lingo-l disable key

hi! How do I disable the "escape" key? I don't want my users to close my movie using ESC key. Thanks in advance! Brian _ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Clubs - Join a club or build your own! [To remove

Re: lingo-l disable key

Hi set the exitLock to TRUE in startMovie handler. regards - Ramesh CT [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

lingo-l jerky animation due to lots of sound files.

hi, i am using lots of sound files in my project due to which my director file as well as the projector file size has increased rapidly and the animations and interactivity have become jerky. though i am using mp3 sound files and when i tried to import sound as a linked file it doesnt play in

RE: lingo-l jerky animation due to lots of sound files.

Hi Junaid :) import sound as a linked file it doesnt play in the projector mode.but pls someone suggest me ways to make my file run smooth. Did you quit director before playing the projector? Sometimes sound files don't play (at least on a pc) when director is still active in the background.

RE: lingo-l Help with Lists

Hope this might help and sorry again if it's rude or something to just jump right in. It's not rude at all - it's actually very helpful :) The way we all learn on this list is from different people contributing to a thread - this way everyone who's interested in a topic can distill what

Re: lingo-l Help with Lists

From: "Thomas Yeh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] So maybe instead of stepping through the list ourseleves, we can just let the underlying C or Assembly code does it for us, as in following handler. on addItem theList, theItem if not ilk(theList, #linearList) then exit itemPos =

lingo-l Tagging and tracking multiple users.

Greetings, I have a question which I hope someone here can give me some much needed direction on. I know that if you 'lock' your projector/ movie you can have multiple users use the same movie. But is there a way to trace those multiple users for other purposes? Ex: when you open the main

Re: lingo-l Help with Lists

I usually use getOne to check if items exist in a linear list, so a one-liner would be: on addItem theList, theItem if not theList.getOne(theItem) then theList.add(theItem) jj On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 20:59:03 +0800 John Erazo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: "Thomas Yeh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] So

Re: lingo-l Tagging and tracking multiple users.

If it's all within the same session, use a list, named something like gUserList, and when they sign up, add them to the list. You'd also need a variable, like gCurrentUser to indicate which user (1..n) is currently active. Then you could reference gUserList[gCurrentUser] to get the name of

lingo-l Text hilighting

OK, serious brain-fade this morning. I'm looking to do some text highlighting that should be very simple, but I just can't think it through today. Director 8, text member ('cause the client wants nice looking anti-aliased text). All I want to do is to allow the ability to click and drag

lingo-l scope of methods in Lingo

I'm new to Lingo so please forgive me if I'm asking some dumb questions to begin with. I have a couple of questions at the moment. In a few scripts I have noticed that there are references to Public methods in the comments. Nowhere do I see any ability to specify the scope of a method by

lingo-l listbox UI elements

I'm trying to come to grips with the UI elements available to me in Lingo. We're using Director asa database front end. I'm currently displaying a list of students in a scrolling field. They are colour coded according to the marks they receive. This part is all working quite nicely, but what I

Re: lingo-l scope of methods in Lingo

At 12:08 PM -0500 12/13/00, Ian Jempson wrote: I'm new to Lingo so please forgive me if I'm asking some dumb questions to begin with. I have a couple of questions at the moment. In a few scripts I have noticed that there are references to Public methods in the comments. Nowhere do I see any

lingo-l Re:

Hi!! I have director 8 shockwave version at home, but at uni we only have director 7 educational version.I cant seem to open me files at uni as it says your files are to new, cannot upload. Is there anyway to get around this problem. please help ill be very grateful thank you!! fuzz sory if you

RE: lingo-l scope of methods in Lingo

Nope. In lingo if you can reference a property/method you can access it from anywhere. -Original Message- From: Ian Jempson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 9:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l scope of methods in Lingo I'm new to Lingo

Re: lingo-l Re:

That says it all, doesn't it? You can't open a Director 8 file with Director 7. [http://www.grimmWERKS.com ]-- [ graphic design -|- sound design -|- shockwave -|- lingo -|- cdrom ] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to

SV: lingo-l Help with Lists

BTW has anyone a good method as to change the property of a property list, like in [#john:100, #kurt:200] Now change #john to #Bill John -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]På vegne af John Erazo Sendt: 13. december 2000 13:59 Til: [EMAIL

RE: lingo-l Help with Lists

has anyone a good method as to change the property of a property list, like in [#john:100, #kurt:200] Now change #john to #Bill You might have an easier time if you arrange your data structure like this: [ [#name:"John",#value:100], [#name:"Kurt",#value:200] ] IOW, don't change the names

Re: SV: lingo-l Help with Lists

At 8:07 PM +0100 12/13/00, John Kanding wrote: BTW has anyone a good method as to change the property of a property list, like in [#john:100, #kurt:200] Now change #john to #Bill John on ChangeProp theList, existingProp, newProp theValue = getAProp(theList, existingProp) if

Re: lingo-l scope of methods in Lingo

Ian Jempson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a few scripts I have noticed that there are references to Public methods in the comments. Nowhere do I see any ability to specify the scope of a method by designating it as Public, Private or Protected. Hi Ian, I plead guilty. In the behaviors that I

Re: lingo-l Help with Lists

John Kanding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: has anyone a good method as to change the property of a property list, like in [#john:100, #kurt:200] Now change #john to #Bill Hi John, -- In the Message window x = [#john:100, #kurt:200] SetPropAt(x, 1, #Bill) put x -- [#Bill: 100, #kurt: 200] --

Re: SV: lingo-l Help with Lists

Sorry for John (Erazo) for overlooking the need to avoid case sensitivity. You already have a great solution. This handler can modify a input property if it find one and assign a new property and value (if new value provided). Hope it's hopeful. on modifyProp pList, oldProp, newProp,

lingo-l Marker name

Does anyone know how to get the marker name in the curent frame? I'm trying to put the current marker name into the variable markerName. Any help would be apprciated. Thanks. Conrad Ayala Interface Architect The Spin Group, Inc. http://www.spingroup.com/ Phone 1-414-672- Fax

RE: lingo-l Help with Lists

Hi John You are doing a lot of additional work to get what is already built into Director. You example: on addItem inItem global gList set totalCount = gList.count repeat with i = 1 to totalCount put inItem = gList[i] if inItem = gList[i] then alert "Item already

Re: lingo-l Text hilighting

Irv... If this were a field member, I just set it to editable, and the functionality is built in. Then I can get the selStart and the selEnd. In D8 possibly in D7 you can use 'the selection' to get the selected text in a field as opposed to using selStart/selEnd. property pSelText on

lingo-l external files and shockwave

Hi all, I want to read from and write to a text file on a LAN via a shockwave interface. It's a library catalogue. the problem is I'm more familiar with director than I am with other kinds of database connectivity which I realise would probably be easier! Thanks, Steve [To remove yourself

Re: lingo-l Case-insensitive search through a Linear list oftext

From: "Irv Kalb" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 11:39 AM If you use symbols instead of strings, then you can use "getOne" for your lookup. It will be very fast and case-insensitive -- Welcome to Director -- gList = [#sun, #mercury, #venus, #earth, #mars] Thanks

lingo-l command via ethernet and serial

for a project concerning a videoWall, I need to send command, via ethernet or via serial to different machine (a picbox3 by electrosonic and 3 V1 by doremilabs). Someone can say me where I can find information about that, perhaps someone have this experience and can share it with me? I am living