Tried posting this yesterday but it seems to have been lost in space.
Allright then... here we go:
I'm helping my bosses neighbour to make some things in Director (Eng D8)
on his Hebrew Win98 system... (hlp!)
I import RTFs into the cast. Copy the text to a field member which uses word
Hi friends,
When I start My projector.exe that time i want to change monitor size
color palette
like screen size 800*600 color setting is 32 bit.
so please if any one can know then tell me.
Mitesh
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Hi everybody,
How do I close the htm file in which i have embedded the shockwave movie
using Lingo.
rgds,
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on 2/5/01 9:25 am, mitesh at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
3. My one line text display in two line.( means text box is display
small.)
I dunno much about PC
but this problem can be solved by breaking apart and grouping
File becomes a li'l fat
or embed the fonts used in director
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Hi Lingo Gurus!
Can we change the color of 1-bit bitmap in Director, i.e. red, green or blue
etc. However, its depth should be remain 1-bit.
Thanx in advance.
Mahmood.
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Hi,
try something like this
sprite(me.spriteNum).forecolor = rgb(255,0,0)
Cheers,
Tim
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Subject: lingo-l Colorize the 1-bit Grphics.
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001
At 03:38 5/2/2001, Mahmood Akhtar wrote:
Can we change the color of 1-bit bitmap in Director, i.e. red, green or blue
etc. However, its depth should be remain 1-bit.
No, but you can set the sprite's color in the score or with Lingo.
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How do I close the htm file in which i have embedded the shockwave movie
using Lingo.
Look into the externalEvent in the lingo dictionary. You could interface
this function with a javaScript method within the browser code.
HTH,
-- Clint
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When I start My projector.exe that time i want to change monitor size
color palette
like screen size 800*600 color setting is 32 bit.
The budAPI xtra can do this.
HTH,
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HHHMMM,
Seems to work fine here
member(foo).char[1..3].foreColor = rgb(0,255,0)
No error or anything...
As far as fontStyle, as long as you have some character within the field it
should work fine as well...
put member(foo).fontStyle
-- plain
HTH,
-- Clint
At 07:29 PM 4/30/01 -0700,
How do I close the htm file in which i have embedded the
shockwave movie
using Lingo.
Look into the externalEvent in the lingo dictionary. You
could interface
this function with a javaScript method within the browser code.
be aware that most likely the user will get a dialog asking if
hi,
if you have the printomatic lite xtra, you can use
print member whichCastmember [,... ].
Hope it helps
manisha
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On Tue, 01 May 2001 05:05:23
dimple uppal wrote:
Hi!
I'm looking for certain code that prints the content of a movie stage. I
mean, that the user has the option
Dear Tim!
By adopting this method the 1-bit bitmap remains black.
Regards!
Mahmood.
on 5/2/01 4:13 PM, Tim Forster at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
try something like this
sprite(me.spriteNum).forecolor = rgb(255,0,0)
Cheers,
Tim
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Dear Mark!
If it is possible with lingo? how?
Thanx a lot.
Mahmood.
on 5/2/01 4:13 PM, Mark A. Boyd at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 03:38 5/2/2001, Mahmood Akhtar wrote:
Can we change the color of 1-bit bitmap in Director, i.e. red, green or blue
etc. However, its depth should be remain
Thanks a million, Terry. Took me 5 minutes.
Now THAT'S quick dirty!
--Clars
Terry R. Schussler wrote:
In Flash, create a text field, set it to Dynamic, assign it a unique
variable name, such as tTextFromDirector.
Let's assume that you have created this text field in the primary timeline
Hi,
I am using the Buddy API Xtra to open files from cd. I have two types of
files, powerpoint and acrobat. The acrobat files all open all of the time,
however the powerpoint files do not. The same cd will work on one machine
and not on another. Some work and some do not. It opens powerpoint and
I'll guess I'll answer my own question. Bought it, downloaded it,
got it started, ran into some difficulties, wrote SourceForce, they
wrote me back within hours with the solution, and now my program is
running fine. I'd give that experience a huge thumbs up!
Irv
At 12:42 PM -0700 5/1/01,
I am using the Buddy API Xtra to open files from cd. I have
two types of
files, powerpoint and acrobat. The acrobat files all open all
of the time,
however the powerpoint files do not. The same cd will work on
one machine
and not on another. Some work and some do not. It opens powerpoint
At 7:25 AM -0700 5/2/2001, Irv Kalb wrote:
I'll guess I'll answer my own question. Bought it, downloaded it,
got it started, ran into some difficulties, wrote SourceForce, they
wrote me back within hours with the solution, and now my program is
running fine. I'd give that experience a huge
If it is possible with lingo?
Like Mark said you can do it with the score or with lingo. RTFM...
But you can use sprite(x).foreColor=aPaletteColor
Dave
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At 2:41 AM -0400 05/02/01, Lingo-L Digest wrote:
I'm looking for a quick and dirty tutorial on how to set the contents of
a Flash editable text with Lingo. Also, I need info on how to set the
action/variables up in Flash, as I know next to nothing about Flash
action scripting.
I was fortunate
I am attempting to pause a movie. I have scripts telling the playback
head to stay on a certain frame for a specified amount of time. I am
able to pause the audio but the scripts holding the playback head are
still running. Therefore the playback head continues before the audio is
finished.
At 10:38 AM -0400 5/2/01, Roy Pardi wrote:
At 7:25 AM -0700 5/2/2001, Irv Kalb wrote:
I'll guess I'll answer my own question. Bought it, downloaded it,
got it started, ran into some difficulties, wrote SourceForce, they
wrote me back within hours with the solution, and now my program is
I created a technical quiz that was originally set up to play from a cd or
the user's hard drive.
Works great!
I have now been asked to see if it works online.
I keep getting script errors on the file.
Forgive my ignorance, but is this lingo not legal in a shockwave .dcr file
playing online?
The bad news is that when it transitions from one
note to the next, there is a highly audible click.
I reported this quirte early on in the D8 cycle. I created a metronome and a
guitar tuner in D8 shockwave found this to be the case. it was quite
disturbing then even more so not to hear that
At 07:37 5/2/2001, Al Hospers wrote:
in spite of some folks insistance that it is not necessary, it it important
to not have spaces in file names on NT especially. use the Buddy command
baShortFilename on the path before you call the baOpenFile. I just use it
all the time, except on the Mac of
I have now been asked to see if it works online.
I keep getting script errors on the file.
Forgive my ignorance, but is this lingo not legal in a
shockwave .dcr file
playing online?
you are not being real helpful here... what is the error? have you enabled
the verbose errors in the INI file
Sharon,
What sort of script errors are you getting?
-- Clint
At 11:33 AM 5/2/01 -0500, you wrote:
I created a technical quiz that was originally set up to play from a cd or
the user's hard drive.
Works great!
I have now been asked to see if it works online.
I keep getting script errors on
I am attempting to pause a movie. I have scripts telling the playback head
to stay on a certain frame for a specified amount of time. I am able to
pause the audio but the scripts holding the playback head are still
running. Therefore the playback head continues before the audio is
finished.
On 5/2/01 10:38 AM, Roy Pardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I imagine you have already looked at and rejected Beatnik for some
reason. Wondering why. I was able to have it play midi files fine.
/r
I think he wants to record midi on the fly - can be done, but not tightly
with beatnik.
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On 5/2/01 12:10 PM, Irv Kalb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, the short answer to your question is, whiile Beatnik will
certainly play MIDI songs perfectly well, it has no facility for
creating MIDI in Lingo. The Sequence XTRA has the capability the
create and playback MIDI songs on the fly in
Sorry to be so vague, but I can't be too much more specific than saying I
get an alert box saying Script error
Do you want to continue?
Yes or No
I think the error is happening on the exitframe because I click yes over
and over and it never continues.
property netID
on beginSprite me
netID =
Are you all sure that it was Director's problem? Just in general, when two
sounds are played back to back (or if one cuts off the other one), the
waveforms have to align very closely for it to transition smoothly. If one
sound's waveform ends up high, above the midline and the other one starts
I have a field member which has 1500+ lines of text at varying lengths. I'm trying to
write a repeat loop that will go through each line, count the characters and add one
space at the beginning of the line and then x number of spaces at the end of the line
so all lines have 100 characters.
pssst I shall contact any one who can help me
direct/Offlist
When we format a Hard Disk Low-level
how to allocate FAB
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Mitesh--
You should reply to the list, not directly to the person who posts an
answer. You'll have a lot more people look at it that way, and get a lot
better help.
I'll try to follow up on this tomorrow. Just now, I'm headed to the
airport, so I apologize, but I can't help you just now.
while we're on the subject...
is there a way to embed a shockwave movie into a java app? java can use
active x controls, and shockwave is an active x control, so shouldn't it work?
conversely, is it possible to embed a java app(let) in a shockwave
movie, like you would link a movie, or even
I can't seem to compress a movie with Cinepak using millions of colors. It
keeps dithering it to 8-bit even though I select millions of colors. My
monitor is set to millions of colors and I've tried a number of programs to
compress the movies. A while back I saw these iMac demos with these great
Are you all sure that it was Director's problem? Just in
general, when two
sounds are played back to back (or if one cuts off the other one), the
waveforms have to align very closely for it to transition
smoothly. If one
sound's waveform ends up high, above the midline and the
other one
i'm waiting to hear what kind of errors you're getting too, but first of
all i'd advise you to get rid of those redundant checks for VOID. you
don't need them.
the begin sprite should just be:
netID = postNetText(http://www.touchwood.net/sharon/courses.asp;,[])
it's pointless to set it to
But this is adding 1500+ lines of nothing but spaces. Could someone
please help me understand way this is not working? Please forgive
my newbeeness.
If you are sure that no line has more than 99 characters in it, you
can do what you want in quicker ways:
on hundredwide thetext
I can't seem to compress a movie with Cinepak using millions of colors. It
keeps dithering it to 8-bit even though I select millions of colors. My
monitor is set to millions of colors and I've tried a number of programs to
compress the movies. A while back I saw these iMac demos with these great
Okay,
I understand you are not being vague on purpose but, it is real tough to
know what to look for when we have no idea what the error is... There are
some properties in your .ini file that you can turn out that will provide a
more verbose error message. Try setting:
you can use some of the debugging tricks discussed here recently using
the .ini file.
comment out (by removing semicolons) the following lines in the
director.ini file:
[Lingo]
;DisplayFullLingoErrorText=1
; This property is used by shockwave and projectors.
; 1: Lingo errors generate a
It is an After Effects movie that is nothing but graphics flying around the
screen. Nothing but pict files...no video.
Cinepak is pretty well always millions. You have to go out of your
way to set 256 colors. What is the nature of the source movie?
on 5/2/01 10:42 AM, Colin Holgate at
At 1:13 PM -0400 5/2/01, Gene Fritzinger wrote:
I have a field member which has 1500+ lines of text at varying
lengths. I'm trying to write a repeat loop that will go through
each line, count the characters and add one space at the beginning
of the line and then x number of spaces at the end
Well, while Al is the audio engineer, I am just a programmer type.
What I know is that if I try to string together a bunch of notes
(even if they are the same note like, C, C, C, C, etc.), using a
Director sound object, I can hear the click between notes. I don't
know or care if the problem
How can I save a shockwave3D file that I created in real time
using lingo??
Luiz
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I am streaming a dcr file and my scripts are working fine until the
audio starts to play. I have a pause button to pause the movie and
audio. But once the audio starts all my rollovers quit wokring is there
any way to fix this problem.
Thanks
Colby
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How can I save a shockwave3D file that I created in real time
using lingo??
You can't.
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Actually i dont think the audio is the problem I am using a
waitForCuePoint (in the tempo channel) to hold the playback head and
this I think is disabling all my rolloevers. On the other pages where
audio is present and where I am not using the tempo channel the rollover
are working
Here's a quick demo of a way to use protected code. I read an article at mediamacros
where some guy talked about using a dxr and a miaw and that's why we couldn't do it in
shockwave. My idea is to go from the main movie to another dcr. In that dcr we launch
some object and then return to the
you get these problems x-platform? in my experience, it's a windows
thing, not director. i've fixed some of those glitches by changing the
sounddevice, the soundkeepdevice property, and other platform-specific
sound controls.
Irv Kalb wrote:
Well, while Al is the audio engineer, I am just a
Sorry for the previous mail. I used a reply instead of writing the adress myself.
Lazy. Sorry
Here's a quick demo of a way to use protected code. I read an article at mediamacros
where some guy talked about using a dxr and a miaw and that's why we couldn't do it in
shockwave. My idea is to
So, the short answer to your question is, whiile Beatnik will
certainly play MIDI songs perfectly well, it has no facility for
creating MIDI in Lingo. The Sequence XTRA has the capability the
create and playback MIDI songs on the fly in Lingo.
I just thought I'd mention that you can use
using waitForcuePoint in the tempo channel is your problem. that keeps
the playback head in a tight loop, and therefore does not allow for rollovers.
the solution is to roll your own exit frame script that waits for the
sound to finish. it is possible to figure out the duration of the sound
and
I've developed a series of CDs on Public Health using Director 7 ... the
client now wants them to go on their website as well ... what are the
pros and cons of using RealMedia, Shockwave, or Flash? What are the
development implications as well as the lingo implications of doing
this? Should I
Thanks a lot that works great
Thanks
Colby
On Wednesday, May 2, 2001, at 03:41 PM, R. Bhakti Klein wrote:
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When I use the ilk() function it seems that instances of a parent script
are shown as #instance. Since I have a list where any given element may be
one of three different classes, is there any way that lingo can easily
return the name of the parent script that any arbitrary object is an
instance
Yep - cross platform. I was very surprised to hear this on a Mac.
And yes, I did try the sounddevice, soundkeepdevice thingy on Windows.
Irv
At 12:05 PM -0700 5/2/01, R. Bhakti Klein wrote:
you get these problems x-platform? in my experience, it's a windows
thing, not director. i've fixed
ok, here is one that I have been messin with for about an hour now. I am
trying to get the location of a specific line within a text/field sprite.
Here is what I am doing: I am creating a blank text field, and then
populating it from a database, depending on the current screen. I have
images
The waitForCuePoint is indeed your problem. It pretty much locks up
director while it waits for the audio. I practically never use the
tempo channel stuff unless I'm in a serious rush because of this.
(potentially useful side note: timeOut objects continue to message while
Director is in this
An easy way is to take use a string version of the object reference,
take word 2 of it, then strip the first and last characters. I've
got one right here:
showglobals
-- Global Variables --
version = 8.5
goGame = offspring Game 1 b9fed20
goSongPlayer = offspring SongPlayer 1 ba0ac54
theRef
hi,
i would like to talk to someone who has used lingo in combination with xml.
anyone?
ines
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How can I save a shockwave3D file that I created in real time
using lingo??
Wait patiently. I believe there's some xtra development going on for that
kind of thing - at least, it's been discussed.
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why don't you just ask us the question...
1nes wrote:
hi,
i would like to talk to someone who has used lingo in combination with xml.
anyone?
ines
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I've developed a series of CDs on Public Health using Director 7 ... the
client now wants them to go on their website as well ... what are the
pros and cons of using RealMedia, Shockwave, or Flash? What are the
development implications as well as the lingo implications of doing
this? Should
Ines,
I've done extensive work with XML in Lingo. What would you like to know!
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Christopher Watson
Sr. Software Engineer
Lightspan, Inc.
http://www.lightspan.com/
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The CDs are very simple - the ability to go forward, backward, home,
quit ... each slide has sound and many have simple animation based on
cue points. There is a quiz at the end and that's about it.
Tanya
Kurt Griffin wrote:
I've developed a series of CDs on Public Health using Director 7
Well, it depends really -
First off for any video (ie quicktime and real) the user needs those
componenets installed. Also real is only supported in 8.5. If you're dealing
with a lot of external video, then of course you should check into netlingo
calls to make sure the media is ready to be
Dear Dave!
Thanx for guidance. By using 2-bit instead of 1-bit the problem has been
solved.
Thanx once again.
Mahmood.
on 5/2/01 7:54 PM, Mennenoh, David at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If it is possible with lingo?
Like Mark said you can do it with the score or with lingo. RTFM...
But
At 4:22 PM -0700 5/2/2001, Watson, Christopher wrote:
Ines,
I've done extensive work with XML in Lingo. What would you like to know!
Did you ever post the result of the DOM you were working on?
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Roy Pardi
Multimedia
Hey all - is the only guaranteed way of raising the dialer on a pc/mac if an
internet connection gets lost the directXtra?
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Ok, here's another one.
I'm working on version 2 of an app I made -- and you guys know how it goes,
things you start off coding wonderfully goes through a lot of changes when
the client changes their minds on stuff -- so I'm going to probably redo the
way I built the app (I had a lot of
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