RE: lingo-l [OT] This could affect us ALL :(

2001-08-24 Thread Colin Holgate
get it? Goodbye EMBED. Goodby Shockwave, goodby Flash!!!1 Is it not true that Active-X able media will be safe? that includes Shockwave, Flash, and QuickTime. -- [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l : 3d collision

2001-08-22 Thread Colin Holgate
I've tried different scripts, those given in this list, to add collision to a camera, but unfortunately it doesn't work :-(( I think I make a mistake on the place for this script. Have you succeeded in adding collision to a model? If you have, then just move that model around the world, and

Re: lingo-l flash 4 swf and QT direct to stage flickering

2001-08-09 Thread Colin Holgate
I'm trying to use a flash 4 interface as a background and then play a quicktime direct to stage (director projector, v8) but the video is flickering like mad. if i use a bitmap as the background it runs fine. can't qt and swfs coincide? any help would be appreciated. If the Flash sprite is

RE: lingo-l Sound control slider in different movies

2001-08-08 Thread Colin Holgate
The quickest and easiest method would be to write the sound control setting into a global variable and then when you reach the new movie, set the sound controllers postion based on the setting from the global variable that you have previously written to. Most of what I was going to say. The

Re: lingo-l huge memory spikes when changing quicktime memberfilename?

2001-08-03 Thread Colin Holgate
Is this normal? I never noticed it before. How big is huge? QuickTime will load some frames into memory, ready for a smooth take off. Don't worry about it. -- [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

RE: lingo-l mouse over which sprite?

2001-08-03 Thread Colin Holgate
YES, that is it! Really poor memory, thanks, now I can stop wondering. I'm glad you're memory is back, but the clickon only refers to the sprite that was clicked on, and not the sprite that the cursor is over when it's not pressed. One other thing to be away of is that it may not work well

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

2001-08-02 Thread Colin Holgate
Our choice to go with D7 (rather than D6) basically causes our product (a 23-title cd-rom series) to look awful on any machine set to 8-bit. (and yes, I'm quite experienced at palettes and all... it's a combination of 2 8-bit bugs in D7). Thank you Macromedia. :( I was on the D7 beta, and

Re: lingo-l mouse over which sprite?

2001-08-02 Thread Colin Holgate
Ok, this is plain silly, but I can't remember the function that returns the spritenumber of the sprite the mouse is currently over... I remember the mousemember and the rollover() functions, but those returns any sprite, and I only want it to return the spritenumber, if the sprite contains a

Re: lingo-l Re:screen refresh with directmedia xtra

2001-08-01 Thread Colin Holgate
I am playing (hold your breath) Can you send another message soon, say within the next minute or so. I'm already turning blue. As for the other questions, Director 8 has a flushinputevents to get rid of mouse and keyboard entries, and you might get somewhere with setting the stagecolor to

Re: lingo-l While shockwave is loading

2001-07-31 Thread Colin Holgate
I want to keep the user busy while a shockwave movie is loading. I figured I'll use the idleLoad while playing a small movie to check if the desired members have arrived. When the cast members are loaded I will start the main feature. I haven't been able to figure out from the documentation

Re: lingo-l keeping miaw in foreground always

2001-07-30 Thread Colin Holgate
As the main movie is full screen, after the window pops up and I click on the main movie, it disappears behind the main movie. Is there a way of preventing that and keeping the pop-up in the foreground until i specifically close it with 'close' or 'forget'? possibly without an xtra, as I am

RE: lingo-l order of handlers execution

2001-07-29 Thread Colin Holgate
Let me just say some things out of My experience: - QuickTime Is Great - Sorenson is terriffic - Director Rocks The way that QuickTime uses memory can confuse the memory inspector. Have you seen a symptom of the alleged 4 GB of RAM being used? Doesn't everything just proceed fine if you ignore

RE: lingo-l order of handlers execution

2001-07-29 Thread Colin Holgate
Not really. I've had some very freaky problems. Videos start to stutter, (the first video never does it, the third or fourth will...) Director frame rates drop (slightly), sometimes I get the freakiest crashes (Explorer/Finder crashes when running the nth video in Dir...) I would always set the

RE: lingo-l order of handlers execution

2001-07-29 Thread Colin Holgate
hi Colin. This seems to be becoming a dialogue... I'm not sure what of my comments you are answering, but let me guess: The stuttering which I am referring to is: a# not only at the start of the Clip, but throughout (and gets worse as time passes) b# I also am doing that... c# The stuttering

Re: lingo-l the milliseconds 0

2001-07-29 Thread Colin Holgate
Thanks, Tab! That's interesting. Overflow of what? I turn on my computer, fire up my D8, and get an classic overflow symptom. The stack must be brimming, and life is getting more exciting by the second :-). ! At 09:46 PM 7/29/2001 -0400, you wrote: It's a classic overflow symptom, but I'm

Re: lingo-l File IO

2001-07-28 Thread Colin Holgate
am I right in thinking that .ls is the usual suffix for external lingo scripts? You probably are, but I think Kerry was concatenating all his scripts into one text file. [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 Screen capture

2001-07-25 Thread Colin Holgate
Does anyone know an alternative to ScrnXtra for capturing a protion of the screen to a cast member? I'd been using ScrnXtra but it fails sometimes in D8.5. Thanks. You can set the picture of a bitmap to the picture of the stage, and then crop the bitmap to what you need. Or you can use imaging

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

2001-07-25 Thread Colin Holgate
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 To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL

Re: lingo-l mac stub dir 8.5

2001-07-25 Thread Colin Holgate
The last job I had, in the US, the salesguy said get the sound from Eye4U.com. I said I tried, but they haven't responded to my email. No, I think salesguy and ceo just want you to capture it. said projectManager. Uh...you can't do that! quoth I. Sure you canjust hold the microphone up to

lingo-l making islands

2001-07-24 Thread Colin Holgate
I just worked this out, with a combination of reading Werner posts and looking at the help: on islands m1,m2,m3 i = member(m1).image.duplicate() i2 = image(i.width,i.height,32) i.copypixels(member(m2).image, i.rect, i.rect, [#ink:2]) i2.copypixels(member(m2).image, i.rect, i.rect,

Re: lingo-l Comparing Multiple Lists with One List

2001-07-24 Thread Colin Holgate
on mouseUP if (gListStorage OR gListStorage1) = gFrameClips then go scn 3a else if (gListStorage1 OR gListStorage) = gFrameClips1 then go scn 3b end if end You need to test both: if ((gListStorage = gFrameClips) or ( gListStorage1 = gFrameClips)) then -- [To remove yourself

Re: lingo-l strange thing in the property window

2001-07-23 Thread Colin Holgate
on no!! I must have a freak version of director 8.5, there is nothing clickable in my property inspector window. Basically I get a thumbnail of the cast member; and like you say there is the drum like icon at the bottom right corner of the thumbnail, but I can't click/select it The drum Nik

Re: lingo-l strange thing in the property window

2001-07-23 Thread Colin Holgate
yeah but as I say - my property inspector looks nothing like that, there is NOTHING to click on, if there was an option that said Loop of course I would check/uncheck it - but there is nothing available =O Are you sure you have the film loop selected in the cast window at the same time you are

Re: lingo-l South Africa

2001-07-23 Thread Colin Holgate
Uh-ohTabs gonna throw the book at us now... :-P If the book he throws is Gary's game book, make sure to give it to Pascal. -- [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

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

2001-07-23 Thread Colin Holgate
the key is iterating backwards. if you iterate forward 1 char at a time, and you replace one char, the quote, with a multi char string, the repeat loop gets mighty confused about where it is. the same thing can happen when you loop through a list, and change the list in the loop. do it backwards,

Re: Re: lingo-l cropping images based on a common background

2001-07-23 Thread Colin Holgate
I missed this thread because I've been away, but (with a lot of help from Colin, actually - and Werner Sharp as well), I made a Dir utility that does this kind of thing through imaging lingo. It's not fully tested, but should at least get you on the right track. If you still need help with that,

Re: lingo-l cropping images based on a common background

2001-07-22 Thread Colin Holgate
I want to crop my images based on a common background, I mean I have a series of images with a common background, on which only a few things change, for eg. only the text changes, I want to know whether is there an xtra or a s/w which will crop my images based on the changes alone i.e. the

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

2001-07-22 Thread Colin Holgate
Is there a way to achieve what I need? Try this: on convertQuote aField aString = the text of field aField temp = aString.char.count quotestring = quotequotequote repeat with i = temp down to 1 if char i of aString = quote then put quotestring into char i of aString

Re: lingo-l Retrieving HTML parameters from URL

2001-07-20 Thread Colin Holgate
I have the situation where on starting a shockwave game, the engine gives me a parameter in the URL like http://xxx/numbers1.htm?lmsid=3 Now I need to be able to get the data from the URL, especially the characters which come after the question mark. I'd hate having to use Javascript for it as I

Re: lingo-l the text of the frame script

2001-07-20 Thread Colin Holgate
Is there some reason you can't just use markers? Put a marker on each frame you have as a stopping point, and then use go next or go previous to do the navigation. [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

RE: lingo-l integer to RGB

2001-07-19 Thread Colin Holgate
Ur welcome Chris I think Colin deserved some thanx too...he _wrote_ it! :-) Why thanks! [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 Gary Smith's email address

2001-07-17 Thread Colin Holgate
Probably still [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [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]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming

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

2001-07-16 Thread Colin Holgate
If you have a macintosh, use the Peak LE on the cdrom to convert your files to the .swa format. On windows, 1. go to xtras menu, select convert wav to swa I must be in the mood for policing! Did you read the part about it needing to work in a projector? -- [To remove yourself from this

Re: lingo-l spatialized or 3d sound in Director

2001-07-16 Thread Colin Holgate
Well, if all you want to do is mix a piece of music using teh mouse location, you can use the internal lingo sound stuff, or the Beatnik Xtra...unless you're saying you want to export the sound to a new file. That wouldn't make the sound appear to be coming from a direction outside of the

Re: lingo-l spatialized or 3d sound in Director

2001-07-16 Thread Colin Holgate
does anyone know of an existing Xtra to get 3d or spatialized sound out of Director on a Mac? The piece will need mix sounds on the fly, depending on the mouse location. The closest I can find is Yair Sageev's SoundSprocket, which seems to no longer exist. Try this beautifull and free xtra :

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

2001-07-16 Thread Colin Holgate
and if y mod x = 0 then {it divides evenly} --bhakti Irv was clearer on this point, the mod technique only applies if you know the number is an integer, because float mod integer = integer. -- [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

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

2001-07-16 Thread Colin Holgate
hey, if you're expecting clarity from me, you're in for a lifetime of disappointment Can you elaborate on that? Just kidding, I'll look forward to the disappointments. -- [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To

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

2001-07-16 Thread Colin Holgate
At 15:35 -0700 2001_07_16, R. Bhakti Klein wrote: well, i'll try to deliver on that, but i hope i don't disappoint you by failing to disappoint you... Bhakti, I don't understand; what is your problem? Maybe think some more about it, and then rephrase the question. There are many helpful people

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

2001-07-16 Thread Colin Holgate
Either Jakob wasn't following the humorous exchange and really thinks Bhakti has a problem, or what he just said was even more subtle humor than ours was. Colin, I don't understand; what is your problem? And before anybody else asks me to solve their problems too, there are limits, and I'm

Re: lingo-l charPosToLoc--Interesting

2001-07-16 Thread Colin Holgate
Is this a bug or a feature? It's returning a point for a character that doesn't exist. It's giving the location of the character before the one you mentioned. In the case of that being any amount more than the number of characters, you get the location after the last character. It is useful,

Re: lingo-l please it is very urgent i need help

2001-07-15 Thread Colin Holgate
Hello dears Can any one tell me that i have made a presentation in macromedia Director on the windows plate form but i need to play it on Mac. How is this possible Please guide me coz i m not very good in lingo. i recently started working director. And i have to present it

Re: lingo-l QUICKTIME questions

2001-07-13 Thread Colin Holgate
Incidentally, using DV as an abbreviation for digital video can be confusing. DV is specifically the codec used in DV cameras, and that can make quite a difference to the answer, if the codec was DV. I'm guessing that it's not, and that the key frames are set wide apart. If you go to the

Re: lingo-l extract a font from a cast member

2001-07-12 Thread Colin Holgate
help help please does anybody have an idea? Can't you just fill a field with 256 characters in that font? -- [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

RE: lingo-l LDM communicating with other sprite(s)?

2001-07-10 Thread Colin Holgate
on mouseUp me pString = Hear ye! Hear ye! tell (the stage) to tell sprite 5 to #testMsg(pString) end This line should just say: tell the stage to tell sprite 5 to testMsg(pString) no need for the symbol mark. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

RE: lingo-l Set Cue Point To Sound

2001-07-09 Thread Colin Holgate
In Director's help, I find a function wait for the cue point of the sound, however, how can I add the cue point to the sound? Using the sound editing program that came with Director. -- [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l LDM or Film Loop?

2001-07-09 Thread Colin Holgate
It does sound like film loops are the way to go. The interaction is really pretty simple in most cases. I'll just have to put in some code to notify me when the film loop reaches the last frame so I can stop it (that is, swap a static bitmap member into the sprite--I don't think you can

Re: lingo-l LDM communicating with other sprite(s)?

2001-07-09 Thread Colin Holgate
Is there a way for an LDM to communicate with other sprite(s) on the stage? something like -- script from an LDM -- tell the stage to tell sprite X to #handlerToCall, {args} Thanks in advance. I think that should work. Have you tried it? [To remove yourself from this list, or to

Re: lingo-l Scrolling Timeline Image

2001-07-02 Thread Colin Holgate
global currentLoc on mouseEnter me currentLoc = the locH of sprite 54 repeat while currentLoc 3400 sprite(54).locH = currentLoc + 10 currentLoc = the locH of sprite 54 updateStage end repeat end mouseEnter on mouseLeave stopEvent end Any suggestion? Your repeat

Re: lingo-l volume of QT movie

2001-07-01 Thread Colin Holgate
I'm not exactly sure where I need to place the volume scriptshould it be a frame script or attached as a behavior to the cast member. I have tried to do both and this causes director to skip right through the movies and go to the next marker. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. A

Re: lingo-l volume of QT movie

2001-07-01 Thread Colin Holgate
Fixing the volume in QuickTime would of course be the best solution, but at this time it's just not possible. If you put the movie somewhere, I can fix it. [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

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

2001-06-30 Thread Colin Holgate
Fantastic! Thank you, Terry and Buzz. S. At 01:51 AM 6/30/2001 -0700, you wrote: ...Copy the Director application (the authoring executable). Open the copy in ResEdit or Resourcerer and examine the BNDL resource, ID 128... The CREATOR code (in this case, MD03) is shown at the top of the window

Re: lingo-l disable Esc button

2001-06-28 Thread Colin Holgate
I'm really troubled by your reaction, Whatson. A good come back might have been it's not always elementary, my dear Watson. -- [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]

Re: lingo-l macro -

2001-06-28 Thread Colin Holgate
At any rate, if there's anyone in San Fran looking for a job, I'm sure one of the macromedia guys on the list might be able to put in a word or two for the high-visibility ones on the list Perhaps James Khazar should apply? He's qualified, and it would put him in a position to smash the

RE: lingo-l grabbing the stage faster

2001-06-28 Thread Colin Holgate
I've never seen the stage.image slow or stall a computer either. This works very well for me every time I've used it. He was talking about the picture of the stage causing a stall, not the image of the stage. Maybe it does sometimes? -- [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to

Re: lingo-l Save and compact

2001-06-28 Thread Colin Holgate
'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. I'm not sure

RE: lingo-l disable Esc button

2001-06-27 Thread Colin Holgate
Wow, Kamil...you have GOT to see this absolutely terrific feature!! That wouldn't be slightly tongue in cheek, would it, Chris? :P I wouldn't have said slightly. Incidentally, maybe they have D8.5 and can't cope with the HTML help? -- [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to

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

2001-06-21 Thread Colin Holgate
Umh, Is the Flash member also set to direct to stage? It may not have to be to cause the flashing. Set the static of the Flash member to true as well as DTS to false. -- [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 SW3D antialiasing???

2001-06-20 Thread Colin Holgate
Is there really no way to get antialiasing on the SW3D scenes? It depends. The inside of bitmap textures are scaled very nicely, and you can improve that somewhat by changing the quality setting. You can also get nice edges to textures. Take a look at this:

Re: lingo-l Need help with audio hiccuping!

2001-06-20 Thread Colin Holgate
on beginsprite me if soundBusy(1) then sound(1).stop() sound(1).queue([#member: member(prog_intro)]) --79 sound(1).play() end Perhaps setting a flag and doing the sound on exitframe would help. That way any sprites that have media loading won't be fighting with the playing of the

RE: lingo-l digital movie playback

2001-06-20 Thread Colin Holgate
IMHO, It's hard to find a mac without QT. The problem might be, that the verion of QT is not recent enough for MPEG playback (v.4 is needed if memory serves) There was an add-on to QuickTime 2.5 that allowed MPEG playback. Pretty sure it was built into QT3. -- [To remove yourself from this

RE: lingo-l Need help with audio hiccuping!

2001-06-20 Thread Colin Holgate
I put the soundbusy(1) line in because when I jumped from another frame that had an audio playing they really seemed to crash into each other. I didn't mean you don't have to stop sound 1, I was saying that you don't need to check if it's currently playing, just go ahead and stop it

RE: lingo-l digital movie playback

2001-06-20 Thread Colin Holgate
IMHO, It's hard to find a mac without QT. The problem might be, that the verion of QT is not recent enough for MPEG playback (v.4 is needed if memory serves) There was an add-on to QuickTime 2.5 that allowed MPEG playback. Pretty sure it was built into QT3. I've read something else now, and I

Re: lingo-l lastEvent problem - please help!

2001-06-20 Thread Colin Holgate
*) please ignore my english... That's such a perfect phrase. I guess you mean pardon my English, because answering your question having ignored the English would be hard. Speaking of which: The lastevent give the number of ticks since the last mouse movement or keypress, etc. It seems to

Re: lingo-l Best way to make an audio intensive slideshow forthe web

2001-06-18 Thread Colin Holgate
My question is, what is the best way to set this up for streaming? Would it be best to cut the audio up by slide, test when it's complete and move onto the next slide? Director or Flash? It sounds like it would be easiest in Flash or QuickTime. -- [To remove yourself from this list, or to

RE: lingo-l Best way to make an audio intensive slideshow forthe web

2001-06-18 Thread Colin Holgate
Do you know of a way to test for whether audio is playing or complete in flash? I need a way to move to the next slide. I'm not Mr. Flash by any means, but you have the option of breaking the sound track into event sounds, which I think can still be streamed. That way you should be able to

Re: AW: lingo-l Best way to make an audio intensive slideshowfor the web

2001-06-18 Thread Colin Holgate
It sounds like it would be easiest in Flash or QuickTime. Colin! Just easier in Flash or better in Flash? Or better in Director BUT easier in Flash? Just opening Flash is hard enough, but I meant in terms of playback. You could make a QuickTime movie that was exactly what you wanted,

Re: lingo-l JPEGs displayed better via Flash or Director (wasBest way to make an audio)

2001-06-18 Thread Colin Holgate
1) import pre-compressed (JPEGs compressed in FW4 or debabilizer) images into a Director cast for display, or 2) Use Flash Generator/Developer to create a Flash 5 SWF for each pre-compressed image and import these SWFs into Director. One interesting thing about Flash is that it keeps the JPEG

Re: lingo-l targetingmovies within movies

2001-06-17 Thread Colin Holgate
I have imported other director movies .dcr into my main movie .. Is it possible to send lingo commands between the movies .. eg / I have a imported movie called Nav for navigation ..when a sprite is clicked in the main movie I would like to be able to target a frameLabel of the movie Nav You

Re: lingo-l put... after in example on p. 403 of D8 LDictionary

2001-06-17 Thread Colin Holgate
put sprite(1).member.line[1] --text member --This is Line 1. put XX after sprite(1).member.line[1] Script Error: Wrong Type (In other words, the example in the article about put... after on p. 403 of Lingo Dictionary produces an error when used with my text member.) Are you sure that's what

Re: lingo-l please help

2001-06-16 Thread Colin Holgate
The result I get in my answer member ... Now to the problem... the scritpt works perfectly but if I have say 15 chapters there will be 15 case of scripts and 15 alternatives too.. Is there away to do the same with less code? The whole approach may have problems, but sticking with it, you can

Re: lingo-l please help

2001-06-16 Thread Colin Holgate
If it's asking for an integer, give it an integer: put char (integer(the text of field a)) of chapterletters into char a of answertext Or value(the text of field a). I did just type my script into the e-mail, so that may not be the only imperfection. It would be good for you to try and

Re: lingo-l using a 32-bit image as texture on 3D model

2001-06-15 Thread Colin Holgate
New 3-D lingo question, is it possible to make the first shader/texture on a model transparent. As my texture, I am wrapping an image with an alpha channel around it and I want to bea able to see through where the mask is masking. Any ideas? Set the renderformat to #rgba -- [To remove

Re: lingo-l rgb to integer and back

2001-06-14 Thread Colin Holgate
but how to get r, g or even b?? mm´s mystery... myColor = rgb(12,34,56); put myColor.red -- 12 put myColor.green -- 34 put myColor.blue -- 56 That doesn't help. The integer in question would be something like 16049358. I'm trying various things to get the conversion myself, and I'm doing

Re: lingo-l rgb to integer and back

2001-06-14 Thread Colin Holgate
but how to get r, g or even b?? mm´s mystery... myColor = rgb(12,34,56); put myColor.red -- 12 put myColor.green -- 34 put myColor.blue -- 56 That doesn't help. The integer in question would be something like 16049358. I'm trying various things to get the conversion myself, and I'm doing

Re: lingo-l calendar stuff

2001-06-13 Thread Colin Holgate
http://home.earthlink.net/~joeoneil/Testbed/allYears.html Not quite the same thing, but take a look at this thing I did last year (it's just a series of screenshots): http://page-a-day.com/preview/index.html? This was developed in Director 7, and makes good use of linked Director movies. [To

Re: lingo-l Set monitor resolution on MAC projector

2001-06-06 Thread Colin Holgate
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 I dare say that BuddyAPI can do this, but you might think about it carefully. I own three Macs and use a fourth at work. None of them can show 1152 x 870,

RE: lingo-l director 8.5 serial :-E

2001-06-06 Thread Colin Holgate
(It's like handing out car keys from the local BMW dealership) If jilesh give a Director serial number to Nicolas Cage, would they make a film out of it, called Gone In Sixty Milliseconds? -- [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

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

2001-06-06 Thread Colin Holgate
Is it possible to test whether the .day portion of a date object is a particular day of the week, say Sunday? Something like the code below, (which doesn't work)? set gTheFullDate_RPF_date = date(20010606) put gTheFullDate_RPF_date.day = Sunday There are routines that let you calculate the

RE: lingo-l director 8.5 serial :-E

2001-06-06 Thread Colin Holgate
remember that Director doesn't use seconds, so wouldn't it be gone in 3.6 ticks? Well, that may be why I said milliseconds. If you want to match it to the real films, then it would be Gone In 60,000 Milliseconds. -- [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l Arrow Keys

2001-06-06 Thread Colin Holgate
I need to make them work in a text box so that wherever the cursor is sitting, if you click the back arrow it jumps the cursor back to the previous character. And same idea for forward arrow. Basically exactly what the arrow keys do then! Look at the selstart and selend functions. You can get

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

2001-06-06 Thread Colin Holgate
I have been trying to publish a director movie with a small QT movie in it, the movie is mpeg format from Premier, when I hit publish it opens the browser and I get the red square and then the error stating there is no xtra I have the movie in the same directory, and did a insert media to get

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

2001-06-06 Thread Colin Holgate
maybe the following function will help you a littel bit: Many more lines later... Hopefully you can see that my one line solution is a little easier on the eyes! It could be easily adapted for German, but isn't much use for saying whether it's a valid date for that month, or if it's a leap

Re: lingo-l Imaging Lingo Weirdness

2001-06-06 Thread Colin Holgate
Any help greatly appreciated! What is the centerregpoint setting for the bitmap? -- [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 Imaging Lingo Weirdness

2001-06-06 Thread Colin Holgate
What is the centerregpoint setting for the bitmap? The sprite member's centerregpoint is 0. This sounds on point--what should it be? 0 sound ok. I was thinking about if it was set to 1, it might make the image jump off to the side. That wouldn't account for there being two of them though.

RE: lingo-l How to preserve keyboard interaction in swish files?

2001-06-06 Thread Colin Holgate
That said, what the heck is a swish file? Did I miss something along the way? Swish is a authoring tool for creating animated text in Flash. man are you out of it grin I thought he was referring to the sound it made as the text flew in. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change

Re: lingo-l 3-D lingo question

2001-06-05 Thread Colin Holgate
At present, if I apply a texture to 1 models shader all three update. I am sure this sounds like a silly question, I am just finding the instruction manual chock full of lingo but not a lot of examples. You need to have three shaders. Set the shader of each model to a new shader, and then

Re: lingo-l Verifying a date object falls between a certaindate range

2001-06-05 Thread Colin Holgate
Can anyone suggest a way of checking if a date object falls within a predetermined date range? Just test with and : put the systemdate date(2001,6,7) and the systemdate date(2001,6,5) -- 0 Tomorrow this would return a 1. -- [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest

Re: lingo-l Problem with lists

2001-06-05 Thread Colin Holgate
the error here reads my.member = gbiglist[x].shape index out of range... What is me.spritenum at this time? What is gbiglist.count? [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

Re: lingo-l director 8.5 serial :-)

2001-06-04 Thread Colin Holgate
Hello Bastien Bouchard. I have serial no of director 8.5 see this... Macromedia Director 8.5 Studio Serial: WDW850-02044-87235-26475 Clearly sent by a very generous person. Or maybe someone who thought he wasn't replying to the list. -- [To remove yourself from this list, or to change

Re: lingo-l Re: Quicktime Movie limitations

2001-06-04 Thread Colin Holgate
But its good to know that we were on track for the machines we originally thought we were targeting. We are redesigning the disks to use either 640x480 or 320x240 QT movies, based on the system. One thing to watch out for is that size isn't everything (that's what I tell people anyway). A

Re: lingo-l deleting everything but numbers from a field member

2001-06-04 Thread Colin Holgate
Can anyone tell me, is there an easy way to delete all characters other than numbers from a field member? There's lots of ways. For example: newtext = t = member(text field).text c = the number of chars in t repeat with a = 1 to c if 1234567890 contains char a of t then put char a of t

Re: lingo-l Acrobat problems

2001-06-04 Thread Colin Holgate
I have included Acrobat on the CD. It is on the same level as the exe. Any ideas? By exe, do you mean the projector? If that's the case, why don't you open with the moviepathacroRd32.exe instead of tunneling down three levels? If you mean you have the Acrobat folder at the projector level,

Re: lingo-l Save Veriable in text file

2001-06-03 Thread Colin Holgate
That text saved in his c:\temp folder how can i save that text in particular folder like c:\user(uername folder) get that value back. Which value i want to save that value i store in variable. So please help me out very soon. Perhaps you should use FileIO instead of setpref. Then you could

Re: lingo-l change on marker

2001-06-03 Thread Colin Holgate
I'm trying to change a sprite under lingo control when it passes a marker in the score. Not sure what it is you are going to change, but the thing to look for is the framelabel. When that matches the name of the marker, do the change you want. [To remove yourself from this list, or to

Re: lingo-l Memory leak in Director 8

2001-06-03 Thread Colin Holgate
Is there one that is better than the other, in your opinion? Play/Play done vs. go to movie. Play/Play Done is a pretty convenient way to work. Have you stopped the sounds from playing before doing the Play Done? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l Memory leak in Director 8

2001-06-03 Thread Colin Holgate
I'll just keep searching for the leak, the problem is, it doesn't happen on any of my test machines (isn't that ALWAYS the way), but the testing house says it happens on ALL of their 20 test machines. ?? I have all the platforms, except NT, but no luck replicating the problem. Are the sounds

Re: lingo-l FileXtra - Could this be a factor in the memoryleak in Director 8

2001-06-03 Thread Colin Holgate
Could there be a problem with this Xtra running in 8? I don't think so. It's still on the D8.5 CD in the goodies folder. It wasn't obviously available in D8 or 8.5 because Save As Java was not a standard install option, but the FileXtra and UIHelper area still around. [To remove yourself

Re: lingo-l FreeBytes LIES - Memory leak in Director 8

2001-06-03 Thread Colin Holgate
So Freebytes is NOT reporting correctly. So now I will start stepping through the program watching the Task Manager for potential problems. How do you know for sure that the task manager isn't making the mistake? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l Projectors on Hard Drive being changed

2001-06-01 Thread Colin Holgate
I've seen the error you're getting even when not trying to mess with INI files, so I think that part is just misleading. I can't remember what the problems were for me, but they were something like being out of hard drive space, or working on a drive that didn't have a letter assigned to it.

Re: lingo-l Video playing in Director

2001-05-31 Thread Colin Holgate
Good grief, I posted this last Sunday, and it just showed up? Well, Eudora just crashed and burned a couple hours ago--my apologies if this got double-posted. I've seen a few like that today, not just from you. -- [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

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