Re: Problem with cast

2001-05-19 Thread Kerry Thompson
>Hey as long as you're going, would you please pick up a four-slice toaster >for me. The ones they had only work with System 8.x, not 9. [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: Field Names

2001-05-19 Thread Al Hospers
> They are both field cast members which are intended to > display the same name > from a list but on different sections of a data output screen. why not just place the same field on the screen 2 times? Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alcambersoftcom http://www.cambersoft.com A famous linguist once

Re: Field Names

2001-05-19 Thread Alan Robinson
> Do you mean you have two field cast members with the same name? Or two > variables with the same name, holding data from a field? > > If you have two cast members of the same name, Director will always use the > first one. If you have them in different casts, you can differentiate them > by usin

building tree structure

2001-05-19 Thread Michael von Aichberger
Hi everybody and good evening to all of you who work on weekends! I have a problem that is too difficult for me alone to solve: I want to generate a sitemap dynamically. As chapters are added they should be displayed in a tree-like hierarchical menu and be accessible by that menu. Let's say I ha

Re: Field Names

2001-05-19 Thread Irv Kalb
At 10:58 PM +0100 5/19/01, Alan Robinson wrote: >Hi all you gurus >Just wondering if you can tell me how field names are stored internally. I >have named two fields with the same name expecting them to receive identical >data from a list but only one actually receives it. I was wondering if it >wa

Re: Problem with cast

2001-05-19 Thread Irv Kalb
At 3:02 PM -0700 5/19/01, Kerry Thompson wrote: >>Looks like I'm right. > >Cool--thanks, Irv. > >I wasn't disputing your claim :-) > >In fact, your post didn't even mention speed--you mentioned it as an >easier way (which I agree with). Yes, it's definitely easier. And while I had assumed that

Re: Field Names

2001-05-19 Thread Kerry Thompson
>I have named two fields with the same name expecting them to receive identical >data from a list but only one actually receives it. Do you mean you have two field cast members with the same name? Or two variables with the same name, holding data from a field? If you have two cast members of t

Re: Problem with cast

2001-05-19 Thread Kerry Thompson
>Looks like I'm right. Cool--thanks, Irv. I wasn't disputing your claim :-) In fact, your post didn't even mention speed--you mentioned it as an easier way (which I agree with). I figured it was probably faster, and was just wondering if you had done any tests. It's a lazy Saturday afternoo

Field Names

2001-05-19 Thread Alan Robinson
Hi all you gurus Just wondering if you can tell me how field names are stored internally. I have named two fields with the same name expecting them to receive identical data from a list but only one actually receives it. I was wondering if it was because they may be stored as an array and automati

Re: Problem with cast

2001-05-19 Thread Irv Kalb
At 2:24 PM -0700 5/19/01, Kerry Thompson wrote: >>if you declare "spriteNum" as a property at the top of your script, >>then you can just use "spriteNum" instead of "me.spriteNum" > >Just curious, Irv--have you run any tests to see which is faster? > What you want me to prived data to prove my

Re: Problem with cast

2001-05-19 Thread Kerry Thompson
>if you declare "spriteNum" as a property at the top of your script, then >you can just use "spriteNum" instead of "me.spriteNum" Just curious, Irv--have you run any tests to see which is faster? Cordially, Kerry Thompson [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go

Re: Problem with cast

2001-05-19 Thread Irv Kalb
Try this: on beginSprite me pNormalState = sprite(me.spriteNum).member.number -- <-- use the number of the member pOverState = pNormalState + 1 -- then you can add offsets pDownState = pNormalState + 2 end (As a side note, if you declare "spriteNum" as a property at the top of your

Problem with cast

2001-05-19 Thread Kamil Dabkowski
Hi, I've created simple behavior (below) to controll video sprite. I put members for buttons in external cast. In the same cast I put this behavior. Over and Down button state I create by: on beginSprite me pNormalState = sprite(me.SpriteNum).member pOverState = sprite(pNormalState.number +

RE: base64 encoding in director?

2001-05-19 Thread Robert Wingate
grimmwerks wrote: > can I do base64 encoding? You can encode & decode binary data using Lingo. Base64 encoding uses an algorithm sort of similar to uuEncode or xxEncode, but with a different output character set. In a nutshell, the idea is to read in whatever data you need to encode as binary (B

Fw: Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide

2001-05-19 Thread James Newton
- Original Message - From: Schachterle, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 3:26 PM Subject: Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide I am interested in doing a beginning-level title on Director 8.5, and I wondered if you could recommend a candidate. Recently, Os

Re: Udp and tcp/ip stuff?

2001-05-19 Thread Terry R. Schussler
At 11:35 AM +0200 5/15/01, Jakob Hede Madsen wrote: >At 15:12 -0400 14/05/01, g r i m m w e r k s wrote: >>Hey - got my book for 8.5 the other daythere's not much on udp so I'm >>searching the macromedia site >> >>Can udp and tcp/ip play together, or do you have to set the MU server to >>h

Re: Supported HTML tags

2001-05-19 Thread Terry R. Schussler
At 11:40 AM -0400 5/18/01, Bill Numerick wrote: >Anyone know where I can find the supported HTML tags in Director? Doesn't >seem to be documented anywhere i can find. http://www.directoru.com/ -- ...---===| Terry R. Schussler |===---... ...---===| Chief Investigator |===---... on visitWeb

Re: Re:Task Bar

2001-05-19 Thread Bruce Epstein
>The stage will always be on top on every other application, unless >you switch application - in this case to Windows. I don't think that is true. If the user sets the task bar to "always on top" it will appear atop a projector. You can change the task bar settings with Buddy I believe. >I di

Supported HTML tags

2001-05-19 Thread Bruce Epstein
>Anyone know where I can find the supported HTML tags in Director? Doesn't >seem to be documented anywhere i can find. Page 385 of Director in a Nutshell covers it briefly. Director supports basic tabs like and . It also suppors simple tables, but it doesn't support , , , , , , etc. IOW, i

Re: Adding a value to a list if it's not already there

2001-05-19 Thread Bruce Epstein
At 10:43 PM -0400 05/18/2001, Lingo-L Digest wrote: >I usually just: > if not getpos(list, value) then add(list, value) I strongly advise against single-line "if" statements. I strongly recommend the form: if not getpos(list, value) then add(list, value) end if This makes it much easier to

base64 encoding in director?

2001-05-19 Thread Bruce Epstein
>If I need to send a raw connection with the MU xtra, can I do base64 >encoding? I'm not sure I understand the question. You can establish a raw text connection. I imagine that you can send any text ove rit that you like. You'd have to do the base64 encoding/decoding yourself to my knowledge.

opening a new browser window with shockwave

2001-05-19 Thread Bruce Epstein
At 10:43 PM -0400 05/18/2001, Lingo-L Digest wrote: > >Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 10:06:41 -0700 >From: "John Sproul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: opening a new browser window with shockwave > >Hello, I have a question. This may be very basic, but I am trying to open a >shockwave movie in a new bro

3dbox.dll

2001-05-19 Thread Brajeshwar
Hi, I have created a projector out of my movies in Windows 98 and when I re-open and play the projector in Windows 2000 professional, I found this nagging screen saying that it did not find the "3dbox.dll" and after sometime continues the projector. Enlighten me on this. Regards Brajeshwar ___