Re: Re: hmm. (was: basic lingo question)

>>Of course it's subtle humour! ;-) Of course. The "misc" in the URL is short for "mischievous," isn't it? ;-) My hat's off to you, Jakob (of course, I'm in California, not Denmark). Not only are you a Lingo programmer nonpareil, your English is better than most native speakers :-) (My fa

Re: Re: hmm. (was: basic lingo question)

At 13:56 18.12.2000 +0100, Jakob Hede Madsen wrote: >At 4:04 +0100 2000_12_18, Daniel Plaenitz wrote: >>>But, to answer your question: >>> > > >>hmm. This may be extraordinarily subtle humor or, borne German, I#m >>missing something fundamental. Anyway

Re: Re: Re: hmm. (was: basic lingo question)

>> it gives a different meaning when you know how "Kurt" sounds in danish. > > Ok, I'll bite. With apologies to the esteemed Mr. Griffin, how does "Kurt" > sound in Danish? Okay, so the danish version of my hit single was a BIG mistake. Why must you dredge up the past? ;) -Kurt [To remove yo

Re: Re: hmm. (was: basic lingo question)

At 4:04 +0100 2000_12_18, Daniel Plaenitz wrote: >>But, to answer your question: >> >hmm. This may be extraordinarily subtle humor or, borne German, I#m >missing something fundamental. Anyway, "KURT" appears to be quite >inert with only pCHN countin

Re: Re: basic lingo question

At 11:36 PM +0100 12/17/2000, Jakob Hede Madsen wrote: >Once Phil Spector was producing a record with John Lennon and and >asked him how he wanted his voice to sound. "Like a watermelon" John >Lennon replied. man...you must be OLD! . . . ;-) -- Roy Pardi [To remove yourself from this

Re: Re: hmm. (was: basic lingo question)

At 23:36 17.12.2000 +0100, Jakob Hede Madsen wrote: >>>it gives a different meaning when you know how "Kurt" sounds in danish. >> >>Ok, I'll bite. With apologies to the esteemed Mr. Griffin, how does >>"Kurt" sound in Danish? >> >>-Kerry Thompson > >Once Phil Spector was producing a record with J

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>>it gives a different meaning when you know how "Kurt" sounds in danish. > >Ok, I'll bite. With apologies to the esteemed Mr. Griffin, how does >"Kurt" sound in Danish? > >-Kerry Thompson Once Phil Spector was producing a record with John Lennon and and asked him how he wanted his voice to sou

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>it gives a different meaning when you know how "Kurt" sounds in danish. Ok, I'll bite. With apologies to the esteemed Mr. Griffin, how does "Kurt" sound in Danish? -Kerry Thompson [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi

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Hehe Jakob... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jakob Hede Madsen Sent: 17. december 2000 05:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: basic lingo question >>"me" is also a convention - you could write a >>behavior

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>>"me" is also a convention - you could write a >>behavior that substitutes "you" for "me" and it would work just fine > >Good point, Kurt, and one that is documented, but not widely recognized. Actually, when I make that argument I use to say that you could just as well substitute "me" with "Ku

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>"me" is also a convention - you could write a >behavior that substitutes "you" for "me" and it would work just fine Good point, Kurt, and one that is documented, but not widely recognized. If I may split hairs, though, "me" is a keyword in Lingo, though it has no inherent value. It's a conven

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>> The question is: what is the meaning of the characters "me" as in >> "me.spriteNum", or "p" as in "pModel"? When does one use these? >> Thanks in advance! The first part of your question has been answered, so I'll tackle the second part. "p" as in "pModel" is a naming convention that many of u

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That's a point I had missed. Still, I was trying to keep it simple, 'cause I've been there... -Clars Irv Kalb wrote: > Good explanation, but I'll add one comment. Only one copy of the > script lives in memory. When you use multiple "instances" of a > behavior (e.g., use the same behavior o

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At 9:05 PM +0100 12/15/00, Clars wrote: >Actually, I think it's a good question - I'll try to shed some light. > >"me" resides at the heart of the difference between a simple sprite >script and a true behavior. If your behavior handlers end with "me", >they have two good things going for them: > >

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Actually, I think it's a good question - I'll try to shed some light. "me" resides at the heart of the difference between a simple sprite script and a true behavior. If your behavior handlers end with "me", they have two good things going for them: 1). when a behavior initiates, an "instance" or

RE: basic lingo question

> what is the meaning of the characters "me" as in "me.spriteNum" "me" is a variable that points to an instance of an object in memory (an 'instance' of an object is analogous to the way a sprite is an 'instance' of a castMember). Explaining its use is a little beyond the scope of a few sentences

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ou can make a single script that could control all the sprites instead of making a script for each sprite. Johannes Hansen -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mushtaq Farooqui Sent: 15. december 2000 18:21 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:

Re: basic lingo question

At 09:20 AM 12/15/00, Mushtaq Farooqui wrote: >The question is: what is the meaning of the characters "me" as in >"me.spriteNum", or "p" as in "pModel"? When does one use these? Check out this article on DOUG: "Me, my code and I" http://www.director-online.com/accessArticle.cfm?id=837 -- Mark

basic lingo question

I'm not a programmer, (designer only!) and I'm quite hesitant in posing this question - it must be so basic - but I've been unable to find the answer anywhere. The question is: what is the meaning of the characters "me" as in "me.spriteNum", or "p" as in "pModel"? When does one use these? Thanks i