RE: lingo-l bring to front a sprite on rollover

I'd like to add this to Tom's note: Stage layering DOES occur based on sprite channels. Just placing a sprite into a channel auto-magically sets the locZ equal to the channel number unless you use Lingo to specify a different locZ. Using the Lingo property provides an override on the

RE: lingo-l Cue Points and Shockwave

One could also put a list of cuepoints into the comment tag of an ID3 tag within a mp3, then use Director 8.5 to extract that and use Timeout objects to trigger events whenever the 'cue points' occur. But using cue points in SWA is a LOT easier ... btw - What kind of audio files (aif, wav,

Re: lingo-l I SEARCHED THE archives...

At 6:45 PM -0400 8/13/01, the nightboy wrote: Does anyone happen to know if, after using imaging lingo to create a new bitmap, I can save it to an external file/cast? after you make the image what you want then determine which castLib you want {= castLibNumber), which cast position you want (=

RE: lingo-l tracking time elapsed using the short time

the milleseconds is also resets by reboot ( works better than the ticks). -Buzz At 2:22 PM -0700 8/2/01, Morgan Bonar wrote: Steve, Can you use the ticks?? This is a running count and can only (I think) be reset by re-booting the computer. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lingo-l webcast link?

If you mean the particle thing, it's over. But if you still want to know more info, the URL was mentioned on the 3D list Intel said that an archive of it should be available tomorrow. (no URL for this yet) -Buzz At 12:01 PM -0500 8/2/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where is it again?

Re: lingo-l MIAW kills background sounds

I'm glad that worked. I tend to ignore ch 1 2 also, but as you can see, there are some special benefits due to their legacy. -Buzz At 1:48 PM -0400 8/2/01, Roy Crisman wrote: Indeederoni! (I tried it as soon as I replied...I'm not one of those guys who wants someone else to do the work

Re: lingo-l Re: Lingo-L Digest V1 #2092

Use the sin(x) function built into Lingo to manipulate (sprite n).loc ? hth -Buzz To the list: I am trying to create the program for the outline here (phase one): http://j.parsons.edu/~ntaylor/diagram.html I need to create a user input (easy enough) and have that number split into 4/5ths

Re: lingo-l D7 or D8.5 advice NEEDED

. helpful? -Buzz At 10:29 AM -0700 8/2/01, R. Bhakti Klein wrote: hey buzz, i know it's been discussed before, but do you want to give us a quick reminder of what the media loading issue that can be revealed by sounds is??? thanks, --bhakti Buzz Kettles wrote: I wish people would stop

Re: lingo-l D7 or D8.5 advice NEEDED

Hi Pekka - I'd suggest: go forward - d702 had MANY issues that got addressed in d8 (more effort was placed on addressing older bugs than in any other release of Director) and there's no way to know if your code/project was not dependent on something that got fixed in d8. Therefore, I'd

RE: lingo-l action called on attaching behavior to sprite

probably want to only run your checking code when sprite(the currentSprite) 0. hth -Buzz At 8:49 PM -0700 7/30/01, Buzz Kettles wrote: after the GPDL props are returned to the score, they get put in the sprite's scriptList. (sprite(1).scriptlist) one could call a movie script to fiddle with them

Re: lingo-l .dxr

At 4:00 PM +1000 8/1/01, Mark Jenkinson wrote: Hi, I'm wandering how do you create .dxr movies, do you need the full non educational version of director? Also is there some way to save text field data when jumping between movies, globals get preserved across movies so they can be used to carry

Re: lingo-l moving MIAW's

MIAWs open at their own screen location - to have them track the stage,when you move the stage, send tells to the MIAWs. -Buzz At 4:28 PM +0100 7/30/01, Paul Fletcher wrote: Hi guys, I have a small problem where MIAW's are concerned. I have a main control movie - which opens center screen

RE: lingo-l Type 2 Crash. a cautionary tale

What you are asking for was functionality that was available in Director 6, but hasn't worked since. You used to be able to create a Dir movie (such as a set of scripts) save it then in the Finder's getInfo, you could mark it as a Stationary file. Then when you opened this file, the OS

RE: lingo-l action called on attaching behavior to sprite

after the GPDL props are returned to the score, they get put in the sprite's scriptList. (sprite(1).scriptlist) one could call a movie script to fiddle with them. hth -Buzz At 8:50 AM -0700 7/30/01, Morgan Bonar wrote: I like your ideas, but unfortunately, I do need to have access to the

Re: lingo-l action called on attaching behavior to sprite

initialized) to a sprite in authoring? I think Buzz Kettles posted something about this the other day. If I remember right, he said that GPDL is called twice--once to put up the dialog, and again when you finish. Maybe you could check to see if the properties have been set, then call your

Re: lingo-l action called on attaching behavior to sprite

At 3:27 AM +0100 7/28/01, LePhuronn wrote: The only way I could get the routines I wanted to run ONCE was to call them from the isOKToAttach handler, although this may cause some erratic behaviour like to live dangerously, eh? -Buzz if you're cropping images through Lingo - it was fine for me

Re: lingo-l RESEND - creating a handler that executes on everyframe

the actorlist method seems like too much trouble. Since the messaging hierarchy sends enterFrame/exitFrame to every sprite, use a dummy sprite. Put an unfilled shape, linewidth = 0 in the score and spread it across the frames you want to watch. put an 'on enterFrame me' handler on it do

Re: lingo-l RESEND - creating a handler that executes on everyframe

scripts. The only thing I have found that helps is to use the pass method which passes the event message on up the hierarchy to the next in line. Charlie Fiskeaux II The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054 x29 cell: 859/312-3883 - Original Message - From: Buzz Kettles [EMAIL

Re: lingo-l RESEND - creating a handler that executes on every frame

At 1:13 PM -0700 7/27/01, Kerry Thompson wrote: btw (sprite -5) is the frame channel You can also address a frame script by sendSprite(0, #someMessage) So I guess the frame channel is both -5 and 0? yup Cordially, Kerry Thompson [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest

Re: lingo-l order of handlers execution

This is one of the reasons that prepareMovie was introduced. prepareFrame also happens before startMovie For these and other reasons, many people have decided it's just easier to not use frame 1 (beginning all sprites in at least frame 2). hth -Buzz At 2:07 PM -0400 7/27/01, Slava Paperno

Re: lingo-l music player [x-post]

Al - It's an 80 kbps stream - that's probably way too much for a modem. Most 56k modems deliver about 48 max on a good connect. Try your player w/this URL: http://audio.macromedia.com/samples/classic.swa (It delivers a 16 kbps stream therefore should play even in the hinterland.) BTW you can

lingo-l Make your opinions known !!

There is a new survey up - http://www.macromedia.com/software/director/special/survey/ [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])

Re: lingo-l How to put the QUOTE symbol into a string?

Just don't your get your ascii in a not. At 1:31 PM -0400 7/25/01, Colin Holgate wrote: Maybe Colin's gone all 'sensitive' ? That could be the case. Sometimes I'm case sensitive. -- [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi

Re: lingo-l Checking parameters

Only call checkParams if the values of the GPDL parameters are non-blank. At 8:36 PM +0200 7/25/01, Enrique Nivasch wrote: Hello again, I'm posting again my question. I would like to check some parameters that a behavior gets through a getPropertyDescriptionList. What I did is create a

Re: lingo-l Checking parameters

Doh! What was I thinking? Kerry's right - the #range parameter can used to filter the values and the standard place to re-verify props is in the beginSprite handler (or call a verification/initializer handler from there). -Buzz At 12:17 PM -0700 7/25/01, Kerry Thompson wrote: How can I get

Re: lingo-l message window question

Are you sure that you've got a frame script in place to do looping? (and it's not just working in auth because of the Control Panel's loop button...) * a long shot, but I've done this to myself -Buzz At 12:21 PM -0400 7/25/01, Allard, Simon wrote: Hi all, Is it possible to create the

RE: lingo-l Retrieving HTML parameters from URL

At 7:23 PM +0300 7/22/01, Pekka Buttler wrote: Hi and thanks for the tip. Sadly I could not make it work, and have to admit that although I havve been programming CD-ROM's for what seems like ages, all this web-stuff is 'new' to me. Is there anything else I need than a default HTML for the SW?

Re: lingo-l Audio tracks question

If your STOP button sets whereto = Go Loop, you could just move this line to the top of the case statement. Basically, since you want your STOP button's condition to rule, it needs to be the first condition of your case statement. - I added a new case I Stopped that will keep you on the same

Re: lingo-l just started with lingo

Have you considered moving to Syracuse? At 7:13 PM +0200 7/22/03, Pascal Deraed wrote: oh yeah! i forgot to tell...:-) I´d like to be able to develop simple kids game, most educational. Pascal - Original Message - From: Pekka Buttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: lingo-l grid

select the sprite in the score copy paste it - that will make more of them BUT ... If you are trying to make 'perspective' (a 3D tilted grid) ... I'd make a big flat 2d image of a grid then tilt it as a Quad. -Buzz At 8:58 PM +0200 7/22/03, Pascal Deraed wrote: Hi there! I want to make a

Re: lingo-l Finding If a _huge_ float is divisible by a number

) mod 2) should then work. -Buzz _ Buzz Kettles wrote: Did you try the mod function? It can accept floats as well as integers. (it throws away the non-integer part then evaluates) i.e. myFloat = 7.3 put ilk(myFloat) -- #float if (myFloat mod 2) then put not even -- not even

Re: lingo-l Reading from an ini file

getPrefs At 11:35 AM +1000 7/20/01, Brendon wrote: I want to make my next director project a little more reuseable. i was wondering if any one had any links to sites or ini file reading functions that could help with storing settings externally. Do i need an xtra to read text/ini files of the

Re: lingo-l field-contents - emailBody

I searched the web for mailto protocol found an IE doc that mentions: The Recipients field can be blank, a single e-mail address, or multiple e- mail addresses separated by semicolons (;). PARAMETER DESCRIPTION - -- CC= Carbon copy

Re: lingo-l protecting external media?

you can use ResEdit or Resourcerer or a number of other utilities. In ResEdit, select File Get File/Folder Info find your file mark the 'Invisible' checkbox (lower right of the dialog), close, save, quit or as easier way (on older Macs) - Install 'Snitch' (shareware) - It expands your

Re: lingo-l controlling swa files

that capability is not built in export only outputs the stage image in 2 formats: bitmap dig vid -Buzz Hi, Can anybody please tell me how can I batch export internal cast members like images, sound, etc, so that they are in a file format outside the .dir. Thanks in advance. Salman

Re: lingo-l controlling .swa

please look in the manual under SWA control duration isn't available until the SWA has started been preloaded or is playing (state = 1) -Buzz Hi, Can anybody please tell me how I can control .swa files, controls like play, pause, determining the end of the swa so that i can play a slide

Re: lingo-l Puppet Sounds and Movies in a Window pt. 2

Okay, Well, no responses. Anyway. I have a theory. I was wondering if the puppet sound stops playing because another movie window is openning and then it works fine the second time because I do not have the MIAW set to forget upon returning to the main menu. So the second time it (the

Re: lingo-l Finding If a _huge_ float is divisible by a number

Did you try the mod function? It can accept floats as well as integers. (it throws away the non-integer part then evaluates) i.e. myFloat = 7.3 put ilk(myFloat) -- #float if (myFloat mod 2) then put not even -- not even -- ( 7 is an odd number ) hth -Buzz At 9:56 AM -0400 7/17/01, Cole

Re: lingo-l recording and saving as .swa or mp3

your projector will have to launch an external ripper. For Macintosh, SoundEdit 16 included ( it's still offered for download) a batch processor for doing this. 'The SWAtomator' -Buzz At 10:11 AM -0500 7/16/01, Robert Wright wrote: I need to find a way from a projector to record audio and

Re: lingo-l Create Sprite in Runtime

and one can check to find a blank channel by using on findEmptyChan mt = (member 0 of castLib 0) last = the lastChannel repeat with i = last to 1 if (sprite(i).member = mt) then exit end repeat return i end At 1:05 PM -0400 7/16/01, Bill Numerick wrote: I know, create sprite

Re: lingo-l Finding If Something is divisible by a number

the 'a' is your number 'b' is the divisor the result is the remainder. so 7 mod 3 = 1 hope this helps -Buzz At 10:05 AM -0700 7/16/01, Irv Kalb wrote: If you are using integers, use the mod function, as in if (a mod b) = 0 then -- divisible else -- not evenly divisible

RE: lingo-l Set Cue Point To Sound

There's currently no runtime creation/manipulation of the cue points lists (names or times). It's a great potential future feature, and it's already been included into the Director wishlist. -Buzz At 11:18 AM -0400 7/9/01, Kafka's Daytime wrote: This question has come across a few times in

Re: lingo-l play/pause problem

If a track is playing (or paused), then you can't switch tracks until you've done a stop(). as for your question, if you are changing songs (URL =) then add a re-setup for the button too. hth -Buzz At 3:36 PM -0500 7/16/01, Craig Wehr wrote: hello, I'm trying to set up a jukebox player with

Re: lingo-l charPosToLoc--Interesting

if put tx.charPosToLoc(274) (the 2nd character after the last) returns the same point, then I'd say it's a feature - it shows you where the end of it is (where the insertion cursor would blink after the last char ?) -Buzz At 5:42 PM -0700 7/16/01, Kerry Thompson wrote: Did you know this? tx

Re: lingo-l UPPERCASE TEXT ONLY?

If performance becomes an issue, a big case statement might execute faster (no conversions) -Buzz At 3:39 PM +0200 7/4/01, Milo Mineur wrote: Thanx Pranav! works perfect. (I was searching for a function instead the solution) Milo on UCase(MyChar) -- Convert the character to ascii

RE: lingo-l a faster way to draw than using setpixel ??

Sorry Kerry (et al). A full compiler doesn't really seem like the way to go. I have to agree w/Brennan's suggestion. Being able to take a script member export/compile it out as an new type of 'Xtra' would be a great feature! It's also something they could PUT ON THE BOX in the PR RELEASE!

Re: lingo-l Red Book + Track 1 data problem solved?

Toast is the standard burn app on mac -Buzz At 12:29 PM -0700 7/6/01, Stephen Recker wrote: Bastien, Thanks. Now we're talking. I remember enhanced CDs from my musician days, but back then (we had to program by candlelight) enhanced CDs were not an easy thing to make. I have a PC but would

Re: lingo-l Dir8.5 3D Background

Eric, There's a backdrop layer for 2d backgrounds ( an overlay layer for 2d foregrounds) anything that can be a .image can be put into either hth -Buzz At 10:39 AM +0800 7/4/01, Eric Choy wrote: Hi All, I use Dir8.5 create alot of object and do some programme on it already. However, I wold

Re: lingo-l password masking

There's a 'Password Entry' behavior the Text tab of the Library Palette. -Buzz At 10:23 AM +1000 7/4/01, brett wrote: Hi all .. would anyone know of a script or have a script that masks a password Field ? I have a User Detail screen that pulls their details from a database, however I would

Re: lingo-l Text file from Net

Have you tried a URL such as http://www.cnn.com;? (almost always guaranteed to be there) What does netError() return? -- validate the URL) What does netDone() return? -- validate that the process has finished What does put netTextResult() return? -- validate the stuff you got back -Buzz hi

Re: lingo-l 4-character type code for Director cast files

Terry forgot to answer one question. The 'place' that one gets this info from is the Director application. Copy the Director application (the authoring executable). Open the copy in ResEdit or Resourcerer and examine the BNDL resource, ID 128. On Macs, every application that wants to inform the

Re: lingo-l Locking someone out

eat it? At 6:01 PM -0700 6/28/01, R. Bhakti Klein wrote: Buzz Kettles wrote: hidden doesn't mean safe. erasing a hard drive will destroy it. If you want to keep it safe, take it with you. but what if you get mugged or something?!? :-) -Buzz At 4:49 PM -0700 6/28/01, Kerry

Re: lingo-l Undocumented Lingo

What have you heard hints of? some things have become fairly well know within the public lists and can be searched for (such as creating irregular shaped MIAWs) hth -Buzz At 11:33 AM +0200 6/29/01, Andrea Boratto wrote: Hi list, where can I find some information about Undocumented Lingo. I

Re: lingo-l Sound scrapes

use Quicktime to play your AVI file? At 9:28 AM +0200 6/29/01, Kamil Dabkowski wrote: Hi Buzz, As I wrote I tried this but then the Avi sound is not playing. The silence is ofcourse in different channel. take care Kamil Buzz Kettles wrote: untried (as I've never heard of your symptom

Re: lingo-l disable Esc button

Kamil, I think the point was that: you didn't even look into the Help System. If you had looked for the ESC key (which you knew about), you would have found the property you had wanted no matter what it's particular name was. (i.e. 'the blockESC' or 'the notQuit' or whatever) Complaining

Re: lingo-l Save and compact

'Save' is a quick Save, appending changes to the end of the existing file. 'Save Compact' reintegrates the changes and rewrites the file. If a file is large, or there were lots of edits, this could take appreciable time. 'Save As' reintegrates the changes and writes a new file. hth -Buzz

Re: lingo-l Sound scrapes

untried (as I've never heard of your symptom before): play some silence after the AVI to clear out the buffers? -Buzz At 10:58 PM +0200 6/27/01, Kamil Dabkowski wrote: Hi, At the begining of presentation I play avi with sound. The I want to start a main sound that will play during the whole

Re: lingo-l grabbing the stage faster

Upgade. At 2:09 PM -0300 6/28/01, Luiz Gustavo Castelan Póvoas wrote: and what do I do in director 7? [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 Save and compact

Colin's correct. I was thinking of edited members and had forgotten about deleted. BTW: the append-style Save is what MS Word does and one can see their older edits if they open an edited Word doc into a raw text processor such as BBEdit. hth -Buzz At 12:00 PM -0400 6/28/01, Colin Holgate

Re: lingo-l find and compare

AND ... you fixed a typo in the second version sent! So for your question: Considering that one can't usually map words one-to-one across languages, you might be trying to do something impossible. There's also the larger issue: word order English changes it's meaning when word order is

Re: lingo-l find and compare

Apparently one can send/rcv data chunks from babelfish from within Director. see http://www.babelfish.com/ maybe that would help ... -Buzz At 1:57 PM -0700 6/28/01, Kerry Thompson wrote: There's a way to create a autocomplete feature, the user begin type and see grayed the possible matchs for

Re: lingo-l Locking someone out

stuff it or zip it w/a password At 4:44 PM -0500 6/28/01, Fred Westermeyer wrote: Hi List, How do I or can I lockout someone from getting in to my dir file and editing them when I'm not around? Thanks Fred Westermeyer Slot Graphics [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grand Casino Biloxi 265 Beach Boulevard

Re: lingo-l Locking someone out

hidden doesn't mean safe. erasing a hard drive will destroy it. If you want to keep it safe, take it with you. -Buzz At 4:49 PM -0700 6/28/01, Kerry Thompson wrote: What I was meaning (in some way) was that if you make a .zip, anyone can delete it. Fred didn't say why he wanted to keep

Re: lingo-l grid slowing down performance

It's in the background because Flash is probably DTS. It's supposed to cover the whole stage The lagging may be that you have Snap-To-Grid on ... -Buzz At 12:43 AM +0200 6/27/01, schmidt-r wrote: i have two vector-sprites, three bitmap-sprites and one flash-member. altogether they build an

Re: lingo-l MM logo

in the MWM (Made With Macromedia) agreement Somewhere on the CD (depending on which Director you are running), there's a folder describing the rules including some images to use. hth -Buzz At 2:14 PM +0100 6/25/01, Jason [JZway Interactive] wrote: Ooops sorry, forgot to change the

Re: lingo-l Dither cast members?

At 4:54 PM -0600 6/22/01, Tom Richardson wrote: Hello, Can some one please help me understand something about using the Dither feature in the properties settings on a bit map cast member? Here is my question, I am using all 24 bit images in my director project, if the monitor is set to 16 bit

Re: lingo-l Quicktime 5 over Flash Cast Member ?

If either is set to Director To Stage you will get this. At 10:48 AM -0400 6/21/01, Nicolas S.-Roy wrote: Is there a known problem with putting a Quicktime 5 movie (in Direct to Stage mode) over a playing Flash cast member ? As soon as I put the Quicktime movie in Direct to Stage mode, it

RE: lingo-l Shocked images not showing up

go next end if end mouseUp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Buzz Kettles Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 7:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Mike Hiatt Subject: Re: lingo-l Shocked images not showing up Are the jpegs internal or linked

Re: lingo-l create a folder with fileio

If you don't know that it needs to be updated, then ... ? At 10:51 AM -0700 6/20/01, Kerry Thompson wrote: Kerry is asking if the older version of the FileXtra still works with the newest version of Director. And with good reason. I'm in the process of using some legacy code in 8.5. They used

Re: lingo-l authorware vs director - training packages

I've worked with both (Authorware Director) I agree w/Pekka. Authorware's strong suit is that it keeps score of tons of stuff under the hood automatically. Director can keep score too, but have to set up the variables. Not that this is hard, but it's not done for you. More importantly for

RE: lingo-l Shocked images not showing up

Yes, after the score order has been used, the cast order comes into play. Palettes Fonts get an exception come down first, because any bitmap or Text member could need that corresponding associate member. One byproduct of knowing that the score order is primary, is that you can control this

Re: lingo-l miaws with projector

what's the error? At 8:40 PM -0700 6/18/01, JUAN COLON wrote: how can i include miaws in a projector. i made a projector and when you click the button that calls the miaw it gives me an error. JUAN-NYC _ Get your FREE download of

Re: lingo-l create a folder with fileio

OUCH! You're being mean today, Irv. btw - I just suggested the same thing offline (use the File Xtra) note: this Xtra is included in D7 D8 in the Save As Java folder. In D8.5, I think the File3 Xtra (updated) is in the Goodies or Partners folder. -Buzz At 4:56 PM -0700 6/19/01, Irv Kalb

Re: lingo-l Shocked images not showing up

Are the jpegs internal or linked? -Buzz At 4:01 PM -0500 6/19/01, Mike Hiatt wrote: I've built a shocked slideshow that's playing a series of swas and jpegs. I'm swapping out the swas in a member called sound and changing the member number of my jpegs on each marker. My routine works fine

Re: lingo-l Shocked images not showing up

try adding this script into the script channel of the marker frames: on exitFrame me if the frameReady = FALSE then go the frame end When you jump to a marker (such as when your button does 'go next'), this will cause the playhead to loop on that frame until the sprites are loaded. hth

Re: lingo-l create a folder with fileio

At 5:32 PM -0700 6/19/01, Irv Kalb wrote: At 5:13 PM -0700 6/19/01, Buzz Kettles wrote: OUCH! You're being mean today, Irv. Hey Buzz. No, not really, this is all in jest. Bhakti made a reference to the TV Show The Weakest Link and I was just adding some additional typical light hearted

Re: Now it's off topic lingo-l free upgrade?

At 10:06 PM +0100 6/16/01, LePhuronn wrote: But perhaps, Mr Kettles, you are somehwat biased given your previous status as Director Quality Architect. I certainly do agree. [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 Clipboard Xtra?

the Clipboard ... is a single entity. It works for me to from external apps. As for the number of chars, you can count those before after ... -Buzz At 6:29 PM -0400 6/18/01, Slava Paperno wrote: Right, Court. This works for copy-and-paste within my movie, and I got that part working. But

Re: lingo-l frame by frame or animating gif

At 9:42 PM +0200 6/16/01, Kamil Dabkowski wrote: Dear list, Simple question. Which approach for creating animation is better (more efficient) for director: - frame by frame animation created in Score and then saved as film loop - or creating an animation gif and importing it to Director. If you

Re: lingo-l MIAW window options

check setting the windowtype. if there isn't a type that satisfies, you could use the undocumented unsupported 'irregular shaped MIAW' technique. -Buzz At 12:10 AM -0700 6/16/01, William Miller wrote: is there a way to have the window launch without the size bar on the bottom of the

Re: lingo-l MIAW window options

check setting the windowtype. if there isn't a standard type that satisfies, you could use the undocumented unsupported 'irregular shaped MIAW' technique. btw - this technique can also be used to create border-less projectors ... (a recent discussion topic) hth -Buzz At 12:10 AM -0700

Re: lingo-l queued sounds

-3883 - Original Message - From: Michael Nadel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Buzz Kettles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: HandyMan [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 5:03 AM Subject: Re: lingo-l queued sounds When a queued list of sounds is playing, I did notice that you can

RE: Now it's off topic lingo-l free upgrade?

At 5:50 PM +0300 6/14/01, Pekka Buttler wrote: I know. I've withnessed the following !free! updates myself: 4.04 5.01 6.01 6.02 (D6 projector patch) 7.02 What greatly annoys me, is that D7.02 did not fix even half of the known problems, and included support for new media types, making it an

Re: lingo-l placing sound in a specific channel

perhaps one could read the Lingo Dictionary? puppetSound whichChannel, whichCastMember But instead, I would suggest using the new Sound Control Lingo introduced in Director 8. sound(whichChannel).play(whichCastMember) -Buzz At 11:58 AM -0700 6/14/02, William Miller wrote: When ever I use

Re: lingo-l Problem....

Could you have accidentally zoomed in too far ? (@ 50% score view the keyframes are tiny and at 25% they are not shown). *just an idea* -Buzz At 10:09 AM +0100 6/13/01, Malcolm Beddows wrote: Hi people - One quick question to you all. Q: As i was working on a project yesterday, i suddenly

Re: lingo-l queued sounds

At 6:58 PM +0200 6/12/01, Michael Nadel wrote: Or at least, is there a way where I can get Director to execute a some handler or command each time it starts a new sound from the list of 32 sounds that were queued? (Like every time a new sound from the list is played, something should light

Re: lingo-l queued sounds

At 12:48 AM +0200 6/13/01, Michael Nadel wrote: on playSound repeat with count = 1 to 30 sound(4).queue([#member: member(count, sound), #which: count ]) end repeat sound(4).play() end Let's say I want to set a global variable called soundCount = sound(4).which -

Re: lingo-l queued sounds

At 9:42 PM +0200 6/11/01, Michael Nadel wrote: Thanks Al, for the idea (below), that is helpful! About my other question, does anyone know while playing a list of queued sounds of any way to determine which member is playing, as it plays? Or at least, is there a way where I can get Director

Re: lingo-l Testing whether the .day portion of a date objectis aparticular day of the week.

I like Colin's better :) At 6:00 PM +0100 6/6/01, dietrich roland pehlke wrote: hello gene maybe the following function will help you a littel bit: on Get_Day_of_the_Week theYear, theMonth, theDay, theLanguage is_leap_year = #false dL = [31,28,31,30,31,30,31,31,30,31,30,31] if

Re: lingo-l Problems with Xtra(QT) pleaze help

move your project into a folder named 'dswmedia' then republish. (for local playback, linked media needs a dswmedia folder somewhere in it's path) hth -Buzz At 6:00 PM +0100 6/6/01, Kev wrote: Hello, I have been trying to publish a director movie with a small QT movie in it, the movie is

Re: lingo-l director 8.5 serial :-E

It's different - In your example you lose your BMW - -Buzz At 10:30 AM -0700 6/6/01, R. Bhakti Klein wrote: i think it's more like handing out the keys to the BMW car that you already bought... jp wrote: (It's like handing out car keys from the local BMW dealership) -jp

Re: lingo-l Set monitor resolution on MAC projector

If you are going to do this PLEASE give the user the option of saying no. I HATE when a title does this to me because my icons fly all over. -Buzz At 12:52 PM +0100 6/6/01, giles :: [ loadselection ] wrote: Hi List, I want to use my stub movie to set the users monitor resolution to 1152x870

Re: lingo-l Sound control slider

Did you try the Sound Volume Control behavior that shipped w/d8? -Buzz At 5:37 PM -0400 6/6/01, Carl West wrote: John Trentini wrote: Hi guys, My project needs a sound control Vertical slider constrained by the locV of a moveable graphic; no problem here but.. Setting the volume of

Re: lingo-l QT sound issues and Vonnes Book font family (OT)

The Made With Macromedia artwork (image text) is on the d7 d8 CD's. On the d8.5 CD, there is a link to the stuff: For all Made With Macromedia licensing information, please go to the following URL: http://www.macromedia.com/support/programs/mwm hth -Buzz At 2:49 AM +0100 6/4/01, LePhuronn

Re: lingo-l exitFrame handler not working after returning froma MIAW

Sorry about that - you can't set the activeWindow you might try moveToFront window whichWindow to get that window to be active. hth -Buzz No I didn't, thank you. Could I do something like: set the activeWindow = window mainmovie Thanks for your help!!! Did you try setting the

Re: lingo-l 3-D lingo question

At 4:21 PM -0400 6/5/01, the nightboy wrote: A quick question about 3-D lingo. I am creating primitives on the fly. i have three models in a shockwave 3-d cast member. i have 3 different textures available. by this I mean sprite(1).member.texture(1). I am trying to cycle the textures

Re: lingo-l Property Inspector Highlight when Clicked doesn'twork

You've probably bumped into an archaic Director-ism. put a script on the sprite: on mouseUp me nothing end hth -Buzz At 9:59 AM -0400 6/5/01, Silver Image Interactive, inc. wrote: Thanks in advance for any suggestions but Highlight when Clicked Box doesn't work in the Property Inspector.

Re: lingo-l Re: moving an MIAW

I don't know who the original poster was on this (I recently lost a few weeks worth of posts), but I've got a small demo movie that's a main movie + MIAW, the MIAW is irregular shaped, transparent drag-moveable ( closable). If there's an interest in it, I'll post it for download. -Buzz At

Re: lingo-l exitFrame handler not working after returning froma MIAW

Did you try setting the activeWindwo back to the main movie? At 4:45 PM -0400 6/4/01, Gene Fritzinger wrote: Hello List, I have a director movie with many MIAWs. One of the MIAW has an exitFrame script that checks for the character count of four field members. When the char.count reaches 10

Re: lingo-l Re: moving an MIAW

done http://www.best.com/~kettles/MIAW-tricks.zip enjoy -Buzz At 3:31 PM -0400 6/4/01, Robert Smith wrote: Excellent. Yes, please do. -r -Original Message- From: Buzz Kettles [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Judy Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, June

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