On Thursday, February 19, 2004, at 05:30 AM, Daniel Plaenitz wrote:
Especially the commonplayer seems to be a piece of dynamite.
Yes. I played with it a bit, too. I think that feature will have to
wait for some form of update.
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On Thursday, February 19, 2004, at 10:50 PM, Daniel Plaenitz wrote:
I use a tool named resHacker.exe but the url linked in the about msg
is not valid any more.
I've been using this for a while too. Works well.
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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.
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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.
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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. ;-)
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On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 05:20 PM, Kerry Thompson wrote:
It isn't significant, but it is easy to show:
snip
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
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.
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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
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
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
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.
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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
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
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
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
On Friday, January 16, 2004, at 12:17 PM, Slava Paperno wrote:
What else should I check?
Shockwave compression settings for the bitmaps?
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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.
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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
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
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
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.
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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.
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 the
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
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 sprite
not visible!
Please tell us about any improvements in the QuickTime xtra,
specifically performance, and ability to work with wired quicktime
media.
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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
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
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
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
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.
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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 are, of course, ways
for you or others to write
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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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
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?
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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.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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 Word
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
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
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
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
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 no
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 you
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
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
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 change as
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 change as
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 set the
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.
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.
(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
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
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
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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
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.
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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
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
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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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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: Xtra child XmlParser 2 2c1bfe0. I'd like
to be able to see a
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
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
On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 12:17 PM, Daniel Nelson wrote:
You can send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Done. Thanks.
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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
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
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
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
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
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