Re: OT: Irregular CD palyback

2002-01-11 Thread Evan Adelman
ed asap (unloadMember commands). Again, hope this helps, Evan >From: Tanya Renne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: OT: Irregular CD palyback >Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 18:52:16 -0500 > >I was able to reproduce it on one of

Re: Urgent suggestions needed I-move

2001-12-12 Thread Chris Aernoudt
Euh; I 'm not sure, but I don't think this is the smoothmove support area... - Original Message - From: "mark verhoef" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SMOOTHMOVE ERROR CANNOT OPEN SPECIFIC FILE I/O ERROR. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.c

re flash protection

2001-12-12 Thread Ralf Schmidt
ipt viewer will not show the sourceCode but report an error. I have not tested this. greetings, ralf schmidt. oops. this was not lingo related. sorry >Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 20:38:04 - >From: "PA Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: re flash protection >re flash

Re: RE: Way OFF: Look MA: I'm on TV

2001-08-24 Thread Splattersluts.com
> >> I Rock, back-and-forth when I am concentrating heavily. > >> Strange habit I picked up as a kid :) So does Rain Man > >> so does Bill Gates... are you two related? One big happy family *rock rock* [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penwork

Re: RE: Way OFF: Look MA: I'm on TV

2001-08-24 Thread Kurt Griffin
>> I Rock, back-and-forth when I am concentrating heavily. >> Strange habit I picked up as a kid :) > >> so does Bill Gates... are you two related? > > Hu - I suspect this is a good thing? > Strange nervous tick suffering programmers: UNITE!!! > > [wow, that aught to provoke a ton of respo

Re: simultaneos QT video

2001-08-24 Thread Neil Madsen
The fastest and easiest way is to put both video files into 1 QT movie. Have 2 video tracks and then just turn the track you want to see to ON and the other to OFF and vice versa. I don't have Dir with me right now but the commands are something like trackEnabled and setTrackEnabled or somethi

Re: script error at runtime but not in Dir.

2001-08-24 Thread Terry R. Schussler
At 3:03 PM -0500 8/24/01, Dale Withroder wrote: >when does the error happen? How about: what is the error? -- ...---===| Terry R. Schussler |===---... ...---===| Chief Investigator |===---... on accessResources coolSites = [ \ "http://macromediaSEMINARS.com/";, "http://directorU.com

Re: Test - Do not respond

2001-08-24 Thread Terry R. Schussler
At 10:00 PM -0400 8/24/01, Tab Julius wrote: >This is a test of the Lingo-L broadcasting system. Had this been an actual >programming emergency you would have been instructed to recompile all >scripts and save and compact. Do not respond to this message. put the messageFileFreeSize -- [To rem

Re: script error at runtime but not in Dir.

2001-08-24 Thread Nick Youmans
> I am getting a script error at runtime but not when I > am authoring in Director. It runs great there. How > can I tell what the problem is if it only happens at > run time and gives no clue as to what is wrong? it could be that you are missing an xtra that is missing from the project (or the

Re: script error at runtime but not in Dir.

2001-08-24 Thread Dale Withroder
when does the error happen? At 12:49 PM 08/24/2001 -0700, you wrote: >Hello, > >I am getting a script error at runtime but not when I >am authoring in Director. It runs great there. How >can I tell what the problem is if it only happens at >run time and gives no clue as to what is wrong? > >Tha

RE: [OT] This could affect us ALL :(

2001-08-24 Thread Al Hospers
> Is it not true that Active-X able media will be safe? that includes > Shockwave, Flash, and QuickTime. not as I read the article. a patent on that technology is owned by someone else. Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alcambersoftcom http://www.cambersoft.com Shockwave and Director development, Lin

RE: [OT] This could affect us ALL :(

2001-08-24 Thread Colin Holgate
>get it? > >Goodbye EMBED. > > >Goodby Shockwave, goodby >Flash!!!1 Is it not true that Active-X able media will be safe? that includes Shockwave, Flash, and QuickTime. -- [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http

RE: [OT] This could affect us ALL :(

2001-08-24 Thread Al Hospers
WOW... http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010816.html thank you Sweeny dude, for pointing this one out to me. I was wondering what was the thrust of an email from Apple about QT the other day & here it is. for those of you who don't want to take the time to read the whole column, tho i

RE: miaw- unwanted border

2001-08-24 Thread Gene Fritzinger
-Original Message- hey list, I am trying to seamlessly integrate an miaw into the stage, (for the first time on a major project). I have tried setting the miaw type to 2 and 3, but I still have a pixel wide black border around the edge. I guess I could use an alpha channel just for the

Re: miaw- unwanted border

2001-08-24 Thread Peng Zhang
use Border Xtra to remove it. >From: Logan Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: miaw- unwanted border >Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:51:19 -0700 (PDT) > > hey list, > I am trying to seamlessly integrate an miaw into the >stage, (for the first time

Re: PNGs with transparency & user's color depthsettings

2001-08-24 Thread Gene Fritzinger
I'm not sure it will be possible to display your images at 256 colors with out some degradation as they require a 256 color pallette and 8-bit images created within the range of that pallette to interpret the color. if you intend to display at 256 colors all of your images will need to be convert

RE: preloadnetthing question

2001-08-24 Thread Mark R. Jonkman
Hi Check to see if the internal QT member is set to streaming in which case it will most likely ignore the cache and stream from the server. Sincerely Mark R. Jonkman [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post message

Re: one more: new #bitmap and new script object

2001-08-24 Thread Jakob Hede Madsen
At 12:20 -0500 2001_08_24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >What was the workaround when you have a parent script and want to create a >new #bitmap? 1: Don't have a "new" handler in the parent script. It will work fine without one. 1b: If you do need a "creator" method, you can use the old "birth". 2

Re: PNGs with transparency & user's color depth settings

2001-08-24 Thread Chad Mefferd (Morris Publishing)
on 8/24/01 10:12 AM, Gene Fritzinger at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello list, > I'm considering using PNGs with transparency to create an interface window or > mask with a soft drop shadow, that will be used to display and scroll a larger > bitmap under it. Aside from the larger file size, all w

RE: Way OFF: Look MA: I'm on TV

2001-08-24 Thread Warren Stolow
> I Rock, back-and-forth when I am concentrating heavily. > Strange habit I picked up as a kid :) >so does Bill Gates... are you two related? Hu - I suspect this is a good thing? Strange nervous tick suffering programmers: UNITE!!! [wow, that aught to provoke a ton of responses ;)] Pleas

RE: preloadnetthing question

2001-08-24 Thread grimmwerks
You know, that's what it is - thanks Mark; I couldn't figure out what was a'happening. On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Mark R. Jonkman wrote: > Hi > > Check to see if the internal QT member is set to streaming > in which case it will most likely ignore the cache and > stream from the server. > > Sincere

Re: problem with publishing MPEG movies

2001-08-24 Thread Chad Mefferd (Morris Publishing)
on 8/24/01 5:28 AM, sreedhar reddy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear All > > Im facing a problem while publishing the director > files with mpeg movies in it. When ever i try to > publish the movie im getting an error message saying > that " the required xtra is missing or may not be > there in

RE: Way OFF: Look MA: I'm on TV

2001-08-24 Thread Al Hospers
> > Multimedia Producers Rock! > > I Rock, back-and-forth when I am concentrating heavily. > Strange habit I picked up as a kid :) so does Bill Gates... are you two related? Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alcambersoftcom http://www.cambersoft.com Shockwave and Director development, Lingo programm

RE: miaw- unwanted border

2001-08-24 Thread Jorge Pena
Hi Logan, You cannot do this without an xtra... hm, maybe there is one way but I haven't actually tried it yet... There is a method to use a 1 bit cast member as a mask for a MIAW or your projector... Search the archives or DOUG and you will probably find how it may be done. There is one xtra th

Re: SV: simultaneos QT video

2001-08-24 Thread grimmwerks
Why not on your qt sprite: property pMyTime on switchMe, whichQT pMyTime = sprite(me.spritenum).member.currentTime sprite(me.spritenum).member = whichQT sprite(me.spritenum).currentTime = pMyTime end [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http

RE: Way OFF: Look MA: I'm on TV

2001-08-24 Thread Warren Stolow
> Multimedia Producers Rock! I Rock, back-and-forth when I am concentrating heavily. Strange habit I picked up as a kid :) Have a great weekend Lingoists! -Warren. [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 t

Re: the "do" command

2001-08-24 Thread Kurt Griffin
> I parse an xml file and for every child i generate a > sprite at runtime. Each child in my xml file has > further subchildren with data about the child. I need > to store this data about the child in a list which > corresponds to the number of the sprite such as list 1 > list2 and so on. > F

Re: Way OFF: Look MA: I'm on TV

2001-08-24 Thread Kurt Griffin
> Multimedia Producers Rock! Ah, so that's what they do. I've been wondering for years now. ;) -Kurt [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 PR

RE: simultaneos QT video

2001-08-24 Thread Al Hospers
> the car. Now camera 1 is playing and when the user choose > camera 2 the video > must start from the same loctation or the same tick a guess! look at the movieTime function. Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alcambersoftcom http://www.cambersoft.com Shockwave and Director development, Lingo program

Re: the "do" command

2001-08-24 Thread Christian Wach
Richie Jindal wrote: > Yes i tried it the way u suggested also like: > do "put list" & spritNum > > But it prints as first it takes the value of > list which is obviously void since the data is > actually in list1, list2 and so on.. hmm, my message window shows: -- Welcome to Director -- do

Re: SV: simultaneos QT video

2001-08-24 Thread limiar40 b
yes i just try that option, but with 2 videos works fine, now imagine that i have at least 6 vids and other things to interact at the same time, and the videos must have 640/480 resolution. It still works? the vids will play fast? I'm thinking if there's a way to grab the actual time of the mo

RE: the "do" command

2001-08-24 Thread Brian Romanko
Richie, While ever convoluted, the do command should be working fine for you. Here is an output from my message window: -- Welcome to Director -- list5 = [5,6,7,8] put list5 -- [5, 6, 7, 8] sprtNum = 5 do "put list" & sprtNum -- [5, 6, 7, 8] Could you possibly be passing the wrong value to s

Re: platform detection

2001-08-24 Thread Rajiv
... > > > >Pekka > > > > > >> -Original Message- > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > >> Behalf Of manisha sinha > >> Sent: 3. heinakuuta 2001 9:26 > >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Subje

Re: the "do" command

2001-08-24 Thread Christian Wach
Richie Jindal wrote: > do (put "list" & spritNum ) try: do "put list" & spritNum I'd suggest you look at other methods for achieving whatever it is you want to do here... unless you *absolutely* have to, it's worth avoiding the 'do' command. can you give more details about the goal? Christian

Re: Way OFF: Look MA: I'm on TV

2001-08-23 Thread Cory Caplan
Thursday, August 23, 2001 3:04 PM Subject: RE: Way OFF: Look MA: I'm on TV > > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Warren Stolow wrote: > > > >Guess you didn't win though huh...? > > > > Hey, wait a minute here > > If the members of this list do not know a

RE: Way OFF: Look MA: I'm on TV

2001-08-23 Thread grimmwerks
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Warren Stolow wrote: > >Guess you didn't win though huh...? > > Hey, wait a minute here > If the members of this list do not know about > Non-Disclosure issues, then nobody does :) > Well, if I won me some cash I wouldn't be working for a little while... ...course

RE: Way OFF: Look MA: I'm on TV

2001-08-23 Thread Warren Stolow
>Guess you didn't win though huh...? Hey, wait a minute here If the members of this list do not know about Non-Disclosure issues, then nobody does :) But if Cory wishes to divulge - I will sign on, and my lips are sealed. Have a great day Lingoists! -Warren. [To remove yourself from this

RE: OT: Giving away your lingo

2001-08-23 Thread Leah O'Shell
it may be annoying, but if you are a subcontractor, you always have to hand over the code, ( i thought). even if you have a direct contact with someone, the debate is what you are selling, if you are selling the source with the finished product, you should draw a contract with this specified

Re: Way OFF: Look MA: I'm on TV

2001-08-23 Thread grimmwerks
Guess you didn't win though huh...? On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Cory Caplan wrote: > Hey kids, check me out on "The Weakest Link" this monday @ 8PM EST. > (Assuming they don't change it!) > > Multimedia Producers Rock! > > :-) > > Cory > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to dig

Re: bring to front a sprite on rollover

2001-08-23 Thread victor zambrano
r zambrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- > Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:48:07 -0700 > From: Thomas Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: bring to front a sprite on rollover > > Build on this simple behavior and you're ready to rock'n'roll: > > on mouseEnter (me)

RE: generating variable names at runtime

2001-08-23 Thread Al Hospers
look into the "do" command. Al Hospers CamberSoft, Inc. alcambersoftcom http://www.cambersoft.com Shockwave and Director development, Lingo programming, CGI scripting. A famous linguist once said: "There is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative." YEAH, RIGHT [To remove y

RE: OT: Giving away your lingo

2001-08-23 Thread Jorge Pena
Hello Fred. I am amazed you could be working for a company and not have any written or even oral contract... My reading of this is that you have a very special relationship with the company and none is required, although I have to say this is risky business (C). Apart from that if they don't exp

RE: bring to front a sprite on rollover

2001-08-23 Thread Thomas Higgins
From: victor zambrano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 10:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: bring to front a sprite on rollover > > > thanks to tom and buzz. i tried it and it works. > > now i'll figure out a way of keeping the sp

RE: OT: Giving away your lingo

2001-08-23 Thread Al Hospers
> What if you are not classifed as a programer and you have no > contract written or oral at your company? I work for a casino > in the Slot Department and make shows, about three to four a > week for plasma signs. Lingo programming is new to the casino > world I have been do it for about three ye

RE: OT: Giving away your lingo

2001-08-23 Thread Fred Westermeyer
Question for the list. What if you are not classifed as a programer and you have no contract written or oral at your company? I work for a casino in the Slot Department and make shows, about three to four a week for plasma signs. Lingo programming is new to the casino world I have been do it f

Re: Checking perfomance ...

2001-08-23 Thread Gene Fritzinger
Hi Victor, I'm sure you will receive some wonderful suggestions from this list in regards to your situation. Let me begin by suggesting the use of an xtra to gain information about the end user's processing capabilities. Buddy API can return the following information about the user's CPU. In

RE: OT: Giving away your lingo

2001-08-23 Thread Ike Eisenhauer
g of a contact with a former client. So in summary read all contract and assume nothing and charge the clients if they want to see the code. Ike Eisenhauer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2

Re: Checking perfomance ...

2001-08-23 Thread Slava Paperno
Buddy API has functions for checking the processor sped and installed memory: http://www.mods.com.au/budapi/ S. At 08:47 PM 8/23/2001 +0700, you wrote: >My question is... Could it be done with lingo ? Check the user >perfomance (processor speed and memory would be enough) ? Or if there >any dro

RE: OT: Giving away your lingo

2001-08-23 Thread Ike Eisenhauer
Basically, I have done three things in the past: 1. Give the source code to them for 10x development cost (which was clearly stated in the contract prior) 2. Gave them the code but ran it through an obscufier first. This one was only when the client threatened a lawsuit because they failed to re

RE: loading %

2001-08-23 Thread Al Hospers
> HI,hallo,I want to make A preloading statusbar that shows the > time remaining > of A big movie that comes after the preloader.(Like in flash) if you are using a current Director have you looked at the examples that come with the program. look under the Publish options. Al Hospers CamberSoft,

Re: free xtra: daychecker - testers needed

2001-08-23 Thread andy
ooops sorry, it is Windoze only, and dir8.5... thanks, andy >Doesnt' work for me - first tried it in D8 - said filetypewas too new. >Put it in D8.5 and the script for register doesn't work [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo

RE: OT: Giving away your lingo

2001-08-23 Thread grimmwerks
You know, I even go a step farther and comment out all of my code as to what each bit is doing. I've never had an issue where someone ripped apart my stuff so they could do it themselves -- although I was paid to train a few people in basics...I had no problem with that. Personally, I have

Re: OT: Giving away your lingo

2001-08-23 Thread Chris Aernoudt
uite useless without code snippets. I bet our lives would be hell without this far-out cooperation... Give something, and get loads in return. - Original Message - From: "Karina Steffens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2

RE: OT: Giving away your lingo

2001-08-23 Thread Ian Johnson
Hi, thanks for the replies. Wow, such a divide. :) While I agree with Kurt's comments re: 'we constantly give away our lingo to the members on the list', lists are a pretty unique environment (IMHO), with the purpose of asking the community/like-minded individuals for help and pu

RE: OT: Giving away your lingo

2001-08-23 Thread Karina Steffens
> Give them the code. What are they going to do with it? > > 1. Hire some other dir developer who is equal to or beyond > you in ability, > and will likely just toss your code in the dumpster while > replicating the > functionality in his own style. > > 2. Is not as good of a coder, and will strug

Re: free xtra: daychecker - testers needed

2001-08-22 Thread Chris Aernoudt
Your LAN-thingie reports an error, MMX manufacturer remains blank, media types info and browser info hangs the projector. - Original Message - From: "andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 10:39 PM Subject: free xtra: daychecker - testers needed

RE: OT: Giving away your lingo

2001-08-22 Thread Pekka Buttler
IMHO, the question is quite a simple one. If you have a written (or oral) agreement which does not explicitly state that you should hand over the source code, you should not need to do so. If you have been hired to do a product, then the Product is what you need to hand over. Nothing else. Some

RE: OT: Giving away your lingo

2001-08-22 Thread Kurt Griffin
> NEVER GIVE AWAY YOUR SOURCE CODE THAT SMALL MEDIA DEPARTMENT TODAY WILL > BECOME A BIG ONE TOMMORROW AND REUSE YOUR LINGO TEMPLATE AS BASIS FOR OTHER > PROJECTS. YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO SELL THE CODE TO THEM, BUT REMEMBER THEY WILL > STILL IT. I HAVE SEEN IT HAPPEN BEFORE AHEM! LOL. Get over yours

RE: bring to front a sprite on rollover

2001-08-22 Thread victor zambrano
mouseenter and orders the sprites' locz would be ok. hope it doesn't takes loads of time. victor -- victor zambrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- > Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 11:42:07 -0700 > From: Thomas Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: bring to front a sprite on roll

Re: OOP and ancestor access

2001-08-22 Thread Irv Kalb
At 6:34 PM +1000 8/22/01, Luke Wigley wrote: > > >I agree with Mark. The difficulty for me is establishing effective lines of >communication between the various objects that respect the principles that >accessors tend to indicate sloppy encapsulation, and that 'mutual references >are evil'. > >Lea

Re: how to reverse and fastforward flash movie in director

2001-08-22 Thread pranavn
Hi Kavitha, You can use the "Constrain to Line" behavior from the library to build your slider. Then, on your Flash sprite, put the following behavior: property mySprite property myFrameCount on beginSprite me mySprite = sprite(me.spriteNum) myFrameCount = mySprite.member.frameCount end beg

Re: OOP and ancestor access

2001-08-22 Thread Luke Wigley
tango a lot :) I think one of the most difficult aspects of OOP is the process of abstraction and identifying classes - especially in the context of implementing in Lingo. Class definition always comes under scrutiny and re-evaluation (at least for me) once you start thinking about how the obj

Re: Timer - frame behaviour

2001-08-22 Thread Luke Wigley
jim skolmoski wrote > listers, > I have created this timer behaviour below. > I drag it to a frame script, and specify the delay. > It seems to work fine. However, ocassionally, I can see > via the trace that this frame behavior is executing in frames that > the behaviour is not attached to. I

Re: OT: Giving away your lingo

2001-08-22 Thread Mike Rule
I lean towards the 'don't do it!' school of thought but I have done jobs where the client insisted on having access to the source code. One compromise that we came up with once was to put all the source code on a disc which was then held in trust by a mutually agreed firm of solicitors (lawyer

Re: free xtra: daychecker - testers needed

2001-08-22 Thread grimmwerks
Doesnt' work for me - first tried it in D8 - said filetype was too new. Put it in D8.5 and the script for register doesn't work. I'm guessing it's win only, eh? [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 t

RE: bring to front a sprite on rollover

2001-08-22 Thread Buzz Kettles
I'd like to add this to Tom's note: Stage layering DOES occur based on sprite channels. Just placing a sprite into a channel auto-magically sets the locZ equal to the channel number unless you use Lingo to specify a different locZ. Using the Lingo property provides an override on the 'natural

RE: bring to front a sprite on rollover

2001-08-22 Thread Thomas Higgins
Victor, Try setting the sprite's locZ property. Layering on stage doesn't really occur based on sprite channel numbers, rather the layering order is determined by each sprite's locZ value (the locZ value of a sprite defaults to the sprite's channel number so by default, it appears as if sprite

Re: OT: Giving away your lingo--DON'T DO IT !!!

2001-08-22 Thread Jason Spencer
NEVER GIVE AWAY YOUR SOURCE CODE THAT SMALL MEDIA DEPARTMENT TODAY WILL BECOME A BIG ONE TOMMORROW AND REUSE YOUR LINGO TEMPLATE AS BASIS FOR OTHER PROJECTS. YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO SELL THE CODE TO THEM, BUT REMEMBER THEY WILL STILL IT. I HAVE SEEN IT HAPPEN BEFORE AHEM! On 8/22/01 1:36 PM, "Ian Jo

RE: IEmac5 and evalScript?

2001-08-22 Thread Thomas Higgins
Yariv, EvalScript and externalEvent require the browser to support liveConnect, IE on the Mac does not support this and therefore these commands will fail in that browser (this is a MS imposed limitation, not a bug in SW). I've heard that same flavors of IE on the Mac have enabled this, but I'm

RE: OT: Giving away your lingo

2001-08-22 Thread Al Hospers
> I'm interested to find out how everyone handles clients' > requests for source files. this comes up here fairly frequently. some folks never give out source, some charge extra for it and some always give it to the client (after the final check is delivered & cashed of courst). personally I have

RE: To Macromedia especially, others perhaps

2001-08-22 Thread Thomas Higgins
than that at this point. Thanks for raising the issue though. Cheers, Tom > -Original Message- > From: Thomas Higgins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 11:18 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: To Macromedia especially, others p

RE: sending a file though projector....

2001-08-22 Thread jia . alongi
u can do email with attacment by using asp cdonts in director and sw -Original Message- From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on behalf of "Al Hospers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 22 August 2001 10:33 To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]&qu

Re: TeknikohlRemix

2001-08-22 Thread Charlie Fiskeaux II
Simon Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 9:09 AM Subject: RE: TeknikohlRemix use fontographer to convert the font to PC format -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andy Innes Sent

Re: : 3d collision

2001-08-22 Thread Agustín María Rodríguez
u I'm going to test this new version, but I've already link a > geometry to the camera. > > Bye > > Jean-Charles > > -Message d'origine- > De : Agustín María Rodríguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Envoyé : mercredi 22 août 2001 15:12 >

Re: Cross platforms

2001-08-22 Thread Chad Mefferd (Morris Publishing)
You need to take your Director file for the stub file over to a PC with director for PC installed and then make a projector. Yes that means you will need to purchase a copy of Director to install on the PC. You will not need to change any of your director movie files, just the stub projector. I h

RE: : 3d collision

2001-08-22 Thread Jean Charles Henry
Hi Augustin, Thank you I'm going to test this new version, but I've already link a geometry to the camera. Bye Jean-Charles -Message d'origine- De : Agustín María Rodríguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé : mercredi 22 août 2001 15:12 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ob

Re: : 3d collision

2001-08-22 Thread Colin Holgate
>I've tried different scripts, those given in this list, to add collision to >a camera, but unfortunately it doesn't work :-(( > >I think I make a mistake on the place for this script. Have you succeeded in adding collision to a model? If you have, then just move that model around the world, and

Re: : 3d collision

2001-08-22 Thread Agustín María Rodríguez
Hi, Jean. Unfortunately, you can´t add the collision modifier to a camera. Here´s something you can do: 1) Create a dummy (sphere, for example). 2) Apply the collision modifier to the sphere. 3) Move the sphere (not the camera) 4) Make the camera child of the sphere. There are several ways for

RE: TeknikohlRemix

2001-08-22 Thread Simon Roberts
use fontographer to convert the font to PC format -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andy Innes Sent: 22 August 2001 13:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TeknikohlRemix Does anybody here know what the PC closest equivalent font would be to

RE: sending a file though projector....

2001-08-22 Thread Al Hospers
> So, I am wandering if anybody has had a similar situation, where they > wanted to send a file, rather than just an email. I am currently > evaluating the directEmail xtra, but am unsure if it's ideal for this > scenario (esp. as I never used the xtra, and as I've never > done anything > as compl

RE: OOP and ancestor access

2001-08-22 Thread Al Hospers
s" type accessor, but surely > such a line can > be measured only by how it protects object encapsulation and > re-usability? perhaps it is, as Colin K says, a matter of semantics. I think I said that in about the middle of the thread. and Director's current mixed OOP/procedura

RE: numbering sprites

2001-08-22 Thread Logi Huldar Gunnlaugsson
I would try something like this: on genSprites x = 1 repeat while x < 20 repeat with y= 1 to 15 number= value(string(x)&"0") + y sprite(number) = blahblah end repeat x = x + 2 end repeat end The repeat while... thingy is to allow for over 10 loops in the subloop...

RE: how to reverse and fastforward flash movie in director

2001-08-22 Thread Leon McComish
Do you still need help with this? If so, let me know - I can tell ya. Leon > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Kavitha Raya > Sent: 21 August 2001 23:01 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: how to reverse and fastforward flash movie in >

Re: OOP and ancestor access

2001-08-22 Thread Luke Wigley
at asks" type accessor, but surely such a line can be measured only by how it protects object encapsulation and re-usability? (I'd love to know how you can create such dynamic systems without mutual references though) Luke [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest m

RE: OOP and ancestor access

2001-08-21 Thread Mark R. Jonkman
Hi Jakob >Mark made great explanation of an OOP structure. >However, reading it only makes me nod, it doesn't make me shake my >head, or feel dizzy, and that was sort of my expectation, from all >the fuzz. Darn.. you mean I didn't totally put you to sleep.. drats.. I'll have to try harder the ne

Re: button catches all mouseclicks

2001-08-21 Thread Leif E. Wells
Just to double check Mark's (more sensible) suggestion: In the cast, when you click on the behavior and you click on the script tab in the property inspector does it say "behavior"? Leif >Thanks, Leif--but unfortunately that's not the case... I wish it were! S. > >At 10:34 PM 8/21/2001 -0400

Re: RE: OOP and ancestor access

2001-08-21 Thread Kurt Griffin
Jakob made a lot of good points, and boiled it all down to: > Suddenly it seems so cloudy again... can you wipe away the clouds? This is where I usually end up whenever I try to adhere religiously to pure OOP standards in Director. I just get the feeling that the hybrid procedural/oop environme

Re: button catches all mouseclicks

2001-08-21 Thread Slava Paperno
Thanks, Leif--but unfortunately that's not the case... I wish it were! S. At 10:34 PM 8/21/2001 -0400, you wrote: >maybe... > >make sure you have "on mouseDown me" or "on mouseUp me" -- without the >"me" it will catch all the clicks. > >Leif > > >>All of a sudden one button on the stage (a stand

RE: button catches all mouseclicks

2001-08-21 Thread Slava Paperno
Thanks, Mark, but this doesn't seem to be the case, because when I remove all behaviors and attach a brand new one, it still gets executed when I click the empty stage: on mouseUp me put "I've been clicked" end mouseUp This runs no matter what I click on the stage. I deleted the button, a

Re: button catches all mouseclicks

2001-08-21 Thread Leif E. Wells
maybe... make sure you have "on mouseDown me" or "on mouseUp me" -- without the "me" it will catch all the clicks. Leif >All of a sudden one button on the stage (a standard button, made >with the button tool) started catching all mouseclicks in the frame, >including clicks on empty stage ar

RE: button catches all mouseclicks

2001-08-21 Thread Mark MacKenzie
Perhaps the script on the button is a movie script instead of a behavior. -Original Message- From: Slava Paperno [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 7:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: button catches all mouseclicks All of a sudden one button on the stage (a

Re: baCopyFile parameter

2001-08-21 Thread Charlie Fiskeaux II
]> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 7:31 PM Subject: RE: baCopyFile parameter > What do I put for the third parameter in calling baCopyFile()? I > have tried "yes", "true", "overwrite", etc. >From the "Help" file for version 3.5 on Windows:

RE: baCopyFile parameter

2001-08-21 Thread Sean Wilson
> What do I put for the third parameter in calling baCopyFile()? I > have tried "yes", "true", "overwrite", etc. >From the "Help" file for version 3.5 on Windows: Overwrite determines how the copy is done. Can be: "Always" always copies the file "IfNewer"copies the file if So

Re: MIAW that uses "the movie" as the filename

2001-08-21 Thread phillip louderback
i got it... i just needed to lock the file under get info/properties so it would be read only. --- phillip louderback <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > i've got a MIAW that uses "the movie" as the > filename > property. It works fine on the mac but on the pc it > won't go, tells me "that file

RE: OOP and ancestor access

2001-08-21 Thread Jakob Hede Madsen
At 15:34 -0400 2001_08_21, Al Hospers wrote: >...and in fact based on Jakob's response this AM I might say >that there may still be some confusion out there. You betcha! Confusion is my middle name. Regards, Jakob "confusion" Madsen. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest m

RE: OOP and ancestor access

2001-08-21 Thread Jakob Hede Madsen
> > and you can pass information to an > > object, as long as what you are passing does not correspond to an > > actual property of an object, then I definitely understand. > >That is correct. It doesn't matter. The method is public, and whether it implements itself by fetching private data,

RE: OOP and ancestor access

2001-08-21 Thread Jakob Hede Madsen
Mark made great explanation of an OOP structure. However, reading it only makes me nod, it doesn't make me shake my head, or feel dizzy, and that was sort of my expectation, from all the fuzz. Maybe there's an important mental difference in calling a method "handle" something, rather than "set"

RE: XML parser

2001-08-21 Thread Watson, Christopher
Using the XML Parser http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/internet/using_xml_parser_xtra/ XML LIngo Dictionary http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/internet/xml/xml_lingo_dict/xml_l ingo_dict.html Christopher Watson Sr. Software Engineer Lightspan, Inc. -Original Message- F

RE: OOP and ancestor access

2001-08-21 Thread Al Hospers
> I think the problem is a matter of semantics... I believe > that by accessor > methods we simply mean a method that gets or set another > objects properties. > By contrast, a method that returns data that is not private > to an object is > *not* classified as an accessor method. I do not know if

RE: OOP and ancestor access

2001-08-21 Thread Colin Kettenacker
> but he is saying that you should not get data from an object. if you > do that is accessing the data and is verboten. correct? Incorrect. As I mentioned before he is saying access private data is a no-no. Even in his ATM example he is showing data exchanging between objects, it's just that non

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