Re: lingo-l Text/Integers?

2003-03-19 Thread Buzz Kettles
At 7:09 AM +0100 3/19/03, you wrote: and thus c yields the same result as string(c) true somewhere I read that the first (implicit conversion) is faster than the latter (string() function) ?! that would seem unlikely to me. -Buzz [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode,

lingo-l Linux support

2003-03-19 Thread srinivas * balusu
Hello! I want to develope a simple application for Linux platform.I want to know whether director supports developing this.Is there any another version available for Linux based development. thanks in advance. Srinivas balusu

lingo-l Don't read just testing

2003-03-19 Thread Justin Redenius
testing a new mail program [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.

RE: lingo-l Print PDF file

2003-03-19 Thread Mark van den Elzen
I have successively used the PDF Xtra from Integration New Media with success for several projects to print pdf files, another solution then the one you try to achieve but if you get stuck on the BuddyAPI way... I apologize if this is not the right forum for

lingo-l OT very and X post: A plea

2003-03-19 Thread Tony Bray
This is my plea to all people in the Middle East that are about to be crucified by todays Caesar (George Warmonger Bush). Please use a prayer that he may understand: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do Tony Bray [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode,

Re: lingo-l OT very and X post: A plea

2003-03-19 Thread Colin Holgate
This is my plea to all people in the Middle East that are about to be crucified by todays Caesar (George Warmonger Bush). Please use a prayer that he may understand: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do Well done for having a perfectly descriptive subject name, but I think

Re: lingo-l OT very and X post: A plea

2003-03-19 Thread Tab Julius
Folks, this is a hot issue for nearly everyone in the world right now - there are plenty of places for this discussion, but the Lingo-L list is not one of them. We all ultimately want peace in the world, but we also need to keep Lingo-L a peaceful place and free from political discussion. I

Re: lingo-l Linux support

2003-03-19 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Mar 19, 2003, at 02:39 America/Chicago, srinivas * balusu wrote: I want to develope a simple application for Linux platform.I want to know whether director supports developing this. No. Is there any another version available for Linux based development. There are lots of very

Re: lingo-l OT very and X post: A plea

2003-03-19 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Mar 19, 2003, at 07:41 America/Chicago, Colin Holgate wrote: This is my plea to all people in the Middle East that are about to be crucified by todays Caesar (George Warmonger Bush). Please use a prayer that he may understand: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do

lingo-l Scripting Xtra

2003-03-19 Thread Des Marron
I am very new to Xtra development, I only started looking into it on Monday! I don't really know what I'm doing, I would be really grateful. I have been given a program that was developed in C++ and was not developed as an Xtra, we have been told by the developer that we can use the program but we

Re: lingo-l Carriage return using numeric keypad ENTER key

2003-03-19 Thread Charlie Fiskeaux II
You're not addressing the member correctly. By using sprite(the currentSpriteNum).member you get this result: member x of castlib y try this: on keyDown me if the key=RETURN then member(sprite(the currentSpriteNum).membernum).text=member(sprite(the currentSpriteNum).membernum).text RETURN

Re: lingo-l Carriage return using numeric keypad ENTER key

2003-03-19 Thread Charlie Fiskeaux II
A better way to do it would also be to use the put...after terminology (and you can compress the member reference, too): on keyDown me if the key=RETURN then put RETURN after sprite(the currentSpritenum).member.text else pass end if end Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The

Re: lingo-l Carriage return using numeric keypad ENTER key

2003-03-19 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Mar 19, 2003, at 09:43 America/Chicago, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: You're not addressing the member correctly. By using sprite(the currentSpriteNum).member you get this result: member x of castlib y try this: on keyDown me if the key=RETURN then member(sprite(the

RE: lingo-l Projector in WinXP

2003-03-19 Thread Kerry Thompson
Could you help me test this file in your guys XP I use DirMX to make this projector. ftp://ftp.newasiabooks.com/maths/testxp.exe You'll need to put the dir file up for us to do any meaningful testing. With the exe (which is a larger download) we have no idea what you're trying to do, what

Re: lingo-l Carriage return using numeric keypad ENTER key

2003-03-19 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Mar 19, 2003, at 09:58 America/Chicago, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: A better way to do it would also be to use the put...after terminology (and you can compress the member reference, too): on keyDown me if the key=RETURN then put RETURN after sprite(the

lingo-l on hyperlinkClicked

2003-03-19 Thread Irv Kalb
I must be missing something basic here - 'cause I've made this work before. I have a text member that I've put on stage. I have a field member called source with some valid HTML - it has one or more links in it that look like this: a href=somelinkSome text/a Then attach a behavior that to

Re: lingo-l on hyperlinkClicked

2003-03-19 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Mar 19, 2003, at 11:22 America/Chicago, Irv Kalb wrote: I put a breakpoint in the hyperLinkClicked routine above and run. The text shows up, the links are blue and underlined. But the on hyperlinkClicked never gets called. What's up with that?? IIRC to make dynamically loaded

lingo-l External casts

2003-03-19 Thread Jeremy
Do external casts not get loaded if the project is published and used on a web page? Or do I need to do something special? Thx J [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]

Re: lingo-l on hyperlinkClicked

2003-03-19 Thread Bertil Flink
Have you tried : member(source).media = member(source).media to wake up the member? Worked for me when I created hyperlinks on the fly. Bertil Flink Creative Media - Original Message - From: Irv Kalb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 6:22 PM

Re: lingo-l Scripting Xtra

2003-03-19 Thread Tab Julius
A better forum for you would be the mmxdk-l listserv, which is this list's equivalent but for Xtras developers. To do that, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body of the message subscribe mmxdk-l This list is for the Lingo side of things. Mmxdk-l is for those working with MOA and the

RE: lingo-l on hyperlinkClicked

2003-03-19 Thread Jeremy
The only way I've dynamically created hyperlinks is: sprite(4).member.word[1].hyperlink = http://whatever; Have you tried putting the hyperlink of your text member in the message window to see if it actually has a hyperlink assigned to it? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lingo-l Carriage return using numeric keypad ENTER key

2003-03-19 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] put RETURN after sprite(the currentSpritenum).member.text ... That returns an error. Dot syntax and put after do not get along. Actually, it's not that, it's yet another odd quirk. Full verbose syntax doesn't work either, you

Re: lingo-l Carriage return using numeric keypad ENTER key

2003-03-19 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Mar 19, 2003, at 12:20 America/Chicago, Robert Tweed wrote: - Original Message - From: Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] put RETURN after sprite(the currentSpritenum).member.text ... That returns an error. Dot syntax and put after do not get along. Actually, it's not that,

Re: lingo-l Text/Integers?

2003-03-19 Thread Brennan
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 00:01:36 -0800, Buzz Kettles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: somewhere I read that the first (implicit conversion) is faster than the latter (string() function) ?! that would seem unlikely to me. Quite likely! As supported by the fact that an object reference (instance) goes

Re: lingo-l on hyperlinkClicked

2003-03-19 Thread Irv Kalb
Thanks very much Howdy - that did it! (Of course, no mention of this in the docs) Irv At 12:01 PM -0600 3/19/03, Howdy-Tzi wrote: On Wednesday, Mar 19, 2003, at 11:22 America/Chicago, Irv Kalb wrote: I put a breakpoint in the hyperLinkClicked routine above and run. The text shows up, the

Re: lingo-l on hyperlinkClicked

2003-03-19 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Mar 19, 2003, at 12:34 America/Chicago, Irv Kalb wrote: Thanks very much Howdy - that did it! :D (Of course, no mention of this in the docs) Actually it's a quirk, so no, it's won't be documented. It's not intended behavior. :\ What I seem to recall is that this manifested from

Re: lingo-l testing for Internet connection

2003-03-19 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Mar 19, 2003, at 12:18 America/Chicago, Slava Paperno wrote: Is there a way to use Lingo to see if the PC/Mac is connected to the Internet? Not reliably, in my experience. You can try polling the environment.internetConnected but you'll probably find it's not accurate. As I

Re: lingo-l on hyperlinkClicked

2003-03-19 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually it's a quirk, so no, it's won't be documented. That's because Director would cost at least twice as much, and there would be far less trees left in the rainforests if they had to use enough paper to document all the quirks

Re: lingo-l Text/Integers?

2003-03-19 Thread Alex da Franca
At 19:37 Uhr +0100 19.03.2003, Brennan wrote: Strings are passed by value, not by reference, so they are not particularly efficient. We all know that strings can be very long (as in 'how long is a piece of...'), so an assignment involving the concatentation of two long strings must be quite

Re: lingo-l on hyperlinkClicked

2003-03-19 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Mar 19, 2003, at 13:35 America/Chicago, Robert Tweed wrote: Actually it's a quirk, so no, it's won't be documented. That's because Director would cost at least twice as much, and there would be far less trees left in the rainforests if they had to use enough paper to document all

lingo-l Direct Email Xtra

2003-03-19 Thread ives1026
Hi list, I work on multimedia projects freelance. My current client is interested in utilizing the DirectEmail Xtra in our project. Here's the situation...while he does have the software (Director) available on his machine, the computers in his office are tremendously SLOW. I've been

Re: lingo-l Text/Integers?

2003-03-19 Thread Robert Tweed
- Original Message - From: Alex da Franca [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't know exactly how to test this with lingo only You could test for this easily by simply timing how long it takes to call a function with strings of varying lengths (say, 1 char, 100 chars and 1 chars) one function

Re: lingo-l Direct Email Xtra

2003-03-19 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Mar 19, 2003, at 14:41 America/Chicago, ives1026 wrote: I work on multimedia projects freelance. My current client is interested in utilizing the DirectEmail Xtra in our project. Here's the situation...while he does have the software (Director) available on his machine, the

lingo-l testing for Internet connection

2003-03-19 Thread Slava Paperno
Is there a way to use Lingo to see if the PC/Mac is connected to the Internet? I use baOpenURL to start the default browser and load a page, but I'd like to test for connection first. There's a great TechNote on using getNetText for this at at

lingo-l Printomatic on IBM

2003-03-19 Thread pranavn
Hi list, While using the Printomatic xtra in Director, we found that printing on IBM machines running Windows 98 results in a failed printout. The print options dialog box is opened and the paper is fed in, but is returned blank. Machines where the printout fails have the following configuration

Re: lingo-l Printomatic on IBM

2003-03-19 Thread pranavn
Thanks Mayuresh. Getting it checked out right away. Pranav Negandhi Software Engineering Learnet India Limited, Mumbai. Phone: 91-22-56768120 http://www.learnetindia.com Does anybody remember laughter? -- Robert Plant, The Song Remains the Same. snip What the site does mention is that the

Re: lingo-l Printomatic on IBM

2003-03-19 Thread Mayuresh
I don't recall reading of any problems specific to any machine. What the site does mention is that the Xtra fails reliably when printing on HP printers thanks to their below par drivers. The first thing to do would be to check your driver versions across all your test machines and then try it with

RE: lingo-l Projector in WinXP

2003-03-19 Thread Eric Choy
Very thanks for your reply ftp://ftp.newasiabooks.com/maths/testxp.dir also putted on the server already. Its just a flying box around the stage, nothing special. Develop platform:Win98SE (CHI) + Director MX(Eng) Test Platform Win98SE (Chi/Eng) ok Win2000 (Chi/Eng) ok WinMe (Chi/Eng) ok Winxp