Re:timeout (again) thanks

2001-08-16 Thread mirianam
Thanks you for your help and yes I shoudl have double checked the dictionary - apologies [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]) Li

Re: timeout(again)(again)

2001-08-16 Thread mirianam
I hope you can reads through my typos --- brain=mush [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 w

Re:timeout (again)

2001-08-16 Thread mirianam
I'm still struggling with timeOut and timeLength concepts and my brain has gone to mush (sorry). In my no startmovie script I have added: the timeOutLength=15*60 the timePutScript="myTimeOutHandler" and on myTimeOutHandler -- a movie script if random (2)=2 then go tgo frame 230 else if randpm =

Re: Digital video control buttons

2001-08-15 Thread mirianam
luded the *if..then* example, try > it > and it should work but you may want to have a look in the help pages for : > global variables, and the case statement. > > Cheers > > JohnT > > mirianam wrote: > > > Hi John > > Thanks for your help. > > The ch

Re: timeout

2001-08-15 Thread mirianam
Hi and thanks for your response but I just can't seem to get my head around timeout, timeoutLapsed, setting what to where? I wrote this script and oit seemed to work for a while but then... on timeout set the timeoutLength to 600 if random (2)=2 then go to frame 141 else if random(2

Re: Digital video control buttons

2001-08-14 Thread mirianam
Hi John Thanks for your help. The changing sprite position works well for me. It cerainly makes sense to me. Just out of interest what kinds of problems might result for setting visibility on and off? I haven't worked my way through the setting the flag stuff as I still can't get my head around t

Re: Digital video control buttons

2001-08-14 Thread mirianam
Thanks John Yes I wondered if there would be any problems with setting visibility. So far it works fine on my machine but haven't tested on others. I'll check out your suggestions if you think that that is safer. What I am trying to do is makes a play/pause button. When the "play" shows on stage

timeout

2001-08-14 Thread mirianam
I have written this code for timeout: on exitFrame me go to the frame if the timeoutLapsed>300 then to to frame 2 This script works fine in my test project but not in my real project. Can anyone suggest a reason? Tho only difference I can think of is that my test project was built from scratch i

Re: Digital video control buttons

2001-08-12 Thread mirianam
Thank you for your response. Yes I had figured out that the script had to be attached to the sprites and not the casts. This is what I did: on mouseDown set the visibility of sprite 31 to 1 end on mouseUp set the movieRate of sprite 6 to 1 end on mouseEnter me set the member of sprite t

volume up and down buttons

2001-08-09 Thread mirianam
I am very new to Director and lingo especially so bear with me please. I have a volume icon and a plus and a minus sprite and i want to make the volume go up incrementally on clicking plus and doown clicking minus I've put these scripts in: on startMovie global vol set vol to 4 set t