lingo-l change full screen mode at runtime in Dir 8.5.1

Hi List, if a projector is created using the option fullscreen, is it possible to change that at runtime, so that after pressing a key for instance it runs in a window? I am using Dir 8.5.1. Thanks Michael [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

lingo-l mouse selection doesn't work in projector

Hi list, I have an urgent question: I have an editable text field, in which the user should be able to select chunks of text to format them. In authoring, everything works fine, but when I make a projector out of the file, clicking and dragging the mouse doesn't select anymore (no highlited

lingo-l mouse selection doesn't work in projector

I forgot: I am on Dir 8.5.1, Win2K Thanks! [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

AW: lingo-l Lingo to control two computers simultaneously???

The Multi-user xtra is the way this is generally done. I agree to that. I have done this before with 6 computers running a presentation similar to yours simultaneously on 6 screens. I also think that there is no better way to do it. I just want to warn you: The accuracy of this kind of

AW: lingo-l propsave Xtra and images

yes it does, but it doesn't work with image objects. I wonder why this is not possible ... Michael [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

lingo-l propsave Xtra and images

Hi list! The propsave Xtra that I think many of you have already used, should be able to save all sorts of Director media types, including images. Well, I have tried to save images, but I didn't work. The media type of the restored image was #unknown. I tried it both within a list and without

AW: lingo-l propsave Xtra and images

You could use the ProgressCopy Xtra from www.updatestage.com ProgressCopy is not exactky what I am looking for. propsave would be perfect, if it worked. There must be some people out there who have successfully saved lists containing images among other media types. I would be very grateful if

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Well, I have seen the pimu.com page and seen that the picture type is supported. What I didn't know until now is that #picture and #image are different things. The problem now seems to be that plain image objects which do not reside in a bitmap cast member cannot be saved with propsave. In my

lingo-l OOP: shortest handler name

Hi everybody, I have a baxic question about parent scripts. Until now, a typical handler definition in a parent script of mine looked like on mWhatToDo me ... end and it was run like that: me.mWhatToDo() Now I have a handler that is called very often so that it would be nice, if the

AW: lingo-l copypixels on quads

-Ursprungliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von Michael von Aichberger Gesendet: Samstag, 22. Mai 2004 17:57 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: lingo-l copypixels on quads Hi List! I have to use the copypixels command to copy a rectangular source image

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, thanks in advance for posting it! Best regards Michael -Ursprungliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von Michael von Aichberger Gesendet: Samstag, 22. Mai 2004 17:57 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: lingo-l copypixels on quads Hi List! I have to use

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This might be relegated to email Lingo you are right of course, the ] is misplaced, but as you figured it came in when writing the email. It's not the real issue. Thanks anyway for replying! Michael -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von

lingo-l copypixels on quads

Hi List! I have to use the copypixels command to copy a rectangular source image into a non-rectangular (quad) image using something like pointL = [point(825, 712), point(2269, 592), point(2452, 1365), point(861, 1515)] targetImg.copyPixels(sourceImg, pointL, sourceImg.rect]) The result is

lingo-l Making an 3D-egg out of primitives

Hi List, does anybody know, if it is possible to create a model resource of a simple egg in Director itself (using primitives) and if so how? Or do I need to create one with another 3D tool and import that into Director? Thanks for your estimation Michael [To remove yourself from this

lingo-l alerthook

Hi List! I have a Director application (projector) that runs on a remote computer connected to a net server. The application is complex, uses dynamic casts and can produce Lingo errors from time to time. To avoid the system to completely stop working when an error occurs (as there isn't anybody

AW: lingo-l wireframe display of 3D text

Just set the shader's renderStyle property to #wire: member(text).shader[1].renderStyle = #wire Thanks Tom! Works great. However: I expected my animation to render significantly faster with the renderstyle set to #wire. This seems not to be the case. I would like the wireframe superimposed

lingo-l screensavers retrieving data from the web

Hi List! I have a little Director application that is animating some text. The text is retrieved from some source on the internet. Now I would like to transform this piece into a screensaver. I have looked at the impressively long list of Xtras that could do the job, but I am not sure if the

AW: lingo-l wireframe display of 3D text

Why not take that background existing image and make it a backdrop in your 3D world? good idea, very good idea indeed !!! Thanks a lot, this really helped! Michael [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

lingo-l wireframe display of 3D text

Hi List! Here's a simple question for the 3D experts of you: Is there a way to display a text member in 3D mode as a wireframe? I didn't find anything on this in the docs ... Thanks in advance Michael [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

lingo-l Shockwave 3D: positioning textures

Hi List, I hope there's still someone around to help me doing my first steps in 3D Lingo. So I have this cylinder primitive and I have an image for a texture. The image is the scanned label of a wine bottle, the cylinder - as you might have guessed - represents a portion of a wine bottle. When

AW: lingo-l Shockwave 3D: positioning textures

Thanks Troy, I have not yet but will follow your advice and get that piece. If in the meantime someone should want to point me in the right direction, please do! Thanks again Michael [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi

lingo-l 3D newbie questions

Hi List! I am just beginning to learn Shockwave 3D and use it for a first project. And already I have to come up with 2 questions: 1. When the movie with the 3D member is running in authoring mode, all other applications significantly slow down (including os applications like the explorer).

lingo-l word-wrapping with hyphenation in Director

Hi List! Does someone of you guys know of a way to do real word-wrapping in Director? I mean with a dictionary that tells where a word can be separated ... Maybe there is an xtra for it? Or a least a digital dictionary containing hyphenation information, preferably in numerous languages, that I

lingo-l rotate image object arount a specified point

Hi List, especially hi hardcore programmers! Some time ago I posted a similar question to this one and Alex da Franca sent me a little script that rotated an image by a given angle. Thanks Alex, I really appreciated your help! Today I have an even more difficult question: I now need to rotate an

AW: AW: lingo-l copyPixels and alpha channel

/director/copypixels.html Regards, Daniel Michael von Aichberger wrote: In my own experimentation, I was unable to use copyPixels to properly composite two bitmaps with alpha channels. Has anyone here used copyPixels successfully? yes, I have. To copy img1 with its alpha channel into img2

AW: AW: AW: lingo-l copyPixels and alpha channel

What do you get when you run my example (it plays in a browser)? Your example delivers the results that you described ... maybe you want to post some lines of code? Regards Michael [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To

AW: lingo-l copyPixels and alpha channel

Michael, can you post your test? I think I posted it already, it only this bit of code: on test img1 = member(img1).image.duplicate() -- Background Image img2 = member(img2).image.duplicate() -- image with alpha channel img2.usealpha = TRUE -- use

AW: lingo-l copyPixels and alpha channel

In my own experimentation, I was unable to use copyPixels to properly composite two bitmaps with alpha channels. Has anyone here used copyPixels successfully? yes, I have. To copy img1 with its alpha channel into img2 use img1.useAlpha = TRUE img2.copyPixels(img1, img2.rect, img1.rect)

lingo-l encryption Lingo-PHP

Hi List! I have to encrypt some data, send it to a php script and decrypt it there. I could use buddyAPI's baencrypt in Lingo, but how would I decrypt that in PHP? Or if somebody had a php solution to decrypt and could tell me how to encrypt that in Lingo, I'd be very grateful! Thanks for

lingo-l memory usage of bitmap 24/32-bit images/ bitmap cast members

Hi List, I know how to calculate the amount of memory an image takes: img.width * img.height * img.depth / 8 If I import a 24-bit image, the resulting cast member is 32 bit. Or if I create an image in 24 bit color depth: img = image(width, height, 24) img.depth always gives 32. Maybe it's

AW: lingo-l memory usage of bitmap 24/32-bit images/ bitmap cast members

32-bit would be fastest from the point of view of accessing (quickest to access a 32-bit offset) but it's a pig when it comes to space. Thanks Tab and all who answered. The 1-bit, 8-bit or 16-bit solutions don't interest me, because my images are and have to be 24-bit. Can anybody please

lingo-l explore properties of script objects

Hi everybody! I have a script object, like gObj = new(script oTest). The function gObj.handlers() gives me all the methods of that script. Is there a comparable function that gives me all the properties and their values? Thanks Michael [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to

AW: lingo-l animating scaling of sprites

Hi Kerry, for the example, I'll do that, but off-list and later (I am busy with other things now). Actually, 1/24th of a second. Cinema movies play at 24 fps. Right and wrong. Cinema plays at 24 fps but even so 1 frame is displayed for 1/48 second. The rest of the time is used to move the

AW: AW: lingo-l Re: Triggering a Director movie from the internet

Hi Evan! Thank you very much for your elaborate answer. It seems as it describes a viable solution, yet it's nothing I could try in 5 mins and tell you if it worked for me or not. So thanks for your offer to email you off list, which I appreciate very much. I might come back to it later.

AW: lingo-l Re: Triggering a Director movie from the internet

Hi Cole! Or if the internet user doesn't do it directly, how could a PHP Server connect to a Director projector via the MUI? I'm sure it could be done with php's fgets and fputs socket commands. Thanks for your answer. I am not a PHP geek, I just know that fgets and fputs are used to read and

AW: lingo-l animating scaling of sprites

So about 23 % of the disc was metal Sorry, I meant 25 % -Ursprungliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von Michael von Aichberger Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. August 2003 00:43 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: AW: lingo-l animating scaling of sprites Hi

AW: lingo-l animating scaling of sprites

In my opinion this effect is due to the frequency difference of the animation and the graphics adaptor. Director or Flash could be running let's say at 13 fps, whereas the graphics adaptor would run at 60 fps for example. The graphics adaptor is drawing a new frame line by line. If director

AW: lingo-l animating scaling of sprites

Kerry, I am not a computer hardware specialist, but I am QUITE sure my theory is correct. Here's why: The graphics adaptor will draw the screen at whatever refresh rate you set--we can use 60 Hz as a base rate. This is exactly what you can use for testing. Change the refresh rate and watch

AW: lingo-l Re: Triggering a Director movie from the internet

Thanks Cole! I appreciate it! Michael [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

AW: lingo-l Seriously OT: Automatic shutdown of Windows XP

I had the same problem. It's some kind of a virus and can be fixed by installing a windows patch. I have this solution from a German mailing list, so I can only offer you the link to the patch of the German version for Win 2K. Here it is:

lingo-l Triggering a Director movie from the internet

Hi everybody, I have a serious problem: I need to run a Director movie on an internet server or have a Director movie be controlled by an internet server. Here's the whole story: An internet user opens a web site and enters some text. He clicks on a button and the text is transferred to an

AW: lingo-l Triggering a Director movie from the internet

Hi Evan! I'd look into the multiuser xtra and server. I have been working with the Multiuser Xtra before. The problem is: How can an internet user who hasn't Shockwave installed communicate with a Director projector running the Multiuser Xtra? Or if the internet user doesn't do it directly,

AW: lingo-l Re: MUS performance

Hi Cole, thanks for your answer, but sorry, me = greenhorn What's a packet sniffer, where do I get such thing and how do I use it? Thanks again! Michael -Ursprungliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von Cole Tierney Gesendet: Dienstag, 22. Juli

lingo-l MUI performance

Dear List! I have an application that in the first place runs an MPEG2 video using the OnStage Media for Director Xtra. On a selected PC, the processor usage is about 20 % when the MPEG is running. In a second step I created an instance of the Multi User Xtra. I need the MUI to trigger some

AW: lingo-l Re: MUI performance

Do you mean MUS xtra? yes In either case, I'm not sure why this would impact performance. It does, but not on all systems. (On 1.8 GHz-Athlon it does, on a 2.6 Pentium it doesn't). When it does, it does only if the computer is configured as the MUS server. When one and the same computer runs

AW: lingo-l Error I haven't seen before

I had a similar problem once and the reason turned out to be quite simple: The client had made a copy of my master using some method that didn't copy hidden files. However, if I recall it right, some Acrobat installation stuff consisted of hidden or system files. That was the problem in that

lingo-l tell when importFileInto is done?

Hi list! For a simple slide show application I am using very large images (4096 x 768). I am using two cast members. When cast member A is displaying a slide, I use importFileInto to import the next slide into cast member B. And vice versa. My problem: Even though the images are on the local

AW: lingo-l tell when importFileInto is done?

Hi Kerry and Mathew and Rob! Thanks for your suggestions. Setting the filename property works for me. I have done this before, in fact this is how I normally do it. I wanted to use importFileInto this time, because I wanted to avoid having externally linked cast members in my projector. I

AW: AW: lingo-l tell when importFileInto is done?

Hi Rob, I don't want to reset the member to any file name, but to no filename. Because, when the movie starts, this member should not be externally linked at all. So what do you do suggest for how to reset in this case? thx Michael -Ursprungliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

lingo-l convert a gif file to HEX values

Hi! Does anyone have an ideo how to convert a gif file into a series of hex-values, as needed when sending SMS picture messages? Thanks Michael [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

AW: lingo-l convert a gif file to HEX values

Hi Tom, thanks for you answer. I doubt that the method you mentioned would work. Because how would the cell phone know about how wide or high the image would be? I mean there must be some information in the gif file other than the color values of all the pixels in a row ... I know that the PHP

lingo-l downloadnetthing

Hi list! When I download an image from a web server using downloadnetthing, the downloaded file's creation date and time is that of the download. Is there any way of getting the creation date of the original file? Thanks for your help! Michael [To remove yourself from this list, or to change

lingo-l addressing casts of different movies

Hi List! Suppose you have two movies running at the same time. The stage and a MIAW for instance. Suppose you have Lingo code in a global script object. The methods of this code are accessible from either movie. Suppose that code contained a term like member(1).text = bla. If the code of the

AW: lingo-l addressing casts of different movies

on fillTextMember tell the stage member(1).text = This is me! end tell end fillTextMember Thanks Pranav, but that's not it, because the line member(1).text = This is me! is supposed to be in a global script object that could be called either from the stage movie or the

AW: AW: lingo-l addressing casts of different movies

Thanks Pranav! I'll give it a try! Michael [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

AW: lingo-l addressing casts of different movies

Hi Brad! If the script object that contains the member(...) reference were called from the stage and I specified a castname of the MIAW as you do, Director wouldn't find the cast, because at this point it only recognizes the casts that are associated with the stage. So I do need the tell

AW: lingo-l transition channel not visible

Try setting the member of the transition channel to an empty cast position. Thanks, but that would work for a particular frame only. What I need is to disable all transitions in the whole movie for a time and the enable them again: Background: My movie is kind of a slide show with tranitions

AW: lingo-l transition channel not visible

Well, as a matter of fact I am using puppetTransition for ordinary blends, but as I said, most of the transitions are DM fades (a third party Xtra). I am not sure if I can use the puppetTransition command with DMfades. And as to the idea of inserting code in the frame scripts of the slide show:

AW: lingo-l transition channel not visible

At least now he has some options ^_^ Yes, Buzz and Kerry, thank you for those. I will think about them! Michael [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

lingo-l transition channel not visible

Hi List! What's the Lingo for making the transition channel invisible? sprite(-3).visible = FALSE doesn't seem to work, although it can be done manually by clicking in the box at the left of the channel. Or is there another way of temporarily disabling the transitions with Lingo? Thank you

AW: lingo-l Virtual sprites

Hi Kerry! When I delete member 279, something funny happens: The phantom framescript is still in that frame, this time with member 34. If I delete member 34, another member takes the place. But your advice to perform save and compact seemed to have done the trick. I should have tried that

lingo-l Virtual sprites

Hi everybody! I have never used virtual sprites, but now I have a director file with a strange thing in it that could relate to virtual sprites: In the script channel, there are many frame scripts as they should. And in one particular frame, if I look at the score, there is no framescript, but

AW: lingo-l icon question

I tested a freebie called InnoSetup Icon Replacement Utility from http://www.davidcornish.com and found that the icon was changed fine but I still needed the ini file reference (not really an issue I don't think) so thins may be another option for you. [Movies] Movie01=mymovie.dxr I also

AW: lingo-l icon question

A! That was it! I didn't know that the entry in the .ini-file describes the file the stub projector jumps to. I thought I had to write the name of the stub projector in it. Now it works, except for one thing: The movie runs in a window, not in fullscreen mode. How can I change that? I guess

AW: lingo-l icon question

Brad wrote: On PC I can recommend: Resource Hacker for changing over icons exe properties etc. http://www.users.on.net/johnson/resourcehacker/ Hi Brad and everybody! I just tried Resource Hacker, the tool you recommended. I created a fast starting stub projector on the PC as described in

AW: lingo-l fastest computer system for Director applications

Hi again, thanks so far! My video board is: ASUS V8170 DDR As to the processor speed: When running a very simple lingo-benchmark (timing a repeat loop that does nothing) my 1466 MHs Athlon PC is about 25 % faster than an Intel 1.7 GHz Processor. So I think, the processor's cpu rate alone doesn't

lingo-l fastest computer system for Director applications

Hi List! I am working on a movie that should deliver imaging lingo effects in real time. For that I need a very fast computer system. What I know is that my Athlon 1466 MHz-PC is too slow for it. I wonder, if Director supports dual processor cpus. If not, then what do you think is today's

AW: lingo-l convert pdfs into bitmaps with Lingo

Shouldn't be a problem, but note that the pdf xtra sees pdf sprites as direct to stage ... So myImage = (the stage).image will include the pdf sprite on the stage, even if those are direct to stage? I am asking again, as Quicktime movies that are direct to stage can't be captured like that ...

lingo-l convert pdfs into bitmaps with Lingo

Hi everybody! I have to import pdfs at runtime from some place on a hard disk into my Director movie. After that I would like to convert those pdfs into image objects in order to do some imaging Linog effects with them, like quad distorsion. Has anybody used the pdf Xtra and could tell me if

AW: lingo-l create a mask of an image

'Massage' the 24-bit image first, thinking out loud: Make another image object the same size that is some appropriate shade of grey Copy the second image onto the first using an appropriate ink (probably blend, lighten or darken) Copy the resulting image into a 1-bit image Hi Carl, thanks

AW: AW: lingo-l create a mask of an image

If you could preprocess the images no, I have to create a mask of an image that I create from scratch with Imaging Lingo you could probably use set/getpixel to tickle each pixel set/getpixel would certainly work, but it is far too slow I still have hope that it might work with copyPixels. In

AW: AW: lingo-l create a mask of an image

Thanks Carl, James, Andreas! Works great! Michael [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

lingo-l baDeleteFile / getNthFileNameInFolder

Hi List! When I delete a file on my harddisk (win2k) with baDeleteFile, the windows explorer shows me that the file no longer exists. However, when I use Lingo's getNthFileNameInFolder-command (Dir 8.5.1), its file name is still retrieved as if it existed. And that even after stopping and

AW: lingo-l baDeleteFile / getNthFileNameInFolder

When I use baFindFirstFile instead of getNthFileNameInFolder(myFolder, 1) it works fine! That doesn't answer the question, but solves the problem. Michael [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,

AW: lingo-l switching between several quicktime movies

I notice that you are using 384 x 288 for the mpg1, I've done some testing on this and on older PC's 352 x 288 seems to give the best reproduction. Hi Dave! I have never thought of using 352 x 288 and stretching it to the original aspect ratio. I thought that stretching would deteriorate

AW: lingo-l switching between several quicktime movies

Another approach would be to track everything as you are, and when you want to switch videos, move the current video off-stage, stop it, change the file name of the sprite, reset the movie time, and move it back on stage. I'm a one-frame kind of guy, so I would tend to use that approach. Hi

AW: AW: AW: lingo-l switching between several quicktime movies

But I thought the other two videos were QT videos. Doesn't that mean that Windows users have to have QT anyway? No, it's one and the same video in different qualities/formats. Depending on the speed and configuration of one's computer one can decide which way to go. [To remove yourself from

lingo-l switching between several quicktime movies

Hi list! I am currently producing a cd-rom with just one digital video (4 mins) on it, but this in 3 formats / sizes. Here are the sizes: 1 quicktime sorenson 3, 320 x 240, 12.5 fps mono 2 mpg1/directmediaXtra, 384 x 288, 25 fps stereo 3 quicktime sorenson 3, 384 x 288, 25 fps stereo All three

lingo-l sending emails with baOpenURL

Hi list! I want to enable the user of a cd-rom to send emails with his own e-mail software such as Outlook. Fot this I could use buddyAPI's baOpenURL command: ok = baOpenURL(mailto:; where ?subject= subject body= body, normal) This works but the body text appears in one single line only.

AW: lingo-l sending emails with baOpenURL

ok, I found it: urlEncode(RETURN) Sorry for posting. Michael [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

lingo-l digital video not working when in external cast

Hi list, In a CD-ROM project I had 3 digital video cast members (2 x QT, 1 x MPEG/tabuleiro directmedia) in my internal cast, had them in sprites on the stage, everything worked fine (Win2K, Dir 8.5.1). Now I have to make a hybrid version of the cd-rom. The DirectmediaXtra not being available for

AW: lingo-l image of a text member

Did you try putting the new bitmap on stage? When you get the image of a text member you get an alpha channel as well - notice it's 32 bits. When you put it on stage you should see it correctly I didn't want it to be on stage. I wanted to get its pixel with getpixel. And with getpixel I got the

AW: AW: lingo-l image of a text member

Have you tried using getPixel(x, y, #integer) ? Thanks James, very interesting. I will remember that. After all, I did get it work using copyPixels. I had to use copyPixels anyway, because I had to care for variable length of text. So when copypixeling the 32bit image into a 24bit image, the

lingo-l image of a text member

Hi list, can you reproduce this (Dir 8.5.1 Win2K): Create some text in a text member (text color and bgcolor color don't matter): member(test) In the message window type: x = new(#bitmap) x.image = member(test).image The result is a bitmap member, the thumbnail of which is the correct

lingo-l synchronize Director with Graphics adapter

Hi list! I guess some of you have already experienced this effect: Creating full frame video-like animations at a video-like frequency (25 fps to 30 fps in Director), results in a flickering image. I think the effect is due to the fact that the frequency Director uses to update the stage is

lingo-l controlling DMX

Hi everybody! Has any of you ever controlled DMX lamps with Director? I know of one way to do it (with Dataton control equipment and the SMARTPAX scripting Xtra), but it can only control the first 32 channels in a DMX chain. I might have to control more than a thousand lamps and that very

lingo-l web page in director

Hi List! Is it possible to capture the image of a web page (a screenshot, not just the text part of it) into an image object in director to use it in a presentation? Thanks for any suggestions ... Michael [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

AW: lingo-l web page in director

Thanks, I'll try it! Michael [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.

AW: lingo-l How to stop a loop.

related question: Does anybody know why sound continues to run smooothly during a tight repeat loop? After all, I presume sound is also using the CPU, isn't it? Michael [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages

lingo-l MultiuserXtra peer-to-peer time lags

Hi list, I have still problems using the Multiuser Xtra in a peer to peer setup. Here is what I have to do: I have hooked up 6 fast PCs, running Win2000, in a peer-to-peer manner, TCP/IP protocol, 100 Mbit/s. Each of them runs a projector, one of them serves as the server errCode =

lingo-l OOP question

Hi List! Here's a simple question for the OOP gurus among you: Suppose I have a script object with a property that contains an image. From that object I create many many instances of ANOTHER - one other - script object, different from the script object that holds the image and creates the

AW: lingo-l OOP question

Hi Daniel! You could easily test it by a) watch the freebytes / freeblocks both commands don't work in Windows (at least not for me: win2000, Dir 8.5G) I would be lucky if I could use them change the image good idea, maybe I'll do that, unless someone else confirms the impression you're under

lingo-l paletteIndex to integer

Hi list, I have a simple Imaging Lingo problem. When using the getPixel-command with an 8-bit image, the result is something like that: paletteIndex( 105 ) Now I want just the integer value of the index. In this case 105. I can have that using value(string(x).char[15..17]) Is there a

AW: lingo-l paletteIndex to integer

ok, got it. I remembered that one can get the integer right away by writing getPixel(x, y, #integer) [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

lingo-l drawing a dotted line

Hi List! Is there a way of using the draw() command to draw a dotted line? (-- or some other way?) Thanks! Michael [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,

lingo-l oop question

to learn oop, so ... I'm sure there's some fundamental misconception about some oop thing, but I don't know, how to do it properly. Can somebody help? Thanks in advance Michael von Aichberger [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo

AW: lingo-l oop question

It looks at the data and finds out what source images are needed. I assume here you are referring to what image frames were specified by the user. If so, I'll buy that. No, to give you a simplified description of what could be going on: The sequence could be a zoom into or a pan across one

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I hope you don't mind my indiscretion - but you caught my attention with your project. If you have lots of media (as enumerated in your last posting) and give the user means to bring them together and make kind of a presentation, there must be something in the structure of your program that

AW: lingo-l file size and memory

Do you really need such a large single image? Yes. That's what this movie's all about: Manipulating the whole image and exporting parts of it as a video sequence. Thanks anyway Michael [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi

AW: lingo-l logical terms

In observing this discussion, it seems that the complexity of the issue is in the conversion of the 24 binary bits into Hexadecimal and vice versa. Is there a reason you can't use the 24 bits as the filename instead of the Hex conversion? No, this is easy. And the reason why I prefer hex code

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