr. Software Engingeer Director/Shockwave Development Lightspan, Inc. Tel:

RE: XML with unkown amount of children

2002-01-28 Thread Watson, Christopher
getLength() - 1) loChildElem = loChildNodeList.getItem(i) -- work with the child element end repeat Christopher Watson Sr. Software Engingeer Director/Shockwave Development Lightspan, Inc. Tel: 858.824.8457 Fax: 858.824.8008 -Original Message- From: Matthew DeSimone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

RE: Ancestor Limits?

2002-01-15 Thread Watson, Christopher
Thanks, Kerry. My chain is currently 7 deep, and I, too, am having no problems at this point. So I guess I won't worry. Christopher Watson Sr. Software Engingeer Director/Shockwave Development Lightspan, Inc. Tel: 858.824.8457 Fax: 858.824.8008 -Original Message- From: Kerry Tho

Ancestor Limits?

2002-01-14 Thread Watson, Christopher
Are there any limits to number of "generations" you can create in an ancestor chain? Christopher Watson Sr. Software Engingeer Director/Shockwave Development Lightspan, Inc. Tel: 858.824.8457 Fax: 858.824.8008 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, g