Yeah I did a little work with it last year, sending sysEx messages between
Director and Opcode Max, didn't get too far but definitely managed to open
up a communication channel. What do you need to know? I have the files
archived and could dig them out if you need, don't know how much use they
Tom
I have encountered the same problem, but I thought it was me and my machine
and I dropped a few frames on the Image Sequence and in one case I changed
the size.
I think I look through the Macromedia Web Page may be in order.
Do you mind if I use your words on an email to the Flash List???
Tom
Try this
http://www.chinwag.com/flasher
Regards
Theo Starr
Almityand-Mega Multimedia
WWW: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~almity1
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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
I'm normally a director user but for now I have to make a
flash project with QT.
Hmm. Flash doesn't import QT, but you can integrate Flash
IN a Quicktime movie file, not an mov in an swf.
You did export all the images as a jpeg sequence and
imported that into flash. That's an ok workaround.
Andreas Gaunitz wrote
I am still (after 1/2 year) sort of looking for an Xtra that handles
Midi SysEx communication with hardware synthesizers.
Any suggestions?
Have you tried MIDIio Xtra (http://www.audiomulch.com/midiio/) from the man
that made the excellent AudioMulch audio synth and
Hi Andreas,
Did you try those xtra ?
1/. MIDI IO : http://www.audiomulch.com/midiio/
2/. Sequence Xtra : http://www.sourceforce.nu
3/. Something called "EZ I/O by M Rodemer E. Bennett , University School
of Art and Design ... but I don't remember the url...
ww
At 12:35 18/01/01 +0100, you
Hello everybody!
I have imported an HTML file into a text field using ImportFileInto. The
links are shown as normal HTML links (underlined and blue), but clicking
them does not produce any results. Neither web pages nor local files are
opened. How can I make the links work?
Thanks in advance
Hi, Rich.
Thanks for your help, but I will explain more cleary what I need:
Imagine a card game. I need move some cards (intersecteds) over the table.
I will use the rightMouseDown and rightMouseUp to do this. When I press the
right botton over a card, is verifyed all the cards what make
heh, what does this have to with the thread
"Flash question urgent"??
heheh. =)
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Thanks Tom and Bjarne,
I know this isn't your main issue, but I don't think you need to copy
Mac Xtras to the PC.
You see, since I author on the PC and use a runtime Xtras folder (as opposed
to embedding them in the projector), I need a place to keep all the bits of
the project together - mac
Hello All
Generating a shape from a behavior, I got a script working with the help
of Brennan Young:
on createShape me, aName, aShapeType, aFilled, aPattern, aRect,
aLineSize
--syntax:createShape(me, string(memberName), symbol(shapeType),/
--boolean(filled), integer(pattern),
Hi,
You have to make use of 'on hyperlinkClicked' handler
something like this if you are using using http links,
on hyperlinkClicked me, data, range
if data starts "http://" then
goToNetPage(data)
end if
end
---
Ramesh CT
Team Leader - Multimedia
Phoenix Global
Hi all and thank in advance
I have opened a old Director project and can view all the Behaviours applied
in the Behaviours window, although I cannot add New or apply old ones.
Anyone know what I have disabled. Please help.
Gordon
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member("shape1").filled = 0 --or FALSE
-it disappears! This is not the case with shapes created with the
Toolbox widget.
I'm using D8 win98.
Can anyone confirm/explain?
Just a shot in the dark, but I create all my invisible buttons by making an
unfilled shape with a hairline line width.
Greetings,
How do I determine if a PC doesn't have Shockwave installed, and how do I
automatically (with the owners permission of course) install it from the CD?
I have gone through the Macromedia site for the license but I'm at a loss as
to the next step.
Thanks in advance,
George Carlile
Hi Karina,
I need a place to keep all the bits of
the project together - mac and pc, projectors and Xtras. One place would be
my own computer, another place would be the server. But since it's an NT
server, it's basically another PC...
Is your NT server running file server for mac service? This
Karina Steffens wrote:
Just a shot in the dark, but I create all my invisible buttons by making an
unfilled shape with a hairline line width. Maybe your code created one of
those? What line size are you passing? If it's the right one, try adding put
"mem.lineSize". If that doesn't solve it,
Karina,
It's not the end of the world, I was just hoping there's some sort of
Cross-Platform doctoring application out there that can keep the
associations intact, since neither "Here and Now" (for reading mac
volumes)
nor "Pc MacLan" (for cross platform networking) seem to do the trick
here.
Hi Ramesh!
The "on hyperlinkClicked" really soved my problem.
thanks a lot
Araik
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???./ 777-2445
http://www.vida.ru
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Your shot in the dark hit me... where I was sitting, in the dark...
Yippy! *blows on the barrel*
Thanks much! It works!
You're very welcome :)
Karina
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Thanks to everyone that helped me clear up my
Actionscript/Lingo problem, but now there is a new
aituation of sorts. The sound From my Flash 4 swf file
will not play in my Director 7 Projector. The sounds are
all WAV files and play in the Flash Player but not in
Director itself nor in the
Sorry for jumping the gun guys, I figured it out as I
was sending the email that I needed to add the
FlashAsset Xtra to the Projector. It runs fine now, but
thanks again to all the contributors of this great list.
william m-
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How do I detect when a film loop has done done a single loop :
on enterFrame me
originalSprite=member"orginal"
sprite(me.spriteNum).member=origianalSprite
if sprite 2 intersects sprite(me.spritenum) then
sprite(me.spritenum).membernum=member"FILM LOOP"
WHEN THE LOOP IS DONE
Can somebody help me out...
I want to do something like pac man where you have to collect a number of
sprite on the stage before advancing on to another level.
So, on each frame how can I count how many sprites are whithin channel 100
to 150, then how can I count how many of those sprites loch
hello!!
im fairly new to lingo.
am creating an interactive environment in the ocean.
i want to create a sript when, let say a fish
intersects another fish and then swims off, on this
event the dolphins would enter the scene and so on
like a predatory cycle. wot kind of scripting would i
have to
So, on each frame how can I count how many sprites are whithin channel 100
to 150, then how can I count how many of those sprites loch is 200 using
the
loch200 to determine that the sprite have been eaten.
You should look at sendallsprites #message. Here's one easy approach:
in your exitframe
I have tried this, it is counting them but getting to the max aint working
The Frame Script:::
Global pPowerMinus,countCollection, countCollectionMax
Property pTimex, pCounter, pLimit, pTimexz
on beginSprite me
pTimex = 0
pCounter = 0
pLimit = 900
countCollection = 0
end beginSprite
on checkdot
global nodots
if the loch of sprite the currentspritenum 200 then set nodots = false
end
It looks from your handlers that you are sending the dots off to
-200. If that's the case, change my routine above to say:
if the loch of sprite the currentspritenum 0 then set
Hi Geoffrey,
Thanks for your help, but I'm afraid I'll need more info :(
On NT go to File Manager. Select Mac File. Select Associate. You will
then see a box where you set the file type and creator.
We had the same problem months ago and pulled our hair out finding the
answer.
Pulling
I am sure something simple like this should do it :
on enterframe me
sprite(3).loch=-200
if sprite(3).loch0 then
sprite(3).loch=200
end if
if sprite (3).loch= 1 then
sprite(3).loch=sprite(3).loch+4
if sprite(3).loch=500 then --the end of your stage
sprite(3).loch=-200
Hi Cole,
Is your NT server running file server for mac service? This would at
least preserve your mac files. You'd still need a mac to upload them,
but at least it would be a safe place to keep them.
I think so - it runs PC maclan for the network, and as long as I use the mac
to copy the
I am in need of help. I lost the scripting for creating
an autorun for Director Projectors. I believe that you
go into notepad and create a document that contains the
following:
[autorun]
open=intro.exe
icon=icon.ico
If this is correct, please give me the thunbs up (this
is my
At 00:08 1/19/2001, Fumio Nonaka wrote:
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.
I never noticed that. I
Hi Jonathan,
there is unfortunatley no property, which determines the end of a filmloop.
But you can help yourself with a workaround like this:
for that you must know the length of your spriteAnimation before you created
a filmloop out of it. (e.g. 42 frames)
Hi list!
I've got a problem with a the charpostoloc function when I try to
repositioning a text , this function doesn't work well, because the
position is not correct, it happens when the text castmember is
long more than 16384 pixel (it's fixed size castmember)
Is a memoy problem or what?
At 09:07 1/19/2001, William Mincy wrote:
[autorun]
open=intro.exe
icon=icon.ico
If this is correct, please give me the thunbs up (this
is my first professional presentation for this company
and I do not wish to blow it).
Thumbs up - with conditions.
It's correct as long as
Fabricio, I've already explained why your script doesn't work so it will
be helpful if you re-read my last post. The problem lies, in largest
part, with your reassignment of "spriteAnal" and "i" within the repeat
loop.
To acheive what you want (rightMouseDown on a card to verify all cards
I'm normally a director user but for now I have to make a
flash project with QT.
Hmm. Flash doesn't import QT, but you can integrate Flash
IN a Quicktime movie file, not an mov in an swf.
You did export all the images as a jpeg sequence and
imported that into flash. That's an ok
PS. Can someone recommend a good Screen Saver creation program?
Hi Checkout CineMac for Director at http://www.macsourcery.com it converts
director movies into screen savers and is available for either Mac or
Windows. WE've been making it since 1995, so its well battle tested...
There is a demo
Hey all, sorry, but I'm trying to finish a quick 1-day turnaround cdrom
(yeah, I know).
Since the platform is win, I'm just dealing with avi files (since the
client didn't want to use quicktime)
I've got an intro flash movie with audio...when that ends, or clicking
the old 'skip' button
but then it won't give up the audio for the avi...
any suggestions?
Set the sounddevice to "directsound" to fix the avi, and pause the
Flash sprite to shut it up.
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It's screwed up though; Flash is on frame 1; clicking that flips me to
frame 5 where the vid is. The flash audio is still heard although the vid
is not in that frame, so not sure how I can stop a sprite that is
'bleeding' across the frames...
Did you try pausing the Flash sprite before going to
Never mind Colin -- setting the sounddevice on the frame after the flash
worked.
Thanks.
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PS. Can someone recommend a good Screen Saver creation program?
Hi
Hey Colin -
It's screwed up though; Flash is on frame 1; clicking that flips me to
frame 5 where the vid is. The flash audio is still heard although the vid
is not in that frame, so not sure how I can stop a sprite that is
'bleeding' across the frames...
I'll set the sounddevice on that
Karina,
6. Left file manager and tested the files, but did not restart. I
believe
the server will be rebooted tonight.
Restart should fix it.
Regards,
Geoffrey
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At 08:47 1/19/2001, Karina Steffens wrote:
Hi Cole,
Is your NT server running file server for mac service? This would at
least preserve your mac files. You'd still need a mac to upload them,
but at least it would be a safe place to keep them.
I think so - it runs PC maclan for the
Karina,
Sounds like you may have lost the resource fork on these mac files.
Cross platform files like director casts and movies can be
reassociated. But mac applications and xtras have executable code in
their resource forks. What typically happens when you move a mac app
to a pc and back
been using director for a while now, but i can't seem to
figure out how to clear the message window with lingo or if it's even
possible...if there is a way can any tell me the command please...
thank you
ken
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HI I am trying to make a login where the users name and password will be the
name of a text file where later storing data about te user. I have used this
lingo code but i am not sure how to set a variable for the name of the text
file. The user types the username and password and a txt file is
At 2:12 PM -0800 1/19/01, Ken Huynh wrote:
been using director for a while now, but i can't seem to
figure out how to clear the message window with lingo or if it's
even possible...if there is a way can any tell me the command
please...
Command or Control A (select all), Delete or
please go to http://www.imaginarystudio.com in the high-bandwidth site go
to the laboratory section and click on narrative puzzle.
thanks.
b
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At 3:40 PM -0500 1/18/01, Ian Jempson wrote:
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
please go to http://www.imaginarystudio.com in the high-bandwidth site go
to the laboratory section and click on narrative puzzle.
Did that. The theme images don't appear on rollover.
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Then again, I may have been using one of those Shareware or PD Mac
utilities like Drop-n-Rename. I can't remember the name of it, but there
was a Drop-n-SomethingOrAnother that set the type/creator by file
extension. I remember that it was extremely easy
At 1:44 PM -0800 1/18/01, Watson, Christopher wrote:
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
Subject: RE: lingo-l Can HTML links work in a Director movie?
hi, probably a silly questinbut why do u have to use the handler doest
the gotonetpage ("http://whatever.com") work
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The class pretty much corresponds to the script.
You can access properties of the script as well as properties of
script instances, so properties of the script would correspond to
class variables.
the script can be addressed from an instance (D8) like so:
me.script
So a class variable could be
hi, i have an offtopic question regarding photoshop and printing. i am
trying to print an image 800x600 however when it prints it merely gives me
a size of about 320x240. I had a look at preference and stuff and played
with it. but still doesn't provide with the results that i need. does
anyone
hi, i have an offtopic question regarding photoshop and printing. i am
trying to print an image 800x600 however when it prints it merely gives me
a size of about 320x240. I had a look at preference and stuff and played
with it. but still doesn't provide with the results that i need. does
anyone
ok.. thank you.
Elvin M. Certeza, Jr.
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hi list,
i am facing a problem of opening a HTML link from my Director
presentation. As my presentation has sound and the html file which i have to
open also has sound which is a flash page.
i got the idea of opening the browser in director presentation
through Microsoft web
Can dot syntax be used to access a property list element whose
property name is constructed as a string?
For example:
myList = [#a1: "one", #a2: "two", #a3: "three"]
myProp = "a" 1
This works...
put getAt(myList, myProp)
-- "one"
But this generates an error...
put myList.myProp
Script
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