Re: dragging a non-moveable sprite

2001-08-20 Thread Roy Crisman
;>> > sprite(me.spriteNum).loc = point(locLeft, locTop) >>> >end if > > >[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: dragging a non-moveable sprite

2001-08-20 Thread Roy Crisman
gt;> stops working. I get the same results placing this script in a mouseWithin >>handler. >> >> > I remember a discussion a while ago about how often mouse events are >>polled at various frame rates. The problem I'm describing is much worse >>at 3 f/sec, an

Re: Ipix problem.....

2001-08-20 Thread Roy Crisman
file If they were available any longer. - Roy Crisman Senior Macromedia Programmer (716)724-4054 [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

Re: puppetSound vs forget window

2001-08-17 Thread Roy Crisman
lems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) >Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] - Roy Crisman Senior Macromedia Programmer (716)724-4054 [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

Re: Ipix problem.....

2001-08-17 Thread Roy Crisman
gt; >Kind Regards, > >Mango. > >Ps. Is there any alternative in viewing panoramas in director.? > >[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

Re: copy protection

2001-08-08 Thread Roy Crisman
At 11:24 AM 8/8/01 +0300, you wrote: >Hi Roy, > >I am currently working on an application that does what you are talking >about. >[SNIP] >Andrew > Not me, not me! I was one of the putz's telling the person not to do it. But that's a neato idea, anyway. r

Re: SYSTEM INFORMATION

2001-08-07 Thread Roy Crisman
That's for you to decide. At 12:01 AM 8/8/01 +0200, you wrote: >Roy Crisman wrote: > > > > > > So, I have to buy a new version when I increase my RAM, or upgrade my > > > > hard-drive? > > > > > >If you change more than 2 things, you

Re: SYSTEM INFORMATION

2001-08-07 Thread Roy Crisman
t; > on that? > >Sure, but it would have to do something with the machine, otherwise one >could just copy the application, if he has the password. Well, that was my putz-y suggestion. If the client can't be trusted, you have to make the decision to either code it to some number or

Re: Re:

2001-08-07 Thread Roy Crisman
-- Mother Theresa > >[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 learn

Re: SYSTEM INFORMATION

2001-08-07 Thread Roy Crisman
enerate keys based on that? - Roy Crisman Senior Macromedia Programmer (716)724-4054 [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 [EMAIL

RE: Update-- Still need help.

2001-08-07 Thread Roy Crisman
forever! > >hth > >Al Hospers But isn't the major problem with NT-based systems is that it is totally possible to get a computer that the CD can't write ANYTHING to? WHich is why you include Xtras in a folder and not compacted into the projector... roymeo - Roy Crism

Re: Continuation Symbol No Longer Supported?

2001-08-03 Thread Roy Crisman
ode, 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. Thanks!] > - Roy Crisman Senior Macromedia Programmer (716)724-4054 [EMAIL PROT

Re: MIAW kills background sounds (RESOLVED SORTA)

2001-08-02 Thread Roy Crisman
MIAW and hide it behind the stage til needed, any other options? ----- Roy Crisman - Roy Crisman Senior Macromedia Programmer (716)724-4054 [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

MIAW kills background sounds

2001-08-01 Thread Roy Crisman
IAW and hide it behind the stage til needed, any other options? ----- Roy Crisman Senior Macromedia Programmer (716)724-4054 [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 [

RE: Exporting Image Files (Projector, not Shockwave)

2001-07-31 Thread Roy Crisman
t;something here? it certainly does a lot of stuff, but I didn't think >that was one of 'em. I was going to ask that, too. I took a second look at the FileXtra3 .pdf, and there doesn't seem to be any image writing part of it. - Roy Crisman Senior Macromedia Programmer (71

Exporting Image Files (Projector, not Shockwave)

2001-07-30 Thread Roy Crisman
be a STABLE solution. Am I missing any obvious lingo solutions? roymeo ----- Roy Crisman Senior Macromedia Programmer (716)724-4054 [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 [

Re: keeping miaw in foreground always

2001-07-30 Thread Roy Crisman
At 05:40 PM 7/30/01 +0100, you wrote: >No i am using Director v8.5 >I think it is naturall that a window becomes active when it is clicked on, >so I can understand that my main stage is becoming the active window when >clicked on. Only this covers up my pop-up which - even though not >momentari

RE: order of handlers execution

2001-07-27 Thread Roy Crisman
sa > > > > [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 program

Re: Timming Shockwave files

2001-07-26 Thread Roy Crisman
ssages to the list, >email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) >Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] - Roy Crisman Senior Macromedia Programmer (716)724-4054 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to dig

RE: message window question

2001-07-26 Thread Roy Crisman
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. Thanks!] > > > >[To remove yourself from thi

Re: mac stub dir 8.5

2001-07-25 Thread Roy Crisman
You're a bad person and you're endangering our livelihood." Trust me, fired the accountant out of the blue and caused the secretary to quit by asking her to not share the financial numbers with the guy who bought the company...he really doesn't care a lot about whether

Re: Detecting Write permission error in Lingo

2001-07-25 Thread Roy Crisman
re is such error handling mechanism >can you point me out to an article / tutorial URL please ? > >Thank in advance, > >Alexis Cloutier > > >[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: messageWindow at runtime removed...

2001-07-25 Thread Roy Crisman
7;t do this, someone can change a lingo.ini to allow access and turn it on with the .ini. roymeo - Roy Crisman [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

Re: Newbie question.

2001-07-25 Thread Roy Crisman
hat I cannot." end if alert gCanIHaveVariablesInLingoIni end and the alert appears with "roymeo says that I can!" and in the message window in the projector (cut n pasted directly from a projector message window): put gCanIHaveVariablesInLingoIni -- "roymeo says that I

Re: "Large Fonts" and "Small Fonts" settings!! HELP PLEASE

2001-03-27 Thread roy crisman
Embed the font? Actually, I can't see how the font setting could have any effect on a projector...If you have text (whether field or realtext) set to size X, how does the system setting change that font size? roymeo At 03:49 PM 3/26/01 -0300, you wrote: > Is there a setting settable

Re: True Color Wheel / 2nd try

2001-03-20 Thread roy crisman
I haven't had any time to actually sit and look at the code, but I noticed that if you have it make a 400-pixel image, it makes it a little more obvious what's wrong...yeah, it takes a little longer... All 6 of your axes seem to be off, which leads me to wonder if you've got some divide by zer

Re: burning hybrid CD. . .

2001-02-12 Thread roy crisman
pay another $1000+ to get the high-resolution add-on). So, apparently there's a different version of toast 4 that has the option of making a partition in that OS. roymeo At 07:36 AM 2/10/01 +0400, you wrote: >on 10/2/01 1:20 AM, roy crisman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Yo

Re: burning hybrid CD. . .

2001-02-09 Thread roy crisman
At 11:08 AM 2/9/01 -0800, you wrote: >To burn a Mac/PC Hybrid CD in Toast, > >1. Open Toast. >2. Go to Utilities--Create Temporary Partition (This will create a >temporary partition and set aside 650mb of space to use for the CD). Name >it and click okay. A partition will appear on your desk

Re: burning hybrid CD. . .

2001-02-09 Thread roy crisman
At 07:55 AM 2/9/01 +0400, you wrote: >on 9/2/01 5:55 AM, Roy Pardi at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Can anyone outline the steps (or point me to a doc that does) for > > burning a MAC/PC CD where there are QT and other shared external > > assets? >Hi Roy > >If you have Yamaha CD writer and to

Re: 360 panoramas

2001-02-06 Thread roy crisman
At 03:36 PM 2/6/01 +, you wrote: >on 6/2/01 3:25 PM, Elvin M. Certeza, Jr. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > also. links to 360 panoramas? which archiven can i browse to use as an > > example? > > >www.apple.com/quicktime there's also the IPIX Xtra which will do them. roymeo pixel monkey stu

Re: About lists

2000-11-14 Thread roy crisman
>put ll >-- [2, 3, 4, 5] -- (the correct value here is [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] ) > >Any solution? Because director uses 'pass by reference' for lists. use set newList = duplicate(oldList) or dot.syntax newlist = oldList.duplicate() This is a great feature of director, not a problem, but if you

Re: lingo and accented words

2000-10-27 Thread roy crisman
At 10:44 AM 10/27/00 -0200, you wrote: >hi, lingoists >there's an odd director behavior that i've found about lingo and letters >with accents, that i'd like you to confirm. that's the case: >i'm changing, from a behavior parameter, the member of a sprite, no big >deal; all the members used are t

Re: Ancestor script MouseEvents

2000-10-23 Thread roy crisman
>This leads to the odd effect, that if you have a mouseUp handler in the >ancestor, then it will work if there is a mouseDown handler in the >subObject, attached as behavior, but will be ignored, if the subObject >contains no mouse-events-handlers. >Also, the mouseUp handler in the ancestor ca

Re: A Speed/OOP/Reuse Question

2000-10-23 Thread roy crisman
Well, I've finally done some testing and here's what I've learned. ancestorScript property pbState property pbAncestorState attachedScript property ancestor property pbState -- not defined as such, but acquired via ancestor's GPDL property pbAttachedState The attachedScript is attached to a

Ancestor script MouseEvents

2000-10-23 Thread roy crisman
--Strange behavior noticed-- When I have no mouse handlers in the "attached to a sprite script" which has an ancestor script, I don't get any messages to the mouse handlers in the ancestor script. I even made a separate movie to test, and if the attached script has a mouseUp/Down, then

A Speed/OOP/Reuse Question

2000-10-18 Thread roy crisman
So, I thought I'd ask this question about programming style before I spend too much time doing speed comparisons for myself. I'm writing a Toggle Button behavior that can also be used as the ancestor of several different behaviors such as a Radio Button set, and a Tree Button sort of set (clic

Re: Re: Lingo-L Digest V1 #1672

2000-10-17 Thread roy crisman
>>that beeing my first project. >> >>www.ajitkhimjigroup.com Can't see it in netscape, because the dcr is being served out as text/plain, not x-application/shockwave or whatever. roymeo [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l

Re: OT: a little directional help ;)

2000-10-04 Thread roy crisman
with a sig like that, who would want you on their high caliber list? roymeo _---_ > / \DO RE MI DRINK, by Homer J. Simpson. > | | > | | *ahem* La la la la*ahem*LAAA!! > | __ __) > |/ \/ \ DO.. the stuff...that

RE: getPropertyDescriptionList - spot the error!

2000-10-03 Thread roy crisman
At 10:14 AM 10/3/00 +0100, you wrote: > > Keep the Property Inspector open at all times and you won't > > have these > > issues. just move it down outta the way when you want it > > outta the way. > > > > fixes all those 'damn this program is buggy as hell' and 'boy > > win2K sucks > > with dir

Re: Hey James: D8 UI gripes [was GPDL something]

2000-10-02 Thread roy crisman
At 11:12 AM 10/1/00 -0500, you wrote: >Agreed. I was sitting with a client on Thursday trying to work through >some design decisions in D8. The window focus/foreground/redrawing problem >was downright humiliating. I'm charging good money for my time and this >client is thinking "Doesn't this fr

RE: getPropertyDescriptionList - spot the error!

2000-10-02 Thread roy crisman
At 04:38 PM 9/30/00 -0400, you wrote: >Hi Jon, > > > My other current gripe about D8(Win) is this window > > focus issue which means that e.g. the message window > > does not come to the front when you hit CTRL-m, > >I hate hate HATE this. And when zooming the Message window out to full >size, it

RE: getPropertyDescriptionList - spot the error!

2000-10-02 Thread roy crisman
At 05:01 PM 9/30/00 -0400, you wrote: > > the workaround is to keep the PI open >[ snip ] > > Then all focus problems go away. > >Not for me, not even close. I almost always have the PI open, and have to >keep the Message window tucked in the corner. I don't think I've maximized >the (D8,Win2K)

Re: Re: Request for free copy

2000-09-26 Thread roy crisman
>>Do you please have a possibility to send me >>a update CD rom compatible with my system ? > >Here we go again. > >[snip - We can't give you a copy, that's illegal. - snip] > >Cordially, >Kerry Thompson Uh, Kerry, it looked to me like the person was under the impression that this list is a Ma

Whats the difference? (More, tested, and correct)

2000-09-26 Thread roy crisman
At 02:47 PM 9/26/00 +0200, you wrote: >Now, there you have it: > >"on myOwnHandler me" > >is not the way to use the me parameter. "me" can only be used >together with for example "mouseDown", "mouseEnter" etc. uhnot in any attached behavior I've ever used. A behavior attached to a sprite wi

RE: Whats the difference? the currentSpriteNum and me.spriteNum

2000-09-26 Thread roy crisman
At 02:14 PM 9/26/00 +0100, you wrote: >Guran said > >"on myOwnHandler me" > >"is not the way to use the me parameter. "me" can only be used >together with for example "mouseDown", "mouseEnter" etc. > >Thanks Guran > >Wow! I have been using me like this for years - I am sure all my lingo books >use

Re: beta protection

2000-09-21 Thread roy crisman
Something I've seen used is a big ugly screen before the real presentation that says this is beta version 2.1e or whatever. horrid magenta background. but it sounds like either you are really paranoid or you have really untrustworthy clients, so maybe you do need more than that. roy cr

Re: a projector for mac and windows !"!

2000-09-07 Thread roy crisman
let me try that again: I SWEAR that a Macromedia technote (or did I just see it on one of these lists so many times the mantra seemed like something from Macromedia)(and it's language was pretty clear, so it couldn't have been on the Macromedia site, could it?) said "You either need to buy Di

Re: a projector for mac and windows !"!

2000-09-06 Thread roy crisman
At 01:52 PM 9/6/00 -0700, you wrote: >> >While I am on the subject, can someone please send me a Director 8 Mac >> >stub projector with this startmovie code: >> > >> >>[snip] >> >>Gee, when did this list become warez-l? |:-( > >Terry-- > >You're right, though his request may initially appear to

Re: Moviepath question

2000-09-05 Thread roy crisman
>go to frame "main" of movie "presentation.dir" Someone already answered your question, but I thought I'd point out that you don't need the .dir on there, and you don't want the .dir there if you are going to be protecting the movies (which makes them .dxr's or .dcr's depending on the protect