RE: multi-page forms

2001-07-19 Thread 903939N
From: Roy C. Crisman Ian, I haven't used the behaviors you are talking about, but maybe try this: Have the Fields that are filled in by the user as single, long sprites. As you come to page one, you fill in page one's sprites. As you go to page two, those sprites are still there, but you've

RE: Finding If a _huge_ float is divisible by a number

2001-07-17 Thread 903939N
From: Roy C. Crisman on isEvenlyDivisible thisNumber, thisDivisor if voidP(thisDivisor) then thisDivisor = 2 end if thisNumber = float(thisNumber) / thisDivisor repeat while (thisNumber > the maxInteger) thisNumber = thisNumber - the maxInteger end repeat return (thisNumbe

Re: exporting an embedded font: legal and technical

2001-07-13 Thread 903939N
From: Roy C. Crisman Check the archives of Direct-L. I believe that the resuliton of the issue basically came down to "Embedding a font changes the font, because Director 'simplifies' the font just a touch, so getting the Arial* font that is in the Fonts folder temporarily during execution isn

RE: nt

2001-07-13 Thread 903939N
From: Roy C. Crisman >> methinks yes. >> put all of the xtras, for both platforms, in one xtras folder, and >put >> both projectors at the same level as that one xtras folder. >> the mac side/ windows side thing controls what the user sees, but >all >> xtras should be in the same folder. > >It'

Re: extract a font from a cast member

2001-07-12 Thread 903939N
From: Roy C. Crisman doesn't an embedded font still get put into the windows\fonts directory when the project is running? if in Director you have "MyFont", you should have a something with MyFont in the name in there. roymeo lingo-l: where to go when you have font problems! [To remove you

RE: StreamingMedia or MpegXtra?

2001-07-11 Thread 903939N
From: Roy C. Crisman >> And it probably shouldn't be. This guy is trying to stream >> an MPEG movie? > >I was referring to the fact that it is not obvious on the Tabulario >site how to get in touch with them, that's all. Mauricio does roll >these lists on a regular basis & was making a joke to

RE: StreamingMedia or MpegXtra?

2001-07-11 Thread 903939N
From: Roy C. Crisman >> I am unable to >> get through to ask a question directly from them as they >> apparently don't >> have a contact us hyperlink. > >well, it's just not OBVIOUS (hey mauricio ) And it probably shouldn't be. This guy is trying to stream an MPEG movie? Mauricio is probabl

Re: autorun help pleas

2001-07-10 Thread 903939N
From: Roy C. Crisman Well, that's correct for the autorun. Is it that the autorun "takes too long to run" or is it that the projector itself takes too long to run? If you stop the exe on the CD from playing and then go click and make it run from the CD again, does it still take a long time?

RE: Re: Screen Capture when Video is Playing

2001-07-10 Thread 903939N
From: Roy C. Crisman If you set the video so that it doesn't play Direct To Stage, you can get a screen-shot of it, because non-DTS is handled by director instead of bypassing director. You may notice a performance hit using non-DTS, though. Otherwise, you'll need an Xtra to do the capture, a

Re: Screen capturing

2001-07-09 Thread 903939N
From: Roy C. Crisman It's not a stupid question. You're talking about imaging lingo. There's plenty of 'how to' places to show how this is done, start with the lingo dictionary and look up "image", or check the index for Bitmaps and Bitmaps/Image objects. member("screenshot").image = (the s

RE: PIXEL ISSUE

2001-07-09 Thread 903939N
From: Roy C. Crisman How many users are going to use the product on both machines and care that there are two different pixel sizes? If it's a problem of "We want the PC Dissolve Bits to be smaller" then you can respond "this is as small as they get". But unless you are running both platforms

Re: Embedding ipix's panoramas....

2001-06-20 Thread 903939N
From: Roy C. Crisman *Shrug* It's been a while since I did it...and they apparently stopped charging for it (or just stopped selling it) in January. The company I worked for couldn't find any other solution (didn't know anyone to steal it from, etc.) so they bought it and pasted to the end of

Re: SV: returned value from function

2001-06-15 Thread 903939N
From: Roy C. Crisman Incorrect. the floatprecision only changes the number of decimal places that display/result. Director ALWAYS uses the full precision to calculate values. -- Welcome to Director -- x = .3 y = .4 z = .9 set the floatprecision = 2 put x -- 0.00 put y -- 0.00 put

Re: Embedding ipix's panoramas....

2001-06-15 Thread 903939N
From: Roy C. Crisman There is an Xtra available from the creators of IPIX that is required to show IPIX images. You have to buy it. But other than that, it's pretty buch a drag-n-drop activitythe Xtra handles all the rotating commands, etc. go to www.ipix.com and look around. roymeo

Re: please help!

2001-06-14 Thread 903939N
From: Roy C. Crisman Uh...just look at the count() of the playList? Just tested... on soundStuff repeat with i = 1 to 50 sound(5).queue(member "The Microsoft Sound") end repeat end then, in the message window... -- soundstuff() sound(5).play() put sound(5).isbusy()