RE: lingo-l how to reverse and fastforward flash movie in director

Do you still need help with this? If so, let me know - I can tell ya. Leon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kavitha Raya Sent: 21 August 2001 23:01 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l how to reverse and fastforward flash movie in

RE: lingo-l tight situationPLEASE HELP

Or how about using a background transparent Flash movie? If the QT sits in the middle of some kind of Flash border, try making the middle part of the movie transparent and sitting the QT in that -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris

RE: lingo-l Update-- Still need help.

snip Thanks, braintrust! Cory PS. Watch for me on 'The Weakest Link' 8/20 on NBC, assuming the airdate doesn't get moved Oh you poor sod. I officially apologise for the United Kingdom (join in if you like Gerbil et al) for that lunatic Anne Robinson (if it was her you were up against

RE: lingo-l lingo for animated gifs? or at least tricks?

I've always had trouble with gifs in Director. I either resort to using film loops, or more frequently, build my own equivalent. Attach a behaviour to a sprite that builds an array of cast members in it's beginSprite handler. These form the images to show in the 'gif-like loop'. this can be

RE: lingo-l Detecting Flash

:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Leon McComish Sent: 16 July 2001 17:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: lingo-l Detecting Flash try : property flashSprite on beginSprite me flashSprite = put number of your flash sprite here flashSpriteTotalFrames = sprite(flashSprite

RE: lingo-l Detecting Flash

try : property flashSprite on beginSprite me flashSprite = put number of your flash sprite here flashSpriteTotalFrames = sprite(flashSprite).member.framecount end on exitframe me if (sprite(flashSprite).frame = flashSpriteTotalFrames) then go the frame +

lingo-l Kinda OT Flash question

Hi all, sorry for the OT-ness of this but I've had to convert a small DIR file to a Flash equivalent. Question: Does anybody know if Flash has an equivalent to the CASE statement in Director? I can't seem to find it anywhere. TIA Leon [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to

RE: lingo-l director to flash

Closest I can think of is to convert the array to a string and then do a String.IndexOf(value) on it. This of course sucks, for many, many reasons (having to convert, no handling of duplicates etc, gives position of first char so you'd have to then use that in conjunction with the element length

RE: lingo-l Start Stop flash movies on my stage...

Hi Malcolm, do you still need help with this? I can help but you may have solved it already Leon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Malcolm Beddows Sent: 26 June 2001 11:28 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: lingo-l Start Stop

RE: lingo-l Language (or the use thereof)

All are entitled to individual opinion, but, being English myself, I'd actually like to _thank_ all the non-native English posters for doing such a fine job. I can speak German and some French but nowhere near as well as the non-English guys speak my language. It's fantastic that so many people

RE: lingo-l Switch Case

not sure what you're wanting to do here - whenever you run this movie, manpablo will always be memberPaulo1 and gMode will always be mode1 when you release the mouse button. If you're wanting it to change (e.g.random member on a mouseUp) do the following: global gMode, manPablo, modeList,

lingo-l delimiters

Hi all, when sending data to a text file via a cgi script, what delimiter do you guys use between data? Or do you send a list as a variable and then read it straight back in? I'm using cgi scripts for hiScores etc but can't seem to settle on a standard method or delimiter that I can be sure

RE: lingo-l editable textfield

Irv wrote In your code, if the user types a symbol (pound sign for example where the key = 35), it will fall through all your case tests and land in the otherwise clause. The code of the otherwise clause is pass. Pass means to pass this key through to the field - which is

RE: lingo-l cursor position in textfield

---Ramesh wrote-- Check out these properties of a field in Director's help file, it might help. the selStart the selEnd the selection best regards -- Ramesh CT --In reply to--- How can I find out where the cursor is

RE: lingo-l cursor position in textfield

Thanks Ramesh - that's sorted it. Leon [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

lingo-l editable textfield

Hi all, I have 2 editable textfields on a screen (whilst testing). The first is editable and accepts input from the user. The user is a concatenation of the authorised keys pressed. Code attached to text field one checks the keydown against a case statement, checks to see that the key is a

lingo-l Paint window

Does anybody else have problems in the paint window? I'm trying to paint white onto black and vice versa but it keeps using the wrong colours and messing up the bitmap. It's driving me nuts. Can anyone help? Is there an odd fix like the one with the property inspector? (e.g. If you keep the

RE: lingo-l Flash in Director...

Is Director-Online down ??? I haven't been able to go to the site today at all...I get the "This Page Cannot Be Displayed Message" ... no, you need to add .com to the link on the email from Victor. Leon [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

RE: lingo-l PS2VS Problem!

I'm facing a problem about PS2VS Xtra that when I try to run this dcr it displays the message PS2VS requires the FileXtra, included as a part of the Save As Java install for Director 8. Please add FileXtra to your Xtras folder and restart Director before using PS2VS. I think that its

RE: lingo-l Lingo Cowboys (was timer)

snip way too many ones done by "Lingo Cowboys" who insist on doing everything in 1 frame and OOP code. it's is generally overly complex way hard to work on. (not to mention that there are usually no comments bad variable names - but that's another rant grin) rant/ just my NSHO, Al

lingo-l MapToStageMember

Hope someone can help me - I'm going nuts here. Have just come back to a game I was making using collision detection from the Director-Online site (Charles Forman or GAry Rosensweig's I think). Analyses all pixels of a colour type to make a very accurate mask. Problem is, I have an error

RE: lingo-l text members

You could do something like: (untested email lingo) property p_TextMember property p_CharNum property p_DoAnimation on beginSprite(me) p_TextMember = sprite(me.spriteNum).member end beginSprite on mStartAnimation(me) p_DoAnimation = TRUE p_CharNum = 1 end

lingo-l changing a cast member based on mouse direction

Hi list... I have a character in a game I'm fiddling with that moves with the mouse when the user drags it with the mouse button pressed. I want it to 'look' in the direction it's going. Currently, I have 8 cast members (for 8 basic directions) and am swapping them based on the following. The

lingo-l SW CGI help...

Hi all, hope someone can help me. Thanks to Kurt earlier for the help :) I have actually got our network guy to bash out a small CGI script anyways to save the sent info as a text file. Having a weird problem though. Everything rosey in authoring - file retrieves and updates (saves) data

lingo-l shockwave external data storage/retrieval

Hi all, I'm creating a quick Shockwave calendar using text boxes etc for a Intranet site. It's the 1st time I've done anything using remote storage of data. It's not complicated at all - nor does it need to be secure ( yet :) ). I'm using a text file at the moment with delimited data written

lingo-l Runtime scripts

Hi all, I have a popup menu that is made of puppeted members. One button always there, others appear when it is clicked (fade in out etc). I am trying to attach a simple test script to them (see code below) but for some reason, only the last sprite actually reacts to the rollover.. I

RE: lingo-l How to Zoom In - Zoom - Out in an image with Director 8..???

of each year of the conflict eg: Germany Attacks the Dutch and Belgium) automaticaly the map will SOMEHOW zoom into the area of the map where the event took place (eg:Europe, ASIA, etc.)and a short animation of arows will show the user the direction of the enemys army. If you followed

lingo-l re: RETURN key in text fields

Hi all, anyone know how to lock out the RETURN key on Windows in a text field, so effectively a user can only type on one line and not press return to drop down a line? cheers, Leon [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

lingo-l MapToStageMember

Hope someone can help me - I'm going nuts here. Have just come back to a game I was making using collision detection from the Director-Online site (Charles Forman or GAry Rosensweig's I think). Analyses all pixels of a colour type to make a very accurate mask. Problem is, I have an error

RE: lingo-l fast animation with imaging Lingo

The technique is very useful for making zooms in a picture the size of which is bigger than the screen size. For this I just have to load one big image. By the time the user is watching the "wide angle version" of the image, the computer is calculating the zoom steps for a zoom into the

RE: lingo-l the mouseSprite?

Anyone know how to use the mouseSprite command? I used it the way I would use the mouseMember but I get an error that says property not found. ther's no such command. to find out which sprite is under the mouse pointer use 'the rollover' eg on exitframe put the rollover end HTH Leon

RE: lingo-l magic wand

Here is I would wish to reproduce the feature of the magic wand of photoshop. She allows in other one to select zones of same colour. Please , know a xtra which I could use or can you indicate me a track in lingo. Thanks in advance. Don't know about Xtras but off the top of my head you

RE: [lingo-l urgent - cannot play any other sound after playing an avi, not even flash file]

I seem to remember having a problem with flash and quicktime movie sounds and score music. I *think* I solved it by setting the sounddevice: set the soundDevice = "QT3Mix" Dunno which one u need to use but have an experiment with changing that. Leon P.S. Do it in the very 1st frame of the

RE: lingo-l Lingo question_scrolling images with mouse position

perfect - cheers Alan. Leon McComish Web Developer email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get the best free games on the web at www.freeloader.com freeloader.com is a division of Pure Entertainment Games PLC 131-151 Great Titchfield Street London W1P 8AE tel: +44 (0)207 663 3900 fax: +44 (0)207

lingo-l keys

what keys people would suggest/ prefer for a 4-player, 1-key game. I'm using these so far: player1: TAB player2: SPACE player3: RETURN player4: - Any suggestions for the last player? Or preferences for overall key choices? Leon McComish Web Developer email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get the

RE: lingo-l Re:Lingo-L Digest V1 #1725

sprite(My_flash_movie).frame gives you the flash frame no. on set_frame if sprite(My_flash_movie).frame = x then do stuff else if sprite((My_flash_movie).frame = y then do other stuff end if end Leon McComish Web Developer email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get the best free games on the web

lingo-l Weird behaviour

called? Is this anything that you guys have experienced? Do I need to flush the memory before I enter the new frame (I'd rather not)? The script is called before the frame advance so it's not even as if it's got the task in a queue. Leon McComish Web Developer email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get the best

lingo-l resetting Scrolling text box

tried set member("instructions").linePosToLocV(1) to 0 but I think this is for testing the position, not setting it. Any ideas? Leon McComish Web Developer email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get the best free games on the web at www.freeloader.com freeloader.com is a division of Pure Entertainment

RE: lingo-l resetting Scrolling text box

thanks Karina, that did the trick ¦:-) Leon McComish Web Developer email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get the best free games on the web at www.freeloader.com freeloader.com is a division of Pure Entertainment Games PLC 131-151 Great Titchfield Street London W1P 8AE tel: +44 (0)207 663 3900 fax

RE: lingo-l mouseDown scrolling

if anyone out there had dealt with this in some way. Leon McComish Web Developer email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get the best free games on the web at www.freeloader.com freeloader.com is a division of Pure Entertainment Games PLC 131-151 Great Titchfield Street London W1P 8AE tel: +44 (0)207 663

RE: lingo-l fade out sound and then jump to ...

to have a line saying sound(1).volume = sound(1).volume to reset it properly. Leon McComish Web Developer email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get the best free games on the web at www.freeloader.com freeloader.com is a division of Pure Entertainment Games PLC 131-151 Great Titchfield Street London W1P 8AE

RE: lingo-l Dumb problem

Oh, for the love of...ignore me, I'd forgotten that the sprite had been rotated 90 degrees earlier. on wakeUp if recent_consumption_of_alcohol = TRUE then drink (coffee * 5) have_words_with_self go to label("work") else drink coffee go to label("work") end i

RE: lingo-l About lists

ooo that's nasty. I tried it and got the same. But, if you take out the line set llaux=ll then it's fine - ll still contains 5 elements. Anyone got any ideas? Leon McComish Web Developer email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get the best free games on the web at www.freeloader.com freeloader.com

RE: lingo-l case command

put "you pressed the l key" end case end I'll be off now to feel particularly stupid. Leon McComish Web Developer email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get the best free games on the web at www.freeloader.com freeloader.com is a division of Pure Entertainment Games PLC 131-151 Gr

RE: lingo-l Escape key

try on startmovie set the exitLock to true end This disables Directors interception of the Escape key as an...well...escape key and allows you to use it as a user input key. For more, have a look in the lingo dictionary under ExitLock Leon McComish Web Developer email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

lingo-l 4 - player game X-Tended post

--nothing and still the keyup command is ignored. Am I going nuts? Is there some conflict with using keypressed? This game is really beginning to get on my nerves. help! X-[ Leon McComish Web Developer email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get the best free games on the web at www.freeloader.com freeload

lingo-l keys

just being ridiculously stupid, please excuse me. Leon McComish Web Developer email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get the best free games on the web at www.freeloader.com freeloader.com is a division of Pure Entertainment Games PLC 131-151 Great Titchfield Street London W1P 8AE tel: +44 (0)207 663

lingo-l Concatenating variable names

ball1, ball2, ball3 etc, depending on the value of x. At the moment Director is either recognising a string or an unknown variable.. Leon McComish Web Developer email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get the best free games on the web at www.freeloader.com freeloader.com is a division of Pure Entertainment

RE: lingo-l shockwave load [pretty pressing!]

tinue ?" yes/no alert if the file is already there, just add the info. This will give extended info about the script error. Thank a guy named Andrew Morton for this - he helped me a while back. 8*) Leon McComish Web Developer email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get the best free games

RE: lingo-l script problem

} Leon McComish Web Developer email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get the best free games on the web at www.freeloader.com freeloader.com is a division of Pure Entertainment Games PLC 131-151 Great Titchfield Street London W1P 8AE tel: +44 (0)207 663 3900 fax: +44 (0)207 663 3901 [To remove

RE: lingo-l help with list !

correct_answers = 0 repeat with x = 1 to listname.count if listname[x] = 1 then correct_answers = (correct_answers + 1) end if end repeat ..then do what you will with the result Leon McComish Web Developer email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get the best free games on the web

RE: lingo-l uppercase

I think that the keycodes or ANSI values have an equivalent value for upper and lower, just a fixed number above, much like ASCII. I used to write small repeat loops in BASIC that took the ASCII number of a given letter and added the value difference between upper and lower to convert it. e.g.

RE: lingo-l Via Director 7.02 (Symbol/Layer Visibility ON/OFF of Flash 4.0 .swf movie)

as far as I'm aware you cannot affect the layers of swf files via lingo - the movie has already been compressed. I use both all day and to my knowledge the SWF format is much like exporting a Photoshop PSD file as a BMP or JPG - it effectively merges layers etc. I know that there is an xtra that