I think You mentioned Windows at the beginning of your posting.
Below you list Macintosh Xtras! This can not work
regards, Florian
Joris wrote:
nowThis :-/
I got the error ... it's a neterror() 5: Bad MOA Interface.
I got an Xtras folder with:
InetUrl PPC Xtra
NetFile PPC Xtra
well, i just didn't read anyone explicating it like that, and maybe it's
the teacher in me, or maybe i like this list best when it's educational
or theoretical like that, and not just people writing code for each
other. i knew *you* knew why you were iterating backwards, but maybe
there are some
I think the only way is to use setpref and getpref. If the cookie was set by
a director movie (i mean using setpref command), it's all ok, but if it's
not... i don't think there's a way. Security issues in shockwave prevent
access to whatever is on a client disk. Isn't it?
Ivan Preziosi
Lingo
Sure man,
you should do it by JavaScript, using externalEvent and evalScript commands.
What a fool I am not thinking of it before...
eh eh eh...
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I have this problem and we have decided work using MIAW, each one can make a
movie and later all of them will work together. Each movie will have its
appropriate casts library's.
Any other idea?
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That's true, but be warned that evalscript does not work in IE 5 (neither
platform)
Macromedia says it's a browser limitation. With IE5 covering about 30% of
the WinDos users and 40% of the macusers that is a serious limitation.
You can always use a Javascript which structures the HTML for you
I have another Idea for you.
First off, Director is probably as unfriendly collaborative environment as
it gets. I used to work in teams, where only 1 member of the team had rights
to touch the shared casts, which won't work if you want everyone to be able
to fully participate.
The real option,
I'm sure your system can works properly in some case, I don't know if it
could work in my case, I will think about it.
Any other idea will be welcome.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 11:19 AM
Subject: RE:
Hi list
I'm doing asmall hybrid project, i have the copy
of director 8.5 for windows I need a stub for mac.
For this samll project buying the mac version of
director 8.5 is not economical, so anybody can send me
stub.
pls revert to me so i can give the specifications
thanks
rk
Economical or not, you'll have to buy it, because you don't have the right
to ditribute without a license.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 1:47 PM
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That's an interesting question. What if he pays another developer (like
you or me) for producing a stub projector, which he will then
ditsribute. You don't need to pay a license fee for the runtime stuff.
Therefore this should be legal. It's the same as if a customer orders a
CD-production. He
hi all
Can anyone help me how to create a VCD
i have used filename.mpg file and cut in VCD formate but it gives error when
i play it...
alternate i have also tried with uncompressed filename.avi file its working
but i am not satisfied with its quality
I am using Nero software to
You're right, but then you would have to send him a bill, and at the rate we
charge here, he'd be better of buying D8.5 mac. :))
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Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 2:17 PM
To: [EMAIL
Ha!Ha!Ha! you´re just amazing guys!! and how much would that be?
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Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 2:23 PM
Subject: RE: lingo-l mac stub dir 8.5
You're right, but then you would have to send him a bill, and
Thanks Guys for the INFO. Mucho appreciated. I think i was not paying
attention in my assembly language class??:)
Ravi
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Actually Florian, that is not allowed either. The runtimes that you
distribute can only be used to playback movies that you have authored
yourself. I had queried the chaps at Macr. about this and they made this
point pretty clear.
Regards,
Pranav
Hi Nikaj,
I had to do a similar thing some time ago because a client requested
that multiplication symbols not be simple 'x' characters, but rather
small centered x's only available in the PC Symbol font.
Basically, it looked for a specific character (in this case,
numToChar(215)), and changed
Damien,
I assume you work on a PC.
CD burning soft encoder are generally not what i would call state of the
art...
For very complete information about vcd, go there: http://www.vcdhelp.com
The best encoder i tried: TMPEnc beta 12f+.
http://www.tmpgenc.com/e_main.html
This is a very good
I knew, there had to be something wrong. What if I changed his movie a
little bit? As a kind of co-author?
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Actually Florian, that is not allowed either. The runtimes that you
distribute can only be used to playback movies that you have authored
yourself. I had
Hello,
It's for Pascal who want to learn Lingo, here's to
links i found for learning Lingo, this one in french :
http://www.cegep-ste-foy.qc.ca/~rmorin/lingo
The other one, very interesting propose you to learn
lingo since the very beginning programming a space
invaders :
in your startmovie handler ( or anywhere else you please) put
the debugPlaybackEnabled = true
instant message window
if it ever gets set to false before or after it has been opened,
you will not be able to open it again in that session. Thus you
the author have control over whether or not you
merci beaucoup Pierre Yves.(un autre français sur la liste)
Je te contacterai si jái un problème. Pour le moment, j´en suis aux listes
[] mais ce n´est
de comprendre.
/pascal
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Hello,
Does anyone know an alternative to ScrnXtra for capturing a protion of the
screen to a cast member? I'd been using ScrnXtra but it fails sometimes in
D8.5. Thanks.
Stephen
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Does anyone know an alternative to ScrnXtra for capturing a protion of the
screen to a cast member? I'd been using ScrnXtra but it fails sometimes in
D8.5. Thanks.
You can set the picture of a bitmap to the picture of the stage, and
then crop the bitmap to what you need. Or you can use imaging
on 7/25/01 8:49 AM, Colin Holgate at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know an alternative to ScrnXtra for capturing a protion of the
screen to a cast member? I'd been using ScrnXtra but it fails sometimes in
D8.5. Thanks.
You can set the picture of a bitmap to the picture of the stage,
Try to use WinOnCD to brun the CD ..its pretty good .
Damian Lopez wrote:
hi all
Can anyone help me how to create a VCD
i have used filename.mpg file and cut in VCD formate but it gives
error when i play it...
alternate i have also tried with uncompressed filename.avi file its
Screen capture of the stage or of the user's desktop? If it's the stage,
then lingo has the built in (the stage).image.
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You can use imaging Lingo :
set OnScreenImageWidth to 640
set OnScreenImageHeight to 480
OnScreenImage = image(OnScreenImageWidth, OnScreenImageHeight, 16)
OnScreenImage.copyPixels((the stage).image, OnScreenImage.rect,
rect(0,0,640,480))
member(imageCapture).image = OnScreenImage
Maybe Colin's gone all 'sensitive' ?
That could be the case. Sometimes I'm case sensitive.
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good timing Simon...
soo yesterday's thread on same topic below:
excellent.
Thanks Mark.
Best,
Josie
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Behalf Of Mark R. Jonkman
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 11:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: lingo-l
how can i put the expression of 6 different variable before aand other
expression
for example :
global a, b, c, d, e
word = hello
if toto = yes then
a = 1
else
a = 0
if toto2 = yes then
b = 1
else
b = 2
... and so on...
now i want to put all the global in a string before the variable
Instead of things like toto1 and toto2 you should try using lists, but that
aside, you want to concatenate using the ampersand , so make an empty
string, then append on the parts you want, and at the very end put out the
variable.
outText =
if (whatever) then
outText =outText 1
end if
ok forget this
i've found out all by myself juste after i sent the email :)
thanx!
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Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 1:56 PM
Subject: lingo-l put... before fonction HELP!!
how can i put the expression
If someone is selling cross-platform projectors, they need to buy both sides.
This is one of my pet peeves. If you've heard my rant before, feel free to
tune out.
rant
We're in a business, hopefully to make money. For better or worse, we have
hitched our wagons to Macromedia's star. The
Just don't your get your ascii in a not.
At 1:31 PM -0400 7/25/01, Colin Holgate wrote:
Maybe Colin's gone all 'sensitive' ?
That could be the case. Sometimes I'm case sensitive.
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Hello again,
I'm posting again my question.
I would like to check some parameters that a behavior gets through a
getPropertyDescriptionList.
What I did is create a handler called checkParams and placed it inside the
behavior. I call checkParams right before the return of the
Sure. You will need a .INI file of the same name as the projector in the
same folder as the projector.
So, if your projector is SIMON.EXE then you will need (if you don't have
one already) a file called SIMON.INI
This is a text file, and you can edit it with Notepad (or SimpleText if
Mac).
From your post, it's unclear what you are checking, and what you
assigning, but I'll give you a general idea using a Lingo list
(untested):
on BuildString theEndingWord, theWordListIn
stringOut =
repeat with thisWord in theWordListIn
if thisWord = yes then
stringOut
excellent.
Thanks Mark.
Best,
Josie
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Subject: RE: lingo-l messageWindow at runtime removed...
in your startmovie handler ( or
Hi List,
'm creating a geography selection screen and there are 5 different geography hierarchy
levels (NATIONAL (which is the highest level), ZONE (there are 15 zones, so ZONE.V12
has 15 records), REGION (there are 24 regions, so REGION.V12 has 24 records), MARKET
(there are 118 markets,
Hello List,
I have a director movie with many MIAWs and many global variables. I am testing my
projector by displaying the message window (thanx to an earlier post). Is there a way
to have my projector return to the message window a list of all global variables
currently being used?
Thanx in
Hi
Sure. You will need a .INI file of the same name as the projector in
the
same folder as the projector.
This is true of director 7 and 8 but not of director 8.5.. if you happen to
be using D8.5 then you will need to add the line
the debugPlaybackEnabled = true
to some convenient place in
Only call checkParams if the values of the GPDL parameters are non-blank.
At 8:36 PM +0200 7/25/01, Enrique Nivasch wrote:
Hello again,
I'm posting again my question.
I would like to check some parameters that a behavior gets through a
getPropertyDescriptionList.
What I did is create a
At 10:35 AM 7/25/01 -0700, you wrote:
If someone is selling cross-platform projectors, they need to buy both sides.
This is one of my pet peeves. If you've heard my rant before, feel free to
tune out.
rant
We're in a business, hopefully to make money. For better or worse, we have
hitched our
The last job I had, in the US, the salesguy said get the sound
from Eye4U.com.
I said I tried, but they haven't responded to my email.
No, I think salesguy and ceo just want you to capture it. said
projectManager.
Uh...you can't do that! quoth I.
Sure you canjust hold the microphone up to
hi,
I have a music player that I just did for a client. simple, straight
ahead kind of thing. it plays either MP3 or SWA audio. problem is that
he is on a dialup sometimes it does NOTHING or plays like crap,
breaks up in the middle all that. doesn't seem to matter for SWA or
MP3. I am
Doh! What was I thinking?
Kerry's right - the #range parameter can used to filter the values
and the standard place to re-verify props is in the beginSprite
handler (or call a verification/initializer handler from there).
-Buzz
At 12:17 PM -0700 7/25/01, Kerry Thompson wrote:
How can I get
Are you sure that you've got a frame script in place to do looping?
(and it's not just working in auth because of the Control Panel's
loop button...)
* a long shot, but I've done this to myself
-Buzz
At 12:21 PM -0400 7/25/01, Allard, Simon wrote:
Hi all,
Is it possible to create the
Hi everyone,
Haven't been able to find anything on this yet... thought all your brilliant
minds would have the answer.
i am using buddyApi's baXCopy function to copy a directory form a CD to the
users hard drive... problem is, i need some form of progress bar as at
present the system looks like
I'm not familiar with either the book or the example, but by not in the
movie you mean you are running a movie in a window, then the answer is no,
you cannot debug a movie in a window (MIAW).
If you mean that you transfered (using 'go to movie') to another movie,
then you physically can't
Tab...
Except, note that (on Windows at least) the messageWindow (at runtime)
doesn't seem to work in 8.5 the way it did with 8.0. Never had a problem
under 8.0 - 8.5 seems to be a different story.
There is no messageWindow line in the 8.5 director.ini file and adding
messageWindow
to your
I have three editable field boxes. Is there any way through lingo to
return the cursor to the first field box upon starting the movie?
I'd appreciate any ideas.
Eric
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There's been some talk of such things recently, so I thought I'd point
out that I've got a movie script utility for automatically cropping
image sequences against a reference image based on how they differ. This
also uses Werner Sharp's technique of the imaging lingo 'reverse' ink
I am tring to learn OOPS programing using Peter Small's LINGO SORCERY
copywrite 1996.
In the 2nd chapter there is a demonstration where you start in a movie
called workshop that has the parent script and a button to make a
object called virus. You then go to a movie called isolated where
you
I think this is what is happening...
- If it is less than the destination you add to it, and then see if you
added too much, in which case you try to set it to the final location.
- Eventually you will get to the destination. The locH will be equal to
the destination.
- Since it is EQUAL,
Here is my personnal hint riki,
For a real, professionnal, easy, configurable, troublesome installation tool
check http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.htm .
Bastien Bouchard
Logique multimédia
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Folks...
I'd like your advice on a small design issue:
I'm working on a director app that requires the
user to select a large number of HTML files and
do a little bit of organization with those files:
the usual stuff: add, remove, move up, move down
before clicking Done to send all of the file
Try the system property called the keyboardFocusSprite
S.
At 08:24 PM 7/25/2001 -0500, you wrote:
I have three editable field boxes. Is there any way through lingo to
return the cursor to the first field box upon starting the movie?
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worse comes to worse, you can always display text asking the user to
wait, and remove it when the copying is over.
it can even be a film loop or animated gif so that there's some motion,
even if it's just a simple repetitive animation...
but whatever you do, riki, don't lose that number.
Alternatively, change the order that the fields are placed on the stage...
The field that you want to gain focus first on entering the frame should be
in the sprite channel with the lowest channel number and the next one, the
next higher channel number, etc...
The keyboardfocussprite will also
For a real, professionnal, easy, configurable, troublesome
installation tool check http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.htm .
My dumb english once more... You should read trouble free, not
troublesome in the previous post...
Bastien
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i am using buddyApi's baXCopy function to copy a directory
form a CD to the
users hard drive... problem is, i need some form of progress bar as
at
present the system looks like it is locked up until the
copying is complete
and knowing from what i do when it looks like the computer is
What do you mean:
After clicking this button I then go to file and open the second movie.
What specifically is the code to open the second movie?
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Don't get too hot under the collar, Kerry. You do have good logic, but
this whole issue was a little new to me, since MACR used to have stubs
available on their site, and MACR people used to post that it was OK on
Direct-L. MACR's policy has changed, it makes sense, but don't take it too
worse comes to worse, you can always display text asking the user to
wait, and remove it when the copying is over.
it can even be a film loop or animated gif so that there's some motion,
even if it's just a simple repetitive animation...
but whatever you do, riki, don't lose that number.
Peter Small had some errors in his book and put an errata sheet on
his website. You can find it at:
http://www.avatarnets.com/sitejuly2001/popUpPage.html?overview/lserrata.htm
However, many people feel that his book is somewhat difficult to
understand and his presentation of objects is
Dear List,
--Newbie here--
My behavior works great for sprites whose original location is
greater than the destination (as far as stopping the animation at the
destination), but when the original position is less than the destination
the animation continues off the screen. What am I
It stutters a few seconds into the song (after the who you gonna call...)
P3 500/128MB RAM/Plenty of free disk space
WinNT 4 SP6/IE5.5
And I've got a dual ISDN...
I'll try the dialup at home.
Regards,
Pranav
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I've traced my projector crashes to this stripped-down script:
--script in a text member sprite
on mouseDown me
MouseWord = sprite(me.spriteNum).pointToWord(the mouseLoc)
if MouseWord = -1 then pass
sprite(me.spriteNum).member.word[MouseWord].color =rgb(138, 16, 8)
updateStage
All that is ok, but I found a funny thing happening while I tried to
capture the stage.
If the size of the stage is changed, (the stage).image continues to return
an image whose size is the same as the original stage width and height.
Changing the size, saving the movie and restarting Director
Hi Slava,
The text member has only about 500 characters, but there's a noticeable
delay before the color changes after the mouseclick. This happens
with many
text members in the same movie.
Has this been noted before? Do these crashes make sense?
If so, is there a workaround?
I posted
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