Re: lingo-l sending windows filepaths from flash to director problem

2004-09-03 Thread Jeff Gomes
Your problem might be that for assigning string values in javascript and its ilk, the \ is used as an escape character for special codes such as \t (tab), \n (newline), etc. To get the literal character \ rather than having the parser looking for something special in the following character,

Re: lingo-l Theory: Multiple instances of a DXR

2004-08-31 Thread Jeff Gomes
I have done so successfully with Dir 7.02, but have not tested the technique since. The trick was that the dxr file had to be set to read-only. For testing in authoring, I would have the main stage movie use Buddy API to set the MIAW dir file to read-only during its initialization routine,

Re: lingo-l Esc key and exitLock in Dir 10

2004-08-01 Thread Jeff Gomes
At 1249 -0400 08/01/2004, Slava Paperno wrote: Thanks, Sean! Yes, in OS X, the closeRequest handler is called when you click the Quit command in the OS X system menu or the Close box in the projector's title bar, and also when you press Escape (with exitLock set to true). Perfect! ... Well,

RE: lingo-l Sprite Toolbar vs PI

2004-07-27 Thread Jeff Gomes
And die. Alone. In the rain. At 0903 +0100 07/27/2004, Tim Welford wrote: We'll be disappointed. Again. -Original Message- ... At 10:17 AM +1000 7/26/04, you wrote: I'd bet that this doesn't get fixed - the workaround is to easy to access ... :) Heh, and even if it was going to get

Re: lingo-l fileIO changes T to t ?!?!?

2004-05-13 Thread Jeff Gomes
That's in the category of just the way Director works. The symbol table stores the case of the first occurrence of any new symbol. Any future use/lookup is case-insensitive, but the original case will always be returned. So you evidently had a preexisting #pt. Now you get... put symbol (

RE: lingo-l fileIO changes T to t ?!?!?

2004-05-13 Thread Jeff Gomes
1) It could be something Director already has in place. 2) It could be something you typed by mistake once, and now it has persisted from session to session because of your continued use of #pT. Many things are stored as symbols besides the things we directly declare as symbols, including

Re: lingo-l progress bar

2004-04-23 Thread Jeff Gomes
At 0918 -0400 04/23/2004, Craig Taylor wrote: ... I have a question with regard to monitoring the progress of a group of MPEG files being copied from CD to harddrive. ...snip... What I would like to do is monitor the number of bytes being copied as a percentage of the total number of bytes to be

Re: lingo-l How to make Windows-style controls?

2004-04-22 Thread Jeff Gomes
At 0956 -0400 04/22/2004, Troy Rollins wrote: ... The amazing part is when you build a project, and then look at it on other platforms. So cool. ... I like changing the system appearance settings while my projector is running, and watching the controls instantly change to match. But then I've

Re: lingo-l Scroll bar issues

2004-04-22 Thread Jeff Gomes
At 1552 -0400 04/22/2004, Kerry Thompson wrote: ... When the user drags the keyboard over the scroll bar, it slides under the scroll bar. I imagine it's because the scroll bar, being a system scroll bar, is dts, and no matter what the zLoc of the keyboard, it will always appear under the scroll

Re: lingo-l Scroll bar issues

2004-04-22 Thread Jeff Gomes
At 1552 -0400 04/22/2004, Kerry Thompson wrote: ... When the user drags the keyboard over the scroll bar, it slides under the scroll bar. I imagine it's because the scroll bar, being a system scroll bar, is dts, and no matter what the zLoc of the keyboard, it will always appear under the scroll

Re: lingo-l MX 2004 channel naming?

2004-04-14 Thread Jeff Gomes
Geoff- At 1421 -0400 04/14/2004, Baker, Geoff wrote: So how do I name a channel in MX 2004? Double click on the score window where the channel number is displayed. Can I act on the channel via it's name: Yes. Set the locZ of channel(Foo) = 500 IIRC, locZ is setable for a sprite not a

RE: lingo-l MX 2004 - MuiDialog for Classic Mac?

2004-04-14 Thread Jeff Gomes
At 1456 -0700 04/14/2004, Thomas Higgins wrote: ... Jeff: drop me a line off-list and I'll go about getting you the Mac Classic version of the Xtra for your project. ... Will do. Thank you very much! :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l MIAW, Flash and redrawing

2004-03-07 Thread Jeff Gomes
At 1801 -0500 03/07/2004, Troy Rollins wrote: On Mar 7, 2004, at 5:49 PM, Warren Ockrassa wrote: ... the stageColor = the stageColor? I was using this (successfully) the other day. It still seems to be undocumented - in fact, stageColor is not in the lingo dictionary. So, I wonder, what would

Re: lingo-l Minimized app problem

2004-03-01 Thread Jeff Gomes
How about just checking whether the projector window is minimized, using Buddy API or Master App? -- CAUTION: Untested email pseudocode on activateApplication if baWindowInfo ( baWinHandle ( ), state ) = min then -- may need to set a timeout here to start polling for when state changes

Re: lingo-l copying graphic files

2003-12-13 Thread Jeff Gomes
You might try BuddyAPI's baGetFolder method. You can pass it a flag that tells it to display the New Folder button. At 1801 -0500 12/13/2003, Craig Taylor wrote: ...I want the user to be able to use Windows Explorer (or something comparable) to search through there drive(s) and select or

Re: lingo-l highlighting a chunk in text member

2003-11-21 Thread Jeff Gomes
Please remember to check the manual or online help, before inquiring here. However, I will take pity on you, since the documentation does seem less than ideal in the areas of #text and #field members (and what the hell, it's Friday night and I apparently have no life). ;) Here is a quote

Re: lingo-l rotate image object arount a specified point

2003-11-12 Thread Jeff Gomes
Caution -- the following is untested and is being dredged from my sleep-deprived memory. 1) Convert the starting image rect to a quad. 2) Offset the quad by the negative of the desired origin point, thus temporarily making point(0,0) coincide with the desired origin. 3) Apply your rotation

Re: lingo-l Hidden files

2003-11-04 Thread Jeff Gomes
I figure that the sort of user who has not changed his system defaults (hiding 'hidden' files and hiding file extensions) is just the sort who might get confused about what to click on if he should inadvertently find his hapless self at the root of my CD! For him, something I have set as

Re: lingo-l re:unexpected selection of a text member

2003-09-06 Thread Jeff Gomes
Glad I could help. :) IIRC, those application event handlers arrived with Dir 8. At 1909 +0200 09/06/2003, jean-louis valero wrote: ... thank you very much, Jeff Gomes , it is the solution on the Mac too and with miaw ! ( I never saw before these functions, activateApplication

Re: lingo-l unexpected selection of a text member

2003-09-05 Thread Jeff Gomes
on activateApplication FIRST set the keyboardFocusSprite to my_text_sprite_number THEN set my_text_mem.selection to the value stored above end /PSEUDO-CODE --- Jeff Gomes MultiMedia Magic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Giving Life

Re: lingo-l Fooling Windows

2003-08-14 Thread Jeff Gomes
-ROM program to create some type of an event, so Windows does not go into screensaver mode? ... --- Jeff Gomes MultiMedia Magic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Giving Life to Your Ideas --- [To remove

lingo-l Web browser with Director mac kiosk?

2002-06-26 Thread Jeff Gomes
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Re: lingo-l protecting bitmaps ???

2002-03-15 Thread Jeff Gomes
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