Re: Can you see the problem?

2000-12-01 Thread Kerry Thompson
> sprite(2).member = member(grass&&pgrass) Try (untested): sprite(2).member = member(grass && string(pgrass)) Cordially, Kerry Thompson Learning Network [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 l

Re: shockwave and the moviePath

2000-12-01 Thread Kurt Griffin
> hi, lingoists > simple doubt: does a shockwave movie recognize the moviePath function, when > running locally? that's strange, because i've made a very simple structure > with two movies, "movie b.dcr" on a folder bellow of "movie a.dcr", which > is on the "root". the problem comes when i try to

Re: Lingo-L Digest V1 #1730

2000-12-01 Thread ashanet
on 2/12/00 3:20 AM, Lingo-L Digest at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just hope I didn't confuse you even more with all this :) > > > Regards, > Karina Steffens, > Lead Programmer Hi Karina! I really benefited from your reply to Mahmood You are a very good teacher too :) thanx Gopinath Menon

Re: zooming in/scaling sprites

2000-12-01 Thread Stephen Ingrum
thanks for all your help ;) but... after searching director-online archives, I found a few things that helped... specifically, StagetoFlash, viewScale, and viewPoint. Also, setting the "static" property to true relived all kinds of performance issues! Stephen [To remove yourself from this lis

RE: Can you see the problem?

2000-12-01 Thread Rees, Jonathan
I have three casts which are : leftgrass 1 leftgrass 2 leftgrass 3. The initial one on the stage is "leftgrass 1" using to display it is: sprite(2).member = member(grass&&pgrass) grass="leftgrass" --<--- using these to pgrass =1 --<--- get the castmember name i am then usi

Re: Can you see the problem?

2000-12-01 Thread Irv Kalb
At 11:15 PM + 12/1/00, Rees, Jonathan wrote: >I have 3 castmembers called leftgrass 1,leftgrass 2 + leftgrass 3. >Initialy leftgrass 1 is on the stage and is scrolling down sweetly. >I am tryinging to get it to rotate through the casts. I believe what >I have done should work, but something is

Can you see the problem?

2000-12-01 Thread Rees, Jonathan
I have 3 castmembers called leftgrass 1,leftgrass 2 + leftgrass 3. Initialy leftgrass 1 is on the stage and is scrolling down sweetly. I am tryinging to get it to rotate through the casts. I believe what I have done should work, but something is wrong which I cant figure! property pgrass proper

Re: Changing member of sprite over and over..

2000-12-01 Thread John Trentini
You forgot a piece of code ( the locV) in the second if: if the locV of sprite 2 > 1890 sprite(2).member="leftgrass3" if the member of sprite 2 ="leftgrass3" and the locV of sprite 2>1890 sprite(2).member="leftgrass4" HTH John Kev wrote: > > > > > if the locV of spr

RE: fatal errors

2000-12-01 Thread John Kanding
Does anyone know why Director causes a fatal errors sometimes? Sometimes when a fatal error does happen, all I have to do is move a sprite down a level or two. Why is that? What causes it? And Ho wcan I have it stop causing a fatal error? Are you using a wheel mouse? Director sometimes c

Re: quick and easy question

2000-12-01 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 10:07 PM 12/1/00, Jayson wrote: >I have a email hyperlink in a text sprite... it does work, however before >opening the email client app. it opens the web browser. I've seen folks suggest using Buddy API's baOpenURL() to avoid the browser window. I haven't tested it, but it's worth a try. ht

Freelancer for hire

2000-12-01 Thread Pat Knoff
Hi All (Pleaee don''t flame me for posting this here. :-) I have recently relocated to Southern California and am looking for Freelance work. I have been working full-time as a Director Developer since Director 3. Until recently, I was working in San Francisco. I have programmed over 45 CD-ROMs

Re: >>string2list

2000-12-01 Thread Colin Holgate
>If listStr = "["a","b","c"]" how can I set a variable to equal JUST the list >ie remove the list from the string??? reallist = value(listStr) [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 [EMA

RE: >>string2list

2000-12-01 Thread Robert Wingate
> If listStr = "["a","b","c"]" how can I set a variable to myList = value( listStr ) Rob /* * Rob Wingate, Software Human* * http://www.vingage.com * * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * */ [To remove yourself from this list,

JuniorNet dot bomb

2000-12-01 Thread Roy Pardi
Hey folks~ Well, I have become a statistic. . . JuniorNet (http://www.JuniorNet.com) , my Director gig for the last 3 years, is dot bombing and yesterday laid off 40% of the staff. There was no surprise- the wagons have been circled for almost a year awaiting the "big deal" venture cavalry. M

Re: quick and easy question

2000-12-01 Thread Peter Tierney
Server scripts are usually your best bet for sending email from within director and never opening another program. It may be a little more work, but the result is much cleaner. Jayson wrote: > thanks.. thats the conclusion I came up with also... > > So what is the best way to email through dire

>>string2list

2000-12-01 Thread Jason [JZway.com]
Hi! If listStr = "["a","b","c"]" how can I set a variable to equal JUST the list ie remove the list from the string??? Thanks, Jason. [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 PROT

Re: quick and easy question

2000-12-01 Thread Jayson
thanks.. thats the conclusion I came up with also... So what is the best way to email through director... forms? [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, ema

Re: moving sprite

2000-12-01 Thread Carl West
Yo Gomi wrote: > > Hello Lingo-Ls > Can anybody tell me how to loop tweening of particular sprites while the > movie is played? I have a sprite with tween motion running between frame 1 > to 15 and I want it to go back to 1 while the rest of sprites stay frame 15 > (which has go the frame frameSc

moving sprite

2000-12-01 Thread Yo Gomi
Hello Lingo-Ls Can anybody tell me how to loop tweening of particular sprites while the movie is played? I have a sprite with tween motion running between frame 1 to 15 and I want it to go back to 1 while the rest of sprites stay frame 15 (which has go the frame frameScript). This is what I tried

shockwave and the moviePath

2000-12-01 Thread Quixadá
hi, lingoists simple doubt: does a shockwave movie recognize the moviePath function, when running locally? that's strange, because i've made a very simple structure with two movies, "movie b.dcr" on a folder bellow of "movie a.dcr", which is on the "root". the problem comes when i try to go bac

Re: quick and easy question

2000-12-01 Thread Tab Julius
Probably because it relies on the browser to figure out what to do with your link. The browser receives it and decides, ah - this must be an email link. And you have to open the browser in order to give it the link. I haven't played with this, and aren't sure if there's a way around it, but

quick and easy question

2000-12-01 Thread Jayson
I have a email hyperlink in a text sprite... it does work, however before opening the email client app. it opens the web browser. please help.. thanks jayson [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

Changing member of sprite over and over..

2000-12-01 Thread Kev
Hello, I have scrolling background from top to bottom scrolling down from 1850, on each side of the scrolling screen are two sprites which resemble the sides of a race track these sides have to change so as to give the impression of new bends ect. The script tells it to change to another member o

RE: Difference between Linear & Property Lists

2000-12-01 Thread Karina Steffens
> Dear Karina! > > Thank you very much. > > Mahmood. You're very welcome :) Karina [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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Ling

Re: Difference between Linear & Property Lists

2000-12-01 Thread Mahmood Akhtar
Dear Karina! Thank you very much. Mahmood. Karina Steffens wrote: > Hi Mahmood, > > > What is the actual difference between Property Lists and Linear Lists. > > A linear list stores a bunch of "things", such as integers, strings, > symbols, other lists - whatever you want really. > > For exa

RE: keys

2000-12-01 Thread Leon McComish
blinding. cheers Sam. Leon McComish Web Developer email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get the best free games on the web at www.freeloader.com freeloader.com is a division of Pure Entertainment Games PLC 131-151 Great Titchfield Street London W1P 8AE tel: +44 (0)207 663 3900 fax: +44 (0)207 66

RE: Sound Control Problem

2000-12-01 Thread Jeremy Aker
Gordon, I don't know if you're experiencing that same problem as me, but here's what I've got. I have several .WAV files that I'm playing in a presentation. The audios play fine the first time through, thereafter it does not work. In fact, I think it stops working after the second audio plays. I'

RE: Shockwave fatal error

2000-12-01 Thread Jeremy Aker
For those of you interested I have tracked the problem to font remapping. There was an embedded font (Arial *), but not all field, text, and button cast members were set to that font. So, some advice to all of you - if you're delivering on platforms with language other than the language of your de

Restart Projector, after install

2000-12-01 Thread Mark Schulz
Pete wrote: >I'm and trying to find a way to relaunch a Projector after it has finished installing Acrobat. If you HAVE to restart, look into the Buddy "baMakeShortcut" command. It creates an alias of any file into any directory. Make one for your projector and place it into the Startup Items

Re: keys

2000-12-01 Thread sam
Is this any help Leon? seems to work with those buttons too! http://www.ultimatum.dk/ask/director/ sAMsKi. = elektonika = = just another nu-meeja company = = www.elektonika.co.uk = = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = = www.mustardpot.com = ST

keys

2000-12-01 Thread Leon McComish
hello list, how can I detect keys such as page down, page up, end, home, insert, delete on a PC. My usual "put the keycode" method returns (unsurprisingly) nothing, but I'm wondering if they can actually be captured via keycode (it has to be keycode). Failing that, suggestions on what keys peopl

RE: fatal errors

2000-12-01 Thread Kev
Hummm Know what you mean !!! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Conrad Ayala Sent: 01 December 2000 00:29 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: fatal errors Does anyone know why Director causes a fatal errors sometimes? Sometimes when a fatal er

RE: Fullscreen-Movies

2000-12-01 Thread jon rowe
Sorry Sabine this has been sitting in my outbox for the last 5 days, I was sure I'd sent it, hope you're not on too tight a deadline! Here are my thoughts: As you say a full-screen movie will probably run too slowly if it is not direct-to-stage. Maybe you might want to look at quicktime sprite c

RE: flash-lingo integration (very odd behaviour)

2000-12-01 Thread jon rowe
Hey Minty, Yes, I concur, this is happening in SW/PC/IE, haven't tested it in any other environment. Don't know if you saw Colin Holgate's related post, here's the salient section: >There's a bug in the Flash asset (which I'm not sure if and when it >was fixed), where setting the frame of t

RE: Difference between Linear & Property Lists

2000-12-01 Thread Karina Steffens
Hi Mahmood, > What is the actual difference between Property Lists and Linear Lists. A linear list stores a bunch of "things", such as integers, strings, symbols, other lists - whatever you want really. For example: myList = ["Picard", 50, ["Kirk", "Spock"]] When you need to access one of the

problem in flash!!

2000-12-01 Thread gunjang
sorry..this is a flash 4 query but couldn't help it.. i am having problem setting the depth of the movieclips duplicated on the stage. i want to set the depth of the movieclip on top. in flash 5 there is command "swapdepth" which does the trick but want to do it in flash 4 .. [To remove yourself