What you are asking for was functionality that was available in
Director 6, but hasn't worked since.
You used to be able to create a Dir movie (such as a set of scripts)
& save it & then in the Finder's getInfo, you could mark it as a
Stationary file.
Then when you opened this file, the OS would peel off an unsaved copy
of this file for you to start from = your 'template'.
Alas, this lost capability has never been seen as important enough to
get fixed.
-Buzz
At 12:51 AM +0300 7/27/01, Pekka Buttler wrote:
>I've once had an insider explain to me that the reason is that that type of
>function calling is reserved for built in functions, not custom lingo.
>Understandable, but an oversight nevertheless...
>
>Which brings me to another idea.
>
>Would someone second my vote for the following concept.
>
>The user would be able to create a castlib of scripts (handlers, functions,
>methods, whatever), which would be attached, not to the movie (as an
>external CastLib) but to the Application (Director, Projector,
>Shockwave(?)). The Castlib could be protected, and the functions within the
>castlib would on startup of the Application be "embedded" into Lingo's own
>sphere of functions. and could therefore be more readily at hand and
>hopefully faster to execute)
>
>This would allow users to make their own "expansions" to the Lingo Function
>set.
>(Naturally everyone can write their 2000x functions and store them in an
>external cast even now, but I'd really love the feel of being able to modify
>the platform instead of just the files run with it)
>
>What I'm offering is not in any way revolutionary (except making custom
>lingo faster by enabling its integration into the application's core
>function set), just a very nifty feature.
>
>For Example I have long since made myself a wide set of geometric
>calculation functions Like
>somePointValue = MidPointOfRect(Myrect)
>or
>IntegerValue = distOfPoints(the MouseLoc,
>MidPointOfRect(sprite(MySprite).rect))
>etc.
>
>IMHO, it would give a new aspect to custom functions...
>
>1 dime (or am I valuing it too high)
>Pekka
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
>> Behalf Of Slava Paperno
>> Sent: 26. heinakuuta 2001 21:53
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: <lingo-l> Type 2 Crash. a cautionary tale
>>
>>
>> I haven't done the tracing that you have, but I think my Type 2
>> crashes of
>> D8 on Mac OS 9.04 started when I started using the same type of calls...
>> Does this Cautionary Tale apply to D8.5?
>>
>> Slava
>>
>> At 12:43 PM 7/26/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>> >Two days ago I started getting catastrophic crashes on my Mac that made
>> >Director simply vanish from my screen with a Type 2 error*...
>> >The line was something very like:
>> > sprite(29 + x).setprops(foo, bar, rabnicky)
>> >
>> >It was suggested that calling a handler that way, while it works most of
>> >the time, is not actually supported and that 'call' or 'sendsprite' are
>> >the ways to go. (thanks Dan S.)
>> >
>> >now I use:
>> >sendsprite(29 + x,#setprops,foo, bar, rabnicky)
> >
> >
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