RE: lingo-l re: 3d shockwave collision detection

2003-01-15 Thread Robin Pereira
Was just reading the post and would also like to achieve the same effect could I be included in the help/ demo/ data/ file?[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeremy Sent: 14 January 2003 22:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: lingo-l buddy api lingo help

2003-01-15 Thread biju george
--- marcus brooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys I hope someone can help, It was recommended that I get the Buddy Api xtra to launch word and excel files from a Director exe. But can't for the life of me get my head round the script. The script on the help me file is set OK =

lingo-l again with other subject: characters and interaction inenviroments

2003-01-15 Thread Rodrigo Peres
Hi, I'd like to develop some characters and it's interactions with the enviroment. I have a robot an a room full of furniture. What I want is when my sprite moves around it's detects the furniture and turns around or avoid to walk into a wall. Where I begin to learn this? I'd appreciate if

Re: lingo-l re: 3d shockwave collision detection

2003-01-15 Thread Hedley Roberts
hi robin - be good to hear from you... have a look at my example http://mercury.tvu.ac.uk/igpd/sitefiles/examples/3dex2.zip it's a reworking of gary rosenzweigs... a bit clunky but you get the idea... havok is great but you still need to work out the interaction. Hedley - Original

lingo-l Basic ? end a Loop

2003-01-15 Thread ice
From: Meiky - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:01:08 +0700 Subject: lingo-l Basic ? Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hi, if my script looping forever, if there any shortcut to stop it? Thanks Sure set a 'StartTimer' in a

lingo-l Basics ?

2003-01-15 Thread ice
From: David Burgoyne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lingo-l Basic ? Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 15:05:54 - Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Best way to do this is not to use a repeat loop as nothing will update while its running (I think) put loop stuff in enter/exitframe handler

lingo-l Very long date...Buzz

2003-01-15 Thread ice
I spent a lot of time trying to improve the Help entries while I was at MACR, I guess I reacted a bit. -Buzz ++ The help entries of Director has been a real helpsaved a lot of papers for my sake. And the Lingo-hunches are often slightly

lingo-l Any way to test for the existence of a slot or attribute in a shared object referenced by Lingo?

2003-01-15 Thread James Auld
Hello and thanks in advance! I am trying to find a way to determine whether or not a particular attribute of a shared object exists, using Lingo. Here's the sample code: -- this part works fine tSharedObject = newObject(SharedObject, FALSE) gsoConfig = tSharedObject.getLocal(dfcookie) --

Re: lingo-l Any way to test for the existence of a slot or attributein a shared object referenced by Lingo?

2003-01-15 Thread grimmwerks
Why not have a function like tINfo = sharedObject.getInfo() and in that sharedobject function you just have it return a list of it's properties, ie on getInfo me return([#configinfo: configinfo, #color: ]) end ? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode,

lingo-l FindingNotWantedFonts

2003-01-15 Thread Bruce Powell
Thanks all for the input. Turns out that I solved my own problem the same day and posted it, but I didn't have my email set to plaintext so it didn't get posted. I will modify the below code later with input you all provided. This turns out to be a handy piece of code for sloppy typists like me.

Re: lingo-l Any way to test for the existence of a slot or attribute in a shared object referenced by Lingo?

2003-01-15 Thread Daniel Plaenitz
At 10:43 15.01.2003 -0600, you wrote: this, with the idea that -- I would test the tConfigInfo variable to see if it is VOID or not: tConfigInfo = gsoConfig.data.configInfo tData = gsoConfig.getAprop(#data) if tData.ilk = #propList then tConfigInfo = tData.getAprop(#configInfo) else .. endif

Re: lingo-l Any way to test for the existence of a slot or attribute in a shared object referenced by Lingo?

2003-01-15 Thread James Auld
Thanks for the idea Daniel. Tried it, and it appears that the #data element of a Flash shared object is an object, not a property list. So: tData = gsoConfig.getAprop(#data) returns an object, which makes the next line not work: if tData.ilk = #propList then tConfigInfo =

Re: lingo-l Any way to test for the existence of a slot or attribute in a shared object referenced by Lingo?

2003-01-15 Thread Daniel Plaenitz
At 13:21 15.01.2003 -0600, you wrote: Thanks for the idea Daniel. Tried it, and it appears that the #data element of a Flash shared object is an object, not a property list. Sorry, I must have missed the bit where you said that this was a Flash thing. In that context what I wrote is not

lingo-l Director/Authorware/Other Question

2003-01-15 Thread Carl West
I'm writing an article for a graphics magazine that'll have a title something like: How to make buttons that will keep your programmer happy. I know that the techniques I plan to describe work in Director, I'd like to find out how they'll play in Authorware or for that matter other multimedia

lingo-l ANN: INM's Java Xtra for Director - Beta Release

2003-01-15 Thread Gabrielle Dara Krim
Integration New Media is happy to announce the beta release of our Java Xtra for Director, which allows Director to access Java objects through Lingo. To find out what Java Xtra is: http://www.IntegrationNewMedia.com/products/javaxtra/ We are now inviting the general public to participate in

Re: lingo-l Write a Text File to a Folder on the Web

2003-01-15 Thread David Baynes
Hello I'm trying to figure out how to write a text file to a folder on our web site. (from a projector, not Shockwave) Currently, I used BuddyAPI to read write test scores locally on the user's hard drive. I would like to store that info online for the international tests. Locally I would

Re: lingo-l Write a Text File to a Folder on the Web

2003-01-15 Thread grimmwerks
Prop the easist way of doing it, is using a translator - like a webpage with php or asp - and sending a name/variable list to the webpage, exactly like a form does. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages

Re: lingo-l Write a Text File to a Folder on the Web

2003-01-15 Thread Cole Tierney
I'm trying to figure out how to write a text file to a folder on our web site. (from a projector, not Shockwave) You might take a look the shockfiler xtra at updatestage.com (uses ftp) or use net lingo to post the text to a cgi on the server (uses http). -- Cole [To remove yourself from this

Re: lingo-l A few questions about MX for Mac

2003-01-15 Thread Phil Gross
The Memory Inspector is only available on Windows. It was removed from the Mac version. -Phil Chad Mefferd (Morris Publishing) wrote: Hi List, It's been a while since I posted anything, but thanks to MX I have a few new questions that someone, by their good graces, might be able to help me

lingo-l A few questions about MX for Mac

2003-01-15 Thread Chad Mefferd (Morris Publishing)
Hi List, It's been a while since I posted anything, but thanks to MX I have a few new questions that someone, by their good graces, might be able to help me with. First. How do you access the Memory Inspector in MX for Mac. I checked the help files for MX which direct me to the usual, which is

RE: lingo-l Any way to test for the existence of a slot or attribute in a shared object referenced by Lingo?

2003-01-15 Thread Mark R. Jonkman
Hi James The answer to your question is yes it is theoretically possible.. whether or not its supported and whether it will continue to work is another story. The following is an easy way of doing what you want without Lingo throwing a script error but it is undocumented and unsupported by