MPEG file

2003-03-06 Thread Samuel Tjitrahardja
Dear all, I always use a quicktime movie to be used in director project. Please advise me on HOW TO INSERT MPEG MOVIE INTO DIRECTOR FILE. I was tried to insert it, but never success. Tx. samuel [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo

Re: object / stopmovie question.

2003-03-06 Thread pranavn
You could use timeouts to make parent script instances recieve some movie events. Like so - -- Parent script on new me vTmp = timeOut("MovieEventGenerator").new(the maxInteger, #dummyHandler, me) return me end new me on stopMovie -- Do whatever you please; I'm leaving end stopMovi

Re: object / stopmovie question.

2003-03-06 Thread Carl West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If I create a script object -- you know, the whole 'me' thang - would the > object receive a 'stopmovie' call? A quick test says no. The movie script 'on stopMovie' would have to call the object's 'stopMovie' handler. Or more manageable: it calls the 'stopMovie' i

object / stopmovie question.

2003-03-06 Thread grimmwerks
If I create a script object -- you know, the whole 'me' thang - would the object receive a 'stopmovie' call? [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 [EMA

Re: Is this an error?

2003-03-06 Thread Colin Holgate
> And, by the way, which event triggered "--yada yada?" If all the previous discussion is correct, 'keyDown'. It's easily proved, just set a breakpoint. Running the movie doesn't trigger it, but pressing a key does. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http:/

Re: Is this an error?

2003-03-06 Thread Carl West
Kurt Griffin wrote: > > >> on prepareMovie > >> on keyDown > >> --yada yada > >> end keyDown > >> end prepareMovie > > And, by the way, which event triggered "--yada yada?" If all the previous discussion is correct, 'keyDown'. The 'on keyDown' would end the 'prepareMovie' handler and the 'end pr

RE: Is this an error?

2003-03-06 Thread Kerry Thompson
> >> on prepareMovie > >> on keyDown > >> --yada yada > >> end keyDown > >> end prepareMovie > > And, by the way, which event triggered "--yada yada?" Other than Seinfeld? KeyDown. Cordially, Kerry Thompson [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.pe

Re: Is this an error?

2003-03-06 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Thursday, Mar 6, 2003, at 21:38 America/Chicago, Kurt Griffin wrote: on prepareMovie on keyDown --yada yada end keyDown end prepareMovie And, by the way, which event triggered "--yada yada?" Because of implicit handler termination with the next 'on', I'm betting the keyDown. -- WthmO [To rem

RE: Is this an error?

2003-03-06 Thread Kurt Griffin
on prepareMovie on keyDown --yada yada end keyDown end prepareMovie And, by the way, which event triggered "--yada yada?" -kurt [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] (Probl

RE: Is this an error?

2003-03-06 Thread Kurt Griffin
Flakey movie everywhere would break! :) -Buzz Amen to that. All your movie belong to us. It's amazing what you can get away with in Lingo. I took over a project not long ago, and one of the first things I noticed was this movie handler: on prepareMovie on keyDown --yada yada end keyDown end pr

Multi-user server script

2003-03-06 Thread Jeremy
Does anyone know how I can create a handler for a multi-user server script that acts like an exitframe or stepframe, so that it can be doing things each frame? I've tried putting stepframe and exitframe in the server script and they don't seem to be used by the server. It's easy to create handlers

Re: zip and upload files from projector/shockwayve

2003-03-06 Thread grimmwerks
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Howdy-Tzi wrote: > On Thursday, Mar 6, 2003, at 18:46 America/Chicago, Slava Paperno wrote: > > > 1) Is there an Xtra to zip the files and then upload them using the > > FTP protocol or something similar? I want to do this transparently for > > the user--not by starting an e

Re: Mac OS X development

2003-03-06 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Thursday, Mar 6, 2003, at 04:36 America/Chicago, nik crosina wrote: Do you think that it is worth developing an educational application for the general public (schools and corporate training) across the globe specifically with OS X in mind or could I do projector for the 'old' Mac OS and ha

RE: zip and upload files from projector/shockwayve

2003-03-06 Thread Brad Hile
SLava wrote: > 1) Is there an Xtra to zip the files and then upload them using the FTP > protocol or something similar? I want to do this transparently for the > user--not by starting an external application to do the zipping and > uploading. I know ShockFiler will upload, but it won't zip first.

RE: icon question

2003-03-06 Thread Brad Hile
Michael wrote: > Hi Brad and everybody! > I just tried Resource Hacker, the tool you recommended. I created a fast > starting stub projector on the PC as described in Macromedia's technote > (http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/d8_fast-start_stub_ proj.htm) Hi Michael, I'm fe

Re: zip and upload files from projector/shockwayve

2003-03-06 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Thursday, Mar 6, 2003, at 18:46 America/Chicago, Slava Paperno wrote: 1) Is there an Xtra to zip the files and then upload them using the FTP protocol or something similar? I want to do this transparently for the user--not by starting an external application to do the zipping and uploading.

Re: Mac OS X development

2003-03-06 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Thursday, Mar 6, 2003, at 18:39 America/Chicago, nik crosina wrote: Make a bundle. It should work on Macs pre-X with CarbonLib, and will ... have you done that before? Yes. It's about 1am in the morning and my bloodshot eyes browsed over the page you send, but my brain is beginning to be a

zip and upload files from projector/shockwayve

2003-03-06 Thread Slava Paperno
I'm in a bind with my projector/Shockwave language learning application. The user will record her audio homework, and I want it uploaded to my server. The recording works great using Audio Xtra from Upstage, but it will not record in a compressed format, such as mp3 or RealMedia. It records wav

Re: Mac OS X development

2003-03-06 Thread nik crosina
Make a bundle. It should work on Macs pre-X with CarbonLib, and will ... have you done that before? It's about 1am in the morning and my bloodshot eyes browsed over the page you send, but my brain is beginning to be a bit blur. Or is there anyone else who has done bundling before and cam acros

Re: Is this an error?

2003-03-06 Thread Buzz Kettles
At 4:24 PM -0600 3/6/03, you wrote: On Thursday, Mar 6, 2003, at 15:50 America/Chicago, Kerry Thompson wrote: I took over a project not long ago, and one of the first things I noticed was this movie handler: on prepareMovie on keyDown --yada yada end keyDown end prepareMovie I came across an inter

AW: icon question

2003-03-06 Thread Michael von Aichberger
Brad wrote: > On PC I can recommend: > Resource Hacker for changing over icons & exe properties etc. > http://www.users.on.net/johnson/resourcehacker/ Hi Brad and everybody! I just tried Resource Hacker, the tool you recommended. I created a fast starting stub projector on the PC as described in

Re: Mac OS X development

2003-03-06 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Thursday, Mar 6, 2003, at 16:54 America/Chicago, Kyle Smeby wrote: Was anyone here developing (Director, HyperCard, whatever) in the 68k to PowerPC transition? I caught the death throws of 68k but never had to make a 68k projector. Any lessons learned then, that could help us now? I alway

Re: Mac OS X development

2003-03-06 Thread Kyle Smeby
Do you think that it is worth developing an educational application for the general public (schools and corporate training) across the globe specifically with OS X in mind or could I do projector for the 'old' Mac OS and have Mac OS X users run it in classic mode? I've been basing this decision

Re: Is this an error?

2003-03-06 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Thursday, Mar 6, 2003, at 15:50 America/Chicago, Kerry Thompson wrote: I took over a project not long ago, and one of the first things I noticed was this movie handler: on prepareMovie on keyDown --yada yada end keyDown end prepareMovie I came across an interesting set of repeat loops a while

Re: List reference persistance?

2003-03-06 Thread Mathew Ray
Thanks Buzz, I was hoping that wasn't the case :0) I think my way around it is to keep a virtual queue that DOESN'T make duplicates, and then add that to the playlist...I just have to refresh the REAL playlist every time I make a change to the virtual one... ~Mathew - Original Message -

Re: List reference persistance?

2003-03-06 Thread Buzz Kettles
At 4:47 PM -0500 3/6/03, you wrote: Simple one... I have a list-reference added to another list, and I delete the original list, yet the reference still exists? you don't have a list reference -you have a dupl() - see below What happens to list references when the list it is referencing is delete

RE: Is this an error?

2003-03-06 Thread Kerry Thompson
> Flakey movie everywhere would break! :) > > -Buzz Amen to that. All your movie belong to us. It's amazing what you can get away with in Lingo. I took over a project not long ago, and one of the first things I noticed was this movie handler: on prepareMovie on keyDown --yada yada end keyDow

List reference persistance?

2003-03-06 Thread Mathew Ray
Simple one... I have a list-reference added to another list, and I delete the original list, yet the reference still exists? What happens to list references when the list it is referencing is deleted? Is there any way to update these references so garbage collection can do its thing? Here is an

RE: Is this an error?

2003-03-06 Thread Buzz Kettles
At 1:00 PM -0500 3/6/03, you wrote: > It's a trivial typo Including the handlerName in the end statement is optional. It can 'legally' say anything or nothing Buzz is right. Anything after the "end" is essentially a comment. I don't know if this has changed recently, but you used to not even n

Re: generic error

2003-03-06 Thread Buzz Kettles
It may not be obvious why, but I'd make sure that the directSound Xtra is in the movie's Xtralist. Just look in the Modify > Movie > Xtras dialog for it. If it's not there, press the 'Include Defaults' to get it when on a Mac. hth -Buzz At 2:08 PM -0500 3/6/03, you wrote: Double check that y

Re: generic error

2003-03-06 Thread Carl West
Evan Adelman wrote: > > Double check that your xtra's are in order -- it fails in win2k, > netscape 7.0, ie 6.0, too - maybe an xtra not coming down the pipe? but > jeeze - it really dies -- error reads exactly: "This Shockwaave movie > has errors that have caused playback problems. Please contact

Re: generic error

2003-03-06 Thread Fletcher Moore
Well, that's exactly what the problem was. And naturally I discovered that about two minutes after I posted my request for aid, but thanks for the help anyway. f on 3/6/03 1:08 PM, Evan Adelman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Double check that your xtra's are in order -- it fails in win2k, > netsc

Re: generic error

2003-03-06 Thread Evan Adelman
Double check that your xtra's are in order -- it fails in win2k, netscape 7.0, ie 6.0, too - maybe an xtra not coming down the pipe? but jeeze - it really dies -- error reads exactly: "This Shockwaave movie has errors that have caused playback problems. Please contact the author of this content

Re: Mac "bundle" data question

2003-03-06 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Thursday, Mar 6, 2003, at 11:37 America/Chicago, Slava Paperno wrote: After reading it, I still don't knoiw the answer to this: When your disc includes data that is used by both the your MacOSClassic and Mac OS (X) applications, where does that data go? Put together some sample movies and exp

Re: Mac "bundle" data question

2003-03-06 Thread Mathew Ray
In the Contents folder I believe... ~Mathew - Original Message - From: "Slava Paperno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 12:37 PM Subject: Mac "bundle" data question > When your disc includes data that is used by both the your MacOSClassic and

RE: Is this an error?

2003-03-06 Thread Kerry Thompson
> It's a trivial typo > > Including the handlerName in the end statement is optional. > > It can 'legally' say anything or nothing Buzz is right. Anything after the "end" is essentially a comment. I don't know if this has changed recently, but you used to not even need the "end" statement. An "

Re: Is this an error?

2003-03-06 Thread Buzz Kettles
It's a trivial typo Including the handlerName in the end statement is optional. It can 'legally' say anything or nothing hth -Buzz At 1:55 PM +1100 3/6/03, you wrote: I have just noticed the following code in the library behaviors "Jump to Marker Button" and "Jump to Movie Button" on mouseUp m

Mac "bundle" data question

2003-03-06 Thread Slava Paperno
If you start at http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/CoreFoundation/ProgrammingTopics/CFBundles/index.html you'll find that the most relevant section is called The Anatomy of a Bundle at http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/CoreFoundation/ProgrammingTopics/CFBundles/Concepts/anatomy

Re: Output to a .mov

2003-03-06 Thread Marcos Trinca
> If you really need them to make a single self contained QuickTime > movie of the final edit, that would probably be a lot harder! I need to find a way to get the movie resulted from the edition and put inside a CD-R, so the user can get this CD-R and go home to see the composition with your own

Mac "bundle" reference

2003-03-06 Thread Slava Paperno
The Macrmedia Technote on this issue refers to an Apple Web page that no longer exists (Core Foundation Bundle Services). The new address is http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/CoreFoundation/ProgrammingTopics/CFBundles/index.html Slava At 10:58 AM 3/6/03 -0600, you wrote: On Thursday, M

generic error

2003-03-06 Thread Fletcher Moore
Hi all, I'm working on a set of interactive music guides, and the material I have thus far works perfectly on my own machine (a Mac), but crashes on the client's machines' (PCs running Win98). A rather generic error is created -- something like "this shockwave movie can't run because of an error."

RE: Fw: Searching multiple PDFs on CDROM

2003-03-06 Thread Eric Frericks
If speed wont be a factor: The indexer comes with source, so you could modify it to output text files and then just search them if you dont want to buy the xtras at this time. -Original Message- From: Simon Wheatley (lists) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:28 AM

Re: Mac OS X development

2003-03-06 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Thursday, Mar 6, 2003, at 04:36 America/Chicago, nik crosina wrote: Do you think that it is worth developing an educational application for the general public (schools and corporate training) across the globe specifically with OS X in mind or could I do projector for the 'old' Mac OS and ha

RE: Writing to the Windows registry

2003-03-06 Thread Tim
just a thought: have you tryed sending the value as a number as opposed to a string result = baWriteRegString( "Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\5.0\AdobeViewer", "DisplayAboutDialog", 0, "HKEY_CURRENT_USER" ) -^ HTH t. > -Message d'origine- > De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [

Re: Dynamic sprite creation

2003-03-06 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Thursday, Mar 6, 2003, at 02:46 America/Chicago, Jeremy wrote: Right, my question was is there a way in script to set the span of the sprite, as in the frames it stretches across. With score recording, yes. That provides you with a way to write a permanent set of changes to an *unprotected* Di

Re: Writing to the Windows registry

2003-03-06 Thread Charlie Fiskeaux II
When you launch Acrobat, launch it with a /s parameter, and it will launch without a splash screen. c:\acrobat.exe /s d:\yourfile.pdfor just c:\acrobat.exe /s Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 - Original Message -

Fw: Searching multiple PDFs on CDROM

2003-03-06 Thread Simon Wheatley \(lists\)
Hi I have a CD-ROM project where I need to be able to search multiple PDFs on a CD-ROM, and then launch them. I've found the PDF Xtra and indexer from Integration New Media () which seems to do the job. However the PDF Xtra needs the INM Database Xtra for searching multiple docs, which makes the p

Writing to the Windows registry

2003-03-06 Thread chris . couldridge
Hi all, I have a question about writing to the Windows registry on Windows 2000. I'm using PDF Xtra, but I am trying to prevent the splash screen from appearing when Acrobat first loads up. I'm using the script: result = baWriteRegString( "Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\5.0\AdobeViewer", "D

RE: All possible combination sequence of a list of items

2003-03-06 Thread Azinger, Richard
The one day I don't check out the site ... Thanks Sean -Original Message- From: Sean Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 6:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: All possible combination sequence of a list of items >Does anyone have a function that when

RE: Dynamic sprite creation

2003-03-06 Thread Kerry Thompson
> Right, my question was is there a way in script to set the span of the > sprite, as in the frames it stretches across. Maybe the term puppetSprite is a little misleading. It could more appropriately be called puppetChannel, because you're effectively taking over a channel. Span isn't really rel

Re: Output to a .mov

2003-03-06 Thread Colin Holgate
My question is about how can lingo helps me to save the edited movie as a quicktime inside the HD. Do you need the user to be able to play the movie inside other applications, or to just replay the edited movie in your Director projector? If they only need to play it back in your projector, you

Output to a .mov

2003-03-06 Thread Marcos Trinca
Hi all, I need to develop an edition system, something small. The user will select some movies from a list, he could select 2, 3, 4 or 5 small movies (10 secs), one audio track, and the result will be a short movie with the selected scenes that needs to be saved as a quicktime movie inside a folde

Re: Dynamic sprite creation

2003-03-06 Thread Carl West
Jeremy wrote: > > Right, my question was is there a way in script to set the span of the > sprite, as in the frames it stretches across. Not per se. Doing this sort of thing dynamically calls for more "record keeping". In this case, keeping track of when to unpuppet the sprite. It's a different

Re: Mac OS X development

2003-03-06 Thread Colin Holgate
Do you think that it is worth developing an educational application for the general public (schools and corporate training) across the globe specifically with OS X in mind or could I do projector for the 'old' Mac OS and have Mac OS X users run it in classic mode? I know some scholarly types

Mac OS X development

2003-03-06 Thread nik crosina
Hi, I would like your general opinion on something: Do you think that it is worth developing an educational application for the general public (schools and corporate training) across the globe specifically with OS X in mind or could I do projector for the 'old' Mac OS and have Mac OS X users r

RE: Dynamic sprite creation

2003-03-06 Thread pranavn
I think what you want is a way to lay out the score using Lingo. Score recording lets you create actual sprites in the score that persist even after the movie has stopped playing. If you save the movie then the score gets saved too. It's a very neat way to layout sprites during authoring when you'

RE: Dynamic sprite creation

2003-03-06 Thread JRedeniusAIH
When you puppetsprite your not creating sprites in the score. So there are no sprites to strech across frames. --- In a message dated 3/6/2003 3:46:53 AM Eastern Standard Time, "Jeremy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Right, my question was is the

RE: Dynamic sprite creation

2003-03-06 Thread Jeremy
Right, my question was is there a way in script to set the span of the sprite, as in the frames it stretches across. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 3:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

Re: Dynamic sprite creation

2003-03-06 Thread pranavn
When you puppet a sprite, it remains that way until you explicitly unpuppet it. If you have sprites laid out in the score, then Lingo overrides those settings. Puppeted sprites are also released when you go from one movie to another. Pranav Negandhi Software Engineering Learnet India Limited, Mum

Re: Dynamic sprite creation

2003-03-06 Thread JRedeniusAIH
When you puppet a sprite it stays on the stage untill you unpuppet it: puppetsprite 1, false --jR --- In a message dated 3/6/2003 2:52:35 AM Eastern Standard Time, "Jeremy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Is there a