Re: Protect content outside Director

On Oct 23, 2003, at 1:54 AM, Univision wrote: I'm using video (mpg) in director movies, is there a way to protect this media, so they only can use it in the movie. Not really. Use QuickTime instead. You can attach a "media key" that prevents playback through any but approved means, such as your

Re: [OT][XPOST] For a Linux Player

On Thursday, October 16, 2003, at 02:27 PM, John Dowdell wrote: At 6:21 AM 10/16/3, Mathieu Senidre wrote: It's time to (re-)send a wish for a Linux Shockwave Player :) Don't forget to tell how much you'd pay in compensation. Right now we're probably up to about a thousand dollars just from readi

Re: Those OS's again and a question

On Thursday, October 16, 2003, at 01:31 PM, Peter Witham wrote: I'd love it, personally, but that's because I'm a 'nix fan at heart and have been since I first installed Slackware on an ancient 486/33 with 8 MB back in the mid 90s. (That was a fun system -- it triple booted: Win3.11/DOS6, OS/2 W

Re: Those OS's again and a question

On Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at 10:42 AM, Peter Witham wrote: 1. It ain't the OS you use it's the ideas in your head and what you do with em. Do we ever hear artists defending to death their particular paintbrush or palette knife? A good point. 5. What we all gonna do and say when maybe just

Re: Autorun/icon inconsistency

On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 07:18 PM, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: How many other OSes are run on 90+% of the world's personal computers? UNIX. PCs and servers. Why are you being so defensive? Do you own MSFT stock? Do remember that mass appeal does not equal value. With that kind of coverag

Re: Autorun/icon inconsistency

On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 05:39 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: Anyone have any insight as to why the My Computer window would *only sometimes* show the custom icon for the CD drive? Because Windows, in general, sucks? Hey, them's fighting words! What do you mean "in general"? It's superior in mea

Re: Autorun/icon inconsistency

On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 05:40 PM, 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. I've never had a copy of Windows that was less st

Re: Autorun/icon inconsistency

On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 03:45 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Anyone have any insight as to why the My Computer window would *only sometimes* show the custom icon for the CD drive? Because Windows, in general, sucks? Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwa

Re: OSX baShortFileName

On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 09:06 AM, Alex da Franca wrote: I pulled out some of my favorite hair of the very few remaining I got... ;-) -- ||| a¿ex -- Yes, I see you did. Pretty soon you'll look like Colin, and then like me. -- WthmO [To rem

Re: OSX baShortFileName

On Monday, October 13, 2003, at 07:16 PM, Alex da Franca wrote: 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 y

Re: thanks

On Sunday, October 12, 2003, at 09:38 PM, director wrote: well i do use director and i know this not a porn list or anything of that kind. Depends on when you read it. It can get a bit racy. however, i do appreciate the fact that the people of this list take their time to help those with less for

Re: [X-Post] QuickTime and path length on Windows rant!

On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 09:45 AM, Alexandre Cop wrote: Hi Warren, Hope all is well with you! Meh. ;) Really, nobody has ever had an issue with this? Damn, I must be unlucky!! You are, but it's a known issue anyway. Have you considered converting the video to spark in Flash MX? I haven't

Re: [X-Post] QuickTime and path length on Windows rant!

On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 03:19 AM, Alexandre Cop wrote: Really, nobody has ever had an issue with this? Damn, I must be unlucky!! You are, but it's a known issue anyway. Have you considered converting the video to spark in Flash MX? Or, since MP4 appears to work for you, why not use that

Re: Lingo

On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 05:07 PM, Andrew Dempsey wrote: You probably don't want to go there... Because then it opens up all kinds of lingo issues, like "the width of member", "show locals", "the score", "hotspot"... Uh, I'd better stop there before the moderator kicks me off the list. W

Re: Lingo

On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 01:07 AM, Andrew Dempsey wrote: My wife keeps telling me at the end of the day to please STOP thinking and talking freely in lingo... Go figure. Which makes me think of rude things having to do with "intersects" testing. No wonder she's tired of the mumbling. ;)

Re: TRUE or FALSE

On Sunday, October 5, 2003, at 08:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Setting vars to void on purpose makes absolutely no sense to me. It never has and it probably never will. Void means "I haven't even been touched by code yet, so don't use me", while some other value (0 pr #null or "") means *someth

Re: TRUE or FALSE

On Sunday, October 5, 2003, at 07:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mAHandler gets its value from objectB.mAnotherHandler, which in turn gets its value from objC.mYetAnother, and so on down the line. Something at the end of the call chain is supposed to return a value. But, because of an exponent

Re: TRUE or FALSE

On Sunday, October 5, 2003, at 06:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, TRUE = anything non-zero (& <> VOID since that's also treated as zero) Ooh, Buzz, be careful there. I found out the hard way not to treat VOID as 0 or false. It most definitely is not. I reported this about 18 months ago

Re: cast member list

On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 09:42 AM, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: or better yet: global gMemberList on enterFrame gMemberList=[] lcastLib=1 repeat with m=1 to 1000 if member(m, lcastLib).type<>#empty then gMemberList.append(member(m, lcastLib).name) end if end end Uh, no

Re: RE: Concatenating property list values (mavinson@ra.rockwell.com)

On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 11:37 AM, Mindy McCutchan wrote: --only stores the tag title thisString = tempList[#tagTitle] & " - " & tempList[#tagArtist] & RETURN No matter what method I use to store the information from the list, it won't even store anything that appears after the first "&

Re: Autorun

On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 03:29 AM, Anand Ravi wrote: Hi everyone, I was wondering if there is a way to know within a projector if the CD-ROM has the autorun, or autoplay capabilities enabled. You could lok for the presense of the file autorun.inf in the root (on windows) to check if the

Re: Autorun

On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 11:10 AM, Fabiano de Aguiar Aniceto wrote: I was wondering if there is a way to know within a projector if the CD-ROM has the autorun, or autoplay capabilities enabled. My first guess would be no. That's a system setting. I suppose if you really wanted to you

Re: Miaw @ Daniel

On Tuesday, Sep 23, 2003, at 10:39 America/Chicago, Florian Bogeschdorfer wrote: One of the strange things about lingo-l is that I don't get all posts. Another one is that the answer comes usually before the question. That's because you've got your tachyon filter turned off. If you get into "Sys

Re: Open a folder

On Monday, Sep 22, 2003, at 13:59 America/Chicago, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: I thought there would have been a method somewhere to open a folder...maybe in buddyAPI or the fileXtra or something. Is there any way to open a folder (not a file)? On Win it would be something like: open theFolder

Re: MIAWs: close, forget....and VOID?

On Friday, Sep 19, 2003, at 20:56 America/Chicago, Daniel Nelson wrote: That's correct; the same thing happens with parent scripts as well. If all their internal props aren't zeroed first, An internal property only needs to be cleared if there is a circular reference or in cases such as the one I

Re: MIAWs: close, forget....and VOID?

On Friday, Sep 19, 2003, at 19:38 America/Chicago, Bruce Mitchener wrote: Daniel Nelson wrote: Just this morning, I solved a baffling bug related to this. If an object in a MIAW passes its instance to an object held in another window (or maybe if the window is referenced in some other window...I

Re: MIAWs: close, forget....and VOID?

On Friday, Sep 19, 2003, at 18:20 America/Chicago, Daniel Nelson wrote: Just this morning, I solved a baffling bug related to this. If an object in a MIAW passes its instance to an object held in another window (or maybe if the window is referenced in some other window...I didn't resolve which

Re: MIAWs: close, forget....and VOID?

On Friday, Sep 19, 2003, at 13:23 America/Chicago, Agustín María Rodríguez wrote: Hi. Check this post from Jakob Hede Madsen: Jakob's behavior is a groovy one, allowing MIAWs to close and forget themselves without crashing director; however the original question was whether a MIAW's variable n

Re: MIAWs: close, forget....and VOID?

On Friday, Sep 19, 2003, at 12:16 America/Chicago, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Hi list... When closing a MIAW, is it necessary to void a global variable for it after you do the close() and forget() methods on it? Rather than void I use 0. I don't let uninitialized (void) variables float around i

Re: accessing scriptInstanceList in a MIAW: Bug...or just me?

On Wednesday, Sep 17, 2003, at 13:57 America/Chicago, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: In author mode, I'm trying to debug something within a MIAW that was launched from the stage (i.e. a separate dir file). The breakpoint works, but the variables in that MIAW all display void, and so I can't debug be

Re: SV: QT Controls problem - no need to answer.

On Monday, Sep 15, 2003, at 13:13 America/Chicago, Kristian wrote: It wasn't that straightforward, as it turned out. The QT sprite was loaded in frame 1 of Kristian's MIAW, and essentially hadn't fully got itself onscreen in time to receive his script's movieRate command. The solution appears to h

Re: QT Controls problem - no need to answer.

On Monday, Sep 15, 2003, at 12:23 America/Chicago, Kristian wrote: Sorry about the confusing "straightforward problem"... No need to answer this, I got help in the [DIRECT-L] list. If anyone is interested in the "real" problem and the solution I will post/mail it. It wasn't that straightforward,

Re: undocumented Lingo

On Monday, Sep 15, 2003, at 10:27 America/Chicago, Thomas Higgins wrote: It's not that Macromedia as a company doesn't want you to know about these items [...] We're not trying to be sneaky here. :) Riiight. We all know Macromedia is engaged in a massive disinformation conspiracy. Obvio

Re: using protected quicktime video in Director.

On Thursday, Sep 11, 2003, at 22:31 America/Chicago, biju george wrote: But how can we protect the .avi / divx files. I think only .mov can support protected video. You can't. At some point or another a dedicated cracker will make it past your security. The question is how much you're willing to

Re: Bundles for osx and os classic

On Thursday, Sep 11, 2003, at 15:12 America/Chicago, Johan Torstensson wrote: I actually had the same problem today. On OS9 the application appears as "installer.app" with a "greyish paper" icon. Clicking on it just produced an error. After re-reading the "Director Tech-Note: Considerations for

Re: Bundles for osx and os classic

On Thursday, Sep 11, 2003, at 03:34 America/Chicago, Kristian wrote: Does anyone know about any good docs/resources on this?? Not yet, but practice is helpful, as is looking over how other .app bundles are made on OSX. Well it's all together but i seems like on os9.x it doesn't work just klickin

Re: FW: File IO - bad filename

On Wednesday, Sep 10, 2003, at 15:16 America/Chicago, Andy Talbot wrote: On my machine and every other machine I've tested this on it works fine. However the clients PC seems to be different, i'm using the traceLog to see what they're up to and basically fileIO is returning 'bad filename', howe

Re: attaching behaviors at runtime

On Wednesday, Sep 10, 2003, at 12:19 America/Chicago, Craig Taylor wrote: Seems to work during authoring, but not at runtime. Have you used Score recording to make the attachments permanent, followed by a saveMovie call? saveMovie, BTW, will not work with any movie file rolled into the project

Re: any body knows a good source of the info onprevaling wages

On Sunday, Sep 7, 2003, at 20:17 America/Chicago, matt johansson wrote: alot of your US clients are getting work done down here in New Zealand and Australia. Taking advantage of the Exchange rates, getting work done for almost half the price of US Developers. We're run off our feet down here th

Re: Acrobat installer.

My concern there is about Adobe's Licensing Cops. Do they send them after you for doing that, or is it kosher with them? (Never tried it myself; I'm basically too chicken. ;) On Saturday, Sep 6, 2003, at 20:31 America/Chicago, Stephen Ingrum wrote: ... basically, install Acrobat onto the CD,

Re: Acrobat installer.

On Friday, Sep 5, 2003, at 12:05 America/Chicago, Kristian wrote: Anyone stumbled into this or has an earlier version to share? (Have accepted and sent in the license agreement for distribution). If you have an older set of Mac OS system installers you might find a copy of Acrobat Reader on it.

Re: unexpected selection of a text member

On Friday, Sep 5, 2003, at 11:22 America/Chicago, jean-louis valero wrote: Please list How to avoid the unexpected selection of a text member after we click on the stage previously in the background ? I've seen this discussed before but don't recall that there is any kind of certain way to prev

Re: detecting quicktime player

On Tuesday, Sep 2, 2003, at 17:10 America/Chicago, matt johansson wrote: Cath has shown the 'quickTimeVersion', whats the other method? There's quickTimePresent, but that only tells you whether QT is installed or not (true/false), not the version. I was being a little tongue-in-cheek there and i

Re: cpu usage

On Tuesday, Sep 2, 2003, at 18:55 America/Chicago, Tony Åström wrote: I check the topic on Direct-L and be back if I find an solution. If the program does not have to update its stage with regularity you can use 'pause' instead of 'go the frame'. If it does have to update its stage you might be

Re: detecting quicktime player

On Tuesday, Sep 2, 2003, at 15:39 America/Chicago, matt johansson wrote: can anyone point me to a good script that detects the quicktime player from a projector? With or without using 'the quickTimeVersion'? Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consul

Re: using an non standard shape as a button

On Tuesday, Sep 2, 2003, at 15:37 America/Chicago, Jeremy P. McKay wrote: Hi All, I want to use a star shape for mouse events? Is there any way to do this other than using a bunch of squares and rectangles? Umm, if you mean make a shape visually cut out on the screen, look at matte ink. If you

Re: Erratic behavior with fileIO xtra

On Monday, Sep 1, 2003, at 18:51 America/Chicago, Tab Julius wrote: Which brings another thought to mind. FastFiler's (whatever that annoying app is that catalogs your app), as well as anti-virus programs may well open and scan your file. I was also thinking about the 127-character limit on lon

Re: Erratic behavior with fileIO xtra

On Monday, Sep 1, 2003, at 15:51 America/Chicago, Tab Julius wrote: Does it always delete the file? If the file is in use (for instance, some process has it open - you perhaps, if you didn't close it) - it won't be able to be deleted, at least not without rebooting in between or killing the pr

Re: field and miaw

on getValue me value -- do whatever, such as put value end Sorry. Don't use the 'me': on getValue value -- do whatever, such as put value end Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author

Re: field and miaw

On Saturday, Aug 30, 2003, at 23:15 America/Chicago, director wrote: a MIAW has a field. the value of that field changes with a slider. I want to be able to get that value and use it with my main movie. Good, that's a workable statement. The most efficient way would probably be to use a 'tell the

Re: field and miaw

On Saturday, Aug 30, 2003, at 15:19 America/Chicago, director wrote: hi everyone, how do you get the value of a field in a MIAW. Would you clarify your question please? Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightw

Re: printing from shockwave

On Friday, Aug 29, 2003, at 11:54 America/Chicago, Luiz Gustavo Castelan Póvoas wrote: How can I print something from a shockwave movie? Apparently PrintOMatic works on the Windows side to do that. is there a Picture exporter that works with shockwave? Yes, there is. I believe ShockFiler can do

Re: Slide Show question

On Friday, Aug 29, 2003, at 21:54 America/Chicago, Pier de Sanctis wrote: I have a relatively simple question regarding the creation of a slide show. Search through the articles at director-online.com Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting

Re: re deleting from a text file with fileIO -is this a bug ?

On Thursday, Aug 28, 2003, at 12:11 America/Chicago, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: I think the PropSave Xtra is one of the least known yet most useful secrets in all Xtra-dom. Yes, it's quite a useful tool... And at a great price! ;) It's located at http://pimz.com/?id=xtras§ion=propsave Warren

Re: Bloody stupid HP drivers

On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 11:40 America/Chicago, Kerry Thompson wrote: Yeah. Avoid HP unless you're worried about fuel to weight ratios in a small fixed-wing hop from San Jose to El Paso, or want to calculate amortization rates on your Epson printer. It's such a nice machine, though Except it

Re: Creating PDF's on the fly

On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 11:31 America/Chicago, Vargas Media wrote: Hi, Is there a way to create PDF's on the fly from within Director? I read there was an article written about this but couldn't track it down. I think it might be on DOUG, director-online.com . Warren Ockrassa | President,

Re: Bloody stupid HP drivers

On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 11:07 America/Chicago, Mathew Ray wrote: Are you printing from director, or just general printing in other apps? My guess is from Director. The failure rate with Director and HP drivers is legendary. Nearly 100 percent, and that's a very impressive level of consisten

Re: Bloody stupid HP drivers

On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 10:46 America/Chicago, Kerry Thompson wrote: This is XP Pro, the closest Microsoft has come to a stable OS yet. And it still crashes. Curse HP. Why do they make such great hardware and such lousy software? A question for the ages. My HP32s is a brilliant calculator.

Re: BaFileList() and .sort

On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 10:39 America/Chicago, Kerry Thompson wrote: They *are* in order, alphanetically speaking. We have a new word for the English language! I like it! "Alphanetically" is something my [Chinese] wife would come up with ^_^ Listen, just because you're hooked up with Lucy L

Re: sorting is such sweet sorrow

On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 10:02 America/Chicago, grimmwerks wrote: Intersting. ["1", "10", "2", "3", "4", "5"] is correct. [1, 2, 3,4,5,10] is correct. Hmmm...now I gotta figure out a way of dealing nicely with this. Context? Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] n

Re: RGB codes - got it

On Monday, Aug 25, 2003, at 13:24 America/Chicago, Peter Bochan wrote: Thank you all for the help That's nice, but you still haven't said what exactly it was you were looking for. Care to share? Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Program

Re: RGB codes

On Saturday, Aug 23, 2003, at 15:29 America/Chicago, Peter Bochan wrote: Hi Lingo Developers! I was just curious how can I figure out the list of RGB colors codes? What do you mean by "RGB color codes"? Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting

Re: fill me in on how to do this

On Thursday, Aug 21, 2003, at 12:44 America/Chicago, Colin Holgate wrote: http://staff.funnygarbage.com/colin/dialogmania.dcr At 2112 bytes big, this is smaller that even one of those boxes, let alone all the ones you'll see. BTW, this may induce nausea. Why? There are no images of you in there

Re: Hijacked e-mail

On Wednesday, Aug 20, 2003, at 16:47 America/Chicago, Colin Holgate wrote: This is a nasty one. www.messagelabs.com/viruseye shows worldwide stats and displays them graphically. They have to adjust the scale every some hours ... I went there and it crashed my Netscape. I had to restart. Oh the

Re: Superscript caracters

On Tuesday, Aug 19, 2003, at 16:02 America/Chicago, Luiz Gustavo Castelan Póvoas wrote: is there some other HTML tags/codes that I can use instead of the formatting in order to represent the SQUARE (^2) in a good manner? Not that I've ever found. What I ended up having to do was parse the RTF i

Re: Director Programmer Position

On Tuesday, Aug 19, 2003, at 14:14 America/Chicago, Luiz Gustavo Castelan Póvoas wrote: I found this posting this morning on Monster. It's looking for a Director programmer in Northern California. Before you all rush, it's $15-20 per hour, 10-20 hours per week. Is it bad at all?? The hourly wage

Re: Director Programmer Position

On Tuesday, Aug 19, 2003, at 11:40 America/Chicago, Colin Holgate wrote: I found this posting this morning on Monster. It's looking for a Director programmer in Northern California. Before you all rush, it's $15-20 per hour, 10-20 hours per week. And you need to be a resident of NoCal already; the

Re: Extract media files from cast

On Monday, Aug 18, 2003, at 14:01 America/Chicago, Lutz Paelike wrote: is it possible to extract media files from a director cast ? Kerry mentioned Werner's Xtra for images; you can save the #text members out as RTF and #field members as plain ASCII. But I think it might be a better approach to

Re: help - emergency flash sound problem

On Monday, Aug 18, 2003, at 13:02 America/Chicago, grimmwerks wrote: Already do, but the battery is frelled. Oho, another _Farscape_ geek. Why not get a new battery? Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightware

Re: scroll bar for lingo 8.5

On Sunday, Aug 17, 2003, at 05:34 America/Chicago, Batsheva Evers wrote: Does anyone have a ready scroll bar? I am looking for a scroll bar that moves a number of sprites (dynamical amount) either left-right or up-down. Hm. What solutions have you tried up until now? Have you looked over the in

Re: government / video question

On Sunday, Aug 17, 2003, at 00:48 America/Chicago, grimmwerks wrote: Has anyone developed any cd-roms/cbts for the government? Grimm, surely you know that given the current state of paranoia in the US, we're ALL doing video for the government, advertently or in. I'm actually finishing up somethi

Re: QT conundrum

On Saturday, Aug 16, 2003, at 15:59 America/Chicago, Kerry Thompson wrote: Is there some code around to do a QT slider? There might well be in the D-L archives, or perhaps the L-L archives. I'm pretty sure it's been done before. Or is there a way to get the slider with a non-dts sprite? Nope. B

Re: Pass?

On Thursday, Aug 14, 2003, at 16:56 America/Chicago, Andreas™ Gaunitz™ wrote: What can I say? It works in a projector. What happens if you move the mouse when passing the clicks? (There's a SW bug that doesn't catch clicks without a mouse motion.) Heh, this wasn't easy to perform lying on the b

Re: Save as binary file

On Thursday, Aug 14, 2003, at 18:12 America/Chicago, David Benman wrote: Not so fast. The DirectImage Xtra is a good xtra solution, but for a free xtra solution you can use the Sharp Image xtra available at: http://www.sharp-software.com/ I've used both recently, and they performed well. There'

Re: Pass?

On Wednesday, Aug 13, 2003, at 16:56 America/Chicago, Andreas™ Gaunitz™ wrote: That's the way behaviors work. There's an article on DOUG regarding this very issue, written by Yours Truly. Look it up. ;) I looked it up, but I'm sorry to say it doesn't work on my computer! The last, moving, anima

Re: Pass?

On Thursday, Aug 14, 2003, at 14:42 America/Chicago, Andreas™ Gaunitz™ wrote: It doesn't seem to work in Shockwave with complete reliability. I have absolutely no idea why. Works fine in *some* Win browsers and, AFAIK, all Mac ones On my comp it doesn't work with Safari 1.0 (v85) Mac-OS X 10.2.

Re: animating scaling of sprites

On Tuesday, Aug 12, 2003, at 17:26 America/Chicago, Kerry Thompson wrote: I guess pain leaves a lasting impression, no? Which is why you're sure to be immortalized. ;) -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post m

Re: Mpeg pathing problem

On Tuesday, Aug 12, 2003, at 11:22 America/Chicago, John R. Sweeney Jr wrote: My problem is that everything I've tried has failed to link this video to the program. I've had to hard code the path of the video, in order for Director to be able to find it. It wasn't a problem, because the clients

Re: Pass?

On Wednesday, Aug 13, 2003, at 09:24 America/Chicago, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: I have a text member -- sprite(8), sitting on top of a graphic -- sprite(3). Sprite(8) is preventing sprite(3) from doing its behavior. That's the way behaviors work. There's an article on DOUG regarding this very i

Re: search pdf files

On Tuesday, Aug 5, 2003, at 01:49 America/Chicago, Anand Ravi wrote: Sorry to ask such a simple question, but why don't you use the Very Extensive text searching facilities "built into" Acrobat? Acrobat can do full text searching over single files or large indexs of files. To convert the PDF to D

Re: getnettext and asp pages

On Monday, Aug 4, 2003, at 14:59 America/Chicago, Stephen Ingrum wrote: I'm having trouble with getnettext and asp pages. I'm not getting anything- neterror=4165 the url in question is http://www.dlp.com/about_dlp/about_dlp_story.asp or anything on the dlp site. any thoughts? Personally I think

Re: Multiuser xtra wait full data

On Thursday, Jul 31, 2003, at 21:11 America/Chicago, Rodrigo Peres wrote: My problem is that my script is sending only part of the barcode and receiving only a piece of information. How can I make my script wait the end of transmission (13 bytes) before execute anything else and more important

Re: when/why is pupperSprite necessary?

On Wednesday, Jul 30, 2003, at 14:22 America/Chicago, Mark A. Boyd wrote: Another thought. Since #text members are Direct-to-stage by default They are? Um, then why do ink effects work on them? Uh oh. I can't get to Director right now to verify, so I could be wrong about the default. Am I think

Re: when/why is pupperSprite necessary?

On Wednesday, Jul 30, 2003, at 13:01 America/Chicago, Mark A. Boyd wrote: Another thought. Since #text members are Direct-to-stage by default They are? Um, then why do ink effects work on them? -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.

Re: giving information from DB

On Wednesday, Jul 30, 2003, at 06:47 America/Chicago, margarida g i r ã o wrote: This code works fine to give one video: myDBValue = dGRSGetFieldValue("video" rsvideo) str = the itemDelimiter the itemDelimiter = "/" myCast = myDBValue.item[1] myVideo= myDBValue.item[2] the itemDelimiter = ".

Re: when/why is pupperSprite necessary?

On Wednesday, Jul 30, 2003, at 00:19 America/Chicago, Slava Paperno wrote: The movie is kind of heavy and full of handlers and stuff (tens of thousands of lines of Lingo), maybe that has something to do with it. Uh. If you come across a bizarre situation like this, it is *always* a good plan t

Re: Determine where cast members are used

On Saturday, Jul 26, 2003, at 19:44 America/Chicago, Buzz Kettles wrote: there's no easy way to do using Lingo The only way is to 'walk the score' & check each sprite, accumulating a list of frame#,sprite# each time you find a match to the member you are looking for. Hey Buzz, you might remembe

Re: MIAW and "script error"

On Tuesday, Jul 22, 2003, at 17:30 America/Chicago, Locke Morgan wrote: I have 8 movies that I am trying to tie together under an initial console. The main console has buttons that open a MIAW for the individual movies. All works well until I try to open a 2nd movie. Would you care to share the

Grammar parser in Lingo...?

Howdy all. Wondering if anyone's heard of a grammar parser behavior, object or script in Lingo. What I mean is something that can analyze the syntax of a given plain-english (!) sentence and break it down into the appropriate parts of speech: "He went to the grocery store" might be broken d

Re: Error I haven't seen before

On Wednesday, Jul 16, 2003, at 19:49 America/Chicago, Mark A. Boyd wrote: At 12:53 2003-07-16, Kurt Griffin wrote: "The application can not start as it cannot create needed files. There may not be enough free disk space." Another possibility is that if you've created a Standard projector, it sti

OT-ish: Call for book submissions

nightwares eBooks continues to produce small-market press eBook releases. We'd like to remind you that if you have a technical book or tutorial in mind, your submission is welcome. We specialize in titles that are not likely to be accepted by conventional publishers, who often want a title to s

Re: Databases in Lingo

On Wednesday, Jul 9, 2003, at 12:21 America/Chicago, Diego Landro wrote: I am working on a project where i need to manage a huge quantity of images, so i need to use a databse to sort the images. Question is: can i use databases with lingo. Yes. Have a look at the Mile High Table at updatestage.c

Re: OSX/9 bundle puzzle: foo.app = foo.app SOLVED (sort of)

On Wednesday, Jul 9, 2003, at 10:22 America/Chicago, Slava Paperno wrote: If someone at MM wants to improve their write-up at http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/ bundle_proj.htm my experience may be useful. The writeup is imperfect; however, examining a few .app bundles c

Re: where is the file start.dir?

On Sunday, Jul 6, 2003, at 20:52 America/Chicago, Bastien Bouchard wrote: I use go movie "somemovie" Lingo. The movie you're trying to navigate to doesn't happen to have the same name as the projector, does it? theMovie.dxr theMovie.exe If so, that's your problem. Rename one or the other.

Re: menu across movies

On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 20:35 America/Chicago, Phil Gross wrote: Does anyone know if there is a way to install a menu and have it stay installed across movies? So I don't have to reinstall it every time I jump to a new movie? Only if you load it in a stage file and do everything else via MI

Re: basic question: Lingo to test authoring or projector mode

On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 16:52 America/Chicago, Karina Steffens wrote: It's worse. Movies made in MX can even be opened and edited in 8.5.1 provided you haven't used the Accessibility or Flash MX Xtras. You don't get the snotty "This file was made using a newer version of Director and I'm goi

Re: basic question: Lingo to test authoring or projector mode

On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 12:54 America/Chicago, Karina Steffens wrote: That's D8.5 - MX might be different. No, it's the same. MX didn't change existing Lingo. Not even line continuation characters got re-redone this time... ;) What?? But that means... Old projects could actually be compatibl

Re: basic question: Lingo to test authoring or projector mode

On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 10:25 America/Chicago, Karina Steffens wrote: The runMode strings are: Author-The movie is running in Director. Projector-The movie is running as a projector. Plugin-The movie is running as a Shockwave plug-in or other scripting environment, such as LiveConnect or

Re: Event Order

[re stepframe] They aren't? I use them all the time to get objects to work in synch with the score. Oops, sorry, I though they'd been deprecated. My mistake. I was thinking of perFrameHook! Dang, talk about a neuronal misfire... -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest

Re: Event Order

On Wednesday, Jul 2, 2003, at 10:33 America/Chicago, Kerry Thompson wrote: Yeah, it's workable as well, of course. You can tell the MACR docs are somewhat dated as they include stepFrame events, which aren't commonly used any more. Ah well. They aren't? I use them all the time to get objects to w

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