lingo-lno video playback on Win2000

2001-07-31 Thread Martijn Janssen
Hi all, I use Director 8 on a win2000 system and video's don't play in a movie... On other systems with win98, it works fine... any clue? I have mediaplayer 6.4.09.1109 on my system... cheers, Martijn - Pas de Deux Van Mierisstraat 25 2526 NM Den Haag tel 070 4450855

RE: RE: lingo-l Tab's New Book (was: South Africa or something)

2001-07-31 Thread Karina Steffens
No offence meant... I just thought it was a humorous typo. None was ever taken :) [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 Shape of MIAW

2001-07-31 Thread Eric Choy
Hi All, I would like to know how to make the shape of the MIAW as you want, for example, I want the Miaw look like an Earth, how can I do? I saw someone do that before but I cannot figure it out, please help. Thx all _ Get your

Re: lingo-l Shape of MIAW

2001-07-31 Thread Nicolas MAREY
you must use a 1 bit mask and the command set the windowtype of window POPUP to member maskPopUp - Nicolas MAREY ADELIS - Développeur Multimédia - - Original Message - From: Eric Choy

Re: lingo-lno video playback on Win2000

2001-07-31 Thread pranavn
You haven't mentioned what kind of videos you're playing. If it's avi, then you'll need to install that specific codec on your system. Check the properties of the video files in Media Player. If you're using QT movies, you're going to have to install QuickTime on your system. Cordially, Pranav

R: lingo-l Shape of MIAW

2001-07-31 Thread roberto
you have to create a 1 bit bitmap castmember with the shape you want to use, then window mywindow.mindowtype = member mymember it works only by projector roberto -Messaggio originale- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Per conto di Eric Choy Inviato: martedl 31 luglio 2001

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2001-07-31 Thread nik crosina
I amworking with the PDF Xtra on a project that involves a little search engine for the PDF files (ca 30). The search results are to be displayed in a small pop up window (miaw) but: after appearing briefly on top of my full screen main movie (the one that also displays the PDF files) it

Re: lingo-lno video playback on Win2000

2001-07-31 Thread Martijn Janssen
Oh, I use Avi's with Cinepac codec... I have this codec installed and mediaplayer playes the files correctly on my win2000 system... thanks cheers, Martijn - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 2:36 AM Subject: Re: lingo-lno

Re: lingo-lno video playback on Win2000

2001-07-31 Thread pranavn
Try importing the AVI's as QT cast members. Although you'll need to install QuickTime to make them run, you'll be sure that they'll work without any anomalies. Don't forget to ship the QT Asset Xtra's too. Cordially, Pranav Negandhi New Media Applications. Learnet India Limited, Mumbai. Phone:

lingo-l changing hyperlink colour

2001-07-31 Thread Iain Sheild
Hi list, Does anybody know how to change the colour of the defult blue hyperlink? Any help would be much appreciated. thanks Iain [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 Lingo gui dumping

2001-07-31 Thread Daniel Devolder
Is there a way in dump the entire (or parts of) director file to one big lingo script that could be editied, used to rebuild call the casts, properties, etc? This would be similar to Houdini being able to dump an entire .hip file using opscript. Take a look at the vList Xtra. There is some

Re: lingo-l Shape of MIAW

2001-07-31 Thread Darryl Cousins
Hi, There's a article called Non-rectangular MIAWs on Director Online. I don't have the URL but just do a search there. Blessings, Darryl Hi All, I would like to know how to make the shape of the MIAW as you want, for example, I want the Miaw look like an Earth, how can I do? I saw someone

Re: lingo-l changing hyperlink colour

2001-07-31 Thread Darryl Cousins
Hi Iain, You need to set the useHypertextStyles property of a text member to FALSE which turns off the automatic formatting and cursor change. Then if you do want another color and/or cursor change you need to set that for each individual word/link. Blessings Darryl Hi list, Does anybody

Re: lingo-lno video playback on Win2000

2001-07-31 Thread Martijn Janssen
I already tried that, but it means I have to reprogram part of my project (which worked fine on the win98 machine...) Windows media player doesn't even recognize (unknown format) what codec is used (for different video's with different codecs...) what can I do? what am I missing...!? Martijn

lingo-l Index out of range error

2001-07-31 Thread Gene Fritzinger
Hello List, I'm trying to set mSetCriteria from a list named gGeokeyList from within a repeat loop. An example of what the list might look like is [2, 5, 7]. I comment the line at which I get an Index out of range error. Can anyone see what I'm doing incorrectly? on mouseUp closeTables

Re: lingo-lno video playback on Win2000

2001-07-31 Thread pranavn
I thought you said that WM player correctly plays the files on Win2k also. If you're getting the unknown format error for only a few files check that they are indeed rendered with Cinepak and have not been corrupted somehow. Try using a different codec too. I've used Indeo 5.4 (I think that

Re: lingo-l Index out of range error

2001-07-31 Thread Jakob Hede Madsen
At 9:19 -0400 2001_07_31, Gene Fritzinger wrote: set gTable = new(Xtra V12table, mGetRef(gDB), regmast) CheckV12Error() repeat with var in gGeokeyList x = gGeokeyList[var] --THIS IS WHERE I GET AN INDEX OUT OF RANGE ERROR would that be: x = gTable[var] Jakob [To remove

Re: lingo-l Index out of range error

2001-07-31 Thread Darryl Cousins
repeat with var in gGeokeyList Hi Gene, I'm pretty new to Lingo but this the first time I've seen snip var in list/snip syntax. I checked the Lingo dictionary under in and perhaps thats the problem, we don't have this syntax in Lingo. It would also make sense of the error. You'd need to use

lingo-l browser detection

2001-07-31 Thread naga raj
Hello all, I have done a project,which is basically a browser based multimedia presentation. It runs through the Internet Explorer only.It has a lot of videos and VO. Now the client wants autorun facility.If i give autorun and if the end user machine has Netscape as the default browser the

lingo-l Re:

2001-07-31 Thread jsweeney
on 7/31/01 4:31 AM, nik crosina at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can this be changed, or over-ridden somehow? Does anyone have any experience with that? Many thanks, Nik Crosina According to the documentation from Integration, the PDF will ALWAYS be on TOP of everything. You can't put

lingo-l playing multiple movies in a predefined order.

2001-07-31 Thread nick langridge
Here's my problem. I have about 20 separate movies. Each movie represents a slide in a presentation. Each slide has animation, interactivity and buttons to move to the previous and next slides. I want to store the order that the movies are played (ie: the order of the slides in the presentation)

Thanx Irv - Re: lingo-l Index out of range error

2001-07-31 Thread Gene Fritzinger
Thanx Irv, This now works with only one small problem. When it loops from 2 to 4 and then 4 to 7, it doesn't add a return in the field so the field displaying the results looks like this: SNIP from field member New York Region New England Region

lingo-l While shockwave is loading

2001-07-31 Thread Enrique Nivasch
Hi, I want to keep the user busy while a shockwave movie is loading. I figured I'll use the idleLoad while playing a small movie to check if the desired members have arrived. When the cast members are loaded I will start the main feature. I haven't been able to figure out from the

Re: lingo-l While shockwave is loading

2001-07-31 Thread Colin Holgate
I want to keep the user busy while a shockwave movie is loading. I figured I'll use the idleLoad while playing a small movie to check if the desired members have arrived. When the cast members are loaded I will start the main feature. I haven't been able to figure out from the documentation

Re: Thanx Irv - Re: lingo-l Index out of range error

2001-07-31 Thread Irv Kalb
You need to add a return character yourself. Change: put mGetSelection(gTable, LITERAL, 1, mSelectCount(gTable), , , return, DESCRIPT) after field RegionSelectedGeographies to: put mGetSelection(gTable, LITERAL, 1, mSelectCount(gTable), , , return, DESCRIPT) RETURN after field

lingo-l updatestage.com

2001-07-31 Thread grimmwerks
Hey just wanted to point out that on IE, there's no link to 'mile high table of xtras' on the xtra page, although it shows on netscape and icab - weird. I'm curious to see if anyone's gotten the vlist to work with an image rather than a db? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to

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2001-07-31 Thread naga raj
Hello all, I have done a project,which is basically a browser based multimedia presentation. It runs through the Internet Explorer only.It has a lot of videos and VO. Now the client wants autorun facility.If i give autorun and if the end user machine has Netscape as the default browser the

RE: lingo-l Exporting Image Files (Projector, not Shockwave)

2001-07-31 Thread Roy Crisman
At 05:19 PM 7/30/01 -0400, you wrote: I use FileXtra3 to export content. I don't the link off hand but it shouldn't be too hard to find. Try http://www.behaviors.com. Bill, you use FileXtra3 to export graphics files from Director? am I missing something here? it certainly does a lot of

RE: lingo-l mpg files on cdrom

2001-07-31 Thread jorge moya
Por favor ayudemen: deseo retirarme de la lista. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Robert Wingate [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: WMP is just an application that uses the DirectShow technology, much like Tabuleiro's DirectMediaXtra Thanks Mark for calling me on this one. I don't mean to

RE: lingo-l mpg files on cdrom

2001-07-31 Thread Kerry Thompson
Por favor ayudemen: deseo retirarme de la lista. If you don't speak Spanish, he's asking to unsubscribe. Politely, at least. Tab is aware now, if he wasn't before. Cordially, Kerry Thompson [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

lingo-l Is it possible

2001-07-31 Thread Brian Farmer
Hello list members, I have been asked to put together a presentation that would involve two computers. So for example, I would start the projector on both machines. (Controlling everything from one machine though.) Based on what is clicked on it would update on the other machine. Is this

lingo-l closing MIAWs = a fatal error

2001-07-31 Thread John Sproul
I have a problem with a project and a number of its MIAWs. I have tried a number of ways to close an MIAW GLOBAL myMIAW on mouseDown tell the stage to forget myMIAW end on mouseDown tell the stage to forget window myMIAW end ---

Re: lingo-l Is it possible

2001-07-31 Thread grimmwerks
You could do this with the multiuser xtra - there's a great example from macromedia with one shockwave controlling webpages that the other shockwaves see. [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

lingo-l Thanks Irv

2001-07-31 Thread Gene Fritzinger
Thanks again Irv ! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ You need to add a return character yourself. Change: put mGetSelection(gTable, LITERAL, 1, mSelectCount(gTable), , , return, DESCRIPT) after field RegionSelectedGeographies to: put mGetSelection(gTable, LITERAL, 1, mSelectCount(gTable), , ,

RE: lingo-l closing MIAWs = a fatal error

2001-07-31 Thread Morgan Bonar
John, I have had the same problem recently, and after some digging into macromedia's site, found that you cannot initiate a closing of a MIAW window from itself. Apparently, after you call the handler from the MIAW window, it expects a return value internally, and if the window does not exist

RE: lingo-l Index out of range error

2001-07-31 Thread Morgan Bonar
Var is going to be equal to the value of the integer in the list, not the position, and when you use the brackets (I think) in accessing property lists, it is looking for a positional value. So the first time thru the repeat loop, it would work, because the var = 2 (which is a position in the

Re: lingo-l closing MIAWs = a fatal error

2001-07-31 Thread Slava Paperno
There was an extensive discussion of this subject around 3/23/2001. Search the Lingo-L archives for the phrase closing miaw windows (in the subject line). The archives are at http://www.mail-archive.com/lingo-l@penworks.com/ The essence of the issue is that the stage must close the MIAW, not

Re: lingo-l Re:

2001-07-31 Thread nik crosina
Hi, I found a 'quick and nasty'solution for my problem: i am putting the pop-up in front with every exit frame event. this cvreates a bit of flicker but works more or less... if anyone has a better idea, or exoperience, please let me know!~!!! thanks, Nik On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 09:38:03 -0500

Re: lingo-l closing MIAWs = a fatal error

2001-07-31 Thread LePhuronn
Morgan is correct in saying that you do not close a MIAW directly. When control to the originating script is passed, you will find that the MIAW does not exist and the whole thing bombs out. The only correct way to close a MIAW would be to set a global flag initially set to false or some other

lingo-l Accessing a large list of dates sorted into groups by team

2001-07-31 Thread Tony Eggleston
Howdy all! I can't seem to get my brain in gear on this one, so I thought I might enlist some help. I have a list of game dates sorted by team. I need to access the dates first by team (a pref given by the user and then by the next upcoming game, figured by referencing the system date) My

RE: lingo-l closing MIAWs = a fatal error

2001-07-31 Thread Mark R. Jonkman
Hi John Don't have the MIAW close itself, rather have it tell the stage to set either a global or in D8+ a timeout object that can do the close at some short distance in the future. You need to finish the tell command in its entirety including the call back by the stage to the MIAW as it passes

RE: lingo-l updatestage.com

2001-07-31 Thread Al Hospers
Hey just wanted to point out that on IE, there's no link to 'mile high table of xtras' on the xtra page, although it shows on netscape and icab - weird. Grimm dude... dunno why you are having that problem. I probably go there 2-3x a day have no problems in IE 5 on the PC. Al Hospers

lingo-l pdf xtra question...

2001-07-31 Thread grimmwerks
What's the new features with the 2.0 version? Is it compatible with Acrobat 5 (1 doesn't seem to be)can we still use 1 with acrobat reader 4 on a cd? [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

RE: lingo-l updatestage.com

2001-07-31 Thread grimmwerks
Correction then: a problem with IE on the MAC ;P On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Al Hospers wrote: Grimm dude... dunno why you are having that problem. I probably go there 2-3x a day have no problems in IE 5 on the PC. Al Hospers Marketing Associate UpdateStage alhospersatupdatestagedotcom

Re: lingo-l updatestage.com

2001-07-31 Thread Daniel Devolder
I'm curious to see if anyone's gotten the vlist to work with an image rather than a db? What do you want to know exactly? Daniel Devolder Check my vList Xtra for saving Lingo lists with optional encryption http://www.updatestage.com/xtras/vlist.html [To remove yourself from this list, or to

RE: lingo-l Accessing a large list of dates sorted into groups by team

2001-07-31 Thread Brian Romanko
Tony, Actually, a more preferable way to approach this problem would be to use a database like Valentina. Here, the teams and games could be stored in separate tables (collections of data about separate things). Each row in your team table would have information about one team, and each row in

Re: lingo-l pdf xtra question...

2001-07-31 Thread Dominic Villiard
yes it's compatible - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 4:01 PM Subject: lingo-l pdf xtra question... What's the new features with the 2.0 version? Is it compatible with Acrobat 5 (1 doesn't seem to be)can we still use

Re: lingo-l pdf xtra question...

2001-07-31 Thread grimmwerks
But is the older pdf xtra compatible with 5? Doesn't seem to be - at least on mac; on windows you can have a workaround with includeing a 4.0 reader on the cd. On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Dominic Villiard wrote: yes it's compatible [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode,

lingo-l flash inside director with cursor

2001-07-31 Thread Mark
Hello All, I need a kick start here... I was looking for an easy solution for my cursor problem. I have a director movie that contains a flash navigation bar. What I am looking for is an easy solution to change the cursor into a finger(anything!) when it is over the flash buttons. For some

RE: lingo-l changing hyperlink colour

2001-07-31 Thread Sean Wilson
James Newton has published a movie/behavior that allows this very easily. http://perso.planetb.fr/newton/#text Look for his Custom hyperlink style example movie. [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

Re: lingo-l playing multiple movies in a predefined order.

2001-07-31 Thread John Trentini
All you need is to make a stub projector (documentation at macromedia.com) Place all of your movies in the same folder as your projector. For the navigation between movies, one way is to hard code the buttons in each movie to take you to the previous or next movie. A more elegant way would be

Re: lingo-l flash inside director with cursor

2001-07-31 Thread grimmwerks
Sure, do this property pFlash on beginsprite me pFlash=sprite(me.spritenum) end beginsprite me on enterframe me if pFlash.mouseOverButton then pFlash.cursor = 280 end if end enterframe me [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest

lingo-l .dxr

2001-07-31 Thread Mark Jenkinson
Hi, I'm wandering how do you create .dxr movies, do you need the full non educational version of director? Also is there some way to save text field data when jumping between movies, I tried the updateMovieEnabled=TRUE but it won't work in Projector mode. Thanks Mark Jenkinson Multimedia