Re: lingo-l Open PowerPoint from within director
Gee, reading error dialogs... thinking... ugh. No really, thanks! You've pointed me to some usefull resources in which I found elements that I use in my own code now, I was just really (de)buggin out and needed some fresh insights. I understood my error message but couldn't see a way around, so studying the scripts and methods on DOUG I found one method that works for my special case. (opening using Buddy API and setting 'Stay-on-top' properties for stage and PP). But most important, I found out that if the PowerPoint (2000) application is not updated (with servicepack's etc.) it generates script error when opened from director, and updated versions don't !? In practice I have to figure out if this works for different versions (PP 97, 2000, 2003 ???), because I can only test on PP 2000 here. Laters, -- Tom van Gemert - Multimedia developer Trimedia Interactive Projects Eindhoven, The Netherlands http://www.trimedia.nl [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l text display bug after 3000 words
hello list In a rich text editable cast member, after about 3000 typed words, a great amount of the text suddenly disappears in the middle of the whole text. In place of the vanished text the user can see only a white area. If you type return at the beginning of that white sector, the text is coming back. Do you know a way to avoid that problem ? Thanks ! jean-louis valero [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l text display bug after 3000 words
if i am not mistaken i once expwerienced that with long text. i don´t remember the amount of word but it was LONG. What happened was similar to what you describe. the only way i had to fix it was start with another director movie from scratch and work it from there. Anyway in authoring the problem was there but in runtime the text displayed correctly and no problem there but it was really annoying having to edit the blind text - Original Message - From: jean-louis valero [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 8:04 AM Subject: lingo-l text display bug after 3000 words hello list In a rich text editable cast member, after about 3000 typed words, a great amount of the text suddenly disappears in the middle of the whole text. In place of the vanished text the user can see only a white area. If you type return at the beginning of that white sector, the text is coming back. Do you know a way to avoid that problem ? Thanks ! jean-louis valero [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] -- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 7.0.203 / Virus Database: 261.3.3 - Release Date: 02/12/2003 -- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 7.0.203 / Virus Database: 261.3.3 - Release Date: 02/12/2003 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l text display bug after 3000 words
I've experienced similar things in the script window with DirMX/WinXP. With long movie scripts, sometimes lines will white out and come back later. It's usually not too big of a deal, but one time it kept doing the same thing over and over again; it would crash Director and I would try the same thing again and it would crash again. I eventually had to edit the script differently (write parts of the script in a different order) to get it to not crash. jean-louis valero wrote: hello list In a rich text editable cast member, after about 3000 typed words, a great amount of the text suddenly disappears in the middle of the whole text. In place of the vanished text the user can see only a white area. If you type return at the beginning of that white sector, the text is coming back. Do you know a way to avoid that problem ? Thanks ! jean-louis valero -- Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Flash text / text object question
grimmwerks wrote:
Just wanted to point out
_global.fModule = new Object();
fModule.movieTime = mov_timer;
fModule.movieTitle = mov_title;
fModule.movieDuration = mov_duration;
fModule.setMovieTime = function(theText){fModule.movieTime.text = theText;}
Pmod = sprite(1).getVariable(fModule, false)
pMod.setMovietime(whatever)
Does work.
It's definitely the way director and flash sees things differently. It'd be
nice if that wasn't true.
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Hi grimm,
Have you tried making it _level0.fModule rather than _global?
Flash's implementation of _global is rather different than
Director's...at least in terms of communicating between them.
Also, you can let the flash text field reference a variable name -
rather than trying to target myTextField.text, try setting myTextVar
that is associated with the dynamic text field...
Functions are also a great way to go. I've had success With Mark
Jonkman's stuff in the past, may want to dig up some of the scrips on
the archives of direct-l and this list too.
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Thanks,
Mathew
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Re: lingo-l text display bug after 3000 words
Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: I've experienced similar things in the script window with DirMX/WinXP. With long movie scripts, sometimes lines will white out and come back later. It's usually not too big of a deal, but one time it kept doing the same thing over and over again; it would crash Director and I would try the same thing again and it would crash again. I eventually had to edit the script differently (write parts of the script in a different order) to get it to not crash. This happens fairly frequently for me. (Usually more than once every two weeks.) What I end up doing is to turn off the syntax coloring and line numbering, make the edits, and then re-enable them and usually all will be well. But it all just makes me miss nice, fast, non-buggy editors that other tools have. - Bruce [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l Solution: text display bug after 3000 words
Thank you for your suggestions... As I work with MX on Panther, I thought it was the reason ! News, in projector mode: If I save the bad text, using FileIO, and re-import it, I retrieve the whole text, intact. If I copy it and paste it in Word or TextEdit, no problem: No more white area, the text is full. LAST NEWS: I have found a solution: member(the Text).fontstyle = member(the Text).fontstyle Yippee ! The missing text is coming back Phew... So I have to refresh the text from time to time with that statement. (it remembers me the famous: the StageColor = The StageColor) jean-louis valero jean-louis valero wrote: hello list In a rich text editable cast member, after about 3000 typed words, a great amount of the text suddenly disappears in the middle of the whole text. In place of the vanished text the user can see only a white area. If you type return at the beginning of that white sector, the text is coming back. Do you know a way to avoid that problem ? Thanks ! jean-louis valero [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l Cps users?
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Re: lingo-l Cps users?
very interesting technology, but unfortunately i never had a project where i could actually use it. but i have it installed (v1.30, on win xp pro), in case you just need someone to test some code for you. grimmwerks wrote: Anyone here using CPS from bonneville.nl? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
