I think the comand you're after is the keyboardFocusSprite or words to
that effect.
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KILL me (not that I'm upgrading from
Win2K anyway - but XP does look the dog's preverbials).
Instead of offering ideas on how to duplicate M$ rubbish, can't we create a
petition to stop the buggers dead?
Just me having a vent...
LePhuronn
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Morgan is correct in saying that you do not close a MIAW directly. When
control to the originating script is passed, you will find that the MIAW
does not exist and the whole thing bombs out.
The only correct way to close a MIAW would be to set a global flag initially
set to false or some other
the RunPropertyDialog handler
only runs the once and runs before GetPropertyDescriptionList if it
exists.
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the
hypocritical little nonce that I am...
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Hi all...
How do you set timeouts in Javascript properly so that I can cancel them if
necessary before they trigger?
I've set the object but I can't cancel it..
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Sorry guys!
In such a rush I used the wrong address book entry and sent my wdvl mail
here instead...oops!
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Bloody hell...I thought you were actually unsubscribing then! Don't do that
to me, Kerry, my heart cannot take such shocks!
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i have created a projector in Director 8 which on executing in Windows 95,
98 2000 can play the movie(projector) but cannot play in Windows NT.
can anyone suggest me.
i am targetting only windows
thanks in advance
Reading the same post from you numerous times does not shed any more
Dear All
Forgive the off-topic nature of this question but as experienced Lingo
developers we should know a fair amount about Director's technical side as
well.
Basically I've run into a MAJOR problem. From out of nowhere Director 8 will
simply not load. I trigger my shortcut and after a few
i have created a project in Director 8 which is not running in
Windows NT. can anyone suggest me.
Can you be a little more specific? What exactly is not running?
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Check out the appMinimize command - I think it was there in D7
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But anyways, i have this other program code in VB which will compute
for a Price Binomial (part of our project). 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
i'm importing photoshop images with alpha channels into director 8.
everything seems to work fine but when i cut them up in the paint window
to make rollovers they get some kind of a weird glow to them. does
anyone know how to solve this problem?
Director does not read Photoshop's alpha
NT can be a pain when using projectors. If your projector has its xtras and
runtime files packaged internally, then you will run into problems if the NT
Temp file has not been set up (which is so very common on the NT4 platform).
What you will need to do is put your xtras and runtimes in an
If Pekka thinks that's what's going on in this world
I'd only like to say; get real.
OK, Pekka may be wrong on this, but can we keep the pseudo-personal attacks
off this list please? I've already posted once before with my concerns on
misunderstood tones in posts and I would rather not see
.
Calling Handlers from Queued sounds) you might get more of a response - a
lot of people here are too busy to read everything, so a subject of Please
Help! will not usually get read.
Just my opinion...
LePhuronn
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Does any one know if there's a free upgrade for Director 8, just to fix
some bugs
Nope...
If there was, how would macromedia make money?
I think he was referring to something like the Director 7.02 updater for
D8 - that one WAS free
However, the answer is still no - the amount of extra work
Fonts on Win and Mac almost never look the same
This is because Microshaft...sorry, I meant Microsoft use an entirely
different font size and generation routine to EVERYBODY ELSE IN THE
INDUSTRY.
There are four exceptions to this: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana (the Mac version
is a pain to get) and
to the maxInteger
if i 100 then
quit
doSomeStuff
DoEvents -- the command that passes a time slice to other events
end repeat
LePhuronn
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The Made With Macromedia artwork (image text) is on the d7 d8 CD's.
After reading all four of you posts I would like to reiterate that my brief
does not allow me to use Macromedia's pre-built stuff - I have to recreate
it myself, hence I need the fonts.
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has entered
orbit.
Tab, any chance of blocking this thread now? I don't want this superb list
getting dragged into disrepute.
Yours concernedly,
LePhuronn
P.S. All my work is in now - thanks very much to all those who have helped
me - I hope to return the favour
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LePhuronn
P.S. Further to my query about converting RealVideo to AVI, MPEG or QT, I
thought you'd like to know that there is a little program called TINRA
(This Is Not Real Anymore) that hooks into RealPlayer G2 and converts the
RM stream into uncompressed AVI - very funky. Keep in under your hats
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One more problem:
The autorun feature is not working on all the computerswhat could
be the reason
Autorun has been turned off!
I personally find a CD that automatically starts up when I put it in my
drive to be very frustrating, so it's been disabled.
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Knowing this, I suggested an indirect conversion from RM to QT, through
AVI.
IOW, convert RM-AVI with RealProducer, then AVI-QT with QT Pro.
This was one thing I thought of but the copy of RealProducer G2 that I have
is version 6 and the RM that I have is version 8 - I have not been able to
maybe you can programming that your application quits if it doesn't run on
a CD drive
This would be the only thing I can think of without purchasing licensing
xtras and the like.
You can use BuddyAPI or the CDProp xtras to check for the drive letters for
all CD drives on the user's system.
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 :-)
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To reiterate I have a movie clip in RM format that I would like to play in
D8. It has been pointed out to me that there is a Windows ActiveX for RM
format - anybody know where it is?
Alternatively anybody know of video software that can read RM format and
allow export to another format (I have
Nahh, Three Letter Acronym, then TLA is in itself a TLA... right?
TLA is indeed a TLA, but as my post was full of two-letter acronyms it
wouldn't have worked...silly post I know (and seriously OT now!)
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amount of DV stuff at
university (if they'd let me back in now that I've
graduated) - Premiere,
RealProducer, etc...
Forgive the off-topic nature of this, but you guys are
usually my first stop
for Director/Lingo info...
Cheers!
LePhuronn
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Do
Many thanks to all who offered me moral (and other) support...
Sounds a little too personal to be posting it up here, Kerry ;-)
Seriously, nice one and best of luck with this new place
LePhuronn
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You checked all things such as the state of the swa, the volume of the
swa, the channel volume, etc?
Everything checks out so far, but I will check it again...any other ideas
people?
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I am fully aware of what the original poster was asking (I was also
interested in the technical question of internal name references when we
brought it up). And yes, it was a case of misreading - you don't care how
Director handles it - but this was fresh off the back of a few other posts
from
, start and stop the MP3 but no sound is played - Help!
So, what xtras do I need to include for local SWA playback? Any other ideas?
I won't say the hated U word, but I am now a little stretched for time...I
shall leave it in your hands, guys 'n' gals
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I've got a copy of a multi-state button I have written - I'll mail you it if
you want
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I don't know and I don't care...
Bit harsh, isn't it?
Is it just me or are people getting a bit short-tempered at the moment (no
names will be mentioned)? I
could just be reading stuff the wrong way but there are a few list regulars
who seem to have little patience with simple questions or
Normally just kill the e-mail from my inbox - I've got too much info to sort
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).
Any intentional ones are usually replied with a simple statement of Don't
But, being behind the router, the machine has the internal lan ip, and the
router port maps the external/public ip to that machine on the 1626
port --
so what do I specify for that ip? Plus the public ip is dynamic anyway
(I'm
using that hldns.com to have a name ip for the machine - could I
No doubt their Web folk are crawling through the subterranean labyrinths
of
their site, the lights on their miners' hats Flashing on code that hasn't
seen daylight since the Web's cretaceous period, sending startled critters
scuttling away in Shock.
And not a single pun was intended... :-)
As an OTT approach, you could always increase your score by an extra 10 or
so channels more than you will ever need and then use them for sprite
puppeting - you won't need to perform any checks then because you will know
them to be free channels.
Surely to god an extra 10 channels is not gonna
I don't think you can go to a frame from a prepareFrame handler. You might
set a flag instead, and go to the quiz on the enterFrame handler.
Kerry is right - you can't jump to other frames during the prepareFrame
stage. Additionally I've had problems in frame hopping on mouseDown and
keyDown
Me again...
Does anybody know how to create those little thumbnail pictures for the
Library palette behaviours?
Cheers...
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window, all inspectors)
Open and position other ones (script window, message window)
Any tips, guys n gals?
Cheers,
LePhuronn
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Is there a way to customize the Macromedia banner which shows at the
beginning
and at the end of a projector? For example I would like to put my name
under
whom it is licensed to etc. Thanks in advance
If you're getting banners at the start and finish of a projector then you're
using the
I got dot-bombed today
Bad luck, man :-(
Will keep my ear to the ground...
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Hi guys...
Thanks for any input. I've sorted the problem now.
It turned out that I had set up the callback to have the message passed to
it as a parameter, but the actual processing handler did not use parameters
and used getNetMessage() to pull down the message. By that time, of course,
the
Probably should have posted this on the SMUS board, but I know you guys are
good...
For the life of my I cannot get simple messaging to work. All I want to do
is send a message to the @AllUsers group and display the property list in an
alert box - I can do something with it once I know I'm
You can do a few things here...
Director will play MP3 files as they're pretty much the same as Shockwave
Audio.
1./ You can use the sound playFile command to stream the MP3 from disk - be
warned as problems can insue if you try to read from multiple places on the
same disk at once.
2./ Create
I think what Kerry was on about, as I thought the original comment meant,
was that you can't get the Tempo through the CONTROL PANEL (i.e. the overal
movie tempo) to go 1 frame per 10 seconds...
The tempo channel will do this, as we all know, but the problems with that
have already been pointed
Can anyone tell me how to use mathematical equations in director. For the
equations i am using "equation editor"
If you want to create pictures of the equation concerned, save as an image
and import into Director. If you want complex maths functions created from
Equation Editor I guess you're
An .inf file is initialization file.
INF doesn't work as that is a SETUP data file. The initialisation file is
actually INI, so it's autorun.ini, not autorun.inf
The content of that file is correct, however.
Note, though, that this will not work if the user has turned off auto-insert
At its most basic level, Flash is a tool for using low-bandwidth web
animations through vector-based graphics (interfaces, animations, cartoons,
etc). Director, on the other hand, is built for the creation of full
stand-alone multimedia applications, incorporating digital video, external
data,
Not sure what you exactly mean here. You don't need to define a global
variable to set your initial blend values.
The code I gave you was only a start point for you to modify the code for
your personal needs. When exactly do you want this blend to occur. I noticed
you are calling the routine
Unlike some other languages where you have to declare a variable before
you
can use it, in Lingo just using a variable makes it "come to life".
As an aside, it's just personal habit to store a sprite's belnd value in a
avariable first then process the variable. It cuts down on retyping
Last ditch attempt here...
I ran into a problem when creating a stub from a .dir with no xtras in it to
keep the startup size down. However I then ran into problems running
subsequent .dxr that did need xtras. For some reason they still didn't
trigger when I included the xtras required in my
Or you could use an animated GIF (scratch that - that needs an xtra too)
How about a film loop? Or even just create a set of letters at 24pt and
another set at 48pt and use the score to create the animation!!
Funny how we forget about the little things when we become xtra/lingo
experts :-)
Just goes to show where my emphasis lies - I can code Lingo till the cows
come home, but my Director knowledge is a little shaky :-(
As far as I know all raster formats will get converted to bitmaps when
imported into Director. Different formats contain different data, however,
so you need to
If you are talking about a multiple rollover then simply change the members
of all the sprites you want done, for example...
on mouseEnter
sprite(1).member = member1
sprite(2).member = member2
sprite(3).member = member3
end
If you only want to switch two members, I have a re-useable
But now I little bit confuse about movies... Please get me straight
Think of the projector as a viewer for your Director content. If you are
stringing multiple movies together you only need create ONE projector as
their are multiple ways you can then run different movies.
1./ You can create
Also something to bear in mind...
Although text members do not have the hilite()
function (I wish they did!) you can use the selStart
and selLength commands to select characters in the
field.
As a result, you could try using something like
textMember.selStart = 0
textMember.selLength = 0
I
This code 100% works for me. If it does not for you then perhaps you have an
issue with your machine, not the Lingo.
This code goes in the Main movie.
on mouseUp
miaw = window "test"
miaw.windowType = member("mask")
open miaw
end
The member "mask" is also in the main movie, not the MIAW.
To
Trying to do the non-rect shape miaw trick using 1 bit member as mask, and
it's just not working in either D8 or D7any ideas?
Works fine for me...
In a nutshell this is what you do:
1./ Create a 1-bit cast member that you will use as your mask
2./ Set the MIAWs windowType = this member
The ones that looks like:
videoPath = "@/video/fish.mov"
In which case you can use any of /:\
to easily get the pathDelimiter:
sep = the last char of the moviePath
Guess some habits are hard to break - always had to do things the long way
round so lecturers can read the bloody thing!
If I understand you right you want multiple entrys under the same property
tag. I presonally would do this:
database = [#roster: ["Tab", "Kerry", "LePhuronn", "Mark", "Grimmwerks"]]
This way the #roster property would return a linear list wi
You can do this by writing Lingo to send messages to the Flash movie. Based
on the message, Flash can then do its stuff with its content.
I dont have access to the original falsh file just an swf of it.
You're gonna need to original .fla I'm afraid because you will need to code
in some
Brennan,
You are a star. At the moment I will only be presenting a prototype version
of the project so I will not be delving too deeply into the
syntax-checking - it will probably revolve around the MIAW telling the user
what to put in and explaining what each line does and then retrieving the
Trying to do the non-rect shape miaw trick using 1 bit member as mask, and
it's just not working in either D8 or D7any ideas?
The MIAW mask does work, but it'll only happen when the MIAW is called from
a projector - it does NOT work while in author-mode.
Sorry!
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A lot of path queries floating around at the moment so let's see if we can
do a quick wrap up of what we can do...
All external files are referenced by an absolute path, such as
X:\Media\MyFile.mov. However you will encounter problems if you hard code
the whole thing into your script.
However
I can't believe I have been so daft!
Quick run-down 'cuz I'm short for time.
I'm finally about to get rid of my long, torturous uni degree and one of the
final projects I'm doing is an interactive tutorial system for Lingo 8.
Nothing special it would seem.
What I think is quite funky is that
Me again...
I've got the Save as Java package from the mothership and installed the
UIHelper Xtra. Thing is, I ain't gotta clue on what it can do or a list of
its functions/methods/routines.
So...
1./ Anybody used it before and can give me some pointers
or
2./ How do I get a list of them. I
This script works only when you create a projector file, but my movie is
intended for use on the internet, so actually it is the new browser window
that has opened that should be closed by a press on the button.
I shiver with fear at the prospect of Shockwave movies closing their
containing
Check out the UIHelper Xtra, which is part of the...Save As
Java installation
Can't find it. Anybody got a copy they can e-mail me?
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The formula is as follows :
(((x*1882.816)/((y)*z*1000))-
(.017*s/60))
Where "x" is attached to a #bitmaps
"y" is attached to a #field
"z" is attached to also a #bitmap
"s" is attached to a #field
I can get the relevant info But just help me with a script on how to
Check out the UIHelper Xtra, which is part of the...Save As
Java installation
Can't find it. Anybody got a copy they can e-mail me?
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This script works only when you create a projector file, but my movie is
intended for use on the internet, so actually it is the new browser window
that has opened that should be closed by a press on the button.
I shiver with fear at the prospect of Shockwave movies closing their
containing
I can't believe I have been so daft!
Quick run-down 'cuz I'm short for time.
I'm finally about to get rid of my long, torturous uni degree and one of the
final projects I'm doing is an interactive tutorial system for Lingo 8.
Nothing special it would seem.
What I think is quite funky is that
I seem to recall a number of requests for you not post this sort of thing
here. Your message was answered last time.
With such a volume of traffic on this list it's bad enough getting relevant
info down without posts such as this cluttering things up
Cheers
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Actually, calling it an editor is a bit grandiose--it's just some
input fields and radio buttons.
Sling it in my direction when you're done!
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As Flash content on an HTML page is displayed using the Flash ActiveX
control I would assume that, like all other ActiveX controls, it would have
to be instanciated for each use. Therefore 30 Flash buttons would create 30
instances. Don't know what the RAM requirement for the Flash OCX is, but
Oh how worried are they now? It's blatantly obvious that this is a last
ditch attempt at trying to prove they "we are nice people, honest!"
Get me some popcorn - I wanna watch this sucker BURN!!!
As you may have noticed, I'm not a big Microshaft fan...
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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."
Get me one of those T-Shirts!!
.
No honestly, I want one.
.
I do!
.
NO, I DO!!!
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I've needed a new dusting rag for a
My boss thinks it would be easier to use multiple movies and
do the calculations in xsl
Sounds like a seriously round about way of doing things!
As you seem to have been told (and also as I indicated in a previous post
that does not seem to be here at the mo) a new instance of the Flash OCX
There are a few things I wish to mention about your script, but I will deal
with the problem at hand first...
Your script does not take into consideration that the number of steps
required to get the sprite into position may differ from the number of steps
required to size the sprite, i.e. it
Hello There - I hope someone can help - I have an object that is being
birthed during the "startmovie" handler. As soon as it is birthed - it
grabs
3 sprite channels and uses them to place graphics on the stage. The code
all
works faultlessly except: If you run the movie after firing up
Dearest Karina
If your husband works for Microshaft then he is league with the devil and
should burn along with them!!
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
Sorry, only joking...("who let him out?" says the warden...)
But while on the topic I have a bit of confession to make, and forgive the
completely unrelated
If you don't want to embed the font that kinda rules out OCR Extended (nice
computer terminal font), but also your choice for fixed-width fonts also
rules out prety much everything else.
If you choose to drop the fixed-width bit it goes without saying that Arial
and Verdana would be your best
As far as I can remembe the whole HTML virus was an overblown paranoia a
while back. There is no way HTML can contain a virus in its own right.
However (and I know this because I've experimented with it - Microshaft can
be so blind!!) it is possible to embed a malicious script into Outlook
Actually, my DOM implementation is completely Lingo-based, and has no
linkage to the member/sprite/stage metaphors, or the Lingo that supports
them. In simple terms, this DOM implementation is all about creating
well-formed XML/HTML/XHTML documents in memory, then outputting
views of them.
A Lingo Document Object Model...sounds like an
interesting idea.
Presumably you mean it to be some kind of reference
table like the stuff you
can get from Netscape on Microshaft for their
browsers.
Don't think that a Lingo DOM would be as clean though
as a lot of properties
inter-relate to each
i have an interface with navigation in flash 5 and i would like to use
this
navigation in Director. Is there any way to control the flash navigation
from within my director-shockwave, or do I have to translate my flash
action
script to Lingo
Yes and no.
Yes you can have Flash and Director
if i was editing member "teste1" I would do something like:
m = (the texteditor).member
put m.hame
-- "teste1"
put m.text
-- "Whatever is written here"
That seems to be somewhat difficult. There are certain Lingo scripts that
can be run at author-time (such as getPropertyDescriptionList
If you're lazy like me, you can also just grab the last char of the
pathname for parsing cross platform paths:
the itemDelimiter = the last char of the pathname
Cole
It may be just me but this always produced erratic results. Plus I've gotten
into the habit from Uni of making code a
ps LePhuronn my code is better than yours.
Exactly whih bit of code are you talking about here? Anything that I have
put up here has usually been off the top of my head so hasn't been fully
optimised or even particualarly slick. And no I'm not taking offence at your
comment
Um, okay. I'm sure James Newton and the other authors of the behavior
libraries will appreciate your term "bloated crap".
I was having a bad day that day. Apologies to James Newton, all coders who
built the behaviours and anybody else who may have taken offence...
There are still a few probs
Luiz Gustavo Castelan Pvoas wrote:
Is there a way to get (in author mode) a reference to the text
member that is being edited on director's text editor???
Not entirely sure what you mean here.
If you want to know which vast member you are editing then its name appears
at the top of the Text
Jon Paul Alongi wrote:
how can i show just the filename and not the whole path in a text box
Mark A. Boyd wrote:
Look into using the itemDelimiter to get the last (or possibly next to
last) item in the path.
Mark is right - this is the code that I use
As this is quite a common function
other it's difficult to
use them for anything other than that 5-minute chat room they are pushing so
much.
And unless it's just my machine, don't use the rollover cursor change on any
editable text member - it doesn't work.
Just me having a rant...
LePhuronn
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In order to hilite the entire line include the actual
carriage return
character as part of your line selection. Do this by
adding 1 to your
selection length.
I tend to create a list of start and length positions
on beginSprite for
each line in my field as a means of quick reference
I have seen this problem before on a friend's uni project.
Her problem was that she had previously modified the line spacing of a text
member and used it as a base for additional members. However when she only
had a single line in the member the colours sometimes were split in exactly
the way
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