A few months ago, someone on this list discussed an extremely clever
approach they had to letting a user enter a passworded field. Their
approach was to simply use a special font on a password entry field
which consisted of all asterisks or filled circle characters. This
way, the user would
Hi all...
My presentations are now due - thanks to all who have helped with my SWA
issues - and there is one last little problem. The sound quality of my QT
movie is awful. The creation process inside Adobe Premiere did not show any
problems, nor do they occur when I run the finished QT through
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 21:59:01 -0700 (PDT) Brajeshwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Trying making you projector option to full screen to remove the
borders.
If I set this option to full screen, that only affects wether or not the desktop is
covered with the stage colour in areas where the
Hi ,
I am new to Macromedia and Xtra.
Can any one tell me How to start coding video xtras...?
Can any refer some links where I can get good information on Video xtras to
start with.??
I just want to capture a video from video card and display in Director .
if any one has some sample code
Hi there,
i was asking about this last week.
there is an xtra you can buy:
WinShaper Xtra (get it from)
http://www.ravware.com/xtras.htm
It has a help tutorial that lets you shave off the border, which is easy to
use.
Alternatively you can use a MIAW, but don't ask me because it is a bit
I think there is an xtra at:
http://www.updatestage.com
(called: MasterApp?)
-or have you tried the fileIO xtra, and used code: open {whichDocument with}
whichApplication
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From: Jason Ross [JZway Interactive] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001
They're all dingbats and
effectively
serve the purpose of masking the keystroke.
actually they don't mask anything since if you have the font accessable you
will be able to figure out the keys. what he is looking for will give no
indication of any difference between characters.
Al Hospers
I am developing a CD for the PC platform. I need to create a
behavior that
will open a PDF file from the CD (ie I know the path to the
PDF). So far I
have only managed to get the file to 'save' to the users HD
... but cannot
get it to open.
Jason,
There are 3 pieces to this puzzle:
1 -
Could you not just have a text field on stage which has an * added to it
every time the user clicks a key (regardless of what key they press), and
then in the cast have a text cast member sitting, which has the actual
password the user is typing being entered into it?
Its probably a bit
Can any one tell me How to start coding video xtras...?
Can any refer some links where I can get good information on
Video xtras to
start with.??
take the time to search the Macromedia site. try doing a search on XDK. it
will point you to a lot of resources, including a list explicitly for
Someone's got to be really idle to actually take time out to
memorize the
keystrokes of a font like Wingdings.
but that's what hackers do my friend. what you are describing is a REALLY
insecure way of protecting a password. I do not sggest it. someone could
pcopy the keystrokes out of the p/w
I'll give it a try .. thank you for the concise explanation :)
Jason.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Al Hospers
Sent: 04 June 2001 12:59
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: lingo-l opening a PDF
I am developing a CD for the PC
The path to open a pdf, doc, ppt, xls etc file will be
on mouseup
case the currentspritenum of
10:
fxObj = xtra(FileXtra3).new()
mm = folder1\folder2\folder3\folder4\file.doc
put fxObj.fx_FileOpenDocument(mm)
fxObj = 0
end case
end
here there should be no
Precisely why I said that it's a good solution for occasions when security
is not all that essential. I would use this for my next project. Irv wants
to use it for his current project. If it suits immediate needs, I think it
is good.
And please...no one start a debate now on security is prime
hey Al,
thanks for pointingme to the lists archive!
that is a great resource I shall imagine for all those more
'mundane' niggling qustions like mine1
thanks again!
Nik.
So if anyone has an idea of how to do this (cross-platform;
mac/pc), please let me know. I am sure I am not the only one
We have noticed that play / play done seriously depletes the contiguous free
memory in Director. Go to movie has always been more reliable for our
projects.
Brian
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From: Colin Holgate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 12:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello Bastien Bouchard. I have serial no of director 8.5 see this...
Macromedia Director 8.5 Studio
Serial: WDW850-02044-87235-26475
Clearly sent by a very generous person. Or maybe someone who thought
he wasn't replying to the list.
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Hello Bastien Bouchard. I have serial no of director 8.5 see this...
Macromedia Director 8.5 Studio
Serial: WDW850-02044-87235-26475
if u know how to link to some html file which is lockated on my harddrive
not on live net. please send me this as soon as possible.
Thanks...
please send me
Jilesh,
I'm not sure i have a good understanding of your specific question
but...some general tips, this morning:
1- it is not necessary a good idea to post your message specifically to
*one* user of the list (it's even worse when he is not a highly skilled
Lingo programmer... :-) )
2-
Thanks for all the quick and helpful responds to my post.
It turns out, despite client assurances that all their systems were
P3 500Mhz, that there were even some P2 150Mhz systems in the
installed base. This caused skipping and clipped sound on the test
CDs.
But its good to know that we
At 8:10 AM -0400 6/4/01, Al Hospers wrote:
Someone's got to be really idle to actually take time out to
memorize the
keystrokes of a font like Wingdings.
but that's what hackers do my friend. what you are describing is a REALLY
insecure way of protecting a password. I do not sggest it.
At 6:09 PM +0530 6/4/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanx to Irv for that idea and to Al for pointing out the flaws. I'll keep
them in mind.
As I said in my original message, this was not my idea - I just
thought it was very clever. I certainly can write my own behavior
(in fact I did one on
But its good to know that we were on track for the machines we
originally thought we were targeting. We are redesigning the disks
to use either 640x480 or 320x240 QT movies, based on the system.
One thing to watch out for is that size isn't everything (that's what
I tell people anyway). A
At 10:55 AM -0400 6/4/01, Roy Pardi wrote:
At 8:10 AM -0400 6/4/01, Al Hospers wrote:
Someone's got to be really idle to actually take time out to
memorize the
keystrokes of a font like Wingdings.
but that's what hackers do my friend. what you are describing is a REALLY
insecure way of
PLEASE do not EVER post your serial number to this, or ANY OTHER list.
You should ONLY give it out if YOU have called Macromedia and they ask for it.
It's not quite as bad as giving out your credit card number, but it's not
far behind. It acts as a key. It should be carefully guarded.
-
Also, unloadMember is a better way to go than unload.
In tight projects, we have used a single linked audio file cast member and
switched its filename to play other sound files. Doing a link, a preload,
and then a puppetSound on the linked audio member works well with no
significant delays.
Call me a moron. I just can't seem to get the drop down list working right.
I can figure out how to get it to execute something, but I'd rather get data
from it. I have a list of 50 or so things that should navigate you to one
of 12 places. Can anybody point me in the right direction?
Cory
Macromedia Director 8.5 Studio
Serial: WDW850-X-X-X
are you NUTS? are you absolutely out of your MIND? do NOT post this stuff
here. this is not a WAREZ list. in case you don't know it, and I assume that
you do, this is ABSOLUTELY ILLEGAL.
sheesh!
Al Hospers
CamberSoft, Inc.
BTW, i forgot to mention that i am a happy owner myself of a full Director
liscence (an even of an upgrade to D8 one month before releasing of D8.5
:-(), so it is really uneccessary to provide me other serial numbers. Only
one is requested to register the soft...
Bastien
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There you go...post it on line...that's much better. (!?)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of jilesh patel
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 10:08 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: lingo-l director 8.5 serial :-)
Hello Bastien Bouchard. I
Hi Folks,
Can anyone tell me, is there an easy way to delete all characters other than numbers
from a field member?
Thanks in advance,
g fritzinger
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On 6/4/01 10:08 AM, jilesh patel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Bastien Bouchard. I have serial no of director 8.5 see this...
I'm not going to quote the full email but thanks for the serial number!
I'm sure you'll be hearing from macromedia very soon
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On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 21:59:01 -0700 (PDT)
Brajeshwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] said
As for invisible icons, they will become visible as soon as you write
to the CD even if you have made them invisible in the HDD. If your
main concern is to solve the problem of clusttering, then make a
single folder
Can anyone tell me, is there an easy way to delete all
characters other than numbers from a field member?
nothing built-in, but:
1 - put the text from the field in a variable
2 - loop thru the characters in the variable
3 - look at each character see if they are contained in 1234567890
4
Can anyone tell me, is there an easy way to delete all characters
other than numbers from a field member?
There's lots of ways. For example:
newtext =
t = member(text field).text
c = the number of chars in t
repeat with a = 1 to c
if 1234567890 contains char a of t then put char a of t
Unfortunately I can't really stop it.
At 12:48 PM 6/4/01 -0700, Boyd Speer wrote:
Tab, Is this post going into the archives (Hope not..)
Macromedia should take steps to invalidate that particular number so it
couldn't be used to get an upgrade...
-Boyd Speer
Touchstone Digital Design
Serial:
on 6/3/01 8:19 PM, Mark R. Jonkman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi John
What if you on occassion put in an unloadmember() command with no specific
reference to a member, which should if I remember right, unload all
castmembers,
So far the ONLY solution has been to do ALL of the memory
I don't know who the original poster was on this (I recently lost a
few weeks worth of posts), but I've got a small demo movie that's a
main movie + MIAW, the MIAW is irregular shaped, transparent
drag-moveable ( closable).
If there's an interest in it, I'll post it for download.
-Buzz
At
Speaking of deleting characters in a field. How do you delete the RETURN
key? I used:
newtext=
member(text field).text = newtext
...but the RETURN key remains there (and the cursor do not return to the
first line).
Bastien
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If you call a handler, be aware that Director will return to the next
statement after the call when it's finished (the called handler, that is).
This certainly is true. But how does this have anything to do with any
potential memory leak?
Here's the scenario I ran into...
But bear in mind
Excellent. Yes, please do.
-r
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From: Buzz Kettles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Judy Price [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Monday, June 04, 2001 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: lingo-l Re: moving an MIAW
I don't know who the original poster was on this (I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Speaking of deleting characters in a field. How do you delete the RETURN
key? I used:
newtext=
member(text field).text = newtext
member(text field).text = newtext.line[1]
--scott
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I'm working on a director movie that will have all it's navigation
controlled by Flash. This is a single frame movie, with all the
elements added and positioned via lingo. I want to call the various
Director elements that make up the pages using FSCommand, instead of
a lingo command or
on 6/4/01 2:38 PM, Kerry Thompson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The frame script goes to a label where the calling sprite doesn't exist.
When the stack unwinds back to the code in the original calling sprite, you
get, um, unpredictable behavior. Like memory leaks.
I'm h:)ppy to say None of
Hello List,
I have a director movie with many MIAWs. One of the MIAW has an exitFrame script
that checks for the character count of four field members. When the char.count
reaches 10 , a custom handler is called which rounds the date from the field forward
to the next Saturday and another
Did you try setting the activeWindwo back to the main movie?
At 4:45 PM -0400 6/4/01, Gene Fritzinger wrote:
Hello List,
I have a director movie with many MIAWs. One of the MIAW has an
exitFrame script that checks for the character count of four field
members. When the char.count reaches 10
done
http://www.best.com/~kettles/MIAW-tricks.zip
enjoy
-Buzz
At 3:31 PM -0400 6/4/01, Robert Smith wrote:
Excellent. Yes, please do.
-r
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From: Buzz Kettles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Judy Price [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Monday, June
Ditto!
Charlie Fiskeaux II
The Creative Group
www.cre8tivegroup.com
859/858-9054 x29
cell: 859/312-3883
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From: Robert Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: lingo-l Re: moving an MIAW
Excellent. Yes, please
No I didn't, thank you. Could I do something like:
set the activeWindow = window mainmovie
Thanks for your help!!!
Did you try setting the activeWindwo back to the main movie?
At 4:45 PM -0400 6/4/01, Gene Fritzinger wrote:
Hello List,
I have a director movie with many MIAWs. One of the
As I said in my original message, this was not my idea - I just
thought it was very clever. I certainly can write my own behavior
(in fact I did one on a project a few years back). I just wanted to
save an hour or two. So again, if the person who posted this
approach earlier is listening,
Be aware - FS Command does not work on Mac in the IE browser.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Diana Robson
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 4:42 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: lingo-l FSCommand and lingo
I'm working on a director
I've figured out that not my system, but all computers that
i tried to run the CD-ROM are infected with Funlove.4099 (arrg!)
they are all a part of the same network - so bad for the network manager
tomorrow hehe...
the problem is that funlove.4099 is classified as a harmless virus,
infected apps
Hello
I am using Director 7.0.2 for a project and I am having problems opening
pdf files on Windows. The following code works fine on a Mac. It also
works on Windows(95, 98) in Authoring mode. However, at runtime it only
works on one of our machines running Windows 98. On other machines running
I have included Acrobat on the CD. It is on the same level as the exe.
Any ideas?
By exe, do you mean the projector? If that's the case, why don't you
open with the moviepathacroRd32.exe instead of tunneling down three
levels?
If you mean you have the Acrobat folder at the projector level,
I am using Director 7.0.2 for a project and I am having
problems opening
pdf files on Windows. The following code works fine on a
Mac. It also
works on Windows(95, 98) in Authoring mode. However, at
runtime it only
works on one of our machines running Windows 98. On other
machines running
on 5/30/01 5:30 PM, Joel Tec at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way to get values from some php variables... I currently can post
values into the variables using something like this..
goToNetPage (anypage.php?variableinphp=anyvalue)
Im not an expert in php and I think that im missing
hi list
is it need any xtras to import .dat file into director 8.0??
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Yeah, it's quite simple.
When you post a variable to the php page, if you do 'echo yourvariable' then
of course the .html page will write out the variable that was posted, right?
So if you echo'd it, and from director:
Tnet=postnettext(http:yourphp_page.php?somevar=this ) then:
Put
It depends on the format of the .dat file (.dat is a generic name for a
data file, and can be structured just about any way you want).
If it's text format, you can probably just use the Lingo command
'importFileInto' to bring it in as text.
- Tab
At 11:52 AM 6/5/01 +0800, gksoon wrote:
hi
Hi,
Announcing two new resources for the Director community:
1) Open Xtras Web site
With this message, I am pleased to announce the launch of the http://openxtras.org/
Web site, a new non-profit community center whose purpose is to promote the
development and release of Open Source Xtras,
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