RE: lingo-l Runmode with respect to scriptExecutionStyle

2004-09-22 Thread Thomas Higgins
no amount of scriptexecutionstyle = 9 was able to convince it to deal with my D9 MIAW syntax. What syntax are you referring to? The scriptExecutionStyle property only affects the behavior of the window() function itself: scriptExecutionStyle = 9: If you provide a name to the window function

RE: lingo-l Runmode with respect to scriptExecutionStyle

2004-09-22 Thread Thomas Higgins
What about syntax like: _player.window[x].movie.someHandler() and all the other DOM stuff? Isn't the validity of this governed by the SES? Nope. Regardless of the SES value you can still use the syntax you cited, again, the SES property only affects those particular top-level functions and

RE: lingo-l Runmode with respect to scriptExecutionStyle

2004-09-21 Thread Thomas Higgins
Michael, I want to find the runmode, so what would be better to use when the scriptExecutionStyle = 10: X = the runmode Or... X = _system.environmentPropList.runMode Does it actually matter? Your choice, both are equally valid. The scriptExecutionStyle property only affects a limited

RE: lingo-l some DIR news

2004-09-17 Thread Thomas Higgins
All, the below was copy/pasted from one of the other DIR lists: Developers, Today Macromedia announces a comprehensive update to both Macromedia Director and the Shockwave Player. Thanks Buzz, I did post the announcement

lingo-l Announcing Director/Shockwave Player 10.1 Update Release

2004-09-16 Thread Thomas Higgins
Developers, Today Macromedia announces a comprehensive update to both Macromedia Director and the Shockwave Player. This update includes a wide variety of changes to both the authoring environment and the player, including but not limited to: - dozens of bug fixes across the product, including

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

2004-09-13 Thread Thomas Higgins
Evil, ok, perhaps they are under a lot of stress, but they arent explaining themselves much either, upon the question of fully operational LDM's whats your engineering team say about it? where is the QA about it, where is the explanation about why it's apparently so hard to do something

RE: lingo-l On Shockwave Player

2004-09-07 Thread Thomas Higgins
Peter, There are only those languages that you have listed and not a one more. I wonder, is there a possibility to localize sw installer to some other languages? (Russian, Ukrainian?) Is it possible? Yes. Localizing is just a matter of some string updating and then testing the installer to

lingo-l Shockwave public beta updated

2004-09-02 Thread Thomas Higgins
All, I'd like to let you know that we've recently updated the Shockwave Player public beta installers, the most notable new additions as of late are Mac slim installers and the Multiuser Xtra is back in as part of the slim default set of Xtras. You can download the beta from the following URL:

RE: lingo-l Request for Shockwave 10 Content Proposals

2004-08-26 Thread Thomas Higgins
Hey gang, I'm just dropping a reminder that the deadline for content proposals is Monday, so if you're interested in giving this a try please get in touch with us (well, Emmy ;) ) ASAP, thanks! Cheers, Tom Higgins Product Manager - Director http://www.markme.com/thiggins/ ... Dear

RE: lingo-l Shockwave Player Public Beta 10.0.2 Available

2004-08-23 Thread Thomas Higgins
Peter, What surprisingly is in this compact installer is that it doesn't show in the Add/Remove Programs list on my Win2000 (English). That would be a bug I believe. If you haven't already please make sure to submit that via the feedback form, I'll alert the QA team as well (covering it from

RE: lingo-l Request for Shockwave 10 Content Proposals [was: RE : Lingo-l digest, Vol 1 #1344 - 15 msgs]

2004-08-20 Thread Thomas Higgins
Not knowing MACR's take on the duell, I'd be extremely sceptical about this. What are you skeptical about? We're seriously interested in hearing some content proposals that we would then work with you (if selected) to create and promote. Where's the skepticism coming from? I'm just trying to

RE: lingo-l Esc key and exitLock in Dir 10

2004-08-02 Thread Thomas Higgins
All, closeRequest is not in Dir MX 10 Help, but there is a Technote on it at http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/closer equest.htm. It says this is an undocumented feature of Dir MX 10. Please note that while this failed to make it into our documentation (late addition

RE: lingo-l All those DLLs

2004-07-15 Thread Thomas Higgins
All, Now, here's the rub. Sometimes installers will put Dirapi.dll, Iml32.dl, and/or msvcrt.dll into the Windows system directory. ... While this is correct, somebody has installers somewhere that do this, it doesn't _appear_ to be ours (MACR's) that do this. We recently faced some nasty bugs

RE: lingo-l All those DLLs

2004-07-15 Thread Thomas Higgins
All, But if the projector is not Fast Start, aren't the DLLs simply included within the executable? Standard projectors contain copies of all the needed DLL's. Compressed projectors (not found in MX'04 anymore) contained compressed copies of the needed DLL's. Shockwave projectors don't

RE: lingo-l get and set pixel.

2004-07-15 Thread Thomas Higgins
I am not sure what you mean by ink modes in copypixels. Any examples? Here ya go: destImg.copyPixels(srcImage,destRect,srcRect,[#ink: 36]) The above applies ink 36 (bgtrans) to the copyPixels operation, there are many options you can use here (blend levels, masking options, and more). This

RE: lingo-l All those DLLs

2004-07-15 Thread Thomas Higgins
Slava, Shouldn't your Point 4 include and any subfolders within it? For the DLL files I think the answer is no, they might have to be top-level in the Xtras folder (someone want to test that?). For any Xtras then the answer is yes, up to five levels of sub-folders IIRC. Cheers, Tom Higgins

RE: lingo-l All those DLLs

2004-07-15 Thread Thomas Higgins
Aha! Now it makes sense. The .dll's are packaged with the .exe, just like the xtras, but are not really part of the core executable. They're still loaded at runtime, after unpacking. It appears they aren't statically linked. Bingo, it's that unpack then linkload bit you weren't clear on.

RE: lingo-l All those DLLs

2004-07-15 Thread Thomas Higgins
Slava: I develop on Windows, and everything that goes in my xtras folder goes inside a subfolder called pc, so that means an extra level into the xtras folder for my dlls, and it worked fine. Thanks for that confirmation Michael. Cheers, Tom Higgins Product Manager - Director Team

RE: lingo-l Location of Pref files

2004-05-26 Thread Thomas Higgins
All, not sure why it ends up here. Previously we wrote to either Director's application folder for authoring, in Shockwave we wrote to the player's Prefs folder and in projectors they were written to a folder next to the projector. For authoring and projectors this was causing problems on both

RE: lingo-l Director MX Online Live Seminar Series

2004-05-26 Thread Thomas Higgins
Charlie, Nope, I'm speaking of the one titled something like Introducing Director MX 2004 with a focus on Flash Integration. Well, that's good news and that's bad new. It's good 'cause I don't have to worry about having a low-wattage bulb in my noggin', but it's bad because I never like to

RE: lingo-l Dot syntax for 'delete the last char of...'

2004-05-26 Thread Thomas Higgins
Is there a way of expressing delete the last char of myString using dot syntax? Yes: delete myString[myString.char.count] Cheers, Tom Higgins Product Manager - Director Team Macromedia ... [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

lingo-l Director MX Online Live Seminar Series

2004-05-25 Thread Thomas Higgins
All, Hey folks, I wanted to let everyone know about a pair of free online seminars that we're having tomorrow in case you're interested. Anyone can attend and so I'd recommend that folks take a look at the information found at the following URL: Director MX Online Live Seminar Series

RE: lingo-l Director MX Online Live Seminar Series

2004-05-25 Thread Thomas Higgins
any other sessions)? The one with this description: Director MX 2004 New Features, Putting It All Together Speaker: Macromedia Product Engineer Thomas Higgins Director MX 2004 now includes support for DVD video playback, come see how quickly this new feature can be incorporated into your

RE: lingo-l fileIO changes T to t ?!?!?

2004-05-14 Thread Thomas Higgins
All, I wanted to put a final note on this thread for I have been to the mountain and I have spoken with the wise one himself. I asked JHT (John Henry Thompson, father of Lingo, coder extraordinare) a few questions about this topic: 1. Where is that lookup table stored? The symbol table is

RE: lingo-l fileIO changes T to t ?!?!?

2004-05-13 Thread Thomas Higgins
That's in the category of just the way Director works. The symbol table stores the case of the first occurrence of any new symbol. Yup. This is easy to test using any new arbitrary symbol. Here's what I just did in my Message window: x = #USEALLUPPERCASEFORTHISTEST put

RE: lingo-l flash/director

2004-05-11 Thread Thomas Higgins
Have swf1 tell Director to tell swf2 to do it? (have a handler in Director to be the intermediary) Or if you're in Director MX or MX 2004, and you're authoring your SWF files using Flash MX or MX 2004, then just use a LocalConnection object in each of your SWF's, give them separate names and

RE: lingo-l Sorting lists properly

2004-05-11 Thread Thomas Higgins
Jim, I've been playing around with the sort function for my property lists in order to have a sorted list that I can add properties to at any time in any order and have it sort it correctly. The problem I'm having is that when you add numbers like 1, 17 and 129 it only sorts them up to the

RE: lingo-l anyone using D8 on XP?

2004-05-04 Thread Thomas Higgins
Mike, is anyone using Director 8 on WinXP? I just ordered a laptop and it comes with XP, but Macromedia's site says only 8.5 and up are XP-compatible (http://www.macromedia.com/support/general/ts/documents/win_xp.htm). Anyone know for sure? I have no prob blowing away XP and putting on

RE: lingo-l communication between 2 shockwave movies on the sam e html page

2004-04-19 Thread Thomas Higgins
Are globals between simultaneously playing shockwave movies possible? Nope, sorry. Are there other ways of doing this? Yes! The old school way is to have the two movies share one prefs file (accessed using getPref/setPref) but that's not exactly ideal. There are two other options that you

RE: lingo-l MX 2004 channel naming?

2004-04-14 Thread Thomas Higgins
Set the locZ of channel(Foo) = 500 IIRC, locZ is setable for a sprite not a channel, but I could be wrong. How about you try it and let us know what happens? ;) There's trouble here with locZ and with visible. Under the hood both of those properties act as if they were _channel_

RE: lingo-l MX 2004 - MuiDialog for Classic Mac?

2004-04-14 Thread Thomas Higgins
Tom? Huh? What? Oh, that's me... Am I missing something, or is there really no functional MuiDialog Xtra for Mac Classic for Dir10? Maybe you're missing something as I just did a quick check of my DirMX'04 installation on OSX and I do have a Mac OS9.x Mui Dialog Xtra. Starting with wherever

RE: lingo-l MX 2004 - MuiDialog for Classic Mac?

2004-04-14 Thread Thomas Higgins
All, Has anyone figured out what is going on with the Dir10 MuiDialog Xtra for Classic Mac? And now after my quick check I realize the folly of my ways. In my haste to answer your initial post I checked a recent internal daily build that does include the Xtra when shipping Director MX 2004

RE: lingo-l Macromedia Logo

2004-03-26 Thread Thomas Higgins
All, You know, that raises an interesting question. Since Macromedia have dropped the requirement for the logo, do we still have to use it for projects done in pre-MX 2004? As was already mentioned, yes, you do. You must abide by the license agreement particular to each release individually.

RE: lingo-l Director 10 lingo changes?

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Higgins
All, What timeout object stuff has changed? Were the changes good/bad/indifferent? I know Roy already gave a bit of information in response to this but I wanted to add a little extra (ok, a _lot_ extra) so that the whole story is clear as more has changed than just timeout declarations. This

RE: lingo-l finding the last substring within a string

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Higgins
F:\All Risk Training\modules\serviceInterruption\serviceInterruption.cst The itemDelimiter = \ delete the last item of... Or to see that in the new MX'04 Lingo dot-syntax: tStr = F:\All Risk Training\modules\serviceInterruption\serviceInterruption.cst _player.itemDelimiter = \ delete

RE: lingo-l finding the last substring within a string

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Higgins
All, Neither of those suggestions leaves you with the trailing delimiter. See my few verbose lines to see how to do it. You're right, they don't. I just wanted to show the two operations to strip the end file name off in the new Lingo and JS syntax for MX'04, I figured it was an easy exercise

RE: lingo-l finding the last substring within a string

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Higgins
All, Thomas: So...lastIndexOf() is in MX2004? I didn't think it actually had js methods in it. I only thought it was the *syntax* of js. That's worth a few bonus points. Would I make that kind of post without checking that the syntax worked? ;P We have full-on JavaScript 1.5 core (core

RE: lingo-l Window.forget() erases all globals? Was: finding th e last substring within a string

2004-03-05 Thread Thomas Higgins
However, when I comment out the forget() line, and just use the gMIAW.close() line right before it, all works fine. But that seems like I'm not completing the task. Does forgetting the MIAW clear the last remaining references to these script objects? If so wouldn't you then be clearing the

RE: lingo-l Turn off titles in Projectors MX 2004

2004-03-04 Thread Thomas Higgins
Greg, In older versions of Director, the title was off when making a projector and selecting full screen. In MX 2004, the title appears even when selecting ³Full Screen². How do you make that go away? I read some vague lingo things but no specific examples. It has to be easy. And easy

RE: lingo-l Director MX 2004 - LocalConnection

2004-02-12 Thread Thomas Higgins
What other thoughts do people have about using this new feature in DMX2K4? Wow, this is _not_ a new feature. Welcome to Director MX functionality!!! We introduced Flash Objects From Scripting as a feature last release, it is the feature that allows you to create and use various Flash objects

RE: lingo-l wireframe display of 3D text

2004-01-27 Thread Thomas Higgins
However: I expected my animation to render significantly faster with the renderstyle set to #wire. This seems not to be the case. I would like the wireframe superimposed over an existing image, that's why I can't use directToStage with the 3D text member. What other ways are there to

RE: lingo-l wireframe display of 3D text

2004-01-26 Thread Thomas Higgins
Michael, Here's a simple question for the 3D experts of you: Is there a way to display a text member in 3D mode as a wireframe? I didn't find anything on this in the docs ... Just set the shader's renderStyle property to #wire: member(text).shader[1].renderStyle = #wire The above

RE: lingo-l DMX4 workspace question

2004-01-10 Thread Thomas Higgins
Michael, I'm working on two monitors (Win XP). In Flash MX, if I maximize the screen, it fills up the primary monitor only and I can drag the panels outside the workspace and over to the smaller monitor. In DirMX, I can't do that. The Director window has to be stretched out to both screens

RE: lingo-l MX2004 3d

2004-01-10 Thread Thomas Higgins
Luiz, Has the 3D engine been revised? what about the Z-Sorting error??? Has the antialiasing been improved? As Colin already pointed out we have not done a major revision of the 3D engine in this release, we have added a few items but none of them deal with the rendering layer and they are

RE: lingo-l mediaplayer check

2004-01-10 Thread Thomas Higgins
William, What about mediaplayer? Do you mean WindowsMedia player? There are no built-in commands to test for that player, sorry. Check for that using 3rd party Xtras (like BuddyAPI for example). Cheers, Tom Higgins Product Specialist - Director Team Macromedia Announcing Director MX 2004, de

RE: lingo-l New Director and OOP

2004-01-09 Thread Thomas Higgins
Igor, Does anybody know, is there new features in Lingo? For examle, for when I write parent scripts, it'll be better to have an opportunity to use class (parent script) inheritance, polymorphism and so on... The changes to Lingo syntax in Director MX 2004 involve dot-syntax access

RE: lingo-l mediaplayer check

2004-01-09 Thread Thomas Higgins
William, is there a way to have director check the user's system for installed media players like QuickTime,Real Player or Media Player and then go to an appropriate marker in the movie? To start you can use the following in Lingo: quickTimePresent() -- returns a boolean (installed/not

RE: lingo-l 2004 - OK Tom, QuickTime.

2004-01-08 Thread Thomas Higgins
Troy, Please tell us about any improvements in the QuickTime xtra, specifically performance, and ability to work with wired quicktime media. Sorry but we didn't do any work on the QT Xtra this release so no changes there. Cheers, Tom Higgins Product Specialist - Director Team Macromedia

RE: lingo-l Re: lingo-lDirector MX 2004 Questions - day 2

2004-01-08 Thread Thomas Higgins
Mathew, Dunno if you can speak any more about this, snip I really shouldn't. Speaking more about it only invites serious pain on my part if things don't pan out exactly as I describe them. I've learned that the hard way on these lists before, someone snips a quote out of context, that floats to

RE: lingo-l New Director

2004-01-08 Thread Thomas Higgins
Tom has the Mac debugger window been fixed (can't resize it)? If you are referring to the resizing issues on OS10.3 then yes, we've fixed those bugs. If that's not what you meant then can you clarify the bug(s) you are reffering to? Cheers, Tom Higgins Product Specialist - Director Team

RE: lingo-l Re: re: Dir MX2004 (Tom)

2004-01-08 Thread Thomas Higgins
Michael, When will the Shockwave 10 player be made publicly available? We haven't announced any hard dates so this information is not yet ready for public consumption (I don't even know of a precise date at this point). How big is it? IIRC, the Mac OSX installer hovers around 5Mb and the

RE: lingo-l DMX2K4 Question

2004-01-08 Thread Thomas Higgins
Trevor and others, I know this was addressed by Colin already but to be crystal clear: will we FINALLY get multiple levels of undo? No, this is not in Director MX 2004, sorry. Cheers, Tom Higgins Product Specialist - Director Team Macromedia Announcing Director MX 2004, de lekkerste!

RE: lingo-l One more biggie for DMX2004 Tech FAQ - MU xtra.

2004-01-08 Thread Thomas Higgins
Troy, All that cool Flash functionality is great, but a lot of us use, the Multi-User Xtra... and enjoy the fact that we can do things which can't be done (easily) with the Flash solution. I won't hold out hope that support for the server will return anytime soon, but I HAVE to hope that

RE: lingo-l RE: Dir MX 2004

2004-01-07 Thread Thomas Higgins
Can't you just hold it in for another month or so? Because this is torture. I haven't felt like this since I was 10 years old, Christmas was a few days away, and that Atari console was sitting right there in the store window - so close, but yet so far... Well then I guess I won't tell

RE: lingo-l Director MX 2004 Questions - day 2

2004-01-07 Thread Thomas Higgins
Top o' the morning y'all. I'm back, I've had a wee bit of sleep along with a pint or three and some food. A, that feels better. Picking up where we left off yesterday... 1. From Grimmwerks: At some point do you think you can fill up on the coffee and write down every little thang? As

RE: lingo-l RE: Director MX04

2004-01-07 Thread Thomas Higgins
How about Unicode support? Lingo strings do not support Unicode so that's why you're likely having trouble using Flash assets to render your unicode strings. Once Lingo touches 'em you're hosed... But wait... There's more! You'll have to wait for Christmas though, sorry! Ok, I shouldn't

RE: lingo-l Director MX 2004 Questions

2004-01-07 Thread Thomas Higgins
OK, I've got another one off the top of my head: any improvements to the MUI xtra (above the obvious need to fix the broken getURL call on OSX)? Other than fixing getURL() in projectors, no, there have been no changes to the MUI Xtra, sorry. Cheers, Tom Higgins Product Specialist - Director

RE: lingo-l New Director MX

2004-01-07 Thread Thomas Higgins
All, Unicode support in the new version? Please see my previous reply under the subject RE: Director MX04 as I discuss this item there. How about 8-bit MIAW masks, like the latest Adobe splash screens? Yeah, is there alphas, or the old yucky edge variety? 1-bit only. :_( We tried hard to

lingo-l Director MX 2004 Questions - day 3

2004-01-07 Thread Thomas Higgins
All, My apologies for being good about answering questions in the morning and then dropping off today, but once I get that first round of email out of the way they(MACR and my managers) back a truckload of work up to my desk and start dumping. As such I've been buried all day. I'll will get to all

RE: lingo-l Dir MX 2004 and MP3

2004-01-06 Thread Thomas Higgins
Slava, Can someone tell us if the new Director MX 2004, with its expanded media support, adds the capability to record sound and encode it to MP3? snip Or perhaps Ogg Vorbis is supported by MX 2004? Neither of these changes are in Director MX 2004. You cannot record and encode MP3's nor

RE: lingo-l Dir MX 2004 and MP3

2004-01-06 Thread Thomas Higgins
Troy, I see the projector publishing... but what are the MIAW changes? Docking? For tool xtras? The changes to MIAWs are _awesome_ IM-not so-HO: 1. Official support for non-rectangular MIAWs and non-rectangular stage windows! Windows can now also mask themselves. Mask animation is _much_

Dir MX 2004 - MIAW's (was: RE: lingo-l Dir MX 2004 and MP3)

2004-01-06 Thread Thomas Higgins
good news for miaws, but all these new settings (cast members masks for non-rectangular miaws and projectors, icons, buttons on the title bar, etc) may be set using lingo? Or with JavaScript syntax! :) Yes, all these properties are settable in Lingo or JavaScript syntax. You can set the

RE: lingo-l Dir MX 2004 and MP3

2004-01-06 Thread Thomas Higgins
Does this mean that we'll have better always-on-top control for having a couple of windows open over the stage in a projector as well, for both MacOS X and Windows? Yes, sort of. If you make a MIAW that is a tool window, it will always float on top whether in authoring or in your projector.

RE: lingo-l Dir MX 2004 and MP3

2004-01-06 Thread Thomas Higgins
There may be a third party Xtras which offers live mp3 creation - Have you searched at http://www.updatestage.com ? I don't know if you were talking to me or not Buzz, but seeing as you replied to my post and not Slava's I'll assume you were. Yes, I'm aware of various third party Xtras that

RE: lingo-l Director MX04

2004-01-06 Thread Thomas Higgins
And I assume we still have to buy any third party Xtras for both platforms? Yes. Xtras and our core player files are still very platform specific, what's been added is the ability to output the required bits for the other platform. So yes, if you plan on creating content for various

RE: Dir MX 2004 - MIAW's (was: RE: lingo-l Dir MX 2004 and MP 3)

2004-01-06 Thread Thomas Higgins
All, Here's the answer for previous releases: And here's the answer for this release: _every_ movie has a display template that you can populate in authoring, then whenever that movie is opened as window, the template it contains is read in and used to initialize the window before opening it.

RE: lingo-l RE: was Director MX04 now cross platform Xtras que stion

2004-01-06 Thread Thomas Higgins
Peter, With the new version if I want to create a projector to run on OS-X using Director on a Windows platform it will not include the required Xtras for OS-X in the projector that I publish like it will when making the Windows projector for example the flash or text asset xtra? And if

RE: lingo-l RE: was Director MX04 now cross platform Xtras que stion

2004-01-06 Thread Thomas Higgins
Another question, is there a very detailed list of the changes/new in MX 2004? No, not yet. I'm hoping to put together a technical FAQ as opposed to the currently existing marketing FAQ type of documents we have. My idea is that I've been answering the same questions for a while now (tech

lingo-l Director MX 2004 Questions

2004-01-06 Thread Thomas Higgins
All, I'm finished for the day, I've had too much coffee and not nearly enough food or sleep lately. I'm probably not going to get to the last few questions tonight but I will be sure to pick up where I left of tomorrow. In the queue for answering/responding to are: 1. From Grimmwerks: At some

RE: lingo-l Director 8.5.1 logo

2003-12-19 Thread Thomas Higgins
Peter, Well, while others at dirGames are arguing about the new potential capabilites of Director, i still use the 8.5.1 one and am happy with it, so i want to ask just a quick question: why does the Dir8.5.1 logo represent a gear and an arrow pointing to it? Is there some phylosophical

RE: lingo-l RE: [Dir3d-l] X-post: weird 'is3dMember' error

2003-12-15 Thread Thomas Higgins
I've had that error a few times... snip I think it happens when you make a... It could very well be the case that it's the vList Xtra then, and it could be pulling the wrong script error text, indicating that some error with is3dCastMember is the source when in reality it's not. Interesting.

lingo-l RE: [Dir3d-l] X-post: weird 'is3dMember' error

2003-12-13 Thread Thomas Higgins
I originally thought this was tied in to the vList xtra I'm using, but I just got it from doing 'put basysfolder(prefs)' in the message window... A weird alert that says 'is3dCastMember unknown error code(-2147219478)' -- and I'm not even using any 3d cast members Well, I just

RE: lingo-l accessing the timeoutlist, part II

2003-12-12 Thread Thomas Higgins
I _really_ don't want to be one of those troll naysayers -- You've got concerns based on your experience so nobody should keep you from them, don't drop 'em, keep sharing them. I'll say from the inside that I feel confident that Director is on an upswing in a number of ways. JHT coming back

RE: lingo-l Back for the future (was: accessing ...)

2003-12-12 Thread Thomas Higgins
Any chance you could elaborate on another? Another, as in addition to those already on the team (restated: no, there isn't another big name that I can announce as a recent returning member of our team). Cheers, Tom Higgins Product Specialist - Director Team Macromedia DIRECTOR, de lekkerste!

RE: lingo-l accessing the timeoutlist

2003-12-11 Thread Thomas Higgins
Michael, Put the timeoutlist[1] works, but I need to access by name, not item, because there may be more than one timeout going on. Any ideas? The timeout list is a _linear_ list of timeout object references, therefore you don't get named access. Your getPos call will fail because in essence

RE: lingo-l accessing the timeoutlist, part II

2003-12-11 Thread Thomas Higgins
Can one imply from this statement, that JT has returned to the nest? Either that or you can imply that I live with JHT... :\ (your implication is correct though, mine is in jest) Cheers, Tom Higgins Product Specialist - Director Team Macromedia DIRECTOR, de lekkerste! ... [To remove

RE: lingo-l accessing the timeoutlist, part II

2003-12-11 Thread Thomas Higgins
Following along this path of implications, this suggests Director may yet regain it's most delicious status ... Well in my own mind, along with Febo, Director is already de lekkerste. Always has been, always will be. Cheers, Tom Higgins Product Specialist - Director Team Macromedia

RE: lingo-l [OFFTOPIC] Xtras development list mmxdk-l

2003-12-01 Thread Thomas Higgins
Adam and others, Does anyone know who is supposed to be the administrating the xtra development list? Stand by, I've just sent an internal email trying to find out who the appropriate contact would be for this. I'll post a follow-up just as soon as I have more information. Cheers, Tom

RE: lingo-l [OFFTOPIC] Xtras development list mmxdk-l

2003-12-01 Thread Thomas Higgins
Ok, now I'm back with some information. We did in fact just switch from a majordomo list to a lyris managed list serve. Due to this change the mmxdk list is not currently joinable by the general public as it used to be. I'm still awaiting what the official option for signing up is, I'm

RE: lingo-l Panther - object inspector

2003-11-21 Thread Thomas Higgins
All, Whose problem is it? Did Apple do something in their code that broke the original function or did MM not use the correct function in the first place and have been caught out? I hope someone fixes it real soon, cus it a PITA Ok, I've got my fire-suit on 'cause I fear the

RE: lingo-l Importing Images

2003-11-14 Thread Thomas Higgins
Richard, I've already posted this on another forum. I've noticed that each time you import an image (for example a jpeg of 300KB and 24bits) Director stores it in the cast as a bitmap of 32 bits (OK, you can choose the 24bits option in the importing window, but it is a bitmap!!) that becomes

RE: lingo-l Dumb dir question

2003-11-14 Thread Thomas Higgins
So moviename will return the .dir name used to create the projector. Anyway of getting the projector name? Not a dumb question just a dumb documentation omission. Try this: the applicationName When used in authoring it will return Director.exe on Windows for example, but in a projector it

RE: lingo-l Miaw

2003-11-13 Thread Thomas Higgins
Bob, For any MIAW's that you open, you can close them in a few ways: 1. The user can use UI elements like the close box that appears in the window's title bar to close the window. 2. You can make your own button or call your own code that calls the close() method off of the window object:

RE: lingo-l Director and Flash objects

2003-11-11 Thread Thomas Higgins
All, I don't know how you can get the properties of the flash object, but getting the spriteNumber is easy. Undocumented and therefore not fully supported but give this a try: tPropList = dbgPropList(flashObjRef) The variable tPropList will now be a property list where the property names

RE: lingo-l SMUS

2003-10-31 Thread Thomas Higgins
Peter, Our computers are interconnected via hub (or router, don't know exactly). So as far as I understand, I can run SMUS on any machine connected to network or should there be a special pseudo server pc? If SMUS should be installed on a special pc, then will the IP address for dependant

RE: lingo-l parent

2003-10-31 Thread Thomas Higgins
Peter, Just to make sure I understand this properly: member(3d).model(Father).parent = member(3d).model(Child) - this statement means that the father is the parent of/to child? Nope. It makes child the parent of father (you set the father's parent property to the child model). Switch it

RE: lingo-l parent

2003-10-31 Thread Thomas Higgins
Didn't like the its own grandpa explanation, huh? Unfortunately I replied before seeing your post, otherwise I would have definitely fallen in-line with your self-granfathering theme. ;) Um, Heather can have two mommies, Tom... ;) Ahhh yes, my scripting skills must be rusty. I forgot about

RE: lingo-l SMUS

2003-10-30 Thread Thomas Higgins
Dang, hit send by accident... If you like the SMUS platform but want another option (like Linux/Unix/Solaris support for the server), then consider the Nebulae Server from Tabuleiro: http://xtras.tabuleiro.com/ Hope that info helps. Cheers, Tom Higgins Product Specialist - Director Team

RE: lingo-l SMUS

2003-10-30 Thread Thomas Higgins
Peter, In my faculty, we've got sth like 20 pcs connected to local network and there is an internet connection available to some of them. I'd like to create a whiteboard to post messages delivered to all departments. As a delivery platform I chose MUS (still don't know why was it excluded

RE: lingo-l dcr security

2003-10-18 Thread Thomas Higgins
Valentin already covered the big parts, yes you can extract media from DCRs but you cannot extract script text. I did want to add one thing: An embedded swf will not be directly available in the ache, but can get extracted from the dcr/cct as entioned above. It's key to note that if you use a

Flash Xtra Updates (was: RE: lingo-l Those OS's again and a que stion)

2003-10-15 Thread Thomas Higgins
Peter, Actually a question for you all, what's your opinion on what appears to be the new tactic of having to upgrade Director everytime a new version of Flash comes out rather than just updating the Xtra like in the old days? Pardon me but what old days are you referring to? My

RE: Flash Xtra Updates (was: RE: lingo-l Those OS's again and a que stion)

2003-10-15 Thread Thomas Higgins
Ok, quick quiz, name two occasions when a Flash Xtra change occurred away from a major Director release. You could argue that both are catch questions. A. Let's define major Director release: a release in which new bits are released that you are required to pay for. Director 8.5 was a major

RE: lingo-l Lingo

2003-10-08 Thread Thomas Higgins
Peter, So my question is: how can I learn (if it's possible, of course) to think and freely talk Lingo? I think you just need to continue a spoken language analogy here. I took Spanish classes in high school, it taught me how to speak from a book using memorized phrases/conjugations, but not

RE: lingo-l passing a Property list to a Flash array

2003-10-03 Thread Thomas Higgins
Jerry, For completeness, if you did want to pass name/value pairs into your Flash movie then don't use an Array in your SWF, use a generic object behaving as an associative array. In my earlier example you likely would have coded your AS something like this: // create a global array gArray =

RE: lingo-l passing a Property list to a Flash array

2003-10-03 Thread Thomas Higgins
Jerry, Anyone know how to pass a property list created in Director to an array residing inside of a Flash file. I've been doing some searching online but there is not much out there to go on. If you just want to pass the values into the Array you can do something like this: -- aSprite =

RE: lingo-l Director Shockwave distribution policies (2)

2003-09-22 Thread Thomas Higgins
Your turn, Tom. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do in response to your reply roymeo. All I can possibly do is ask our product management team to look into and address this, really, that's all I can do. It's not my domain to work on this area, I don't have access to these docs nor the authority

RE: lingo-l MIAWs: close, forget....and VOID?

2003-09-19 Thread Thomas Higgins
Kerry, Yes, you need to void it (or set it to 0, or fido, or something else). Until you do, it contains the reference to the MIAW, and Director won't release its memory. When I test on my end the variable that used to refer to the window is set to zero, at least as far as put() is

RE: lingo-l Formatting individual lines of field text via lingo

2003-09-17 Thread Thomas Higgins
All, You still have to use old lingo for #field member chunk operations. Try this: put the foreColor of line 1 of member(theContent) Why? Good question... Aah. Thank you, Bertil. If MACR is listening, that would be a nice bug fix for Director MX 2016. C'mon

RE: lingo-l undocumented Lingo

2003-09-15 Thread Thomas Higgins
All, A quick bit from my end on where undocumented features come from: 1. Something that was implemented but couldn't get to a stable enough state (due to bugs) prior to shipping in order to get official feature status. 2. Features that crept in late in the game and didn't recieve

RE: lingo-l CF vs MUS

2003-09-13 Thread Thomas Higgins
Peter, Hi Lingo Developers! When using ColdFusion, you can install the server on your hard drive and test your project locally. Can that be done with MUS? Yes. Once the Shockwave Multiuser Server is installed on your machine, launch the server and then go to the menu StatusServer and pull

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