Re: lingo-l OT: Distributed File Encryption

2004-03-26 Thread Warren Ockrassa
routines. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com/director_beginners_guide/ [To remove yourself

Re: lingo-l Re: Macromedia Logo

2004-03-26 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Mar 26, 2004, at 4:34 PM, Thomas Higgins wrote: Director: Making Flash its byatch for half a decade. -- I think I'm going to make a t-shirt with that logo on it! 8-)) Please make sure to include a MWM logo on that shirt... No, you'd want to put a MWWthmO logo on it instead. Ok, can I have

Re: lingo-l Macromedia Logo

2004-03-25 Thread Warren Ockrassa
don't have logo or MWM requirements any longer. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com

Re: lingo-l Re: Macromedia Logo

2004-03-25 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Mar 25, 2004, at 6:27 PM, Tony Bray wrote: It's cool, but strange(no?). Look at strategy for future duscontinued product...? This must be a record? I don't believe the Director is dead thread has started so quickly after the release of a new version. I am sure we have usually gone at least

Re: lingo-l Launching a UNIX program on Mac OSX

2004-03-24 Thread Warren Ockrassa
you were replied to the first time. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com

Re: lingo-l exit button

2004-03-24 Thread Warren Ockrassa
that says Are you sure you want to quit? yes|no|cancel? For that you might look into the MUI Xtra. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide

Re: lingo-l title bar in Director mx 2004

2004-03-24 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Mar 24, 2004, at 2:07 PM, William Miller wrote: does anyone know if there is any way to get ride of the title bar in a projector made in director MX 2004? Have you looked at the display options in the PI? I think the setting's in there. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL

Re: lingo-l Setting properties via a method's parameters

2004-03-23 Thread Warren Ockrassa
if ... -- rest of the code end Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com/director_beginners_guide

Re: lingo-l Cursor command not working

2004-03-22 Thread Warren Ockrassa
to grab them live. You've got a lot of fairly chip-heavy stuff going on there. BTW when first looking at the code you sent, I toyed with the idea that you had to be joking. Uh, were you? Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming

Re: lingo-l Cursor command not working

2004-03-22 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Mar 22, 2004, at 10:20 AM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: WthmO: Would you have any suggestions to optimize this? I don't have the code before me any longer, so offhand no, but the suggestion to drop the within event and change to enter only is still a good one. Do you think it would work

Re: lingo-l (-1) or-(- 1)?

2004-03-22 Thread Warren Ockrassa
How many Lingo geeks does it take to screw in a light bulb? Apparently a dozen, and they all do it in the same way, but over the course of several hours. -- WthmO [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

Re: lingo-l (-1) or-(- 1)?

2004-03-22 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Mar 22, 2004, at 3:34 PM, Peter Bochan wrote: Warren Ockrassa How many Lingo geeks does it take to screw in a light bulb? Apparently a dozen, and they all do it in the same way, but over the course of several hours. Hi Warren, Can you paraphrase it, I don't understand it I was just making

Re: lingo-l (-1) or-(- 1)?

2004-03-22 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Mar 22, 2004, at 4:22 PM, Tab Julius wrote: At 04:54 PM 3/22/04, Warren Ockrassa wrote: The point that confused me was: at school teachers explained that two minuses can never give birth to a plus, so I was just thinking how come the mentioned issue would work. Your teachers were incorrect

Re: lingo-l Frame events (was: What happend to fps?)

2004-03-18 Thread Warren Ockrassa
that. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com/director_beginners_guide/ [To remove yourself from

Re: lingo-l delayed messages

2004-03-18 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Mar 18, 2004, at 10:22 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:33:59 -0500 It's taking over 45 minutes for messages to reach lingo-l at the moment. Strange. Not even remotely. I've seen delays as long as three hours and more. Characteristically my replies take at least 30 minutes

Re: lingo-l Movie Clip registration

2004-03-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Mar 17, 2004, at 12:17 PM, Kerry Thompson wrote: I actually meant a film loop. No can do. -- WthmO [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

Re: lingo-l Knowing when text wraps

2004-03-16 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Mar 16, 2004, at 10:43 AM, roymeo wrote: Is there a way to detect via Lingo whether a line of text has wrapped? In a #field I believe you can do a count of the number of lines vs. the number of returns. It might be more kinky with #text. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL

Re: lingo-l MIAW, Flash and redrawing (SOLVED)

2004-03-08 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Mar 7, 2004, at 10:26 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: It's not normally something you would ever set (unless you were maybe reproducing the A Clockwork Orange title sequence). That would be silly with QD shapes available. ;) Nobody seemed to mention that the cause of the problem was having a DTS

Re: lingo-l MIAW, Flash and redrawing (SOLVED)

2004-03-08 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Mar 8, 2004, at 10:45 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: So this is really a multi-pronged tool. Now you're just bragging. Me? Never. I've no reason to. My notoriety precedes me. (Or is that predeceases me?) ;) -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l MIAW, Flash and redrawing

2004-03-07 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Mar 7, 2004, at 4:34 PM, Teo Mattiozzi Petralia wrote: Does anyone knows what can I do to get ride of this redraw problem? the stageColor = the stageColor? Warren Ockrassa | Publisher/Editor | nightwares Books [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://books.nightwares.com/ [To remove

Re: lingo-l cross platform xtras in external folder

2004-03-05 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Mar 5, 2004, at 8:05 AM, Joe Lister wrote: That won't work. The files have to be joined together. and that can only be done on a Mac? I believe that was the reason Gretchen made the joiner program that she mentioned in her email. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: lingo-l cross platform xtras in external folder

2004-03-05 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Mar 4, 2004, at 6:32 PM, Buzz Kettles wrote: Then how can one create a mac fast-start projector when authoring under Windows? One probably can't. Unless one uses Gretchen's utility, assuming that's what it's made it do. -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest

Re: lingo-l cross platform xtras in external folder

2004-03-05 Thread Warren Ockrassa
or call for fast start of late. CDs are faster all the time, and Dir10 even lets you publish with a splash screen image now so users get the sense that *something* is happening during app load. I realize it's not much consolation but it's something to consider. Warren Ockrassa | President

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

2004-03-05 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Mar 5, 2004, at 11:04 AM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: F:\All Risk Training\modules\serviceInterruption\serviceInterruption.cst The itemDelimiter = \ delete the last item of... Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http

Re: lingo-l cross platform xtras in external folder

2004-03-05 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Mar 5, 2004, at 11:08 AM, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: Warren Ockrassa wrote: Dir10 even lets you publish with a splash screen image now so users get the sense that *something* is happening during app load. All recent versions of Director let you use a splash image. Yes; however it's only

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

2004-03-05 Thread Warren Ockrassa
mean? Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com/director_beginners_guide/ [To remove

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

2004-03-05 Thread Warren Ockrassa
the stopMovie in the MIAw and keep it from propagating up. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com

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

2004-03-05 Thread Warren Ockrassa
-forgetting MIAW will kill a projector faster than hitting the system's power switch. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter

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

2004-03-05 Thread Warren Ockrassa
was doing was closing a MIAW... I will wrap all the voids in the stopMovie handler with an if it's the ABC MIAW then... That could work, or you could try just adding stopMovie to the MIAW as well. That might work too, and if it does it would probably be much faster. Warren Ockrassa | President

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

2004-03-05 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Mar 5, 2004, at 2:17 PM, Kerry Thompson wrote: Not so much of a problem with Director 10, fortunately. Though you're right to point out that with earlier versions a self-forgetting MIAW will kill a projector faster than hitting the system's power switch. That's good to know. When MX 2004 was

Re: lingo-l cross platform xtras in external folder

2004-03-04 Thread Warren Ockrassa
to be joined together. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com/director_beginners_guide/ [To remove

Re: lingo-l Using @//

2004-03-03 Thread Warren Ockrassa
IS the moviepath. And the moviePath returns a string with the system's folder delimiters. If you want to go up a directory to a file, you'd do @//someFile.txt ...or a folder: @//someFolder/ Does that help? Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting

Re: lingo-l Using @//

2004-03-03 Thread Warren Ockrassa
to be used. :\ What do you want to do? Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com

Re: lingo-l Using @//

2004-03-03 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Mar 3, 2004, at 10:31 AM, Kerry Thompson wrote: If you want to go up a directory to a file, you'd do @//someFile.txt ...or a folder: @//someFolder/ Does that help? It's a start, but it still doesn't get me where I want: put baFolderExists(@//UserFiles) --misplaced operator put

Re: lingo-l Using @//

2004-03-03 Thread Warren Ockrassa
projector? Logically, it must exist. If it didn't, your projector would not be contained in anything and would not be present on the HD. What are you trying to do? There might be other ways. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming

Re: lingo-l Using @//

2004-03-03 Thread Warren Ockrassa
if the folder you want is present. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com

Re: lingo-l Using @//

2004-03-03 Thread Warren Ockrassa
want to confirm the folder is there at all, you could try doing a getNthFileNameInFolder on @// or you could use the applicationPath as your starting point. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com

Re: lingo-l cross platform xtras in external folder

2004-03-02 Thread Warren Ockrassa
projector's Xtras folder. However I'm betting they have *not* been binhexed and will work just fine as they are. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio

Re: lingo-l Search function (trying again)

2004-03-02 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Mar 2, 2004, at 9:50 AM, Kerry Thompson wrote: I don't want to discourage you. We do like to help people. It looks to me, though, like you would gain a lot from working with a more senior programmer, or taking a class, or reading some books. Warren Ockrassa has written a good book for people

Re: lingo-l absolute vs relative pathnames

2004-02-26 Thread Warren Ockrassa
than in a subdirectory. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com/director_beginners_guide

Re: lingo-l search function in Director

2004-02-24 Thread Warren Ockrassa
. Feel free to contact me offlist to discuss consulting fees for constructing your program for you. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's

Re: lingo-l Re: full screen video in the new Director MX 2004

2004-02-24 Thread Warren Ockrassa
and compression rates. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com/director_beginners_guide

Re: lingo-l Re: full screen video in the new Director MX 2004

2004-02-24 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Feb 24, 2004, at 1:25 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: Director could always burn to DVD-ROM, the new abilities don't change that. Colin, you're being a DA again. ;) -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post

Re: lingo-l Re: full screen video in the new Director MX 2004

2004-02-24 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Feb 24, 2004, at 1:50 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: Director could always burn to DVD-ROM, the new abilities don't change that. Colin, you're being a DA again. INIA (I'm not into acronyms), what's a DA? Either District Attorney or Devil's Advocate, depending on your mood and/or familiarity with

Re: lingo-l Accessing sprite(x) properties via variable

2004-02-20 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Feb 20, 2004, at 1:25 PM, roymeo wrote: Is there a way to do this without using do statements? ScriptList/setScriptList? My brain is itching in that way that means I'm either missing something obvious or due for my next trepanning session. Why do you presume it's an either/or proposition? ;)

Re: lingo-l Accessing sprite(x) properties via variable

2004-02-20 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Feb 20, 2004, at 2:22 PM, roymeo wrote: But sprite(21) and #LocH don't work. x = #locH -- or #blend, or any sprite property put sprite(21).getProp(x) SYNTAX ERROR How about put the locH of sprite 21 and put the blend of sprite 21 ...? It's not .syntax but it orter work. Or is there a

Re: lingo-l Accessing sprite(x) properties via variable

2004-02-20 Thread Warren Ockrassa
is not stored in the way you think it is and is not available *at all* via OOPish .reference. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide

Re: lingo-l MU xtra for 04?

2004-02-19 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Feb 19, 2004, at 10:25 AM, Troy Rollins wrote: 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. Ah, you mean

Re: lingo-l Video in perspective

2004-02-16 Thread Warren Ockrassa
. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com/director_beginners_guide/ [To remove yourself from

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

2004-02-12 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Feb 12, 2004, at 12:20 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: JS was actually put in to encourage the transition to VB as MS is buying Macr. Could we not have a DOS syntax choice too? I'm looking forward to the Assembly compiler, myself. -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest

Re: lingo-l Merits of JS in Director [was: Dirctor MX 2004 - Anyone else frustrated by documentation]

2004-02-12 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Feb 12, 2004, at 12:23 PM, Ross Clutterbuck wrote: I guess I'm still smarting from the small-minded interviewer who poo-pooed me because he said Visual Basic and Lingo are your primary skills? Same language aren't they?. Wow. Guess it's a good thing the UK isn't too keen on capital

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

2004-02-12 Thread Warren Ockrassa
addressed as well. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com/director_beginners_guide

Re: lingo-l password protection

2004-02-11 Thread Warren Ockrassa
QuickTime; it supports media keys that offer some measure of protection. If the pieces are short enough consider conversion to Flash MX video. You can import those directly into your cast and keep them internal. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting

Re: lingo-l FileIO limits

2004-02-11 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Feb 11, 2004, at 10:37 AM, Kerry Thompson wrote: I don't know of any other way to read a text file in Director. Try importFileInto. You should also be able to set the member.filename of a #text member. You might still get the 127-char limit but baShortFileName can resolve that. Warren

Re: lingo-l Bug of the week

2004-02-10 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Feb 10, 2004, at 11:53 AM, Kerry Thompson wrote: I managed to get the startMovie handler called 7 times. I'm willing to let you guess how I managed that before I reveal yet another Stupid Lingo Trick. 7 MIAWs? ;) -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go

Re: lingo-l password protection

2004-02-10 Thread Warren Ockrassa
their operating systems kicked them out on try three. There's far too much opportunity for nasty jokes like some co-worker or whatever (or someone's child) getting the password wrong and destroying the software. This is a TERRIBLE idea. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: lingo-l Especial chars (ISO-8859-1)

2004-02-09 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Feb 9, 2004, at 12:52 PM, Rodrigo Peres wrote: Put a = Ã -- 1 Put A = â -- 1 That shows up as false in the message window using the generic US keyboard as well, on Mac anyway. Try charToNum: put charToNum( a ) = charToNum( Ã) Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL

Re: lingo-l another alternate chars question

2004-02-09 Thread Warren Ockrassa
to consider. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com/director_beginners_guide/ [To remove yourself

Re: lingo-l another alternate chars question

2004-02-09 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Feb 9, 2004, at 2:41 PM, Kerry Thompson wrote: 2. If you or your client believe that Win is the best OS ever Or believes that a substantial part of his market uses Windows. Reality, Warren. It's not a religion, it's a business. Sometimes, Kerry, reality can force a business to reconsider its

Re: lingo-l another alternate chars question

2004-02-09 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Feb 9, 2004, at 2:54 PM, Mathew Ray wrote: This is not a flame, or an invitation to start a platform war, but I have to concur with Kerry. So what is the reason you came in to point out the obvious? I'm aware of the statistics. They keep getting hammered home by MS's marketing droids. I'm

Re: lingo-l another alternate chars question

2004-02-09 Thread Warren Ockrassa
to insert as well. Wouldn't take up *too much* space. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com

Re: lingo-l Installing applications on OSX using Director MX

2004-02-06 Thread Warren Ockrassa
happens... it only happens in OSX... Any ideas... ? Gosh, it would be nice if you could share the code you're using. It's kinda hard to telepathically debug program errors. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http

Re: lingo-l Parallax

2004-02-05 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Feb 5, 2004, at 3:59 PM, Troy Rollins wrote: 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

Re: lingo-l rollover fade

2004-02-02 Thread Warren Ockrassa
of charge. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com/director_beginners_guide/ [To remove

Re: lingo-l Controlling flash with lingo.

2004-01-29 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jan 29, 2004, at 7:46 AM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Comprehend this article, and you'll be a pro. Works better in angle brackets for email that wraps at 72 chars: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/director/articles/ flash_in_director.html

Re: lingo-l Lingo External Data

2004-01-29 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jan 29, 2004, at 4:40 PM, Mathew Ray wrote: ...too bad normal people can't use it yet :0) Are you suggesting something about my normalcy? Cause that news is about as fresh as the outcome of the Battle of Hastings. ;) Anyone heard of a possible ship date yet? I seem to recall hearing either

Re: lingo-l Flash problem in director - DUMB!

2004-01-22 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jan 22, 2004, at 10:44 AM, grimmwerks wrote: This is driving me crazy. Flash sprite in channel 1 in frame 1. Try it in frame 2 instead of frame 1. Leave frame 1 Flash-free. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http

Re: AW: lingo-l Flash problem in director - DUMB!

2004-01-22 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jan 22, 2004, at 11:34 AM, grimmwerks wrote: On 1/22/04 12:10 PM, Florian Bogeschdorfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Frame 1 is not a good place to do such things. Have you tried frame 2? Ok, lied. It's actually frame 5. Unless that's another 'bad' frame ;P Hmm. Check DTS, then,

Re: AW: lingo-l Flash problem in director - DUMB!

2004-01-22 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jan 22, 2004, at 12:16 PM, grimmwerks wrote: On 1/22/04 1:01 PM, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Hmm. Check DTS, then, consider using the stagecolor trick, and/or sacrifice a virgin rooster at the next Samhain. BUT. I've already tried dts, and the stagecolor, AND endsprite

Re: AW: lingo-l Flash problem in director - DUMB!

2004-01-22 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jan 22, 2004, at 2:00 PM, grimmwerks wrote: On 1/22/04 2:43 PM, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Ah. Spare your cock. Try extending the Flash sprite instead. Spare the cock, spoil the child. Uh... Hmm. Eww. Did it work? (Extending the Flash sprite I mean

Re: lingo-l why palettized images?

2004-01-16 Thread Warren Ockrassa
. According to Properties Inspector, all bitmaps have paletteRef set to SystemWindows, yet everything looks like the VGA palette is applied to all. What could be causing this? What have I done? What's your monitor's color depth? Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: lingo-l why palletized images?

2004-01-16 Thread Warren Ockrassa
need it if you're running +8 bits, and if your movie properties are trying to impose a palette setting, you might be getting into trouble. Also make sure you don't have any palettes roaming about in the Score. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC

Re: lingo-l GetNetText bug (more strange)

2004-01-16 Thread Warren Ockrassa
/php/ memoria_xml.php?atividade_id=12) END beginSprite on exitFrame me if (netdone(pnNetID) = true AND netError(pnNetID) = OK) then put netTextResult(pnNetID) end if go to the frame END exitFrame Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC

Re: lingo-l Residual Flash Graphics in DirMX Windows

2004-01-16 Thread Warren Ockrassa
plus). Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com/director_beginners_guide/ [To remove

Re: lingo-l Residual Flash Graphics in DirMX Windows

2004-01-15 Thread Warren Ockrassa
appreciated. the stageColor = the stageColor Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com

Re: lingo-l Residual Flash Graphics in DirMX Windows

2004-01-15 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jan 15, 2004, at 7:13 PM, Kyle Smeby wrote: Mathew and Warren's advise sounds good--although I haven't tried their method. It's auld schoole, laddie. Since Dir4 at least methinks. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming

Re: lingo-l Residual Flash Graphics in DirMX Windows

2004-01-15 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jan 15, 2004, at 11:15 PM, macmec wrote: Mathew, when you say to set the stagecolor where I am updating the stage, are you suggesting that I do that in addition to the updateStage command, or instead? Instead of, not in addition to. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL

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

2004-01-07 Thread Warren Ockrassa
? MPEG 1 is supported via QuickTime version 5 and up, Mac and Win. Since QT is free and freely available I'm not sure why you'd want Macromedia to rehack the annulus. I'd rather see more focus on Lingo bugfixes and stability than MPEG 1. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: lingo-l New Director MX

2004-01-07 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jan 7, 2004, at 9:27 AM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: How about 8-bit MIAW masks, like the latest Adobe splash screens? Not yet. Possibly a future version? -- WthmO [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

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

2004-01-07 Thread Warren Ockrassa
. Since the client gets the cost of such things, hey, why not? ;) Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http

Re: lingo-l DMX2K4 Question

2004-01-07 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jan 7, 2004, at 3:13 PM, Trevor J. Lotz wrote: One of the features (which isn't really a feature, but an expected functionality these days) I've been waiting for since beginning my work on Director at version 7.02, will we FINALLY get multiple levels of undo? Nope. -- WthmO [To remove

Re: lingo-l Prevent second click

2004-01-07 Thread Warren Ockrassa
if the doubleClick then nothing else -- do whatever you normally do with a single click end if end ...? Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio

Re: lingo-l Director MX 2004 Questions - day 3

2004-01-07 Thread Warren Ockrassa
queries from hither and yon. If I don't cover your questions tomorrow morning please feel free to provide a _gentle_ reminder as to what question(s) I may have overlooked. I'm wrapping my two-by-four in padding right now. ;) Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares

Re: lingo-l Director MX04

2004-01-06 Thread Warren Ockrassa
? Yes. On the Win side you can't publish Mac Classic projectors; on the OSX side you can publish everything. And I assume we still have to buy any third party Xtras for both platforms? Yes. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming

Re: lingo-l Truth or fiction

2004-01-06 Thread Warren Ockrassa
inclination as Kerry on this one. There's no reason whatsoever for ANY program to be harvesting my email address, particularly against my will. Any program that did so would find itself deleted immediately. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC

Re: lingo-l RE: was Director MX04 now cross platform Xtras question

2004-01-06 Thread Warren Ockrassa
it for the Mac side. IIRC the Mac Xtras, on Win, need to be BinHexed, but on the Mac side there are no such restrictions. Thus it makes more sense to use DMX04 on Mac than Win. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http

Re: lingo-l Save or upload to the Internet

2004-01-05 Thread Warren Ockrassa
is. :\ Check the Mile High Table there... Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com

lingo-l A Polite Request to Those Leaving on Holiday

2003-12-22 Thread Warren Ockrassa
DO NOT forget to UNSUBSCRIBE from this list (and all the others you're on) BEFORE TURNING ON YOUR AUTORESPONDERS. There are literally *thousands* of us who do not care you will be out of the office until January 2nd or whenever. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: lingo-l Classic Mac and xtras

2003-12-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
version of the Xtra? It can be rather hard to tell... Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http

Re: lingo-l Classic Mac and xtras

2003-12-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Dec 17, 2003, at 10:31 AM, grimmwerks wrote: On 12/17/03 9:53 AM, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Are you sure it's the Classic version of the Xtra? It can be rather hard to tell... Sure was. Classic folder. Also attempted the 1.2 from mac9. Similar question surfaced

Re: lingo-l retrieve email

2003-12-16 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Dec 31, 2003, at 8:12 AM, Craig Fisher wrote: Does anyone know how to retrieve email ??? I use Mail.app. Many seem to prefer Outlook Express, probably because it's free. Eudora's pretty good too. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting

Re: lingo-l Shared cast error

2003-12-15 Thread Warren Ockrassa
in the folder alongside themselves (that contains the one you're editing)? Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples

Re: lingo-l Changing name of a file

2003-12-14 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Dec 14, 2003, at 3:23 PM, Fabrice Closier wrote: i've rechecked the BA function list its true, its there... I'm glad. I was beginning to think I'd hallucinated it before. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http

Re: lingo-l Weird error code

2003-12-13 Thread Warren Ockrassa
for you to post some more illuminating data, such as the code that's actually going wrong. Your question is FAR too obscure for anyone to answer. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com

Re: lingo-l Changing name of a file

2003-12-13 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Dec 13, 2003, at 2:19 PM, Fabrice Closier wrote: is it possible to change the name of a file via Director? I think ByddyAPI can do it with baRenameFile. I think FileXtra can do it too. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming

Re: lingo-l Shared cast error

2003-12-13 Thread Warren Ockrassa
, then try again. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com/director_beginners_guide/ [To remove

Re: lingo-l Weird error code

2003-12-13 Thread Warren Ockrassa
with things like put hello ? Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com

Re: lingo-l Shared cast error

2003-12-13 Thread Warren Ockrassa
the external cast just to see if that makes a difference? Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http

Re: lingo-l Sound throwing errors -

2003-12-09 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Dec 9, 2003, at 9:18 AM, grimmwerks wrote: Any reason why a sound(1).queue(mysound) or sound(1).play(mysound) would throw 'handler not found in object'? Not a sound file? -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To

lingo-l Ethernet HW Address? (xpost-ish)

2003-12-09 Thread Warren Ockrassa
things like CPU and HD serial numbers! I know it's doable in theory; I'm just wondering if anyone's actually managed it in practice. Thanks! Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author

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