Re: Smooth scrolling of text

2002-10-08 Thread pranavn
You could use the scrolltop property for text members to scroll them by pixel. Have a look in the Lingo Dictionary for syntax. The Scrolling text behavior in the Behavior Library can also let you do the same thing. Regards, Pranav Negandhi Currently i'm experimenting with text scrolling. I'm

RE: Smooth scrolling of text

2002-10-08 Thread Brad Hile
Converting to image is one way. Take a look at http://www.director-online.com/accessArticle.cfm?ID=947 or search for "scroll" "text" at director-online.com for lots of different examples HTH B -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Shailendra Vij

Smooth scrolling of text

2002-10-08 Thread Shailendra Vijayvergia
Hi all, Thanx to list members who respond so quickly to lingo user's problems. Currently i'm experimenting with text scrolling. I'm using scrollbyline and other properties, but they all scroll very fastly, i want text should scroll smoothly as we do in flash using mask. Is there anyway to sc

Re: alpha-blecht soup

2002-10-08 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 10/8/02 5:08 PM, "Howdy-Tzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> decreed thusly: > No, but you should be able to copy its image into a greyscale bitmap, > right? And then use setAlpha to put that into your bitmap's alpha? > > James Newton's _Director Shockwave Studio Developer's Guide_ absolutely > needs to

Re: alpha-blecht soup

2002-10-08 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 10/8/02 5:03 PM, "Colin Holgate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> decreed thusly: > > It has an image, and that has an alpha. Yeah but the damn alpha isn't really alpha'd out - like if I have a gradient vector, and want a gradient alpha... [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode,

Re: alpha-blecht soup

2002-10-08 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 03:53 PM, g r i m m w e r k s wrote: > So I'm trying to make a nice sweet alpha for an image -- I wanted to > use a > vector.image for the alpha. But the vector doesn't have an alpha to > extract. No, but you should be able to copy its image into a greyscale

Re: alpha-blecht soup

2002-10-08 Thread Colin Holgate
>So I'm trying to make a nice sweet alpha for an image -- I wanted to use a >vector.image for the alpha. But the vector doesn't have an alpha to >extract. It has an image, and that has an alpha. -- [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.

alpha-blecht soup

2002-10-08 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
So I'm trying to make a nice sweet alpha for an image -- I wanted to use a vector.image for the alpha. But the vector doesn't have an alpha to extract. so... how would one CREATE an alpha from scratch? I'm looking at all the docs, createMask(), setAlpha(), createMatte() etc, but I must be mi

Re: scaling images question...

2002-10-08 Thread Colin Kettenacker
g r i m m w e r k s [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/8/02 10:58 AM wrote: > On 10/8/02 1:32 PM, "Howdy-Tzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> decreed thusly: > >> grimmObj2 = grimmwerks.duplicate() >> >> Repeat as necessary. :) > > Then who needs porn?!? > LOL! That's about the funniest thing I have heard in a whi

Re: What's the best way to try and make your movie play at the same s peed across different speeds of computer?

2002-10-08 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 01:59 PM, Lewis Fleming wrote: > What's the best way to try and make your movie play at the same speed > across > different speeds of computer? Take the frame rate way, way down. :\ There's no benchmark test for CPU types, nor to my knowledge an Xtra that does

Re: What's the best way to try and make your movie playat the same s peed across different speeds of computer?

2002-10-08 Thread Colin Holgate
>What's the best way to try and make your movie play at the same speed across >different speeds of computer? If you're talking about an animation sequence, you could do something like this: on exitframe go label("first frame") + (the timer)*.5 end That will make the animation play at 30 F

What's the best way to try and make your movie play at the same speed across different speeds of computer?

2002-10-08 Thread Lewis Fleming
Hi , What's the best way to try and make your movie play at the same speed across different speeds of computer? Thanks Lewis BBCi at http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically

Why does time "timestep" come up as green in lingo when it appears to have no function?

2002-10-08 Thread Lewis Fleming
Hi all, Why does time "timestep" come up as green in lingo when it appears to have no function? thanks Lewis BBCi at http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you

Re: scaling images question...

2002-10-08 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 12:58 PM, g r i m m w e r k s wrote: >> grimmObj2 = grimmwerks.duplicate() >> >> Repeat as necessary. :) > > Then who needs porn?!? Hey, a little variety now and then never hurt anyone. -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, g

Re: scaling images question...

2002-10-08 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 10/8/02 1:32 PM, "Howdy-Tzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> decreed thusly: > grimmObj2 = grimmwerks.duplicate() > > Repeat as necessary. :) Then who needs porn?!? [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

Re: scaling images question...

2002-10-08 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 12:03 PM, g r i m m w e r k s wrote: > On 10/8/02 11:07 AM, "Howdy-Tzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> decreed > thusly: > >> Jeez, man, you got to surf resource sites more. ;) > > What, along with all the porn sites? I'm only one man! grimmObj2 = grimmwerks.duplicate()

Re: scaling images question...

2002-10-08 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 10/8/02 11:07 AM, "Howdy-Tzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> decreed thusly: > Jeez, man, you got to surf resource sites more. ;) What, along with all the porn sites? I'm only one man! [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post m

Re: 3d morphs?

2002-10-08 Thread Agustín María Rodríguez
Buzz Kettles escribió: > I think there's one on MACRs /desdev/ site that Tom Higgins made - Yep... at www.directordev.com there´s a Tom example on how to deform a mesh picking with the mouse (it´s called putty face). Although that sounds like too much CPU overkilling if he wants to use

Re: 3d morphs?

2002-10-08 Thread Buzz Kettles
I think there's one on MACRs /desdev/ site that Tom Higgins made - -Buzz At 11:30 AM -0400 10/8/02, you wrote: >Is it possible to do a 3D morph with D8.5? For example, someone wants to >show a fat guy slowly transform into a thin guy in 3D, say by dragging a >slider. Can anyone point me to a URL

3d morphs?

2002-10-08 Thread Rob Wingate
Is it possible to do a 3D morph with D8.5? For example, someone wants to show a fat guy slowly transform into a thin guy in 3D, say by dragging a slider. Can anyone point me to a URL that has info on this? TIA, Rob Wingate [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: scaling images question...

2002-10-08 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Monday, October 7, 2002, at 06:41 PM, g r i m m w e r k s wrote: > I've been trying to do this all sorts of ways and now my brain is > locked. Hit nightwares and get a copy of HammerThumb from the HowdyGoodies suite in the free area. Proportional resize, live in the sprite. Jeez, man, you

Re: scaling images question...

2002-10-08 Thread Evan Adelman
this is a function for scaling up to a size while maintaining aspect ratio that seems to work pretty well - i'm sure you can rework to scale down on scaleSprite me,spriteToScale -- updateStage newW = pMemberToChangeTo.width newH = pMemberToChangeTo.height if pMemberToChangeTo.height>40