URLEncode/Decode?
At 03:55 AM 6/24/2004, you wrote:
At 11:31 Uhr +0100 24.06.2004, James Newton wrote:
That means using 20 times the bandwidth.
you're right.
there's always a disadvantage, when doing such things for lazyness reasons ;-)
the only backdoor left for me now would be to recommend stripp
Wouldn't the problem be the resolution you are printing at?
I mean, if you are using POM to print the director screen, you have only
the number of pixels as the screen size. If you want to print a 800x600
screen at 1200dpi, then it is up to you to make up a lot of pixelsor
end if with a pos
BTW, Petro: the MUI xtra is not needed for projectors unless you
explicitly use it in your code. The UIHelper Xtra is mostly used in
authoring. It has some neat features for 'tool movies' (such as opening a
cast member's default editor or bringing authoring windows to the front).
This Xtra (and th
this may not apply any more, but it was once recommended to NOT include
Xtras that you don't need. Maybe with today's processors it isn't that big
a deal, but if you're not using PNG's, why have all that code at the ready.
roymeo
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Sure you can. Just get someone to program an activeX bit and pop that into
Director. My current kiosk is interacting with a digital camera,
proprietary printing services set up, and proprietary rendering engine via
ActiveX.
roymeo
At 12:49 PM 2/6/2003 -0200, you wrote:
Does anyone knows if i
http://www.internetishop.com has some faster computers (even latops) for less.
As long as you're ok not paying for system support you'll probably never use.
roymeo
At 11:11 AM 2/4/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Of course, you realize that I'm describing a $5,000+ system, but you
asked for the fastes
To the best of my knowledge, and despite QT having alpha or transparency in
their spec, you cannot actually have transparent, alpha-like behaviour from
QT. You can mask, but not transparency.
Maybe instead of trying to answer your question I should ask you to be more
specific: do you care wha
I THINK that this only happens if you use sound channel 1 or 2. If you use
3-8, the sound isn't interrupted by creating or forgetting a MIAW.
Give it a try, at least.
roymeo
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don't know how to do it, and am greatly suspicious of people who think they
ought to change my screen resolution (1600x1200 or greater) and move all my
damn icons around.
roymeo
At 10:36 PM 1/22/2003 +, you wrote:
Hey all,
Trying to simply change the user's screen res using DMX and Win
I would like to know how to tell Director 8.5 that cast member "A" is
different from cast member "a". How do I do this?
compare the charToNum()'s
put charToNum("A") = charToNum("a")
-- 0
roymeo
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I hope I'm not interrupting your conversation with yourself...:)
You should be able to import ActiveX bits and use them. Try to import them
via:
Insert > Control > ActiveX...
My current project uses several different (custom) ActiveX components, to
control an external motor, communicate with
The X and Y vectors of motion are independent. moving left or right is
independent of the up-down acceleration due to jumping/gravity.
Not Sin/Cos, but Physics 101.
roymeo
At 02:29 AM 12/2/2002 +, you wrote:
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From: "mike m" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I am trying to
At 03:17 PM 12/1/2002 -0600, you wrote:
on 11/30/02 6:54 PM, roy crisman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well, they could price fairly by platform...in which case the PC version
> which didn't change much would be about $25 a copy, and the Mac version
> which had to be overhauled i
Well, they could price fairly by platform...in which case the PC version
which didn't change much would be about $25 a copy, and the Mac version
which had to be overhauled in india, could cost $3000 or so a copy...
I wonder what the sales volume per platform is today. Charted back in
time, too
> Can someone remind me if there is a keyboard shortcut to find sprites
that use
> a behavior selected in the Cast? The context menu for a behavior's cast
member
> has Find in Score, and repeating that does the trick, but it seems like
there
> should be a keyboard shortcut, and also one for
>
I see a lot of shorter contract stuff advertised at jobserve.com (UK and
Australia versions)
"The following IT vacancies have been advertised new today. Visit Jobserve
UK at www.it.jobserve.com."
roymeo
At 08:34 AM 11/18/2002 -0800, you wrote:
Hi there
I am currently out of work and seeking
At 10:58 PM 11/11/2002 +, you wrote:
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From: "roy crisman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Last week I installed the 2 new Networking Xtras, and the 2 new DLL's
> (IML32 and DIRAPI) in my Director 8.5.1 PC Win2000 developing environment.
Ye
nd do a home-upgrade? Because if so, you probably have a number of
things out of whack and I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't work.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you said you did, but you're describing a
non-standard upgrade.
- Tab
At 05:25 PM 11/11/02, roy crisman wrote
Last week I installed the 2 new Networking Xtras, and the 2 new DLL's
(IML32 and DIRAPI) in my Director 8.5.1 PC Win2000 developing environment.
On 3 different Win2000 PC's with D8.5.1.
Now, I can no longer use the debugger when an error happens (clicking
[script] or [cancel] is ok, but not [de
At 11:12 AM 10/25/2002 +0200, you wrote:
Am 25.10.2002 10:51 Uhr schrieb "Brad Hile" unter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Is there a searchable archive of this list available somewhere? I need to
>> find a special mail which got lost in my own archive.
>
> the headers say: http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/a
But wouldn't [#someProp:0] or [#someProp:VOID] still report that a valid
value is there when he seems to be saying that it isn't?
roymeo
At 12:11 AM 10/22/2002 -0500, you wrote:
Lots of hoops for a simple concept. use findPos()
> Can you store a zero in your list to show the absence of an obje
And I'd suggest you log virtually every action in your project and use this
to narrow down where it's locking up.
roymeo
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"Sharon Moeller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
The problem is not your pc. The problem is certain bugs in director on
a 2000 machine. I have found that an imported flash file will crash
director on a 2000 machine in the running environment. I have also
found that a sound file, created in Sound Fo
>The way buttons perform onscreen is the result of over 3 decades' worth of
>research into human interface design issues. It might be a good idea to
>keep to those results, meaning trigger your actions on mouseUp instead of
>down. ;)
if you could trust that sort of logic, you could also concl
Unless of course she's doing a touchscreen, or many other things.
Don't assume you know enough about the situation to scold others.
roymeo
At 04:05 PM 9/26/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi Sharon
>
>Sorry I have no idea how to change the default however:-
>
>The design guidelines for both Mac and PC
I'd also be careful of:
repeat with i = 1 to thisList.count
because this is depending upon thisList to not change size, and is actually
slower than:
iMax = thisList.count
repeat with i = 1 to iMax
because you're not accessing the .count of the list multiple times.
roymeo
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sOldDelim = the itemDelimiter
sOldDelim is the CHARACTER STRING, not a pointer.
sOldDelim will stay that character unless you explicitly change sOldDelim
roymeo
At 02:37 PM 9/25/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Howdi-Tzi & Colin...
>
>Thanks for the replies. I think WthmO is right in that my variab
At 09:44 AM 9/10/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>On Tuesday, September 10, 2002, at 02:28 AM, Fabrice Closier wrote:
>
>>Ok guys,
>>but what about my questions?
>
>I rather thought Buzz and I answered them. Were you reading different notes?
>
>>I mean that according to M technotes, the Fieio xtra needs to
or
tell myWindow to SendAllSprites(#handler, var1, var2)
roymeo
At 11:30 AM 8/22/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>Am 22.08.2002 10:00 Uhr schrieb "g r i m m w e r k s" unter
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> > I've been trying to get the miaw to call a function to a text sprite within
> > it -- but everytime I t
Luckily we have a UI person, so we don't do those sorts of things.
(The on-screen keyboards are not very usable, and sufficient only for a
very minimal amount of text, and require touch-screen which we were also
avoiding.)
roymeo
At 08:46 PM 8/21/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>maybe another solutio
Once I thought about this a bit, I realized it's not as easy (post-Win98)
as I thought.
We use the Microsoft Management Console Snap-In (MMC Snap-In or something
like that) to configure what things are visible in the start menu, and you
can even lock out all the options in the thing that pops
check out the "MCC Snap In" I think it's called...built in functionality of
the NT-branch of the windows tree.
Or for non-NT-branch windows, StormWindows will do it (along with lots more).
roymeo
At 01:45 PM 8/20/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>On Tuesday, August 20, 2002, at 12:53 PM, stacey wrote:
>
How about:
Open "Drive:\pathname\filename.exe" (on the PC)
or
open (the pathname & "filename.exe") if it's next to the projector?
I just tried
open "c:\winnt\notepad.exe"
and it worked just fine to launch my notepad.exe in the "windows" directory.
roymeo
At 02:49 PM 8/17/2002 -0400, you wrot
>
>This BTW is why art directors need to make up their minds *before* the
>program is written. ;)
And why they need to work hand in hand with the programmers (same with
sales people) instead of just tossing stuff over the wall to the
programmers and going home.
They think it's just a wall.
but can't you do the same contrived goofiness with me.spritenum?
And why are you bothering to set spriteNum to me.spriteNumthat's
already given to you by the act of property spriteNum.
I admit that this is 95% preferencethough I don't understand why people
demand to have two different
I'm not convinced that the .cst is necessary...depends on your code. Makes
it a bitch when you protect them and they turn into .cxt's if it is
required to be that way.
Sounds like your problem is in the drive variable...
MAYBE the mac is getting it's full day supply of vitamin ":" while (as
>At 11:56 AM 7/30/02, Paul Fletcher wrote:
>>Hi guys, just a quick question.
>>
>>Is it possible to blend images on to a playing .mov file?
>>ie. A 3D animation moving down a street and then blend people onto that
>>street on the fly?
>>
>>Thanks in advance
>>
>>Paul
Absolutely. Just set the QT
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>Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 10:01 AM
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>
>When d
Bruce of Lingo & Director in a Nutshell doesn't recommend the Never priority.
And last I heard, you shouldn't really trust director's
freeBlock/Bytes. Try the BuddyAPI version of those commands.
roymeo
At 02:05 PM 7/27/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>which version/platform of Director are you using?
I believe they stopped selling it about 3 weeks after I used it in a
project in 2001.
They've had a pretty rough ride lately.
I'd suggest giving them a call directly...sometimes we get too caught up in
looking at web pages when most companies don't have any problem helping out
a potential cus
No, no, no.
I'm doing it in my current kiosk.
Every significant thing (such as added into my generic button class) that
happens logs to a file. WRITES to a file. As it happens.
So, when external .wav files were completely locking up my kiosk (had to
turn the computer off, half the time), I
Start logging everything that's going on in your kisok, then when you find
it down you can see what the last thing that was done.
roymeo
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On the PC...
I have a projector I made a couple months ago, a "fast-start shockwave stub
projector", set to full screen. I just tweaked the projectorName.ini file
to change fullscreen to 0, and now it no longer runs fullscreen.
It seems like we went through this when Howdy was playing with it
>At 13:49 -0400 06/28/2002, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote:
>
>>Didn't work; has anyone used it successfully before?
I use it, but it isn't necessarily the most reliable (on the PC side, at
least). I've been able to quadruple-double-click 2 or 3 copies open before
one is apparently open enough fo
You can also protect stuff with some of the MPEG codecs. The Indeo one
should do that for you.
roymeo
At 01:22 PM 6/28/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Howdi-Tzi and Neil...
>
>Thanks for the responses.
>
> > As a user who would want to do something like that myself, I have to
> > ask you why you fe
Try Sound Channel 1 or 2. They don't seem to be interrupted with MIAW
creation/destruction.
roymeo
At 02:50 PM 6/28/2002 +0200, you wrote:
> > my linked swa files stop playing when i open a movie in a window (whereas
> > i'd like the sound in the main movie just to continue looping).
>
>or mor
copyToClipboard and pasteClipboardInto may be helpful, too.
roymeo
At 08:24 AM 6/11/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>At 21:37 -0400 06/10/2002, DrEvil wrote:
>
>>How can I enable a user to "paste" text data that has been copied
>>elsewhere into an editable field in a movie? Thanks!
>
>Believe it or not
This is called a Ceiling function. The opposite, where you want to lop off
the non-integer part is called a Floor function.
Looking in my Math library of code, I see that my Floor and Ceiling
functions aren't correct, so let's see
I just leveraged the working Floor function to create the
Here's a job post from a brit place that I getI've seen a LOT of
Director jobs come by an here in the past 6 months.
roymeo
// The following IT vacancies have been advertised new today on our web
// site on www.it.jobserve.com
//
// To receive 'Jobs by Email' for other professions send a b
were
the MIAW sets a global which is polled by the stage and .forget() it when
the global is set from the stage.
roy crisman
At 07:26 PM 5/24/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi...
>
>I am getting a name of the directory and the name of the file from the
>Flash movie within the Director pr
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height = sprite(1).height * 0.25
put sprite(1).rect
-- rect(454, 191, 463, 303)
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to go call my highschool trig teacher
and tell her that I lowe her.
roymeo
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oldDelim = the itemDelimiter blah
blah blah crap and worrying about it.
neato discussionconvinced me to "always set" rather than "put back".
roymeo
At 09:49 PM 1/21/02 +0100, you wrote:
>At 12:30 -0500 21/01/02, Roy Crisman wrote:
>>I'm all for resetting the
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I'm all for resetting the itemDelimiter, too.
Sure, any time you need to use it, you should set it, but, when working
with organic code, it's possible sometimes to also end up needing to call a
subroutine that may use the itemDelimiter, too. And if you aren't
resetting it, then you really hav
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ing"
>put 1, tString
>tZero = numToChar(0)
>put tZero into char 7 of tString
>put 2, tString
>tString2 = ""
>repeat while true
> tChar = tString.char[1]
> delete tString.char[1]
> if tChar = EMPTY then exit repeat
>
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