lingo-l resources for updating Director skills

Hi As lapsed Director user I am looking for learning resources to get my Director skills back up to speed. I worked extensively in Director up to version 7 (since when I have done a lot of Flash, yes I defected, sorry). I would appreciate suggestions of books or online resources dealing with OO

Re: Archive searching [was] lingo-l Inputing text in director (fields)

Sorry to be dense, but I can't figure out how to search the archives. I think I've found them here: http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/archives/lingo-l/ But Google doesn't seem to reference them and I can't see search link anywhere... Thanks Simon - Original Message - From: Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL

lingo-l Inputing text in director (fields)

Hi Is there any way I can allow my users to type as much text as they want into a field, no matter how many visible characters wide it is? Something like the google search box, where if you type more into it than can be visible it shifts and hides text to the left. The html equivalent would be:

lingo-l PDF Xtra/Indexer error [CROSS-POST]

Hi (Apologies for the cross post (on [EMAIL PROTECTED]) but this list seems more active...) I'm using the PDF Indexer movie kindly provided by INM to index a load of PDFs for a CD-ROM. Quite a few (54 out of 274) of the PDFs are causing this error in the Director Message Window when I run the

Re: lingo-l What is the most elegant/performative rollover technique

That's great, thankyou both. I shall look into sendAllSprites... Cheers Simon - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Lingo-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 5:53 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l What is the most elegant/performative rollover

Re: lingo-l sprite().member

Sorry, this is badly explained. I want to be able to do this: sprite(59).member = myCastMemberName put sprite(59).someProperty -- myCastMemberName - Original Message - From: Simon Wheatley (lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lingo-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 8:05 PM

Re: lingo-l sprite().member

).member.name -- myCastMemberName Am I understanding the question correctly? ~Mathew - Original Message - From: Simon Wheatley (lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 3:39 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l sprite().member Sorry, this is badly explained. I want

lingo-l sprite().member

Hello Is it possible to get the text name of a cast member? Ie I can say: sprite(59).member = myCastMemberName Can I then extract myCastMemberName given a sprite channel number? Thanks Simon [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

lingo-l Fw: Searching multiple PDFs on CDROM

Hi I have a CD-ROM project where I need to be able to search multiple PDFs on a CD-ROM, and then launch them. I've found the PDF Xtra and indexer from Integration New Media () which seems to do the job. However the PDF Xtra needs the INM Database Xtra for searching multiple docs, which makes the