Re: Transparent MIAW's

At 04:34 2/12/2001, Quixadá wrote: >yes, it works on d7. the 1 bit bitmap must be in the main movie cast, not >in the miaw's cast. Or you can 'tell' the MIAW to execute a movie script handler. If the script is in the MIAW it can successfully reference its own internal members. Or, I believe, i

Re: transparant miaw

At 07:53 2/12/2001, Vanden Broeck, Daniel wrote: >My question is how can I make the rest of this miaw also transparant, If I >push on the button the first onebit image needs to be replaced by the new >one. You can change out the window's mask as often as you like. I just did a crude test in whic

Re: Director book

Colby Dodson wrote > Does anyone know of a good Director book with a lot of advanced lingo tips? Its old (pre-behaviour versions of Director) and its version of OOPs in lingo is a little quirky -- but I've always liked Peter Small's "Lingo Sorcery" Luke [To remove yourself from this list, or

Re: burning hybrid CD. . .

on 9/2/01 7:55 AM, gopinath at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > put all the stuff in a folder and use files and folders mode > Regards > Gopinath > > PS: and thanks for all your previous helps funny this was posted on the 9th which even appeared in the list how did it reappear the following one is al

Re: Director book

Also "Director 8 and Lingo Bible." It's a very good book that has helped me many times, especially with inter-sprite communications. "Watson, Christopher" wrote: > > In no particular order: > > "Using Macromedia Director 8: Special Edition" > by Gary Rosenzweig > ISBN: 0789723344 > > "Directo

Re: Score Recording

>All works well, but at the end of the startMovie >program execution stops, where I want it to go on with playing the just >created movie. Your startMovie handler stops when the movie starts, if that makes sense. You need some mechanism to keep things happening. If you haven't used puppetSprit

Re: Director book

PFK e-Business Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Thanks a lot > From: Kerry Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:17:51 -0800 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Director book > > My unofficial ranki

fileNmae behind a firewall :{

i am trying to use fileName to update images on a shockwave movie, but i am running into problems with anyone that is behind a firewall, anyone have a workaround? [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

RE: Director book

My unofficial rankings: >"Using Macromedia Director 8: Special Edition" >by Gary Rosenzweig The best overall. >"Director 8 and Lingo Authorized" >by Phil Gross Haven't read--can't rate it. >"Advanced Lingo for Games" >by Gary Rosenzweig Great Lingo book, great game code. Not a general-purpos

Score Recording

Hello List! In a startMovie handler I am creating a complete movie from scratch, i. e. cast members are created, bitmap files imported, sprites created, scripts attached, and so on. All works well, but at the end of the startMovie program execution stops, where I want it to go on with playing the

RE: Director book

In no particular order: "Using Macromedia Director 8: Special Edition" by Gary Rosenzweig ISBN: 0789723344 "Director 8 and Lingo Authorized" by Phil Gross ISBN: 0201702622 "Advanced Lingo for Games" by Gary Rosenzweig ISBN: 078972331X "Lingo in a Nutshell" by Bruce Epstein ISBN: 1565924932 -=

RE: import text from Excel to v12 database

Hello Dejan, I see that you posted your question to V12-L too and I am hopeful that the responses you received answered your question. If not, feel free to contact me at my support E-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enjoy your day Lingologists! -Warren. [not the Howdy, but howdy anyways!] [To re

Re: Director book

>Does anyone know of a good Director book with a lot of advanced lingo tips? Try Gary Rosenzweig's book on Director 8. I can't remember the title off the top of my head (and my copy is 2,500 miles away), but you can find it on Amazon just by searching on his name. Cordially, Kerry Thompson Le

Re: Director book

>Does anyone know of a good Director book with a lot of advanced lingo tips? Yes. [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 i

Director book

PFK e-Business Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Does anyone know of a good Director book with a lot of advanced lingo tips? Thanks colby [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi T

Re: Thanks Mark

>... the property inspector. I have attempted almost an entire day trying >to make the damn thing get out of the way. Just be sure at least a corner of the property inspector is on-screen. You get all sorts of weird behavior if you just close it down--windows don't refresh, that sort of thin

Thanks Mark

I finally figured the problem. The movie had just a two frame sequence that played the quicktime. Adding in more frames to begin with was what it took. Not sure why... It is nice to know that MM is adopting Microsoft's attitude of knowing what is best for us on the property inspector. I feel

Opening browsers in kiosk mode

Hi all, I want to open the browser in kioskmode from Lingo. Earlier I used this line for Netscape with succes: open (the pathName & "mypage.html") with browserName() & " -sk" Now I want this also for Explorer because since v5.0 Internet Explorer can also be opened in kiosk mode. So I made it li

Re: MUI question..

Chris (and lingo-l crowd): The way that I get values from text fields in MUI is kind of kludgy, but it works. In my callback handler, I scan for the element number of the editable text I want to use, and set a global to the value of the associated element list, like this... on testDialogCB actio

RE: sound question

I would check out the lingo command 'sound playFile'. Not only would this reduce the size of your .dir file but also (and perhaps more importantly) the amount of RAM needed to play the sounds. cheers -- Richard Tribe Director Programmer - Interactive dept. > -- > From: Steffan

Re: burning hybrid CD. . .

on 12/2/01 7:33 PM, roy crisman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Somebody at my company needs to stop buying stuff just cause it looks neat > or looks like a bargain On the dot.. same here in this Arabic world > > So, apparently there's a different version of toast 4 that has the option > of maki

import text from Excel to v12 database

I have long excel file to import into v12 database. I have 8 fields, but the problem is that one of them is a product description and contains lots of line feeds within excel cell. When I export excel file in text tab delimited format I can import file in v12, but description field does not contai

Re: burning hybrid CD. . .

At 9:33 -0600 01_02_12, roy crisman wrote: >So, apparently there's a different version of toast 4 that has the >option of making a partition in that OS. Hmm... I recently encountered a Mac where Toast 4.x didn't do all the things I've come to expect. Namely it didn't mount a temporary partition

transparant miaw

HI I had this respons on my transparant miaw question, which works fine. Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 14:01:33 +0100 From: "Martin Sandberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: SV: Make the background of a miaw partially transparent You can use a 1-bit graphic as windowType, m

Re: Drop down menu items with installMenu

Hi I would like to make a dropup menu. also another question regarding menus. I've got a miaw of a specific size, but I would like to make a menu that opens to the left or the right, but the actual button is in the miaw, but everything that pops out of that one button will appear out side the mia

Re: burning hybrid CD. . .

What I said was Mac OS 9 won't allow you to create a partition in any version of Toast other that 4.1.1 (the latest version). If you're using Toast 4 and have OS 8.x and Toast, then you CAN create a partition. At 09:33 AM 2/12/01 -0600, you wrote: >But we used to be able to make a mac partitio

Re: burning hybrid CD. . .

But we used to be able to make a mac partition, and have the PC files there, and end up with a layout something like: Mac onlyShared PC Only start *.dxr files start.exe Mac QT Inst.*.cxt files PC QT Installer Mac Xtras *.mov files PC Xtras but if

SV: Linebreak using FileIO

worked great .thanks -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Skickat: den 12 februari 2001 09:37 Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ämne: Re: Linebreak using FileIO Try this on the PC vText = "Pranav" & numtochar(13) & numtochar(10) & "

Re: Transparent MIAW's

yes, it works on d7. the 1 bit bitmap must be in the main movie cast, not in the miaw's cast. At 06:41 12/02/01 +0400, you wrote: >on 1/2/01 3:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] >wrote: > > > Create a 1bit bitmap cast member and set the window type of your MIAW to > > the name of that

Re: Linebreak using FileIO

Try this on the PC vText = "Pranav" & numtochar(13) & numtochar(10) & "Negandhi" Then write vText into the file How can you create a linebreak (enterkey?) in a .txt document using FileIO. Regards, Pranav [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://w