Re: RESEND - creating a handler that executes on everyframe

2001-07-27 Thread Carl West
nt to watch. > > put an 'on enterFrame me' handler on it & do your Lingo watching ... Or, End your enterFrame behaviours with 'pass' and use an enterFrame handler in a movieScript -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 "Depend upon it, th

Re: Type 2 Crash. a cautionary tale

2001-07-26 Thread Carl West
+ x).setprops(foo, bar, rabnicky) > > > >It was suggested that calling a handler that way, while it works most of > >the time, is not actually supported and that 'call' or 'sendsprite' are > >the ways to go. (thanks Dan S.) > > > >now I use: &

Type 2 Crash. a cautionary tale

2001-07-26 Thread Carl West
go. (thanks Dan S.) now I use: sendsprite(29 + x,#setprops,foo, bar, rabnicky) and there are no more crashes. There you go, FWIW. * a type 2 is when a program tries to access a word of memory starting at an odd address. It only works from even ones. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.

Re: Controlling Flash Buttons?

2001-07-24 Thread Carl West
skills, I meant to say that my head is already full. I have neither the application nor the time to learn it before my prototype is due. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 "Depend upon it, there comes a time when, for every addition of knowledge, you forget something that you

Re: Controlling Flash Buttons?

2001-07-24 Thread Carl West
t deal. I haven't messed with it yet. Won't for the prototype. Keep their expectations down. Surpass their expectations later. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 "Depend upon it, there comes a time when, for every addition of knowledge, you forget somet

Re: Controlling Flash Buttons?

2001-07-24 Thread Carl West
> > I have some .SWF members that are Flash buttons. Can I control them from > Lingo? >... -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 "Depend upon it, there comes a time when, for every addition of knowledge, you forget something that you knew before. It is of the high

Controlling Flash Buttons?

2001-07-23 Thread Carl West
e doesn't finish the job, and nothing else seems applicable. Is this possible? Have I missed something? Or should I just have them as straight Flash animations that I _can_ control with Lingo? I bet it's no harder than trying to mess with the buttons on the fly. -- Carl West[EMAI

Re: child object

2001-07-23 Thread Carl West
Pascal, Could you set the year on your computer to 2001? I usually view the newsgroup by date and _all_ your messages are crammed together at the end because they're all dated 2003. Thanks -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 "Depend upon it, there comes a time

Re: Finding If Something is divisible by a number

2001-07-18 Thread Carl West
to y evenly. > > if y.float/x = y/x then {it divides evenly} > > and if y mod x = 0 then {it divides evenly} If you can't make the assumption that the numbers are integers, you could use something like: on EvenlyDivisible x,y return (float(x)/y = integer(x/y)) -- ret

Re: QUICKTIME questions

2001-07-13 Thread Carl West
e a keyframe (or two) right there. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 "Depend upon it, there comes a time when, for every addition of knowledge, you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have usel

Re: passing variables from behavior to behavior

2001-06-22 Thread Carl West
n the fly with Lingo, 'spriteNum' doesn't get a value. You'll need to set the property explicitly. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. -

Re: passing variables from behavior to behavior

2001-06-22 Thread Carl West
behavior to behavior? try this on sprite 3: on checkRight me,whatNumber put whatNumber end the spew you're getting is the object reference for the instance of 'findsound' attached to sprite 3 -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous

Re: list uses

2001-06-12 Thread Carl West
roperty list and be able to keep track of all manner of terrain information. And you could have lists in those lists that keep track of how many of each kind of fish there are... -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out o

Re: Re Draging sprites

2001-06-11 Thread Carl West
- in the mouseUp handler put the sprite back to it's original loc. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [To rem

Re: Quicktime question

2001-06-07 Thread Carl West
lt > end if > end > > All works well...But I want to put in a warning box to tell the end user that the >program will quit and install Quicktime. Where do I pu this code? -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my

Re: Set monitor resolution on MAC projector

2001-06-07 Thread Carl West
t is portable. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mod

Re: Sound control slider

2001-06-06 Thread Carl West
ound number (7 or 255, depending on the commands you're using) by the result -That's your new sound setting -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabell

Re: settings props of a dyanmically attached script

2001-06-05 Thread Carl West
viours on a sprite whose props need to be set later, be sure the 'setProps' handlers all have different names. There are scarier ways of doing it, but I don't recommend them. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen

Re: urgent pleasesssssssssss

2001-05-20 Thread Carl West
ist with the subject: Supported HTML tags some helpful information was posted just yesterday. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure

Re: Adding a value to a list if it's not already there

2001-05-17 Thread Carl West
=Getpos(mylist,myvalue) --this will return valueexist=0 if the > value is'nt in the list > if valueexist=0 then > --add it to the list > else > nothing I usually just: if not getpos(list, value) then add(list, value) -- Carl Wes

Re: Adding a value to a list if it's not already there

2001-05-17 Thread Carl West
Chris Aernoudt wrote: > > Hello > > Can someone tell me how to go about checking a list for a value, > and adding it only if it isn't in it yet? getpos returns a 0 if it's not in the list -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous

Re: Don't Need help with a RAM hog on Windows anymore

2001-05-15 Thread Carl West
clars danvold wrote: > > Carl West wrote: > > > An innocuous little script that ran through _all_ the members of _all_ > > the casts and set the fontsize of some them. > > Just curious... > I have lots of innocuous little scripts that run through all the memb

Don't Need help with a RAM hog on Windows anymore

2001-05-15 Thread Carl West
Found it. An innocuous little script that ran through _all_ the members of _all_ the casts and set the fontsize of some them. It wasn't unloading the members. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of

Re: Need help with a RAM hog on Windows

2001-05-15 Thread Carl West
MB machine there was a pause while the OS adjusted the size of the swapfile. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene

Re: Need help with a RAM hog on Windows

2001-05-15 Thread Carl West
ouse is unable to run it on a machine that has less than 80MB. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [To remove y

Need help with a RAM hog on Windows

2001-05-14 Thread Carl West
t 80MB of RAM to run at all. I have a large (21MB) shared cast, could _that_ be getting loaded all at once? I'm stuck for an approach to this thing. Help? hints? pointers? keywords to search with besides RAM, windows, management, hog, leak? And places to use them? -- Carl West [To remo

Re: simulating the user pressing the TAB key

2001-05-14 Thread Carl West
next field. Sorry >for my round-about approach. set the keyboardFocusSprite -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Sce

Re: qt movies on pcs

2001-05-14 Thread Carl West
Also, be sure the movies are saved 'self-contained'. And if you have the option with whatever QT tool you're using, be sure they're 'flattened'. Movieplayer for QT4 doesn't give the 'flatten&

Re: loop question

2001-05-10 Thread Carl West
sprite(i).memberNum = 8 then kill me end if end if end repeat You're used to coding in some other language aren't you? You need to spend some more time with the Lingo books and tutorials. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure

Re: Easy math problem

2001-05-10 Thread Carl West
next lower weight and multiply it by the order weight *or two parallel lists, one of weights, one of prices per kilo. Whatever works better in your head. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will att

Re: returning to dir: making a grid with an array

2001-05-09 Thread Carl West
om(256)-1 > end > > The movie is a D7 one. and you can use member(m).getpixel(x,y) to get the data back out of the bitmap -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile

Re: Problems with QuickTime on Mac

2001-05-07 Thread Carl West
Carl West wrote: > > I have a QT movie as a sprite whose movietime is used to control the > locations of scrollbar knobs and the scrolltop of a transcript of the movie. > > It runs fine for a while, but after intense manipulation of the > movietime (back and forth, jumping

Problems with QuickTime on Mac

2001-05-04 Thread Carl West
: #movietime and the movie hangs. As a projector it often fails a force-quit, forcing a re-boot. It's worst as a projector on a CD, less frequent as a projector on the HD, and sometimes it'll do it in authoring. D7.0.2 Mac QT 4.x I'm looking for clues to diagnose this thing. Help?

Re: Another weirdness

2001-04-19 Thread Carl West
me cursor(-1) End and be sure the script is a behavior script, not a movie or parent script -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Mea

Re: Help!! "Fatal Error - Director will quit now"

2001-04-13 Thread Carl West
letext/wordpad save and close simpletext/wordpad delete the member save and close reboot reverse the process -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measu

Re: Marker deletion by lingo?

2001-04-12 Thread Carl West
repeat with i = (the labelList.line.count) down to 1 go marker(the labelList.line[i]) if the frameLabel = "" then duplicateFrame deleteFrame end if end repeat endRecording end cleanlabels Works for me in D7.0.2, but have a backup copy. --

Re:

2001-04-10 Thread Carl West
uot;data\" > --pc > else > set gQualpath = the pathname & "data:" > --mac > end if > end you could do this: on checkMachine set gQualpath = the pathname & "data" & the last char of the pathname end -- Carl West[EMA

MOD tricks

2001-04-06 Thread Carl West
r wrapping a moving sprite's loc back onto the other side of the stage: stageCorner = point(800,600) newloc = spriteloc + locModifier sprite(x).loc = newloc mod stageCorner If someone hits on a use for 'mod'ing rects, I'd be curious to see it. but it doesn't wo

Re: closing miaw windows

2001-04-04 Thread Carl West
the MIAW is bound to get re-opened (the dictionary on a language CD), I just use 'close'. I don't _like_ it. but it works. Any other gotchas for closing MIAWs? -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of o

Re: Strange Sprite positions

2001-03-22 Thread Carl West
andler? The one awkwardness I've found with that is that you can't place one sprite relative to the coordinates of another 'cause there not there yet. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of o

Re: problem with 'new' Solved!

2001-03-20 Thread Carl West
castmember. There's ample room for it in the cast. >... Bingo! I did a Find on 'on new me' and command-g'd my way through all the casts and sure enough there was _one_ behaviour masquerading as a movie script. now it works fine. Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou. -- Carl West[

problem with 'new'

2001-03-20 Thread Carl West
x27;s ample room for it in the cast. The new movie has all the same external casts that're used on the project linked to it Any one else ever run into this? Any hints or clues for getting around it? -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my s

Controlling location on CD (was: the tale of two sounds)

2001-03-01 Thread Carl West
ld be wrong about that, but it does seem to speed things up when I put the external casts up near the top of the layout. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile.

Re: burning hybrid CD. . .

2001-02-09 Thread Carl West
the center of the disc and supposedly quicker to access. (I think I've got that right, seems to work for me anyway) > € when you come back to the top, under the PC side you > we see how many megs of stuff that is SHARED is being > used > € you will have MAC executable stuff and PC

Re: another way to DTS

2001-01-31 Thread Carl West
Special Case workaround: If the movie can be 'paused' while the graphic is over it you can set the QT's trails to true and move it off the stage, then put up the graphic. But if you move the graphic, bad things will happen. When you're done, bring the movie back and turn off i

Re: Having trouble managing my director file

2001-01-26 Thread Carl West
rt scripts out into different cast members. (and different casts too, for that matter) Option or Alt double-clicking on handler names will let you 'navigate' among your scripts. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be sto

re: fonts for Director

2001-01-17 Thread Carl West
eresting, my real question is still: "What do I have to do to get Director to pick up my edited bitmap fonts that go with my TrueType font?" Please pardon/understand my crankiness, I've got pressure from my client to do something that the documentation says I can do, but it&#

Embedding Bitmap Fonts

2001-01-12 Thread Carl West
it on my system. Works great, the 16 and 18 point look great. Embed the font, specifically including the 16 and 18 point bitmaps, and they're not making it. They display in neither field nor text members. What am I doing wrong? If I re-export the font from Fontographer as Postscript might it hav

Re: Doubled messages

2001-01-04 Thread Carl West
hanks!] They're getting re-posted, but it's only a single echo, not a feed back loop. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure fo

Re: This is probably easy, but i cant work it

2001-01-04 Thread Carl West
w me timex = 1 pIncrement = 1 return me end on exitFrame starttimex() end on starttimex timex = timex + pIncrement if timex = 50 then pIncrement = -1 if timex = 1 then pIncrement = 1 end -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my

Doubled messages

2001-01-04 Thread Carl West
.net (8.9.2/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA74408; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 11:34:34 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail1.fcgnetworks.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA02118 for lingo-send; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 11:34:04 -0500 (EST) -- Carl W

Re: Can somebody help please ?

2000-12-21 Thread Carl West
e' after stopping him or check _before_ moving him whether he will collide and stop him before he does. try this: Move a 'footprint' bitmap _behind_ the background layer, check for a collision, if there isn't one, move the man onto the footprint, if there is a collision, move the

Re: Simple text highliting problem/bug

2000-12-19 Thread Carl West
lan on using text darker than the background. I don't know if that fixes everything, but it's a start. This only works with colored shapes. Bitmaps of any bitdepth obscure and interfere with making the selection. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no

Re: What Is the Best File format for Images???

2000-12-19 Thread Carl West
Jon Paul Alongi wrote: > > hi jon... > if your image is less than 256 colors then use gif > more than 256 use jpg... > the lowest compressed format that suports transpaerency is Gif > other than that its PSD (maybe Png, cant remember) TIFF also carries an alpha cha

Re: moving sprite

2000-12-01 Thread Carl West
h has go the frame frameScript). > This is what I tried earlier. Of course as I expected the sprite jumped > frame 1 to 15 and repeat. Sounds like what you want is a 'film loop' In Director help, search on "film loop" and click on "using film loops" -- Carl West

Re: My last point

2000-11-30 Thread Carl West
. It's a short trail of breadcrumbs. When you find that the trail was bad (caused a collision) you wipe it out and start a new one. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awh

Re: How do I lock a Director file

2000-11-29 Thread Carl West
le into - > > then press proceed - it will turn your file into a .dxr which will mean that > > your movie can only be accessed via a projector . The external casts can also be protected in the way that Roberta describes. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I hav

Re: Re: Font Help (Fontographer)

2000-11-29 Thread Carl West
hinting." I looked in the > manual and cannot find anything on this. Anyone know? this might help: http://www.macromedia.com/support/fontographer/ts/documents/tn3733.html#7 -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of oth

Re: Re: Font Help (Fontographer)

2000-11-29 Thread Carl West
pher newsgroup on their server: forums.macromedia.com -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [To remove yourself f

Re: HELLPP!!

2000-11-10 Thread Carl West
have 'showTime's sprinkled through it? It's gross, but it could work. What version of Director? -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabell

Re: INternational Chars in Field

2000-11-07 Thread Carl West
n, too. > > Which characters are you having problems with? Are they characters from the > Portuguese alphabet, or another Western European language (i.e., Spanish, > French, German, etc.) And which font(s)? We've had problems with 14 point Arial that (I didn't do _exhaustive

Re: case command

2000-11-07 Thread Carl West
Leon McComish wrote: You can also use the case statement for very disparate conditions: case TRUE of (x=y): do something ((the moveiname).char(1) <> "A"): do something else (the soundenabled): do some other thing end case -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830

Re: Moving an image under a mask?

2000-11-03 Thread Carl West
and slide it up and down as desired. either by adjusting the scrollTop or simply changing the loc of the sprite. Or you could just use a boxType = (#fixed or "fixed"(text or field)) and manipulate it with the scrolltop and/ or scrollByLine or scrollByPage Is this helpful? clear? -- C

Re: me

2000-10-30 Thread Carl West
pt "TheBehaviourInQuestion",x)) and in the behaviour have: property spriteNum on new me, passedSpriteNum spriteNum = passedSpriteNum return me end -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I

Re: Select Folder Dialog

2000-10-25 Thread Carl West
"don't worry about the filename" message in the filename field is what I use on my in-house tools. Just strip the last item off the returned pathname. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other

Re: mostRecentCuePoint not so recent

2000-10-25 Thread Carl West
Time against the list: check for an exact match, failing that, add the current movieTime to the list, see where it is in the list, take the item one less than that as your answer then delete the current movieTime from the list. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I hav

Re: script problem

2000-10-24 Thread Carl West
uot;5right") end case end try: on xKeyDown me, nKeyCode case nKeyCode of 125: me.changeCast(-1) 126: me.changeCast(1) 123: me.changeCast(-1) 124: me.changeCast(1) end case end -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no

Re: script problem

2000-10-24 Thread Carl West
his only works for one of the four buttons (keyCode 126) and the other buttons only change sprite 1 -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure f

Re: Printing

2000-10-20 Thread Carl West
member(fieldx).text = member(fieldx).text & Return & Return end repeat -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Sc

Re: AppleScript and Director

2000-10-20 Thread Carl West
r. A solution exists. Cool. Now I have to go find the problem. ;) -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [To remove you

AppleScript and Director

2000-10-19 Thread Carl West
Perverse curiosity: Is it possible to make a Projector AppleScriptable? I don't have a project in mind, I've just started messing with AppleScript and I'm curious. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stol

Re: Squeeze an object

2000-10-18 Thread Carl West
so the car doesn't actually touch the box newBoxRight = max(boxRight, sprite(car).rect[3] + padding sprite(box).rect = rect(boxLeft, boxTop, newBoxRight, boxBottom) end You would probably test to see if the car was all the way in the box and stop its rightward motion when it is. -- Ca

Re: Re: Lingo-L Digest V1 #1675

2000-10-18 Thread Carl West
hat footer! I don't know which amuses me more, that or the spelling. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [T

Re: setfiltermask on a Mac

2000-10-18 Thread Carl West
Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions wrote: > > >From: Carl West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >I'm trying to show only Quicktime movies in the dialog: > > > > foo = new(xtra "fileio") > > setfilterMask (foo, "MooV") > > p

Re: Re: Lingo-L Digest V1 #1672

2000-10-17 Thread Carl West
roy crisman wrote: > >>www.ajitkhimjigroup.com > > Can't see it in netscape, because the dcr is being served out as > text/plain, not x-application/shockwave or whatever. Ahh... perhaps that 'splains the broken icon and the re-direct to the plugin site. -- C

Re: setfiltermask on a Mac

2000-10-17 Thread Carl West
ra version 7.0.2r85 Could be time to re-install Director? -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [To remove

setfiltermask on a Mac

2000-10-17 Thread Carl West
xt") it shows only the subdirectories in the directory, no files at all. I'm clearly doing something wrong here but I have no idea where else to look for an answer, I tried DOUG, updateStage, the Macromedia site, Director help, the manuals, Director Demystified, another third party book... n

Re: problem lingo

2000-10-16 Thread Carl West
ounds like Patchareepan wants to import a bitmap that is in an external folder and show it on the screen, I can't tell whether (s)he wants to do it in authoring mode or in the executable though. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay

Re: using field

2000-10-16 Thread Carl West
ype = #fixed or #scrolling -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [To remove yourself from this list, or to chan

Re: Urgent - Please help!!!

2000-10-16 Thread Carl West
(1000,1000) end When the menu goes away, there'll probably be a brief hole in the movie where the menu was. I'm not sure what to do about that. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will at

Re: keyPresses

2000-10-10 Thread Carl West
detect all > 4 arrow keys at once, but most of the time 3 of the keys were detected!!! My G4 with a macally keyboard showed all combinations of the arrow keys in any order. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of

Re: help with "Script Error:"

2000-10-10 Thread Carl West
ed to convert to member reference > syntax: > member(a,b) > > set memDefault = member(the membernum of member memref + 1) of castlib? > castlibnum" Hmmm... try moving the right parenthesis: set memDefault = member(the membernum of member memref + 1 of castlib castlibnum) --

Re: HELP: dividing up a character string

2000-10-10 Thread Carl West
gt; it in a string and record it's value. Hmm... you want the 'word' after the variable name ... return DataString.word[1 + (DataString.char[1..(offset(VariableName,DataString))]).word.count] -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure;

self-replicating movie (was: Creating a customised game to send as attachment

2000-10-06 Thread Carl West
Carl West wrote: > Storing each scriptText as text in the projector and doing something like: > >member(1).scripttext = member("script1").text > > before doing the savemovie lets you re-create it. I don't know if the > scriptType stays or not, or if i

Re: chaps

2000-10-06 Thread Carl West
t's Friday, and I'm waiting for feedback from a client. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [To remove

Re: Creating a customised game to send as attachment

2000-10-04 Thread Carl West
here's potential here. You'd basically be having the movie re-write itself. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3

Re: image library picture cdrom

2000-10-03 Thread Carl West
on the screen as needed. Not a lot of programming, but a lot of graphic work. or you could break the components down to subunits and build each frame on the fly, lots of programming, but not as much graphic work. BTW, did you know your machine clock is/was off by more than 39 years? -- Carl

Re: foreColor line hiliting in a text field

2000-10-03 Thread Carl West
he other way around). You're stuck using conventional syntax. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [To remove y

Re: repeat question

2000-10-03 Thread Carl West
Magnus Ewald wrote: > Whats wrong with this syntax: > > repeat with i = 1 to 10 > getat(gbildspel, i) > end repeat > > Director doesnt seem to understand the "i"mmmkay ? Are you sure it's the 'i' it doesn't get? what does gbildspel loo

Re: Performance--clear difference

2000-10-02 Thread Carl West
ectionList[x] = VdirectionList[x] * -1 end if end repeat updateStage end repeat end see it at: http://people.ne.mediaone.net/eisen/badIdeas/30bounce.dcr 12 circle bitmaps with background transparent ink 18 square bitmaps with copy ink -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246

Re: Sanity check

2000-10-02 Thread Carl West
end up hard to re-use or modify, but if speed is the imperative you cut every corner you run into. You can tweak the movement factors for the main sprite to get the animation speed you want on the target machine. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisur

Re: following sprites

2000-09-29 Thread Carl West
lltop' property will let you control the scrolling of the text member through lingo. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure,

Re: Transparency with 3 layers?????

2000-09-27 Thread Carl West
Nikaj Wiggers wrote: > > Thanks! > But how can I move the Alpha channel as a mask? > > nikaj > > Carl West wrote: > > > > Easy enough to do using mask ink on im3 and changing the regPoint on > > im3's mask according to the movement of im2 over im1.

Re: Transparency with 3 layers?????

2000-09-27 Thread Carl West
be an X-ray viewer that shows the skeleton inside the body for example? Easy enough to do using mask ink on im3 and changing the regPoint on im3's mask according to the movement of im2 over im1. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay

Re: SV: case question

2000-09-27 Thread Carl West
Is that what he wanted? Only he knows for sure :-) When he asked for a case statement, I figured that he wanted only one of the results. Fun exercise. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend

Re: Whats the difference? the currentSpriteNum and me.spriteNum

2000-09-26 Thread Carl West
would need to do it with something like: add(sprite(x).scriptinstanceList, new(script "foo"),x) And the behaviour'll have to have the property 'spriteNum' declared and set explicitly in its 'new' handler property spriteNum on new me, x spriteNum = x re

Re: Whats the difference? the currentSpriteNum and me.spriteNum

2000-09-26 Thread Carl West
eir own spriteNum. But if you're assigning them on the fly with Lingo they won't, you'll need to do it with something like: add(sprite(x).scriptinstanceList, new(script "foo"),x) And it'll have to have the property 'spriteNum' declared and set explicitly in

Re: SV: case question

2000-09-26 Thread Carl West
Carl West wrote: > > Magnus Ewald wrote: > > > > Hey there.. > > > > This should be an easy one > > How do you "case" the following script > > > > - > > on rumpan > > if gAntbild>0 then > >

Re: SV: case question

2000-09-26 Thread Carl West
sprite(64).member=member getAt(gValda, 5) of castlib "internal" (gAntbild>5) : sprite(65).member=member getAt(gValda, 6) of castlib "internal" end case end or, on rumpan if gAntbild>0 then theValue = min(gAntbild,6) sprite (59 +theValue) .member =

Re: RGB commands

2000-09-22 Thread Carl West
blue; they > become hot, like commands, yet I can't find any > documentation on them. Can anyone help? Thanks. In D7: On a whim I tried this and it worked: color = rgb(23,34,54) put color.green -- 34 put color.red -- 23 put color.blue -- 54 -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x2

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