You've got to read a few paragraphs in before it really kicks in.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010816.html
L8R,
JRS
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John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Interactive Multimedia Developer/
Digital Media Specialis
on 7/31/01 4:31 AM, nik crosina at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Can this be changed, or over-ridden somehow? Does anyone have any experience
> with that?
>
> Many thanks,
> Nik Crosina
According to the documentation from Integration, the PDF will ALWAYS be on
TOP of everything. You can't put any
on 6/27/01 4:23 PM, Kerry Thompson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Wow, Kamil...you have GOT to see this absolutely terrific feature!!
> That wouldn't be slightly tongue in cheek, would it, Chris? :P
>
>
> Cordially,
>
> Kerry Thompson
Your SO bad! ;)
As Chris Farley use to say: "Your naug
on 6/26/01 10:30 AM, Florian Bogeschdorfer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi folks
>
> can somebody direct me to a good introduction to imaging lingo, with
> some examples and a little bit about what effects can be done
>
> best regards, Florian
Try: http://www.setpixel.com/
You'll find so
on 6/18/01 10:03 AM, Brian Piper at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> We've been watching the memory inspector, and it spikes blue just before
> the program crashes...we're trying to narrow down exactly what it's
> loading/unloading that would crash the program and the machine. We are
> using a script t
Just a thank you to ALL of the people that gave me suggestion on the memory
problem. Though it ended up being Director talking to Windows then LYING to
me about available memory, I was able to correct the problem by doing ALL of
the memory management myself. :(
But again, thanx for all the great
on 6/4/01 2:38 PM, Kerry Thompson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The frame script goes to a label where the calling sprite doesn't exist.
>
> When the stack unwinds back to the code in the original calling sprite, you
> get, um, unpredictable behavior. Like memory leaks.
I'm h:)ppy to say "None
on 6/3/01 8:53 PM, Al Hospers at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> like Mark, after all my bitching about it I have used D8 for over a dozen
> very large projects over the past year & I have not had the problems you are
> experiencing. there must be something that is different here. FWIW I never
> use p
on 6/3/01 8:19 PM, Mark R. Jonkman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi John
>
> What if you on occassion put in an unloadmember() command with no specific
> reference to a member, which should if I remember right, unload all
> castmembers,
So far the ONLY solution has been to do ALL of the memory
on 6/3/01 4:32 PM, Bora Salkm at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> how i can find director 8.5 serial???
>
> somebody help me please
You get one, with your LEGAL copy of Director. ;)
L8R,
JRS
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John R. Sweeney Jr. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
In
on 6/3/01 9:18 PM, Bastien Bouchard at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>I think that freebytes better reflect memory requested by Director, not
>necessarily the memory really used by the system. For example, i experienced
>a memory build up problem when playing a big (+300 !!!) number of avi or
>mpeg fi
on 6/3/01 7:02 PM, Mark R. Jonkman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi John
> Maybe perhaps you could give us some detail on how this project is
> constructed.. what kind of stuff you are doing as much detail as possible.
The program runs from the CD. I have a stub startup that looks on on the HD
f
on 6/3/01 6:06 PM, Kerry Thompson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If you call a handler, be aware that Director will return to the next
> statement after the call when it's finished (the called handler, that is).
> Confusing enough?
A little confusing ;) , but NO CALLS in this project. :(
This i
on 6/3/01 5:29 PM, Roy Pardi at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> One easy culprit for a "leak" these days is the use of imaging lingo
> on bitmap cast members. If you change a bitmap member, it won't get
> unloaded because it has been modified. Do this enough and memory will
> get fragmented and "leak"
on 6/3/01 5:15 PM, Kerry Thompson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Occasionally Director will recognize that it has more RAM than it needs, so
> it gives it back to the system. Or, conversely, it needs extra RAM, so it
> allocates another block.
Is there anyway for ME to invoke this, because right
on 6/3/01 1:57 PM, Colin Holgate at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> So Freebytes is NOT reporting correctly. So now I will start stepping
>> through the program watching the Task Manager for potential problems.
>
> How do you know for sure that the task manager isn't making the mistake?
Because my
on 6/3/01 1:39 PM, Mark A. Boyd at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Do you get different results with the freeBytes?
To put it mildly. As I unload things, the freebytes are going down, but the
Task manager (most of the time) says that memory usage is going, up, up, up.
Once in awhile the Manager goes
on 6/3/01 12:19 PM, Colin Holgate at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I'll just keep searching for the leak, the problem is, it doesn't happen on
>> any of my test machines (isn't that ALWAYS the way), but the testing house
>> says it happens on ALL of their 20 test machines. ?? I have all the
>> plat
on 6/3/01 1:05 PM, Irv Kalb at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I don't know if you are using object oriented programming on your
> project. But if you are you can easily create "memory leaks" by not
> freeing up objects when you really need. to. Objects are only freed
> up automatically when there a
I'm using the FileXtra. According to Macromedia site it shipped with
Director 6.5 and 7, but NOT 8.
Could there be a problem with this Xtra running in 8?
Anyone had any problems with this Xtra in 8?
Thx,
JRS
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John R. Sweeney Jr.
on 6/3/01 12:19 PM, Colin Holgate at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Are the sounds played as QuickTime, or as linked sound members? Are
> you checking for the alleged leak in the same way the testing house
> is?
They are embedded .aiff files. I puppet them when I play them, then when
they are finish
on 6/3/01 11:30 AM, Colin Holgate at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Play/Play Done is a pretty convenient way to work.
>
> Have you stopped the sounds from playing before doing the Play Done?
Yes I have.
Thx,
JRS
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John R. Sweeney Jr.
on 6/3/01 11:00 AM, Tab Julius at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> At any rate, try my suggestion of taking things out of the equation one by
> one and seeing if the problem goes away or not.
I appreciate the suggestions.
With 15 videos, that's easy to test, with 120 audio files that will be a
little
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 and since Director does not unload pupp
Hi all,
Has anyone either encountered or know of a reason that would cause Director
8 to have a memory leak?
I have a project in testing right now that is runnning on Win95, Win98,
WinNT 4, Win2000 Pro, and Win2000 ME. The testers say there seems to be a
memory leak seen on all platforms. After
I sent this at 9am this morning and I never saw it post to the list. If I
missed it and this is a double post, please except my apologizes.
--
I have a client who supplied 4 .swf files and 4.dcr files to be included in
a CD-ROM project.
The .swf files work great.
The .dcr files have rollov
I have a client who supplied 4 .swf files and 4.dcr files to be included in
a CD-ROM project.
The .swf files work great.
The .dcr files have rollover text highlights, sound effects, and mousedown
events to lower levels. In a browser, all of these work fine, but if I embed
the files into Director
on 3/29/01 2:03 PM, Johnny Abbate at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 166
> 32
> win 95
> 256 colors
> 4x drive
>
> Is this too low now a days?
Currently do one for:
166
24
Win95
8bit
8x drive
L8R,
JRS
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John R. Sweeney Jr. ([EMAIL PRO
on 3/20/01 8:14 PM, Andrew at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Someone posted this response earlier this evening about another question,
but it might help you too. At least its a few places to start.
Good luck,
JRS
> I have a task in front of me that requires me to connect a Director
> application to a
> There is something wrong with the following script...the pdf-file i wish to
> open olnly does so 3 out of 4 times, when it doesnt i get the error message
> that the file doesnt exist.(the file is located in the same folder as the
> movie playing)...any ideas?
>
> -
on 2/22/01 3:27 PM, Kyle Smeby at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> After installing Reader if the user tries to open it by opening a PDF file
> the application starts and then quits before it opens the document. Now the
> application is corrupt and you have to restart the machine to uninstall the
> p
on 2/8/01 7:55 PM, Roy Pardi at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On a MAC. . .got Toast. . .and a bottle of good wine. (no caviar though ;-)
Here goes from memory (done a thousand of these darn things, but not of
late)
Create a temp Mac partition
quit Toast and save the partition
Open the parti
on 12/23/00 1:35 PM, Jonathan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Merry Christmas All, See you ion the New Year!!!
Make mine an Miller Genuine Draft, please!
Ho Ho Ho,
Merry Xmas,
JRS
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on 12/18/00 3:42 PM, Luiz Gustavo Castelan Póvoas at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> Does anyone knows a Flash5 ActionScript programming list
> equivalent to this one???
>
> Luiz
Flasher-L ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) seems to be very helpful.
L8R,
JRS
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on 12/16/00 5:29 PM, Vargas Media Interactive at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>> Micha Therrien wrote:
>> I have put together a program where word cast members have puppet sounds
>> (.wav files) when the user cliks on its sprite counter part on stage they
>> hear the word, simple enough and it works
on 12/11/00 2:03 PM, blank at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a custom contoller I have created for controlling videos and would like
> to be able to have the controller as an irregular shape with the stage being
> transparent.
>
> Can someone help me?
go to www.ravware.com.
They have just t
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