RE: lingo-l flipH a bitmap

2000-11-20 Thread Yariv Rosenstein
Thanks a lot, your the man! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Fumio Nonaka Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 2:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l flipH a bitmap Hi Yariv, The following movie script creates new member

RE: lingo-l Killing de Kursor

2000-11-20 Thread Karina Steffens
In addition to all these great suggestions, I have found that you can edit the cursor resources in dirapi.dll on Windows before you make a projector. I used this to get rid of the ugly finger cursor in 7.02. I used VC++ to open the DLL as resources. That sounds like an interesting idea, and

RE: lingo-l Re: Global Variables

2000-11-20 Thread Karina Steffens
You should consider politics, but you have to use a fuzzy logic algorithm to deal with the irRational property. So Kerry, how would you define the US presidential elections? Can't get fuzzier then that.. ;) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

RE: RE: lingo-l Killing de Kursor

2000-11-20 Thread Karina Steffens
Sounds like a typical management type. Get him fired. Not quite, he's the _technical_ manager, which means he's the poor sod who gets shafted into driving around the country to install/fix/repair our stuff. On the other hand, he's also the one who comes up with impossible ideas and expects the

RE: RE: lingo-l Killing de Kursor

2000-11-20 Thread Robert Wingate
But would the cursor flash when forced into a new location, as someone suggested? It doesn't flash; rather, it appears if it was previously invisible. That is, assume your cursor is sitting somewhere on screen, but in a cursor 200 state. Issuing a baPlaceCursor(x,y) will move the cursor to

RE: RE: lingo-l Killing de Kursor

2000-11-20 Thread Karina Steffens
It doesn't flash; rather, it appears if it was previously invisible. That is, assume your cursor is sitting somewhere on screen, but in a cursor 200 state. Issuing a baPlaceCursor(x,y) will move the cursor to that loc, but will also cause it to become visible. IOW, it doesn't let you move

Re: lingo-l mouseDown scrolling

2000-11-20 Thread Anil
Hey stan.. The solution is in your mouse down handler..use "repeat while the stillDown" as shown below: on mouseDown repeat while the stillDown scrollByLine member "txt2", +1 end repeat end This should solve your problem.. In the above case "on mouse down" the line will scroll down

RE: lingo-l mouseDown scrolling

2000-11-20 Thread Karina Steffens
Hi Anil, The solution is in your mouse down handler..use "repeat while the stillDown" as shown below: on mouseDown repeat while the stillDown scrollByLine member "txt2", +1 end repeat end This should solve your problem.. In the above case "on mouse down" the line will

RE: lingo-l Window media player

2000-11-20 Thread Robert Wingate
look like i still confuse..??still no get the best answers??ok, my previos post the question is: [snip] Asking the exact same question again, simply because one dislikes the answers one receives (no matter how definitive), is reminiscent of the USA's current electoral fiasco. So I'll answer

RE: lingo-l Help with ActiveX controls to play MPG video ?

2000-11-20 Thread Robert Wingate
Could somebody please help me with even just a simple code on how i could playback .mpg videos in Director using ActiveX. The Windows media player ActiveX control can play .mpg video. Embed it in your (Win-only) .dir, and use its methods, properties, and events to control it. For info on

RE: lingo-l mouseDown scrolling

2000-11-20 Thread Leon McComish
One thing to cover for though when using variables set throught mouseDown mouseUp is the user releasing the mouse outside of the sprite. This will not be detected unless you specify it in an On MouseUpOutside handler. Incidentally, following this thread, I built my first custom scroller and I'm

RE: lingo-l from macromix to qt3mix

2000-11-20 Thread Sean Wilson
suppose after completion of a project if i just write in a movie script "set my sound device to "qt3mix"", will it be able to switch the sound device to qt3. Are you just asking whether the soundDevice property is writable? It is: on switchSoundDevice deviceIWant -- avoid

Re: lingo-l XtraNet not down- or uploading!?!

2000-11-20 Thread tim rodger
Andreas Gaunitz wrote: Hi Andreas Anybody tried using XtraNet with Director 8? I can't get it to download or upload anything at all, using the (modified) demo movie 'Fetch.dir'. Yes, I've used it to send email out of Director 8 - seems to be fine. I haven't tried doing any ftp

lingo-l fileIO prob

2000-11-20 Thread Dale Withroder
in dir 8 on win98 i'm trying to write some info using fileIO. my routine looks like this: on writeFileIO whichFile, whichData myFile=new(xtra "fileIO") delete(myFile) createFile(myFile, whichFile) openFile(myFile, whichFile, 0) writeString(myFile,whichData) closeFile(myFile)

lingo-l boundreys

2000-11-20 Thread Rees, Jonathan
I am creating a game which is set in an iscometric view. It is totaly 2D, but the problem is I cant seem to set a boundrey for the actuaal gameplay, ( the area of movement for the avetar ) i have tried to drawing out the surface plain as a map in 1 bit and setting the blend to matte, then

Re: lingo-l boundreys

2000-11-20 Thread Colin Holgate
Has anybody got a better one or any advise an how to get this one working??? Think of the isometric display as a render of the scene. Do your limiting in a top down 2D way before drawing your isometric characters. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

RE: lingo-l boundreys

2000-11-20 Thread Kev
Hello, I have a Lingo question and hopefully it sounds like you might be able to help with all your experience... I have this script which is'nt mine but am trying to convert so I can use the 4 arrows buttons on the keyboard to constrain a psrite within the boundaries of a 1 bit bitmap and the

RE: lingo-l Dirty great big downloads

2000-11-20 Thread hr016356
Richard, I'm working on the mgs right now, but thank you for your comments. Dear Hilda, I know everyone else has said this, but I just had to write - a 3 meg download? You're having a laugh. In capitals. Personally I only use a 56k modem, which is pretty standard for the majority of UK

RE: lingo-l Window media player

2000-11-20 Thread pua jeand
While the DisplaySize=3, WMP had thrown a new and different window across the screen, and I simply couldn't get it to recognize anything other than ESC. WMP had taken the focus from Director in a way that wouldn't let me through. Dear list, so sorry to my question, let me copy my step..

Re: lingo-l XtraNet not down- or uploading!?!

2000-11-20 Thread Neil Madsen
If you're behind a firewall you you may need to set your proxy settings under preferences. HTH. ...Neil [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] (Problems, email

Re: lingo-l XtraNet not down- or uploading!?!

2000-11-20 Thread Andreas Gaunitz
Anybody tried using XtraNet with Director 8? I can't get it to download or upload anything at all, using the (modified) demo movie 'Fetch.dir'. Yes, I've used it to send email out of Director 8 - seems to be fine. I haven't tried doing any ftp stuffwith it though. I'll try to use some

Re: lingo-l Making a file Hide again Visible on Macintosh.

2000-11-20 Thread Mahmood Akhtar
Dear Kerry! Sorry! I forget to mention that it is not related to lingo. It is a general question about MacOS. On windows we can set attributes for a file like archive, hidden, system etc. If there is any way to hide a file on Mac OS and again make it visible. If some one other knows please help