lingo-l Image export CMYK Follow-up

2001-08-16 Thread scott
I followed Al Hospers' suggestions for Xtras (thanks Al!) and tried both... but... neither has CMYK capabilies. I did talk to Ravi of Ravware, though, and he informed me that the next build of his export Xtra should support CMYK format! cheers! Thanks, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove

lingo-l Lingo Library Under Construction

2001-08-16 Thread scott
Hi all. I've been working on a code library of lingo functions and will be releasing the first set soon -- a collection of light and photoshop-like image adjustment functions. Thus far, I have: Isolate color channels (rgb and cmyk) Duotone of image Adjust contrast Adjust brightness

RE: lingo-l The Merits (or Not) of Protection

2001-08-16 Thread Jakob Hede Madsen
At 23:22 -0700 2001_08_15, Watson, Christopher wrote: If tell sprite is D8 syntax (and it looks like it is), then I can't rely on it. I've got to support D7 environments. Mac D7.02 tests OK here. Jakob [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access

2001-08-16 Thread Pete Carss
This sounds like the book I've been looking for, you don't have an ISBN for it do you? Pete On Thursday, August 16, 2001, at 12:58 AM, Mike Nardell wrote: I would like to join in on this thread; in particular I would like to know if anyone has thought about using the patterns approach in

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2001-08-16 Thread Ron Williams
Hi there, I wonder if anyone can help, I am building a training movie which is run from a CD , however I was wondering is there any way that I can have the user make notes while the Movies are playing and later refer to them from within the movie environment. I was thinking of some sort of

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2001-08-16 Thread Ron Williams
Hi Leah, many thanks for your quick response to my question at Lingo. You are of course correct about the Prefs item but the only example I can find using this is not very user friendly, that is to say the adding of files is too scrappy and a bit hit or miss. I have tried to find another example

lingo-l RE:

2001-08-16 Thread Sulayman Trawally
Hi, I have been trying to remove myself from the list. I have followed the instructions many times, but I still keep getting the mail. Any suggestions. Thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ron Williams Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001

lingo-l FileIO and ReadLine

2001-08-16 Thread Jacques Baume
Hello All, I've got a question about FileIO. I have 2 fields. The first called articles is a list with some colors. Red Orange Yellow Green etc... The second is called contenu. A text file called (description.txt) is on my hard disk. By clicking on a red color, i have the description about

lingo-l Re: Lingo-L Digest V1 #2112

2001-08-16 Thread Mike S
Please send all correspondence to my new email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Mike Sukow [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

lingo-l RE: FileIO paths

2001-08-16 Thread Sean Wilson
unfortunately the text file is stored in the same directory as the movie which is no good as the movies are running from CD. The line causing me grief is filePath = the moviePath My Notes is there anyway that I can save the file to a folder outside of the movie on the users hard drive.

lingo-l Re:timeout (again)

2001-08-16 Thread mirianam
I'm still struggling with timeOut and timeLength concepts and my brain has gone to mush (sorry). In my no startmovie script I have added: the timeOutLength=15*60 the timePutScript=myTimeOutHandler and on myTimeOutHandler -- a movie script if random (2)=2 then go tgo frame 230 else if randpm =

Re: lingo-l timeout(again)(again)

2001-08-16 Thread mirianam
I hope you can reads through my typos --- brain=mush [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

RE: lingo-l Re:timeout (again)

2001-08-16 Thread Sean Wilson
but is there a way to diable/forget (Idon't know the correct terminology) the timeOut script. Straight from the dictionary: When the assigned event script is no longer appropriate, turn it off with the statement 'set the timeoutScript to EMPTY'. HTH, -Sean. [To remove yourself from this

RE: lingo-l FileIO and ReadLine

2001-08-16 Thread Sean Wilson
how to read the secon line. Either use FileIO's setPosition() method so that it will read the correct line, or (easier) read the entire file, figure out which line in the first field the user clicked, and grab that line from the string you read in with FileIO. on mouseUp set lineNum = the

RE: lingo-l Re:timeout (again)

2001-08-16 Thread Karina Steffens
Now this seems to be working for the moment but is there a way to diable/forget (Idon't know the correct terminology) the timeOut script. I don't want any more, no matter how long between mouseclicks, for myTimeOutHandler to be executed. Is there a way to do this - or am I

Re[2]: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access

2001-08-16 Thread Darryl Cousins
Hello Pete, Thursday, August 16, 2001, 10:56:56 AM, Pete wrote: PC This sounds like the book I've been looking for, you don't have an ISBN PC for it do you? PC Pete Design Patterns by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides

Re: lingo-l The Merits (or Not) of Protection

2001-08-16 Thread Chnexus
Hi, Watson, Christopher wrote (in part): Hello, everyone. I have an important series of questions regarding the distribution of proprietary Lingo libraries. I'll use the term library loosely (because I am aware of the fact that a Director Library is defined as an external cast that resides

lingo-l Articles andd tips for lingo

2001-08-16 Thread naga raj
Hi, try www.mediamacros.com another good site by chuck Neal cordially Nagaraj. __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ [To remove yourself from this list, or to

lingo-l BUSINESS PROPOSAL.

2001-08-16 Thread kexdonald manfab
DEAR SIR, THIS LETTER MAY PROBABLY COME TO YOU AS A SURPRISE SINCE YOU NEITHER KNOW ME NOR HAVE HAD ANY PERSONAL OR BUSINESS CONTACT WITH ME. I WRITE TO YOU WITH THE HOPE THAT YOU MAY BE WILLING AND CAPABLE OF TO ASSIST ME FOR THE PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTAL TRANSACTION. MY NAME IS MANFAB K. KAKO

Re: lingo-l BUSINESS PROPOSAL.

2001-08-16 Thread Nick Youmans
sounds like a deal...where do I sign?? I have a ton of money sitting in old pickle jars in my basement just waiting for an opportunity like this!! WOO-HOO!!! I will be RICH!!! - Original Message - From: kexdonald manfab [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 16,

Re: lingo-l BUSINESS PROPOSAL.

2001-08-16 Thread Florian Bogeschdorfer
Really very confidential here on lingo-l Now what is this? A joke? Interestingly, I have seen a TV-report on German TV yesterday, about the mafia and thousands of normal Europeans, who did not pay as much taxes as they should have, having to wash their money, since all the cash (DM, Lira,

Re: lingo-l BUSINESS PROPOSAL.

2001-08-16 Thread Agustín María Rodríguez
Hey, the europeans don´t have the exclusivity!. Here in Argentina there´s a lot of politics who wash/ed there money. One of them was our president and now -thanks God- is in jail :) Florian Bogeschdorfer wrote: Really very confidential here on lingo-l Now what is this? A joke?

Re: lingo-l BUSINESS PROPOSAL.

2001-08-16 Thread Tab Julius
I'm not sure how this got in here, but it is a SCAM. Do not respond to it or take it seriously. Also, let's not start a scam thread either. I will report it to the ISP and the SEC. - Tab At 07:12 AM 8/16/01 -0700, kexdonald manfab wrote: DEAR SIR, THIS LETTER MAY PROBABLY COME TO YOU AS

RE: lingo-l BUSINESS PROPOSAL.

2001-08-16 Thread Al Hospers
I have seen this before, as long ago as 10 years. it is a scam to get your bank account number. it preys on people's baser side. I suggested it to the producer of 60 Minutes but they were not interested. it does get folks tho... Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alatcambersoftdotcom

lingo-l Re: The Merits (or Not) of Protection

2001-08-16 Thread Cole Tierney
At 23:22 -0700 2001_08_15, Watson, Christopher wrote: If tell sprite is D8 syntax (and it looks like it is), then I can't rely on it. I've got to support D7 environments. Mac D7.02 tests OK here. Jakob Win98 D7.02 checks out, also. (Don't try it in Director 6, though. :) Cole [To remove

RE: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access

2001-08-16 Thread Al Hospers
Item 1 - instantiation would probably (and most importantly) cache values such as movie duration, so we might need to have a special handler which does this more than once for those situations where we swap the member. Special handler? Aha. Warning bells ring in my head. (See below)

RE: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access

2001-08-16 Thread Al Hospers
Item 1 - instantiation would probably (and most importantly) cache values such as movie duration, so we might need to have a special handler which does this more than once for those situations where we swap the member. Or another object that manages swapping of the members. dunno.

RE: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access

2001-08-16 Thread Al Hospers
It appears, that his dogma could also be described as never pass data between objects. I suspect that he is somehow beating around the bush, and avoids mentioning the levels at which data will necessarily start flowing between objects. His let the textObject do its own rendering into the

Re: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access

2001-08-16 Thread Mike Nardell
Hi -- Um ... under a pile of books on my desk lies my copy of _Design Patterns_. (The book tends to migrate in the stack from the top of the stack to the bottom, depending on what state of program development I am engaged in) _Design Patterns, Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software_ Erich

RE: lingo-l OOP (_Design Patterns_)

2001-08-16 Thread Al Hospers
I immediatly liked _Design Patterns_, because of the emphasis on how objects collaborate. When I first encountered OOP, collaboration was the biggest of mysteries. The often sited benefit of OOP is code reuse, however it is pretty hard to craft a object class that really is reusable. And

RE: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access

2001-08-16 Thread Jakob Hede Madsen
Ahem, are you exploring new boundaries of purist OOP, and at the same time considering globals??? Let alone, that from a practical point of view, it would obstruct multiple simultaneous instances. I think the key issue is: No matter how convoluted you make the structure, to avoid having a

Re: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access

2001-08-16 Thread Kerry Thompson
This sounds like the book I've been looking for, you don't have an ISBN for it do you? ISBN: 0201633612 Cordially, Kerry Thompson [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 OOP and ancestor access

2001-08-16 Thread Al Hospers
Ahem, are you exploring new boundaries of purist OOP, and at the same time considering globals??? Let alone, that from a practical point of view, it would obstruct multiple simultaneous instances. and you are absolutely 101 % correct. I think the key issue is: No matter how convoluted you

lingo-l To Macromedia especially, others perhaps

2001-08-16 Thread scott
Hey all, Among most people I know who happen not to have Shockwave installed on their systems, the reason turns out to be that they, at some point, downloaded Netscape and, at NS's suggestion, installed Smart Download, which, incidentally, conflicts terribly with the Shockwave install,

Re: lingo-l The Merits (or Not) of Protection

2001-08-16 Thread Jakob Hede Madsen
At 15:22 +0200 2001_08_16, Chnexus wrote: The Author of the demo is Jhon Kanding. He posted the URL on May 2th 2001. A .dcr is used there as Lingo libray in place of an LDM, bur the concept seems similar to the one described by Jakob Hede Madsen for an LDM, that's instantiating in RAM the

lingo-l FileIO and writing file extensions

2001-08-16 Thread Nigel Cowley
Hello list, I've made a little utility to trace scanned artwork into (x,y) co-ords. I'm writing these co-ords out to a text file using FileIO. Wa-hey! it worked! Why do I want to do this? because I read this file into a primative CAD/CAM system - this allows me then to cut out the shapes I have

lingo-l Power Save Mode in Windows

2001-08-16 Thread Raymond Ford
How can I disable the powersave in windows? __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l BUSINESS PROPOSAL.

2001-08-16 Thread Chad Mefferd (Morris Publishing)
So I shouldn't have given out my bank account #? gulp! Chad Mefferd Designer Morris Publishing on 8/16/01 10:46 AM, Al Hospers at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have seen this before, as long ago as 10 years. it is a scam to get your bank account number. it preys on people's baser side. I

RE: lingo-l The Merits (or Not) of Protection

2001-08-16 Thread Watson, Christopher
OK, I understand it now. Thank you Jakob and everyone else. My opinion is that it's too messy to work it that way, and really kind of flies in the face of how a DOM binding/implementation is really supposed to work. The system I have in place (with the linked external cast) seems to be the very

RE: lingo-l FileIO and writing file extensions

2001-08-16 Thread Sean Wilson
But the only problem I have is I'd like to write the files with a .TPL extension instead of a .TXT extension. Try creating the files with the .tpl extension. FileIO is restricted to writing ASCII, but it doesn't have to use the .txt extension - you can provide whatever extension you like to

lingo-l BuddyApi ----- baSetDisplay, on dual monitors.

2001-08-16 Thread riki witehira
Hi all, I'm using baSetDisplay to reset the resolution on PC's running dual monitors. Under win2k many of the video card drivers treat the desktop as one long stretched window, making things easy for me, as i can simply set the res to something like 1600x600 for a dual 800x600 set up. Problem is,

RE: lingo-l Director and CDDB

2001-08-16 Thread Terry R. Schussler
At 9:13 PM -0400 8/15/01, Al Hospers wrote: Terry said: alternatively you can use the cool GLU32 Xtra from RavWare Thanks for the kind plug Terry, but actually the most exceedingly cool Glu32 Xtra is published by UpdateStage, Inc. grin Al: http://ravware.com/GLU32.htm ??? -- ...---===|

RE: lingo-l The Merits (or Not) of Protection

2001-08-16 Thread Watson, Christopher
And the protection issue ? I'll just Shock the cast. That seems to give me the protection I need. Then, editing the protected parent scripts in authoring mode becomes a simple support issue -- Don't do that. -Christopher [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

RE: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access

2001-08-16 Thread Colin Kettenacker
I think the key issue is: No matter how convoluted you make the structure, to avoid having a getter method in the qtObject, you will either wrap the slider-code inside the main qtObject, or accept passing data from one object and to another at some point. yes. how indeed do you have

lingo-l Re:timeout (again) thanks

2001-08-16 Thread mirianam
Thanks you for your help and yes I shoudl have double checked the dictionary - apologies [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 QTVR 2.0 and cool 360

2001-08-16 Thread mudo
hello I don't speak very well English so pardon for the lacks I have an enormous doubt on the xtra QTVR2.0 using the ulead cool 360 believes a movie of QT with this xtra nodes can be generated for this peilicula type or it is necessary that they are from the QTVR of MAC. or some other option

RE: lingo-l Re:timeout (again) thanks

2001-08-16 Thread Sean Wilson
Thanks you for your help and yes I shoudl have double checked the dictionary Sorry for my post about this - I was more curt than necessary. I was trying to suggest (unfortunately, without being more explicit) that the Lingo Dictionary is a good first port-of-call for help (the exception being

lingo-l What is CXT?????

2001-08-16 Thread Ardani Sarjito
Hi! I found a and interactive animated storybook which has .cxt as the file extention. Could anybody tell me what program was used to create this file, please? Thank you! Ardani [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 What is CXT?????

2001-08-16 Thread Tab Julius
It was Director. It's a protected cast file. In the beginning there were .DIR and .CST files. Unfortunately, with .DIR and .CST, source is visible, so Director made available protected files, which could not be opened for viewing in Director, and had the Lingo text stripped out. These were

lingo-l Avi cue point

2001-08-16 Thread mitesh
Hi friends, How can i set cue point in avi file by lingo. go to that cue point. If u know then help me. Mitesh [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,