Re: lingo-l Buddy API

Greg: Really a bad idea to start switching monitor resolutions - is there a specific reason for this? Ross [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 Mac Creator File Type Code for RTF files

Hi List 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

Re: lingo-l Mac Creator File Type Code for RTF files

Thank you Julian! Ross [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. Thanks!]

lingo-l Best place to store a cross-platform INI file

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

Re: lingo-l Best place to store a cross-platform INI file

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 to the

Re: lingo-l Best place to store a cross-platform INI file

Cheers Alex! Windows permissions I can check for myself so thanks for filling my knowledge gaps for the Mac Ross [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

Re: lingo-l LDM's and TELL is NOT obsolete whatever MM says

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

lingo-l Case-sensitive symbol quirk

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

Re: lingo-l Case-sensitive symbol quirk

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

Re: lingo-l Storing information between projector sessions: setPref, Buddy WriteINI or something else?

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

lingo-l Storing information between projector sessions: setPref, Buddy WriteINI or something else?

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.

Re: lingo-l locH limits

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

Re: lingo-l Theory: Multiple instances of a DXR

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 [To

lingo-l Hybrid disc

Hi List 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 project

Re: lingo-l Hybrid disc

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! Ross [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

lingo-l Collating multiple returns from sendAllSprites

Hi list 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

Re: lingo-l Collating multiple returns from sendAllSprites

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! Ross [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l flash members vs. bitmap members

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... Ross [To remove yourself from

Re: lingo-l flash members vs. bitmap members

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

Re: lingo-l flash members vs. bitmap members

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! Ross [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi

Re: lingo-l baOpenFile(PowerPoint)...but play it

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

Re: lingo-l baOpenFile(PowerPoint)...but play it

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.

Re: lingo-l Multiple copies of director

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!

Re: lingo-l Word problem -not OT-

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

Re: lingo-l Do MX 9 and MX 2004 co-exist?

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

Re: lingo-l system disk

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. Ross [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,

lingo-l Retrieve Mac system information

Me again list... 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

lingo-l MPEG-1 Playback is dark using DirectMedia Xtra

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

Re: lingo-l MPEG-1 Playback is dark using DirectMedia Xtra

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 machine.

Re: lingo-l MPEG-1 Playback is dark using DirectMedia Xtra

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 this

lingo-l OT: Distributed File Encryption

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

lingo-l JS advice OT? [was: Knock knock]

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

Re: lingo-l Video in perspective

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

lingo-l Video in perspective

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

lingo-l Merits of JS in Director [was: Dirctor MX 2004 - Anyone else frustrated by documentation]

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

Re: lingo-l Merits of JS in Director [was: Dirctor MX 2004 - Anyone else frustrated by documentation]

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

Re: lingo-l Merits of JS in Director

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.

lingo-l PC System Information

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.

Re: lingo-l Edit in flash 04?

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? Ross [To remove yourself from this list,

Re: lingo-l Transparency with Imaging Lingo Headache

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 with

Re: lingo-l Transparency with Imaging Lingo Headache - resolved

Hey list 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

lingo-l Transparency with Imaging Lingo Headache

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

Re: lingo-l Transparency with Imaging Lingo Headache

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

Re: lingo-l any body knows a good source of the info onprevaling wages

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 wants to pay

lingo-l Seriously OT: Automatic shutdown of Windows XP

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

Re: lingo-l Dictionary Search - conceptual/approach issues

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 Ross [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest

lingo-l Dictionary Search - conceptual/approach issues

Dear List 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

Re: lingo-l Dictionary Search - conceptual/approach issues

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? Ross [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

lingo-l Determine where cast members are used

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 Ross [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,

Re: lingo-l Determine where cast members are used

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 -

Re: lingo-l A new Mothership?

Cool...cheers! MOU __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l A new Mothership?

the Bill is Evil button-style feature Am I missing something? Ross __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to

Re: lingo-l set cursor to last line of field

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 Ross __ Do You

Re: lingo-l ANN: Director MX

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

Re: lingo-l ANN: Director MX

(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

Re: lingo-l shaped stage

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 __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from

Re: lingo-l shaped stage

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

Re: lingo-l Director 8.6??

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... Ross __

Re: lingo-l Setting globals in projector.ini??

As far as I can recall you put your globals in lingo.ini, not projector.ini Ross __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com [To remove yourself from this

Re: lingo-l full screen mpeg

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

lingo-l DVD Video

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

Re: lingo-l [OT] Dev Theory: Import PICT as PICT - what and why?

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 Ross __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever

lingo-l [OT] Dev Theory: Import PICT as PICT - what and why?

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

Re: lingo-l Best way of setting up cuepoints in video

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 Ross __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one

Re: lingo-l Best way of setting up cuepoints in video

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

Re: lingo-l ActiveX Shockwave

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

Re: lingo-l better to use exitFrame me or stepFrame me?

LDMs? My brain is overloaded with acronyms at the moment, so I think this one got away... Ross __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com [To remove yourself

lingo-l Are we going over the top now? (was no errors...)

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?

Re: lingo-l Theoretical: Layering graphics over DV

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

lingo-l Theoretical: Layering graphics over DV

Hi all 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

Re: lingo-l finding a name

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 P.S. Sorry - couldn't resist __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll

Re: lingo-l MWM Graphic

Should be a Made with Macromedia folder when you installed Director - it's all in there Ross __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com [To remove yourself

Re: lingo-l Opening an .exe file

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 your

Re: lingo-l line connecting two points

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

Re: lingo-l Windows and director

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,

Re: lingo-l Sound files stutter on Win NT.

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

lingo-l Quickstart projectors...

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

Re: lingo-l Quickstart projectors...

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

Re: lingo-l Quickstart projectors...

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 _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com

RE: lingo-l multiuser

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

Re: lingo-l lingo-lJob advice...sorry off topic please help

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

Re: lingo-l multiuser

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 respond

Re: AW: lingo-l RE: frame scripts?

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! Cheek... _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free

Re: AW: lingo-l RE: frame scripts?

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. Just

Re: lingo-l reverse animation

how can i reverse an animation in a film loop. Build it backwards? I'm not sure there is any way you can control a film loop once it's been built... Ross _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com [To