RE: lingo-l QuickTime path names on Mac

2001-07-11 Thread Natalia Tjelum
Hi I did use Joliet file names, and all the files are in the partition, and I can open them from the cd, but the strange part is, if I try and import them from the cd into director, it can't read them? I can browse to the files, and then director simply creates some sort of a reference to the

RE: lingo-l QuickTime path names on Mac

2001-07-11 Thread Kerry Thompson
I did use Joliet file names, and all the files are in the partition, and I can open them from the cd, but the strange part is, if I try and import them from the cd into director, it can't read them? I can browse to the files, and then director simply creates some sort of a reference to the

lingo-l remove from list

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RE: lingo-l QuickTime path names on Mac

2001-07-11 Thread Natalia Tjelum
I wish I could, sounds like a good plan, but I have to turn in this cd ASAP, yesterday I thought everything I needed to do was to check up on the linked movies, which would take about 15 minutes, so I promised to have it done, just about now... It is odd, though, I will let you all know what the

lingo-l Resizing images

2001-07-11 Thread alberto
Anybody knows a way to resize an image imported in Dir (a tiff 32 bit), keeping the quality? I thing I need an alghorytm like resizing images in graphics programs. Any ideas? Alberto [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi

Re: lingo-l Resizing images

2001-07-11 Thread pranavn
It's not too clear if you want to resize images at runtime or while authoringbut, ah well... To resize images while authoring, open them in the paint window and double click on the bit depth displayed on the lower left. During runtime, you can resize images by using copyPixels. Just

lingo-l v12 + pdf xtra

2001-07-11 Thread nik crosina
hi list, i am working on cd-rom that uses the pdf xtra (from inm) to display a sereis of pdfs. the client now wants to be able to perform a full search across all pdfs involved. i found out that this apparently possible by using the v12 xtra in addition to the pdf xtra (from the same

lingo-l Controling sound in a MIAW from the stage(Urgent)

2001-07-11 Thread ani21
Hi, I have a audio control in my main movie and i am opening a MIAW. I want to control the sound playing in the MIAW by using the same audio control on the stage. I have tried using the tell command it does not work. It gives the message movie already open . The code is is like this . on

lingo-l Controling sound in a MIAW from the stage(Urgent)

2001-07-11 Thread ani21
Hi, I have a audio control in my main movie and i am opening a MIAW. I want to control the sound playing in the MIAW by using the same audio control on the stage. I have tried using the tell command it does not work. It gives the message movie already open . The code is is like this . on

lingo-l Re: Virus

2001-07-11 Thread michael gilmour
Dear all Appologies for the non lingo topic but in response to this virus (AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs) its a an old one. Check out http://vil.nai.com/vil/virusSummary.asp?virus_k=99011 regards Mike Gilmour _ Get your FREE download

RE: lingo-l QuickTime path names on Mac

2001-07-11 Thread grimmwerks
I've always used Toast and either hfs, or hybrid hfs/iso and everything has been fine. If you're burning this for the mac only, why are you trying to do it as anything other than hfs anyway? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

lingo-l Send information from one dcr to another

2001-07-11 Thread Marcos Trinca
Hi folks, I´m working on a game and each level is a different .dcr file. I need to send some informations from one to another and I don´t know if there is a way to do it. Do you know something about it? I already thank you. Regards, Marcos Trinca. [To remove yourself from this list, or to

RE: lingo-l QuickTime path names on Mac

2001-07-11 Thread Natalia Tjelum
Hey, I am still awake! Been up for hmmm, 31 hours and counting. Love finding small bugs in programs. :) I am making a cross platform cd, and oddly enough, it works now... I didn't change anything in the script, but tried restarting the computer, and not having any other programs open at the same

Re: lingo-l Send information from one dcr to another

2001-07-11 Thread faisal moro
Marcos, Global variables survive beetween movies. HTH Doei Faisal Hi folks, I´m working on a game and each level is a different .dcr file. I need to send some informations from one to another and I don´t know if there is a way to do it. Do you know something about it? I already thank you.

Re: lingo-l Send information from one dcr to another

2001-07-11 Thread Marcos Trinca
OK Faisal, Thanks very much, I´d never touch it could be so simple. Marcos. - Original Message - From: faisal moro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 10:21 AM Subject: Re: lingo-l Send information from one dcr to another Marcos, Global variables

RE: lingo-l MPEG 2 xtra ?

2001-07-11 Thread Bastien Bouchard
A client of mine wants MPEG 2-movies to play in his mulimedia that i am curently working on, any ideas what xtra that i should use, (so far i have only been working with MPEG 1 with the directmedia xtra) Magnus, Be aware first that playing MPEG-2 video file on distributed media is very

RE: lingo-l Send information from one dcr to another

2001-07-11 Thread Al Hospers
you could also use getPrefs setPrefs. Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alatcambersoftdotcom http://www.cambersoft.com A famous linguist once said: There is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative. YEAH, RIGHT [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go

lingo-l navigation

2001-07-11 Thread JOE LANE
Can anyone tell me how, or what lingo is behind, the scrolling map is done at http://www.itch.co.uk/itchBrowser/load.html cheers JL [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: lingo-l v12 + pdf xtra

2001-07-11 Thread warren
Hello Nik, My name is Warren Stolow and I am the Technical Support Coordinator here at INM. Following this direct link will bring you to the PDF Indexer [a free utility that can be used in conjunction with our V12-DBE Xtra]. Since fully functional demos of the V12 Database Engine are also

lingo-l searching for a folder on the hard drive

2001-07-11 Thread Kelly Fischbach
I'm hoping this is an easy question: From a projector on a cd, is there a way to search for the pathname of a folder on the hard drive. Say the folder is called einstein_data, but I don't know where on the hard drive it is located. I need a cross platform solution! thanks! Kelly Fischbach

lingo-l Shutdown

2001-07-11 Thread ITS
Hi everyone, Shutdown, restart do not shutdown a PC is there a command for actually switch the computer off. The operating system will be Windows 2000 Regards in Advance Chris [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi

Re: lingo-l Shutdown

2001-07-11 Thread Tab Julius
It depends on the machine. Shutdown will physically shut down some machines, if they allow for software shutdowns. The machine might be configured to allow (or disallow) shutdowns. Or, the machine may physically be incapable of a software shutdown (like if it has a positional power

Re: lingo-l navigation

2001-07-11 Thread Clint Little
Joe, It's probably something like, checking the mouse location and based on that adjusting the movement of the graphic... Does that help? -- Clint At 03:24 PM 7/11/2001 +0100, you wrote: Can anyone tell me how, or what lingo is behind, the scrolling map is done at

Re: RE: lingo-l v12 + pdf xtra

2001-07-11 Thread nik crosina
hi warren, thank you for your fast reply!! i will certainly look into this sample you sent me the link of. in the meantime may i explain our 'case' to you: we have to develop a cd-rom presenting around 40 pdf files to the viewer. these are individual chapters of a book and can be called up

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2001-07-11 Thread John Sproul
Natalia, I have had the same problem and I had to resort to putting the quicktime files in the same directory as the projector. It is a bit messy but worked. To be safe I also changed the path name in the cast member properties dialogue box to @theMovie.mov from its original path name so

lingo-l StreamingMedia or MpegXtra?

2001-07-11 Thread George Carlile
Greetings, I need to stream video from the web. I am using D8. Do I need the StreamingMedia Xtra or the MpegXtra from xtras.tabuleiro.com. I am unable to get through to ask a question directly from them as they apparently don't have a contact us hyperlink. Thanks in advance, George Carlile

Re: lingo-l StreamingMedia or MpegXtra?

2001-07-11 Thread nik crosina
hi george, contact details for tabuleiro are at http://xtras.tabuleiro.com/aboutus/index.tdb cheers, nik btw: you can also use shockwave to stream video from the net. On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 12:46:04 -0400 George Carlile [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I need to stream video from the

RE: lingo-l StreamingMedia or MpegXtra?

2001-07-11 Thread Al Hospers
I am unable to get through to ask a question directly from them as they apparently don't have a contact us hyperlink. well, it's just not OBVIOUS (hey mauricio g) go to the site click About Us Click Contact choose your poison... hth Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alatcambersoftdotcom

lingo-l RE: Time out a projector

2001-07-11 Thread M Collins
After determiningg the date I want the program to stop working (in this example it is Aug 1st of this year), I use Buddy API amd the SystemTime function something like this: on startmovie set vTheDate = baSystemTime(date) if value(vTheDate) 20010801 then Alert This program has expired.

Re: lingo-l StreamingMedia or MpegXtra?

2001-07-11 Thread George Carlile
Thanks for your reply, hi george, contact details for tabuleiro are at http://xtras.tabuleiro.com/aboutus/index.tdb cheers, nik btw: you can also use shockwave to stream video from the net. I have tried using shockwave (in D8), but I am obviously using the wrong lingo to make it

RE: lingo-l StreamingMedia or MpegXtra?

2001-07-11 Thread 903939N
From: Roy C. Crisman I am unable to get through to ask a question directly from them as they apparently don't have a contact us hyperlink. well, it's just not OBVIOUS (hey mauricio g) And it probably shouldn't be. This guy is trying to stream an MPEG movie? Mauricio is probably too

RE: lingo-l StreamingMedia or MpegXtra?

2001-07-11 Thread Al Hospers
well, it's just not OBVIOUS (hey mauricio g) And it probably shouldn't be. This guy is trying to stream an MPEG movie? I was referring to the fact that it is not obvious on the Tabulario site how to get in touch with them, that's all. Mauricio does roll these lists on a regular basis was

Re: lingo-l StreamingMedia or MpegXtra?

2001-07-11 Thread George Carlile
From: Roy C. Crisman I am unable to get through to ask a question directly from them as they apparently don't have a contact us hyperlink. well, it's just not OBVIOUS (hey mauricio g) And it probably shouldn't be. This guy is trying to stream an MPEG movie? No Sir. I first

RE: lingo-l StreamingMedia or MpegXtra?

2001-07-11 Thread 903939N
From: Roy C. Crisman And it probably shouldn't be. This guy is trying to stream an MPEG movie? I was referring to the fact that it is not obvious on the Tabulario site how to get in touch with them, that's all. Mauricio does roll these lists on a regular basis was making a joke to him.

RE: lingo-l StreamingMedia or MpegXtra?

2001-07-11 Thread Al Hospers
I wasn't being pissy with you, Al. And maybe I shouldn't have been pissy with whovere it was that asked the question (was it george?). that's ok... I get crabby too grin Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alatcambersoftdotcom http://www.cambersoft.com A famous linguist once said: There is no

lingo-l mouseEnter in an external movie

2001-07-11 Thread Nicolas S.-Roy
Is there a way to successfully use mouseEnter in an external Director movie ? It seems that the mouseEnter command gets sent to the main stage instead of the external movie. Any workarounds ? Thank you. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

lingo-l Trouble with ImportFileInto redux

2001-07-11 Thread John Hart
First, thanks to Tab, et al for the quick response and great help. Second, I did change the / to \ and it did help. Using an alert box, I can now see that the file bhen.txt did get into a cast member of healthArchive at runtime, but for some reason it won't stay there. (And yes, I have the

Re: lingo-l StreamingMedia or MpegXtra?

2001-07-11 Thread George Carlile
- Original Message - From: Al Hospers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 13:02 Subject: RE: lingo-l StreamingMedia or MpegXtra? I am unable to get through to ask a question directly from them as they apparently don't have a contact us

Re: lingo-l mouseEnter in an external movie

2001-07-11 Thread Rob Romanek
Hi Nicolas, Are you talking about linked director movies? It sounds like it. If so checkout an article I've written, it discusses this problem and others http://www.director-online.com/accessArticle.cfm?id=439 HTH, Rob Nicolas S.-Roy wrote: Is there a way to successfully use mouseEnter in

Re: lingo-l StreamingMedia or MpegXtra?

2001-07-11 Thread ifmp
RE: -- From: George Carlile [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l StreamingMedia or MpegXtra? Date: Wed, Jul 11, 2001, 12:04 PM I have tried using shockwave (in D8), but I am obviously using the wrong lingo to make it work. I tried if mediaReady, but that presumes

Re: lingo-l StreamingMedia or MpegXtra?

2001-07-11 Thread George Carlile
Thank you Sir, This is what I have been trying to get at. I will try it. Maybe the data rate of your video is too high to 'stream' over your web connection (I'm assuming you mean an HTTP fast start progressive download rather than RTSP streaming). If it is (and if you're on a modem,

Re: lingo-l Trouble with ImportFileInto redux

2001-07-11 Thread Jakob Hede Madsen
At 12:22 -0700 2001_07_11, John Hart wrote: First, thanks to Tab, et al for the quick response and great help. Second, I did change the / to \ and it did help. Using an alert box, I can now see that the file bhen.txt did get into a cast member of healthArchive at runtime, but for some reason it

lingo-l font problem -- UNICODE in Director

2001-07-11 Thread Dominic Villiard
i'm showing text through a database (using V12 database Xtra) in these text i use UNICODE caracter set Director only display ASCII code so far it displays the wrong caracters how can show the unicode? i create a custom font but it doesn't work is there an xtra or something? help!! Dominic

RE: lingo-l Trouble with ImportFileInto redux

2001-07-11 Thread Al Hospers
My question therefore is this: is save castlib necessary at runtime to permanently hold the new member or not? If not, what mistake am I making? When I close the projector and reopen it, the member is empty and the name I gave it is gone. er, well... yes. if you don't save it it will

Re: lingo-l font problem -- UNICODE in Director

2001-07-11 Thread Slava Paperno
I don't think Directror supports the Unicode two-byte character set. Do you have to use it? If you use the corresponding one-byte set (if there is one--for many languages, there is), then you'll be in etter shape. At 04:05 PM 7/11/2001 -0400, you wrote: i'm showing text through a database

Re: lingo-l Re: Virus

2001-07-11 Thread BD fortin
Dear all Appologies for the non lingo topic but in response to this virus (AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs) its a an old one. Check out http://vil.nai.com/vil/virusSummary.asp?virus_k=99011 regards Mike Gilmour it's a ffw error sorry

lingo-l Re: QuickTime path names on Mac

2001-07-11 Thread Simon Buckingham
Hi Natalie, Picked this thread up in the middle, but rest assured Director has ALWAYS had problems linking external movies. And I've been using it since version 1.0! Why for the life of me version 8.0 should still have problems, well it's not for us mere users to ask is

RE: lingo-l Shutdown

2001-07-11 Thread Sean Wilson
Buddy API has a variety of shutdown/restart/log-off commands that work with (most) versions of Windows. http://www.mods.com.au/ HTH, -Sean. [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: lingo-l searching for a folder on the hard drive

2001-07-11 Thread Sean Wilson
I'm hoping this is an easy question: From a projector on a cd, is there a way to search for the pathname of a folder on the hard drive. Say the folder is called einstein_data, but I don't know where on the hard drive it is located. I need a cross platform solution! There are a couple of

lingo-l music during vo

2001-07-11 Thread Jim Allen
Hello list! Why do I get broken audio when I have a music track playing in a loop under a vo read? Vo read is in Channel one at 22.050 khz 16 bits and the music is in channel two and it is marked as loop in the properties inspector window also 22.050 khz 16 bits. The music is