creating a new sprite using lingo

2003-06-21 Thread Kurt Griffin
I want to create a lot of text fields to display information on the stage and dont want to do it by hand. So i thought to create a script to generate child objects and display them on the screen. I can easily cretae a new field in the cast, but how can i assign that new cast member to a sprite usin

Re: creating a new sprite using lingo

2003-06-21 Thread Diego Landro
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Re: creating a new sprite using lingo

2003-06-20 Thread Rob Romanek
Hi Diego, If you open up director then use the open command to open a new movie, in the dialog box the comes up select "internet" then paste this url in: http://www.manibus.com/testzone/dynamicSprite/dynaSprite.dir this is a movie that demonstrates creating sprites out of nowhere. It is possibl

Re: creating a new sprite using lingo

2003-06-20 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Friday, Jun 20, 2003, at 19:57 America/Chicago, Diego Landro wrote: Thanks a lot for the info you provided, but what i was trying to do was creating a sprite out of nowhere (meaning no placeholder on the stage) and from the info you provided i deduce that{s not possible if there are no placeho

Re: creating a new sprite using lingo

2003-06-20 Thread Diego Landro
June 20, 2003 5:07 PM Subject: Re: creating a new sprite using lingo > On Friday, Jun 20, 2003, at 10:53 America/Chicago, Diego Landro wrote: > > > I am trying to create new sprite with lingo, is that possible. I > > couldn´t > > find how. The thing is this. I want

RE: creating a new sprite using lingo

2003-06-20 Thread Buzz Kettles
At 12:03 PM -0400 6/20/03, you wrote: > I want to create a lot of text fields to display information on the stage and dont want to do it by hand. So i thought to create a script to generate child objects and display them on the screen. I can easily cretae a new field in the cast, but how can i

Re: creating a new sprite using lingo

2003-06-20 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Friday, Jun 20, 2003, at 11:49 America/Chicago, Buzz Kettles wrote: Have you checked out 'score recording' in the Help System? One caveat. In the Score recording example there's reference to setting the sprite's type. Don't do that. It results in an error and no sprite being put onstage at al

Re: creating a new sprite using lingo

2003-06-20 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Friday, Jun 20, 2003, at 12:19 America/Chicago, Kerry Thompson wrote: puppetSprite someChannel, TRUE sprite(someChannel).member = theMemberYouWant sprite(someChannel).ink = theInkYouWant sprite(someChannel).loc = theLocYouWant In case you think Howdy's recommendations re puppeting conflict with

RE: creating a new sprite using lingo

2003-06-20 Thread Kerry Thompson
> puppetSprite someChannel, TRUE > sprite(someChannel).member = theMemberYouWant > sprite(someChannel).ink = theInkYouWant > sprite(someChannel).loc = theLocYouWant In case you think Howdy's recommendations re puppeting conflict with mine, they don't. I said that it was no longer necessary to us

Re: creating a new sprite using lingo

2003-06-20 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Friday, Jun 20, 2003, at 10:53 America/Chicago, Diego Landro wrote: I am trying to create new sprite with lingo, is that possible. I couldn´t find how. The thing is this. I want to create a lot of text fields to display information on the stage and dont want to do it by hand. So i thought to c

Re: creating a new sprite using lingo

2003-06-20 Thread Buzz Kettles
Have you checked out 'score recording' in the Help System? hth -Buzz At 12:53 PM -0300 6/20/03, you wrote: Hello colisters, I recentely joined the list and still was not able to contribute to the list since i am still getting to know the current issues and how the list works. i am having trouble

RE: creating a new sprite using lingo

2003-06-20 Thread Kerry Thompson
> I want to create a lot of text > fields to display information on the stage and dont want to > do it by hand. So i thought to create a script to generate > child objects and display them on the screen. I can easily > cretae a new field in the cast, but how can i assign that new > cast member

creating a new sprite using lingo

2003-06-20 Thread Diego Landro
Hello colisters, I recentely joined the list and still was not able to contribute to the list since i am still getting to know the current issues and how the list works. i am having trouble and was wondering if i coul get some help I am trying to create new sprite with lingo, is that possible. I c