RE: lingo-l Flash Bitmap Problem
Sorry abt missing the version info: I'm using d8.5 and FlashMX (published for Flash5). Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeremy Aker Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 9:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l Flash Bitmap Problem When I see a jerk, I usually try one of the following: turn off the Presidential Debate, Leave the boss' office, or stop talking to my ex. Seriously, can you provide more detail. What version of Director? What Flash file export version? Can you describe this jerk in more detail? -Jeremy Aker On Oct 1, 2004, at 9:10 AM, Anand Ravi wrote: Hi List, I've embedded some jpgs in a Flash movie and am importing the Flash file into Director. When this happens, there is a jerk that is visible only in Director. I remember reading about this problem and a fix was posted for this. Am however, unable to locate the relevant info. I was wondering if someone on this list can point me in the right direction. Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi [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!] [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 Flash Bitmap Problem
Hi List, I've embedded some jpgs in a Flash movie and am importing the Flash file into Director. When this happens, there is a jerk that is visible only in Director. I remember reading about this problem and a fix was posted for this. Am however, unable to locate the relevant info. I was wondering if someone on this list can point me in the right direction. Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi [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: on stopMovie problem in projector
The easiest approach is to call a custom handler when the close button is clicked on the title bar. This handler can then take care of Saving and quitting or just quit without saving. Hope this helps. Regards, Anand Ravi -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of KLGC Studio Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 10:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l RE: on stopMovie problem in projector on stopMovie problem in projector Im developing a little Director application with DMX04 on Win XP. So far the additional xtras used are OSControl, BudFile, budapi and MUI Dialog. They are all included in the xtras list and xtras are not excluded (and they are all registered where applicable). The published movie has a title bar with close box. For when the user exits via the close box in the title bar, I have the following on stopMovie in a movie script. on stopMovie If (NOT DialogL.dialogSvd) AND (DialogL.targetSrc #unk) then reply = ShowAlert(1) if reply then SaveDialog() end if end if end stopMovie I did not clutter this post up with the other handlers because all works well when run in authoring mode. Basically, if the user clicks the close box in the title bar and has done anything, I ask them if they want to save their work (in the form of a property list with baWriteList). The ShowAlert(1) is a common mui alert handler in the same movie script that asks the question. The SaveDialog() is a common file save handler in the same movie script that first uses the mui fileSave to get a file name to save the work to, then writes the (Director list) file with baWriteList. This all works as expected when I run the movie in authoring mode. I stop the movie (with the control panel) and it asks me if I want to save my work, then puts the mui file save dialog up, then successfully writes the file to disk. If, however, I create a projector and run it, then it does not work as expected. When I click on the close box in the title bar it asks me if I want to save my work, but when I click the yes button there is a flash where it may have been putting up the mui save dialog and the movie exits. It does not stop at the mui file save dialog for me to select a save location and it does not write a file. In the publish settings the xtras are included, animate in background is not checked (tried both ways), center stage, single instance and full script errors are checked. Nothing is checked on the file tab. Just to make sure the OSControl xtra was not interfering, I set up a small test movie with the movie script and a loop on an empty frame one. The test behaved exactly the same as the full movie. I also tried a simple alert between the Do you want to save your work mui alert dialog and the file save dialog. It just flashed through that also. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening in the projector version? Been a long but a good day otherwise. Hope you all are having a good day Thank you, Lee C [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 Projector on NT Problem
Hi List, As part of a setup for a project, I launch a projector from installshield that copies some files from the CD to the HDD using buddy. It is working fine on all the test systems here and on almost all the test platforms on the client end. Unfortunately, on Win NT, SP6 - the moment the projector is launched, a Dr. Watson error is thrown. (This does not happen at our end). Any thoughts will be highly appreciated. Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi [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 Projector on NT Problem
Hi List, thanks for all the replies. I am using D8.5. Yes, when I tested it myself on a NT4 SP6 system, I did not get the Dr. Watson error. I also agree that it looks like a machine specific problem. The installation process actually calls a number of exe's (Flash and VB) and all seem to work fine. Its only the projector which is causing the error. I was wondering if anybody had a similar experience. This projector works fine on 95, 98, XP and 2K and NT at my end! Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Cath Sample Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 9:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l Projector on NT Problem What version of Director are you using? Regards Cath At 09:14 a.m. 14/09/2004 +0530, you wrote: Hi List, As part of a setup for a project, I launch a projector from installshield that copies some files from the CD to the HDD using buddy. It is working fine on all the test systems here and on almost all the test platforms on the client end. Unfortunately, on Win NT, SP6 - the moment the projector is launched, a Dr. Watson error is thrown. (This does not happen at our end). Any thoughts will be highly appreciated. Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi [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!] [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 Video Masking
Hi All, Am working on this project where I am displaying a number of wmv (video files). My client want to somehow protect people from copying these files off the CD/DVD. I am unable to find any tra that can take up an encrypted stream (key based) and play the file! As an alternative I thought it may be possible to add a copyright layer when producing the video and trying to mask the layer in the wmv at run-time. Any thoughts on this will be highly appreciated. Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi [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 Webbrowser Control in DCR
Hi List, I'm trying to display MathML text within director. I've succeeded in doing this by installing the requirted browser extensions and then using the MS web browser control for display. All works fine in the Projector. Is there anyway I can publish a dcr of this projector? Does anyone know of any shockwave safe xtras that might accomplish this? If not then I will have to redesign the app using straightforward javascript! Cheers/Anand [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 Converting to Japanese
Hi Kerry... Here's my technique: I author on either win2k or xp with japanese locale installed. I have with me 3 windows fonts off which i have so far only 1 (u're right - they are not unicode). To view the CD/DVD the target system also needs to be configured with the japanese locale... so far i've not had any problems with this approach...please let me know if you need more info on anything specific.. Cheers/Anand -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kerry Thompson Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 12:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: lingo-l Converting to Japanese I've been developing CD-ROMs for a Japanese client for over a year now...i use D8.5 and have embedded the appropriate japanese fonts that i require...my target is only windows systems though.. content is in XML format...i parse that in flash and pass the html text to d8.5 which then renders them just fine! Interesting, Anand. I've tried embedding Japanese fonts, with no luck, at least on English Windows/Director. Could you share with us your technique? What font do you use? Is it a Shift-JIS font? It's not Unicode, I presume. I'm really interested. I can display Japanese and Chinese in programs like Outlook and Word, but not Director. In fact, I have the Chinese and Japanese IME (it's a free download from Microsoft), and I can use it in Outlook, but not in Director. It would be great if you could share your secrets with us. I love to be proven wrong--it means I've learned something. Cordially, Kerry Thompson [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 Converting to Japanese
Hi! I've been developing CD-ROMs for a Japanese client for over a year now...i use D8.5 and have embedded the appropriate japanese fonts that i require...my target is only windows systems though.. content is in XML format...i aprse that in flash and pass the html text to d8.5 which then renders them just fine! hope this helps... cheers/anand [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 PostNetTest Issue
http://wkar.macq.com/beignprocess.asp is not reachable at the moment. if that's for another reason, try opening the url directly in a browser and check the result (you could make your asp-page return something like 1 or OK) Thanks for the help. Solved it finally. There was a proxy server issue. I used the proxyserver() to set up the http proxy server before issuing postnettext(). To add to the complication, I had to work with a Win2K client with Japanese locale installed and a win2k server that was US english. [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 How to refer frame number in one of the scenes in an FLA from Director
I am not sure if you can directly address scenes. My suggestion in this case would be to set 2 variables in flash and call flash function to make the actual switch. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of biju george Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 6:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l How to refer frame number in one of the scenes in an FLA from Director Hi List, I have an FLA with 10 scenes in it. I have to go to various frames in that FLA like: sprite(x).frame=frame 100 of scene scene1 There is 10 such scenes in it. Any Help? Biju George. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the Signing Bonus Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus [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 PostNetTest Issue
Hi List, I am using postnettext to send some text information to an asp page. All work fine when I post the text to the asp running on pws. The moment I switch to the web and post the text to a url (Eg. http://wkar.macq.com/beignprocess.asp) the function fails. Any thoughts on what is missing will be highly appreciated. I am developing in D8.5. Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi [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 Editable
snip My movie has several fields on the stage that contains different information, when the user click on a field, that field became editable and all the others became not editable. All fields the first time are working but when I click again on a field that is already been used once, that field doesn't became editable. I have tried to use updateStage more than once but is the same story. Does anyone have an idea what is going on?? snip You might have to set the keyboard focus to the sprite. Regards, Anand Ravi [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 Any idea?
snip Using a flash member also has speed implications. If you have one large map with every little object on it, when it's zoomed out to see a lot of the map, there will be so many little objects visible that it will bog down the playback, possibly worse than an image would (you'd have to do some tests to see which is worse). snip Just a thought..the problems of speed can be minimized if you go down the multiple movieclips route Regards, Anand Ravi [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: QT issues
Check the path and the Xtras being distributed! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 5:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l Re: QT issues I am working on a interactive project and I have went to test it online and the QuickTime .mov files will not show up. I exported out the .dcr file and it shows up on the preview test; however, when it is live the .mov files don't display audio or video.I have all the files that are associated with it uploaded online and Im sure thats not the issue. Does anyone have any suggestions to fix the problem??? [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 Any idea?
You might want to explore integrating flash content within Director for this. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sasa Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 5:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l Any idea? I want to make one CD ROM project - dinamic map of the city with city objects which are shown dinamicly on the map from database.(Valentina). I have a problem how to make map of the city with zoom option. Is it one big image or to make it from many small images, or something else. I have done similar thing with one image and one object. In database I store x and y location of object and then position a marker sprite on selected object. If i have more objects to show, how to make n-markers? I can draw oval on bitmap but there is a problem to detect mouse click on one of them and which one and call display_more_information function or miaw. Did someone have done something similar or have idea how to do this? Thanks, and sorry for my english Alex [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 Sound recognition and comparison
Hi Mindy, Going by my experience with the masters, in most cases, the problem can be broken down to something quite straight forward. TAG v1 that appears at the very end of the file is a 128byte structure. The 127th byte refers to Genre. Genre is used to broadly describe the kind of music encoded in the files. Eg: Death Metal, Punk, Metal, Black Metal, etc. To me, this information, in a way, gives me an idea of the rhythm and pace of the music. If you are looking at Tag v2, look for the TCON frame identifier. My suggestion would be for you to do look for files with similar genre settings...even if Director does not give u access to this info directly, you could go in for straight forward binary data handling...shouldn't be too much of a hassle :) You could also check with you TA/Prof on this... Hope this helps Cheers/Anand -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Buzz Kettles Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 1:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l Sound recognition and comparison At 8:24 PM -0500 11/25/03, you wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm in a director course at Purdue, and my professor has just assigned my group a new project. It seems impossible to me (especially since we have 2 weeks to do it), but I'm hoping someone can give me some direction. Our task is to create a player to stream MP3's that works with digital rights management and allows users to search for songs that sound similar to the one they are listening to in terms of rhythm pace. It's the sound recognition that has me stumped. I believe id3v2 contains BPM that I could reference, but I didn't think it was possible to read anything but v1 tags in director. If anyone could point me to some references, I would really appreciate the help. So far, I can't find anything. Thank you in advance! :) Cheers, Mindy [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: Sound recognition and comparison
snip My professor said comparing songs by genre tags is not an option. His expectation for the scope of this project is basically the sound equivalent of image recognition in director. snip The only other parallel I can think of is the audio analysis tool that I worked on about 2 years back. Take a quick look at Fourier transformations. It just might do the trick for you. Cheers/Anand [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 DVD Creation
If I understand you correctly, it mean I can create an interactive title in Director and burn it on a DVD (iso format?) for it to work on the DVD drive on my system. as before - no this is NOT possible - (largely because DVD players are quite limited in what they can do) I believe he was referring to the DVD-ROM drive in his computer; if this is the case, then, yes, you can burn it on an ISO DVD. It's probably best, however, to use the UDF format instead of ISO. Not all systems support ISO DVD-ROMs, and since UDF is the format created specifically for DVDs, it's the best format to use. Yes I was referring to the DVD drive on the computer. To clarify more on what I have in mind - the application that I am developing is fundamentally a search engine. I'm planning to use a DVD only because the data size is really large 1.5GB+. Regards, Anand Ravi [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 PDF CLASS for creating PDF with lingo
Amazing effort! Much appreciated. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Valentin Schmidt Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 9:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l PDF CLASS for creating PDF with lingo hi list, inspired by the daniel nelsons's approach, I've created another lingo parent script (class) for creating PDF files with pure lingo (only depends on fileIO xtra). It supports embedding of images and custom fonts, and works on both platforms. Instead of reinventing the wheel, I've translated an existing PHP class, FPDF by Olivier Plathey, (almost) line by line to lingo (which was still quite a lot of work, really need sleep now :-). A first version can be downloaded from: http://dasdeck.de/staff/valentin/pdf_class/pdf_class_v1.zip Included in the zip is a demo.dir (+demo shockwave projector for windows), some documentation and some other stuff. thanx in advance for your feedback, valentin [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 HTML and email
Dear co-listers, I am working on a Project and i´m facing a problem. In my app i have to send an email through Director. The point is i could not find how to do this. I know i can put a link mailto into Lingo, but that would open my email clien and what i want is to send the mail via Lingo, without outlook, OE ar any other app getting in the way, so, is there a way to open a network connection and send the email via Lingo?, do i need an Xtra? Which one? (so many questions...). The other thing is i have to send an HTML mail. Regarding this, i think i can compose the HTML code using text and variables and assigning the whole thing to a HUGE variable something like the_mail=html$mail_codehtml, is this approach correct. If i use images, should i attach the images to the mail? How do i do this?, ´cause i don´t want to to have to download something over the net in order to see the pics (again, so many questions...) Your best bet would be to write a server-side script to send out the email formatted as HTML. You can use Lingo to pass the text to the server-side script if necessary. You might want to look for email components if ur email traffice is going to be really high...eg sending bulk mail, etc.. Regards, Anand Ravi [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 'Failure while compositing bitmap member' errormessage
Has anyone ever gotten this error message: 'Internal error: Unexpected failure while compositing bitmap member 7 of PLAYER-CAST 1' The technote (http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/sw_error.htm) says it's the result of a sound.playFile command. But when this occurs for me, I'm just queueing it up. More accurately I believe it's the result of a corrupted sound *member*. Try getting rid of/replacing that sound. I get that when setting the filename of a sound on the fly, to a sound that doesn't exist at the pathname I specify. If your sound is linked or being set on the fly, perhaps the preload is giving a positive even though the sound isn't there. Another possibility: before creating the projector, clear the path name from the swa member. This has caused problems for me. [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 ActiveX Control
I'm trying to create an interface using column header like in Outlook Express (pc)- the from, Subject, etc.. resizable and sortable column headers. Is there an ActiveX component for this? Or, has anybody seen a good (or even better) solution for handling several columns of text? I don't mind recreating the wheel (I've got a recreated boat full of recreated wheels), but if I don't have to... The best option would be create ur own ActiveX control. The datagrid control should be of use to you. Regards, Anand Ravi [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 Antispam UOL?
Yes. - Original Message - From: grimmwerks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lingo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 9:29 AM Subject: lingo-l Antispam UOL? Is anyone else getting those annoying spanish 'click here to make sure this email isn't spam' messages for posting to lingo-l? Much like I'll get after this one...? [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 external text files in flash and then director.
Hi all, Here's my question. Currently I am working on a project, where the client wants to have external text files loaded into flash together with pictures, and then put into director 8. I've tried, but it doesn't seem to work. Does anyone had experience with a similar task? I've been able to embed flash 5 files in D8. These swf's in turn load external text files. Please check if the location of the text files is correct. Regards, Anand Ravi [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 Protect content outside Director
Another thought is to use BuddyAPI to use xor based encryption/decryption...u can distribute the encrypted media on the CD and decrypt it on the fly in a temporary location... - Original Message - From: Valentin Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 3:10 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l Protect content outside Director just an addendum to the binaryIO suggestion, there is a detailed description and lingo code for this under http://www.updatestage.com/previous/981101.html grimmwerks wrote: I remember someone once using the BinaryIO xtra to save the beginning headers of video elsewhere, and combining on the fly, so that the videos when played outside of director would break. [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!] [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 dcr security
My thoughts exactlyam planning to increase security checking if the dcr is playing from a particular url...if not I will delete the contents of the castlib.need to figure out how best this can be implemented though. Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi - Original Message - From: Daniel Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 10:05 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l dcr security There is a forthcoming Encryption Xtra from SmartPants Media that I highly recommend. Unfortunately, it sounds like you want to protect content from being stolen by the user from within an app that displays that content to the user. I believe there is no way you will ever achieve this. If the player app can display the content, then the user viewing the content has access to the decryption scheme...that will always be a security hole. Data can only be secured en route to its intended audience. If you can give the audience a public key, then you can prevent others from intercepting it, but you won't be able to stop them from stealing that data. You can make it difficult to access, but if the data were desirable enough, it could be accessed without brute force. Regards, 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 dcr security
Thank you all for your inputs..specially Valentin and Thomas... I was wondering if I should author the content is dirctor and use some sophesticated encryption algorithms to encrypt the dcrs and develop a rendering emgine that will decrypt the dcr's and display them...my next project may involve very sensitive data and data security will be a critical concern... I'm wondering if Macromedia should come up with a security extension for their products Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi - Original Message - From: Thomas Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 9:10 PM Subject: RE: lingo-l dcr security Valentin already covered the big parts, yes you can extract media from DCRs but you cannot extract script text. I did want to add one thing: An embedded swf will not be directly available in the ache, but can get extracted from the dcr/cct as entioned above. It's key to note that if you use a linked external Flash cast member then yes, that external SWF file can get downloaded to the browser's cache. If you use an internal member then the SWF is available as a Director cast member only, there's no export to SWF in Director (in case that makes your client feel any safer). Cheers, Tom Higgins Product Specialist - Director Team Macromedia ... [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 dcr security
Hi List, A question on dcr security. My client has a lot of valuble content that needs to be distributed over the web. however, he wants to ensure that it is not easy for anyone to get the content. This is one of the chief reasons for not opting for Flash given that the swf file format is an open format. Are there any commercial decompilers available that can work with dcr's? How accurate are they? An extension to the question is if I embed some swf in the cast and distribute the contnet, will the swf be avaiable as such in the cache? Am experimenting on these issues now. Any thoughts will be highly appreciated. Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi [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 Autorun
Hi everyone, I was wondering if there is a way to know within a projector if the CD-ROM has the autorun, or autoplay capabilities enabled. You could lok for the presense of the file autorun.inf in the root (on windows) to check if the CD-ROM is autorun enabled. You will need to look for a similar file for Mac. Regards, Anand Ravi [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 Acrobat installer.
I remember that there was a form that needs to be filled in before distributing Acrobat Reader. But that's about the only things Adobe wld require. Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi - Original Message - From: Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 7:43 AM Subject: Re: lingo-l Acrobat installer. My concern there is about Adobe's Licensing Cops. Do they send them after you for doing that, or is it kosher with them? (Never tried it myself; I'm basically too chicken. ;) On Saturday, Sep 6, 2003, at 20:31 America/Chicago, Stephen Ingrum wrote: ... basically, install Acrobat onto the CD, and then when my users need to view a PDF- ... From: Diego Landro [EMAIL PROTECTED] What i have done whenever i needed to use acrobat i just sent it bundled with the CD. ... Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com/director_beginners_guide/ [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 DIR -- FLASH comm problem...
So basically intstead of calling a function, I set a variable in my #flash member and in the swf have an MC that checks (kind of enter frame) and if not empty do this or that and then call the function?? Yes. I actually had 2 variables say _root.gstrAction and _root.gblnProcess. gstrAction is initialized to null and gblnProcess is set to false. Whenever I need to execute a speciifc action from D, I will set the gstrAction variable to the action required and then set the gblnProcerss variable to true. The MC in flash will monitor the gblnProcess variable and the moment it is set to true perform the required action based and reset the gblnProcess variable to false. This may not be the best soln. but it worked for me and my client was happy with the performance. Any other similar solutions to the problem?? I'll need to check my other implementations - but I'm not sure they are very generic. Regards, Anand Ravi [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 playing wmv files
Thanks Mathew and Valentin for your thoughts...I am now experimenting with the vplayer sprite xtra from penworks Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi - Original Message - From: Mathew Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 8:49 PM Subject: RE: lingo-l playing wmv files I think Tab mentioned at one point that Penworks did one as well. May want to check the archives or the table of products at updatestage.com ~Mathew -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Valentin Schmidt Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 10:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l playing wmv files hi anand, you could check MediaPlayer Xtra from http://www.starsoftmultimedia.com/ you might also try to use the WindowsMediaPlayer directly as ActiveX-Control without an xtra. regards, valentin Anand Ravi wrote: Hi List, I need to play a number wmv files (audio and video) as part of the CD content. This I have successfully done. I have experimented with 2 xtras but both have their own problems. 1. xMedia xtra from dvelectric - I am unable to set the video position using lingo. The moment I set the video position, the entire video freezes. 2. Streaming Media Xtra from Tabuleiro - This xtra seems to be good except that the audio breaks. Any thoughts will be highly appreciated. Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi [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!] [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 playing wmv files
Hi List, I need to play a number wmv files (audio and video) as part of the CD content. This I have successfully done. I have experimented with 2 xtras but both have their own problems. 1. xMedia xtra from dvelectric - I am unable to set the video position using lingo. The moment I set the video position, the entire video freezes. 2. Streaming Media Xtra from Tabuleiro - This xtra seems to be good except that the audio breaks. Any thoughts will be highly appreciated. Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi [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 deleting from a text file with fileIO
Original Message - From: Daniel Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 10:33 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l deleting from a text file with fileIO Oops. Thanks for correcting me. Regards, Daniel Kerry Thompson wrote: Don't delete and create again, just open in write mode (or read/write) and start writing with the file pointer at 0. Actually, that won't shorten the file. It will write the new stuff, and leave old stuff in the rest of the file. You need to delete it and write it again. It's a known issue with fileIO. I don't have time to look up the call, but explicitly delete it before you try to create it. You can use the 'delete' method of the fileio xtra to explicitly delete the file. Eg: delete(myObj) [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 DIR -- FLASH comm problem...
Hi! On an earlier project, I had to integrate flash and director. From director, I set the value of a specific variable to a predefined value using the setvariable command. In flash I had a movieclip that would process the values of the specific variable and take appropriate action accordingly. This may not be the best soln. but it worked for me and my client was happy with the performance. Hope this helps. Regards, Anand Ravi [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 MIAW image rects
Hi! I am not sure if this will work - but u might want to consider cropping the image after taking the screen shot. Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi - Original Message - From: Bruce Mitchener [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 2:42 AM Subject: lingo-l MIAW image rects Hello, I have an application that runs inside of an MIAW. We allow the user to resize the window. When we transition from one portion of the app to another, there are often 2 frames worth of mess on screen while things get destroyed, created, loaded from disk, LDMs are loading, 3D members creating themselves, etc. To make that look pretty, we have a freeze frame script that sits up around sprite 990 and takes a snapshot of the window and then puts that on top of everything while the ugly things happen underneath. The problem is that the snapshot of the window never changes from 1024x768, which is the stage size of the movie loaded into that MIAW. The code is just doing this pretty much: pMe.member.image = gTargetWindow.image pMe.loc = .. where pMe = sprite(me.spriteNum). If I look at the gTargetWindow.rect, it is correct, but gTargetWindow.image.rect never budges from 1024x768. This seems to be the case if (within the context of that movie) I set (the stage).rect to be something else (like gTargetWindow.rect). Someone else has suggested that I could set the movie size to be the largest that we allow the window to be and that that might work .. but that seems like it'd lead to our app using even more memory and it already needs to go on a serious diet. I've tried putting something like this in our resizeWindow handler: (the stage).rect = gTargetWindow.rect but, while that doesn't seem to do anything harmful, it also does nothing beneficial in the way of solving my problem. gTargetWindow.image.rect remains 1024x768. Setting the movie size at authoring time does change the value of gTargetWindow.image.rect, but I can't seem to get that value to change at runtime in response to the user resizing the window. Is there some sort of reasonable way to get this to work? Thanks in advance for any help or advice, - 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!] [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 Active Desktop
Also, I am trying to find a website which described using VBScript and JScript from within Director using shell32 and rundll32. does anyone know the URL for this site? You can use the externalEvent command to communicate with the browser. From Director i.e. shockwave, raise the externalEvent command and pass the action required as a string. In the browser, you can parse the string and carry out the appropriate action. If you are using a Windows Projector, then it might be simpler to embed an ActiveX control in the movie to work with the dlls. Regards, Anand Ravi [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 Fooling Windows
Is there a way in Director, if the user has NOT interacted with my CD-ROM program to create some type of an event, so Windows does not go into screensaver mode? You might want to take a look at BuddiAPI. [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 how to comunicate serial port
Hi all, I am working on smart card. I wanted to know how to comunicate thru serial port using Lingo? There is a serial port xtra that might help you. Regards, Anand Ravi [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 search pdf files
Sorry to ask such a simple question, but why don't you use the Very Extensive text searching facilities built into Acrobat? Acrobat can do full text searching over single files or large indexs of files. To convert the PDF to Director or XML would be a complete waste of time. Download a demo copy of Acrobat ( not the reader but the full version) and take a look at it's capabilities. Thnks for the info. On previous occasions I have used adobe catalog. But, this time round, my clients is insisting on specific ways to search, rank the search results, and display the search results. I fully understand that this would involve duplicating the content 100%, but I don't see any other way. Any thoughts will be really helpful. Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi [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 SCORM and Shockwave files
Hi List, I have DCR files which will invoke in a browser using HTML file. To make this work in SCORM compliance LMS what changes to be done and how can it be done can anyone give me info regardingplz. Plz give me sample(if anyone already have) or references. Check out the relevant docs at www.adlnet.org . The IMS website also has some good information. Check for the level of support provided by the LMS for scorm. Regards, Anand Ravi [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 Anyone know a good Flash list? - like lingo-L! and a Flash question...
1) Do you happen to know a good list with Action-script programmers? Preferably exactly like lingo-L but for AS... (I've tried the Flash-Kit ones) The web based newsgroup on macromedia.com is quite good. You might want to try the group on figleaf as well. 3) Is there a way to search through every object on stage, or (even better) the whole movie, for setting a few properties? - Pretty much like you would in Lingo, looping through all the members or sprites. (I want to set all the text to selectable on a site with about 200 Flash movies.) From my intermediate experiance with Flash, I don't think this is possible - though u might find answers on the flash list. The way I see Flash is that it was never meant to be used for powerful programmingbut its kind of evolved into one Regards, Anand Ravi [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 search pdf files
Hi List, I am starting off on a project where the client is coverting books into pdf and supplying to us. I need to provide extensive search capabilities. There are approx. 7,00,000 pages. I did a bit experimenting with v12, pdf xtra, etc but the results are not completely satisfactory. The indexing process needs to be changed for custom searches such as proximity searches (x within n terms of y). Also, Google type search result listing is required. I am now wondering if I should convert the pdf text into xml/text and use them for searching. The aim of this project is to develop a CD-ROM. Any pointers will be highly appreciated. Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi [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 when/why is pupperSprite necessary?
Easiest thing for me is to simply avoid such oddities by swapping like member types. I've worked on a project where I've placed a number of blank bitmaps on the score and swapped them with text, bitmap, and flash members on the fly based on user action. I've used this in D 7, 8, and 8.5. My bet is that if you try the swapping with a blank bitmap it will work. (This might be a little clumsy though! But u can avoid using puppetsprite.) Regards, Anand Ravi [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 active x
Also does any one know where on microsofts site ( or anywhere else for that matter) there is documentataion for the web browser active x control. Lee Blinco Check out the MSDN section. [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 when/why is pupperSprite necessary?
But this simple sequence no longer works for me (in projector or in authoring). After the second command, I still see the text on the stage, even though the Message window tells me the sprite's member is a bitmap: Try using just the updatestage command without using puppetsprite. sprite(1).member = member(MyText, Texts) sprite(1).member = member(MyBitmap, Bitmaps) updateStage My bet is that this should work. Regards, Anand Ravi [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 Dictionary Search - conceptual/approach issues
So, I look to you all for any other ideas or concepts. Given the size of the book she's converting, I'd rather like to avoid me or her typing in all 16,000+ terms, but without a definitive list of what's contained in the book I can't see how to test if the search term would exist or not. Hope this makes sense! You could try to standardize the conversion process and write a quick tool to create the index. For example in one of my projects here's what I did. I developed a cast member naming convention something like cstTxtTerms1, cstTxtTerms2, etc. Each cast member contained a lot of text a term and its definition. Each term-definition pair will constitute a paragraph and the terms and their definitions are seperated by a ~~ sign. The cast member naming convention also mapped to the frame labels. I then wrote a quick a tool to go through each cast member and build the index. Hope this helps. Regards, Anand Ravi [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 Filename, path and other
Everytime I rename the root folder (where the two other folders are) or change from mac to pc, the link to the images stops working. Use relative paths. That should solve your problem. Check out @ or the moviepath. Regards, Anand Ravi [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 MIAW and script error
My closer is in a button in the MIAW: on mouseUp me close(the activeWindow) forget(the activeWindow) tell (the Stage) to go to frame 5 end The issue, I think, is with the closer function. Close the miaw from the main window/movie. When the close button is clicked pass the name of the window to the main movie as a parameter and invoke a custom handler to close miaw windows. Regards, Anand Ravi [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 loop every hour
Hi list, How can I implement an script to run every hour. I need to download (downloadnetthing) some files and this files are updated in this interval. The download is not a problem, but I can't figure out a way to do the loop, and most important without slowing down the entire app. Use the timeout object. That should do the trick! [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 MIAW and script error
The issue, I think, is with the closer function. Close the miaw from the main window/movie. When the close button is clicked pass the name of the window to the main movie as a parameter and invoke a custom handler to close miaw windows. If I understand you right, that won't work either. If you call a handler in the main movie, it still has to return to the MIAW, which is gone. There are two effective ways of closing a MIAW that I know of: 1. Set a global in the main movie--something like gCloseMiawNow--and check it in a frame event handler. 2. Call a handler in the main movie that creates a timeOut object. That timeOut object then closes the MIAW. Both of these methods allow the call to return to the MIAW before it goes away. If there are other methods, I'd love to hear about them. Thanks for the info Kerry. :) [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:Re: Design Help
Hi List, Thank you all very much for your help. It is highly appreciated. Off late more and more of my clients want to package HTML/XML content in D - Specially now that XML is gaining acceptance. Wish macromedia would come up with some sort of a universal container that could seamlessly handle this sorta content! Huge volumes of this sorta content! :) Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi - Original Message - From: grimmwerks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 12:04 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l RE:Re: Design Help Yeah that'd be great for us macheads. I'm actually running into this problem right now - I've got a chm I'd like to see on the mac. No go. I've got to decompile it on the pc into a website (losing bookmarks) and then use acrobat to make it a pdf. Ugly. On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 01:12 AM, Bharath wrote: Maybe we can give a thought to Microsoft CHM (compiled html format) also [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 Error I haven't seen before
At 18:24 2003-07-16, Howdy-Tzi wrote: On Wednesday, Jul 16, 2003, at 19:49 America/Chicago, Mark A. Boyd wrote: At 12:53 2003-07-16, Kurt Griffin wrote: The application can not start as it cannot create needed files. There may not be enough free disk space. Another possibility is that if you've created a Standard projector, it still needs to unpack the .dll files to the temp folder. This /may/ cause problems for users with restricted access. But why would the error happen on duplicated CDs, but not with the duplication master? It doesn't make much sense, does it? There must be something abnormal going on at the duplication center. Or something odd about the CD-R burning software or drive? I would probably try a different dupe house, burn a CD from a different machine with different software, and/or try a shocked projector - given time and budget anyway. If they're like my local dupe center, they handle short runs in-house and out-source large quantity orders. Once in a while I get an error report from a large run order if there is the slightest flaw on the CD-R. I wonder if there might be a slight flaw that gets amplified somehow in the duplication process? Just a single bit that forces that error. I faced a similar problem recently - and couldn't figure out what the problem was. So I ended up resending the Master - just refixed the CD-R and created the iso image once again. That kinda solved all issues. Best Regards, Anand Ravi [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 Design Help
Hi List, Am designing a CD that will be shipped with the print version of an international medical journal. Challenges: - Extensive searching including word, phrase, proximity - Each article is abt 75 pages (in MS Word) - Tables of data needs to be represented - Final data will not be avail. until 3 weeks of market release - Greek / unicode characters to be supported Am currently using D 8.5. Am thinking of upgrading to MX. Can D be used for this? Will appreciate any thoughts from you all. Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi [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 Strange strings?
put a+1 -- 59472945 put A+1 -- 4791765 Is it shows the ASCII summed values no way that can be ascii values (otherwise u should have got 98 or 66). my best bet is that it has something to with memory addresses. Regards, Anand Ravi [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 Event Order
Thanks a lot for this info Kerry. I am sure this come in useful for a lot of us. :) Here's something that may be useful: the definitive event order. First the results: -- PrepareMovie -- New frame -- Begin frame -- New Sprite 1 -- Begin Sprite 1 -- New Sprite 2 -- Begin Sprite 2 -- PrepareFrame. Sprite 1 -- PrepareFrame. Sprite 2 -- Prepare frame -- StartMovie -- EnterFrame. Sprite 1 -- EnterFrame. Sprite 2 -- Enter Frame -- ExitFrame. Sprite 1 -- ExitFrame. Sprite 2 -- Exit Frame -- End frame -- PrepareFrame. Sprite 1 -- PrepareFrame. Sprite 2 -- EnterFrame. Sprite 1 -- EnterFrame. Sprite 2 -- ExitFrame. Sprite 1 -- ExitFrame. Sprite 2 -- stopMovie -- end frame script -- End Sprite 1 -- End Sprite 2 First, the movie script: on prepareMovie put PrepareMovie end on startMovie put StartMovie end on stopMovie put stopMovie End Then a frame behavior in frame 1: on beginSprite me put Begin frame end on endSprite me put End frame end on new me put New frame end on prepareFrame me put Prepare frame end on enterFrame me put Enter Frame end on exitFrame me put Exit Frame End Essentially the same behavior on sprites in channels 1 and 2, except they report their sprite number instead of stuff like new frame. And finally, a script on frame 2: n endSprite me put end frame script end on exitFrame me halt End Hope this comes in handy for somebody. Cordially, Kerry Thompson [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 browser embeded inside director
You can only call the functions exposed by the ActiveX control using lingo. You can also capture the events raised by the control and perform custom processing. In case you need sophesticated interaction, you might wish to create your own control. How would I do that, where can I find resources and what skills would I need? You can create ActiveX controls using VB or VC. VB may be easier though. There are quite a few free tutorials available on the web that detail the development of ActiveX controls. Just remember that ActiveX controls work on the win32 platform only. Regards, Anand Ravi [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 phantom scripts?
Hi! There could be another instance of the script in one of the casts. Try to search for it. This has happened previouly to me!! Regards, Anand Ravi - Original Message - From: Tab Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 5:11 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l phantom scripts? Try the recompile all scripts off of the Modify menu (I think). At 06:47 AM 6/27/03, Fletcher Moore wrote: Hi all, I've got a problem: 1) I've got a movie script that is linked to a bunch of different director apps. One app, however, needs a slightly altered version of said script. 2) So, in the troublesome app, I deleted the script from the cast list and re-imported it as standard instead of linked. 3) Then I made changes to the newly imported script. Strangely, none of the changes seemed to be having any effect. Indeed, it did not seem to notice the new script. 4) On a whim, I deleted the new script. The app continued to function as though the script was *still there.* (technically, it functioned as if the original linked script was still there). 5) Nothing I do seems to make this phantom script go away. I'm facing a major deadline, and this is really making me sweat. Any ideas? Thanks, cw [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 browser embeded inside director
Hi! Assuming that you have placed the web browser control on sprite 5, Call 'navigate(sprite 5, www.google.com)' or whichever url you want to display. Regards, Anand Ravi - Original Message - From: Prasis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 3:28 PM Subject: lingo-l browser embeded inside director Hi, I saw that browser can be embded inside the director. I had tried to do that but I cannot find the way. Can anybody help me to do so.(calling html file and displaying inside the stage) thank you prasis [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 Multiuser Xtra and databases
A quick question: How will Director know when perl has completed execution? Background: On click of a button, I will execute a perl exe (win32) to manipulate an XML file and once it is done, I display the XML file within Director. How do you call this perl exe in Dirctor? getNetText()? If so, you can use netDone(pNetID) on exitFrame to check if it's done. on mouseUp me pNetID = getNetText(link to your perl file) end on exitFrame if netDone(pNetID) = true then if netError(pNetID) = ok then do something else do another end if end if end Hope this help! Yachun =) Thanks a lot for the help! [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 Multiuser Xtra and databases
i'd check Yachun's email sent just prior to yours. are these xml files local? if all you're doing is text manipulation, why don't you just stay native to director? why use perl at all? not that it's any my business - your prerogative if you want to use perl. needing more coffee, evan Hello Evan, The content displayed in the CD also needs to be ported to the web with minimal effort, which is why I figured using perl might have an edge over staying navite to director. Best Regards, Anand Ravi Anand Ravi wrote: is that really the case? if the solution involves ASP, you're probably right, you need a webserver. but php, perl, and the like are actually separate executables that you could include (1. the distribution licenses are pretty loose if i remember, and 2. all the perl executables and lib that come in the distro i have are 13MB - good enough to include on a cd) A quick question: How will Director know when perl has completed execution? Background: On click of a button, I will execute a perl exe (win32) to manipulate an XML file and once it is done, I display the XML file within Director. Any pointers will be highly appreciated. Best Regards, Anand Ravi [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 Multiuser Xtra and databases
Hi! I remember reading about a java xtra. You might want to check it out. Best Regards, Anand Ravi [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 browser cache
Hi! Set content to expire immediately. I've done it in IIS. Best Regards, Anand Ravi - Original Message - From: Jussi Jokinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 7:07 PM Subject: lingo-l browser cache Hi! This is quite a general question, but essential in the terms of Shockwave production: How can I flush every single piece of cache there is in IE? I've tried: - F5 - reload - CTRL + F5 - reload from server - Settings advanced check newer version on every visit - Delete all offline content Still changes I've made into my shockwave movies doesn't seem to update. Is this client problem or server problem?? Jussi Jokinen [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 browser cache
Though I've not used this method, you could append a unique parameter to the url every time u access the url. Easiest is to use date/time combinations. This should fool the browser to load from the server everytime. Of course - the parameter will not be used at all. Best Regards, Anand Ravi - Original Message - From: Colin Holgate [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 8:38 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l browser cache You didn't try: Settings Web Browser Advanced Cache - Empty Now It may be different on some versions, I understand that it may be in General, and something to do with deleting Files. [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 Multiuser Xtra and databases
is that really the case? if the solution involves ASP, you're probably right, you need a webserver. but php, perl, and the like are actually separate executables that you could include (1. the distribution licenses are pretty loose if i remember, and 2. all the perl executables and lib that come in the distro i have are 13MB - good enough to include on a cd) A quick question: How will Director know when perl has completed execution? Background: On click of a button, I will execute a perl exe (win32) to manipulate an XML file and once it is done, I display the XML file within Director. Any pointers will be highly appreciated. Best Regards, Anand Ravi [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 tell when importFileInto is done?
Is there a way to tell when importFileInto is done? I looked into preloadnetthing, but I am not downloading from the internet. Hi! I once had to load some dynamic text from text files. I used a combination of preloadnetthing and importfileinto. The results were satisfactory - though I have not tried it with graphic files. My hunch is that it should work. Regards, Anand Ravi [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 Image manipulation
Hi List, I have a number of images for which I am writing custom copy print functions. For each of the images, I have seperate copyright information that needs to be added to image when it is copied or printed. The copyright infomration is in text format. Any ideas will be really appreciated. Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi [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 Image manipulation
Sorry folks! Managed to do it! :) Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi - Original Message - From: Anand Ravi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:17 PM Subject: lingo-l Image manipulation Hi List, I have a number of images for which I am writing custom copy print functions. For each of the images, I have seperate copyright information that needs to be added to image when it is copied or printed. The copyright infomration is in text format. Any ideas will be really appreciated. Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi [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 Selectable Text
On Friday, Jun 13, 2003, at 09:35 America/Chicago, Anand Ravi wrote: For text, I need to enable text selection for a custom copy operation - anything copied should copy with the copyright line. The default text cast member properties do not seem to have this functionality - which is available in flash! But this approach seems too tedious. Which approach? I was going to suggest perhaps embedding a Flash sprite that does it for you. However with #text members you can look at things such as 'the selection' and 'selectedText', and perhaps append data to that. I think I will go ahead with the flash sprite thing. It seems to be the simplest approach. I then tried to embed the web browser control. But nothing shows up except a blank white screen. How would a Web browser control assist in the functionality you want? The content is primarily in HTML format. That way I can deliver the content without repackaging the content in D. Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi [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 RM's CC2 and CC3 Networks
Hi List, I have this client req that the CD-ROMs I am currently developing should run on RMs CC2 and CC3 networks. RM is a leading IT provider in the UK. Apparantly there is no compliance guide available - I got this info direct from RMs support exec! Does anybody have any idea about this? Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi [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 MIAW(move ball from miaw)
Hi! Use the tell for this. tell the stage -- your code end tell Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi - Original Message - From: nitin sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 4:41 PM Subject: lingo-l MIAW(move ball from miaw) hi all can anybody tell me how i can control main stage from a miaw example : if i have A = main stage and B second miaw i want if i click on a button which is in the B(second miaw). then one ball should move five pixl.which in main stage(A) is there any way to do this. regards nitin __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.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!] [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 Selectable Text
Hi List, I have a lot of HTML/XML data sets that I need to publish within Director. Target platform is win 95 upwards. For text, I need to enable text selection for a custom copy operation - anything copied should copy with the copyright line. The default text cast member properties do not seem to have this functionality - which is available in flash! But this approach seems too tedious. I then tried to embed the web browser control. But nothing shows up except a blank white screen. Any pointers will be really helpful. Any other way to display HTML/XML content directly? Also the D8.5 xml parser does not seem to be really sophesticated. Has there been any enhancements to the parser in D MX? Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi [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 Cross Platform Equalizer
Hi! I am not sure of how useful this will be. But then here goes: the swa format is fundamentally of the mp3 format. You can rename the swa files as mp3 and hey - you've got mp3 files. You can then probably import the files into some sophesticated audio editing software and tweak the file for best performance. Hope this is of some use! Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi - Original Message - From: Joshua Race [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 7:39 PM Subject: lingo-l Cross Platform Equalizer I have a cross platform CD which has a bunch of swa's, some of which are pretty poorly recorded, so I want to give the user an EQ to tweak for listening. The only solution I've come up with yet is to use DirectSound Xtra for the PC side and find something similar for the macany ideas ? Thanks, Josh [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 text
Hi! You can do this using the scrollbyline command for this. member(myText).scrollbyline(5) -- will scroll down by 5 lines Regards, Anand Ravi - Original Message - From: Liz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 8:23 PM Subject: lingo-l text Hi, I have some scrollable text in a window and would like to be able to start the text half way through the text field. What I am actually trying to do is to place a hyperlink in the top part of the text and have it jump down to another location further down in the text. Any idea how I can do this in lingo? Thanks Liz [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 French, German, Greek text in the same field.
Another way to accomplish this is to embed the text in flash and import the flash movies. Flash supports unicode text. I am not sure if Flash 5 supports unicode though. Have you done that successfully, Anand, with characters beyond the ISO 8859.1 range? My understanding is that it won't work because of Director's lack of Unicode support, but I'll admit I haven't tried it. It would be nice if it did. Flash 5 does support Unicode, I believe. Cordially, Kerry Thompson Hi Kerry, I have not tried it personally - but I did find some technotes on the macromedia site suggesting this approach. My bet is that it should work. Regards, Anand Ravi [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 from variable to script
Hi! The easiest thing would be to traverse the list line by line and add the lines to the text member. This way you can format the contents anyway you want. Hope this helps. Regards, Anand Ravi - Original Message - From: Jussi Jokinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 1:17 PM Subject: lingo-l from variable to script Hi list! I have a big list in a global variable, say gList. In authoring environment I want to copy this run-time-generated list into script. However, if I use put gList in message window and copy that text into script, all the line breaks go wrong and list is no longer valid. How can I prevent this from happening? Is there a different approach for this problem? BR, Jussi Jokinen [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 French, German, Greek text in the same field.
Hi! The easiest way to do this is to embed the fonts and copy paste the text from word into the Director Text cast member. You will need to reset the font to the embedded font. It works fineI used this mtd to package content in japanese as well as local indian languages. Regards, Anand Ravi - Original Message - From: Takis Tsougrianis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 2:03 PM Subject: lingo-l French, German, Greek text in the same field. Hello all, I'm trying to display french, german and greek characters in the same director field and the application has to play in Windows and Mac. I have the text in Microsoft Word(Windows) and it looks fine(using the Arial Unicode font), but when i import it in Director it's giving me problems. I haven't tried to embed a font able to display all the characters at the same time. Is there anyone knowing a solution for this? (I'm using an English system(Win2000, Director 8.5) but i've tried in Greek system and the problem remains). Any help will be greatly appreciated, Cordially, Takis Tsougrianis [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 French, German, Greek text in the same field.
I'm trying to display french, german and greek characters in the same director field and the application has to play in Windows and Mac. I have the text in Microsoft Word(Windows) and it looks fine(using the Arial Unicode font), but when i import it in Director it's giving me problems. I haven't tried to embed a font able to display all the characters at the same time. Is there anyone knowing a solution for this? (I'm using an English system(Win2000, Director 8.5) but i've tried in Greek system and the problem remains). Hi Takis, First of all, Director doesn't support Unicode. You'll need to use standard ANSI and Mac fonts. A little background on fonts. The International Standards Organization has published standards for several character sets in its 8859 standard. There are ten sets--8859.1 is Latin-1, used for most Western European Languages, and corresponds with Windows' ANSI character set. 8859.5 defines the Cyrillic character set, 8859.6 is for Arabic, and 8859.7 is used for Greek--bingo!. You should have no problems with French and German, because they use the same encoding, and the same code page, as English. The problem you'll run into is that Greek fonts usually use code page 1253, and if you're running on an English system, you're using code page 1252. That means that, effectively, Director won't see the Greek characters. The best solution I've found is to get a Greek font for code page 1252. They are available, or you could use something like Fontographer to create your own. Hope this helps. Cordially, Kerry Thompson Another way to accomplish this is to embed the text in flash and import the flash movies. Flash supports unicode text. I am not sure if Flash 5 supports unicode though. Regards, Anand Ravi [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 Including Flash asset
This is probably an age-old question, but still: I'm getting this This application requires an Xtra (Vector Shape) that either does not exist or failed to initialize properly - message with a shockwave movie containing vector elements. Hi, Just wondering... did your shockwave plugin update itself recently? My PC recently updated its shockwave plugin and broke something (the Flash Xtra I think) - no Flash or vector members would draw properly and I got an error message about a missing Xtra... I had to un-install Shockwave and re-install it again. A real pain. Just wondering if anyone else experienced this? Luke Hi Luke, I remember having a similar experience. It was quite sometime back though. Anand Ravi [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 Getting rid of hypertext underline
Hi! You need to deselect the use hypertext styles cast member property. You can then use a custom behaviour to capture the hyperlink clicked event. Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi - Original Message - From: Andrew Dempsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 7:11 PM Subject: lingo-l Getting rid of hypertext underline Hi all, Does anyone know how to get rid of the underline in the hypertextstyles, but otherwise keep the use hypertext styles features working? I think I read someone talking about this before, but can't find it anywhere in any archives. Thanks, Andrew - Andrew Dempsey ICT and Education Consultant Cairo, Egypt [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.andrewdempsey.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.487 / Virus Database: 286 - Release Date: 6/1/2003 [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!] [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: Re: lingo-l Getting rid of hypertext underline
Hi Andrew! I remember implementing the same thing once for a CD. It was in D 8.5 though. I'll check and send u a sample soon. Very broadly, I remember creating a property list of the hyperlink data on prepareframe. On mousemove and on mouseup I retrived the number of the char over which the mouse is (pointToChar)and parsed through the property list to get the hyperlink. As for (b), I wrote a behaviour which is something like this: global gLinkList property pSpriteNum, pPrevState, pCurrentState on beginsprite me pSpriteNum = me.spritenum pPrevState = NF pCurrentState = NF end on exitframe pPrevState = pCurrentState mousePoint = the mouseLoc currentMember = sprite(pSpriteNum).member charNum = sprite(pSpriteNum).pointToChar(mousePoint) repeat with lintCtr = 1 to gLinkList.count init = getaProp(gLinkList[lintCtr],#init) term = getaProp(gLinkList[lintCtr],#term) if ((charnum=init) and (charnum=term)) then pCurrentState = F exit repeat else pCurrentState = NF end if end repeat if (pPrevState = pCurrentState) then nothing else if (pCurrentState = NF) then sprite(pSpriteNum).cursor=0 else sprite(pSpriteNum).cursor=[member(cstBmpHand),member(cstBmpHandMask)] end if end if end You will need to keep track of the previous state. Otherwise the cursor will keep changing between the hand cursor and normal one. The result was quite satisfactory. Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi - Original Message - From: Andrew Dempsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 1:50 AM Subject: Re: Re: lingo-l Getting rid of hypertext underline Hey Anand, Thanks for the response. I have written a couple of custom behaviors, but haven't been able to emulate (a) the speed with which the hyperlinkstyles cause the letters to highlight, and (b) the cursor changing to the pointed finger over text. I'm using DMX, windows 2000, working on a #text member. In regards to (a), when I set *chunk*.color=rgb(n,n,n) it looks fine, but I find that putting this inside an exitframe handler makes the response time of the link changing color slightly slower than when the hyperlink styles are in effect. If the mouse moves quickly over the text, not all lines highlight due to the limitation of checking once per frame. As for (b), I can't figure out how to make the cursor change when it's over actual text only, not just the text member as a whole. In other words, I don't want to have a finger cursor over any of the white space in the member. Looking forward to hearing more from you or others, Andrew Hi! You need to deselect the use hypertext styles cast member property. You can then use a custom behaviour to capture the hyperlink clicked event. Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi - Andrew Dempsey ICT and Education Consultant Cairo, Egypt [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.andrewdempsey.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.487 / Virus Database: 286 - Release Date: 6/1/2003 [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!] [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 progress bar with goToNetMovie
Hi! To create a progress bar you need to use the preloadnetthing command. Then, on exitframe you can get the netstatus and display the progress bar. When u reach 100%, jump to the movie. Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi - Original Message - From: Jussi Jokinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 8:01 PM Subject: lingo-l progress bar with goToNetMovie Hi list! Could someone please share the concept of scripting a progress bar for goToNetMovie? It's different from loading just frames inside a single dcr, isn't it? Jussi Jokinen [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 Accessing a Fuction from a MIAW
Hi! If you are targetting the main projector window, then you will need to specify the target beforee making the call. on MouseUp me tell the stage OpenObject end tell end Regards, Anand Ravi - Original Message - From: Matt Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 9:07 PM Subject: lingo-l Accessing a Fuction from a MIAW I am having a problem accessing a function from a MIAW. This is what I'm calling from the MIAW: on mouseUp me OpenObject end This is the function in the main projector: on OpenObject me Alert Working end It works when calling from the main projector movie but when I try to call to it from the MIAW I receive (Handler not defined #OpenObject) Shouldn't it find the function across MIAWs? [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!]
