problem with flash movies

2000-09-21 Thread sreedhar reddy
hello all i got some interactive presentations done in flash and saved as shockwave flash movies by using these i want to make a non-interactive presentation in director where i want play all these files one after the other.but when i try to keep all the sprites one after the other im unable to co

Re: pixels

2000-09-21 Thread Kerry Thompson
>Producing every possible >permutation of a 60 x 60 pixel area even in black and white is an enormous >number. Something like 2 to the power of 3600. The largest number mathematicians usually deal with is a googolplex (really). That's 10 to the 100th power, and as Colin noted, greater than th

Re: pixels

2000-09-21 Thread Shawn Dukes
> At a Billion combinations a second, it would still have taken more > time than since the Big Bang to do all the combinations for just the > first row alone. Yes, these numbers are astronomical. I did some crude calculating (with the Windows calculator) and to do the first row: 60 pixels, would

RE: Active fields

2000-09-21 Thread Paul Steven
Have a look at set the keyBoardFocusSprite=86 I think this is what I used to do this Hence sprite 86 is the field I wanted to be active Hope this helps Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jed Frumkin Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000

Active fields

2000-09-21 Thread Jed Frumkin
Anyone know how to make a field active in Director 7? , i,e. place the cursor in that field? I need it for two things, one is to autotab from one field to the next, and the other is just to have some control over form entries. Thanks, Jed [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to

RE: any info 3D-lingo-3D

2000-09-21 Thread grimmwerks
3dgroove kicks ass but unforunately I don't think it's for developers...they were going to release it as a plugin; it has it's own editor like Unreal/Quake... >note "3D Groove" and "Dave's 3D Engine". [http://www.grimmWERKS.com ]-- [ graphic design -

Re: pixels

2000-09-21 Thread Colin Holgate
>You could build any particular configuration you need using imaging >lingo, and then you wouldn't have to create (or store!) them all... At a Billion combinations a second, it would still have taken more time than since the Big Bang to do all the combinations for just the first row alone. [T

RE: any info 3D-lingo-3D

2000-09-21 Thread Sean Wilson
3D engine entirely done in lingo(downloadable source for engine and demos): http://www.theburrow.co.uk/t3dtesters/index.htm 3DDreams (xtra driven)(recently made available for free): http://www.doitin3d.com/3ddreams/download/down.html Hope that helps, Sean. [To remove yourself from this list, o

Re: pixels

2000-09-21 Thread R. Bhakti Klein
You could build any particular configuration you need using imaging lingo, and then you wouldn't have to create (or store!) them all... --bhakti > > hello everyone.. > > > > im trying to create a script which would generate every single possible > > combination of the pixels (black or white

Re: pixels

2000-09-21 Thread Shawn Dukes
Way back in my college days, we studied Discrete Mathematics that concerned itself with stuff like what you are trying to do. Producing every possible permutation of a 60 x 60 pixel area even in black and white is an enormous number. Something like 2 to the power of 3600. I am sure that an impl

RE: any info 3D-lingo-3D

2000-09-21 Thread bsenftner
> -Original Message- > From: Paul Steven [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 3:30 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: any info 3D-lingo-3D > > > This is a good introductory link > > http://www.sfx.co.nz/tamahori/thought/shock_3d_howto.html > > wo

RE: any info 3D-lingo-3D

2000-09-21 Thread Paul Steven
This is a good introductory link http://www.sfx.co.nz/tamahori/thought/shock_3d_howto.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 11:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: any info 3D-lin

Re: Projector problem

2000-09-21 Thread John Aquilina
Reply to: Re: Projector problem This problem is due to the fact that your CD name is too long johnAq Roy Pardi wrote: >At 10:02 AM -0500 9/21/2000, Rob Madgwick wrote: > >>I have created my project on dir8 Mac - created a projector no problem - >>then opened up my project on dir8 W

RE: any info 3D-lingo-3D

2000-09-21 Thread bsenftner
You ought to always start here: http://www.macromedia.com/software/xtras/director/ note "3D Groove" and "Dave's 3D Engine". Haven't used them, but they look capable. Also Intel has something in the oven with Macromedia that is a Director implementation of some of this stuff: http://develope

any info 3D-lingo-3D

2000-09-21 Thread Johan Meskens
Dear List do you have any information concerning Lingo in relation with 3D books ? Xtras ? articles ? something else ? Kind Regards JM CS2 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EM

flash sound and director

2000-09-21 Thread Ken Huynh
can anyone tell me why do in flash all sound play fine and when i export it and import it into director, some sound doesn't play? btw it's on the PC... thank you ken [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages

Re: available fonts

2000-09-21 Thread James Newton
Nigel wrote: > ... installed fonts, can I get at a list of them via lingo only > or do I need to go Bud API ? Hi Nigel, on getFonts() tempFont = new(#font) fonts = tempFont.fontList() erase tempFont return fonts end Cheers, James [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to di

Re: pixels

2000-09-21 Thread Colin Holgate
> im trying to create a script which would generate every single possible > combination of the pixels (black or white) : how they could fill the >space: 60 x 60 pixels >-- >and then to be able to save these images directly to disk You'll run into disk space problems. There are a lot less atom

two keydown

2000-09-21 Thread JUAN COLON
hi everyone, any idea on how to use a double keydown. say the upkey and the rightkey to move a sprite on a up-right position. (animation)i have a couple of castmembers that show a man going in a upright position. no rush anyone just want to try out something new. JUAN-NYC

pixels

2000-09-21 Thread mia
hello everyone.. im trying to create a script which would generate every single possible combination of the pixels (black or white) : how they could fill the space: 60 x 60 pixels -- and then to be able to save these images directly to disk -- is there any way of doing this in lingo??? or

Re: available fonts

2000-09-21 Thread Luke Wigley
> Hi list, > > I've been musing a little about fonts - installed fonts, can I get at a > list of them via lingo only or do I need to go Bud API ? > > Suggestions most appreciated, > Nigel Theres an xtra from www.updateStage.com called "installed fonts" that returns a list of installed fonts (s

Re: Lingo-L Digest V1 #1636

2000-09-21 Thread Temp Mail Box
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Re: VOID = 0???

2000-09-21 Thread R. Bhakti Klein
normal? yes, normal for lingo. there's similar weirdness when comparing 0 as a boolean for false, and 0 as an integer. AND, i believe it acts differently x-plaform. -bh Kerry Thompson wrote: > > Now wait a minute. 0 and VOID are *not* the same--at least they shouldn't be. > > But I ran in

Re: PrintOMatic Xtra

2000-09-21 Thread Kerry Thompson
>--- Use the PrintOMatic Xtra. It's Shockwave safe and >works great. > >I tried it but it don't work in a shockwave movie. >Maybe i'm relly stupid, maybe i'm very tired cause i'm >in the end of my project but : In authoring or projector mode, you can include the Xtra as part of the executable.

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Re: Problem with "go to movie" in the callback handler(QTVR)

2000-09-21 Thread Jakob Hede Madsen
>Hi all, > >When I use "go to movie" in the handler that runs when a click on a hot spot >occurs in a QTVR movie, I get off the application with messages "error 1", >"error 2" or "error 3"! Yes, this' a classic. If from the object from which an event originates, is destroyed during the processin

Re: new( #bitmap ) & setpixel()

2000-09-21 Thread Jakob Hede Madsen
Szymek wrote: >How to create new bitmap and put on some pixels. >Because below script don't work. The bitmap is created but where is pixel? > >on makeNewBitmap > memb = new( #bitmap ) > memb.setpixel( 0,0,rgb(100,23,44) ) >end 'setPixel' only works within the rect of already defined pixels.

Re: Projector problem

2000-09-21 Thread Roy Pardi
At 10:02 AM -0500 9/21/2000, Rob Madgwick wrote: >I have created my project on dir8 Mac - created a projector no problem - >then opened up my project on dir8 Win and created a win projector, but on >running it I get the error message: > >Unable to load movie playlist. Does the .INI file exist. It

Re: beta protection

2000-09-21 Thread John R. Sweeney Jr.
>Off the top of my head I guess that I could get Director to read and write >to a text file that records the number of times the exe has been opened, but >I just do not know how I could go about this. > >Are there extras that do this automatically? > >Any help would be appreciated > >thanks in ant

Re: beta protection

2000-09-21 Thread roy crisman
Something I've seen used is a big ugly screen before the real presentation that says this is beta version 2.1e or whatever. horrid magenta background. but it sounds like either you are really paranoid or you have really untrustworthy clients, so maybe you do need more than that. roy crisman

Projector problem

2000-09-21 Thread Rob Madgwick
hi List can anyone help I have created my project on dir8 Mac - created a projector no problem - then opened up my project on dir8 Win and created a win projector, but on running it I get the error message: Unable to load movie playlist. Does the .INI file exist. It must contain a section "[Mo

1-Bit mask on-the-fly or better solution

2000-09-21 Thread Azinger, Richard
Hello List, I have a project where I am downloading a group of images on the fly to a dcr when they are called. I've made them all jpegs to take advantage of the smaller file size. But most of these are irregular shaped with white backgrounds that need to be transparent. The nature of the "jpeg"

RE: audio in shockwave movies

2000-09-21 Thread Bradshaw, Brian
Unless I missed something, you are importing the .wav files into the movie? So far, I have been successful at keeping movies with sound smaller by converting to .swa audio, and then importing them, it will decrease the size of the Shockwave movie. -Original Message- From: Colin Holgate [m

Re: What number does object.count return?

2000-09-21 Thread Luke Wigley
So, if an object has an ancestor, then object.count() -- returns the number of properties of the object object.count -- returns the number of properties of the ancestor I better start paying more attention to the use of brackets... [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest m

Re: PrintOMatic Xtra

2000-09-21 Thread Emmanuel Brulavoine
A 13:34 21/09/00 +0200, vous avez écrit : >-- > >Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 08:13:36 +0200 >From: "guran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: SV: >--- How can I print in a shock movie ? > >--- Use the PrintOMatic Xtra. It's Shockwave safe and >works great. >Guran > >Thanks for

PrintOMatic Xtra

2000-09-21 Thread Pierre-Yves
-- Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 08:13:36 +0200 From: "guran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: SV: --- How can I print in a shock movie ? --- Use the PrintOMatic Xtra. It's Shockwave safe and works great. Guran Thanks for the tips ! I tried it but it don't work in a shockwa

beta protection

2000-09-21 Thread Iain Sheild
I am trying to find something that will let me execute my Director 8 projector a set number of times and then not ever play again. The reason for this is to protect my beta software from being anything other than beta software, it doesn't have to be anything very complicated due to thin intended m

Problem with "go to movie" in the callback handler (QTVR)

2000-09-21 Thread Seydina Ndiaye
Hi all, When I use "go to movie" in the handler that runs when a click on a hot spot occurs in a QTVR movie, I get off the application with messages "error 1", "error 2" or "error 3"! If any one can help...! Thanks. === Dr. Seydina M. NDIAYE Ingénieur - Chercheur SDC Informatique 9, rue des P

new( #bitmap ) & setpixel()

2000-09-21 Thread Szymon Drejewicz
How to create new bitmap and put on some pixels. Because below script don't work. The bitmap is created but where is pixel? on makeNewBitmap memb = new( #bitmap ) memb.setpixel( 0,0,rgb(100,23,44) ) end Szymek [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: What number does object.count return?

2000-09-21 Thread Fumio Nonaka
Hi Kerry and Luke, Thank you very much for your confirmations and comments. I found more mysterious result. p3 = script("Parent3").new() put p3.count -- 7 put p3.count() -- 2 _ > -- Parent2 > property prop1, prop2, p3, p4, p5, p6, p7 > > on new me >return me > end > > -- Parent3 > prop

Re: Lists: Index out of range

2000-09-21 Thread Szymon Drejewicz
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Re: Disable primary event handlers during transition

2000-09-21 Thread John Erazo
> If you can switch to using puppetTransitions then you could set a global > flag to indicate whether the keydownHandler should work or not... [snip] > Is that any help? A lot! A million thanks, Owen. cheers, John Erazo [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go t

shockwave loaders (loadMovie-esq)

2000-09-21 Thread sam
Dear all, Thanks to everyone for their help regarding my post 'serious gamers' - most helpful Next question - is it possible / what is the best way to do summat similar to loadMovie in Flash. I want to use the time between levels to load the next level with some indication of how much / which el

Re: Lists: Index out of range

2000-09-21 Thread Fumio Nonaka
Hi Szymek, Initialize nested lists, too. _ Szymon Drejewicz wrote: > > Why this is not working: > - > on bleble > t = [] > repeat with i=1 to 200 t.append([]) > repeat with j=1 to 200 > t[i][j] = random(10) > end repeat > end repeat > end

RE: VOID = 0???

2000-09-21 Thread Karina Steffens
I did notice one thing though: Setting a global to VOID seems to obliterate it completely from memory, while setting it to 0 still keeps it's reference: * Parent Script: on new me return me end on cleanupZero me return 0 end on cleanupVoid me return VOID end * Message Window: goZeroObj

Lists: Index out of range

2000-09-21 Thread Szymon Drejewicz
Why this is not working: - on bleble t = [] repeat with i=1 to 200 repeat with j=1 to 200 t[i][j] = random(10) end repeat end repeat end - and error occurs: Script error: Index out of range t[i][j] = random(10) ? Szym

Re: Disable primary event handlers during transition

2000-09-21 Thread Owen Kelly
At 15:31 21.9.2000 +0800, John Erazo wrote: >I'm having trouble when my handler is called during a transition(score). >I have the following in a movie script. [snip] >I'm using the score for >my transitions. If you can switch to using puppetTransitions then you could set a global flag to indi

Disable primary event handlers during transition

2000-09-21 Thread John Erazo
Hello, good people. I'm having trouble when my handler is called during a transition(score). I have the following in a movie script. on startMovie set the keyDownScript = "MyKeyDownHandler" end on MyKeyDownHandler if (the keyCode = 118) then showMenus end if end on showMenus