RE: lingo-l OT: Giving away your lingo

Give them the code. What are they going to do with it? 1. Hire some other dir developer who is equal to or beyond you in ability, and will likely just toss your code in the dumpster while replicating the functionality in his own style. 2. Is not as good of a coder, and will struggle to

RE: lingo-l creating behavior / calling handler question

I was thinking that I create one behavior asking for the text of the handler to call, then do a sendallsprites(do(stringentered)) Would this be the way to go or would it be sendallsprites(symbol(textentered)) If you're using a gpdl for this, all you need to do is define the format as

RE: lingo-l creating behavior / calling handler question

For another approach, see my article at Director Online: http://www.director-online.com/accessArticle2.cfm?id=340 Basic idea: Have a generic button behavior that you attach to any and all buttons. When the button is clicked it does a sendSprite to the current sprite number calling a

RE: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access

I don't think the issue is whether objects can pass data or not... Surely they must otherwise there would be no communication between any of your objects. I think the issue is should they pass private data to another object via a getter method. I've been following this thread with a

RE: lingo-l OOP and ancestor access

Snip Al's post what do you think? I absolutely agree with everything you just said :) Karina [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 Re:timeout (again)

Now this seems to be working for the moment but is there a way to diable/forget (Idon't know the correct terminology) the timeOut script. I don't want any more, no matter how long between mouseclicks, for myTimeOutHandler to be executed. Is there a way to do this - or am I

RE: RE: lingo-l Tab's New Book (was: South Africa or something)

No offence meant... I just thought it was a humorous typo. None was ever taken :) [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 Tab's New Book (was: South Africa or something)

whatever you do, please don't loose that approach. Gee, and Karina was so postive about the book... ;p ;p ;p ;p ;p ;p ;p I meant lose :) It took me a while to see what you meant, and did I ever mention that English may not be my native tongue? :P And BTW, it's positive ; Karina [To

lingo-l Tab's New Book (was: South Africa or something)

Um, there might be something in the works. :) That's great to hear! A whole new generation of would-be-and-current Lingo programmers is in for a treat :) Any topics in particular that you think might need a good looking at? Well, of course the leap from D-5 to D-8.5 is quite extensive, not

RE: lingo-l child object

thanks! i´m going to order this book now! Please don't... For one thing, you're not ready for it, for another, the free online OOP book to which I sent you the link (http://www.furrypants.com/loope/) is a much better introduction into OOP then the often confusing Lingo Sourcery. Karina [To

RE: lingo-l mission impossible!

! :) :) :) Karina Steffens, Lead Programmer Martello Media Ltd. 4 Islington Avenue Sandycove Co. Dublin Tel: +353 1 2844668 Fax: +353 1 2803195 http://www.martellomm.ie [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 South Africa

Uh-ohTabs gonna throw the book at us now... :-P If the book he throws is Gary's game book, make sure to give it to Pascal. Colin, even you wouldn't do that to the poor guy ;) With all due respect to Gary Rosenweig, his book is not for beginners. If Tab is going to throw any books

RE: lingo-l FileXtra and Network Volumes

Kerry, I just did a test in the message window: put drivesToList() -- [A:, C:, D:, E:, F:, H:] H: in my case is a mapped network drive. Which means that it does recognise the Drives - as long as they're mapped. put DirectoryToList (H:\karinas) -- [batlship.dir, batlship1.dir, Belvedere\,

RE: lingo-l Simple Image Switcher

, Karina Steffens, Lead Programmer Martello Media Ltd. 4 Islington Avenue Sandycove Co. Dublin Tel: +353 1 2844668 Fax: +353 1 2803195 http://www.martellomm.ie [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 Password entry fields

Hi Irv, It seems to me that all the fuss with finding the masking font takes you more time then writing the actual code would :) This is totally untested and oversimplified e-mail lingo, but I'm sure you can adapt it to your needs (obviously, you should get rid of hardcoding the password). I

RE: lingo-l Password entry fields

Hi Karina, I did something similar a while back, I need to dig the code out. By the way, doesn't your code break when your hit 'Backspace'? Hi Alex, As I said, it's e-mail lingo off the top of my head. But it shouldn't break on backspace, rather just ignore it (any key will be intercepted

RE: lingo-l mouselook effect in Director

* (deltaV.float/abs(deltaV))) end if end if me.moveAgent (pcVelocity.locH, pcVelocity.locV) end Regards, Karina Steffens, Lead Programmer Martello Media Ltd. 4 Islington Avenue Sandycove Co. Dublin Tel: +353 1 2844668 Fax: +353 1 2803195 http://www.martellomm.ie [To remove yourself from

RE: lingo-l OT: Off-list contacts

through to answer specific questions. I don't reply or flame because they USUALLY seem to be sent in error (my address used instead of the list). Yeah, I get those too. The last one was definitely NOT an error, since he specifically asked me not to answer to the list, because he just

RE: lingo-l OT: Off-list contacts

But what I really, REALLY hate, Is forgetting to change the replyTo field D'oh! Karina [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 OOPS Video Interface

I need to make a simple OOPS video interface, but don't understand much from OOPS yet. Can't help you much with video, but if you want to learn about OOPS, there's no better resource then the following one: LOOPE: Lingo Object Oriented Programming Environment, by Irv Kalb

RE: lingo-l What's wrong with this image?

menuImage = member(menu item).image.duplicate() put menuImage tempImage = member (menu item).image.duplicate() put tempImage It looks to me like your tempImage is only one menu item tall. Try making it five times taller. Thanks Colin (and Kerry and Carl for their personal

lingo-l What's wrong with this image?

Hi guys, I'm totally stumped... :( The following handler is supposed to copy a bunch of rectangles (from the menu item cast member) one after the other, into a single pixel cast member. Right now, it only copies one of them (or all of them into the same rectangle area, I don't know...) Can

RE: lingo-l registration of a keydown event within an editable field?

does anyone know if it is somehow possible for a director movie to register a keydown event from within an _editable_ text field? ie. allow the user to enter text into a field and have director simultaneously register a keydown event for each keystroke Yep... You can put something along

RE: lingo-l Do you think this type of functionality is even possible?

Lingo Sorcery is a pretty decent book on OOP programming, too. You might want to take a look at it. Actually, I personally found it wierd and obscure. His view of OOP and my view of OOP are very different. That's why I started writing my own book. Having read both, and for a long time

RE: lingo-l Sequence XTRA

guitar tuner in D8 shockwave found this to be the case. it was quite disturbing then even more so not to hear that my $199 will not find it fixed! Agreed - Deferred - Closed? :P *sigh* [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

RE: lingo-l exporting a shockwave3d file from director

How can I save a shockwave3D file that I created in real time using lingo?? You can't. Colin just took the words straight out of my mouth :) But what you Can (and expected to do) is to save the LINGO that you used to create the world, and recreate it each time you start playing the

RE: lingo-l Checking if an application is open

Thanks to Al, grim and Mark for the proposed solutions. that's fine. I'm kind of curions as to the workaround? It's really an extremely simple workaround. It's for a kiosk project, where one of the touchscreens needs to run a pre-fab database application (some kind of a VB app that was made by

lingo-l Checking if an application is open

Hi all, Does anyone know if it's possible with lingo or some Xtra (buddy?) to check if an external application is open? (I know how TO open one, it's the finding out if it's necessary that I'm not sure about) Thanks, Karina [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode,

RE: lingo-l Checking if an application is open

Hi Pranav A shot in the dark...can you use Glu32 to call a dll that returns the process list? I've never used Glu32, but I figure it should. Thanks :) I've never used Glue32 either, but I might give it a look, see if it can do it. However, the workaround we found in the meantime seems to

RE: lingo-l Checking if an application is open

Hi Al, You don't say if you know the name of the application you want to know about, of if you are just going to be trolling. If you know the app then things become easier, assuming that you have an Xtra like MasterApp. MasterApp is perfect for checking which applications are open. it has

RE: lingo-l Dynamic jigsaw puzzle builder, but a ink problem on some machines

report back to me if it looks OK or if theres a white retangle around every piece. Has anyone experienced anything like this before? No problem here: windows 98, PII 300, Double monitor system, RAGE II AGP RAGE II PCI. Karina [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest

RE: lingo-l lingo.ini

Hi Tab, Um, although I spent a lot of time on the history, I'm pretty sure my first sentence said "its main value is to set up some global variables before the start of the movie". That was not the bit I disagreed with, but the bit where you said that you don't really need it anymore - I

RE: lingo-l color chip in behavior dialog - Karina?

Someone, might have been Karina Steffens, posted code to put a color chip in the get PDL dialog box. Now I can't find it, and I can't get the #format right. could someone please repost? Z He? What? Did someone say my name? :) Hi Clars, Here's an example: property pColor

RE: lingo-l lingo.ini

Nowadays you don't really need LINGO.INI, at least from D7 on, but it's there if you want it. Sorry Tab, I have to disagree with that bit... There's an excellent usage for the lingo.ini file, as a companion to a fast-start "universal projector". Have a look at this handler: global gfMovie

RE: lingo-l timer

Interesting. I do almost everything through Lingo, so I've started to forget the old ways :-) That's because you don't have a paranoid Art Director who thinks that anything can be done linear must be done linear. But I haven't used that feature myself in a long time ...Because I certainly

RE: lingo-l RE: different between flash and Director

released to us a short while ago. I saved the link for the demos this time (thanks grim!) and it's on http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2000/index_intel.fhtml if anyone's wandering what I'm talking about. Regards, Karina Steffens, Lead Programmer Martello Media Ltd. 4 Islington Avenue

RE: lingo-l timer

Hey Kerry, Huh? There's no way you can set the tempo to 1 frame every 10 seconds. You can't do a 10-second delay with the tempo. Yes, you can :) Have a look at the Tempo palette. If you check the second radio box from the top - "Wait", it will pause the frame for up to 60 seconds. But it's

RE: lingo-l ANOTHER XTRA QUESTION

I am going throug macromedia's list of xtras at present. off hand does anyone know can director take two sprites and create a composite pict that i can save to a file? is there an extra to do that? Yes there is, and it's free :) snip from the message window put xtra

RE: lingo-l Xtra Download--hmmm

By all means, don't break your NDA--if you worked on Shockwave 3D, you folks did a great job :-) Aw! They were all ready to spill the beans until you said that! Kerry, Colin - What's an NDA?... [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

RE: lingo-l Xtra Download--hmmm

Kerry, Colin - What's an NDA?... I'm afraid I can't tell you, because I signed a non-disclosure agreement. Aha! So NOW we're on to you ;) [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 parameters to timeout handler

i could be confused. before the timeout objects i used to use a custom object that did the same think, and i know we could do it in ours. should be easy enough to test though... I already tested it a while ago, and you know what does get passed? The name of the timeOut itself. Odd, isn't it?

RE: lingo-l sorry only in italian language

Thanks for the translation :) :) :) Karina [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 Repeat properties

I won't post the property list the xml parser returns, because it is horrendous and confusing. Here's what it boils down to, though: pList=\ [\ [#puzzle: \ [\ [#title: "Business Across Cultures"], \ [#entry: [[#answer: "Breed"], [#clue: "yada yada"]]], \

RE: lingo-l Repeat properties

That would do it with the list I suggested. I probably should have posted the actual list--I'm reading it from an XML file, and I can't count on all the child nodes at the same level having the same property. A better example would be something like[[#puzzle: [#title: "One"], [#level:

RE: lingo-l Repeat properties

both, I guess, but the main point was to pull out all of a specific property. Oops.. I think I missed that little bit... Same handler, slightly modified: on propLst, myProp mainList = [ [#puzzle: [ [#title: "One"], [#level: "Moderate"], [#word: "Lingo"], [#word: "Director"] ] ],

RE: lingo-l Repeat properties

Hi Tab, a prop for a given value, which besides being slow(er), will fail if you have the same value under two different props. Consider: m=[#Name:"Joe", #Password:"Joe", #Name:"Bill", #Password:"Bill"] Under your approach, if you do a getOne(m, "Joe"), you'll always get #Name, which

RE: lingo-l Repeat properties

For what it's worth Kerry is a guy! ;-) You just beat me to it ;) Karina [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

RE: lingo-l Repeat properties

That said, I think if Kerry's list was structured a little differently to begin with, the whole thing might be easier. Maybe #words is a property that matches up with a linear list of words, so you just extract the wordlist and then you have your list of words. From what HE ;) said,

RE: lingo-l Repeat properties

example may have been lame, but the point was that working backward from value was no guarantee that you got the matching property. Hmm.. I see your point now. Actually, that would also be true for a properly structured list, such as: [#name: "Joe", #password: "Joe", #age: 3] It's still

RE: lingo-l Repeat properties

My fault, I was thinking Karina. Too many K-people. Erhmm... Two? Scrolling up... ok. There's also Kyle and kaplesh. Not much of a mob, really ;) But who'd know better then you, Tab? ;) Karina [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

RE: lingo-l 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 We'll make an exeption for you, Jakob ; Karina [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

RE: lingo-l 3d engines ???

Does anyone know of any good resources, links, tutorials or open source stuff about creating interactive 3d engines in Director (anything along the lines of http://www.noodlebox.com/bitsandpieces would be great!!!) Anything to get me started would be superb! Best wishes Tim Hi Tim,

RE: lingo-l closing miaws

principle you can avoid, or at least solve, crashes in Director when using and destroying objects (and MIAWs, in this case). True. All this is a big help in understanding some "mysterious" issues surrounding instability in director, such as having a child object auto-destruct on stepFrame,

RE: lingo-l shockwave 3d

Jakob's fantastic impersonation of a Yes Man. Hey Colin, are you sure he's imprsonating? I bet he secretly works for The Goverment and just wants us to BELIEVE that he's joking, when all the time he's washing our brains? ; But seriously, I just followed the link to the shockwave 3d site, and

RE: lingo-l closing miaw windows

Hi Tab, This puts the "killing" of the window in the context of the stage, not the window itself, and won't crash. 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? Karina [To remove

RE: lingo-l OT: Microsoft has a sense of humor

I think that's the same logic used by willing supporters of virually all immoral leaders, even as they watched the offenses transpire. I'm sorry, I don't mean to politicize this discussion thread, and I don't mean to imply that you or your husband are in the same league as history's worst.

RE: lingo-l Microsoft's sense of humour

If your husband works for Microshaft then he is league with the devil and should burn along with them!! BWAHAHAHAHA!!! "The wages of evil are death, but the hours are good..." I don't remember where the quote is from, but my husband seems to use it quite a lot ;) Karina (really, the

RE: lingo-l list Q?

i want to check if the property of member's list Lroll = 1 or 0 only 1 of 5 sprite work ?? on shuffle repeat with w = 1 to 5 set x = getProp(Lroll, w) if x = "1" then set the membernum of sprite x to random (6) end if end repeat end i try many form of script

RE: lingo-l list Q?

(ps. not married, so no concerns about where my wife might be working) :) :) :) [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

lingo-l shockwave 3d

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 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

RE: lingo-l shockwave 3d

Tim and Mark - Thanks :) Has anyone else seen it yet? Karina [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

RE: lingo-l OT: Microsoft has a sense of humor

Get me some popcorn - I wanna watch this sucker BURN!!! As you may have noticed, I'm not a big Microshaft fan... Watch it! My husband works for Microsoft :P They might be an evil empire bent on world domination, but if that brings the bread home, who am I to complain? :- Karina [To

RE: lingo-l List function of Xtras

Hi Pranav, put interface (xtra "XtraName") e.g. put interface(xtra "FileIO") But it's been a pain for me so far to find names of Xtras. The xtrasList returns the filenames. Anyone know how to find the name of a particular Xtra? Type in the message window: showXlib That should

RE: lingo-l Lingo to attach behaviours

does this mean that i have to specifically set all properties of those behaviours that are set using the pop-up box like: sprite(x).pMyproperty=value I wouldn't recommend it! (that's bad OOP, and besides, what if you have more then one behavior that uses the same property name?) Instead of

RE: lingo-l Lingo to attach behaviours

eautre too often myself, but I hope that pointed you in the right directon. Regards, Karina Steffens, Lead Programmer Martello Media Ltd. 4 Islington Avenue Sandycove Co. Dublin Tel: +353 1 2844668 Fax: +353 1 2803195 http://www.martellomm.ie [To remove yourself from this list, or to cha

RE: lingo-l Keeping the beat

Hi Irv, I've never had to do a "musical" project yet, but I'll go with my gut feeling and say use the timeOut objects. Definitely not QT cuepoints. I've had a nightmare experience with those when I had to synch spot lights (the fading up and down of) with an Mpeg projection. I went through the

RE: lingo-l Pre-built behaviours

Rant away--but I bite back sometimes :-) Cordially, Kerry Thompson Learning Network [ yeah and she rocks all the time so there ! ( ps LePhuronn my code is better than yours. ) Giles Hehe :) Did you see that? That proves your notion that he thinks you're a woman ;)

RE: lingo-l Pre-built behaviours

Curses. That was NOT supposed to go to the list :P D'oh! [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

RE: lingo-l Who can answer this????

how can i show just the filename and not the whole path in a text box i think its got something to do with repeat loops butim an amateur If you have "FileXtra" installed, all you need is this command: put DirectoryToList(the moviePath) -- ["casts\", "2Land.dir", "2People.dir",

RE: lingo-l walk movement

Hi Juan, is there a way of doing a simple walk-through (world) without a 3d engine. by pressing arrow keys. There are always ways of doing these things with Lingo. Check DOUG (www.directorOnline.com) for articles - I think there have been a fairly recent one posted on the theme. It won't be

RE: lingo-l walk movement

(www.directorOnline.com) for articles - I think there have been a fairly Oops... I mean www.director-online.com I'm getting senile in my old age Karina [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 scriptInstanceList

Hi Bhakti, any vector shapes? there was some problem with the xtra when it first came out that caused that sort of problem.. Nope, I just checked - no vector shapes whatsoever. Karina [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

RE: lingo-l scriptInstanceList

Hi Sephane, I don't think that having objects deleting themselves from their own scriptinstancelist is good, I seem to recall that although the actorlist is tolerant of this (ie. adjusts for deletions of objects in the list during stepframe processing), the scriptinstancelist is not.

lingo-l scriptInstanceList

Hi everyone, I've been just asked to debug an older project, that seems to slow down the system more and more as it runs. And I'm supposed to debug it NOW, in the next 10-20 minutes. (Ok, not anymore - I've just been told the installation will be postponed in any case, since we still need to

lingo-l RE: lingo-l lingo-l pocket pc´s ?

capabilities, though. Any chance that shockwave will run on them? If not, maybe someone should send the MM fairy a wish :) Regards, Karina Steffens, Lead Programmer Martello Media Ltd. 4 Islington Avenue Sandycove Co. Dublin Tel: +353 1 2844668 Fax: +353 1 2803195 http://www.martellomm.ie

RE: lingo-l FILE XTRA

openfile The syntax is: fileName = FileOpenDialog string initialDir, string filtStr, string dlogTitle, Boolean createPrompt, Boolean fileMustExist You can access all the syntax by typing in the message window: put xtra("FileXtra").interface() how would u import an mp3 into the cast You

RE: lingo-l mouse click w keyboard

Hi Fabio, installed. So... is there a way to simulate a mouse click through keyboard? I know I can move the pointer through the screen associating the direction keys with the mouseV and mouseH. But I have no idea if it's possible to simulate the click Hmmm... never tried that before,

RE: lingo-l Getting filenames in a folder

Thanx Karinaworks like a charm. I had removed the older version of the xtra when I installed the new one. I put it back now and its simply great. You're welcome :) Karina [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi

RE: lingo-l Getting filenames in a folder

hose of you who didn't follow the original thread, I used this list as a #range property for the GPDL: on getPropertyDescriptionList gpdl = [:] fileList = directoryToList (the moviePath "English") gpdl[#pSound] = [#comment: "Choose a sound file to play", #format: #string, #defa

RE: lingo-l accessing access

enable me to use a Microsoft access database on a CD. It's a furniture There's an Xtra called "Datagrip", that connects director to Microsoft Access. The URL is: www.datagrip.com I never checked it out myself, but it sounds like what you need. Regards, Karina Steffens, Lead

RE: lingo-l kerry rocks

Hey Kerry, There are a lot of folks on the list who contribute a lot more than I do--Roy, Mark, Kurt, Irv, Jakob, Karina, Mark, Florian, Colin, Tab, Terry, James, Daniel, Stephane, to name a few (and my apologies to the many I didn't mention). They deserve the kudos as much as, and more

RE: lingo-l Timeout problems....argh

e a timeOutScript running, try commenting it out for a while, see if that helps. 5. Is something killing your timeOut? By default, timeOuts are not persistent: They get disposed of when the movie ends (the movie, not just the projector). 6. Other (???) I hope that any of these proves helpful. Regards,

RE: lingo-l Property description Lists

Hi Karina and all, Hi Sebastien :) Another one which is geat is #color. At last you'll find the utility of the D8 property inspector, where this property prompt a color selector. (gpdl dialog still ask you for a string). I loves this feature! I must be getting senile... I thought I

RE: lingo-l Property description Lists

llo Earth", "Hello Moon", "Hello Sun"]) gpld[#pInteger] = [#comment:"This is an integer", #format:#integer, #Default: 1) gpld[#pBitmap] = [#comment:"This is a bitmap", #format:#bitmap, #Default: "") return gpdl end Regards, Karina Steffens,

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

Hi Nik, can you let me know where to get this xtra "directCom"? The full name of the xtra is DirectCommunication, and it handles serial port traffic. The URL is: http://www.directxtras.com You're going to need the right software on the other end as well: directCom can write strings and send

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

Now this ones just a fancy, but can Director be programmed to use home appliances(a coffee maker for instance) with some external hardware such as EZIO or something? Hang in there Simon, you just might get your wish. :-) Yep :) Director can be programmed to do ANYTHING, provided you have

RE: lingo-l UTC

9450529) put "There are" abs(yourBirthday - myBirthday) "days between our birthdays." Example These statements access an individual property of a date: myBirthDay = date(19650712) put "I was born in month number"myBirthday.month /Snip Is this what you were looki

lingo-l Cross platform trouble - follow up

Thaks to everyone who replied to my question. (re: mac executables becoming unusable after being moved accross a network using a pc). I aposigise that it took me so long to reply/follow up: Some new projects came up and I got side tracked I did try most of the suggestions, but couldn't get

RE: lingo-l Re: Saving Shockwave Director and Flash Files.

Gordon, Anyone know if you can create content in Director and play it in Flash Player ? No, you can't embed a .dcr into flash. But you can put the .dcr in the same directory as flash and use the flash getURL command to open it (either in the same window or a new window). Regards, Karina

RE: lingo-l Flash question urgent

your flash project, while waiting for it to load. (Alternatively, you can embed it into an html page or even a .dcr, and point to that in the getURL). Regards, Karina Steffens, Lead Programmer Martello Media Ltd. 4 Islington Avenue Sandycove Co. Dublin Tel: +353 1 2844668 Fax: +353 1 28

RE: lingo-l Re: Cross platform trouble

Thanks Tom and Bjarne, I know this isn't your main issue, but I don't think you need to copy Mac Xtras to the PC. You see, since I author on the PC and use a runtime Xtras folder (as opposed to embedding them in the projector), I need a place to keep all the bits of the project together - mac

RE: lingo-l more #shape wierdness

member("shape1").filled = 0 --or FALSE -it disappears! This is not the case with shapes created with the Toolbox widget. I'm using D8 win98. Can anyone confirm/explain? Just a shot in the dark, but I create all my invisible buttons by making an unfilled shape with a hairline line width.

RE: lingo-l more #shape wierdness

Your shot in the dark hit me... where I was sitting, in the dark... Yippy! *blows on the barrel* Thanks much! It works! You're very welcome :) Karina [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 Cross platform trouble

Hi Geoffrey, Thanks for your help, but I'm afraid I'll need more info :( On NT go to File Manager. Select Mac File. Select Associate. You will then see a box where you set the file type and creator. We had the same problem months ago and pulled our hair out finding the answer. Pulling

RE: lingo-l Re: Cross platform trouble

Hi Cole, Is your NT server running file server for mac service? This would at least preserve your mac files. You'd still need a mac to upload them, but at least it would be a safe place to keep them. I think so - it runs PC maclan for the network, and as long as I use the mac to copy the

lingo-l Cross platform trouble

no problem. But not if I use the PC. Unfortunately, guess what my own platform at work happens to be? :-/ Does anyone know of a solution? Regards, Karina Steffens, Lead Programmer Martello Media Ltd. 4 Islington Avenue Sandycove Co. Dublin Tel: +353 1 2844668 Fax: +353 1 2803195 http

RE: lingo-l Accessing Frame Script Property variables

new_number) Ok, so maybe it seems like too much to do all that just to change a silly property, but there are good reasons for it, honest! :-) (for one, it makes debugging easier, in the long run) (but you don't have to if you don't wanna) Regards, Karina Steffens, Lead Programmer Martello Me

RE: lingo-l Accessing Frame Script Property variables

sendSprite(-5, #someFMethod, someArg) is the same as using Try using 0 instead of -5. It works for me... sprite(-5).someFmethod(someArg) Yes?? I keep getting handler or property not found if I use the second method I suspect that's because you're trying to call a method from

RE: lingo-l tic tac toe

Hi Inna, do any of you guys had experience of making a game like tic tac toe in lingo? I did :) I am having problem checking the winner in the diagonal form. Anybody can help me put of this misery? :) I really appreciate it if you do... I wrote an Array parent script (based on Tab

RE: lingo-l question

Bjarne, Thanx for the clarification. I hope I didn´t intimidate any one with my post. I just find it important to be clear on fundamentals when we go on to our different project issues. Same here, although I am a bit scared of you now ; have been confused with a "symbol" data type being a

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