lingo-l the do command

2001-08-24 Thread Richie Jindal
Hi Everybody, As previously written : 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

lingo-l platform detection

2001-08-24 Thread manisha sinha
Hello List.. need some help on Detecting the Platform - win 95/win98 through lingo.also if possible the dummy script to give an alert if these platforms are not present thank u in advance manisha -- On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 09:50:41 Pekka Buttler wrote: Not if you want to REALLY protect

lingo-l problem with publishing MPEG movies

2001-08-24 Thread sreedhar reddy
Dear All Im facing a problem while publishing the director files with mpeg movies in it. When ever i try to publish the movie im getting an error message saying that the required xtra is missing or may not be there in the xtras folder even though i installed mpeg xtra and is there in the xtras

Re: lingo-l the do command

2001-08-24 Thread Christian Wach
Richie Jindal wrote: do (put list spritNum ) try: do put list spritNum I'd suggest you look at other methods for achieving whatever it is you want to do here... unless you *absolutely* have to, it's worth avoiding the 'do' command. can you give more details about the goal? Christian

Re: lingo-l platform detection

2001-08-24 Thread Rajiv
You can use buddy api for that. This is a buddy api function. on startmovie set WinVer = baVersion( windows ) end WinVer varible will return you the type of windows operating system you are running on. Rajiv manisha sinha wrote: Hello List.. need some help on Detecting the Platform

lingo-l simultaneos QT video

2001-08-24 Thread limiar40 b
hi list i have a QT video playing in the stage, and i want to change that QT video to another, but the second video must start exactily in same position from the first one! example: i shot a racing car with two cameras in the same time, now I put in the stage camera 1 and camera 2 for the

SV: lingo-l simultaneos QT video

2001-08-24 Thread Magnus Ewald
Hi If it´s posible with QT-video, you might try to have the 2 vids on stage at the same time (vid 1 outside the stage) and just switch places with themThat is IF they are exactly the same length(i dunno about the soundquality though) /magnus -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från:

lingo-lshareware and distributing

2001-08-24 Thread Martijn Janssen
Hi All, has anyone had any expierence with distributing a program (ie. a projector with an installer) as shareware to the world. By means of offering the program at download sites such as download.com, tucows.com? I'm working on a little program I wish to distribute it freely with constrained

lingo-l Real video again

2001-08-24 Thread Andy Innes
Hi guys does anyone know how to loop a Real Video sprite? A [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

Re: SV: lingo-l simultaneos QT video

2001-08-24 Thread limiar40 b
yes i just try that option, but with 2 videos works fine, now imagine that i have at least 6 vids and other things to interact at the same time, and the videos must have 640/480 resolution. It still works? the vids will play fast? I'm thinking if there's a way to grab the actual time of the

Re: lingo-l the do command

2001-08-24 Thread Christian Wach
Richie Jindal wrote: Yes i tried it the way u suggested also like: do put list spritNum But it prints VOID as first it takes the value of list which is obviously void since the data is actually in list1, list2 and so on.. hmm, my message window shows: -- Welcome to Director -- do list

lingo-l the do command

2001-08-24 Thread Richie Jindal
hi friends Yes the problem is resolved now... one interesting thing i found out was how the do command works(like a handler) from: http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/director/tips/lingo/unlingo.html#do and using the trick of adding the RETURN constant to declare the list varaibles global and

RE: lingo-l simultaneos QT video

2001-08-24 Thread Al Hospers
the car. Now camera 1 is playing and when the user choose camera 2 the video must start from the same loctation or the same tick a guess! look at the movieTime function. Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alatcambersoftdotcom http://www.cambersoft.com Shockwave and Director development, Lingo

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

2001-08-24 Thread Kurt Griffin
Multimedia Producers Rock! Ah, so that's what they do. I've been wondering for years now. ;) -Kurt [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 the do command

2001-08-24 Thread Kurt Griffin
I parse an xml file and for every child i generate a sprite at runtime. Each child in my xml file has further subchildren with data about the child. I need to store this data about the child in a list which corresponds to the number of the sprite such as list 1 list2 and so on. Finally

lingo-l PNGs with transparency user's color depth settings

2001-08-24 Thread Gene Fritzinger
Hello list, I'm considering using PNGs with transparency to create an interface window or mask with a soft drop shadow, that will be used to display and scroll a larger bitmap under it. Aside from the larger file size, all works well except if the user's color depth settings are less than

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

2001-08-24 Thread Warren Stolow
Multimedia Producers Rock! I Rock, back-and-forth when I am concentrating heavily. Strange habit I picked up as a kid :) Have a great weekend Lingoists! -Warren. [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

lingo-l miaw- unwanted border

2001-08-24 Thread Logan Kane
hey list, I am trying to seamlessly integrate an miaw into the stage, (for the first time on a major project). I have tried setting the miaw type to 2 and 3, but I still have a pixel wide black border around the edge. I guess I could use an alpha channel just for the edge but it seems there is

lingo-l preloadnetthing question

2001-08-24 Thread grimmwerks
Asked this the other day and got no response -- I'm not new at all to netlingo stuff, and it was always my understanding that preloading a file would bring it to the user's cache, whereas anotehr request for the same file would pull from the local cached file rather than the remote one,

lingo-l one more: new #bitmap and new script object

2001-08-24 Thread grimmwerks
What was the workaround when you have a parent script and want to create a new #bitmap? [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 problem with publishing MPEG movies

2001-08-24 Thread Chad Mefferd (Morris Publishing)
on 8/24/01 5:28 AM, sreedhar reddy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All Im facing a problem while publishing the director files with mpeg movies in it. When ever i try to publish the movie im getting an error message saying that the required xtra is missing or may not be there in the

RE: lingo-l preloadnetthing question

2001-08-24 Thread grimmwerks
You know, that's what it is - thanks Mark; I couldn't figure out what was a'happening. On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Mark R. Jonkman wrote: Hi Check to see if the internal QT member is set to streaming in which case it will most likely ignore the cache and stream from the server. Sincerely

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

2001-08-24 Thread Warren Stolow
I Rock, back-and-forth when I am concentrating heavily. Strange habit I picked up as a kid :) so does Bill Gates... are you two related? grin Hu - I suspect this is a good thing? Strange nervous tick suffering programmers: UNITE!!! [wow, that aught to provoke a ton of responses ;)]

Re: lingo-l one more: new #bitmap and new script object

2001-08-24 Thread Jakob Hede Madsen
At 12:20 -0500 2001_08_24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What was the workaround when you have a parent script and want to create a new #bitmap? 1: Don't have a new handler in the parent script. It will work fine without one. 1b: If you do need a creator method, you can use the old birth. 2: Make

Re: lingo-l PNGs with transparency user's color depth settings

2001-08-24 Thread Chad Mefferd (Morris Publishing)
on 8/24/01 10:12 AM, Gene Fritzinger at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, I'm considering using PNGs with transparency to create an interface window or mask with a soft drop shadow, that will be used to display and scroll a larger bitmap under it. Aside from the larger file size, all

RE: lingo-l preloadnetthing question

2001-08-24 Thread Mark R. Jonkman
Hi Check to see if the internal QT member is set to streaming in which case it will most likely ignore the cache and stream from the server. Sincerely Mark R. Jonkman [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post

Re: lingo-l PNGs with transparency user's color depthsettings

2001-08-24 Thread Gene Fritzinger
SNIP I'm not sure it will be possible to display your images at 256 colors with out some degradation as they require a 256 color pallette and 8-bit images created within the range of that pallette to interpret the color. if you intend to display at 256 colors all of your images will need to be

lingo-l [OT] This could affect us ALL :(

2001-08-24 Thread jsweeney
You've got to read a few paragraphs in before it really kicks in. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010816.html L8R, JRS === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive Multimedia Developer/ Digital Media

Re: lingo-l miaw- unwanted border

2001-08-24 Thread Peng Zhang
use Border Xtra to remove it. From: Logan Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l miaw- unwanted border Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:51:19 -0700 (PDT) hey list, I am trying to seamlessly integrate an miaw into the stage, (for the first time on

RE: lingo-l miaw- unwanted border

2001-08-24 Thread Gene Fritzinger
-Original Message- hey list, I am trying to seamlessly integrate an miaw into the stage, (for the first time on a major project). I have tried setting the miaw type to 2 and 3, but I still have a pixel wide black border around the edge. I guess I could use an alpha channel just for the

RE: lingo-l [OT] This could affect us ALL :(

2001-08-24 Thread Al Hospers
WOW... http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010816.html thank you Sweeny dude, for pointing this one out to me. I was wondering what was the thrust of an email from Apple about QT the other day here it is. for those of you who don't want to take the time to read the whole column, tho

RE: lingo-l [OT] This could affect us ALL :(

2001-08-24 Thread Colin Holgate
get it? Goodbye EMBED. Goodby Shockwave, goodby Flash!!!1 Is it not true that Active-X able media will be safe? that includes Shockwave, Flash, and QuickTime. -- [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

RE: lingo-l [OT] This could affect us ALL :(

2001-08-24 Thread Al Hospers
Is it not true that Active-X able media will be safe? that includes Shockwave, Flash, and QuickTime. not as I read the article. a patent on that technology is owned by someone else. Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alatcambersoftdotcom http://www.cambersoft.com Shockwave and Director development,

lingo-l script error at runtime but not in Dir.

2001-08-24 Thread Dennis Acton
Hello, I am getting a script error at runtime but not when I am authoring in Director. It runs great there. How can I tell what the problem is if it only happens at run time and gives no clue as to what is wrong? Thanks, Dennis __ Do You

lingo-l OT - EMBED and ActiveX (was: This could affect us ALL :()

2001-08-24 Thread Terry R. Schussler
At 3:25 PM -0400 8/24/01, Al Hospers wrote: Is it not true that Active-X able media will be safe? that includes Shockwave, Flash, and QuickTime. not as I read the article. a patent on that technology is owned by someone else. Potentially, but do you *really* think that Microsoft is going to

Re: lingo-l script error at runtime but not in Dir.

2001-08-24 Thread Dale Withroder
when does the error happen? At 12:49 PM 08/24/2001 -0700, you wrote: Hello, I am getting a script error at runtime but not when I am authoring in Director. It runs great there. How can I tell what the problem is if it only happens at run time and gives no clue as to what is wrong? Thanks,

Re: lingo-l script error at runtime but not in Dir.

2001-08-24 Thread Nick Youmans
I am getting a script error at runtime but not when I am authoring in Director. It runs great there. How can I tell what the problem is if it only happens at run time and gives no clue as to what is wrong? it could be that you are missing an xtra that is missing from the project (or the

Re: lingo-l Test - Do not respond

2001-08-24 Thread Terry R. Schussler
At 10:00 PM -0400 8/24/01, Tab Julius wrote: This is a test of the Lingo-L broadcasting system. Had this been an actual programming emergency you would have been instructed to recompile all scripts and save and compact. Do not respond to this message. put the messageFileFreeSize -- NULL [To

Re: lingo-l script error at runtime but not in Dir.

2001-08-24 Thread Terry R. Schussler
At 3:03 PM -0500 8/24/01, Dale Withroder wrote: when does the error happen? How about: what is the error? -- ...---===| Terry R. Schussler |===---... ...---===| Chief Investigator |===---... on accessResources coolSites = [ \ http://macromediaSEMINARS.com/;, http://directorU.com;,

Re: lingo-l simultaneos QT video

2001-08-24 Thread Neil Madsen
The fastest and easiest way is to put both video files into 1 QT movie. Have 2 video tracks and then just turn the track you want to see to ON and the other to OFF and vice versa. I don't have Dir with me right now but the commands are something like trackEnabled and setTrackEnabled or