Re: lingo-l proxyServer()

2001-08-15 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
What happens is when a user requests a webpage, the proxyserver asks for authentication, and then when it receives it, it sort of wraps any request from that user with their authentication information. With shockwave, the authentication works as the browser kind of inserts any request from the

Re: lingo-l Retrieving HTML parameters from URL

2001-07-22 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
But this only works if you set 'swURLString=www.whatever.com' in the embed code. I thought Pekka wanted to do this dynamically? On 7/22/01 6:29 PM, nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: if externalParamName (swURLString) = swURLString then myVariable = externalParamValue (swURLString) end

Re: lingo-l RE: 2 Monitor System

2001-07-18 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Sure mac and pc -- have it set up that way for myself.. [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, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and

Re: lingo-l QuickTime path names on Mac

2001-07-10 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 7/10/01 4:25 PM, Natalia Tjelum [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: handler: member(moviename).filename= moviepathmoviesfolder:moviename.mov I've answered this a couple of times...this would only work for the mac. You need to do different path chars for each. The pc is \, the mac is : Do

Re: lingo-l QuickTime path names on Mac

2001-07-10 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Honestly you're not doing something properly - I've done cross platform cds with absolutely no problems. Are you running from a projector that is ON the new partition, or are you running from somewhere else? Ie: Harddrive - Projector - movie directory On 7/10/01 4:53 PM,

Re: lingo-l OT-Learning Lingo

2001-06-21 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Even though Bruce wrote it, I do have to say that out of the 10 or so Lingo/director books I have, this is the one that I take with me onsite as an extremely handy reference. On 6/21/01 12:41 PM, Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How should a non-programmer learn

Re: lingo-l passing an array (AKA list) to a flash 5 member

2001-06-13 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Believe you have to pass the whole thing as a string (obviously) ie sprite(5).setVariable(thearray, (blah, blah, blah, blah)) but I'm not sure how each blah would read Perhaps you'd need to do ( QUOTE blah QUOTE ,.etc [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest

lingo-l FW: problem with importfileinto command

2001-06-11 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Don't know why this guy sent this directly to me...but: -- Forwarded Message From: Anand Ravi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 12:27:24 +0530 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: problem with importfileinto command Hi! I am sending you this mail personally as I am not able to access

Re: lingo-l director 8.5 serial :-)

2001-06-04 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 6/4/01 10:08 AM, jilesh patel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Bastien Bouchard. I have serial no of director 8.5 see this... I'm not going to quote the full email but thanks for the serial number! I'm sure you'll be hearing from macromedia very soon [To remove yourself from

Re: lingo-l PHP variables

2001-06-04 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Yeah, it's quite simple. When you post a variable to the php page, if you do 'echo yourvariable' then of course the .html page will write out the variable that was posted, right? So if you echo'd it, and from director: Tnet=postnettext(http:yourphp_page.php?somevar=this ) then: Put

Re: lingo-l preventing multiple projector instances

2001-05-25 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
All you have to do is create an ini file with the same name of your projector, and in it: [Settings] SingleInstance=1 [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]

Re: lingo-l 3D behaviors

2001-05-24 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 5/24/01 6:21 PM, JUAN COLON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i tried the 3d behaviors in the library palette but they dont work when you drag them to a sprite(bitmap). is there another way to do this Well, a sprite(bitmap) is not a 3d member, is it? You need a 3d member created by 3dmax (or

Re: lingo-l Tracking CD useage

2001-05-23 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Well, if its on cd you can't use get and set pref, as you won't be able to create a file. If it's firsttime usage you're looking for, use Budapi to create either a preference file (mac) or write to the registry (pc) that the cd was used. Then, however you get the user info into the app is up to

Re: lingo-l sending email

2001-05-23 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
You should do a search on macromedia's site on sending email using the Multiuser Xtra. The way you've described would popopen a browser. Or, create a php/asp page that they post to and does the mailing for them; a simple form submit that mails it on using your local mailserver. [To remove

lingo-l Binary solved

2001-05-18 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Nevermind figured it out: On convertToBinary thisNumber outBinary = repeat while thisNumber 0 digit = thisNumber mod 2 outBinary = outBinary digit thisNumber = thisNumber/2 end repeat return value(outBinary) End [To remove yourself from this list, or

Re: lingo-l Converting ascii to binary?

2001-05-18 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
It's part of it, thanks Kerry. Figured it out (see other post) except forgot to add the leading 0s if less than 8...but hey, I'm sleepy. Thanks again. [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,

lingo-l Converting ascii to binary?

2001-05-17 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Anyone have a script or link? Unfortunately any of the bit operations return integers, not the 8-position binary number... [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]

lingo-l Proxy server authentication...

2001-05-15 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Hey all I had asked about the proxyserver stuff a few weeks back, and thanks to some heads up from both Terry and a few of the macromedia army, I've been told that Director doesn't do any of the authentication itself but relies on a browser/shockwave answer for the browser to handle the

lingo-l Direct connection xtra

2001-05-15 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
I've got a question on the DirectConnection xtra - I've authored an e-Learning application that talks to a remote database. With a lan connection it works fine, but with a dialup it's very inconsistant - if the user is slow and allows the connection to drop, Director's built-in netlingo won't

Re: lingo-l Appologies to all

2001-05-15 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
But no kitten with Hang on Baby? What the hell is WRONG with those Macromediaites! On 5/15/01 2:21 PM, Tab Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looked like the beta for Director 10, the version that has embedded html rendering, automatic programming, linear video editing, and direct in-line

lingo-l Proxyserver authentication - Terry?

2001-05-15 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Not meaning to be a pain here, but I'm doing a bit of research on this proxyserver thing - if you didn't know, director projectors have no way of authenticating calls through a proxy server, as the browser would've done the work for the shockwave. I'm looking into hacking the postnettext calls

Re: lingo-l Proxyserver authentication - Terry?

2001-05-15 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 5/15/01 2:42 PM, Colin Holgate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might want to look at the BMW movie player at http://www.bmwmovies.com/ . It's a Director projector, and does have a preference screen for setting the proxy server info. Yeah, you can SET the proxy server stuff, but it says in

lingo-l 'nother one - incremental download (combining file copy andstreaming..)

2001-05-14 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Ok, here's another wacky one - As we all know, streaming an audio file means keeping a section of the audio that's designated as a buffer on your harddrive while the rest streams in behind it...and deleting the file that's before it (correct?). What I'd like to try is allow a user to download

lingo-l Multiuser config question...

2001-05-14 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Ok, I've got it on a machine behind my router - if I want to enable udp I've got to specify the ip and port But, being behind the router, the machine has the internal lan ip, and the router port maps the external/public ip to that machine on the 1626 port -- so what do I specify for that

lingo-l Php image submit and cast member image...

2001-05-12 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Man, I don't know why I do this, but this week I've been learning php, sql, the new MU and 3d stuff...so I spread myself thinor I 'chunk learn'. Anyway, with php there's a way to post a file (user chosen) to a page, and have the php page that's posted either store the file on the server or

lingo-l Internet connection (ethernet or dialup)

2001-05-10 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Hey all - Built an application for an e-Learning gig - and of course over a dedicated connection it's fine (regardless of all these proxyserver problems I've had with authentication) but if the user is using a dialup then of course the connection gets lost/dropped. Started looking into the

Re: lingo-l Custom Macromedia banner

2001-05-05 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 5/4/01 9:01 PM, LePhuronn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're getting banners at the start and finish of a projector then you're using the trial or educational versions, and hence there is no way to remove or modify them. The only way of modifying or removing them is to get the full

Re: lingo-l Sequence XTRA

2001-05-04 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 5/4/01 9:21 AM, Bjarne Nyquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To Take a look at grimmwerks.com/portfolio/tvt/hurricane/: Great stuff!! To do this with sequenceXtra You would have to know exactly what synth/sampler the end user had (which is the advantage with Beatnik). Geez! Thanks

Re: lingo-l Sequence XTRA

2001-05-04 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 5/4/01 4:52 AM, Andreas Gaunitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . For me it's a non-working combo though, as Beatnik weighs in at 500K! But that's only if you use THEIR sounds. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To

Re: lingo-l Sequence XTRA

2001-05-04 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 5/4/01 11:34 AM, Bjarne Nyquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just finished the first test and at the moment I have timing problems that I dont know the reson for. Will keep on experimenting with this. Please, I'd be very interested in this. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change

Re: lingo-l text lists from database

2001-05-04 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 5/4/01 9:56 AM, Kerry Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: only displays the last item in the field on screen. on list_teamnames repeat with i=1 to count(mainlist.sub1.teams) member(display).text = getaprop(mainlist.sub1.teams,mainlist.sub1.teams.getpropAt(i)) end repeat end

Re: lingo-l Tabbing to buttons on interface.

2001-05-03 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 5/3/01 7:44 AM, Al Hospers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: instead of using a global for that you can have the sprites register themselves with each other in the beginSprite handler. then you don't need to know in advance how many buttons are on the screen. I used this in a field tab behavior

Re: lingo-l Sequence XTRA

2001-05-03 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Yeah, but you can do all this in Beatnik as well. I guess I'm not seeing how you're locking to quarter notes, eigth notes, etchow are you keeping track between note values in relation to each other, ie tempo? On 5/3/01 11:43 AM, Irv Kalb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When using the Sequence

Re: lingo-l Sequence XTRA

2001-05-03 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 5/3/01 2:42 PM, Irv Kalb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [[[1, 1, 1, 1], [[0, 144, 52, 100, 480], [480, 144, 53, 100, 480], [960, 144, 55, 100, 480 and pass this in to a call in the Sequence XTRA called sxBuildTrack. Then I call sxPlay in the Sequence XTRA and it plays the song. This

Re: lingo-l Re: checking volume label

2001-05-03 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
With the buddy api xtra, yes. [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, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo.

Re: lingo-l Sequence XTRA

2001-05-03 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 5/3/01 4:57 PM, Andreas Gaunitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: _using _sound _cast _members. What do you think? Would it be possible? I just asked him if it could tie in with beatnik - send the midi firing to the beatnik xtra... [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest

Re: lingo-l Re: checking volume label

2001-05-03 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 5/3/01 7:28 PM, Al Hospers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Xtra - correct? Right. But you can also get some kind of disklist as well, and step through that list if need be. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post

Re: lingo-l Sequence XTRA

2001-05-02 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 5/2/01 10:38 AM, Roy Pardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I imagine you have already looked at and rejected Beatnik for some reason. Wondering why. I was able to have it play midi files fine. /r I think he wants to record midi on the fly - can be done, but not tightly with beatnik. [To

Re: lingo-l Sequence XTRA

2001-05-02 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 5/2/01 12:10 PM, Irv Kalb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, the short answer to your question is, whiile Beatnik will certainly play MIDI songs perfectly well, it has no facility for creating MIDI in Lingo. The Sequence XTRA has the capability the create and playback MIDI songs on the fly in

Re: lingo-l OT: Director to Web ... flash, shockwave, realMedia... ??

2001-05-02 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Well, it depends really - First off for any video (ie quicktime and real) the user needs those componenets installed. Also real is only supported in 8.5. If you're dealing with a lot of external video, then of course you should check into netlingo calls to make sure the media is ready to be

lingo-l Raising the dialer?

2001-05-02 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Hey all - is the only guaranteed way of raising the dialer on a pc/mac if an internet connection gets lost the directXtra? [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]

lingo-l Tabbing to buttons on interface.

2001-05-02 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Ok, here's another one. I'm working on version 2 of an app I made -- and you guys know how it goes, things you start off coding wonderfully goes through a lot of changes when the client changes their minds on stuff -- so I'm going to probably redo the way I built the app (I had a lot of

lingo-l Argh more mp3 weirdness

2001-05-01 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
So I was going to test something entirely different - started my mp3 stream via swa and streamname. Did the old 'put member(swa).id3tags' and I get null (say, that's new, right?). So I check in audion and yes, there are tags. Now I'm thinking they're the older type of id tag, fire up resourcer,

lingo-l Proxy server madness

2001-05-01 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Hey all - I've a client using a proxy server; I've set proxyserver(#http) and #port (they're returned properly) but any postnettext calls are still not getting to our server. Yet when they try with a browser, it succeeds. Can anyone point me into some deeper proxyserver docs? [To remove

Re: lingo-l id3 tags / 8.5

2001-05-01 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 5/2/01 12:05 AM, Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pardon my ignorance, but what is id3 (or id3 tags) and why have you been waiting for it to be supported? id3 tags are built into mp3 now which show all kinds of stuff, ie album, artist, genre, title, copyright, etc.

lingo-l id3 tags / 8.5

2001-04-30 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
EXCELLENT! Finally id3 support for 8.5. [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, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with

lingo-l Crosspost: drag and drop?

2001-04-30 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Hey all - is there a drag and drop solution for mac/pc projectors? I feel like I can kludge something with buddy, but is there a specific xtra for this? [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,

lingo-l Dropfile xtra/

2001-04-30 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Anyone have the mac version? (It's a freebie, right?) ...seems mediamacros is having sql problems... [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, email [EMAIL

lingo-l Fireworks import xtra control?

2001-04-30 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Say - is there anyway to use the css and pngs from the export of a Fireworks 'prepare for director' on the fly from a projector? I'm thinking of using a shell that can be skinned using one fireworks file. Hmm. Actually with imaging lingo I could do the same with one file with all the necessary

lingo-l mp3, stream, play, and id3tags...

2001-04-30 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Ok so I'm experimenting with making my own mp3 player in director - a little deeper mp3 player than I've done before, on par with audion/soundjamjust as an experiment. Here's what I've learned, with a few questions. You can 2 ways for this - if you're doing netoperations of course you want

Re: lingo-l mp3, stream, play, and id3tags...

2001-04-30 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Appending my own little article - I think the one possible work around would be to either a) have 2 cast members - one that's played as a sound object, the other as a stream - and only doing a preload on the stream member (with volume 0) to get the id3tags, the other playing the audio, or b).

Re: lingo-l mp3, stream, play, and id3tags... Second append

2001-04-30 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
I'm so lonelysigh. ANYWHO...caught something I didn't notice before. Importfileinto a swa member flips the member to a sound type, so the id3tags don't work now anywayI don't think there's a way to have an imported internal swa sound file, although I know that must not be

Re: lingo-l mp3, stream, play, and id3tags... Second append

2001-04-30 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Yeah I was just thinking something like that - or perhaps assume that the first play is swa, then if they hit scrubbing (although who would really), change it to a sound member on mousedownbut probably best to get it first before play number one. Also going to allow the user to set loops of

Re: lingo-l Checking if an application is open

2001-04-26 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 4/26/01 11:16 AM, Al Hospers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if it's possible with lingo or some Xtra (buddy?) to check if an external application is open? (I know how TO open one, it's the finding out if it's necessary that I'm not sure about) Hi, You could also use

lingo-l Hanging on the verify - buying director 8.5

2001-04-25 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Not particularly lingo - oriented But should I worry if I'm hanging on the verify page? Nothing's happenin' here ...hate to be charged for nothing. [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

Re: lingo-l Re: CROSS-PLATFORM ISSUES

2001-04-24 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Yes. Look to director-online.com and do a search for hybrid cd-rom. [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, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for

Re: lingo-l OH no not again... Printing

2001-04-24 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 4/24/01 7:25 AM, John Horn (Home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick, I did some tests with buddyapi xtra a few months ago and the printfile command. My question with that is does the end user need to have acrobat to be able to print the pdf, or is buddyapi smart enough to print without

Re: lingo-l Finding the Hard Drive Name

2001-04-24 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Personally I would use the budapi xtra...say you want to store the text file on the desktop buddy = new(xtra budapi) -- say you want the text file on the desktop tDesktop = baSysFolder(desktop) -- now you've got the desktop folder regardless of platform/drives you can use the fileio now to

Re: lingo-l OT: editing icons for Mac

2001-04-23 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 4/21/01 9:27 PM, Slava Paperno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I apologize for asking an off-topic question. My excuse is that it's certainly part of authoring :-) I'm using Fireworks 3 to create 32x32x16 icons for the Mac desktop, and then I copy-and-paste them to the icon area in Finder's

lingo-l OT - groove alliance and unreal?

2001-04-23 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Say, what happened to the server? [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, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming

Re: lingo-l RE:

2001-04-20 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Check out the buddy api xtra -- I believe it could launch the standalone ppt. [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, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is

Re: lingo-l QT in Shockwave 8

2001-04-18 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 4/18/01 5:47 PM, "Boyd Speer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some of my shockwave stuff seems to have stopped working... I get an error alert claiming that a QuickTime Xtra is not available or did not initialize properly... You probably don't have it included in the shockwave. Check

Re: lingo-l QT in Shockwave 8

2001-04-18 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 4/18/01 7:23 PM, "Boyd Speer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope.. just checked the funny thing is that it was working but now it doesn't. Would an upgrade of browsers on my machine do that.??? Hmm. Maybe the plugin for quicktime is used by shockwave? [To remove yourself from this list,

lingo-l Who was asking about multitrack cards and director?

2001-04-18 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Strangely enough it never occurred to me...but in trying to get my motu 2408 back up (one file I need access to keeps dropping out with type 3 errors) I realized that the setup wizard, a director movie, uses a pci-324 xtra -- the motu 2408 card. I know that I can use this xtra to set the config

Re: lingo-l Easy Mac Question

2001-04-17 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
There's also an article on this on Director-online.com. Search for cd-rom. [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, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for

Re: lingo-l Sel end, Sel start

2001-04-17 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Well I think it's a bit of a kludge to go from one then back to the other. Personally I'd use a property called 'pFileList' that would still be the list (file1, file2, file3), and then when the user clicks on line I'd just point to the filelist, ie PselectedFile = pFileList[pointToLine(sprite

lingo-l Firewall and postnettext?

2001-04-16 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Hey all - Created a director app that does a lot of calls, login, tracking, etc, to a server. One client can't even connect to the server, and they're behind a firewall.so trying to track down how a director connects from behind a firewallany leads [To remove yourself from this list,

Re: lingo-l RE: different between flash and Director

2001-04-12 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
By the way, has anyone noticed that the webcast is different or am I loopy from the pain medication I'm taking for a root canal? I had looked at the webcast early (ie 3am) yesterday and it was all the 3d demo stuff, but when I looked last nite it was the fullon keynote -- did I miss something?

Re: lingo-l [FLASHmacromedia] --ASP/SQ mailing list -----

2001-04-11 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 4/11/01 9:19 AM, "Brajeshwar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Give me the mailing list with the calibre of our present list for ASP and SQL. Say please. [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 The number of sound channels

2001-04-10 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Well, I've known about at least 8 sound channels for a while via puppetsound; in fact I think there may actually be more. But it does say somewhere (either in the docs or one of the many Dir books you can get) that to be perfectly sure that the sound will playback fine, you might want to use only

Re: lingo-l Ticks -- seconds

2001-04-10 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 4/11/01 4:33 AM, "Rodrigo Peres" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How the best way to convert seconds to ticks?? I'm usinng th HMSToframes to convert 00:00:13 to seconds and then put it * 60 to get the ticks, but it's not working. What I really need is: my user type a time in format 00:00:00 and

lingo-l Rtf file

2001-04-09 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Couldn't you use printomatic to create a file rather than a printout? [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, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for

Re: lingo-l NetDone - MacOS

2001-04-09 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 4/9/01 8:00 PM, "Michael C. Hanson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is -- under MacOS netDone() never becomes true. That's not true - I use it all the time on a mac. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To

Re: lingo-l finicky hypertext chunks again

2001-04-08 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
2 things...when you want to create hyperlinks in text, you need to get the ref of a text member (or if a number of them, create a property lists of refs, ie pRefList = [[1,12],[23,44]], etc) and then in a repeat loop you want to go through that preflist and set each hyperlink to whatever you want

Re: lingo-l vectors dancing to beat

2001-04-08 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 4/8/01 11:32 PM, "i n e s" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello! does anyone know whether it is possible to make vector graphics "dance" to the beat of some music? thanks for advice! ines Sure, check out the Amp Xtra at marmaulade.com.au (I think that's the url). [To remove yourself

lingo-l Neterror text?

2001-04-06 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Is there a way to show the neterror() explanation rather than the number? [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, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for

lingo-l Macos x

2001-04-06 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Any word on Director porting to X? And for any that have installed X and the Dev cd stuff, there are some great apps there -- ProjectBuilder and InterfaceBuilder bring a RealBasic feel to mac os development... And there's a great utility for creating xml docs from property lists toopoke

Re: lingo-l diplay of html in projector

2001-04-04 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 4/5/01 4:35 AM, "Victor Iwan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if i add more question... How to work with HTML and Director... ? I've tried HTMLXtra... but it not work for frames Well, not frames, but setting member("textmember").html = filename.html works just fine...the html

Re: lingo-l Shockwave communicating with browser

2001-04-03 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 4/3/01 11:00 AM, "Rodrigo Peres" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: getUrl(game.php ? "ID=myIdscore=FinalScore") or something like that GetURl("http://www.yourservernamehere.com/game.php?", "id=myidscore=finalscore") [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l MP3 in Director 7

2001-04-03 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 4/3/01 2:34 PM, "Bradshaw, Brian" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks. I know Director SWA xtras will play MP3 audio, but is there any tool available to allow for reading the headers and information in MP3 files that the SWA xtras can't read? Well, there's an example using the BinaryIO

Re: lingo-l creating a text member on the fly?

2001-04-03 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Do you have a parent script thats not set as a movie script? It interfers with the 'new' call. [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, email [EMAIL

Re: lingo-l MP3 in Director 7

2001-04-03 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 4/3/01 3:24 PM, "Bradshaw, Brian" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Grim. I'll check these out. There was a good page (I'll send along when I figure out what computer I bookmarked it on! Plus just having the hell of setting up one computer for osx and setting another one back to 9.04 for my

Re: lingo-l M3U in Director - OT?

2001-04-03 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 4/3/01 5:48 PM, "Dennis Flood" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Might be OT --Does anyone know a way to playback streaming MP3 files (.m3u) such as a shoutcast server or icecast streams within Director?? Yeah, it's pretty easy actuallyat least with live 365. Just set the url of the swa

lingo-l Usb xtra?

2001-04-01 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Just curious -- is there a way that director can communicate with usb devices much like the Direct Comm or I/o xtra? [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,

Re: lingo-l URGENT miaw problem

2001-03-30 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 3/30/01 3:36 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Double check that the bitmap is actually 1 bit. You win! I'm an ass. Now, I _HAD_ done it before, but reimported all the images using the fireworks xtra and forgot to reset the masks. Like I said, I'm tired (only got 3 hours

Re: lingo-l URGENT miaw problem

2001-03-30 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 3/30/01 3:36 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Double check that the bitmap is actually 1 bit. Actually that can't be all; I had taken out the windowtype call as a test and was STILL getting the error... Here's what's happening; main movie (with the alpha masks) opens the

Re: lingo-l Local HTTP problems

2001-03-29 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 3/29/01 2:58 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IP addresses don't work either. Any other solutions? Wow, I'm really surprised; I had the same problem with localhost (did you try that? Didn't work for me) so I used the ip and it was fine. Are these machines on an internal

Re: lingo-l ini files

2001-03-29 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 3/29/01 11:53 AM, "Charlie Fiskeaux II" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there anything like the projector.ini file for Mac projectors? Charlie Fiskeaux II The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054 x29 cell: 859/312-3883 Sure works cross platform. [To remove yourself from

lingo-l URGENT miaw problem

2001-03-29 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Boy am I tired. I can't figure out what the problem is; I'm trying to do that non-rect miaw function. When I'm working in the main movie and call up the miaw, works fine (of course minus the non-rect alpha -- that only works in projector). But when I run it in projector, it opens the miaw and

Re: lingo-l Help me to solve a little problem - faris ...

2001-03-28 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
There should be a built in behavior in the animation library to do this for you -- look for something called "cycle graphics". [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]

Re: lingo-l Projector.ini file

2001-03-28 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Check zeusprod.com for a whole thing on the .ini files. [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, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping

Re: lingo-l sprites reacting to sounds (?)

2001-03-28 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
You should either check out the Beatnik Xtra (beatnik.com) or Amp Xtra (marmalade.com.au I think). [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, email [EMAIL

Re: lingo-l audio mixer

2001-03-28 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Well, for 4 sounds, it's all built into director; you'd really just have to do the research to creating the necessary sprites to set the fades, etc, which shouldn't be too hard. I did something like this with Beatnik. Www.grimmwerks.com/portfolio/tvt/hurricane/ [To remove yourself from this

Re: lingo-l audio mixer

2001-03-28 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 3/28/01 12:05 PM, "Andreas Gaunitz" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then use some GUI control to set the volume of each channel. If you use stereo sound members, your sound will occupy channelNr and channelNr + 1 That's not true, is it? Thought stereo or mono could be in a channel; I've never

lingo-l Irregular windowshape on doug?

2001-03-28 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
This has been asked so many times before, but what's the url of the article on doug or can someone hit me with a (can be simplified, I get the 1bit mask stuff) of irregular window shapes without an xtra? Can it be done with the stage or do I have to make the stage invisible and do a miaw? [To

lingo-l Non-rectangular windows don't work anymore?

2001-03-28 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Trying to do the non-rect shape miaw trick using 1 bit member as mask, and it's just not working in either D8 or D7any ideas? [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

Re: lingo-l Irregular windowshape on doug?

2001-03-28 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 3/28/01 9:43 PM, "Mark A. Boyd" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only works in projector mode. You won't be able to see it during authoring. AH! Whew. Thanks Mark. Freaked a bit. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To

Re: lingo-l Irregular windowshape on doug?

2001-03-28 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Yup, PITA, but a client wants this 'nifty' feature. I can get it to work miaw, but unfortunately I think the client wants this as a desktop app, so for the moment forsaking a folder/files install and thinking as one projector, can I actually do the stage as alpha'd out? I've tried (the

Re: lingo-l Irregular windowshape on doug?

2001-03-28 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 3/29/01 12:12 AM, "Colin Holgate" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just did a test, and it works. You can include the MIAW movie inside the projector, and still open it as a window, and set its windowtype, and hide the stage. You get everything you want, and only one file. Fantastic - that

lingo-l Nother nutty question - gotonetpage d7/d8

2001-03-28 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
Ok, I'm losing my mind or something. I'm doing a simple gotonetpage -- it works in D7 in authoring, doesnt work in d8 - and it's the same stupid line! Didn't work in D8 projector either...what nuttiness have I done now? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

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