Re: lingo-l Karaoke Files

2001-02-23 Thread Colin Holgate
Does anyone knows a way to play ST3 or KAR Files in Director? Any Xtras? You can use the Quicktime Xtra. Just set the filename of a dummy QT member to any external .KAR file. I'm starting to worry now about where my messages are going to. Hopefully you've read the one about importing the

Re: lingo-l Karaoke Files

2001-02-23 Thread Colin Holgate
Completely painless. What have you been smoking, Colin? ;o Unfortunately, nothing, but I was using my PowerBook at home, and I think that when I went up to QT5 Preview 3, it didn't do a full install. My G4 at work has no problems with showing text for the .KAR file. I'll try a full install of

RE: lingo-l 3d engines

2001-02-22 Thread Colin Holgate
wouldn't surprise me, we tried to license their 3D RealPool game a while back and they wanted $100,000 I remembered it as being $10,000. Maybe you had the deluxe version in mind that does time travel as well. As for $2500, I'm not sure what the programmer rates are in India, but that is

Re: lingo-l MPEG Extra and KeyDown

2001-02-22 Thread Colin Holgate
I am playing an mpeg file with Mpeg Extra. For some strange reason the key down script does not work when MPEG is playing. It works fine on a regular page with no video. Any help would be appreciated. i am applying it to a frame script. Any help would be appreciated I've never used MPEG outside

Re: lingo-l Karaoke Files

2001-02-22 Thread Colin Holgate
Does anyone knows a way to play ST3 or KAR Files in Director? Any Xtras? You can open .KAR files in QuickTime Player, save them as .MOV, and they work fine in Director. The music plays using QuickTime instruments, and the text highlights in time with the music. [To remove yourself

Re: lingo-l MPEG Extra and KeyDown

2001-02-22 Thread Colin Holgate
In addition to the others' suggestions, make sure both Director and the projector are set to Animate in Background. That's useful to know, but I guess in this instance it's set that way, otherwise the MPEG wouldn't be playing, would it? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to

Re: lingo-l formating with lingo

2001-02-21 Thread Colin Holgate
member("Textfield","Cast").char[s..e].fontstyle="bold" end It's hard to tell from the word textfield whether you are using a text member or a field member. For fields it looks like the dot syntax may not work on ranges, so you can set the style using

Re: lingo-l (X post) Live video overlay

2001-02-20 Thread Colin Holgate
Laser disks are out, so I will replace with DVD player. Also would not want to do any rendering or steaming of video. That steamed video can easily be overcooked. It's funny really, but those early days had some advantages to them. It wasn't possible to do full screen digital video, so the

Re: lingo-l Trouble opening URL's in Windows

2001-02-02 Thread Colin Holgate
When I run this on windows machines, nothing happens. What an I doing wrong. I'm sure this is an easy question to answer and I'm just missing it. Are you sure that nothing is happening? There are problem cases where the page is opened but not brought to the front. You might use BuddyAPI for

Re: lingo-l linked director movies

2001-02-02 Thread Colin Holgate
global gCursor on mousewithin gCursor = 280 end the cursor works almost fine (it keeps blinking sometimes) without the needing of creating a global. If your cursor is changing without a global, then I think your script is like this: on mousewithin cursor 280 end The important

Re: lingo-l Make the background of a miaw partially transparent

2001-02-01 Thread Colin Holgate
Can anybody tell me how you can make a miaw movie partially transparent.? This is the answer to Erik's last question too: If you mean blended when you say "partially transparent", then no, you can't. If you mean that some of the window is transparent, and some isn't, then yes you can. Set the

Re: lingo-l R.E. QuickTime ticks to HH:MM:SS

2001-02-01 Thread Colin Holgate
If only Director could make a cup of coffee my life would be complete! Have you tried the Java exporter? [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 linked director movies

2001-02-01 Thread Colin Holgate
any suggestion for a workaround? or that'the way things are, accept it and live with it? Work with them in the same way you would a MIAW. From the stage, tell the ldm sprite to do whatever, and then have a whatever handler in the LDM. If that script needs the main movie to do something, have

Re: lingo-l another way to DTS

2001-01-31 Thread Colin Holgate
is there another way to get graphics infront of a movie in Director then using directToStage = FALSE ? Me again. More useful this time. You could put the graphics as a second video track in the QuickTime movie. Set its graphics mode so that the part of the motion video you want to see shows

RE: lingo-l another way to DTS

2001-01-31 Thread Colin Holgate
thanks for your answers on my question but what I wanna do is to put graphics infront of a movie when ever the user presses a button. It's like a menu that appears infront of the movie, it's for a digitalTV-demo and my client wants the movie to run smoothly in the background. The idea of having

Re: lingo-l directToStage

2001-01-29 Thread Colin Holgate
I need to take away the directToStage for some QT-movies in a production because I have to put some graphics in front of the movie. When I deselect the directToStage the movie plays verry badly, is there a way to make the movie run smoothly even though I deselect the directToStage? Yes, you

Re: lingo-l Re: OT: More mind munchies for the Super Bowl

2001-01-29 Thread Colin Holgate
I can lend you the first movement of the 10th symphony, if the game runs long. Forget the symphony--I want the name of your psychic connection ;-) Here's a brief bio of him: http://www.abrsmpublishing.co.uk/biog/Cooper_Barry.html [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest

Re: lingo-l right mouse button on shockwave

2001-01-29 Thread Colin Holgate
hi, listees how can i get rid of that shockwave context menu and be able to use the right mouse click to perform some I don't think you can get rid of it, but you can affect what appears in there by changing your publishing settings. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to

Re: lingo-l Re: OT: More mind munchies for the Super Bowl

2001-01-28 Thread Colin Holgate
I just don't know who won the Super Bowl. I have an annual tradition, just for the snob appeal, of spending Super Bowl afternoon writing, and listening to all 9 Beethoven Symphonies in order :-) I can lend you the first movement of the 10th symphony, if the game runs long. [To remove

Re: lingo-l movieTine Script error

2001-01-27 Thread Colin Holgate
if the movieTime of sprite 3 the duration of sprite 3 then and all works perfectly. Good to know that you can check the duration of the sprite too. [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,

Re: lingo-l The Enter Key (return)

2001-01-27 Thread Colin Holgate
Simple question. I have a form where the user needs not use any more than one line in each text feild. Therefore I would like to submit the form if the user hits the enter or return key, else they will hit the post button.. You might be able to do it by trapping the keydown and only passing

Re: lingo-l OT: Superbowl substitute

2001-01-27 Thread Colin Holgate
1. What's the next higher number that follows this pattern: 1^1 + 3^2 + 3^3 = 135 That should have been: 1^1 + 3^2 + 5^3 = 135 This isn't recursive, or dot syntaxy, but it's brief (and I did it quicker than I was expecting): on sumthing repeat with a = 1 to 1 v = string(a)

Re: lingo-l OT: Superbowl substitute

2001-01-27 Thread Colin Holgate
2. What's a number that fits this formula: a^3 + b^3 + c^3 = x where x is a 3-digit number xyz and x^3 + y^3 + z^3 = abc. Ok, this didn't turn out to be too hard either: on cubit repeat with a = 100 to 999 v = string(a) t = 0 repeat with b = 1 to 3 t = t +

Re: lingo-l OT: Superbowl substitute

2001-01-27 Thread Colin Holgate
The second one is harder :-) So you thought [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

Re: lingo-l movieTine Script error

2001-01-26 Thread Colin Holgate
Script error: Property not found if the movieTime of sprite 3 the duration of member "Skimmer" then #duration The script is exactly the same in all frames except for the member names which is the same as the member in the frame. I think this may be the same problem someone else had recently

lingo-l Re:

2001-01-26 Thread Colin Holgate
on mouseUp me if myScorepScoreValue04 then alert"Your Score ain't worth Shit!" end if if myScore pScoreValue04 then pScoreValue04 = mynamemyScore end if if myScore pScoreValue03 then if myScore pScoreValue02 then pScoreValue03 = mynamemyScore end if

Re: lingo-l arrrghhh go lesson' isn't working....

2001-01-25 Thread Colin Holgate
does NOT go to "lesson"; but label("lesson") DOES put the frame number of "lesson". this is driving me nuts. I'm no newbie, but I can't figure out what's WRONG Any chance you've moved the goToNextScreen call to either a preprareframe or a stepframe? [To remove yourself from this list, or to

Re: lingo-l width of a standard button

2001-01-21 Thread Colin Holgate
Is there some trick to controlling the width of a standard pushbutton (made with the Button tool) through script? I realize that it's not an exciting programming challenge, but it seems odd that I can control every other aspect of a pushbutton's appearance, except for width. What am I

Re: lingo-l counting s prites on the stage

2001-01-19 Thread Colin Holgate
So, on each frame how can I count how many sprites are whithin channel 100 to 150, then how can I count how many of those sprites loch is 200 using the loch200 to determine that the sprite have been eaten. You should look at sendallsprites #message. Here's one easy approach: in your exitframe

RE: lingo-l counting s prites on the stage

2001-01-19 Thread Colin Holgate
on checkdot global nodots if the loch of sprite the currentspritenum 200 then set nodots = false end It looks from your handlers that you are sending the dots off to -200. If that's the case, change my routine above to say: if the loch of sprite the currentspritenum 0 then set

Re: lingo-l flash/avi audio problem on win -- emergency

2001-01-19 Thread Colin Holgate
but then it won't give up the audio for the avi... any suggestions? Set the sounddevice to "directsound" to fix the avi, and pause the Flash sprite to shut it up. [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 flash/avi audio problem on win -- emergency

2001-01-19 Thread Colin Holgate
It's screwed up though; Flash is on frame 1; clicking that flips me to frame 5 where the vid is. The flash audio is still heard although the vid is not in that frame, so not sure how I can stop a sprite that is 'bleeding' across the frames... Did you try pausing the Flash sprite before going to

Re: lingo-l I have a shockwave that needs testing

2001-01-19 Thread Colin Holgate
please go to http://www.imaginarystudio.com in the high-bandwidth site go to the laboratory section and click on narrative puzzle. Did that. The theme images don't appear on rollover. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l offTopic - Photshop and printing

2001-01-19 Thread Colin Holgate
hi, i have an offtopic question regarding photoshop and printing. i am trying to print an image 800x600 however when it prints it merely gives me a size of about 320x240. I had a look at preference and stuff and played with it. but still doesn't provide with the results that i need. does anyone

Re: SV: lingo-lValue Question

2001-01-18 Thread Colin Holgate
NOW...i CAN keep track of when these ovens reaches 150 but i cant get the value to decrese once it does so...(or increse when it reaches 1) Don't add or subtract 1, instead add a variable that you change when it gets to the end: if you use lists, one of them could be to hold the change value

Re: lingo-l Licensed Shockwave

2001-01-18 Thread Colin Holgate
Okay, folks. Having this new jewel is only part of the dream. My quest is to actually use it. How might I provide on my CD (just *one* for me !!) that from my CD - shockwave be installed automatically *only* on my machine. I am not taken to MM to get it --- I have no dialog boxes. Start here:

Re: lingo-l Sending an email doesnt open default email

2001-01-17 Thread Colin Holgate
Here's Macromedia's technote on the use of goToNetPage for mailto: "How to send e-mail via Director" http://www.macromedia.com/go/12655 Mark, those are useful things to know, but it doesn't address the main problem, and that is that regardless of the, as the tech note puts it, "default

Re: lingo-l Sending an email doesnt open default email

2001-01-17 Thread Colin Holgate
It sounds like you have Netscape set up as your default web browser. You can set Explorer as the default browser, still doesn't stop Director projectors from opening Netscape. [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 Sending an email doesnt open default email

2001-01-17 Thread Colin Holgate
I don't think so. If you have Explorer set as your default browser then director will open Explorer on a gotoNetPage call. If you have Netscape set as your default browser then director will open Netscape on a gotoNetPage call. No matter what it should do, on a Mac it opens Netscape

Re: lingo-l ANOTHER easy question!!!!!!!!!

2001-01-16 Thread Colin Holgate
what is the significance between ie. on startmovie something end and on startmovie something end startmovie Lingo was heavily based (or extremely coincidentally like) HyperTalk. With HyperTalk you have to say end handlername, and so Lingo takes care of that for compatibility, or

Re: lingo-l irish contact

2001-01-14 Thread Colin Holgate
Tue, 22 Nov 2039 01:34:20 + , Tim Hilton wrote: We are in the UK near the Yorkshire dales and have clients and friends in Ireland. A place called kilkenny. Any help or info just email. Greetings from the past (it's still 2001 here, near the Pacific Ocean, in a place called California).

Re: lingo-l Kinda Image Map

2001-01-13 Thread Colin Holgate
A side note--processing is faster if you do your if statement like this: if the mouseH 475 then if the mouseH 385 then if the mouseV 393 then if the mouseV 370 I just did a test of the different techniques. Here's the movie script: on mt0 end on mt1 if (the mouseH 475

Re: lingo-l Kinda Image Map

2001-01-13 Thread Colin Holgate
fwiw, I tend to use inside(point, rect) for this sort of thing. Haven't done any speed tests since it has always been fast enough. See my long post! [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,

Re: lingo-l Kinda Image Map

2001-01-13 Thread Colin Holgate
Of course, as Colin pointed out, in this case, a few milliseconds doesn't make that much difference. This particular one is more theory than practice, but it's something worth knowing :-) Less difference than you're saying! I was talking microseconds. Your best case was 16 milliseconds for

Re: lingo-l Kinda Image Map

2001-01-13 Thread Colin Holgate
Less difference than you're saying! I was talking microseconds. Your best case was 16 milliseconds for 1000 tests, and the all-in-one was 44 milliseconds for 1000 tests. That's a difference per test of only 28 millionths of a second, or about a 40th of a millisecond. Whoa--hold on. A

Re: lingo-l Score

2001-01-07 Thread Colin Holgate
I want to know how many cherries are within the rect so that when they are all outside of the rect we progress onto the next level. Why not have a global that is the number of cherries? Then each time your intersects routine sends them off the screen, you decrement the variable by one. When it

Re: lingo-l scrollByPixel?

2001-01-04 Thread Colin Holgate
Thanks, Ramesh, but that's exactly what I'm doing: scrollByLine, and that's what I'm trying to avoid. Like I said, scrolling by line at a time is too jerky, when the font is large. That's why I was looking for a way to scroll a few _pixels_ at a time. Ramesh said scrolltop, not scrollbyline,

Re: lingo-l Linking to an external graphic w/o importing thatgraphic

2001-01-02 Thread Colin Holgate
How do I link from the Cast in D7 to an external graphic without importing that graphic. I have tried importing all the graphics that I need for a movie and the result is well over 27 MBytes (clearly prohibitive). The cast can be any size. If you are saying the you need all those graphics at

Re: lingo-l problem with sound and avi files(very urgnt)

2000-12-22 Thread Colin Holgate
You may be having a similar problem to the one that can show up when using QuickTime and regular sound. I would try setting the sounddevice to something other than Macromix. If oyu do this: on startmovie set the sounddevice = "directsound" if the sounddevice "directsound" then set the

Re: lingo-l Script error in shockwave

2000-12-19 Thread Colin Holgate
I made a shockwave Xmas game in director 8, which runs fine in director and also works fine locally in a browser - but when I try to load it from the web server, I get a "script error" alert box straight away on the first frame, basically crashing the whole thing. Change the movie playback

Re: lingo-l Line graph

2000-12-15 Thread Colin Holgate
I have a script which uses a sprite with trails on to draw a line graph. It isn't very good but it works. Anyway, I was hoping to develop a better behaviour using vectors. Has anyone attempted this? I was hoping to at least replicate the properties of the Math xtra available for Dir 6 (i.e.:

Re: lingo-l Am I reaching you?

2000-12-09 Thread Colin Holgate
This may well be totally pointless but i have tried a few times to reach the list with no success. Ignore this message if it comes up I'm just testing... Sorry for clogging things up with junk like this It got here ok. Not sure what problems you have seen before, unless you were trying to send

Re: lingo-l flash cursor in director

2000-12-08 Thread Colin Holgate
I have a flash movie in my dir8 Windows score. In my Flash the cursor is set to a hand when i roll on a button. When i play the flash in the director movie, the cursor i can see is the arrow. How can i view the flash cursor instead of the director cursor ? Look at the hittest function. You can

Re: lingo-l string2list

2000-12-01 Thread Colin Holgate
If listStr = "["a","b","c"]" how can I set a variable to equal JUST the list ie remove the list from the string??? reallist = value(listStr) [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

Re: lingo-l Weird behaviour

2000-11-24 Thread Colin Holgate
That's fine, but for some reason when the movie advances to the next frame, a frame with no frame advancing script in it - it still does it. There's a bug in the Flash asset (which I'm not sure if and when it was fixed), where setting the frame of the Flash sprite could throw it into playing.

Re: lingo-l Text formatting

2000-11-21 Thread Colin Holgate
I've done the same with fontsize, with the same result--the entire cast member (and sprite) ends up the same font and spacing. The solution is to put hard returns at the end of each visual line. You can do that by using the charpostoloc() function to work out where the lines will break. Put

Re: lingo-l boundreys

2000-11-20 Thread Colin Holgate
Has anybody got a better one or any advise an how to get this one working??? Think of the isometric display as a render of the scene. Do your limiting in a top down 2D way before drawing your isometric characters. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l RE: Lingo-L Digest V1 #1713

2000-11-19 Thread Colin Holgate
On exitFrame sprite(12).memberNum=random(4)+85 end exitFrame property lastchangetime on exitframe if the milliseconds lastchangetime then set lastchangetime = the milliseconds + 500 sprite(12).memberNum=random(4)+85 end if end You should also look into using

Re: lingo-l center the shockwave file in html

2000-11-12 Thread Colin Holgate
Does anyone know how to center the shockwave movie regardless of the screen resolution 640, 800, 1024 in an easy way or do I have to write some javascript? If you mean center it in the browser window, you could Publish a D8 movie and take a look at the html file to see how they do it.

Re: lingo-l Time computation based on frame - Solved

2000-11-08 Thread Colin Holgate
Thanks to everyone who helped. Here is the solution. I'm not sure if it can get anymore succinct or elegant, but it works. It was hard to tell from your earlier message exactly what format you want the time to be in, otherwise I was going to suggest this before. Sorry if you spent a lot of

Re: lingo-l OT: Broken Threads - you're right

2000-11-08 Thread Colin Holgate
The (rhetorical) question is "Why would anyone want to originate a new thread when the original is still active/viable?" Yes, we do it that way. [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

Re: lingo-l Flash animation in director 7 ?

2000-11-07 Thread Colin Holgate
i.e i have an animation flash with 4 bouton import in director and i want to move the director head to a specific marker in the director movie ? The usual solution is to use GetURL from the Flash movie. For historical reasons (it would crash Director 7), I would put the place you want to jump

Re: lingo-l Getting the locale

2000-11-04 Thread Colin Holgate
I know a way, but it will make you laugh, so I'll hold off for a moment in case there's a serious suggestion. That's ok--I could use a good laugh. My niece just showed up for a week's visit ;-) I don't know how the CGI part would work, but just have your movie do a net query with the

Re: lingo-l MiAW

2000-11-01 Thread Colin Holgate
I have a project that basically has a navigation window ontop of the main stage window. I want to run the projector itself within a window. THe problem is I can click and drag the main window out from under the navigation window, which is a bad thing. Also if another window for instance an

Re : lingo-l Re: Request for free copy

2000-10-30 Thread Colin Holgate
Kerry Thompson, are you part of the family J.t. Thompson the creator of lingo ? Should we be calling you KT? [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 Question about the systemDate

2000-10-26 Thread Colin Holgate
. . . and Colin decided against a career in diplomacy at the UN. Do you think it was the right decision? ;-) Or maybe that was Howdy, hijacking Colin's address for a sneak attack ;-) Neither, I had just flown back from a day/month/year country, and I've been programming a calendar

Re: lingo-l Question about the systemDate

2000-10-25 Thread Colin Holgate
Is the systemDate international? Yes. Kerry is dead wrong, Mark is a pessimist for even mentioning BuddyAPI, and Laurent likes to do things the hard way. The systemdate is an awesome feature, and works perfectly well in D7 too. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest

Re: lingo-l getPref and Shockwave.

2000-10-20 Thread Colin Holgate
preloadNetThing("http://www.myweb.com/textfile/fileCont.txt") if netDone(mynetID) = FALSE then go to the frame else alert "Downloaded" end if theText = getPref("fileCont.txt") member("fileContent").text = theText end when the line theText = getPref is run I get

Re: lingo-l getPref and Shockwave.

2000-10-20 Thread Colin Holgate
At 7:07 PM -0400 10/16/00, Colin Holgate wrote: Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 19:07:00 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Colin Holgate [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just letting Tab know that I wasn't really slow in answering this question, I answered it within about 17 minutes of the question being posted

Re: lingo-l Exporting Scripts

2000-10-18 Thread Colin Holgate
I am a new subscriber who has been lurking for a while. I am trying to port my considerable HyperCard expertise to Director 8 and finding it a humbling process. My first Director product was also my first cross-platform CD-ROM, and I had two months to complete it. After eight years of

Re: lingo-l bouncing a ball off a curve

2000-10-18 Thread Colin Holgate
We're working on a minigolf game and are discussion the best implementation of the ball's bouncing behavior. The retangle objects are easy, but the curves are a different story. Does anyone have any experience the wish to share with us and the rest of the list on this topic. If the ball e.g.

Re: lingo-l Commands not working

2000-10-14 Thread Colin Holgate
Kerry does Colin's example work for you? If it does then I'm really perplexed. I got the same results you did. It seems to be a difference between D7 and D8. I haven't tried it on my Mac yet--I'm out of town, and only have my PC laptop with me. I'll check more on Monday, though. The same

Re: lingo-l keyDown help

2000-10-13 Thread Colin Holgate
Specifically, I want only numbers allowed into a field member. I can't remember what I need to make that happen. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! michael u can use if then else command or case command to check the ascii value of the entered character which r

Re: lingo-l Commands not working

2000-10-13 Thread Colin Holgate
Tempos, transitions, sound all have to occur at the level of the stage. Sounds in the score of the LDM will play ok. [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 crossing platforms

2000-10-13 Thread Colin Holgate
I use a mac and I am working on a project with someone who uses windows. When we try to send code from one to the other it only works one way. He seems to be able to send me his program and I can open it up on my mac but he can't read my program in his windows environment. When I send him

Re: lingo-l Commands not working

2000-10-13 Thread Colin Holgate
I'm trying this on windows are you guys on Macs? And this is on D8 of course. Yes, and no. Mac, D7.02. [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 Commands not working

2000-10-13 Thread Colin Holgate
Okay I put the sound file in the main movie and everything works. Once again shows that certain elements of LDMs are not unique but need to talk to the stage. The sound channels and the sound object actually reference the stage and not the LDM, much like the problems seen in mouseEnter/Leave.

Re: lingo-l Re: Lingo-L Digest V1 #1662

2000-10-10 Thread Colin Holgate
how do I pass the name of the current movie to the called movie Global variables persist, so just put the name of the current movie into a variable before going to the called one. the following doesn't work:- in the first movie : on prepareMovie global mName set mName to

Re: lingo-l Multiple CDROMs Quicktime

2000-10-09 Thread Colin Holgate
I'm authoring a presentation over 2 CDROMs. One for a slideshow and another for quicktime videos controlled by one movie. Are you sure you have to? Can't you fit it all onto one disc? My problem is that from the slideshow I need to make the movie pause and prompt the user to insert the

Re: lingo-l Multiple CDROMs Quicktime

2000-10-09 Thread Colin Holgate
If you can use *.mpg format, you can solve your problem in one CD. There is a plug-in to use mpg files in director. And mpg files can you scale. But I use PC. If you use Mac, I don't know, if you can use tyhis plug-in. If this info help you, I can give you the web adres from plug-in. Refik

Re: lingo-l Re: Lingo-L Digest V1 #1661

2000-10-08 Thread Colin Holgate
Three of my shockwave movies are playing in a browser. each movie calls the other when a button is pressed by using gotoNetMovie. how do I pass the name of the current movie to the called movie Global variables persist, so just put the name of the current movie into a variable before going to

Re: lingo-l Vector shapes and animating pies

2000-10-07 Thread Colin Holgate
I'm trying to add a progress pie - ie a circle that fills in like a second hand sweep but solid, as time elapses. I think that the way to go is to use a vector shape and manipulatie the vertex list. I had a look at Will turnages articles on DOUG but I'm still struggling. If anybody has done

Re: lingo-l Shockwave - Director 8

2000-10-04 Thread Colin Holgate
Does Shockwave on the web (director 8) support quicktime video assets? Not as a standard install, but you can set the QT3 Xtra to be downloaded when needed. [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 Netscape problem

2000-10-03 Thread Colin Holgate
OK, Im Ive now tried an official release version of Netscape (4.7) It auto jumped to the link and I installed the shockwave plug-in fine. My website has 2 Movies. My "Games" movie runs fine, but my Invaders game movie doesn't even seem to load (Both work OK in IE5). My html pages are identicle to

Re: lingo-l Re: Lingo-L Digest V1 #1654

2000-10-03 Thread Colin Holgate
iam using a G4 (POwermacintosh) what should i buy to convert AIFF files to MP3? SoundJam. [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 swa streaming

2000-10-01 Thread Colin Holgate
Has anyone any experience with the difference in streaming and performance with 8 bit mono, 16 bit mono and 16 bit stereo. I mean, should one always go for the better quality? If you are using SWA, I think it is converted to 16 bit anyway. As for stereo or mono, you are sharing the channels

Re: lingo-l swa streaming

2000-10-01 Thread Colin Holgate
Colin's right--if you use Shockwave audio, you need 16-bit source. (This is disturbing--Colin I have agreed twice in a row ;-) Just to help fix this problem before it becomes a trend, I'd just like to point out that the source can be 8 bit. The sound is converted to 16 bit before

Re: lingo-l Performance--clear difference

2000-10-01 Thread Colin Holgate
In Bounce2Frame, I set the frame rate to 60 fps, and moved all the sprites on exitFrame. See for yourself--the version using the timeOut object is clearly faster. So much so that it's suspicious. The slower one looks exactly like it should if it was set to the default of 15 fps. For a

Re: lingo-l goto, play, or open?

2000-09-30 Thread Colin Holgate
Go to Movie open play movie whichMovie Which one would be best for my situation? Also what is the best way to packeage the separate movies - as protected dirs? The drawback of go to movie is that the movie you go to needs to know how to get back. You can do that by having the menu movie's

Re: lingo-l goto, play, or open?

2000-09-30 Thread Colin Holgate
Looks like me and Kerry more or less agreed on the advice to give. He types faster than me, and sent his message four minutes earlier. [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 Assign label to a frame or whatever

2000-09-28 Thread Colin Holgate
FWIW, Colin is one of our superstars (though certainly not the only one), and personally, I read all his postings. I'd just like to add that I read Kerry's posts too! [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 DVD-ROM Capacity

2000-09-26 Thread Colin Holgate
Does anyone know that what is the actual capacity of a DVD-ROM? I know the capacities of DVD, but there's something I'm not sure about to do with DVD-ROM, and that is whether a ROM can bridge a two layer disc or not. Anyway, the rough capacities are: one sided one layer 4.5 GB one sided two

Re: lingo-l check my simple code.

2000-09-24 Thread Colin Holgate
Hi, could anyone please take some time to check my simple code? I can't get the correct output. I think there must be something wrong with my logic. Sorry to waste you gays time. Thanks. As SP has shown, there are international issues. You can get around that by using the systemdate().seconds

Re: lingo-l check my simple code.

2000-09-24 Thread Colin Holgate
Hi, Colin Holgate, I got an error message when I use the systemdate().seconds function. What's wrong is it? (I'm using D7) Please help. Thanks. Sorry about that, it looks like the seconds part came in with Director 8. You may have to do some work to figure out the time format for the country

Re: lingo-l Problem with go to frame

2000-09-24 Thread Colin Holgate
The reason that this stuff is pissing me off is because I use another authoring software called Multimedia Fusion which is hassle free as far as going from page-to-page. You need to look for what you're doing wrong, it's not Director's fault. Check to see if the script channel is disabled by

Re: lingo-l Problem with go to frame

2000-09-24 Thread Colin Holgate
Actually, I did see that. He followed it by saying "If I press the button, the program appears to go to the other frame for a second, then continues cycling through the frames again." I wasn't quite sure what he meant by that--I interpreted it to mean it didn't go to frame 2 until he clicked

Re: lingo-l Problem with go to frame

2000-09-24 Thread Colin Holgate
I must confess, I so seldom disable the frame script channel, I didn't even think of that. Good call, old fellow :-) I don't know if I've ever disabled that channel, but I have had occasions where it has become disabled, possibly through some rogue key press I did. [To remove yourself from

Re: lingo-l OT googolplex : was - pixels

2000-09-22 Thread Colin Holgate
A googol is 10 to the 10th power. and a googolplex is 10 to the 10th power raised to the 100th power ! And even then it's a lower number than the 60x60 combinations. [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 property or (standard) variable

2000-09-22 Thread Colin Holgate
Hi Sam If you have any C++ experience, then think of a property as a C++ member variable (or in a true OOPish sense, a private member variable) and a variable in the terms of how variables work in C++ and other languages. More precisely, a property is constrained to an object, it is the data

Re: lingo-l Optimization

2000-09-22 Thread Colin Holgate
if ((getPos(pList1, pBoard[pCard1]) 0) AND (getPos(pList2, pBoard[pCard2]) 0) AND \ (getPos(pList1, pBoard[pCard1]) = getPos(pList2, pBoard[pCard2]))) OR \ ((getPos(pList2, pBoard[pCard1]) 0) AND (getPos(pList1, pBoard[pCard2]) 0) AND \ (getPos(pList2,

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