>Um... 42?
>
>-Kurt
Kurt, you know a good researcher always cites his sources--gotta give Doug
Adams credit for that one ;-)
Cordially,
Kerry Thompson
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>> thats lots of interesting info, i cant believe how helpful people can be,...
>> your not charging me anything right ;-)
>
> Not yet. You will be billed in the form of questions that _you_ will answer
> at a future time.
Um... 42?
-Kurt
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Yes, good point. I forgot about external linking - must be getting old... :(
At 06:04 PM 4/27/01 -0700, R. Bhakti Klein wrote:
>the other thing you can do is to keep the files external, and have 1
>cast member that points to a placeholder external file.
>then, you read in the pathname of the ex
the other thing you can do is to keep the files external, and have 1
cast member that points to a placeholder external file.
then, you read in the pathname of the external graphic, and use the
filename of member property to repoint the castmember to the new
external file.
-bhakti
Tab Julius wrote
It certainly is. One thing that will matter is whether or not all the
images are the same size. Another thing that will matter is if you have
all the images in advance or are importing them on the fly.
If importing, use 'importFileInto' to get the image into a castmember. If
the placeholde
> I got dot-bombed today
Bad luck, man :-(
Will keep my ear to the ground...
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Hi,
I'm fairly new to Director. What I want to do is have a variable place holder for a
graphic image in my movie and read from a text file that tells me which file to put in
that placeholder. Is this possible?
TIA,
Jeanne
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>hmmm... every time I try to save as F4, & the Flash is using F5 features, it
>burps at me & reminds me. why would you do that?
You wouldn't :-)
At my (now former) company, we had a lot of legacy code I was maintaining.
Director files with Flash sprites, mostly done in D7 and F4.
I'm relative
At 8:19 AM +0200 4/27/01, Magnus Ewald wrote:
>THANX !
>
>thats lots of interesting info, i cant believe how helpful people can be,...
>your not charging me anything right ;-)
Not yet. You will be billed in the form of questions that _you_ will answer
at a future time.
;-)
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> Using Flash 5, you can publish as Flash 4 and use the swf in
> a D8 movie. It
> breaks when you use Flash 5 features, though, even if it's
> published as
> Flash 4.
hmmm... every time I try to save as F4, & the Flash is using F5 features, it
burps at me & reminds me. why would you do that?
Al
Jakob Hede Madsen wrote:
> You can teach your objects to leave the actorList in a polite way,
> where they relay the stepFrame event to the next object:
sweet... you're a gent!
Christian
Christian Wach
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>Wouldn't Flash throw an error if a movie with the new action scripts
>commands is exported into Flash 4 format?
I believe you're right, Pranav. If I remember right, it flags the script
with the Flash 5 syntax.
To be honest, I haven't tried it, so don't take my word for it :-) I've
known abou
>well, Flash 5 is not supported in anything but Director 8. if you must use
>Flash 5 then you need to upgrade to D 8.5.
That's about 90% true :-)
Using Flash 5, you can publish as Flash 4 and use the swf in a D8 movie. It
breaks when you use Flash 5 features, though, even if it's published as
At 15:38 + 01_04_26, Christian Wach wrote:
>Jakob Hede Madsen wrote:
>
>> There is nothing spooky about it, it will happen anytime you delete
>> items from a linear list during forward traversal
>
>ah - I see what you mean... I thought it might be something
>peculiar to the actorList.
>
>I'l
dear list
here's my problem
i am trying to get the end of a vector shape to follow the mouse using the
following code:
global k, a
on startMovie
k = sprite(1).membernum
a = member(k).vertexlist
end
on drawline
a[1].vertex = the mouseloc - sprite(1).loc
member(k).vertexlist = a
end
on
Jakob Hede Madsen wrote:
> There is nothing spooky about it, it will happen anytime you delete
> items from a linear list during forward traversal
ah - I see what you mean... I thought it might be something
peculiar to the actorList.
I'll have to think about what I'm going to do with all those
I am a student who is still at the basic levels of lingo. I am working
on a project in which I want to attach a downloaded jpg image as my cursor.
I know how to attach cursors through the library pallette, but what lingo
do I use to attach my own cursor? Any other interesting cursor ideas you
h
I understand that. People here went wild when I asked if anyone had heard
that. Some actually thought I meant our Learning Network.
I'd agree that they are wrong about not needing the programmers. Ultimately,
out of house production costs more for a product like that.
Sorry to hear about the jo
Good morning, have you looked into working for a casino? Lingo work is needed on
Plasma display, all the casino are getting them its quick and easy work you do a show
about once a week and it pay the bills until something comes up.
p.s. sorry about the job.
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> Assuming you mean activate or deactivate...
Indeed... fooled by a stupid french-english translation...
> What do you mean? What are you trying to do?
What i'm trying to do is to easily prevent some movie or score scripts to
execute (as they would normally do)
under specific conditions in run
At 9:26 +0530 01_04_27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Just a late thought Jakob...
>
>How can an object that is not added to the actor list be used in another
>movie?
The timeOutObject has a property "persistent" which when set to true
keeps the timeOutObject alive until explicitly forgotten.
> Do
At 10:24 +0530 01_04_27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Does anyone have a working example of how to use raw integers during
>getpixel and setpixel operations in imaging? I was reading an article by
>Tim Banks on Director Online but the example uses regular color objects.
I think it goes like this:
W
I have a little text search handler for a scrolling field cast member.
After searching for a keyword, I want the textfield to scroll to the line where the
keyword is in, but I can't get it right because of the word wrap. in the text field.
--
on testLines theText, keyWord
set numOfLi
> * i am using flash 5 and director 8
> * am using .swf files in director ( have also tried exporting
> the flash files in flash4 formatbut in vain)
well, Flash 5 is not supported in anything but Director 8. if you must use
Flash 5 then you need to upgrade to D 8.5.
Al Hospers
CamberSoft
> Instead, the workaround is to have a full screen director
> projector sitting
> on the stage, with the words "click to launch" (and the
> exitLock set to
> True). Fortunately, it's one of the applications that only
> launches one
> instance of itself, so it actually works fine. It also has
> the
Wouldn't Flash throw an error if a movie with the new action scripts
commands is exported into Flash 4 format?
Regards,
Pranav
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>* am using .swf files in dire
>* am using .swf files in director ( have also tried exporting the flash
>files in flash4 formatbut in vain)
>* Outside director the shockwave files are perfectly ok but once they are
>imported and placed in the score everything goes heywire.
I assume you mean the Flash files go haywir
Thanks to Al, grim and Mark for the proposed solutions.
> that's fine. I'm kind of curions as to the workaround?
It's really an extremely simple workaround. It's for a kiosk project, where
one of the touchscreens needs to run a pre-fab database application (some
kind of a VB app that was made by
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