Re: opening file from Cd

2000-11-03 Thread Ramesh CT
Hi Manisha, I hope the html file and director file both are in the CD and you are trying open the html file from the director movie, in this case you don't need to find CD drive, if you use the moviePath command. the moviePath command indicates the pathname of the folder in which the current dire

creating a CBT

2000-11-03 Thread sreedhar reddy
hello all this is a newbie question i want to create a cbt in director but basically i dont have any idea of how to create one i heard that its easy to create a cbt in visual basic but my boss says that he wants in director well here is how the story board goes please try to help me with the scrip

Re: What Xtra is this?

2000-11-03 Thread Brad Hintze iMedia Solution
Has anyone had any experience with focus3 Export xtra? I keep running into errors and the docs don't tell me anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Brad Hintze [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post mes

RE: What Xtra is this?

2000-11-03 Thread Tim Symons
I believe this is the Photoshop 3 Import xtra. Allows you to import Photoshop files. Timothy R. Symons Multimedia Programming Specialist Curtis, Inc. > -Original Message- > From: Scott Sidman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 5:19 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

What Xtra is this?

2000-11-03 Thread Scott Sidman
Hello, I am trying to figure out what Xtra this is. It's on a PC cd and it's name is "ps3imp.x32". Anybody know the answer to this one? Also, what does it do? Thanks Scott Sidman Multimedia Programmer Mindsight, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] What?! A dragon in the office?! Send the Multimedia Gr

Re: Moving an image under a mask?

2000-11-03 Thread Carl West
"Morales, Carlos R." wrote: > > I have a fairly long text area that I want to put on the screen and then > clip to only show a few lines within it. I'm trying to get give the > impression that the user is scrolling the text by moving the text up/down > and then clipping into to a fixed rectangul

Re: changing mouse position

2000-11-03 Thread R. Bhakti Klein
you can fake it, using a bitmap cursor, or you can use the setMouse xtra. -bhakti gunjang wrote: > > can we control the position of the cursor by using some script? > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to > http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post mess

Re: Moving an image under a mask?

2000-11-03 Thread Jonas Brink Worsøe
If I understand you right, the solution is pretty simple; just move the regpoint of the image in the opposite direction according to the scrollmovement, without moving the sprite. HTH /jonas - Original Message - From: Morales, Carlos R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Moving an image u

Moving an image under a mask?

2000-11-03 Thread Morales, Carlos R.
I have a fairly long text area that I want to put on the screen and then clip to only show a few lines within it. I'm trying to get give the impression that the user is scrolling the text by moving the text up/down and then clipping into to a fixed rectangular size. When I try this using a mask,

Re: FW: D7, Special characters and Windows 2000

2000-11-03 Thread Kurt Griffin
> I have a problem I'm hoping someone may have an idea how to solve: > > I have some content that uses Mdashes, the long dash made by using the > option - or the alt - key combo. I have embedded a customized arial font in > the movie and the Mdashes work fine on Mac and PC until Windows 2000. > W

Re: opening file from Cd

2000-11-03 Thread Kurt Griffin
> My presentation is running from the CD.I have given link to an HTML page which > should open from the CD not from the hard disk. For this i have made buttons > for the drive letters. The user needs to click on the cd drive letter in order > to open the html file (which is on the Cd). I want to a

RE: Using MPEG-Files in Director 8

2000-11-03 Thread Brown, William K
I use virtual dub to convert mpeg-1 to AVI. I found it searching on the web and I don't remember where, but you'll probably find it searching the name. It's freeware. Will Brown Creative Services > -- > From: Toups, Alexander[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, Nove

RE: horizontal scroll in a text

2000-11-03 Thread Robert Wingate
>>> I am working on a text in which i have to include very >>> lenghty tables. Is there a way of giving horizontal >>> scrolling in text fields in director? Mui Dialog Xtra #editText fields scroll horizontally by default. Or you can write your own behavior to emulate the functionality (just as

RE: Using MPEG-Files in Director 8

2000-11-03 Thread Robert Wingate
> I think the only way to work with Mpegs is to purchase a > MPEG XTRAS that is being selled by Macromedia officals. Independent developers like Tabuleiro and Visible Light sell their own Mpeg-related Xtras, but Macromedia doesn't. http://xtras.tabuleiro.com http://www.visiblelight.com Anothe

RE: dvd lingo

2000-11-03 Thread Robert Wingate
> In what way does support director the programming of an > dvd-video interface. > Are there xtra's I need? Look at OnStage DVD Xtra. It has a thorough Lingo interface: http://www.visiblelight.com, http://www.vldigital.com HTH Rob /* * Rob Wingate, Software Hum

RE: changing mouse position

2000-11-03 Thread Robert Wingate
> can we control the position of the cursor by using some script? If we use BudAPI Xtra: baPlaceCursor( x,y ) baRestrictCursor( l,t,r,b ) Good luck, Rob /* * Rob Wingate, Software Human* * http://www.vingage.com * * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * ***

Re: Fonts Mapping

2000-11-03 Thread Bessie Palamari
Hello there ! Im have created a project with director 8 for PC. I have used embeded fonts. These fonts are Greek. The same project must run on a Mac too. The problem is that the font maping for Greek on the Mac is different to the one on the PC . The result is that when the project runs on a Ma

ignore, my, last, question

2000-11-03 Thread limiar40 b
ignore my last question i already do it, simple copy to another folder thanks anyway _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profi

No Subject

2000-11-03 Thread limiar40 b
hi list I'm doing a cd that auto detects if the quicktime is installed in the end user machhine. The problem is that when i use the fuction "quickTimeVersion()" my projector fails and give me an error like this one --"script error"--. Could someone please explain what i'm doing wrong!!! Here i

RE: dvd lingo

2000-11-03 Thread Karina Steffens
> In what way does support director the programming of an > dvd-video interface. > > I need to test an interface in a dvd-player with r.c.. So > burn a cd-rom, put > it in the dvd-player and grab the r.c. and control the interface. > > I could only found information in the help file telling that i

opening file from Cd

2000-11-03 Thread manisha sinha
Hello List, My presentation is running from the CD.I have given link to an HTML page which should open from the CD not from the hard disk. For this i have made buttons for the drive letters. The user needs to click on the cd drive letter in order to open the html file (which is on the Cd). I w

Re: horizontal scroll in a text

2000-11-03 Thread manisha sinha
I have downloaded the xtra but it doesnt seem to work. Do i need to write some script as well Thanx Manisha -- On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 10:04:34 Luke Wigley wrote: >manisha sinha wrote > >> I am working on a text in which i have to include very lenghty tables. Is >> there a way of giving horizon

dvd lingo

2000-11-03 Thread Rene Vendrig
In what way does support director the programming of an dvd-video interface. I need to test an interface in a dvd-player with r.c.. So burn a cd-rom, put it in the dvd-player and grab the r.c. and control the interface. I could only found information in the help file telling that it is supportin

director text

2000-11-03 Thread manisha sinha
Hello List, What is the main difference in the 'field text' and 'text window text' besides the fact that fiels text is used for creating custom menues and for certain other programming stuff. Which text should be used if we want to avoid font related problems. Do these two type of texts effec

Re: 4 - player game X-Tended post

2000-11-03 Thread Jonas Brink Worsøe
>Woah! > >Down boy, down! > >Do you bite as well? Me thinks me forgot the smiley. -->:-) 'scuses goes to Leon. /jonas [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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pr

Re: Using MPEG-Files in Director 8

2000-11-03 Thread Dr. Daniel D. Errampalli
> I wonder if there's a way using MPEG-Video in a Director 8 Movie without > converting it with something like Adobe Premiere. > Anyone knows a way accomplishing this. Or is there at least any videoediting > tool witch let me convert those files without hours of rendering time. > > Thanx > Alexan

SV: Timing and Sound

2000-11-03 Thread John Kanding
Also check out the cpuHogTicks. Reda more in the online help John > -Oprindelig meddelelse- > Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]På vegne > af James Newton > Sendt: 2. november 2000 10:53 > Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Emne: Re: Timing and Sound > > > Matt Lester <[EMAIL

Re: Transitions

2000-11-03 Thread Florian Bogeschdorfer
You ma be absolutely right. I haven't tried with D8 but up to D7 many transitions working on macintosh were totally different on PC. You had to check out what transitions work cross-platform. regards, Florian Tom Vandenbossche schrieb: > > Hi list > > While testing my project on PC and on Mac

Re: Using MPEG-Files in Director 8

2000-11-03 Thread Florian Bogeschdorfer
On Macintosh MPG-1 is handled by Quicktime. But you must add the movie via INSERT->QT3 ELEMENT and not by IMPORT! regards, Florian "Toups, Alexander" schrieb: > > Hello, > > I wonder if there's a way using MPEG-Video in a Director 8 Movie without > converting it with something like Adobe Prem