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2001-05-21 Thread Rich Mayer
At 06:49 21.05.01, you wrote: >hi list >What is the "Spool Buffer" in director.ini file The area of memory (buffer) used for streaming. > anybody know how to create wallpaper using director, is it using any xtra or > any references? Director??? I'd use photoshop or any other paint program wh

RE: parameters to timeout handler

2001-04-05 Thread Rich Mayer
At 10:27 05.04.01, you wrote: > > i could be confused. before the timeout objects i used to use a custom > > object that did the same think, and i know we could do it in ours. > > should be easy enough to test though... > >I already tested it a while ago, and you know what does get passed? The nam

parameters to timeout handler

2001-04-04 Thread Rich Mayer
Hi! Can anybody tell me whether it's possible to pass parameters to timeout handlers in child objects? If so, what does the syntax look likeplease?!! What I've got right now is something like this: (to set the scene, think adventure game! ) doorCloseTimerObj = timeout("doorCloseTimer

Re: shockwave load v.2. [increasingly pressing!]

2000-11-01 Thread Rich Mayer
> Dear All, > > Still trying to get my DCR to present a useful error message - it has been > mentioned that I need to put a shockwave.ini file in my Shockwave 8 folder > (based on the Director.ini file), uncomment a couple of lines and it'll > generate a detailed error. However, I have tried time

Re: Changing Projector.exe Icon -- Icon Editor Name

2000-11-01 Thread Rich Mayer
> > > >What's it called? > there's a > >> handy freeware utility called "Icon->.ICO". > Doh! sorry... guess i need another coffee [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 PROTE

Re: Changing Projector.exe Icon -- Icon Editor Name

2000-11-01 Thread Rich Mayer
> > Incidentally, if you're working on a Mac and have created icon family for > your projector (resources ICN#, ics#, icl8, ics8, icl4, ics4) - there's a > handy freeware utility called "Icon->.ICO". Drag your projector (or resource > file or whatever) on it, and it will create a serious of corre

Re: NT projector question

2000-10-31 Thread Rich Mayer
> Can someone let me know if there are there any specific know > problems/solutions when a projector created on Win98 and needs to run on NT based on my limited experience, there's nothing particular to the projektor-creation you need to be aware of... But there are certainly many other issues to

Re: shockwave load [pretty pressing!]

2000-10-31 Thread Rich Mayer
> Don't know if it has worked yet but I reckon the MessageWindow=1 needs to go > under the heading of [Settings] and not [Lingo] - not sure but I just > thought I'd post this to let people know that there are a load of settings > that I didn't even know about detailed in the Director.ini file...mi

Re: dynamic declarations (should also mention...)

2000-10-30 Thread Rich Mayer
the killGlobals handler would be called something like this: on stopMovie : killGlobals ["gMyGlobal", "gYourGlobal", "gGlobalsForEverybody"] : end iin other words called with a list of _strings_ (not the globals themselves) of course in this simple example i might just as well write: gMyGlo

dynamic declarations

2000-10-30 Thread Rich Mayer
Yes, the 'do' command, of course! I'd forgotten about that (at least forgoten how it works)... So I had a great idea... a handler for cleaning up unwanted globals when leaving a movie. Could be called for eg. from a pseudo-destructor routine. But it doesn't work, and stupidly I deleted the e

Re: Concatenating variable names

2000-10-30 Thread Rich Mayer
I don't think what you're trying to do will work (ok so some things aren't possible in lingo ;) but why not simply use a list? ball[x] Rich > Anybody know if I can concatenate variable names like strings? I have a > large number of variables (ball1, ball2, ball3 etc) and am trying to > optimi

Re: DropDownList

2000-10-30 Thread Rich Mayer
> Is there a way to create a Windows like drop down list via Lingo. Of course, what isn't?! :-) I don't have any code examples to hand but it basically involves scrollable field members, sprite.visibles and the 'hilite' function. Rich [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to di

Re: me (quick answer)

2000-10-30 Thread Rich Mayer
Mark J did a great job of answering, but _just_ in case you didn't follow here's a quick and less educational reply, based on what I can see was obviously your confusion: The error is not complaining about your 156. It's complaining about the variable 'me' Lingo is expecting to find a sprite numb