>Anyone know if it is possible to open a Microsoft Word document to a
>specific line, anchor, or page via LINGO? I'm concerned mostly with
>doing this on the Windows platform.
On the Mac side, you could do this with an ApplesScript.
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>Anyone else experience this? Seems like this would be a logical choice for
>a reserved word... but can't find any evidence of it.
I can find evidence against it. I just typed:
put symbol("RESOURCEID")
and got:
-- #RESOURCEID
>Never, EVER depend upon the capitalization of #symbols.
Sage advic
>I told my wife that when I get a G5 in the new year I was going to get
>the 30" screen, but she vetoed the idea saying I could not have a
>monitor larger than her TV :-)
Wow. Time for a new wife...
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>thats just lazy/bad application development
I've spent the last hour trying to decide how intemperate my language
should be, considering the collegial nature of this list. Oh, well, here
goes:
Evil, you're full of shit on this one.
I know a goodly number of the Director team, and can truthful
>However I was going to use getPref and setPref to do this, but I'm not 100%
>sure on exactly where Director will save the text files generated by this
>method, or if such a default location will be accessible on all machines
>(both PC and Mac) it runs on.
If you're doing a projector, the fileIO xt
>I've gotten around the problem pretty easily. I'm attaching a script to
>each of my event sprites, and it calculates its theoretical locH. When
>the time line window gets close to its location, it places itself.
Winning ugly is still winning. Nice hack.
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>When I view the cast in list mode the icons which used to be down the
>left hand side are no longer there. I think this happened when I
>upgraded to OS 10.3 from 10.2 but am not absolutely sure. I can live
>without the icons but they were convenient things to have and I would
>prefer to have t
>IN the opposite direction, as you say, you can use getURL("lingo:lingo>") or my preference which is getURL("event:handlerName") which fires
>handlerName() on behaviours attached to the Flash sprite.
Or, you can just use: getURL(someParameter, andMoreParametersIfYouWant).
This syntax calls a getU
>Its fine so long as you don't need the script reference for anything.
>If it needs to get properties from the behavior/script or needs a
>script reference then you need the "me"
Actually, this is a good way to create pseudo-private functions within
a parent script. If you omit the "me", you can c
>We'll be disappointed. Again.
What? Are the Red Sox going to be in the World Series in 2007?
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>I can independently configure size, colour depth or positioning, and
>synchronize them all too.
So, I think was was meant by "overtaken" was: "finally caught up with"...
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>I found that whacking the sprite().editable OFF, updateStage & back
>on just prior to switching to a given sprite helped
I generally only leave one member editable, switching the property at
the same time that I switch the keyboardFocusSprite. It eliminates all
weirdness, and no updateStage is re
>I work on too many legacy projects and don't see many clients
>willing to pay for syntax changes any time soon.
You know that scriptExecutionStyle is dynamically setable, right? If
you're updating a pre-D10 project, you can set that to 9 in startMovie,
then flip it to 10 and back when you want to
>
>Thomas W.J.C. McCrystal:
>> _movie.castLib[1].member[1].name
>
>I wonder how do I know when should I be using square brackets instead
of
>round ones? I've already checked up in the Lingo Dictionary of MX04
release
>on page 101 that I can reference to the castLib by
>I get an error using this:
>
>put(castLib(1).member(1).name)
Try:
_movie.castLib[1].member[1].name
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>Ancient Director Lore tells us to never do anything important in frame
one.
This is true. The last time I did something important in frame one, I
got shelled for 21 goals the next day. (That's actually a true
story...)
As an "early in the application" aside, startMovie is a bad place to
instantia
>I'm creating a Flash sprite at runtime, but it's crashing with
"handler
>not found in object" when I issue a goToFrame command.
It's a silly thing, but are you sure that you're passing strings to
flash? I've seen this error when I passed a symbol or integer by
accident.
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>I added this to your routine:
As usual, Colin is a stud.
Adding Colin's elegant delete by word to my test code gives:
-- "Walk: 14175"
-- "Delete: 9222"
-- "Delete Words: 1909"
I'm still in the habit of following the "always operate at the head of a
string" rule, because when processors were a
>A minor improvement might be the following:
>
>cnt = reallyBigString.length
>repeat with i = 1 to cnt
>myCodeList.append(charToNum(reallyBigString.char[i])
>end repeat
A major improvement is to do all your work on char 1, then delete it as
you go:
on test
parentString = member("test string
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