Cath & Irv--
Thanks for your suggestions, but neither will work. I'd previously tried
storing it into a variable before displaying. Also, I had used "item"
previously without writing over items in the list. At that time I had
each of my properties stored in separate arrays. My troubles started
when I stored the property lists in one array. It's so strange because
what returned "Bobby Darin - Splish Splash" for you, only returns Bobby
Darin for me still.
Any other ideas??
Thanks,
Mindy
Message: 16
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:37:40 +1200
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Cath Sample <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: <lingo-l> Concatenating property list values
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I think you are writing over each entry as it is made. Use 'line'
instead of 'item'.
Try
global gmusiclib
on fillmusic
member("musicLibrary").text=""
repeat with i = 1 to gmusicLib.count
member("musicLibrary").line[i] = gmusicLib[i].tagArtist & " - " &
gmusicLib[i].tagTitle & RETURN
end repeat
end
for me this returns
Bobby Darin - Splish Splash
Dion - Runaround Sue
Cath
At 05:28 p.m. 25/09/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm having problems with the output of a value from a property list.
Well, actually I have a linear list and each index is a property list.
gmusicLib = [[#tagTitle: "Splish Splash", #tagArtist: "Bobby Darin",
#tagAlbum: "The Bobby Darin Story", #tagYear: "1961", #tagGenre:
"Oldies", #tagFilePath: "D:\My Music\old school\Bobby Darin - Splish
Splash.mp3"], [#tagTitle: "Runaround Sue", #tagArtist: "Dion",
#tagAlbum: "Runaround Sue", #tagYear: "1961", #tagGenre: "Oldies",
#tagFilePath: "D:\My Music\old school\Buddy Holly - Runaround Sue.mp3"]]
That's just an example once the file info is loaded.
I'm trying to output some of the values in to a text field member using
this:
repeat with i = 1 to gmusicLib.count
member("musicLibrary").item[i] = gmusicLib[i].tagArtist & " - "
& gmusicLib[i].tagTitle & RETURN
end repeat
All that outputs is the artist name.
I found an example similar in Director 8.5 Studio that used apostrophes
inside the quotes, but I can't get that to work. I'm using MX, if that
makes a difference.
I'm just a student learning director, so any explanations would be
really great :)
Thanks,
Mindy
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Message: 17
From: "Peter Bochan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:24:23 +0300
Subject: <lingo-l> Cursor property
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Lingo Developers!
I've got a little problem. I wrote a simple cursor change behavior for a
vector sprite(2):
on mouseEnter
sprite(2).cursor = 260
end
on mouseDown
sprite(2).cursor = 290
end
on mouseLeave
sprite(2).cursor = 0
end
on mouseUp
sprite(2).cursor = 260
End
This works fine. But to apply this behavior to different sprite I need
to track down the sprite's number and to change it everytime, and create
lots of behaviors. I tried to do the following:
Property spriteNum
On beginSprite
currSprite = sprite(spriteNum).member
End
On mouseEnter
currSprite.cursor = 260
End
When I compile (close) the behavior, it yields an error saying that an
operator expected. I wonder what's the problem and how can I fix it
without creating bucnhes of behaviors.
Thanks in advance
Peter
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Message: 18
From: "Robin Pereira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: <lingo-l> Cursor property
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 09:55:08 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try this ..
on mouseDown
sprite(me.spritenum).cursor = 290
end
on mouseLeave
sprite(me.spritenum).cursor = 0
end
on mouseUp
sprite(me.spritenum).cursor = 260
End
whats happening is the code is referencing the sprite you attach it to
so
sprite(me.spritenum) is what you need to use.
keep at it and try to read through a manual as much as you can, If you
don't
have one I have one for sale in England so let me know??
Robin
www.blueqube.org.uk
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Message: 19
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:24:54 +0200
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: <lingo-l> Cursor property
From: =?iso-8859-15?Q?S=E9bastien_Portebois?=
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: =?iso-8859-15?Q?Lexis_Num=E9rique?=
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi
> on mouseDown
> sprite(me.spritenum).cursor = 290
> end
>
> on mouseLeave
> sprite(me.spritenum).cursor = 0
> end
>
> on mouseUp
> sprite(me.spritenum).cursor = 260
> End
>
> whats happening is the code is referencing the sprite you attach it to
so
> sprite(me.spritenum) is what you need to use.
and it would even be better if you specify the reference :
on mouseDown me
sprite(me.spritenum).cursor = 290
end
on mouseLeave me
sprite(me.spritenum).cursor = 0
end
on mouseUp me
sprite(me.spritenum).cursor = 260
end
cheers,
s�b
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Message: 20
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:53:46 +0200
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: <lingo-l> copyPixels and alpha channel
From: =?iso-8859-15?Q?S=E9bastien_Portebois?=
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: =?iso-8859-15?Q?Lexis_Num=E9rique?=
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi everyone
> My original post starting this thread stated that copyPixels() does
not
> work when compositing _two_ images with alpha channels.
I haven't followed this thread since the start, so I might be out of
synchro, but FYI here comes a little movie script I used intensively
when
compositing the 'creatures' for the main games of
http://synchrobeat.swatch.com/
on CopyPix32 (imgDest, imgSrc, rDest, rSrc) --------------------------
--
-- INPUTS : inputs are organised like the 4 first inputs of the
-- Lingo copyPixels command. For speed reason, no test is done to
-- test wether the src and dest images are 32 bits (to extract and
-- set alpha channels). This test is up to you!
--
-- imgDest : <#imageObject> destination image
-- imgSrc : <#imageObject> source image
-- rDest : <#rect> destination rect
-- rSrc : <#rect> source rect
--
-- OUTPUT : nothing, the imgDest is directly modified
-------
-- get the original alpha channel
alphaBuffer = imgDest.extractAlpha()
-- copy the bitmap data
copyPixels(imgDest, imgSrc, rDest, rSrc)
-- copy the alphachannel pixelmap
alphatoAdd = imgSrc.extractAlpha()
alphaBuffer.copyPixels(alphatoAdd, rDest, rSrc, [#ink:39])
-- apply the alpha changes
imgDest.setAlpha(alphaBuffer)
end -- CopyPix32 handler
This might not be perfect, but it's quite fast (indeed here I don't do
additional test on the bitdepths, and/or useAlpha, as I use it only when
I
want to composite 32bits-alphaEnabled image objects) and give satisfying
results
I was compositing *lots* of images taken from32 bits images extracted
from
swf members used as 'graphic libraries' (so the memory requirements for
all the sprites image tables where quite large, but this enabled us to
have a near-infinite creature range with minimal animation, without a
long
download time nor a dead-slow framerate due to swf sprites overlay)
Does this helps?
s�b
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