Re: lingo-l Shockwave and Internet Database

2004-07-06 Thread Valentin Schmidt
hi matt, here some sample code (php) that worked for netscape as well: object classid=clsid:166B1BCA-3F9C-11CF-8075-44455354 codebase=http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/director/sw. cab#version=8,5,0,0 width=718 height=370 param name=src value=mixer.dcr?foo=?=$foo;

lingo-l SWA parser + MP3 parser

2004-06-26 Thread Valentin Schmidt
Hi list, I've written a little lingo script for converting MP3 files to SWA files by adding a SWA header. It's main benefit is that you don't need any audio editor for inserting cuepoints (especially on the mac, where Director lacks a AIFF to SWA conversion functionality), and that you can add,

Re: lingo-l preserve regpoint with imported png at runtime

2004-06-16 Thread Valentin Schmidt
Hi Frank, you can set mymember.centerRegPoint=false. or you could import the new png offstage (or with sprite.visible=0), set the correct regpoint with mysprite.regpoint=point(x,y), and then show the sprite. if all your images need different regpoints, you could store them in a (property) list,

Re: lingo-l preserve regpoint with imported png at runtime

2004-06-16 Thread Valentin Schmidt
hi frank, a quick test showed me that it's important that your image is linked as external file from the beginning (even the dummy, if there is one). with code like the following you can restrict the sensitive area to the non-transparent part of the image: on mouseUp me s=sprite(me.spriteNum)

Re: lingo-l Lingo discourse paradigm

2004-06-06 Thread Valentin Schmidt
Hi Peter, I couldn't replicate this bug on my machine, neither with dir8.5.1 nor with dir mx, and neither with win xp nor with win 98. some thoughts: - maybe something is screwed with the font that is used? you could check if you get the same result when you change the system's default font for

lingo-l clipboard xtra - mac version

2004-06-03 Thread Valentin Schmidt
as announced before, now there there is also a mac os x version (beta, or maybe alpha, not sure :-) http://staff.dasdeck.de/valentin/xtras/clipboard/macosx/ valentin [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

lingo-l clipboard xtra news

2004-06-01 Thread Valentin Schmidt
Hi List, sorry for the spamming, just a short note on my clipboard xtra: - the xtra can also be used to export VectorShape-members as SWF files (Flash movies), also at runtime (projectors). - the paste-path-into-VectorShape-member-functions also works with Photoshop (so the list of supported

Re: lingo-l Shell Xtra

2004-05-29 Thread Valentin Schmidt
mobile: (505)577-5828 -Original Message- From: Valentin Schmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 5:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l Shell Xtra Hi Stephen, I've updated the win version of the xtra yesterday, the new version has callback functions

Re: lingo-l Shell Xtra

2004-05-28 Thread Valentin Schmidt
: Valentin Schmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 8:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l Shell Xtra Hi list, I'm working on an cross-platform (win and mac os x) scripting xtra called Shell Xtra that can be used to execute command line programms (hidden

Re: lingo-l Shell Xtra

2004-05-28 Thread Valentin Schmidt
are saving my ... . How can I buy it for using it next week in an existing project? Florian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Valentin Schmidt Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 4:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l Shell Xtra Hi

Re: lingo-l Shell Xtra

2004-05-28 Thread Valentin Schmidt
) will fetch a file with curl and show download status information at stderr that is redirected to stdout so that you can catch it with the _stdout callback. Valentin Troy Rollins wrote: On May 28, 2004, at 7:47 AM, Valentin Schmidt wrote: I've updated the win version of the xtra yesterday

Re: lingo-l Shell Xtra

2004-05-28 Thread Valentin Schmidt
Hi Peter, the xtra is only meant for execution of commandline programms, i.e. programms without a GUI, and to return their output to Director. To start applications like explorer, iexplore, notepad, msconfig, mmc etc. use the lingo open()-command or Buddy API's baRunProgram()-function.. Best,

lingo-l Shell Xtra

2004-05-27 Thread Valentin Schmidt
Hi list, I'm working on an cross-platform (win and mac os x) scripting xtra called Shell Xtra that can be used to execute command line programms (hidden) and return the output back to director. On mac os x (only tested on jaguar, so far) it's something like a hidden terminal window, on windows

Re: lingo-l overwriting lingo commands

2004-05-19 Thread Valentin Schmidt
, pass didn't work with alert (nor with put) (dir mx, win xp pro). Valentin Troy Rollins wrote: On May 18, 2004, at 8:18 PM, Valentin Schmidt wrote: on alert any alert(string(any)) end Don't you actually want alerthook? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go

Re: lingo-l Font problem

2004-05-18 Thread Valentin Schmidt
but you don't neccessarily need unicode, but you can embed a normal font that contains all the czech characters and make sure that the text you want to display is encoded with the codepage as required by the font (this works for kyrillic, greek text etc., so I guess it should work with czech as

lingo-l overwriting lingo commands

2004-05-18 Thread Valentin Schmidt
hi list, does anyone know if/how I can overwrite an existing lingo command with a custom function in a moviescript, but then use the original command inside my custom function (with dir version before MX2004)? what I want to do is something like: on alert any alert(string(any)) end which

Re: lingo-l director-bug: contains() and offset() mix up chars

2004-04-26 Thread Valentin Schmidt
hi roymeo, sorry, maye I was a bit unclear, those charcodes (0x8A and 0x9A, or in other words: #138 and #154) are the codes for german special chars ä (a umlaut) and ö (o umlaut) in the MAC ROMAN CODEPAGE. the letters you mention are correct for the ANSI CODEPAGE (iso-8859-1/windows-1251) . In

Re: lingo-l director-bug: contains() and offset() mix up chars - solved: no bug

2004-04-26 Thread Valentin Schmidt
I appologize, I should have read your mail more carefully, I've missed the point. Of course you are right, those codes are upper and lower case of the same weird (in ANSI codepage) char, and contains() and offset() both ignore cases. I don't know why I hadn't thought of that simple solution

lingo-l vertexList of curve through arbitrary points

2004-04-25 Thread Valentin Schmidt
hi list, does anyone have a formula for generating the vertextList of a vectorShape that represents the smoothest curve (continuous slope) through a set of given points p1, p2,..., pn? thanks, valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l highlighting lines in a multi-line field

2004-04-25 Thread Valentin Schmidt
hi nik, here is a simple behavior that uses a shape-sprite (filled rect) in a higher channel than the field and with ink set to reverse ink:: --- property pS property pM property pShape on beginSprite me pS=sprite(me.spriteNum) pM=pS.member end on

Re: lingo-l vertexList of curve through arbitrary points

2004-04-25 Thread Valentin Schmidt
need more math than Lingo provides. Hope it helps dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Valentin Schmidt Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 12:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l vertexList of curve through arbitrary points hi

Re: lingo-l no subject

2004-04-25 Thread Valentin Schmidt
the font of word 23 of member myField = Arial the font of char 666 of member myField = Arial nik crosina wrote: Hi, Another question re fields (my favorite types, ...): can i control the font of field text with lingo down to a word level. I realised that in the field window I can select

Re: lingo-l Outlook error generated by Director

2004-04-22 Thread Valentin Schmidt
what's the exact name of your projector? Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Hi all... How could a Director projector possibly cause a Microsoft Outlook error: The command line argument is not valid. Verify the switch you are using. perplexed and becoming nervous, Michael M. [To remove

Re: lingo-l Outlook error generated by Director

2004-04-22 Thread Valentin Schmidt
my last mail took more than 6 hours to arrive at the list, seems to be some traffic jam somewhere. my first intention concerning the outlook bug was that there might have been some confusion with the app actually called, but of course it was something else, so never mind. valentin Valentin

Re: lingo-l dial-up connection setup

2004-04-18 Thread Valentin Schmidt
Hi Cath, did I understand your question right that you want to provide your own Dialup-connection instead of using the system's default internet connection method? If yes, here some ideas: - first you should check if the target computer actually uses DialUp-Networking and has a modem installed,

Re: lingo-l dial-up connection setup

2004-04-18 Thread Valentin Schmidt
I think its HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\Modem here an excerpt from http://www.modemdoctor.com/html/news0998.htm: Modem Keys- The important information on how your modem works is saved in the key; HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\Modem.

Re: lingo-l MPEG Media Viewer

2004-04-17 Thread Valentin Schmidt
- Is it possible to use the *.ini file that can be included with a projector for this purpose. I.e. including my own parameters? Or do I have better read in a separate (.txt?) file with MY data? Hi Nik, I don't think that you can include your own parameters in projectorName.ini. But you can

Re: lingo-l SVG generation scripts

2004-04-12 Thread Valentin Schmidt
Hi biju, I guess the script error is not produced by the SVG creation scripts itself, but I use the Adobe SVG viewer to display the created files. You have to install the latest SVG viewer to make this work: http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/main.html otherwise you would have to uncomment

Re: lingo-l net webcam img into director

2004-04-12 Thread Valentin Schmidt
what I usually do in such a case is to append a random-parameter to the URL, which makes director bypass the cache: -- in moviescript, e.g. on prepareMovie the randomseed = the ticks -- when updating image member(webimg).filename= http://webcamurl/foo.cgi?; random(the maxinteger) (url could be

Re: lingo-l Reference on creating Navigation System

2004-04-10 Thread Valentin Schmidt
1. Is there any way to put an instance of a cast member via Lingo ? and does the instance behave like an inheritence object in OOP where the button could have multiple text/value on each instance. i try using sprite(x).member.text .. but all the instance also change for standard

lingo-l director-bug: contains() and offset() mix up chars

2004-04-08 Thread Valentin Schmidt
hi list, i just wondered, is the following a known director bug? c=numtochar(138) put (c contains numtochar(154)) -- 1 put offset(numtochar(154),c) -- 1 and also c=numtochar(154) put (c contains numtochar(138)) -- 1 put offset(numtochar(138),c) -- 1 (tested on dmx, win xp pro) valentin [To

Re: lingo-l director-bug: contains() and offset() mix up chars

2004-04-08 Thread Valentin Schmidt
hi daniel, no, those are the mac char codes for the german special chars ä (a umlaut) and ö (o umlaut), both lower case. valentin In this case, is it possible that these two characters (138 and 154) are lower and upper case versions of one another? [To remove yourself from this list, or to

Re: lingo-l Charset: Spezialchars under Win-XP are 'mixed up'

2004-04-07 Thread Valentin Schmidt
I use german special chars all the time and never had this problem. I think something is wrong with the fonts you are using. Are you using embedded fonts or system fonts? Which ones? And where does the text come from? Is it set/changed at runtime? I have some lingo code for converting mac-strings

Re: lingo-l Shockwave finding movies on CD-ROM

2004-04-07 Thread Valentin Schmidt
for windows and internet explorer you could embed some vbscript in the html page that checks for the cd-rom and opens the movie (e.g. in a new browser window). it would depend on the user's security settings if the script works seamlessly or if a security dialog pops up or if the script fails.

lingo-l SVG generation scripts

2004-04-07 Thread Valentin Schmidt
Hi list, I've taken an important step forward in fullfilling my ingenious plan to achieve world domination by means of lingo :-) I've written 2 classes (parent-scripts) for runtime generation of SVG-files: one for general SVG generation, the other for SVG graphs. Both are translations of existing

lingo-l find property-names of flash obect

2004-04-05 Thread Valentin Schmidt
hi list, does anyone know a way to find out the existing properties (their names) of a flash object in dir mx/mx2004 by means of lingo? As they enumerated in the object inspector, there must be a way to find them, but can this be done with lingo? valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or

Re: lingo-l find property-names of flash obect

2004-04-05 Thread Valentin Schmidt
thanx mark, that's what I was looking for. valentin myFlashObject.dbgPropList() Sincerely Mark R. Jonkman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Valentin Schmidt Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 11:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

lingo-l FileIO Xtra trouble

2004-04-02 Thread Valentin Schmidt
Hi list, I have a very simple utility-function which uses fileIO Xtra to find out if a file exists (just for cases where Buddy API or FileXtra are not available): on fileExists fn fio=new(xtra fileIO) fio.openFile(fn,1) err=fio.status() fio.closeFile() fio=void if err=0 then

Re: lingo-l FileIO Xtra trouble

2004-04-02 Thread Valentin Schmidt
As I've said, this function is only meant for cases where those xtras are not available. One possible reason is to keep my downloadable shockwave-projectors as small as possible. valentin Kerry Thompson wrote: Now I found out that this function always returns true if a file with the same

Re: lingo-l FileIO Xtra trouble

2004-04-02 Thread Valentin Schmidt
matthew, In this case is the name fully qualified, or relative? I want to use it as general function for checking the existence of files, specified by their full path. What about using fileName() to compare the filename to the one that was passed in? Of course, this won't work if fileName()

Re: lingo-l FileIO Xtra trouble - solved (without FileIO Xtra)

2004-04-02 Thread Valentin Schmidt
if anyone cares, here my solution for a lingo-based fileExists()-function. I've tried the proposal made my Buzz, but this would mean that I would need 2 instances of fileIO Xtra for every call of fileExists(), which seemed too ugly. now I simply use: on fileExists myFile pd = the last char of

Re: lingo-l FileIO Xtra trouble - solved (without FileIO Xtra)

2004-04-02 Thread Valentin Schmidt
year, of course you are right. here my latest version, including another little optimization: on fileExists myFile pd = the last char of the moviepath od = the itemdelimiter the itemdelimiter = pd myPath = myFile myFileName = the last item of myFile delete the last item of myPath

Re: lingo-l Javascript onSubmit() - notify Lingo?

2004-03-27 Thread Valentin Schmidt
Hi Rob, you can use either the status or the title of the page to communicate with lingo.. I've used the same trick before with the webbrowser control. But as the status text dispays all kind of status information and therefor changes all the time, I would suggest you use the title. Here is some

Re: lingo-l Javascript onSubmit() - notify Lingo?

2004-03-27 Thread Valentin Schmidt
Tab, if I understood it right, Rob is not asking for communication between an embedded shockwave movie and the browser, but between a WebXtra sprite inside a director projector and director. valentin Tab Julius wrote: Hi Rob, On Internet Explorer, you don't need an Xtra - you can call a

Re: lingo-l OT: Distributed File Encryption

2004-03-26 Thread Valentin Schmidt
If you don't need to access the files with director, the simplest solution I can think of would be to put them in a password protected (self-extracting) archive (zip, rar, sit, ...). I think those are quite secure, especially if you use a long, unusual password. valentin Ross Clutterbuck wrote:

lingo-l Notice: PDFCreator,MP3Xtra,OggXtra,PostScript Xtra now DMX2004 compatible

2004-03-25 Thread Valentin Schmidt
Hi list, if anyone here does or will use one of my freeware windows scripting xtras (PDFCreator, MP3Xtra, OggXtra, PostScript Xtra, Cells), I've updated all of them today to make them DMX2004 compatible. There was just a little error in the director version check that wasn't compatible with

Re: lingo-l What happend to fps?

2004-03-18 Thread Valentin Schmidt
if you set the framerate to a value like 200 fps that is higher than the rate that director can actually perform, it means you tell director to update/animate as fast as possible. if your machine is slow or has other processes running, this will result in jerks whenever something else interferes

Re: lingo-l Midi and Director

2004-03-17 Thread Valentin Schmidt
some facts/thoughts about midi and director: - Beatnik xtra is still a great xtra, it's shockwave safe and it works in dmx2004, BUT, as mentioned by Johan, there is no OSX version - There is MIDIio X-Tra for realtime sending and receiving of MIDI messages (eg. to a MIDI synth, OMS on mac, system's

Re: lingo-l Midi and Director

2004-03-17 Thread Valentin Schmidt
and switch them on and off with lingo according to your needs. this works for both mac and windows. valentin Valentin Schmidt wrote: some facts/thoughts about midi and director: - Beatnik xtra is still a great xtra, it's shockwave safe and it works in dmx2004, BUT, as mentioned by Johan

Re: lingo-l Movie Clip registration

2004-03-17 Thread Valentin Schmidt
you could attach a behavior script to the filmloops that reads the comments and automatically positions the sprite correctly. that way I don't see why setting regpoints would be less work. valentin The problem is that they're all different shapes and sizes, but I need to have the background

Re: lingo-l Knowing when text wraps

2004-03-16 Thread Valentin Schmidt
I've found this handler in my code repository, mabe it helps. valentin --- -- returns hardwrapped text of given field or text member --- on hardWrap m s= y=0 n=1

lingo-l lingo css-parser (alpha version)

2004-03-16 Thread Valentin Schmidt
Hi list, in case anyone has a need for it, I've finished the first alpha version of my lingo css-parser (CSS CLASS), which can be downloaded from http://staff.dasdeck.de/valentin/lingo/css_class/ it can be used to parse css-code (as string or as external file) and apply this style to a tagged

Re: lingo-l pull down lists (or whatever its called)

2004-03-03 Thread Valentin Schmidt
Hi Diego, those things are also called ComboBox. you have several opportunities: - you can use an xtra like OSControl (cross-platform) or cXtraComboBox (win only) - for windows you can use an activeX control - you can use an existing imaging lingo solution, like eg. the ONE-SPRITE POPUP WIDGET

Re: lingo-l Using @//

2004-03-03 Thread Valentin Schmidt
it's just @//. valentin Kerry Thompson wrote: I'm trying to get the directory above the moviePath, and my brain is in vaporlock. I thought I could get it with pPath = @//the moviePath, but Director is choking on that, and every variation I can think of. This is on Windows, but it

Re: lingo-l Using @//

2004-03-03 Thread Valentin Schmidt
I guess Buddy API simply doesn't support the @-syntax? e.g. getNthFileNameInFolder(@//, 1) works. valentin Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Mar 3, 2004, at 10:28 AM, Kerry Thompson wrote: it's just @//. I tried that and got a misplaced operator error. pUserPath = @// --misplaced operator

lingo-l undocumented feature: ActiveX callSprite method [direct-l reposting]

2004-03-02 Thread Valentin Schmidt
Hi list, I just found some undocumented feature in dmx2004 concerning activex-controls: I had noticed that the properties-dialog for activex-controls has 2 new tabs, CallString and Constants. Doing a little google-research I found the following very interesting article:

lingo-l undocumented feature: ActiveX callSprite method - correction: callString

2004-03-02 Thread Valentin Schmidt
sorry, made a mistake, the method's name is callString, not callSprite. valentin [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 the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for

Re: lingo-l Bitmap Linking

2004-03-02 Thread Valentin Schmidt
Hi Yarif, I wished there was a better solution. I tried to send all kind of http-headers with php, like Header('Content-Type: image/png'); Header('Content-disposition: inline; filename=pcw.png'); in conjunction with a fpassthru($fp) command, no success. I even tried to fool director with fake

Re: lingo-l Director and Winhelp (chm)

2004-03-01 Thread Valentin Schmidt
try open(hh.exe mk:@MSITStore:path_to_chm_file::/page) example, opening director's help with topic member (german system): open(hh.exe mk:@MSITStore:C:\Programme\MACROMEDIA\Director%20MX\Help\dirusing.chm::/ 03c_m_21.htm) to find a the adress of a certain page (topic), do a right

Re: lingo-l Bitmap Linking

2004-03-01 Thread Valentin Schmidt
I think the problem is that the png is dynamically generated by some cgi-script, but director needs correct file-endings, mime-types in the http-header don't seem to be sufficient. if you have acces to any web-space with php-support, you can put there the following little php-script (pcw.php).

lingo-l Re: projector's filename - never mind

2004-03-01 Thread Valentin Schmidt
the applicationName, of course. sorry. [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 the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming

Re: lingo-l EXE

2004-02-29 Thread Valentin Schmidt
yes, it's possible, even in a single exe, with the help of some commandline packer which is able to create self unpacking executables. You could eg. use winrar to create an sfx exe which contains your projector and an linked external dummy.cast: slide.exe (sfx-archive) - contains: - show.exe

Re: lingo-l EXE - addendum

2004-02-29 Thread Valentin Schmidt
1. you might also choose overwrite files without prompt in the sfx-settings when creating slide.exe. 2. using buddy Api to call rar.exe has the advantage that it can be hidden, without an ugly dos-box: baSetCurrentDir( the moviepath) baRunProgram( rar.exe f slide.exe data.cst, hidden, false ) [To

Re: some kind of bug??? WAS: Re: lingo-l OT: Windows media activex

2004-02-26 Thread Valentin Schmidt
hmm... if you got the cash :-), you could switch to dirMX2004 which has native windows media support and the mediaStatus-property for Windows Media cast members. valentin Rodrigo Peres wrote: Valentin, Thank's for the tip, but look what I've got: Put sprite(3).duration -- 282.989 After

Re: some kind of bug??? WAS: Re: lingo-l OT: Windows media activex

2004-02-26 Thread Valentin Schmidt
Actually I can't remember anymore why I had used the currentPosition/duration comparisson, there must have been some reason for it, but I did a quick test now with the wmp activex control, and the playState-property worked ok: video playing - myWmpSprite.playState=3 video done -

Re: lingo-l OT: Windows media activex

2004-02-24 Thread Valentin Schmidt
maybe there is a better way, but what I've done before is checking the currentPosition: if myWmpSprite.currentPosition=myWmpSprite.duration then -- movie done end if valentin Rodrigo Peres wrote: Hi list, I'm using the activex windows media control under director mx to play some mpg

Re: lingo-l accessing realtime decibel levels of QT audio

2004-02-22 Thread Valentin Schmidt
I don't think you that there's an easy way to get the amplitude value for a quicktime sprite. I've checked Livestage, there is no corresponding QScript Property. But for sound members (internal, external, swa) AmplitudeXtra does what you want: http://www.marmalademedia.com.au/ valentin Charlie

Re: lingo-l RE: not knocking the Knock knock AI Cyc Xtra

2004-02-18 Thread Valentin Schmidt
Hi Justin, I doubt that you will find any OpenCyc-expert here on this list, although it's a very interesting subject, and I don't think there is something like a OpenCyc-Xtra. But maybe you could explain a bit, how you think the combination of director and OpenCyc could look like? Does OpenCyc

Re: lingo-l RE: not knocking the Knock knock AI Cyc Xtra

2004-02-18 Thread Valentin Schmidt
I've checked the OpenCyc-page, OpenCyc does have a web interface, which you can use from director with getNetText() and postNetText()-requests, something like pNetID = getNetText (http://localhost:3603/cgi-bin/cyccgi/cg?...;) valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest

Re: lingo-l windows media player metafiles

2004-02-16 Thread Valentin Schmidt
I would assume that you can play them with the media player active x control. valentin Juan Pablo De La Fuente wrote: Hello list Does anybody know how to play Windows Media Player metafiles from Director MX? I must be able to point to .WVX files and embed the video window in Director MX

Re: lingo-l File storage

2004-02-12 Thread Valentin Schmidt
hi pranav, what I've done in a similar case is using ordinary castLibs with a certain member arrangment or naming convention as my own compound file format, and to attach and detach them at runtime with the freeware xtra CastControl. You can give them your own file type ending (eg. *.mix or

Re: lingo-l Merits of JS in Director

2004-02-12 Thread Valentin Schmidt
. Sincerely Mark R. Jonkman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Valentin Schmidt Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 4:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l Merits of JS in Director I've got the impression that syntax coloring

Re: lingo-l password protection

2004-02-10 Thread Valentin Schmidt
Hi Craig, if you really want to follow the deleting idea, here's a quick'm'dirty hack for windows: after 3rd failure do 2 things in projector: a) write the following key to the registry, either with some capable xtra or by executing vbscript as external file (open ...) or with an embedded

Re: lingo-l Windows Desktop

2004-02-10 Thread Valentin Schmidt
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop is corect for W2k and XP (and propably NT as well), but only, if it's an english OS. On a german system for example it would be C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Owner\Desktop. For 95, 98 and probably ME as well it's C:\Windows\Desktop. And those pathes are

Re: lingo-l updating an online database

2004-02-05 Thread Valentin Schmidt
I havn't understood exactly what you want to do, but in general I would suggest that you send ALL you update-information only once in a SINGLE postnettext command (as a long list of post-variables) to your ASP-script, and then let the ASP-script do all the updates based on the recieved data.

Re: lingo-l create and save pdf

2004-01-15 Thread Valentin Schmidt
hi mark, my lingo script for creating pdf you can find at http://dasdeck.de/staff/valentin/pdf_class/pdf_class_v102.zip but if your project is win only, and you use a lot of images, you would better use my pdfCreator xtra, a free scripting xtra based on PDFLib which you can find at

Re: lingo-l MailIt or Zip Mail

2004-01-14 Thread Valentin Schmidt
there is a command line tool called blat.exe that supports attachments, but doesn't use MAPI. you could run it as hidden app (eg with Buddy API) with an smtp server of your choice: http://pages.infinit.net/che/blat/blat.zip the command line tool Swap uses MAPI and supports attachments as well,

Re: lingo-l PostNetTest Issue

2004-01-12 Thread Valentin Schmidt
http://wkar.macq.com/beignprocess.asp is not reachable at the moment. if that's for another reason, try opening the url directly in a browser and check the result (you could make your asp-page return something like 1 or OK) Anand Ravi wrote: Hi List, I am using postnettext to send some text

Re: lingo-l Save or upload to the Internet

2004-01-06 Thread Valentin Schmidt
If the files you want to upload are rather small (smaller than 50 k), you can also send them as (binhexed) binary string with postNetText, and save the transfered data on the server as file again, eg with a simple PHP script. valentin Teo Petralia wrote: Hi! I'm wandering if is possible

Re: lingo-l Dir MX 2004 and MP3

2004-01-06 Thread Valentin Schmidt
Slava Paperno wrote: 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? Or perhaps Ogg Vorbis is supported by MX 2004? I've written 2 very simple scripting xtras (OggXtra and MP3Xtra) for converting

Re: lingo-l Mailto script for atachment

2003-12-23 Thread Valentin Schmidt
Hi Hiya, I'm not sure if you can pass attachments with a mailto-url. but in case you want to try something different, I'm in the process of writing parent scripts (SMTP CLASS and POP CLASS) for sending and retrieving email with lingo and Multiuser xtra. Those scripts support sending and receiving

Re: lingo-l DVD-ROM: hiding Windows files from Mac OS X

2003-12-21 Thread Valentin Schmidt
yes, I'm almost sure that's possible, but not with UDF file system, but with ISO. A DVD-ROM can have an ISO filesystem instead of UDF, and I think the computer doesn't care if it's a 700MB or a 4,7 GB volume, it just cares for the filesystem, so if it can read a hybrid cd-rom, it can read a hybrid

Re: lingo-l fontStyle weirdness

2003-12-18 Thread Valentin Schmidt
the list syntax works for text members only, for field members you have to use a string instead: member(1).fontstyle=plain member(1).fontstyle=bold,italic Teo Petralia wrote: Hi there! I'm getting mad with this simple command that is fontStyle. It should change the fontStyle of a field member

Re: lingo-l searching text inside an swf within director

2003-12-17 Thread Valentin Schmidt
in case you don't want to use an xtra like v12, you could also try a lingo based database and TextCruncher xtra for fast searching. valentin biju george wrote: Hi, I have an swf file with 11,758 frames. Its actually an e-book. I want to add a search facility in director in the form of a

Re: lingo-l geometry question

2003-12-15 Thread Valentin Schmidt
the one producing less errors. Thanks again, Valentin Alex da Franca wrote: At 22:38 Uhr +0100 12.12.2003, Valentin Schmidt wrote: hi list, is there anybody out there who is good at geometry? I need a solution for the following problem: I have a list of points [p1,p2,...] which form

Re: lingo-l setScriptList

2003-12-15 Thread Valentin Schmidt
try setting the scriptInstanceList instead: sprite(1).ScriptInstanceList=[script(foo)] or sprite(1).ScriptInstanceList=[script(foo).new()] -- for initializing some props in new handler and also: origScriptList = sprite(1).ScriptInstanceList ... sprite(1).ScriptInstanceList=origScriptList

Re: lingo-l setScriptList

2003-12-15 Thread Valentin Schmidt
no, it's the other way round, script instances have properties, not scripts. just try: behaviour script of sprite 1 property pTest on beginSprite me pTest=XXX end on mouseUp me alert pTest end end behaviour script of sprite 1 and in the message window: l=sprite(1).scriptInstanceList

lingo-l geometry question

2003-12-12 Thread Valentin Schmidt
hi list, is there anybody out there who is good at geometry? I need a solution for the following problem: I have a list of points [p1,p2,...] which form a polygon. The points can be arbitrary, the only restriction is that the lines between the points (where lines are the connections from point n

Re: lingo-l word-wrapping with hyphenation in Director

2003-12-09 Thread Valentin Schmidt
hi michael, glad you asked:-) I've written a little scripting xtra called hyphenator for this purpose. It uses a simplified version of the famous TeX hyphenation algorithm, that many professional dtp-programs use as well (eg. quark). It can be configured to work with arbitrary (almost) languages

Re: lingo-l Multiple statements in one line

2003-12-05 Thread Valentin Schmidt
hi peter, you can easily simulate a multiline-command message window by your own tool xtra. I've send you an example, just put lingo.dir in your xtras folder, restart director and invoke it from the xtra menu. it supports copy and paste, and instead of a slow do() command it uses a faster: on

Re: lingo-l Cps users?

2003-12-03 Thread Valentin Schmidt
very interesting technology, but unfortunately i never had a project where i could actually use it. but i have it installed (v1.30, on win xp pro), in case you just need someone to test some code for you. grimmwerks wrote: Anyone here using CPS from bonneville.nl? [To remove yourself from this

Re: lingo-l CD Burner controlled from Director

2003-11-28 Thread Valentin Schmidt
I've done some successful tests with CDWriterXP by NUGROOVZ (www.nugroovz.com), although the project never got realized. valentin Pixelchurch New Media wrote: Hi all I'm just wondering if anyone has successfully implemented an activeX control from inside a Director file to control a CD

Re: lingo-l PDF CLASS for creating PDF with lingo

2003-11-25 Thread Valentin Schmidt
Hi Grimmwerks, the script works on mac os x, too, I've tested it on Dir MX mac os x 10.3. As I've explained in the readme, you get an error message when opening the demo.dir on mac due to an activex control that is only used for the experimental implementation of deflate compression in test3, but

lingo-l PDF CLASS for creating PDF with lingo

2003-11-24 Thread Valentin Schmidt
hi list, inspired by the daniel nelsons's approach, I've created another lingo parent script (class) for creating PDF files with pure lingo (only depends on fileIO xtra). It supports embedding of images and custom fonts, and works on both platforms. Instead of reinventing the wheel, I've

Re: lingo-l Importing Images

2003-11-14 Thread Valentin Schmidt
hi richard, as far as i know, when you import a jpg to a director cast, director stores both the jpeg data as well as the the image in uncompressed form. your jpgs are propably strongly compressed, that's why the file size difference is that big. but when you publish the the cast (shockwave,

Re: lingo-l ActiveX Control

2003-11-07 Thread Valentin Schmidt
What you are looking for is called a grid. check out the cXtraStringGrid Xtra (http://www.cxtra.net/). If you want to use ActiveX, try MS DataGrid. best, valentin Stephen Ingrum wrote: I'm trying to create an interface using column header like in Outlook Express (pc)- the from, Subject,

Re: lingo-l Globals question

2003-11-04 Thread Valentin Schmidt
a showGlobals command. but to prevent this you can put a explicit on prepareMovie the debugPlaybackEnabled=0 end in a moviescript of the start movie. valentin Valentin Schmidt wrote: no, as far as i know, each projector has its own space in memory, to hack the globals you would need a tool like

Re: lingo-l Globals question

2003-11-02 Thread Valentin Schmidt
no, as far as i know, each projector has its own space in memory, to hack the globals you would need a tool like softIce. But someone could extract the dir-files from the projector (eg with Swifty Xena Pro, or simply with a hexeditor and some knowlege about projectors), open them as MIAWs in

Re: lingo-l MU Xtra - peer to peer connection?

2003-10-30 Thread Valentin Schmidt
http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/multiuse_examples.htm grimmwerks wrote: I'm a bit rusty on this -- any good docs, urls on setting up one projector as the server? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

lingo-l video with multiple language tracks (if not quicktime)

2003-10-29 Thread Valentin Schmidt
hi, does anyone know if there are ways to use video containing multiple language tracks in director, and switching between those at runtime, for other video formats than quicktime (wmv, avi, mpg, mp4?) thanx, valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

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