Re: one more: new #bitmap and new script object

At 12:20 -0500 2001_08_24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >What was the workaround when you have a parent script and want to create a >new #bitmap? 1: Don't have a "new" handler in the parent script. It will work fine without one. 1b: If you do need a "creator" method, you can use the old "birth". 2

RE: OOP and ancestor access

At 15:34 -0400 2001_08_21, Al Hospers wrote: >...and in fact based on Jakob's response this AM I might say >that there may still be some confusion out there. You betcha! Confusion is my middle name. Regards, Jakob "confusion" Madsen. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest m

RE: OOP and ancestor access

> > and you can pass information to an > > object, as long as what you are passing does not correspond to an > > actual property of an object, then I definitely understand. > >That is correct. It doesn't matter. The method is public, and whether it implements itself by fetching private data,

RE: OOP and ancestor access

Mark made great explanation of an OOP structure. However, reading it only makes me nod, it doesn't make me shake my head, or feel dizzy, and that was sort of my expectation, from all the fuzz. Maybe there's an important mental difference in calling a method "handle" something, rather than "set"

RE: OOP and ancestor access

At 21:22 -0400 2001_08_20, Al Hospers wrote: >if you end up putting the slider code inside the >QTBehavior it starts to become almost like procedural code. you have >this large bunch of code that becomes difficult to maintain & that has >everything in it including the kitchen sink. what is the po

RE: OOP and ancestor access

At 13:43 -0400 2001_08_17, Al Hospers wrote: > > But an essential focus of the original discussion was about *not* >> using "getters" ie. data requisition methods. >> >> I may spawn confusion with some misinterpretation, I'm just trying >to >> understand the article. > > I recommend reading

RE: OOP and ancestor access

At 16:19 -0700 2001_08_16, Colin Kettenacker wrote: > > > I think the key issue is: >> > No matter how convoluted you make the structure, to avoid having a >> > "getter" method in the qtObject, you will either wrap the >> slider-code >> > inside the main qtObject, or accept passing data from

RE: OOP and ancestor access

At 9:06 -0400 2001_08_17, Al Hospers wrote: >2 - make the data public by making it a global variable I don't see where these globals come creeping in? In Lingo you can always access the properties of an object directly, but you "decide" not to do it. >3 - make it accessible via an accessor met

RE: The Merits (or Not) of Protection

At 14:17 -0700 2001_08_16, Watson, Christopher wrote: >The >system I have in place (with the linked external cast) seems to be the very >best solution. I think I'll stick with it. And the "protection" issue ? jakob [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://w

Re: The Merits (or Not) of Protection

At 15:22 +0200 2001_08_16, Chnexus wrote: >The Author of the demo is Jhon Kanding. He posted the URL on May 2th 2001. >A .dcr is used there as Lingo libray in place of an LDM, bur the concept seems >similar to the one described by Jakob Hede Madsen for an LDM, that's >instanti

RE: OOP and ancestor access

Ahem, are you exploring new boundaries of purist OOP, and at the same time considering globals??? Let alone, that from a practical point of view, it would obstruct multiple simultaneous instances. I think the key issue is: No matter how convoluted you make the structure, to avoid having a "get

RE: The Merits (or Not) of Protection

At 23:22 -0700 2001_08_15, Watson, Christopher wrote: >If "tell sprite" is D8 syntax (and it looks like it is), then I can't rely >on it. I've got to support D7 environments. Mac D7.02 tests OK here. Jakob [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penwork

RE: The Merits (or Not) of Protection

At 15:56 -0700 2001_08_15, Watson, Christopher wrote: >Can you provide some further detail about how to do this? Can you be >specific? Will this get you going? tell sprite 1 tObject = script("protectedContainerClass").new() put #tObject, tObject end tell Jakob [To remove yourse

Re: The Merits (or Not) of Protection

At 10:59 -0700 2001_08_15, Watson, Christopher wrote: Hi Watson, these are my answers of the top my hat: First of all, I think you might be able to use a LDM (Linked Dir Movie). It will link to an open .dir file in authoring, while providing protection of your code. It will have to be placed in

RE: corrupted castLib

At 9:00 +0300 2001_08_15, Pekka Buttler wrote: >To recover >those scripts which were saved, you can try to open the corrupted castlib >with a plaintext editor (not Word or Appleworks) like BBEdit I have resurrected scripts that way. Be aware that there might be several copies of a script, presen

Re: OOP and ancestor access

At 23:28 +0200 2001_08_14, Brennan Young wrote: I just read the article. A very interesting discussion, if this holds water, then it definitely rocks my OOP-boat. It appears, that his dogma could also be described as "never pass data between objects". I suspect that he is somehow beating around

Re: Index out of range error

At 9:19 -0400 2001_07_31, Gene Fritzinger wrote: > set gTable = new(Xtra "V12table", mGetRef(gDB), "regmast") > CheckV12Error() > repeat with var in gGeokeyList > x = gGeokeyList[var] --THIS IS WHERE I GET AN "INDEX OUT OF RANGE" ERROR would that be: x = gTable[var] Jakob [To remov

Re: Finding If Something is divisible by a number

At 19:35 -0400 2001_07_16, Colin Holgate wrote: >>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, an

Re: Finding If Something is divisible by a number

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: Finding If Something is divisible by a number

At 19:35 -0400 2001_07_16, Colin Holgate wrote: >>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, an

Re: Trouble with ImportFileInto redux

At 12:22 -0700 2001_07_11, John Hart wrote: >First, thanks to Tab, et al for the quick response and great help. > >Second, I did change the "/" to "\" and it did help. Using an alert box, I >can now see that the file "bhen.txt" did get into a cast member of >"healthArchive" at runtime, but for som

Re: the fontList() quandary

At 12:52 -0400 2001_07_10, Slava Paperno wrote: >I need to display to the user the complete list of fonts installed >on the system (Win and Mac). I use the fontList() method of an >embedded font to get the list, which works fine. > >The problem is that the embedded fonts and the indentically-nam

Re: the fontList() quandary

At 12:52 -0400 2001_07_10, Slava Paperno wrote: >Is there a way to get the font list where the Director-embedded >fonts wouldn't show up, or would show up marked in some way? Request the fontList once before you enter a movie with embedded fonts. Jakob [To remove yourself from this list, or

RE: Timeout object

pretty transparent, compared to ordinary timeOutObjects - see the example. As an added bonus, this script also adds the ability to carry parameters in the "timeOutObject". -- TimeOutSimpleWrapperClass -- Jakob Hede Madsen, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, May 23, 2001 property ancestor

Re: sendSprite(mySprite, #mouseDown)

At 17:31 +0200 2001_07_04, schmidt-r wrote: >on mouseEnter me > sendSprite(mySprite, #mouseDown) -- talk to yourself >end mouseEnter me ...the definition of "yourself", the behavior or the sprite? In your case it is the sprite, so it would be more precise to say: "Talk to ourselves", as ther

RE: waiting for sprites to initialize

At 7:44 -0400 2001_07_04, Al Hospers wrote: >another possibility is to have the sprites all register themselves in >a list as they come alive & then only send stuff to members of this >list. Given that you have a manager-behavior and managed element-behaviors: I prefer never to use hardcoded sp

Re: a faster way to draw than using setpixel ??

At 10:24 +0200 2001_07_03, Chris Aernoudt wrote: >Is there a faster way to plot an image than using setpixel?? Not that I know of, but remember to draw to an unattached imageObject rather than directly into a member or the image of a member. Also you might get speed increases by using an 8 bit

RE: PRO ADVICE NEEDED : Sound crkacks whenDirectordoing heavy stuff

At 13:15 +0300 2001_06_27, Pekka Buttler wrote: >Tried to use the external faststart resources from SW8.5 (build 321) and >the problem was totally GONE! Nasty part is that using a D8 faststart with >D8.5 projector resources mad my app extremely crash-happy. I'll try some >different setups with t

Re: What do i need to fix to make my load bar work?

At 15:32 -0400 2001_06_26, Bill Numerick wrote: >Just trying to get a simple loading bar to work. Works when it i is >equal to 1 but otherwise just stays at zero. I tried adjusting the >floatprecision but then agian maybe i did it wrong ;). > >sprite(38).width = (pEndRightSide - pStartRightSid

Re: PRO ADVICE NEEDED : Sound crkacks when Directordoing heavy stuff

At 23:12 +0300 2001_06_26, Pekka Buttler wrote: >Now the only thing I can come up with is that somewhere along the line Macr >has F***'d up the internal pecking order of Director's tasks. IMHO, sound >should come first, everything else later (as it is in video formats). The >user can tolerate slo

RE: Sending a large group params

At 17:13 +0530 2001_06_26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I haven't been following this thread, so excuse me if I'm completely off >base with my reply. > >The 'call' function can be used to send a message to multiple locations and >it's much faster than either repeat or sendAllSprites. You can save the

RE: Sending a large group params

At 11:52 -0400 2001_06_22, Al Hospers wrote: >repeat loops lock out everything else. I prefer to avoid them wherever >possible. sendAllSprites would likely be the preferred method. Erm... that would require that sendAllSprites was an asynchronous function, that allowed other events to process s

Re: URGENT : Problem with Macromedia Splash Screen

Pekka wrote: >. I can >narrow it down to that nifty app, the "Macromedia Splash Screen", because >when I disable the splashscreen, by renaming the bitmap, the problem is >gone. > >Advice, Info, anyone? Fastsplash. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www

RE: Sending a large group params

At 19:23 -0400 22/06/01, Bill Numerick wrote: >OK just did that :) Except its not a totally fair comparison since >i'm at home now on my 900 mhz Athlon and at work i have a 400 mhz G4 >so i'll test it Monday but here's what i got. > >Here's the script since it wasn't in the message from before >

Re: freezing MPEG2?

At 10:29 +0100 2001_06_22, Paul Fletcher wrote: >The problem being the >video actually freezes after a day or two. (Running on a touch screen >interactive, turned on constantly and never turned off) >Any suggestions will be appreciated Reboot the box once every night. Jakob [To remove yourself

Re: passing variables from behavior to behavior

At 13:48 +0200 2001_06_22, Michael Nadel wrote: >Whenever I pass a command from one behavior to another with a variable, the >variable turns up all messed up! For example, when I write in a behavior on >sprite 3: > >sendSprite(3, #checkRight, 15) > >And then on another behavior on sprite 3 I write

Re: negative index for a list

At 18:40 -0700 2001_06_20, Ellen C. Largo wrote: >...The VB code contains part which >is having a negative value for the index of the array. I was making a >linear list as its equivalent code in Lingo but the big problem is Lingo >does not allow zero or negative index values for the list, am i ri

RE: OT - Number of Lingo words?

>OK - how do I get all the words then? What I did was open the help.dir file >and copy all the words out of the LingoWordsHyper text member... Where else >could I get them from? You can traverse the symbolTable with the dumpsymbol Xtra: http://www.pimz.com/xtras/free/DumpSymbolPPC.hqx Jakob [To

Re: RM + QT (OT + other TLA)

At 18:54 +0100 28/05/01, LePhuronn wrote: >Thanks for the info...QuickTime 4 Pro doesn't read RealMedia so I can't >export it as anything else...will try other bits. > >TLA stands for "Two Letter Acronyms" - I was in a daft mood that day :-) Nahh, Three Letter Acronym, then TLA is in itself a TLA

Re: preventing multiple projector instances

At 9:16 -0600 25/05/01, Matthew Kaplan wrote: >I'm trying to come up with a bullet proof method of preventing our users >from openning multiple instances of our projectors in Windows. >Anyone have other suggestions? FastSplash by Britton W smith Jakob [To remove yourself f

Re: Storing data in comments vs fields...

At 17:29 +0200 22/05/01, Brennan Young wrote: >Lucas wrote > >> if you store it in the scripttext of a member, >> director compiles the list, so you suffer the speed hit at compile time >> instead of at runtime. > >Not to mention that it compresses better to shockwave that way. I recently cond

Re: Mutli Session DVD Rom

At 15:19 -0500 17/05/01, RMadgwick wrote: >Wondering if anyone can help and this may be a silly question, but is there >any way to produce a dvd which can contain information playable on consumer >dvd players (ie menu/movie setup) but can also contain a director projector >for computer playback -

Re: Udp and tcp/ip stuff?

At 15:12 -0400 14/05/01, g r i m m w e r k s wrote: >Hey - got my book for 8.5 the other daythere's not much on udp so I'm >searching the macromedia site > >Can udp and tcp/ip play together, or do you have to set the MU server to >handle one or the other? I think I'm reading that you can s

Re: problems with shockwave

At 19:29 -0700 08/05/01, Kerry Thompson wrote: >>I'm developing a game in shochwave, and i'm having a very strange >>error. I've >>started to receive this error message "Internal error. Unexpected failure >>while compositing bitmap member 105 of PLAYER-CAST 1." > >The most common problem when yo

Re: QT on CD

At 11:38 -0700 03/05/01, Kerry Thompson wrote: >>Do you ever limit the data rate of your QT videos? > >Sure--it depends on the medium. If it's coming off CD, I'd go with a >higher data rate than for a Web video. Or, more precisely, a higher >average bit rate, since I tend to use Sorensen 2 and V

Re: stepFrame and enterFrame... whats the real score?

At 15:38 + 01_04_26, Christian Wach wrote: >Jakob Hede Madsen wrote: > >> There is nothing spooky about it, it will happen anytime you delete >> items from a linear list during forward traversal > >ah - I see what you mean... I thought it might be something &g

Re: stepFrame and enterFrame... whats the real score?

At 9:26 +0530 01_04_27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Just a late thought Jakob... > >How can an object that is not added to the actor list be used in another >movie? The timeOutObject has a property "persistent" which when set to true keeps the timeOutObject alive until explicitly forgotten. > Do

Re: Raw integers in imaging

At 10:24 +0530 01_04_27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Does anyone have a working example of how to use raw integers during >getpixel and setpixel operations in imaging? I was reading an article by >Tim Banks on Director Online but the example uses regular color objects. I think it goes like this: W

Re: stepFrame and enterFrame... whats the real score?

At 13:39 + 01_04_26, Christian Wach wrote: >Jakob Hede Madsen wrote: > >> You may be aware that when an object removes itself from the >> actorlist from within its stepFrame handler, then the next object in >> the actorList misses an event. > >yeesh! > &

Re: stepFrame and enterFrame... whats the real score?

At 15:28 +0530 01_04_26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >This can also be used with behaviors if you want them to last beyond the >last frame of the sprites they are attached to. Simply add the behavior to >the actorList and then you can refer to it even from other frames or even >movies. See this tric

Re: stepFrame and enterFrame... whats the real score?

At 17:34 -0700 01_04_26, John Erazo wrote: >Greetings! > >What is the significance of using an object >using the stepFrame handler than a behavior >using an enterFrame handler performing >relatively the same thing? Stepframes are closer to prepareFrame in the event cycle, and as prepareFrames ar

RE: lingo not working. . .but

At 7:24 -0400 01_04_25, Al Hospers wrote: > > hi i have a lab with five identical macs, all with Director 6.5 on. >> but on one machine the scripting doesn't work. The director >> application folder is exactly the same size with exactly the same >> number of files, on each machine. Is there s

Re: question for wallpaper

At 20:56 +0800 01_04_15, james biagi wrote: >.. how to save the image file directly to be a wallpaper ... Result = baSetWallpaper( FileName , Tile ) Jakob [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: Creating black and white mask image on the fly

At 16:26 +0200 01_04_04, Ute Flierl wrote: >Hi all, > >I habe a bitmap member in 16 bit color depth and want to create a 1 >bit color black and white mask image from it with imaging lingo >where all pixels except the really white ones get black. >I've tried using copy pixels with different ink m

Re: Open Window (was Repeat Properties)

At 21:56 -0700 01_04_02, Kerry Thompson wrote: >>i am really sorry !! > >Oy, don't worry! I just have to make the occasional misogynist post >or people will start thinking I'm a nice guy. We always pick on the >newcomers, anyway ;-) >Yes, you could do that. You should read up on Director's "Movi

Re: Subject: Re: Can I use Lingo to Set Variable (Makeby LiveStage) in QuicKTime

At 1:25 +0200 01_04_03, Brennan Young wrote: >Well, maybe if our correspondent has used another codec. AFAIK, only >Sorenson supports this feature. Wasn't it explicitly stated, that he's using Sorenson? Jakob [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penwo

Re: Can I use Lingo to Set Variable (Make by LiveStage) in QuicKTime

I know Brennan already mentioned it. There is a specific technology for the purpose so what's the confusion? Sorenson Media Keys. If Lingo itself can't unlock it then I believe the "MultiMixer" Xtra can. Jakob [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penwo

Re: Repeat properties

At 1:21 +0200 01_03_29, mike massey wrote: >hi kerry i am trying to open an avi quick time and a real file in a >"new window" and i used this code in a frame script and a movie >script and nothing happens.. i imported the file into my cast can >you help me? That would be Kerry with a capital K

Re: QuickTime problem

At 17:44 -0500 01_03_28, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: >I'm having problems with some QuickTime movies looking pixelated. Depending >on how I compress them, sometimes they look pixelated (like QT movies look >when they are resized smaller than they should be) on all computers here in >the office, an

Re: Repeat properties

At 22:35 -0800 01_03_27, Irv Kalb wrote: >At 9:14 PM -0800 3/27/01, Kerry Thompson wrote: >>I have a property list with multiple items having the same >>property. Something like [#roster: [#name: "Tab"], [#name: >>"Jakob"], [#name: "Roy"]]. It's actually a considerably more >>complex list, but

Re: Relative paths

At 5:03 +0100 01_03_28, LePhuronn wrote: >Things to Note: >1./ When running from a projector, the applicationPath and the moviePath >will return the same thing. Well, only if the current movie is embedded in the projector. Always using stub-projectors this would only be the case very briefly. >

Re: Projectors & external files

At 11:06 +0200 01_03_27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, list >Small stupid question - I made a projector and want to copy it to CD-ROM. >This projector uses external animation and sound. But paths to them are >absolute(d:\Game\projecfiles...)I want to make Special Folder on CD-ROM for >sound anothe

Re: closing miaws

At 11:52 -0800 01_03_26, R. Bhakti Klein wrote: >there are no stupid questions. >only stupid people. Oh, and what kind of questions do we ask then? ;-) Jakob [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 l

Re: Memory Leaks

At 11:03 +0200 01_03_26, Sugan Naicker wrote: >Hi, > >I have created a one frame sideshow. There are a total of 175 images, of >which some are 800 X 600 or 500 X 600. All pictures are in JPEG format. > >Director replaces the member of the sprite that's on the stage by using >"importfileinto". I

Re: closing miaw windows

At 21:08 -0800 01_03_23, Kerry Thompson wrote: >> > Would it also be unstable if you use "tell the stage" in the window, to >>> call a handler in the stage's movie script, that closes that window? >> >>in my experience, it is still an unstable way to close a MIAW. > >Unless I'm reading Karina's

Re: Attaching scripts to sprites dynamically?

At 20:13 -0800 01_03_22, Mark A. Boyd wrote: >At 19:44 3/22/2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Look for it at >>http://www.mail-archive.com/lingo-l@penworks.com/ under a heading called >>Lingo to attach behaviors. The entire thread is there. > >Hey! How long has that been there?! How far back does t

Re: shockwave 3d

At 12:15 -0500 01_03_22, Colin Holgate wrote: >>Hi list >> >>Can someone help me with the URL to that shockwave 3d preview? >>I know it was posted recently, and I'm dying to have a look - but I cant >>seem to find the post... >> >>Thanks, >>Karina >> > > >Pretty sure it's here: > >http://www.macr

Re: RE: aMessage

At 17:04 -0600 01_03_21, Dennis Anderson wrote: >Maybe we should consider how we have come to depend on penworks. >Yes! Mr."LINGO" Julius was one of the first books I remember purchasing. >Good reference and still used in my examples to students, who are desirous >of animation techniques and progr

Re: OT: Microsoft has a sense of humor

At 21:52 -0800 01_03_20, Kerry Thompson wrote: >This is really, really off topic, but... > >If you want a good chuckle, go to http://www.microsoft.com/ms.htm, >and check out the last link in the left navigation bar, under >"Resources." It says: "The FIN is a non-partisan, grassroots network of

Re: Miaw and Shockwave

At 16:55 -0300 01_03_19, Rodrigo Peres wrote: >There's a way, or Shockwave support MIAW??? Or rather than embedding several Shocks in the html, you could have one big shock in the html, and then "embed" the other shocks as LDMs in the "base" shock. LDMs certainly have their quirks, but this wou

Re: fast animation with imaging Lingo

At 0:46 +0100 01_03_19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Is there a way to get >subsequent images of the stage into a list without creating cast members? image.duplicate() Jakob [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post mess

Re: Closing MIAW problem

At 21:59 +0100 01_03_18, Disciple1 wrote: >Just to restate the question, what we are not succeding in doing is having a >MIAW close through a user event. The different solutions we have tried are >all being failures. Maybe someone could give us an example on how to do >that? In the Miaw have th

Re: Was Please don't look I am testing

>It is like a nightmare, you scream and scream but no-one can hear you! We hear you Jakob [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]) Li

RE: DOM, Anyone?

At 13:46 -0800 01_03_14, Watson, Christopher wrote: >Now I'm interested in knowing if there's interest out there for something >like this. Yes, I think this is interesting... ehhm exactly what kind of interest are you looking for? You make it, I snatch it? Or something else? Jakob [To remove

Re: using recursion to sweep harddrive(s) for file

At 14:25 +0100 01_03_07, Clars wrote: >hello All- > >I am working on a handler that can find a file anywhere on a computer. >I think this can be done with BuddyAPI, but I'm looking to do it with >the (free) fileXtra3 instead. There are many ways to implement this, based on how you want to "find"

Re: object destruction

At 15:20 +1100 01_02_21, Luke Wigley wrote: > if objectP(myCallBackObj) then > call(myCallBackMsg, myCallBackObj, myTaskID) > end if An even smaller detail: If there is doubt about an objects objectivity ;-) call #myCallBackMsg, [myCallBackObj], myTaskID The list-wrapping avoids

Re: object destruction

At 15:29 +1100 01_02_20, Luke Wigley wrote: >A barebones version of the script looks like >this > >property mytimeoutName >property myCounter > >on new (me) > myCounter = 0 > mytimeoutName = me.string&&"thread" > timeout(mytimeoutName).new(100, #mProcessThread, me) >end > >on mProcessThread

Re: retrieving a directory path

At 10:49 -0300 01_02_17, Quixadá wrote: >hi, lingoists >how can i retrieve a directory path thru lingo? the user will choose >one from the hard drive and it will be used to get files. mui xtra >is the way to go? http://kblab.net/xtras/ jakob [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to

Re: Quick Start Projectors (sort of)

At 1:16 + 01_02_16, LYNN L. wrote: >Greetings fellow lingoists, I have a question about fast start >projectors. I have a projector that is 2.2 M, and it can take up to >60 secs (depending on the machine) to see my loading screen, I have >seen before, where it takes merely seconds to show a

Re: QT in External Castlib

At 8:48 +0100 01_02_15, Bjarne Nyquist wrote: >Jacob wrote: >>Is the external castlib in the same folder as the .dir file? > >Mark wrote >>Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that a few people have >>encountered strange occurances with QT in external castlibs not showing up >>(even

Re: QT in External Castlib

At 23:05 +0100 01_02_14, Bjarne Nyquist wrote: >Is there a problem with external castlibs and QuickTime on Win NT? Is the external castlib in the same folder as the .dir file? You can have the linked assets in subfolders, but there are path-issues when the path of castLibs differs from the path

Re: burning hybrid CD. . .

At 9:33 -0600 01_02_12, roy crisman wrote: >So, apparently there's a different version of toast 4 that has the >option of making a partition in that OS. Hmm... I recently encountered a Mac where Toast 4.x didn't do all the things I've come to expect. Namely it didn't mount a temporary partition

Re: "2 criteria" sort

At 16:24 -0500 01_02_05, Lists wrote: >I'm having a mental block. What's the easiest way to sort by 2 criteria >simultaneously? > >That is, I need to sort a list of four players by how many answers to a >quiz were correct. > >If any of the four players tie when considering correct answers, I need

Re: Xtra

At 12:04 +0400 01_02_05, home wrote: >Hi!, > >I have Adacptec toast with a cd writer (yamaha) >it automatically writes a hybryd cd. >got a presentation which uses swf and a quicktime. >i tried the writen cd in a IBM Aptiva. >the flash in director has no problem but when the movie with QT >is call

RE: another way to DTS

At 11:32 -0500 01_01_31, Colin Holgate wrote: >The idea of having extra tracks in the QuickTime movie may work >then. Just make a Flash movie that has all the functionality that >you need for the whizzy interface (but all on one frame in Flash) >and place that as a second track in the video (th

RE: Direct Email Xtra Problem

At 22:39 + 01_01_29, Paul Steven wrote: > >>just curious, does the message have to be sent as an email? have you >thought about just doing a postNetText to their server (assuming that >you are collecting info to send to the company)? if it is always >going to the same place then a simple po

Re: go to command being ignored...

At 17:43 -0500 01_01_29, ed rowan wrote: >has anyone come across the "go to" command being ignored before? It depends of the "event" driving the command. PrepareFrame and stepFrame are two events that can't do "go". One very convenient detail about the new timeOutObjects is that their callback-e

Re: Cross platform trouble - follow up

At 17:50 -0500 01_01_29, Lists wrote: >On 1/29/01 1:07 PM, Karina Steffens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) sent: > >>The only thing is, I need to be able to work >>with the files (such as put them in the right folder), and I obviously can't >>do that while they're compressed. Does uncompressing the files on t

RE: Re: Static Variables

At 16:25 -0500 01_01_24, Patrick Griffiths wrote: >Close enough I guess, but not the same. By using the goofiness below the >property can be accessed through the me instance of the script and through >the script. That would be like accessing a static through this and through >scope resolution. IMH

Re: Re: unprotecting file

At 3:23 + 01_01_24, Pranav Negandhi wrote: >I beg to differ on thatI think I've heard someone mention >Dir-Opener...It opens the dir cast score and > >No. > >>Is there any way to unprotect a .DCR file >>to view it with director. > I'm sure that Tab didn't mean technically "No", he just m

RE: Re: Static Variables

At 9:19 -0500 01_01_23, Patrick Griffiths wrote: >Sorry, no class variables in Director. Since Director doesn't have any >notion of encapsulation/data hidding (like C++ public, protected, private), >then static variable don't really make sense because they degenerate into >globals. Earlier I had

Re: sneaky keydown / sprite behavior...

At 12:48 -0500 01_01_22, grimmwerks wrote: >Hey Tab > >I'm sure I didn't ask the question properly, but my main idea was that >sprites are handling the navigation via different behaviors. So to do the >same thing in a frame script would be messy.. You don't have to "do" the thing in the frame scr

Re: Static Variables

The class pretty much corresponds to the script. You can access properties of the script as well as properties of script instances, so properties of the script would correspond to class variables. the script can be addressed from an instance (D8) like so: me.script So a class variable could be

Re: actorlist

At 15:40 -0500 01_01_18, Ian Jempson wrote: May I suggest, if you are in D8, that you look at timeOutObjects rather than the actorlist. Let your object create its own timeOutObject and give itself as the callBack reference, then besides the method you specify, it will also receive exitFrame and

Re: wacky new(#bitmap) error...

At 14:37 -0500 01_01_18, grimmwerks wrote: > >temp=new(#bitmap, castLib "whatever") >> > >Jakob >Well, I just tried this in the message window: >temp=new(#bitmap, Castlib "Scripts") >put temp >-- #bitmap >...it didn't return the member number at all ?You have a movieScript with a new handle

Re: wacky new(#bitmap) error...

At 17:33 -0500 01_01_17, grimmwerks wrote: >I'm trying to trace the problem here so some of this is conjecture > >but when I have a new movie and do the old temp=new(#bitmap), a cast >member is created. In the message window doing 'put temp' gets (member 1 >of castlib 1), which is proper. > >H

Re: loop through the directories to reach all thedirectories

At 4:01 -0700 14/01/01, Salman Ahmed wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to run a "repeat loop" which will list all the >subdirectories when supplied the drive name. for e.g. if i supply the drive >name as "c:\", the program should return all the subdirectories beneath it in >the form of a tree. Wel

Re: OOP: using at least one global

At 15:10 + 12/01/01, victor vina wrote: >hi > >i pick up on the subject of OOP and whether there should be at least one >global to keep track of the main manager object that births the rest. You don't need the global, there plenty of more appropriate places, here's two: --Birth your main obje

Re: Accessing Frame Script Property variables

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Re: Accessing Frame Script Property variables

At 15:52 +0100 12/01/01, Bertil Flink wrote: >Just to add to my previous message: >Any negative sprite number seems to work for the sprite channel: >sendSprite(-1000, #someFMethod, "hello") >-- "hello" >sendSprite(-0, #someFMethod, "hello") >-- "hello" And then 193 lines of untrimmed quotes and m

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