Your explanation makes sense to me, Mark. But this problem occurs only with a
text sprite but not with field sprite of which the scroll bar should also be set
direct-to-stage. So, I guess more reasons exit for a text sprite.
_
"Mark A. Boyd" wrote:
>
> At 22:56 1/17/01, Slava Paperno wrote:
thanx everyone for the help(where would i be without my trusty list)
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hiya,
why not have another list contaning what to add each
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>> NOW...i CAN keep track of when these ovens reaches 150 but i cant get the
>> value to decrese once it does so...(or increse when it reaches 1)
>
> Don't add or subtract 1, instead add a variable that you change when
> it gets to the end:
>
> if you use lists, one of them could be to hold the
I would like to see a "Locale" property in the environment.
We already have the uiLanguage and osLanguage properties--that's a big help
for people like me who do a lot of localization.
Localization is a bigger issue than language, though--there is also the
locale. The Spanish spoken in Mexico
I would suggest you stay clear away from ActiveX controls in Director. Microsoft didnt
exactly plan them to be used in this environemt. The PDF Xtra(whatever it may be...I
dont know, but it sounds good) is definately a much safer and reliable bet.
Regards,
Pranav
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>No matter what it should do, on a Mac it opens Netscape regardless of
>your default browser.
Not sure if this is it but, at least in D7, the files...
Director 7.0 Resources
Director 7.0 SW Rsrc
Director 7.0 Compressed Rsrc
seem to have some data in them like this (use Resedit/Resorcerer/etc):
Hi..
I've been trying this out for days, but still could get the pdf file out. It
generates error when I click on the button. Said "variable used before
assigning a value" and it point to pPressed. Could someone help me with
this. Have some project to do that incorporates PDF.
Thanks.
Suzee
Mul
That's exactly what it is...I've a parent script goingthanks for the
headsup.
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At 15:40 -0500 01_01_18, Ian Jempson wrote:
May I suggest, if you are in D8, that you look at timeOutObjects
rather than the actorlist.
Let your object create its own timeOutObject and give itself as the
callBack reference, then besides the method you specify, it will also
receive exitFrame and
At 14:37 -0500 01_01_18, grimmwerks wrote:
> >temp=new(#bitmap, castLib "whatever")
>>
> >Jakob
>Well, I just tried this in the message window:
>temp=new(#bitmap, Castlib "Scripts")
>put temp
>-- #bitmap
>...it didn't return the member number at all
?You have a movieScript with a new handle
The properties within a parent script are equivalent to instance variables.
But I want to implement the equivalent of a class variable in my parent
script, so that all child objects created from that parent script can take
into account the value held within that class variable when performing task
Maybe I'm being too nice a guy, but here's a script I'm using to
communicate to a server asynchly, queuing up 4 things to track as well as
flagging an important 'call' and waiting for that one too.
On the whole you can use most of it, but I'm calling it up by the global
'gcomlink', and sending
I have a one-frame movie, where I change bitmaps on the stage by assigning
different bitmap cast members to the one sprite.
Even though the bitmaps are all different size, I've never had to change
the sprite's dimensions: the sprite always adopted the dimensions of the
bitmap cast member.
The
I have a parent script for the connection to my back end application
server. Up till now I have been creating a new instance of that object and
storing it in a global variable. I have just read about the actorlist (I'm
new to Director so I keep discovering these things) and now my current
thinkin
Tom,
Try the FlashPro mailing list.
http://muinar.com/flashpro/
They can help with pretty much anything you need to do in Flash.
Timothy R. Symons
Multimedia Programming Specialist
Curtis, Inc.
> -Original Message-
> From: Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, January 18,
>temp=new(#bitmap, castLib "whatever")
>
>Jakob
Well, I just tried this in the message window:
temp=new(#bitmap, Castlib "Scripts")
put temp
-- #bitmap
...it didn't return the member number at all
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> Perhaps I don't understand the problem here, but I don't see why
> there is a need to go through this process. First, why would you need
> to move a Mac executable (ie. a Projector) to a Windows machine?
Well, maybe I didn´t mention that I have had the problem with non-executables as well.
Es
Hello list!
I need some guidance on setting up a Shockwave piece. I want to have an external cast
devoted to each Shockwave Movie. (Thinking shorter download times.) Anyway,Is it as
easy as making an external cast member in my movie and having it link to that movie?
Do I have to do anything el
On 1/31/01 12:36 AM, Fabricio G. Bissoli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) sent:
>spriteAna= spriteNum
>set listaSpritesMovidos2=[:]
>repeat with i=160 to 264
>if (sprite(i).intersects(spriteAna)) and
findPos(listaSpritesMovidos2,i)=void) then
> listaSpritesMovidos2.addProp(i,(sprite(i).loc))
>
Thanks, I know that, but I meant creating on in Director on the fly.
>
>open movie in QT /export/ image /(setting)
>
>>From: grimmwerks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>To: "Lingo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: imaging lingo works with quictime?
>>Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:20
On 1/17/01 at 4:28 PM, grimmwerks shared the following:
>Hey all
>
>Since I usually use QT, I'm not sure what the answer is here, but can
>anyone point me out to the best xtra to display mpeg1 in a director app
>without QT? Also would it be able to display full screen?
>
As others have said, Dire
At 13:05 1/17/2001, Colby Dodson wrote:
>Does anyone know if on an event you can set the entire movie to a different
>opacity.
If you play your movie within a MIAW, you can set the windowType to a 1-bit
bitmap member. Then change that member reference as needed to a different
1-bit bitmap. More
Hello list,
I was wondering...
I have a large image that I have sliced up into 100x100 squares.
When the user scrolls around the image I want to dynamically pull the images
off a server so I only need to need to pull the parts of the image the user
wants to look at rather than the whole image wh
At 13:28 1/17/2001, grimmwerks wrote:
>Hey all
>
>Since I usually use QT, I'm not sure what the answer is here, but can
>anyone point me out to the best xtra to display mpeg1 in a director app
>without QT? Also would it be able to display full screen?
IMO, that would have to be the DirectMedia Xt
Hi list
I'm normally a director user but for now I ha ve to make a flash project
with QT.
I know you have to convert a QT in flash to a JPEG sequence or something
like that. And import those JPEG again in a new fla file. All that works and
they all play fine. The problem now is that those fla fil
Hi there,
I am authoring using Flash 4 assets in a D7.02 movie. I need to control the
frame that the flash asset is currently displaying as well as the visibles
of some movieclips within the Flash asset.
The way I have done this is to have each frame of the flash asset call a
fram
>Okay, folks. Having this new jewel is only part of the dream. My quest
>is to actually use it. How might I provide on my CD (just *one* for me
>!!) that from my CD - shockwave be installed automatically *only* on my
>machine. I am not taken to MM to get it --- I have no dialog boxes.
Start her
At 22:56 1/17/01, Slava Paperno wrote:
>sprite(X).locV = sprite(X).locV + 3000
>
>What I see is that the text field itself disappears, but its scrollbar
>stays behind, where it was. Setting sprite(X).visible to false makes it go
>away, and resetting visible to true does NOT bring the scrollbar b
Okay, folks. Having this new jewel is only part of the dream. My quest
is to actually use it. How might I provide on my CD (just *one* for me
!!) that from my CD - shockwave be installed automatically *only* on my
machine. I am not taken to MM to get it --- I have no dialog boxes.
Thanks,
Arthu
hiya,
why not have another list contaning what to add each time a value needs to
be changed for a particular oven.
when you reach 1 or 150, just change the sign somehting along the lines
of
oven_list_temperatures = [48,23,25 ]
oven_list_modifying_values = [1,-1,-1]
repeat wi
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>NOW...i CAN keep track of when these ovens reaches 150 but i cant get the
>value to decrese once it does so...(or increse when it reaches 1)
Don't add or subtract 1, instead add a variable that you change when
it gets to the end:
if you use lists, one of them could be to hold the change value
say there are 35 ovens...they all ahve different temperature between 1 and
150. the tempeatures are constanyly increasing or decreasing in a random
order. When a temperature reaches 150 it will start to decrese until it
reaches 1 when it will start ti increase again.
NOW...i CAN keep track of when
I just tested it (Win 98, D7.0.2, MUServer 2.1) and a second user with the
same user name from a different IP address will generate the
error -2147216221 (Invalid User ID) for the second user. If you log in from
the same IP address, with the same user name you won't get any response.
The server a
> Just a quick question before I start playing with it, but can I create a
> bitmap cast member with one frame of a quicktime movie?
QTs don't have an image property AFAIK. I think you'd have to drop it on the
stage, grab the stage image, and go from there.
-Kurt
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>From: grimmwerks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: "Lingo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: imaging lingo works with quictime?
>Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:20:04 -0500
>
>
>Just a quick question before I start playing with it, but can I
> i am trying to keep trck of 25 different "values" which are at first
> randomized between 1 and 150. As soon as the movie starts they will all
> increase its own values until they reach 150 and then they will start do
> decrease until they reach the value of 1 where they will increase back
> aga
i just tested it out...and ive found that it wont log u in at all or give u
and error reportjon
-Original Message-
From: Ryan Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 18 January 2001 13:42
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: MU users getting kicked out...
Hi Pranav. For testing purp
Hi Pranav. For testing purposes the MU server will kick instances of the
same user name, but only from the same IP. If two users try to use the same
user name from different IP addresses then I believe that the second user
gets an "Invalid User ID" error.
Ryan
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From: Pr
I log into a Multiuser movie under one user name. Fine so far. But if I try to log in
again with the same name from another instance of the projector, my previous user with
the same name gets kicked out. Any guesses anyone? Or a light in the right direction?
Regards,
Pranav
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Try searching the articles at www.director-online.com.
I seem to remember an article called "Fun with file IO"
by Fred Bals, that got me started solving the same kind of problem.
Regards, Clars
Kimberly Nyles-Roque wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I am something of a beginner to Lingo and could really use s
My guess is that there are three problems:
1. Director parses strings slowly, so any repeated string wrangling and
putting will tend to slow things down a great deal.
This leads to
2. This script reveals no reason to update those fields THAT often.
A good rule of thumb is to update info only w
ive not done anything else on it yet j, ive had probs with my pc...its got a
virus and wont let m log in...
im gonna reinstall it tonight...
how u doin..
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From: Jonathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 18 January 2001 20:12
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Midi xtra?
Hi Kim,
Macromedia has put up FileIO technotes on
http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/how/show/fileio.html. Its got a demo too
that you can download. A little modification of those scripts should do the trick for
you.
I need to be able to pass the contents of
several user editable text
Thanks for the speedy reply. It works! (which is always a heartening
first step)
Brennan Young wrote:
> Confirmed here, and it should always be remembered that shape members
> are strange beasts. John Dowdell talks about first class and second
> class citizens in Director.
-Strange beasts indeed
Greets,
Check the technotes under director support on the macromedia website.
There's one in there that explains how to...
Hope i've helped
Bye.
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 1:33 PM
Subject:
Hi
I am something of a beginner to Lingo and could really use some direction. I
am working on a piece of Physics simulation software that I will test with
students for my dissertation. I need to be able to pass the contents of
several user editable text areas (Kids answers to questions) and score
Pardon?
-A.
>Hows the game Charecters?
>
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>Behalf Of Jon Paul Alongi
>Sent: 18 January 2001 03:59
>To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>Subject: RE: Midi xtra?
>
>
>i could be wrong, but i think direct xtras does one..
>www.d
No they don't. I checked pretty thoroughly.
-A.
>i could be wrong, but i think direct xtras does one..
>www.directxtras.com
>
>
>jon
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Andreas Gaunitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: 18 January 2001 11:35
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Midi xtra?
>
>
>Hi
Hows the game Charecters?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Jon Paul Alongi
Sent: 18 January 2001 03:59
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: Midi xtra?
i could be wrong, but i think direct xtras does one..
www.directxtras.com
jon
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I have a game with a point scoring system and a timer.
The problem is the frame where the two feild display these values'. It seems
to slow the whole production down, to a point where it is jerky.
This is an example of a a scoring system, attatched to a object with a score
of 1.
Global pPoint
on
i could be wrong, but i think direct xtras does one..
www.directxtras.com
jon
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From: Andreas Gaunitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 18 January 2001 11:35
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Midi xtra?
Hi there,
Anyone tried (the discontinued) Yamaha MidXtra with Dire
Hi there,
Anyone tried (the discontinued) Yamaha MidXtra with Director 8? Did it work?
I am still (after 1/2 year) sort of looking for an Xtra that handles
Midi SysEx communication with hardware synthesizers.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
-Andreas
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Clars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> I'm trying to create a shape on the fly from a behavior, and slap it on
> stage. The first part works fine - the member is created and the puts
> come out the same whether "popup1" is in the cast or not- but then:
>
> We enter the twilight zone.
>
> Two things
Guillaume Gautier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>
> > Where can I find out more about this MAX software?
>
> Go and see the products page on http://www.ircam.fr/index-e.html
...or for the commercial version (which runs on MacOS, unlike the ircam
one) get on your 'chopper' and ride over to
http://
I'm trying to create a planet motion simulator like the one on
http://www.nd.edu/~hahn/orbital/. I even got the script from the same place. But
somehow, the motion of my planets is not proper. It works right on the demo that they
have on their site. But since a lot of values have been hard code
Hello All-
I'm trying to create a shape on the fly from a behavior, and slap it on
stage. The first part works fine - the member is created and the puts
come out the same whether "popup1" is in the cast or not- but then:
We enter the twilight zone.
Two things don't work:
1.
The sprite never sho
Do you need to know, wether a value increases or decreases or do
you need to know wether one of the 25 values hits the 150 or the 1??
Could you tell me for what you need those 25 values??
GReetz Tim
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Gesendet: Donnerstag,
HI list
i am trying to keep trck of 25 different "values" which are at first
randomized between 1 and 150. As soon as the movie starts they will all
increase its own values until they reach 150 and then they will start do
decrease until they reach the value of 1 where they will increase back
ag
I,m using since two years "directmedia xtra" of Tabuleiro da Baiana
http:\\xtras.tabuleiro.com
I think it is one of the best, it's very good
Andrea Giustozzi
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