email from within Director, length of message text

es the same things as under A, but after that produces a FATAL ERROR. C) if the length is 156 characters or more, then nothing happens, neither the browser or Outlook are opened, nor does Director produce a fatal error. Has anyone experienced the same thing and/or could suggest a solution for lon

DID YOU KNOW there was Lingo for animated gifs?

The only downside is that you have to write your own controls to keep track of what frame they're on, but at least you have the start and the stopping under control. Looks like we both learned something new today, -Will Michael Nadel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mediart - Multimedia as an Art Form

AW: Changin' Cursors

the cursor to a text-field cursor (I'm not sure what its technical name is) which doesn't revert to the arrow when the cursor is moved off... Sorry, I can't help you, but maybe it helps to know that you are not alone: I have exactly the same problem! (Dir 8.5, Win 2000) Regards Mich

lingo for animated gifs? or at least tricks?

repeat the animation, for example. But is there anyway at least to PAUSE and PLAY? Thanks! Michael Nadel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mediart - Multimedia as an Art Form [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: Virus

Dear all Appologies for the non lingo topic but in response to this virus (AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs) its a an old one. Check out http://vil.nai.com/vil/virusSummary.asp?virus_k=99011 regards Mike Gilmour _ Get your FREE download of

AW: Screen capturing

e a thumbnail of for instance 40 x 30 pixels in memory: thumbImage = image(40, 30, 24) thumbImage.copyPixels((the stage).image, thumbImage.rect, (the stage).rect) Do with the thumbnail whatever you what, for instance save it in an existing cast member: member("Thumbnail").image = thumb

AW: Director 8.5 -VS- 8.0 more stable?

and wanted to restart it. Without changing any code the update to 8.5 resolved the problem. It wouldn't crash anymore in this situation. That is all I can report. Regards Michael von Aichberger+ [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/L

AW: AW: urgent MIAW problem

and as a matter of fact, in a projector, everything works fine. So I'm kind of relieved. Thanks anyway for your valuable suggestions and comments! Michael von Aichberger [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To

AW: AW: urgent MIAW problem

round it for that very reason, and I just forgot why by now. Never mind that you forgot why, maybe you can tell me HOW you work around it. What I need is a text field in a MIAW that executes a keyUp handler no matter what the user does with the mouse and no matter what window is active. Thanks a

AW: urgent MIAW problem

and then on A again - strange! And: If mouse driven operations work in A, A must have the focus, no? So why do mouseUps work in A while at the same time keyUps don't work? It's frustrating! Michael von Aichberger [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http

urgent MIAW problem

til I click somewhere else in MIAW A, then no keyUp handler isn't executed anymore. Strange, isn't it? Or did I make a mistake? Thanks a lot for all advice! Regards Michael von Aichberger [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/

movie failing when playing in a Window

ve no idea how to go on with that. Do YOU have an idea? If so, I would greatly appreciate you letting me know! Regards Michael von Aichberger [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

passing variables from behavior to behavior

This is what I get in the message window! -- All I want is the number 15, not this weird line. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong please? How do I pass a variable from behavior to behavior? Thanks, Michael Nadel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mediart - Multimedia as an Art Form [To remove

AW: Best way to make an audio intensive slideshow for the web

s, because I'm on the same subject! What if you have a rather long soundtrack that cannot be cut into pieces (music?) Thanks! Michael von Aichberger [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 li

Thanks everyone! - Calling Handlers from Queued sounds

ommands to activate your sprites or > whatever you wanted to happen when a sound played. I tired it and the sound remains busy until all the sounds that were queued are played. However, your idea got me to thinking and I decided to try queuing the sounds one by one. That seems to me to be the

Re: queued sounds

ges? Thanks for any ideas! Michael Nadel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mediart - Multimedia as an Art Form [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 PR

please help!

8.5 in run-mode). Help!! Michael Nadel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mediart - Multimedia as an Art Form [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 PROTECT

free upgrade?

Does any one know if there's a free upgrade for Director 8, just to fix some bugs that were in 8, but not with all the features of 8.5? Michael Nadel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mediart - Multimedia as an Art Form [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: queued sounds

> >on playSound > > repeat with count = 1 to 30 > > sound(4).queue([#member: member(count, "sound"), #which: count ]) > > end repeat > > sound(4).play() > >end > >Let's say I want to set a global variable called soundCount = > >sound(4).which - How would I update soundCount as sound(4

Re: queued sounds

nd repeat sound(4).play() end Let's say I want to set a global variable called soundCount = ound(4).which - How would I update soundCount as sound(4) was playing? When I check "sound(4).which" in the watcher window - it remains void. Please help! Thanks so much, Michael Nadel [EMAI

queued sounds

ed on the users' choice. i.e +ACI-1+AF8-sec+AF8-space+ACI-, +ACI-500+AF8-msec+AF8-space+ACI-, +ACI-2+AF8-sec+AF8-space+ACI-, etc. Michael Nadel mediart+AEA-bezeqint.net Mediart - Multimedia as an Art Form [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode,

pauses in queued sounds?

ing played - as it plays? I could not find answers in Directors on-line help. Please save me! Thanks! Michael Nadel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mediart - Multimedia as an Art Form [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To p

AW: controlling QTVR in MIAWs from the stage

viour of the whole application. I suppose I did a dirty job. Any other suggestions? Thanks Michael [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 PROTECTE

controlling QTVR in MIAWs from the stage

sing local variables (position, hotSpotID) from the stage. Do I have to use globals for that? Where do I have to declare them then? Within the tell statement? Are there other (better) solutions to the problem? Thanks a lot for your help Michael von Aichberger [To remove yourself from this list, or

building tree structure

ore I place my value in the new place. If I don't, naturally, I get an index out of range error. But how do I check if in my array there are the branches that are needed and how do I create them with a minimal effort? Thank you very much for your suggestions! Michael von Aichberger [To r

Re: Sound Xtra

Al, Thanks for the info...I'll do some diggin around. Michael Neely > > sound [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 Digest V1 #1932

, ect. Any ideas gang? BTW, I've been a registered user of this list on and off for about 6 years now, so I'm a bit older for a grad student I guess. :) Thanks in advance, C. Michael Neely -- Corporate Web site - http://www.caveartstudios.com Personal Site - http://www.cavearts

Calculating sunrise and sunset with Lingo

nyway? Thank you very much Michael von Aichberger [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: Debugging Shockwave...?

/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. Thanks!] -- Out of curiousity -- what's wrong with Director's built-in debugger? Maybe I'

Re: NetDone - MacOS

esult() parsePacket(serverString) end if end if gNetID = void go the frame end --- Michael C. Hanson Quicksilver Software, INC. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.quicksilver.com - Original Message - From: "Irv Kalb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: NetDone - MacOS

heh. I wasn't attempting to imply there is a problem under MacOS. I was attempting to imply there is a problem for me under MacOS. --- Michael C. Hanson Quicksilver Software, INC. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.quicksilver.com - Original Message - From: "g r i m m

NetDone - MacOS

not sure how else to describe it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Michael C. Hanson Quicksilver Software, INC. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.quicksilver.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cg

Problem with beginrecording...

I have a lot of sprites I'd like to score on the stage (about 100 x 10 frames each) that way some other (non-lingo) people in the group can work on it. I'd like to get everything out on the stage and score so they can manipulate it as they see fit, without having to go through all the grunt wor

Re: your mail

here. If you already have a programmnig background, I believe you'll find that book and this list all you need to get the ball rolling. The book I'm talking about: "Special Edition: Using Macromedia Director 8" Author: Gary Rosenzweig Publisher: QUE http://www.quepublishing.co

antialias in projectors

Hello List! I have a simple question: A text member's antialias property is set to true, it shows antialiased in the Director environment, but as a projector the text is not antialiased. Why? (Dir 8, Win 2000) Thanks! Michael von Aichberger PS: Tell me, if the term "antialiase

RE: First time project....HELP

you must create a projector from that platform you wish to view on. You can open the mac DIR on the pc platform, then create the projector there. -MH -Original Message- From: Ian Richardson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 12:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subjec

Scaling sprite (jpg image) in Shockwave is distorted, sprites shifted on stage

When I scale a sprite (jpg image) it is completely distorted in the Shockwave version, runs fine when viewed as a projector. This happens whether I manually scale the sprite or apply a behavior (such as ZoomOut). Same effect, for example only top half of image is visable and the image is distorted

Auto arrange borders on text buttons?

Hi. I've been trying to get this right, but it just doesn't seem to work. Advice? I want to have buttons that can be changed according to a list of text, so I borrowed the web trick of corners and sides, except since we don't have tables, I just auto generated the locations for the buttons bas

Slowdown when mouse inside the stage???

Hi all. I've encountered a strange thing going on on one of my, but here's a little background: I'm working on this project with a couple of questions, and if answered correctly, the questions play little QT movies, then after the user answers all of the questions, we go to a 'thank you screen'

Re: UTC

Karina, Not really, but that funtion certainly helps when doing the math to figure out how many seconds have elapsed since Jan. 1st 1970 Thanks for the dictionary snippet! Michael C. Hanson Quicksilver Software, INC. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.quicksilver.com [To remove

Re: UTC

(Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] Mark A. & Mark R. I wanted to thank both of you for the help with my UTC question. I greatly appreciate it! It's a shame something which seems so necessary to me isn't par

UTC

Does Lingo have any function for getting UTC? More specifically, getting the time in seconds since 1/1/1970 ? It's a pretty standard function in other languages but I'm not sure about lingo. Thanks! -- Michael C. Hanson Quicksilver Software, INC. mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

AW: MIAW...title bar?

Define the windowType. Look in the Online-Help for the different Types, choose one (WHICHTYPE) and type in a movieScript: on openWindow (the activeWindow).windowType = WHICHTTYPE end > > Dear friends, > > Here is another question for you. I have created a movie. In it I have a > button, once

AW: Tempo & Video

ame is the passed videotime in the time scale of the video, should be 60 ticks per seconds in your case. Regards Michael von Aichberger > [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

run Powerpoint Viewer and close it afterwards

ector. But what if I had a time controlled Powerpoint presentation and I wanted to return to Director after the ppt presentation has finished? There doesn't seem to be a "close" command for that? Is there a way to do that? Thank you very much Michael von Aichberger [To remov

movieRate reaction Time

before stopping. Does anybody know how to solve this problem? Thank you very much! Michael von Aichberger [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: Cross Platform CD

On Wed, 20 December 2000, Brian Farmer wrote: > Hey Thanks Brian, I don't mean to be stupid, but I never used a MAC. Do MAC's use the file name INI and INF? If so, that is my last question, and hey Thanks again!! Merry Christmas to the Lingo Family Michael > But can you au

Cross Platform CD

ou in advance, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ FindLaw - Free Case Law, Jobs, Library, Community http:///www.FindLaw.com Get your FREE @JUSTICE.COM email! http://mail.Justice.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

AW: adjusting width of bounding box to length of text

Hello Kurt, I've been absent from my office for a week, so I couldn't thank you for your answer earlier. Nor did I have the time to workt with your suggestions. But anyway, thank you very much, your answer seems to be very helpful! -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mai

Re: Quicktime in Shockwave

On Tue, 05 December 2000, "Lee Chadwick" wrote: > Also Lee, make sure your not uploading it to a free web site. They will not support it. I just went through the same thing michael http://www.imanistudios.com > Specs: PII , D8, using IE 5 > > I cannot seem to ge

adjusting width of bounding box to length of text

ybody please know a solution? Thank you in advance and a nice weekend to everybody! Michael von Aichberger [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 [

AW: Re: Font Help (Fontographer)

r all circumstances EXCEPT that it couldn't be embedded. Regards Michael von Aichberger -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] im Auftrag von Brian Farmer Gesendet am:Dienstag, 28. November 2000 20:38 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re:

AW: recent links ...

You now have alle the visited chapters in the internal list and shouldn't have a problem in programming a user interface to jump to that chapters again. I hope I could help you Regards Michael von Aichberger -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAI

AW: fade out sound and then jump to ...

xperience the 5 seconds, what could I have done wrong? (By the way I'm working under Windows 2000) Thanks a lot and best regards Michael von Aichberger -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] im Auftrag von Ramesh CT Gesendet am:Freitag, 17. No

Random Ripple

dear all I am having fun (?) trying to get a random element to work on a project. I had better explain. Currently I have a mouseDown event that triggers at the same time 1. A random change in the foreColor of a series of squares on the stage 2. A random sound out of 64 small sound sa

fade out sound and then jump to ...

done this before. Thank you in advance for passing on your knowledge! Michael von Aichberger [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])

AW: Site Check Please------------

. But apart from that, really good. How did you do the QTVR-like effect? In lingo alone? Very good graphic artwork. Best wishes Michael von Aichberger -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] im Auftrag von hr016356 Gesendet am:Freitag, 17

Lingo for checking out the performance of the computer system

rsion of the digital movies to use. Any ideas? Thanks a lot! Michael von Aichberger [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: moveToFront for sprite

Check out the locZ property. By changing the locZ of a sprite on a mouseDown event, you can bring it "on top" of other other sprites. > From: "Martha Arifin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 16:32:25 GMT > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: moveToFront for

Storage of Assets?

uses assets that were stored on the hard drive. Thanks. Michael C. Hanson Quicksilver Software, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [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 PROT

Re: keyDown help

Tab & James, Thanks for very much for the kickstart. I very much appreciate it! Toodles! ---- Michael C. Hanson Quicksilver Software, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, James Newton wrote: > Michael Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I want only numbers a

keyDown help

ld be greatly appreciated! Thanks! Michael C. Hanson Quicksilver Software, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [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: QucikTime in a shockwave movie?

On Tue, 10 October 2000, "Karina Steffens" wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > > I have been trying to run a QuickTime movie in shockwave > > across the web with no luck. When I test it on my computer > > it work fine, but, once I upload it and test it over

RE: QucikTime in a shockwave movie?

On Tue, 10 October 2000, "Karina Steffens" wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > > I have been trying to run a QuickTime movie in shockwave > > across the web with no luck. When I test it on my computer > > it work fine, but, once I upload it and test it over

QucikTime in a shockwave movie?

wrong? Thanks in advance Michael _ FindLaw - Free Case Law, Jobs, Library, Community http:///www.FindLaw.com Get your FREE @JUSTICE.COM email! http://mail.Justice.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http

RE: Re: New Syntax in Dir.7 and above

Dear all Many thanks to Robert and Mark for your replies and apologies for taking so long to thank you for your sugestionsto cut a long story short, I fell over and injured myself last weekend and have been laid up for a while! Wish I could say that it was due to a bit of alchifrolcau

Filextra and relative paths

Hello, Anyone have any success using fileXtra with relative paths as in put directoryToList("@/Macromedia") -- Michael Carlucci Producer The Digital Classroom LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] 16149 Redmond Way Suite 362 Redmond WA. 98052 425 869 5001 [To remove yourself from this list, or to

Re: New Syntax in Dir.7 and above

Dear list Major thanks for all your info on the list and all the other interesting bits concernig Warren.no disrespect there... and the ultimate wish list...how about a cooler for the brain ;-)) anyway I hoping the list can help.. I have been used to Lingo stylisically and with its particu