Shockwave in Netscape browsers

2001-06-12 Thread mva
Hi! I have a simple Shockwave movie (4 dissolving images in a loop) that plays well in Internet Explorer, but not in Netscape (I have seen it playing in Netscape 4, but now I heard that somebody had problems with that too). The main problem is, that the rest of my site isn't displayed either in

calculating sunrise and sunset with Lingo

2001-04-12 Thread mva
Hi everybody, bizarre question: I want to calculate with lingo the sunrise and the sundown on a given day at a given location on earth. I have bought a book that explains - tried to explain - how to do that in C++. I have no idea of C++ but I THOUGHT I would manage to convert that to Lingo but

AW: Dragging Movie

2001-04-07 Thread mva
* Does anyone know how to make an entire movie dragable without using the title bar option? Hi Colby, give this a try: on mouseDown me oldH = the mouseH oldV = the mouseV repeat while the mouseDown dH = the mouseH - oldH dV = the mouseV - oldV (the stage).rect = (the sta

AW: Survey of Lowest system developed for...

2001-03-29 Thread mva
166 64 win95 TrueColor 8x drive [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.

AW: antialias in projectors

2001-03-26 Thread mva
Hi Fabricio! This solved it! Thanks a lot (mille grazie(?)) Michael von Aichberger > Import the font to the cast member! > ;) > > Regards > Fabricio > > >Hello List! > > > >I have a simple question: > > > >A text member's antialias property is set to true, it shows > antialiased in > >the Direct

AW: fast animation with imaging Lingo

2001-03-20 Thread mva
> > I'd love to see this working. Any examples? > > Leon I could mail you the code, give me your address AND SOME TIME, I'm VERY BUSY right now ... Michael [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 l

AW: fast animation with imaging Lingo

2001-03-20 Thread mva
Probably, but in my application I don't want to simulate standard video. The technique is very useful for making zooms in a picture the size of which is bigger than the screen size. For this I just have to load one big image. By the time the user is watching the "wide angle version" of the image,

Re: fast animation with imaging Lingo

2001-03-19 Thread mva
>I don't know >how 'fast' the animation will be though - showing 800x600x24 images @ >high frame rate is pretty heavy duty... Hi Andreas! Thanks for your suggestions. I tried it out and it works fine: On a 400 MHz Pentium II machine (with 512 MB RAM) those 25 800x600x24 images take 0,76 second

AW: looking for good 3D software

2001-03-19 Thread mva
We are working with Cinema 4D XL 6.0. It may not be as sophisticated as Softimage oder 3D MAX, but depending on what you're aiming at it might suit you. Advantages: Very fast rendering, very good network-render-software, combining Mac and PC platforms, very good price performance relation. The j

fast animation with imaging Lingo

2001-03-18 Thread mva
Hello friends! Here is what I want to do: I want to create a full screen animation, let's say 25 different images of the size of the stage, created in Lingo, stored in memory and LATER played back out of the memory. (Playback will be fast, because the rendering has been done before). Here is

converting color bitmaps to black and white

2001-03-15 Thread mva
Hello everybody! I wanted to change colour images to black and white. (The original images are 24 bit, after importing in director they are 32 bit) I tried this with the following steps: For any pixel in the image, get the color:color = image.getPixel(x, y) calculating the average value of

3 Quicktime questions

2001-02-21 Thread mva
Hello! Question 1: The question might look strange, but I have reasons to ask it: Does anyone has experienced a noticeable difference between the following cases: A: A quicktime movie is playing on the stage, its video AND sound properties are set to TRUE. B: 2 quicktime videos are playing. On

QT with Sound + Video = 1 QT with Sound + 1 QT with Video

2001-02-20 Thread mva
Hello! Question 1: The question might look strange, but I have reasons to ask it: Does anyone has experienced a noticeable difference between the following cases: A: A quicktime movie is playing on the stage, its video AND sound properties are set to TRUE. B: 2 quicktime videos are playing. On

QT with Sound + Video = 1 QT with Sound + 1 QT with Video

2001-02-20 Thread mva
Hello! Question 1: The question might look strange, but I have reasons to ask it: Does anyone has experienced a noticeable difference between the following cases: A: A quicktime movie is playing on the stage, its video AND sound properties are set to TRUE. B: 2 quicktime videos are playing. On

Score Recording

2001-02-12 Thread mva
Hello List! In a startMovie handler I am creating a complete movie from scratch, i. e. cast members are created, bitmap files imported, sprites created, scripts attached, and so on. All works well, but at the end of the startMovie program execution stops, where I want it to go on with playing the

AW: primary event handler in MIAWs

2001-02-10 Thread mva
Hello Mark, thanks for the quick answer. All mouse actions work well in the MIAW which tells me that the window has the focus. The keyDown event I mainly want to trap and stop from passing on to the input in my editable fields is the RETURN key, this key is almost always trapped in the event han

primary event handler in MIAWs

2001-02-10 Thread mva
Hello List! I am working on an application that runs as a scripting Xtra (= MIAW) and helps editing another Director movie on the stage. The MIAW has to process keydown events but when the application is running as an Xtra, the keydown events are not always intercepted by the primary event hand

AW: What exactly is puppeting?

2001-02-04 Thread mva
Thank you, Matthias, for the fast and long answer. I think I understand what puppeting is, but I still don't know how to do it, therefore: > I can send you the .dir file (v 6.5) if you think it would help you Gerne! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks again Michael von Aichberger [To remove yourself fro

What exactly is puppeting?

2001-02-04 Thread mva
> try puppeting the sprite Hello! Can anybody explain to me in simple terms what "puppeting" means? Thanks Michael von Aichberger [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 PROTECT