lingo-l RE:

Hi I did a project where I needed to simply go to a net page from a projecter, but it had open with Internet Explorer, what I did, was using the Buddy api xtra, and in the startmoviescript run a check if the user had Internet Explorer installed, if he had, I would set the browerName()= the path

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

Thankyou. I handn't realised I could have a list that would remain global, while I loaded new movies. I'll give it a try. thanks again. nick - Original Message - From: Sean Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 3:50 PM Subject: RE: lingo-l playing

lingo-l pls help me out list

Hi list I am working on a presentation which contains 1GB of movie file and about 500MB of wav file I want to build this presentation in one CD only any suggestions. Pls... Thanks List suhail shaikh web designer extn. 3281 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode,

RE: lingo-l .dxr

To answer Your first question about how to create dxr's: You create Dxr's by protecting director movies. The resulting movies will not be ediatble, so make sure to make DXR's only of copies. Top protect movies (and find out whether your software will do...) Select, Xtras-Update, tick protect

RE: lingo-l .dxr

You cannot update movies that have been compiled into executables. To be saved during runtime, the movie must be separate from the .exe file as either a .dxr or .dcr And ofcourse, it cannot be on a read-only media a.k.a. cdroms (but you already knew that, didn't you?) Cordially, Pranav

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hi ppl well i have to make a rotation (animation) of a ship and make it stop periodically, because there are some interactive areas in the ship for the user interact. my question is,whats the best way to aproach this, the best technique to making smooth animations. I was trying to animate a

lingo-lhow to change video source while playing?

Hi all, Can someone telle me how I can change the source of an videocastmember while the video is playing? I have a video playing in sprite a, and with a skip-button I'd like the the sprite to stop, load another file into the memeber and start playing again. I now use this: property pCurrent

lingo-l the best way to animate a sprite in the stage!

hi ppl well i have to make a rotation (animation) of a ship and make it stop periodically, because there are some interactive areas in the ship for the user interact. my question is,whats the best way to aproach this, the best technique to making smooth animations. I was trying to animate a

RE: lingo-l flash inside director with cursor

Hi Mark, DOUG just recently did an article on exactly this. Basically, you have to use flash's getURL() function to pass lingo to director. The syntax would read: getURL(lingo: cursor 280); This tells Director that the incoming string is lingo, and should execute the following syntax

lingo-l Property not found

I'm tearing out my hair. Ohh noo! Here's the story. I'm creating a small shockwave movie. In authoring works fine. When playing it through shockwave it snaps a script error every now and then. I finally managed to have the movie fail continuously by introducing an intentional error to a

Re: lingo-l Property not found

I'm not sure I got the point about introducing an unrelated error, but that aside... If it thinks that locV is not a property of sprite(me.spriteNum) then I would say that me.spriteNum is not a valid sprite number. So what I would suggest is that just before that line you start with

lingo-l 3D Max exporter, Camera view not working

Hi list, I am trying to make a max animation to run in Director and the view that I want is the one through the camera (the camera is moving). I have tried exporting by linking the camera to a dummy and, when that didn't work I used a simple box and linked to that, I am therefore moving the box

RE: lingo-l 3D Max exporter, Camera view not working

Hi Iain. I'm really a beginner at 3D stuff but if I remember correctly you have to activate the viewport you want to display as default on max and export with that viewport active. Not sure if this is what you mean though. HTH Jorge -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lingo-l pls help me out list

on 8/1/01 3:39 AM, Suhail Shaikh at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suhail, If you are using avi format movies, you might try choosing to use quicktime to convert your movies and compress them in Sorensen or Cinepak. The end user will need to have the quicktime plug-in and you will need to license it

RE: lingo-lhow to change video source while playing?

I found much less troublessome to initiate the video member source before playing the video sprite. I got many crashes when attempting to switch a video actually playing. Try to just exit the frame, switch the file and return to the frame. Works fast flawlessly for me. Bastien Bouchard Logique

lingo-l ALERT

I want to create an system-like prompt .. Something like lingo command alert(message) , but its only with OK button .. I need OK and Cancel. How to create in Director ? Is there any lingo command ? Pytkin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

RE: lingo-l ALERT

You can't do it w/Lingo - you need an Xtra. I use DirectOS from updateStage (updateStage.com). Josie -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roman Pekarek Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 10:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l ALERT

RE: lingo-l ALERT

I want to create an system-like prompt .. Something like lingo command alert(message) , but its only with OK button .. I need OK and Cancel. How to create in Director ? Is there any lingo command Hi Roman, Director comes with the MUI Dialog Xtra which will allow you to do this kind of

RE: lingo-l ALERT

Or use BuddyAPI and it's baMsgBox command. BuddyAPI is free to up to two functions. Pekka -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kafka's Daytime Sent: 1. elokuuta 2001 17:37 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: lingo-l ALERT You can't

RE: lingo-l ALERT

You can also do this with buddy api xtra and the mui xtra. [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

Re: lingo-l ALERT

Hey - I want to create an system-like prompt .. Something like lingo command alert(message) , but its only with OK button .. I need OK and Cancel. How to create in Director ? Is there any lingo command You can do this within Director, but you'll need to learn how to use the MUI Xtra (which

RE: lingo-l ALERT

You can't do it w/Lingo - you need an Xtra. You can do it using the MUI Dialog Xtra which is included with Director. See my other email on the subject. I use DirectOS from updateStage (updateStage.com). The DirectOS Xtra is actually from DirectXtras. That said UpdateStage is a great place to

RE: lingo-l ALERT

And don't forget Macromedia's MUI Xtra (also free.. well, sort of :) put alert(new(xtramui),[#title:Your Title,#message:Are you sure?,#movable:1,#buttons:#yesno]) Cole Or use BuddyAPI and it's baMsgBox command. BuddyAPI is free to up to two functions. Pekka You can't do it w/Lingo - you

Re: lingo-lhow to change video source while playing?

add global video at the top of the on skipForward script. Ray Broussard http://PhotographicVR.com property pCurrent -- video currently playing property pItemList property pVideoSprite property pVideoCount -- total of video's available on skipForward sprite(pVideoSprite).movieRate =

lingo-l MIAW kills background sounds

just making sure I'm not doing something boneheaded, here. Sound(5).play(member(whatever)) starts the sound, but pMIAW = window pMovie pMIAW.visible = FALSE the pMIAW.visible command kills my sound looping in the background. One option around this is to open the MIAW and hide it behind

RE: lingo-l action called on attaching behavior to sprite

there's some other gotchas - The GPDL only seem to run twice if there are already behaviors attached to that sprite. (if sprite().scriptList already exists). Also when editing the script, pressing the recompile button causes that behavior to fire and since the currentSprite = 0, so you

Re: lingo-lhow to change video source while playing?

Can someone telle me how I can change the source of an videocastmember while the video is playing? I have a video playing in sprite a, and with a skip-button I'd like the the sprite to stop, load another file into the memeber and start playing again. I now use this: property pCurrent --

lingo-l Re:screen refresh with directmedia xtra

Hi All I am playing (hold your breath) around 250 mpg files from 5 cd roms. When the software gets to the 150-155 video the screen refresh does notwork. That means no text is displayed on the screen, the rollovers dont work. Is it possible to flush the video memory or flush mouse events to

Re: lingo-l Re:screen refresh with directmedia xtra

I am playing (hold your breath) Can you send another message soon, say within the next minute or so. I'm already turning blue. As for the other questions, Director 8 has a flushinputevents to get rid of mouse and keyboard entries, and you might get somewhere with setting the stagecolor to

lingo-l physical path to My Documents folder for the logon user in Windows 2000

Hi, List, As the physical path to the my documents folder for the logon user can be different for different users in Windows 2000, is there a way to find out the paht to the my documents folder for the current logon user? Thank you. Peng

Re: lingo-lhow to change video source while playing?

no, the paths were right... I solved the problem by importing the files into members and than switching a sprite's memeber... Thanks anyway! MArtijn - Original Message - From: Kurt Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 11:38 AM Subject: Re:

Re: lingo-l ALERT

You can also do this with buddy api xtra and the mui xtra. Yes .. I found MUI xtra now .. Thanx to all Pytkin [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 closing MIAW - fatal error

Thanks to all who responded to my problem with closing MIAW's. using a bolean value to close the window from the stage was successful. John Sproul Vision Technologies Group [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: Video Refresh Rate/Flush Events when Video is Playing

Hi All, I am playing hold your breath 250 mpg files on 5 cd-roms. When it comes to about 150 to 170th video file, the screen just stops to refresh and the text which is supposed to appear, the rollovers nothing is displayed. Is there any way to flush the video memory or the mouseevents so

RE: lingo-l ALERT

You can also use the MUI xtra, which is included with Director. It is a little bit more complex, but once you have the shell built, it is pretty powerful. Morgan- You can't do it w/Lingo - you need an Xtra. I use DirectOS from updateStage (updateStage.com). Josie -Original Message-

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RE: lingo-l ALERT

You can't do it w/Lingo - you need an Xtra. MUI Xtra is part of Director, and its purpose in life is to help you build dialog boxes with Lingo. Any of these articles will answer your question: MUI Xtra http://www.director-online.com/accessArticle.cfm?id=214 Asking a Question with the MUI Xtra

RE: lingo-l ALERT

oops...sorry, of course you're right...DirectOS is from directXtras. The MUI Xtra (in my humble opinion) can be a bit difficult for a new Lingo programmer. The RavWare MUI Maker utility (if Al didn't mention it already) which *is* sold/distributed by updateStage makes using the MUI Xtra a whole

lingo-l Scrn Xtra (X-Post)

All, My Screen Xtra code for grabbing the *desktop* (not the stage) doesn't seem to be working in D8.0 Any one had any luck with scrnxtra? Is there a way to do it natively? Insights? Leif [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l .dxr

At 4:00 PM +1000 8/1/01, Mark Jenkinson wrote: 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, globals get preserved across movies so they can be used to carry

Re: lingo-l Property not found

So what I would suggest is that just before that line you start with something like: alert me.spriteNum is me.spriteNum sprite(me.spriteNum).locV =whatever you do with it Tab, I had the projector show the sprite number with a put statement and it was a sprite with a bitmap image. In

RE: lingo-l ALERT

Sorry Al. :-) no problem Josie. but the code I mentioned searching for on Direct-L will do exactly what they need without any real hassle. I took all the sting out of it. grin Al Hospers Marketing Associate UpdateStage alhospersatupdatestagedotcom http://www.updatestage.com [To remove

RE: lingo-l SaveMovie

Does anyone know how to save a protected movie or cast from lingo? I tried savemovie but it does not work. that's because it doesn't work. Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alatcambersoftdotcom http://www.cambersoft.com A famous linguist once said: There is no language wherein a double positive

RE: lingo-l ALERT

Hi If you are like me and don't have any spare Buddy API functions (I have registered it at its first level which gives 7 functions but still keep hitting that barrier) then consider using MUI dialogs - they come free with Director and are very flexible. It takes a little setting up but simple

RE: lingo-l SaveMovie

You can save a cast library using 'save castlib', though... it'll work with protected casts, but not shocked casts. Does anyone know how to save a protected movie or cast from lingo? I tried savemovie but it does not work. that's because it doesn't work. [To remove yourself from this

RE: lingo-l physical path to My Documents folder for the logon user in Windows 2000

is there a way to find out the paht to the my documents folder for the current logon user? Well, you'd need the logon user's name, which you may be able to find with the following: strCurUser = baReadRegString( Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer, Logon User Name, error,

RE: lingo-l ALERT

grin now I know...I got hold of it myself. Big help for novices like me. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Al Hospers Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 4:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: lingo-l ALERT Sorry Al. :-) no problem

RE: lingo-l physical path to My Documents folder for the logon user in Windows 2000

At 15:19 01/08/2001, Robert Wingate wrote: No guarantees that this is the best place to find strCurUser though. There may be a more reliable place, but I haven't found it. You get the idea. As long as we're using Buddy API, there's the built in baSysFolder function: put baSysFolder(personal)

RE: lingo-l physical path to My Documents folder for the logon user in Windows 2000

If you have the Buddy API Xtra then the function baSysFolder(personal) should do it... is there a way to find out the path to the my documents folder for the current logon user? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi

RE: lingo-l physical path to My Documents folder for the logon user in Windows 2000

Have you taken a look at Buddy API function list? It has some built-in functions that seem similar to what you are looking for... Morgan- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Wingate Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 3:20 PM To: [EMAIL

RE: lingo-l ALERT

grin now I know...I got hold of it myself. Big help for novices like me. glad that you find it useful. cheers, Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alatcambersoftdotcom http://www.cambersoft.com A famous linguist once said: There is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative. YEAH,

lingo-l Re: Lingo-L Digest V1 #2092

To the list: I am trying to create the program for the outline here (phase one): http://j.parsons.edu/~ntaylor/diagram.html I need to create a user input (easy enough) and have that number split into 4/5ths worker bees, and 1/5th drones. Most difficult part: programming each individual bee

Re: lingo-l While shockwave is loading

Look at the mediaready of the last member that you need for the next scene, and then jump into it when it's ready, do whatever is entertaining, and check for the Thanks Colin, it worked. Enrique -