Re: FileMaker Pro and Director

2001-06-29 Thread Joe O';Neil
DOUG had article few weeks or months ago, "Shockwave Chat" about using getNetText() to send request to Filemaker and get back the string containing the data suggest check archives hth joe [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l

Re: getting the cursor of a field sprite

2001-06-28 Thread Joe O';Neil
if in the property inspector, the editable of the member is true, it will hold on to the cursor even after the editable of the sprite is set to false. don't need to have editable of member and sprite both true to enter keystrokes hth joe [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to diges

Re: getting the cursor of a field sprite

2001-06-27 Thread Joe O';Neil
a brilliant way to do this must exist here's what i would try instead. on mouseUp --grab the text out of the field into memory someVar = sprite( n ).member.text --kill the field sprite( n ).editable = false --send the flash the text sprite( flash ).setVariable( iforgotthename, someVar ) end m

Re: calendar stuff

2001-06-13 Thread Joe O';Neil
Colin, no comparision between your calendar(s) and mine you have a product, with different screens and a menu bar and options and tons of pretty pictures. i have a thought, and some code that need smoothing i can see the rough edges from here, even with the box turned off. mostly, i tried a

Re: Using the current spriteNum to play a flash movie in Director 6.5

2001-06-13 Thread Joe O';Neil
not sure what you trying to do, see no way what you doing can work. the currentSpriteNum is the number of the channel where a script is running [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > on enterFrame > set aRecord = the currentSpriteNum frame and movie scripts return 0 put the currentSpriteNum --0 so ev

Re: calendar stuff

2001-06-12 Thread Joe O';Neil
Roy, thanks for the kind words. if anyone finds this useful, kool. it's not really ready for prime time, i found one flaw just now, a startMovie() that is totally pointless, only there for authoring and never commented out. the problem i have after 4 programming courses is that nobody ever ripp

calendar stuff

2001-06-12 Thread Joe O';Neil
i've noticed some threads about calendars and dates and keeping track of the date that a particular sprite represents. i had a few thoughts about that, and some time. here is the thought http://home.earthlink.net/~joeoneil/Testbed/allYears.html here is the source http://home.earthlink.net/~joeon

Re: Sound control

2001-05-17 Thread Joe O';Neil
-- Welcome to Director -- put the soundEnabled -- 1 the soundEnabled = 0 put the soundEnabled -- 0 joe [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 PR

Re: Dynamically changing colors in a palette?

2001-05-16 Thread Joe O';Neil
maybe you try to do wrong thing? assuming a bitmap of a state, outlined and labelled in black, with a white background, in some sprite channel on beginSprite me sprite(me.spriteNum).bgcolor = rgb( 0, 255, 0 ) end beginSprite will cause the state to be green, while on mouseUp me sprite(me.sprit