Re: simultaneos QT video

2001-08-24 Thread Neil Madsen
The fastest and easiest way is to put both video files into 1 QT movie. Have 2 video tracks and then just turn the track you want to see to ON and the other to OFF and vice versa. I don't have Dir with me right now but the commands are something like trackEnabled and setTrackEnabled or somethi

Re: Lingo Efficiency

2001-07-02 Thread Neil Madsen
Mike... I think you can get the same effect of what you are doing without having to do a look-up each time by using the getPropertyDescriptionList and entering the name and capital of each state on each sprite. I haven't included the highlighting code with the stuff below. It only has an 'easie

Re: Why would this behavior be getting a Symbol expected script error?

2001-06-12 Thread Neil Madsen
g... >Can anyone tell me if I'm doing something wrong? when I try to compille >this behavior I get a Symbol expected script error. You have an extra comma after your handler name. This is what you have. on showIfInRange, me, startDate, endDate This is what you should have on showIfInRange me,

Re: annoying feature! (mailto)

2001-06-05 Thread Neil Madsen
> How can I prevent it from opening a browser window? Jason... You can also use BuddyAPI to send email without the browser window opening. Try this: baOpenURL("mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";, "maximized") If you don't own buddyAPI thats OK because you can use _ANY_ 2 functions for free. You can

Re: text lists from database

2001-05-03 Thread Neil Madsen
Alan... Your code keeps setting the text member to the item from the database on each iteration of your repeat loop. It actually is putting all of the text in your text member but it gets replaced with the next item each time throught the repeat loop. Try something like this instead. on list_t

Re: optimizing a mouseUp handler (please be patient with my newbie-ness)

2001-04-28 Thread Neil Madsen
-NT... Try adding this to your behavior global aList property pShape on beginSprite me if pShape = "random" then tempList = ["circle shape", "square shape", "triangle shape"] pShape = tempList[random(3)] end if end >on mouseUp me > spotCheck = getOne(aList, 0) > if spo

Re: quicktimechanger

2001-01-26 Thread Neil Madsen
Björn... Try putting both QT's into 1 file with 2 video tracks and then use setTrackEnabled to turn them on and off as needed. ie. on mouseUp me sprite(1).setTrackEnabled(2, TRUE) sprite(1).setTrackEnabled(1, FALSE) end mouseUp This will turn on the 2nd video track and turn off the 1st vi

Re: Text hilighting

2000-12-13 Thread Neil Madsen
Irv... >If this were a field member, I just set it to editable, and the >functionality is built in. Then I can get the selStart and the selEnd. In D8 possibly in D7 you can use 'the selection' to get the selected text in a field as opposed to using selStart/selEnd. property pSelText on mous

Re: Making a file Hide & again Visible on Macintosh.

2000-11-21 Thread Neil Madsen
Mahmood... Buddy API can do this for you. I understand that you don't need it in Director, but you could create a small app that would hide/show files for you. The other option is to play with ResEdit. HTH Later. ...Neil [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to h

Re: XtraNet not down- or uploading!?!

2000-11-20 Thread Neil Madsen
If you're behind a firewall you you may need to set your proxy settings under preferences. HTH. ...Neil [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: RE: Lingo-L Digest V1 #1713

2000-11-19 Thread Neil Madsen
You don't say what version of Director you are using. The following will only work if you are using D8. If you are using 7 then you should use what Colin provided. You can d/l a quick demo movie with this behavior from http://www.brouhahapost.com/dl/to_ImageSwap.zip The behavior below uses a t

Re: string 2 variable??

2000-11-16 Thread Neil Madsen
>There's also a shortcut, if you know your way around, which is: > >on doit > myList =[] > setAt(myList, 100, 0) >end Don't forget this shortcut on doit myList = [] myList[100] = 0 end >But either way, you now have a list with 100 slots initialized to 0. Later. ...Neil [To remove

Re: open a file

2000-11-04 Thread Neil Madsen
Mark... I get the same results here. Tried both the sit and zip files. NT4 SP5 I also get this error on D8 start-up when FileXtra3 is in the xtras folder. The procedure entry point SHGetSpecialFolderPathA could not be located in the dynamic link library SHELL32.dll Later... Neil >I just tried

Re: open a file

2000-11-04 Thread Neil Madsen
jlv... Have you looked into FileXtra? It comes with Director and is X-platform. It does exactly what you want. Here is the code to open the dialog. (Watch for email line breaks) This line will give you the path and name of the file the user has selected. fileToOpen = FileOpenDialog("C:\Program Fi

Re: cue points problem of imported SWA

2000-10-05 Thread Neil Madsen
Fumio... Nope, you're not dreaming. This BUG, and yes it is a BUG, is a real pisser. I came across it a couple of months ago while working on a CD (4.5 hours of audio on it). First, what audio program are you using? PEAK/SE16/Sound Forge I found a bug with PEAK and submitted to them. In the next

RE: importing images with alpha, please urgent

2000-10-04 Thread Neil Madsen
grimm... > con is you can't import photoshop layers in one go... In Fireworks, with the help of the export to Director xtra, you CAN export all of the layers of a PS file. Then in Director you Insert > Fireworks > Images from Fireworks HTML... Granted the file is now a PNG and not a PSD. So

Re: continuous play when not active window

2000-10-03 Thread Neil Madsen
Mike... > Everything works fantastic, except the continuous play option. > This works great when the player is the active window, but > doesn't when it isn't. When you make your projector, in the options, check Animate in Background. I think that will help. Later. ...Neil [To remove you

Re: using a timer with mousedown event

2000-09-28 Thread Neil Madsen
>Does anyone know of a way to make a button that will jump to a certain frame >or marker after the user has pressed it down and held it for a set period of >time? Frank... You can try something like this. UNTESTED email lingo follows property pMillis on mouseDown me pMillis = the millisec