lingo-l Live Video footage in Director

2001-08-06 Thread Panos Bartziokas
Hi everyone, VERY VERY challenging: I am trying to record live video footage (web camera) from inside director. I've used the videosprite xtra, but it does not offer the possibility to record. I also tried the Vcap xtra, which allows you to record, but the AVI file I create does not open. I get

lingo-l Putting text into sprite not member

2001-08-06 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
Is it possible to update a specific text or field sprite with changing the text of its member? [ sprite(spriteNum).member.text] I have multiple text fields that are created by the user, and rather than go the sloppy route of creating loads of separate empty text or field cast members, I'd like

RE: lingo-l External casts?????

2001-08-06 Thread Steven Sacks
Just click OK for all movies and this will have the same effect as clicking Adjust for all movies. Not exactly true. I found in D6.5 that that doesn't work, and sometimes makes things worse. One of the biggest problems you will have with this is if any of your cast members use a palette in

lingo-l AW: Lingo-L Digest V1 #2098 resizable speech bubble

2001-08-06 Thread Stefan Keller
hi slava, here's a little hardcoded xmpl to al's vector solution --- property spriteNum on mouseUp me me.bubble() end on bubble me memrect = sprite(spriteNum).member.rect pNewMem = new(#vectorshape) pNewmem.vertexList = [[#vertex: point(0., 0.)], [#vertex:

RE: lingo-l fields and downloading

2001-08-06 Thread Al Hospers
how can i download something from the internet, put the address of the file in a field. also how can i highlight a line from that field if i have multiple items. Juan clumped a couple o questions in here together didn' 'cha? hmmm... 1) how can i download something from the internet? use

RE: lingo-l Putting text into sprite not member

2001-08-06 Thread Al Hospers
Is it possible to update a specific text or field sprite with changing the text of its member? [ sprite(spriteNum).member.text] I have multiple text fields that are created by the user, and rather than go the sloppy route of creating loads of separate empty text or field cast members, I'd

RE: lingo-l AW: Lingo-L Digest V1 #2098 resizable speech bubble

2001-08-06 Thread Al Hospers
hi slava, here's a little hardcoded xmpl to al's vector solution Stefan, mine others actually tho. I gotta love it when someone does the work of actually putting code to my miscellaneous rantings. grin Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alatcambersoftdotcom http://www.cambersoft.com A famous

Re: lingo-l Acrobat Reader v5 does not play off CD-ROM

2001-08-06 Thread nik crosina
Hi there, I am just writing to see whether you still have problems ith getting Acrobat Reader to play off the CD-ROM. Because I am still working on what seems to be a hick-up in the actual Xtra (now on version 2.1): I can't get it to see the Acrbat Reader version 4.0.0.0 I got in the CD

Re: lingo-l digi vid problem

2001-08-06 Thread Robert Wingate
grimmwerks said: Tried to get the WMP to work, but no go. and Besides, in the system, Windows Media Player IS associated with mpg. It's Director that's seeing it as quicktime. As I said, strange. This may be too little too late, but it doesn't seem like you should have to worry about

lingo-l scrollbar problem

2001-08-06 Thread Dominic Villiard
i use the custom scrollbar from the director library. i have a bunch of articles showing up one after the other one. the problem is that the dragger won't go back to the top of the scrollbar when i jump to another article. and sometimes the dragger is stuck at the top but it's not the top of

lingo-l mpeg on a dell laptop x-post

2001-08-06 Thread Eva Crawford
Okay list this will probably be difficult to diagnose as I do not have all of the specs on the clients machine. but this is the basic problem. We have compressed a 9 minute movie into a 320x240 mpeg-1. I am using the Direct-Media Xtra from Tabuliero on the pc side. All the video has to do is

RE: lingo-l scrollbar problem

2001-08-06 Thread Al Hospers
the problem is that the dragger won't go back to the top of the scrollbar when i jump to another article. and sometimes the dragger is stuck at the top but it's not the top of the article try setting the scrollTop of the field/text member to zero. Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc.

RE: lingo-l scrollbar problem

2001-08-06 Thread Pekka Buttler
My Experience with that is that it does not work. The ScrollDragger of that behavior reorients itself only at Beginsprite and in case someone uses the arrows or the dragger. Therefore you either have to manually break up the sprite where you intend to swap the contents of that member OR

Re: lingo-l Imaging Lingo 2 response1

2001-08-06 Thread Chris Aernoudt
Sorry for my slow response, but I'm on holiday and I try to keep away from my laptop ;) Allow me to mangle in again, You assign the image of your cast members to a var - this does NOT create a reference to the member - so this does NOT manipulate the member in question in any way. All you have

Re: lingo-l Acrobat Reader v5 does not play off CD-ROM

2001-08-06 Thread Chris Aernoudt
Hey Warren --- how's the large PDF thing coming on? - Original Message - From: Warren Stolow [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 8:55 PM Subject: RE: lingo-l Acrobat Reader v5 does not play off CD-ROM Hello Nik and MR Grimmwerks, Now, our

lingo-l CD Works in 98 but not in 2000/NT?!

2001-08-06 Thread Cory Caplan
This is the strangest problem I've ever had. I have a stub projector loading a 'main' shockwave file in a /shock/ directory off the main. Locally, the cd plays fine on NT4/2000/98 etc. When I burn to a disc, the NT 2000 machines will not run the program (it looks like the stub loads, but never

lingo-l Update-- Still need help.

2001-08-06 Thread Cory Caplan
It's fileIO. I have 2 framescripts that open and parse comma separated values into lists at the beginning of the program... It has no problem reading them off the cd in 98 and it has no problem reading them off the hard drive in NT or 2000-- but the CD in NT or 2000 just hangs... anybody

lingo-l 3-D bit depth issue.

2001-08-06 Thread the nightboy
Problem: I have a background sprite set at 32 bit depth. I have a shockwave 3-D member in the sprite above it. I am finding that the bit depth on the sprite in channel 1 shifts down to 16 bit. Is there a way around this? Brian Douglas (:ub)

Re: lingo-l reading binary registry keys

2001-08-06 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 18:18 06/08/2001, Morgan Bonar wrote: Does anybody know how to read/write binary registry keys, other than MasterApp?? Buddy API doesn't seem to support binary... I'm not certain exactly what you're referring to as binary, but is this what your're looking for? baReadRegNumber()

lingo-l New York jobs

2001-08-06 Thread Nancy Taylor
To the list: Does anyone on the list know about any entry level Lingo programming jobs in the New York area? Nancy Taylor http://j.parsons.edu/~ntaylor/ _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at