Re: Re: lingo-l New Error On Script for Scaling Graphic

2001-04-16 Thread Irv Kalb
At 10:26 PM -0400 4/15/01, Kurt Griffin wrote: David, You are getting this specific error message because the keyword "sprite" only takes one parameter - the spriteNumber. The question is, what are you trying to say when you keep referencing: sprite(1, "pictures") ??? sprite(1)

Re: lingo-l OOP E BOOK

2001-04-16 Thread Irv Kalb
Yes, this is the correct address. It is the first seven chapters on a book on Object Oriented Programming in Lingo. Available for free. Enjoy, Irv At 5:02 PM +0100 4/15/01, Victor Wright wrote: Yes it is IRV KALB and the web address he gave was http://www.furrypants.com/loope Vic -

lingo-l charToNum

2001-04-16 Thread N. Taylor
To Tab: That was a great explaination of what is wrong with my script. Thanks for patiently explaining it to me. However, I'm still getting errors and I'm getting really confused. Could I send you the .dir file? If you're cool with this, thanks in advance. Nancy

Re: lingo-l Ticks -- seconds

2001-04-16 Thread Rodrigo Peres
on 4/11/01 7:42 AM, Mark A. Boyd at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:33 4/11/2001, Rodrigo Peres wrote: hi to all, How the best way to convert seconds to ticks?? I'm usinng th HMSToframes to convert 00:00:13 to seconds and then put it * 60 to get the ticks, but it's not working. What I

RE: lingo-l Xtra missing message

2001-04-16 Thread Brown, William K
Clars, Thanks for the info. I'll give that it a shot. I did get my projector to play correctly. The help docs say that if you have dupes it can cause problems with director. I deleted the extra xtras that my TEMP folder had. As soon as I did this my probem went away. However, I'm getting

lingo-l what is mazeRect + pRectList?!

2001-04-16 Thread sadie
Dear list, I'm really new to lingo and thought it was dead clever of me to use a script I found in Director online to help me pass the first year of my degree. I'm trying to build a simple maze game and used the example I found at www.director-online.com in the archives entitled more fun with

RE: lingo-l Playing MPEG in Director - whats the story?

2001-04-16 Thread Colin Kettenacker
Oops, Kerry. You can play MPEG beautifully in DfW without an Xtra. Assuming we're talking about 3rd-party Xtras here -- since Director's QuickTime support comes via Xtras -- you can embed a Windows Media Player ActiveX control in your app, for example. This uses ActiveX.x32, which also

RE: lingo-l what is mazeRect + pRectList?!

2001-04-16 Thread Steven Sacks
Yes, plagiarism is a dead clever way to pass the first year of your degree. ;) Without actually seeing the code, you probably need to declare pRectList as a property at the top of the script property pRectList Cheers, Steven -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: lingo-l downloading media

2001-04-16 Thread Al Hospers
if i make a cd rom that has high quality video should i ask the user to download the movie files to their hard drive? not unless you want to make them mad. where exactly should they download them to on pc and mac. see previous then do i need to externally link to the files? you should

RE: lingo-l what is mazeRect + pRectList?!

2001-04-16 Thread Steven Sacks
what are you going to do when the teacher asks you how the code works? "how's [being clever] working out for you?" - Tyler Durden (paraphrased) from Fight Club [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: lingo-l Ticks -- seconds

2001-04-16 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 12:43 4/12/2001, Rodrigo Peres wrote: on 4/11/01 7:42 AM, Mark A. Boyd at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:33 4/11/2001, Rodrigo Peres wrote: hi to all, How the best way to convert seconds to ticks?? I'm usinng th HMSToframes to convert 00:00:13 to seconds and then put it * 60 to

lingo-l downloading media reply

2001-04-16 Thread mike massey
hi tab what is the adress of " alt.comp.multimedia?? i am always lloking for good multimedia resources mike __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ [To remove yourself from this list, or

lingo-l Firewall and postnettext?

2001-04-16 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Hey all - Created a director app that does a lot of calls, login, tracking, etc, to a server. One client can't even connect to the server, and they're behind a firewall.so trying to track down how a director connects from behind a firewallany leads [To remove yourself from this list,