RE: 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 cha

Re: SingleInstance woes in D8.5

2001-08-20 Thread Mark A. Boyd
Windows-only solution I know of is using the free FastSplash program to start your projector. It's available at: http://bwsmith.com/index.php?t=2&s=3 -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.c

Re: shortcut on desktop

2001-08-20 Thread Mark A. Boyd
desktop. If for no other reason than 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 fro

Re: Avi Replay

2001-08-14 Thread Mark A. Boyd
do that please give me your 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] (Probl

X-Post! Re: Message window and projector

2001-08-14 Thread Mark A. Boyd
See if the replies your crosspost on Direct-L are what you need. -- 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: OOP and ancestor access

2001-08-13 Thread Mark A. Boyd
there who discuss these things on line. My OOP light is beginning to illuminate my world now. -- 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 PROTECT

Re: powerpoint files

2001-08-13 Thread Mark A. Boyd
G site: PowerPoint Quick 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]

Re: reading binary registry keys

2001-08-06 Thread Mark A. Boyd
king for? baReadRegNumber() 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, e

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

2001-08-03 Thread Mark A. Boyd
urns a 0 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/L

RE: physical path to "My Documents" folder for the logon user in Windows 2000

2001-08-01 Thread Mark A. Boyd
nction: put baSysFolder("personal") 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, emai

RE: mpg files on cdrom

2001-07-30 Thread Mark A. Boyd
ck (not a stretched sprite). I wonder why the QT3 Asset Xtra still doesn't do full screen? I'm 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 dige

RE: Re: Directmedia CpuBoost setting

2001-07-30 Thread Mark A. Boyd
t;50 of all 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 me

RE: Windows Media in dir 8.5

2001-07-27 Thread Mark A. Boyd
MP ActiveX >control, but it works well. D8.5 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 f

RE: mpg files on cdrom

2001-07-27 Thread Mark A. Boyd
upports the newer Windows Media file formats. http://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 mes

Re: Font issue

2001-07-23 Thread Mark A. Boyd
embers, use 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

Re: Controling sound in a MIAW from the stage(Urgent)

2001-07-11 Thread Mark A. Boyd
gives the message "movie already open" . How about if you remove the 'window = "movie3"' line? on mouseDown tell window "Movie3" set the volume of sprite 3 to audio_sett end tell end -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To r

Re: Trouble with ImportFileInto

2001-07-10 Thread Mark A. Boyd
ab > > >At 10:10 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 app

Re: Buddy API Question

2001-06-25 Thread Mark A. Boyd
isplay Properties Control Panel while your 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 [EMA

Re: Buddy API Question

2001-06-22 Thread Mark A. Boyd
27;ll need to test whether the display can 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 remo

Re: puppetSound with no sound card!

2001-06-19 Thread Mark A. Boyd
project and the >command 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 t

Re: workaround for disappearing insertion cursor

2001-06-19 Thread Mark A. Boyd
>about this on another list last 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:/

Re: workaround for disappearing insertion cursor

2001-06-19 Thread Mark A. Boyd
mber("x") updateStage the keyBoardFocusSprite = 1 member("x").selection = [3,4] Removing either updateStage or the keyBoardFocusSprite fails again in my test. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode

Re: 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

Re: please help

2001-06-16 Thread Mark A. Boyd
he text of field 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 t

Re: SV: 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

Re: Change resolution

2001-06-13 Thread Mark A. Boyd
uments/stage_size_issues.htm (Found by searching for change resolution at: http://www.macromedia.com/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

Re: 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 f

Re: fileIO: line break wierdness

2001-06-09 Thread Mark A. Boyd
Char(10) theText = "line 1" &CRLF 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:/

Re: FreeBytes LIES - Memory leak in Director 8

2001-06-03 Thread Mark A. Boyd
ferent on some machines. I've 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.penw

Re: Property lists

2001-06-03 Thread Mark A. Boyd
ss as crass, 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

Re: Memory leak in Director 8

2001-06-03 Thread Mark A. Boyd
all my tests 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 freeByte

Re: Property lists

2001-05-31 Thread Mark A. Boyd
t;]]) return vModeList end getPropertyDescriptionList me on mouseUp me gMode=pMode changeManPablo put 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

Re: Switch Case

2001-05-31 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 11:35 5/31/2001, Wizzard wrote: >on mouseUp > set gMode = mode1 >end Since your other script is comparing gMode to a string, you might want to set gMode to a string: set gMode = "mode1" -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or

Re: 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 t

Re: DCR with Quicktime

2001-05-28 Thread Mark A. Boyd
ector" manual. Particularly the subtitles, "About Xtras" and "Managing Xtras 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/

Re: Video playing in Director

2001-05-27 Thread Mark A. Boyd
800x600 or 640x480 videos - or are setting 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 thi

Re: 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: problem with baPrintFile

2001-05-23 Thread Mark A. Boyd
The help file lists several return codes 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

Re: updating htm links

2001-05-22 Thread Mark A. Boyd
nk: If you set the hyperlink" (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 y

Re: full screen projector

2001-05-21 Thread Mark A. Boyd
le a movie and its sprites to fill bigger or smaller monitors?" http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/stage_size_issues.htm (Found by searching for full screen projector at: http://www.macromedia.com/support/director ) -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove

Re: Image flashes up after Director exit

2001-05-21 Thread Mark A. Boyd
; button behaviors available at http://www.mediamacros.com and possibly an article or two at http://www.director-online.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

Re: Image flashes up after Director exit

2001-05-20 Thread Mark A. Boyd
ot;play exit.dir" to leave and go 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

Re: OT: Off-list contacts

2001-05-17 Thread Mark A. Boyd
riously doubt you've offended anyone by quoting 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 [EMAI

Re: Avi & "Cue points"

2001-05-14 Thread Mark A. Boyd
and at 1/60 second, it's much more 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 di

Re: P R I N T I N G ?

2001-05-09 Thread Mark A. Boyd
t being >printed, from white to black, though i would not like this change 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

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://w

Re: Text help please

2001-05-07 Thread Mark A. Boyd
as they type. Check 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.penwork

Re: dropdownlist behavier

2001-05-07 Thread Mark A. Boyd
;Hello World": wakeUp "Good Morning": makeCoffee end case end More info is in the comments 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 po

RE: powerpoint and Buddy API

2001-05-02 Thread Mark A. Boyd
t on the Mac 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 t

Re: 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

RE: FileIO and Networks

2001-04-30 Thread Mark A. Boyd
lenames returned by BudAPI dialogs. I just had another thought, hang on a sec. rustle, shuffle, rustle, . . . 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'

Re: foreColor property

2001-04-25 Thread Mark A. Boyd
ext 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]

Re: Open Explorer

2001-04-24 Thread Mark A. Boyd
n you're using Windows Explorer 4. open thatPath 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, ema

Re: 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 remo

Re: OH no not again... Printing

2001-04-21 Thread Mark A. Boyd
e negative numbers, could 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 Kee

Re: Changing linked media

2001-04-19 Thread Mark A. Boyd
).file = pathToVideo At least that's the way it is in v1.5 -- 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: OT: Re: RE: 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 c

Re: 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 dig

Re: 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 yoursel

Re: Problem with antialiasing in Director Trial version

2001-04-17 Thread Mark A. Boyd
e handler sets the text sprites' members antialiased >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 diges

Re: PDF

2001-04-17 Thread Mark A. Boyd
letely, You have set the wait 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-

Re: 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 > HMSTofram

Re: Ticks -- seconds

2001-04-11 Thread Mark A. Boyd
rmat 00:00:00 >and then I use 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

Re: The number of sound channels

2001-04-10 Thread Mark A. Boyd
ces. I guess 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/LU

Re: in search of an Xtra

2001-04-06 Thread Mark A. Boyd
as in The Mile-High Table O'Products 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]

Re: Message window in projector.

2001-04-04 Thread Mark A. Boyd
or something which brought in this functionality? I believe it started as an undocumented feature with D7.02. It works with projectors made from this version. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.co

Re: Message window in projector

2001-04-04 Thread Mark A. Boyd
ext files. Word just has too many ideas about what plain ASCII text is - either that or I'm too lazy to figure out which one of those Save As items is the correct one. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://w

Re: Message window in projector

2001-04-04 Thread Mark A. Boyd
ing that feature in the next release of SW & maybe they've already done so with the beta version. See if re-installing the released version or creating a standard projector with no shocked casts gets it working . -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this

Re: checking if an ALT key has been pressed

2001-04-01 Thread Mark A. Boyd
will occur 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, ema

Re: 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

Re: registering DLL's from Director

2001-03-29 Thread Mark A. Boyd
\DAO350.DLL" "E with . . . Best bet 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

Re: Filename and Shockwave

2001-03-28 Thread Mark A. Boyd
sed to figure download time 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/

Re: Irregular windowshape - --------

2001-03-28 Thread Mark A. Boyd
erty pCurrMask on beginSprite 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 rem

Re: Irregular windowshape on doug?

2001-03-28 Thread Mark A. Boyd
mber("1bit") Only works in projector mode. You won't be able to see it during authoring. -- 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, e

Re: urgent! mpgxtra errror

2001-03-28 Thread Mark A. Boyd
good MPEG (I think one 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 l

Re: Repeat properties

2001-03-28 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 02:51 3/28/2001, Jakob Hede Madsen wrote: >Maybe not related but: >I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that Jakob/Jacob can be >spelled in different ways. >Some Jakobs get hurt when their particular spelling is not respected... >maybe more so one of the variants than the other. O

Re: Repeat properties

2001-03-27 Thread Mark A. Boyd
tPropAt(1) -- #roster put foo.getPropAt(2) -- 2 put 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 m

Re: Projector.ini file

2001-03-27 Thread Mark A. Boyd
ill has one up 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 messa

Re: Memory Leaks

2001-03-26 Thread Mark A. Boyd
xperiencing is 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

Re: Launching Flash 5. SWF from Director, Problem

2001-03-26 Thread Mark A. Boyd
es the path delimiter as the last char 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.

Re: custom Movie In A Window windows

2001-03-23 Thread Mark A. Boyd
AWs" http://www.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 [

Re: Attaching scripts to sprites dynamically?

2001-03-22 Thread Mark A. Boyd
mber 2000)? -- 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 pro

Re: Projector ERROR

2001-03-22 Thread Mark A. Boyd
lp around here is to ask a specific question and, perhaps, post the part 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.penwor

Re: 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 [

Re: RE: aMessage

2001-03-21 Thread Mark A. Boyd
And I have very fond memories of the Lingo User's Journal. I still have nearly every copy published. Love 'ya, Tab! -- 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: tween with lingo

2001-03-21 Thread Mark A. Boyd
the same person as Nica 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.

Re: Help re publishing

2001-03-19 Thread Mark A. Boyd
t i? QT movies are always externally linked files and will need to be distributed along with your project. -- 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, em

Re: Closing MIAW problem

2001-03-18 Thread Mark A. Boyd
ir, .dxr, 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, em

Re: Closing MIAW problem

2001-03-18 Thread Mark A. Boyd
bal declared for the second script (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.

Re: Closing MIAW problem

2001-03-18 Thread Mark A. Boyd
One method I've seen suggested to get around it is to set a global variable that the stage is monitoring (in an exitFrame loop, idle handler, etc). When the stage detects the change in the variable, it can then issue the forget command. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove you

Re: 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 yo

Re: Xtranet docs?

2001-03-16 Thread Mark A. Boyd
Howdy keeps the docs in Others->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

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 t

Re: 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 remo

Re: the member of the text editor

2001-03-13 Thread Mark A. Boyd
rector's Xtras folder to place it into the Xtras menu (next 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 diges

Re: Who can answer this????

2001-03-12 Thread Mark A. Boyd
rd to say without 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])

Re: Sigh...now it's a weird hyperlink problem

2001-03-09 Thread Mark A. Boyd
information/work-arounds in the Quirk 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 situati

Re: About Plugins

2001-03-02 Thread Mark A. Boyd
otes) at http://www.macromedia.com/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 PROT

Re: go to label("Start")

2001-03-01 Thread Mark A. Boyd
prepareFrame 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

Re: 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.

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