Simulating an Clock depending on the computers performance

2000-11-15 Thread Toups, Alexander
Hello! I need a Clock in a game to take the time somebody needed for the game. This time should be independent from the system clock so it's not relevant to the systems performance. But the result should look like a original Clock with minutes, seconds, an fractions of seconds. And the time should

Manipulation of Shockwavegame

2000-11-15 Thread Toups, Alexander
Hello! I'm running an shockwave game (implemented with D8) on the internet. People can play an win something. The results of the game are stored in a MS Access DB which is altered by several php-scripts. I call the php-file from the games file with all the parameters I need, like the name of the p

RE: TimeOuts behaving badly

2000-11-08 Thread Toups, Alexander
I had recently had a problem that was very much alike. The answer was simply the sprite wasn't present in the score anymore because I jump to a frame in which I didn't used the sprite. If that's what you do try to put on endsprite me timeOut("Shrink").forget() end into the sprites behaviour.

Keep movie from play while loading

2000-11-06 Thread Toups, Alexander
Hi! I have a very hugh movie file on the web (about 700 K) . The first scene is a logon screen. If the user trys to log on while the movie isn't loaded completely the logon will fail. Here's the question: How can I prevent the Movie from playing while it is still loading?. Can anybody give me a h

Same Framerate on different systems

2000-11-02 Thread Toups, Alexander
Hello, I'm working on an arcade game with racing cars. Everything runs fine so far. But I have a problem with tracking the race time. At the moment I'm using the time to create the lap time but it apeared that the frame rate of the movie is different on a variety of systems. On a slow systems the

Using MPEG-Files in Director 8

2000-11-02 Thread Toups, Alexander
Hello, I wonder if there's a way using MPEG-Video in a Director 8 Movie without converting it with something like Adobe Premiere. Anyone knows a way accomplishing this. Or is there at least any videoediting tool witch let me convert those files without hours of rendering time. Thanx Alexander [