inverse cosine

2001-06-21 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
Inverse cosine isn't built in but can be derived from atan() This is covered in Chapter 8 of Lingo in a Nutshell. If you don't own LiaN, you can download what you need from: http://www.zeusprod.com/nutshell/chapters/lian08.html >Is there an inverse cosine function in lingo? >I've looked and did

OT-Learning Lingo

2001-06-21 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
>How should a non-programmer learn Lingo? See Lingo in a Nutshell. The first long, free chapter named "How Lingo thinks" introduces basic programming concepts. http://www.zeusprod.com/nutshell/downloads/#LiaN Cheers, Bruce - Looking for an ActionScript book as good as Lingo and Direct

Re: Sprite does not keep the rect() setting

2001-06-15 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
>> >When I click on sprite(2) then sprite(3) moves to sprite(2) using this >code >> >sprite(3).rect sprite(2).rect >> >That works fine, except that sprite(3) quickly moves back to its original >> >location. I assume you mean: sprite(3).rect = sprite(2).rect Maybe there is some other code reset

Re: netdone() neterror()

2001-06-15 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
>Just to let you all know - I sorted out my NetError() problem: Seems >that running Director under OSX prevents you from being able to query >the net work operation for errors - not a problem if you are fore-warned. I don't understand what you are saying about it failing un OS X. Please clarify

Embedding ipix's panoramas....

2001-06-15 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
Allegedly there is an ipix Xtra at http://www.iPix.com. I've never used it. >I'm currently working on a project where the clients requirements are >viewing >ipix's panoramas through a projector. I've never tried to embed a ipix >panorama before - >do i need to download a XTRA, or can it be coded

returned value from function

2001-06-15 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
At 11:52 AM -0400 06/15/01, Lingo-L Digest wrote: > cvalue1 = float(1.0 * (s * exp(-(divi1) * timeperiod)) *\ > cum1_comput(1.0 * d1)) -- this part calls the function The above line has a typo. It should be "cum1_compute" not "cum1_comput" That may well just have been an error in th

fileIO irregularity

2001-06-15 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
"The moviePath" represents the path to the current DIR movie, which may or may not be the same as the path to the Projector. "The applicationPath" is the path to the Projector (or to Director.EXE during authoring). You also might try adding parentheses, such as: open (the moviePath & "myfile.tx

RE: Saving user selections to disk- FileIO or baWriteIni

2001-06-15 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
I use FileIO for several reasons: 1. If I want to make a Mac version, I can use similar code on both platforms. 2. It is easier to delete preferences files (or tell users to) if the files are external rather than simply registry entries. 3. I can have a user send me their preferences file if I

Re: need advice on alerthook

2001-06-11 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
>does that work with shocwave too? should it be called shockwave.ini? Yes and yes (at least for SW 8.x. I don't know about earlier versions. Bruce [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, em

need advice on alerthook

2001-06-08 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
IMNSHO it is insane to ship a project with a known bug by disabling the error message. How can any of *us* predict whether it will affect the project when we don't know what is causing the error or the nature of your project? I repeat my advice from the other day: Create a text file called .INI

RE: OT - Number of Lingo words?

2001-06-08 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
Here is a fancier utility that finds the last symbol automatically. I also created a revised version of the dumpsymbols utility. You can abort it by clicking the mouse as it takes a long time to print out 1800+ symbols on lastSymbol emptySym = symbol(EMPTY) repeat with x = 0 to the maxInteger

RE: OT - Number of Lingo words?

2001-06-08 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
Here it is: put interface (xtra "DumpSymbolXtra") -- "xtra DumpSymbolXtra -- blabla from Holland! --Functions-- * DumpSymbol integer index -- returns symbol at index from 0 to ? " Here is some sample code to print out a range of symbols on dumpSymbols startIndex, endIndex repeat with x = star

Re: convert .dxr file to .dir file

2001-06-08 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
At 12:26 PM -0400 06/08/01, "Panta, Ram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What is "Dir Opener"? (Do you have a url) > >Here is URL or Dir Openor >http://www.j-roen.net/diropener/ > >> I have a cracker tool that I made a while ago, but I only use it to help >> rescue people who lost a DIR in a disk c

Mac Monitor resolution (Was Re: URGENT help !)

2001-06-08 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
>>How can I set the users monitor resolution to a set size that I want ? > >You gotta have an Xtra. Buddy is my favorite On the Mac, the Buddy API Xtra might not include the function he needs. Last I checked it was contained in the free baSetDisplay Xtra. Bruce --- If there is a God, s/he is c

Re: convert .dxr file to .dir file

2001-06-07 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
What is "Dir Opener"? (Do you have a url) I have a cracker tool that I made a while ago, but I only use it to help rescue people who lost a DIR in a disk crash. I consider it unethical to disassemble someone else's work even if it is only for learning purposes. Instead, you should ask the person

pendulum formula

2001-06-07 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
> I want to make a pendulum. the motion should involve >physical principles. It should be possible to change >the lenght of the cord for example. If somebody did this >before, please help me with the formula. > >i tried: >T = 2*pi *sqrt(cordLength/g) >but how do i get the coordinates of the swing

RE: FW: Possibly OT: Xtra question

2001-06-07 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
Macromedia has an XDK that lets you create Xtras. There are some Xtras-specific lists, one run my Macromedia, XDK-L, and one run by TreviMedia, Xtras-L. Does that answer the question? Bruce >However, I am looking deeper. I need to know how xtras communicate with the >Windows and Mac OS. How the

OT. Other groups

2001-06-07 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
At 5:39 PM -0400 06/06/01, Lingo-L Digest wrote: >-- > >Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 15:04:58 -0400 >From: "John Horn (Home)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: OT. Other groups > >I know other email lists like Lingo-L exist for Flash, and I know there is >Director-L, anyone point me to where I can sign up f

Projector launching exe error

2001-06-07 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
Create a text file called .INI with the following in it: [Lingo] DisplayFullLingoErrorText=1 That will at least give the user a more meaningful error message that might help diagnose it. Ask the user to take a screen shot of the exact error dialog. Bruce >Here's an odd one. Still waiting to he

Re: Set monitor resolution on MAC projector

2001-06-07 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
At 4:07 AM -0400 06/07/01, giles :: [ loadselection ] wrote: >> You can use the baSetDisplay Mac Xtra (the name may be mistaken), free from >> the makers of Buddy API >> See http://www.mods.com.au >> > >Thanks but I wanted a way that didn't involve an extra That is a meaningless statement. It

Re: Set monitor resolution on MAC projector

2001-06-06 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
You can use the baSetDisplay Mac Xtra (the name may be mistaken), free from the makers of Buddy API See http://www.mods.com.au >I want to use my stub movie to set the users monitor resolution to 1152x870 >this will be a MAC only app so I think it can be done [To remove yourself from this

Re: finger cursor over flash buttons?

2001-05-29 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
At 9:05 AM -0400 05/27/01, Lingo-L Digest wrote: >So, I'm sticking to my current approach for controlling the cursor, >because I really believe that a microsecond and a half per frame is a >reasonable expense for the peace of mind of knowing that the cursor >looks how I want it to. Fair enough. I

Re: finger cursor over flash buttons?

2001-05-25 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
From: Colin Holgate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >My method is very fast, and takes care of the needs of custom cursors >for different areas of the same sprite. I'm definitely not understanding something. What are you referring to? How does your method implement different custom cursors for a single sprit

#swa not playing from projector

2001-05-24 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
>So, what xtras do I need to include for local SWA playback? Any other ideas? >From page 527 of Director in a Nutshell: To play SWA from a local drive include the MIX Services, Sound Import Export, SWA Streaming, SWA Decompression, and NetFile Xtras with your Projector. (Netfile is needed even

Re: NT Sounds

2001-05-24 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
>>Is it possible to play multiple sounds (i.e. soundChannel(1) & >>soundChannel(2)) simultaneously on Windows NT? Generally, yes. >>Also, on NT, is it possible to play a sound on channel (2) while a >>Quicktime is playing? >> >>Director 7 (PC obviously). > >You can easily play normal sounds at

Re: finger cursor over flash buttons?

2001-05-24 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
Colin, are you joking? Unless there is something that you are trying to do which I don't understand, your method is entirely inefficient and unnecessary. Your method also won't necessarily work fast enough depending on the number of sprite and frame rate. The appropriate way to set a cursor over

Re: Error reading palettes...

2001-05-24 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
At 8:52 AM -0400 05/24/01, Gjose wrote: > Hi: I built a palette of 256 colors starting from an indexed >color image using A. Photoshop 6.0, and then, saved it with .PAL and .ACT >format (p.e. Palette1.ACT and Palette1.PAL). But it is impossible that >Director 8 can import these palettes

problem with baPrintFile

2001-05-23 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
>I have a problem with baPrintFile on MAC. >I have to print a .PDF file, I use Buddy API with the baPrintFile function. >Everything work well on PC, but on MAC I have weird thing happening. >When I test the print function inside Director, it print...OK! >When I test the print function on a CD-RO

director playback requirements....

2001-05-23 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
>Just checked >http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/playback_requirements.h >tm > >and strangely enough, it seems that the non-3d 8.5 has lighter >requirements than 8.0 - is that true? Other people have mentioned that performance has improved in D8.5, so that might explain the

Help Needed on Popup Xtra

2001-05-22 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
In my limited experience with the popup Xtra, the primary cause of such problems is that some versions of the xtra respond to mouseDown and some respond to mouseUp. Try changing your mouseDown handler to a mouseUp handler or vice-versa. Bruce >I am working on improving a project made with Direct

inverse sin, tan, cosin

2001-05-22 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
Below is a version you might find less cryptic. It is from the url I cited the other day. The asin() and acos() functions return void for invalid inputs. -- The inverse sine and cosine, known as the arcsine and arccosine -- can be derived as follows. Note the special handling of the end condition

WinNT error message

2001-05-22 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
Don't bundle your Xtras in the projector. Put them in a separate Xtras folder instead. (BTW, I don't think you need the BMP Agent.X32 Xtra at runtime. It is for authoring only, I believe) >Working on a projector for a client with Win NT. We test on our machine >here, and it's fine, on their machi

inverse sin, tan, cosin

2001-05-21 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
>Does anybody know how to do inverse sin, tan, cosin in Director?? These are covered in Chapter 8 of LiaN. Arctangent (i.e. the inverse tangent) is built-in (see atan() in the Lingo dictionary. The others must be derived. See http://www.zeusprod.com/nutshell/chapters/lian08.html which includes

Converting ascii to binary?

2001-05-21 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
>Anyone have a script or link? Unfortunately any of the bit operations return >integers, not the 8-position binary number... Below is some old code (D6.5) I wrote that converts between various number systems (see convertBase below). Some of these routines rely on functions that may be missing, s

Re: Dynamically changing colors in a palette?

2001-05-17 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
>Yeah, I'm gonna have to go the 50 sprites route-- but seriously-- 50 sprites >is the best way? 50? ok, then. I just thought I'd come up with a unique >way of doing things. oh well. In general, anything that is clickable should be its own sprite. 50 sprites is not an excessive number. Excepti

Re: opening pdfs...

2001-05-17 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
There are lots of Xtras that handle opening PDFs. Suffice to say that MasterApp is not necessarily the easiest nor the cheapest (and keep in mind that Al works for updateStage, the publisher of that Xtra--I'm not knocking Al, I'm just making sure you knew that his opinion may not be unbiased). Al

resolution changing and alt-tab

2001-05-17 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
>I want to run a Director show at a certain resolution, I do this using >dmchangeres. If a user alt-tabs out I want to detect this and change the >resolution back to their original, and when they go back to the program I >want the resolution restored to what I specify. > >Can anybody help point m

Converting Java to Lingo

2001-05-17 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
I don't know if any way to convert Java to Lingo. You can write Xtras that incorporate extensible functionality into Director. Most Xtras are written in C/C++. I don't know if you could wrap your Java in some sort of wrapper to gain access to it from Lingo. It might be easiest to find an existing

Dynamically changing colors in a palette?

2001-05-17 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
At 8:26 AM -0400 05/17/01, Lingo-L Digest wrote: >Is there a way to change the color of a palette by palette index? In other >words, I want to have a map of the 50 states. Each state has its own color >& palette index (even though they will all have the same RGB values) So, I >would want to cli

touch screen kiosks

2001-05-09 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
>Hi- I've been using Director and Lingo for around a year now and I've not >done much programming- we have been given a project to do at college which >involves designing a touch-screen kiosk. Before I begin it, has anyone got >any hints/tips/tricks based on their own experiences using Lingo, or

printing thru MS Word

2001-05-08 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
>Hi, can someone please give me the scripting for the following and would I >need >BuddyAPI xtra to make this work:- >when the user clicks the "print" button in my Director 8 movie, the user's >printer will be found, the document in question will open up in MS Word and >will print immediately and

Text and image

2001-05-08 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
many other ways to do it, such as using a MIAW or an Xtra like the Web Xtra. How that helps. >Well, we need to make a window with text and images integrates like a issue >page. > >Somebody knew some like this? -- Scrolling Graphic Behavior. -- Copyright Bruce Epstein, Zeus Production

Re: Set resolution (was ARGGGGHHH!......pls help!)

2001-05-08 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
I misspoke. I meant to write: You can check and store the old refresh rate before switching the resolution. When switching to a new resolution, I don't specify a refresh rate. I let the monitor do that itself (that is, I accept the default rate). I typically ask the user whether they want to cha

Set resolution (was ARGGGGHHH!......pls help!)

2001-05-07 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
Gary Smith, makes of buddy, has a version of baSetDisplay that sets the monitor refresh rate too. I guess it would be best to check the old refresh rate and use that as the new refresh rate when changing the resolution. Ask Gary for more info. (http://www.mods.com.au/budapi) Bruce >>>to my knowl

Display Problem....

2001-05-03 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
>>>When I start My projector.exe that time i want to change monitor size & >>>color palette >>>like screen size 800*600 & color setting is 32 bit. >> >>The budAPI xtra can do this. > >On the PC, at least... This is not cross-platform. Not quite correct. There *is* a Mac version available for fre

BASIC - send string to flash editable text

2001-05-02 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
At 2:41 AM -0400 05/02/01, Lingo-L Digest wrote: >I'm looking for a quick and dirty tutorial on how to set the contents of >a Flash editable text with Lingo. Also, I need info on how to set the >action/variables up in Flash, as I know next to nothing about Flash >action scripting. I was fortunat

id3 tags / 8.5

2001-05-01 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
Pardon my ignorance, but what is id3 (or id3 tags) and why have you been waiting for it to be supported? >EXCELLENT! > >Finally id3 support for 8.5. [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, em

macromix to directsound trouble avi

2001-04-30 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
>I suggest that you read more about how Director >handle sound mixes. Its on the Chapter 15 of >Bruce Epstein's Director in a Nutshell. > >This is how generous Bruce is... >http://www.zeusprod.com/nutshell/downloads/index.html > > >Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 07:37:21 -0600 >From: "Mark R. Jonkman" <

FileIO and Networks

2001-04-30 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
I've had trouble with Director being able to drives across a network before. I think I've had best luck when using "Map Network Drive" instead of just using the network neighborhood browser. >> Hi all - I have a furniture catalogue on CD which uses a list - driven >> database, the data being situ

Re: Can I do this in Director?

2001-04-30 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
At 9:07 PM -0400 04/27/01, Lingo-L Digest wrote: >If not importing, and you have the sprite already on stage with the >placeholder, use 'set the member of sprite' to set it to whatever new >castmember you want. If images are different sizes, you'll also need 'set >the rect of sprite' to change i

Re: QTVersion() when n QT is installed

2001-04-23 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
alled on the Mac. I hope that helps. At 3:03 PM -0400 04/20/01, Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions wrote: >>From: Slava Paperno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Can some kind soul tell me what the QuickTimeVersion() function in D8 >>returns under Windows and Mac OS, when no QT is i

QTVersion() when n QT is installed

2001-04-20 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
>From: Slava Paperno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Can some kind soul tell me what the QuickTimeVersion() function in D8 >returns under Windows and Mac OS, when no QT is installed? None of the >books that I have state that, and I'm trying to avoid uninstalling my QT to >find out. Thanks! Then you don't

[XPOST, OT, Announce] ActionScript: The Definitive Guide

2001-04-20 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
[Apologies for the cross-post and to those who are not interested in Flash or ActionScript.] Many of you have asked me about updates to my Lingo and Director in a Nutshell books and I'm sad to say that I still haven't had the time to revise them. But the good news is that I've just finished edit

Sond problems with AVI

2001-04-18 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
f the above leaves you confused. Cheers, Bruce Bruce Epstein, Zeus Productions, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 732-940-2800 Check out LAST CALL - The Ultimate Bartending Sim: http://www.zeusprod.com/games/lastcall.html Director and Lingo in a Nutshell (DiaN/LiaN) kick butt. Free Sample Chapters: http://www

fade out sound and then jump to ...

2000-11-17 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
the fade out has finishend and then go to >the new location. >I am having a similar problem ! - I have a puppet sound playing - then the >user clicks on an avi to watch it - but when I fade the sound / pause the >sound / stop the sound - ( I've tried many ways ) - the avi

FileIO

2000-11-13 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
>my hands on, (maybe I really am thick??!?!) Bruce Epstein, Zeus Productions, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 732-940-2800 Check out LAST CALL - The Ultimate Bartending Sim: http://www.zeusprod.com/games/lastcall.html Director and Lingo in a Nutshell (DiaN/LiaN) kick butt. Free Sample Chapters: http://ww

preLoadRAM setting not working on Mac (at least in D7.0.2)

2000-11-08 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
preloadRAM -- 0 On both D7.0.2 and D8 for Windows, it works fine set the preloadRAM = 2 * 1024 * 1024 put the preloadRAM -- 2097152 Anyone else confirm this? Can someone test it on D8 Mac (I don't have it handy) Thanks, Bruce Bruce Epstein, Zeus Productions, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 732-940-2800 Chec

Re: open a file

2000-11-07 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
> if the machinetype=256 then The machineType is obsolete. I recommend using: if the platform contains "Windows" then -- blah, blah, blah end if [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, em

RE: Getting the locale

2000-11-06 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
>Another factor to weigh in heavily with all of this is the fact that just >because one Windows OS contains the key at the specified place in the >registry, doesn't mean the next version will have the same info located in >the same place. Agreed. That is why I checked in multiple ways. You can/s

Getting the locale

2000-11-05 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
1 = (French or) Japanese? -- 2 = (Japanese or) French? -- 3 = German -- 4 = Italian? -- 5 = Dutch? -- 7 = Swedish? --8 = Spanish? -- 9 = Danish ? --11= French Canadian? --12 = Norwegian? --17 = Finnish? --71

Re: Introduction to lingo

2000-10-30 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
check out the Lingo and Director Authorized by Macromedia Press for a more gentle introduction. Bruce Epstein, Zeus Productions, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 732-940-2800 Check out LAST CALL - The Ultimate Bartending Sim: http://www.zeusprod.com/games/lastcall.html Director and Lingo in a Nutshell (Di

Re: quit for button

2000-10-27 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
>The thing to take into notice is that the 'quit' command does quit the >Director application while you are authoring, and sometimes it can be >annoying while you are testing it. Instead, use 'halt' command. In Director, >the 'halt' command stops the movie. In projectors, it acts just like 'quit'

Admin note: Please quote sparingly, trim signatures,and check past posts for answers

2000-10-27 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
Thanks for your cooperation. Regards, Bruce Bruce Epstein, Zeus Productions, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 732-940-2800 Check out LAST CALL - The Ultimate Bartending Sim: http://www.zeusprod.com/games/lastcall.html Director and Lingo in a Nutshell (DiaN/LiaN) kick butt. Free Sample Chapters: http://www.zeusp

Opening protected scripts

2000-10-27 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
>Hi list I'm working on a project where all scripts I used are protected at >enddelivery. Now after debugging the client has find some minor bugs. The >problem is that I don't have a Back-up anymore caused by a HD crach of my >computer. Anyone knows how to open protected scripts? To the best of

RE: Difference?

2000-10-26 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
At 8:14 AM -0400 10/26/00, Lingo-L Digest wrote: >What would that make clients?? Backseat drivers. P.S. >Hi Lingo Fellows! goodnight! For reasons I can not explain, in English "Good Evening" means "Hello" and "Good Night" means "goodbye." And to the best of my knowledge, in Hebrew, Shalom is

Parent Scripts/Behaviors info (was Strange request...)

2000-10-24 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
LiaN for more insights. Regards, Bruce Bruce Epstein, Zeus Productions, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 732-940-2800 Check out LAST CALL - The Ultimate Bartending Sim: http://www.zeusprod.com/games/lastcall.html Director and Lingo in a Nutshell (DiaN/LiaN) kick butt. Free Sample Chapters: http://www.

sound problem

2000-10-24 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
; Now if i play the exe file, the sound is very low on NT machines.When >i am playing the exe file machine's default volume control option is >getting automatically set to very low volume.Still no luck. Is it machine >problem??I will check it with my Admin. Bruce Epstein, Zeus Producti

Re: sound problem

2000-10-24 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
e >Cyberian Design >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >415 440 9590 >1530 Fulton St. >San Francisco, CA 94117 That certainly isn't an exhaustive round up, but maybe it gets you going in the right direction. I hope that helps. Here's Macromedia's TechNote on the soundDevice optio

Printing from Director 8 using Flash Printing SDK

2000-10-24 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
he first time isn't in anyone's interest. If anything, it makes us think that your email is broken, not that you are more sincere or that your question more urgent. Regards, Bruce Bruce Epstein, Zeus Productions, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 732-940-2800 Check out LAST CALL - The Ultimate Bart

AppleScript and Director

2000-10-20 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
You can download demo versions from our web site at: http://www.zeusprod.com/ftp/zscptdem.sit Cheers, Bruce Bruce Epstein, Zeus Productions, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 732-940-2800 Check out LAST CALL - The Ultimate Bartending Sim: http://www.zeusprod.com/games/lastcall.html Director and Lingo

Re: Exporting Scripts

2000-10-20 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
u repeatedly instantiating the instance or using a single instance throughout? I'd recommend the latter. If you have a simple test you want to send over, I'll try it out. Bruce Bruce Epstein, Zeus Productions, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 732-940-2800 Check out LAST CALL - The Ultimate Bartendin

RE: Pdf error

2000-10-20 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
a quirk of Acrobat. It doesn't occur with most other applications). Regards, Bruce Bruce Epstein, Zeus Productions, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 732-940-2800 Check out LAST CALL - The Ultimate Bartending Sim: http://www.zeusprod.com/games/lastcall.html Director and Lingo in a Nutshell (D

Re: setfiltermask on a Mac

2000-10-19 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
>From: Carl West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: setfiltermask on a Mac >> My tests confirm what you are seeing, and you're not doing anything wrong. >> Try shutting off the "Automatic File Translation" in the Mac OS Easy Open >> control panel and that should solve your problem. The OS is sho

Re: Exporting Scripts

2000-10-19 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
At 10:57 AM -0400 10/18/00, >From: Luke Wigley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Note that there is a nasty bug in FileIO Xtra which will crash Director is >you try repeating through a large list creating files. What is your basis for this claim. I've used FileIO extensively and not had this problem. What ve

setfiltermask on a Mac

2000-10-17 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
lterMask (foo, "MooV") -- Show QT files setfilterMask (foo, "TEXT") -- Show Text files Don't use "TVOD" and "ttxt". Those are creator codes and not file types. Looks like I need to add that to Lingo in a Nutshell... ;) Cheers, Bruce Bruce Epstein, Zeu

re realaudio

2000-10-17 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
>> out of curiosity, how many of you would be interested in a real >> audio/video streaming xtra? >Unfortunately I missed the start of this therad, but I'd be very interested >in an update to this Xtra, expecially if it were cross platform. In the >past I've had to use RealPlayer ActiveX contro

FileIO and more info and FileIO setfiltermask

2000-10-17 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
types matching the expression, such as "*.*". If you specify up to four strings and four expressions, they appear in the file browser. The user can switch between the options, but can't say, view the TXT, PCT and BMP files all at once to my knowledge. There are probably third party Xt

RE: #define

2000-10-17 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
7 then return #okay else return #old end if end checkVersion Not that you don't manually "define" the symbols #old and #okay. You just use them like constants and director handles the housekeeping. Cheers, Bruce Bruce Epstein, Zeus Productions, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 732-940-2800

Re: Urgent - Please help!!!

2000-10-16 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
At 12:36 PM -0400 10/16/00, Lingo-L Digest wrote: >>I have a popup menu that is activated on a right mouse click, the AVI >>digital video is paused and the directoToStage of the video set to 0, >>however, even though the popup menu sprites are in the higher channels and >>the video is no longer di

RE: writting a wait command

2000-10-16 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
ay to wait, because it locks out other interactivity. See the following for a Lingo-based behavior that replaces the Tempo channel option: http://www.zeusprod.com/ftp/tempo.sit Bruce Bruce Epstein, Zeus Productions, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 732-940-2800 Check out LAST CALL - The Ultimate Bartend

keyPresses

2000-10-11 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
or something? You're confusing their ascii value (which can be obtained using chartoNum(the key) with their keycodes. Appendix A of LiaN lists all the keycodes and ASCII values. Chapter 10 of LiaN has more details on keyboard stuff. Bruce Bruce Epstein, Zeus Productions, [EMAIL PROTECT

checking shockwave plugin version?

2000-10-06 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
obals", it is still shown when you do: showGlobals See page 23 of LiaN (free online). FYI, you can also check out the productVersion and the environment Those don't need to be declared as globals. FYI, "the productVersion" returns a string without the word "net

Re: creating behaviours

2000-10-06 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
e helpful but not exactly help >>ful to me as i feel them to be complicated just try to >>help if possible for you >>i will be verymuch thankful to you >>sreedhar Bruce Epstein, Zeus Productions, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 732-940-2800 Check out LAST CALL - The Ultimate Bartending Si

web xtra

2000-10-05 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
Make sure "Animate in background" is turned on under File>Preferences>General. At 5:11 PM -0400 10/05/00, Lingo-L Digest wrote: >Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 16:27:16 +0100 >From: Jon Rowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: web xtra > >Hi > >anybody with experience of using Tabulero webXtra (v2.1)? I'm in D

Re: Making a rollover button?

2000-10-05 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
Don't set the cursor within a mouseWithin handler. MouseWithin gets called REPEATEDLY while the mouse is over the button and it is very wasteful. If you must change the cursor on rollover, use "on mouseEnter" instead of "on mouseWithin". I prefer using the cursor of sprite property and setting i

ADMIN [Was Re: urgent help required ]

2000-10-04 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
Please quote sparingly. (That is, don't repeat hundreds of lines of the previous post in order to make a one-line reply). Thanks. Bruce [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 PR

Re: XPost: anyone know where can i download...DiaN and LiaN

2000-09-29 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
e upgraded already, the best source of current information is the daily discussion groups, such as this one, cited at http://www.zeusprod.com/nutshell/links.html Again, I thank you for your inquiry and look forward to your feedback and suggestions for the next revision. Regards, Bruce Bruce Ep

XPost: anyone know where can i download...DiaN and LiaN

2000-09-28 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
each here, and Director is priced 20% higher usually. > > ... and Macromedia's tech support here is ... h flaky?. I've >had a few conversations with MACR people in the US about this *issue*. > > certainly Santiago is not clear he's in a developers' list. But he&#

rects

2000-09-28 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
(test,2,getAt(test,2) + 99) >it returns >test = [1,100,1,1] > >why doesn't it work with rect lists? how can i change each rect list >property (#left,#top,#right,#bottom) individually? i've searched in >director in a nutshell, and it's said that it should work. a

did you know this shortcut?

2000-09-28 Thread Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
lick in the Message window, Debugger Window, or a Script window to find a handler or go to it. You can also use the Edit>Find>Handler command. All three windows also have a "Go To Handler" button. Cheers, Bruce Bruce Epstein, Zeus Productions, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 732-940-2800 Ch