Re: weird behavior....

2001-05-10 Thread LePhuronn
> I don't think you can go to a frame from a prepareFrame handler. You might > set a flag instead, and go to the quiz on the enterFrame handler. Kerry is right - you can't jump to other frames during the prepareFrame stage. Additionally I've had problems in frame hopping on mouseDown and keyDown

Re: Email

2001-05-10 Thread giuseppe schiuma
Hi Ken, you can try a free xtra called OpenUrl at http://www.mods.com.au but remember that this xtra dont't work in shockwave, only in exe files. Hope this helps you, bye Giuseppe - Original Message - From: "Ken Huynh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001

Re: Email

2001-05-10 Thread Slava Paperno
DirectEmail Xtra will do that, http://www.directxtras.com/index.htm You'd have to pay for it (I did), and it's worth it. Slava At 05:36 PM 5/10/2001 -0700, you wrote: >is there anyway to get director launch user default Email account WITHOUT >the browser? > >i checked on the web and sale only

Email

2001-05-10 Thread Ken Huynh
is there anyway to get director launch user default Email account WITHOUT the browser? i checked on the web and sale only company that make an xtra...Launchmail, but i called and checked webpage it seem company might not be around anymore...please if anyone got any information that could help

Re: Quicktime link on PC fails after burning CD

2001-05-10 Thread Charlie Fiskeaux II
is your pathname staying the same when you burn the CD? If you are not using Joliet extensions, your file and /or folder names might be truncated. (only 8 characters allowed on non-Joliet CDs) Charlie Fiskeaux II The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054 x29 cell: 859/312-3883

Quicktime link on PC fails after burning CD

2001-05-10 Thread Andy Grogan
Hi guys Just a small wierd problem I've made a presentation on a mac with 7.0. I imported some quicktime movies. These movies are linked to external files. When I burn up a CD it works fine on the mac but the PC asks me to locate the files - it can't find them, even though they are in the same

Re: weird behavior....

2001-05-10 Thread Colin Holgate
>The sprite that gets the sendsprite message checks some things and then >either updates the screen or goes to a new frame. Both triggers on the >trigger sprite send the same info -- and the receiving sprite DOES receive >both messages (using 'puts' in that receiving sprite's script) but only >goe

Re: weird behavior....

2001-05-10 Thread Kerry Thompson
>I can't figure out why it's not going onto the frame 'quiz' when >the key is pressed even though it's firing out my 'put' messages... I don't think you can go to a frame from a prepareFrame handler. You might set a flag instead, and go to the quiz on the enterFrame handler. Cordially, Kerry

weird behavior....

2001-05-10 Thread grimmwerks
I'm trying to trace something strange here; I've got a sprite that has both a mousedown script as well as a prepareframe script that checks if a certain key is down. If either mousedown of the keydown is fired it does a 'sendsprite' message. The sprite that gets the sendsprite message checks som

loop question

2001-05-10 Thread N. Taylor
To Carl West: Thanks for correcting my loop. "This is a major problem. You need to restructure your project. Members can't intersect each other, only their sprite-instances can intersect. Maybe you can put sprites in channels that match their castnumbers." Actually there is a way to do it. I c

RE: I SEARCHED ARCHIVES AND COULD FIND NOTHING

2001-05-10 Thread Mark R. Jonkman
Hi Brian > I obviosly had difficulty seraching maricopa. Perhaps it is because it > is > such a poorly designed site! > It would be nice if the owners could rebuild it with a more clear > layout. Since Maricopa is basically giving this to us as a free service, it stands to reason that we should

RE: I SEARCHED ARCHIVES AND COULD FIND NOTHING

2001-05-10 Thread Kerry Thompson
>What is "HTH" ? Hope This Helps. Common e-mail shorthand. AFAIK: As Far As I Know TIA: Thanks in Advance etc. Cordially, Kerry Thompson [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

RE: I SEARCHED ARCHIVES AND COULD FIND NOTHING

2001-05-10 Thread Steven Sacks
> What is "HTH" ? Hope That Helps [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

RE: I SEARCHED ARCHIVES AND COULD FIND NOTHING

2001-05-10 Thread b_douglas
thanks al, I obviosly had difficulty seraching maricopa. Perhaps it is because it is such a poorly designed site! It would be nice if the owners could rebuild it with a more clear layout. But thanks for redirecting me, now at least I know where to find the search field. What is "HTH" ? We were

Re: Free ResChange Xtra

2001-05-10 Thread Kerry Thompson
>u have to use buddy api xtras for change screen res. in macromedia's site >u can get. >or go "http://www.mods.com.au/budapi " Good show, Mitesh! I'd just add that Buddy is free if you use only 2 functions, and you can change the resolution with only 2 functions. global gScrHgt global gScrWid

RE: I SEARCHED ARCHIVES AND COULD FIND NOTHING

2001-05-10 Thread Al Hospers
> I searched maricopa and the archives and could not find an > answer to this > question: > > Is there a way to use lingo to detect if a filmloop has > stopped playing? Or > do I have to count the frames that are in it when I create it? and the > attach that as a property of the film loop? intere

Internet connection (ethernet or dialup)

2001-05-10 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Hey all - Built an application for an e-Learning gig - and of course over a dedicated connection it's fine (regardless of all these proxyserver problems I've had with authentication) but if the user is using a dialup then of course the connection gets lost/dropped. Started looking into the direc

PING

2001-05-10 Thread Fabricio G. Bissoli
Anybody have any solution for Ping from a projector to a server ? I tought to use a PHP in the server and send a package while the time of response is checked. Any new solution without scripts into server? Thanks a lot. Fabricio [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode,

I SEARCHED ARCHIVES AND COULD FIND NOTHING

2001-05-10 Thread b_douglas
I searched maricopa and the archives and could not find an answer to this question: Is there a way to use lingo to detect if a filmloop has stopped playing? Or do I have to count the frames that are in it when I create it? and the attach that as a property of the film loop? thanks, b -

New to the List -- not a specific lingo question

2001-05-10 Thread ModelBBoy
Hello everyone! I've perused the news groups for some time and have finally settled into a full time profession with Director. Now that I have a hold of the art, I'm considering taking up residence somewhere where I can get hooked up with a real Director/Shockwave team. This may take a wh

Re: Import Array from ActiveX

2001-05-10 Thread Irv Kalb
I have absolutely no idea about how to use Arrays created in VisualBasic or about using ActiveX controls to bring them in to Director. However, if you want to create and manipulate multi-dimensional arrays purely in Lingo, there are two articles you may want to read at the Director On-Line Us

Re: loop question

2001-05-10 Thread Carl West
"N. Taylor" wrote: > > To the list: > > I cannot call sprite by their number but instead need to check collisions by > castNumber. This is a major problem. You need to restructure your project. Members can't intersect each other, only their sprite-instances can intersect. Maybe you can put spri

Re: What's wrong with this image?

2001-05-10 Thread Colin Holgate
> menuImage = member("menu item").image.duplicate() > put menuImage > tempImage = member ("menu item").image.duplicate() > put tempImage It looks to me like your tempImage is only one menu item tall. Try making it five times taller. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to

What's wrong with this image?

2001-05-10 Thread Karina Steffens
Hi guys, I'm totally stumped... :( The following handler is supposed to copy a bunch of rectangles (from the "menu item" cast member) one after the other, into a single pixel cast member. Right now, it only copies one of them (or all of them into the same rectangle area, I don't know...) Can an

Re: lowering the volume while the buttonis being presse d down

2001-05-10 Thread B Elisabeth Parker
On Wednesday, May 09, 2001 4:09 PM, Conrad Ayala wrote: >Is there a lingo script out there that can lower the volume of a sound >channel while the button is being pressed down? erhm... i'm late on this, but better late than never... right? i did a slider volume thing for a project in my last te

RE: RE: lowering the volume while the buttonis being presse d down

2001-05-10 Thread Mark R. Jonkman
Hi Conrad If you still desire the effect of getting a gradual lowering or increasing of the volume, then I suggest you make a little modification to your methodology. < behaviour attached to button sprite > property p_Bool_ChangeVolume property p_Int_FrameCount property p_Int_FramesBetweenCha

Re: lowering the volume while the buttonis being presse d down

2001-05-10 Thread Jim Weekes
> > I've created a slider also.. however it does not change the volume > smoothly. I would love to see your code. With the info. you have posted on > this subject I can already see where I went wrong. > here's some code for a slider volume changer, you need to attach it to the sliding button:

Re: Easy math problem

2001-05-10 Thread Carl West
Teo Petralia wrote: > > Hi! > I would like to find out the price of an item or better a number of > this items accordingly to their weight. > In other words looking at the table below: > > 0.5kg = $49.00 > 1kg = 63.70 > 1.5kg = 78.35 > 2kg = 93.00 > 5kg = 165.45 > 10kg = 275.00 > 15kg = 375.10 >

Re: RE: lowering the volume while the buttonis being presse d down

2001-05-10 Thread Conrad Ayala
Thanks for all your help. I found that the updateStage is not working, but as I have it right now, where the volume will lower and increase every time you click the button is fine with the client. Thank you all for all your help. At 12:46 AM 5/10/01 -0400, you wrote: > > Thanks for the tip,

Re: lowering the volume while the buttonis being presse d down

2001-05-10 Thread jayson
> In other words, the ratio of thumb to slider range determines the volume in > relation to the maximum system volume. I don't have the code handy, but I'll > post it tomorrow when I'm in the office, if you still need it. > > -Kurt Kurt, I've created a slider also.. however it does not ch

Re: Opening pdfs...

2001-05-10 Thread mare
odette fullaway kindly wrote: >I have looked in my Director books for this one! I need the user to click on >a button to open a pdf so they may print from it if necessary whilst the cd >is running. The only thing i can find is to use the open command but skips >details and doesn'g go into it much

RE: Opening pdfs...

2001-05-10 Thread Al Hospers
> I have looked in my Director books for this one! I need the > user to click on > a button to open a pdf so they may print from it if necessary > whilst the cd > is running. The only thing i can find is to use the open > command but skips > details and doesn'g go into it much more than that! > >

Opening pdfs...

2001-05-10 Thread odette fullaway
I have looked in my Director books for this one! I need the user to click on a button to open a pdf so they may print from it if necessary whilst the cd is running. The only thing i can find is to use the open command but skips details and doesn'g go into it much more than that! I will probabl

SV: Free ResChange Xtra

2001-05-10 Thread Magnus Ewald
hi Kamil... Try: DMChangeRes Avaliable on www.updatestage.com /magnus -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: Kamil Dabkowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Skickat: den 10 maj 2001 11:14 Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ämne: Free ResChange Xtra Hi guys, I'm looking for free Xtra that will change scree

Re: Free ResChange Xtra

2001-05-10 Thread mitesh
Hi u have to use buddy api xtras for change screen res. in macromedia's site u can get. or go "http://www.mods.com.au/budapi " 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 PRO

Re: Easy math problem

2001-05-10 Thread Fumio Nonaka
Hi Tab, Your script returns 375.10 with 10 as the itemWeight parameter. Perhaps, you miss '=' operator (meaning less than or EQUAL) in your 'if...then' statement. _ Tab Julius wrote: > So if itemWeight is 10, then the answer would be 275 ... > on findPrice itemWeight >weights =[.5, 1, 1.5

Re: UI Helper Xtra

2001-05-10 Thread mare
LePhuronn kindly wrote: >> ...you can't do that with the UI helper Xtra... > >I was told you can...oh well, live and learn :-) > >So what exactly is the UIHelper xtra for? You can use the global commands (with the asterix in front of them) but AFAIK the other commands are only useful for Macrome

Free ResChange Xtra

2001-05-10 Thread Kamil Dabkowski
Hi guys, I'm looking for free Xtra that will change screen resolution. Anybody can help? all the best Kamil [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 [