netscape bugs with FILENAME

2001-01-11 Thread Brian Douglas
does netscape have problems with FILENAME. for some reason i can get a dcr to grab an external image on a directory in IE but not netscape. [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

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2001-01-11 Thread Ellen C. Largo
Hello Roy, Thanks a zillion for your help on Evaluation Exam project. It work perfectly well :-) I haven't tried the setPref command yet since I'm finishing the Exam part. Again, thanks Roy :-). And to all lists, thanks for being there to extend your exper

history list

2001-01-11 Thread Yo Gomi
Hello Lingo-Ls, Could anyone help me? I have a scroll field, which shows the visited marker names. (value x, which is the frameLabel.) I want to be able to click the names in the field and go to that same name marker. I know how to do hyperlink when there are already words inside a field but that

Re: Monitor resolution

2001-01-11 Thread Tom Jacobs
At 2:29 AM -0800 1/12/01, Jonathan wrote: >Can anybody tell me how one can automaticly adjust the users monitor >resolution to suit the production through lingo, and then return it to the >previous state on exiting the projector. Some other options: DisplayRes Xtra from http://www.updatestage.co

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2001-01-11 Thread raghu k ram
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Re: How to import an external file into a Director movie with Lingo (runtime)

2001-01-11 Thread Kerry Thompson
>I need to import an external text file (tab delimited or XML) into my movie >and format it. WE are planngin to runa search engine and pass the search >results into Director file (Projector) for output. How can I do that? Is XML >parser a solution? The XML parser has its limits, but it is probab

Re: Re: Monitor resolution

2001-01-11 Thread Pranav Narendra Negandhi
Theres another free xtra called DMChangeRes or something. I've used it in one commercial product and found acceptable performance. Our target platform was Win98. >Can anybody tell me how one can automaticly adjust the users monitor >resolution to suit the production through lingo, and then re

Re: Monitor resolution

2001-01-11 Thread Kerry Thompson
>Can anybody tell me how one can automaticly adjust the users monitor >resolution to suit the production through lingo, and then return it to the >previous state on exiting the projector. Buddy API has the functions you need--baScreenInfo and baSetDisplay. Be a bit careful on Windows--some vide

interactive tv

2001-01-11 Thread Jonathan
is there anybody developing interactive tv applications with director. I just want want to research into what its capible of [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]

Monitor resolution

2001-01-11 Thread Jonathan
When creating a projecter. Can anybody tell me how one can automaticly adjust the users monitor resolution to suit the production through lingo, and then return it to the previous state on exiting the projector. Cheers [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http

Re: Re: After quicktime

2001-01-11 Thread Kurt Griffin
> on exitframe > if the movietime of sprite(yourdigital video sprite)< 123 then --- ticks > go to the frame > else > go to movie "aa.dir" > end if > end Right idea, but to make it a bit more flexible (and using the dot syntax for movietime): on exitframe if sprite(DVsprite).mTime < sprite(DVsp

RE: XML Documents in Lingo

2001-01-11 Thread Watson, Christopher
Robert, I totally agree with you. Thankfully, in my case, I don't have to be overly concerned about the fluff. I'm just using XML as a standardized way of exporting gameplay results -- the content and relevance of which will vary widely, game to game -- to the back-end assessment tools. And Shock

Re: XML Documents in Lingo

2001-01-11 Thread Robert Koberg
One thing to be wary of is mixing style information with content information. You can keep style information in XML just be sure to keep it separate from your pure content. Keep thinking about what is pure content that can be reused in html, pdf or whatever from stuff that is purely specific to

Sending Text

2001-01-11 Thread Fred Westermeyer
Hi list, I have two thing to do and the part of the project is done. 1. Backspace on a touch screen 2. Send what is type on the touch screen to someone pager. We use FilePage Wireless office software here at the casino. I need to know the best way to send a text file to a page. I was thinking

RE: XML Documents in Lingo

2001-01-11 Thread Watson, Christopher
Hi there, Sean. Yes, odd indeed. My implementation does not yet create new XML documents from property lists, but that was one of my goals for the "newChild" method -- an optional argument for a nested property list (from XMLParser, for instance) that reformed the XML. My parent script just prov

RE: XML Documents in Lingo

2001-01-11 Thread Sean Wilson
Hi Christopher, Odd how these synchronicities occur. I have been in the process of creating XML definitions for behavior properties and looking for a way of exporting existing property lists into an external XML document - when you appear with what looks like a part of the puzzle I'm needing to i

user reviews of DisplayRes Xtra

2001-01-11 Thread JB Tellez
Hi, Does anyone have strong feelings about the Display Res Xtra from UpdateStage? OR Is there an Xtra review site around? Thanks, JB Tellez [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

XML Documents in Lingo

2001-01-11 Thread Watson, Christopher
I've created a rudimentary implementation of XML as a parent script. I don't think it's anything spectacular, and I'm sure others have done it before. It's not an XML parser (we'll leave that to the Xtra). Instead, it's an API for creating and manipulating XML documents and their trees as child ob

Using a camcorder with director

2001-01-11 Thread Joao Rui
hello to all in the group, I am working on an art installation that will use a camcorder hooked up to DIRECTOR to play sounds when something enters an area defined with BIGEYE software. However since them MAC is not very capable of multitasking the results are quite slow or sometimes none at all.

Removing the bar at the top of a movie?

2001-01-11 Thread Beertje
I know that this was discussed at least onece before and I didin't pay that much attention to it (silly me), but how do you remove the bar at the top of a movie? Thanks in advance, george Carlile [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://ww

Re: CRAZY Projector

2001-01-11 Thread Tab Julius
Is your CD burned with Joliet (long name) file naming convention, or was it a straight ISO? If you had a long(er) name, but burned with a shorter you may or may not have a problem depending on how everything else is rigged up. Also note that a CD is read-only, unlike your other media (hard-dr

run Powerpoint Viewer and close it afterwards

2001-01-11 Thread Michael von Aichberger
Hello List! Hello Irv, Irv, it wasn't me who asked about running Powerpoint from Director but I nevertheless tried your suggestion: open fullPathToDocument with fullPathToPowerPointViewer It works fine. Good for speaker support presentations, where I can simply press esc to return to Director.

Re: CRAZY Projector

2001-01-11 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 11:26 1/11/01, Arthur Moers wrote: >"Unable to load movie playlist. Does the .INI file >exist? It must contain a section"[Movies]"with an >entry "Movie01=pathname.dir" > >Mark suggested he had heard of this on a Mac with reference to the file >name being too long. My file name is Projector.exe.

CRAZY Projector

2001-01-11 Thread Arthur Moers
PLEASE HELP. I have a perfectly working projector so long as it is on a zip disk or on my machine. But if I burn to a CD I get the following message when I try to run the CD projector: "Unable to load movie playlist. Does the .INI file exist? It must contain a section"[Movies]"with an entry

job posting: Lingo person wanted in LA

2001-01-11 Thread PamRecruit
DISCLAIMER: RECRUITING INFO FOLLOWS. THIS IS NOT MEANT TO LURE OR ENTICE ANYONE AWAY FROM A JOB OR COMPANY. THIS MESSAGE IS ONLY FOR THOSE LOOKING FOR WORK. INFORMATION ONLY. FEEL FREE TO SHARE WITH A FRIEND Hi. I am a recruiter looking for a Lingo developer for a Los Angeles developer

Re: Lost Coding

2001-01-11 Thread Fred Westermeyer
Mark, Thank for any help on this matter, I was looking in director Demystified on Backspace but does not work for me I have the keyboard working (ABC... and 123...) but the backspace. When this project is done the quest will be able to type a msg to are host and send it to them via FilePage.

Re: Previous button

2001-01-11 Thread Elvin M. Certeza, Jr.
you may try something like this (not tested) property plastFrame, whichFrame global gwhichFrame on mouseUp me go to frame gwhichFrame end mouseup on exitFrame go to the frame end on endsprite me gWhichFrame = whichFrame end endsprite me on getPropertyDescriptionList set plastFra

After quicktime

2001-01-11 Thread Colby Dodson
PFK e-Business Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Is there anyway that on mouseDown go to specified frame on that frame play a quicktime movie. After the movie is done play a new director movie. Recap I click on a button it goes to a frame where a quickti

Backspace on a keyboard

2001-01-11 Thread Fred Westermeyer
I am working in D7.02, I am making a Keyboard on a touch screen all is working but the backspace. Can someone check my coding to see what is wrong. Backspace Button property pUpMem, pDownMem, pSprite on beginSprite me pSprite = sprite(me.spriteNum) pUpMem = pSprite.member pDownMem = mem

Re: Vector shapes tutorial...

2001-01-11 Thread ramesct
Hi Pranav, Check out http://www.director-online.com for various articles on lingo and director. Go to Quick links for Articles on vector shapes. regards - Ramesh CT Office: 91 80 6665948 Extn:2169 Mobile: 9844117802 [To remove yourself from this list, or to ch

Re: Projectors

2001-01-11 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 07:52 1/11/01, Arthur Moers wrote: > Please help me, again. I have a perfectly working > projector so long as it is on zip disk or on my machine. > But if I burn to a CD I get the following message when I > try to run the CD projector: > > "Unable to load movie playlist. Does the .INI file

Re: Back Button - desperate

2001-01-11 Thread Ken Huynh
try this... --the startmovie script global gMarkerlist on startmovie gMarkerlist = list() end on FindLastLabel repeat with i = 1 to the number of lines in ¬ the labelList if the frame < label(line i of the labelList) then return line i -

Re: Fatal Error

2001-01-11 Thread Ken Huynh
yes using budiapi, it'll let you copy file and ALOT more cool stuff you might be interested in using also,,, >Hello Mark, >Thankyou for your help in the past >I have a projector and I want it to be copied to users hard drive and not to >play from a CD. So is there a script that by clicking in a

sending flash commands to director stage

2001-01-11 Thread Vanden Broeck, Daniel
Hi can somebody tell me how I have to send command from flash to the director stage. for ex: tellthestage to go to frame 10 I want to use this in a navigation bar. Out of one flashbutton several buttons will become visible, and every button will have it's own command that will lead to a certain

Projectors

2001-01-11 Thread Arthur Moers
HELP! I am lost. Pure and simple. I am using Director 8 on a PC. There is only the one Projector file on the a CD. There are no calls to other movies or files. Please help me, again. I have a perfectly working projector so long as it is on zip disk or on my machine. But if I burn to a CD I

Re: Re: Back Button - desperate

2001-01-11 Thread Kurt Griffin
> you can use this in a score script, attached to the button sprite: > > global > > on mouseUp me > go to frame > end mouseUp This is what you asked for, but I doubt it's what you really want. The above approach will let you toggle between two frames, and not much more. To make a "browser-lik

Re: Fatal Error (Copy files from CD to HD - installer)

2001-01-11 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 14:11 4/12/01, edi Nehani wrote: >Hello Mark, >Thankyou for your help in the past >I have a projector and I want it to be copied to users hard drive and not to >play from a CD. So is there a script that by clicking in a button tells >Director to copy of the files from the projector CD to the u

Re: Lost Coding

2001-01-11 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 14:26 1/10/01, Fred Westermeyer wrote: >I am working in D7.02, I am making a Keyboard on a touch screen all is >working but the backspace. >Can someone check my coding to see what is wrong. You may need to send a keycode to the text member. Or track where the "cursor" is and delete the char

EASY QUESTION !!!!

2001-01-11 Thread Pranav Narendra Negandhi
well...frankly speaking, nothingthey do the same thing Regrads, Pranav _ Chat with your friends as soon as they come online. Get Rediff Bol at http://bol.rediff.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go t

Re: EASY QUESTION !!!!

2001-01-11 Thread Nelson Rodríguez-Peña
Besides being longer, GO TO THE FRAME does exactly the same than GO THE FRAME or go frame : ) Nelson Rodríguez-Peña DirectorZone - Director para hispanoparlantes - http://www.directorZone.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Jon Paul A

How to import an external file into a Director movie with Lingo (runtime)

2001-01-11 Thread ICG
Hello! I need to import an external text file (tab delimited or XML) into my movie and format it. WE are planngin to runa search engine and pass the search results into Director file (Projector) for output. How can I do that? Is XML parser a solution? Thanks Araik [To remove yourself from th

RE: EASY QUESTION !!!!

2001-01-11 Thread Steven Sacks
These all do the same thing: go the frame go to the frame go frame 10 go to frame 10 go 10 Which do you like more? go to the frame is easier to read for some, while go the frame is easier to read for others. Personally, I prefer go the frame and go frame 10 because it is a happy medium of sav

EASY QUESTION !!!!

2001-01-11 Thread Jon Paul Alongi
Whats the difference between GO THE FRAME & GO TO THE FRAME is there a better one to use just wonderign after seeing many people use both thanx jon [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

Re: Fatal Error

2001-01-11 Thread ratio99
edi: i'm not english spoken...sorry... but the best xtra that will solve ur purpose is the "FILEXTRA"...its also included in your xtras director folder...in d7 into "save as java" folder... buena suerte danielG - Original Message - From: "JUNAID ALAM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Fatal Error

2001-01-11 Thread ratio99
edi: i'm not english spoken...sorry... but the best xtra that will solve ur purpose is the "FILEXTRA"...its also included in your xtras director folder...in d7 into "save as java" folder... danielG - Original Message - From: "JUNAID ALAM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: T

Re: Fatal Error

2001-01-11 Thread ratio99
edi: i'm not english spoken...sorry... but the best xtra that will solve ur purpose is the "FILEXTRA"...its also included in your xtras director folder...in d7 into "save as java" folder... buena suerte danielG - Original Message - From: "JUNAID ALAM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTEC

RE: another time question

2001-01-11 Thread Karina Steffens
Hi Jim, > Thanks for the help Karina i was just being a bit dim and > I just have one last time question then i promise to stop > being irritating. You're welcome, and I find you neither dim nor irritating :) > that on exitframe in a movie script would apply to the whole movie. That's probably

Re: Re:

2001-01-11 Thread Roberta Beattie
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