lingo-l Buddy API
Hi all, I am creating a project that needs to switch the resolution of the display to 800x600. I was trying a few xtras but then realized that Buddy API supports that function. However no matter when I call the function (exitframe, startMovie or prepareMovie) the stage is no longer centered. The resolution changes perfectly - on and off - but the stage is off in the corner. Some other xtras I tried worked ok with tweaking but buying them seems like buying the functionality again when I have Buddy. Any suggestions. I am using MX 2004. Thanks, Greg [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 Buddy API
if your movie is also 800x600 window(stage) = the desktoprectlist[1] should do it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Lippert Sent: 17 September 2004 17:27 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l Buddy API Hi all, I am creating a project that needs to switch the resolution of the display to 800x600. I was trying a few xtras but then realized that Buddy API supports that function. However no matter when I call the function (exitframe, startMovie or prepareMovie) the stage is no longer centered. The resolution changes perfectly - on and off - but the stage is off in the corner. Some other xtras I tried worked ok with tweaking but buying them seems like buying the functionality again when I have Buddy. Any suggestions. I am using MX 2004. Thanks, Greg [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!]
lingo-l Buddy API Monitor Switching
Nevermind, I got it to work by creating a new stub movie with nothing on the stage that jumps to my first movie with data. The way it calls things seems to have solved the problem. Thanks, Greg [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 Re: shockwave3d texture problems
I don't know if it is Maya (the exporter) or Director that does not work properly. From my experience it is most likely Director because i experience new bugs every day ... I just want to excuse me for being so unfriendly to the macromedia team. Today I found the time to browse the list archive to find an answer for my texture problem in shockwave3d. Well I didn't find an answer but I found a very harsh and unfriendly discussion. If I read my own comment again I find it not productive to solve the issue but it sounds like I want to continue the flame war a couple of days ago. This is not the case. I just don't have the time to monitor the list all the time and I had not read the earlier postings. If I had done that my comment would have been surely more moderate. Especially if I read the statement of Tom Higgins. I just want to say I don't dislike Director completely. Really. In fact I like a lot of things. But the problem for us developers is that _if_ there is a problem we are left alone in the dark. A lot of insulting comments (to speak for me at least) are caused by frustration because there are situations you can't really do anything about. Your personal success is directly coupled with the quality of the underlying system (director). I agree with Chuck Neal that the programmers are most times not the persons to blame. Also all the help by the product support shouldn't be underestimated (Chin up Tom!) But Director looks more and more like a semi-abandoned piece of software. I think there are two possibilities: - putting more effort(=money,developers,support) into director like flash gets - or shutting it down and concentrating on a migration path to flash It looks like the current situation doesn't help anybody really. Ok just wanted to say that. Five more days to project deadline *sigh* Lutz [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 Buddy API
Greg: Really a bad idea to start switching monitor resolutions - is there a specific reason for this? Ross [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 Buddy API
On Sep 17, 2004, at 12:51 PM, Ross Clutterbuck wrote: Really a bad idea to start switching monitor resolutions - That isn't always the case. Depends on the audience. In my case, I make a lot of kiosks which get run on rental PCs, and set up by on-site staff. The more the software can do to optimize the setup, the more likely the program will be running correctly. Now, for something distributed to the public, to run on personal machines, well, it should be carefully considered. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [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!]
OT: don't do that was: Re: lingo-l Buddy API
I've been a leave the user's monitor alone fer chrissakes person, too, but I have come to learn that there is a time for if-then-else and a time for case, a time for strings and a time for symbols, a time for And/Or and a time for bitxor, a time for cross-platform and a time for using those activeX components for your kiosk to talk to the camera, a time for good solid architecture and a time to fix what's broken without screwing with the code that's there, a time to use good variable names and a time to do a string-replace on all the valiables with l0O11lO-type strings to obfuscate your code for a client who you're worried about paying you, a time to leave the user's monitor alone, and a time to change it because the client has requested that this sales CD reset the 50 person sales team's custom-build laptops. I fully support those people with the energy to try to encourage good, thoughtful media development procedures, and yet I realize that one size doesn't fit all. That your process for developing a 500K shockwave game SHOULD be different than a CDROM encyclopedia, a kiosk, a sales presentation. So, please, give guidance, especially in the vacuum that is how do I do X, but also, give answers. I'm much more likely to listen to someone who can explain how to do something than I am to someone questioning the basis of the task in question without any reason to trust their judgement. roymeo At 12:51 PM 9/17/2004, you wrote: Greg: Really a bad idea to start switching monitor resolutions - is there a specific reason for this? Ross [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!] --- Roy Crisman Macromedia Director Programmer, Lingo Guru, Multimedia Producer Greater Rochester Macromedia User Group (GRMMUG.org) Coordinator 277 N. Goodman St. Rochester, NY 14607-1162 (585)473-3492 home (585)615-2873 cell roymeo(AT)brokenoffcarantenna.com [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 Re: shockwave3d texture problems
Lutz Paelike wrote: But Director looks more and more like a semi-abandoned piece of software. I think there are two possibilities: - putting more effort(=money,developers,support) into director like flash gets - or shutting it down and concentrating on a migration path to flash I agree with that. Director interface looks obsolete. I can't believe Director still has only one Undo (I don't know MX2004, but MX does). Also, there is the impossibility to stick the videos inside the projector to protect them. And the impossibility to change the icon in the projector file (I think that changed in MX2004). One thing more: Director should remember the zoom I am using on a project, because if I'm working on a 1024x768 project, it always opens 100% zoomed. So, the developers are doing a good work updating some parts of Director, but there are still problems and annoyances that makes it difficult to use. I'd love Director to have other advanced functions without the use of Xtras, smaller projector sizes, and to be able to separate the whole movie into scenes (like flash) would make it so much easier to use. Nothing more. I hope nobody gets hurt with my opinion. Julian Rodriguez (PS: My native language is Spanish, I'm sorry for any misspelling) [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 Memory Inspector
I'm using Dir MX (not 2004) with MacOS 10.3.4. I went to use the Memory Inspector and could not find it. I looked up the manual and it says it should be under Window/Memory Inspector. The Help says the same but it is not there. And I cannot see it anywhere else. There is no memory inspector on Mac. The way OSX manages memory... apparently Director wouldn't be able to tell what was actually going on. That feature became Windows-only with DMX. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net You can use the Activity Monitor (Applications/Utilities) to keep an eye on things. hth, Kurt [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 Buddy API
I think the blanket Really a bad idea is a rather misleading guideline that is only appropriate for developers that don't deal with all the considerations. There are situations, even when something is distributed to the public, when desktop environment resetting is appropriate if handled properly. If Director could handle full screen viewing like Acrobat then it would not be an issue. The key is to be very polite and informative about doing so. For example, one presentation with a lot of detail was developed with a stage size of 1024x768 because a majority of the intended audience used desktop monitors at the resolution, but a fair number of the viewers might be laptops with a 800x600 resolution. If the presentation had been developed with a stage of 800x600 it would have been too small on the desktop monitors, and two versions of a presentation is a lot of unnecessary work. The key here is to check the viewer desktop environment and what is possible via their video card. If such is insufficient then in a dialog explain the problem to the viewer and ask for permission to temporarily reset (if possible) so the presentation can be viewed. If the the desktop environment is more than needed, then one might have a similar dialog to facilitate better viewing but let the presentation proceed regardless. One little glitch I have run into is that with some video cards a different aspect ratio can distort a presentation. Another consideration is to make absolutely sure that, regardless of how the presentation exits, the desktop environment is always restored. So to rephrase, unless you deal with all the considerations properly and politely, follow Ross's admonition. Lee C Troy Rollins wrote: On Sep 17, 2004, at 12:51 PM, Ross Clutterbuck wrote: Really a bad idea to start switching monitor resolutions - That isn't always the case. Depends on the audience. In my case, I make a lot of kiosks which get run on rental PCs, and set up by on-site staff. The more the software can do to optimize the setup, the more likely the program will be running correctly. Now, for something distributed to the public, to run on personal machines, well, it should be carefully considered. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [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!]
lingo-l some DIR news
the below was copy/pasted from one of the other DIR lists: Developers, Today Macromedia announces a comprehensive update to both Macromedia Director and the Shockwave Player. This update includes a wide variety of changes to both the authoring environment and the player, including but not limited to: - dozens of bug fixes across the product, including the documentation - the ability to create projectors for the Classic Macintosh operating systems from Windows - a new, slim Shockwave Player installer resulting in a download size nearly 2MB smaller than before, this includes changes to the Shockwave Player's Xtras auto-downloading mechanism to ensure that existing content continues to function correctly Note: we are also providing full installers (these contain all Xtras)in both executable form and in CAB file form (for ActiveX auto-installs) - reduced number of dialogs during the Shockwave Player installation process for all Windows users and a redesigned installation completion movie As of today, September 16th, we are only providing updated installers for Macromedia Director (in all languages). Within the next week, the Shockwave Player installers available from the Player Download Center and as part of the free-licensing program for distributing on fixed-media or in corporate intranet environments, will be updated to this latest release. For more information about this release and to download the updated Director installer please visit the following URL: http://www.macromedia.com/software/director/special/10_1updater/ For more information about the bugs that have been fixed in this update release please view the following Tech Note: http://www.macromedia.com/go/19353/ For information specific to the documentation bugs that have been fixed please view the following Tech Note: http://www.macromedia.com/go/19563 In addition we will soon be posting more information about how the changes to the default set of Xtras in Shockwave will affect developers (they don't!) and information about how developers can direct users to the full-install experience if desired. Please look for these in the coming days in the Director Support Center at http://www.macromedia.com/support/director. Thanks, The Director Team [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 some DIR news
All, the below was copy/pasted from one of the other DIR lists: Developers, Today Macromedia announces a comprehensive update to both Macromedia Director and the Shockwave Player. Thanks Buzz, I did post the announcement here last night as well. Folks might also notice that a recent Site of the Day was/is a Shockwave piece (nice one Toxi!): http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=sotdarchiveloc=e n_us Pointing to: http://www.bmw1derland.co.uk/ And if you look there is a new Showcase Feature article about Pearson Prentice Hall and ForgeFX using Director: http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=casestudydetailc asestudyid=52486loc=en_us I give the nod to Emmy for working hard on getting Shockwave some much needed love and attention. :) Cheers, Tom Higgins Product Manager - Director http://www.markme.com/thiggins/ ... [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 some DIR news
At 11:54 AM -0700 9/17/04, you wrote: All, the below was copy/pasted from one of the other DIR lists: Developers, Today Macromedia announces a comprehensive update to both Macromedia Director and the Shockwave Player. Thanks Buzz, I did post the announcement here last night as well. Folks might also notice that a recent Site of the Day was/is a Shockwave piece (nice one Toxi!): sorry all - I had missed Tom's note until just when my msg was going out the pipe I tried to stop mine but didn't make it http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=sotdarchiveloc=e n_us Pointing to: http://www.bmw1derland.co.uk/ And if you look there is a new Showcase Feature article about Pearson Prentice Hall and ForgeFX using Director: http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=casestudydetailc asestudyid=52486loc=en_us I give the nod to Emmy for working hard on getting Shockwave some much needed love and attention. :) Cheers, Tom Higgins Product Manager - Director http://www.markme.com/thiggins/ ... [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!]
Re: lingo-l Re: shockwave3d texture problems
On Sep 17, 2004, at 1:26 PM, Julian Rodriguez wrote: I agree with that. Director interface looks obsolete. I don't think so. I like the Director interface - at least on OSX. I can't believe Director still has only one Undo (I don't know MX2004, but MX does). One undo. To be honest, I rarely use it. I never know just what I might be undoing. Also, there is the impossibility to stick the videos inside the projector to protect them. If they are encoded as FLV (Flash video) they can be embedded. Other techniques also exist. And the impossibility to change the icon in the projector file (I think that changed in MX2004). ?? Yes. I guess that has changed. You can have custom icons. One thing more: Director should remember the zoom I am using on a project, because if I'm working on a 1024x768 project, it always opens 100% zoomed. Perhaps true. I don't really consider that a huge issue though. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [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 Buddy API
Daniel, I would say that adhearing to make absolutely sure that ... meant just that. If you can't ensure such then don't ;-) On MX04 my tests so far caught such in on closeRequest. Additionally, one xtra (Andrade Arts Resolution xtra) has an automatic reset on shutdown, clearing global object, etc. I would hope that users of other xtras demand such of the xtra authors to ensure responsible use. I've been making the point to xtra authors before I include their xtra as a choice in the dedicated stub creation app I'm working on. If failure is catastrophic (system crash), then the desktop environment is reset on restart by the OS because the desktop xtras are doing temporary resets (and if any specific xtra does not stick to temporary settings then it should not be used). As I mentioned before, Director does not facilitate the type of view selections that Acrobat does, so if such is needed one must work with the techniques at hand. If one does intend to manipulate the desktop environment, though, then one should do so in a responsible manner. In broad-brush terms that means the viewer should have veto power, and if allowed should make absolutely sure that, regardless of how the presentation exits, the desktop environment is always restored. After all, we both know that works that cause, or have the likely potential of causing, the viewer aggravation are not going to be well received. Like everything else in life, it's a balance. I've only been testing on Win XP so far with the app, but when I get my G5 in the new year I be fully testing the app there also. I'm already allowing for distinctions in what the xtras say they will do on a respective platform. Lee C Daniel Plaenitz wrote: At 13:56 17.09.2004 -0400, you wrote: Another consideration is to make absolutely sure that, regardless of how the presentation exits, the desktop environment is always restored. So what option will you leave a user with if s/he managed to crash your app before it had a chance to reset the screen? I've seen the day when I thought my setup was save but it was not in an environment of restricted user rights (prohibiting the user to change the screen res though my app could, ahhh, windows) and the user chose to quit my projector with ctrl/alt/del, no way to stop him on NT4. My app had a file with the prior settings before change, but of course that was refreshed when the user started my app for a second time. In the end he had to call the sysads to reset his screen resolution. daniel [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!]
Re: lingo-l Re: shockwave3d texture problems
Troy Rollins wrote: On Sep 17, 2004, at 1:26 PM, Julian Rodriguez wrote: I agree with that. Director interface looks obsolete. I don't think so. I like the Director interface - at least on OSX. I can't believe Director still has only one Undo (I don't know MX2004, but MX does). One undo. To be honest, I rarely use it. I never know just what I might be undoing. Also, there is the impossibility to stick the videos inside the projector to protect them. If they are encoded as FLV (Flash video) they can be embedded. Other techniques also exist. And the impossibility to change the icon in the projector file (I think that changed in MX2004). ?? Yes. I guess that has changed. You can have custom icons. One thing more: Director should remember the zoom I am using on a project, because if I'm working on a 1024x768 project, it always opens 100% zoomed. Perhaps true. I don't really consider that a huge issue though. Thanks for the tips. That's why I said the developers were improving Director. But you can't deny there are quite a few things to do before it's perfect. Anyway, I am interested in this FLV thing... How can I encode my videos in this format? Julian [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 Re: shockwave3d texture problems
On Sep 17, 2004, at 9:18 PM, Julian Rodriguez wrote: Thanks for the tips. That's why I said the developers were improving Director. But you can't deny there are quite a few things to do before it's perfect. Anyway, I am interested in this FLV thing... How can I encode my videos in this format? The very best way with the most options and highest quality? http://www.sorenson.com You'd need Squeeze for Flash Video -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [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 re: making FLV files
Thanks for the tips. That's why I said the developers were improving Director. But you can't deny there are quite a few things to do before it's perfect. Anyway, I am interested in this FLV thing... How can I encode my videos in this format? Julian Julian, if you have a linux machine, you can use FFMPEG. I forget what works on Windows/Mac. Mike __ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo [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!]
