Greg:
Really a bad idea to start switching monitor resolutions - is there a
specific reason for this?
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One of these days I'll just buy a Mac and work all this out for myself but
until that day...
I'm capturing a user's progress through the troubleshooting application I'm
working on and I'm exporting that to a Rich Text document. However, the
application at some point may need to open this
Cheers Alex!
Windows permissions I can check for myself so thanks for filling my
knowledge gaps for the Mac
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Alex:
Already got the baSysFolder route covered, just working out which folder to
use.
> baSysFolder("prefs") is a good place to store a settings file
So that would return the "Windows" folder on Windows and the "Preferences"
folder on the Mac. Will there be any user account restrictions writing
Hi List
The subject line says it all really! I'm going to be setting an INI file
using BuddyAPI for my cross-platform project. Where would the best place for
this INI file be? Usually I'd put them into the OS folder but I don't want
to start running into cross-platform and user restriction issues.
it is a case of using a symbol that already exists and defaults to the
first inclusion in the symbol list.
That, however, is not the issue here. I have no previous instances of this
symbol - the first time it is created Director converts it to uppercase. But
saying that I've got a lot of develop
Hi List
Can anybody shed some light on to this for me?
I'm trying to set a variable to #dsl but Director is insisting on using
#DSL, but all other symbols I assign (#enet, #internal, #subnext, etc) all
remain as-written.
This isn't too much of an issue, but the cue points I have set up inside my
Well as this is rapidly turning into a flame war I'm just gonna butt in with
something random before the thread is ditched...
Evil Kosh? Arguably the Vorlons as a race are evil due to their manipulation
of the younger races throughout the millenia (after all, they are no
different to the Shadow
> A little bit of a surprise from MX to MX04 when the files moved
> from the projector folder to the user's application data folder
Ah...I see a snag here. This application will be running direct from CD so
I'm not going to be able to write to the application's projector folder.
While I think abo
Hi list
I'm currently working on a troubleshooting application and a few of the
steps requires the user's computer to be rebooted or the Director projector
to be restarted in some way, but of course I want to resume the
troubleshooter from the point it left off. This part isn't a problem really.
That was actually my first approach. The calculations needed to figure
out if a sprite is on-stage or not took more time than simply
positioning the sprites as the scroll bar is dragged.
One of the few times a quick n dirty approach turns out to be more hassle
than it's worth. Good to hear you got
Hi Kerry
I've just had a quick look myself and I'm experiencing the same thing -
setting the locH of a sprite in the message window to 51688 actually
returns -13848. And I have no clue why it's doing it (calling Mr.
Newton...).
May I suggest however that a better approach would be to just store t
Thanks Max & Jeff
I'll have a play around and let you know how things go. And if the DXR needs
to be read-only then I guess it'll be safer to set that attribute at
projector run time than set it manually before distributing the project.
Any further tips or tricks on this one list?
Ross
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I've not really had the time to play with this so I thought I'd consult
those more proficient than I for a head start.
I'm working on a technology demonstration for a client's remote learning
project that's on the horizon. One thing we've discussed for the CD-ROM
element of this package
Christopher:
Thanks for the heads-up as this project does use Buddy API, so that could
well have saved me a lot of grunt work!
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> Acoording to my information you can only burn hybrid cd's with Roxio Toast
You can burn Hybrid CDs using Ahead Nero, but it's always been a pain to
mount Mac volumes on a PC so the hybrid can be created.
Thanks for the feedback so far, keep it coming!
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Trust clients to say "we want this project to work on Mac and PC" and then
look at you blankly when you mention OSX.
Authoring for this hasn't been a problem really (there will be another post
on the way though) but I need a few pointers on some finer details of a
Hybrid disc.
The projec
Cheers Rob and Cole
Just after sending the e-mail the thought of using a list did pop into my
head, although I wasn't sure in what capacity. Thanks a bunch - you saved me
a job lol
Cheers!
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A minor conundrum is at hand. I'm building a simple form and one question
consists of a number of checkboxes, each one with its own unique numeric
value. They are checkboxes because the user can select any number of them.
When the form is submitted I want to total up the values returned b
Ian:
> setting the #commonPlayer property on the Flash members should help
> considerably (all the Flash sprites share the same instance).
Forgot about this...thanks for the reminder!
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Oh, and if your application is writing to the user's drive then Director is
the way to go anyway, but make sure you're not using repeat loops or writing
a lot of data/continuous data as more of Director/CPU time will go to those
operations, not processing your animation.
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Andrew:
If deadlines are tight then stick with what you know. My only concern about
using Flash members for all your sprites is the significant load you're
going to be putting on Director with so many instances of the Flash Asset
running at once - hence my suggestion to create the entire thing in
Hi Andrew
What about building the whole animation in Flash itself then importing a
single Flash movine into Director? And if your Director project is only this
animation then you might be better off creating it in Flash and building a
Flash projector anyway...
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Michael:
> The ppt open parameter /s worked perfectly.
Good to hear but I would still recommend using the PPS file instead as the
casual user (and some power users) do not know that this file can still be
edited. With a PPT file you run the risk of an end user editing your
presentation file.
Jus
Michael:
For the PC...
A PPT file is a Powerpoint presentation that you use for editing. a PPS file
is exactly the same but it's set up as a "Show" (i.e. a PowerPoint Show
file).
Simply rename your PPT extension to PPS and open that up with baOpenFile and
it will automatically run, completely by
One other thing I forgot to mention. Again it's not an issue running them
side-by-side (I think it's because everything is self-contained i.e. no
conflicting DLLs in the Windows System folder) but if you uninstall one of
the Director versions it will kill all file associations and icons dead.
I pe
Hi Tim
I've never had any problems at all other than the file associations as
you've mentioned. In fact I've got 8, 8.5, MX and MX2004 all installed and
the only problem I've ever encountered is the application icon for MX and
MX2004 is the same so I keep confusing them on my Quick Launch bar!
Ro
What about the Word viewer? Not sure if it's available for the later
versions of WOrd but I do believe Office 2000 came with a viewer to read
Word format.
Couldn't you launch your Word document from the CD using that?
And if the client is gonna kill you then perhaps you should set him straight
on
Hi Slava
I'm currently running Director 8, 8.5, MX and MX 2004 on my WinXP Pro
machine with no problems at all.
The only thing you'll find is the the file extensions will map themselves to
the last version you installed so you'll get a couple of niggling problems
when double-clicking files or usi
Nik:
You could use Buddy API's SysFolder function to return the path of the
Windows installation then just hack off the drive letter at the beginning.
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Currently working on a project that will make various display decisions
based (roughly) on the spec of the computer (processor type and speed,
memory and a few other things). It's not been a problem retrieving this
information using BuddyAPI on the PC but it seems the Buddy functi
Matthew:
Currently I'm trying to persuade the powers-that-be to upgrade to the MPEG
Advance Xtra anyway, but they don't want to spend any money to fix a problem
"that we're only having this once and never had before". So, until I can
politely talk them into it, I'm stuck with having to resolve thi
Cheers Matthew
Which version of the xtra are you using? I knew that the latest releases
helped fix some problems with non-standard decompressors taking over
from MS ones...
DirectMedia Xtra 2.01 is what I have. I'm gonna have a look to see if there
is a later version to see if this helps - alwa
Thanks to Stephane & Johan
Johan:
> I think 'wild guess' that it has to do with the installed media player
> (and it's codec which is being used) as I get the same colors when
> playing it back from within windows media player thingy.
In true Windows fashion everything is different between machin
Hi List
I've got an MPEG-1 playing through Tabuleiro DirectMedia Xtra 2.1 and the
whole thing plays back a lot darker on the stage than it does anywhere else
(including the Xtra's properties window).
This is a bit of a problem because the video is shot against a plain white
background which now b
Greets to all - bit of an OT query here.
A client has asked me about encrypting files that are to be distributed on
CD. The files are sensitive marketing and sales information for a major bank
over here and usually the info is burned to CD and mailed out to all the
Management bods. There is no fro
Thanks to all for the suggestions on this.
Fortunately I've talked the client out of the whole perspetive video thing
anyway - just not going to be practical given that they will be training
videos up to 18 minutes long *and* they still need full playback control of
it.
One thing I have come up w
> BTW, what is the general opinion about posting director/js - related
> questions on lingo-L? Offtopic or ontopic?
I say Off-topic: JS in Director is Heresy punishable by stoning and thus
shall not be discussed here!
Seriously, I have no problem with it - this list to me has always been about
he
Hi all
Something's that come up in the concept stages of a few recent projects is
the feel of depth and perspective to a CD-ROM's interface. This also
includes the playback of video.
Now before I go tell my client that non-rectangular video playback is not
gonna work on the low-end machines he's
Hi Mark
I do agree with a lot of what you said about the benefits JS brings to the
Director table, but I'm still not 100% convinced. Now granted I've not had a
play with it yet so I'm not sure how complete the Javascript implementation
is, but I've still got "gimmick" circling my fevered brain.
D
> Why would an option to make the package attractive to a broader base of
> people be considered an insult?
In my haste to be a moody sod I wasn't clear on that one - I was referring
to the employment prospects of a developer being more attractive by having a
broader base of skills.
I guess I'm s
> does anyone else feel dirty typing javascript into Director? :-)
Director gets scripted in Lingo and that's just the way it is - Javascript
stays on my web sites!
To be entirely honest I don't see the point in including Javascript as a
second scripting language for Director (or even adding a se
Greets
Part of a project I'm pitching for currently involves my Director app to
read off system information for the PC it's running on (processor, memory,
etc.).
For some reason I thought Buddy API had functions I could use to do this but
so far I've not had much luck reading throug the docs.
An
Sounds like a job for BuddyAPI to me - I'll have a look to see if it can do
it
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> when I try to edit a flash file, it just doesn't work...?
As in you're trying to edit a Flash MX file in Flash 4 or uninstalling Flash
MX has removed your file associations so you can't double-click the Flash
file to open it?
Doesn't work in what way?
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I've worked out what I was doing wrong. All the copyPixel activity I was
doing was performed after I assigned my image object its alpha channel so it
looks like it was getting overwritten. Assigning my alpha channel as the
last thing I do seems to be doing the trick.
Thanks to all for th
Thanks Christoffer
I'm slightly confused now:
> ilCanvas = image(200, 150, 32) --<< no need for a palette when 32 bits.
The 4th parameter is setting an alphaDepth when creating 32-bit images,
isn't it?
image(x, y, 32, 8) for 32-bit image with 8-bit alpha
image(x, y, 32, 1) for 32-bit image wit
Cheers for the URL Daniel.
Having played some more before reading your reply I had a play some more and
I've gotten as far as you have it seems (only I've not used setPixel() so
it's quick).
Still can't get the composited image to have variable opacity against the
background though...
Awaiting a
Hey List
I feel like a bit of an idiot actually because I'd think that what I want to
do is simple and obvious, but I can't get my head around it not working!
Just experimenting with what I can and cannot do with Imaging Lingo, I'm
compositing a couple of images together with varying blendLevels
> > alot of your US clients are getting work done down here in New Zealand
> > and Australia. Taking advantage of the Exchange rates, getting work
> > done for almost half the price of US Developers. We're run off our
> > feet down here
> > theres so much work.
>
> If you or anyone you know wan
Dear all
Forgive the massively OT nature of this post but it's always good to ask
fellow puter bods...
Is anybody experiencing or has seen a problem with Windows XP recently
involving an automatic shutdown? My brother and a friend are both
experiencing this issue. Within minutes of Windows bootin
Cheers Anand for the input - your approach is pretty much what I was
thinking myself.
As it's turned out things have changed abit for my client so my approach now
is different, but it's useful to know for the future.
Cheers all
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> why do you need it at run time?
Just kicking around a few ideas on how to avoid typing in umpteen thousand
words into the search data store I mentioned in a previous post. The way my
client was building the Director movie she would have each word on stage as
a sprite of some kind, so I thought "
Sorry list
> ...how to determine if a cast member has active sprites
> and where in the score (channel and frame) they reside?
In such a rush to get the usual 1001 things done I didn't say that I'm
talking obtaining this member usage information using Lingo.
Although thanks for the tip Buzz - th
Hi List
Just a quickie. Any ideas on how to determine if a cast member has active
sprites and where in the score (channel and frame) they reside?
TIA
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Cheers Slava
Will come in useful for the future but my client has already stated that
she'd rather not buy in xtras (why i don't know)
Any more suggestions?
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Long time no post - I trust you are all well. This is more of a concept
query than an actual coding one...
I've got a client who is converting a book of legal terms into a CD-ROM for
faster searching. All she seems to want to do is replicate the pages of the
book with each frame in the
Cool...cheers!
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> the Bill is Evil button-style feature
Am I missing something?
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Off the top of my head...
on beginSprite me
myMember = sprite(me.spriteNum).member
set the selStart = the last char of member myMember
end
or something like that. selStart and selEnd are member properties, so have a
look
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> I hope that I can still use the MUS 3.0.
In theory, I don't see why not. The MUS connectivity is through an Xtra
anyway and Director should be backward compatible with Xtras. I say again
this is *in theory* - I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Macromedia coded a
block into Director to stop MUS
> (eg inclusion of a 3d property/object inspector, maybe its there!),
Me thinks it does..
Have a look at their feature tour about the Object inspector. Looks to me
like the animated expanding tree has got all the 3D objects and properties
in it...
Ross
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Blimey...I'm a bit excited now
In addition to the MX interface and the inherent integration therein, it's
nice to see that Director is now closing the time gap between the release of
new versions of Flash and Quicktime and Director actually supporting it.
The new server technology stuff looks goo
Create your 1-bit bitmap - anything black is going to be your MIAW shape.
Now when setting the windowType of your MIAW, give it the member's name
instead of the in-built numeric constants that Director uses:
myMIAW.windowType = member("MIAW Mask")
then open as normal - should work (unless I'm fo
Are you referring to a masked MIAW? As in setting a 1-bit cast member as the
MIAW.windowType? If so, that *should* work on the Mac too, but I've never
done it.
Give it a try.
Ross
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And on a related note, Mediamacros.com list "Director 9" as one of the
compatible platforms for their examples and demos.
Have a look at the compatibility icons:
http://www.mediamacros.com/item/item=1006687089
Make of that what you will...
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I would strongly recommend the DirectMedia Xtra for playing MPEGs in
Director. I use it religiously at work (yes, I am finally employed!!) and
it's great - a Cue point editor as part of the Xtra interface is just sweet.
You'd still use all the same digital video Lingo to control your MPEGs
however.
Related to the previous DVD question, how would you go about authoring a DVD
Video with the front-end and the navigation bits? Any good resources out
there?
It's just a personal interest at this time, but if it proves to be viable, I
might just give it a go...
Ross
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> The PICT file format supports embedded shapes as
> well as bitmaps. In
> the past days (when this feature was included),
> these type of PICT
> files were more common.
Interesting to know - cheers Buzz
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Hi all...
I know I'm slightly off-topic with this one, but I'm curious about a bit of
theory behind the development. What is the benefit of Import PICT as PICT?
Is there something special about the PICT format that I've missed all of
these years?
One of the many D8.x books I have says that (para
Cheers to all on this:
Firstly, I've found the movieTime to be really inaccurate (but I've reduced
the need for such accuracy in my structure plan). Secondly, I've found out
that the company actually owns the Tabuleiro (sp?) DirectMedia Xtra to play
their MPEGs and you can add your own cuepoints
> which platform are you on?
Developing on Windows 2000, and I don't think we have any Mac clients (just
started yesterday so I'll look into that) so it's build and distribute for
Windows
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It's looking likely that a number of projects I'm
working on are going to be requiring stage events to
sync with or be triggered by digital video. I've found
that checking for the movieTime of the video isn't
accurate enough so I'm looking at embedding cuepoints.
I'll work out all
> The "install QT problem" is a myth.
Doubly so if you just include the install files for QT basic on your
distribution CD (hell, even do a QT detect script and get it to install
automatically - the end user doesn't have to bother at all then).
As an aside, anybody know what Apple's distribution
> I'd like to see conditional compliation directives and preprocessor
macros,
> so we can put assert statements all over the place and do other cool
things
> you can do in C/C++.
This statement has got me thinking. Are we going overboard now in what
Director, or more specifically Lingo, can do? W
LDMs?
My brain is overloaded with acronyms at the moment, so I think this one got
away...
Ross
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Cheers Tab...
If this idea I have works I may well be able to convince the powers that be
to put up the $300 to purchase the Xtra but cash is a bit tight presently.
So, in the event they won't open their pockets, anybody else have other
suggestions (or cheaper Xtras - no offence, Tab).
Ross
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This is just a theoretical question at this point but may well get used in a
project in the near future (after 12 months unemployed, I am now FINALLY
working - hurrah!)...
How feasible is it to layer graphics over the top of a digital video? Up
until now I've always had my movie Direct to
> Yes it is!
> No it isn't!
Damn I love Monty Python...
Isn't this whole debate now a bit irrelevant Fabrice because it's already
been pointed out that the "lastChar of the moviePath" gives the required
path seperator REGARDLESS OF WHICH OS YOU'RE USING.
That's the way you write cross-platform
> I want to start up a new business but have trouble finding a name for it.
CompuGlobalHyperMegNet? You could even appoint yourself the position of
Junior Vice President...
Ross
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Should be a Made with Macromedia folder when you installed Director - it's
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> i'd b greatful if u could send me the code or could conver it.
Fingers crossed then...it was on my old hard drive that caught fire (never
let it be said that Maxtor don't falsely advertise: when they said Quantum
Fireball they REALLY meant it!) but I *should* have a CD backup somewhere.
If not
> Help says "open (whichDocument with) whichApplication" but what
application
> do you use to open an .exe file?
The whichDocument bit is used if you're trying to open a document with a
specific application, therefore is not required when calling executables, so
you just call open and specify you
You might be able to do this with Imaging Lingo, but
it's gonna be a bit involved if you do.
The way I've done this is have a 1x1 pixel cast
member, stretch the sprite on stage to the required
length and then rotate it to get the required angle -
I'll see if I can dig out my old code and do a
con
Sounds like your system fonts are screwed - I had the same problem in
Director, but other apps were fine.
I forget now exactly which font MACR use for the Director interface (kinda
looks like 7pt MS Sans Serif) but if it's gone funny then Director won't use
it and do all manner of strangeness, ev
Dunno how to fix it, but this has cropped up for me too.
I've been told it's something to do with DirectX - Windows NT only support
DirectX as far as v5 (it might even be v3!) but Director has been functions
and routines that appeared in the later vesions with every new release
(don't know the nu
When you say 3D cast member are you talking about the sprite on the stage or
the cast member itself?
Any and all behaviours attached to a sprite should be displayed in the
Behaviour Inspector. It should be as simple as clicking your sprite to show
the list of attached behaviours in the inspector
Hey all...
Having just been rejected for a seemingly sweet Director & Lingo job, and
the 1001 websites, newspapers, magazines all turning up nothing for 12
months, I'm all annoyed, upset and desperate now. So anybody out there know
somebody who's willing to take on a graduate or junior in the Dir
Cheers all for the input...
Guess I'm gonna have to do a good hard search of my drive to find the
files - they MUST be there otherwise Director won't run (which has been
pointed out)...
Ross
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> remember when you add the necessary Xtras externally, you'll want to
> mark the Movie -> Xtras dialog to NOT pack them into the projector ...
That much I have managed to pick up, but I'm confused about the required
Director Player files and where they reside.
In Director 8 you compiled the Pro
Hey all...
I'm feeling a little dense today so I haven't been able to work this one
out - MM's site is no help either.
In Director 8 I used the quickstart projector all the time (the stub
projector saved as Shockwave and all the necessary Xtras held externally)
but I have recently been asked to
This question gets asked about 1000 times every day so check the archives
first!!
Anyway, you're gonna run into problems if you try and close the MIAW from
within itself because Director will continue to run a handler (even if it's
just to close down) that no longer exists - hence your crash.
Yo
What is about Bristol-native Director developers not
being able to get work? I've been trying for a year!!
However, have a look at GoJobSite.co.uk and set up a
search for IT jobs using Lingo and Macromedia as the
search terms - anything Director based comes in
straight to your mail box, however I
Why do you want to hold a user's login and password in
a cookie? Surely it's easier to store them inside the
movie itself? After all, if a user has turned OFF
cookies then your whole movie falls over...
You can either hold the info in variables or a
two-item list, or store them in a field member
I haven't used SMUS in a while but I shall get my
thinking cap on for you in terms of actual code
samples, but here are a few ideas:
I don't think you can directly kick people out of a
connection but you can send a "kill signal" as it
were. Write a message handler into your movie that
will respon
> Well, your assessment might be valid if you'd actually seen the
> project and knew the full details. As you don't this might be more
> OOP-phobia for OOP-phobia's sake than anything else. Ha HAR!
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> Nope. Nothing...
Impressive if you can do it, but it sounds like a little overkill to me -
I've never had a problem with MIAWs because I know their limitations and
problmes caused when trying to unload them and all my internal
communications are seperate from interface/design code anyway.
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