Re: lingo-l bitdepth in importfileinto

2002-07-17 Thread toolshed_mamao
I want to import in 32bit no matter whats the bitdepth of user's computer. Luiz Gustavo *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 7/16/2002 at 11:42 PM Colin Holgate wrote: I am importing a series of bitmaps using importfileinto, but they are being imported as 24bit, without the

Re: lingo-l What is the going rate for experienced Director now?

2002-07-17 Thread toolshed_mamao
get me a job in North America!! ;) well, it is hard to say, but in US$, we can hardly get $5/hour in southern Brazil! sad but true Luiz [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

lingo-l Trouble condensing this - Thanks

2002-07-17 Thread Neil Sandbach
Thanks for the respone. I particularly like the use of mod. Now I see how useful it is. old problem was: repeat with i = 1 to 8 member(canvas).image.draw(getAt(glistOfPointsCatA, i), getAt(glistOfPointsCatA, i+1), [#shapeType:#line, #lineSize:2, #color: rgb(150, 0, 0)]) end repeat Thanks, Neil

Re: lingo-l What is the going rate for experienced Director now?

2002-07-17 Thread Kerry Thompson
You have got to be kidding. I was just trying to see if one of my temp agencies was giving me the shaft. They quoted me $35/hr. $35 is too low for someone like you. The going rate seems to be highly dependent on geography, but I never accept a job that promises less than about $60/hr. At

Re: lingo-l bitdepth in importfileinto

2002-07-17 Thread adam
hi Luiz, I want to import in 32bit no matter whats the bitdepth of user's computer. I am importing a series of bitmaps using importfileinto, but they are being imported as 24bit, without the alphachannell... what do I do to import them WITH the alpha channel?? I had a similar problem recently.

lingo-l positioning a projector

2002-07-17 Thread Richard Skelton
Am I just blind, or stoopid? but i can't find any references to a property which returns the screen dimensions of the system which is running a director projector! i had a good look through lingo directory, online help etc - but could only find out how to offset a miaw from the top left of the

RE: lingo-l positioning a projector

2002-07-17 Thread niqui
Hi To get the dimentions for the monitor (first one if they have more than one monitor) use the the deskTopRectList. If you type this into the message window you should get a result like this: put the deskTopRectList -- [rect(0, 0, 1280, 1024)] if you want to resize the stage to match the

RE: lingo-l positioning a projector

2002-07-17 Thread Brian Romanko
Am I just blind, or stoopid? but i can't find any references to a property which returns the screen dimensions of the system which is running a director projector! Check out the deskTopRectList constant: put the desktoprectlist -- [rect(0, 0, 1280, 1024)] It will give you multiple list

RE: lingo-l positioning a projector

2002-07-17 Thread Leif E. Wells
Just to be clear, if you are attempting to access this dynamically through a projector test for this: the desktopRectList[1] That way it won't fail on any multi-screen systems you have in development. Otherwise, you'll get this: put the desktopRectList --[rect(0, 0, 1280, 1024), rect(1280,

RE: lingo-l positioning a projector

2002-07-17 Thread Howdy-Tzi
At 09:59 -0400 07/17/2002, Leif E. Wells wrote: So to get the width of the main desktop you'd do a: put the desktopRectList[1][3] --1280 Waha, or: put the deskTopRectList[1].width :) -- Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ Director help | Free files | Sample

Re: lingo-l bitdepth in importfileinto

2002-07-17 Thread Buzz Kettles
what 'kind' of bitmaps? -Buzz At 11:20 PM -0300 7/16/02, you wrote: I am importing a series of bitmaps using importfileinto, but they are being imported as 24bit, without the alphachannell... what do I do to import them WITH the alpha channel?? Luiz Gustavo Castelan PĆ³voas [To remove

Re: lingo-l bitdepth in importfileinto

2002-07-17 Thread toolshed_mamao
PNG *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 7/17/2002 at 8:31 AM Buzz Kettles wrote: what 'kind' of bitmaps? -Buzz At 11:20 PM -0300 7/16/02, you wrote: I am importing a series of bitmaps using importfileinto, but they are being imported as 24bit, without the alphachannell... what do I do

Re: lingo-l bitdepth in importfileinto

2002-07-17 Thread Buzz Kettles
importFileInto destroys the existing cast member then Import happens at the screen depth as suggested, one workaround is to keep a 32 bit placeholder set the .filename property (which doesn't destroy the member first) unfortunately setting the filename automatically calls 'contract white

Re: lingo-l Efficiency Questions

2002-07-17 Thread Kerry Thompson
In conjunction with my SkySVG project, some items that beg the question Which is best? Meaning, best from a speed and efficiency perspective. 1. Accessing character ranges lsRAh = lsInputLine.char[6..9] -OR- lsRAh = chars(lsInputLine, 6, 9) -OR- lsRAh = char 6 to 9 of lsInputLine I

RE: lingo-l Efficiency Questions

2002-07-17 Thread Laurent Brigaut
Try to benchmark (use big repeat loops and calculate the time spent) the different solutions, it'll give you your answer! -- Laurent BRIGAUT Director of Operations Integration New Media, Inc. http://www.IntegrationNewMedia.com

lingo-l Efficiency Questions

2002-07-17 Thread Watson, Christopher
In conjunction with my SkySVG project, some items that beg the question Which is best? Meaning, best from a speed and efficiency perspective. 1. Accessing character ranges lsRAh = lsInputLine.char[6..9] -OR- lsRAh = chars(lsInputLine, 6, 9) -OR- lsRAh = char 6 to 9 of lsInputLine 2.

Re: lingo-l Efficiency Questions

2002-07-17 Thread Buzz Kettles
At 11:42 AM -0700 7/17/02, you wrote: In conjunction with my SkySVG project, some items that beg the question Which is best? Meaning, best from a speed and efficiency perspective. 1. Accessing character ranges lsRAh = lsInputLine.char[6..9] -OR- lsRAh = chars(lsInputLine, 6, 9) -OR- lsRAh =

RE: lingo-l Efficiency Questions

2002-07-17 Thread Watson, Christopher
Thanks, guys! Always a big help. My overheated benchmarks show that the chars() function is the winner by as much as a 24% margin. Thanks, Buzz, for the reminder about .ref. In my application, however, I'm hardly doing any multiple accesses of the same chunk, so I don't have a strong case for

Re: lingo-l What is the going rate for experienced Director now?

2002-07-17 Thread toolshed_mamao
() You have got to be kidding. I was just trying to see if one of my temp agencies was giving me the shaft. They quoted me $35/hr. Brian Douglas (:ub) Any ideas about agencies that would accept Lingo

lingo-l ANNOUNCE: New OOP book chapters available

2002-07-17 Thread Irv Kalb
Oh no, I've been writing again ... If you are interested in Object Oriented Programming in Lingo, I invite you to check out some new chapters in my LOOPE E-book. I have added 3 new chapters on behaviors: Chapter 8:Introduction to behaviors Chapter 9:Building a Button behavior

Re: lingo-l shut down a kiosk?

2002-07-17 Thread mike cash
So if you've got a screen someplace where video's running, and the user has the option to leave that screen at any time, make sure you do a pause on the video first, then leave the screen. Also, something else occurred to me -- if there's a screensaver running on that system, try disabling