Re: lingo-l Avi cue point

AFAIK, avi files do not have cue points. If you need cue points in your digital video use QT. Cordially, Pranav Negandhi New Media Applications. Learnet India Limited, Mumbai. Phone: 91-22-859 8042 Ext: 410 snip How can i set cue point in avi file by lingo. go to that cue point. snip

lingo-l XML Parsing and conversion to string

HI all. I parse an xml file and then extract the value in one of its tags which is basically text. Then I convert this text stored in a variable called text into string, and then i check for it in an if then else statement. - text=

RE: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access

I don't think the issue is whether objects can pass data or not... Surely they must otherwise there would be no communication between any of your objects. I think the issue is should they pass private data to another object via a getter method. I've been following this thread with a

lingo-l Ipix problem.....

Guys, Does anyone have an 'import ipix' xtra ? How many xtras are there to view ipix panoramas in Director ? Problem: After importing my ipix files onto my stage, which work perfectly well, my problem occurs when i try create my projector, i get a dialog box warning me it's failed to

lingo-l script to output member names

I don't know if this is a bug but: I'm trying to output all the behaviour, parent script, movie script, member names into the message window so that I can prepare a spreadsheet of them. I thought I'd found a solution in: on spewNames me, whichcast put whichcast counter =

lingo-l Re: script to output member names

Solved it - I'd put the handler in a movie script rather than an object On Friday, August 17, 2001, at 12:16 PM, Pete Carss wrote: I don't know if this is a bug but: I'm trying to output all the behaviour, parent script, movie script, member names into the message window so that I

RE: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access

OK, it seems we coming to an agreement that to enable meaningful encapsulation there must be the ability to perform data exchange between an object and the external environment, that may include other objects. in order to exchange data you can: 1 - directly manipulate the data 2 - make the

Re: lingo-l Re: script to output member names

I thought that - originally there was no me - and normally that's true, but this was behaving very erratically... Pete On Friday, August 17, 2001, at 01:33 PM, Brian Romanko wrote: Pete, Actually, this will work just fine as a movie script. You just need to remove the parameter me from

RE: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access

Snip Al's post what do you think? I absolutely agree with everything you just said :) Karina [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

RE: lingo-l Director and CDDB

http://ravware.com/GLU32.htm Terry, FYI - While Ravi does publish some other xtras himself and maintains a page for glu32 that directs sales to updateStage, glu32 is published exclusively by updateStage. Cheers, Al Hospers Marketing Associate UpdateStage alhospersatupdatestagedotcom

Re: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access

Al Hospers wrote: 3 - make it accessible via an accessor method thus we are left with item #3 which alllows the object to control the format of the data being accessed and while not perfect, is certainly the lesser of 3 evils. what do you think? I'm jumping into this discussion a bit

Re: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access

Absolute concurrence here - I suppose the main requirement of the accessor methods is to supply/set the data required in such a way that the object can be perceived as a black box. ie you should be able to change the implementation of the method without affecting any other objects

Re: lingo-l Ipix problem.....

Check out http://www.ipix.com/ for information about buying the IPIX Xtra. You need to feed it a registration number or something, info is available at the site. roymeo At 12:24 PM 8/17/01 +0100, you wrote: Guys, Does anyone have an 'import ipix' xtra ? How many xtras are there to view ipix

RE: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access

At 9:06 -0400 2001_08_17, Al Hospers wrote: 2 - make the data public by making it a global variable I don't see where these globals come creeping in? In Lingo you can always access the properties of an object directly, but you decide not to do it. 3 - make it accessible via an accessor method

RE: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access

At 16:19 -0700 2001_08_16, Colin Kettenacker wrote: 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

Re: lingo-l puppetSound vs forget window

I recently discovered that sound channels 1 and 2 are not interrupted by the opening of a MIAW, so try those channels for your continuous sounds. And, take a look at the more advanced sound controls, sound(soundchannel).play(), .queue(), .stop(), etc. roymeo At 07:52 PM 8/13/01 -0400, you

RE: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access

1 - directly manipulate the data 2 - make the data public by making it a global variable 3 - make it accessible via an accessor method Maybe the problem is a conceptual one. The 'idea' of an accessor method ties you into the 'idea' that here is my data -- do with it what you will. Perhaps

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

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. That's interesting. I had no idea you could link to a shocked castlib in author

Re: lingo-l Ipix problem.....

Where exactly is the information on the site? Several people have said that it's there, but I've never found it. Charlie Fiskeaux II The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054 x29 cell: 859/312-3883 - Original Message - From: Roy Crisman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: lingo-l Ipix problem.....

Is there an authoring xtra and a separate runtime xtra for projectors? From: Malcolm Beddows [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l Ipix problem. Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 12:24:39 +0100 Guys, Does anyone have an 'import

lingo-l Help to QTVR for PC from México

Hello : I don't speak anything well so English I hope somebody achieves me to understand. They can recommend me some program for PC that generates movie QTVR with nodes I understand that with the XTRA QTVR2.0 you can control the nodes from director's movie. Does some other one exist? Thank

RE: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access

Karina Steffens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote The way I see it, the moment you define an accessor method in your object, you automatically declare the property it accesses as public. That's the big difference. You don't just grab any old property from an object, as you would with direct access,

Re: lingo-l Ipix problem.....

At 11:20 AM -0400 8/17/01, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: Where exactly is the information on the site? Several people have said that it's there, but I've never found it. It's darn hard to find! Here's the main URL: http://www.ipix.com/products/support/updates/xtra.shtml FYI - this Xtra was

lingo-l Cue Points and Shockwave

I am converting a CD-ROM to the Internet. The CD is driven by audio files that have cue points. I need to squeeze these files down but no matter how I try (SWA, mp3, etc.) I lose my cue points. What am I doing wrong? I am in Director 8.5. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Greg Lippert Studio North Creative 44

RE: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access

In the Quicktime wrapper example, I see no reason why the slider should 'know' about the Quicktime movie, and I see no reason for the QT wrapper to know how 'progress' is expressed by the object it calls back, which might just as well be a field displaying an integer. If the slider is

RE: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access

2 - make the data public by making it a global variable I don't see where these globals come creeping in? In Lingo you can always access the properties of an object directly, but you decide not to do it. I was just putting all of the options on the table. 3 - make it accessible via an

RE: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access

At 13:43 -0400 2001_08_17, Al Hospers wrote: But an essential focus of the original discussion was about *not* using getters ie. data requisition methods. I may spawn confusion with some misinterpretation, I'm just trying to understand the article. I recommend reading the article.

RE: lingo-l To Macromedia especially, others perhaps

Scott, We have in fact recieved a number of reports in this area. I'm going to press the issue with management here and see if we can't get an investigation going so that we can, um, suggest that they fix this if needed... ;) If you have any specific information you want to forward along with

RE: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access

We could try to follow a convention without getters, and set up the structure so that the objects sends data to each other. I still think the aggregate model, with the video as a main meta-object potentially possessing a slider subObject, is a robust model. The video tells the slider where

lingo-l imageLingo and desktop image

hi ! Is it possible to copy the desktop image and paste it in a director presentation, without any Xtra if possible ? Is there any good website beside Maricopa and DOUG with info regarding ImageLingo? Thanx !! Simon [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

RE: lingo-l imageLingo and desktop image

Is there any good website beside Maricopa and DOUG with info regarding ImageLingo? http://www.simtek.dircon.co.uk/deight/imgguide/imagingguide.html need I say more... Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alatcambersoftdotcom http://www.cambersoft.com Shockwave and Director development, Lingo

RE: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access

OK, I just read the article. good one BTW, even if I think he's just a bit, shall I say, opinionated. grin but that is fine. so here is his ATM example: === An object-oriented ATM system just models the earlier problem statement. Here's the message flow: The user (Bill) walks up to an

lingo-l shortcut on desktop

Hello All, Without having to write a text file to the target machine is there a way from a button in director to put a web page shortcut on a persons desktop(pc and mac)? Thanks Mark [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

lingo-l xml parser links/questions

Hey all I'm trying to fool with the xml parser and I just can't believe what kind of a mess it is for just a quick flip to an internal list - hell I'd rather deal with a proplist anyway... does anyone have any links/pages/ideas on taking an xml and flipping to a proplist. [To remove yourself

Re: lingo-l Cue Points and Shockwave

Greg hi, what are you using to squeeze those sounds? exporting swa/mp3 from soundedit should do the job while keeping the cue points in your files. TIE Yariv I am converting a CD-ROM to the Internet. The CD is driven by audio files that have cue points. I need to squeeze these files down

Re: lingo-l Cue Points and Shockwave

At 1:36 PM -0400 8/17/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am converting a CD-ROM to the Internet. The CD is driven by audio files that have cue points. I need to squeeze these files down but no matter how I try (SWA, mp3, etc.) I lose my cue points. What am I doing wrong? I am in Director 8.5. What

Re: lingo-l puppetSound vs forget window

At 11:00 AM -0400 8/17/01, Roy Crisman wrote: I recently discovered that sound channels 1 and 2 are not interrupted by the opening of a MIAW, so try those channels for your continuous sounds. And, take a look at the more advanced sound controls, sound(soundchannel).play(), .queue(), .stop(),

RE: lingo-l Cue Points and Shockwave

Sorry I mmay not be able to help much. But Im pretty sure that swa is the only compresed audio format that uses tru cue points... Yhowever u can simulate cuepoints for mp3s You will have to convert the times length into seconds and assign variables at each particaulr cue oint... Long

RE: lingo-l Cue Points and Shockwave

Dear all, This is something i've been wondering about a long time ago, and have forgotten ever since: As far as i can see, there is absulutely NO difference between swa and mp3, and one can even rename one into the other with no great consequence. am i wrong, or are these two indeed the same

lingo-l RE: lingo-l Help to QTVR for PC from México

Mudo, Hola, como estas? Apple hace una programa para crear los ficheros de QTVR, el nombre de este programa es QTVR Authoring Studio. Debes visitar al website de Apple para mas informacion, mire a este URL: www.apple.com/quicktime/qtvr/authoringstudio/index.html Con este, puedes crear los

RE: lingo-l Cue Points and Shockwave

As far as i can see, there is absulutely NO difference between swa and mp3 The audio is compressed the same way, but they have different headers. 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

lingo-l Re: Help to QTVR for PC from México

Gracias Nombre tu español es bastante nueno. Ya conocia el QTVR Authoring Studio pero es solo para MAC y yo solo tengo PC Encontre para PC el VR Worx en http://vrtoolbox.com/downloads.html (por si es de utilidad) este programa segun puedo entender me genera los giros de 360 y tambien puede

lingo-l Basic MIAW question

Basic MIAW question: I can't find in the manual how to pause (go the frame ?) and tell the MIAW to continue without using the pause and continue commands. Are pause and continue no longer supported? If so, what is the supported way? david

RE: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access

I've been following this thread with a certain amount of puzzlement, but here you completely lost me... Sorry 'bout that. I've been really under the gun this week so my explanations have not been as full bodied as I would like them to be. The way I see it, the moment you define an accessor

lingo-l saving casts in projectors

Hi guys I have a project where I allow the user to import sounds into a projector. And I want the sounds to stay in the projector when the user opens it next time. This has caused me some problems. On stopMovie I do: saveMovie save castLib sounds but when I open the projector again, the

Re: lingo-l shortcut on desktop

Not sure what you mean about not writing a file to the target machine, as creating a shortcut IS a filebut you could look to budapi. [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

1 - so how would a slider behavior know what object to talk to? would you enter the global reference to the QTObject in the getObjectProperties dialog? I must of missed a previous post what do you mean by getObjectProperties. what I meant is the propertyDescriptionList you can get when

RE: lingo-l shortcut on desktop

Not sure what you mean about not writing a file to the target machine, as creating a shortcut IS a filebut you could look to budapi. 1 - FWIW - shortcuts alisaes are NOT text files. 2 - you can't do it without writing a file to the user's computer, with or without an Xtra. hth Al

RE: lingo-l xml parser links/questions

Just to clarify: You want to be able to parse an XML document (on the local drive, or at a URL), and proudce a nested property list representation of that XML. Am I right? And you've already examined what comes back from XMLParser.makeList(), right? And you don't like what you see from that

RE: lingo-l xml parser links/questions

I'm building my own proplist (with symbols, not strings as a property, not a huge difference, but realible dot syntax) because I don't like all the extra '!ATTRIBUTES' stuff, as it really feels like it throws off the intended nesting of the actual xml doc. Where's the DOM-Lingo stuff? On Fri,

RE: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access

Al Hospers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote so a slider function should only be passing the current slider knob location as a % of the slide. thus it could be used for anything that would use a slider, not just QT! OK, that's good. Perhaps not even a percentage. When the slider 'registers' to be a

RE: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access

Ken Prat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Maybe the problem is a conceptual one. The 'idea' of an accessor method ties you into the 'idea' that here is my data -- do with it what you will. Yes! Spot on! Accessors (of the get or set variety) are problematic in that they tempt lazy encapsulation.