Compressing A director exe

Hello, Please help if you can Question; A am trying to understand how to compress director cast members using the jpeg settings on the cast member and/or using the movie settings. After all my testing it seems as if the jpeg quality settings on the cast member or the movie settings simply d

Re: Re: QTVR Display Hotspots?

Hey Brennan, thankyou for your info on LiveStage I will look into that, here is a interesting thing to look at as well http://www.medien-werkstatt.com/joa/qtvrlingo/ Tom Brennan Young wrote: > Tom Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > Does Anyone know if there is a w

QTVR Display Hotspots?

Hello List. Does Anyone know if there is a way to use lingo to display the hotspots on a QTVR Quicktime movie? I am not using the standard QT controls (which has a show hotspots button) I'm am triing to use lingo to display the hot spots on the QTVR. Thankyou for any help Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Director 8.5 -VS- 8.0 more stable?

Hello Sources, I have just finished a large project in director 8.0, as I get ready to have 25,000 copies made I am wondering if I should convert it to a Director 8.5 project first? Simply put my Question is; Is there any reason to believe that a director 8.5 projector will be; 1) more stable (

Re: Dither cast members?

lways want to dither. If you > didn't want to, you'd have a specific reason for it. > > As far as performance, I don't know how you're using bitmaps, what you do > on the fly, etc., but chances are you shouldn't worry about it. If you > don't have any

Re: Buddy API Question

ote: > At 18:25 22/06/2001, Tom Richardson wrote: > > >set OKvid = baSetDisplay( 800 , 600 , 32 , "temp" , false) > > > >this sets the video screen resolution just fine... > >but if the color resolution is 16 bit the buddy API is not setting the > >color

Buddy API Question

Please help... I am using the Buddy API 3.4 to switch the monitor resolution... this is what I an doing set OKvid = baSetDisplay( 800 , 600 , 32 , "temp" , false) this sets the video screen resolution just fine... but if the color resolution is 16 bit the buddy API is not setting the color dep

Dither cast members?

Hello, Can some one please help me understand something about using the "Dither" feature in the properties settings on a bit map cast member? Here is my question, I am using all 24 bit images in my director project, if the monitor is set to 16 bit instead of 24 or 32 bit most of my 24 bit image

stopping audio

Hello, Can someone tell me what is the best way (sure shot way) of stopping all audio channels before I try to play a quicktime with audio in it, If I am using the standard soundDevice "MacroMix" and I play a music file in say channel 1 something's when I jump to a Quicktime file the audio will n

Re: Image flashes up after Director exit

t; and never terminating the play commands it seems to work fine, is this a big no no? thankyou Tom "Mark A. Boyd" wrote: > At 22:03 5/20/2001, Tom Richardson wrote: > >Hello, > > > >Can someone tell me why (how to fix) when my director piece exits > >

Image flashes up after Director exit

Hello, Can someone tell me why (how to fix) when my director piece exits after the screen goes black with my ending black screen with logo, A image flashes on the screen for a second from a previous dir file that I used "play exit.dir" to leave and go to my exit dir? can I clear the frame buffe

Re: score display question

YaY!. that works! thank you! Tom Irv Kalb wrote: > TryFile->Preferences->Cast, in the area named Label, choose > either Number or Number:Name > > Irv > > At 7:25 PM -0600 4/17/01, Tom Richardson wrote: > >Help! > > > >all my frame scr

Re: score display question

Colin, when I do that it effects the sprites but not the frame scripts? Tom Colin Holgate wrote: > >all my frame scripts on the score are displaying the first character of > >the script name? > >how do I change this back to the cast number? > > There's a pop-up menu at the left edge of the sc

score display question

Help! all my frame scripts on the score are displaying the first character of the script name? how do I change this back to the cast number? thankyou for any help! Tom [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post mess

Re: urgent - cannot play any other sound after playing an avi, not even flash file

try putting this right before you play the avi or wave file on exitFrame set the soundKeepDevice = false end Tom Salman Ahmed wrote: > Hi, > >I have to play a flash file and then an avi, but after the flash > file(with sound) plays and stops, the sound for the avi does not come. Then >

Re: Cursor flashing During QT

Well, I still need the pointer visible so the user can make selections... Tom g r i m m w e r k s wrote: > Why not just make the mouse invisible? > > [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: Cursor flashing During QT

Hey Ramesh, It seems like most computers have this flashing problem, Is there a way to control this Mouse settings from within director? we create projects for wide spread distribution so we do not have control over the users computer. thankyou for your help Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > De

Cursor flashing During QT

Hello All, It there a way to prevent the cursor from flashing during the playback of a quicktime video file? On most computers I play my projectors on the cursor always flashes while a quicktime is playing. thankyou for any help Tom [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest m

mapping out the "ESCAPE" key

Hello All, Does anyone know how to mapped out the "ESCAPE" key so while running a director projector if someone hits the "ESCAPE" key the projector will not exit? thank you for your help Tom [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lin

Re: Moving the Cursor

; -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > > Behalf Of Tab Julius > > Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 11:50 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Moving the Cursor > > > >

Moving the Cursor

Hello All, Does any one know how the move the Cursor possition with lingo with out using the Buddi API? Thanks Tom [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,

Using "QT3Mix" as the audio device

Hello All, Does any one have experience using "soundDevice = "QT3Mix" ? this makes Quicktime the primary audio device in director. Is this considered a "Safe" "Stable" way of handling audio? I seem to be experiencing unstable projectors when I use this but I can't be sure the problem is truly

soundDevice = "QT3Mix"

Hello All, I have been using quicktime as my sound device "soundDevice = "QT3Mix" seems to work great, BUT my director projectors seem to causes system errors and crash randomly? Does anyone have experience using "QT3Mix" and have you had problems with your director projectors not been stabl