Re: lingo-l pause

2001-01-22 Thread Franco Chierchini
Hi, At 09:12 22/01/01 -, Matt wrote: I'd like to know how to make a sprite move in from one side of the screen to the centre, pause for 5 seconds, maybe jump up slightly, then move back to the side of the screen and stay there until clicked on again. The simplest thing that comes in mind is

Re: lingo-l One-passage deletion of a list subset

2000-11-27 Thread Franco Chierchini
At 00:23 27/11/00 +0100, Daniel Plenitz wrote: E.g. I want to delete the items number 3, 5, 8 from a list of 10 items. Once the item 3 has been deleted, the item 5 became 4 and the item 8 became 7. snip a long startmovie handler and a short tool handler A so long snip would require a short

Re: lingo-l timeout(Wish).enabled = TRUE

2000-11-21 Thread Franco Chierchini
Thanks for the definitions you posted some day ago. They are so neat that it was worth while trying to show how they well fit to a hardware device that generates e.g. a squared waveform. Thia comparison helped to reformulate my request to Macromedia in order to get some timeout object's control

lingo-l timeoutList[i] out of range for i 50 (..?)

2000-11-21 Thread Franco Chierchini
I keep getting a quite strange error in Dir 8 if I attempt to access the 51th timer object stored in the timeoutList, that's, for i = 51: "Index out of range (the timeoutList[i]).forget()" The code below may be used to try to reproduce the error. I roughly embedded it pretty all into a

Re: lingo-l timeout(Wish).enabled = TRUE

2000-11-19 Thread Franco Chierchini
Thank to Roy Pardy and Andreas Gaunitz for their suggestions on how to mute a timer. Here's some further notes about this. Roy Pardy wrote: I turn off but retain a timer object just by setting its period to 0: myTimeoutObject.period = 0 For want of a .enabled prop, imo this is the best

Re: lingo-l 3D

2000-11-18 Thread Franco Chierchini
Hi, I have a 3d background composed of 60 castmembers example1: castmember1 shows a tree, castmember2 shows the tree closer,castmember3shows the tree even closer. so if your using this while pressing the up-arrow key then it looks like your getting closer to the tree. example2: next to the