Re: Best way to post graphic to web?

2001-07-27 Thread Stephen Recker
on 7/26/01 7:15 PM, Al Hospers at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I've got postNetText() working to put text in a net >> directory, but how do I >> send a graphic to the web? I'm not talking about emailing it, >> I just want to >> use Director to send a graphic from my desktop to a folder on >> my we

Best way to post graphic to web?

2001-07-26 Thread Stephen Recker
I've got postNetText() working to put text in a net directory, but how do I send a graphic to the web? I'm not talking about emailing it, I just want to use Director to send a graphic from my desktop to a folder on my web site. TIA Cheers, Stephen [To remove yourself from this list, or to chang

Re: Screen capture

2001-07-25 Thread Stephen Recker
on 7/25/01 8:49 AM, Colin Holgate at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Does anyone know an alternative to ScrnXtra for capturing a protion of the >> screen to a cast member? I'd been using ScrnXtra but it fails sometimes in >> D8.5. Thanks. > > You can set the picture of a bitmap to the picture of the

Screen capture

2001-07-25 Thread Stephen Recker
Hello, Does anyone know an alternative to ScrnXtra for capturing a protion of the screen to a cast member? I'd been using ScrnXtra but it fails sometimes in D8.5. Thanks. Stephen [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To

Re: Red Book + Track 1 data problem solved!

2001-07-06 Thread Stephen Recker
on 7/6/01 3:15 PM, Tab Julius at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At any rate, ecd-l is at http://www.penworks.com/ecd/ecd-l.cgi Thanks, Tab. I'll check it out. -sr [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 th

Re: Red Book + Track 1 data problem solved?

2001-07-06 Thread Stephen Recker
on 7/6/01 2:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What version of Toast? > > You should be able to do audio cd with all the tracks, burn a session, > then continue on My mistake. I'm using Toast 4.1.2 and yes, indeed, it enables you to select "session" instead of "disc".

Re: Red Book + Track 1 data problem solved?

2001-07-06 Thread Stephen Recker
> Use Toast on the ma - first burn do all the audio stuff as it's own cd, > but burn it with 'make session' NOT 'make disk' -- then do another burn of > your data. > > Sigh I tried this and it worked for the CD side but the audio files won't play in my CD player probably because I had to bur

Re: Red Book + Track 1 data problem solved?

2001-07-06 Thread Stephen Recker
on 7/6/01 12:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Read what I just posted - do 2 burns. First burn is audio only (10 tracks, > whatever). Second burn is the hybrid mac/pc partition/data. Interesting. I'll give it a try. Thanks. -stephen [To remove yourself from this list

Re: Red Book + Track 1 data problem solved?

2001-07-06 Thread Stephen Recker
Bastien, Thanks. Now we're talking. I remember enhanced CDs from my musician days, but back then (we had to program by candlelight) enhanced CDs were not an easy thing to make. I have a PC but would prefer to burn it on a Mac. Is there a good Mac app to make CD-Extras? The data has to be cross-p

Re: Red Book + Track 1 data problem solved?

2001-07-06 Thread Stephen Recker
Thanks. I burned a CD with Toast and it put the data on track 1, not after the audio tracks. The good news is that it didn't make any nasty noise when I played the data track in my CD player. The bad news is that the user will have to figure out that track 1 is silent and that they have to go to t

Red Book + Track 1 data problem solved?

2001-07-06 Thread Stephen Recker
I have been asked by a client to add red book audio tracks to an interactive CD. I have checked out LiveCD and it seems like it will work to play the audio tracks. Anyone have experience with that? Also, I am wondering if anyone has solved the problem of having an audio CD that has Track 1 with d

Shockwave/Multiuser on OSX?

2001-06-28 Thread Stephen Recker
I'm getting some reports that a chat room I made with Director 8.5 and the Multiuser Server Xtra is coming up as a blank box when viewed on an OSX box. I'm aware that Director isn't supported on OSX for authoring, but is Shockwave happy on OSX? Thanks, Stephen [To remove yourself from this list

Flash only plays second time

2001-05-05 Thread Stephen Recker
I've got a CD with a bunch of Flash movies, most around 2MB. On the Mac they play great and play always. On the PC side, sometimes when I go to a frame with a Flash movie it doesn't play the first time. Actually, it may play a frame or two but it then stops. I then go back to the main menu and the

Re: Net error codes

2001-05-05 Thread Stephen Recker
Al, Once again, thanks. Really, thanks so much ;-) -sr on 5/4/01 12:22 PM, Al Hospers at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Where can I get this list? Thanks. > > hmmm... > > I don't know what a netError of 2 would be. that said here is a handler that > I include in all my network operations obje

Re: Net error codes

2001-05-04 Thread Stephen Recker
on 5/4/01 10:42 AM, Sharon Moeller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a long list of net error codes Where can I get this list? Thanks. Cheers, Stephen [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 lis

Re: Cinepak at millions?

2001-05-02 Thread Stephen Recker
It is an After Effects movie that is nothing but graphics flying around the screen. Nothing but pict files...no video. > Cinepak is pretty well always millions. You have to go out of your > way to set 256 colors. What is the nature of the source movie? on 5/2/01 10:42 AM, Colin Holgate at [EM

Cinepak at millions?

2001-05-02 Thread Stephen Recker
I can't seem to compress a movie with Cinepak using millions of colors. It keeps dithering it to 8-bit even though I select millions of colors. My monitor is set to millions of colors and I've tried a number of programs to compress the movies. A while back I saw these iMac demos with these great D

Setting "the soundLevel" on PC

2001-04-12 Thread Stephen Recker
I'm using bkMixer from updatestage.com to set the master volume on PCs (bkSetMasterVolume). It works fine on most systems but on one system the big green volume setting indicator show up. You know, exactly like they do when you set the volume from buttons on a monitor. Anyway, in all fairness to u

Re: EXT Casts and PROJECTORS

2001-03-18 Thread Stephen Recker
Are you, by any chance, protecting the cast? I don't think you can do that if the cast is protected, only if it has not been protected. Stephen > I want to make my external cast dynamic and paste images to it when it is a > projector [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest

Re: What is this error ?

2001-03-07 Thread Stephen Recker
Check to see if the name of your CD is too long. Cheers, Stephen >> Hi all, >> Director 8.0 windows 98. >> I am getting this error on some machines when I try to play my .exe >> file. >> This does not appear on all machines. >> Director Player Error : >> "Unable to load movie playlist. Does t

Re: File Dialog?

2001-03-05 Thread Stephen Recker
I'd like to take this a step further. I wish to copy a file from a cd to the user's desktop with a file dialog...the twist being that the button needs to be in a flash movie that has been saved as a QT movie and then imported into Director. I've found that saving a Flash file as a QT movie disable

Re: QTVR hotspots

2001-03-05 Thread Stephen Recker
Ruth, If you are using QTVR Authoring Studio you can change the hotspotID number in the "Edit Hot Spot" area. When you create a link it puts a little color swatch next to it in the area that you assign the destination. If you hold the mouse down on the color swatch a palette will come up and let

File Dialog?

2001-03-01 Thread Stephen Recker
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 ...so I tried this using FileIO and Buddy... on mouseUp --put file name here fileToCopy = "tester.txt" --put file path here if the pl

Checking for CPU speed/quality

2001-02-26 Thread Stephen Recker
Has anyone found a really great way to check the CPU speed of a computer so that the presentation can be branched to a high/low quality version? BuddyAPI will get the speed of the computer but just on a PC, not a Mac. InstallXtra is cross-platform but doesn't get the CPU speed, just the type. Any

Re: QTVR multinode issues

2000-11-01 Thread Stephen Recker
Thanks for the input, Mark. Still a few problems, though. >> I am looking for resources about multi-node QTVR panoramas in Director. > > Try Bruce's site www.zeusprod.com - you'll need to dig a little, but the > info is great! The notes there don't use dot syntax but I doubt that > matters. Tri

QTVR multinode issues

2000-10-30 Thread Stephen Recker
I am looking for resources about multi-node QTVR panoramas in Director. I've looked on Macromedia's site and all of the tech notes are years old. Here are some issues I need help with. One thing that is hanging me up is going to the different nodes using their default views. If I manually pan aro

Re: File IO trouble w/read-only files

2000-09-25 Thread Stephen Recker
> If you are only trying to read the files, you should open them using > the write only mode (1). A big thanks to Stephen Ingrum for pointing this parameter out to me. Thanks. That fixed it! Cheers, Stephen -- s t e p h e n j a m e s r e c k e r m u l t i m e d i a p r o d u c e r

File IO trouble w/read-only files

2000-09-24 Thread Stephen Recker
I'm using FileIO to read text into Director on a cross platform CD. Everything works fine on the Mac side, but on the PC side once I burn a disc the file isn't read any more. Everything works fine in authoring mode on the PC but when I copy the files to my Mac and burn a disc I get an I/O error wh

Re: Launch/Re-launch

2000-09-18 Thread Stephen Recker
Kurt, Many thanks for the adVISE. Stephen -- s t e p h e n j a m e s r e c k e r m u l t i m e d i a p r o d u c e r another software miracle [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://anothersoftwaremiracle.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.virtualgettysburg.com "We cannot escape history." Abra

Re: Launch/Re-launch

2000-09-14 Thread Stephen Recker
I wrote: >> I have a client that wants me to make a CD that installs a browser, quits >> the installer and then runs a director app that has links to the browser. my >> thought is that i should have the user first run a projector that launches >> the installer and then launches another projector

Launch/Re-launch

2000-09-13 Thread Stephen Recker
Greetings, I have a client that wants me to make a CD that installs a browser, quits the installer and then runs a director app that has links to the browser. my thought is that i should have the user first run a projector that launches the installer and then launches another projector when the i

Reading audio tracks

2000-09-07 Thread Stephen Recker
Greetings, Anuone have any luck using an Xtra to read audio tracks from a cross-platform CD from within Director? I saw a few that did this on Macromedia's Xtra list but I didn't see one for the Mac. I also saw that Penworks had something but their website crashes when I go to it. Any help would

OT? Has Track 1 data problem been solved

2000-09-06 Thread Stephen Recker
Greetings. Sorry if this is OT. I haven't been keeping up with enhanced CD development and have been asked by a client to see if the problem of that first nasty data track on a hybrid red book audio/interactive data CD has been solved. I seem to remember people were talking about making the data