RE: miaw- unwanted border

-Original Message- hey list, I am trying to seamlessly integrate an miaw into the stage, (for the first time on a major project). I have tried setting the miaw type to 2 and 3, but I still have a pixel wide black border around the edge. I guess I could use an alpha channel just for the

Re: PNGs with transparency & user's color depthsettings

I'm not sure it will be possible to display your images at 256 colors with out some degradation as they require a 256 color pallette and 8-bit images created within the range of that pallette to interpret the color. if you intend to display at 256 colors all of your images will need to be convert

PNGs with transparency & user's color depth settings

Hello list, I'm considering using PNGs with transparency to create an interface window or mask with a soft drop shadow, that will be used to display and scroll a larger bitmap under it. Aside from the larger file size, all works well except if the user's color depth settings are less than 16-bi

Re: Checking perfomance ...

Hi Victor, I'm sure you will receive some wonderful suggestions from this list in regards to your situation. Let me begin by suggesting the use of an xtra to gain information about the end user's processing capabilities. Buddy API can return the following information about the user's CPU. In

Re: Re: autorun/autostart PDF's

Hello Marcus, Another approach would be to include a copy of Adobe's Acrobat Reader on your CD-ROM, then you will know the path to your PDFs (if included on CD), as well as the path to Acrobat Reader. Adobe's licencing allows you to do so, check out their website for details. g fritzinger

Displaying contents of other fields in a V12 dbe onmouseUp

snip I am populating a scrolling field member with mGetSelection. The user can click on any line in scrolling field member and it will become hilited. In addition, what I'd like to do is display the contents of another field within the same record in another scrolling field member. Because the

Displaying contents of other fields in a V12 dbe on mouseUp

Hi List, I am populating a scrolling field member with mGetSelection. The user can click on any line in scrolling field member and it will become hilited. In addition, what I'd like to do is display the contents of another field within the same record in another scrolling field member. Because

Thanks Irv

Thanks again Irv ! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ You need to add a return character yourself. Change: put mGetSelection(gTable, "LITERAL", 1, mSelectCount(gTable), ", ", return, "DESCRIPT") after field "RegionSelectedGeographies" to: put mGetSelection(gTable, "LITERAL", 1, mSelectCount(gTable

Thanx Irv - Re: Index out of range error

Table, "PARENT01", "=", var) Given gGeokeyList of [2, 4, 7], the above will loop three times, with var getting the values of 2, 4, and 7. The way you had it, you were indexing into gGeokeyList twice. Irv At 9:19 AM -0400 7/31/01, Gene Fritzinger wrote: >Hello List, >

Index out of range error

Hello List, I'm trying to set mSetCriteria from a list named gGeokeyList from within a repeat loop. An example of what the list might look like is [2, 5, 7]. I comment the line at which I get an "Index out of range" error. Can anyone see what I'm doing incorrectly? on mouseUp closeTables c

V12's mGetSelection

Hi List, I'm using the section of code below to search for values of "3" in the PARENT01 field. I'm using mGetSelection to populate a field with the results. The problem is, it populates the field with all of the fields from the gTable. I only want to populate the field with the value in the "D

Populating a field based on values from a field in a V12DBE

Hi List, I have a field member that is populated by a V12 file. The user can select one or more entries from this field and copy them to another field member. The selected entries can be identified by a unique identifier within a field in the V12 file (the field name in the DB is "Descript"). I

Determining all the global variables within a MIAWs

Hello List, I have a director movie with many MIAWs and many global variables. I am testing my projector by displaying the message window (thanx to an earlier post). Is there a way to have my projector return to the message window a list of all global variables currently being used? Thanx in a

Repeating through records in a V12DBE to populate a field

Hi List, 'm creating a geography selection screen and there are 5 different geography hierarchy levels (NATIONAL (which is the highest level), ZONE (there are 15 zones, so ZONE.V12 has 15 records), REGION (there are 24 regions, so REGION.V12 has 24 records), MARKET (there are 118 markets, MARKE

RE: Using a list to change the forecolor of lines ina field member

Mark, I'm restting it to 255 on mouseDown because of the method in which I've created the hiliting function, which includes SHIFTand CONTROL clicking and scrolling hilited lines. I've included the script below which was originally written by Dave Mennenoh (DSelect Parent Script V2.0). I've made

Using a list to change the forecolor of lines in a fieldmember

Can anyone suggest a way of using a linear list to set the forecolor of lines in a field member. I have a field on the left where the user can hilite lines and then copy the contents of those lines to the field on the right. When an item appears on the right, it should appear grayed out on the

V12 & shockwave (File does not exist or is already open)

Hi List, Can anyone suggest why I get a V12 error stating (File does not exist or is already open) when trying to open a v12 database from a shockwave movie? I'm testing locally, and the v12 files are included in the folder and I'm sure they are not already open. I've selected "Download if nee

Repeating through hilited lines to get the text of each line

Hi List, I'm having trouble constructing a repeat loop to copy the text of the hilited lines of one field to another field member. I have a field member "Accounts", the user can click on a line in the field to hilite it, then holding down the SHIFT key, click on another line below to select a

Thanks Mark!! Is this type of hiliting & selectingpossible?

et the line to gray etc... That should you a rough idea as to how I would approach it.. Sincerely Mark R. Jonkman -Original Message- From: Gene Fritzinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 1:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Is this type of hiliting & selecting p

Is this type of hiliting & selecting possible?

Hello List, I've been putting off this part of my project because I don't know if it's even possible, but now it's time to give it my best shot. I have two fields on a screen (1 on left, 1 on right) with four buttons in between. The field on the left is populated with various geographical V12 d

set floatPrecision still not working

es to the right. Can anyone suggest what I may be doing wrong? Thanx again, g fritzinger on startMovie set the floatPrecision = n end --n is the number of decimal places included Alberto Gene Fritzinger wrote: > Hi List, > I have a field member which is populated with "0.&

manipulating text in a field member

Hi List, I have a field member which is populated with "0." when first clicked. This field is representing a dollar amount. As the user types in a new dollar amount, I want this dollar amount to always include 4 decimal places. So if the user types in any number, that number should appear

Why might I be getting double characters when typing into aneditable field?

Hi List, I've noticed this problem before with editable field members while testing my Director projects. When I enter text into an editable field member, I get doubles. What I mean is, if I press a letter or a number on the keyboard to enter text into an editable field, that number or letter

Spreadsheet like forms in Director

Hi List, Yes, I guess I could have given more information as to what I doing to create. I'd like to create a spreadsheet form that is scrollable in both directions. Cells need to be editable and appear hilited when clicked in cell. I only need to emulate a spreadsheet, not interact with any e

Spreadsheet like forms in Director

Hi List, Does anyone know of a way to create spreadsheets (like Access) in Director? The only way I have found so far is with the use of an Xtra such as TableMaker. If anyone knows another way to do so, please let me know. Thanx in advance, g fritzinger [To remove yourself from this list, o

RE: Can I program a MIAW to control the cursor?

Thanks Chris, But can this sprite simulate mouse clicks and other mouse functions. So all I have to do is program the cusor. A simple example would be moving a cursor over a button with a roll-over behavior attached to it. If I can just control the cursor by moving it over a button, the roll

Can I program a MIAW to control the cursor?

Hi Folks, I've created a simulated version of a complex software package for use in a CBT. There are many MIAWs and field members, drop-down menus, radio buttons, check boxes, etc. This simulated software version will be used for tutorials where we will instruct the user how to perform differ

How many global variables are too many

Hello List, I'm creating a simulated version of a software package for use in a CBT. There are many MIAWs and much information shared between movies as global variables. I estimate that by the time I'm through with project, there may be over one hundred global variables, some of which will b

Help with modifying this code to "Search Again"

Good morning List, Sorry about that, I hit the Send button prematurely earlier. I've writen the code below to act as a searching function. There are 2 fields (member "searchFor") which, on keyUp looks in field 2 "ZoneMastText" for a match of what was entered in "searchFor" and will hilite t

Help with modifying this code to "Search Again"

Good morning List, on keyUp searchStr = member("searchFor").text pMember = member "ZoneMastText" repeat with i = 1 to member("ZoneMastText").line.count set lineNumber = lineNumber + 1 if member("ZoneMastText").line[i] contains searchStr then if lineNumber = 1 then sta

Creating nested lists

Good afternoon List, I've been told by folks on this list, that the solution to this situation resides within nested lists. Please consider making any suggestions to help me move forward on this phase of my project. I've created a screen which has 3 fields, The first field displays a list of

RE: using a repeat loop to change fontStyle of linesin a fieldmember

Thanks for eveyone's help, I did originally have the fontStyle for the entire field as plain, and then just set the fontStyle of line 1 to bold, but ocassionally when the field was made emptied then populated again, all lines were bold. With everyone's suggestions, I now have a number of ways

RE: using a repeat loop to change fontStyle of linesin a fieldmember

RE: using a repeat loop to change fontStyle of lines > in a fieldmember > > > Do it the other way around. Set the whole member to "plain", then set the > first line to whatever ypu want. > > Pekka > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL

using a repeat loop to change fontStyle of lines in a fieldmember

Good morning list, Can anyone suggest a repeat loop for changing the fontStyle of lines 2 through lineCount of a field member to "plain" ? I've tried variations of the script below with no success. repeat with i = line 2 to the lineCount of member "selectedProds" set the fontStyle of lin

How common is 1024 X 768?

Hi List, I realize this question is only indirectly related to Lingo, please forgive. In the past, with most of my Director projects, I would make 2 versions, 1 at 800 X 600 and the other at 1024 X 768. I would then check the user's settings with deskTopRect and load the best suited version.

Re: String expected error when using baWriteIniwithvariables that are TRUE or FALSE

Thanks Tab _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Convert them to strings, as in: string(useCredits) instead of just 'useCredits' Note that you'll have to convert them back to integers when retrieving them, just to keep everything equal. - Tab At 01:28 PM 6/19/01 -0400, Gene Fritzinger wrote:

String expected error when using baWriteIni with variablesthat are TRUE or FALSE

Hi List, I am trying to use baWriteIni with global variables that are either TRUE or FALSE and I get the script error "String expected". Can anyone suggest what I need to do to be able to write these types of variables to an Ini file? ex of code: set OK = baWriteIni ("Measures/Options", "UseCr

baSetWindowState & MIAWs

Hello, I have a main movie with a few MIAWs. I'm allowing the user to minimize the main movie and when this happens, it also minimizes any open MIAWs, which is just what I want to happen. The problem is, when the main movie is maximized, none of the previously opened MIAWs appear. Is there some

Saving user selections to disk- FileIO or baWriteIni

Hello List, I'm working on an app that needs to save user selections to disk. In the past, I have use FileIO to do this sort of thing, but this time I'm considering using Buddy API's "baWriteIni" because it's much simpler. Can anyone think of any reasons why I should not do this? Thanx in ad

Finding the last character of a member name

Can anyone suggest the simplest way to get the last character of a member's name? The first thing that comes to mind is something like: x = sprite(1).member.name.char.count y = sprite(1).member.name.char[x] put y --e Is there a better way? Thanks g fritzinger [To remove yourself from thi

Thanks Bhakti, Irv, Steve & Richard

Thanks guys for all your input on sendSprite. g fritzinger [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 helpi

Why would this behavior be getting a Symbol expected scripterror?

Thank you Irv, Can anyone tell me if I'm doing something wrong? when I try to compille this behavior I get a Symbol expected script error. property myRedBoxDate property mySprite on showIfInRange, me, startDate, endDate if(startDate < myRedBoxDate) and (myRedBoxDate < endDate) then --in

Re: Having sprites check a list to see if blendshould be changed

bhakti, Thanks, you're not missing anything, I am. This is my first time trying to do something like this and I'm a little unsure as to the best approach. You're correct, each sprite does know it's own property (myRedBoxDate), and at runtime the movie will also know the startDate (as a date o

Having sprites check a list to see if blend should be changed

Hello List, I have 365 sprites in one frame. Each one of those sprites has a property called myRedBoxDate which is actually a date object (each sprite represents a day of the year). At a point in the movie, I create a linear list which contains dates (in date object form ex: date( 2001, 6, 11 )

Re: THANX_ Adding YES and NO buttons to an alert message

Thanx guys, this list is fantastic. Fifteen minutes ago, I didn't know a thing about custom dialog boxes, now, I have a thirty-page PDF on my desk about using the MUI Xtra. I also already own BuddyAPI so I'll certainly consider using baMsgBox for my simpler dialog boxes. And now, Al just in

Adding YES and NO buttons to an alert message

Hey List, Is it possible to add more than just one (OK) button to a standard alert message? I'd like to replace the OK button with a YES and NO button and ideally have to YES button in the hilited mode, sp the user can simply hit the Enter key. As always, with much respect, g fritzinger [To

Has anyone used DateMaster from Penworks?

If you are familiar with using the DateMaster xtra, could you please tell me the best way to do date manipulation with it. I've been trying to use it as you would with date objects from director, to add and subtract a given number of days. Such as: set gStartDate = 20010608 set gStartDate = g

Testing whether the .day portion of a date object is aparticular day of the week.

Hey List, 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" Thanx in advance g fritzinger

Verifying a date object falls between a certain date range

Can anyone suggest a way of checking if a date object falls within a predetermined date range? Thanx in advance, g fritzinger [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: exitFrame handler not working after returningfroma MIAW

No I didn't, thank you. Could I do something like: set the activeWindow = window "mainmovie" Thanks for your help!!! Did you try setting the activeWindwo back to the main movie? At 4:45 PM -0400 6/4/01, Gene Fritzinger wrote: >Hello List, >I have a director movie wit

exitFrame handler not working after returning from a MIAW

Hello List, I have a director movie with many MIAWs. One of the MIAW has an exitFrame script that checks for the character count of four field members. When the char.count reaches "10" , a custom handler is called which rounds the date from the field forward to the next Saturday and another

deleting everything but numbers from a field member

Hi Folks, Can anyone tell me, is there an easy way to delete all characters other than numbers from a field member? Thanks in advance, g fritzinger [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, emai

Re: Assigning values to sprites within a repeat loop

Florian, This is what I did to solve the problem. property myRedBoxDate property addThisNumber on beginSprite me set addThisNumber = me.spriteNum - 28 set myRedBoxDate = date(19990101) + addThisNumber put myRedBoxDate end on mouseUp put myRedBoxDate end Thanks for helping me, g fritzin

Re: Thanks Florian, Assigning values to spriteswithin a repeat loop

Thanks Florian, That works nicely accept that for some reason, the date object only goes up to date( 1999, 4, 9 ), then it starts over with date( 1999, 1, 31 ) and goes to date( 1999, 5, 10 ) at which point, it starts over with date( 1999, 2, 28 ) and continues to date( 1999, 6, 7 ), at this p

Assigning values to sprites within a repeat loop

Could someone suggest a modification to the code below. I have 365 sprites all of the same member, ranging from sprite channel 28 to 392. On the first one of these sprites, I've attached the code below. --on beginSprite handler of the first of 365 sprites property myRedBoxDate property mySpri

Assigning date objects to sprites within a repeat loop??

Hi List, I've created a calendar from a graphic which runs from 1999 2002 as part of a CBT. The reason it's a graphic is because it needs to be identical to the calendar within the software package for which the CBT is for. This calendar shows twelve months at a time, and when the user clicks

MIAW alert mesages not centered

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MIAW alert mesages not centered

Hello list, I have a main director movie at 1024 X 768 which opens a number of different MIAWs at different smaller sizes (ex. 640 X 420) and they are all centered in the main movie, some of those MIAWs occasionally display alert messages, my problem is: those alert messages from MIAWs are not

Thanks Colin - Re: restricting input of field memberto only numbers

Thanks Colin, that approach works great and is simple. g fritzinger [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

restricting input of field member to only numbers

Hello List, Can anyone suggest a way of limiting the input of a field member to only numbers. I've tried the approach below, but this for some reason isn't even allowing numbers to be entered. on startMovie set the keyDownScript to "checkNumericInput" end on checkNumericInput theKey = the

RE: MIAW first appearing in the lower right cornerof stage

> I have a main director movie which runs full screen (1024X768 > / 800X600) which opens a number of MIAWs. I've noticed while > testing that the MIAWs when first opened, actually first > appear in the lower right corner of the stage before jumping > to their final position in the center of stag

MIAW first appearing in the lower right corner of stage

Hello List, I have a main director movie which runs full screen (1024X768 / 800X600) which opens a number of MIAWs. I've noticed while testing that the MIAWs when first opened, actually first appear in the lower right corner of the stage before jumping to their final position in the center of

Calculating number of weeks-THANKS!

Andreas, bhakti & Rob, Thank you guys for taking the time to help this beginner (me). Andreas, your right, I over complicate everything. I was writing to field members only to read it back again, hoping to loose the quotation marks. Your most recent suggestion works beautifully and it's simp

Using a variable as a string

Could someone possibly suggest a method for using a variable as a string in a command. The problem is, the variable contains quotation marks that need to be removed in order to use it in a command. The answer probably includes to do command. ex. set gReportPeriodStartDate = "date("&gTheYear_R

Calculating number of weeks with date()

Hello, I'm having trouble with the code below. The user enters a start date and an end date into two editable fields. I'm concatenating the info into a format nedded for date objects so I can subtract the start date from the end date to determine the number of days, then divide that by 7 for

Calculating the number of weeks

Greetings, Part of a project I'm working on has two editable field members for the user to enter dates into. The first is for a start date, and the second, an end date. The date format looks like this: "04/18/2001", "05/24/2001". I've written a custom handler that will take the start date

Thanks! simulating the user pressing the TAB key

> Actually, all I'm trying to do is to tab to the next editable field and set selStart >and selEnd after the character count in the first field reaches 10 characters. I've >got the char.count part OK but I'm having trouble activating the next field. Sorry >for my round-about approach. set th

RE: simulating the user pressing the TAB key

Actually, all I'm trying to do is to tab to the next editable field and set selStart and selEnd after the character count in the first field reaches 10 characters. I've got the char.count part OK but I'm having trouble activating the next field. Sorry for my round-about approach. Thanx, g fr

simulating the user pressing the TAB key

Hello, Is there a way to simulate the user pressing the TAB key from within a projector? Thanx in advance g fritzinger [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

Do you think this type of functionality is even possible?

Hello List, I'm in the process of creating a CBT with Director that will have a simulated version of a software package our company developed in Visual Fox Pro. I want my simulated version to be as true to form as possible. A major part of the software is what's called the "Mover Form" which

repeat loop to add spaces to each line of a field

I have a field member which has 1500+ lines of text at varying lengths. I'm trying to write a repeat loop that will go through each line, count the characters and add one space at the beginning of the line and then x number of spaces at the end of the line so all lines have 100 characters. Al

How many is too many custom handlers

Hello List, I have a movie script that has almost two hundred custom handlers, most of which contain 4 or 5 if..then constructs -- Do you think that will degrade performance? Is there any limit to the amount of custom handlers you want to put in the movie script? I know that's a bit vauge and

if..then

Hi List, Is there some way to construct an if..then statement that allows for multiple correct if s? My first instinct was to do something like the following: if gTheFullDate = "01/04/1999" or "01/05/1999" or "01/06/1999" or "01/07/1999" or "01/08/1999" then member("ReportPeriod_From").te

QuickTime audio stuttering

I am assuming you are having problems with Windows boxes. I think the prevailing wisdom here is to ask these users to use 'waveOut' for the sound out device, rather than the default 'DirectX' (Control Panels->QuickTime). > Hello List, > > We've begun limited distribution on a recent CD-ROM proj

Quicktime movie sound track stutters only on certain systems

e: 16 bits Compression: None Data Size: 8.8 MB Data Rate:43.0 k bytes/sec Thanks in advance for any suggestions or comments, Gene Fritzinger [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

installMenu

Hello List, This is not a repost but a continuation of a previous one. Thank you Pranav, very nice behavior, but here's my problem. I am trying to simulate a software package for a CBT and the installMenu works perfectly down to the disabled line for setting off sections of commands. The onl

Drop down menu items with installMenu

Is it possible to create menu items that have drop-down menus with installMenu? If so, could someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks much, G Fritzinger Synectics Group [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi

mouse location setting visibility

Can someone suggest a way of setting the visible of a sprite based upon the location of the cursor defined by a .rect? eg (25, 25, 100, 100) Thanx In Advance G Fritzinger Synectics Group [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l