lingo-lmultiuserServer alternative?

2001-05-08 Thread Martijn Janssen
Hi group, I was wondering if there is an alternative way to make movies communicate on a network (using ip-numbers to identify). The application I'm working on now uses the multiUserServer xtra and the MultiUserServer to communicate. The setup is a server application witrh multiple client

AW: lingo-l Josie.. MPEG with D8 on WINDOWS

2001-05-08 Thread Oliver Herbst
Hi Josie, We are working on win2000/NT systems and the SoftPeg unfortunately doesn´t work with that(bought the softpeg NT version - nothing happened on NT. The MPEg-2s couldn´t be played.). The Onstage CD Xtra would provide the flexibility if it (or an embedded decoder) worked on win2000. But

Re: lingo-l Full Screen Stage Problem!

2001-05-08 Thread dimple uppal
hello! your message was garbled. If you have a solution do write me again as i am looking for the same thing -Dimple- From: ali elsayed [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l Full Screen Stage Problem! Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 07:29:41 -0400

lingo-l Full Screen Stage...

2001-05-08 Thread Mahmood Akhtar
Dear Dimple! Here is the code for full screen stage... on prepareMovie (the stage).rect = the deskTopRectList[1] (the stage).drawrect = the deskTopRectList[1] end keep in mind that the centerStage is set to False and also when you creat projector the center option should be unchecked,

Re: lingo-lmultiuserServer alternative?

2001-05-08 Thread Martijn Janssen
Let me answer it myself: http://www.humancode.com/xtranet/ this does the trick J cheers, Martijn - Original Message - From: Martijn Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 10:57 AM Subject: lingo-lmultiuserServer alternative? Hi group, I was

Re: lingo-l Problems with QuickTime on Mac

2001-05-08 Thread Andreas Gaunitz
Thanks for posting the solution =) -A. As a projector it often fails a force-quit, forcing a re-boot. It's worst as a projector on a CD, less frequent as a projector on the HD, and sometimes it'll do it in authoring. D7.0.2 Mac QT 4.x I'm looking for clues to diagnose this

Re: lingo-lmultiuserServer alternative?

2001-05-08 Thread faisal moro
Martijn, maybe DirectConnection Xtra by DirectXtras could help you. I never tried it, but it should allow connections beetween remote machines, and it is multiplatform. HTH Doei! Faisal Hi group, I was wondering if there is an alternative way to make movies communicate on a network (using

Re: lingo-l ARGGGGHHH!......pls help!

2001-05-08 Thread dimple uppal
hi! kerry, thanx for the code. I tried it however, i keep getting the following error: script error : Handler definition expected gScrHgt? = baScreenInfo(height) What am i doing wrong? I have downloaded the budfull and budsaver xtras from buddyAPI.I have added the budsaver.x32 xtra to the

Re: lingo-l ARGGGGHHH!......pls help!

2001-05-08 Thread dimple uppal
hi! kerry, thanx for the code. I tried it however, i keep getting the following error: script error : Handler definition expected gScrHgt? = baScreenInfo(height) What am i doing wrong? I have downloaded the budfull and budsaver xtras from buddyAPI.I have added the budsaver.x32 xtra to the

DV not running (was: RE: lingo-l Full Screen Stage...)

2001-05-08 Thread Victor Iwan
Hello all I've tried to put the script into my movie, I have set an opening movie (Digital Video-AVI) in first frame. But everytime the movie start... The DV is not running..it just showing background movie color.. How to resolve this problem ? Thanks in advanced Vic Dear Dimple!

lingo-l registration of a keydown event within an editable field?

2001-05-08 Thread I R
hi does anyone know if it is somehow possible for a director movie to register a keydown event from within an _editable_ text field? ie. allow the user to enter text into a field and have director simultaneously register a keydown event for each keystroke cheers ben

RE: lingo-l registration of a keydown event within an editable field?

2001-05-08 Thread Karina Steffens
does anyone know if it is somehow possible for a director movie to register a keydown event from within an _editable_ text field? ie. allow the user to enter text into a field and have director simultaneously register a keydown event for each keystroke Yep... You can put something along

RE: lingo-l registration of a keydown event within an editable field?

2001-05-08 Thread Al Hospers
does anyone know if it is somehow possible for a director movie to register a keydown event from within an _editable_ text field? ie. allow the user to enter text into a field and have director simultaneously register a keydown event for each keystroke sure. attach a behavior to the text

Re: DV not running (was: RE: lingo-l Full Screen Stage...)

2001-05-08 Thread Charlie Fiskeaux II
Do you have the controller showing? It won't automatically start playing unless you hide the video's controller. You can manually start it with sprite(x).movieRate=1 where x is the channel number of the sprite and the number (1) is forward at normal speed. (.5 is forward at half speed, 2 is

Re: lingo-l Screen Resolution (was ARGGGGHHH!......pls help!)

2001-05-08 Thread Kerry Thompson
hi! kerry, thanx for the code. I tried it however, i keep getting the following error: script error : Handler definition expected gScrHgt? = baScreenInfo(height) You need to put it in a handler. Declare your globals, then: on prepareMovie gScrHgt = baScreenInfo(height) -- etc. end It

lingo-l Text and image

2001-05-08 Thread Juan Carlos Quijano Abad
Hi! Well, we need to make a window with text and images integrates like a issue page. Somebody knew some like this? Thank, thanks, thanks... -- Un saludo Juan Quijano Analista Multimedia Sema Group -- This email is confidential

Re: lingo-l Text and image

2001-05-08 Thread Kerry Thompson
we need to make a window with text and images integrates like a issue page. Somebody knew some like this? Maybe--what's an issue page? I think we need a more specific question, or more information, to help you. Cordially, Kerry Thompson [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to

lingo-l printing thru MS Word

2001-05-08 Thread m1r3h08
Hi, can someone please give me the scripting for the following and would I need BuddyAPI xtra to make this work:- when the user clicks the print button in my Director 8 movie, the user's printer will be found, the document in question will open up in MS Word and will print immediately and then

lingo-l Picture on Server thrue the WEB

2001-05-08 Thread Jacques Baume
Dear User, Being connected to the Internet, by clicking on a given field and choosing one of the items ( ie- flower), the program looks for the picture on my server and retrieves it next to the field on the web page. How can I do this??? thanks for your kind advice! Avec mes meilleures

Re: lingo-lmultiuserServer alternative?

2001-05-08 Thread Terry R. Schussler
At 12:07 PM -0700 5/7/01, Martijn Janssen wrote: Let me answer it myself: http://www.humancode.com/xtranet/ Martijn: I'm a bit confused - what does XtraNet do that the SMUS Xtra does not that you needed? Have you looked at the waitForNetConnection function of the SMUS Xtra? It essentially

lingo-l scrolling multiple sprites

2001-05-08 Thread Stephen Ingrum
What would be the best way to create a scrollable table of images and text? The table could contain upto 400 images with text descriptions. Thank you, Stephen Ingrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LeagueofDesign.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-lmultiuserServer alternative?

2001-05-08 Thread Martijn Janssen
Terry: thanks for your reaction! The thing I need is that multiple users can request some information on the server and then tell the server to perform some tasks. All users have to be able to monitor and manipulate the server's actions at the same time. Can this be done with SMUS? I can not

Re: lingo-l scrolling multiple sprites

2001-05-08 Thread Sharon Moeller
At 11:33 AM 5/8/2001 -0500, you wrote: What would be the best way to create a scrollable table of images and text? The table could contain upto 400 images with text descriptions. Thank you, Stephen Ingrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LeagueofDesign.com I recently did this using an html table. Worked

lingo-l problems with shockwave

2001-05-08 Thread Raquel Pedrosa
Hi all, I'm developing a game in shochwave, and i'm having a very strange error. I will try to explain it. I've done the publish of the director file and tried it with i.e. It was working perfectly. Then i tried to make some tests on-line. Bad idea. I've started to receive this error message

lingo-l Cursor Change with Shockwave

2001-05-08 Thread mitch daigle
I'm having trouble with my cursor changes in shockwave. I'm using the same script on a few different objects but the changes will only work on a couple of them. I have the sprites in the same sprite channel and I can't understand why it will work for one but not the other. Is this a common

Re: lingo-l Picture on Server thrue the WEB

2001-05-08 Thread R. Bhakti Klein
Dear Used, look into preloadNetThing and the member.filename property... -- msr. bhakti Jacques Baume wrote: Dear User, Being connected to the Internet, by clicking on a given field and choosing one of the items ( ie- flower), the program looks for the picture on my server and retrieves

RE: lingo-l Screen Resolution (was ARGGGGHHH!......pls help!)

2001-05-08 Thread Victor Iwan
Do you want to stretch or shrink the movie? Your graphics will be distorted if you do. I'd just make it full screen when you create the projector (there's an option you can check). Show me how ? V [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

lingo-l Refresh rate resolve ? (was RE: DV not running)

2001-05-08 Thread Victor Iwan
Do you have the controller showing? It won't automatically start playing unless you hide the video's controller. You can manually start it with sprite(x).movieRate=1 where x is the channel number of the sprite and the number (1) is forward at normal speed. (.5 is forward at half

Re: lingo-l Set resolution (was ARGGGGHHH!......pls help!)

2001-05-08 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
I misspoke. I meant to write: You can check and store the old refresh rate before switching the resolution. When switching to a new resolution, I don't specify a refresh rate. I let the monitor do that itself (that is, I accept the default rate). I typically ask the user whether they want to

lingo-l Text and image

2001-05-08 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
I'm assuming that you want a scrolling area that includes both text and images. I recently did a little scrolling text field with images inside it for the purposes of putting Macromedia's logo in the scrolling credits. I wrote a behavior to reposition the graphics based on the position of the

lingo-l printing thru MS Word

2001-05-08 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
Hi, can someone please give me the scripting for the following and would I need BuddyAPI xtra to make this work:- when the user clicks the print button in my Director 8 movie, the user's printer will be found, the document in question will open up in MS Word and will print immediately and then

lingo-l Re:

2001-05-08 Thread R. Bhakti Klein
the wonders of nested lists. if you can divide the searchable elements into categories, you can build nested property lists that can be quickly parsed. i would use some code to be able to build a symbol-name for each element, and correlate that to the cast member name or number. implementation

lingo-l touch screen kiosks

2001-05-08 Thread vivienne downes
Kiosk: Hi- I've been using Director and Lingo for around a year now and I've not done much programming- we have been given a project to do at college which involves designing a touch-screen kiosk. Before I begin it, has anyone got any hints/tips/tricks based on their own experiences using Lingo,

Re: lingo-l touch screen kiosks

2001-05-08 Thread R. Bhakti Klein
just make sure the buttons are big, but the touch-screen stuff is independent of director. it just detects screen touches and converts them to mouse actions. author as you normally would... --bh vivienne downes wrote: Kiosk: Hi- I've been using Director and Lingo for around a year now and

Re: lingo-l touch screen kiosks

2001-05-08 Thread Colin Holgate
just make sure the buttons are big, but the touch-screen stuff is independent of director. it just detects screen touches and converts them to mouse actions. author as you normally would... Using mousedown instead of mouseup is a good idea. It will make the kiosk seem very responsive, and won't

Re: lingo-l touch screen kiosks

2001-05-08 Thread Irv Kalb
3 quick things: 1) Make your targets (things that you click on) big. Fingers are very big in relation to an arrow cursor. 2) Do your action on mouseDown rather than the more typical on mouseUp. (And do your own hilight of buttons that are pressed - turn to a down state for a quarter

No Subject

2001-05-08 Thread Lee Chadwick
I am trying to import html pages into a shockwave app. After I preload it, I have tried importFileInto, setting the filename of member, etc. Importing it has been no problem, however, the rect of the sprite I imported (a dummy text sprite) it into is changed. I cannot seem to set the rect of

Re: lingo-l returning to dir: making a grid with an array

2001-05-08 Thread R. Bhakti Klein
you could do the whole crazy thing with one big bitmap and lots of imaging lingo... otherwise that's a whole heck of a lot of sprites. one way to do it is to make a filmloop or linked movie containing one row of 50 squares, and use 50 sprites of that linked movie to make the 50 rows

Re: lingo-l Attaching Cursors

2001-05-08 Thread John Trentini
Jon, I sent you a suggestion before; did you get it? Anyhow here it a revised version. The way I do it is as follows: Select the open rectangle Tool with the line set to none and draw a small shape directly onto the stage and set its ink to transparent. Place this shape off stage and then

Re: lingo-l returning to dir: making a grid with an array

2001-05-08 Thread Colin Holgate
I need to make a grid of squares 50 x 50 and all need to be referenceable as when each one is clicked on it needs to change colour. It needs to be in some kind of array as i need to check the state of the squares surrounding each square that is selected. Is there a way to produce this grid

Re: lingo-l returning to dir: making a grid with an array

2001-05-08 Thread Jim Weekes
I think I'll have to go the loads of sprites way, but is there a way of duplicating the one sprite to form the grid? Thanks Jim - Original Message - From: R. Bhakti Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 10:20 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l returning to dir:

lingo-l property lists

2001-05-08 Thread Alan Robinson
Hi all SORRY IF ANYONE HAS ALREADY ANSWERED THIS...PLEASE ANSWER AGAIN AS I ACCIDENTALY LOST THE LAST 2 DAYS MAIL. I am trying to create a data structure from a data entry screen by setting the property as a symbol and the value based on the names entered in a field using this code:

lingo-l Xtras not working

2001-05-08 Thread Colby Dodson
I have created a movie using the Buddy API xtra to print a pdf file. I create a projector out of the movie place it in a separate folder with this xtra in its own xtra folder with and it works perfectly. When I attempt to move the projector to a different computer where Director 8 is not

Re: lingo-l Xtras not working

2001-05-08 Thread Irv Kalb
This may just be a typo in your message, the name of the folder needs to be Xtras (with an s at the end). Irv 5:56 PM -0500 5/8/01, Colby Dodson wrote: I have created a movie using the Buddy API xtra to print a pdf file. I create a projector out of the movie place it in a separate folder

lingo-l UI Helper Xtra

2001-05-08 Thread LePhuronn
Tis me again... I've got the UIHelper Xtras's commands using interface() but I haven't got a clue on how to actually use it. Everything I've tried kicks up syntax errors. Basically what I want to do is this: Hide some of Director's interface elements if they're open (score, library, message

Re: lingo-l UI Helper Xtra

2001-05-08 Thread mare
LePhuronn kindly wrote: Tis me again... I've got the UIHelper Xtras's commands using interface() but I haven't got a clue on how to actually use it. Everything I've tried kicks up syntax errors. Basically what I want to do is this: Hide some of Director's interface elements if they're open

Re: lingo-l Text and image

2001-05-08 Thread gopinath
on 8/5/01 6:33 PM, Kerry Thompson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe--what's an issue page? I think Juan Carlos refers to an issue of a publication as an issue and not a child I suppose [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

RE: lingo-l Screen Resolution (was ARGGGGHHH!......pls help!)

2001-05-08 Thread Kerry Thompson
if you do. I'd just make it full screen when you create the projector (there's an option you can check). Show me how ? Like I said, there's an option you check to make the projector play back full-screen. User exercise time. I don't mean to be harsh, but you really will learn Director

Re: lingo-l Text and image

2001-05-08 Thread Kerry Thompson
Maybe--what's an issue page? I think Juan Carlos refers to an issue of a publication as an issue and not a child I suppose Could be. He seemed to be struggling with English (I don't blame him!) I hope he writes back so we can help him fix the problem. Cordially, Kerry Thompson [To remove

Re: lingo-l problems with shockwave

2001-05-08 Thread Kerry Thompson
I'm developing a game in shochwave, and i'm having a very strange error. I've started to receive this error message Internal error. Unexpected failure while compositing bitmap member 105 of PLAYER-CAST 1. The most common problem when you go from local to online is trying to do something with

lingo-l Fatal error

2001-05-08 Thread ah peng
hi all. did anybody know what reason cause a fatal error occurred? reg leooiGet Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. [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,

RE: lingo-l Xtras not working

2001-05-08 Thread Victor Iwan
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Irv Kalb Sent: 09 Mei 2001 6:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l Xtras not working This may just be a typo in your message, the name of the folder needs to be Xtras (with an s at

Re: lingo-l Full Screen Stage...

2001-05-08 Thread dimple uppal
Thanx mahmoud...been trying to achieve that for weeks now! From: Mahmood Akhtar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lingo-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l Full Screen Stage... Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 14:53:31 +0500 Dear Dimple! Here is the code for full screen stage... on