RE: Microsoft Script Control and Director

2003-02-25 Thread Kenneth Prat
> I have recently played around a bit with the Microsoft Script > Control in connection with director (windows only, of course). > http://dasdeck.de/staff/valentin/ScriptControl/ Very nifty! This and Bruce's AppleScript Xtra make Director about as powerful as you want to it be. BWAHAHA. > I woul

RE: How to search the list ... for a good way of learning Lingo

2002-12-21 Thread Kenneth Prat
> Dear group > Is it possible to search the archives of the list? I checked out the > Penworks web pages but couldn't find reference to archives. Many listservs put relevant links in the headers these days... >From the headers of this message: http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/archives/lingo-l [To

RE: ANN: Director MX

2002-11-25 Thread Kenneth Prat
And what about... gXML = new("XML")? > All, > > > Oh, that's good - Flash's array functions will be nice to > > have available. > > And the Math object too... :) > > gMath = newObject("Math") > > -- use the math object's floor method > gMath.floor(3.6) > -- 3. > > -- use the math object

RE: ini-file question

2002-11-05 Thread Kenneth Prat
Do you have any command line stuff being passed? This will break the single instance setting. > Hi, > > I want to allow only one projector to be launched at a time. > My ini file > looks like this: > -- > [Settings] > SingleInstance=1 > -- > > Ini file is named Start.ini and my projectors name

RE: the stage and the menubar-stage position on PC

2002-10-06 Thread Kenneth Prat
Try something like this: If the platform starts "W" then (the stage).drawrect = (the stage).drawrect - [0, 30, 0, 30] End if > How to avoid In a projector PC ,the menubar dont cover first 30 > pixels of the stage as in mac projectors? > > I have a stage of 800x600 were the menu cover this

RE: recording sound in a Shockwave app in a Web page

2002-09-20 Thread Kenneth Prat
Check out http://www.englishelearning.com for an example of recording in Shockwave using the Audio Xtra from UpdateStage. No uploading to the server, though... > Has anyone created a Shockwave app that can record sound off > the user's mic and store it to the Web server? Kind of a Dictaphone in

RE: Windows XP-Chinese Traditional

2002-07-30 Thread Kenneth Prat
Hi Kerry, Have you found it necessary to protect/compress the Director movie files with Japanese Director as well? I looked at the files in a binary editor and they seem to have different headers, but I'm not sure there's any other differences. I usually protect/compress with Japanese Director,

RE: MUI Xtra

2002-07-29 Thread Kenneth Prat
You need to save the index of the edit field in a global via something along these lines: global gdlg, gdlgItems global gBrowseEditTextNdx ... temp = getItemPropList(gdlg) temp.value = "" temp.type = #editText append gdlgItems, duplicate(temp) gBrowseEditTextNdx = count(gdlgItems)

RE: practical difference between protected and shockwaved

2002-07-02 Thread Kenneth Prat
Protected casts allow save castlib functionality, and the resulting cast is unprotected, except for scripts. Also, literal strings in scripts are preserved and can be read by opening the cast simple text editor. Shocked casts do not support save castlib and literal strings in scripts are obfuscat

RE: winxp and creating a projector...

2002-06-14 Thread Kenneth Prat
> Turns out it won't make a projector of a file from the > desktop; I put it in a folder and it was fine. > > Anyone else see this? Nope, works fine here from a desktop movie... [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To po

RE: fileIO docs? Filename limitations

2002-06-13 Thread Kenneth Prat
Note that fileio has some limitations on the length of a path it will read/write to. On modern versions of windows, this can easily cause problems since default save paths look like: C:\Documents and Settings\Kenneth Prat\My Documents\... I swapped out fileio read/writes for the ones in the

RE: Pictures in text boxes.

2002-05-10 Thread Kenneth Prat
The best way to do this would be to create a custom font containing the emoticons and embed it in your movie. > Hi people, im writing this in antispation for a future > project. Im thinking of making a chatroom for my website and > was wondering is it possinle to add little EMOTION graphics >

RE: dialup with director

2002-05-07 Thread Kenneth Prat
> >> >What I thought (is this the right spell?) is a file with ISP > >> numbers > >in > >> >each city. the user chooses it city put your pass and > login and the > >> >program do a connection with this inputs to the number of that > >choosen > >> >city, so after that he/her can open the bro

RE: dialup with director

2002-05-07 Thread Kenneth Prat
> >What I thought (is this the right spell?) is a file with ISP numbers in > >each city. the user chooses it city put your pass and login and the > >program do a connection with this inputs to the number of that choosen > >city, so after that he/her can open the browser and navigate. > > You c

RE: appending one list with another...

2002-04-10 Thread Kenneth Prat
Not unless you want to use the vList Xtra, which has a free function for doing this. > so I've got 2 prop lists; I'd like to append one to the other witout > having to do the 1 to count of the secondthere's no other > way, right? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest m

RE: Opening HTML files with Director.

2002-04-03 Thread Kenneth Prat
>1. Insert the CD. >2. Locate the "My computer" icon. Double-click to open it. >3. Locate the CD-ROM icon. Double-click to open it. >4. Locate the program. Double-click to run it. Warren, I hate to be the one to tell you this (well... not really), but the default install for XP ha