Re: lingo-l BUDDY API BUG -- NOOOOOOOOOOO!!
OK, now you've got us confused- hmmm... seems to work for me (win2k, buddy 3.7- now with the MUCH BETTER non-swf help document) longFolder=d:\1dir\2dir\3dir\4dir\5dir\6dir\7dir\ aFile=afile.txt put bafileexists(longFolderaFile) --1 put baopenfile(longFolderaFile,normal) --44 (no error, opened fine) put bafolderexists(longFolder) --1 newFolder=d:\dir1\ put bacopyxfilesprogress(longFoler,newFolder,*.*,always,my title,0) --0 (no error copied fine) Stephen Mendelsohn, Michael wrote the following on 10/11/2004 7:07 AM: Ha! Yes, I realize that was a ridiculous typo on my part. My bad. Wicked bad. However, there's still an issue with baCopyXFileProgress not being able to get at items more than 5 levels deep. Sometimes when I post, I do so hastily. - Michael M. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l filextra FileRunApp ms office : problems with spaces in file paths
Buddy again... use baShortFileName. I use it in both the application and the file. Stephen Julian Weaver wrote the following on 10/6/2004 8:20 AM: Hi, yep, that works in filextra too. many thanks tim. julian I think the reason is that when MS apps take the filename it sees the space as the end of the parameter, by passing the parameter inside quotation marks, this is avoided. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Opening Word
Here's a list of command line switches I found for Word (no page or line number) For page/line numbers you could use Buddy API and the sendkeys function. HTH, Stephen *Type* *To do this* */a* Starts Word and prevents add-ins and global templates (including the Normal template) from being loaded automatically. The */a* switch also locks the setting files; that is, the setting files cannot be read or modified if you use this switch. */l*/addinpath/ Starts Word and then loads a specific Word add-in. */m* Starts a new instance of Word without running any AutoExec macros. */m*/macroname / Starts Word and then runs a specific macro. The */m* switch also prevents Word from running any AutoExec macros. */n* Starts a new instance of Word with no document open. Documents opened in each instance of Word will not appear as choices in the *Window* menu of other instances. */t*/templatename/ Starts Word with a new document based on a template other than the Normal template. */w* Starts a new instance of Word with a blank document. Documents opened in each instance of Word will not appear as choices in the *Window* menu of the other instances. (no switch) A new Word window is opened with a blank document using the existing instance of the Word program. The following Word startup (command-line) switches are not listed in Word Help. *Type * *To do this * */c* Starts a new instance of Word and then invokes NetMeeting. */q* Starts Word without displaying the Word splash screen. This switch is only available in Word 2000 Service Release 1 (SR-1). */r* Starts Word in the background, makes changes in the Windows registry, and then quits. This switch forces a re-register of Word in the Windows registry. */u* Has no effect and does not start Word. */x* Starts a new instance of Word from the operating shell (for example, to print in Word). This instance of Word responds to only one DDE request and ignores all other DDE requests and multi-instances. If you are starting a new instance of Word in the operating environment (for example, in Windows), it is recommended that you use the */w* switch, which starts a fully functioning instance. *pathname\filename* Starts Starts Word with a specific document open. *Note* To open multiple files at once, use pathname\filename. Example: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Winword.exe c:\filename1.doc c:\filename2.doc (any other switch) Starts a new instance of Word. For example, if you start Word with just the / and no switch, or with any unlisted switch combination, Word just starts a new instance of Word with a new blank document. The following Word startup (command-line) switch is listed in Word 2000 Help but not listed in Word 2002 or Word 2003 Help. *Type* *To do this* */m*file/n/ Starts Word and then opens the specified file on the Most Recently Used (MRU) list on the *File* menu. Daniel Plaenitz wrote the following on 9/29/2004 10:55 AM: At 11:09 29.09.2004 -0400, you wrote: Hello LINGO-Lers, Anyone know if it is possible to open a Microsoft Word document to a specific line, anchor, or page via LINGO? I'm concerned mostly with doing this on the Windows platform. lingo plays a minor role here, methinks. How would you tell Word to open and display a specific whatEver in the first place? I think if you call word with command line parameters it will interprete these as file names and try to open them one by one, if there is any way to fine-control word via the command line then its unknown to me. The only thing that comes to mind is to create a vba-script which reads some parameters from an external file and then does what you want using all the power of that application control language. Lingo would be needed to write that external control file and to call Word to open the document. A kludge, but it could be done. daniel [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Buddy API
First of all, I generally agree with you. But, there are ways to make it work. Have you noticed that the Macromedia Shockwave games (Lemonade Tycoon 2) reset your video? They obviously feel it is a risk worth taking. Stephen Robert Tweed wrote the following on 9/19/2004 4:32 PM: - Original Message - From: roymeo [EMAIL PROTECTED] And You should NEVER presume that you know my project better than I do. You seem to have misunderstood the scope of my argument. Since I apparently wasn't clear enough about it, I was only talking about freely distributed software. Kiosks, as I said, are exceptions. There are other things that are exceptions for the same reason that kiosks are exceptions: they are not freely distributed software. If the Client wants to reset the laptop resolution of those 50 sales-people to 800x600, that is the Client's right to pay me to implement. it might even make sense. The reason this is a special case in the same way that a kiosk is a special case is that the client *is* the end user. It doesn't matter what the salesperson thinks because it's not their laptop. If the client wants to install this on the home PCs of their sales force then we are back to the general case and no, you should not do that even if the client wants it because the client doesn't have the right to make that decision for the end-users. It simply comes down to who owns/administers the systems on which the projector is being installed. For everyday end-users in receipt of freely distributed software, they have no special pre-standing agreements with you about what you may or may not do to their computer so you simply do not have a right to go making assumptions about what is acceptable and what isn't. Anything that can potentially break their system simply isn't acceptable unless it is a user-instigated option. I do not see this as a difficult concept to understand or accept. If a client comes to you with a project that includes spyware in breach of all sorts of privacy laws (which obviously vary from country to country, but they do exist and this is hypothetical) should you break the law and develop that software for them anyway? No, you shouldn't. Even if it's not illegal to do something that can potentially damage a computer should you do that? No, it's not illegal but it's definitely unethical. In fact, even though changing the monitor resolution is assumed to be perfectly legal, you (either the developer or the client) may be legally liable for any damage that might be caused. However, since there has never to my knowledge been a legal test case to prove that, I'm not asserting it to be true: just saying it's something to consider, and ask whether it's a risk worth taking. Do specific contracts with the end-users make a difference? Yes, of course they do. Employees of your client are to a lesser or greater degree, the same entity, and may have signed away specific rights. In that case you can get away with more, if that's what the client wants and it's not illegal or unethical to do so. If however, the end-users have no special legal contracts with you or your client then they are not a special case. I hope I have now made it quite clear where I draw the line on this one and that I still do not agree that there are exceptions to the rule about not f!*king with hardware settings without permission: the only exception I have made here concerns how permission is actually granted, but you still have prior permission of the *user* (who may or may not be the same entity as the client: understanding the difference is quite important). - Robert [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Case-sensitive symbol quirk
Yes, the topic has been extensively discussed on this list. Check out the messages with subject: fileIO changes T to t ?!?!? Thank you, Stephen Ingrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] KLGC Studio wrote the following on 9/13/2004 2:12 PM: Ross, Someone explained this very thoroughly on DirectL within the last several months if you care to search for the thread. In the meantime, it is a case of using a symbol that already exists and defaults to the first inclusion in the symbol list. Ross Clutterbuck wrote: Hi List Can anybody shed some light on to this for me? I'm trying to set a variable to #dsl but Director is insisting on using #DSL, but all other symbols I assign (#enet, #internal, #subnext, etc) all remain as-written. This isn't too much of an issue, but the cue points I have set up inside my MPEG Advance Xtra 1.5 member all use the lowercase dsl and they are case-sensitive, so cue points generated using my variable (containing Director's insistant #DSL) is throwing up errors because the cue points can't be found. I've renamed all affected cue points to uppercase so it's not been a problem, but has anybody seen this case switching when using symbols before? Ross [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l LDM's and TELL is NOT obsolete whatever MM says
(I don't think Flash had the same level of legacy code to maintain when it was restructured) I'm trying to update a project done several years ago using Director 5 or 6 Stephen I'm working on a G5, running OSX 10.3.2. using Director MX 2004. All I have to do (I thought) is to open the .dir files with MX 2004 and save them. (I have done that, and everything was all right). Then I have opened the stub.dir file and try to publish it for OSX and classic versions, but here the problem; as soon as the program start (just the black screen of the stub file), it crash. This happen with both projectors, OSX and classic, the only difference is that in classic mode, there is a message coming up saying There is an invalid castmember [] in this movie and then crash. If I run the project in authoring mode through Director it works fine. Does anyone have an idea of what it should be?? Thanks Teo [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l change full screen mode at runtime in Dir 8.5.1
mac or pc? When the window is in window mode, do you want to see the normal title bar with min,max,close buttons? I've done this on pc without the title bar etc... I'll dig up the code and pass it on. Thank you, Stephen Ingrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.leagueofdesign.com http://www.leagueofdesign.com Michael von Aichberger wrote the following on 9/12/2004 8:06 AM: Hi List, if a projector is created using the option fullscreen, is it possible to change that at runtime, so that after pressing a key for instance it runs in a window? I am using Dir 8.5.1. Thanks Michael [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: AW: lingo-l change full screen mode at runtime in Dir 8.5.1
The other advantage to using this method is that you get away from the 1 pixel black line outlining the full screen projectors. The window resizing is simple- the issue is that you have to take into account every sprite on the stage. SO... make sure that every member has their regpoint in the center of the screen. For instance, author at fullscreen (in my case 1600,1200)- during authoring, my movie is set to 1600,1200, ALL sprites loc=800,600- I just adjust their regpoint to get them where I want them (or import using Photocaster, which does the same thing) OK, here's the pc version (should be x-plat, but NOT tested) (also, most of this is email lingo) global gScreenWidth,gScreenHeight,gScreenCenterPT on startmovie deskRect = the desktopRectList[1] gScreenWidth=deskRect.right gScreenHeight=deskRect.bottom gScreenCenterPT=point(gscreenwidth/2,gscreenheight/2) end on goFullScreen (the stage).rect = the desktopRectList[1] sendAllSprites(#reCenter) end on gosmall w,h --should test to make sure not already small deskRect=the desktopRectList[1] aleft=(deskRect.right-w)/2 atop=(deskRect.bottom-h)/2 (the stage).rect=rect(aleft,atop,aleft+w,atop+h) sendAllSprites(#reCenter) end --- Then, on each sprite, this behavior global gScreenCenterPT property spr,spritenum on beginSprite me spr=sprite(spritenum) reCenter(me) end on reCenter me spr.loc=gScreenCenterPT end -- OK, I didn't change ALL of my sprites' regpoints- for some of them (digital video) I used the following behavior property spr,spritenum,pofflocx,pofflocy global gScreenCenterPT on getPropertyDescriptionList me plist= [#pofflocx:[#comment:Point X from center,#format:#integer,#default:0],#pofflocy:[#comment:Point Y from center,#format:#integer,#default:0]] return plist end on beginSprite me spr=sprite(spritenum) reCenter(me) end on reCenter me spr.loc=gScreenCenterPT+point(pofflocx,pofflocy) end Thank you, Stephen Ingrum mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael von Aichberger wrote the following on 9/12/2004 9:39 AM: mac or pc? When the window is in window mode, do you want to see the normal title bar with min,max,close buttons? Hi Stephen! Thanks for your answer. I am developping on a PC, but I would need that functionality for a cross-platform CD, so if there were a MAC solution, I'd take that too! But I'd be glad to have your win-only solution. Window without title bar would do it, yes! Thanks in advance Michael Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l copyPixel and Masks
Excellent, thank you- using image.duplicate() is (of course) much faster than creating a new image from member.image. Now I can use this function to create duplicate images from any size original to any size with rounded corners. (I also use it to show the larger images) --aTemplate=the member of the template image (with rounded corners) --aTemplateImage=aTemplate.image --inMember=the member of the larger image --outMember=new(#bitmap) --aMask= (member identical to aTemplate except 1 bit).image.createmask() on createThumbNail aTemplate, aTemplateImage, inMember, outMember, aMask --find proper scale w=float(inMember.width) h=float(inMember.height) maxWidth=float(templateImage.width) maxHeight=float(templateImage.height) diffw=maxWidth/w diffh=maxHeight/h --use the min diff to scale without cropping (creating black sides or top as needed), or --use the max diff to scale with cropping either width or height as needed --note the if then statement was tested to be quite a bit faster than min or max functions if diffwdiffh then neww=diffw*w newh=diffw*h else neww=diffh*w newh=diffh*h end if aleft=(maxwidth-neww)/2 atop=(maxHeight-newh)/2 destRect=rect(aleft,atop,aleft+neww,atop +newh) tmpImage=templateImage.duplicate() outImage=templateImage.duplicate() --PASS 1 --create thumbnail out of larger image tmpImage.copyPixels(inMember.image, destRect,inMember.rect) --PASS 2 --now round the edges of thumbnail outImage.copyPixels(tmpImage,destRect,destRect,[#maskimage:amask]) outMember.image=outImage end Thank you, Stephen Ingrum mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buzz Kettles wrote the following on 9/9/2004 9:16 PM: At 5:28 PM -0500 9/9/04, you wrote: I'm trying to create a series of thumbnails with rounded corners. Do I *have* to do it in two passes (see below)? yes - but you might save a little processing time, by moving the creation of outImage up (to just below the tmpImage creation) outImage = tmpImage.duplicate() also destRect is the same as aTemplate.rect so you don't really need that variable either hth -Buzz It works fine, just trying to optimize... --aTemplate=the member of the template image (160x120 with rounded corners) --inMember=the member of the large image --aMask= (member identical to aTemplate except 1 bit).image.createmask() --outMember=new(#bitmap) on createThumbNail aTemplage, inMember, outMember --get thumbnail template image tmpImage=aTemplate.image.duplicate() --simplified for list purposes destRect=rect(0,0,160,120) --PASS 1 --create thumbnail out of larger image tmpImage.copyPixels(inMember.image, destrect,inmember.rect) --PASS 2 --now round the edges of thumbnail outImage=aTemplate.image.duplicate() outImage.copyPixels(tmpImage,destRect,destRect,[#maskimage:amask]) outMember.image=outImage end -- Thank you, Stephen [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l useFastQuads
I'm using copypixels to dynamically create a series of thumbnail images. In testing useFastQuads, I see no difference in speed or quality. Shouldn't I see some difference? -- Thank you, Stephen Ingrum mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [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(PowerPoint)...but play it
Michael, Actually, I use baRunProgram, but, you should add /s to your open string: baRunProgram(PPTpath PPTexe /s mypowerpoint.ppt, normal, false) That's the command setup I normally use. HTH Thank you, Stephen Ingrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.leagueofdesign.com http://www.leagueofdesign.com Mendelsohn, Michael wrote the following on 8/19/2004 9:27 AM: Hi list... Is there any way (maybe a shell command?) to open a PowerPoint file, but have it play instead of just opening it in edit mode? Thanks, Michael M. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l duplicate cast members
I personally don't think that such a possibly destructive, infrequently used, and quiet function (duplicate) should be surrounded by such common (exchange, find, copy, cut, and save) key commands. Thank you, Stephen Ingrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.leagueofdesign.com http://www.leagueofdesign.com Alex da Franca wrote the following on 8/16/2004 10:33 AM: At 14:38 Uhr -0700 15.08.2004, Buzz Kettles wrote: note: there already are two kinds of graphical feedback. 1. The member selection changes to the new member ( the member hilight changes accordingly). 2. the appropriate menu header flashes ... (at least on Mac) - Save flashes the word 'File' Duplicate flashes 'Edit' you're absolutely right, buzz, but I was under the impression, that it doesn't seem to be enough in this case, since some of us wrote, that it happens sometimes. the fact, that slavas question was immediately answered with the right suggestion seems to show, that he is not the only one who got trapped. but anyway, that's the reason I asked what you others think about the issue. [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 duplicate cast members
*tabbed* preference window Now you're asking for too much.;) Thank you, Stephen Ingrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.leagueofdesign.com Alex da Franca wrote the following on 8/16/2004 1:14 PM: At 9:50 Uhr -0700 16.08.2004, Buzz Kettles wrote: I use duplicate all the time, but I do it by dragging with the option/alt key ... I've been bitten by the cmd-S/D issue more times than I'd like to remember - it's a real annoyance. My personal solution was to use QuickKeys to override cmd-D ... Maybe MACR/Director should make the shortcut for Duplicate a more awkward key combo better still: leave it up to us ! ... in a tabbed preference window, 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 duplicate cast members
I don't know about you, but I sometimes hit ctl-D (duplicate) instead of ctl-F (find). And yes, it has caused major headaches. Thank you, Stephen Ingrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LeagueofDesign.com http://www.leagueofdesign.com http://www.leagueofdesign.com Slava Paperno wrote the following on 8/14/2004 6:10 PM: Every now and then I see a duplicate of a cast member (a script) appear for no apparent reason. Both copies have the same name, different dates, and different cast member number--and identical text (unless I edit one before I notice the duplicate). I've seen this happening in Dir MX 9, and I remember this was mentioned as a problem that was resolved in an update--but this is now happening in MX 10 (Windows XP), so it must be me doing something dumb. What can it be??? I don't see cast members of any other type cloning themselves--only behaviors and movie scripts--but that may be because most of my work involves behaviors and scripts. I use the New Script Window menu command pretty often--could this be related? I've never been able to catch a member in the act... always notice them later. Slava [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l All those DLLs
ummm what dll files? I've never included those dll's with any project before- is this a MX 2004 thing? Thank you, Stephen Ingrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LeagueofDesign.com http://www.leagueofdesign.com http://www.leagueofdesign.com Johan Verhoeven wrote the following on 7/15/2004 9:39 AM: yep, me too.. all in the Xtra folder, 'till now no problems whatsoever. J. -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] John Mathis Verzonden: donderdag 15 juli 2004 16:17 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re: lingo-l All those DLLs May I suggest you try with everything in the xtras folder...don't know about onstage or Tbrsrc, but I keep all the others in xtras. John Mathis Regarding Dirapi.dll, Iml32.dl, msvcrt.dll and Tbrsrc.dll, is it better to have them sitting next to the projector or within the xtras folder? And regarding my DLLs for my onStage xtra, Proj.dll and OnStage.dll, I believe those go next to the projector, right? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: OT: junk - was lingo-l Seeking Shockwave math website
ummm years. No kids yet, we're still practicing. WOW 3am??? I program better than I did when I stayed up till 3, but I haven't seen the other side of 1 in a while. Two quotes that I repeatedly say: Nothing good ever happens after midnight You should never see the sunrise without a fishing pole in your hand Stephen Troy Rollins wrote the following on 6/24/2004 8:18 PM: On Jun 24, 2004, at 9:00 PM, Stephen Ingrum wrote: Only problem is that I can't remember which formula is for which problem(almost 40) Almost 40 formulas? Or years? I turned forty this year, and I've never felt so... old. My kids complain because I have to turn my techno and house music up so loud. I have a hard time dragging myself out of bed in the morning if I've stayed up past 3am. It sucks. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l export to swf?
Others will explain better, but no. Great to have you back. I hope all is going well. You were missed by those of us how have been around (and around). Stephen Bhakti Klein wrote the following on 6/21/2004 7:37 PM: hi all! i'm back after a several year hiatus. and i've forgotten everything. not to mention all the new stuff that came along in the last couple of years. so first of all, can one export (part of) a director movie to .swf format? thanks, bhakti [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l database lingo vs. xtra
I'm thinking about just doing the project with lingo and perhaps PropSave (and of course, some buddyAPI thrown in there for good measure), but I wanted to get the groups response before I start- Details: the database will be updated by only 1 (or maybe 2) people ever. it will contain 1200-1500 entries each entry will contain firstname, lastname, storenumber, images(anywhere from 0-5), other misc textbased fields The client *really* only wants the application to keep track of these images (he takes them throughout the year). The client will use the data at the end of the year to make a yearbook of images/quotes, etc... Anyway, does anybody have any good reasons that I should just create it with Lingo? or should I create it with V12 or one of the others? Stephen [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 Merits of JS in Director
Just got the email- Macromedia *annonce *Director MX 2004 ...must be the new JS ;) Stephen [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 PC System Information
There all there, just do a search within the help system- baMemoryInfo( InfoType ) baCpuInfo( type ) baDiskInfo( Drive, InfoType) Stephen Ross Clutterbuck wrote the following on 2/10/2004 8:28 AM: Greets Part of a project I'm pitching for currently involves my Director app to read off system information for the PC it's running on (processor, memory, etc.). For some reason I thought Buddy API had functions I could use to do this but so far I've not had much luck reading throug the docs. Any tips, Xtras (as cheap as possible too) on how to acheive this? TIA Ross [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [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 shutdown NT
Buddy API does a great job of this (as well as MANY other tasks) baExitWindows( Option ) Arguments: String. Option is the type of exit. Can be: reboot reboots the system restart restarts Windows logoff logs off Windows shutdown shuts down the system poweroff powers off the system Windows 95/98/ME Windows NT/2000/XP reboot reboot reboot restart restart reboot shutdown shutdown shutdown logoff logoff logoff poweroff poweroff poweroff Stephen nitin sharma wrote: hi list can anybody tell me how i can stutdown a NT pc by lingo. currently i m using : on Exitframe shutDown end reg : nitin _ Play the prediction game on MEZ. Win Sehwags autographed T-shirts. http://go.msnserver.com/IN/41491.asp Predict and win on myenjoyzone.com. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Ethernet HW Address? (xpost-ish)
BuddyApi will get you: HD serial # (also, type, name, size, free space) CPU info (vendor, type, model, stepping, speed) As far as the Ethernet address- Are you looking for the information given by using the (obviously PC) netstat -r command? If so you could always put the output of the command into a text file and read that text file. OR, you could contact Gary (buddyApi) and he might be willing to whip something up for you. Thank you, Stephen Ingrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LeagueofDesign.com http://www.leagueofdesign.com Warren Ockrassa wrote: Asked this on Direct-L yesterday but no one seemed to have the answer I was looking for. I'm wondering if anyone knows of a means (ideally with an Xtra, not something like AppleScript or VBScript) to find out the hardware address of a given system's ethernet card. Bonus points for finding out things like CPU and HD serial numbers! I know it's doable in theory; I'm just wondering if anyone's actually managed it in practice. Thanks! Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com/director_beginners_guide/ [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l bulleted lists in text members
= ALT 0149 on the PC Thank you, Stephen Ingrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LeagueofDesign.com http://www.leagueofdesign.com http://www.leagueofdesign.com Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Dec 9, 2003, at 11:16 AM, Slava Paperno wrote: I know this line of lingo will create a bulleted list in the text member: member(1).html = html ullione/lilitwo/li/ul /html But does someone know how to *type* a bulleted list in Dir MX's text editor? On Mac you can do option-8 to get a bull char: There's an ALT+ sequence for Win but I don't recall what it is. For end users, what I found some time ago was that it was much, MUCH easier to just add a bullet button to a text editor window. That way if the user wanted a bullet char, s/he could just click the bullet char button and the right character (determined by numToChar) would be inserted at the cursor's current location. Note that in either case you have to add the bullets at the beginning of each line yourself. Director won't do it automagically for you, a la Word, and I sincerely pray it never does (because Word's autoformatting is usually more trouble than it's worth). If you want to set it up so end users can have that sort of autoformatting, you could probably just do keyup detection: on keyUp if the key = RETURN then -- add your bullet end if pass END keyUp You could also be clever and have the program add bullets only if the key is ENTER, not RETURN (ENTER being the one on the numeric keypad). That way your return key works as expected, but the user can still have bullets inserted automatically. [I say 'keyUp' here because a ham-fingered user might end up inadvertently adding a half dozen returns by mistake, simply with a keyDown, but there's only one keyUp generated per any keystroke. So for trying to do things like autoformatting or user keystroke detection where you're testing a lot (and thus slow down system response or have to deal with a buffer of many events), keyUp might make more sense.] Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com/director_beginners_guide/ [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l ActiveX Control
I'm trying to create an interface using column header like in Outlook Express (pc)- the from, Subject, etc.. resizable and sortable column headers. Is there an ActiveX component for this? Or, has anybody seen a good (or even better) solution for handling several columns of text? I don't mind recreating the wheel (I've got a recreated boat full of recreated wheels), but if I don't have to... Thank you, Stephen Ingrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LeagueofDesign.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l lingo-lOT:OpenOffice (was Flash in DirMX)
aleatory I thought it was a French word until I babelfished it. OpenOffice Anyone else use OpenOffice? I really like the concept of it, but I haven't heard much from people who would actually use it the way I might use it. Sorry for the serious OT- ignore it if you've got anything remotely important to do. Stephen - Original Message - From: Colin Holgate [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 10:59 AM Subject: Re: lingo-l Flash in DirMX Someone understand my english and have a solution?(PC, DIrector MX, PPT converted with OpenOffice 1.1) That's amazing, I had to look up the word aleatory. What a good word! Is your Flash sprite direct to stage or not? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l sending data from a form to an email address
I've used (a long time ago) http://www.lingo.de/shockmail.htm with success. It's really just a cgi/sendmail solution, but it uses director to format and send the data. Stephen Ingrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LeagueofDesign.com - Original Message - From: pat cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 1:31 PM Subject: lingo-l sending data from a form to an email address Hi All I am creating learning package for a company that will use it on their intranet. Part of the package has to contain a question and answer session using a simple 'vote for joe' format. The choices would be stored in a variable, say 'results'. At the end of the Q and A session I would like Director to send a discreet email to the training staff for evaluation, this should be transparent to the user. Is this possible and of course how? Pat Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://mail.messenger.yahoo.co.uk [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Cursor property
On a semi-related note. What's the difference between saying on mouseEnter me sprite(spritenum).cursor=280 end and on mouseEnter me cursor 280 end Why would you use one method over the other? Thank you, Stephen Ingrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LeagueofDesign.com - Original Message - From: Colin Holgate [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 9:00 AM Subject: RE: lingo-l Cursor property Sorry, folks, but sprite(me.spriteNum).cursor as well as sprite(spriteNum).cursor doesn't want to work. That's because you are saying on mousedown, and not on mousedown me. Try sticking some me's at the end of your handler's first lines. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Cursor property
After testing what I *thought* to be true... I answered my own question. Peter, if you are going to use sprite(spritenum).cursor, use it in the beginSprite handler (WITH the me) there is no need to repeatedly set the property in the mouseEnter handler property spr,spritenum on beginSprite me spr=sprite(spritenum) spr.cursor=280 end - Original Message - From: Stephen Ingrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 9:19 AM Subject: Re: lingo-l Cursor property On a semi-related note. What's the difference between saying on mouseEnter me sprite(spritenum).cursor=280 end and on mouseEnter me cursor 280 end Why would you use one method over the other? Thank you, Stephen Ingrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LeagueofDesign.com - Original Message - From: Colin Holgate [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 9:00 AM Subject: RE: lingo-l Cursor property Sorry, folks, but sprite(me.spriteNum).cursor as well as sprite(spriteNum).cursor doesn't want to work. That's because you are saying on mousedown, and not on mousedown me. Try sticking some me's at the end of your handler's first lines. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Another cursor property question
Why not just use the command- cursor 200 Stephen - Original Message - From: Steve Rachels [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 11:54 AM Subject: Re: lingo-l Another cursor property question Classical breakout game... paddle, ball, bricks. Nothing covering the entire screen, but I could put a box with 0 alpha over or under it if necessary. Steve Rachels - Original Message - From: Charlie Fiskeaux II [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 9:38 AM Subject: Re: lingo-l Another cursor property question what types of media do you have on screen when you're trying to hide the cursor? Do you have an item covering the entire stage? Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Steve Rachels [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 11:42 AM Subject: Re: lingo-l Another cursor property question Can't seem to find how to make the cursor disappear on my game when I start the 'play' frame. I want to use the mouse to shoot, but don't want it visible. I know the code is 200, but getting it to work sigh Hints? Steve Rachels [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Open a folder
Using Buddy- thePath=the full path you wish to show in exlorer barunprogram(Explorer.exethePath,Normal,true) Stephen Ingrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LeagueofDesign.com 214.324.1177 ext. 1# - Original Message - From: Mendelsohn, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 1:59 PM Subject: lingo-l Open a folder Hi list... I thought there would have been a method somewhere to open a folder...maybe in buddyAPI or the fileXtra or something. Is there any way to open a folder (not a file)? regards, Michael M. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Getting externalEvent to work
In order to avoid all of the different browser/version quirks,
I generally have a hidden frame that does all of the work for me.
frameset
frame1 content frame where all of the shockwave, or flash action
happens/frame1
frame2 hidden frame/frame2
/frameset
Also, I create stub html files.
i.e. If I want to open options.htm in a new window, I'll create an html file
named optionsx.htm that just has
(warning pseudo code)
body onLoad=domyopenhtmlopening(xsize, ysize, newwindowname)
so,
inside of shockwave I call gotoURL (optionsx.htm, frame2)
I know it's convoluted, but it works on *most* all browsers (even Mozilla's
FireBird).
You will still run into popup window blockers, ;(
HTH
Stephen
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From: Andrew Dempsey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 3:38 PM
Subject: RE: lingo-l Getting externalEvent to work
Thanks Jussi for your response.
I was using ie to check, but I just checked and found that NS7 doesn't
work either.
Vbscript is good, except that I want to open the new browser with
specific properties (no menu bar, not resizable, etc.) that I do not
think can be set in vbscript - it needs javascript.
I had gone through the article you mention in the technotes, but didn't
really find it solved the problems above.
AD
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Jussi Jokinen
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 3:48 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: lingo-l Getting externalEvent to work
Hi Andrew,
You are propably using Internet Explorer to test your pages,
since in Netscape Navigator your script should work just
fine. In IE externalEvent only triggers VBScript. That is,
you must either write your code in VBScript or just redirect
function call through a VBScript function.
I suppose you have missed the most obvious source of online
help, since there is a nice tutorial in TechNotes...
http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/extern
alevent_samples.htm
BR,
Jussi Jokinen
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From: Andrew Dempsey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Direct-L List [EMAIL PROTECTED];
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Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 5:44 PM
Subject: lingo-l Getting externalEvent to work
Hi all,
I can't figure out why I am having trouble with externalEvent in
shockwave. Having spent the last 24 hours searching online
for help,
I turn to you all for help! I've done projectors for a couple of
years, but am fairly new to shockwave and especially
getting a movie
to interact with the browser it's embedded in.
I have a shockwave movie embedded in a browser window. In
the movie I
have this simple behavior attached to a button:
on mouseUp me
externalEvent(openNewWindow('alphabet.htm'))
end
In the head section of the webpage, I have the following script:
script language=JavaScript
function openNewWindow(newURL) {
window.open
(newURL,alphabet,toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=yes,m
en
ubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,width=450,height=450);}
/script
However, when I click on the button that has the mouseUp
behavior, and
hold my breath waiting for the new browser window to pop
open, nothing
happens (and I eventually exhale). I am sure there's
something really
simple that I am missing here, but I have been looking at
it for too
long, and I probably also need some caffeine detox (the diet
coke/coffee diet catches up eventually...).
The actual shockwave applet is located at
www.egyptianarabic.com/wordofday/index.asp, if it helps to
look at it
to understand what I am saying. The button that has the
externalEvent
behavior is the little one with the key shape on it. The
site is set
to go live this week, and I want to get this ironted out.
Thanks,
Andrew
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Andrew Dempsey
ICT and Education Consultant
Cairo, Egypt
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Re: lingo-l [XPOST] FileIO Xtra wrapper: writeFile() solution
I've always used buddyApi (again) to rename the file to a unique name myfile.backup1(2,3,4,5,6...) THEN written a new file. Then I (or the user) could always go back if something? went wrong. Thank you, Stephen Ingrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LeagueofDesign.com - Original Message - From: Daniel Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 10:44 AM Subject: Re: lingo-l [XPOST] FileIO Xtra wrapper: writeFile() solution Thanks Evan. I guess FileIO Xtra can't read a character that other text reading applications can. Since I'm only using text to write XML, I'm tempted to append the space character or the carriage return character enough times to make up for the difference in string lengths. How does that sound to people? It seems very risky to have a period of time in which the file is absolutely gone before it is created again, a number of things could prevent the createFile() command from completing properly, leaving the user with no file. Thanks, Daniel Evan Adelman wrote: huh - just tested it really quickly on win2k, d8.5.1, looking at the file in notepad, and no go - just left the 'goodbye' in there...if i look at it in wordpad, same thing except now goodbye has a block in front of itany ideas? evan [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Acrobat installer.
Yes, I do the same... basically, install Acrobat onto the CD, and then when my users need to view a PDF- search for Acrobat (reader only) on THEIR system. (remember results) IF found then use local acrobat reader else use acrobat reader on CD end if NOTE- users that do NOT have acrobat installed will get a license agreement panel the first time they run it. Thank you, Stephen Ingrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LeagueofDesign.com 214.324.1177 ext. 1# - Original Message - From: Diego Landro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 8:00 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l Acrobat installer. What i have done whenever i needed to use acrobat i just sent it bundled with the CD. I use acrobat 4.0 and i put it IN the CD, i copy all the necesary files in the CD and that´s it, i couldn´t get it working with acrobat 5.0, but it works great with acrobat 4.0 - Original Message - From: Kristian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 2:05 PM Subject: lingo-l Acrobat installer. Hi, I am currently working on a director project that demands that the user have acrobat installed on the system; this is fine for OSX and Win, BUT I can't seem to get a hold of a complete installer for say... MAC OS 9.x or below - Adobe is only distributing an installer that connects to the web and downloads the program. This is not acceptabel for the project since I am not sure that a web connection is present. Anyone stumbled into this or has an earlier version to share? (Have accepted and sent in the license agreement for distribution). Regards //Kristian [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l getnettext and asp pages
I don't run any proxies, and don't have problems with any other pages. in authoringmode- in message window- netID=getnettext(http://www.dlp.com/about_dlp/about_dlp_story.asp;) put netdone(netID) -- 1 put neterror(netID) -- 4165 (Requested object could not be found ) put nettextresult(netID) -- (obviously if neterror=4165) This happens with every page from this particular url. I have a call in to the web developer to see if there's any trickery going on at the server level. Stephen netID=getnettext( From: Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 3:43 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l getnettext and asp pages On Monday, Aug 4, 2003, at 14:59 America/Chicago, Stephen Ingrum wrote: I'm having trouble with getnettext and asp pages. I'm not getting anything- neterror=4165 the url in question is http://www.dlp.com/about_dlp/about_dlp_story.asp or anything on the dlp site. any thoughts? Personally I think I'd like to know what code you've tried so far, how you've set it up, and whether you have proxies going. Kind of hard to intuit what's wrong without some examples of the failing source code. Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com/director_beginners_guide/ [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l OT: monitor settings
I'm trying to find some numbers for my client about how many users have 1024x768 capabilities. Does anybody use a resource that has these kinds of numbers? Thank you, Stephen Ingrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LeagueofDesign.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l INI question
Windows does that by default, with every version of the OS up until 2K My Win2K still does it and, yes, it's freakin' annoying. Thank you, Stephen Ingrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LeagueofDesign.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
