Re: How do I lock a Director file

2000-11-23 Thread Ramesh CT
Hi Manisha, here is a procedure i follow sometimes when i need the media from the protected director file, 1. Create a new director movie with a 'go the frame' script in first frame 2. create a projector name it 'start' 3. create 'start.ini' text file with the following text inside it [settings

Re: in search of web site

2000-11-23 Thread Ramesh CT
Hi Manisha, Check out this link, may be helpful to you http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/how/expert/manage/managemm.html -- Ramesh CT http://www.geocities.com/ramesh_ct/ manisha sinha wrote: > > Hi List, > > Does anyone know a good website from where i can get material on multimed

in search of web site

2000-11-23 Thread manisha sinha
Hi List, Does anyone know a good website from where i can get material on multimedia design/visual/technical/authoring issues. I need the stuff as i am in the process of designing the multimedia operations manual for my company. Thanx Manisha Get FREE Email/Voicemail with 15MB at Lycos Commu

RE: How do I lock a Director file

2000-11-23 Thread manisha sinha
Hello Mark, Sorry for mentioning the protected casts as .dcr .Its .cxtjust a mistake. You said that its easy to fiddle around with the external casts and movies. Even I came to know from somewhere that reverse engineering is possible ie you can unprotect the protected files as well but

RE: How do I lock a Director file

2000-11-23 Thread Mark R. Jonkman
Hi Manisha Couple corrections, protecting external casts results in .cxt or .cct (if shocked) not dcr (those are shocked dir files). However to say that no one can get into these files is a very big myth. Its fairly simple and straightforward to prod around and get inside of dcr and dxr files as

Re: How do I lock a Director file

2000-11-23 Thread manisha sinha
Hi, In director you can protect your files by the "Update movie" command. This is known as protecting and after the files are protected they get the extention as .dxr You can also protect the external casts which get the extention as .dcr. The user will have no access to the protected files.

Re: Dringend

2000-11-23 Thread Daniel Plaenitz
At 14:57 23.11.2000 -0800, Kerry Thompson wrote: >Carmen, I'd write in German, but the real German-speakers on the list >would be howling with laughter. I hope you read enough English to >understand our answers :-) I don't think so, Kerry, at least, I wouldn't. I think you're pretty much poly

Re: locH

2000-11-23 Thread John Trentini
OOPS! Just realised that your code was following your post. My previous post would still apply but you could animate a *place holder* in an empty channel (say: 10) and substitute the relevant cast member as you need: case (the rollOver) of 1: set the member of sprite(10) to logo set the locH of

Re: Dringend

2000-11-23 Thread Kerry Thompson
>As to the memory game, the question came up here or on direct-L just some >days ago and the recommendation was a book (with CD) by G.Rosenzweig on >Game programming in lingo which has a memory (or even several flavours?) >ready on CD. I'm a big fan of Gary's book, and one of the people who r

FileXtra- fx_FolderCopy

2000-11-23 Thread I Larochelle
Hi all!! I have this problem with the FileXtra... (on MAC) On a CDRom, when a user click on a specific button, I want to copy a folder from the cd into the hard disk of the user. At first, I taught about having a window with the option for the user to be able to browse where he wants to install

Re: locH

2000-11-23 Thread John Trentini
There is a function *rollOver()* that returns the spriteNum whenevere the mouse is rolled over that sprite. In your situation a case statement would help: on enterFrame case (the rollOver) of 1: do your tweening here --or go to a marker or whatever 2: do this instead 3: whatever else 4:

thanks to all that help me with "random sound"

2000-11-23 Thread Joao Rui
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Re: Re: alpha in quicktime?

2000-11-23 Thread John Trentini
Or you can re-render the animation against a white background. An other way is to export your QT as a Pict Sequence, (you can do this in QuickTime4-Pro or After Effects) and change the background to white in Photoshop and then re-compile the pict Sequence as a QT Movie. All in all, if it is only

Re: Dringend

2000-11-23 Thread Daniel Plaenitz
Carmen, may be you won't find too many here who correspond fluently in German; though there have been threads en Espanol or po polsku here I recommend English. As to the memory game, the question came up here or on direct-L just some days ago and the recommendation was a book (with CD) by G.R

Re: Transparent Stage?

2000-11-23 Thread Mark A. Boyd
>Does anyone know of an extra that can make the stage a percentage opacity in >order to see the desktop in the background? e.g. if I had a MIAW could I >have an area of the irregular shaped stage, and making it slightly >transparent.??? I haven't looked into it, but you may have some success wit

Re: browser

2000-11-23 Thread tim rodger
Mario Sergio Renor wrote: 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 my website!". The user would > have to wait while it's being download it. But image to start loading the > movie from the website in background while the us

Re: How do I lock a Director file

2000-11-23 Thread Roberta Beattie
Hi Eddie if you go to the extras option on the menu - then choose 'update movies' - select 'protect movie' and choose a folder to back the original file into - then press proceed - it will turn your file into a .dxr which will mean that your movie can only be accessed via a projector . Berti

How do I lock a Director file

2000-11-23 Thread edi Nehani
Does anyone knows how to lock director movies, so when I burn the CD other users will be able to launch only the projector and have no access to other files. It could be a question more related to OS ,but if anyone know the answer I will appreciate it Eddy Nehani [To remove yourself from this l

locH

2000-11-23 Thread apellicciari
Hi dear list, I'm new with lingo and I have a project with 5 buttons, when I roll over them I need an image to come from the right (with a tween motion), and the actual image on the stage has to go off the screen to the left(with a tween as well). But they have to do this at the same time.

RE: flash-lingo integration (very odd behaviour)

2000-11-23 Thread jon rowe
A follow-up to this post of yesterday, I have tracked down the source of the error, and what a strange one it is! It seems that if you try to move a flash sprite with lingo: sprite(n).loc = point(x,y) the flash sprite loses it's ability to understand actionscript. So when I bring the sprite ont

Re: Dringend

2000-11-23 Thread Oliver
Carmen, ja sam razvio nekoliko memory games, i neke rade online. Ako zelis, mogu ti poslati linkove. Ili mozda, ipa, ne? ;)) pozdrav, Oliver > Hallo hat jemand von Euch schon einmal ein > Memoryspiel im > Director entwickelt? > Es soll ca. 20 Karten geben und zwei Spieler > anzeigen, > die geg

Dringend

2000-11-23 Thread Carmen Kuderer
Hallo hat jemand von Euch schon einmal ein Memoryspiel im Director entwickelt? Es soll ca. 20 Karten geben und zwei Spieler anzeigen, die gegeneinander spielen können. Das Spiel selbst kann sehr einfach gemacht sein. Danke für Eure Hilfe schon im voraus Gruß Carmen [To remove yourself from thi

Re: minimize full-screen projector?

2000-11-23 Thread Clars Danvold
SImple! it works! Thanks! -Clars - Original Message - From: Ramesh CT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 10:24 AM Subject: Re: minimize full-screen projector? : Hi : : Check appMinimize command in Director's help. This command minimizes the :

R: Transparent Stage?

2000-11-23 Thread Roberto Briozzo
hope this helps (and i hope you can understand my "italianized" english): you can have an area of the irregular shaped stage (only for MIAW) in this way: draw the shape you want to use in a new cast member (for example a circle), call it (for example) "miaw_shape", transform it in a 1 bit image (

timeout script for IE 5.5

2000-11-23 Thread Fevzi Konuk
Hello all, how can I close an external IExplorer 5.5 window with a lingo timeout script ? is it possible ? I need help !! thanks Fevzi --- gesendet über "nettmail.de", http://nettmail.de [To remove yourself from this list, or to

Transparent Stage?

2000-11-23 Thread David Kimmer
Hello List, Does anyone know of an extra that can make the stage a percentage opacity in order to see the desktop in the background? e.g. if I had a MIAW could I have an area of the irregular shaped stage, and making it slightly transparent.??? Thanks in advance... David [To remove yourself f

Re: Shockwave fatal error

2000-11-23 Thread Miguel Gonzalez
...and? Are you asking for help? or, it is information for us?. Bye. - Original Message - From: "Jeremy Aker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 10:14 PM Subject: Shockwave fatal error > I have several users of a multiple-movie product de

Re: minimize full-screen projector?

2000-11-23 Thread Ramesh CT
Hi Check appMinimize command in Director's help. This command minimizes the the projector. -- Ramesh CT http://www.geocities.com/ramesh_ct/ Clars Danvold wrote: > > hello All > > Does anyone know of lingo or an Xtra that can minimize a project running > full screen? That is, slap it down to

RE: Re: alpha in quicktime?

2000-11-23 Thread Sean Wilson
> 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]) I'm really not sure about an alpha channel _inside_ a QT movie, but perhaps you can acheive the effect you're after by using a mask with the

RE: Help on image scroll

2000-11-23 Thread Sean Wilson
Hi Brian, Try making a start with http://www.director-online.com/accessArticle.cfm?id=880 HTH, Sean. > 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 > i

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minimize full-screen projector?

2000-11-23 Thread Clars Danvold
hello All Does anyone know of lingo or an Xtra that can minimize a project running full screen? That is, slap it down to the windows status bar/the Mac Finder. I'm looking for a way of doing it from within the projector to be minimized. Regards, Clars Danvold [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yo