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2001-01-26 Thread Colin Holgate
>on mouseUp me > > if myScore alert"Your Score ain't worth Shit!" > end if > > if myScore> pScoreValue04 then > pScoreValue04 = myname&&myScore > end if > > if myScore> pScoreValue03 then > if myScore< pScoreValue02 then > pScoreValue03 = myname&&myScore > end if >

Re: movieTine Script error

2001-01-26 Thread Colin Holgate
>Script error: Property not found >if the movieTime of sprite 3 < the duration of member "Skimmer" then >#duration > >The script is exactly the same in all frames except for the member names >which is the same as the member in the frame. I think this may be the same problem someone else had rece

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2001-01-26 Thread Kevin McCarthy
hello, can anyone help I'm trying to insert a score into four different text fields. problem is each field is detirmined by the value myscore and where it go in the hierarchy this being pScoreValue01 = 4000 pScoreValue02 = 3000 pScoreValue03 = 2000 pScoreValue04 = 1000 and weather myscore

Re: unsubscribe

2001-01-26 Thread grimmwerks
Hi Ivan That's ok, but just read the bottom of the mail to find out how to do that On 27 Jan 2001, who ivon comrode wrote: > hi > > for couple of month i like to unsubscribe the mails > > thanks > ivon > > _ > Chat with your friends

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2001-01-26 Thread who ivon comrode
hi for couple of month i like to unsubscribe the mails thanks ivon _ 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 to http

movieTine Script error

2001-01-26 Thread Beertje
Greetings I have a series of several .avi files, all with the same script: on enterFrame set the movieRate of sprite 3 = 1 set the stageColor = the stageColor end and on the exitFrame: on exitFrame if the movieTime of sprite 3 < the duration of member "Skimmer" then go to the frame

RE: quick problem !!!

2001-01-26 Thread Kevin McCarthy
thanks for the reply Tab, sorry about the return reciept thing (well I will be anyway), it does not recognise "not" or it displays it in Black, but it does'nt to work.any other ideas? can you expand on the code below maybe here's a sample of script sprite(6).member=myped if sprite 6 inte

Re: quick problem !!!

2001-01-26 Thread Tab Julius
if not (sprite(whatever).member = "jumpingloop") then -- Must be okay to process, since it's not the jump... end if assuming I understood your question correctly. Incidentally, don't post to Lingo-L with Return Receipt Requested. There are 3000 people on this list - I don't think you want

quick problem !!!

2001-01-26 Thread Kevin McCarthy
hi, Can anyone help. I have a game, the game has two pieces of grass at each side of a road and a sprite driving up the road, if the sprite intersects the grass at either side it's energy is reduced. problem is I have a jump and when the sprite hits the jump the sprites member changes to a loop

Re: UTC

2001-01-26 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 17:43 1/26/01, Mark A. Boyd wrote: > if now.word[2] = "PM" then > hrs = hrs + 12 > end if I didn't test this very thoroughly. You may need to tweek it some to deal with the noon/midnight mess on a 12 hour clock. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this lis

Re: Projector quits in only a few seconds

2001-01-26 Thread Beertje
Thanks Mark, After I sent this I discovered my stupid error. Doh George > How about putting a framescript in it that makes it go the frame > > Sincerely > > Mark > > > Mark R. Jonkman > Mark R. Jonkman Consulting > ADDRESS: 20 Windermere Crt., Guelp

Re: UTC

2001-01-26 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 12:06 1/26/01, Michael C. Hanson wrote: >Does Lingo have any function for getting UTC? >More specifically, getting the time in seconds >since 1/1/1970 ? Warning! This post has lots of secs in it ;-) I don't think it's built in, but it's easy enough to create. Here are two scripts that should

on keypress interaction loose a live?

2001-01-26 Thread FUZZ FX
hi i need help!! ive got an object that moves on the cursors (left,right,etc)and when this object interects with the other it has to loose a live as (im making a 2player game). it doesnt work. But when i use the drag function to intersect this object it works. my script looks like this: on mouse

RE: color depth issues

2001-01-26 Thread Mark R. Jonkman
Hi d To answer at least part of your question, generally when you import an image with importFileInto command, it will default to 24 or 32 bit, never seen it default to 16 bit, but perhaps it depends on what the bitdepth of the monitor is. If your using Director 8, you could convert these images

color depth issues

2001-01-26 Thread Dierdre Dixon
Hi List! Here are some graphics issues in Director that I am embarassingly unclear about and am hoping someone can clear up. Thanx in advance. 1. Say we're doing an interactive where we need to import some members at 32-bit cuz we need the alpha channels. But we're running the movie in 16 bit c

Re: Having trouble managing my director file

2001-01-26 Thread Jordan L. Chilcott
on 1/25/01 6:56 PM, Nigel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have just started programming in Lingo. I am having trouble managing my > project since this is not Java or C++ and I can't organise my code "nicely" > into well defined autonomous objects (I tried using parent scripts, and then > treating

RE: Projector quits in only a few seconds

2001-01-26 Thread Mark R. Jonkman
How about putting a framescript in it that makes it go the frame Sincerely Mark Mark R. Jonkman Mark R. Jonkman Consulting ADDRESS: 20 Windermere Crt., Guelph, ON, CANADA N1E 3L4 PHONE: 519-837-8509 EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Projector quits in only a few seconds

2001-01-26 Thread Beertje
I created a small projector (.exe) that quits in just a few seconds after it starts. It also does it as a movie (.dcr). None of the other files that I created have this problem (yet). What am I not putting in the .dir file. I am using D8 with Win 2000. Thanks in advance, George Carlile [EMAIL PR

Re: Having trouble managing my director file

2001-01-26 Thread Carl West
Nigel wrote: > ...I am using Lingo for just about everything, and find > that I hate opening the script window because of the big mess waiting for me > when I open it. Hmmm... Maybe you already know these things but if you don't, you should, they make my life easier. You can sort scripts out in

Re: Can I call a phone Number???

2001-01-26 Thread Boaz Berda
In case you are trying to dial a PPP connection try our DirectConnection Xtra. In case you want to call a regular phone number (with no computer at the other end) you can use our DirectComm Xtra in order to dial a number by using the user's modem Both are cross platform. The trial versions of

Re: internet connected

2001-01-26 Thread Boaz Berda
Feel free to try our DirectConnection Xtra at: http://www.directxtras.com The trial version includes documentation and a sample Director movie that utilizes the Xtra by letting you connect/disconnect dial-up connections, track connections status, create, modify, delete connection profiles

RE: DropDownList behaviour

2001-01-26 Thread Mark R. Jonkman
Hi Ian You might want to make sure that you are using a field castmember and not a text member when working with that particular behaviour. Without studying the behaviour in greater depth I can't offer a suggestion but it does state that it was designed to be used with a field member and not a t

DropDownList behaviour

2001-01-26 Thread Ian Jempson
I have been fighting with this all afternoon and I just can't make this work for some reason. Sprite 23 is a text member and I have dropped the DropDownList behaviour on it from the Library pallette. My current code is follows (adapted from the comments in the source for the behaviour): ob

Re: Browser to shockwave communication

2001-01-26 Thread Robert Koberg
Is this the same movie or are you changing movies? If it is the same, then you can use postNetText to call, in your case, an ASP. The ASP would return a text stream with the data you need. If it is a different movie you can write the shockwave html in the ASP and provide additional parameter(s) i

Re: Stripping "_" from a variable

2001-01-26 Thread Bill Numerick
Nevermind i figured it out . Thanks for your help and time. -Bill _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/L

UTC

2001-01-26 Thread Michael C. Hanson
Does Lingo have any function for getting UTC? More specifically, getting the time in seconds since 1/1/1970 ? It's a pretty standard function in other languages but I'm not sure about lingo. Thanks! -- Michael C. Hanson Quicksilver Software, INC. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.quicksilv

imaging code to isolate RGB channel (?)

2001-01-26 Thread Roy Pardi
Anyone have a routine to separate the RGB channels of an image? -- Roy Pardi --- Contract Multimedia Developer + Lingo Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

backgrounds

2001-01-26 Thread JUAN COLON
anyone were to get 3d worlds in pieces to implemet in Director. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/l

Where to publish Lingo fun ?

2001-01-26 Thread amp5315
OK - put up a page (a really awful page) with screenshots of what ive been messing around with lately, would like to publish some of these with their corresponding educational strategies and / or underlying 'How to Get Effect X in Lingo' if anyone has interest and can tell me where to go for sub

SV: Browser to shockwave communication

2001-01-26 Thread Rainer Ohman
The shockwave movie needs to be feed with data from a SQL Server database, so get/setprefs isn't an option for this project. I'm looking for a more robust and dynamic solution. I'm sure I read something about someone using the Multiuser Server to get around the browser/platform issue... - Rainer

Re: Stripping "_" from a variable

2001-01-26 Thread grimmwerks
set the itemdelimeter to "_" then just start parsing all of em out one by one... >Hi all, > >I'm trying to figure out how i can strip any underscores out of a variable. >I'm sure its something simple that i'm just missing. > >Thanks in advanced for any help. [http://w

Stripping "_" from a variable

2001-01-26 Thread Bill Numerick
Hi all, I'm trying to figure out how i can strip any underscores out of a variable. I'm sure its something simple that i'm just missing. Thanks in advanced for any help. -Bill _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://ex

Re: Browser to shockwave communication

2001-01-26 Thread grimmwerks
Once again, why don't you just use get/setprefs and have both shocks look to that when needed? [http://www.grimmWERKS.com ]-- [ graphic design -|- sound design -|- shockwave -|- lingo -|- cdrom ] [To remove yourself from this list, or t

Browser to shockwave communication

2001-01-26 Thread Rainer Öhman
Hi list! Does anybody know of a cross-browser/-platform solution for sending a string to a Shockwave movie in the same html/asp page? My understanding of externalEvent is that it rules out a number of browsers/platforms. Are there any alternativs to evalScript and externalEvent for establishing

Re: movie hack/director request

2001-01-26 Thread Clars
What's QuicKeys? Is there a URL? "Terry R. Schussler" wrote: > Use QuicKeys or some other macro utility. > > Regards, > > Terry > > -- > > ...---===| Terry R. Schussler |===---... > ...---===| Chief Investigator |===---... > > on visitWebsite yourSelection > coolSites = [ \ >#great

Re: quicktimechanger

2001-01-26 Thread Neil Madsen
Björn... Try putting both QT's into 1 file with 2 video tracks and then use setTrackEnabled to turn them on and off as needed. ie. on mouseUp me sprite(1).setTrackEnabled(2, TRUE) sprite(1).setTrackEnabled(1, FALSE) end mouseUp This will turn on the 2nd video track and turn off the 1st vi

Can I call a phone Number???

2001-01-26 Thread Tridib Ghosh
Can I call/Dial a phone Number from within a director Projector??? _ 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 to http://w

internet connected

2001-01-26 Thread kevin dowd
Hello, I'm working through a mac/win dir 8 projector (unlimited xtras !) and I'd like to do the following. I need to check for a live internet connection without actually initiating the connection - I can't ping the server or use getnettext because director will start dialling up. Just to m

Re: Problems trying to play 4 different mp3 files at the same time

2001-01-26 Thread Jonatan Wallgren
You can use sound(somechannel).currenttime and sound(someotherchannel).play([#member: member(whichmember), #startTime: milliseconds]) ___ Jonatan Wallgren Xtractor Interactive Brännkyrkagatan 70 118 23 Stockholm 08 - 668 18 20 - Original Message - From: "Joel Tec" <[EMA

SV: sound corruption?

2001-01-26 Thread Magnus Ewald
that was what i was afraid of.BUT is ver.8 of director any better on THIS specific problem? -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: Richard Tribe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Skickat: den 26 januari 2001 11:01 Till: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Ämne: RE: sound corruption? I have had similar experience...

RE: sound corruption?

2001-01-26 Thread Richard Tribe
I have had similar experience... in my case upgrading from one Dell NT box to a newer one made the D7 sound quality appalling unless I set the sounddevice = "QT3mix" as you have been advised. The project I was working on installed Qt for video playback anyway so I never actually investigated which

quicktimechanger

2001-01-26 Thread Björn Fundberg
Hello! I am trying to shift castmembers (between two quicktimemovies). No problem so far... However, I also want the movies to show the same moment (i.e movietime). When the user clicks the movie, the movie is changed and the new movie shows the same passage (For the real project, a rendered mov