Re: Reading the registry - always allowed?

2004-03-15 Thread Penworks Corporation
You should always be ALLOWED to read the registry, that is, you shouldn't expect a crash, but I can imagine some scenarios where you might not be able to successfully get what you want... 1) The value doesn't exist 2) The value has a security profile that doesn't allow you to read it 3) The valu

Re: Director MX splash

2002-12-10 Thread Penworks Corporation
Until an official date is set, no one outside Macromedia will know, and anyone inside will keep quiet (assuming they know). Any dates you hear would be speculative. They are currently taking pre-sales orders, and HISTORICALLY if they announce the product, they usually try to have it on the sh

Re: Since we're on the topic of bugs

2002-11-12 Thread Penworks Corporation
Um, convert it to the current version? At 03:48 PM 11/12/02, Kurt Griffin wrote: Anyone know if there's a cure to the periodic "This movie was created with an older version of Director..." bug? It's been happening quite frequently to me lately, and has really gotten under my skin (each alert doe

Re: memeory question...

2002-09-09 Thread Penworks Corporation
Actually I would amend that even more - I forgot about the list architecture itself. I don't know offhand how it's done, but if you want to say that it's a doubly-linked list, then you have to add in a few more longs for pointers foward and back - probably at least another 64 bits, so assume

Re: cd name/listing from director

2002-08-09 Thread Penworks Corporation
You can use the CD Pro Xtra to do this - it'll give you a list of CDs, including volume name. http://www.penworks.com/xtras/cdpro At 11:02 AM 8/9/02, Andreas Gaunitz P11 wrote: >>Hi all, >>is there a way, to read from dir a cd name+content? >>i mean, if a cd volume is mounted on desktop, i n

Re: Is Director going to be Scrapped?

2002-08-01 Thread Penworks Corporation
I have not heard anything, but I would say it is unlikely. It might be de-emphasized, if Flash is more popular, but here is my thinking on it: FLASH REPLACES DIRECTOR I think this is unlikely. For Director features to be folded into Flash, that means that Flash now has to support Xtras, and

Re: loch max = -32768

2002-06-18 Thread Penworks Corporation
Since Director originally was a 16-bit app, and 32-bit wasn't introduced until Director 5, most likely the file format and everything for those was still 16-bit; there being no practical reason (other than perhaps speed) to move to 32-bit ints. Also, the speed diff between 16 and 32 would be

ANNC: VPlayer Xtra - play video files with alpha/chroma!

2002-06-13 Thread Penworks Corporation
Penworks Corporation (www.penworks.com), developer of commercial and custom Xtras is pleased to announce the availability of the VPlayer (tm) Xtra for Macromedia Director on Windows. The VPlayer Xtra can play back video files (MPEG, AVI, QuickTime (if installed)) as a sprite, but can also

ANNC: VPlayer Xtra - play video files with alpha/chroma!

2002-06-13 Thread Penworks Corporation
Penworks Corporation (www.penworks.com), developer of commercial and custom Xtras is pleased to announce the availability of the VPlayer (tm) Xtra for Macromedia Director on Windows. The VPlayer Xtra can play back video files (MPEG, AVI, QuickTime (if installed)) as a sprite, but can also

Re: Hex to decimal formula

2002-06-07 Thread Penworks Corporation
Well, you can do small chunks of numbers by co-opting the rgb function, as in: put rgb("A9") -- rgb( 0, 0, 169 ) The problem is that when you go over one byte, then you get each byte individually, and of course, it doesn't go over three bytes total put rgb("F31AA9") -- rgb( 243, 2

Re: Movies in a window - can this be done

2002-05-15 Thread Penworks Corporation
I've done it so they sync up after the move, but like you I don't know when a move is initiated (or have the coords while it's in progress). I'm sure I could do it if I wrote an Xtra for it, but just through Lingo, probably not, as far as I can tell. At 09:33 AM 5/15/02 +0100, Lee Blinco wr

Re: How do I learn lingo scripting?

2002-04-10 Thread Penworks Corporation
Hi Noelle, I think when you talk about library palette behaviors meaning you're at an intermediate level, that probably is more "early intermediate" or "advanced beginner" for using Director itself, not for Lingo. Using behaviors is sort of pre-beginner as far as Lingo programming goes. The

Re: EXCEPT AS SET FORTH.

2002-01-30 Thread Penworks Corporation
Do not run those attachments. Apparently that one sneaked through our filter. I hope I have it fixed now. At 04:06 PM 1/30/02 -0600, tt wrote: >IF APPLICABLE LAW IMPLIES ANY WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO THE SOFTWARE, ALL >SUCH WARRANTIES ARE LIMITED IN DURATION TO NINETY (90) DAYS FROM THE DAT