lingo-l Triggering a Director movie from the internet

2003-08-04 Thread Michael von Aichberger
Hi everybody, I have a serious problem: I need to run a Director movie on an internet server or have a Director movie be controlled by an internet server. Here's the whole story: An internet user opens a web site and enters some text. He clicks on a button and the text is transferred to an

RE: lingo-l Triggering a Director movie from the internet

2003-08-04 Thread Kerry Thompson
So how can I tell a Director movie from outside to do a special task? And outside means from somewhere in the world! There is no way to send a message to a Director projector that I know of. What I've done in a similar situation is to have the projector check periodically for the existence of

Re: lingo-l Triggering a Director movie from the internet

2003-08-04 Thread Evan Adelman
If you're willing to run around the DMX support issues (I believe it still works but you need a D8.5 serial or something), I'd look into the multiuser xtra and server. -Evan Kerry Thompson wrote: So how can I tell a Director movie from outside to do a special task? And outside means from

AW: lingo-l Triggering a Director movie from the internet

2003-08-04 Thread Michael von Aichberger
Hi Evan! I'd look into the multiuser xtra and server. I have been working with the Multiuser Xtra before. The problem is: How can an internet user who hasn't Shockwave installed communicate with a Director projector running the Multiuser Xtra? Or if the internet user doesn't do it directly,