lingo-l Mpg playing causes no other sound to play

2001-07-28 Thread Salman Ahmed
Hi, I am playing an mpg file, following which I have a couple of sounds playing, but the sounds after the mpg do not play at all. Any solutions, please let me know, its urgent. Thanks in advance. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Get your

Re: lingo-l File IO

2001-07-28 Thread Christian Wach
Kerry Thompson wrote: I found the problem, though. I was creating the file names by taking the name of the cast member and appending .txt. In the process, some of the file names were too long for the Mac. Error trapping doesn't help much--when you try to create a file with a name that's

Re: lingo-l File IO

2001-07-28 Thread Colin Holgate
am I right in thinking that .ls is the usual suffix for external lingo scripts? You probably are, but I think Kerry was concatenating all his scripts into one text file. [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 File IO

2001-07-28 Thread Christian Wach
Colin Holgate wrote: am I right in thinking that .ls is the usual suffix for external lingo scripts? You probably are, I'm just guessing from the use of .js and .as... oh... just noticed that the MACR site has MUS scripts as .ls files. but I think Kerry was concatenating all his scripts

lingo-l refreshing externally linked scripts?

2001-07-28 Thread Slava Paperno
Since you guys are talking about .ls files (File IO), has anyone noticed that the externally linked scripts sometimes require a kisk in the ass before they're updated properly? My impression is that D8 actually stores a copy of a linked script internally, and when you edit the script, and save

Re: lingo-l refreshing externally linked scripts?

2001-07-28 Thread Florian Bogeschdorfer
Sometimes I have similar problems even with not linked scripts. They just don't recompile. Quitting and reloading is the only possibilty. Florian Slava Paperno wrote: Since you guys are talking about .ls files (File IO), has anyone noticed that the externally linked scripts sometimes

lingo-l embedding powerpoint and windword

2001-07-28 Thread Koren backgroundmedia
Hi list, please help me in this urgent issue: is it possible to embed powerpoint and word documents directly into director movies ? i know, that I can convert them (resp. import them), but it is not the right solution. i would need a cd-rom, where the powerpoint files are really embeded into the

RE: lingo-l embedding powerpoint and windword

2001-07-28 Thread Al Hospers
i would need a cd-rom, where the powerpoint files are really embeded into the director project ... maybe there is a xtra for this purpose ? Hi gerhard Yes, you will need to use an Xtra to embed any application/presentation into a Director movie. I suggest using MasterApp. There is a how-to

lingo-l shockwave 'pathname'

2001-07-28 Thread Yariv Alter Fin
Hi All, Creating a work that uses streaming shockwave audio and would like to link the file relatively to allow moving the dcr and mp3 freely from place to place without the need to recreate a dcr with new paths, as long as the dcr and swa files are in the same directory. Would anyone know

RE: lingo-l OT Video and Matrox G300 Video Capture Card

2001-07-28 Thread Theo Starr
Thanks Bastien for the response I will go back to the source if I can while at the same time try a broadcast quality deck, which my brother has. At the same time will it be a fair assumption that there might some third party software that might get around the problem??? Theo Starr

RE: lingo-l shockwave 'pathname'

2001-07-28 Thread Al Hospers
Creating a work that uses streaming shockwave audio and would like to link the file relatively to allow moving the dcr and mp3 freely from place to place without the need to recreate a dcr with new paths, as long as the dcr and swa files are in the same directory. Would anyone know how to

Re: lingo-l refreshing externally linked scripts?

2001-07-28 Thread Tab Julius
There's also the recompile all scripts menu option. At 10:34 PM 7/28/01 +0200, Florian Bogeschdorfer wrote: Sometimes I have similar problems even with not linked scripts. They just don't recompile. Quitting and reloading is the only possibilty. Florian Slava Paperno wrote: Since you

Re: lingo-l RESEND - creating a handler that executes on everyframe

2001-07-28 Thread Terry R. Schussler
At 3:29 PM -0400 7/27/01, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: yes, it is too much trouble to use the actorlist. But I can't only use the dummy sprite method either, because then the enterFrame handler would never get passed to the frame scripts. The only thing I have found that helps is to use the pass

Re: lingo-l refreshing externally linked scripts?

2001-07-28 Thread Slava Paperno
None of the regular options (closing the script window, clicking the lightning button, or the Recompile all scripts menu command) work, when Director decides to be stubborn about externally linked scripts. Unfortunately, I can't reproduce this at will, but it happens every day, at

lingo-l Re: Lingo-L Digest V1 #2085

2001-07-28 Thread Adam Fletcher
Thankyou for your email. Adam is out of the office until Tuesday 31st July. He will reply to your email at the earliest convenience. Have a good day! [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 database connectivity

2001-07-28 Thread Sheraz Alhassan
Hi List Can any one plz guide me, how to connect database in Access or SQL Server with a director movie. My objective is to retreive data from some tables into director text fields and vice versa as well. thanx sheraz can also mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lingo-l refreshing externally linked scripts?

2001-07-28 Thread Florian Bogeschdorfer
I know Tab, but still - in some rare cases the changes are not executed. First time it took me 30 minutes of looking what the problem might be until i restarted and it worked perfectly. regards, florian Tab Julius wrote: There's also the recompile all scripts menu option. At 10:34 PM