Re: Hybrid disc

2004-08-27 Thread Sébastien Portebois
Hi 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! There's also a little software called MacIm

Re: FIXED - WatcherHelper/UiHelper wirdness

2004-08-08 Thread Sébastien Portebois
Hi Gilles Very weird fix (for the WatcherHelper/UIhelper problem)... ...I had my "on idle sleep" handler (by itself) at the end of a very long movie script. I moved the handler to the top_of_the_page, and guess what?? No error anymore in authoring or runtime. This is only a blind guess, but ar

Re: projector icon formats in OS X

2004-07-25 Thread Sébastien Portebois
Hi Slava What graphic formats does the "projector icon" accept in Publish Settings under Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)? Here comes a technote that give you all the details: http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/projector_icons_guide.htm cheers, séb [To remove yourself from this list,

Re: Dir MX 2004 UI question

2004-07-21 Thread Sébastien Portebois
Hi Pedja Has anyone encountered a similar behaviour? I also experienced it with DirMX (pre MX2004) So I always have a Director windows layout where windows don't overlap, and I don't have any problem ;¬) (free win utility allSnap might help to align/magnetize your window quickly) cheers séb [To

Re: Image white space on import

2004-05-28 Thread Sébastien Portebois
Hi Tim I realise that director works like this intentionally, but is there any way to stop it, so that pictures are imported into the cast in the original format? if you're using importFileInto, you can use aditional params: importFileInto(mTargetMember, strFile, [#trimWhiteSpace:FALSE]) if you'

Re: SMUS on FreeBSD

2004-05-17 Thread Sébastien Portebois
Hi Peter I have no idea of what that new-fangled word "FreeBSD" means or what the hack Unix is but can someone please tell how do I install SMUS on that applocation server, is it's possible of course. Macromedia SMUS isn't nix-based, and there's no plan no port if onto some kind of unix OS. but y

Re: Lingo Quirk: case and points (was : case and (the globals))

2004-03-29 Thread Sébastien Portebois
Hi Roymeo, you might like this one, one of my favorites ;¬) Try to compile on test tXY = point(0,1) -- may be whatever case tXY of point(0,1): put "ok" otherwise: "missed" end case end Of course, using on test tXY = point(0,1) -- may be whatever case tXY of

Re: Screenshot of 3D member

2004-03-18 Thread Sébastien Portebois
Hi what you suggested doesn't work either with the software renderer. It seems to be a problem of switching off DTS at runtime. This fails on all machines that use the software renderer. Anybody else who could and would share his/her experience? This might not be a solution but only a workaround :

Re: Using @//

2004-03-03 Thread Sébastien Portebois
I'd still like to know what I'm doing wrong with @//, though. Well, I think (havn't checked out) that @ is for Lingo only, ans not really appreciated by Xtras... have you tried if getNthFileNameinFolder, or only baFileExists? cheers, séb [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to dige

Re: Using @//

2004-03-03 Thread Sébastien Portebois
Hi Kerry And here comes tons of verbose Lingo (I try to make Colin happy ;¬) I'm trying to get the directory above the moviePath, and my brain is in vaporlock. a.) set the itemDelimiter to the foler delimiter (ie the last char of the moviePath) b.) remove the last chunks of the moviePath to come

Re: cross platform xtras in external folder

2004-03-03 Thread Sébastien Portebois
Hi Does anyone know of a list that briefly describes the purpose of all the standard xtras that ship with director? It would really help to know which of the xtras are _really_ needed for distribution. Does this helps? http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/director_xtras.htm c

Re: Multiple statements in one line

2003-12-05 Thread Sébastien Portebois
Hi Peter I wonder, can Director script window have multiple statements in one line? e.g. instead of varA = 5 varB = 10 yes you can, but is it totally inefficient ;¬) Here's the stupid workaround: do("varA = 5" & RETURN & "varB = 10") Now that you've readi it, you can forgot about it :¬) cheers

Re: Re: Timeout object question

2003-11-13 Thread Sébastien Portebois
The nice thing of these wrappers is that their properties have the same names than timeout objects properties, so you can still do oTimeOut.target = ... , or oTimeout.period = ... Thank you (and Jakob and James!) for sharing your lingo. I'm curious about the use of the ancestor to store the ref

Re: Timeout object question

2003-11-12 Thread Sébastien Portebois
Neat little script there... Its cleaner than the other example I found, but it looks like the possible parameters are hardcoded and limited to 3: (...) ...is that the adaptation you spoke of? part of In fact I usuall use one, eventually 2 arguments, so I found really faster and enough for dail

Re: Timeout object question

2003-11-12 Thread Sébastien Portebois
Hi I believe I have used something written by Kerry that allowed callbacks or parameters for timeouts...a sort of timeout wrapper class that worked rather well as I recall...might be worth a dig in the archives, cause unfortunately I can't find the link right now I'm sorry I've missed this

Re: Movie with linked cast

2003-11-03 Thread Sébastien Portebois
Hi Igor on mouseUp me sprite(3).visible = false PreloadNetThingthe MoviePath & "second.cct") Well I guess this is just a copy-typo, but the line above should read PreloadNetThing(the MoviePath & "second.cct") castlib(2).filename = the MoviePath & "second.cct" I think yourproblem might come

Re: framescript ... scriptlist

2003-11-03 Thread Sébastien Portebois
Hi Is there any way to find out the scriptlist of a framescript ? how to find out the parameters of it ? If you're using DirMX, the UIHelper Xtra (a Director authoring xtra installed with Director, yes you already got it) might help you: put xtra("UiHelper").interface() -- (...) *getBehaviorMemR

Re: #call -ing a list?

2003-10-24 Thread Sébastien Portebois
Hi Grimmwerks If I've a bunch of objects, I can do a call the them with a handler, correct? And the ones with the handler will respond/do it? yes, but with one caveat : it looks like (I'm not sure about it, I should check it) that Director parse your list by incrementing the index. So that if yo

Re: Stage.rect <> stage.image.rect?!?

2003-10-24 Thread Sébastien Portebois
Hi Grimmwerks, Actually, no. The weird thing is I started with the 1024x768 (set in the movie props floater), saved it; came back and reset to 640x480 again in the floater, and it was returning a previous one. It was extremely strange, but I've been seeing a bit of weirdness happening in osx lat

Re: copyPixels and alpha channel

2003-09-26 Thread Sébastien Portebois
Hi everyone My original post starting this thread stated that copyPixels() does not work when compositing _two_ images with alpha channels. I haven't followed this thread since the start, so I might be out of synchro, but FYI here comes a little movie script I used intensively when compositing

Re: Cursor property

2003-09-26 Thread Sébastien Portebois
Hi on mouseDown sprite(me.spritenum).cursor = 290 end on mouseLeave sprite(me.spritenum).cursor = 0 end on mouseUp sprite(me.spritenum).cursor = 260 End whats happening is the code is referencing the sprite you attach it to so sprite(me.spritenum) is what you need to use. and it would even

Re: explore properties of script objects

2003-08-29 Thread Sébastien Portebois
Hi Michael I have a script object, like gObj = new(script "oTest"). The function gObj.handlers() gives me all the methods of that script. Is there a comparable function that gives me all the properties and their values? you can use 'getPropAt' also with instances. Here is a little handler (warni

Re: Coloring lines of field member

2002-06-24 Thread Sébastien Portebois
Hi Irv, >But James, where did "paletteIndex" come from? I just tried it and it >works perfectly well - that's what I'll use because it allows me to use >the rgb numbers. But I don't see it documented in any official Macromedia >Lingo manual. The only place I see it is on page 30 of your bo