lingo-lLingo-L back up (hopefully!)

2002-01-11 Thread Tab Julius
From this point on, Lingo-L should be up and running again, but using new software. We may have some temporary glitches - please bear with us as we work them out, but please try to continue and post as usual. The reply address may seem a little funny, but use it for now - it should go to

test - do not respond

2001-12-12 Thread Tab Julius

Re: lingo-l BUSINESS PROPOSAL.

2001-08-16 Thread Tab Julius
I'm not sure how this got in here, but it is a SCAM. Do not respond to it or take it seriously. Also, let's not start a scam thread either. I will report it to the ISP and the SEC. - Tab At 07:12 AM 8/16/01 -0700, kexdonald manfab wrote: DEAR SIR, THIS LETTER MAY PROBABLY COME TO YOU AS

Re: lingo-l What is CXT?????

2001-08-16 Thread Tab Julius
It was Director. It's a protected cast file. In the beginning there were .DIR and .CST files. Unfortunately, with .DIR and .CST, source is visible, so Director made available protected files, which could not be opened for viewing in Director, and had the Lingo text stripped out. These were

Re: lingo-l Director and CDDB

2001-08-15 Thread Tab Julius
CDDB publishes instructions on how to submit a code. They also have rules on WHO can submit a code, if I recall, meaning that individuals were okay for the occasional check, but they didn't want their servers to get barraged by some major site submitting bazillions of lookups for free.

Re: lingo-l how to halt when another program is opened?

2001-08-15 Thread Tab Julius
That should work; what kind of script are you in when you do this? Does the installer open? Try recompiling all scripts too, just to make sure. At 02:59 PM 8/15/01 -0400, Kelly Fischbach wrote: I'm trying to open another program, and have my projector quit as soon as I do so. How do I do

Re: lingo-l Director 8 back to Director 7

2001-08-02 Thread Tab Julius
You can do some cutting and pasting, but not everything will port over. There's no automated way to do it, and of course, a Director 8-specific feature wouldn't work in 7. I'd say that if it's a very small project that you should just redo it in 7. If it's a large project, then it'd

Re: lingo-l Property not found

2001-08-01 Thread Tab Julius
I'm not sure I got the point about introducing an unrelated error, but that aside... If it thinks that locV is not a property of sprite(me.spriteNum) then I would say that me.spriteNum is not a valid sprite number. So what I would suggest is that just before that line you start with

Re: lingo-l delay 3*60 ¬ go next

2001-07-30 Thread Tab Julius
Delay is a bit obsolete, if I recall. If you want it to wait for 3 seconds you could just do this: endTime =the ticks + (60 * 3) repeat while the ticks endTime end repeat It's not the greatest idea to lock things up in a loop, and there are other ways to keep it on the same frame

Re: lingo-l the milliseconds 0

2001-07-29 Thread Tab Julius
It's a classic overflow symptom, but I'm not familiar enough with this particular case to venture a guess. At 09:50 PM 7/29/01 -0400, Slava Paperno wrote: On one of my Windows 2000 computers, (the milliseconds) is a negative number, growing (i.e., approaching 0) as time goes on. On another

Re: lingo-l refreshing externally linked scripts?

2001-07-28 Thread Tab Julius
There's also the recompile all scripts menu option. At 10:34 PM 7/28/01 +0200, Florian Bogeschdorfer wrote: Sometimes I have similar problems even with not linked scripts. They just don't recompile. Quitting and reloading is the only possibilty. Florian Slava Paperno wrote: Since you

Re: lingo-l bug on czech windows?

2001-07-26 Thread Tab Julius
One thing you might czech (sorry, couldn't resist) is if the problem is really due to Czech Windows, or if that's just a decoy, and it's really due to their configuration. If it was Director related, the bug would probably also occur on languages similar to Czech. Director itself is not

Re: lingo-l put... before fonction HELP!!

2001-07-25 Thread Tab Julius
Instead of things like toto1 and toto2 you should try using lists, but that aside, you want to concatenate using the ampersand , so make an empty string, then append on the parts you want, and at the very end put out the variable. outText = if (whatever) then outText =outText 1 end if

Re: lingo-l message window question

2001-07-25 Thread Tab Julius
Sure. You will need a .INI file of the same name as the projector in the same folder as the projector. So, if your projector is SIMON.EXE then you will need (if you don't have one already) a file called SIMON.INI This is a text file, and you can edit it with Notepad (or SimpleText if Mac).

Re: lingo-l Debugging OOPs in lingo with Director 5

2001-07-25 Thread Tab Julius
I'm not familiar with either the book or the example, but by not in the movie you mean you are running a movie in a window, then the answer is no, you cannot debug a movie in a window (MIAW). If you mean that you transfered (using 'go to movie') to another movie, then you physically can't

Re: lingo-l Sprite Movement

2001-07-25 Thread Tab Julius
I think this is what is happening... - If it is less than the destination you add to it, and then see if you added too much, in which case you try to set it to the final location. - Eventually you will get to the destination. The locH will be equal to the destination. - Since it is EQUAL,

Re: lingo-l Debugging OOPs in lingo with Director 5

2001-07-25 Thread Tab Julius
What do you mean: After clicking this button I then go to file and open the second movie. What specifically is the code to open the second movie? [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,

RE: lingo-l Lingo programming position: Syracuse, NY

2001-07-24 Thread Tab Julius
Well, then don't respond (to them OR the list). No need to fill this up with people saying why they don't want it - the recruiter isn't on the list. There may be one or more people for whom it is a fit, and those people should send in the resume. Even though I'm a pretty good cook, I'm not

Re: lingo-l Projector

2001-07-24 Thread Tab Julius
What are the script errors? Maybe there are some other files you don't have. Also, sometimes if an Xtra is made with MFC or something it may need some files that are on your system that the other system may not have installed. But let us know what the script errors are, because that's the

Re: lingo-l Projector

2001-07-24 Thread Tab Julius
Well, then you're going to have to do some old-fashioned debugging. Look at the screen to figure out how far you got in your program - I don't know anything about your program so this is just ad hoc, but if you have, say, a splash-screen up, but not your main menu, then there's no point in

Re: lingo-l Newbie question.

2001-07-24 Thread Tab Julius
Actually, I want to clarify... I said per program and misspoke. I meant, per .DIR. If you have MIAWs (Movie In A Window) open, they can hold their own handlers. - Tab At 09:38 PM 7/24/01 -0400, Tab Julius wrote: Global functions exist in movie scripts. Sorry, you couldn't declare them

RE: lingo-l South Africa

2001-07-23 Thread Tab Julius
Um, there might be something in the works. :) Any topics in particular that you think might need a good looking at? - Tab At 04:51 PM 7/23/01 +0100, Karina Steffens wrote: Uh-ohTabs gonna throw the book at us now... :-P If the book he throws is Gary's game book, make sure to give

Re: lingo-l Problem with floaint points

2001-07-23 Thread Tab Julius
Since both operands are integers (that is, 1 is an integer, and the duration is an integer), Director will perform integer math on it, and the result will be an integer (in this case, 0). What you want to do is force it to do floating point math on it. Since one of your divisors is a

lingo-l Lingo programming position: Syracuse, NY

2001-07-22 Thread Tab Julius
We were asked to post the following position. The ad is from a recruiter. I personally do not know anything about the companies involved, or the position, and do not have any further information. I'm just being a good host and passing this along. Please email the specified address

Re: lingo-l Miaws causing general protection fault

2001-07-22 Thread Tab Julius
It is easy to get an MIAW to crash a projector if the MIAW originates the request to kill itself. Effectively you pull the rug out from under its feet. This usually does not happen in authoring mode (another reminder to test in projectors, especially with MIAWs). You say you are closing

Re: lingo-l PROJECTORS

2001-07-17 Thread Tab Julius
You can use 'the applicationPath' to get the path of your own projector, so the second projector will be on the same drive. Chances are that is your working directory anyway, so you don't need to specify the path of the second projector. Then use Lingo's 'open' command, as in: open

Re: lingo-l Finding If Something is divisible by a number

2001-07-16 Thread Tab Julius
All numbers are divisible by any other number as long as that other number isn't zero. I suspect, though, you mean evenly divisible, such that there's no remainder. In that case, this is how you do it: What you want to do is to see if the result matches the result when converted to an

Re: lingo-l save as... from projector?

2001-07-12 Thread Tab Julius
PPT being PowerPoint? Meaning that what you really want to do is copy the file from the CD to the hard drive? If so, you can use the FileXtra Xtra (free, comes with Director or can be downloaded, depending on what version you have) to put up a save dialog and to create the folders and copy

Re: lingo-l Shutdown

2001-07-11 Thread Tab Julius
It depends on the machine. Shutdown will physically shut down some machines, if they allow for software shutdowns. The machine might be configured to allow (or disallow) shutdowns. Or, the machine may physically be incapable of a software shutdown (like if it has a positional power

Re: lingo-l set floatPrecision still not working

2001-07-10 Thread Tab Julius
Float precision is only for the display of strings, not internal calculations, and not for editable fields. In other words, if you have a float variable r, it might equal 3.14159 r=3.14159 put r -- 3.1416 (note - default precision is 4, so it rounds when displaying) set the floatPrecision =2

Re: lingo-l Trouble with ImportFileInto

2001-07-10 Thread Tab Julius
It certainly does work at runtime. My two questions therefore would be: 1) Instead of doing importFileInto member(/Prefs/bhen), the applicationPath / Prefs/bhen.txt that you instead do: importFilename =the applicationPath / Prefs / bhen.txt importMember =member(/Prefs/bhen)

Re: lingo-l multiple cds

2001-07-09 Thread Tab Julius
Actually, before you jump down his throat, if you read his message you'll see that he did say he was running from the hard drive and just wanted to know how to eject the CDs. You could use CD Pro Xtra to eject the CDs - the Xtra is free, but with a logo requirement.

RE: lingo-l multiple cds

2001-07-09 Thread Tab Julius
If you can identify them by label, you can use CD Pro's GetDrive function to get the names of the disc (volume on Mac, label on Windows). - Tab At 05:27 PM 7/9/01 -0400, vijay shan wrote: This still is a problem actually I have been using the cdpro xtra for sometime now. Ejecting the cd is

Re: lingo-l Red Book + Track 1 data problem solved?

2001-07-06 Thread Tab Julius
Burning ECDs is somewhat out of the scope of Lingo-L (actually, it's totally outside of the scope). I would recommend you joing ECD-L, which is a listserv we host for DEVELOPERS (not users) of ECDs. There you can ask all your ECD questions as regards burning formats and so forth.

Re: lingo-l sendSprite(mySprite, #mouseDown)

2001-07-04 Thread Tab Julius
It is known; you can send a message to any valid object. In theory you could send a mouseLeave message too, though it would probably be more confusing than productive. At 05:31 PM 7/4/01 +0200, schmidt-r wrote: I don´t know if this is known or if it could be usefull to someone. You can cheat

Re: lingo-l Lingo syntax for simulating END key?

2001-07-03 Thread Tab Julius
Hi, END is a compound key and does not have an ASCII value. Instead, you will have to check for 'the keyCode'. END has a keyCode of 119 followed by a keyCode of 2. To emulate that behavior, instead of checking for it, there are a few things you can do. For instance, see Al's response for

Re: lingo-l Multi tread with Lingo

2001-06-26 Thread Tab Julius
What's multi-tread?? Do you mean multi-THRead? At 01:01 PM 6/26/01 +0100, Miguel Gonzalez wrote: Hi all. Does anybody know any example about how to do something similar to a multi tread code? Lingo is not a multitread language, but maybe anybody knows how to do something similar. Thanks in

Re: lingo-l memory problem

2001-06-25 Thread Tab Julius
Not sure what you mean by cast support. We make an Xtra, CastLink Xtra, that allows you to dynamically load casts (on the fly), but it's meant for things bitmap media, and maybe text, not active assets like cursors. What kind of castmember is it? At 03:35 PM 6/25/01 +0530, mitesh wrote:

Re: lingo-l memory problem

2001-06-25 Thread Tab Julius
have to do at this stage. please give me quick replay help me out this is a ending time for me. other way is there or not. Mitesh Tab Julius wrote: I have seen this with a corrupted castmember. Generally, the movie in question has one castmember (your job to figure out which!), whose

RE: lingo-l URGENT : Problem with Macromedia Splash Screen

2001-06-25 Thread Tab Julius
Yes, you should have a MYM something folder that has the logos, and your licensing information states the requirements, and you should find it in one of your books - perhaps the user guide. Please note this list (lingo-l) is for Lingo and programming related questions. Thanks At 02:03 PM

Re: lingo-l memory problem

2001-06-24 Thread Tab Julius
I have seen this with a corrupted castmember. Generally, the movie in question has one castmember (your job to figure out which!), whose stored data properties are corrupted, and it makes Director think it is out of memory. Note that you are not really out of memory, but Director is trying

Re: AW: lingo-l urgent MIAW problem

2001-06-23 Thread Tab Julius
Only thing I can think of is if the MIAW's text field has focus, even if the movie is out of focus, Director *might* try to deliver the event there anyway. Generally Director attempts to deliver events first to the sprite, then to the castmember, the frame, and the movie. I don't know what

Re: lingo-l me question

2001-06-23 Thread Tab Julius
Unlike movie scripts, which can be called by anyone, and have unique names (only one is valid for the whole program), various sprites and objects can have their own private scripts with their own private actions and properties. They don't require unique names, though, since you refer to

Re: lingo-l lingo problem

2001-06-23 Thread Tab Julius
Sure, you practically said it yourself. You just need to get the syntax correct. xLoc =the mouseH if (xLoc =100) then -- mouse is in 0..100 range else if (xLoc =300) then -- mouse is in 101..300 range else if (xLoc =500) then -- mouse is in 301..500 range else -- mouse is greater

Re: lingo-l Dither cast members?

2001-06-22 Thread Tab Julius
Dithering mixes near pixels in order to best approximate, visually, the original color impact. For something like a photograph, you'd really want it. However, it can take what used to be a solid color and make it a combination of pixels to get the same visual effect, but without leaving it

Re: lingo-l negative index for a list

2001-06-21 Thread Tab Julius
I missed the earlier part of the thread, and aren't sure why you're looking at VB code, though hopefully you're trying to port it to Lingo (otherwise, why be here? :) I'll try to help as best as I can. I first used BASIC in 1976 (!), though I eventually stopped using it as a primary

Re: lingo-l icon

2001-06-21 Thread Tab Julius
This list (Lingo-L) is for Lingo and programming-related topics, so if you have any questions on Iconizer, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and we'll be happy to help. Thanks - Tab At 12:16 AM 6/22/01 +0530, mitesh wrote: hi, Buy Iconizer from Penworks. i get it but how can i create this

Re: lingo-l FileXtra and Network Volumes

2001-06-21 Thread Tab Julius
Hi Kerry, 1) Inspect the variable via a 'put' or in the debugger just to make sure you built it right. 2) Presuming that you did, and it wasn't a simple error, then probably I would guess that fileXtra doesn't like network volume specifications. I think I ran into this on regular file

Re: lingo-l String expected error when using baWriteIni with variables that are TRUE or FALSE

2001-06-19 Thread Tab Julius
Convert them to strings, as in: string(useCredits) instead of just 'useCredits' Note that you'll have to convert them back to integers when retrieving them, just to keep everything equal. - Tab At 01:28 PM 6/19/01 -0400, Gene Fritzinger wrote: Hi List, I am trying to use baWriteIni with

lingo-l On-topic reminder

2001-06-18 Thread Tab Julius
I know people find this list productive, and like to ask non-Lingo or non-programming questions of the list, because they hope to get a highly qualified answer. Unfortunately we've been getting a LOT of non-Lingo and non-programming questions lately. I just want to keep the signal-to-noise

Re: lingo-l need urgent help. Projector keeps craching iml32.dll

2001-06-18 Thread Tab Julius
Does the stage do this on its own, or did the MIAW 'tell' the stage to close the MIAW? Because if you used the tell command FROM the MIAW to tell the stage to CLOSE the MIAW, that will create a crash. - Tab At 10:32 PM 6/18/01 +0100, Luis Carneiro wrote: Hi all, I'm using director 8.0

Re: lingo-l placing sound in a specific channel

2001-06-14 Thread Tab Julius
Like so: puppetSound 2, whatever places the sound in channel 2. At 11:58 AM 6/14/02 -0700, William Miller wrote: When ever I use the puppetsound to play a sound cast member the sound in the cast is in channel 3.how do I get director to place the sound in another channel so I can control

RE: lingo-l how can I exit the movie?

2001-06-13 Thread Tab Julius
Actually, a better way out is to use 'halt'. In authoring mode (that is, in Director), quit will also exit Director, which makes it really annoying for testing. By using 'halt' instead, the movie will just stop. - Tab At 09:13 AM 6/13/01 -0400, Brown, William K wrote: Attach this script to

RE: lingo-l how can I exit the movie?

2001-06-13 Thread Tab Julius
What's the benefit? Why not just always use halt? I've been doing it for years - no problems. I'm not sure why you're going through the trouble to differentiate. At 09:57 AM 6/13/01 -0400, Al Hospers wrote: Actually, a better way out is to use 'halt'. In authoring mode (that is, in

RE: lingo-l how can I exit the movie?

2001-06-13 Thread Tab Julius
Well, if I recall correctly, quit was always there, but took you all the way out. Halt used to originally literally halt the work, and the bug (at least back in v4), or feature, was that it just stopped everything, and didn't call stopMovie. Over the years, somewhere, it got to where it

Re: lingo-l Cheking if a .dll file is in windows system

2001-06-13 Thread Tab Julius
From desktop, or from Shockwave? At 05:15 PM 6/13/01 +0200, Presedo wrote: I would like to know if the system´s user has a codec... trying this, doesn´t work because is not a server on startmovie if file(C\windows\SYSTEM\DivXc32.dll).exists then nothing else open

RE: lingo-l Cheking if a .dll file is in windows system

2001-06-13 Thread Tab Julius
Then you could use the FileIO Xtra (which comes with Director) to get the windows folder, via the getOSDirectory() call. You could append on to get the system folder (generally the system folder is under the main Windows directory, but it doesn't have to be, or it could be something other

Re: lingo-l FORCING Projector to quit

2001-06-12 Thread Tab Julius
If you need this sort of thing, you could get an Xtra written that does it, but the better thing would be to author in a way that allows Director to keep doing its normal looping. Loop around exitFrame, and create a state machine, that you execute your calls in the exitFrame loop or you act

Re: lingo-l input / submit / output

2001-06-10 Thread Tab Julius
Sure, create an 'on keyDown' handler that takes the key pressed and adds it to a string. You could also add it to the text of a field displayed on screen. When you read in the RETURN key then send the string to the net. - tab At 02:58 PM 6/10/01 -0700, I R wrote: hello list, it would be

Re: lingo-l fileIO: line break wierdness

2001-06-09 Thread Tab Julius
Do the chars appear at the end? If so, you're probably doing it in the wrong order. It should be 13 followed by 10 (CR/LF). Otherwise, how are you viewing the file? At 12:01 AM 6/10/01 +0200, clars danvold wrote: hello All (D8.5, Win98) I am using fileIO to save a text to a file.

Re: lingo-l need advice on alerthook

2001-06-08 Thread Tab Julius
Well, it'll help mask errors, but if you have an error, now you'll never know where it was or what the user was doing. All you're doing is suppressing the error MESSAGE, but whatever the error (non-existent variable, undefined handler, non-list, etc), the error will still exist and will

Re: lingo-l need advice on alerthook

2001-06-08 Thread Tab Julius
Well, it'll help mask errors, but if you have an error, now you'll never know where it was or what the user was doing. All you're doing is suppressing the error MESSAGE, but whatever the error (non-existent variable, undefined handler, non-list, etc), the error will still exist and will

RE: lingo-l need advice on alerthook

2001-06-08 Thread Tab Julius
1) I seem to recall some situations where the alert hook WOULDN'T kick in - so it won't save your butt all the time. 2) The fact that you have some bug at all, whether or not the message is suppressed, is still a problem. 3) Depending on the bug, you might suppress the message, and then you

Re: lingo-l creating dynamic number of variables

2001-06-07 Thread Tab Julius
Well, there are a couple of ways you can go about it. First, you can just use Lingo calls to get the xth word out of a line. This may or may not help, depending on what you want to use it for. What you might want to do is put each word in a list. Using commands like: mySentence =This is a

Re: lingo-l removing a behavior from a sprite

2001-06-07 Thread Tab Julius
Sprites can have multiple behaviors attached. These are in the scriptInstanceList property. If you want to clear ALL behaviors from a sprite, do something like: sprite(3).scriptInstanceList =[] Warning - don't do this whilst executing one of those said behaviors - may create problems.

Re: lingo-l OT: PLEASE TAB JULIUS: CUT THOSE PEOPLE OFF...

2001-06-06 Thread Tab Julius
Not to mention that the Xtra he's asking about is one of ours! :( You are correct - this is a list for programming topics, specifically Lingo and Director programming. At 09:56 AM 6/6/01 +0200, theLingorian wrote: People asking for cracks and serialz and stuff like that should really be

RE: lingo-l director 8.5 serial :-)

2001-06-06 Thread Tab Julius
I did so this morning; trading serial numbers for any products is not acceptable - certainly not on this list. That said, I think it shows either amazing chutzpah or amazing stupidity to ask for a crack of Iconizer on a list hosted by the company that makes that product. I'm sure his next

RE: lingo-l How to preserve keyboard interaction in swish files?

2001-06-06 Thread Tab Julius
Yes, but as a separate message. The worst are when they are CC'd on the same message, then everyone from each list responds, and it gets sent to all the other lists, and it's a real mess. I've at least asked that if people are going to post in multiple areas that they send separate

Re: lingo-l infinite loop

2001-06-05 Thread Tab Julius
First, that should give you an error, because member(1).text evaluates to a string. So, I don't know why it's not just throwing you an outright error. That aside, it's because the point is that a while statement evaluates an expression to either be 0 or non-zero; a better way might be:

Re: lingo-l director 8.5 serial :-)

2001-06-04 Thread Tab Julius
PLEASE do not EVER post your serial number to this, or ANY OTHER list. You should ONLY give it out if YOU have called Macromedia and they ask for it. It's not quite as bad as giving out your credit card number, but it's not far behind. It acts as a key. It should be carefully guarded. -

RE: lingo-l director 8.5 serial :-)

2001-06-04 Thread Tab Julius
Unfortunately I can't really stop it. At 12:48 PM 6/4/01 -0700, Boyd Speer wrote: Tab, Is this post going into the archives (Hope not..) Macromedia should take steps to invalidate that particular number so it couldn't be used to get an upgrade... -Boyd Speer Touchstone Digital Design Serial:

Re: lingo-l .dat file

2001-06-04 Thread Tab Julius
It depends on the format of the .dat file (.dat is a generic name for a data file, and can be structured just about any way you want). If it's text format, you can probably just use the Lingo command 'importFileInto' to bring it in as text. - Tab At 11:52 AM 6/5/01 +0800, gksoon wrote: hi

Re: lingo-l autorun very slow

2001-06-03 Thread Tab Julius
A projector is not just the .dir file resaved. A projector is an executable binary file made up of: 1) The runtime engine (can add up to 1.8 megs, depending on settings and versions) 2) All of the .dir files you specify (in this case, an 11k file) 3) A few .DLLs that the runtime engine

Re: lingo-l Memory leak in Director 8

2001-06-03 Thread Tab Julius
At 10:10 AM 6/3/01 -0500, jsweeney wrote: on 6/1/01 9:02 PM, Tab Julius at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can create one yourself, often. How? I've done over 75 projects and this is a first. :( What type of things could I do to cause memory leaks. I'm constantly unloading unused previous frames

Re: lingo-l Re:Re: globals vs properties

2001-06-02 Thread Tab Julius
be something else that slows down the movie. Thanks for your reply, Julius. Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 10:20:33 -0400 From: Tab Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l globals vs properties Globals vs. properties just really refers to which memory space you have them in. There is some overhead

Re: lingo-l globals vs properties

2001-06-01 Thread Tab Julius
Globals vs. properties just really refers to which memory space you have them in. There is some overhead that is incurred when starting a handler with globals in that script, but not that you'd probably notice unless you had hundreds or thousands. Otherwise, there is no speed factor per

Re: lingo-l Projectors on Hard Drive being changed

2001-06-01 Thread Tab Julius
1) How are you writing to the .ini file? Are you sure you're not writing to the projector? Or are you just using FileIO or something like that? 2) Generally if an executable has gotten larger, what you should look for is if you have a virus. Executables should not grow unless that's your

Re: lingo-l Projectors on Hard Drive being changed

2001-06-01 Thread Tab Julius
looking at actual file bytes. For instance, the Mac shows (depending on how you check) sometimes the allocated space and not the actual space used. - Tab At 07:15 PM 6/1/01 -0300, Luiz Gustavo Castelan Póvoas wrote: Tab Julius wrote: 1) How are you writing to the .ini file? Are you sure

Re: lingo-l Memory leak in Director 8

2001-06-01 Thread Tab Julius
You can create one yourself, often. That's not to say there might not be one, but do you do things like use Play to go to a new movie? Not sure what you mean by They used Norton Take things out one by one... drop the video - does it still flake out? If so, try dropping the audio instead.

Re: lingo-l member().duplicate and member.erase()

2001-06-01 Thread Tab Julius
This is an old bug in Director. Duplicate, obviously, would use more memory - the bug is really that erase doesn't free memory. Even if allocating from an Xtra, it's still a problem. It really depends on how long you expect to be up and running, and how many of these calls you make. A

Re: lingo-l Autorun

2001-05-31 Thread Tab Julius
If you mean, autorun the CD when it's inserted, it means including a file called AUTORUN.INF in the root of the CD. The file should contain at least the following: [autorun] open=name of file as in: [autorun] open=setup.exe or if in a subfolder: [autorun] open=install\setup.exe If you

Re: lingo-l variable variables in lingo?

2001-05-24 Thread Tab Julius
Over the years, there have been many requests to do variable variables, that is, to construct a variable name on the fly. Invariably, the person asking the question is taking the seemingly obvious solution to a problem, but usually what really signals is that it is time to start learning

Re: lingo-l variable variables in lingo?

2001-05-24 Thread Tab Julius
Closer, but again you're assembling things on the fly. However, it's hard for me to suggest anything further because I don't know what problem you're trying to solve - I don't mean the problem of concatenating, I mean the original problem of keeping track of multiple things. If you have a

Re: lingo-l Re:

2001-05-24 Thread Tab Julius
I think he meant, is there an Xtra that can set an image as the desktop wallpaper...? At 11:08 AM 5/21/01 +0200, Rich Mayer wrote: 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

Re: lingo-l variable variables in lingo?

2001-05-22 Thread Tab Julius
Um, yes and no. Well, yes, though you'd have to go through a few more steps and create a string and then parse it to get its value out, so technically you could pull it off, but I'll betcha there's an easier way to do your ultimate goal. What, specifically, is your ultimate goal? You're

Re: lingo-l better coding/newbie

2001-05-21 Thread Tab Julius
Well, certainly a quick way to get the same result without changing the structure would be: on exitFrame me go to the frame -- Do you want this first? repeat with x=76 to 80 if sprite 75 intersects sprite x then set the visible of sprite x to TRUE home

Re: lingo-l Projector Error

2001-05-20 Thread Tab Julius
Although it could be anything, this is *usually* what happens when you reference an object that isn't there, whether you're trying to send a message to a sprite that is now gone, or coming back from a MIAW that you didn't close correctly, or in some fashion referring to a now-non-existent

Re: lingo-l OT: Looking for Londonbased company

2001-05-18 Thread Tab Julius
Although that's a reasonable reaction, check closely and see that his message is dated the 15th (same as the 2nd message). Looks like it was a duplicate that got hung up in some server somewhere, somehow, and just got delivered now. Otherwise that would have been my reaction too. At 08:49

Re: lingo-l Re: MIAW (Invalid Page Fault Error)

2001-05-17 Thread Tab Julius
With all due respect, absolutely DON'T do it this way. You're on the right track, but you haven't fixed the problem. It all comes down to the question of: from what context is the kill command issued? In your fix here, it is still being called from the context of the MIAW, and if the MIAW

Re: lingo-l OT: Off-list contacts

2001-05-17 Thread Tab Julius
Well, if you're interested in doing business, do exactly what you did. If you want to help out of the goodness of your heart, then help. If you don't want to set a precedent, or start a trend, then suggest that a good place for them to post their request would be on Lingo-L (assuming it's a

Re: lingo-l Choking video

2001-05-17 Thread Tab Julius
1) If the video is sized differently than how you made it, it will have to be recalc'd. If you made a 640x480, then it should be moved to exactly 800x600 to keep the same aspect ratio. Anything else (like 780x560) might drag it down. Exact powers of two scale best (320x240 - 640x480), but

Re: lingo-l Choking video

2001-05-17 Thread Tab Julius
Text will definitely bog it down, though he didn't mention text, but it's possible he's running text. If you have a high frame rate, but aren't doing anything, then I would ask what's the point of the high frame rate? In general, the less you demand of Director, the more time there is for

Re: lingo-l Appologies to all

2001-05-15 Thread Tab Julius
Blocked before it made it to the list. Be glad you didn't get it. Multiple 500k files. It didn't get past me. - Tab At 10:38 AM 5/15/01 -0700, R. Bhakti Klein wrote: i didn't see anything too juicy, could you resend them? Ian Richardson wrote: Appologies, someone has been playing on

Re: lingo-l Appologies to all

2001-05-15 Thread Tab Julius
It looked like the beta for Director 10, the version that has embedded html rendering, automatic programming, linear video editing, and direct in-line C/C++ compilation, but that sort of stuff is outside the scope of this list, so I nixed it. Sorry. - Tab At 02:03 PM 5/15/01 -0400, Nick

Re: lingo-l Fatal error

2001-05-09 Thread Tab Julius
There are MANY ways to get this. A fatal error is a catch-all something-went-wrong-somewhere result. Common reasons are: 1) Returning to an object or sprite that has been deleted under your feet 2) Calls to objects that are no longer there 3) Xtra that is having problems You can work with

Re: lingo-l Easy math problem

2001-05-09 Thread Tab Julius
If the weights are EXACTLY as you gave, then it's real easy. Make a property list, with weights and prices, as in: priceList =[.5:49.00, 1:63.70, 1.5:78.35, 2:93.00, 5:165.45, 10:275, 15:375.10, 20:468.45] then just look it up: itemPrice =getaProp(priceList, itemWeight) So if itemWeight is

Re: lingo-l events activatewindow and deactivatewindow

2001-05-07 Thread Tab Julius
Unfortunately they're just meant for events within Director (this MIAW activated, the stage activated), as opposed to system wide. One exception - they might work if you turn off animate in background. The thought just occurred to me, but I've never tried it. - Tab At 05:33 PM 5/7/01

Re: lingo-l property lists

2001-05-07 Thread Tab Julius
Well, you could first pre-process the string and strip out any spaces, as in: on compress stringData newString = strLen =length(stringData) repeat with x=1 to strLen thisChar =char x of stringData if (thisChar ) then newString =newString thisChar end if end

Re: lingo-l Thanx

2001-05-06 Thread Tab Julius
. I got what you mean. Thanks a lot. From: Tab Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l Urgent and tough .Please Help Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 22:32:10 -0400 What you want is a basic stack. It looks like

Re: lingo-l Virus Warning (readable version)

2001-05-01 Thread Tab Julius
Fortunately the list probably did NOT get it since we allow neither HTML mail nor attachments - for specifically this reason (to avoid virii). But for all of you who are wondering why your message(s) don't make it on the list, you must send them as PLAIN text with NO attachments, NO styles,

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