RE: lingo-l xtra problem

2001-08-21 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 07:43 21/08/2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, you still have to invoke budapi as well... Not so. Buddy API's methods are available to Lingo simply by including the Xtra with the project. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest

Re: lingo-l shortcut on desktop

2001-08-20 Thread Mark A. Boyd
to discover where the deskTop folder is on any given system. You'll need an Xtra to write the file, too, whether it's an alias, text file, or any other type of information. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http

Re: lingo-l SingleInstance woes in D8.5

2001-08-20 Thread Mark A. Boyd
of is using the free FastSplash program to start your projector. It's available at: http://bwsmith.com/index.php?t=2s=3 -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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 Avi Replay

2001-08-14 Thread Mark A. Boyd
suggestion as fast as possible. See movieTime. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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

Re: lingo-l powerpoint files

2001-08-13 Thread Mark A. Boyd
Links http://www.director-online.com/quickLink.cfm?id=237 -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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 OOP and ancestor access

2001-08-13 Thread Mark A. Boyd
, right? I AM finding that OOP is making this much easier, and I expect it will get much smoother as I implement more of it. Just my acknowledgement and a big thanks to all the OOPers out there who discuss these things on line. My OOP light is beginning to illuminate my world now. -- Mark

Re: lingo-l reading binary registry keys

2001-08-06 Thread Mark A. Boyd
() baWriteRegNumber() Reads/writes numbers in the registry. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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

RE: lingo-l FileXtra 3 - can't create folder across network in NT but can in 98

2001-08-03 Thread Mark A. Boyd
for success! In Buddy API, you just issue the baCreateFolder command: err = baCreateFolder(\\server\sharedFolder\folder1\folder2) -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post

RE: lingo-l physical path to My Documents folder for the logon user in Windows 2000

2001-08-01 Thread Mark A. Boyd
) I just tested it on Win2K, but I haven't tried it on other OSen. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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: Directmedia CpuBoost setting

2001-07-30 Thread Mark A. Boyd
the DirectMedia Cast members. I'm certain I replied to this somewhere else. See if my reply in that forum helped. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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

RE: lingo-l mpg files on cdrom

2001-07-30 Thread Mark A. Boyd
not sure if those features are included with the StreamingMediaXtra, but they might be. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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

RE: lingo-l mpg files on cdrom

2001-07-27 Thread Mark A. Boyd
://www.xtras.tabuleiro.com There's also the antiquated and deprecated MCI support. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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 Windows Media in dir 8.5

2001-07-27 Thread Mark A. Boyd
supports RM playback as well, much better than it used to with the antiquated RM ActiveX control. There's also Tabuleiro's StreamingMediaXtra http://www.xtras.tabuleiro.com -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http

Re: lingo-l Font issue

2001-07-23 Thread Mark A. Boyd
verbose syntax. -- #text member member(textMember).char[32].font = Arial -- #field member set the font of char 32 of member(fieldMember) = Arial -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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 Trouble with ImportFileInto

2001-07-10 Thread Mark A. Boyd
PM 7/10/01 -0700, John Hart wrote: As usual, ImportFileInto works great in author mode (D8), but not from my projector at runtime. Here's the meaningful end of the code I'm using: importFileInto member (/Prefs/bhen), the applicationPath /Prefs/bhen.txt -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin

Re: lingo-l Buddy API Question

2001-06-25 Thread Mark A. Boyd
projector is running. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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

Re: lingo-l Buddy API Question

2001-06-22 Thread Mark A. Boyd
switch to the colorDepth you're attempting to set. Use test for the Mode parameter. In the one project where I did this, I tested for 24 bit, if that failed then I tested for 32, then 16. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go

Re: lingo-l workaround for disappearing insertion cursor

2001-06-19 Thread Mark A. Boyd
week. I think it's selStart and selEnd that only work on fields. the selection property is documented as a text member property. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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 puppetSound with no sound card!

2001-06-19 Thread Mark A. Boyd
puppetSound appears many times!!!) With Buddy API, you could set a flag if a sound card exists. Then have your puppetSound script check that flag before issuing the puppetSound command. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go

Re: lingo-l please help

2001-06-16 Thread Mark A. Boyd
a)) of chapterletters into char a of answertext I understand its better to drag chapters.. i better try that too but what is wrong in the script? I don't understand drag chapters -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com

Re: lingo-l please help

2001-06-16 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 18:54 16/06/2001, Colin Holgate wrote: I don't understand drag chapters I was suggesting a more graphical way for the user to select the order of the chapters, by dragging them into a play list. Oh yes, of course. Sorry, I missed that in your original reply. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep

Re: SV: lingo-l free upgrade?

2001-06-14 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 02:14 14/06/2001, you wrote: D7.02 was a free bugfix upgrade. D4.04 too... D5.01 D6.02 AFIAK, D8 is the only one that didn't get a patch. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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 Sound volume of AVI

2001-06-13 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 13:00 13/06/2001, Kamil Dabkowski wrote: Hi, How can I control sound(?).volume of AVI movie. In which channel the AVI sound is playing? Use sprite(x).volume where x is the sprite channel containing your AVI. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list

Re: lingo-l fileIO: line break wierdness

2001-06-09 Thread Mark A. Boyd
theText = theText line 2 CRLF theText = theText line 3 writeString(fileIOinstance) -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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

Re: lingo-l Memory leak in Director 8

2001-06-03 Thread Mark A. Boyd
on various machines and versions of Windows, it returns a number that's slightly larger than the total amount of physical RAM installed on the machine. This has been true since at least D7. Buddy API returns an accurate number. Do you get different results with the freeBytes? -- Mark A. Boyd Keep

Re: lingo-l Property lists

2001-06-03 Thread Mark A. Boyd
, but as you Bhakti points out, there were several problems with the basic concepts used in creating your original script. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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: lingo-l FreeBytes LIES - Memory leak in Director 8

2001-06-03 Thread Mark A. Boyd
seen that symptom in D7, D8, and, indirectly in D8.5 on various computer configurations with Win95, WinMe, WinNT, and Win2K. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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 Property lists

2001-05-31 Thread Mark A. Boyd
gMode end -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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

Re: lingo-l Saving and retreiving the value of a List

2001-05-29 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 09:09 5/29/2001, Allard, Simon wrote: gLabelList = [sec_1_1_1,sec_1_1_2] Use the value() function: gLabelList = value([sec_1_1_1,sec_1_1_2]) -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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 DCR with Quicktime

2001-05-28 Thread Mark A. Boyd
for distributed movies. Consider it required reading. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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

Re: lingo-l Video playing in Director

2001-05-27 Thread Mark A. Boyd
the data rates too high. I tend to keep my AVI data rates a = 200KBps. My MPEGs are encoded out-of-house, but I _think_ they're just using a standard setting for Video-CD. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http

Re: lingo-l OT: Back in the saddle

2001-05-24 Thread Mark A. Boyd
Congrats! -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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

Re: lingo-l problem with baPrintFile

2001-05-23 Thread Mark A. Boyd
along with their meanings. on printPDF OK = baPrintFile(gPathPDF myPDF.pdf) if OK 32 then alert PrintFile error OK end if end -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post

Re: lingo-l updating htm links

2001-05-22 Thread Mark A. Boyd
(no quotes) I've also seen it suggested to set the media of the member to itself after changing its contents: member(someMember).media = member(someMember).media -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ

Re: lingo-l Image flashes up after Director exit

2001-05-21 Thread Mark A. Boyd
-- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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 programming

Re: lingo-l Image flashes up after Director exit

2001-05-20 Thread Mark A. Boyd
to my exit dir? This can happen when using play without terminating all the play commands with play done commands. Use go to movie exit instead. (Don't include the .dir extension and you won't have to re-write your Lingo if you decide to protect or shock the files later). -- Mark A. Boyd Keep

Re: lingo-l OT: Off-list contacts

2001-05-17 Thread Mark A. Boyd
your prices. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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

Re: lingo-l Avi Cue points

2001-05-14 Thread Mark A. Boyd
accurate than minutes/seconds. Actually, if you want min/sec, you'll need to convert movieTime tics into HH:MM:SS - probably with the framesToHMS function. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ

lingo-l Lingo-L Archive (was: retrieving data from the internet)

2001-05-09 Thread Mark A. Boyd
There's a Lingo-L archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/lingo-l@penworks.com/ It has a fairly simple search engine I'm not sure how far back it goes. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ

Re: lingo-l P R I N T I N G ?

2001-05-09 Thread Mark A. Boyd
to be reflected in the movie itself. I don't know if this is available in the Lite version, but the full version has: setColor (doc, 0,0,0) -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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 dropdownlist behavier

2001-05-07 Thread Mark A. Boyd
in the behavior. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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

Re: lingo-l Text help please

2001-05-07 Thread Mark A. Boyd
out the Horizontally scrolling field at James Newton's Director Case Studies site: http://perso.planetb.fr/newton/#text -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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: lingo-l Colorize the 1-bit Grphics.

2001-05-02 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 03:38 5/2/2001, Mahmood Akhtar wrote: Can we change the color of 1-bit bitmap in Director, i.e. red, green or blue etc. However, its depth should be remain 1-bit. No, but you can set the sprite's color in the score or with Lingo. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself

RE: lingo-l powerpoint and Buddy API

2001-05-02 Thread Mark A. Boyd
of course. Not only is it necessary with most Windows applications, but it seems _especially_ necessary with any of the MS Office apps. I just play it safe and always to baShortFileName(). -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go

RE: lingo-l FileIO and Networks

2001-04-30 Thread Mark A. Boyd
just had another thought, hang on a sec. rustle, shuffle, rustle, . . . cough The code is a bit dusty, but I just checked I'm not using baShortFileName() functions, either. P.S. Tested in versions D7.02 and less. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list

Re: lingo-l foreColor property

2001-04-25 Thread Mark A. Boyd
in field members? What that means is don't use dot syntax for #field members. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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

Re: lingo-l Open Explorer

2001-04-24 Thread Mark A. Boyd
with thatProgram Hint: Your subject line comes very close. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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

Re: lingo-l new(#type) madness!

2001-04-23 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 14:41 4/23/2001, Dierdre Dixon wrote: btw, is there a searchable archive version of this list, along the lines of Direct-L? It seems to be fairly recent (Dec 2000), but check out: http://www.mail-archive.com/lingo-l@penworks.com/ -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself

Re: lingo-l OH no not again... Printing

2001-04-21 Thread Mark A. Boyd
it be relative to the print margins rather than the paper size? It's been a while, but I don't see where you're getting or setting the margins. Sorry I don't have a more detailed answer, but I can't get to Director at the moment. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from

Re: lingo-l Problem with antialiasing in Director Trial version

2001-04-18 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 22:11 4/17/2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've included 2 text xtras (TextAsset xtra and the other is Text xtra, if only I spelled their names properly). If using an embedded font, you may need the font xtras, too. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list

Re: lingo-l lingo.ini

2001-04-18 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 08:38 4/18/2001, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: What is the purpose of a lingo.ini file? See the example file in your Director application folder. The comments in the file may explain it. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go

Re: OT: Re: RE: lingo-l find path

2001-04-18 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 18:03 4/18/2001, Kurt Griffin wrote: Price: $299.00 $299.00? For twice the price of the full version of Buddy, I hope it makes coffee, too. That would be the MasterAppLiance Xtra. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go

Re: lingo-l Problem with antialiasing in Director Trial version

2001-04-17 Thread Mark A. Boyd
property = TRUE. 4. Did you remember to include the text Xtras in your projector or (preferably) in the Xtras folder next to your projector? -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post

Re: lingo-l PDF

2001-04-17 Thread Mark A. Boyd
parameter in baRunProgram() to true. Set it to false and all should be well. More info is in the Buddy API Help. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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: lingo-l Ticks -- seconds

2001-04-16 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 12:43 4/12/2001, Rodrigo Peres wrote: on 4/11/01 7:42 AM, Mark A. Boyd at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:33 4/11/2001, Rodrigo Peres wrote: hi to all, How the best way to convert seconds to ticks?? I'm usinng th HMSToframes to convert 00:00:13 to seconds and then put it * 60

Re: lingo-l Ticks -- seconds

2001-04-11 Thread Mark A. Boyd
the movietime property to change the position of a quicktime. Use 60 for the tempo parameter: -- Welcome to Director -- put HMStoFrames("00:00:13",60,0,0) -- 780 put HMStoFrames("00:00:01",60,0,0) -- 60 put HMStoFrames("00:01:00",60,0,0) -- 3600 -- Mark A. Boyd Ke

Re: lingo-l The number of sound channels

2001-04-10 Thread Mark A. Boyd
ess I'll have to see if my old Ensoniq sound card manufacturer has a Win2K driver around. Win2K installed one during installation, but . . . -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To po

Re: lingo-l in search of an Xtra

2001-04-06 Thread Mark A. Boyd
http://www.updatestage.com/products_table.html#Video -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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

Re: lingo-l checking if an ALT key has been pressed

2001-04-01 Thread Mark A. Boyd
on a regular basis without requiring user interaction. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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

Re: lingo-l registering DLL's from Director

2001-03-29 Thread Mark A. Boyd
is to use the Buddy API Xtra to get the DOS short filename equivalent of that file. theFile = baShortFileName("C:\Programme\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\DAO\DAO350.DLL") open theFile with ... Or use Buddy API's baRunProgram() It's free for up to 2 functions and is available

Re: lingo-l how can i do a morph in director?

2001-03-29 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 08:23 3/29/2001, iguana wrote: Please tell me: how can i do a morph in director? Well, Iquana, cross-poster extraordinare, you actually missed one or two other Director online communities that I frequent. What went wrong? -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from

Re: lingo-l Repeat properties

2001-03-28 Thread Mark A. Boyd
! Anyone named Mark is totally familiar with that concept. It'll come back around. -- Mark "Not Marc" Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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

Re: lingo-l urgent! mpgxtra errror

2001-03-28 Thread Mark A. Boyd
comes with the Xtra)? Have you utilized the support system at http://xtras.tabuleiro.com ? -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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

Re: lingo-l Irregular windowshape - --------

2001-03-28 Thread Mark A. Boyd
Sprite me pCurrMask = 0 end on exitFrame me pCurrMask = pCurrMask + 1 if pCurrMask glMasks.count then pCurrMask = 1 window("someWindow").windowType = glMasks[pCurrMask] end Does it work? -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list,

Re: lingo-l Filename and Shockwave

2001-03-28 Thread Mark A. Boyd
at about 5 minutes per MB on a 28K modem with a good connection. If it takes 2 hours to stream a 4 minute movie, well . . . -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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 Projector.ini file

2001-03-27 Thread Mark A. Boyd
on his web site. "Undocumented Projector Build Options" http://www.zeusprod.com/nutshell/otto.html -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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

Re: lingo-l Repeat properties

2001-03-27 Thread Mark A. Boyd
foo.getPropAt(3) -- 3 So it seems as though the first item has a property of #roster while the other 2 items are linear? Lost me at the bakery. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.c

Re: lingo-l Launching Flash 5. SWF from Director, Problem

2001-03-26 Thread Mark A. Boyd
ar so you probably don't want it as the first char in the path to your file. Also, 'open' doesn't like spaces in the path. Either ensure there are no spaces in the path or use Buddy API to resolve the 8.3 short file name equivalent. open the moviePath "FlashFiles\latestca.exe" -- Mark

Re: lingo-l Memory Leaks

2001-03-26 Thread Mark A. Boyd
documented in the Lingo Dictionary under importFileInto. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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 custom Movie In A Window windows

2001-03-23 Thread Mark A. Boyd
.director-online.com/accessArticle.cfm?id=332 -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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 shockwave 3d

2001-03-22 Thread Mark A. Boyd
http://www.macromedia.com/software/shockwaveplayer/SW3D_Preview -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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 Projector ERROR

2001-03-22 Thread Mark A. Boyd
of the code that isn't working along with a description of what isn't working. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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 Attaching scripts to sprites dynamically?

2001-03-22 Thread Mark A. Boyd
)? -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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 programming Lingo

Re: lingo-l tween with lingo

2001-03-21 Thread Mark A. Boyd
on the newsgroups? I just replied there that you may find that the Zoom In/Out behavior from the Library Palette does what you want. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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 Closing MIAW problem

2001-03-18 Thread Mark A. Boyd
(in case the parameter is not getting passed to it)? Have you tried putting a break-point in the script and watching it in the debug window? -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post

Re: lingo-l Closing MIAW problem

2001-03-18 Thread Mark A. Boyd
, and .dcr extensions. set the fileName of gMiaw to "Saq 1" -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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 Xtranet docs?

2001-03-16 Thread Mark A. Boyd
-third-party pages, about 4/5 of the way down. Also, if you go back to http://www.humancode.com/xtranet and follow the download links, there are some sample files on the download page that might help. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change

Re: lingo-l Make xtra?

2001-03-16 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 02:02 3/16/2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone point out the materials about making my own xtra, i mean module, written on C/Delphi etc. , to use in Director movie? http://www.macromedia.com/support/xtras/contents.html -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from

lingo-l Re:

2001-03-15 Thread Mark A. Boyd
And here's a 3rd method: on exitFrame if NOT (sprite 2 intersects 1) then go the frame end if end -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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: lingo-l playing live video through a projector

2001-03-14 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 17:04 3/14/2001, nik crosina wrote: Maybe there are any xtras I have not yet discovered out there? Your help is greatly appreciated Have you seen our list host's Xtras page yet? http://www.penworks.com/xtras/index.cgi -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from

Re: lingo-l the member of the text editor

2001-03-13 Thread Mark A. Boyd
time Director is started up). When you choose Xtras- and select this movie's name, it should show up as a MIAW for you. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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: lingo-l Who can answer this????

2001-03-12 Thread Mark A. Boyd
seeing what your list looks like. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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 Sigh...now it's a weird hyperlink problem

2001-03-09 Thread Mark A. Boyd
List help? http://www.updatestage.com/buglist.html Search for hyperlink and near the bottom of the page is the paragraph that begins: "• hyperlink: If you set the hyperlink of a text chunk using Lingo ..." I think that may apply to your situation. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :)

Re: lingo-l About Plugins

2001-03-02 Thread Mark A. Boyd
om/support/director/ -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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 p

Re: lingo-l File Dialog?

2001-03-01 Thread Mark A. Boyd
be interpreted either way. BTW, I wasn't knocking the notion that fileIO can be useful for its displayOpen(). I used it quite extensively before getting Buddy API. I didn't mean to slam you or anything. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest

Re: lingo-l Save dialog II

2001-03-01 Thread Mark A. Boyd
FileXtra - comes with Dir (if Java components installed) FileXtra3 - beerware DirectOS - commercial and possibly several others. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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 File Dialog?

2001-03-01 Thread Mark A. Boyd
ot;) set fName = displaySave(myFile, "Save file as:", fileToCopy) set myFile = 0 if fName "" then rezult = baCopyFile(whereIsFile,fName,"ifNewer") if rezult 0 then -- alert the user why the file couldn't be copied -- see BudAPI help for error codes en

Re: lingo-l File Dialog?

2001-03-01 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 09:16 3/1/2001, Stephen Recker wrote: I couldn't find this: Mac users can get the temporarily separate baGetFileName and baGetFolder Xtras from: http://www.mods.com.au/budapi/future.htm Ah, they're gone. Well they were listed as Beta versions. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin

Re: lingo-l go to label(Start)

2001-03-01 Thread Mark A. Boyd
epareFrame handler either. Try putting it in the exitFrame event handler. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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, em

Re: lingo-l mpeg video in D8

2001-02-28 Thread Mark A. Boyd
://xtras.tabuleiro.com/ -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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

Re: lingo-l commandLine, what is the right syntax?

2001-02-28 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 19:07 2/27/2001, John Erazo wrote: Thanks to Mark A. Boyd and Robert Wingate for the response. I really haven't tried using open with . New-Lesson-Learned. ;-) thanks again for the tip Mark. BTW, that's all 'open someFile with someApp' is doing. You might be able to write that as: open

Re: lingo-l File Dialog?

2001-02-28 Thread Mark A. Boyd
not be the right tool. I'm not nuts over Buddy API, but in my opinion, it's still the tool to beat for all its functions. P.S. to Sean: Buddy API can copy files, too. ;-) P.P.S. I'm not associated in any way with Magic Modules - other than being a happy customer. -- Mark "Buddy"

Re: lingo-l We've topped 3000

2001-02-27 Thread Mark A. Boyd
Congrats to the list happy anniversary to Penworks! -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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: SV: lingo-lopen comand?

2001-02-27 Thread Mark A. Boyd
ou can use baFindApp() to find the path to the associated application if you want. baOpenFile(baShortFileName(the moviePath "test.pdf")) -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.

Re: lingo-l Transparent MIAWs

2001-02-27 Thread Mark A. Boyd
seems to be to crosspost questions first and look it up yourself only if nobody answers you. A searchable list archive is cool to have, but I wonder if maintaining a FAQ is even worth it with today's on-line generation. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list

Re: lingo-l File Dialog?

2001-02-27 Thread Mark A. Boyd
(). Mac users can get the temporarily separate baGetFileName and baGetFolder Xtras from: http://www.mods.com.au/budapi/future.htm I say temporary because I suspect they'll be incorporated into the full Buddy API in the future. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from

Re: lingo-l Result Difference!

2001-02-24 Thread Mark A. Boyd
different results. It's working for me in both places. Try this: (float(sprite(p_Sprite).height))/(sprite(p_Sprite).width) or sprite(p_Sprite).height/float(sprite(p_Sprite).width) or maybe, possibly even: float(sprite(p_Sprite).height)/sprite(p_Sprite).width -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin

Re: lingo-l Centering the stage from a CD

2001-02-24 Thread Mark A. Boyd
the Create Projector options, too? -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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 a

RE: lingo-l Budapi and other instances of an app

2001-02-23 Thread Mark A. Boyd
OnlyOneInstance.ini FastSplash is a tiny executable file that displays a .bmp image very quickly while starting up your projector. It's beerware available at: http://bwsmith.com/index.php?t=2s=3 -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest

Re: lingo-l ¬ Prealoading ¬

2001-02-23 Thread Mark A. Boyd
this issue. Look into 'the loaded of member' -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [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

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