Re: cheking if property of property list exists

2002-05-16 Thread grimmwerks
If you do a PropList.getPos(whateverProperty) and it returns 0, then you know there's no property. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: cheking if property of property list exists

2002-05-16 Thread Sean Wilson
> if ilk(this) <> #proplist then this = gRaw[i + 1] > end if That should get you past the first problem. However, you don't then check 'this' again to make sure it is now a #propList Also, the following syntax would be safer: > if voidP( this.getAProp(#property) ) then

cheking if property of property list exists

2002-05-16 Thread Gonzalo Garcia-Perate
Hi there I'm working on a project where I import a List of property lists from the web. I've managed convert the text to a list a (Thanks to Jim) I'm then writing a behaviour for my sprites to read the property list that corresponds with them and take the values. Sometimes the values don't exist

using Buddy API or Direct OS

2002-05-16 Thread Genevieve Young
Hi list, I wish to print out jpegs (photos) from my movie. I thought that Print-o-Matic was the way to go but I am unable to print anything. Only blank pages appear. My printer is working properly, by the way. BTW, I am still on Windows, and still using Director 8. In Gary Rosenzweig's S

Re: text box problem

2002-05-16 Thread James Newton
Andrew Dempsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know how to make a textbox "scroll" to the > left as you write in it, so that even if the amount of > text surpasses the length of your field, you can still > see the cursor and the current letter you are typing? Hi Andrew, As it happens, I

Re: QuickDraw 3D Xtra not work

2002-05-16 Thread Brennan
Buzz Kettles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Conclusion: > If you are interested in doing 3D in Director, the Shockwave 3D Xtra > introduced in Director 8.5 is a MUCH BETTER path to follow (QD3D is a > dead end). Not to mention that QD3D is officially deprecated, indeed Quickdraw itself is being

RE: QuickDraw 3D Xtra not work

2002-05-16 Thread Mike Castro Demaria
Hi, Yep ! Use dir 8.5 3D system realy better than oldest QD3D. Regards, MaDmIkE -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]De la part de Buzz Kettles Envoye : jeudi 16 mai 2002 17:51 A : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: QuickDraw 3D Xtra not work That Xtra (QD#

RE: Background sound doesnt Loop in 8.5.1

2002-05-16 Thread Mike Castro Demaria
Hi, can i download your loop src to test ? i have not see problem like that ! Best Regard, MaDmIkE -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]De la part de [EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : jeudi 16 mai 2002 17:12 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Background sound doesnt

Re: random text movie

2002-05-16 Thread :: v e r n x s ::
Thanks alot for the given tips and advise. My idea to make this animation with lingo is to make things easier for me to produce a dozen layers of zillion text, numbers, dingbats and symbols for a video effects. score recording sounds interesting. thanks. going to get dirty with new codes! any

Re: Re: Movies in a window - can this be done

2002-05-16 Thread Howdy-Tzi
At 14:59 +0100 05/16/2002, Lee Blinco wrote: >yes thanks thats an approach i hadn,t thought of - but i reckon this pseudo >title bar will have to be a MIAW as a movable sprite doesn't show off the >stage. Not at all. It can be a regular, fixed sprite. You can set the stage rect just like you c

Re: QuickDraw 3D Xtra not work

2002-05-16 Thread Buzz Kettles
That Xtra (QD#D) is from the Director 5 release. It used Quicktime's 3D extensions Are these installed? (they're an optional part of Quicktime) (It certainly won't work without the Quicktime bits installed) Also: the Xtra may no longer work in Director versions as recent as d8. (I'm not sure if

Background sound doesnt Loop in 8.5.1

2002-05-16 Thread hitesh
Dear all, I have upgraded my system to director latest patch 8.5.1. There is a strange problem Director doesn't loop the mp3 background sound. I have tried with wav at it works fine. I tried various mp3 with no luck. The sound stops after playing once even if the loop is on. This only happens in

Re: Re: Movies in a window - can this be done

2002-05-16 Thread Tab Julius
Just reset (the stage).rect and you can put the stage anywhere you like. At 02:59 PM 5/16/02 +0100, Lee Blinco wrote: > >Probably not if you use the "native" title bar. However if you make a > >pseudo-title bar and then disable the "show title bar" option while > >making your projector, you sh

Re: Movies in a window - can this be done

2002-05-16 Thread Lee Blinco
>Probably not if you use the "native" title bar. However if you make a >pseudo-title bar and then disable the "show title bar" option while >making your projector, you should be able to have a draggable, usable >title bar that also does mouse event recognition. >Then you should be able to track t

Re: video in director

2002-05-16 Thread Tab Julius
Probably direct-l or comp.multimedia are better places to ask than a Lingo forum, but... It's no so much Director as your delivery/playback mechanism and how big the video is. Are you streaming from CD-ROM on lower-end machines, or off the hard-drive? Mac and Windows, or Windows only? etc.

Re: video in director

2002-05-16 Thread Charlie Fiskeaux II
It depends on who you ask... Many people favor MPEGs because of their high quality, and if you use Tabuleiro's DirectMedia Xtra, you get playback without any software installation. I myself favor QuickTime with Sorenson compression. You get small file sizes without significant image loss. If y

Re: Printo matic 16 bit depht

2002-05-16 Thread Roberto Molari
it doesn't work cause the display adapter is setting in 16 bit depth - Original Message - From: "Alex da Franca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:30 PM Subject: Re: Printo matic 16 bit depht At 11:01 Uhr +0200 16.05.2002, Roberto Molari wrote:

video in director

2002-05-16 Thread limiar40 b
Hi ppl what is the best video compression and format to include video in director, any good tricks? tkx Limiar _ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com [To remove yourself from this list

text box problem

2002-05-16 Thread Andrew Dempsey
Here's a question for you all, Does anyone know how to make a textbox "scroll" to the left as you write in it, so that even if the amount of text surpasses the length of your field, you can still see the cursor and the current letter you are typing? I have a username and password field, but what

Re: Printo matic 16 bit depht

2002-05-16 Thread Alex da Franca
At 11:01 Uhr +0200 16.05.2002, Roberto Molari wrote: >HI list, > >I'm making a print beahvior with Print o matic but I 've got a problem: when >I try to print the stage (drawStagePicture) and the color depth is 16 bit on >my HP printer the output is blank! >Help me please! I 've read the techical

Printo matic 16 bit depht

2002-05-16 Thread Roberto Molari
HI list, I'm making a print beahvior with Print o matic but I 've got a problem: when I try to print the stage (drawStagePicture) and the color depth is 16 bit on my HP printer the output is blank! Help me please! I 've read the techical notes on Electronic Ink website, they say that it's a print