getting server date with shockwave movie

hello, has anyone needed to get the system date of the web server from which a shockwave movie is being served? we want to set up a site using shockwave with qt-movies that change on a daily basis. any experiences? thnaks nik. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go

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hi all, another shcockwave question: i am playing back shockwave audio files from within a shockwave movie. the swa files are placed in the same folder as the shockwave movie itself. i am streaming the first 5 seconds of each of the 5 tracks into a buffer [e.g.: member("03 Demon Speed").preLoa

sound glitches with streaming shockwave audio

Hi All, Another streaming problem I encountered. Maybe you had a similar experience and found a cure? Here it is: I am building a dcr movie that includes a selector for sound tracks (=streamed .swa audio files) which are then played alongside a QT movie without sound. As part of the playback c

Re: streaming media

, 23 Feb 2001 14:34:34 + Giles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 23/2/01 1:36 pm, nik max at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > http://www.showstudio.com > > Whatz wid da restricted access ? > > > Giles Phelps // [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> > > > &q

streaming media

hi all thanks for the help! the tech notes on this are a good start though i am also positioning the assetts i need streamed first in the first frame of the movie now, but offscreen to force streaming. btw: all these 'flash inside shockwave inside browser window' efforts will be vieable soon (

streaming castmember download order

hi, i am trying to put an order into 'when' the castmembers of a shockwave movie are downloaded and could not find anything in anywhere that mentions the 'natural' download order inherent to shockwave/director movies. is it alphabetical, by frame, by castmember number, etc? any tips or ideas

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hi all, a really simple question probably: how can i set the order in which a shockwave movie downloads its cast members. some are internal ones, some are streamed, some are flash, etc. i need to download placeholder for bigger castmembers first, but at the moment some of the place holders (6k

Re: RE: Flash sending Lingo to Director

. > > Using a dummy sprite in front of your animation you can then > > toggle the visibility of your fade. > > > > Just a crazy idea. Totally untested andperhaps even ..shhhsh! > > johnT > > > > nik max wrote: > > > > > > > > > &g

Re: RE: Flash sending Lingo to Director

On Thu, 8 Feb 2001 09:47:54 +1300 "Sean Wilson" Hi Sean and anyone else i have set up the dir.movie now so that the small flash animations call a movie script once they are finished. this script increases a global var by 1 and once that count reaches a certain level, i send dir to another fra

flash to lingo

hi guys, anyone out there with some experience - however tangential - with flash sending lingo to a diretor movie and/or running multiple flash movies (containing a series of jpgs animation). i am experiencing problems not so much with the sending of lingo to director, but it seems that direc

Flash sending Lingo to Director

hi, i multiple copies of a small flash movie on stage - this is part of an animation - and when the user clicks on one of them they are supposed to play their fadeout frames the last of which contains 2 lingo commands calling 2 moviescripts that allow me to determine when all of them have fini

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dear all, how can i quickly and relyably check that all flash sprites have stopped playing on the stage (necessary before i can move on to the next frame)? i am using 'sprite(whichFlashSprite).playing', but do i put this in a loop or just check at very small intervals. what about sending a me

Re: sending variables to flash 4 sprite

hi ramesh, i am jus tin the process of doing exactly that (debugging). is coming along a bit slowly as i am the director person in our studio and the flash-man is busy, but i am getting there. the variable value is gettng through to flash, but the script determining when the animation moves on

sending variables to flash 4 sprite

hi, i am tryingto set a variable in a flash movie so that the looping flash animation exits the loop and procedes to the end of a the animation (a fade-out). what i am sending form director is setVariable(sprite(the clickOn), "fade", "fadeOut") the addressed flash movie is the one the user has

Re: RE: R.E. QuickTime ticks to HH:MM:SS

hi Karina, can you let me know where to get this xtra "directCom"? thanx, #Nik [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 fo

p/b of shockwave in browser from CD-ROM

hi all, my name is nik; i am new to the list and have been reading it for a while now. here is my question: the brief is to produce a cd-rom of a site that makes extensive use of shockwave movies that in turn use many external castmembers (qt movies, huge amount of jpgs that loaded in nly when