Re: lingo-l Memory Inspector
I'm using Dir MX (not 2004) with MacOS 10.3.4. I went to use the Memory Inspector and could not find it. I looked up the manual and it says it should be under Window/Memory Inspector. The Help says the same but it is not there. And I cannot see it anywhere else. There is no memory inspector on Mac. The way OSX manages memory... apparently Director wouldn't be able to tell what was actually going on. That feature became Windows-only with DMX. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net You can use the Activity Monitor (Applications/Utilities) to keep an eye on things. hth, Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l OSX stub projector
I just noticed something annoying. I have a CD-ROM series. It's a director shell that's skinnable and gets its content from external XML. The shell is a dxr. called from the usual stub projector (DMX). In the past, I'd change the name of the stub projector to match the product, swap content and skins, and be done... no need to go back to Dir. These run in a window. I just noticed that OSX puts a menu in the menu bar for it... with the name that the projector was created with. This pretty much makes a stub projector useless, as the name doesn't match the product. The name in the title bar is the projector's new name. Just tried MX2004. Same deal - the name of the projector in publish settings is what's used for the menu. In the display template, there are title bar options, but nothing for the menu bar. Anybody got a simple solution, like an ini file entry along the lines of Don'tUseMenu=1? Argh. -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l RE: Stub protection technique?
One preliminary thought I had was to embed a user specified key in the published stub that the author would set a global to in the actual project. Very little security in that on its own. As you're trying to protect this from unscrupulous developers, using an open global is not the best approach, as somebody who routinely works outside the bounds of ethics is likely to know that running your dxr or dcr as a miaw or ldm lets them use the message window to showGlobals(), among other things. You'll want to obfuscate it a bit more. Using a global *object* instead of variable, and calling some unusual method name to verify the key would take it a step further. Perhaps you could read some image data from a particular graphic member's image (like one of your buttons or something), and use that as your key. That, you could store in an object in the stub, and your project would check it against the image data from member(whatever). Yes, it's easy to get media from a dxr, but the hacker would have to guess which image the key is taken from (after first guessing that there's an image involved). Add a little encryption to the equation, and you're making it pretty difficult to get around. Check the dir-game-l archives - protecting scoring info is a major concern on that list, and is essentially the same problem you've got. Security has been beaten pretty hard on that list. hth, Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: lingo-l Director Multilingual IDE
In OSX.3, you can set the language you prefer (though, the list is not comprehensive), and Apple's applications will use that language (Safari, Mail, QT, iCal, iMovie, Garageband, etc.). I can't find any third-party apps that do so, though. Even stuff that's bundled with the system, like Art Director's toolkit, don't switch from English. Seems a pity. Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 10:49:08 -0400 Organization: Cyberian Tiger Software Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks. Pity there are these limitations. Let's say in Dreamweaver you can install some other language packages that would change the default UI language Can you do that in DreamWeaver? It would be nice, but I don't know of a single application that allows you to use your choice of language. Do you? I've done one product where you could switch the UI from English to Spanish, and vice-versa. Lots of issues with just one [known] language. Think about what it means to do a UI in a new language. All the text--menus, prompts, etc.--have to be translated. All the dialog boxes have to be resized. The help has to be translated. If you go outside ISO 8859.1, you have to allow for other code pages. There are cross-platform issues. Mac and Windows have different encodings. If everybody used Unicode, it would be easier, but we don't. Cultural issues are important, too, in localization. You might want a different version for Taiwan and Beijing, even though they speak the same language. Usage is different. There are other cultural issues you would never think of. You like the Robin Hood-like fox character in that math program? His green hat would never sell in China. There's the marketing and sales side, too. Publishers would lose a lot of unit sales if the UI language could be changed at will. No, it's a nice idea, but, at this point in the computer industry, I'm afraid it's no more than a wishful thinking. 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!]
Re: lingo-l controlling multiple dvd players
I believe there are some piracy safeguards that don't allow more than one app to have control of a DVD player, and I'm pretty sure you can't have two instances of the player open (though I don't have two DVD drives, so I can't test the theory). I could be wrong. is it possible to control 2 or more dvd players via lingo? i would like to know if some internal dvd players have a video output too. thanks list Pierre-Yves Fave paris france [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 xmlparse
Any ideas why XMLParse fails to produce correct XML-file when I load SW-movie for the first time? It returns successful parse and a list of some kind, but it's definitely not the one expected (there seems to be loads of information missing, cut strings etc.). Strange thing is, that when page is refreshed, XML is parsed perfectly. Sounds like the movie isn't fully loaded when you first call the method. Try waiting for all of the media to load and then issuing the call. You can do so by using a frame script in frame one that loops the frame until the mediaReady of your last cast member = 1, then goes to the next frame and calls your init methods. hth, Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l sound stop doesn't stop sound (test dir)
Works fine here. Mac, Panther, in both MX and MX2004. I'm beginning to think that directors sound engine is as bad as its text engine. In fact, I always have to find workarounds for sound bugs in Director, but this one really bites. When I stop a sound and play a new one in its place, I hear a small portion of the previous sound before the new sound plays if less time has elapsed then the length of the sound. This indicates that the sound is still playing but not audible. I have uploaded a test film for you to try and let me know it this happens to you to. Pehaps someone can also try this in Dir 2004. http://www.workhouse.de/director/sndStop.dir My soundManager now plays a silent sound anytime it stops a sound to avoid this bug. (My soundManager is really a sound bug elimination script or this is what Director is supposed to do when a sound is faded out, a miaw is forgotten, a sound is stopped, ) Another problem I have noticed is that, in Dir MX, I can still hear a sound when the sound level or it's sound volume is set to 0 on my Dell Inspiron 8000. The same code in Dir 8.5 works as expected. What aggrevates me is that every new version of Director causes me to reevaluate code in areas where no improvements or changes have, supposedly, taken place. Frank Dir MX Windows 2000 [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 stopEvent and the Function keys
I'm trying to intercept and cancel function key presses by using statements like this in the handler that is assigned as the keyDownScript: if the keyCode = 11 then --the F 12 key stopEvent exit end if The values of keyCode for the function keys are between 96 and 101, and also 103, 109, and 11. The reason I want to intercept these keypresses is that they enter junk into the editable member that has the focus. My intercept works for all function keys except F1, F2, F4, and F12. The interesting part is that any of these keypresses is detected, but only the other function key presses can be stopped. The F1, F2, F4, and F12 seem to be impervious to stopEvent. What am I doing wrong? How do I stop these keys from entering junk into editable members? This is in Dir MX (9) and Windows XP. Well, you could tackle it from the other direction. Make a string of acceptable characters, and do something like this: (untested email code, in the form of a behavior for your editable text sprite) -- property pAcceptableCharsString = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890!,.:;'? etc. on keyUp me if offset(the key, pAcceptableCharsString) 0 then pass end if end -- hth, Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l preserve regpoint with imported png at runtime
with code like the following you can restrict the sensitive area to the non-transparent part of the image: on mouseUp me s=sprite(me.spriteNum) m=s.member col=m.image.extractAlpha().getPixel(the mouseloc-point(s.left,s.top)) if col=0 then return -- or use ilk(col)#color if col.paletteIndex=0 then return alert(MOUSEUP) end You can also set the alpha threshold. -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l exitFrame
I have a project with two sounds. Sound(1) is supposed to come on a few seconds before sound(2) and continue together. The direction of sound(1) is controlled by one of 5 buttons on the screen. The direction (or pan value) of sound(2) is controlled by the mouse. I want to make a record of the pan values of sound(2).I call these within an exitFrame handler. When I try to get the pan value of sound(2) by putting it to the message window, it gives me 5, which must correspond to the number of buttons i have. When I try to call both sounds from a custom handler, I get only sound(1). I know this is an elementary question but Perhaps, but I didn't really see a question in there... perhaps you could rephrase the problem? -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: lingo-l Dynamic Flash Sprite
Next question--is there a way to get Flash to call an object in the Director movie? I have a navigation manager object, and it would be nice to have it get the callback. The Flash movie has this: getURL(lingo:flashAnimDone); The only way I can figure to get the flashAnimDone call to the object is to catch it in a movie-level handler or a behavior attached to the sprite. Neither is particularly onerous, but it would be nice if I could call the object directly. Alternatively, the object can check up on the flash sprite (which seems logical, if it's assigning the sprite in the first place) via a timeout object and a check on sprite.playing. Then you don't need to add code to every Flash animation that you might use. -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l OT: Flash and Linux
Hey all, Sorry to use the F-word here, but I have an issue I've never had to deal with before. Got a big CD ESL project, done in Dir, which the client wants to port to Linux because Spain has decided to go with Linux in schools and government offices. Dir doesn't support it, but Flash does, so they want to look into doing the whole thing over again in Flash. I have three functionalities that I don't believe can be reproduced by Flash. One, recording - I know there's a microphone object in Flash. Has anyone gotten it to work reliably? Two and three, saving and printing reports on the user's activity. In our Flash CDs, we've been using Dir as a backend app to do all three of those. But, no Dir for Linux. Does anyone know if these are possible in Flash, or know a Linux-friendly backend app that could do the grunt work? -Kurt PS - Tom, if you're listening, any plans on the Linux front? [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
You can use a timeout object and a counter property to get the same functionality as a repeat loop. I use this approach often, when I'd like something going on that a repeat loop mike choke. Skeleton code for an object below: property pCounter property pListToLoop property pTimerObject property pLimit --- on new me return me end --- on mStartLoop me pCounter = 1 pLimit = pListToLoop.count pTimerObject = timeOut(loop timer).new(100, #mServiceLoop, me) end --- on mServiceLoop me if pCounter pLimit then --Do your thing here whatever = somePath pListToLoop[pCounter] --etc. pCounter = pCounter + 1 else pTimerObject.forget() pTimerObject = void end if end Thanks Jeff. I think I was a little misleading though. No problem with the progress indicator either way, I am more interested in avoiding the repeat loop to copy the files one at a time. I have a folder containing about 20 MPG files, but the user only chooses a handful of them to copy. These filenames are then placed in a list - paths are determined and stored earlier on. Currently, I am using a repeat loop to create a full path for each individual filename in the list. Therefore, when I am caught in the repeat loop pulling one file name at a time to copy, the progress indicator chokes. Is there anyway to avoid the repeat loop altogether? [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 SIL again
MoveObject_Behavior: property sp on beginSprite(me) sp = sprite(me.spriteNum) end sp is not going to get set here. BeginSprite has fired before you attach your script. on exitFrame(me) sp.locH = sp.locH + 1 end I run the movie and in the Message Window: t = script(MoveObject_Behavior).new() sprite(1).scriptInstanceList.add(t) and get a script error: Property not found. Easiest thing to do is pass the spritenumber to the new handler: t = script(MoveObject_Behavior).new(sprite(1)) sprite(1).scriptInstanceList.add(t) (replace the beginSprite with this) on new me, whatSprite sp = whatSprite return me end hth, Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l Panther DirMX Heads Up
Hi all, Just thought I'd share a little problem I had to work through today. I recently installed shockwave 10 on my work computer. Today, I started having problems with authoring in MX. When trying to create a filmloop, I kept getting an error that said Not enough memory to do this. Quitting and restarting Director had no effect. Rebooting had no effect. So, I repaired disk permissions in Panther (which I had done recently, but before upgrading shockwave). A number of permissions related to shockwave were repaired. And the problem in authoring went away. So, if anybody is having strange errors in authoring in MX on Panther, this might help. -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l PrintOMatic and Panther
register xtra PrintOMatic, PMAT170-923-38748 is working for me under Panther. Any chance you've got the classic version installed? That would likely show up in the xtra list, but wouldn't function (or let you add it to the movie). [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l RE: QuickTime Director
1. When I go into QuickTime control panels- video settings and change it to safe mode, I never crash anymore. But I am not allowed to give this instruction to my users, considered too technical. If it was a Mac, I'd try to write an Applescript that would do that on startup. Perhaps some Win guru can suggest a way. [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 Polling a Flash sprite for its current frame
Any hints? any reason why mySprite.Frame wouldn't work? Nope - that works perfectly. When you look in the script window's Lingo pull down for Flash members or Flash sprites, frame isn't there (at least in MX). I guess I should have dug deeper into the docs, but it was late, and I was looking for a quick answer - I suppose I should have tried frame as it's obvious, but I was only seeing framecount in the list of Flash props. Should have gone to the Lingo dictionary... sorry for the stupid question. I ought to know better than to think that the script window pulldowns are inclusive, but it's been a long year (and it's only March!). Thanks to you and macmec for pointing out the obvious... I really need some sleep. Gracias, Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l Polling a Flash sprite for its current frame
I think this has been covered, but I can't seem to find it in the archives. Must be searching on the wrong terms. Anyway, I've got a little Flash animation of a curtain dropping, pausing for a 1/2 second or so, then rising. I need to swap another sprite's member out when the curtain has dropped, so that when the curtain animates up again, the sprite behind it has changed. I don't have the fla file for the curtain, just a swf in a Dir cast, so I can't send a message out from Flash. I can get the fla on Monday, and split it into a drop animation and a rise animation - thus being able to tell when the first has finished and proceed. Or send a message out from Flash to do the sprite swap at the required time. But, if there's a way to check the Flash movie's frame, I could use a timeout to trigger the sprite change by polling the Flash sprite. I don't see anything obvious in the Lingo that controls Flash sprites or members that does this. Any hints? tia, Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Video in perspective
Basically I would like to skew a video sprite to simulate a perspective panel for video playback (I'll worry about performance issues a bit later). Anybody got any tips or pointers on the best way of approaching this? It can be done in 3D, though I don't know what the machine specs would be. Here's a post from dir-game-l http://nuttybar.drama.uga.edu/mailman/listinfo/dirgames-l : Message: 4 Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 08:58:06 + From: Mal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [dirGames-L] playing a movie on a 3D TV Model in shockwave Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hiya Francis, It is possible to do manually, you have to grab an image of the movie ( if it's quicktime, the sprite has to be non-DirectToStage, and you have to grab the image from the stage ) and update the texture in the 3D world to be this image. Here's an example ( go to the 3D cinema behind the initial camera and click on a movie poster )... http://www.candomultimedia.com/thebig3d/home.htm Mal Francis Reed wrote: Hi I was wondering if it were possible to play an mpeg, AVI, or MOV on a 3D TV modeled in Maya and then exported into shockwave? If it is possible, is it REALLY cpu-intensive? Thanking you in advance Francis Digital Image Undergrad hth, Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Dot syntax (was: Merits of JS in Director)
-- Welcome to Director -- put version -- 10.0 put castlib(1).member[1].name -- foo put the name of member 1 of castlib 1 -- foo Returns if you do it on an empty member. One of the main thrusts (shaddup, Grimm ;) of MX04 was plugging the holes (I've warned you already) in .syntax. You should find that a lot of the issues (!) with #field members have been addressed as well. Nice. I'm one of those who prefers dot, and the (I don't understand that) holes were always annoying. On the original topic - after spending 3 long days working on a Flash project, I jumped back into my current Dir project today, and kept thinking in AS syntax when writing loops or conditionals. Plus, I was dropping semicolons all over the place (You can't go in that direction). So, there are times when having JS available will be a real plus. I imagine that it will make projects where you embed Flash in Dir and talk back and forth much more straightforward... I can guarantee you that any Dir script I write to talk to Flash will be in JS syntax, though I'll likely stick with lingo for a lot of things (Your lantern has gone out). -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l A little heads-up
Hey all, I just ran into a weird problem that I thought I would share. I came up with a workaround, so I'm posting just in case I can save somebody from my 2-day headache. I have a nav button which turns into a cascading menu (which expands and contracts via a film loop). When the user chooses a menu option, the menu contracts (a film loop). The film loop has a sendallsprites message to tell the button it has reached the last frame. That call triggers a call to my navigation object, which has a go movie call, among other things. The go movie call wasn't doing anything. The handler it's wrapped in was getting called, as were the various callbacks inherent in the structure. It just wasn't switching movies. I assume it has something to do with the use of the filmloop and its behavior that calls the button's behavior, because simply calling go movie from the mouseDown event on a menu option worked. The solution was to not call the nav object directly from the collapse loop done handler. I put in a timeout object with a period of 100, which then calls a handler which then calls the nav object's go movie handler. The delay makes the go movie call work. I suppose I could use another sprite for the loop, because it seems that having a behavior in a loop that then gets swapped into a sprite with a behavior attached messes things up (haven't tested the theory, but it seems logical). It's just odd that everything in the button's behavior gets called correctly, but trying to trigger a go movie from within those calls doesn't work. Anyway, just a bit of weirdness (to me, at least) that I thought I'd share. -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l rightMouseUpOutside?
Thanks, Buzz and Kerry. Turns out that the onMouseUp handler was the culprit... I reset the locZ of the sprite to its original locZ there, and the property storing the sprite's original locZ was in the mouseDown handler. So, the locZ was getting set to 0 in the rightmouse case. However, mouseUpOutside getting fired off by a rightMouseUpOutside doesn't make any sense to me... if there are separate events for down and up, why not upOutside? -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l rightMouseUpOutside?
I tried searching for this, because part of it seems like it should be logged a bug, but I'm not sure if I searched on the correct terms. Regardless, here's my problem. I have a simple drag and drop activity, where the user left-clicks on a bitmap sprite, drags it to a target, and releases. Works fine. Except when the user right-clicks on the sprite, drags, and releases. The sprite disappears. However... the place where the sprite should be on screen still changes cursor, and clicking in that area makes the bitmap appear. Until release, when the bitmap goes away again. Odd - I guess the sprite is still there... or the behavior is still there, and the channel is retaining the sprite's rect. Instead of worrying about the root of this strange effect, I thought I'd just lock off the rightmouse button. So, I dropped some dummy event handlers (on rightMouseDown/UP, nothing) into the sprite behavior, which help... except now the cursor leaves the sprite, and the rightMouseUp happens outside the sprite, so only the condition of clicking and releasing inside the sprite is fixed. Here's what I think is a bug - I put a simple put command in the on mouseUpOutside handler, and that handler is getting triggered on a right mouseUpOutside. There is no rightMouseUpOutside event handler, apparently. Of course, no user should be rightMouse dragging - at least, I can't think of any app where you would use the right mouse to drag anything - but the client has flagged it as a major (yeah, right) bug. So, putting don't try to drag with the friggin' right mouse button in the readme won't cut it, Warren. I suppose I could try dropping a screen-sized not-ghosted sprite on top of everything on a global rightmouseDown, and remove it on a global rightmouseUp, but I'd prefer something a tad less sledgehammer-like. Any thoughts? -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l RE: Prevent Second Click
The solutions presented will lock off a double click on a button, but that's only part of the issue - the button under the second mouse click might not be the same one as under the first mouse click, so it could easily be getting only a single click. I'd throw a little delay into the second button's activation - create a timeout() on beginsprite, set its handler to one that sets an active property, and give it a period of 500 (1/2) or so. Then just make your mouse events conditional to whether that property is true or false. hth, kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l RE: Dir MX 2004
And yet there's still even more to talk about beyond all this... Feel free to talk on. The info posted at MM doesn't go into any depth and the more you talk it up the more we users slaver in anticipation. No, no - please, stop. I can't take it any more. I was sold with the DVD thing. All of this other stuff is just making me pissed off at MX. Can't you just hold it in for another month or so? Because this is torture. I haven't felt like this since I was 10 years old, Christmas was a few days away, and that Atari console was sitting right there in the store window - so close, but yet so far... -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l RE: Director MX04
Note: we're also hoping to put together a list of bug fixes (XML memory leak, embedded fonts on user restricted systems, dot-syntax with field cast members and user installed menus, etc.). That's on top of some hoped-for DevNet articles about the details of JS syntax usage in Director. Oh for another few hours each day... Okay, even though I said I didn't want any more torture ;) How about Unicode support? This is an area where Dir is trailing Flash, and it makes a difference when deciding which product to use for those of us who make multi-language products. Even just making it possible to use Flash's unicode support via a Flash object in Dir would do the trick (I haven't had success with that in MX, but it could just be me). -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Shared cast error
I know this is a real Shockwave newbie question, but: [MF] I'm adapting several existing director movies to shockwave for internet distribution. They utilize a shared cast, cleverly titled Shared.cst. It is in the same directory as the movies. I publish the movies, and put them up with ftp. The first movie has no background picture (a member of the shared cast), and about the time it tries to load the second movie I get an error: Shared.cct is not a Director file. Everything I can find on this says to make sure it's in the right directory (if it was in a folder, put it in a folder) and it is. They're in the same directory. I've updated all of them with the xtra. I've saved and compacted them. I've tried preloading. No help. I just know this is something obvious. Help!, please? Are you making sure that the shared cast is fully loaded? Check out preloadNetThing. You'll want to add some frames to the front of your first movie, or create a loader movie that launches the first movie when the load is done. The basic approach is this - fire off a downLoadnetThing call for your shared cast, then keep checking the status of that op until it's complete. Then you can launch your first movie, and the shared cast's members will be available to it. You can make a progress bar that updates while this is happening by checking the status of the download op - this stuff should be in the docs for downloadNetThing. hth, kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Using Lingo to compress Casts
Is there a 'lingo access' to the Update Movies option that we use to compress and 'encrypt' the cast libraries? I want to make a projector that is able to do it Nope. Been asking for it off and on since 1999 at least. 1998, I think ;) [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' error message
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. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l Re: Fake James Newton post?
I think you're right, Grimm--it's a virus. The .scr is pretty much a dead giveaway. I don't think it's from James, though--the e-mail address was [EMAIL PROTECTED] I know James' e-mail address, and that's not it, unless he's using a new one. And, James is more than savvy enough to I just got one as well - but slightly different sender address and subject From: James Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] subject: Re: lingo-l MUI question @AllUsers The attachment is called 146.pdf.src. Sneaky virus thing, this one. It is clever enough to pick a good 'sender' and change the sender email subject. Yeah, got one from James too. We all are susceptible when we don't have time to grab the latest patch. No big deal - we all can recognize the difference between that email and James' usual posts. Everyone gets bit from time to time. He'll purge the beast (I'm sure lots of you contacted him as well as me), and all will go back to normal. -K [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l Re: Lingo-l digest, Vol 1 #885 - 19 msgs
Have you checked a copy of the replicated disc against the gold master? I'd check all file sizes and dates to make sure they are the same. Yep, the client did that before calling us. I'm assuming you have an installer that writes the app to the hard drive. I'd run an install from both the gold master and a replicated copy to see if there are any differences in the install. No. Runs off the CD. I had a similar problem once and the reason turned out to be quite simple: The client had made a copy of my master using some method that didn't copy hidden files. However, if I recall it right, some Acrobat installation stuff consisted of hidden or system files. That was the problem in that particular case. No third party installers on this disk, and no hidden files of my own. 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. I've been using fast-start projectors for my projects since I had one of those dll problems ;) 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'm sure it's the dupe house - I just need to prove it, and also let the client know that I've researched the 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. That's what we've done, so I'm hoping that will end it. We'll see. Thanks everybody. The client said The dupe guy claims it happens on 2 of his machines with the master - I'm sure he's not lying. Well, a few years ago, a client called, rather angry with us, because she had sent a master to be duped (like 2 months after it went gold), and the dupe house told her there was a technical problem with the master - could we send another master? I said, well, if there's a problem with the master, I want to look into it. Have the dupe house send me the master so I can check it out. Turns out the technical problem was that they had lost the disk. Hey, thanks for lying about it and getting my clients angry at me. If you ever get a bug report from a dupe house, ask them to send the disk back so you can verify. Thanks, Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l Error I haven't seen before
Hey all, Sent out a gold master a month and a half ago, and now the client is calling with an error that's happening after duplication. The master I sent works on all of their PCs (14 or so). The duplicated disks do not. The error happens on launching the projector, and is The application can not start as it cannot create needed files. There may not be enough free disk space. Anyone gotten that before? Again, PC only, and I believe just 2000 and XP (though I'm not positive on that). Xtras are in an xtras folders on the CD, so there shouldn't be an unpacking problem with them. And, as I said, it only happens on the client's machines after duplication - but, the duplicator says he gets the error on some machines with the master. Still, the fact that it does not happen at all at the client's, then happens consistently after reproduction, points to the duplication. Any insights would be appreciated. tia, kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: lingo-l Re: where is the file start.dir?
BTW, it's really weird. I tried a different stub projector calling directly myfirstmovie.dxr and the stub still look for myfirstmovie.dir on opening even if it works perfectly without it, so, checking if myfirstmovie.dxr exist with buddy api or fileIO Xtras do not provide any solution. Setting a search path is not a solution either because the problem is with the file name, not location. I also tried an other myfirstmovie.dxr as a test movie and everything works ok without opening window appearing. Giving that my project file is rather big and recreating it is not an issue, is there any other way to debug it i miss? Um... it might not be coming from the stub. Check to see if the first movie might have an LDM member of that name (like, somehow you dragged the dir file into the cast by mistake, and it can't find it now). Sounds like the stub is fine, because it will load a different movie without error. Check your first movie, because where is such and such linked file always comes up before the movie starts playing, so it might only seem like the stub is failing, if you see my point. hth, Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l acrobat reader
I'm trying to open a pdf file in lingo. I can open the file by specifying the location of the acrobat reader, hover I may not know where the reader is on each computer. How can I find out the location of the acrobat reader exe file without using buddy api? If it's on a CD-ROM, you could include Acrobat Reader on the CD, where you know the pathname. If this is running from a HD, no such luck. Lingo alone can't search a hard drive. You could use another xtra, like fileXtra3 (free, but a whole lot of effort to use for this) or masterApp. But, I think the Buddy way is the best way - baOpenFile(path) is short and sweet - it does all of the app finding for you. -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l phantom scripts?
6) dumb user realizes he's a much better at perl than lingo lol. Don't beat yourself up too much - happens to us all from time to time. -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l making thumbnail bitmap cast from digital video
i want to make a thumbnail bitmapped cast member from a digital video(mpeg) running on the director stage. how can i do this. You need a little bit of imaging lingo for that. Put your video onstage, with DTS turned off (this is important... if it is DTS, you'll just get a box of stage's color where the video is - you can turn DTS back on after the op for performance). Grab the stage's image, then copy the rect where the video is into a bitmap of the size you'd like. sourceimage = (the stage).image.duplicate() thumbImage = image(120, 80, 32) thumbImage.copypixels(sourceimage, thumbImage.rect, rect of the video on stage) -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l creating a new sprite using lingo
I want to create a lot of text fields to display information on the stage and dont want to do it by hand. So i thought to create a script to generate child objects and display them on the screen. I can easily cretae a new field in the cast, but how can i assign that new cast member to a sprite using lingo? Sprite(x).member = someTextMember You used to have to do a puppetSprite, but since Director 7, I believe, you implicitly puppet a sprite by manipulating it. Before you do this, though, I would strongly recommend that you create a range of dummy sprites. I just use a 1-pixel bitmap and place it offstage. When it comes time to use it, I put it onstage with sprite(x).locH and locV. You do want the dummy sprites, though. Don't create sprites from thin air. That's an unsupported feature, and while it will work most of the time, there are some hidden gotchas that could bit you. I used to want to create sprites out of air as well, but I now go with a score full of holder sprites - sprites that are zero-pixel bitmap instances (and the credit goes to Irv). It's simple and effective. It takes about 20 seconds to paste a zero member bitmap into 100 channels, and then they are ready for use, without any puppeting hassles. No need to place an instance off stage, because the sprite's member is an empty member. I then use a master parent object to manage the usage of the sprites - assigning them to certain uses, then resetting them to a base state via one control object. It's a comfortable system, for me, anyway. I've been toying with behaviors that reserve their channels with the master object, thus removing their IDs from the main object's open channel list... but that's another subject. 2 centsing, Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Editable of member -- more
Any other idea? Try setting the keyboardFocusSprite as well, just to give it an extra nudge. [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: [OT] lingo-l Disney Interactive...not
Researching a bit more, I find it's written by Infogrames (what kind of name is that?). It's French for Atari. http://www.gamemarketwatch.com/news/item.asp?nid=2690 -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l progress bar with goToNetMovie
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? Use preloadNetThing to download the new dcr to the cache. You can check the progress of the stream using getStreamStatus() and update a progress bar. Finally, when it's done, you jump to the new movie. Here's an example (from a parent script). Yes, I hard coded the progress bar locs... I was in a hurry ;) on mCheckLoad me if getStreamStatus(pCurrentNetId)[#state] = inProgress then if voidP(pTotalBytes) then pTotalBytes = getStreamStatus(pCurrentNetId)[#bytesTotal] end if percentageDone = float(getStreamStatus(pCurrentNetId)[#bytesSoFar])/pTotalBytes pLoadingBarSprite.right = 276 + integer(200*percentageDone) + 1 else if getStreamStatus(pCurrentNetId)[#state] = complete then if getStreamStatus(pCurrentNetId)[#error] OK then alert(string(getStreamStatus(pCurrentNetId)[#error])) else pLoadingBarSprite.right = 476 --Go to the movie gotonetmovie(pCurrentDestination) end if end if end [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 want to make .EXE with director 8.5, in director there is no error, but when i create projector and run it, error message is appear title : director player error message : script error, continue? I click ok but it still continue to show the error message what is wrong, where is the error? in director I import .W3d is the error because of this? To start, you should get a more detailed error message from Director. To that, create an ini file with the same name as your projector (if your projector is named my projector.exe, then your ini file would be named my projector.ini). Put the following text in the ini file: [Lingo] DisplayFullLingoErrorText=1 This sets the messaging to what *should* be the default, a useful, meaningful error message that should point you to the problem. -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Is this an error?
And, by the way, which event triggered --yada yada? If all the previous discussion is correct, 'keyDown'. It's easily proved, just set a breakpoint. Running the movie doesn't trigger it, but pressing a key does. Yes, easily proved, as I found 5 minutes after posting... forgive my waste'obandwidth. I got excited by some fantasy of sloppy recursion. Ah, well, I guess I'll just have to go back to WarCraft for my fun. -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: lingo-l Is this an error?
Flakey movie everywhere would break! :) -Buzz Amen to that. All your movie belong to us. It's amazing what you can get away with in Lingo. I took over a project not long ago, and one of the first things I noticed was this movie handler: on prepareMovie on keyDown --yada yada end keyDown end prepareMovie Somebody set us up the bomb. Now you've given us geeks something to play with (can't help but wonder what else I can get away with, purely from a curiosity standpoint). -kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: lingo-l Is this an error?
on prepareMovie on keyDown --yada yada end keyDown end prepareMovie And, by the way, which event triggered --yada yada? -kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l mouseLine from a text member
easy one: how can i get the number of the line clicked on a text sprite, the same way with fields using the mouseLine? i just can´t figure it out, but i´m sure it´s simple. It's not obvious. The equivalent is to use pointToLine(sprite, the mouseLoc - sprite.loc). pointToLine works on the coordinate system of the text member, which is why you have to adjust for the sprite loc. You also have access to pointToChar(), pointToItem(), pointToWord(), and pointToParagraph(). hth, Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l XML parser xtra... still buggy?
Hey all, Way back, I switched over to Andrew White's lingo-based xml parser, due to certain problems with the xml parser xtra. Now, that code is a bit dated, and doesn't do certain things that the latest xml parser handles. My questions are, have the earlier memory leaks been resolved, and has anyone seen any bugginess in the latest version? tia, Kurt I'm a little confused by your pronouns, but I'll try to answer some questions To my knowledge, the Xtra that ships with Director has gotten any changes since d8. On the other hand, Andy's parser has gotten some bug fixes improvements. Which were you asking about? Sorry, English is my first language ;) To clarify, I wanted to know if the leaks in the xml parser xtra had been fixed--apparently not--and if it (the xtra, not Andy's scripts) had been fixed, were there any new bugs to be aware of. So, thanks for the answer, right on target. I'll make sure I've got Andy's latest version. I've got workarounds for what it doesn't do, so no big deal. I was simply looking for something elegant to replace my kludges. Thanks, kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Linked Sound Cast Members in Shockwave file
Have you made sure to include the swa xtras in your shockwave (swa import/export, swa decompression, etc.), and mark them for download? -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l Re: Cuepointing tool in Director
And now my little thread has come full-circle. Thanks for all of the insights... Brennan, you brought me back to where I started, with Applescript as the means to the final end product. It is indeed a nice tool for those of us that prefer to live on the Mac side (Yes, it is nicely accessible to Lingo people - well worth the time to investigate). I was hoping for a completely Dir/xtra solution, but I kinda knew from the outset that it wasn't up to the task. But, I hope this thread inspired a few list members to pursue Lingo's possibilities as the scripting language that it is... we get tend to get bogged down in its playback engine, and forget how powerful a tool it is for making utilities. I tend to use Director and fileIO instead of bbEdit or similar tools for manipulating xml docs these days... batching really complex greps is just simpler to do in Lingo, at least for me. Dir is a great tool for building stuff, outside of just making stuff that plays back in the projector or shockwave environments. Thanks for all the fish, Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l [OT] Authorware cracking
Hi all, sorry for the OT... A client wants us to redo an authorware CD for them. They would like to pick up a bunch of the content, but they don't have the source for some stupid reason. I know how to crack protected Dir files - anyone know of similar tools/methods for authorware 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!]
Re: lingo-l content of the TextMember
firstWord = member(text,4).text.word[1] Just an aside - when dealing with chunks of a text or a field member, you don't need the text reference. member(text, 4).word[1] is equivalent to member(text, 4).text.word[1] 2 cents, Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l bluring rounded bitmaps
hi, imaging lingo gurus out there i´m trying to simulate the effect of an image that goes in and out of focus according to the lens position on a telescope. you can see it at http://planeta.terra.com.br/arte/quixada/mast/tele.htm. the problem is that the image must be rounded, and when the blur effect takes place, it spreads in order to take the whole rectangular area of the image, disregarding the alpha channel of the original bitmap. i tried to put a mask (the background with a hole in the middle) above the blured sprite, but it seems that the effect is kinda direct to stage. is there a way to constrain the blur effect on a circular area, or prevent it to happen on an alpha channel area? Try extracting the alpha channel, then applying your blur effect, and then sticking the original alpha back on the image. Sort of like this: originalAlpha = theImage.extractAlpha() --do your blur to theImage theImage.setAlpha(originalAlpha) theImage.useAlpha = TRUE hth, Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l Sound channel re-use problem
Hi all, Forgive me if this has been answered before, but I'm not quite sure how to search for it in the archives. Believe it or not, I haven't used sound(x).queue before now - I've always used soundbusy() to check for the end of one sound before starting another. Background - I'm making an alphabet picture-book app for my 3 year old niece and nephew (Dir MX.). There's a nav bar of letter buttons at the bottom of the screen, and when they click a button, a series of sounds plays, along with various graphic displays. There's also a game component where they have to click on things after an audio cue. So, I cut up the sound bytes so that I could string various sounds together for use in the two parts, using sound(1).queue() to load up a series of sounds. Say you click on the A button. I queue up the sounds a, a pause sound, and a is for. This button behavior is shared between all of the letter buttons, and the sound files are properties of the behavior - except for the pause sound. the pause sound is just a 1 second swa of silence, simply for a silent pause between elements. The problem is this - the behavior's instances always use sound(1), and the first call is sound(1).stop() to stop any current playlist. If you click on a, the sequence starts. If you click on b while anything but the pause sound is playing, the a playlist stops, and the b playlist will play through. But, if you click on b during the pause sound, all audio is then dead for the duration of the session. I'm guessing that it's because the pause sound is pure silence - perhaps if I made it slightly noisy that would fix the problem (since there's no audio loss if I interrupt the sequence at any point), or perhaps there's a lingo way to introduce a pause in a queue list?I don't have a mic at home, so I can't make a noisy pause. Anyone have a tip? tia, Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Copypixels from one alpha-ed image to another
Thanks, Pranav, James - saved me a bit of tail chasing, there ;) -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l Copypixels from one alpha-ed image to another
This is a bit brain-dead on my part, and I will figure it out eventually, but I thought I'd throw it out to the list in hopes of a quick solution ;) I'm copying a dupe of the image of a text member into a dupe of the image of a png member. Given the fact that both carry alpha images, the result is not surprising - the copypixels op pastes the text in, but also cuts a rect the size of the text image out of the background image (as in, the alpha is getting copied to, as well as the image). I can think of three ways around this - one, extract the alpha from the destination image up front, copy, and put the alpha back; two, make an interim image that has no alpha, copy the text to that, and then paste the sucker into the final image; three, use the text member's alpha as the image to copy from. Specifically, I'm looping through the data from an xml doc, and building cascading menus from it (drop each menu item into a text member, grab the image, copy away, store the dest rect and relevant info for mousing stuff). Since the menu panels overlay the other stuff on screen, I thought it would look nice to have a drop shadow beneath the panels. And it does... except now there are nice big holes around the menu text. Anyway, I guess I'm just asking if somebody knows which of the above 3 approaches is more expedient, or if there is another way. I'll go ahead and try them out, but I'm sure somebody has trod this path already - James? ;) tia, Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Embedded font problem
I have embedded arial into a director movie. On windows 2k and xp machines and Mac OS X it looks fine. On windows 98 SE, I have strange kerning problems and text suddenly wraps that didn't before. Any suggestions? I ran into that bug a while back - text wrapping after a few characters of a word, but never in the same place. 12 point Arial, by any chance? Try changing the fontsize (yep, stupid, but that solved the problem for me). -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Irregular shape of rollover 2
I want to create a sprite which will response (more or less like html image map). A while back I needed to do this kind of thing for a map of the U.S., where rolling over a state triggered a variety of actions. I ended up having two map graphics as cast members, both the same size. The pretty one was displayed on stage, and the other was used only for rollover tests. In photoshop, I created the second map by filling each state with a unique solid RGB color (avoid antialiasing). By mapping the mouseloc on the staged image to the offstage map image and testing with getpixel(), I could check against a prop list of names (props) and rgb values (values), and return a name for a specific colored area. Once I had a name, I could do whatever I needed with the info. This is a bit work intensive, however (when compared to using invisible rects, for example), and I only use it when I need a relatively high degree of accuracy in the rollovers. hth, Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: lingo-l ANN: Director MX
Beyond the above two examples please also know that you can create these objects directly from Lingo as well: pArray = sprite(1).newObject(Array,hi,Charlie,how,are) pArray.push(you?) or do it without a sprite at all!!!: pArray = newObject(Array,hi,Charlie,how,are) pArray.push(you?) The global methods (those without a sprite ref) are supported via the Flash Asset Xtra but you don't have to have a sprite on stage, just the Xtra in your Xtras folder. Oh, that's good - Flash's array functions will be nice to have available. [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 object snapping
There's a set of articles on doug about collision detecting, you might try there as a first step. Personally, I'd use the intersect() function instead of sprite.intersects(). This compares 2 rects and returns the rect of the shared space. So, stepping through and using intersect((sprite x).rect, (sprite y).rect), you can check to see if the returned rect is not rect(0,0,0,0). If so, store the sprite and the returned rect, then do a second loop on the new list, to see which sprite has the bigger area of intersection, and snap to that one. This will be less accurate for non-rectangular shapes, but still a more precise way of determining which target the user is aiming for. Two things: 1) The intersects means that the whole sprite rectangle will be checked, so if you want to limit it just to the center you might want to see if, say, the loch/v of the sprite, or maybe the mouseloc interesects some particular sprite 2) Step through it with a debugger. Because you say it always goes to the lower right, I'm guessing that maybe it does snap correctly to the right one, EXCEPT that you never leave the loop, so it might continue on and eventually qualify for the lower right - presuming that's the direction you're going. For instance, put a return statement after you set the loc (in the if statement) to kick you out after the first one that qualifies - see how that affects the performance. But this is a good example of where to use the debugger so you can see what's happening. Put a breakpoint (click the mouse on the 'if' statement and then press ctrl-9) on the if statement and run it, and see what happens when you get there. - Tab At 08:56 AM 11/22/02, mike m wrote: hello, i am making a jigsaw game (i am a newbie), i have made a grid for the jigsaw pieces to snap onto, this works, but the pieces seem to snap to whichever grid piece there bottom right corner is in and not the center of the piece, i have checked the registration point and that is in the center of the piece. i am baffled! this is the code i am using to make the pieces snap to the grid pieces on snapper repeat with x = 17 to 32 repeat with y = 1 to 16 if sprite x intersects sprite y then sprite(x).loc = sprite(y).loc end if end repeat end repeat end snapper thanks in advnace :) Mike [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 Since we're on the topic of bugs
Anyone know if there's a cure to the periodic This movie was created with an older version of Director... bug? It's been happening quite frequently External read-only castlibs? I'm using external castlibs, but they're all open. [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 Start the PC-machine when dead.. Lost gone
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Re: lingo-l more than 1 ancestor
Is it possible to have more than 1 ancestor script? Nope. me.ancestor1 = new(script blah) me.ancestor2 = new(script blah2) I know that you can nest ancestor scripts but this is not what I want. What I want to do it to have a library of scripts and then add them to other scripts as and when needed. You could *sort of* simulate multiple inheritance by compiling scripts on the fly from various method strings. So, if you have a bunch of classes, and you want an object to inherit from, say, 3 of them, you would build a string from the 3 class strings (these could be scripts, a result of a net op, stored in a field or member comments - whatever), make a new script member, assign the scriptText of it to your new string, then start pumping out objects. -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l List archives?
Sorry, I don't get this header. And on penworks there is no link to an archive. Thank you very much The headers don't mention archives, just list maintenance. But, it's on the same page. To search, you'll have to download the full archive and search it yourself (via Lingo is one way ;)) http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/archives/lingo-l/ [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 Internal?
a) is no problem, just click on the internal cast to make it the active window, then use the Property Inspector to change the name. D'oh! Why did I think that couldn't be done? I'm certain I must have tried it before sometime... Something else that might be useful is if you could reorder the casts Yes, that actually would be quite useful because of the fact that Lingo searches through each cast in order, starting with the first (actually, it starts with the current cast, and restarts at the first if it misses). This could be used to optimise your movies a bit. On thinking mose more, why can't Director just save all the window positions, including casts? That would make more sense. Then there would be no need to grumble about the bad choice of primary cast. Brennan has been after this kind of thing at a more meta level for a while - the ability to script Director. If we could script Director, you could run a script on startmovie that would check to see if the activeCastLib (already a lingo property that can be tested... but not set) is 1, and then close the sucker. One powerful tool can solve a whole lot of It only matters to one guy problems. -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l hit rect question.
No, each screen has multiple rects. Ie the full presentation is a bigass proplist with each screen having a proplist of hitrects. Each rect actually has different things to do, so with the repeat loop returns the right one within the hitlist, the behavior knows what function to call. I think it's just messy code to tell you the truth (this is one of those painful agencies that keeps changing their mind and never giving you more than 2 minutes to change something). So really what I'll end up doing is having another proplist of pActiveHit. if not(inside(the mouseloc, pActiveHit) then (rip through the hitlist). Hmmm... interesting optimization question. The first thing I think of in these situations is grouping stuff so that entire groups can be ignored. Perhaps you can do a run through the rects on entering a screen, and make sub-groups. You could group rects in the top left quadrant, top right, bottom right, and bottom left, and then dump any that overlap quadrants into a fifth group. Then you could first check if the mouse is inside a quadrant's rect, and limit your check to that quadrant group and the overlap group. There's probably a better way to group them so that you don't have the fifth group - perhaps some of the smarter list members can think of an elegant way to do that ;). 2 cents, Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Audio xtra
I got a project from another client. In those scripts he uses the register command to register the Audio Xtra on PC. The problem is that my Director gives an error on that command. #register: handler not defined While I use the Authoring version of the Xtra Do you have version 4 or something earlier? They changed the registration methods (along with everything else) in version 4. -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Text and Field cast member
for text cast member, i'm getting error lineHeight property not found for text cast member. What's substitute or option available in text cast members to find out lin height. Hi Shailendra, There is no substitue: you have to work it out by hand: tLineHeight = member(Text).charPosToLoc(1).locV + 1 Actually, there is an equivalent - fixedLineSpace - but I've found that this property is 0 unless you specifically set it via lingo, in which case you already know the value. The nice thing about it is that you can set specific lines to different leadings via lingo, unlike fields which have one overall leading. -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l What's the best way to try and make your movie play at the same speed across different speeds of computer?
What's the best way to try and make your movie play at the same speed across different speeds of computer? Best way? Always debatable. Colin wrote: If you're talking about an animation sequence, you could do something like this: on exitframe go label(first frame) + (the timer)*.5 end That will make the animation play at 30 FPS on faster machines, and slower machines will skip frames to keep up. (That's cool Colin, I never thought of that for score-based stuff) Another approach is to ditch frames, and just go time-based, substituting a timeout object for the usual frame events. Of course, that could mean ditching the score as well, and driving your boat via lingo. I tend to do it all via lingo, substituting frame transitions for imaging lingo transitions, and frames for timeouts. Some say I'm crazy. That's the beauty of Dir, though - you can do it one way or the other, or come up with a nicely blended version. dos centavos, Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l Re: How can I install a minimum QT Player without going...
Well, we always ship with QT4 on the basis that it works and it's better than nothing. We use two files (remembering this name, might not be right) - QTinstaller.exe and QTInstallcache.qdat (the latter being the bit that the QT installer usually tries to download). QTInstaller.exe automatically uses the installchache information without going to any web sites - it also does not need to go to the web to check for newer versions, or indeed need to go to the web for anything. If you would like to use it, I'll look into uploading the files somewhere you can get them, as I can't honestly say whether they're still on the Apple site or not. They're not, because you can't legally distribute them any more. It's all in the SDA - once a new version has been out for 6 months, you can't distribute an earlier version. Here's the link to the SDA page (which is where the stand-alone installer downloads are found): http://developer.apple.com/mkt/swl/quicktime.html -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l insert animation to director
I am looking for a way to compress the animation before I insert it into the Director, without any limitations of the frame size I've told Art Directors to insert entire CDs before, but I'm not sure if those suggestions were successful or not (and, I wouldn't compress anything in such a situation) ;) I think your best bet is to make these animations mpegs, and play them back with QT on the Mac or the mpeg xtra on the PC. But, I'm just guessing. -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l problem moving cast members in OS 10.2
i just upgraded my macintosh system to 10.2 (jaguar) and have noticed that when i move cast members within a cast lib, they are automatically duplicated (instead of just being moved). this happens almost about 90% of the time. the other 10% of the time, i can move the members normally without their being copied. holding down the spacebar allows me to move cast members more or less normally (although they are still duplicated from time to time). has anyone had this problem or know how to fix it? Sure. Boot up in 9.2 - Dir is not carbonized. -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Best way of setting up cuepoints in video
Firstly, I've found the movieTime to be really inaccurate (but I've reduced the need for such accuracy in my structure plan). How so? I've done lots of video driven projects, and not had a problem with the movietime. One project in particular, the author wanted to pause dvs at every jump cut - on the frame just before the jump. If that's not accurate, I don't know what is. I use cuepoints in all of these projects, but not in order to use cuepoint lingo. I store the cuePointTimes of a member in a list, and use that in conjunction with the movieTime to drive things, after converting the list of cuePointTimes from ticks to milliseconds. I think someone already mentioned using the movieTime instead of cuepoints, but I'll echo it again. It's a lot simpler than having to use cuepoints, because to change them, all you have to do is change a number in your code, as opposed to (with cuepoints) leaving Director and messing around with other programs which will take a lot longer. The reason I use cuepoints is that if the dv is edited in any way, the cuepoints shift with the edits. This happens a lot - an author may not like the fact that there are 5 frames of black at the beginning of a movie, meaning you would have to go and change all of your times after the edit... as opposed to doing nothing at all. -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: OT: last names (was Re: lingo-l To Ockrassa and others)
I'm sure that if Warren is ex-military, he won't mind being called Okrassa. You could also shout Prisoner 824762! Fall in! and see if he flinches. [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 Are we going over the top now? (was no errors...)
many of the tricks that it helps with could've been done before, but they were cumbersome convoluted. I'll second that. I took a crossword engine that I wrote a while back, which used a sprite for every letter in the grid (max grid, 22x22), and rewrote it with IL. Instead of a 500 sprite channel movie, I now have a 15 channel movie. Instead of 484 text members, I have one (simply for grabbing text images). And it looks *much* nicer on screen. The code is a tad more complex, but simple enough once you start to think in IL terms. -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Director color and image color don't match
To be efficient, I am using Director's shape tools to create parts of my interface. There are also graphics that I created in Photoshop that butt up against the shapes made in Director. As you have probably have experienced, they don't match so well. Hmm. Are the PSD files saved under RGB, or some other format such as CMYK? Are they actual PSDs, as opposed to JPEGs or some other format? What's the color depth on your monitor? If the images are 24- or 32-bit, and your display is 16-bit, you may get into trouble. When I do a print screen and take it into Photoshop, Director's color is actually a little darker even thgough the assigned color has the same RGB value in Director. Does this show in Director too? And if not, why are you copy/pasting? Also, check your color space settings in PS - it defaults to sRGB. Try changing to monitor rgb and see what happens. -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l Re: Lingo-l digest, Vol 1 #424 - 16 msgs
you can save some cpu cycles if you store the reference to the sprite object in a property: property mySprite on beginSprite mySprite = sprite(me.spriteNum) end the cost. of course. is a miniscule amount of RAM - a worthy tradeoff Nearly EVERY sprite behavior I write begins that way. -Buzz Yeah, ditto... and it makes it easier to transition the behavior if you decide to attach it on the fly through the scriptInstanceList, when you *have* to manually set the spriteNum. A lot of my behaviors now look something like this: property pMySprite on beginSprite pMySprite = sprite(me.spriteNum) end on new me, mySprite pMySprite = mySprite end Which covers both cases. 2 more cents... have we got a dollar yet?, Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l and if its a folder?
how to i manage to retreive the next directory? Well, I would certainly use Buddy for digging around in directories. You have baFolderList() which returns all folders at a given path, and baFileList() which returns all the files at a given path. Using the two in tandem can map a drive nicely. -kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: lingo-l message window with projector?
I get the message window too - but you have to make sure you're not in full-screen mode, obviously, and that you set it up properly. In fact, I don't know I've ever seen a text dump to the hard drive, but maybe that's some other option I'm not familiar with. I think Tom was speaking about shockwave, not projector. -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l Unable to load movie playlist error (some info)
I've seen this error mentioned on the list a few times before, so I thought I'd pass on what I found when this error suddenly popped up here. The full error message is Unable to load movie playlist. Does the .INI file exist? It must contain a section '[Movies]' with an entry 'Movie01=Pathname.dir'. This occurred when I tried to run the projector from a temporary partition that I created for burning a CD (on a Mac). Now, the partition's name just happened to be the project's name... which is also the name of the drive partition where my working files are located. It seems that the projector was looking for the movie file on the wrong partition (the file structures are different on the two partitions). Changing the name of either partition solved the problem. Interestingly enough, the burned CD doesn't show the problem when there is a drive of the same name. Hope this was helpful to someone, Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Best way to do it?
I need to create a multi-languages e-learning cd-rom where you can save your settings and answers on a floppy disk. The cd-rom will as well look for the floppy at the beginning to load those parameters to avoid starting everything again. I would like to avoid buying too many Xtras. So, how would you do it? I was thinking about vList, v12, Dialogs Xtra, FileIO and EasyBase but as far as I have never really used them, I am not sure which one to use. I need to: load/save/update an XML structured file on/from a floppy disk. Load different external texts (either text file based or from a DB) included on the cd based on the user's choice (languages). What's a floppy disk? You probably only need fileIO for the xml. You can import the text into a text member with lingo. -kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l patch
is it possible to make a patch for a director movie. If you set it up ahead of time, you can just stick your code in an external cast. Have the program look for that cast at a specified place on the HD, and if it's there, link to it (if not, use the default cast... I'm assuming a CDR here). Then you can distribute your patch with an installer that puts it in the specified location. Or, you could do a search of the HD for the cast on startup, eliminating the need for a hard pathname, but that would be slow. -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Numeric Range Search in List
The area consists of 9500 non-overlapping rectangles, and you want to test a point to see which rectangle it's within. Go through all the rects and fill an area of an image with a particular color (perhaps make it a 16 bit image, which would be enough for testing up to 32768 rects). The first rect would be filled with color 1, second with color 2, etc. That should all happen fairly quickly, but it doesn't matter. It can take all day and not affect the bit that needs to be quick. You now have a bitmap. You say: whichrect = member(colorrects).getpixel(x,y) Surely that will be faster than 9500 inside tests! If the rects are not overlapping, might it be possible to bust them up into a grid emulating array, in which case you could reduce the search to rows/columns, and cut out a big chunk of the search? Just a thought. -kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l multi cd (6 cd's) application
Sure, but DVD is not the market standard yet. Tough sell to a client who doesn't want to cut out a healthy chunk of legacy machines. If this is being developed in Dir85, that question is moot anyway. ;) How so? There are plenty of machines being sold right now with CDR drives, not DVD drives? [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 [OT] Recording audio in Flash
Does anyone know if it's possible to record the user on the fly in Flash (as you would with the audio xtra in director) or from the browser via a plug-in of some sort? -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l API calls in double-byte operating systems
For my next trick I am creating a CD-ROM which will have global distribution, nothing to complicated or tricky, just video in an interface and subtitles (which will be graphics as opposed to live text), apart from one part which requires copying some files across to the desktop (they are actually PowerPoint template files). As far as my RD has shown so far, it seems that registry data is stored in English, even in non-English language OS, so in theory there should be no problems. I'm trying to get hold of a Japanese OS/laptop to check out my theory (easier said than done), but has anyone had any experience of using API calls of this type on CD-ROMs with a global audience and are there any problems/pitfalls I should be aware of? My only other fear is that there might be problems with the copied PowerPoint files (which will be in English) when they land on a system with double-byte or other non-Roman character sets. Any pointers will be gratefully received Well, I don't have a Japanese OS/laptop, but I do have a Japenese Win '98 system running on a Dell here. Using Buddy, I had no problem copying a Word doc from the CD to the desktop: baCopyFile(the moviePath Personnel.doc, baSysFolder(desktop) Personnel.doc, always) (the last param is an overwrite variable) I don't have any powerpoint files on hand to test, but the Word doc was *mostly* fine. There were character substitutions in the higher chars, but if your stuff is in English, you're only likely to have problems with things like en and em dashes. HTH, Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Help! List madness.
Not sure if this is appropriate in your project/product or not, but why not just check to verify it doesn't already exist before adding it in? if (not getPos(myList, someNumber)) then add(myList, someNumber) end if And just avoid the whole culling-out thing altogether... Since we're on the 2 cents track, I'll toss in mine. Along with the same disclaimer - might not apply. I always do what Tab says above for these situations (in my case, that usually means tracking user input in a variety of activities across a CD). A single method can create or modify an entry to a massive prop list, depending on whether the entry already exists. Here's an example for prop lists: if voidP(myList.getAProp(someProp)) then myList.addProp(someProp, someValue) else myList[someProp] = someValue end if In other words, if the entry doesn't exist, add it. If it does exist, modify it. Maybe this was helpful to somebody :), Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Javascript to refresh Shockwave?
With some cgi calls to change the params first, of course. [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 Javascript to refresh Shockwave?
With some cgi calls to change the params first, of course. There I go again, throwing in my 2 cents without reading the whole thread. What is initiating the refresh? The shock, or the HTML? [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 Bitmap as Cursor
(I don't think it supports 32 bit members, but you can dither your embers down to 8) dither your embers... that's vaguely disturbing. Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l quicktime sprite
How can I detect if a certain sprite contains a quicktime movie or not? if sprite(x).member.type #quickTimeMedia then... [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 is acrobat reader installed?
but how do i check whether the user actually has acrobat reader installed so i can annoy him with a sorry, you need to install acrobat reader first alert? essentially i need a check if reader is installed if yes open document if no put out an alert it's not do-able without an xtra, right? please help. BuddyAPI is an option (and it's free if you're only using that one function) - BAFindApp() is the function. [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 Lingo questions
(c'mon, where's the attack of the groans?!?) All right, all right, send in the clones. There ought to be clones. Holy groans, bhakti-man. [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 linked director movie experts
For those of you who have worked with linked director movies... Well, I've battled some LDM's and here's my rule of thumb: Always let LDM's do to themselves. That means: You can tell *variables* to change in the LDM-scope from the outside, but any real change in media should happen from within the LDM's own scope. IOW. If the event leading to a change of 'arms' comes from 'the stage', then you should try to let this 'stage-event' set a 'flag' in the LDM, and then let the LDM asynchronously handle the 'message from its own internally originating event. I've battled a bit with LDMs, myself, and it's clear why they're not officially supported :). Bhakti suggested film loops, Jakob gave you some tips above, and I'll toss in one more 2 cents - MIAWs. LDMs and MIAWs are fairly close cousins, so if you can't resolve the issues, try running your linked movies in MIAWs. Of course, this won't allow you to have sprites in the main movie on top of the MIAW, but it doesn't sound like that's an issue for you. Your control calls will be slightly different, but the basic communication is similar - you'd likely only have to change the code that sends the message, not the message itself. -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Re: QT communicating with director.
I don't think Flash supports QT, or ever will. QT supports Flash though. Flash MX uses Sorenson Spark, which is not QT, which is sort of the point. - Right, but going with Flash MX in Director for video, just to get away from QuickTime, will mean far less control, operability, streaming options, and video quality in the bargain. Apple is suing MM over this very thing. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2109473,00.html [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 communicating with director.
I wrote: Apple is suing MM over this very thing. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2109473,00.html I *meant* to write: Apple is suing Sorenson over this very thing. [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 baOpenFile question
on mouseUp me baOpenFile (the moviepathCDresources/advancesales.pdf) end Now see here you're doing the 'polite' thing and using UNC notation, in the form of a '/' for your path delimiter -- that's great. Unfortunately it doesn't work with BAPI, FX3 or FileIO, if I recall correctly. These Xtras want legitimate -- system-specific -- path delimiters. Arg, eh? So try this instead: on mouseUp me baOpenFile ( the moviePath CDResources \ the last char of the moviePath \ advancesales.pdf ) END mouseUp Perhaps the path delimiter is an issue, but the error is due to the statement having the wrong number of parameters. baOpenFile() requires two parameters, the second of which is ignored on the mac, and I can't remember what it does on windows. baOpenFile(path to file, ) is the correct call. -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l under a major crunch, quick imaging lingo solution
Hey all,I hate to ask such a basic question, I am just juggling several things at the moment. Could someone drop up a quick script of imaging lingo that would take an image and rotate it 180degrees. I am major stressed, we are installing our piece, and I FOUND THAT THE FRAMERATE IS MUCH GREATER IF THE IMAGES ARE ROTATED 180 DEGRESS. VERY odd. but it seems to work consistently. if i keep the sprites rotated at 0 degrees, the framerate is half of what it is if i rotatethem 180 degrees.thanks I did some basic flipping and rotating imaging not too long ago. Hope this helps. -Kurt -- -- --Sample call: member(testDest).image = mirrorImage(member(test).image.duplicate(), diagonalTLBR) on mirrorImage sourceImage, axis --need a square image to avoid distortion squareDimension = max(sourceImage.width, sourceImage.height) destinationImage = image(squareDimension, squareDimension, sourceImage.depth) tempImage = image(squareDimension, squareDimension, sourceImage.depth) destinationRect = rect((squareDimension - sourceImage.width)/2,\ (squareDimension - sourceImage.height)/2,\ squareDimension - (squareDimension - sourceImage.width)/2,\ squareDimension - (squareDimension - sourceImage.height)/2) tempImage.copypixels(sourceImage, destinationRect, sourceImage.rect, [#ink:36]) sourceImage = tempImage case axis of horizontal: flipQuad = [point(0, destinationImage.height),\ point(destinationImage.width, destinationImage.height),\ point(destinationImage.width, 0),\ point(0, 0)] vertical: flipQuad = [point(destinationImage.width, 0),\ point(0, 0),\ point(0, destinationImage.height),\ point(destinationImage.width, destinationImage.height)] diagonalTLBR: flipQuad = [point(destinationImage.width, destinationImage.height),\ point(destinationImage.width, 0),\ point(0, 0),\ point(0, destinationImage.height)] diagonalTRBL: flipQuad = [point(0, 0),\ point(0, destinationImage.height),\ point(destinationImage.width, destinationImage.height),\ point(destinationImage.width, 0)] otherwise: put Invalid axis - choices are horizontal, vertical, diagonalTLBR, diagonalTRBL end case destinationImage.copyPixels(sourceImage, flipQuad, sourceImage.rect) return destinationImage end --member(testDest).image = rotateImage(member(test).image.duplicate(), 90) --This only deals with 90 degree increments. on rotateImage sourceImage, degree --need a square image to avoid distortion squareDimension = max(sourceImage.width, sourceImage.height) destinationImage = image(squareDimension, squareDimension, sourceImage.depth) tempImage = image(squareDimension, squareDimension, sourceImage.depth) destinationRect = rect((squareDimension - sourceImage.width)/2,\ (squareDimension - sourceImage.height)/2,\ squareDimension - (squareDimension - sourceImage.width)/2,\ squareDimension - (squareDimension - sourceImage.height)/2) tempImage.copypixels(sourceImage, destinationRect, sourceImage.rect, [#ink:36]) sourceImage = tempImage case degree of 270: rotateQuad = [point(0, destinationImage.height),\ point(0, 0),\ point(destinationImage.width, 0),\ point(destinationImage.width, destinationImage.height)] 180: rotateQuad = [point(destinationImage.width, destinationImage.height),\ point(0, destinationImage.height),\ point(0, 0),\ point(destinationImage.width, 0)] 90: rotateQuad = [point(destinationImage.width, 0),\ point(destinationImage.width, destinationImage.height),\ point(0, destinationImage.height),\ point(0, 0)] otherwise: put Invalid degree - choices are 90, 180, 270 end case destinationImage.copyPixels(sourceImage, rotateQuad, sourceImage.rect) return destinationImage end -- -- [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 wav files work outside of Director but not inside aprojector
They are in Europe ( I am in the US, so I can't just run over there and look.) and have purchased a number of new computers (business purpose). I have a sound issue on these computers. (I have repeatedly asked for machine specs, but they have not provided this information.) This is essential. You have to take a stand, and demand machine specs - unless they can tell you what the machine is made up of, you can't support it. Otherwise, you're guessing in the dark. I'd get software specs, too - you never know what might be installed that conflicts with your app. If they aren't computer-literate enough to give you specs, walk them through the process until you get all of the info you need. Push them on it. Answer any complaints with I haven't received full specs on problem machines - please provide. Asking is not the same as telling. Make it a demand. 2 cents, Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l Re: Password Text fields using ***** instead of text
Is there any way in the properties of an input text field to make it like a password field that only displays ***s. I know how to do it in flash, it's a simple check box on the properties of the text field. Is there something similar to this in Director, or do you have to accomplish it with scripting. I could probably pull it off in scripting if I needed to, but if this is the way I have to go, if someone could jump start me that would be ideal! Take a peek at your library palette. Someone has already scripted it for you. -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: lingo-l make CD (PC Mac) from PC
Legally, you need to have a copy of Director for the Mac and a Macintosh. Then you just make a stub on both machines--a stub being a projector that does nothing but launch the main movie (and maybe put up a splash screen). Not sure if this is entirely kosher, but you could probably hire a consultant to build the Mac stub for you. The licensing implications are unclear, Actually, that action is explicitly forbidden by the licensing agreement. -Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
