lingo-l Re: CROSS-PLATFORM ISSUES

i'm trying to cut a cross-platform disc that can play on PC and MAC. is it possible to have a window that opens on the MAC and only has the exe showing and the other files hidden from view, yet at the same time have an autorun that runs on the PC, without them both conflicting - when i cut the

lingo-l Planning a project

Good day/night, developers. Sorry for such a kind of question in this list, however it is directly connected with Lingo and any Director project. The question is: what tools/methods/techniques do you, the experienced ones, use to plan your projects, especially your scripts? The answer 'paper

lingo-l gotonetpage to send an email with a body

Hello list, I want to send an email from a director movie; the body of the email being the content of a field, so I am using the following: gotonetpage mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=whateverbody=; member(body).text The field member body does not integrate properly when the mail shows as the

Re: lingo-l Re: CROSS-PLATFORM ISSUES

Yes. Look to director-online.com and do a search for hybrid cd-rom. [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 is for

Re: lingo-l Recompiling scripts with lingo

Doesn't saving a movie recompile? At least in authoring, there are alerts if the are script errors. Doubtful at runtime- they probably don't do that sort of check- easy enough to test though. I think saving does re-compile all scripts, but I'd rather not save -- even though my code for

lingo-l subscribe Lingo

subscribe Lingo [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 is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]

lingo-l field chars

hello list can anyone tell me the script to limit the no of characters in a field thanx manisha Get 250 color business cards for FREE! http://businesscards.lycos.com/vp/fastpath/ [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi

RE: lingo-l field chars

Hi Manisha, Just do a little behavior to filter the inputs onthe field, something like: property gpdlMaxCharCnt property pMember on beginSPrite me pMember = sprite(me.spriteNum).member end -- beginPSrite on keyDown me if (pMember.text.char.count gpdlMaxCharCnt) then pass end if

lingo-l Re: resize whole dir movie

hi seb many thanx for the reply. i'll definately try that out and if i just could not make it right i'll ask u to elaborate more.u'll b there for me ...right. many thanx again regards sundeep Hi Sundeep, Look the help for (the stage).drawRect - it's an easy way to shake

RE: lingo-l Re: resize whole dir movie

Hi Sundeep, i'll definately try that out and if i just could not make it right i'll ask u to elaborate more.u'll b there for me ...right. many thanx again regards sundeep Just a notice, as drawRect is sometimes hard to understand (for me... hope you'll be more lucky)

lingo-l Movie TIME out !!!

hi people i building a test projector for a possible client accross the net to make sure they dont use the software with out paying me...i want to be able to have the program TIME OUT after about 7 days and not be able to open again ive got my theories how to do this but its all

lingo-l wallpaper

hi, i use basetwallpaper to set the wallpaper from D8, but the xtra just can use bmp(is it?), i try to use jpg..(cau the bmp file size is much much larger then jpg), but fail... so is that any solution for me to use jpg to set wallpaper..i am in D8.pc.. thank

lingo-l Director 8.5 is live on the web site

This is a a totally unofficial announcement. But since I am up and I got the email http://dynamic.macromedia.com/bin/MM/macromall/scripts/catalog_page.jsp Pretty cool if you ask me, but I am totally biased. Peri [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

lingo-l Dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder, but a ink problem on some machines

I'm working on this dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder where the client just uploades a jpg and we cut it into pieces, but on some machines the transparency doesn't work. Have a look at the beta at http://test.advertainers.dk/arlagames/pusle/, and if you got the time, report back to me if it looks OK

RE: lingo-l Dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder, but a ink problem on some machines

John, report back to me if it looks OK or if theres a white retangle around every piece. it seems to work fine here Win 2K Advanced Server NVidea video card IE 5 16 bit color however I do have problems finding white pieces against a white background at times. HTH Al Hospers CamberSoft,

Re: lingo-l Dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder, but a ink problem on some machines

Pentium 3 600 matrox g400 1024*768 16 bit color depth Win Me (ita) Internet Explorer 5.50 (ita) it works fine bye rbx [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]

lingo-l Open Explorer

Hi friends, In cd an Explorer cd one option is there so i also need to open explorer so i am in search of that script so please help me Mitesh [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,

lingo-l setting focus back to the main window after closing MIAW

Hello lists, Hope you can help me with this problem of bringing back the focus on the main window after closing a MIAW which called another MIAW. There is no problem now with crashes when closing MIAWs and no problem on setting focus if the MIAW to be closed does not call or open another

Re: lingo-l Dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder, but a ink problem on some machines

No transparancy .the pieces have a white background manisha -- On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:23:35 John Kanding wrote: I'm working on this dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder where the client just uploades a jpg and we cut it into pieces, but on some machines the transparency doesn't work.

SV: lingo-l Dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder, but a ink problem on some machines

Hi John, No transparency here. WinME IE 5.5 Shockwave 3d prewiev Matrox G450 [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 is for

Re: SV: lingo-l Dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder, but a ink problem on somemachines

Oh yaI use IE 5.5 too with SW3D Preview. Regards, Pranav --- Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation. --Norman Augustine obliterated WinME IE 5.5 Shockwave 3d prewiev Matrox G450 obliterated [To remove yourself

lingo-l Dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder, but a ink problem on somemachines, solved...?

We are using 16 bit jpgs on a 32 bit resolution screen and that's a problem. I don't know why. I haven't seen it in a browser ever, but then again I never work in 32 bit resolution. So we might redo the jpg's in 32 bit and try again. Thanks to every one who tested it cheers John [To remove

Re: lingo-l Dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder, but a ink problem onsome machines

I'm working on this dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder where the client just uploades a jpg and we cut it into pieces, but on some machines the transparency doesn't work. Have a look at the beta at http://test.advertainers.dk/arlagames/pusle/, and if you got the time, report back to me if it looks OK

RE: lingo-l Dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder, but a ink problem on some machines

report back to me if it looks OK or if theres a white retangle around every piece. Has anyone experienced anything like this before? No problem here: windows 98, PII 300, Double monitor system, RAGE II AGP RAGE II PCI. Karina [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest

lingo-l Re: Changing the color of a variable

Hi All, I have a text member which has a list of multiple choice answers. When the user clicks on the answer the place where the user clicked and the correct answer should change their color. I have been able to get the user click to change the color, but i am unable to change the color of the

Re: lingo-l Re: CROSS-PLATFORM ISSUES

Yes. Look to director-online.com and do a search for hybrid cd-rom. Or use Toast on the Mac and select Hybrid from the Format menu. [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

SV: lingo-l Dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder, but a ink problem on some machines

My guess is that you are in 32 bit screen resolution that's seems to be the problem. Our 16 bit jpgs on a 32 bit resolution screen. I don't know why this happens here, might be som alpha thing. We will s new jpg later. Just for fun try to change to 16 bit and do the puzzle gain. Thanks John

RE: lingo-l OH no not again... Printing

Nick, I did some tests with buddyapi xtra a few months ago and the printfile command. My question with that is does the end user need to have acrobat to be able to print the pdf, or is buddyapi smart enough to print without acrobat being installed? Thanks, John -Original Message-

Re: SV: lingo-l Dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder, but a inkproblem on some machines

I've seen this happen with 32 bit bitmaps imported using photocaster. If you set the ink to matte, you'll get unremovable white around the edges. If this is the cause take the pieces and edit them in Fireworks: set Fireworks as your bitmap editor and open and resave each member as a 24 bit

Re: lingo-l OH no not again... Printing

Nick, I did some tests with buddyapi xtra a few months ago and the printfile command. My question with that is does the end user need to have acrobat to be able to print the pdf, or is buddyapi smart enough to print without acrobat being installed? Hi John, Acrobat must be installed on

lingo-l resizing mask

is there a way to resize a mask bitmap cast member. i am trying to have a mask reveal a sprite but I can't animate the mask, itried switching the picture, having a library of 1 point different masks, but this seems rather inefficient and the regpoint was always set at center instead of aligning

Re: lingo-l SO SORRY

is there a way to resize a mask bitmap cast member. i am trying to have a mask reveal a sprite but I can't animate the mask, itried switching the picture, having a library of 1 point different masks, but this seems rather inefficient and the regpoint was always set at center instead of aligning

lingo-l external casts

arghhh, after hours spending time trying to figure out what could possibly have happened to my projector and protected files, that lost track of one external cast, i found out that it's what happens when you zip all the files and their directory structure, and unzip them elsewhere. can someone

lingo-l DUN

Hi, you need to use an xtra to control the dialing process. try the DirectConnection xtra from www.directxtras.com Rodrigo Peres Thanks Rodrigo. Dennis Lucero Mediastreak __ www.edsamail.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go

RE: lingo-l external casts

Hi Quixada If you go to MACR site and the director support area then run a search on relative paths, you should be able to locate the information specific to external castlibs losing their relative paths when moving from one directory or computer to another.. (authoring problem). There are some

lingo-l Open Explorer

Hi Friends, I want to open Explorer By lingo so i need that code if anyone know then tell me i am in trouble Mitesh [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]

Re: lingo-l OH no not again... Printing

On 4/24/01 7:25 AM, John Horn (Home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick, I did some tests with buddyapi xtra a few months ago and the printfile command. My question with that is does the end user need to have acrobat to be able to print the pdf, or is buddyapi smart enough to print without

Re: lingo-l Recompiling scripts with lingo

well, that *is* a good reason. one of the (probably) several that i hadn't thought of... so you don't know about errors until you try to run the scripts? or are you talking purely cosmetically? --bhakti Luke Wigley wrote: Hi Listers, I was wondering if anyone knows a way of re-compiling

Re: lingo-l Movie TIME out !!!

yes, that will work. i will leave the translation of pseudocode to lingo as an exercise for you. fun *and* educational. you may want to encrypt the date, by the way... OH and why don't you deliver this via shockwave?!?!?!?!? then you can just remove the movie from your server whenever you darn

Re: lingo-l new(#type) madness!

Glad to help. I have started a new chapter in my OOP book called Tips and Tricks and added this one to it. http://www.furrypants.com/loope Irv At 5:41 PM -0400 4/23/01, Dierdre Dixon wrote: I must, in this moment of extreme joy and relief, express my most sincere thanx to those involved

Sv: SV: lingo-l Dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder, but a inkproblem on some machines

I'm using mask ink 'cause I'm having 8 bit greyscale mask's for the anti ali'. I import a jpg picture and create the jigsaw pieces using 8 bit greyscale mask's. It's the new pieces created that's has the problem, but only in 32 bit ... I'm going to work on it again tomorrow. I report back to

lingo-l Fireworks Animation

I have my students working on a portfolio project using Director 8. One of the pieces that they are trying to add is a simple fireworks animation that they created. Several students are having a hard time getting it to play. It is coming up as a still only. What should I have them do when they

Re: lingo-l Fireworks Animation

Erin, So what format is it in right now? -- Clint I have my students working on a portfolio project using Director 8. One of the pieces that they are trying to add is a simple fireworks animation that they created. Several students are having a hard time getting it to play. It is coming up

lingo-l Finding the Hard Drive Name

I have written a little front end program that will run off of a CD-ROM and I need to store a small text file on the hard drive of both Mac Windows machines. I am using File I/O and everything works to this point. It looks like I should use the searchPath to set up an absolute path but every

lingo-l linePosToLocV() difficulties

Hi I have a text member displaying tabular information. i'm using the html property to create the formatting needed. The plan is to allow the user to click on part of the table and then position an appropriately sized text box over the piece of table data to allow the user to enter data.

Re: lingo-l Finding the Hard Drive Name

Personally I would use the budapi xtra...say you want to store the text file on the desktop buddy = new(xtra budapi) -- say you want the text file on the desktop tDesktop = baSysFolder(desktop) -- now you've got the desktop folder regardless of platform/drives you can use the fileio now to

RE: lingo-l linePosToLocV() difficulties

Hi Ian My memory is a little foggy on this one, but I ran into something similar a few months back when I was trying to display information from a sequel database in an HTML text member. If memory serves me right, you will find that the first line is a real line (the empty space that the table

Re: lingo-l Finding the Hard Drive Name

Hi I am in search of, On click to open explorer so your budapi xtra... can do anything for me from where i can get that please inform me as fast as possible. If other know about this then please inform me as fast as possible. Mitesh [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to

RE: lingo-l linePosToLocV() difficulties

Thanks Mark That's exactly what the problem seems to be. what I've done is revised my code so every line in the text member has the same number of cells per row in the table. In my case there are 5 cells per row now. so the following code seems to work quite nicely now. at least after 10

Re: lingo-l Finding the Hard Drive Name

File IO has a built in function for this. Here's how to use it. pDelim = the last char of the moviePath OSPath = getOSDirectory() where = offset(pDelim, OSPath) HDName = char 1 to where of OSPath And, no, the hard disk is not always C on PC's. Irv At 2:48 PM -0400 4/24/01, The

Re: lingo-l Fireworks Animation

At 1:37 PM -0500 4/24/01, Erin Weller wrote: I have my students working on a portfolio project using Director 8. One of the pieces that they are trying to add is a simple fireworks animation that they created. Several students are having a hard time getting it to play. It is coming up as a still

Re: lingo-l Open Explorer

At 13:28 4/24/2001, mitesh wrote: In my projector one Explorer the CD option is there so click on that Explorer is open You can see the cd by explorer. So if You have that then tell me. You haven't mentioned which platform you're targeting in any of your messages, so I'm going to assume

Fwd: lingo-l Fireworks Animation

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lingo-l Fireworks Animation

Clint, The animation is saved as a PNG32 graphic. Do we need to convert it to an animated GIF to get it to work Erin Erin, So what format is it in right now? - -- Clint I have my students working on a portfolio project using Director 8. One of the pieces that they are trying to add

Re: lingo-l Fireworks Animation

-- From: Erin Weller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l Fireworks Animation Date: Tue, Apr 24, 2001, 5:49 PM The animation is saved as a PNG32 graphic. Do we need to convert it to an animated GIF to get it to work --- Try exporting it from FireWorks

RE: lingo-l external casts

hi, mark thanks for your response, but i think that what has caused the problem is the fact i compressed the files with zip; if i only move the files without compressing, there's no error. At 10:43 24/04/01 -0600, you wrote: Hi Quixada If you go to MACR site and the director support area then

RE: lingo-l external casts

ZIP is a lossless compression, so zipping and unzipping won't make a difference. HOWEVER, one way you can mess things up when zipping and unzipping is if you use long filenames and they get lost or changed. If your zip doesn't support long filenames, then a file linked as My Special File

RE: lingo-l external casts

yes, i know it looks weird, but that happened. i've spent hours because of that, digging into scripts, etc., and then occurred to me to try to move it without zipping, and it worked. not much 'scientific', i know, but... well, i tried to unzip it on a different folder now, and it works. argh,

lingo-l Planning a project: repeated

Sorry if I double posted this message but I haven't seen it on the list, so I decided to repeat the question. -- Good day/night, developers. Sorry for such a kind of question in this list, however it is directly connected with Lingo and any Director

lingo-l power point to flash

Hi, Can you tell me if it's possible to create an application in Director to import slides from power point and to convert them into flash files. every spare must be converted into flash file, and the whole stage will be also a flash file regards, Andrii Umrik [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove