RE: lingo-l OT: Giving away your lingo

2001-08-23 Thread Pekka Buttler
IMHO, the question is quite a simple one. If you have a written (or oral) agreement which does not explicitly state that you should hand over the source code, you should not need to do so. If you have been hired to do a product, then the Product is what you need to hand over. Nothing else. Some

Re: lingo-l free xtra: daychecker - testers needed

2001-08-23 Thread Chris Aernoudt
Your LAN-thingie reports an error, MMX manufacturer remains blank, media types info and browser info hangs the projector. - Original Message - From: andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 10:39 PM Subject: lingo-l free xtra: daychecker - testers

lingo-l loading %

2001-08-23 Thread mark verhoef
HI,hallo,I want to make A preloading statusbar that shows the time remaining of A big movie that comes after the preloader.(Like in flash) [EMAIL PROTECTED] kloosterleuter str.31-19 3961 AX Wijk bij Duurstede tel:06-51922532 _

lingo-l constraining to the bitmap of a sprite

2001-08-23 Thread wobbly
Dear listees, I am working on a movie that represents a tangoing couple dancing with in a perspective screen. I have scaled them via an index of the y co-ordinate. The floor of the ballroom is of course a rhombus. The constrain behaviour work with the bounding box of the containing sprite. Hence

RE: lingo-l OT: Giving away your lingo

2001-08-23 Thread Karina Steffens
Give them the code. What are they going to do with it? 1. Hire some other dir developer who is equal to or beyond you in ability, and will likely just toss your code in the dumpster while replicating the functionality in his own style. 2. Is not as good of a coder, and will struggle to

RE: lingo-l OT: Giving away your lingo

2001-08-23 Thread Ian Johnson
Hi, thanks for the replies. Wow, such a divide. :) While I agree with Kurt's comments re: 'we constantly give away our lingo to the members on the list', lists are a pretty unique environment (IMHO), with the purpose of asking the community/like-minded individuals for help and putting something

Re: lingo-l OT: Giving away your lingo

2001-08-23 Thread Chris Aernoudt
By the way, don't you think most people in here learned a great deal thanks to the people who share their findings??? Books are one thing - but books can't tell you everything, unless you've got the time to read em all - I know I don't. And still yet, the books would be quite useless without

RE: lingo-l OT: Giving away your lingo

2001-08-23 Thread grimmwerks
You know, I even go a step farther and comment out all of my code as to what each bit is doing. I've never had an issue where someone ripped apart my stuff so they could do it themselves -- although I was paid to train a few people in basics...I had no problem with that. Personally, I have

Re: lingo-l free xtra: daychecker - testers needed

2001-08-23 Thread andy
ooops sorry, it is Windoze only, and dir8.5... thanks, andy Doesnt' work for me - first tried it in D8 - said filetypewas too new. Put it in D8.5 and the script for register doesn't work [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

lingo-l Checking perfomance ...

2001-08-23 Thread Victor Iwan
Hello there I have question to share Well, I'm going to work on a project using flash-director to build interactive demo for local accounting s/w... The bad news is the lowest spec for client is Pentium-100 Mhz-16Mb and recommended at p166MMX-32Mb (for lowest functional system)... I don't

RE: lingo-l OT: Giving away your lingo

2001-08-23 Thread Ike Eisenhauer
Basically, I have done three things in the past: 1. Give the source code to them for 10x development cost (which was clearly stated in the contract prior) 2. Gave them the code but ran it through an obscufier first. This one was only when the client threatened a lawsuit because they failed to

RE: lingo-l OT: Giving away your lingo

2001-08-23 Thread Ike Eisenhauer
I agree with you to some extent..but..in this day and age I would be even more hesitant to hand over anything to a corporate client that deals with code. I enjoy helping the people on the list, they usually are not asking for us to do the project for them so no big deal. But your statement on I

Re: lingo-l Checking perfomance ...

2001-08-23 Thread Gene Fritzinger
Hi Victor, I'm sure you will receive some wonderful suggestions from this list in regards to your situation. Let me begin by suggesting the use of an xtra to gain information about the end user's processing capabilities. Buddy API can return the following information about the user's CPU.

lingo-l Volume control

2001-08-23 Thread Chris Angle
How do you do a volume control for an MPEG Video being played through Direct Media 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 open in flash

2001-08-23 Thread Victor Iwan
Hello again, sorry for asking some flash stuff... Is there any open command just like in director for action script ? Thanks... Victor [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

lingo-l generating variable names at runtime

2001-08-23 Thread Richie Jindal
HI All I have a funny problem. I want to generate a list with some specific data everytime I create a sprite. The name of the list should always be like list1, list 2, list 3 and so on...where the number corresponds to the sprite number which is stored in a variable say count. so basically i

RE: lingo-l generating variable names at runtime

2001-08-23 Thread Al Hospers
look into the do command. Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alatcambersoftdotcom http://www.cambersoft.com Shockwave and Director development, Lingo programming, CGI scripting. A famous linguist once said: There is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative. YEAH, RIGHT [To remove

lingo-l Way OFF: Look MA: I'm on TV

2001-08-23 Thread Cory Caplan
Hey kids, check me out on The Weakest Link this monday @ 8PM EST. (Assuming they don't change it!) Multimedia Producers Rock! :-) Cory [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 bring to front a sprite on rollover

2001-08-23 Thread victor zambrano
thanks again, tom. i came to a solution with a repeat coomand that sent back all the sprites to their default value through spriteNum, but yours is smoother and more clean, so i'll use it. also, i'll take a look to that sendAllSprites command, it looks quite useful. victor -- victor zambrano

Re: lingo-l Way OFF: Look MA: I'm on TV

2001-08-23 Thread grimmwerks
Guess you didn't win though huh...? On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Cory Caplan wrote: Hey kids, check me out on The Weakest Link this monday @ 8PM EST. (Assuming they don't change it!) Multimedia Producers Rock! :-) Cory [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go

RE: lingo-l OT: Giving away your lingo

2001-08-23 Thread Leah O'Shell
it may be annoying, but if you are a subcontractor, you always have to hand over the code, ( i thought). even if you have a direct contact with someone, the debate is what you are selling, if you are selling the source with the finished product, you should draw a contract with this

RE: lingo-l Way OFF: Look MA: I'm on TV

2001-08-23 Thread Warren Stolow
Guess you didn't win though huh...? Hey, wait a minute here If the members of this list do not know about Non-Disclosure issues, then nobody does :) But if Cory wishes to divulge - I will sign on, and my lips are sealed. Have a great day Lingoists! -Warren. [To remove yourself from this

RE: lingo-l Way OFF: Look MA: I'm on TV

2001-08-23 Thread grimmwerks
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Warren Stolow wrote: Guess you didn't win though huh...? Hey, wait a minute here If the members of this list do not know about Non-Disclosure issues, then nobody does :) Well, if I won me some cash I wouldn't be working for a little while... ...course I've

lingo-l cursor 200 won't work

2001-08-23 Thread France baril
Hi I am using Director 8.5. I am trying to use cursor 200 to make my cursor disappear. It works perfectly well in authoring mode on Mac and PC. However, when i use the projector n WIndows 98, the cursor won't disappear before i move the mouse. Even worse, on Mac 8.6, the sursor won't

lingo-l preloading/prefetching video

2001-08-23 Thread grimmwerks
Hey all - I'm not new at this but I'm seeing something interesting: I've got a little shockwave app that gets a list of video to link to from an xml doc -- on load of the xml, I have a fetcher object that gets 4 of them at a time and preloadnetthing them to the user's cache. It was my

Re: lingo-l Way OFF: Look MA: I'm on TV

2001-08-23 Thread Cory Caplan
Not meaning to imply things, as I am bound by an NDA-type contract-- but the winner doesn't receive the cash until up to 90 days AFTER the airdate. (I guess to keep your mouth shut) :-) Cory - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 23,