Using the XML Parser
http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/internet/using_xml_parser_xtra/
XML LIngo Dictionary
http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/internet/xml/xml_lingo_dict/xml_l
ingo_dict.html
Christopher Watson
Sr. Software Engineer
Lightspan, Inc.
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So, it looks like you're able to produce what you need, for now. Correct?
DOM-Lingo will be going public soon, and I will have a URL to share with the
list as soon as I can get the host admin off his butt and link the directory
up.
Christopher Watson
Sr. Software Engineer
Lightspan, Inc.
Just to clarify:
You want to be able to parse an XML document (on the local drive, or at a
URL), and proudce a nested property list representation of that XML. Am I
right?
And you've already examined what comes back from XMLParser.makeList(),
right? And you don't like what you see from that
OK, I understand it now. Thank you Jakob and everyone else. My opinion is
that it's too messy to work it that way, and really kind of flies in the
face of how a DOM binding/implementation is really supposed to work. The
system I have in place (with the linked external cast) seems to be the very
And the protection issue ?
I'll just Shock the cast. That seems to give me the protection I need. Then,
editing the protected parent scripts in authoring mode becomes a simple
support issue -- Don't do that.
-Christopher
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This is a cross-post from Direct-L. My apologies if that offends.
Hello, everyone. I have an important series of questions regarding the
distribution of proprietary Lingo libraries.
I'll use the term library loosely (because I am aware of the fact that a
Director Library is defined as an
Jakob,
I'm trying to understand and put to use your sage advice regarding LDMs.
I've remade my external cast as a .dir movie file, and have imported it into
the internal cast of another movie as a linked Director movie. I've enabled
scripts on that cast member, but can't seem to access the
-0700 2001_08_15, Watson, Christopher wrote:
Can you provide some further detail about how to do this? Can you be
specific?
Will this get you going?
tell sprite 1
tObject = script(protectedContainerClass).new()
put #tObject, tObject
end tell
Jakob
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My first questions to you would be:
1) What are you using to the perform the parse?
2) How are manipulating the data in the document?
Christopher Watson
Sr. Software Engineer
Lightspan, Inc.
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From: Aulis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 6:08
Erik,
Congratulations. You have now experienced the abomination which is the
makeList method of the XMLParser Xtra. Now...forget it.
Instead, keep the XMLParser Xtra object around after creation and parsing,
and use the Lingo interface it provides to access the nodes in the document
tree. To
You could factor it. First a movie script:
on qr psStr
lbLook = TRUE
repeat while lbLook
liOffset = offset(', psStr)
lbLook = (liOffset 0)
if lbLook then put QUOTE into char liOffset of psStr
end repeat
return psStr
end
Then...
myList = [qr(getUserName('bill')),
Now we have a decision to make. We'd like to replace the Flash
animations with either LDM's or film loops. I'm looking for some
input on the best approach, because I haven't used LDM's much.
Just so that I can follow this thread, could someone please fill me in on
LDM's. What are they?
LDM=Linked Director Movie.
A full description is found on Director's help system.
For Linked Director movies, yes. But not for LDM. I just didn't know
what the acronym stood for. If a search of LDM in the help system turned
up a page on Linked Director movies, I wouldn't have asked the
Yes, Buzz, that was exactly the point.
Granted, I did emphasize it sardonically (overly so, possibly), but what I
was saying is that the truth is out there...and it's right under your
nose.
Use the help provided with the product to search out your answers first.
Good heavens, a good chunk of
The EULA I'm sure has language regarding transfer of license. You can
transfer the license to another party provided you destroy your copy of it.
-Christopher Watson
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From: R. Bhakti Klein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 10:40 AM
To: [EMAIL
I've got a Shockwave game (authored in D 7.02) that plays a streamed intro
SWA file when started. This audio is supposed to be interruptable with a
click, but those clicks are to be passed to any sprites that happen to be
clicked on to activate them. So, on startMovie, I initialize the
Personally, I really wish there was a callStack or stackCrawl function
or property that returned a list of the names of the handler/objects in the
current call chain. Oo...what I wouldn't give for that!
Yeah, yeahwith a bunch of lines peppered all over my code, I could roll
my own. But
Kerry,
Could you please point me to the source of the information regarding an
XML-based Acrobat.
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Christopher Watson
Sr. Software Engineer
Lightspan, Inc.
http://www.lightspan.com/
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Brian,
Nice job!
Had you considered implementing Array.concat( ), too? Maybe Array.toString(
) would be good to have, as well.
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Christopher Watson
Sr. Software Engineer
Lightspan, Inc.
http://www.lightspan.com/
Well, Ines, it's still a bit unclear to me how XML fits the bill here. A few
questions to begin with:
- What aspects of your client/server data management would benefit from
having that data encapsulated in XML?
- Are you just looking for a convenient way of organizing the data, or would
the
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Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 8:32 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject:RE: lingo-l xml lingo
At 4:22 PM -0700 5/2/2001, Watson, Christopher wrote:
Ines,
I've done extensive work
Have you looked at Andy White's lingo xml parser?
It was the first thing I looked at, several months ago. Andy's parser was
written during the infancy of the XMLParser Xtra, when all he was really
trying to do was duplicate the Xtra's functionality (and, by association,
its shortcomings), so as
Ines,
I've done extensive work with XML in Lingo. What would you like to know!
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Christopher Watson
Sr. Software Engineer
Lightspan, Inc.
http://www.lightspan.com/
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Ummm...did you mean to say that this was a bug in previous versions of
Director/Shockwave, but is now fixed in 8.5? According to the URL you
provided, this is a fixlist for 8.5.
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Christopher Watson
Sr. Software Engineer
Lightspan, Inc.
I believe that would be the frameTempo property.
From the Lingo Dictionary:
Syntax the frameTempo
Description Frame property; indicates the tempo assigned to the current
frame.
This property can be tested. It can be set during a Score recording session.
Example This statement checks the tempo
I'm setting the URL property of a stopped (i.e. member("audio_1").state = 0)
SWA cast member to the relative path of a known SWA file using a path
similar to "@///audio/game/401_001.swa". I then call preloadBuffer() on it.
In my looping frame script, I'm polling the state property of the cast
Kerry,
Howzabout DOM-Lingo: a complete DOM Level 2 implementation in Lingo? My
implementation parses XML into DOM trees, and provides the entire Document
Object Model API to access, travserse and edit the nodes in that tree. That
includes methods relevant to your needs -- like
Essentially, the XML parser brings your data into a property list--
probably a list of lists. It's confusing, though, to see every entry in
the list prefaced with !ATTRIBUTES: [:] as the first property, all the
way through the node tree.
Walking a document tree exposed by the XMLParser Xtra
Bill,
If you want to parse XML text, use the XMLParser Xtra (which ships with
Director, and can be found in the /Xtras/Media Support/ directory). The
XMLParser Xtra is not a part of the default Xtras list for movies in D7, so
if your running D7, you'll need to add the Xtra to your movie. To add
Don't think that a Lingo DOM would be as clean though
as a lot of properties inter-relate to each other, for example
"Member" can be an object in and of itself complete with
properties (rect, regPoint, etc), yet "Sprite" has a member
property that would call back to the "Member" object.
OK, so now I'm a little confused. The term DOM, in my mind, brings up the
image of a tree of objects within a specified environment, such as a web
browser, as a reference for programmers to determine which objects and
properties go where, how they relate and what they do within that
environment.
Just when i though I was in control..
I am confused to what is going on i am sorry
Are we saying that it is just a way of sharing data and values between
other programmes.
That would be ONE application of it, Jonathan.
In fact, that's how I'm putting it to use, primarily, here at
I was wondering if anyone on this list could step forward and assist me in
gauging community interest in a Lingo DOM implementation. I currently have
Level 2 Core, Views, Traversal-Range and part of Events done and working.
Comments? Advice? Flames?
Anyone?
I was wondering if anyone on this list could step forward and assist me in
gauging community interest in a Lingo DOM implementation. I currently have
Level 2 Core, Views, Traversal-Range and part of Events done and working.
Comments? Advice? Flames?
None of the above. What is a DOM? Does it
DOM?? Document Object Modeling??? For what kind of use??? Sorry my poor
knowledge but, lingo is not OOPS for itself??
Huh? Of course it is. Lingo's parent scripts, behaviors and child objects,
with their properties and "methods" are all about OOP.
lingo exists only in the context of interactive multimedia. it has no
inherent, independent existence. no scripting language is an island.
Agreed. It's only OOP in the context of the native host. But there are
bona-fide Director/Shockwave-scoped applications for a DOM implementation in
Thanks for the suggestion for using an html table rather than 4
columns. It works great!
Next question, is there any way to format the columns, right justify
them?
Use the "align" attribute of the TD tag:
td align="right"
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Christopher
Yes, I think this is interesting... ehhm exactly what kind of interest are
you
looking for? You make it, I snatch it? Or something else?
First and foremost, I'd like to form a picture in my mind of the general
level of interest. I'll probably ask elsewhere, too (that is, if the other
places I
Has anyone on this list had any experience converting WAVs to SWAs using
AudioActive Production Studio 2 (www.audioactive.com). I would particularly
like to hear from anyone who may have tried such conversion with this tool
and found that the resultant SWAs were either corrupt or unplayable. I am
Roy,
You're letting Lingo do all the work for you, right?
lsURL = "http://roypardi.com/bin/dbman/db.cgi"
llFormProps = [:]
llFormProps.addProp(#db, "default")
llFormProps.addProp(#uid, "")
llFormProps.addProp(#userID, "admin")
llFormProps.addProp(#ps, "admin")
llFormProps.addProp(#login,
Not exactly sure what you're asking here. Are you just looking for the way
to get arbitrary data from your Director movie to the server? Or are you
looking to create XML documents in Director?
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Christopher Watson
Sr. Software Engineer
It could. You need to save your Flash out as Flash 4. Even them, I'm
not sure if D7 supported Flash 4--I wasn't paying much attention to
Flash back in the D7 days.
Director/Shockwave 7.0.2 support Flash 4.
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Christopher Watson
Sr. Software
Ravi,
If it weren't for a bug in Director, you could do it in this simple manner:
on GetRandomAnswerList
set tText = member("Answers").text
set tAnswerList = []
repeat while the number of lines in tText 0
set tRand = random(the number of lines in tText)
Good one, Daniel. I hadn't come across that algorithm before. Using your
example, here's the mod to my previously submitted function:
on GetRandomAnswerList
set tText = member("Answers").text
set tMax = the number of lines in tText
set tAnswerList = []
repeat with i = tMax down to 1
In no particular order:
"Using Macromedia Director 8: Special Edition"
by Gary Rosenzweig
ISBN: 0789723344
"Director 8 and Lingo Authorized"
by Phil Gross
ISBN: 0201702622
"Advanced Lingo for Games"
by Gary Rosenzweig
ISBN: 078972331X
"Lingo in a Nutshell"
by Bruce Epstein
ISBN: 1565924932
The "infoString" argument (Windows only) for the fx_FolderSelectDialog
method of the FileXtra3 Xtra seems to be ignored. Any string I pass in this
argument does not display in the folder selection dialog.
loFX = xtra("FileXtra3").new()
put loFX.fx_FolderSelectDialog("Choose a file, dude:")
--
The sort command for lists most definitely needs to be augmented with an
optional comparison function argument. For example, if I had a list of child
objects instantiated from a parent script that had a property named
"miValue", and I wanted to sort the child object list based on the value
held
From what I've been able to gather, there's been a fair amount of confusion
generated over the seeming amibiguities of the timer, the timeOut, and
timeOut objects. They are all horses of a different color, but the
nomenclature arrived at by the Director team for these bits of Lingo leaves
a bit
So, the upshot is: no class variabes.
That sucks. But whatever...
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Christopher Watson
Sr. Software Engineer
Lightspan, Inc.
http://www.lightspan.com/
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The properties within a parent script are equivalent to instance variables.
But I want to implement the equivalent of a class variable in my parent
script, so that all child objects created from that parent script can take
into account the value held within that class variable when performing
I've got a parent script that works pretty well to build XML documents. I've
got to get the XML document (that is, the textual version of it, not a
property list or bunch of child objects) from my Shockwave game to the
server. I'm investigating "postNetText" for this purpose, though I'm
wondering
Try this in the message window (that's three commas with nothing betweeen
them before the word "bubba"):
temp = ",,,bubba"
put temp.item.count
-- 4
Perfect. Love it.
Now try this (that's three space characters in place of the commas):
temp = " bubba"
the itemDelimiter = SPACE
put
Ron,
It's not the "value" property you want, it's the "text" property. And the
data for a node is another child of the node that contains it, so to access
the data for that first "userid" node, you'll need to tack on another level:
I've created a rudimentary implementation of XML as a parent script. I don't
think it's anything spectacular, and I'm sure others have done it before.
It's not an XML parser (we'll leave that to the Xtra). Instead, it's an API
for creating and manipulating XML documents and their trees as child
Hi there, Sean.
Yes, odd indeed.
My implementation does not yet create new XML documents from property lists,
but that was one of my goals for the "newChild" method -- an optional
argument for a nested property list (from XMLParser, for instance) that
reformed the XML. My parent script just
Robert,
I totally agree with you. Thankfully, in my case, I don't have to be overly
concerned about the fluff. I'm just using XML as a standardized way of
exporting gameplay results -- the content and relevance of which will vary
widely, game to game -- to the back-end assessment tools. And
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