Re: Good compression vs quicktime

I think DirectMedia handles mpeg 1, not mpeg 2. On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Manisha Sinha wrote: > > > But i wan't to program a director movie "installation free" (no quictime > > installation require). > > I once faced the same problem and found out that there is no way to avoid QT > installation u

Size of Projector

Hi List I have an elementary problem. My D8.5 project is on Autorun. I use a blank movie, to create the projector, which does nothing except calling the opening splash movie. My problem is the size of the Projector. The size which I get is 3MB plus. Is there any workaround/way of creating a pro

Re: using indexed color palettes

hello, this may be just me thinking too simplistic at 8:16 in the morning, but: could it be that you accidentally check the "adjust palette to windows" option instead of the "import palette" option in the import dialogue? toodlepip, heike .-) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change t

RE: XTRA Suggestion

> If you were looking for suggestions on how to format a question to > tease people, then I don't have any suggestions, you're already very > good at it. (I think he was asking more along the lines of what the AutoComplete xtra provides. Still, your guess is as good as mine) http://www.peghole.c

Re: Good compression vs quicktime

> But i wan't to program a director movie "installation free" (no quictime > installation require). I once faced the same problem and found out that there is no way to avoid QT installation unless you use a lower version ( I can get you the version if you want) ... but that does not solve the "s

Re: XTRA Suggestion

>I wondering if there is any XTRA that can make our coding faster. >Something which can make our coding style like Visual Basic (like when >we type dot(".") on a object.. it can gives us all possible properties / >method). > >I sometimes spend few more minutes just to get what propeties I can >use

AW: using indexed color palettes

ok, I found that one out by myself: Photoshop didn't put white as the first and black as the last color in the palette but the other way round, that's why Director wouldn't import it. Now that I sorted this out, there's another problem: copyPixeling indexed images (at 8-bit AND 32-bit monitor re

XTRA Suggestion

Hello, I wondering if there is any XTRA that can make our coding faster. Something which can make our coding style like Visual Basic (like when we type dot(".") on a object.. it can gives us all possible properties / method). I sometimes spend few more minutes just to get what propeties I can use

XTRA Suggestion

Hello, I wondering if there is any XTRA that can make our coding faster. Something which can make our coding style like Visual Basic (like when we type dot(".") on a object.. it can gives us all possible properties / method). I sometimes spend few more minutes just to get what propeties I can use

Re: open protected movies

Um, no, not really - that's why they're called "protected". In older versions of Director there were some ways you could, but not in recent versions. There are some ways you can find out what's in the score, but not the Lingo. At 07:24 AM 4/12/02 +0800, mike wrote: >Is there a way to open p

using indexed color palettes

Hello list! I have a series of 360 images which are nearly identical (3D-rendered images of one object). I want to animate them with Lingo. No problem, but as the 360 images in 24 bit color depth are too memory hungry I wanted to use them in 8 bit color depth. As the images are mainly black and

RE: open protected movies

> Is there a way to open protected director and authorware movies? > There is a utility floating around somewhere that will let you get the assets out. I don't remember what it is--somebody's bound to chime in with the name and url. Oh, that's Director. Don't know about Authorware--you might che

Re: Large Text Cast Mamber

At 20:42 +0530 04/10/2002, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have around 200 pages of text data with formatting that needs to be put on >a presentation along with huge amount of images and videos ( basically >600MB+) >I had used normal text cast member with formatting but it gave me very poor >resul

open protected movies

Is there a way to open protected director and authorware movies? And is there a way to see the lingo codes? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL P

RE: intersecting

>> Is there anyway to check if sprite 1 intersects sprite 2, but ONLY >> when sprite 1 is directly OVER sprite 2, and not if there's a third >> sprite in between sprite 1 and 2? if ((sprite 1 intersects 2) and (not (sprite 1 intersects 3))) then -- your conditions are met -- Mark [To remo

Re: RE: How do I learn lingo scripting?

At 05:52 +0800 04/12/2002, noelle cheng wrote: >Also, I think that the book you wrote did not even have the word >'Mac' at all on the front, back cover or initial few pages. Ah, it was a silly joke anyway. But the screenshots all betray the Macishness of the system I used. ;) > I attach it

RE: How do I learn lingo scripting?

Hi, >>Oh and one last thing, I have saved all your useful replies as >>references. > >And discarded mine, I assume. After all I am a *Macintosh* user. ;) No, I didn't do that. I did save it. Actually this is the first time I know that you are a Mac user. Also, I think that the book yo

intersecting

Is there anyway to check if sprite 1 intersects sprite 2, but ONLY when sprite 1 is directly OVER sprite 2, and not if there's a third sprite in between sprite 1 and 2? The problem I'm having, is that Director thinks sprite 1 is intersecting sprite 2 even when sprite 3 is in between 1 and 2, and

intersecting

Is there anyway to check if sprite 1 intersects sprite 2, but ONLY when sprite 1 is directly OVER sprite 2, and not if there's a third sprite in between sprite 1 and 2? The problem I'm having, is that Director thinks sprite 1 is intersecting sprite 2 even when sprite 3 is in between 1 and 2, and

Re: How do I learn lingo scripting?

Howdy-Tzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Mostly my contributions consisted of things like "This sample >> movie gives a font substitution notice on Windows." > > And man oh man did I get tired of seeing those comments after the > fifth time or so. Hi Warren, I believe that Director 8.5 warns you

Re: How do I learn Lingo Scripting (Justin Olmanson)

Brennan / All, I did not mean to imply that your tutorials were in any way misleading. When I said "go until you get lost." I meant work through them until you hit overload. First-time programmers / learners need to solidify new bits of knowledge / concepts before building on them. -at least

Re: appending one list with another...

At 14:48 -0700 04/10/2002, Buzz Kettles wrote: >note: string converting of lists is really slow. Yes, but with a long list, I would expect it to still be faster than a repeat. -- -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cg

RE: RE: How do I learn lingo scripting?

> But a westerner speaking Mandarin?? That's unusual, even in Singapore. > Yeah, that Thompson guy, he's one weird dude. I hear he even eats duck feet and fish-head curry. How he managed to get such a pretty Chinese wife, I'll never know. Must have been from when he was living in Beijing. [To rem

Re: Auto-Resize

use two members with equal widths, but w/their framing set differently. member(1) = FIXED (framing) it goes on the Stage (= sprite(1) in my example code) set it's height to the maximum you want to allow for member(2) = ADJUST TO FIT (framing) leave it in the cast -- load the text to be tes

Re: Open Window

At 09:38 -0700 04/11/2002, CMA_REQUESTS wrote: >Hello, >I'm having a problem that I'm finding odd? >I'm opening a MIAW from a stub projector but, on some computers it cant find >the .dxr file? >I tried: > >open window the moviepath start.dxr > >but I'm getting a Error: cant open because its alrea

Re: rotating menu

At 18:39 +0800 04/11/2002, mike wrote: >I wanted to make a rotating menu using director but I cant figure out a >way to do it. I have a sample file which I made using flash. The sample >can be access through the link below. Can this be done in director? And >how? Does it involved extensive use of

Re: RE: How do I learn lingo scripting?

At 06:03 +0800 04/11/2002, noelle cheng wrote: >Oh and one last thing, I have saved all your useful replies as references. And discarded mine, I assume. After all I am a *Macintosh* user. ;) >Adjusting volume with a slider > >http://www.director-online.com/accessArticle.cfm?id=233 > > >I am a

Re: Password Text fields using ***** instead of text

Memo from Chris Couldridge of PricewaterhouseCoopers Start of message text do something like this in a behaviour on the field property pText property pMember on beginSprite me pMember = sprite(me.spritenum).member pText = "" pMember.

RE: Password Text fields using ***** instead of text

Check in the behavior library's Text section. There is a password behavior there that might suit your needs. Regards, Kraig > > 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

RE: How do I learn lingo scripting?

At 12:14 -0700 04/10/2002, Kerry Thompson wrote: >I may be partial because I worked on Warren's book, but I think it's a >good one. I think I can recommend it more easily than Warren--as author, >of course, he gets royalties, and he may be reluctant to toot his own >horn. Kerry, you know me bett

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 w

RE: Password Text fields using ***** instead of text

That's what I was afraid of, but thanks for the reply! Geoffrey B. Holland Interactive Multimedia Specialist K-fx², Inc. www.kfx2.com v: 225.927.4463 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of jason.p

Good compression vs quicktime

Hi all. Small question. (not a debate, just your opinion). I use SOrenson quicktime codec for my video(320*240) in director. But i wan't to program a director movie "installation free" (no quictime installation require). What is the best compression in this case (MPEG 2?). Are you recommand

Auto-Resize

Hi. 1 good question for all. I want to adjust the font size to fit text in a field (or textbox). The size of the textbox can not be change. I want the size to be the bigger as possible. I can calculate the number of char and adjust with this infos. ("if MyVar.chars.count > 80" then text.fonts

Re: Password Text fields using ***** instead of text

You have to do it with scripting by intercepting what the user types, passing it to a variable, and then outputting the * to the text field. something like this: on keydown me global p_word if the keypressed <> RETURN then p_word = p_word & the key member("text_field").text = memb

Open Window

Hello, I'm having a problem that I'm finding odd? I'm opening a MIAW from a stub projector but, on some computers it cant find the .dxr file? I tried: open window the moviepath start.dxr but I'm getting a Error: cant open because its already open by another program? any Ideas? [To remove your

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 scri

Re: animation slows down as progresses!!

Hi Michael, I've done several done animations, a lot of which were either 1/2 or 3/4 screen. One of the things that we have done was to index the graphics using a palette. I recently did an animation that was over half the screen. The graphics were dropped down to 8 bit with a super palett

creating a volume control slider without xtras

Hi, I would like to create a volume control slider, so that the user would be able to adjust the volume of the sound from zero to the maximum volume. I searched through the archives of Direct-L and Lingo-l and discovered this: The postings indicate that I need a Direct Media Control Xtra Volu

rotating menu

Morning! I wanted to make a rotating menu using director but I cant figure out a way to do it. I have a sample file which I made using flash. The sample can be access through the link below. Can this be done in director? And how? Does it involved extensive use of lingo? Has anyone also tried usi

RE: ActiveX

>> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of mark verhoef >> I was asking myself if it would be possible to >> control the ActiveX control with lingo,just like >> you can make your own quicktime controls. >> Hmm... don't think you'll still n

ActiveX

Hello, I was asking myself if it would be possible to control the ActiveX control with lingo,just like you can make your own quicktime controls. thankz _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.