RE: lingo-l projector runnig slow

Hi Dominic. Director apps are not really suited for use as background tasks. Basically Director always tries to use every clockcycle available, to be better able to respond to events. Question time: are you running your app with animate in background on or off? If it's on, try if setting it

Re: lingo-l copy protection

I have to consider a third possibility: that someone steals (copies) the software from my client, which - since the client does expensive things with the software - might come very expensive for the client and is for his own protection. florian Enrique Nivasch wrote: Since so much has ben

SV: lingo-l collisions ?

Hi List Im a 8.5 newbie and i am trying to get the collision detection working with a setCollisionCallback(), but i cant get it to work. I have 2 models, box and box2, how do I easyest ,to say, show an alert message when these collide ? thanx /magnus [To remove yourself from this list, or to

lingo-l XP protection

You can also use the DirectOS Xtra from www.directxtras.com. I actually prefer it in many ways for most of my tasks. Andrew -- Andrew Dempsey Multimedia Developer and Consultant Cairo, Egypt Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone/Fax: (+202) 267-7691 Web:

lingo-l Re: Archives

http://www.mail-archive.com/lingo-l@penworks.com/ I know this has been asked and answered, but where are the archives for this list? I could have sworn I bookmarked them. Cordially, Kerry Thompson [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

lingo-l Giving focus to an editable text member

Dear All, Just a little question: does anyone know how to give 'focus' to an editable text member, so that the cursor will already be blinking inside it without the user having to click the text area first...? Yours, Yariv [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go

lingo-l CurrentScript

Dear List, At the finishing line of our soon-to-be-online project we are deep into the phase of shockwave debugging. Using the alertHook handler, all error messages are displayed in a text field, and the user is requested to restart/reload. Problem is, that since the entire application

Re: lingo-l Giving focus to an editable text member

Take a look at the keyboardFocusSprite florian Yariv Alter Fin wrote: Dear All, Just a little question: does anyone know how to give 'focus' to an editable text member, so that the cursor will already be blinking inside it without the user having to click the text area first...?

Re: lingo-l Giving focus to an editable text member

I think the comand you're after is the keyboardFocusSprite or words to that effect. [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

Re: lingo-l Giving focus to an editable text member

Yes! It Works! and Thanks A Bunch. Yariv Take a look at the keyboardFocusSprite florian Yariv Alter Fin wrote: Dear All, Just a little question: does anyone know how to give 'focus' to an editable text member, so that the cursor will already be blinking inside it without the user

lingo-l CD playing using MCI command

Hi all Director lovers, how exactly should I use the mci() command in Director ? I have complete documentation about MCI commands from Microsoft, but (as other things) it does not work. I just try to play an Audio-CD track from Director. Is it the good idea to play large sounds (songs) from an

RE: lingo-l CD playing using MCI command

What os are u using.microsoft don't support mci any longer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Peter Rosa Sent: 09 August 2001 15:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l CD playing using MCI command Importance: High Hi all Director

Re: lingo-l CD playing using MCI command

Is it the good idea to play large sounds (songs) from an audio track added to CD via MCI commands rather then importing to cast and say puppetSound. ? MCI has been deprecated by Microsoft for several years, and has only legacy support. I'd stay away from MCI. You can use sound playFile,

lingo-l Comunications between projectors

If I've two running projectors (proj_1 and proj_2) is there a way to pass parameters from proj_1 to proj_2 without writing to HD. Something like tell (projector) to... as with MIAW? Thanks, Andrea [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

RE: lingo-l CD playing using MCI command

Peter: I have complete documentation about MCI commands from Microsoft, but (as other things) it does not work. hmmm. interesting statement. I have done a lot with MCI once you get over some conceptual hurdles it worked quite well. while it is depricated, the support for MCI is still there

RE: lingo-l Comunications between projectors

If I've two running projectors (proj_1 and proj_2) is there a way to pass parameters from proj_1 to proj_2 without writing to HD. 1 - why no HD writing? getPref/setPref would work pretty well. 2 - are they running on the same machine? 3 - how about a peer to peer MultiUser Server?

RE: lingo-l CD playing using MCI command

while this is true, it has nothing to do with playing an audio CD track, which was the original question and in fact was the subject of the posting... wry grin Ah... good catch, Al. I zoned in on the part about casts and such, and missed the part about Red Book. Thanks for setting it straight

lingo-l flash 4 swf and QT direct to stage flickering

hi all, I'm trying to use a flash 4 interface as a background and then play a quicktime direct to stage (director projector, v8) but the video is flickering like mad. if i use a bitmap as the background it runs fine. can't qt and swfs coincide? any help would be appreciated. phillip louderback

Re: SV: lingo-l collisions ?

I´ve modified this example from balls to boxes and some other things. I hope it solves your problem. Behavior attached to some sprite: on mouseUp me w=sprite(me.spriteNum).member w.resetWorld() box=w.newModelResource(box, #box) box.radius=1 box1=w.newModel(box1, box)

Re: lingo-l flash 4 swf and QT direct to stage flickering

I'm trying to use a flash 4 interface as a background and then play a quicktime direct to stage (director projector, v8) but the video is flickering like mad. if i use a bitmap as the background it runs fine. can't qt and swfs coincide? any help would be appreciated. If the Flash sprite is

Re: lingo-l flash 4 swf and QT direct to stage flickering

I'm trying to use a flash 4 interface as a background and then play a quicktime direct to stage (director projector, v8) but the video is flickering like mad. if i use a bitmap as the background it runs fine. can't qt and swfs coincide? any help would be appreciated. If the swf isn't animating,

Re: lingo-l flash 4 swf and QT direct to stage flickering

RE: -- From: phillip louderback [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l flash 4 swf and QT direct to stage flickering Date: Thu, Aug 9, 2001, 12:34 PM I'm trying to use a flash 4 interface as a background and then play a quicktime direct to stage (director projector, v8)

RE: lingo-l MUI Xtra question

Either one is better than trying to code MUI...what a headache! Aw, come on. MUI is really straightforward, and it pretty much does what you tell it to. The current shockwave-unsafety is the biggest headache! This article makes it easy: http://www.director-online.com/accessArticle.cfm?id=888

lingo-l test lingo filter

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Re: thanks lingo-l flash 4 swf and QT direct to stage flickering

thanks a million, toggling the static of the swf seems to be helping. phillip --- Kerry Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to use a flash 4 interface as a background and then play a quicktime direct to stage (director projector, v8) but the video is flickering like mad. if i

Fwd: lingo-l test lingo filter

Hey Tab-- This could be trouble. I've gotten spammed from this I Hate Spam alias before. It looks like he/she is testing to see if their mail gets through your spam filter. I have them filtered out in Eudora, but not coming through Lingo-L. Cordially, Kerry Thompson

lingo-l QT video flashes between DTS and notDTS

hi again, i'm toggling a quicktime between direct to stage and not DTS. when i turn it back on it becomes invisible and then flashes on. Is there a workaround? thanks phillip louderback __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as

Re: lingo-l flash 4 swf and QT direct to stage flickering

on 8/10/01 6:34 AM, phillip louderback at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, I'm trying to use a flash 4 interface as a background and then play a quicktime direct to stage (director projector, v8) but the video is flickering like mad. if i use a bitmap as the background it runs fine. can't

Re: lingo-l flash 4 swf and QT direct to stage flickering

You could've just set sprite(flashsprite).static = true [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 helping

lingo-l pulling folder and file names

I'm new to the list so I apologize if you've already dealt with this. What I need to do is be able to access and put(on screen) the names of all the sub-folders, and the files within them, sometimes four or five layers deep. I want to not only be able to display them, but the user has to be

Re: lingo-l CurrentScript

At 3:51 PM +0200 8/9/01, Yariv Alter Fin wrote: Dear List, At the finishing line of our soon-to-be-online project we are deep into the phase of shockwave debugging. Using the alertHook handler, all error messages are displayed in a text field, and the user is requested to restart/reload. Problem

RE: lingo-l Comunications between projectors

At 12:50 PM -0400 8/9/01, Al Hospers wrote: If I've two running projectors (proj_1 and proj_2) is there a way to pass parameters from proj_1 to proj_2 without writing to HD. 1 - why no HD writing? getPref/setPref would work pretty well. This can create a crash in some circumstances and i/o

Re: SV: lingo-l collisions ?

At 2:07 PM -0300 8/9/01, Agustín María Rodríguez wrote: I´ve modified this example from balls to boxes and some other things. I hope it solves your problem. [snip] Don't forget to set the collision.mode property to the desired collision processing method. Movie script: on CallSpcript me This

lingo-l Downloading a file from CD-Rom

Good evening, This is my first day using this mailing list. So in advance I'm sorry if these questions have been asked... Within a CD-Rom we are developing, the end user is able to click and choice a destination (on their desktop) for the document ex) .doc. I'm not exactly sure how to go about

lingo-l volume

I'm an illustrator and not a programer. I am working on a director prodject that uses puppet sounds. The puppet sounds work ok but I would like to add a button that would controll the volume of my puppets? How do I do this? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

lingo-l volume up and down buttons

I am very new to Director and lingo especially so bear with me please. I have a volume icon and a plus and a minus sprite and i want to make the volume go up incrementally on clicking plus and doown clicking minus I've put these scripts in: on startMovie global vol set vol to 4 set

RE: lingo-l volume up and down buttons

But I get error- variable used before assigned a value You need to declare global vol at the top of each of your mouseUp handlers. Try: on startMovie global vol set vol to 4 set the soundLevel to vol end -- for volume [ + ] on mouseUp global vol if vol 7 then set vol

Re: lingo-l volume up and down buttons

You haven't declared 'vol' as a global in the scripts for the volume up and volume down. You can also shorten your scripts like so: For volume [+] on mouseUp me global vol vol = max(7, vol + 1) the soundLevel = vol end mouseUp me For volume [-] on mouseUp me global vol vol = min(0, vol

RE: lingo-l Putting text into sprite not member

hasn't this question been asked and answered in the past few days here or on Direct-L? Sure has. Check the header--the message was sent Monday. We're getting duplicates--I've seen a few others go drifting by in the stream. Cordially, Kerry Thompson [To remove yourself from this list, or

lingo-l File IO - how do I erase text in a file?

Hello, I have a problem with File IO I'm trying to solve. I am writing a list to a text file and the last item in the list is 3 numbers long, except in one case, it is 4 numbers long and the last one is 0. Well, when it writes to the file with a 3 number final item after it has written with

Re: lingo-l File IO - how do I erase text in a file?

Is there Some way to just delete the last char of the text file each time it opens it to save and then write to it How about: theText = readFile (theFile) delete theText.char[theText.length] writeString (theFile, theText) Does that do what you want? I got a little lost in the part about the

RE: lingo-l File IO - how do I erase text in a file?

I'm using Director 6 so I can't use dot syntax :( Allow me to get a little more detailed. FileIO obviously doesn't overwrite an entire text file when it writes to a file, it just writes from char a to char b. If there are more characters already in the text file beyond char b, they remain

RE: lingo-l File IO - how do I erase text in a file?

FileIO obviously doesn't overwrite an entire text file when it writes to a file, it just writes from char a to char b. If there are more characters already in the text file beyond char b, they remain untouched. I've had the same problem. The only workaround I could come up with was to delete

RE: lingo-l File IO - how do I erase text in a file? SOLVED...

sorta... I figured out a workaround, clunky as it may be. --- set gTheWriteText = removeQuotes(gTheWriteText) if the last item of gTheWriteText = 3110 then nothing else put SPACE after gTheWriteText end if on removeQuotes dataString repeat with a = 1 to the number of