Re: 3D Page flip effect???

Thank you for sharing the useful information, James... :) I just ordered the book and can't wait to see what's going to be in my brain after I get the book... I was kinda afraid that this effect involves with Imaging Lingo and I think that is the case... That part is the place where I left

3D Page flip effect???

Howdy... :) Did anybody done any page flip effect for the book??? I want to create a book with page flip effect... Any insights??? TIA Jason _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com [To remove you

Re: test....

no, from me... ;p >from me? _ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post me

Re: rs232 communication

I've heard that there is another one called SerialXtra from physical bits... Check it out at http://www.physicalbits.com/ I heard that this one is cheaper than DirectCommunication's Xtra... :) Good luck and happy birthday... :) _ M

Re: [Q] I have problem opening a MIAW movie...

Hi... I just found out that the crash doesn't happen on Mac projector... Well... it could be true because there is no Dr. Watson on the Mac... :) Can anybody help me??? I just have no clue why this is happening... :( TIA Jason >Hi... > >I am having some problem opening a MIAW movie... > >I hav

[Q] I have problem opening a MIAW movie...

Hi... I am having some problem opening a MIAW movie... I have a Director projector that contains a Flash movie... Within the Flash movie, I have a getURL function call to invoke a custom Director function... In Flash, on (release) { platform = $version.substring(0, 3); if (pla

[Q] How to trap Close action for MIAW

Hi... I am getting a name of the directory and the name of the file from the Flash movie within the Director projector to open a MIAW by using this line of code... on openThis temp theDelimiter = getDelimiter(integer(string(temp).char[1..1])) theDirName = getDirName(integer(string(temp).ch

[Q] How to Open a new window with bitmap images???

Hi... How do I open a new window with bitmap images such as JPEG files??? Is 'open {whichDocument with} whichApplication' be the one I will have to use??? Then what would be the name of the program that I need to specify for the JPEG file, Word file and Text file on both platforms??? I guess it

[Q] How to Close this window???

Hi... It's been a while since I didn't touch any Director myself, but I've been reading the list as much as I can so that my brain would get refreshed... Anyway I have a question... I did import my Flash file into the Director 8.5.1 on Windows 2000 Pro... Everything seems working fine except t

Re: batch converting sounds?

Hi... One vote for Audio Converter for general batch processing... http://www.audioconverter.info/ Jason _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx [To remove your

Re: Need help in Flash MX

Hi... I believe that there was a sample reservation related webpage that was made with Flash MX to show what MX can do... You might want to check MM's Flash showcases and see if that's still there... One quick question if you don't mind... :) Are you an employee of Biloxi or a sort of a contr

Can you guys do some trimming???

I'm sorry to write this... but can you guys do some trimming when posting replies??? You know why, right??? Sorry for the yelling... :) _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com [To remove yourself from

Re: heavy external casts

Hi... I remember I did a crazy thing long time ago... :) D6??? D7??? I made a virtual museum which user can navigate with mouse or keyboard where actual paintings and the structure of the museum were rendered within Maya and all I did was controlling series of picture files with Lingo... The c

Re: (off topic) You're going to get fired!?

Oh... I thought he was working for aol... I guess he was pretty noisy at work judging by his postings... :p _ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com [To remove yourself from this list, or

Re: always on top

Hi... MasterAPP's mappKeepOnTop does the job... You can get it from http://www.updatestage.com/xtras/masterapp.html Below are from the MasterAPP Manual --- mappKeepOnTop ( windowIDNum ) windowIDNum: integer window ID obtained from another method Returns: "OK" or string beginning with "Error:"

Re: recompile all scripts command

Hi... >When I answer yes, I find that all the scripts are recompiled, and the >effect can be a little disastrous. What effects I intend to have >may be lost. I think you might want to define 'disastrous' because I think what that button does is checking the syntax or your lingo commands... (Do

Re: How do I learn lingo scripting?

Hi... I don't know much about lingo either... :) >how do I start learning lingo scripting? The fastest way to learn any kind of language in my experience is reading somebody else's script going line by line... and whenever you get stuck with some definition or function or concept, read a bo

Play & Stop Button

Hi, Nitin... Thanks for understanding what I have said to you... :) As far as your question on Director... I don't quite get your point... Basically what you want to do is to try to turn on and off those buttons within Director's main tool bar, right??? I don't think that can be done... Say th

Re: importing RTF?

Hi, Carl... Are we talking about the fileTypeList argument for DialogOpenFile function in the Dialogs Xtra??? If so, DialogOpenFile("RTF") does not load all the RTF files??? How is your script setup now??? Have a nice day!!! Jason _

Re: Mpeg & directX

Hi... >I know you said specifically "other than checking the registry": Yup... I didn't read that far... I guess I will have to OPEN my four eyes WIDER!!! >;p How else can it be done within the Director rather than checking the registry??? We need Master's answer!!! :) Have a nice day!!! Jas

Re: Database for a Mac and PC CD-Rom

Hi... Just by the look of your question, and if I do the project... I'll go with the complex list as long as you have too many questions on the database... if you do... go get some of those Xtras... something like Valentina or V12, possibly Datagrip??? Go either Direct-L or Lingo-L archive and

Re: Mpeg & directX

Hi... :) >Is there any way to check the DirectX version before playing the video >(other than checking the registry)? The version of DirectX is written... HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\DirectX and you can use "Version" property by using BuddyAPI like this... baReadRegString("Softwar

Re: Now, My turn..

I'm blessed three... :] Jason _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com [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

Re: Installation Related Questions

Thank you Augstin... Appreciate your help... :) Just for the record, I am in Georgia, USA... Jason _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest

Re: Installation Related Questions

sically on and off thing... Can it be done with a director??? Good example of that might be home automation system??? I don't know... :) Thank you... Jason >From: "Jason Je" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Instal

Installation Related Questions

Hi, Guys... I am thinking of making an installation piece utilizing censors and kiosk(s) for my thesis project... Here are few questions regarding this project... 1. I am thinking of using I-Cube from InfusionSystems... I did a piece with Houdini before that is driven by the sensors... And I

RE: Tracking a Button

Hi... What about postNetText()??? I think that might be the thing you can use to do the job... I think all you need to do is post the data and take care of its result by using netError() whether it is error or not... MM has a sample you might want to try... http://www.macromedia.com/support/di

Re: to macromedia: jumpstart kit PC ONLY!?!?

>From AW... >Maya is available for these platforms: >Windows® NT, Windows® 2000 Professional, IRIX™, Linux and Macintosh OS X. Does this make you feel any better??? :) Have a nice weekend!!! Jason _ Join the world’s largest e-mail

Re: flash cursor

Hi... Is this what you want??? -- http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/sample_flash_cursor.htm -- Changing the cursor in an embedded Flash movie HTH Jason _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://ex

Re:

Hi... I just spent a couple of minutes searching for the previous postings and found the following article... What is the URL for the archive, by the way??? http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/archives/lingo-l/ :) Here you go... Have a nice day!!! -

Re: cast come to stage with scripting.

Hi... What about changing the location of that sprite whenever you want??? (I've been doing my shell programming homework all night, so I cannot remember any Director syntax...) :( 1. sprite(1).locH = -1000 sprite(1).locV = -1000 2. whenever you want to put that sprite on stage... sprite(1

Re: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library

Hi... Any Xtra you are using for the project??? Just wondering... Jason _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.pe

Re: Re: dcr to dir?

Hi... go to http://www.j-roen.net/diropener/ and click on the 'What won't dirOpener do?' section... You will be able to see the reason why there is no such utility that will extract lingo scripts from the dcr movie file 'yet'... Well... you never know when the 'genius' will be making another

Re: passiing parameters to a shockwave movie

Hi... Check out the MM site for 'Parameters accessible from Lingo' at http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/how/shock/lingoparam.html It might not 100% you want, but you will get the idea... HTH Jason _ Get your FREE downloa

setaProp Question...

Hi, Guys... I have a setaProp question... I have 10X5 blocks in array and the way I represent them in director is using the list, and I have some problem now... Two of my array is set to like this...(from the initializing function...) Blocks list holds a value 0 being not clicked, and 1 being c

Re: (no subject)

Hi, Andy... Is there any specific reason you saying that the former loop is much faster??? I'm just curious... :) Thanks... Jason >repeat with i = 0 to 99 > repeat with j = 0 to 4 > ... do something > end repeat >end repeat > >or > >repeat while i < 100 > j = 0 > repeat while j <

Re: mmessageList "Xtraname" ERROR?

Hi... put mMessageList ( xtra "fileio" ) and you will be able to see the same information with the command put interface( xtra "fileio" ) Anybody know the difference between mMessageList and interface though??? What would be the reason for having two different command for the same function??

Re: simple question

Hi... :) What about something like this in lingo??? on StartMovie global theFlag theFlag = 1 end on mouseDown me global theFlag if theFlag = 1 then theFlag = 2 go to "link" else theFlag = 1 go to "home" end if end something like that with proper marker setup should

Re: Re: FileIO and List Question

Thanks alot Mr. Holgate... >on makearray thetext > repeat while thetext contains "!" > c = offset("!",thetext) > put "," into char c of thetext > end repeat > repeat while thetext contains "~" > c = offset("~",thetext) > put "],[" into char c of thetext > end repeat > re

Re: Re: FileIO and List Question

Hi, Guys... I am trying to add my parsed string from my text file into a multidimension array... Here is my input data from the text file... (Once again, I just broke it into multiple lines just for your eyes...) --- TotalSymbols=4& Symbols= 12!21!23!30!34!40!42!44!51!53~ 11!13!22!30!31!33!34!41

Re: Re: FileIO and List Question

Thanks for helping me out guys... I really appreciate it... :) Hi, Mr. Kurt... > > openFile(myFile, the moviePath & "SymbolsData.txt", 0) > >This path is hard coded to look for "SymbolsData.txt" in the same directory >as the director movie. Is it there? Yes, Sire... the file is sitting right th

Re: you can open dcr files

>you can open dcr files with a program called >diropener. you get everything but the lingo. That is correct... I remember reading this discussion a while ago, and got this program and tested myself... It did work!!! Get it at http://www.j-roen.net/diropener/ My brain is !@#$%^&*... How come I d

Re: FileIO and List Question

Thanks Andreas... >I copied your code and pasted it in Director. It works. Are you sure >that "SymbolsData.txt" is a simple text file? Are you sure it's >correctly named? I got all the file name typed correctly and have no typo in my script... Still doesn't work... yet it works just fine with y

FileIO and List Question

Hi, list... :) I have a simple FileIO and list question... I made a board game in flash that reads stage data from the text file... This text file, SymbolsData.txt is formatted like this... (Made several lines for your eyes... It really is a one liner...) TotalSymbols=4& Symbols=12!21!23!30!34!

Re: Director IRC channels

Hi... From the previous postings... I didn't try them myself though... :) Subject: [DIRECT-L] IRC Chat Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 16:41:12 -0400 From: Robbie Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Does anyone know of any IRC's

Re: list down???

Hi, Guys... Testing mail for the testing mail... :p It doesn't look like the list is down... I'm just getting multiples of the same messages over and over from time to time... I sometimes am not able to write to the list... I don't know why... I remember there used to be a place on the web where

Re: Import Chinese Text

Hi DucHai, I don't know if my try is going to help you or not, but here it is... I have English W2K, D8.5.1, and Korean IME installed in my computer as a starter... I have tried to type some Korean words in the text member alone with English alphabet and found out that I wasn't able to type any

Re: Logic question...

-- This items in the list lThisCombination are all the > same value, do whatever you want here > end if > > end repeat > end > > Hope this gives you some inspiration. > > Irv > > > > At 11:46 PM -0500 1/28/02, Jason Je wrote: > >Hi...

Logic question...

Hi... I am building a simple game and I need some help here... Let's just say that I am making a tetris-like game... The basic thing I have to check is if the blocks are same color or not... I'm using 5X5 matrix here... The basic things that I have to check in this game is to see if any three(f