lingo-l Fatal Error

2001-06-29 Thread Alan Robinson
Hi List I am getting A FATAL ERROR HAS OCCURED AND DIRECTOR WILL NOW QUIT message when I close Director. I had this message once before when attempting to run my program. This time my program runs fine and saved and closed correctly the last time I changed or added code. I have tested it in both

Re: lingo-l Need some info

2001-06-13 Thread Alan Robinson
).membernum).line[pline] member(field for dropdown).text = pClicked selectedItem = pClicked end HTH Alan Robinson [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

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2001-05-25 Thread Alan Robinson
Hi list Have a couple of problems really bugging me at the moment if anyone can help. 1. Is it possible to use lingo to control the keyboard cursor such as determine which field it is in and even which line of a field, or send it to the next field if it reaches a certain line number. I can only

lingo-l Re: not too vague help

2001-05-25 Thread Alan Robinson
the team names of the three highest scoring teams. This also explains why each team name is listed twice (once for each team member) but once I have selected the lowest score it is the team name I need to extract not the team member. Alan Robinson wrote: Hi list Have a couple of problems really

lingo-l Field Names

2001-05-19 Thread Alan Robinson
Hi all you gurus Just wondering if you can tell me how field names are stored internally. I have named two fields with the same name expecting them to receive identical data from a list but only one actually receives it. I was wondering if it was because they may be stored as an array and

Re: lingo-l Field Names

2001-05-19 Thread Alan Robinson
Do you mean you have two field cast members with the same name? Or two variables with the same name, holding data from a field? If you have two cast members of the same name, Director will always use the first one. If you have them in different casts, you can differentiate them by using the

lingo-l spritenum reference

2001-05-15 Thread Alan Robinson
Hi I am trying to set the keyboardFocusSprite by reference to a field name using the following code: set the keyboardFocusSprite = sprite(member(teamname, team data).spritenum The problem is it returns either the number of an empty sprite channel or the cast membernum. Can you tell me where

Re: lingo-l spritenum reference

2001-05-15 Thread Alan Robinson
off the top of my pitifully hairless head, sprite() references something in a channel, so putting the member info in the () doesn't mean anything. you need to set the keyboardFocusSprite = sprite(numberOfTheChannelContainingYourField) This is fine until a sprite is moved to a different

lingo-l field tabs

2001-05-14 Thread Alan Robinson
Hi all Does anyone know if it is possible to automatically add a RETURN to a field when tabbing to the next field instead of having to key return and then tab. [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

lingo-l property lists

2001-05-08 Thread Alan Robinson
Hi all SORRY IF ANYONE HAS ALREADY ANSWERED THIS...PLEASE ANSWER AGAIN AS I ACCIDENTALY LOST THE LAST 2 DAYS MAIL. I am trying to create a data structure from a data entry screen by setting the property as a symbol and the value based on the names entered in a field using this code:

lingo-l property lists

2001-05-07 Thread Alan Robinson
Hi all I am trying to create a data structure from a data entry screen by setting the property as a symbol and the value based on the names entered in a field using this code: mainlist.sub1.teams.setaprop(symbol(member(teamname).text),[#name:member( teamname).text,#group:member(teamgroup).text])

Re: lingo-l text lists from database

2001-05-04 Thread Alan Robinson
Thanx for all help and the many interesting variations to display the list. I did manage to figure out another way: on list_teamnames repeat with i=1 to count(mainlist.sub1.teams) member(display).text = member(display).text

Re: lingo-l text lists from database

2001-05-03 Thread Alan Robinson
Sorry about the read requests... I didn't restart after turning it off. I am trying to create a screen that displays a list of items retreived from a database into a field. The problem is that it works fine when tested in the message window but only displays the last item in the field on screen.

lingo-l database sound problems

2001-04-30 Thread Alan Robinson
Hi everyone I am new to lingo-l and would really appreciate it if anyone can help with a couple of problems. 1. Is it possible to pause sound files which are being streamed directly from the hard drive? if so how? I can pause playback but only restart playing from the beginning of the file.