Re: Multiuser Xtra and databases

2003-06-17 Thread Troy Rollins
On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 12:01 PM, Rodrigo Peres wrote: Is it possible to use multiuser xtra to connect to databases like mysql, oracle etc. I need to connect and retrieve some data. If possible I'd like to run away from third part xtras, but... You'll probably want to use a PHP/ASP interm

Re: Multiuser Xtra and databases

2003-06-17 Thread Troy Rollins
On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 02:58 PM, Evan Adelman wrote: is that really the case? if the solution involves ASP, you're probably right, you need a webserver. but php, perl, and the like are actually separate executables that you could include (1. the distribution licenses are pretty loose if

Re: Multiuser Xtra and databases

2003-06-17 Thread Troy Rollins
On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 03:38 PM, Rodrigo Peres wrote: This project will be running from Kiosk. It will among other things check prices. The client use the barcode in package, and the system go to the database and get the price, description and present on screen. I've never heard about PHP

Re: linking of cast - can't get it to work...!

2003-06-17 Thread Troy Rollins
On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 09:28 PM, nik crosina wrote: This does only occur once I burn the project on to a CD (or run it over a network), not when I run the stub in my development machine. Any ideas, anything i am missing here? Have you tried adding the various folders to "the searchPaths"

Re: : DMX issues (summary)

2003-06-19 Thread Troy Rollins
On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 01:34 PM, Kevin McFarland wrote: I'm trying to summarize known DMX issues, here is what I have come up with so far, from looking at past threads and notes. Any others I'm missing? * font width on OSX * exitLock broken on OSX? * modifier key bugs on OSX, fixed by

Re: : DMX issues (summary)

2003-06-19 Thread Troy Rollins
On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 12:41 AM, Howdy-Tzi wrote: The way Macromedia has explained this is that Director projectors don't actually hog the cpu, they just eat up unused cycles. If I recall correctly, this is aimed to handle animation. Yeah; I believe taking the framerate down can reduce

Re: : DMX issues (summary)

2003-06-20 Thread Troy Rollins
On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 10:43 AM, Daniel Nelson wrote: Yes, I wish there were an option to say "hey, this is just a regular app, not a multimedia project". It's so very easy to make great looking and functioning stuff in Director that it would be nice if it had the ability to act just li

Re: : DMX issues (summary)

2003-06-20 Thread Troy Rollins
On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 12:17 PM, Daniel Nelson wrote: You can send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Done. Thanks. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [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 t

Re: Flash animation in Director

2003-07-04 Thread Troy Rollins
On Friday, July 4, 2003, at 01:21 AM, Rishi Jindal wrote: I am working on a presentation that involves a lot of Bitmap (800 X 600) coming after one another (Like Powerpoint) I am wanting to use Flash animation at the same time as when my bitmap show on stage but I notice that the Flash animaton

Re: It's not about Breeze - it's about the Breeze pitch

2003-07-22 Thread Troy Rollins
On Friday, July 18, 2003, at 01:36 PM, Allen Stare-IMM wrote: I have a problem with the tone of the 'Breeze' presentation and the implication that a multimedia designer/consultant is a *BAD* thing. Macromedia appears to be interested in trying to become a tool for everyone, rather than just "dev

Re: Xml parser xtra question

2003-07-28 Thread Troy Rollins
On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 03:07 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: When debugging, is there any way to see the structure of parsed xml under the variable tabs (DMX interface). Currently, all I see there is the instance of the xtra: . I'd like to be able to see a tree view of the data. Am I miss

Re: XML heirarchy in object inspector / Was: Xml parser xtra question

2003-07-31 Thread Troy Rollins
On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 08:53 AM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: I must be missing something. I'm not seeing how to display parsed XML as a tree view in the object inspector. Anyone know? (In my lingo, the instanced/parsed xtra is named gXML.) If you are sure that is what contains the parsed

Re: XML heirarchy in object inspector / Was: Xml parser xtra question

2003-08-04 Thread Troy Rollins
On Monday, August 4, 2003, at 02:14 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: I took your suggestion and did a makeList() function in the object inspector, and it worked (thank you). However, I'd rather not look at the data that way. I'd still just like to get a simple tree view. Is this possible? Not too

Re: XML heirarchy in object inspector / Was: Xml parser xtra question

2003-08-14 Thread Troy Rollins
On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 08:32 AM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: The top line just displays the instance of the xtra, without any spin down/tree view widgets. In the OI, I can see the tree with the makeList() method, but not any other way. Any thoughts, or should I just figure out the tree v

Re: cpu usage

2003-09-02 Thread Troy Rollins
On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 05:48 PM, Mathew Ray wrote: There was just a lengthy discussion of this very topic on Direct-L. Rather than me rehashing all the details, See the thread titled "CPU usage on OSX": http://listserv.uark.edu/archives/direct-l.html Check out that thread. I started it

Re: cpu usage

2003-09-02 Thread Troy Rollins
On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 07:55 PM, Tony Åström wrote: By the way, the Windows clients have notis the 100% cpu usage and what shall I tell them? - "Modern CPUs run HOT when idling at 100% continuousl" - Yep. That's what you tell them. That and the fact that the CPU fans in notebooks will

Re: Director MX - 2004

2003-09-12 Thread Troy Rollins
On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 10:15 AM, Dan Sheridan wrote: Does anyone know if Macromedia will be updating Director MX - to the new 2004 product line? And does Director MX now require a new Flash Asset Xtra to use Flash 2004 swfs etc? Macromedia posted a FAQ somewhere that says there will i

Re: Director MX - 2004

2003-09-12 Thread Troy Rollins
On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 10:40 AM, Kraig Mentor wrote: Flash MX 2004 allows for exporting in earlier Flash formats, if thats any help in your situation. Maybe. We'll probably pick up a copy and test. Flash MX would export as Flash 5 as well, but if you scripted anything against the Flas

Re: fill effect

2003-09-14 Thread Troy Rollins
On Sunday, September 14, 2003, at 01:26 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: is it possible to do a fill effect with a bitmap (not regular color). ie. i have a bitmap that i would like to use as a fill effect. is it possible for the bitmap to cover were you click, just like you would with a regular fill effe

Re: undocumented Lingo

2003-09-15 Thread Troy Rollins
On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 09:39 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't tried floodfill().. but it may be useful on a project I am starting. What are the parameters(arguments) that it requires?? According to James Newton's book - imageObject.floodfill(, ) -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http:/

Re: Cursor property - solved

2003-09-26 Thread Troy Rollins
On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 01:27 PM, Peter Bochan wrote: This makes code less redundant, and, what was my aim, reauable. Not to mention appropriate and functional. ;-P -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to h

Re: 8.5 3D recommended book?

2003-09-29 Thread Troy Rollins
On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 05:26 AM, Robin Pereira wrote: Director's Third Dimension: Fundamentals of 3D Programming in Director 8.5 (With CD-ROM) by Paul Catanese (Author) (Paperback I've read just about all of them. Paul Catanese's book is by far the most comprehensive and advanced. It

Re: english to spanish / spanish to english translation in director

2003-09-30 Thread Troy Rollins
On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 11:21 AM, Evan Adelman wrote: Even then, however, Kerry's examples fail pretty miserably in Babel Fish (English->Spanish->English => The alcohol is arranged, but the meat is weak. & He lead a block and gave return in a small > restaurant.) Ya. That ampersand r

Re: Mousedown safari bug

2003-09-30 Thread Troy Rollins
On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 02:09 PM, grimmwerks wrote: Hey - has anyone seen the weird mousedown bug in safari where you have to move the mouse during a mousedown in order for it to register? You can see an example at lingoworkshop.com I've seen it in more than Safari. -- Troy RPSyste

Re: buttons in front of videos

2003-10-12 Thread Troy Rollins
On Sunday, October 12, 2003, at 03:53 PM, director wrote: im trying to put graphics (buttons)in front of video. is this possible. i know there is a mask feature. i have tried this feature but no luck. thanks Not sure where you normally hang out, director, but we generally frown on the anonymous f

Re: thanks

2003-10-12 Thread Troy Rollins
On Sunday, October 12, 2003, at 10:38 PM, director wrote: i am not the best at it but i give it my best and if i get stuck i turn to the pro's "you guys" thanks DS-NYC OK then DS-NYC - is your question answered? If not, you should supply a few more details on what you are trying to do. -- Troy

Re: OS wars

2003-10-15 Thread Troy Rollins
On Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at 10:34 AM, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: There are plenty of cogent points, the most important being (in the words of Mac's OSX campaign), WinXP just works, OSX doesn't, regardless of what Apple says. Boy, you do make an excellent and well qualified point there. "

Re: Those OS's again and a question

2003-10-15 Thread Troy Rollins
On Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at 11:42 AM, Peter Witham wrote: 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? It sux. Not

Giving back

2003-10-15 Thread Troy Rollins
(Since some of you guys aren't on Direct-L) This community has been exceedingly generous over the years. The folks on this list alone remind me on a daily basis why I choose Director as my authoring tool of choice. While I can't offer as much in the way of Lingo expertise as some of the others,

Re: SMUS

2003-10-31 Thread Troy Rollins
On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 02:48 AM, Peter Bochan wrote: If SMUS should be installed on a special pc, then will the IP address for dependant computers be the # Server IP address and port: 127.0.0.1 of the initial computer? I mean via which IP address will dependant computers connect to the ma

Re: parent

2003-10-31 Thread Troy Rollins
On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 04:32 PM, Peter Bochan wrote: 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"? If yes, then if I change the father, the child will c

Re: parent

2003-10-31 Thread Troy Rollins
On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 05:03 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: 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"? If yes, then if I change the father, the child will

Re: parent

2003-10-31 Thread Troy Rollins
On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 05:27 PM, Thomas Higgins wrote: 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

Re: parent

2003-11-01 Thread Troy Rollins
On Saturday, November 1, 2003, at 02:46 AM, Peter Bochan wrote: OK. Now I think you are just goofing on us. I made that comment because everything in the first example of "understood" items was SO wrong, it seemed improbable that you were even serious. No, I doubt the list moderator would kick yo

Re: parent

2003-11-01 Thread Troy Rollins
On Saturday, November 1, 2003, at 03:50 PM, Peter Bochan wrote: No, I doubt the list moderator would kick you out for that. Though list participants may not enjoy untangling such conundrums enough to actually help you - on the other hand, some might. When not too busy, I enjoy a good coding conun

Re: Mac 10.3 and Director MX Bugs...

2003-11-06 Thread Troy Rollins
On Thursday, November 6, 2003, at 10:03 AM, Baker, Geoff wrote: Anybody else notice these three bugs in MX and OS 10.3? 1) When you first open a cast in list view you don't see all your cast members. You have to toggle between views to "see" all of them. 2) In the cast window, in list view, you n

Re: Re: Shockwave Multiuser Server 3.0 and Lingo for Multi-user interfaces

2003-11-12 Thread Troy Rollins
On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 12:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just begun to work with development for my first multi-user interface. I am using Shockwave Multiuser with Director. My question is if anyone reccomends any documentation that I should review to better understand what

Re: HTML and email

2003-11-18 Thread Troy Rollins
On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 10:40 AM, 2702NET wrote: The only reasonably reliable method is to use the DirectEmail Xtra from www.directxtras.com (there are some other free ways to attack the problem - but I don't recommend them). This is definitely your best bet, but even w/the Xtra you'

Re: dumb question - opening a folder

2003-11-18 Thread Troy Rollins
On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 07:38 PM, Todd Culley wrote: How do you open a folder for browsing with director?  I know how to open a file in Director using fileIO, filextra, fileXtra4, and buddyAPI but I don't see any commands to open just the folder. ?? You use buddy, baGetFile, or baGet

Re: dumb question - opening a folder

2003-11-18 Thread Troy Rollins
On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 11:43 PM, Todd Culley wrote: You use buddy, baGetFile, or baGetFolder... set a "default directory". The file browser opens. If you use "*.*" as the file type, it shows all files and folders. Besides that, what more are you trying to do? Like allow double-clicki

Re: HTML and email

2003-11-19 Thread Troy Rollins
On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 11:29 AM, Diego Landro wrote: Now i get the point, thanks "2702Net", though i have a valid email account it wont work because the end user ISP would block the use of another mail server, and i just can´t work that around, can I? Well i guess ill have to have an

Re: Object inspector

2003-11-21 Thread Troy Rollins
On Friday, November 21, 2003, at 11:38 AM, grimmwerks wrote: Is there going to be a quick fix for the panther/OI problem? Seems a f$cken shame that the only...er..sorry BEST new feature can't even be used properly I would doubt that they will do any patches for DMX, as it does work properly

Re: Panther - object inspector

2003-11-22 Thread Troy Rollins
On Saturday, November 22, 2003, at 05:42 PM, Tony Bray wrote: So as the Mac OS was updated Word "broke". Apple, at the time, did some "fiddles" so that Word would work. Eventually, however, Apple told Microsoft that if they didn't fix their Word program then Apple would recommend and support Wo

Re: Tweening a bitmap image using lingo

2003-11-22 Thread Troy Rollins
On Saturday, November 22, 2003, at 11:45 PM, Blake Coglianese wrote: Is it possible to move a bitmapped sprite across the stage using lingo. I know I can use locH and it will put the sprite in a specific place on the stage but can I use lingo to move that sprite from one point to another and m

Re: Flash file in Director.....after done playing how can I make it go to the next frame.

2003-11-24 Thread Troy Rollins
On Monday, November 24, 2003, at 03:31 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Another alternative is to make a behavior and put the goToNextFrame in the behavior, and put the behavior on the flash sprite and then within flash, say getURL("event: goToNextPage");. If that doesn't work, try this: Make a g

Re: Sending xml data

2003-11-26 Thread Troy Rollins
On Wednesday, November 26, 2003, at 10:54 AM, nomshar wrote: How to send xml data from one movie to another? Use a file, a socket connection via MUS or MU xtra, or an XML socket. If you want more specifics, we're probably going to need more info to go on. Two local movies? Networked movies? CD

Re: AW: AW: Sound recognition and comparison

2003-11-27 Thread Troy Rollins
On Thursday, November 27, 2003, at 03:19 AM, Florian Bogeschdorfer wrote: Just to be clear, though...this Xtra won't work for Mindy's project because it's only for analyzing audio at the audio input. No, you are wrong, sorry. With a couple of sound cards you can use files. That's what it says

Re: How to extend a score sprite through Code.

2003-12-05 Thread Troy Rollins
On Friday, December 5, 2003, at 11:46 PM, Saravanan appya wrote: I have some problems working with lingo through Code pls help me out from my issue. 1.) I want to increase the sprite frame through code. Consider "Puppeting" the sprite channel instead. 2.) I want to reduce the width of the fla

Re: Director vs realbasic

2003-12-06 Thread Troy Rollins
On Saturday, December 6, 2003, at 01:35 PM, grimmwerks wrote: So I've started thinking about realbasic, especially with the monkeybread plugins (4400 different cross platform calls to things like scanners, cameras, cd burning, etc)... Personally I'd prefer to see director step up since it's be

Re: Load XML document

2003-12-08 Thread Troy Rollins
On Monday, December 8, 2003, at 08:24 AM, nomshar wrote: When I run this movie in browser in Internet I see something like this: "Current load 0/0". And nothing else happend. Where is the error? The XML Parser Xtra is at its most buggy in ShockWave movies. I've used it very successfully in proj

Re: Strange error on XP with MPEG Advance Xtra

2003-12-08 Thread Troy Rollins
On Monday, December 8, 2003, at 06:18 AM, Brennan wrote: The problem seems to go away if I shift the MPEG one frame forward in the score (so that the full screen bitmap being used to conceal the hardware flicker appears first). This leads me to suspect some kind of incompatibility between MPEG

Re: Load XML document

2003-12-08 Thread Troy Rollins
On Monday, December 8, 2003, at 10:42 AM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Right now, I'm using the XML parser xtra in a projector project, and I'm doing something at home that also uses the XML parser xtra, but in a Shockwave piece. I'm curious, what are the bug issues you've encountered for it in S

Re: Load XML document

2003-12-08 Thread Troy Rollins
On Monday, December 8, 2003, at 11:33 AM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: I wonder if it would be worth it in Shockwave, to make a flash global newObject("XML"), then getNetText(the xml on the web), then parse it with in the flash newObject, thereby altogether avoiding using both the XML parser xtra a

Re: word-wrapping with hyphenation in Director

2003-12-09 Thread Troy Rollins
On Tuesday, December 9, 2003, at 01:07 PM, Valentin Schmidt wrote: You can download a beta version from http://dasdeck.de/staff/valentin/xtras/hyphenator/win/ unfortunately no mac version yet, but it could easily be ported (as soon I find someone who actually needs it, so please send me a note i

Re: figuring out the previous handler

2003-12-09 Thread Troy Rollins
On Tuesday, December 9, 2003, at 04:32 PM, Warren Ockrassa wrote: Neat, so I'm wondering if Director has an equivalent. I have a handler that can be called by one of two other handlers, and I'd like to be able to find out which is the handler that calls the current one. I'm not sure if ances

Re: accessing the timeoutlist, part II

2003-12-11 Thread Troy Rollins
On Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 07:49 PM, Irv Kalb wrote: This is excellent news for the Director community! Sending one large e-cake to celebrate his return. Yes. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http

Re: accessing the timeoutlist, part II

2003-12-11 Thread Troy Rollins
On Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 11:24 PM, grimmwerks wrote: I _really_ don't want to be one of those troll naysayers -- hell I feed my family from ONLY director development -- but I've got to start facing facts that there are 1000 flash gigs to 1 director gig And probably 2,000 flash dev

Re: Changing name of a file

2003-12-14 Thread Troy Rollins
On Sunday, December 14, 2003, at 02:12 PM, Fabrice Closier wrote: The method Sean discribe, baCopyFile is the one i'am using now, Uh... baRenameFile? -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/li

Re: Flash not asynchronous within Director?

2003-12-17 Thread Troy Rollins
On Wednesday, December 17, 2003, at 12:26 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Anyone experience something like this? Flash has no means to know what the getURL Lingo call was supposed to do. No, it will not wait for Director to respond to it before moving to the next line. Why would it? -- Troy RP

Re: Flash not asynchronous within Director?

2003-12-17 Thread Troy Rollins
On Wednesday, December 17, 2003, at 01:05 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Why would it? I just thought it would work like stepping into a script, but apparently not. ;-) No, as you've found, it won't really do that in this case. The GetURL could make a call that literally send Director off d

Re: 3D newbie questions

2003-12-19 Thread Troy Rollins
On Saturday, December 20, 2003, at 02:30 AM, Peter Bochan wrote: 1. When the movie with the 3D member is running in authoring mode, all other applications significantly slow down (including os applications like the explorer). (Dir 8.5.1, win2k) Is this normal? Even in authoring mode, you may find

Re: 3D newbie questions

2003-12-20 Thread Troy Rollins
On Saturday, December 20, 2003, at 06:32 PM, Bruce Mitchener wrote: I've tried doing this using masterapp's mappFeedGenericTimeSlice, but it doesn't really seem to help. Is this because our app is already so overburdened that something like this wouldn't help because idle isn't called often en

Re: AW: 3D newbie questions

2003-12-21 Thread Troy Rollins
On Sunday, December 21, 2003, at 02:01 PM, Michael von Aichberger wrote: Anybody with an answer to my second question (how to increase the number of slices a cylinder primitive is made up of)? In my case, I'd likely import one!! ;-) (I'm not very good at modeling by script.) But, one idea is

Re: Shockwave 3D: positioning textures

2003-12-22 Thread Troy Rollins
On Monday, December 22, 2003, at 03:54 PM, Michael von Aichberger wrote: Does anybody of those of you, who have already bought all presents and finished decorating the Christmas tree, know, how to do this? Let me start by asking if you have licensed 3DPI? If you haven't, and are working with SW3D

Re: the controlDown on a Mac

2003-12-31 Thread Troy Rollins
On Wednesday, December 31, 2003, at 09:42 PM, Slava Paperno wrote: I'm trying to understand why in my movie this works differently under Windows than under Mac OS X. In Windows, if I keep the Ctrl key pressed as I tap letter keys, each time a letter key is tapped, its keyCode appears in the mes

Re: dir viewer

2004-01-02 Thread Troy Rollins
On Friday, January 2, 2004, at 10:18 AM, Emre Eldemir wrote: I try to find "dir viewer" (shockwave files) like "swf viewer" There isn't one. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi

Re: dir viewer

2004-01-02 Thread Troy Rollins
On Friday, January 2, 2004, at 10:29 AM, Troy Rollins wrote: I try to find "dir viewer" (shockwave files) like "swf viewer" There isn't one. What I should have said is "there isn't an official one from Macromedia, similar to the Flash Player." There ar

Re: Dir MX 2004 and MP3

2004-01-06 Thread Troy Rollins
On Tuesday, January 6, 2004, at 11:22 AM, Thomas Higgins wrote: Adding MP3 encoding would not benefit as many people as will the MIAW changes we implemented this release, nor would that come close to range of effect that our projector publishing changes will have. I see the projector publishing..

Re: Truth or fiction

2004-01-06 Thread Troy Rollins
On Tuesday, January 6, 2004, at 05:40 PM, Matt Wells wrote: I did not say my software would grab any email addresses nor would I attempt to invade anyone's privacy. The reason I'm looking to find out how this is done is because a competitor's software claims this and I would like to find out the d

DMX04 & Third Party Xtras (Thomas?)

2004-01-06 Thread Troy Rollins
OK Thomas, here's some for the FAQ - For those of us who's third-party xtras collection is an even higher investment than Director itself, how should we expect our transition to go? Currently I have many OSX & Win32 xtras, fully functional in DMX. Will these continue to work properly - or will

2004 - OK Tom, QuickTime.

2004-01-07 Thread Troy Rollins
Please tell us about any improvements in the QuickTime xtra, specifically performance, and ability to work with "wired" quicktime media. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To

One more biggie for DMX2004 Tech FAQ - MU xtra.

2004-01-07 Thread Troy Rollins
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 the Xtra is

Re: Scrolling without tears

2004-01-08 Thread Troy Rollins
On Thursday, January 8, 2004, at 12:20 PM, Tony Wilson wrote: The problem I have is that the images appear to tear when they are moved at anything other than the slowest speed of 1 pixel per frame. Is there any way to stop this tearing effect? You may find that the best results could be achieved

Re: Fscommand? Event? getURL? Href?

2004-01-08 Thread Troy Rollins
On Thursday, January 8, 2004, at 02:52 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Fscommand(\"linkFromFlash\","hello\") Fscommand("linkFromFlash","hello") Fscommand("event:linkFromFlash","hello") Fscommand(\"event:linkFromFlash\",\"hello\") It gets reimported into Director, and makes that link in the swf spri

Re: Re: Prevent second click

2004-01-09 Thread Troy Rollins
On Friday, January 9, 2004, at 12:43 PM, Cole Tierney wrote: (Better late than never :) You could temporarily disable all mouseDown events with: set the mouseDownScript = "dontpassevent" ...then when you get back to your thumbnails: set the mouseDownScript = "" If you happen to be using th

Re: multi-select dropdown menus?

2004-01-10 Thread Troy Rollins
On Saturday, January 10, 2004, at 02:53 PM, Frank Coleman wrote: I need something quick and dirty that works without me having to do a massive retrofit -- I just don't have time to deal with it. One would think this would have been solved long ago, but I've been scouring the web to little avail.

Re: Re: Re: Prevent second click

2004-01-11 Thread Troy Rollins
On Sunday, January 11, 2004, at 09:50 PM, Alan Neilsen wrote: I am not sure if this helps Troy, but in the Macromedia/DirectorMX folder is an ini file called DIrector ini. This can be copied and packaged with the projector (same directory) and must be named the same (ProjectorName.ini). Within

Re: Re: Re: Prevent second click

2004-01-11 Thread Troy Rollins
On Sunday, January 11, 2004, at 10:12 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: Are you sure about that? If you set EscapeOk=0, wouldn't the close box still work, but escape would not quit? That is not the results I saw today (Virtual PC, Win98SE) I'd love for it to work as described, I just didn't see that in m

Re: Re: Re: Prevent second click

2004-01-11 Thread Troy Rollins
On Sunday, January 11, 2004, at 10:50 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: I'd love for it to work as described, I just didn't see that in my tests. Yes, it does seem to lock out the close box as well (even on the Mac). I appreciate the confirmation. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To re

DMX 2004 question for Tom

2004-01-15 Thread Troy Rollins
Hey Tom, One more - Has anything been done about the ability for MIAWs and even the stage windows to rob focus from the message window? Or certain types of MIAWs preventing text entry into entire other windows? Just happen to be struggling a bit with that now, and using silly workarounds, so

Re: why palletized images?

2004-01-16 Thread Troy Rollins
On Friday, January 16, 2004, at 12:17 PM, Slava Paperno wrote: What else should I check? Shockwave compression settings for the bitmaps? -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To

Re: why palletized images?

2004-01-16 Thread Troy Rollins
On Friday, January 16, 2004, at 12:33 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: What else should I check? Shockwave compression settings for the bitmaps? That wouldn't explain why they look wrong in authoring. Shooting in the 8-bit dark. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from th

vList xtra

2004-01-26 Thread Troy Rollins
Hey all, So, I've recently added vList xtra to my Director repertoire (previously devoted to propSave for such functions.) But now, after fully reading the docs, it has me wondering - how are people employing this tool? The question comes from the fact that vList supports a lot of new list han

Re: vList xtra

2004-01-27 Thread Troy Rollins
On Tuesday, January 27, 2004, at 04:41 AM, Luke wrote: I'm a big-fan of vList (I think vList members should become a standard generic 'data' type cast member for Director). If it was, how would you use it differently, or do you already use it now in that way? (Notwithstanding the cool pregEx tech

Re: Flash components

2004-01-30 Thread Troy Rollins
On Friday, January 30, 2004, at 02:17 PM, grimmwerks wrote: There's no way of using the built in flash components in fmx04 (ie popup) within director, is there? They seem to be as2. Not DMX, no. DMX2004 is supposed to allow this. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yoursel

Re: Flash components

2004-01-30 Thread Troy Rollins
On Friday, January 30, 2004, at 02:44 PM, Warren Ockrassa wrote: There's no way of using the built in flash components in fmx04 (ie popup) within director, is there? They seem to be as2. Some but not all components are FlashMX, not MX04. Try saving them back a step and see if they still work. B

Re: Flash components

2004-01-30 Thread Troy Rollins
On Friday, January 30, 2004, at 03:14 PM, Thomas Higgins wrote: That having been said, we do have support for the general component architecture (write a SWC, have it publicly expose certain properties and methods, have those props initializable via the Property Inspector in Director), so folks c

Re: Parallax

2004-02-05 Thread Troy Rollins
On Thursday, February 5, 2004, at 04:28 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: I used 2d, three sprites on top of one another and with a left and right button, moved the top one 3px, the middle one 2px, the bottom one 1px either left or right depending on whether or not the directional buttons are press

Re: Help needed

2004-02-07 Thread Troy Rollins
On Saturday, February 7, 2004, at 04:35 AM, Saravanan appya wrote: I am creating a tool to get datas frm a xml file and generate a xml file as i discribed if any one have used a xmlparser pls send me a code sample file with all the xml funtionality.. Like, one that parses *your* data? The p

Re: XPOST: Audio Xtra interest

2004-02-10 Thread Troy Rollins
On Tuesday, February 10, 2004, at 09:35 PM, Neil wrote: In it's initial release it would be a windows only xtra. A possible Mac version is currently being investigated. Make it OSX / Windows and name your price. Yep. I could use that. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove y

Re: password protection

2004-02-11 Thread Troy Rollins
On Wednesday, February 11, 2004, at 10:38 AM, Craig Taylor wrote: Also, I know there have been threads about this, but the conclusion is that there really is no way of protecting video files (MPEG-1) from being accessed outside of the protected program. Correct? "Protect" to what degree? You ca

Re: password protection

2004-02-11 Thread Troy Rollins
On Wednesday, February 11, 2004, at 12:34 PM, Craig Taylor wrote: Troy, you mentioned changing the headers - new ground for me - relatively easy process? Is there somewhere you can direct me for more info? UpdateStage has the BinaryIO xtra. Its documentation has some links that are useful whe

Re: password protection

2004-02-11 Thread Troy Rollins
On Wednesday, February 11, 2004, at 01:24 PM, Mathew Ray wrote: Since you don't mind writing to disk, hopefully it won't be a problem to write these videos to the hard disk... Since you can't collage video together in memory (pity), you actually have to place it on a disc so that director can

Re: password protection

2004-02-11 Thread Troy Rollins
On Wednesday, February 11, 2004, at 05:22 PM, Deane Venske wrote: Why not think about using Valentina DB, you could store the MPEG videos into the database as BLOB and even encrypt this. That way your video can't be accessed outside your program. How exactly would you then access them yourself?

Re: MX 2004 LDMs (was: Merits of JS in Director)

2004-02-12 Thread Troy Rollins
On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 01:05 PM, Kraig Mentor wrote: JS was actually put in to encourage the transition to VB as MS is buying Macr. That's not even a little funny. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: Merits of JS in Director

2004-02-12 Thread Troy Rollins
On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 02:21 PM, Mathew Ray wrote: and verbose syntax has been depricated, so you can't rely on it being around for any future versions. Even for text and fields and all the things that ONLY verbose seemed to work with...? I know, RTFM. ;-) -- Troy RPSystems, Lt

Re: Merits of JS in Director

2004-02-12 Thread Troy Rollins
On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 05:20 PM, Kerry Thompson wrote: It isn't significant, but it is easy to show: timeit -- "824 1028" I'd say that is significant. It shows dot syntax, in that example, to be about 25% slower. Ugh. The "Zork code" really needs to go away. "Put the key in the ba

Re: Director MX 2004 - LocalConnection

2004-02-12 Thread Troy Rollins
On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 09:04 PM, Thomas Higgins wrote: If you're in MX 2004 why not do these instead of using tell or LocalConnections: window("foo").movie.someHandler() window("foo").movie.castLib[2].member["foo"].property This is very good. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsyst

Re: Dot syntax (was: Merits of JS in Director)

2004-02-12 Thread Troy Rollins
On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 11:32 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: Dot syntax really comes into its own with lists and accessing 3D members. Without dot syntax things would be painful, but it doesn't mean you can't use verbose if you're in the mood to do so, especially if you get a speed advant

Re: MU xtra for 04?

2004-02-18 Thread Troy Rollins
On Wednesday, February 18, 2004, at 04:16 AM, grimmwerks wrote: Is there an ..cough ...updated MU xtra able to be recognized by 04 even though it's no longer supported? I haven't done anything serious yet, but it seems to be working. Mauricio from Tabuleiro said things looked good as well. -- Tr

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