Re: lingo-l XtraNet not down- or uploading!?! - Follow-up =)

2000-11-22 Thread Andreas Gaunitz
OK, the xtraNet was (of course) working all along. I just messed up some stuff, for example that a global varable's name needs to be presented as a string - not as a variable, and that the 'url' asked for is the path AND the filename to ftp a file to. I for some reason thought that the xtra

Re: lingo-l Text formatting

2000-11-22 Thread James Newton
Kerry Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a text cast member that contains a list of clues for a puzzle. The client wants some space between the clues. ... Ideally, what I'd like to do is have the clues in 10-point type, with line height of 14; and the spacer lines about 6 points and height of

RE: lingo-l Text formatting

2000-11-22 Thread Karina Steffens
Hi Kerry, I've tried doing it in a loop: lHeight =12 shortLine = 6 repeat with i = 1 to text.line.count member("clues").lineheight = lHeight put text.line[i] after member ("clues") member("clues").fontsize = shortLine put " " RETURN after member ("clues")

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2000-11-22 Thread Matt Lester
My Original Message 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. (2nd post - not sure the first made it) Thanks to all who helped me with the timing lingo a couple of weeks back. In

lingo-l Sprite Channel Add Xtra for Director 5

2000-11-22 Thread Raru
Dear List, We had director project done in Version 5, now as client requirement its need to modify. But I have some problem to convert higher version. So, to make job done as client requirement, I need to some more sprite channel in Version 5. Is there is any xtra which can add more

Re: lingo-l Sprite Channel Add Xtra for Director 5

2000-11-22 Thread Roberta Beattie
Have you tried converting it version by version - ie update from five to six - then six to seven ... etc as that would make a difference - just a thought . -Original Message- From: Raru [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Macromedia Director for Macintosh and Windows [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL

lingo-l Understanding timout objects

2000-11-22 Thread Pranav Negandhi
Uh...sorry guys...just found out my error of ways I was using timeouts in a parent script and creating its instance in the message window. The movie doesnt need to be playing for the rest of the stuff to work. Once I started playing it, the timeout started working too How do I emote a

RE: lingo-l controlling flash

2000-11-22 Thread jon rowe
Hi Alessandra First have a look at director's online help dictionary under 'flash' which gives all the flash related lingo commands. The one you're looking for is 'gotoFrame' which has the syntax: sprite(whichFlashSprite).goToFrame(frameNumber) or goToFrame(sprite whichFlashSprite,

Re: lingo-l Understanding timout objects

2000-11-22 Thread Andreas Gaunitz
Uh...sorry guys...just found out my error of ways I was using timeouts in a parent script and creating its instance in the message window. The movie doesnt need to be playing for the rest of the stuff to work. Once I started playing it, the timeout started working too Good. How do I

Re: lingo-l Understanding timeout objects

2000-11-22 Thread R. Bhakti Klein
lay it on me! Roy Pardi wrote: 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

lingo-l RE: Franco Chierchini, timeoutList[i]

2000-11-22 Thread Philip-J . White
Franco: Your mode = 1 code is deleting from the list, so when your halfway through there are only 50 items in the list. Index of 51 gives error. To see it in action , try this: repeat with i = 1 to cnt put i (the timeoutList[i]).forget() put the timeoutList.count()--

lingo-l OT: Holiday weekend

2000-11-22 Thread Robert Wingate
To all fellow listers who'll be celebrating Thanksgiving this weekend, I wish you a wonderful and blessed holiday weekend. Best of all to all, Rob /* * Rob Wingate, Software Human* * http://www.vingage.com * * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: lingo-l OT: Holiday weekend

2000-11-22 Thread R. Bhakti Klein
and to everyone around the world who won't be celebrating thanksgiving, have a faboo end-of-week yourselves. love, bhakti Robert Wingate wrote: To all fellow listers who'll be celebrating Thanksgiving this weekend, I wish you a wonderful and blessed holiday weekend. Best of all to all,

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2000-11-22 Thread odin church
hello all d8 win98 would like to know how to build a script or just recive a script that creates a starfield effect.not any old starfieldthough.i want the stars to move left or right on movement of the mouse eg when the mouse is moved left the stars flow past the user emanating from the right so

lingo-l Help on image scroll

2000-11-22 Thread Brian Farmer
Hello and Happy Thanksgiving. I have a progect that I need to have the end user scroll through several thumbnails on the bottom of a 640x480 screen. Then they can click on the thumb of choice and it will update in a window. Could someone point me in the right direction to figure out how to go

Re: lingo-l Text formatting

2000-11-22 Thread Kerry Thompson
Thanks, James and Karina--problem solved. Both of your solutions worked equally well for formatting, but I went with James' solution because the line numbers are closely tied to the on-screen clues, and the extra RETURNs I was putting in was messing that up. Just one adjustment in the syntax,

lingo-l Closing IExplorer (timeout)

2000-11-22 Thread Fevzi Konuk
Hello all, how can I close an external IExplorer 5.5 window with a timeout script ? is it possible ? I need help !! thanx Fevzi --- gesendet über "nettmail.de", http://nettmail.de [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go

Re: lingo-l Understanding timeout objects

2000-11-22 Thread grimmwerks
i'm usually very discriminating when it comes to what is or is not laid on me. That's not what _I_ heard. [http://www.grimmWERKS.com ]-- [ graphic design -|- sound design -|- shockwave -|- lingo -|- cdrom ] [To remove yourself from

lingo-l browser

2000-11-22 Thread JUAN COLON
Is there a way of controlling a browsers controls (back-forward-stop and even the address)through lingo. have web page open in a little section of your movie thanks JUAN-NYC _ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN

Re: lingo-l Text formatting

2000-11-22 Thread Kerry Thompson
I tested this in both D7.02 and D8.0 on Windows 98 and it works fine for me on a whole cast member: member(1).topSpacing = 10 I haven't tested on Mac. Is that where you are seeing it fail? No, I'm running Win 98, D8, but now I can't reproduce the error either. I opted for bottomSpacing,

Re: lingo-l browser

2000-11-22 Thread Mario Sergio Renor
Hi, Juan! I am looking for the same answers that you are! I'd like to make the default browser load a page in background. and only be restores when I command it to do it. For example: I want to show a video in my projector and in the end say "Do you want to see more? Click here to watch it on

lingo-l Shockwave fatal error

2000-11-22 Thread Jeremy Aker
I have several users of a multiple-movie product delivered in Shockwave 8.0 that are reporting a fatal error. All of these users are in various regions of Europe and Asia. All appear to be running IE 5.0 or 5.5 on Windows 2000, or 98. All users reporting this problem are installing Shockwave

lingo-l flash_lingo

2000-11-22 Thread apellicciari
Jose Cueto, thanks for your help. Alessandra Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 16:36:39 -0600 From: Jose Cueto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l controlling flash Alessandra: The goToFrame(sprite whichFlashSprite,

lingo-l all characters on Director

2000-11-22 Thread Teo Petralia
Hi! I know that the topic of different languages character comes out quite often and this time is my turn. The general question is: what I need to do to be able to display Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, etc) and European (Russian, etc) in both platforms (Macintosh and Windows)? I

lingo-l Re: old/new starfields

2000-11-22 Thread Daniel Plaenitz
barry swan did such a thing. He x-posted the url on a number of lists. check the archives. best regards daniel plaenitz would like to know how to build a script or just recive a script that creates a starfield effect.not any old starfieldthough. [To remove yourself from this list, or to