lingo-l Big Problem

2001-06-13 Thread mitesh
Hi Friends, When i protect my movie then it's gives me lot of problem projector not run proper. in director it's work fine. like in search link is not working proper. my director is telling me that it's out of memory i don't know why it's happen i am in big trouble. i am using director 7.02.

lingo-l Fonts- Win v/s mac: Help me ?

2001-06-13 Thread JoyC
Hi list, I am developing cross-platform cd (windows mac).I am installing font (eg.Verdana) in users machine by installation programme. I am taking care of both platform by using fontmap file.I do not want to embedd the fonts in director movie. My PROBLEM is after installation in macintosh, the

Re: lingo-l list uses

2001-06-13 Thread faisal moro
Tyler, you can actually use lists for almost 1000 things. If i understood your question, you need to create a tile based map, and make your boat moving within. Of course lists are grat for this. I'm working in these days to a similar project, and i'm developing a map engine that may be

Re: RE: RE: lingo-l oops-here is the subject: DIRECTOR DEMAND (OT)

2001-06-13 Thread nik crosina
hi! long discussion by now... good! On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:43:18 -0400 Kafka's Daytime [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks... I'm also a huge Lingo/Director fan and am not elated about the idea of eventually having to go to Flash/ActionScript. I do have some other tools in my kit so with some

RE: lingo-l OT - Number of Lingo words?

2001-06-13 Thread Richard Tribe
Thanks Bruce, I must have had a typo cause I know I tried this ! -- Richard Tribe, BBC Interactive dept. -- From: Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 8, 2001 19:45 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: lingo-l OT

lingo-l Using the current spriteNum to play a flash movie in Director 6.5

2001-06-13 Thread hughesdiana
Hi I wonder if anyone can help me I'm trying to create a turntable that will play several flash movies by using a variable: set aRecord = the currentSpriteNum on enterFrame set aRecord = the currentSpriteNum go the frame end THIS FOR THE RECORD on mouseDown me set aRecord = the

RE: lingo-l Problem....

2001-06-13 Thread jp
Which version of Director are you using ? If you go to VIEW--KeyFrames is there a checkmark next to the label ? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Malcolm Beddows Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 2:09 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:

lingo-l passing an array (AKA list) to a flash 5 member

2001-06-13 Thread Chris Aernoudt
Is it possible to pas an array from director 8.5 to a flash 5 member? Using setVariable?? I get handler not defined when i try to smack a list through setVariable. Please help. TIA * Chris Aernoudt Multimedia, Web Application Developer Pixellink nv

lingo-l how can I exit the movie?

2001-06-13 Thread Mariel Montufar
HI, I'm new in Lingo, and I can't find out how to make that when the user running my movie, can press the button 'Exit' and the movie closes. Hope someone can give me a hint Thanks, Mariel _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail

RE: lingo-l how can I exit the movie?

2001-06-13 Thread Tab Julius
Actually, a better way out is to use 'halt'. In authoring mode (that is, in Director), quit will also exit Director, which makes it really annoying for testing. By using 'halt' instead, the movie will just stop. - Tab At 09:13 AM 6/13/01 -0400, Brown, William K wrote: Attach this script to

Re: lingo-l Fonts- Win v/s mac: Help me ?

2001-06-13 Thread Charlie Fiskeaux II
Why do you not want to embed the fonts in the movie? Charlie Fiskeaux II The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054 x29 cell: 859/312-3883 - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 3:02 AM Subject: lingo-l Fonts- Win

RE: lingo-l how can I exit the movie?

2001-06-13 Thread Brown, William K
Attach this script to your exit button on mouseUp quit end -- From: Mariel Montufar[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 9:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l how can I exit the movie? HI, I'm new in Lingo, and I can't find

RE: lingo-l how can I exit the movie?

2001-06-13 Thread Al Hospers
Actually, a better way out is to use 'halt'. In authoring mode (that is, in Director), quit will also exit Director, which makes it really annoying for testing. By using 'halt' instead, the movie will just stop. to cover both authoring runtime modes I have found that this works well.

RE: lingo-l how can I exit the movie?

2001-06-13 Thread Tab Julius
What's the benefit? Why not just always use halt? I've been doing it for years - no problems. I'm not sure why you're going through the trouble to differentiate. At 09:57 AM 6/13/01 -0400, Al Hospers wrote: Actually, a better way out is to use 'halt'. In authoring mode (that is, in

RE: lingo-l how can I exit the movie?

2001-06-13 Thread Al Hospers
What's the benefit? Why not just always use halt? I've been doing it for years - no problems. I'm not sure why you're going through the trouble to differentiate. well, historical I suppose. it's just a part of my code base. that said, it seems to me that at one time I found something not

RE: lingo-l how can I exit the movie?

2001-06-13 Thread Irv Kalb
For historical reasons. Quit was in Lingo from the beginning. But people complained that executing quit when running in Director also quit Director. So, Macromedia, (being the nice folks that they are and not wanting to break any existing application where you might want the existing

RE: lingo-l how can I exit the movie?

2001-06-13 Thread Tab Julius
Well, if I recall correctly, quit was always there, but took you all the way out. Halt used to originally literally halt the work, and the bug (at least back in v4), or feature, was that it just stopped everything, and didn't call stopMovie. Over the years, somewhere, it got to where it

RE: lingo-l how can I exit the movie?

2001-06-13 Thread Al Hospers
didn't call stopMovie. ah... that's what I seem to remember. I suppose it's funny that piece of my library is that old grin thanks for the info Al [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,

lingo-l cannot show video on web

2001-06-13 Thread lamwk
Dear All! I have a small project on which is a director presentation. The presentation is linked with 4 small quicktime moive(320X252). It is normal when I test it on my pc after I have save it as a shockwave movie. But I can't see the quick time movie when I post it on the internet. I have

RE: lingo-l how can I exit the movie?

2001-06-13 Thread Irv Kalb
But Al, there is no need to do this extra work. As Tab pointed out, the beauty of halt is that it does this check for you. At author-time, halt will just stop the movie and keep you in Director. At execution-time, it will quit the executable. I've been using it for years this way. Irv At

Re: lingo-l passing an array (AKA list) to a flash 5 member

2001-06-13 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Believe you have to pass the whole thing as a string (obviously) ie sprite(5).setVariable(thearray, (blah, blah, blah, blah)) but I'm not sure how each blah would read Perhaps you'd need to do ( QUOTE blah QUOTE ,.etc [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest

lingo-l Cheking if a .dll file is in windows system

2001-06-13 Thread Presedo
I would like to know if the system´s user has a codec... trying this, doesn´t work because is not a server on startmovie if file(C\windows\SYSTEM\DivXc32.dll).exists then nothing else open DivX3.20.exe end if end Any ideas? Thanks Rafa [To remove yourself from this

Re: lingo-l Using the current spriteNum to play a flash movie in Director 6.5

2001-06-13 Thread Joe O'Neil
not sure what you trying to do, see no way what you doing can work. the currentSpriteNum is the number of the channel where a script is running [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on enterFrame set aRecord = the currentSpriteNum frame and movie scripts return 0 put the currentSpriteNum --0 so

Re: lingo-l Cheking if a .dll file is in windows system

2001-06-13 Thread Tab Julius
From desktop, or from Shockwave? At 05:15 PM 6/13/01 +0200, Presedo wrote: I would like to know if the system´s user has a codec... trying this, doesn´t work because is not a server on startmovie if file(C\windows\SYSTEM\DivXc32.dll).exists then nothing else open

RE: lingo-l Cheking if a .dll file is in windows system

2001-06-13 Thread Rafael Presedo
From desktop [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. Thanks!]

RE: lingo-l Cheking if a .dll file is in windows system

2001-06-13 Thread Tab Julius
Then you could use the FileIO Xtra (which comes with Director) to get the windows folder, via the getOSDirectory() call. You could append on to get the system folder (generally the system folder is under the main Windows directory, but it doesn't have to be, or it could be something other

Re: lingo-l Big Problem

2001-06-13 Thread Kerry Thompson
buddy api xtras error is as below error message is : you have exceeded the number of licensed functions) That one is easy--you need to register Buddy API. You can use 2 Buddy functions for free, but beyond that, you have to register (and pay :-) You can register two ways--at runtime, with a

Re: lingo-l Fonts- Win v/s mac: Help me ?

2001-06-13 Thread R. Bhakti Klein
namaste, As Mr. Fiskeaux says, unless you have a compelling reason otherwise, the thing to do is to embed the fonts in the director movie. then you don't have to install the fonts on the system, you don't have to worry about which fonts are on the system. you still have to test cross-platform,

Re: lingo-l Problem....

2001-06-13 Thread Buzz Kettles
Could you have accidentally zoomed in too far ? (@ 50% score view the keyframes are tiny and at 25% they are not shown). *just an idea* -Buzz At 10:09 AM +0100 6/13/01, Malcolm Beddows wrote: Hi people - One quick question to you all. Q: As i was working on a project yesterday, i suddenly

lingo-l Need some info

2001-06-13 Thread Fred Westermeyer
I need some info on doing a dropdown list. I looked in the help in D7.02 and in my library of books and still can not find anything about how to do it. Can some one pass some info on this subject to me. Thanks Fred Westermeyer Slot Graphics [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grand Casino Biloxi 265 Beach

lingo-l Sound volume of AVI

2001-06-13 Thread Kamil Dabkowski
Hi, How can I control sound(?).volume of AVI movie. In which channel the AVI sound is playing? Thanks Kamil -- Kamil Dabkowski Geometrek http://stop.at/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

RE: lingo-l Problem....

2001-06-13 Thread Colin Kettenacker
One quick question to you all. Q: As i was working on a project yesterday, i suddenly found i had no keyframes appearing in my score when dropping a cast member onto it, then suddenly all my cast members caught the bug - and now - no keyframes anywhere. It's now another day still no

Re: lingo-l Sound volume of AVI

2001-06-13 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 13:00 13/06/2001, Kamil Dabkowski wrote: Hi, How can I control sound(?).volume of AVI movie. In which channel the AVI sound is playing? Use sprite(x).volume where x is the sprite channel containing your AVI. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to

Re: lingo-l Need some info

2001-06-13 Thread Alan Robinson
I need some info on doing a dropdown list. I looked in the help in D7.02 and in my library of books and still can not find anything about how to do it. Can some one pass some info on this subject to me. I had a similar problem recently and found some examples but they were rather cumbersome so

lingo-l link between director and VB

2001-06-13 Thread Zeggwagh Youssef
hello list, how can i do a link between my director project and a database made by Visual Basic. Thanks zeggwagh youssef __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

RE: lingo-l Need some info

2001-06-13 Thread Pekka Buttler
There was some good stuff on dropdown lists on Director-online some while a go, maybe you should go browse the archives. Pekka -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Fred Westermeyer Sent: 13. kesakuuta 2001 22:37 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: lingo-l link between director and VB

2001-06-13 Thread Pekka Buttler
Please specify exact meaning of link and describe the format of the database? Pekka -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Zeggwagh Youssef Sent: 14. kesakuuta 2001 2:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l link between director and VB

Re: lingo-l calendar stuff

2001-06-13 Thread Colin Holgate
http://home.earthlink.net/~joeoneil/Testbed/allYears.html Not quite the same thing, but take a look at this thing I did last year (it's just a series of screenshots): http://page-a-day.com/preview/index.html? This was developed in Director 7, and makes good use of linked Director movies. [To

lingo-l Change resolution

2001-06-13 Thread Eric Choy
Hi All, If I want to make a 800x600 movie,the projector run and it will appear in the middle of the screen and cannot move, and I need to make a maximize button,it will check the user screen, for example the use is 1024x768, once I click the button, the projector I run will turn into full