lingo-l need help........thanks

2001-07-17 Thread Ang Beng Leong
Hi,I am a student.Now i have a project need to interactive but i am not very good in script.Can someone help me send me some sample director file to me.ThanksGet Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode,

lingo-l MIAW.visible=false makes it crash

2001-07-17 Thread Slava Paperno
Why does this SOMETIMES cause the MIAW to crash? It shouldn't be the same issue as with forgetting the MIAW (which I know all about), right? What can it be, then? --button script in the MIAW on mouseUp (the activeWindow).visible = false end Only the MIAW crashes (remains visible, but stops

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2001-07-17 Thread Chris Aernoudt
Try the behaviors that ship with director. Look under Window-Library palette. Lot's of basic interactivity stuff there. Try going through the tutorials if you don't know where to start. * Chris Aernoudt Multimedia, Web Application Developer Pixellink nv

lingo-l SHIFT TAB as FAST like windows :(

2001-07-17 Thread Milo Mineur
Hi All, I'm still strugling with the 'SHIFT-TAB' function for my txtmembers. Or it doesn't work in my final movie or it's too slow :( Does someone know what's wrong with my script or methode? I've 100 inputTxtmembers in sprite 500 to 599 and my script is like below Thx! Milo Mineur

RE: lingo-l request about website

2001-07-17 Thread Chris Aernoudt
Why not in flash?? The shockwave plugin is a disaster to download, it's massive. Anyway, All I see is just layers of 50 % opacity on top of each other with a bit of offset. Ai'nt too hard. Experiment a bit... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On

lingo-l RE: help with the interactivity stuff

2001-07-17 Thread Chris Aernoudt
sorry, forgot the subject line -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris Aernoudt Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 9:07 AM To: lingo Subject: Try the behaviors that ship with director. Look under Window-Library palette. Lot's of basic

RE: lingo-l Start Stop flash movies on my stage...

2001-07-17 Thread Natalia Tjelum
Hi sprite(flashsprite).pause() sprite(flashsprite).play() sprite(flashsprite).rewind() as far as I remember... -Natalia -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Malcolm Beddows Sent: 26. juni 2001 12:28 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: lingo-l

RE: lingo-l Detecting Flash

2001-07-17 Thread Leon McComish
Ooops, forgot to add, flashSpriteTotalFrames as a property. Sorry :) Also, this is to go on a frame script, but of course, you may want to use globals, a global array or local variables instead. Do as you will my child. :) Leon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

lingo-l problem with animated cursor

2001-07-17 Thread Lilian Rudenco
Hello, I have custom animated cursor in my project and flash sprite. When mouse is over flash sprite, the mouse cursor blink. If somebody can suggest me what I can do to have not blink cursor. Thanks in advance Lilian [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

lingo-l print problem

2001-07-17 Thread Rama krishnan
hello all I'm doing a cd project which have a lot of tables to show, so decided to show them in html layout. I'm dynamically making the html code from director. All these content is shown on a text cast member.. all of them working fine, I'm getting a good table with borders ... the

lingo-l Looking for alternative sprite addressing schemes (also, my first post)

2001-07-17 Thread Michelle Elliott
Hi all. This is my first post here, so please pardon me if I'm addressing an issue inappropriate for this forum... I have developed a way of addressing sprites without using their channel number. Instead, I use a sendAllSprites command, and have the receiving scripts filter out extraneous

RE: lingo-l MIAW.visible=false makes it crash

2001-07-17 Thread Craig Wehr
try resizing the window to 1px X 1 px instead of hiding. Just a friendly suggestion. property pListRef property pExpandMem property pContractMem global gExpWin on beginSprite me pListRef = sprite(me.spriteNum) pExpandMem = member(51) pContractMem = member(52) pListRef.member =

Re: lingo-l Finding If a _huge_ float is divisible by a number

2001-07-17 Thread Cole Tierney
What a coincedence. A coworker of mine just asked me a similar question. In this case we have a huge float (greater than maxinteger) and need to know if it is evenly divisable by 2. We can not truncate the result, since it won't fit into an integer. We'll probably fall back on converting to a

Re: lingo-l Looking for alternative sprite addressing schemes (also, my first post)

2001-07-17 Thread Rob Romanek
Hi Michelle, I also use a scheme for addressing sprites by name instead of channel number. I wrote an article on it for DOUG and you can find it at: http://www.director-online.com/accessArticle.cfm?id=843 Briefly, instead of using sendallsprite I drop a behavior on each sprite that I want to

RE: lingo-l Finding If a _huge_ float is divisible by a number

2001-07-17 Thread Jorge Pena
I'm not sure what the evenly part means. I guess it means that there is no remainder... if that is the case you only need to check if the last digit in the number is even or zero. If it is you know the number is divisible by 2. HTH Jorge -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: lingo-l Finding If Something is divisible by a number

2001-07-17 Thread Kafka's Daytime
*laugh* I don't know what I enjoy more...all the great lingo info or all the peppery exchanges. Got a kick out of this thread. :) Josie -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jakob Hede Madsen Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 7:42 PM To: [EMAIL

lingo-l Saving image from dcr into disk

2001-07-17 Thread Marcos Trinca
Hi All, I would like to send(by e-mail) or save an image that my application .dcr built. Can you figure out how can I solve this problem? Tks all, Regards, Marcos Trinca [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post

Re: lingo-l Saving image from dcr into disk

2001-07-17 Thread Florian Bogeschdorfer
To mail with attachments, take a look at the direct eMail xtra www.directxtras.com I think. Saving from a shockwavemovie is as far as i know - apart from setprefs command - not allowed. regards, Florian Marcos Trinca wrote: Hi All, I would like to send(by e-mail) or save an image that my

Re: lingo-l Saving image from dcr into disk

2001-07-17 Thread alberto
I' m doing the same, and I' m using DirectExport Xtra, and DirectMail Xtra. For example this behaviour is attached to Save button in the movie: on mouseUp me set the picture of member capture = the picture of the stage crop member(capture), (rect(8, 52, 791, 196)) dXport (capture, the

lingo-l mouseEnter mouseLeave

2001-07-17 Thread nik crosina
Hi List, This sounds a bit strange, but I can't work out a what is happening here: I have attached a behaviour that contains a mouseEnter, mouseLeave and mouseDown handler each to a series of button images and the only handler that seems to work out of the three is the mousedown handler. this

lingo-l PROJECTORS

2001-07-17 Thread JUAN COLON
how do you open a projector from a projector. their both on a CDROM. JUAN-NYC _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

RE: lingo-l PROJECTORS

2001-07-17 Thread Kafka's Daytime
try a third party Xtra like directOs or MasterApp directOs has a launchApp method...download a trial version from DirectXtras.com and try it out. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of JUAN COLON Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 4:41 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: lingo-l PROJECTORS

2001-07-17 Thread Slava Paperno
You can use the OPEN command, as with any other application. At 04:40 PM 7/17/2001 +, you wrote: how do you open a projector from a projector. their both on a CDROM. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post

Re: lingo-l mouseEnter mouseLeave

2001-07-17 Thread Charlie Fiskeaux II
Do you have more than script on the button/s? If you have mouseEnter/Leave handlers in more than one behavior and/or member script, they will be rendered hierarchically. Charlie Fiskeaux II The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054 x29 cell: 859/312-3883 - Original Message

Re: lingo-l mouseEnter mouseLeave

2001-07-17 Thread nik crosina
no they are the only handlers attached to the buttons, cheers, nik. ps: i created a projector and there they work. so this might just be a bug in director for windows? On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 12:54:38 -0400 Charlie Fiskeaux II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have more than script on the

lingo-l script cast member question

2001-07-17 Thread the nightboy
Here is a little question: does anyone know if there is a line limit to scripts? also can you script on the fly, a #script cast member to be either an behavior or movie script? tia Brian Douglas (:ub) AS/L/JS

Re: lingo-l PROJECTORS

2001-07-17 Thread Tab Julius
You can use 'the applicationPath' to get the path of your own projector, so the second projector will be on the same drive. Chances are that is your working directory anyway, so you don't need to specify the path of the second projector. Then use Lingo's 'open' command, as in: open

lingo-l cursor 296

2001-07-17 Thread Slava Paperno
Director Demystified says that cursor 296 should be a double-headed (East-West) arrow, but my D8 movies under Windows 2000 show the parallelogram instead (the one that DD shows as 295). The other double-headed arrows (297, 298, 299) show up as expected. What am I doing wrong? Slava [To

Re: lingo-l PROJECTORS

2001-07-17 Thread Jim Allen
on exitFrame open name.exe halt end - Original Message - From: JUAN COLON [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 4:40 PM Subject: lingo-l PROJECTORS how do you open a projector from a projector. their both on a CDROM. JUAN-NYC

RE: lingo-l script cast member question

2001-07-17 Thread Colin Kettenacker
Here is a little question: does anyone know if there is a line limit to scripts? Use to be a size limit pre D6.5 (i think) but I don't belive there is one now (could be wrong though). Anyone else know? also can you script on the fly, a #script cast member to be either an behavior or movie

lingo-l projectors..

2001-07-17 Thread Kafka's Daytime
I misspoke, of course...you *could* use OPEN to launch the projector... but you would not be able to do error checking or have any further control of the app. As usual, Slava got it right. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

lingo-l lingo-l@penworks.com

2001-07-17 Thread Kafka's Daytime
wow...it's pretty hard to quote the help and then contradict it in the very same posting. ;) [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])

RE: lingo-l PROJECTORS

2001-07-17 Thread Kafka's Daytime
mmm...I beg to differ. Quoting Director's help: This is a very simple command for opening an application or a document within an application. For more control, lookt at options available in third-party Xtras. The projector is an executable that has no host app. You will need to use s DirectOs

Re: lingo-l script cast member question

2001-07-17 Thread R. Bhakti Klein
the nightboy wrote: Here is a little question: does anyone know if there is a line limit to scripts? there used to be. i don't think there is as of d8. i'm sure someone will correct me if i'm being unclear though... (kidding!!) also can you script on the fly, a #script cast member to

RE: lingo-l script cast member question

2001-07-17 Thread the nightboy
thx Brian Douglas (:ub) I refuse to use code as a method to describe myself. instead, I will use noises: rant = [teewart/blamberDOH!!!/crrrleftnk/erop] http://www.imaginarystudio.com --check it out! [To

Re: lingo-l cursor 296

2001-07-17 Thread R. Bhakti Klein
using windows? Slava Paperno wrote: Director Demystified says that cursor 296 should be a double-headed (East-West) arrow, but my D8 movies under Windows 2000 show the parallelogram instead (the one that DD shows as 295). The other double-headed arrows (297, 298, 299) show up as expected.

Re: lingo-l script cast member question

2001-07-17 Thread the nightboy
Here is a little question: does anyone know if there is a line limit to scripts? sorry -- #script cast members. Brian Douglas (:ub) I refuse to use code as a method to describe myself. instead, I will use noises:

RE: lingo-l Finding If a _huge_ float is divisible by a number

2001-07-17 Thread Jorge Peña
I guess Cole didn't *mean* to say float, since he is talking of a number larger than maxinteger... but if the number is a float then if it has anything right of the decimal point that is *not* a zero or the last digit before the decimal point is an odd number then it is not divisible by 2. HTH

Re: lingo-l cursor 296

2001-07-17 Thread R. Bhakti Klein
the management would like to apologize for bhakti's previously curt response. but you're not doing anything wrong; apparently Director is. I'm getting the same thing here. d7 on windows too. maybe you could grab the bitmap of the cursor on the mac side (which works), and make a custom cursor

Re: lingo-l script cast member question

2001-07-17 Thread R. Bhakti Klein
a limit to the number of cast members. no i don't think so. until you run out of disc space. the nightboy wrote: Here is a little question: does anyone know if there is a line limit to scripts? sorry -- #script cast members. Brian Douglas (:ub)

Re: lingo-l script cast member question

2001-07-17 Thread the nightboy
a limit to the number of cast members. no i don't think so. until you run out of disc space. actually, a limit to the number of lines of code for a given #script cast member. Brian Douglas (:ub) I refuse to use

Re: lingo-l script cast member question

2001-07-17 Thread R. Bhakti Klein
then the answer again is that there used to be a limit (pre d7), but prolly not anymore. the nightboy wrote: a limit to the number of cast members. no i don't think so. until you run out of disc space. actually, a limit to the number of lines of code for a given #script cast member.

lingo-l Gary Smith's email address

2001-07-17 Thread Slava Paperno
I would like to write to Gary Smith off list about his QuitMsg Xtra. Would Gary please kindly send me his address (it is not in the QuitMsg readme file). As an apology to the list, I promise to summarize our discussion for everyone, if it turns out to be relevant. Thanks! Slava [To remove

lingo-l Hardware control of Director Movies...

2001-07-17 Thread Jeff Hall
I have a set of hardware buttons and switches to connect to the pc via the serial port most likely. I would like these buttons to trigger events in my movie. So in a nutshell, how exactly can I use Lingo to listen to a port and react to what it finds there? I don't believe it's necessary for

Re: RE: lingo-l PROJECTORS

2001-07-17 Thread Kurt
mmm...I beg to differ. Quoting Director's help: This is a very simple command for opening an application or a document within an application. For more control, lookt at options available in third-party Xtras. The projector is an executable that has no host app. You will need to use s

Re: lingo-l Gary Smith's email address

2001-07-17 Thread Colin Holgate
Probably still [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [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

RE: lingo-l Finding If a _huge_ float is divisible by a number

2001-07-17 Thread Cole Tierney
I'm not sure what the evenly part means. I guess it means that there is no remainder... That's the idea, but not the source of my problem. The number I'm looking at is larger than the maxInteger, which makes looking at the remainder tricky. Here are a few more details: I've got a very large

lingo-l Re: Looking for alternative sprite addressing schemes

2001-07-17 Thread Michelle Elliott
Regarding Rob Romanek's reply to my solicitation for alternative methods: Your method is pretty interesting -- I will need to review it and the articles you reference more fully to make sure I understand the whole concept. Certainly the movieVariable concept is something I had overlooked and

RE: lingo-l Finding If a _huge_ float is divisible by a number

2001-07-17 Thread 903939N
From: Roy C. Crisman on isEvenlyDivisible thisNumber, thisDivisor if voidP(thisDivisor) then thisDivisor = 2 end if thisNumber = float(thisNumber) / thisDivisor repeat while (thisNumber the maxInteger) thisNumber = thisNumber - the maxInteger end repeat return

lingo-l Looking for alternative sprite addressing schemes (further adventures)

2001-07-17 Thread Michelle Elliott
Rob (and anyone else interested), I've run the benchmark numbers for my method -- I will try to put them in sensible order tomorrow and post them here. The method I described earlier averaged about 28 milliseconds to completion using the following criteria: 300 sprites -- (note, it's 2.8 ms

RE: lingo-l Hardware control of Director Movies...

2001-07-17 Thread Al Hospers
I have a set of hardware buttons and switches to connect to the pc via the serial port most likely. I would like these buttons to trigger events in my movie. So in a nutshell, how exactly can I use Lingo to listen to a port and react to what it finds there? I don't believe it's

Re: lingo-l Saving image from dcr into disk

2001-07-17 Thread Marcos Trinca
Guys, thanks for your help. Best Regards, Marcos. - Original Message - From: Marcos Trinca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 11:44 AM Subject: lingo-l Saving image from dcr into disk Hi All, I would like to send(by e-mail) or save an image that

lingo-l wdvltalk Javascript timeouts

2001-07-17 Thread LePhuronn
Hi all... How do you set timeouts in Javascript properly so that I can cancel them if necessary before they trigger? I've set the object but I can't cancel it.. LePhuronn [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post

lingo-l Re: Javascript timeouts

2001-07-17 Thread LePhuronn
Sorry guys! In such a rush I used the wrong address book entry and sent my wdvl mail here instead...oops! LePhuronn [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,

lingo-l Is it possible to pan image through coding

2001-07-17 Thread hetal
Hello list, I am working on one small autorun Presentation. I have around 20 images..and i have to pan each image one bye one i have done it manually but it is not panning smoothly. i would like to do it through coding ..so how can i do it, i would like to know script for it..if u can send me