Important information on CD Pro Xtra & Mac OS/9

2000-12-16 Thread Tab Julius
For most of the last year and a half, it has been noted that there have been compatibility problems with the CD Pro Xtra running under Mac OS/9. Unfortunately, these have been hard to nail down and fix. After spending most of the year looking at this, and with some help from Apple, it seems

RE: Re: Protected director dxr files

2000-12-16 Thread Tab Julius
After Director 5, you can't. That's why they're protected. It is possible to get at some of the score information, and some cast data. But the Lingo is off-limits. At 08:30 AM 12/17/00 +0400, murtaza wrote: >how to view or collect data from dxr movies or files >suppose i need images which

RE: Re: basic lingo question

2000-12-16 Thread Johannes Hansen
Hehe Jakob... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jakob Hede Madsen Sent: 17. december 2000 05:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: basic lingo question >>"me" is also a convention - you could write a >>behavior that substitutes "you"

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2000-12-16 Thread murtaza
how to view or collect data from dxr movies or files suppose i need images which are protected how do i collect them or view the scripts which he has used thanxs Regards, Murtaza Habib Graphic Designer - Interactive Ltd. Tel:+971(4)3315080 Fax:+971(4)3311050 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove

Re: Re: basic lingo question

2000-12-16 Thread Jakob Hede Madsen
>>"me" is also a convention - you could write a >>behavior that substitutes "you" for "me" and it would work just fine > >Good point, Kurt, and one that is documented, but not widely recognized. Actually, when I make that argument I use to say that you could just as well substitute "me" with "Ku

RE: Re: Protected director dxr files

2000-12-16 Thread murtaza
how to view or collect data from dxr movies or files suppose i need images which are protected how do i collect them or view the scripts which he has used thanxs Regards, Murtaza Habib Graphic Designer - Interactive Ltd. Tel:+971(4)3315080 Fax:+971(4)3311050 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remo

Re: Re: basic lingo question

2000-12-16 Thread Kerry Thompson
>"me" is also a convention - you could write a >behavior that substitutes "you" for "me" and it would work just fine Good point, Kurt, and one that is documented, but not widely recognized. If I may split hairs, though, "me" is a keyword in Lingo, though it has no inherent value. It's a conven

Re: Re: basic lingo question

2000-12-16 Thread Kurt Griffin
>> The question is: what is the meaning of the characters "me" as in >> "me.spriteNum", or "p" as in "pModel"? When does one use these? >> Thanks in advance! The first part of your question has been answered, so I'll tackle the second part. "p" as in "pModel" is a naming convention that many of u

Re: 'Getters' and 'setters'. Hmm.

2000-12-16 Thread Kerry Thompson
>But bringing #sendAllSprites in to the equation is just confusing. In a general discussion of OOP, yes. In my particular instance, I (cordially? ;-) disagree. I was giving an example of an exception where exposing a behavior's properties might be acceptable. On a larger scale, I completely a

Re: Re: Protected director dxr files

2000-12-16 Thread Kurt Griffin
> Mike Atkin wrote: > >> How safe are these files? Are they hackable? >> >> Thanks in advance. > The way I heard it is that only your code is actually protected > someone with the know-how can still access your media. > > Be good. > > JohnT Absolutely. All media is easy to copy out of a dxr,

Re: 'Getters' and 'setters'. Hmm.

2000-12-16 Thread Jakob Hede Madsen
At 0:01 +0200 2000_12_17, Brennan Young wrote: >This 'Getters' and 'setters' debate comes up pretty regularly. Yes, we need to end it once and for all, by making a decree, with proper guidelines to which any Lingo-coder must adhere or be banished from participating in public discussion on the e

Re: 'Getters' and 'setters'. Hmm.

2000-12-16 Thread Jakob Hede Madsen
At 15:55 -0800 2000_12_16, Kerry Thompson wrote: >For performance, I used globals for the floater's position and >direction, because it was faster for the other objects to access a >global than to do a sendAllSprites from the floater. On a technical not I'd just like to say that I think this c

Re: increasing flash( swf) movie speed

2000-12-16 Thread Roy Pardi
At 3:33 PM -0800 12/16/2000, Kerry Thompson wrote: >Another approach is to set the frame rate way down, like 1 fps. That >will usually increase performance for Flash, video, audio, and even >non-frame-based scripts. > >Every time you play a frame, all eligible behaviors get the >prepareFrame, e

Re: 'Getters' and 'setters'. Hmm.

2000-12-16 Thread Bjarne Nyquist
Just to add to the OOP discussion from a more pragmatic point of view In the projects I participate in there are often more than one programmer involved. Imagine different programmers getting and setting properties in behaviors and parent scripts they havenĀ“t even written themselves... We are

Re: 'Getters' and 'setters'. Hmm.

2000-12-16 Thread Kerry Thompson
>Most of all, it strikes me that if an object needs to see another >object's property, then something is wrong with the encapsulation. >Surely, objects provide *services*, not access to their guts. Brennan, to my mind, you've gone to the heart of the matter in that statement. I try to write my

Re: increasing flash( swf) movie speed

2000-12-16 Thread Kerry Thompson
>> i want to increase the speed of a flash movie . >>my movie is imported into director 8 in the .swf >>format. Roy Pardi suggested: >try lockstep with a high tempo in Director Another approach is to set the frame rate way down, like 1 fps. That will usually increase performance for Fla

NO sound on some machines and sound on others?????

2000-12-16 Thread Vargas Media Interactive
> Micha Therrien wrote: >I have put together a program where word cast members have puppet sounds >(.wav files) when the user cliks on its sprite counter part on stage they >hear the word, simple enough and it works fine BUT when I load my PC CD >there is NO sound on some machines and sound on ot

'Getters' and 'setters'. Hmm.

2000-12-16 Thread Brennan Young
This 'Getters' and 'setters' debate comes up pretty regularly. I'm prepared to fly the OOP flag from time to time, but I've always felt a little uncomfortable with this idea of having a 'getter' and 'setter' for each 'public' property. I've never been able to come up with really good reasons w

cd pro xtra

2000-12-16 Thread Simon Davis
SORRY IF THIS APPEARS TWICE, HAVING TROUBLE SENDING... has anyone out there had any experience with the CD pro xtra? I am trying to do two things; 1, use the getUpcCode(cd) function to return the UPC code for a CD. I am setting the code when i am burning the CD as but the function ret

cd pro xtra

2000-12-16 Thread Simon Davis
has anyone out there had any experience with the CD pro xtra? I am trying to do two things; 1, use the getUpcCode(cd) function to return the UPC code for a CD. I am setting the code when i am burning the CD as but the function returns a value of "". Is this a problem with the xtra or

MIAW

2000-12-16 Thread Yo Gomi
Hello Lingo-Ls, I have a help MIAW which I want it to forget when closed with "close box". (that cross one on the corner) Does anyone know how to do that? I have a button to close and forget within a help window and that works fine. But closing with "close box" the movie is still running somewhere

Re: OOP question

2000-12-16 Thread Luke Wigley
Clars wrote > In Irv's example below, there's an accessor handler, mGetNumberOfApples, > that returns info about a specific property. > If my behavior has, say, 5 properties I want to access, I'd be tempted > to write an all-round handler like: > > on getProperty me, prop > return value(prop) >