RE: Update-- Still need help.

2001-08-07 Thread Pekka Buttler
lugin successfully. The client kept demanding we find a way! Pekka > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Al Hospers > Sent: 7. elokuuta 2001 17:26 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Update-- Still need help. > > >

Re: Update-- Still need help.

2001-08-07 Thread Cory Caplan
Apparently, she's nicer over here. I thought she was awesome. It was a great experience. - Original Message - From: "Leon McComish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 10:24 AM Subject: RE: Update-- Still need help.

RE: Update-- Still need help.

2001-08-07 Thread Al Hospers
> But isn't the major problem with NT-based systems is that it > is totally > possible to get a computer that the CD can't write ANYTHING > to? Roy, I don't have any first hand experience with this problem, tho I have heard about it happening. I've done about 6 really major projects which were d

RE: Update-- Still need help.

2001-08-07 Thread Leon McComish
> Thanks, braintrust! > > Cory > > PS. Watch for me on 'The Weakest Link' 8/20 on NBC, assuming the airdate > doesn't get moved > Oh you poor sod. I officially apologise for the United Kingdom (join in if you like Gerbil et al) for that lunatic Anne Robinson (if it was her you were up against Co

Re: Update-- Still need help.

2001-08-07 Thread Cory Caplan
n NBC, assuming the airdate doesn't get moved - Original Message - From: "Pekka Buttler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 6:40 AM Subject: RE: Update-- Still need help. > 0 is infact the parameter for read/write t

RE: Update-- Still need help.

2001-08-07 Thread Roy Crisman
At 08:39 AM 8/7/01 -0400, you wrote: > > I've been majorly pissed off using FileIO to open files off > > read only media > > in WinNT and W2k. Just doesn't work properly on them. You can > > try using > > getNetText instead. > >the thing to do here is to copy the file to the TEMP directory, set >t

RE: Update-- Still need help.

2001-08-07 Thread Al Hospers
> Frankly speaking...I don't. Not for FileIO atleast. Now if > you're talking > about Networking Lingo, then we've got plenty of code > libraries on that. : if you do fileIO kinds of things more that 2x a year it would be worth your while to spend an afternoon writing a general purpose object to

RE: Update-- Still need help.

2001-08-07 Thread pranavn
Frankly speaking...I don't. Not for FileIO atleast. Now if you're talking about Networking Lingo, then we've got plenty of code libraries on that. : -) Cordially, Pranav Negandhi New Media Applications. Learnet India Limited, Mumbai. Phone: 91-22-859 8042 Ext: 410 the thing to do here is to

RE: Update-- Still need help.

2001-08-07 Thread Al Hospers
> I've been majorly pissed off using FileIO to open files off > read only media > in WinNT and W2k. Just doesn't work properly on them. You can > try using > getNetText instead. the thing to do here is to copy the file to the TEMP directory, set the attribute to read/write and do what you will. i

RE: Update-- Still need help.

2001-08-07 Thread pranavn
I've been majorly pissed off using FileIO to open files off read only media in WinNT and W2k. Just doesn't work properly on them. You can try using getNetText instead. Cordially, Pranav Negandhi New Media Applications. Learnet India Limited, Mumbai. Phone: 91-22-859 8042 Ext: 410 > It's file

RE: Update-- Still need help.

2001-08-07 Thread Pekka Buttler
0 is infact the parameter for read/write try 1. Pekka > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Cory Caplan > Sent: 7. elokuuta 2001 0:47 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Update-- Still need help. > >

Update-- Still need help.

2001-08-06 Thread Cory Caplan
It's fileIO. I have 2 framescripts that open and parse comma separated values into lists at the beginning of the program... It has no problem reading them off the cd in 98 and it has no problem reading them off the hard drive in NT or 2000-- but the CD in NT or 2000 just hangs... anybody experien

need help........thanks

2001-07-16 Thread Ang Beng Leong
Hi,I am a student.Now i have a project need to interactive but i am not very good in script.Can someone help me send me some sample director file to me.ThanksGet Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode,

Re: please it is very urgent i need help

2001-07-15 Thread Colin Holgate
> Hello dears > > > Can any one tell me that i have made a >presentation in macromedia Director on the windows >plate form but i need to play it on Mac. How is this >possible Please guide me coz i m not very good in >lingo. i recently started working director. And i have >to present

Re: please it is very urgent i need help

2001-07-15 Thread Sam - Elektonika
Hi Muhammad, The bad news is that you will need to create the projector on a MAC and burn the CD on the MAC as well. I don't know if this is still the case [something tells me it might have changed] but this used to mean that you needed a MAC copy of Director with a UNIQUE LICENSE!! You should th

Re: please it is very urgent i need help

2001-07-15 Thread Florian Bogeschdorfer
You'll need Director for Macintosh. Then You can open the windows file and "play" it or make it a macintosh projector. Although the format is compatible, You'll have to care for different kinds of path name spellings and different versions of xtras. It's that simple. regards, Florian Awais Irsh

please it is very urgent i need help

2001-07-15 Thread Awais Irshad
Hello dears Can any one tell me that i have made a presentation in macromedia Director on the windows plate form but i need to play it on Mac. How is this possible Please guide me coz i m not very good in lingo. i recently started working director. And i have to present it tomorro

RE: Need help with audio hiccuping!

2001-06-20 Thread Buzz Kettles
zz >Hope this helps. > >... Alex ... >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On >> Behalf Of Mike Hiatt >> Sent: 20 June 2001 17:10 >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Need help with audio hiccuping! >>

RE: Need help with audio hiccuping!

2001-06-20 Thread Colin Holgate
>I put the soundbusy(1) line in because when I jumped from another >frame that had an audio playing they really seemed to crash into >each other. I didn't mean you don't have to stop sound 1, I was saying that you don't need to check if it's currently playing, just go ahead and stop it regardl

RE: Need help with audio hiccuping!

2001-06-20 Thread Mike Hiatt
:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Need help with audio hiccuping! >on beginsprite me > if soundBusy(1) then sound(1).stop() > sound(1).queue([#member: member("prog_intro")]) --79 > sound(1).play() >end Perhaps setting a flag and doing the sound on exitframe

RE: Need help with audio hiccuping!

2001-06-20 Thread Alexandre Cop
Have you tried clearing the playlist first, i.e. sound(1).setPlayList([]) Hope this helps. ... Alex ... > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Mike Hiatt > Sent: 20 June 2001 17:10 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Ne

Re: Need help with audio hiccuping!

2001-06-20 Thread Colin Holgate
>on beginsprite me > if soundBusy(1) then sound(1).stop() > sound(1).queue([#member: member("prog_intro")]) --79 > sound(1).play() >end Perhaps setting a flag and doing the sound on exitframe would help. That way any sprites that have media loading won't be fighting with the playing of th

Need help with audio hiccuping!

2001-06-20 Thread Mike Hiatt
I've got a routine that starts an audio playing when you hit a frame. The code is: on beginsprite me if soundBusy(1) then sound(1).stop() sound(1).queue([#member: member("prog_intro")]) --79 sound(1).play() end So it stops the audio from the previous frame, cues it up and then starts to pl

Re: Don't Need help with a RAM hog on Windows anymore

2001-05-16 Thread clars danvold
Carl West wrote: > unloadMember(member(tMem, tCast)) -- <<< * > * This is essentially what I did to mine and it fixed my problem. > (not pointing it at the 20MB cast that had no textfiles I needed to > adjust the fontsize of helped, improved the load time too) > > I found my problem by

RE: RE: Don't Need help with a RAM hog on Windowsanymore

2001-05-15 Thread Al Hospers
> Guess you skipped the rest of that thread, huh, Al? :) guess it was that beer with dinner Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alcambersoftcom http://www.cambersoft.com A famous linguist once said: "There is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative." YEAH, RIGHT [To remove yourse

Re: RE: Don't Need help with a RAM hog on Windowsanymore

2001-05-15 Thread Kurt Griffin
>> nevermind > > is the issue resolved and is there something we could all make use of in the > resolution? > > Al Hospers Guess you skipped the rest of that thread, huh, Al? :) -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.c

RE: Don't Need help with a RAM hog on Windows anymore

2001-05-15 Thread Al Hospers
> nevermind is the issue resolved and is there something we could all make use of in the resolution? Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alcambersoftcom http://www.cambersoft.com A famous linguist once said: "There is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative." YEAH, RIGHT [To remov

Re: Don't Need help with a RAM hog on Windows anymore

2001-05-15 Thread b_douglas
nevermind Brian Douglas : b) [ActionScript/Lingo/JavaScript] Specialist, Tired Individual Imaginary Studio http://www.imaginarystudio.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: Don't Need help with a RAM hog on Windows anymore

2001-05-15 Thread Carl West
clars danvold wrote: > > Carl West wrote: > > > An innocuous little script that ran through _all_ the members of _all_ > > the casts and set the fontsize of some them. > > Just curious... > I have lots of innocuous little scripts that run through all the members > of all the casts, and do stuff

Re: Don't Need help with a RAM hog on Windows anymore

2001-05-15 Thread clars danvold
Carl West wrote: > An innocuous little script that ran through _all_ the members of _all_ > the casts and set the fontsize of some them. Just curious... I have lots of innocuous little scripts that run through all the members of all the casts, and do stuff like unlink flash members, or make a li

Don't Need help with a RAM hog on Windows anymore

2001-05-15 Thread Carl West
Found it. An innocuous little script that ran through _all_ the members of _all_ the casts and set the fontsize of some them. It wasn't unloading the members. -- Carl West[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.262.8830 x246 I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affair

Re: Need help with a RAM hog on Windows

2001-05-15 Thread Carl West
Colin Holgate wrote: > > >Seems to be hairier than that. The QA house is unable to run it on a > >machine that has less than 80MB. > > How much swap file space is there on that machine? I can't quite see > why a PC with 80 MB would fail. Exactly, there shouldn't be a problem, but _something_ is

RE: Need help with a RAM hog on Windows

2001-05-15 Thread Al Hospers
> Seems to be hairier than that. The QA house is unable to run it on a > machine that has less than 80MB. are you saying that the QA house can't run it on any machine with less than 80 MB of physical memory installed? this doesn't make any sense to me. Windows handles memory managment for Directo

Re: Need help with a RAM hog on Windows

2001-05-15 Thread Colin Holgate
>Seems to be hairier than that. The QA house is unable to run it on a >machine that has less than 80MB. How much swap file space is there on that machine? I can't quite see why a PC with 80 MB would fail. -- [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.p

Re: Need help with a RAM hog on Windows

2001-05-15 Thread Carl West
Colin Holgate wrote: > > >I'm stuck for an approach to this thing. > >Help? > >hints? > >pointers? > > Don't worry about it. Apparently the memory report is including the > full size of the QuickTime movie. Seems to be hairier than that. The QA house is unable to run it on a machine that has le

Re: Need help with a RAM hog on Windows

2001-05-14 Thread Colin Holgate
>I'm stuck for an approach to this thing. >Help? >hints? >pointers? Don't worry about it. Apparently the memory report is including the full size of the QuickTime 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 mess

Need help with a RAM hog on Windows

2001-05-14 Thread Carl West
I'm having a problem managing RAM usage on Windows. My Director 7.0.2 Mac stub projector is set to use 12MB RAM, by the time it gets to the splash screen it's using 17MB, then, after going through a couple of submenus to a QuickTime activity, it's using 56MB! Going to further activities doesn't s

Need help with sounds

2001-04-03 Thread Luke Newton
Hey everyone, Im a student with a Director assignment that I need help on. I need a script for an "on mouse up" state that a) randomly picks a sound from a list of sounds b) plays a loop of animation while the sound is being played c) when sound is done playback head moves back to a

Re: External Cast Creation Need Help (a.k.a. PASTING to external cast (cross-post))

2001-02-10 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 05:00 2/10/2001, Steven Frazier wrote: >Hello - Need help here. Wow, Steven. If you're not getting any responses it's likely because your questions are too broad. And repeating the request over and over again on multiple lists just tends to annoy people. Another reason could

External Cast Creation Need Help

2001-02-10 Thread Steven Frazier
Hello - Need help here. In a director movie, I need to have a user be able to paste an image, from the clipboard onto the stage of a director movie, have it appear both on the stage AND in the cast plus name the cast the name the user would have put in a text field

Re: ¬ Need help

2001-02-09 Thread David Pexton
: "Brajeshwar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: ¬ Need help >Date: 9 Feb 2001 12:31:52 - > >Need help, > >1. How do I fasten up the load time speed of my CD-ROM presentation

¬ Need help

2001-02-09 Thread Brajeshwar
Need help, 1. How do I fasten up the load time speed of my CD-ROM presentation or is there a way for pre-loading like flash before (say a video is loaded) in the memory. I even tried using a stub director where it passes to myActalMovie file on its prepareFrame but still I am not satisfied

PASTING to external cast from projector - Need help

2001-02-08 Thread Steven Frazier
Hello I have a movie named "picture database" in which there is an internal cast and an external cast named "externalcast" I would like to have a growing projector by allowing the user to paste pictures onto the stage which would save to the "externalcast" Originally I thought it would be good t

need help with cue points

2001-01-22 Thread Steffanie Grindle
Hi, I'm new to the list serv. I am working on a project that will be using multiple cue points. As soon as the cue point is reached it will trigger an event by jumping to the assigned marker. I am not sure how to do this, I know how to set one cue point, but not multiple cues within the same v

Re: need help

2000-12-20 Thread Benoit Bessette
Bjarne Nyquist wrote: > > Is there a way to get LINGO to stop an animation when the mouse passes > > over a sprite, and have the same animation continue after the mouse > > moves out of the sprite. > > Well that depends on how the animation is created. > I like to use the exitFrame handler to do

Re: need help

2000-12-20 Thread Bjarne Nyquist
> Is there a way to get LINGO to stop an animation when the mouse passes > over a sprite, and have the same animation continue after the mouse > moves out of the sprite. Well that depends on how the animation is created. I like to use the exitFrame handler to do animation. If you do that its quit

need help

2000-12-20 Thread Benoit Bessette
Hi there, Is there a way to get LINGO to stop an animation when the mouse passes over a sprite, and have the same animation continue after the mouse moves out of the sprite. Thanks alot! Benoit Bessette [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

RE: Urgent need help....

2000-11-21 Thread Rees, Jonathan
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Urgent need help Hello, I need to create a memory game by christmas, do you have any idea how to do that. I just started working with director, but I want to manage that. The game need´nt very complicated just comparing the two cards and then either right or wrong

RE: Urgent need help....

2000-11-21 Thread Steven Sacks
>he really knows Director game programming in and out. Yeah. He's like the Bo the Director community. =) [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

Re: Urgent need help....

2000-11-21 Thread Kerry Thompson
>I need to create a memory game by christmas, Get Gary Rosenzweig's book 'Advanced Lingo for Games." He has a memory game on the CD that come with it, plus a bunch more. His book is quite good, too--he really knows Director game programming in and out. Cordially, Kerry Thompson Learning Netwo

RE: Urgent need help....

2000-11-21 Thread Robert Wingate
> The game need´nt very complicated just comparing the two > cards and then either right or wrong.. Read these http://www.director-online.com/accessArticle.cfm?id=225 http://www.director-online.com/accessArticle.cfm?id=294 http://www.director-online.com/accessArticle.cfm?id=844 Hope this gets y

Urgent need help....

2000-11-21 Thread Carmen Kuderer
Hello, I need to create a memory game by christmas, do you have any idea how to do that. I just started working with director, but I want to manage that. The game need´nt very complicated just comparing the two cards and then either right or wrong.. Can you help me. Thank you Yours Carmen [T