Re: Debugging OOPs in lingo with Director 5

2001-07-26 Thread R. Bhakti Klein
i would definitely recommend's irv's "ebook", and i think there are good chapters in bruce epstein's and gary rosenzweig's books. peter small's lingo sorcery is unique, that's for sure. for me, it was very helpful in making the conceptual leaps required to move from procedural to object oriented

Re: Debugging OOPs in lingo with Director 5

2001-07-25 Thread Irv Kalb
Peter Small had some errors in his book and put an errata sheet on his website. You can find it at: http://www.avatarnets.com/sitejuly2001/popUpPage.html?overview/lserrata.htm However, many people feel that his book is somewhat difficult to understand and his presentation of objects is no

Re: Debugging OOPs in lingo with Director 5

2001-07-25 Thread Tab Julius
What do you mean: "After clicking this button I then go to "file" and open the second movie." What specifically is the code to "open the second movie"? [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,

Re: Debugging OOPs in lingo with Director 5

2001-07-25 Thread Will Mazurek
I'm still working at understanding this so my explanation is not that clear. In the 1st movie I have the parent script. property image, spriteNumber, currentPosition, stageBoundry, centerSpot, usurpedImage, imageAddress on takeShape me set the image of me to the picture of member "vimage" end

Debugging OOPs in lingo with Director 5

2001-07-25 Thread Will Mazurek
I am tring to learn OOPS programing using Peter Small's LINGO SORCERY copywrite 1996. In the 2nd chapter there is a demonstration where you start in a movie called "workshop" that has the parent script and a button to make a object called "virus". You then go to a movie called "isolated" where y

Re: Debugging OOPs in lingo with Director 5

2001-07-25 Thread Tab Julius
I'm not familiar with either the book or the example, but by "not in the movie" you mean you are running a movie in a window, then the answer is no, you cannot debug a movie in a window (MIAW). If you mean that you transfered (using 'go to movie') to another movie, then you physically can't