I guess it may also be relevant that the text is displayed in an embedded
font and is antialiased (it has to be). Kerning is off. Ink is Copy.
The earlier post follows, unchanged:
I've traced my projector crashes to this stripped-down script:
--script in a text member sprite
on mouseDown me
Hi, Guys...
I am new to this list... I'm glad to know of this one... :)
I have a little routine that creates a html table... I was able to create one with
all same width in all columns with this code...
html = HTMLBODYTABLE BORDER=1TR
repeat with i = 0 to gDatabase[1].count
I guess it may also be relevant that the text is displayed in an embedded
font and is antialiased (it has to be). Kerning is off. Ink is Copy.
I tried mine with all kinds of combinations - saveBitmap, antiAliasing
FALSE, DTS etc., etc.
Have
you tried other ways of highlighting (e.g.,
Al -
It's an 80 kbps stream - that's probably way too much for a modem.
Most 56k modems deliver about 48 max on a good connect.
Try your player w/this URL:
http://audio.macromedia.com/samples/classic.swa
(It delivers a 16 kbps stream therefore should play even in the hinterland.)
BTW you can
Hi list!
Some time ago Al Hospers posted this solution for e-mailing from within
Director:
gotonetpage mailto:; addressString ?subject= subjectString
body= messageString
Now I wanted to use this and experienced a strange behavior concerning the
length of the text in the variable
HI there,
anyone got an idea of how to get the duration of a Real media file in
Director ?
thanx j.
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If my memory serves me correct then I can confirm having heard about that
quirk earlier.
Pekka
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Some time ago Al Hospers posted this solution for e-mailing
from within
Director:
gotonetpage mailto:; addressString ?subject= subjectString
body= messageString
Now I wanted to use this and experienced a strange behavior
concerning the
length of the text in the variable
Hi Friends,
I want good sound clip files for presentation form where i can get that
any site is there from i can download files.
If you know then tell me.
Mitesh
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flashkit has good sfx and sound loops - look
http://www.flashkit.com/soundfx/index.shtml
jun
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Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 7:52 PM
To: lingo
Subject: lingo-l find Good sound file
Hi Friends,
I want good sound clip files for
Good to hear that! Would you mind sharing your solution, or at least its
direction? There are so many things that with imaging Lingo might mean :-)
S.
At 06:53 PM 7/26/2001 +1200, you wrote:
The work-around I used is via imaging lingo. Gave exactly the same look as
changing the colour of the
hi mitesh,
have a look at these sites:
www.sound-effects-library.com
www.tape-gallery.co.uk
i used them before and they are
reliable and quick and good to access
over the internet.
hope that helps,
nik
btw: i am not woring for them..
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 05:21:30 +0530 mitesh [EMAIL
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
there is also a progress copy beta module for the BudyApi Xtra. You can find it
at www.mods.com.au then follow the buddy - downloads - beta versions.
You have to do everything you did previously
projector.ini file has:
[Settings]
; for Director 8, D8.5 uses the lingo the debugPlaybackEnabled
MessageWindow=1
MessageWindowRect=0 530 614 1018
AS WELL AS setting:
--enable the Message Window for debugging
set the debugPlaybackEnabled =
Hey all -
After seeing how some others are approaching the 'cropping utility'
(using the script by Werner Sharp, or at least the technique) I'm
beginning to second-guess the way I've approached constructing things in
Director over the last 4 years.
Specifically, the technique using imaging
HI there,
anyone got an idea of how to get the duration of a Real media file in
Director ?
...
thanx j.
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Hello lingo-pals,
There's something that is getting into my nerves. I have some videos in my
project. They're compacted using Indeo 5.1. The codecs are installed in my
machine. In authoring mode, they play just fine, with video AND audio. If I
open them through window media player, they work
Hi there ...
When I save a castlib when running a projector on a other machine I
get a Unable to save the movie dialog, it says it is already open
with write permission by other user
but there is no othere machine running the project or a version of
director ?!?!
strange Huh ?
any one
Hello lingo-pals,
There's something that is getting into my nerves. I have some videos
in my project. They're compacted using Indeo 5.1. The codecs are
installed in my machine. In authoring mode, they play just fine,
with video AND audio. If I open them through window media player,
they work
The code that I used I found on the macromedia.director.lingo newsgroup.
Place this script in the frame before the movie plays
on exitFrame me
sound stop 1
set the soundKeepDevice = false
end
and for this script make sure your your video cast is in cast 3, and your
vidoe sprite is in
I'm having the same problem too Just make sure you don't use any
audio compression when 'render' the videos...
There's something that is getting into my nerves. I have some videos
in my project. They're compacted using Indeo 5.1. The codecs are
installed in my machine. In authoring mode,
Kendall Anderson wrote:
'crop a pure
rectangle' method (AutoCropper) took 1.28s, and using the 'return an
image with only the different pixels and lots of white space' method
took 0.42s.
not quite clear about the context here, but are they huge images?
I ran a quick test using a 1024x512
Try:
member(real cast member).duration
In order for this to work, you *must* first play the video. Remember that this is a
streaming (always) media type and information such as its duration isn't known until
streaming has begun. Therefore if you need to write some code that is dependant upon
Two days ago I started getting catastrophic crashes on my Mac that made
Director simply vanish from my screen with a Type 2 error*. After
placing debugging commands that wrote out to a text file (so I could
read it after the crash). I tracked it down to a single line. This line
would execute
Hi Christian -
not quite clear about the context here, but are they huge images?
I don't know what scripting you are using, or what size images you're
cropping... but hope it's of some use...
Sorry for the lack of context.. I'm referring to utilities to crop
sequences of images based on how
Is there a way to time a shock wave file over the Internet?
We are trying to come up with a duration it takes to
watch a program streamed over the net! Are scenario
includes different modem speeds and different computers.
A sure fire way to do it is use a stopwatch! But then we have
to sit
That's my experience too.
Blessings, Darryl
Say that I have 5 columns in my table and I want them to be 10%, 20%,
20%,
30%, and 20% for each columns... So... I tried the previous code with
multiple if statements and following statement... and got errors...
put "TD
As far as I have been able to produce, Director doesn't like it much when
you try to specify td width's with a percent (pretty much ignores
them). Am
I wrong about that?
Pretty the same for me. Use absolute values for cols width.
Many HTML code elements seems not well interpreted by
i would definitely recommend's irv's ebook, and i think there are good
chapters in bruce epstein's and gary rosenzweig's books.
peter small's lingo sorcery is unique, that's for sure. for me, it was
very helpful in making the conceptual leaps required to move from
procedural to object oriented
do you perhaps have 2 copies of the movie opened on your windows machine
at the same time?
Joris wrote:
Hi there ...
When I save a castlib when running a projector on a other machine I
get a Unable to save the movie dialog, it says it is already open
with write permission by other user
on startMovie
global gTimeStarted
gTimeStarted = the milliseconds
end
then, whenever your bit is done:
global gTimeStarted
alert(It took me (the miliseconds - gTimeStarted) milliseconds to run!)
or do whatever else with that data to output it (such as tossing it in your
setPrefs
It would seem to me that many using the other technique still put their
sprites on stage using an ink other than copy - is their some specific
reason for this?
Shockwave and 56k modems. I happily trade fractions of a second in
performance (though I tend to use imaging for animations... don't
Hi. I have a simple problem. I am trying to present
a stimulus for a brief period of time but the code I'm
using is not controlling that period. I have an on
MouseDown script in frame 1 that directs the playback
head to frame 2, where I select the color of the
stimulus. The stimulus ends up
Thanks Grant,
this worked fine. I just can't figure out why when I played the file in
authoring mode it worked, and in the projector it didn't. Anyway, it's
working now.
Catch ya later,
Fabio
At 09:38 27/07/01 -0600, you wrote:
The code that I used I found on the macromedia.director.lingo
Hi,
I've got a bug report that I'm trying to track down where a shockwave
movie that works well otherwise will generate a script error and then a
C++ runtime error when played back on a Czech version of windows with
system locale and default language set to Czech. No user input other
than mouse
One thing you might czech (sorry, couldn't resist) is if the problem is
really due to Czech Windows, or if that's just a decoy, and it's really due
to their configuration.
If it was Director related, the bug would probably also occur on languages
similar to Czech. Director itself is not
I haven't done the tracing that you have, but I think my Type 2 crashes of
D8 on Mac OS 9.04 started when I started using the same type of calls...
Does this Cautionary Tale apply to D8.5?
Slava
At 12:43 PM 7/26/2001 -0400, you wrote:
Two days ago I started getting catastrophic crashes on my
how can i find if there an item taht i'm looking for in a list if i don't
know it's position
example
mylist = [a, d, p, o]
and i want to know if d is in the list but it could be in any position in
the list
thanx
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how can i find if there an item taht i'm looking for in a list if i don't
know it's position
example
mylist = [a, d, p, o]
and i want to know if d is in the list but it could be in any position in
the list
position = 0
repeat while i = 1 to mylist.count
if mylist[i] = d then
Slava Paperno wrote:
I haven't done the tracing that you have, but I think my Type 2 crashes of
D8 on Mac OS 9.04 started when I started using the same type of calls...
Does this Cautionary Tale apply to D8.5?
I suspect so. I tried opening it with 8.5 and had the same crash. (the
project is
A distinguished member of this list suggested that this wouldn't be a
totally foolish question to ask on the list... so I'm asking it. The issue
may be a basic OS one, not a Director issue--I don't know. It's about
window focus and window stacking order on the Mac compared to MS Windows.
In
There is a new survey up -
http://www.macromedia.com/software/director/special/survey/
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i think you can just use getPos:
if myList.getPos(d) 0 then
--it's in the list
end if
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Nick Youmans wrote:
how can i find if there an item taht i'm looking for in a list if i don't
know it's position
example
mylist = [a, d, p, o]
and i want to know if d is in the list but it
Pretty Intel advert too ! :)
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Subject: lingo-l Make your opinions known !!
There is a new survey up -
for processing credit cards
1. the customer goes through the form filling process and they
select to pay online by credit card.
2. director passes the registration info and email address through an
https call and we respond with an order number
3. the charge request gets queued up at our end and
I've once had an insider explain to me that the reason is that that type of
function calling is reserved for built in functions, not custom lingo.
Understandable, but an oversight nevertheless...
Which brings me to another idea.
Would someone second my vote for the following concept.
The user
You may be right - I am referencing D8 and earlier - to be honest I
haven't tried this in D8.5...
I use it in 8.5 with no problem--at least on Windows. Haven't tried the Mac
yet.
the debugPlaybackEnabled does need to be set to true for 8.5. My projector
is called Get Set.exe and I have a
One thing you might czech (sorry, couldn't resist) is if the problem
is
really due to Czech Windows, or if that's just a decoy, and it's
really
due to their configuration.
Pretty sure it's related to the windows language/regional settings. Bug
reports note that the bug doesn't repro on the
People!
Ever looked up getPos?
Syntax getPos(list, value)
Description List function; identifies the position of the value specified by
value in the list specified by list. When the specified value is not in the
list, the getPos command returns the value 0.
For values contained in the
Al..
On my test dialup machine:
modem speed: 56k
computer type: Pentium II 233
OS:Windows 98 SE
RAM: 128
Browser version: IE 5.0
Audio takes about 40 - 50 seconds to play. Once it *does*
play it plays fine.
HTH,
I use it in 8.5 with no problem--at least on Windows. Haven't
tried the Mac yet.
the debugPlaybackEnabled does need to be set to true for 8.5. My
projector is called Get Set.exe and I have a
Get Set.ini file with this line in it:
MessageWindow=1
Then I put this in my prepareMovie
Good to hear that! Would you mind sharing your solution, or at least its
direction? There are so many things that with imaging Lingo
might mean :-)
OK. Here's the process I used:
In a behavior attached to the block of text I create an image in the
beginSprite handler and store it as a
is it possible from a projector??
what are the risks?
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for processing credit cards
1. the customer goes through the form
Pekka Buttler wrote:
People!
Ever looked up getPos?
yes!! i did!!!
Syntax getPos(list, value)
Description List function; identifies the position of the value specified by
value in the list specified by list. When the specified value is not in the
list, the getPos
I'm not sure if it's your problem or not, but you are trying to spawn a
navigation from a beginSprite handler - in your case from a handler called
by beginSprite. This is a no-no, you can't navigate from beginSprite.
on beginSprite me
pickColor
end
on pickColor
if the timer 60 then
Director doesn't do https:// from a projector.
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is it possible from a projector??
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Sure, why not? That is it's possible if there's an internet
connectionand if you encode it/decode it on the server, it's not that
much different than a browser doing the communication.
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Whoops, didn't notice it had to be https:
BUT in a way I bet you could, since it's just a type of http
communication. You'd have to use the MU Xtra to actually do every
request/response that the browser would normally do.
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Watch for breaks.
http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/secure_sockets_unava
ilable.htm
While you can use https:// with shockwave, you *still* can't from a
projector. Agreed, you could implement your own encryption from the
projector and de-crypt server-side, but you can't
Let Macromedia know how you feel about the lack of HTTPS support in projectors:
http://www.macromedia.com/software/director/special/survey/
Director doesn't do https:// from a projector.
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is it possible from a projector??
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Company looking Shockwave project for development.
One of samples http://mdgroup.fromru.com
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Audio takes about 40 - 50 seconds to play. Once it *does*
play it plays fine.
thanks for the response Josie.
Al
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I've got postNetText() working to put text in a net directory, but how do I
send a graphic to the web? I'm not talking about emailing it, I just want to
use Director to send a graphic from my desktop to a folder on my web site.
TIA
Cheers,
Stephen
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Am I missing something simple here? I wrote a little utility to copy the
script text out to text files, and it crashes my Mac on about the 15th
iteration.
on copyScripts castLibName, targetDir
repeat with i = 1 to the number of members of castlib (castLibName)
if member(i,
I know, it's been asked here so many times, and usually pointed to an
xtra, but I've got a few mpg1 files that SEEM to play fine through Windows
media (win2k) and I'm sure they're fine on the mac.
If I force them to play as WM on the mac, is there any issues anyone knows
of?
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Actually there IS a WM for the mac, but that's not what I asked, or meant
to...
i've got mpeg1 files for a crossplatform cdrom. On the mac, it'll play
through QT, for the pc, through WM because the client doesnt' want to
install QT. It's they're call...one of 'those' companies.
On Fri, 27 Jul
Sorry, it's late, I did it again:
Mpg1 file: play as QT on MAC, WM on PC.
Whew.
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