Re: Acrobat Reader v5 does not play off CD-ROM

2001-08-06 Thread nik crosina
as a projector. What is your current state of affairs here. Would greatly appreciate your opinion / input Thanks, Nik Crosina London [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 PROTEC

Re: xyz.swf in director

2001-08-03 Thread nik crosina
However it wuold be very nice if it could create .swf files, indeed it would be nice if there was only one filetype to life with (the so-called '.all' type..) ;) nik On Fri, 03 Aug 2001 02:07:04 -0700 "Mark A. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 01:51 03/08/2001, Vishesh wrote: > >Hi all > >

Re: Re:

2001-07-31 Thread nik crosina
8:03 -0500 jsweeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > >

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2001-07-31 Thread nik crosina
? Does anyone have any experience with that? Many thanks, Nik Crosina [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

Re: keeping miaw in foreground always

2001-07-30 Thread nik crosina
you posted, thanks nik On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 10:21:27 -0700 Irv Kalb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What "windowType" are you using? I am doing this type of thing on a > current project using a windowType = 49 (floating) and it working > fine in D8.5. > > Irv >

Re: keeping miaw in foreground always

2001-07-30 Thread nik crosina
yes i know about this command, added trouble - and i should have mentioned this earlier, excuse - one of the other xtras i am using is the pdf xtra. this becomes the active everytime it is clicked on; which people will do to scroll down and magnify the pdfs they view. i set up a testbed witho

Re: RE: keeping miaw in foreground always

2001-07-30 Thread nik crosina
hat > use dozens of xtras, and havent seen any major performance issues. > > Morgan > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > nik crosina > Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 9:29 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: moving MIAW's

2001-07-30 Thread nik crosina
hi, you could calculate the relation ship between the main stages coordinates and the miaws coordinates and then once the stage moves, you jus thave to keep this relationship intact (ie if the main stage mves 5 px to right and down, then so have your miaws to move..) nik On Mon, 30 Jul 2001

Re: keeping miaw in foreground always

2001-07-30 Thread nik crosina
No i am using Director v8.5 I think it is naturall that a window becomes active when it is clicked on, so I can understand that my main stage is becoming the active window when clicked on. Only this covers up my pop-up which - even though not momentarily active - needs to be visible as it is to

keeping miaw in foreground always

2001-07-30 Thread nik crosina
Hi ! I am working on a CD-ROM that includes a littl epop-up window showing search results obtinae from a search across multiple pdf file. As the main movie is full screen, after the window pops up and I click on the main movie, it disappears behind the main movie. Is there a way of preventing

Re: RE: mpg files on cdrom

2001-07-30 Thread nik crosina
, Nik Crosina On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 09:45:25 -0400 "Robert Wingate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > WMP is just an application that uses the DirectShow technology, > > much like Tabuleiro's DirectMediaXtra > > Thanks Mark for calling me on this one. I don

Re: find Good sound file

2001-07-26 Thread nik crosina
hi mitesh, have a look at these sites: www.sound-effects-library.com www.tape-gallery.co.uk i used them before and they are reliable and quick and good to access over the internet. hope that helps, nik btw: i am not woring for them.. On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 05:21:30 +0530 mitesh <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: fonts into director

2001-07-23 Thread nik crosina
thanks slava nik On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:44:28 -0400 Slava Paperno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Correct. Only TrueType fonts can be embedded. S. > > At 04:46 PM 7/23/2001 +0100, you wrote: > >hi list, > > > >this is just to confirm: > >it is only possible to import / embedd truetype fonts into di

Re: strange thing in the property window

2001-07-23 Thread nik crosina
didi you try this thing weith the preferences i suggested earlier? nik On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:51:04 +0100 natalie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 23/7/01 2:43 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > > Tried restarting Director? > > many times =( > > > [To remove yourself

fonts into director

2001-07-23 Thread nik crosina
hi list, this is just to confirm: it is only possible to import / embedd truetype fonts into director, isn't it? we got some bitmap versions here which do not show up on the fint embedding list in director and i sugested to my studiomanager to get the truetype version... thnksa nik [To remov

Re: strange thing in the property window

2001-07-23 Thread nik crosina
bfore you re-install, etc. etc, try to quit and launch director, or: drag the director preference file onto the desktop (don't throw it away just yet) and re-launch director (if that does it throw away the preferences you draged to the desk top - director will have created a new file already),

reposition stage assets

2001-07-23 Thread nik crosina
d in lingi as well; these are all nicely written into the score) i am thinking of using beginsprite ? but how, any ideas?# kind thanks, ciao nik crosina [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, em

Re: strange thing in the property window

2001-07-23 Thread nik crosina
hello, you seem to confuse the cast window (the one with thumbnails with the property inspector window. the prop. insp. window is opened by clicking on the 'i' button (square button with blue circle and white i in it)! cheers, nik On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 08:55:42 -0400 Colin Holgate <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: strange thing in the property window

2001-07-23 Thread nik crosina
hi natalie, i just had a look in director 8.5, there is the loop property. open the property inspector and click on the tab with the little drum like icon under the playback properties (the only ones anyway, you should find as the second in line the loop property. ciao, nik crosina On Mon

Re: RE: multi-page forms

2001-07-19 Thread nik crosina
00 screen at > once. > > Sorry for any misdirection I may have caused with my previous message... > hopefully this'll clear thing up a bit? > > Thanks! > -Ian > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of nik cros

Re: multi-page forms

2001-07-19 Thread nik crosina
Hi Ian, are you talkingabout html pages? maybe you can try coding your multiple pages as one page with multple layers awitching from layer to layer (visible / hidden) as you go from page to page. you collect all your data in only one form and post it all with one submitt button visible only on

sound volume with tabuleiro mpg xtra

2001-07-19 Thread nik crosina
hi list, i am writing to report a problem i am discovering about the mpg xtra: i cannot get a currently playing mpg movie to adjust its sound level by setting 'the soundLevel' with lingo. the project i am worknig on is an update to a cd-rom i did a few month back with director v8 (now we got v8

Re: mouseEnter mouseLeave

2001-07-17 Thread nik crosina
d i am using Director 8.5 with the mpegXtra, V12 and pdfXtra (none of these are in >use / processing at the time these buttons are > used, they have only been initialised.) > > please let me know wether you have / had similar experiences. > > Many thanks, > Nik Crosina

mouseEnter mouseLeave

2001-07-17 Thread nik crosina
this happens only on the pc and i am using Director 8.5 with the mpegXtra, V12 and pdfXtra (none of these are in use / processing at the time these buttons are used, they have only been initialised.) please let me know wether you have / had similar experiences. Many thanks, Nik Crosina [To r

Re: Mpg problem.......

2001-07-16 Thread nik crosina
hi malcom, what is the exitframe behaviour you are using at the moment? cheers, Nik. On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 13:41:31 +0100 Malcolm Beddows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Problem.: > > I'm playing an mpeg through DirectMediaXtra in 8.5, where to my joy, it's > running very smoothl

resizing txt / field castmembers / sprites

2001-07-16 Thread nik crosina
Hello List, I am trying to resize a field sprite after the movie has begun playback and it does not really seem work. Is there any way to achieve this as the text I have to display needs to resize depending on the size of the monitor (resolution). Kind Regards, Nik Crosina [To remove

Re: goToNetPage trouble

2001-07-13 Thread nik crosina
hi list, found out why! already silly little mistake really i did not include the netxtra in the stub, so there was of course no way it would work... nik On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 17:44:33 +0100 "nik crosina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi list, > > i am working on secon

goToNetPage trouble

2001-07-13 Thread nik crosina
s should be the case. i have tried to remove the "top" - no effect. kind regards, nik crosina [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 [EMA

Re: resizing the whole stage

2001-07-12 Thread nik crosina
hi, would that not also change the size of all the assets on the stage? i only want to expand or contract the positions of the assets on the stage, i will have alook at the anirez shareware anyway, many thanks, nik On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:20:32 -0400 "Mario Sergio Renor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

resizing the whole stage

2001-07-12 Thread nik crosina
hi list, does anyone have experience in resizing the stage to the resolution of the monitor. i am currently doing this by setting the loc of each sprite involved to a percentage ofthe width and height of the stage "on preparemovie". this seems to work reasonably well. only that if a sprite sho

Re: StreamingMedia or MpegXtra?

2001-07-12 Thread nik crosina
hi george, have you ha a look in to the implications of having to have all your asstes in a folder called 'dswmedia'? all external assets to a shockwavemovie have to be in such a folder for web security reasons. cheers, nik ps; but probably the other posts re this subject have mentioned that

Re: StreamingMedia or MpegXtra?

2001-07-11 Thread nik crosina
hi george, contact details for tabuleiro are at http://xtras.tabuleiro.com/aboutus/index.tdb cheers, nik btw: you can also use shockwave to stream video from the net. On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 12:46:04 -0400 "George Carlile" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I need to stream video from

Re: RE: v12 + pdf xtra

2001-07-11 Thread nik crosina
able to clarify this? I should be able to supply > you with an appropriate solution. We still supply free support > to unregistered users too :) > > Enjoy your day one and all, > -Warren. > -Original Message- > From: nik crosina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: July

v12 + pdf xtra

2001-07-11 Thread nik crosina
). does anyone have any xperience with this combination? or can anyone help with an alternative solution (the pdf xtra is quite slow...) many thanks, nik crosina [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

rotating a digital video on stage

2001-06-25 Thread nik crosina
manual / files are mistaken)? many thanks, Nik Crosina [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

rotating mpeg movie by 90degrees on stage

2001-06-24 Thread nik crosina
manual / files are mistaken)? many thanks, Nik Crosina [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

digital movie playback

2001-06-20 Thread nik crosina
. does anyone know about a similar software / xtra that allows playback on a mac without having to have quicktime installed on the host machine? many thanks, nik crosina. [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

Re: Project created in Director 8 not running in Windows NT

2001-06-19 Thread nik crosina
platform, but not director projector files, as they are an application programme. cheers, nik crosina On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 08:03:43 "Damian Lopez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all > > i have created a project in Director 8 which is not running in Windows > N

Re: unwanted effect thanks

2001-06-19 Thread nik crosina
laying back. does anyone share this experience? is there any solution? many thanks, nik crosina On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:24:25 + Chris Mealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have some unwanted pixels happening in a dcr, but not in authoring > > > it is one frame score scrip

Re: RE: RE: oops-here is the subject: DIRECTOR DEMAND (OT)

2001-06-13 Thread nik crosina
hi! long discussion by now... good! On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:43:18 -0400 "Kafka's Daytime" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks... > > I'm also a huge Lingo/Director fan and am not elated about the idea of > eventually having to go to Flash/ActionScript. I do have > some other tools in my kit so wi

Re: RE: oops-here is the subject: DIRECTOR DEMAND

2001-06-12 Thread nik crosina
dhar > > > --- Krishna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi crosina > > > > Can I you personal email id. I would like to > > communicate > > > > krishna > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [m

oops-here is the subject: DIRECTOR DEMAND

2001-06-11 Thread nik crosina
DVDCreator, etc) on a larger scale? i am asking out of personal interest, and am not writing a book/article/report about this.. hope this does not miss the point of this very good and otherwise more technical list. looking forward to posts.. nik. crosina. [To remove yourself from this list

No Subject

2001-06-11 Thread nik crosina
DVDCreator, etc) on a larger scale? i am asking out of personal interest, and am not writing a book/article/report about this.. hope this does not miss the point of this very good and otherwise more technical list. looking forward to posts.. nik. crosina. [To remove yourself from this list, or to

drawing like in a drawing prgramme

2001-06-06 Thread nik crosina
ion of the processor (not enough loop cycles to 'fill in the gaps'? Does anyone have any experience with this? Many Thanks, Nik Crosina [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, em

Re: RE: Border around the stage

2001-06-04 Thread nik crosina
hey Al, thanks for pointingme to the lists archive! that is a great resource I shall imagine for all those more 'mundane' niggling qustions like mine1 thanks again! Nik. > > So if anyone has an idea of how to do this (cross-platform; > > mac/pc), please let me know. I am sure I am not the only

Re: Border around the stage

2001-06-04 Thread nik crosina
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 21:59:01 -0700 (PDT) Brajeshwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Trying making you projector option to full screen to remove the > borders. > If I set this option to full screen, that only affects wether or not the desktop is covered with the stage colour in areas where

Border around the stage

2001-06-03 Thread nik crosina
solution? Also: How can I make icons invisible on a PC (CD-ROM) so that I can hide all the movies and other files in it and reduce the clutter on the desktop/window when the CD is inserted? many thanks aan appreciation! Nik Crosina [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode

diplay of html in projector

2001-04-04 Thread nik crosina
Hi Guys, I am part of team putting together a Kiosk (including touchscreen) for the postoffice and am wondering how to best display html on stage. top and bottom of the stage aill be navigation bars done in flash, inbetween web xtra sprite dsiplaying styled xml. That seems to work fine on most

playing live video through a projector

2001-03-14 Thread nik crosina
Dear List, Has anyone any experience with or knowns whether it is possible to connect a video sourse (TV/vid.camera) to a eg mac and then use that input siganl directly and in realtime to display that as a digital video on a director projector? I am doing a video wall presentation for a magazi