Re: exporting all scripts

2001-01-04 Thread Slava Paperno
Many thanks, Ramesh! I owe you already! S. [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]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programm

Re: exporting all scripts

2001-01-04 Thread ramesct
Hi Slava, Here is a script which i wrote to save all the scripts to a text file using fileIO xtra. Better open the text file using Microsoft word to avoid seeing strange charecters(Carriage Return). --- movie script on saveScripts scriptText = "" casts = the number of castLibs repeat with

exporting all scripts

2001-01-04 Thread Slava Paperno
Someone must have created an Xtra or a utility script for going through the movie and collecting the text of all scripts so that it can be saved in a text file for backup. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks! (I kind of hoped to see a command on Director's Export submenu for thi

Re: RE: icon projector

2001-01-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eureka!!! Thanks Tom. >I had the same problem. Windows requires at least these two icons: a >32x32 4-bit and a 16x16 4-bit. It's okay to also include larger icons >as well as those with higher color depths, but if you don't have the >basic ones you'll get that error. Nitin Urdhwareshe [EMAIL

bitmap error

2001-01-04 Thread Steve Gordon
Hi guys- My movie runs fine on my computer or over my LAN. When I upload it I get the message: "Unexpected failure while compositing bitmap member 50 of player-cast 1" I have tried chaning everything, but still get the error. Any suggestions? Steve Gordon [To remove yourself from this list,

a field's blend setting of 0 is reset by... dropShadow

2001-01-04 Thread Slava Paperno
I don't know what to make of this, so don't laugh--but someone on this list thought I should post this. I have a field whose blend setting is 0% in frame 1, and 100% in frame 30. So long as the field's dropShadow is set to false, the field is invisible in frame 1 and is tweened fully into sigh

Fwd: unsubscribe

2001-01-04 Thread manju natha
unsubscribe Please remove me from lingo-l, thank you manjunatha _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://w

Re: new(#type) not working

2001-01-04 Thread Irv Kalb
At 9:20 PM -0600 1/4/01, Bryan Thompson wrote: >OK, someone please explain this one. > >My main project at this time is a one frame movie. I'm approaching the end >of the project, and all of a sudden I cannot create a new cast member. > >Win98 2E, D8 > >This is the problem: > >myMember = new(#sou

Re: Re: Doubled messages

2001-01-04 Thread Kurt Griffin
> yes it is maddening. I have received some messages four and six times even. > what gives? Well, the digest gets here a lot faster... [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: getpropertydescription

2001-01-04 Thread Irv Kalb
At 12:30 AM -0800 1/5/01, Jonathan wrote: >I find it quite this use of script quite interesting but I cant seem to >work out where the property for each object is stored. I have say 20 objects >using this script and giving all the the objects different attributes >through the getPropertyDescripti

Re: Passing command line parameters

2001-01-04 Thread Bryan Thompson
>There is an undocumented lingo: the commandLine. It's a string, empty by >default. >It works in d7 and d8 (?) and calling a projector with comand line >arguments showed an unexpected side effect: apparently the >.ini is ignored when there are command line arguments. > >best regards >daniel pla

new(#type) not working

2001-01-04 Thread Bryan Thompson
OK, someone please explain this one. My main project at this time is a one frame movie. I'm approaching the end of the project, and all of a sudden I cannot create a new cast member. Win98 2E, D8 This is the problem: myMember = new(#sound) put myMember -- #sound (the new cast member IS NOT cr

RE: always on top & scanning in director movie

2001-01-04 Thread Kerry Thompson
>comes with director > > >But where is this xtra Buddy API? Sorry, Grimm, it doesn't come with Director. You can get it at http://www.mods.com.au. It's free if you only use 2 functions, I believe. Beyond that, you pay. But, it's a very reasonable price for what you get. You'll use it over an

Re: Passing command line parameters

2001-01-04 Thread Daniel Plaenitz
At 17:05 04.01.2001 -0600, Bryan Thompson wrote: >Does anyone know if/how a stub can read parameters passed via the command >line (Win 98 2E, D8)? > >What I'm trying to do is use one stub to launch two different dxr files, >dependent on a command line switch. The launches are being called by an >

getpropertydescription

2001-01-04 Thread Jonathan
I find it quite this use of script quite interesting but I cant seem to work out where the property for each object is stored. I have say 20 objects using this script and giving all the the objects different attributes through the getPropertyDescription list, it work sweet as a nut but where are

Passing command line parameters

2001-01-04 Thread Bryan Thompson
Does anyone know if/how a stub can read parameters passed via the command line (Win 98 2E, D8)? What I'm trying to do is use one stub to launch two different dxr files, dependent on a command line switch. The launches are being called by an auto-menu system. TIA Bryan Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: background task for postnettext stuff

2001-01-04 Thread grimmwerks
Brilliant Irv. Exactly along the lines of what I was thinkingexcept thinking just ain't enough. Thanks again! [http://www.grimmWERKS.com ]-- [ graphic design -|- sound design -|- shockwave -|- lingo -|- cdrom ] [To remove yourse

Re: background task for postnettext stuff

2001-01-04 Thread Irv Kalb
At 5:22 PM -0500 1/4/01, grimmwerks wrote: >I'm trying to get my head about something hereoh, that's a monitor... > >I'm trying to do a background task that will handle sending user info >during a courseware product. What I'd like to do is have a background >task that will queue the tracking i

background task for postnettext stuff

2001-01-04 Thread grimmwerks
I'm trying to get my head about something hereoh, that's a monitor... I'm trying to do a background task that will handle sending user info during a courseware product. What I'd like to do is have a background task that will queue the tracking information into it's own list, cycling throu

change stage setting when opening director

2001-01-04 Thread FUZZ FX
hi, i just wanted to know, how i can change the stage windows height and width and for it to stay the same whenever i open it. As everytime i open the stage its very small even though i changed it from the property toolbar..its on some kind of default setting...can anyone help? thanks in advanced

Re: always on top & scanning in director movie

2001-01-04 Thread Carl D. Earnhart II
on 01/04/2001 11:54 AM, Palfi Attila (Protomix Rt.) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Okay, > > But where is this xtra Buddy API? > go to http://www.mods.com.au/frameset.htm you can download a trial version of it and use only 2 functions or you can purchase it (recommended) Also, as far as I know

Buddy API (was: RE: always on top & scanning indirector movie)

2001-01-04 Thread Irv Kalb
At 2:02 PM -0500 1/4/01, grimmwerks wrote: >comes with director > > >But where is this xtra Buddy API? > You can get it from: http://www.mods.com.au Irv -- Lingo / Director / Shockwave development for all occasions. (Over two millions lines of Lingo code served!) [To remove yours

RE: always on top & scanning in director movie

2001-01-04 Thread Palfi Attila (Protomix Rt.)
Okay, But where is this xtra Buddy API? Nyuszigomez -Original Message- From: Carl D. Earnhart II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 6:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: always on top & scanning in director movie > Hi All, > > I've two question: > 1.

Double postings - hopefully fixed

2001-01-04 Thread Tab Julius
Seems like the account [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been reflecting everything back to the list. I've dropped the account, things should settle down soon. - Tab [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 lis

RE: always on top & scanning in director movie

2001-01-04 Thread grimmwerks
comes with director >But where is this xtra Buddy API? [http://www.grimmWERKS.com ]-- [ graphic design -|- sound design -|- shockwave -|- lingo -|- cdrom ] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://w

RE: Double postings to this list?

2001-01-04 Thread Jonathan
Yes i am -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Carl D. Earnhart II Sent: 04 January 2001 09:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Double postings to this list? on 01/04/2001 11:34 AM, Tom Jacobs at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is anyone else g

Re: Double postings to this list?

2001-01-04 Thread Eva Crawford
yes it is maddening. I have received some messages four and six times even. what gives? Thanks -Eva > From: Tom Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 09:34:07 -0800 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Double postings to this list? > > Is anyone else g

RE: This is probably easy, but i cant work it

2001-01-04 Thread AnandR
This won't work cos the val drops just once from 50 and keeps ocillating there... have a flag that u can use to specify if the add operation or the subtract operation has to be donea global variable should do the trick Anand Ravi Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 04:46 PM 1/4/01 -0800, Jon

Re: Double postings to this list?

2001-01-04 Thread Carl D. Earnhart II
on 01/04/2001 11:34 AM, Tom Jacobs at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is anyone else getting two of every posting? (It's like Noah's ark!) > > Tom Glad to see that it is not just me. this is starting to drive me nuts. I think it is *ever* message that is being sent. -- Carl D. Earnhart II Softw

Re: Doubled messages

2001-01-04 Thread Carl West
Tab Julius wrote: > > Yes, I noticed this - am looking for a pattern. They all seem to have the extra stuff in the header that starts with: > >Received: > > from brockman.tinet.ie (brockman.tinet.ie and they've all got two of these on the end > [To remo

Re: This is probably easy, but i cant work it

2001-01-04 Thread Carl West
Jonathan wrote: > > I am trying to make the timex go from 1 to 50 when it hits 50 it will go > from 50 to 1 and repeat this sequence. Its getting stuck always can somebody > help? [untested code] property timex property pIncrement -- determines the direction of the counting on new me timex

Re: Doubled messages

2001-01-04 Thread Colin Holgate
>Is it just me? I'm getting most of the posts on this list twice. The >second of which is always one or two K larger than the first. Probably >because it has stuff like this added into the header: Happening here too. I'll probably say that again in a moment... [To remove yourself from this list,

Authorware and Director

2001-01-04 Thread AnandR
Hi! I have D8 and Authorware 5.1. I have a movie created in D8 that i want to run within Authorware. I have used the Digital Movie control in Authorware and tried to set the path to the .dir file. At this point Authorware thows up the following error: "Unable to load external movie driver for:

Re: Doubled messages

2001-01-04 Thread Tab Julius
Yes, I noticed this - am looking for a pattern. Thanks At 12:23 PM 1/4/01 -0500, Carl West wrote: >Is it just me? I'm getting most of the posts on this list twice. The >second of which is always one or two K larger than the first. Probably >because it has stuff like this added into the header:

Double postings to this list?

2001-01-04 Thread Tom Jacobs
Is anyone else getting two of every posting? (It's like Noah's ark!) Tom -- ~~ Tom Jacobs-InterVision --- (541) 343-7993 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.i

Re: always on top & scanning in director movie

2001-01-04 Thread Carl D. Earnhart II
> Hi All, > > I've two question: > 1. I want to put my movie window "always on top". > How to do it? To answer your first question, the xtra Buddy API has a function that will allow you to set a window to always be on top. "SetWindowState" -- Carl D. Earnhart II Software Engineer DxR Devel

Doubled messages

2001-01-04 Thread Carl West
Is it just me? I'm getting most of the posts on this list twice. The second of which is always one or two K larger than the first. Probably because it has stuff like this added into the header: Received: from brockman.tinet.ie (brockman.tinet.ie [159.134.2

Re: This is probably easy, but i cant work it

2001-01-04 Thread Tab Julius
No, it won't work, because you move it up to 50, then drop it back by one, but you don't consistently go back by one. I'm not sure exactly what you're doing with this (having gradually shaded sprites?) but consider starting with something like this: -- Init timex (these are globals or propert

Re: scrollByPixel?

2001-01-04 Thread Irv Kalb
At 11:11 AM -0500 1/4/01, Slava Paperno wrote: >Thanks, Ramesh, but that's exactly what I'm doing: scrollByLine, and >that's what I'm trying to avoid. Like I said, scrolling by line at a >time is too jerky, when the font is large. That's why I was looking >for a way to scroll a few _pixels_ at

always on top & scanning in director movie

2001-01-04 Thread Nyunyo Gomez
Hi All, I've two question: 1. I want to put my movie window "always on top". How to do it? 2. Does somebody know that how I can scan within a twain scanner (eg. genius vivid pro) controller in a director- movie? You know, which comes to front when in the photoshop you start scanning. So, I want

Re: back button

2001-01-04 Thread Irv Kalb
At 7:25 AM + 1/4/01, Yo Gomi wrote: >Hello list, >I'm trying to create a back button which takes back to the last visited >marker. Does anyone know how to return the name of the marker as a value in >a list? Hmm it's difficult to explain so here's my script so far... > Here's a solution with

Re: scrollByPixel?

2001-01-04 Thread grimmwerks
Slava Paperno, [EMAIL PROTECTED], please stop posting html email. [http://www.grimmWERKS.com ]-- [ graphic design -|- sound design -|- shockwave -|- lingo -|- cdrom ] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: scrollByPixel?

2001-01-04 Thread Slava Paperno
Oops, missed that! That's indeed exactly what I wanted. I was using scrollTop to measure the current scroll, but didn't realize you can set it, too. Problem solved, thanks! S. At 11:33 AM 1/4/2001 -0500, you wrote: Thanks, Ramesh, but that's exactly what I'm doing: scrollByLine, and that's what I

RE: icon projector

2001-01-04 Thread Tom Jacobs
>I tried that. It works fine. The icon did change. But when I try to run the >app, it says blah_blah.exe is not a valid win32 application. > >What could have gone wrong? I had the same problem. Windows requires at least these two icons: a 32x32 4-bit and a 16x16 4-bit. It's okay to also include

This is probably easy, but i cant work it

2001-01-04 Thread Jonathan
I am trying to make the timex go from 1 to 50 when it hits 50 it will go from 50 to 1 and repeat this sequence. Its getting stuck always can somebody help? property timex,timez on exitFrame timex=timez starttimex end on starttimex timez=timex+1 if timex=50 then timez=timex-1 end

Re: scrollByPixel?

2001-01-04 Thread Colin Holgate
>Thanks, Ramesh, but that's exactly what I'm doing: scrollByLine, and >that's what I'm trying to avoid. Like I said, scrolling by line at a >time is too jerky, when the font is large. That's why I was looking >for a way to scroll a few _pixels_ at a time. Ramesh said scrolltop, not scrollbylin

Re: scrollByPixel?

2001-01-04 Thread Slava Paperno
Thanks, Ramesh, but that's exactly what I'm doing: scrollByLine, and that's what I'm trying to avoid. Like I said, scrolling by line at a time is too jerky, when the font is large. That's why I was looking for a way to scroll a few _pixels_ at a time. Thanks for writing anyway. It's good to know

Re: back button

2001-01-04 Thread Beertje
Hello Yo, I apologize for not remembering the source of this file, but I think that it may help in what you want. Go to http://www.mediaeclectic.com/lingo.htm and select "Recent History Button" Good Luck, George Carlile - Original Message - From: "Yo Gomi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMA

Re: Changing the URL of a flash movie through lingo????

2001-01-04 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 11:58 1/3/01, Keith Nitsch wrote: >Hello all, > >I am trying to change the URL for a flash cast member through lingo, however >when I playback the shockwave file the flash movies get lost. It works fine >in director and the paths are correct they just do not display in shockwave. >The problem s

Re: sound

2001-01-04 Thread grimmwerks
Macs are actually the preferred platform for high end audio -- at least it used to be so. In my opinion, for stereo editing / mastering I prefer Bias-Inc's Peak. > >What is the equivalent of SoundForge on Mac? >apart from sound edit >Regards >Gopinath [http://www.grim

Re: back button

2001-01-04 Thread Carl D. Earnhart II
Hello Yo, I have done some playing around with your scripts and added some stuff to them, here it is: --- this goes on the back button on mouseUp me backButton() end on backButton Global histList, gFlag, gFlag2 -- declares globals deleteAt(histList, 1)-- deletes the firs

Re: back button

2001-01-04 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 23:25 1/3/01, Yo Gomi wrote: >--and this is the handler >on backButton > Global histList > Global lastPage > lastPage=getLast(histList) > put lastPage into field "test" > go to the marker (lastPage) <- this is an error code. >end What is the error code? I don't have Dir on this mach

Re: sound

2001-01-04 Thread mine
What is the equivalent of SoundForge on Mac? apart from sound edit Regards Gopinath [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]) Lingo-L

RE: icon projector

2001-01-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Anand, I tried that. It works fine. The icon did change. But when I try to run the app, it says blah_blah.exe is not a valid win32 application. What could have gone wrong? Regards Nitin Urdhwareshe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Digikore Design 2, Nehru Marg, Ghorpudi, Pune 411 001 INDIA tel : +91-20-

unsubscribe

2001-01-04 Thread Szymon Drejewicz
unsubscribe Please remove me from lingo-l, thank you Szymon Drejewicz [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]) Lingo-L is for learn

Re: scrollByPixel?

2001-01-04 Thread ramesct
Hi Slava, Check out the scrollTop member property under help, using this you can scroll down or up pixel wise. -- script for scroll button property pScroll on beginSprite me pScroll = FALSE end on mouseDown me pScroll = TRUE end on mouseUp me pScroll = FALSE end on exitFrame me if pS

RE: scrollByPixel?

2001-01-04 Thread AnandR
Hi! The best thing you could do is to calculate the number of lines that go beyond the textbox and then scroll accordingly. Use linecount property. regards, Anand Ravi -Original Message- From: Slava Paperno [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 10:41 PM To: [EMAI