on keyDown me
if the key <> RETURN then pass
end
At 10:23 PM -0400 6/12/02, you wrote:
>I need to know how I can set up a text field or member so that when the
>user types something in it (editable), it wont go to a new line when
>they hit enter, but just stay there at the end of the current l
Dear All ,
HI!. I have a problem in director 8.5 3D ,wherein, I want to rotate a
model (aircraft) so that it's head always points in the direction of the
cursor using the mousewithin event. I do not want to use the orbit camera
Action. I have tried modifying the orbit camera code to suit my
If you are not changing the text members at runtime, then you can pre-render
the text members using 'Other Ink' and check 'Save Bitmap' in the member
properties. This will save the rendered bitmaps of the text in the .dir It
will increase the file size a little but means that the members don't n
I need to know how I can set up a text field or member so that when the
user types something in it (editable), it wont go to a new line when
they hit enter, but just stay there at the end of the current line..
Basically locking it into a single line while being editable. Thx
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>
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>But you can always check the frame and make it visible/invisible.
Visibility has many problems. Moving the sprite off the stage, or
setting its member to 0 would be safer bets.
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But you can always check the frame and make it visible/invisible.
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>How do I set the sprites start and end frame in
>the score by Lingo.
It's actually less obvious than maybe it should be. You would think
that you could set the startframe and endframe, but they can't be set
(as Buzz just said too). You can get the effect you might want with
this:
on spriter
freshest drivers?
At 2:22 PM -0500 6/12/02, you wrote:
>Ok, it doesn't seem to just be the OS Control xtra...
>
>almost EVERYTHING with Director needs to be moved until it's redrawn --
>what's the deal? I've upgraded to 8.5.1 --
>
>WinXP and Radeon 8500
>
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you can't - it's an authoring system preference
However with score recording, you could certainly record any
specified number of frames.
hth
-Buzz
At 7:00 PM -0700 6/12/02, you wrote:
>How do I set the sprites start and end frame in
>the score by Lingo.
>
>
>__
I've got a drag-selector posted at
http://kettles.best.vwh.net/dualList.proto.html
Is this what you want?
It doesn't perform any action(s) when the drag happens except move the strings
(but I have used it to trigger armloads of stuff)
-Buzz
At 6:03 PM -0400 6/12/02, you wrote:
>Is there a wa
How do I set the sprites start and end frame in
the score by Lingo.
_
Garman
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At 11:06 AM -0500 6/12/02, you wrote:
>At 10:39 -0500 06/12/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>Ok so I've got a few nested proplists where the property is spelled wrong.
>>I can get the property via gAreas[1].getPropAt(1), but there's no
>>setPropat?
>
>That's correct. It's a lack that I've felt a
At 12:42 AM +0100 6/13/02, you wrote:
>- Original Message -
>From: "Buzz Kettles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
>> add the new prop
>> copy the values from the old misspelled prop (use duplicate())
>> delete the original prop & original copy of the values
>
>Actually, you should *not* use dup
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From: "Buzz Kettles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> add the new prop
> copy the values from the old misspelled prop (use duplicate())
> delete the original prop & original copy of the values
Actually, you should *not* use duplicate. Firstly, it will choke on anything
that is
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From: "Howdy-Tzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> At 10:39 -0500 06/12/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >Ok so I've got a few nested proplists where the property is spelled
wrong.
> >I can get the property via gAreas[1].getPropAt(1), but there's no
> >setPropat?
>
> That's c
Is there a way to allow a user to drag-select text within a text box to
highlight it so it can be copied and stuff? Thanks for the clipboard
commands but is there a way to drag select whatever you want from a
large text box? Thx
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My project has 5 3d worlds, all of them are about 5 frames each, lined up
one after another, all on sprite 1.
I have several parent/child scripts and a few timeout objects running that
basically control the navigation through the worlds, creation of primitives,
etc. which is basically the same
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anybody used the named sprites behavior by James Newton? (you can find
> it in http://perso.planetb.fr/newton/)
>
> It works very well in authoring mode, and solves the problem of referencing
> sprites by channel number wonderfully. However, whe
more info -- I did a put on the html file and it is setting a between
my and tags that is NOT coded within my html file.. help this
is just plain confusing now..
> --
> From: Carol Mahaffy
> Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 3:18 PM
> To:
At 15:18 -0400 06/12/2002, Carol Mahaffy wrote:
>I am trying to import a html file in a text cast member on begin sprite. It
>imports just fine. But after adding formatting I noticed that the file does
>not start at the very top most of the text box. I took all of the formatting
>off and it still
>Ah, now that's a possibility -- but consider how big a shockfile
>gets; if I understand what you're suggesting you'd be passing
>Shockwave data through a Flash plugin. Would you want some
>pud-yanking geek trying to send that to your 'kia?
No, that's not it. A new feature of Flash MX, I'm gu
At 14:51 -0400 06/12/2002, Colin Holgate wrote:
>>>the flash remoting, compatability with nokia phones and for palm pilots.
>>
>>Ah. Plugins for portables -- I'd suspect not, strictly because of
>>package size and bandwidth issues. There was some noise made about
>>the "possibility" of a Shockw
hey list --
I am trying to import a html file in a text cast member on begin sprite. It
imports just fine. But after adding formatting I noticed that the file does
not start at the very top most of the text box. I took all of the formatting
off and it still brings it in as if there is a character
Ok, it doesn't seem to just be the OS Control xtra...
almost EVERYTHING with Director needs to be moved until it's redrawn --
what's the deal? I've upgraded to 8.5.1 --
WinXP and Radeon 8500
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I'm a dope. I just realized I had timbuktu'd to this machine and left the
connection open - screen wasn't redrawing.
Duh. I hang my head in shame.
And will now update my addressbook.
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Hey Pimz, if you be around...
I've been authoring with the OS Control xtra on the mac (and, if anyone's
even curious about getting this DO! It really does kick things up a notch
for director...and it's so cheap for a cross platform tool).
I just moved the file to WinXP to do some authoring, a
copyToClipboard and pasteClipboardInto may be helpful, too.
roymeo
At 08:24 AM 6/11/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>At 21:37 -0400 06/10/2002, DrEvil wrote:
>
>>How can I enable a user to "paste" text data that has been copied
>>elsewhere into an editable field in a movie? Thanks!
>
>Believe it or not
>>the flash remoting, compatability with nokia phones and for palm pilots.
>
>Ah. Plugins for portables -- I'd suspect not, strictly because of
>package size and bandwidth issues. There was some noise made about
>the "possibility" of a Shockwave for Palm back in 1999 or so and I
>doubted it the
I know Flash does, and I think Shockwave does now, too, but I'm not sure.
Charlie Fiskeaux II
Media Designer
The Creative Group
www.cre8tivegroup.com
859/858-9054x29
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From: "Randal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 1:57 PM
Su
At 12:22 -0500 06/12/2002, Fred Westermeyer wrote:
>This is a job that you have to love to do it.
>
>Here is the code that I think is having the problem.
>
>property pMem, pText
>
>on beginSprite me
> pText = " "
> pMem = sprite(me.SpriteNum).member
> pMem.text = pText
>
>end beginSprite
>
Ah yeah, that would be a good way to flip it...thanks1
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Buzz Kettles wrote:
> add the new prop
> copy the values from the old misspelled prop (use duplicate())
> delete the original prop & original copy of the values
>
> -Buzz
>
> At 10:39 AM -0500 6/12/02, you wrote:
> >O
At 13:39 -0400 06/12/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I just want to know if director has or will have the same features as flash
>mx.
You mean the slow script execution, lack of 3D, no imaging
capabilities, extremely limited media and file handling, and zero
access to OS hooks? I'd hope not.
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 11:03:47 -0700 Buzz Kettles wrote:
> Yes, somebody does know.
Wow--a first in software development. Somebody knows when a product will actually be
released! :P
Kerry Thompson
appreciated
you're
worked
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Using Arial font on mac & moving that to Windows sucks -
The win baseline doesn't match & the size seems off too.
I seem to remember that you don't actually get Arial on Win
Adding Arial to Arial to your fontmap.txt may help
Alternatively, using Times (on mac) should map to Times Roman (win) &
add the new prop
copy the values from the old misspelled prop (use duplicate())
delete the original prop & original copy of the values
-Buzz
At 10:39 AM -0500 6/12/02, you wrote:
>Ok so I've got a few nested proplists where the property is spelled wrong.
>I can get the property via gAreas[1].get
At 1:05 PM -0400 6/12/02, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote:
>The Shockwave plugin handles Shockwave and Flash, but there is still a
>separate Flash plugin that doesn't include Shockwave support.
And one further stupid question... which one of these comes with default installations
of IE?
--Randal
[To
At 1:39 PM -0400 6/12/02, you wrote:
>I just want to know if director has or will have the same features as flash
>mx. the flash remoting, compatability with nokia phones and for palm pilots.
>is this going to happen with director. also does anybody know when the next
>version of Director will com
I just want to know if director has or will have the same features as flash
mx. the flash remoting, compatability with nokia phones and for palm pilots.
is this going to happen with director. also does anybody know when the next
version of Director will come out and what new features will it ha
At 12:22 -0400 06/12/2002, Garman 222 Herigstad wrote:
>Needing to rebuild the movie over and over (for whatever client reasons)
>seems to be the norm for this project as the content is being developed as
>the director files are being worked on. As it looks now, this procedure
>will repeat itsel
This is a job that you have to love to do it.
Here is the code that I think is having the problem.
property pMem, pText
on beginSprite me
pText = " "
pMem = sprite(me.SpriteNum).member
pMem.text = pText
end beginSprite
on acceptInput me, newCharacter
pText = pText & newCharcater
pMe
At 11:26 -0500 06/12/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Howdy-Tzi wrote:
>
>> BTW could you update your address book for this list? Your note went
>> to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;)
>
>OH? When did it change?
Near as I can tell several months ago, when the list went to a new listserv
The Shockwave plugin handles Shockwave and Flash, but there is still a
separate Flash plugin that doesn't include Shockwave support.
Charlie Fiskeaux II
Media Designer
The Creative Group
www.cre8tivegroup.com
859/858-9054x29
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From: "Randal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[
At 10:46 AM -0500 6/12/02, Howdy-Tzi wrote:
>I don't think you will be able to get that to happen no matter what you use. 95
>percent is an unrealistic number in a world populated by wildly-changing tech and
>no-neuroned Microsoft drones. If you really want to ensure maximum compatibility I'd
>
At 10:46 AM -0500 6/12/02, Howdy-Tzi wrote:
>1. A not inconsiderable number of users are not allowed to alter their systems by IT
>wonks, and so can't or won't have Shockwave; and
>
>2. We don't know how *current* the sWave installs are in other locations. They could
>be versions < 8.5, which wo
For the highest coverage, a Java powered solution would probably be your
best bet (despite the XP deficiency). iPIX images are full 360 by 360 with
realistic spherical distortion, and can be viewed in a webpage via a Java
applet. (or via plugin, whichever you prefer.) The downside is that you
ne
Thanks for the detailed answer.
Actually, I've build the interface using the Director GUI method twice now,
with 10 chapters, buttons working and able to load new movies, play sounds,
etc.
Needing to rebuild the movie over and over (for whatever client reasons)
seems to be the norm for this pro
At 10:49 -0500 06/12/2002, Fred Westermeyer wrote:
>Corker is the word, some time I fill like starting all over with it, but
>I do like a challenge.
Well, you're working with the right engine then. ;)
If you have not already done so, search your Lingo code to see if
there is any script, any pl
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Howdy-Tzi wrote:
>
> BTW could you update your address book for this list? Your note went
> to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;)
OH? When did it change?
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At 10:39 -0500 06/12/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Ok so I've got a few nested proplists where the property is spelled wrong.
>I can get the property via gAreas[1].getPropAt(1), but there's no
>setPropat?
That's correct. It's a lack that I've felt a few times myself. To
work around it you bas
Corker is the word, some time I fill like starting all over with it, but
I do like a challenge.
Fred
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/12/02 10:18AM >>>
At 16:45 -0500 06/11/2002, Fred Westermeyer wrote:
>I tred both ways and still not working, I check all my coding and
>deleted
>all that was not neede
At 16:16 -0400 06/11/2002, Randal wrote:
>Here's a question I have been thinking about recently.
I find your approach intriguing but I have to point out something
that might be a major problem for you, if it's as fallacious as I
think it might be.
>Most machines these days, though, have Shock
Ok so I've got a few nested proplists where the property is spelled wrong.
I can get the property via gAreas[1].getPropAt(1), but there's no
setPropat?
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At 09:31 -0400 06/12/2002, Garman 222 Herigstad wrote:
>Thanks for the replies.
>I'm just having trouble understanding the basic correct syntax for:
>
>1) importing a file to the cast
In general you first create a member of the type you want, then
import the file into that member, then set its
At 17:58 -0400 06/11/2002, Tab Julius wrote:
>I disagree - I've been writing Lingo-only interfaces for years now.
>Since I come from a software engineering background, it's easier for
>me to conceptualize and do than trying to intermix the score and
>Lingo. If you were from a graphics arts ba
>look at "floor" or pan ALL the way up the look at "sky". It should
>be at http://www.theburrow.co.uk
>
>This looks close to what I was thinking of, but his demo is a bit
>slow. I also wonder why he uses a box instead of a sphere, and I
>wonder if that would make this technique unusable for ph
At 16:45 -0500 06/11/2002, Fred Westermeyer wrote:
>I tred both ways and still not working, I check all my coding and
>deleted
>all that was not needed and all behavior not needed. I remake the
>buttons and put new code in them on the empty I only have that on
>behavior. Lost and I am going home
At 1:31 PM + 6/12/02, Nmuta Jones wrote:
>I have seen two viable alternatives in Shockwave:
>
>1. The skybox by Barry Swan. Looks even better than QTVR and you can even pan ALL the
>way down to look at "floor" or pan ALL the way up the look at "sky". It should be at
>http://www.theburrow.co
At 08:38 11/06/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hey I've got a client that got some work from another director guy
>(that'll learn ya!) and he says he's getting htap errors in Win98. Now, I
>don't know what version of Director this is yet, nor what's trying to be
>done. Just putting out feelers if
Re: Authoring from Lingo import to Cast and Position in Score
Thanks for the replies.
I've been writing scripts in cshell and perl for years, and would really
rather let lingo do the tedious work of importing the cast members and
assigning their positions on the score.
When I get this to work
I have seen two viable alternatives in Shockwave:
1. The skybox by Barry Swan. Looks even better than QTVR and you can even
pan ALL the way down to look at "floor" or pan ALL the way up the look at
"sky". It should be at http://www.theburrow.co.uk
2. GlomTime VR-- I cannot remember the autho
using javascript:self.close(); instead of
javascript:window.self.close() worked for me on that anoying alert even
in IE5.
but somehow, sometimes, note, really erratically, when using on mac with
communicator i got the alert.
why not all the time, i don't know...
but, instead of calling a wind
Dear All ,
HI!. I have a problem in director 8.5 3D ,wherein, I want to rotate a
model (aircraft) so that it's head always points in the direction of the
cursor using the mousewithin event. I do not want to use the orbit camera
Action. I have tried modifying the orbit camera code to suit my
Hi List,
I am working on a project that requires a web page to be opened by a projector. I know
the gotonetpage lingo, and have used it before, but maybe there is a way of doing what
I need to do right from within Director:
I need to open a browser window that appears at a particular position
Hello list,
Has anybody had any experience with Radium's MP3 Codec? I can run the
videos using Media Player, but not inside Director (8.5).
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance,
Rui Dantas
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htt
Thanks for all the research on this. Yes, browser compatibility is quite
annoying.
I'll try to digest all this and see what I want to do !
Thanks again
At 12:32 AM 6/12/02 -0400, Rob Romanek wrote:
>There is a new version up. I've incorporated Robert's request for hiding
>and moving. I hav
Yes, I had written him, and he has just answered me with a corrected
version of the script.
I guess he'll update the site soon, but meanwhile if anybody is interested
feel free to write me off list.
life saver!!
>From: "Sean Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: mapping network drive
>Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:30:03 +1200
>
> > how do i map a network drive
>
>Run a batch file using the open command that does this for you.
>
> > and a
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