object inspector window

hey - is there a way to unfold ALL items of an object? I've got a list of proplists I'd like to unfold... I should say this works on the mac - option-clicking on the main triangle, like the finder - but can't find the same on the pc. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mo

Why do fonts change appearance when embedded?

Hi List Why does text appear to lose quality of appearance when I change the font from say Arial to embedded Arial *. I would have thought in the first case Director was displaying the font as it is available in my system, and in the second case this very same font set was being embedded, so i

Re: line break

firstString & RETURN & secondString On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, DT-Rene Vazquez wrote: > Hi, how can I insert with lingo in a string expression a line break > after a word and then another word > > Thanks a lot in advance > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to > http

Re: property list

historylist[#newprop]=newvalue [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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Tha

Re: line break

On Monday, Mar 17, 2003, at 17:21 America/Chicago, DT-Rene Vazquez wrote: Hi, how can I insert with lingo in a string expression a line break after a word and then another word I think you want the 'return' keyword: put "Howdy" & RETURN & "man" Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nigh

Re: line break

Look up RETURN and the other string constants in the docs... that along with chunk expressions can do a lot. str = "my words" str2 = str.word[1] & RETURN & str.word[2] put str2 results in: "my words" HTH, ~Mathew - Original Message - From: "DT-Rene Vazquez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Mo

Re: line break

DT-Rene Vazquez wrote: > > Hi, how can I insert with lingo in a string expression a line break > after a word and then another word thisText = "some amount of text" & return & "Another line of text" -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; m

line break

Hi, how can I insert with lingo in a string expression a line break after a word and then another word Thanks a lot in advance [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: property list

On Monday, Mar 17, 2003, at 15:18 America/Chicago, DT-Rene Vazquez wrote: Hi, how can I insert in a property list a property value that I get from a variable or any other piece of code. What I want to do is something like this... historylist.addprop(#tempsprite.member.name, tempsprite.member.

RE: property list

> Hi, how can I insert in a property list a property value that I get from > a variable or any other piece of code. > > What I want to do is something like this... > > historylist.addprop(#tempsprite.member.name, tempsprite.member.text) I would do something like this: historylist.addProp(symbo

property list

Hi, how can I insert in a property list a property value that I get from a variable or any other piece of code. What I want to do is something like this... historylist.addprop(#tempsprite.member.name, tempsprite.member.text) thanks a lot in advance [To remove yourself from this list, or to chan

Re: Vector out of a field or text cast member

On Monday, Mar 17, 2003, at 13:52 America/Chicago, Sean Wilson wrote: I think there is an undocumented (=> unsupported) command to do this, or something akin to it. See: generateOutlines.htm> Wow, that's pretty darn cool. With a little tweaki

Re: Vector out of a field or text cast member

I think there is an undocumented (=> unsupported) command to do this, or something akin to it. See: That's amazing! [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi

Re: Vector out of a field or text cast member

Just had a quick question, I would like to have users imputing text through a normal text field and would like to be able to convert the characters of the imputed text to vector shapes for later access to the vertexList. Is there any easy way of doing this? I think there is an undocumented (=> uns

Re: Vector out of a field or text cast member

On Monday, Mar 17, 2003, at 12:55 America/Chicago, Gonzalo wrote: Just had a quick question, I would like to have users imputing text through a normal text field and would like to be able to convert the characters of the imputed text to vector shapes for later access to the vertexList. Is ther

Re: Vector out of a field or text cast member

Just had a quick question, I would like to have users imputing text through a normal text field and would like to be able to convert the characters of the imputed text to vector shapes for later access to the vertexList. Is there any easy way of doing this? Not exactly, but what you could do is d

Vector out of a field or text cast member

Hi there, Just had a quick question, I would like to have users imputing text through a normal text field and would like to be able to convert the characters of the imputed text to vector shapes for later access to the vertexList. Is there any easy way of doing this? Thanks for your help

Re: drop down menues

On Monday, Mar 17, 2003, at 11:48 America/Chicago, nik crosina wrote: Hallo, mal eine schnelle frage: Hat wer schon mal eine drop down list (im detail gehts hier um eine laender liste) in Director gebastelt? Haben Sie in das OSControl Xtra von peghole.com geschauen? -- WthmO [To remove yoursel

Re: window title bar

On Monday, Mar 17, 2003, at 09:33 America/Chicago, Andrew Dempsey wrote: I can't seem to find a way to do this, with or without an xtra. I am running the movie in a projector (obviously!). Would you mind describing what you've tried so far so no one offers suggestions that are redundant? -- Wthm

Re: window title bar

The way I did it once was by tracking the mouse's loc and changing the stage's rect accordingly. Find the rect when the mouse is clicked, then every so often check the mouse loc and if it has changed, get the difference between the new loc and old loc. Then use this difference to change the rect

drop down menues

Hallo, mal eine schnelle frage: Hat wer schon mal eine drop down list (im detail gehts hier um eine laender liste) in Director gebastelt? Hab das grad vom client erfahren, dass der das gerne haett', aber nocjh nicht mal zeit gehabt mir das genau zu ueberlegen. Das muesste ja von greund auf geco

Re: Projector in WinXP

If you are using an old version of the DM tools xtra, it will crash XP - I've had this issue before. HTH Andy - Original Message - From: "Eric Choy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 12:59 PM Subject: Re: Projector in WinXP > Thx For your reply, I

Re: window title bar

I know of the windowtype = that lets you specify window setup, but thats for miaw's. You might try removing the title bar altogether and creating your own custom title bar within the projector. You can use buddy api xtra to minimize/maximize and alow user to move your projector. I seem to reme

Re: beep command

At 2:01 -0500 14/03/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My guess is that these machines either do not have an internal speaker, or Windows is not recognizing it. That would jive with why we do not have the "default beep" nor "default sound" nor any "default" sound selection in the Window's Sound Contro

window title bar

Hi all, Does anyone know how to change the TYPE of window for the stage- specifically, I want to have a title bar on the window when it is in "normal" mode, and no title bar when it is in "maximized" mode. I can't seem to find a way to do this, with or without an xtra. I am running the movie i

RE: Projector in WinXP

> Thx For your reply, I have try use DirectorMX > To build the Projector and it still dosen't work. > Also, I just make a projector with a single bitmap on > the stage, no code at all. It still dosent work This is a stab in the dark, but are you by any chance running English Director on Ch

Re: Ken Burns Effect

There is software that will allow you to do this without all the machinations you're putting yourself through. Try Canopus Imaginate. There's another one out there, I can't remember it's name...it has a new version and is supposed to be better than Imaginate. Good luck. Steve >>> [EMAIL PROTE

RE: Projector in WinXP

I'm using windows xp pro and director mx. I haven't had any problems with director. --jR - In a message dated 3/17/2003 11:03:57 AM Eastern Standard Time, "Chris Aernoudt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Just a thoug

RE: Projector in WinXP

Just a thought... What user account are you logged in to? Administrative privs or not? Maybe It's some xtra-unpacking issue... have you tried not including xtra's? I run ol'8.5 on XP with no probs... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Cho

Re: Projector in WinXP

Thx For your reply, I have try use DirectorMX To build the Projector and it still dosen't work. Also, I just make a projector with a single bitmap on the stage, no code at all. It still dosent work From: Buzz Kettles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sub