Re: lingo-l Exitlock=true, titlebar=true - closebutton doesn't work?

2004-08-26 Thread grimmwerks
Excellent! Thanks. On 8/24/04 4:19 PM, Sean Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps you meant for your 'on closeWindow' handler to be, rather, 'on closeRequest' - which will be called when your end-user clicks the Close button on the titlebar so that you can take them to your quit sequence?

lingo-l Exitlock=true, titlebar=true - closebutton doesn't work?

2004-08-24 Thread grimmwerks
Hey all -- trying to do the old school 'see quitscreen before exiting' thing in 2004. I've got exitlock to true, and am only showing the closebutton on the titlebar; I've got a main movie handler of 'on closewindow' but it doesn't seem to be getting called; when exitlock is true the closebutton

Re: lingo-l baOpenFile(PowerPoint)...but play it

2004-08-19 Thread grimmwerks
On pc? Absolutely. In fact you can open it with the ppviewer and pass it '/s' I think through the open command and it'll play; do a search on google for Powerpoint shell commands. I've got something at home that did this, but...I'm not home right now. On 8/19/04 10:27 AM, Mendelsohn, Michael

Re: lingo-l Lingo to control two computers simultaneously???

2004-08-18 Thread grimmwerks
That's what the multiuser xtra is for... My question is, is there a way to do this via Lingo instead (i.e. one presentation switch controlling one computer and Lingo feeding a command to the second computer via Ethernet/USB or something)? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to

Re: AW: lingo-l propsave Xtra and images

2004-08-17 Thread grimmwerks
#image is not supported with propsave. #picture is. There's a difference. http://pimz.com/?id=xtrassection=propsave On 8/17/04 4:47 PM, Mathew Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vList does this pretty well, can be encrypted too... check em out at updatestage.com hth, ~Mathew Michael von

Re: lingo-l Sorting Challenge

2004-05-31 Thread grimmwerks
Well, if you were using 2004 and created a global flash object, then you could toss each of these into an associative array, then sort using the properties quite easily. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages

Re: lingo-l OS X permissions issue? - projector -- launch app (OK) -- app to write txt file (NOT OK)

2004-05-25 Thread grimmwerks
What about using something like fileio or buddy to create a blank text file and set it's permissions, then run the perl app to futz with the file? Could also be the 'classic' app.. [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 OS X permissions issue? - projector -- launch app (OK) -- app to write txt file (NOT OK)

2004-05-25 Thread grimmwerks
What are you trying to do in the perl? Why not try applescript instead? [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

Re: lingo-l overwriting lingo commands

2004-05-18 Thread grimmwerks
Shouldn't you look into the alerthook? [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 Convert string to list

2004-05-06 Thread grimmwerks
On 5/6/04 11:20 AM, Rodrigo Peres [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: I'm retieving from a txt (I don't have control over it) a list with values for example like this: [[1,2],[3,4],[12,1]] On ripList theList output = [] repeat with I = 1 to theList.count

Re: lingo-l net webcam img into director

2004-04-12 Thread grimmwerks
You have to do a fake random number on the end of the request for director to see it as a new image, ie http://camURL/image?203030 So something like Tnum = random(9000) TheUrl = theURL = ? tNum [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

lingo-l MU xtra for 04?

2004-02-18 Thread grimmwerks
Is there an ..cough ...updated MU xtra able to be recognized by 04 even though it's no longer supported? Also have been having a lot of nasty flash asset xtra crashes in both mx and mx04 of late... [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l Merits of JS in Director

2004-02-12 Thread grimmwerks
Ah, but is the PregEx shockwave as well? On 2/12/04 12:57 PM, 2702NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Hi Ross, You make some interesting points here...however, just wanted to mention for the record that you have the same RegEx power with Lingo using the free PRegEx Xtra (thanks to

lingo-l Mu Xtra question

2004-02-12 Thread grimmwerks
Is there some kind of mu xtra flush events thing? I've got 3 machines - machine 1 acts as server, machine 2 connects to 1, but waits for machine 3 to connect. It receives messages from one and forwards to the other. There's a case when 1 logs off and sends a quit command to the middle (and both

Re: lingo-l Merits of JS in Director

2004-02-12 Thread grimmwerks
On 2/12/04 5:32 PM, Troy Rollins [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Put the key in the backpack. I think I see a Grue. [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,

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

2004-02-12 Thread grimmwerks
aOn 2/12/04 6:09 PM, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: issues (!) Didn't get the gist (GIST) of this one at firstcourse now I realize we both probably have em. By the way, could someone enlighten me about the difference within the moviepath or _movie.path on the mac vs the

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

2004-02-12 Thread grimmwerks
You mean it wouldn't work with myWord.char[myWord.char.count] as last? [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

Re: lingo-l Bug of the week

2004-02-10 Thread grimmwerks
Something to do with timeout objects? [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 Bug of the week

2004-02-10 Thread grimmwerks
On 2/10/04 1:26 PM, Kerry Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: TimeOut Objects get startMovie events. If you don't trap them, they get passed on up the line to the movie level. I put this: on startMovie nothing end Hmm. Well I've got a main startmovie handler, and am birthing timeout

lingo-l Parallax

2004-02-05 Thread grimmwerks
I've got this project, the idea is a timeline using parallax, where the timeline is the middle, the background is just ...background, and the dates/content are the foreground. I'm actually thinking rather than do this in 2d/imaging lingo, perhaps use actual 3d billboards and move the camera; this

lingo-l Garageband

2004-02-03 Thread grimmwerks
Ok, so apple's new Garageband won't play on my powerbook 550 (although Ableton Live, Cubase, Reaktor, Absynth and Reason play nicely)...but Garageband has a great interface for browsing their samples via groups/keyworkds/bpm, etc. I've downloaded the apple loops sdk and it seems that the Sound

Re: lingo-l OT: GarageBand sounds

2004-02-03 Thread grimmwerks
On 2/3/04 8:21 PM, Colin Holgate [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: The AIFF loops that are with GarageBand (in Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Apple Loops/Apple Loops for GarageBand/) seem to be ordinary AIFFs that loop when they get to the end. You should be able to set the filename of

Re: lingo-l OT: GarageBand sounds

2004-02-03 Thread grimmwerks
On 2/3/04 10:59 PM, Colin Holgate [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Are you sure? Have you looked at the file: Search Index 3E66D70F-3A60-11D8-AC2D-000A95BAB3B6.txt in the Apple Loops Index folder? I saw that, but if you read the Apple Loops sdk, and open up Sound Loop Utility, you can put

Re: lingo-l OT: GarageBand sounds

2004-02-03 Thread grimmwerks
I just used file compare on a beat I had before and after opening it in sound loop utility, and there's definate changes. Course the icon changed tooso [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,

Re: lingo-l OT: GarageBand sounds

2004-02-03 Thread grimmwerks
Aha. Found some in Resourcer - the keywords are showing... Course I've got no idea how to read em back out... [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

Re: lingo-l Not really -- OT: GarageBand sounds

2004-02-03 Thread grimmwerks
...just wanted to change the subject, as I'm really thinking reading in the Apple Loops keywords from the aif via binary xtra. [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]

Re: lingo-l vList xtra

2004-01-26 Thread grimmwerks
I'm using them actually as little external 'member' files. For example I've got an app I'm using with custom image transitions; a vlist file will have a thumbnail, the scripttext to birth an object on the fly...another has a flash member's media and create a new interface, etc. [To remove

Re: lingo-l Quicktime 'useaudio' function?

2004-01-23 Thread grimmwerks
Nevermind. Muxed mpgs show only one track, so I'm stuck with volume. [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

lingo-l Flash problem in director - DUMB!

2004-01-22 Thread grimmwerks
This is driving me crazy. Flash sprite in channel 1 in frame 1. On a submit button from the flash it calls a movie handler (login) which goes the frame +1 There's ALWAYS a ghost image of the flash sprite even though it doesn't exist when the jump happens. I've tried updatestage. I've tried the

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

2004-01-22 Thread grimmwerks
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 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

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

2004-01-22 Thread grimmwerks
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. As to the misbehaving behavior -- any chance that the sprite with the malfunction is on the last frame of your

Re: lingo-l voice issues

2004-01-16 Thread grimmwerks
On 1/16/04 6:45 AM, Peter Bochan [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: on mouseUp(me) voiceSpeak(Hello) voiceSpeak(member(user login).text) end Try voiceSpeak(Hello member(user login).text) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

lingo-l Imaging lingo question

2004-01-13 Thread grimmwerks
You know, everytime I think I'm figuring something out, I look at someone else's code like setPixel's or Luke's at lingoworkshop.com and then I just want to smack my head with a volkswagon door... I've got to do some lingo-ese and I don't think what I'm doing is very elegant; I want to take an

Re: lingo-l Imaging lingo question

2004-01-13 Thread grimmwerks
On 1/13/04 10:03 PM, Colin Holgate [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Those seem easy enough, but what are pin smaller and pin larger? I know, it's ALL dopey, but when I start coding it I just think it can be more elegant. I'm looking for some quad math tutorials really. Pin larger is you take

Re: lingo-l Imaging lingo question

2004-01-13 Thread grimmwerks
Oh I should say, the thing that I'm also seeing (or getting screwed up over) is that the output rect could possibly be landscape or portrait as well, so I start doing all this in longhand and I'm getting frazzled. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l Imaging lingo question

2004-01-13 Thread grimmwerks
Sigh. I bet that was easy, right? And they say it's the people's car...bah! My engine always caught fire. And it had no floor by the driver's side so you'd be sure to go through puddles very slowly. At least I got to spray paint it black in the garage, and put a great big 'Bone Buggy' down

Re: lingo-l Trigger a Flash function from Director?

2004-01-08 Thread grimmwerks
Yes, but there's some workarounds to this. I can post files if you're interested, but here's how I did it. In Flash set up something like this: _global.fModule = new Object() fModule.reset = function(){Items.Init();} fModule.currentItem = none; fModule.selectItem = function(theNum){

Re: lingo-l Fscommand? Event? getURL? Href?

2004-01-08 Thread grimmwerks
Always use getURL -- in fact it's in the docs, and shows how you can send strings, trigger events (geturl(event:somehandler)) and more [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

Re: lingo-l New Director MX

2004-01-07 Thread grimmwerks
Yeah, is there alphas, or the old yucky edge variety? On 1/7/04 10:27 AM, Mendelsohn, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Hi Tom... How about 8-bit MIAW masks, like the latest Adobe splash screens? - Michael M. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go

Re: lingo-l New Director MX

2004-01-07 Thread grimmwerks
On 1/7/04 10:41 AM, Colin Holgate [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Yucky I believe. Hooray! Oh wait... [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 Dir MX 2004 and MP3

2004-01-06 Thread grimmwerks
I don't think there's been ANY change to the audio stuff. Why doesn't anybody rescue the dead Beatnik!?!? And I'm not talking Kerouac. By the way, I think Audio Xtra DOES encode to mp3 now...I remember reading it at updatestage. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go

Re: Dir MX 2004 - MIAW's (was: RE: lingo-l Dir MX 2004 and MP 3)

2004-01-06 Thread grimmwerks
On 1/6/04 6:14 PM, Thomas Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Did I mention that you can now assign custom icons to your projectors within authoring? File Publish Settings..., Projector tab, look down at the icon field, click the button and browse to your ico file. Neat. Did I mention

lingo-l New dvd feature

2004-01-05 Thread grimmwerks
I'm curious -- the dvd video you're allowed in a director presentation -- is it dvd-ready (ie vob files) or it mpeg2? If it's mpeg2, then you'd still have to double up on the video files, if say you want to have a dvd that can play on a computer and a settop box. [To remove yourself from this

Re: lingo-l New dvd feature

2004-01-05 Thread grimmwerks
On 1/5/04 1:34 PM, Colin Holgate [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: It can play VIDEO_TS folders, so only one copy of the video is needed. Ok, then that does rock -- totally right way to do it. Thanks Colin. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

lingo-l Edit in flash 04?

2004-01-01 Thread grimmwerks
Does this work? I must be retarded, but I removed flash mx from my pc, leaving 04. But now, when I try to edit a flash file, it just doesn't work...? [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

lingo-l Inspecting the object inspector.

2003-12-22 Thread grimmwerks
As I think Allen stated recently - the object inspector is worth it's ...ugh well weight won't work. Anyway it's neat. Couldn't live without it. However, it looks like I'm going to have to if I don't upgrade MX, as everyone knows (to quote Mr. Cohen) it's busted in Panther. I'm not bitching, I'm

lingo-l Image rotation

2003-12-18 Thread grimmwerks
Quickie: I've got an image I want to rotate 180. What's the best way of doing this? It's an image in a prop. [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

Re: lingo-l Image rotation

2003-12-18 Thread grimmwerks
Nevermind. FastQuads. [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 Lingo. Thanks!]

lingo-l Argh

2003-12-18 Thread grimmwerks
I'm getting them vList errors back again...and once again, no rhyme or reason Sigh. [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 Classic Mac and xtras

2003-12-17 Thread grimmwerks
I've been trying to build a classic projector from MX with the Budapi xtra embedded; I've got the xtra in the classic mac xtras folder, but no matter what, I keep getting a 'problem writing Budapi Xtra' alert What the? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go

Re: lingo-l Classic Mac and xtras

2003-12-17 Thread grimmwerks
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. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l Weird error code

2003-12-14 Thread grimmwerks
On 12/14/03 8:26 AM, Gretchen Macdowall [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Other possibilities would be having both basic and full in the same xtras folder or the osx version on classic or vice versa. There are so many files with the same names that it's not hard for this to happen. Due to the

lingo-l Weird error code

2003-12-13 Thread grimmwerks
I'm only checking a list to see what the count of something is (ie if gThisAssetList.assets.count) and I'm getting an alert of: is3dCastMember Unknown error code (-2147219478) ...and I'm not even DOING anything with 3d. Thoughts? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest

Re: lingo-l Weird error code

2003-12-13 Thread grimmwerks
More on this: I think it might be related to vList On 12/13/03 2:15 PM, grimmwerks [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: I'm only checking a list to see what the count of something is (ie if gThisAssetList.assets.count) and I'm getting an alert of: is3dCastMember Unknown error code

lingo-l X-post: weird 'is3dMember' error

2003-12-13 Thread grimmwerks
Sorry for the xpost, but I'm getting a weird error and it's driving me crazy. I originally thought this was tied in to the vList xtra I'm using, but I just got it from doing 'put basysfolder(prefs)' in the message window... A weird alert that says 'is3dCastMember unknown error code(-2147219478)'

Re: lingo-l Weird error code

2003-12-13 Thread grimmwerks
On 12/13/03 7:22 PM, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: I think it's time 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, I wish I could - but there IS no code that's going

Re: lingo-l Weird error code

2003-12-13 Thread grimmwerks
Fantastic! See Warren, peoples, don't patronize me, I am NOT insane! -- William Shatner, Twilight Zone. Weird though. On 12/13/03 10:16 PM, Irv Kalb [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Grimm, I ran into this problem earlier this year. The bug is definitely in the vList Xtra. I wrote

Re: lingo-l Weird error code

2003-12-13 Thread grimmwerks
On 12/13/03 10:16 PM, Irv Kalb [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: I ran into this problem earlier this year. The bug is definitely in the vList Xtra. I wrote Daniel Devolder (sp?) about it, and he sent me a newer version of his XTRA that seemed to fix the problem. This was about 6 months ago

lingo-l @allusers not working in MU Xtra as server...

2003-12-12 Thread grimmwerks
If you've got an app functioning as a server (ie WaitNetMsgHandler) -- then it can RECEIVE @allUsers but it will not send to all users connected. [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

Re: lingo-l accessing the timeoutlist

2003-12-11 Thread grimmwerks
On 12/11/03 3:15 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: put the timeoutlist -- [timeOut(wiper)] g = timeout( QUOTE wiper QUOTE ) put (the timeoutlist).getPos(g) -- 0 You figured it out, but just to sum up -- g would equal timeOut(wiper) which is a string, and

lingo-l MU Xtra question: Mu app as server...

2003-12-11 Thread grimmwerks
Ok so I'd been working on something with the normal MU Server, and it functioned in this way -- master/slave app functions, where the master and slave would sign in to the server. The master app would send a command to the server (@AllUsers) so that BOTH the master and slave would receive the

Re: lingo-l accessing the timeoutlist

2003-12-11 Thread grimmwerks
Nah, you just have to think about it differently: g = timeout( QUOTE time QUOTE ) put g -- timeout(time) put value(g) -- timeOut(time) On 12/11/03 4:24 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: ...and I've been thinking, it seems difficult at best to be able to access

Re: lingo-l accessing the timeoutlist

2003-12-11 Thread grimmwerks
You could also do Repeat with t = 1 to the timeoutList if the timeoutlist[t].name = whatever End repeat (timeoutObject.name Description This timeout property is the name of the timeout object as defined when the object is created. The new() command is used to create timeout objects.

Re: lingo-l accessing the timeoutlist, part II

2003-12-11 Thread grimmwerks
On 12/11/03 7:49 PM, Irv Kalb [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: This is excellent news for the Director community! Sending one large e-cake to celebrate his return. Irv I don't mean to sound negative -- but why exactly? Does this ensure that Director will see the rapid development that

lingo-l Sound throwing errors -

2003-12-09 Thread grimmwerks
Any reason why a sound(1).queue(mysound) or sound(1).play(mysound) would throw 'handler not found in object'? [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

Re: lingo-l Sound throwing errors -

2003-12-09 Thread grimmwerks
My mistake. [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 Lingo. Thanks!]

Re: lingo-l figuring out the previous handler

2003-12-09 Thread grimmwerks
Well it seems a real convoluted way of handling it, (like your 'mouseup' example wouldn't really work) but if it's mouseup say: On mouseUp me me.dotheThing() End On dotheThing me if prevHandler = mouseup End. Well why not pass the current handler as an argument, ie On mouseup me

lingo-l Director vs realbasic

2003-12-06 Thread grimmwerks
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 been around longer, but realbasic has been growing leaps in bounds

lingo-l Applescript --

2003-12-06 Thread grimmwerks
Anyone else have experience with applescript? I know Bruce has his xtra, but I'm wondering how difficult it would be to create a little applescript listener to get applescript functions from director... [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

lingo-l Cps users?

2003-12-03 Thread grimmwerks
Anyone here using CPS from bonneville.nl? [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

lingo-l Soundsupport.net

2003-12-02 Thread grimmwerks
Wasn't there a howdy from a new user from soundsupport? I'm on your site now playing with your Drive game...having just recently dove into CPS, I'm wondering if you can tell me a little bit about your experience with it; does director only launch CPS objects, or does cps report back to director

lingo-l Flash text / text object question

2003-12-02 Thread grimmwerks
So I'm trying to do a sort of flash/director interface module. In flash, I'm creating a global object (_global.fModule) that I'm going to use as a direct hook to the flash bits. I've got a text box on the flash stage I've named as textBox. I then did fModule.title = textBox; Thereby allowing

Re: lingo-l Passing prop lists between Director and flash.

2003-12-02 Thread grimmwerks
On 12/2/03 3:33 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: But, what is it in actionscript? As an example of what I'm doing: pItems = pMod.newObject(array) pActiveItems = pMod.newObject(array) tNext = void repeat with i = 1 to theAssets.count if theAssets[i].file

Re: lingo-l Flash text / text object question

2003-12-02 Thread grimmwerks
On 12/2/03 3:37 PM, Charlie Fiskeaux II [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Try just referencing the texBox itself: _root.textBox.text The problem is director sees named objects as movieclips, so it ceases to be a textbox with a 'text' property, and instead becomes a generic movieclip with a (now

Re: lingo-l Flash text / text object question

2003-12-02 Thread grimmwerks
On 12/2/03 3:42 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Sounds fairly similar to what I'm doing right now. Can you see the text prop in the object inspector? - MM I've been able to set text from director to flash, but I've had to create a function in order to be the

Re: lingo-l Flash text / text object question

2003-12-02 Thread grimmwerks
Just wanted to point out _global.fModule = new Object(); fModule.movieTime = mov_timer; fModule.movieTitle = mov_title; fModule.movieDuration = mov_duration; fModule.setMovieTime = function(theText){fModule.movieTime.text = theText;} Pmod = sprite(1).getVariable(fModule, false)

Re: lingo-l Open PowerPoint from within director

2003-12-01 Thread grimmwerks
I've got something I used (I think if I remember) budapi for a cross platform control of external powerpoints opening...have to poke around. [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

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

2003-11-25 Thread grimmwerks
It's a fantastic effort - much appreciated -- but as a mac osx guy, what do I need to do to make this work on our side? [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,

lingo-l Flash object question more

2003-11-24 Thread grimmwerks
var currentItem; listbox.currentitem = currentitem; ? Turns out that's the way I've got to do it (which seems silly) -- why can I not set an objects variable directly, instead having to create one and a pointer to it? Next up: seeing what NULL from flash is equal to in Director... [To

lingo-l Flash consistency fun!

2003-11-24 Thread grimmwerks
Lookee here: if not(voidP(pFModule.listbox.currentItem)) then pSelectedItem = pFModule.listbox.currentItem put pFModule.listbox.currentItem pSelectedItem ilk(pSelectedItem) Ok, now notice this: -- Null Null void -- Null Null void -- Null Null void -- Null Null void --

lingo-l Flash object question

2003-11-24 Thread grimmwerks
I'm doing something that uses a lot of director-created flash objects within director -- ie director pointers to flash objects to be used in memory/lingo. Don't mind that. I'm running into a weird problem where the director behavior is reporting that a flash object doesn't have a certain

lingo-l Consistency shmusisten...uh....

2003-11-24 Thread grimmwerks
Yay! put sprite(1).pSelectedItem -- Void put sprite(1).pFModule.listbox.currentItem -- Null put voidP(sprite(1).pFModule.listbox.currentItem) -- 0 put ilk(sprite(1).pFModule.listbox.currentItem) -- #void put sprite(1).pFModule.listbox.currentItem = #void -- 0 [To remove yourself from this

Re: lingo-l asynchronous communication within director

2003-11-24 Thread grimmwerks
Depends on how you're outputting to/from the web services. Ie if the bboard is a sql db, you could easily read from a db with the db xtra, but that means setting up the user's db connection in windows - it can be done, but it's sucky. If it's a flat file (sounds like it's not) then you could use

lingo-l Multiuser xtra os x

2003-11-12 Thread grimmwerks
Uh...simple question, maybe I'm retarded. Temp = new(xtra multiuser) Put temp.getNetAddressCookie(false) -- I'm connected via airport, but for some reason this just isn't being seen as a proper ip? I've got an ip of 10.0.1.3..argh. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest

lingo-l Mpeg advance on the fly - register?

2003-11-10 Thread grimmwerks
I'm creating new mpeg advance members on the fly, and it seems the registration for the members is only added during authoring -- is there a way to register the xtra via lingo? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post

lingo-l Dvd-rom

2003-11-10 Thread grimmwerks
Just a question - burned a dvd-rom using iso 9660 and it's not recognized; does a dvd-rom (meaning just a bigger cdrom) HAVE to be DVD-ROM (UDF) format to be recognized by the pc? [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 Dvd-rom

2003-11-10 Thread grimmwerks
It's a WinXP machine with a dvd-rom drive; iso 9660 dvd burned on Toast/mac. The UDF one seems fine, however. On 11/10/03 12:23 PM, Charlie Fiskeaux II [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: I've done ISO DVD-ROMs successfully... What's the OS of the machine you're testing on? And is the disc

Re: lingo-l Mac 10.3 and Director MX Bugs...

2003-11-06 Thread grimmwerks
On 11/6/03 10:03 AM, Baker, Geoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: 3) In the debugger window, no matter how hard you try you can't make the name field bigger which is a real P.I.A. I've seen this in the Object Inspector - if you TRY to make it bigger you make it SMALLER. And if a name is

Re: lingo-l re: Flash in DirMX

2003-11-04 Thread grimmwerks
You could have direct to stage off, but every time you do a change Ie sprite(3).frame = 3 Then do updatestage right after. On 11/4/03 4:14 PM, F. Hebert [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: NOT Direct to Stage. Is Direct to Stage an obligation? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change

lingo-l Imaging lingo and video question

2003-11-01 Thread grimmwerks
So, if I've got a sprite that has it's own behavior, dealing with it's own member.image and having a pBuffer (image.duplicate), and is underneath a qt sprite, why would the qt sprite blink when the lower sprite is writing to it's own image and not the stage? It just seems kind of odd - like

lingo-l MU Xtra - peer to peer connection?

2003-10-30 Thread grimmwerks
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 http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]).

lingo-l Antispam UOL?

2003-10-28 Thread grimmwerks
Is anyone else getting those annoying spanish 'click here to make sure this email isn't spam' messages for posting to lingo-l? Much like I'll get after this one...? [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 Stage.rect stage.image.rect?!?

2003-10-25 Thread grimmwerks
MX, OSX. On 10/25/03 7:19 PM, Buzz Kettles [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: what version of Dir are you working in? [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,

lingo-l #call -ing a list?

2003-10-24 Thread grimmwerks
I'm fuzzy on this one If I've a bunch of objects, I can do a call the them with a handler, correct? And the ones with the handler will respond/do it? [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

Re: lingo-l Protect content outside Director

2003-10-23 Thread grimmwerks
I remember someone once using the BinaryIO xtra to save the beginning headers of video elsewhere, and combining on the fly, so that the videos when played outside of director would break. You could also look at the fantastic vList from updatestage for encrypting/compressing external media into a

lingo-l Stage.rect stage.image.rect?!?

2003-10-23 Thread grimmwerks
Explain this to me (and NO, I'm not zoomed, it's 100%) clearglobals put the stage.image -- image:6441e40 put the stage.image.width -- 1024 put the stage.rect -- rect(1342, 52, 1982, 532) put the stage.rect.width -- 640 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l Stage.rect stage.image.rect?!?

2003-10-23 Thread grimmwerks
Actually, no. The weird thing is I started with the 1024x768 (set in the movie props floater), saved it; came back and reset to 640x480 again in the floater, and it was returning a previous one. It was extremely strange, but I've been seeing a bit of weirdness happening in osx lately. On

lingo-l Vlist question

2003-10-22 Thread grimmwerks
Just wondering - vList says it supports saving of an instance (ie 'obj = new(script parent)) but it doesn¹t' support saving a script to a vlist - so how exactly does an instance object get saved with vlist? Can it be instantiated again from a vlist? [To remove yourself from this list, or to

lingo-l Open file window (osx) w/multiple return?

2003-10-20 Thread grimmwerks
Is there any xtra that allows this? [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 Open file window (osx) w/multiple return?

2003-10-20 Thread grimmwerks
Thanks, turnsout filextra will do it as well, but I prefer Buddy too. [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

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