Re: lingo-l resourceid reserved word?

2004-09-29 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: roymeo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Never, EVER depend upon the capitalization of #symbols. For network operations, you don't even need to use symbols, so the problem is easily avoided. I always do something like this: vArgs = [:] vArgs[ resourceid ] = 123 vArgs[

Re: lingo-l Buddy API

2004-09-19 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: roymeo [EMAIL PROTECTED] And You should NEVER presume that you know my project better than I do. You seem to have misunderstood the scope of my argument. Since I apparently wasn't clear enough about it, I was only talking about freely distributed software.

Re: lingo-l Secure Sandbox (was: Buddy API)

2004-09-19 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Stephen Ingrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] First of all, I generally agree with you. But, there are ways to make it work. I know, which is why I feel it is important to get the point across to the casual developers out there who might not weigh up the pros cons

Re: lingo-l Buddy API

2004-09-18 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: KLGC Studio [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ snip: about changing monitor resolutions ] The key is to be very polite and informative about doing so. The key is to give an *option* to do so, which the user can choose to ignore. Of course, this doesn't apply to kiosk-type

Re: lingo-l Buddy API

2004-09-18 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: KLGC Studio [EMAIL PROTECTED] I like the way you base your argument on a convenient snippet (taken in part and out of context), I was essentially arguing the same point, but disagreeing with the opinion that there are occasions when it is OK to change the

lingo-l XPOST: Bugs, bugs, bugs!

2004-07-29 Thread Robert Tweed
Originally posted on macromedia.director.lingo - replies to the NG where possible, to keep everything in one place. -- Well, it's bug announcing time again. This message contains details of two new (AFAIK) bugs. I'd be grateful if people could independently verify the bugs on their systems

Re: lingo-l [OT] Autoresponders

2004-07-09 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Tab Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] (1) PLEASE turn off autoresponders, or unsubscribe. (2) If you see an autoresponder, TELL ME, but DON'T reply back to the list - that just makes more traffic and creates another autoresponder thread. This made me think about

Re: lingo-l [OT] Html Editor

2004-07-09 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Rodrigo [EMAIL PROTECTED] The HTMLArea is a what you see... editor. You only see the code if you want to. It's developed in html and javascript. Only problem is that it's not very good: I tested it on IE 6 and Mozilla 1.6, both on Windows: the editor worked

Re: lingo-l detect sprites with a certain property

2004-07-02 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Christoffer Enedahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] but this fails when a sprite has no properties as it returns a handler not in object error. so is it poosible to test for whether a sprite has any custom properties at all or not. try: if not voidP(

lingo-l [XPOST] ANN: LingoFish update - PHP source

2004-06-18 Thread Robert Tweed
A quick announcement for anyone who is using or would like to use Blowfish to encrypt communications between Director and PHP. I've just written some doumentation for my pure PHP implementation of the cipher (useful if you don't have mcrypt installed on your server), and uploaded it to my site. I

Re: lingo-l Event processing (was: pass with prepareMovie notpossible?)

2004-06-11 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: James Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3D worlds get certain events that only apply to them Got a list? Still haven't got into the 3D stuff yet. You'll find a list at the RegisterForEvent entry in the Lingo dictionary. Cheers. I'll look into the 3D events in

Re: lingo-l pass with prepareMovie not possible?

2004-06-10 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Jakob Hede Madsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unfortunately, you can't. Well, like I wrote previously; HE CAN. May I suggest that you test it yourself? Hmm, interesting, I've just checked it out in D85 and it does work - I'm surprised no-one came up with that when

Re: lingo-l Event processing (was: pass with prepareMovie not possible?)

2004-06-10 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Jakob Hede Madsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi James, I'm still a little baffled that everyone seems to agree that 'pass' doesn't work for movieEvents. I've actually just been investigating the order of event propagation for a short article I'm writing - I started

Re: lingo-l Event processing (was: pass with prepareMovie not possible?)

2004-06-10 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Alex da Franca [EMAIL PROTECTED] AFAIK the moviescripts in the same castlib as the object lives in, which the event came from, are given precedence, and THEN the castlibs are processed in their order. but you have to test it, because I am not 100% sure

Re: lingo-l Event processing (was: pass with prepareMovie not possible?)

2004-06-10 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Buzz Kettles [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1.5 - CAST MEMBER scripts (scripts attached TO the cast member themselves) - these have officially been deprecated, but they are still in wide usage - especially in legacy work newbie projects. Good point, I totally forgot

Re: lingo-l pass with prepareMovie not possible?

2004-06-09 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Roland Schroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is important that I can have more than one movie script with preapareMovie and startMovie procedures. Unfortunately, you can't. Lingo doesn't allow you to have two movie script functions with the same name, it just takes

Re: lingo-l scriptList vs. scriptInstanceList

2003-11-11 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Jeremy Aker [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is the proper method for removing objects from a sprite's scriptInstanceList? I've been using a script such as the following with good results: repeat with i = 1 to sprite(mySprite).scriptInstanceList.count

Re: lingo-l The value of void?

2003-04-03 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Tim MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] t = call(#undefined, the actorList) put t -- Null (This is one way I know of producing this value -- I'm sure there are others) put ilk(t) -- #void [snip] Is this an example of a dirty void? Or just another lingo

Re: lingo-l Re: void and stuff

2003-04-03 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This kind of issue would be solved if Macromedia gave us decent exception handling, so that we could stay in the scope of any anticipated errors when and where they happened without being catapulted into the nebulous world of alerthook,

Re: lingo-l The value of void?

2003-04-02 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Kerry Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then you will get different results depending on the apparently random output from this function with a single known input. That's not good from an engineering POV. Ah, but you will get consistent results with your

Re: lingo-l xtraP( instance ) ?

2003-04-02 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Daniel Plaenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] I could test for string( instance ) contains Xtra but that seems to consume a lot of cpu cycles It could also be buggy in the extising form - what about a script whose name contains Xtra, or Extra? I don't think there's a

Re: lingo-l xtraP( instance ) ?

2003-04-02 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Daniel Plaenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] because: put x.count -- 0 put y.count script error put getaProp( y, #count ) -- Void (at least, I think it works with Xtras - I've never actually tried) - Robert [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to

Re: lingo-l The value of void?

2003-04-02 Thread Robert Tweed
[ Long email warning - some may find the low-level programming stuff at the end interesting, others may want to avoid ] - Original Message - From: Kerry Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] As I said, the debate became rather acrimonious, to the point that some people, including MM engineers,

Re: lingo-l escape key code

2003-04-02 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Kerry Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone know what the ESC keycode is? Where can I find a list that corresponds to teh numbers Director uses? Sorry - In my previous response I sent the ANSI table I should have sent ASCII (right Kerry?) so

Re: lingo-l The value of void?

2003-04-02 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Kerry Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I stop short of saying it undermines Lingo's credibility, though. It's a known issue, with a known workaround, and just about every scripting language I've used has issues like this. Lingo remains a powerful and flexible

Re: lingo-l The value of void?

2003-04-01 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Will someone please decide once and for all what value(void) will return? I've got three different results, all on the same machine. For the rest of the list; anyone who can't see the JPEGs, the question should have been what is the value of

Re: lingo-l The value of void?

2003-04-01 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Colin Holgate [EMAIL PROTECTED] Except that you can't see that the first one is option-space. The message was apparently written a few days ago, but perhaps this is a developing April Fools joke. ??? My post was written yesterday in response to Pranav Tab's

Re: lingo-l The value of void?

2003-04-01 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Daniel Plaenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Even subtle details may matter here. Therefore, the above notation has to be corrected. Pranav's example (http://www.geocities.com/pranav_negandhi/freaky_chakra_2.jpg) reads: -- Welcome to Director -- put value() -- Void

Re: lingo-l The value of void?

2003-04-01 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Colin Holgate [EMAIL PROTECTED] I guess I imagined it then. The JPEG looks like there's something between the quotes, more of a than a . I can't exactly match the font or size, but screen shooting it and comparing what I can type still makes it seem like

Re: lingo-l The value of void?

2003-04-01 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Kerry Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] In some cases, someCondition could be Void. On the Mac, that boolean evaluated to FALSE. On Windows, it evaluated to TRUE. Are you sure it was always evaluating to VOID? Perhaps the problem was that it was evaluating to

Re: lingo-l The value of void?

2003-04-01 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Kerry Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think it has more to do with trying to use a void for anything useful. There have been long, sometimes acrimonious, threads about this. You miss the point here. If the value returned is sometimes VOID and sometimes 0, then

Re: lingo-l The value of void?

2003-04-01 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Daniel Plaenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] the *exact same code* is only what you see. I have had at least one case where directors symbol table was influenced by snippets of code that had been *deleted* but *still* were part of the .dir file. Invisible from within

Re: lingo-l Image size

2003-03-27 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Bertil Flink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or use Save for Web and choose png24 + transparancy (= 32bit). Seems to work OK so far. I haven't compared PS FW png:s side-by-side yet We are told that Fireworks is better, because of the Photoshop precalulated alpha issue

Re: lingo-l Text fields can wrap on a space?

2003-03-26 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, does anyone know the best way to place the cursor in a field using lingo? The only way I have found so far is to set the 'selection' property of the field to an array of two equal numbers, such as [2,2]. That's about right,

Re: lingo-l Embedded fonts

2003-03-24 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Phil Gross [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think you need to be careful doing this. IIRC, if you open the font cast member again, Director tosses the name you previously gave it and sets it back to the original font name followed by the *. Leaving your text using a

lingo-l X-Post: Req: Performance testing

2003-03-20 Thread Robert Tweed
I wrote a little blur filter a while ago and decided to use it in my current project. Unfortunately, this is a total rush job so I have virtually no time for testing, and I was hoping I could get some feedback about the performance of my filter on different platforms. BTW, I will be adding the

Re: lingo-l X-Post: Req: Performance testing

2003-03-20 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Colin Holgate [EMAIL PROTECTED] It crashed Netscape the first time I tried it, but now it works ok. It's slightly slow, but quite tolerable. 450 MHz G4, Mac OS 9.1. Hmm, might be a preloading problem under Netscape. I had a problem initially where the images

Re: lingo-l X-Post: Req: Performance testing

2003-03-20 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Robert Tweed [EMAIL PROTECTED] From the results I've been sent so far, it looks like I can get away with the quickBlur if I say the minimum spec is P3/500. Actually, I've just realised how easy it will be to do a speed test and fallback routine, so slow

Re: lingo-l Carriage return using numeric keypad ENTER key

2003-03-19 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] put RETURN after sprite(the currentSpritenum).member.text ... That returns an error. Dot syntax and put after do not get along. Actually, it's not that, it's yet another odd quirk. Full verbose syntax doesn't work either, you

Re: lingo-l on hyperlinkClicked

2003-03-19 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually it's a quirk, so no, it's won't be documented. That's because Director would cost at least twice as much, and there would be far less trees left in the rainforests if they had to use enough paper to document all the quirks

Re: lingo-l Text/Integers?

2003-03-19 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Alex da Franca [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't know exactly how to test this with lingo only You could test for this easily by simply timing how long it takes to call a function with strings of varying lengths (say, 1 char, 100 chars and 1 chars) one function

Re: lingo-l symbol(s01.mp3) vs. symbol(01.mp3)

2003-02-26 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Charlie Fiskeaux II [EMAIL PROTECTED] yes, it is automatically converted to a symbol. No it isn't. It remains exactly as whatever string you use, including any character that are illegal in symbols. I use it all the time with postNetText to emulate HTML

Re: lingo-l Methods for converting longInt from binary files?

2003-02-17 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Andreas Gaunitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not sure how the floats are represented though. Do a search on Google for IEEE 754. I'd suggest a link, but there doesn't seem to be a single one that covers the standard completely. You can't just look it up on the IEEE

Re: lingo-l barcode reader and other devices

2003-02-06 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Rodrigo Peres [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone knows if it's possible interact director with devices like barcode reader and credit card machines? How it can be done? there's anybody else around with crazy ideas like this? :-) Barcode readers (at least, like

Re: lingo-l barcode reader and other devices

2003-02-06 Thread Robert Tweed
It's exactly the same as the one I mentioned - it just emulates a keyboard so the application can't tell the difference between the barcode reader typing something, or the user doing it on the keyboard - except that it's usually set up to send some special characters before the barcode so it can

Re: lingo-l OT: emoticon madness

2003-02-05 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Kerry Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Localization note: the Japanese have embraced e-mail emoticons with a vengeance. Check this out: http://club.pep.ne.jp/~hiroette/en/facemarks/body.html#character They aren't the only ones:

Re: lingo-l Basic ?

2003-01-13 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Meiky - [EMAIL PROTECTED] if my script looping forever, if there any shortcut to stop it? If you mean in the code, that depends on the loop. If you mean to stop the movie when the stop button doesn't work - press ESC. Won't work if the exitLock is set to true,

Re: lingo-l The long date

2003-01-10 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Mendelsohn, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] But FWIW, Howdy-Tzi...what does IIRC stand for? AFAIK, it's internet internet relay chat, right? IRC - Internet Relay Chat IIRC - If I Recall Correctly FWIW: http://www.acronymfinder.com/ - Robert [To remove

Re: lingo-l The long date

2003-01-10 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Buzz Kettles [EMAIL PROTECTED] why aren't these things documented? Well, actually that call is a good example of undocumented Lingo. [snip] my understanding is that this is documented Well, it's in the help - that's about as documented as it

Re: lingo-l Imaging vs. Sprites

2003-01-07 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In our present version, I used imaging lingo to draw the cells, but found that the whole thing comes to a grinding halt after a few minutes. The issue probably isn't imaging Lingo so much, as lack of proper optimisation. It's hard to say

Re: lingo-l Imaging vs. Sprites

2003-01-07 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trapping interactions such as rollovers will be easier in sprites with the mouseEnter and mouseLeave handlers. I'll need to do a continuous checking for that with imaging lingo. Just remember that easier isn't necessarily faster. If you

Re: lingo-l 3d forum?

2003-01-06 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Meiky - [EMAIL PROTECTED] anyone knows forum or mailinglist address for 3d Director 8.5? Newsgroup: macromedia.director.3d Dir3D-L: http://nuttybar.drama.uga.edu/mailman/listinfo/dir3d-l Also, DirGames-L if games-related. - Robert [To remove yourself

Re: lingo-l kazaa

2003-01-03 Thread Robert Tweed
juan colon wrote: is it possible to make something like Kazaa, edonkey, winmx in director. if this is possible anyone know were i can look into. I doubt it, but you could have a look at the source for Gnucleus (www.gnucleus.net) if you're interested in P2P. At one time, I was thinking about

Re: lingo-l kazaa

2003-01-03 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why not coupled with the MUXtra? Possibly, but if you're implementing a Gnutella client, you need to comply with the Gnutella protocol. I haven't really had a chance to play with MUX properly yet, so I have no idea whether it is low-level

Re: lingo-l randomize

2003-01-03 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Roland [EMAIL PROTECTED] I do have 4 text labels and 4 small graphics (which do belong together) that I would like to place on the stage at random. Could someone give me a pointer on how to approach this? sp1 = sprite( 1 ) sp2 = sprite( 2 ) sp1.loc = point(

Re: lingo-l A new Mothership?

2002-12-23 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Agustín María Rodríguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] If Microsoft takes over Director, do you think they will make them take out the Bill is Evil button-style feature? I´ve heard (always rumour of course) that´s exatly the reason why they´re taking over MM. It will

Re: lingo-l MX opinion!!

2002-12-19 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Fraser Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't think everyone agreed - has it been pulled? http://www.macromedia.com/software/director/special/trial/ Yes, it has been pulled. Apparently there were too many bugs in the trial version that was released. Hopefully

Re: lingo-l MX opinion!!

2002-12-19 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Daniel Plaenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, it has been pulled. Apparently there were too many bugs in the trial version that was released. Hopefully they'll get a new version up soon. The full version does not have the bugs that were in the trial version (I'm

Re: lingo-l To open a new browser window with gotonetpage

2002-12-10 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Charlie Fiskeaux II [EMAIL PROTECTED] _new isn't valid HTML. Try _blank or new and see if either of those works. Actually, what happens is if you don't specify an existing target you get a new window with the name specified. This is why _new has become

Re: lingo-l Irregular shape of rollover 2

2002-12-10 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Buzz Kettles [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 5:53 PM -0500 12/9/02, you wrote: Can't you just set a vector sprite's blend to 0? Yes - that works, but I automatically rule out blend = 0 for vectors since they don't disappear when they play in 16 bit color. Dunno if

Re: lingo-l Any mySQL guru's on the list?

2002-12-10 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finally, heres the issue I am having. Since the spawngroupID field in the database I am inserting into is not an auto_increment field Off the top of my head, I think this should do it: SELECT MAX( spawngroupID ) FROM whicheverTable

Re: lingo-l Flash Sprite + puppeting

2002-12-05 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Brad Hile [EMAIL PROTECTED] I may be completely off track here but could you use an initialising script on the flash sprite to force the update or in fact to control the sprites member - something like: I don't get the basic principle of what you are

Re: lingo-l Flash Sprite + puppeting

2002-12-05 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Charlie Fiskeaux II [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why do you have the Flash sprite puppeted? I thought that since automatic puppeting came about, manual puppeting was no longer necessary. In the original post, fraser said that he was not putting the sprite in the stage.

Re: lingo-l Flash Sprite + puppeting

2002-12-05 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Brad Hile [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The flash sprite is puppeted and the frame is sitting on a go the frame loop with no playhead movement.) A go to frame loop counts as playhead movement. The playhead leaves the frame, then jumps back to it again. The same updates

Re: lingo-l Flash Sprite + puppeting

2002-12-05 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Buzz Kettles [EMAIL PROTECTED] And as you noted if there was no sprite already there to manipulate, one must use old-style puppeting to get the member on stage, creating the so-called 'dynamic sprite'. Of course, even this can be worked around by using

Re: lingo-l Flash Sprite + puppeting

2002-12-04 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] has anyone else come across an issue by which you cannot set the variables of a puppeted Flash sprite? I don't generally use Flash at all, so I can only guess... If I put the sprite directly onto the stage then the setVariables command is

Re: lingo-l a departure, I'm unsubscribing from the list...

2002-12-03 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Thomas Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm here to announce that I am going to be leaving the Director Team for an extended vacation and sabbatical You will be missed, but have a good one. I hope we'll see you back on these lists after your break. - Robert [To

Re: lingo-l a departure, I'm unsubscribing from the list...

2002-12-03 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom rocks. His presence will be missed on many lists, and here on the Director team. Now who'll get my chorizo burritos for me in the morning? What does the job pay? What, the job of chorizo burrito runner? I dunno, but it sounds easy.

Re: lingo-l #bytesTotal

2002-12-03 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] the thing is: How can I get the 'BYTESTOTAL' information of a file WITHOUT having to download or preload this file? I don't believe you can. In order to find out about the file, you've got to touch it in some way or another.

Re: lingo-l sin and cosine

2002-12-01 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: mike m [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am trying to make my charactor jump forward, obviously (i think) the sin and cosine command would be used, but i have no idea how this works or how to write it, i cant really find any really useful sites that explain it in such a

Re: lingo-l ANN: Director MX

2002-11-28 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Fabrice Closier [EMAIL PROTECTED] i saw DMX wil export dvd, what does this mean exactly? That a projector could be exported as Ready to be burned dvd? No, it's exactly the same as always: you can create DVD-ROM's with Director; big deal. I think the big

Re: lingo-l ANN: Director MX

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Thomas Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] And what about... gXML = new(XML)? Yup. I chose not to explicitly mention all objects by name, the list is long. Interesting. I take it that this means you could put a stub swf with no content in your Director movies as a

Re: lingo-l Director databases

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone know of a cheap/free method of communicating to mySQL databases with director, and/or some tutorials? Thanks If you are talking about remote databases, then a good starting place would be www.shocknet.org.uk. You can use PHP,

Re: lingo-l advice on parent script location

2002-11-17 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Brad Hile [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it better practice to locate parent scripts in linked casts In short, yes. There is no major drawback to this method as far as I am aware. - Robert [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l advice on parent script location

2002-11-17 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Brad Hile [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robert Tweed wrote: Is it better practice to locate parent scripts in linked casts In short, yes. There is no major drawback to this method as far as I am aware. Excellent, that was the answer I was hoping to get! thanks

Re: lingo-l Definite Bug in IML32.dll/DirAPI.dll v8.5.1.104

2002-11-12 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: roy crisman [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm pretty sure Tom also mentioned using the wish list as a bug reporting listfinding that address took enough time, you mean i've got to go much around their site looking for a bug-report address, too? It is the same. There

Re: lingo-l Definite Bug in IML32.dll/DirAPI.dll v8.5.1.104

2002-11-11 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: roy crisman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Last week I installed the 2 new Networking Xtras, and the 2 new DLL's (IML32 and DIRAPI) in my Director 8.5.1 PC Win2000 developing environment. Yeah, you shouldn't do that. The files were released to fix a bug in Shockwave that

lingo-l LingoFish

2002-11-05 Thread Robert Tweed
OK, I hope this gets through to the list properly. For the benefit of anyone who is only on Lingo-L and has not seen any of the other messages: The bug in the first release has been fixed. If you have the buggy version, please go back to the page and download the new version. Also, if anyone

lingo-l Re: Blowfish in PHP (was: LingoFish 1.1 Available)

2002-11-04 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Robert Tweed [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... I'm planning to do a pure PHP version too, for anyone who cannot install mcrypt (which includes some of my own projects). In case anyone's interested, I've actually completed this over the weekend. I've done two versions

lingo-l LingoFish 1.1 Available

2002-11-04 Thread Robert Tweed
If you need to securely communicate with a server, or store small hidden keys then strong encryption is a handy thing. This is a highly optimised, pure Lingo implementation of the Blowfish cipher. I hope a few of you will find it useful: http://www.killingmoon.com/director/lingofish/ If you use

Re: lingo-l ANN: LingoFish available at last!

2002-10-30 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Josh Race [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9 out of 34 passed...is that a PASS? Um, no. Did that really happen or is that an A-level joke? - Robert [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post

Re: lingo-l sending emails with baOpenURL

2002-10-29 Thread Robert Tweed
Alternatively, you can also just type %0d. I'd use URLencode to encode the entire string, or simply type the hex code of the character with % in front, which is all URL encoding does. If you just want individual characters, it's simpler and faster to do it that way. - Robert - Original

Re: lingo-l more than 1 ancestor

2002-10-28 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Irv Kalb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only one. There is just a single ancestor keyword. You can really nest ancestor scripts, but an ancestor script can set its own ancestor, etc. But it sounds like you are looking for multiple inheritance - and Lingo does not

Re: lingo-l more than 1 ancestor

2002-10-28 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Evan Adelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] but you can add scripts to sprites on the fly w/ something like: y= new (script newScript) sprite(me.spriteNum).scriptInstanceList.add(y) That reminds me of a multiple inheritance hack that someone pointed out before. You

Re: lingo-l List archives?

2002-10-25 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can see it if you set your mail program to show all header contents. That stuff is normally kept hidden, but when you do a show all you can see all the links. Hmm, I also assumed you mistakenly said header instead of footer. I

Re: lingo-l List archives?

2002-10-25 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... instead of hiding it in the headers? I think because Tab hasn't got around to updating it yet. ;) Spot the subtle hint, heh ;-) How many people (apart from trolls) put useful information in the message headers? It's

Re: lingo-l List archives?

2002-10-25 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] In fact, if only they could add similar headers to spam... Funny you should mention that. There's a company online now (I don't recall the name) that allows subscribers to their service (it's free for individual use) send

Re: lingo-l List archives?

2002-10-25 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, they own the copyright only on the header content. The point is not to control email body; the point is to present a header that cannot legally be forged, thus allowing spam-detection scripts to work more effectively.

Re: lingo-l Getting rid of Internal?

2002-10-23 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Rob Romanek [EMAIL PROTECTED] a) is no problem, just click on the internal cast to make it the active window, then use the Property Inspector to change the name. D'oh! Why did I think that couldn't be done? I'm certain I must have tried it before sometime...

Re: lingo-l Global vs local

2002-10-23 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Shailendra Vijayvergia [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want to pass a value from one sprite to another sprite located in another channel. Is there any way to pass this without using global variable, because i don't want to keep that variable other than those two frames.

Re: lingo-l Distressflag (request)

2002-10-23 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Tab Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] Even if it's for a good cause, it's technically a license violation and/or illegal, so I have to ask that you not use the list for this sort of thing. Anyone who wishes to respond should not reply via the list. Couldn't the 30

Re: lingo-l Getting rid of Internal?

2002-10-23 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Buzz Kettles [EMAIL PROTECTED] why didn't you notice it when I mentioned it early yesterday ;) 'Cos someone (i.e., you) decided to top and bottom post in the same message ;-) Actually, I just noticed because you mentioned it. At the time I assumed your top

Re: Wishlist gloom (Was lingo-l Getting rid of Internal?)

2002-10-23 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are fundamental realities about the Director architecture, and the internal cast is one of them. I think what Buzz is indicating is that it would essentially require a top-down rewrite of the entire Director engine -- while

Re: Wishlist gloom (Was lingo-l Getting rid of Internal?)

2002-10-23 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] On what do you base that assessment? Well, there are no dependencies on casts, as such, as far as I am aware. There may be dependencies on members, and there needs to be a default cast (which is the current active cast, not

Re: Wishlist gloom (Was lingo-l Getting rid of Internal?)

2002-10-23 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, there are no dependencies on casts, as such, as far as I am aware. I think I see what you're saying here; however I believe it's fair to see Director as needing at least one cast in much the same way as it needs a stage

Re: lingo-l Distressflag (request)

2002-10-23 Thread Robert Tweed
Interestingly, there seems to be some disagreement on this, but some interesting legal points have come up... At 5:59 PM -0400 10/23/02, Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions wrote: To my knowledge, Macromedia has repeatedly said they have no objection to projector sharing. To my knowledge, it is

Re: lingo-l Help with lists

2002-10-22 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Robert Tweed [EMAIL PROTECTED] I finally figured out the problem. I was trying the getProp, but here's my problem with it. Let's say the user is clicking on Apple but the list contains [apple: apple.aif]. It get a property not found error because

lingo-l Getting rid of Internal?

2002-10-22 Thread Robert Tweed
Just a small thing that has been annoying me. I've recently started breaking all my code up into libraries (esp. the openLingo library) and putting them in linked casts. It also occured to me that to make LDM's work usefully, I should put *everything* in external casts, so the same code and assets

Re: lingo-l Getting rid of Internal?

2002-10-22 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Tab Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not aware of a way to get rid of it, and it'd probably break the engine if you did. Well, there shouln't be any physical ties to Internal, specifically, so there should not be any reason to remove it other than an oversight in

Re: lingo-l Getting rid of Internal?

2002-10-22 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Rob Romanek [EMAIL PROTECTED] As far a ditching the internal library, I find it extremely useful especially with LDMs. I keep the internal library exclusively for creating temporary cast members on the fly. That's a good point: I do that too, but

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