lingo-l Registering fonts

2003-07-02 Thread Andrew Dempsey
Hi all. I am using the buddy xtra to install a font on the user's machine by copying the font from the CD into the PCs fonts folder (win). On some machines this seems to do the trick, and the font is immediately available for use by the projector. On a few other test machines, it is not.

Re: lingo-l Strange strings? Resolved

2003-07-02 Thread Colin Holgate
The next day my message window displayed: put a+1 -- 42580489 and the value was different from the one of the day before!!! Just try it twice in a row, and it'll be different every time. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi

Re: lingo-l Registering fonts

2003-07-02 Thread Slava Paperno
Andrew, Is this Windows or Mac OS? Have you checked the user's permissions? Windows won't allow a Restricted User to install fonts. Slava At 03:06 PM 7/2/03 +0200, you wrote: Hi all. I am using the buddy xtra to install a font on the user's machine by copying the font from the CD into the

RE: lingo-l Event Order

2003-07-02 Thread Kerry Thompson
Oddly, Kerry seemed to forget reading page 402 of my book. I say oddly because he was the technical reviewer on it! ;) Oh, I remember it, all right. Unfortunately, there are still a few wretched souls who haven't be blessed by the [Ockrassa] enlightenment. Bruce Epstein covers event order

RE: lingo-l Event Order

2003-07-02 Thread Karina Steffens
Oddly, Kerry seemed to forget reading page 402 of my book. I say oddly because he was the technical reviewer on it! ;) Hmm.. Very suspicious... ;) [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,

lingo-l acrobat reader

2003-07-02 Thread Kurt Griffin
I'm trying to open a pdf file in lingo. I can open the file by specifying the location of the acrobat reader, hover I may not know where the reader is on each computer. How can I find out the location of the acrobat reader exe file without using buddy api? If it's on a CD-ROM, you could

Re: lingo-l Event Order

2003-07-02 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Jul 2, 2003, at 08:08 America/Chicago, Kerry Thompson wrote: Oddly, Kerry seemed to forget reading page 402 of my book. I say oddly because he was the technical reviewer on it! ;) Oh, I remember it, all right. Unfortunately, there are still a few wretched souls who haven't be

Re: lingo-l Registering fonts

2003-07-02 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Jul 2, 2003, at 08:06 America/Chicago, Andrew Dempsey wrote: I am using the buddy xtra to install a font on the user's machine by copying the font from the CD into the PCs fonts folder (win). On some machines this seems to do the trick, and the font is immediately available for

Re: lingo-l Registering fonts

2003-07-02 Thread Diego Landro
Recentely i had the same problem with embedded fonts, they appear as ragged when you use it, especially if you use color, but just changing the antialiasing of the fonts in the property inspector to a really tiny size did the trick in most cases. Somnetimes what i had to do was use background

RE: lingo-l Event Order

2003-07-02 Thread Kerry Thompson
Yeah, it's workable as well, of course. You can tell the MACR docs are somewhat dated as they include stepFrame events, which aren't commonly used any more. Ah well. They aren't? I use them all the time to get objects to work in synch with the score. Cordially, Kerry Thompson [To remove

Re: lingo-l Event Order

2003-07-02 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Jul 2, 2003, at 10:33 America/Chicago, Kerry Thompson wrote: Yeah, it's workable as well, of course. You can tell the MACR docs are somewhat dated as they include stepFrame events, which aren't commonly used any more. Ah well. They aren't? I use them all the time to get objects to

lingo-l Re: List bracket access

2003-07-02 Thread Denis Bel-Isle
On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 08:50 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --__--__-- Message: 10 Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 12:19:09 -0500 Subject: Re: lingo-l List bracket access From: Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday, Jul 1, 2003, at 11:41

Re: lingo-l Event Order

2003-07-02 Thread Howdy-Tzi
[re stepframe] They aren't? I use them all the time to get objects to work in synch with the score. Oops, sorry, I though they'd been deprecated. My mistake. I was thinking of perFrameHook! Dang, talk about a neuronal misfire... -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to

Re: lingo-l Event Order

2003-07-02 Thread grimmwerks
Well, I think we ALL depreciate Kerry and his hard work. On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 01:14 PM, Howdy-Tzi wrote: Oops, sorry, I though they'd been deprecated. My mistake. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post

Re: lingo-l acrobat reader

2003-07-02 Thread Valentin Schmidt
On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 , Kurt Griffin wrote: Lingo alone can't search a hard drive. You could use another xtra, like fileXtra3 (free, but a whole lot of effort to use for this) or masterApp. But, I think the Buddy way is the best way - baOpenFile(path) is short and sweet - it does all of the

RE: lingo-l Registering fonts

2003-07-02 Thread Tim MacDonald
Hi Andrew, We've encountered this on Windows 98 using the most recent version of buddy (3.5.1.0). Fonts won't register properly, even after restarting, but will become available if you open or explore the fonts folder in the system directory. It's annoying -- as far as I know it didn't show up

lingo-l PrintoMatic Hell

2003-07-02 Thread cpasswater
Soo, now I'm having problems printing using PrintOMatic (my first time) I have authored the CDRom in Dir 7.02 due to low end users and am using Printomatic version 1.6, authored on Mac Power G4, will be cross-platform CD someday...if the computer pushkins accept my offerings

Re: lingo-l MORE PrintoMatic Hell

2003-07-02 Thread cpasswater
Well I got it to Print but now the message is can't print this type of data, then it PRINTS it exactly as I want it! AH! (sorry I have been working on this project 15 hours a day for the past two weeks and tonight's an all nighter to finish it) I changed the code to: set doc = new(xtra

Re: lingo-l PrintoMatic Hell

2003-07-02 Thread Thomas Drapela
I've only used Printomatic Lite (most recently 1.6.5) so I have no info on adding pages, but would inserting reset doc right after if not objectP(doc) then exit to reset the instance of the document help? I seem to recall it solved some of my general woes with Printomatic Lite.

Re: lingo-l Re: THANK YOU!totally stumped

2003-07-02 Thread cpasswater
Thank you Denis and everyone else who responded! After reading your suggestions and experimenting with them, it finally clicked! Problem solved. Chris From: Denis BĂ©lisle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 21:45:06 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: lingo-l PrintoMatic Hell

2003-07-02 Thread cpasswater
Thank you Carl and Tom! Yes, I have reached dimishing returns...but my client has no clue about producing CDRoms. Wants it last week of course. sigh. .so, lots of milky way candy bars and coffee tonight. Chris From: Thomas Drapela [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: