Attach this behavior to your hotspot.
on mouseUp me
playRandomSound
end
on playRandomSound
-- First create a list of your sound members.
set myList = ["ring", "boom","clang","beep","boink"]
-- Count the number of items in your list
set myCount = myList.count
-- Then pick
Can anyone tell me how I can create a hotspot that i
could click and play a sound from a certain group
randomly?
thanks in advance
JB
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Hi All !!!
I have to convert something close to a 3000 odd .wav files to .swa
Could anyone tell me of a fast way of achieving this(Using Lingo or anything else)?
As of now, I first convert the files using director's Convert wav to swa Utility(25-30
files at a time), then I have to import the so
At 5:57 AM + 11/22/2000, Pranav Negandhi wrote:
>OKnow this is the first time I am trying out timeout
>objectsand AFAIK they shoot off messages EVERY time their time
>is over and then restart, right? Well, they dont work that way out
>hereI could email the full script to someon
>
> I'm looking for some feedback on the 'most' accurate & consistant
> method of playing a click sound at a set tempo for a metronome style
> application.
Thanks to all who helped me with the timing lingo a couple of weeks back. In
particular, the advice from James Newton was very helpful.
In
OKnow this is the first time I am trying out timeout objectsand AFAIK they
shoot off messages EVERY time their time is over and then restart, right? Well, they
dont work that way out hereI could email the full script to someone who wants a
dekko(it's about 25K, so I guess its better
>I've done the same with fontsize, with the same result--the entire
>cast member (and sprite) ends up the same font and spacing.
The solution is to put hard returns at the end of each visual line.
You can do that by using the charpostoloc() function to work out
where the lines will break. Put
Hi Kerry!
Bundle of thanks. The File Buddy has solved my problem.
Thanks once again.
Also thanks for all who helped me.
Mahmood.
Kerry Thompson wrote:
> >If there is any way to hide a file on Mac OS
> >and again make it visible. If some one other knows please help me.
>
> Yes, there is. I me
First, thanks, Fumio, Mark, and Daniel for the info on duplicate().
Now I've got something that may be a bit trickier. D8, Win 98.
I have a text cast member that contains a list of clues for a puzzle. The
client wants some space between the clues.
I'd like to just set the line height and be do
Hi There is a really good book which explains all of that:
Advanced Lingo For Games
by Gary Rosenzweig
ISN 0-7897-2331-x
Loads of good stuff
All the best
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To: [EM
At 21:16 21.11.2000 -0500, Mark R. Jonkman wrote:
>Hi Kerry
>
>When you want a copy of the list and not the actual list then you would use
>the duplicate function
>
>ie.
>
>wordList = gPuzzleList[gWhichPuzzle].duplicat()
typo:
wordList = gPuzzleList[gWhichPuzzle].duplicate()
best regards
daniel
Hi Kerry,
Try:
wordList = duplicate(gPuzzleList[gWhichPuzzle])
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Kerry Thompson wrote:
>wordList = gPuzzleList[gWhichPuzzle]
>
> later, after I place the word, I'm doing
>
>deleteAt wordList, 1
>
> Which, to my surprise, also deletes the first item in gPuzzleList. So, I
> m
Hi Kerry
When you want a copy of the list and not the actual list then you would use
the duplicate function
ie.
wordList = gPuzzleList[gWhichPuzzle].duplicat()
Sincerely
Mark
Mark R. Jonkman
Mark R. Jonkman Consulting
ADDRESS: 20 Windermere Crt.,
I think I'm copying a reference, not a value.
I have a global list of lists, gPuzzleList. To arrange the words for a
particular puzzle, I'm doing:
wordList = gPuzzleList[gWhichPuzzle]
later, after I place the word, I'm doing
deleteAt wordList, 1
Which, to my surprise, also deletes the
Hi,
Watch out a known bug of Director 8.0 for Windows. Playing the sound on Windows
after the fade will play it silently. About the details and workaround, see the
Quirk List in the updateStage site.
$B!&(BQuirk List
http://www.updatestage.com/buglist.html
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Ramesh CT wrote:
> I came up wi
Very good.
Thanks, Mark. I assumed the same, but I wanted to
make sure that was correct. Someone had asked me
that question earlier, and I couldn't provide a definite
answer. That's why I asked the list. I figured someone
would know.
(Sorry about posting to the list twice. My mailclient burped)
I keep getting a quite strange error in Dir 8 if I attempt to
access the 51th timer object stored in the timeoutList,
that's, for i = 51:
"Index out of range (the timeoutList[i]).forget()"
The code below may be used to try to reproduce the error.
I roughly embedded it pretty all into a startMovi
That's an easy question to answer... they won't work without Shockwave
8.0rx. Anything older than that will not play back a Shockwave 8
application. Shockwave 8.x should play older shockwave files to maintain
backwards capability but you can't expect an older player to understand and
parse through
Thanks for the definitions you posted some day ago. They are
so neat that it was worth while trying to show how they well
fit to a hardware device that generates e.g. a squared waveform.
Thia comparison helped to reformulate my request to Macromedia
in order to get some timeout object's control en
Hello there!
Hopefully somewhere here will be able to answer this question -
I'm curious how Director8 authored Shockwave apps work with
older versions of Shockwave. For example - if someone was
attempting to play a Shockwave app authored in Director8, but
their version of Shockwave was old (for
At 1:19 PM -0500 11/19/00, Bob Solomon wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've created some rollover buttons. Here's an example of the scripts I
>used. It seems to work fine the first time I open Director and test the
>movie. But after I've jumped around several movies the Over State stops
>working. The Down and
Alessandra:
The goToFrame(sprite whichFlashSprite, labelNameString or frameNumber)
instruction can help you with that.
Flash has its own time line, so you have to name the key frames in Flash.
Example:
I have a flash movie that is called example.swf, this movie plays until the
button skip movi
Hi Bob,
Are you using a *shared* and linked castLib for this?
It sounds like the bOver cast member is missing
or has changed position whithin your castLibs.
HTH
John
Bob Solomon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've created some rollover buttons. Here's an example of the scripts I
> used. It seems to wo
>he really knows Director game programming in and out.
Yeah. He's like the Bo the Director community. =)
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>I need to create a memory game by christmas,
Get Gary Rosenzweig's book 'Advanced Lingo for Games." He has a memory game
on the CD that come with it, plus a bunch more. His book is quite good,
too--he really knows Director game programming in and out.
Cordially,
Kerry Thompson
Learning Netwo
> The game need´nt very complicated just comparing the two
> cards and then either right or wrong..
Read these
http://www.director-online.com/accessArticle.cfm?id=225
http://www.director-online.com/accessArticle.cfm?id=294
http://www.director-online.com/accessArticle.cfm?id=844
Hope this gets y
Hello,
I need to create a memory game by christmas,
do you have any idea how to do that.
I just started working with director,
but I want to manage that.
The game need´nt very complicated
just comparing the two cards and
then either right or wrong..
Can you help me.
Thank you
Yours Carmen
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At 9:12 AM + 11/21/00, Chandra shekar Reddy wrote:
>I had an probelem when working on an CBT...in whcih my client wants
>to have (recent) as one button.
>
>once the user visits the link. it should contain the frame in which
>all the previously visited links should be present and they had to
You keep resetting your list everytime, which is
why it isn't adding correctly.
Perhaps a property list is best here so you only
need one list to keep track of every marker.
First, initialize countList in your movie script
on startMovie
global countList
countList = [:]
end
Then, put this i
Hello, Lingo-Ls
Thank you for helping me out (especially Colin and Steven, thank you) every
time I'm thrown into confusion. I'm in trouble again. Hopefully someone can
sort me out here.
I'm trying to create a field to show a history - how many times you have
visited the markers. I scripted the fo
Hello there!
Hopefully somewhere here will be able to answer this question -
I'm curious how Director8 authored Shockwave apps work with
older versions of Shockwave. For example - if someone was
attempting to play a Shockwave app authored in Director8, but
their version of Shockwave was old (for
Hi all
Is it possible to controll the position
of the flash movie? For example, when
clicking in one button into director,
this action would tell the flash movie
to go to a certain keyframe(inside this
flash movie) and play.
thanks in advance
Alessandra
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>If there is any way to hide a file on Mac OS
>and again make it visible. If some one other knows please help me.
Yes, there is. I mentioned it in my original answer, but I wasn't very
specific.
There's a program you can buy called "File Buddy." I think it's shareware,
but I'm not sure--it's
Hi Chandrashekar,
I've done something similar just recently, maybe the explanation of what I
did helps you solve your problem. I wanted to record all the movements of
the user of a cd-rom (in addition to that I wanted to record the time that
the user spends in each chapter, but that doesn't matte
Hi Ramesh,
thank you for your efforts in providing a solution to my problem. However I
am not sure how to use it.
You wrote a sprite property. When the play head enters the sprte, you set
the value for the duration. In your example you put 5000 and apparently you
thought of this value as millise
try member("instructions").scrollTop = 0
John Erazo
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From: Leon McComish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> How do I reset the scrolled text to the top? I'm
> using a fixed box with custom button to scroll up 'n' down. I've tried set
> member("instructions").linePosToLocV(1) to 0
>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)
>end
Hello!
I use dynamically created vector shapes to create some charts for
investment fund and I have question:
Is there possible to draw two curves on one vector shape in D7 ?
In D8 I cado this, but D7 ?!
Or is in D7 some method to draw a bitmap but not by pixel by pixel, it is
too slow ?
In
Mahmood...
Buddy API can do this for you. I understand that you don't need it in
Director, but you could create a small app that would hide/show files for
you. The other option is to play with ResEdit.
HTH
Later.
...Neil
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thanks Karina, that did the trick ¦:-)
Leon McComish
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> Incidentally, following this thread, I built my first custom scroller and
> I'm wondering how to slow down the scroll speed. I have it set to
> ScrollByLine using +/- 1, but using the variable/ prepareframe method
> (which, I agree, is the best) it scrolls like a mad thing. I set it to 0.5
> and
> 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 me.
> playing with a custom scrolling box at the moment. When it's
> left scrolled
> to the bottom, if users leave the frame, then later return, it's still
> scrolled to the bottom. How do I reset the scrolled text to
The frame doesn't matter, since you're scrolling the cast member and not the
frame
> 6)??how to without using ESC key and go next frame while the
> movie end??
I now understand your question. Try this:
1) delete the script in frame 1
2) use this in frame script 2:
global WMPSpr, iDuration
on exitFrame me
sprite(WMPSpr).Filename = the moviePath & "xx.mpg"
iDuration = sp
Mahmood,
You need Resedit for that
Gopinath
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Hi,
I had similar problem - but cheated - I just put it in a separate movie -
and when you swap between movies it refreshes it -
Bertie
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Date: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 12:32 PM
Subject:
Does D7 recognize alpha channel of a QT Movie
if yes how to use
my QT is made from InfiniD
( A globe rotating[ i want only the globe visible in D7])
Thanx
Gopinath
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Hi list,
playing with a custom scrolling box at the moment. When it's left scrolled
to the bottom, if users leave the frame, then later return, it's still
scrolled to the bottom. How do I reset the scrolled text to the top? I'm
using a fixed box with custom button to scroll up 'n' down. I've trie
Hi this is chandrashekar reddy from INDIA
I had an probelem when working on an CBT...in whcih my client wants to have (recent)
as one button.
once the user visits the link. it should contain the frame in which all the previously
visited links should be present and they had to be in an order
Ok, I just tested the behaviour, and a couple of minor adjustments
See the scrollText handler, the gpdl[#pmText] format, and an endSprite
handler, (just in case):
--a generic scroll bar
property ptTime, pmText, pnScroll
on mouseDown me
timeOut ("scrollbar").new (ptTime, #scrollText, me)
end
o
> be detected unless you specify it in an On MouseUpOutside handler.
That's very true - the simplest thing would be:
on mouseUpOutside me
mouseUp me
end
> I'm wondering how to slow down the scroll speed. I have it set to
> ScrollByLine using +/- 1, but using the variable/ prepareframe method
Thanks Karina...
Really appreciate that...
Yes the script which i was writing tends to stop everything else happening.
This solves it..
Thanks again
Anil Menon
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From: Karina Steffens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 10:27
Thanks for that tip - it worked beautifully ! - I wrote a startmovie script
to set the soundKeepDevice to false - no more mix up with the sound levels !
Thanks
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From: Mark A. Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, November 17,
At 09:16 AM 11/17/00, you wrote:
>Hello everybody,
>
>I have an easy question to the experts here and would very much appreciate
>their help:
>
>I am in one part of a movie. Music is playing. There is a button that leads
>to somewhere else.
>When this button is pressed, I want the music to fade ou
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