Re: lingo-l Open PowerPoint from within director

2003-12-03 Thread Tom van Gemert
Gee, reading error dialogs... thinking... ugh. No really, thanks! You've pointed me to some usefull resources in which I found elements that I use in my own code now, I was just really (de)buggin out and needed some fresh insights. I understood my error message but couldn't see a way around, so

lingo-l text display bug after 3000 words

2003-12-03 Thread jean-louis valero
hello list In a rich text editable cast member, after about 3000 typed words, a great amount of the text suddenly disappears in the middle of the whole text. In place of the vanished text the user can see only a white area. If you type return at the beginning of that white sector, the text is

Re: lingo-l text display bug after 3000 words

2003-12-03 Thread Diego Landro
if i am not mistaken i once expwerienced that with long text. i donĀ“t remember the amount of word but it was LONG. What happened was similar to what you describe. the only way i had to fix it was start with another director movie from scratch and work it from there. Anyway in authoring the problem

Re: lingo-l text display bug after 3000 words

2003-12-03 Thread Charlie Fiskeaux II
I've experienced similar things in the script window with DirMX/WinXP. With long movie scripts, sometimes lines will white out and come back later. It's usually not too big of a deal, but one time it kept doing the same thing over and over again; it would crash Director and I would try the

Re: lingo-l Flash text / text object question

2003-12-03 Thread Mathew Ray
grimmwerks wrote: Just wanted to point out _global.fModule = new Object(); fModule.movieTime = mov_timer; fModule.movieTitle = mov_title; fModule.movieDuration = mov_duration; fModule.setMovieTime = function(theText){fModule.movieTime.text = theText;} Pmod = sprite(1).getVariable(fModule,

Re: lingo-l text display bug after 3000 words

2003-12-03 Thread Bruce Mitchener
Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: I've experienced similar things in the script window with DirMX/WinXP. With long movie scripts, sometimes lines will white out and come back later. It's usually not too big of a deal, but one time it kept doing the same thing over and over again; it would crash

lingo-l Solution: text display bug after 3000 words

2003-12-03 Thread jean-louis valero
Thank you for your suggestions... As I work with MX on Panther, I thought it was the reason ! News, in projector mode: If I save the bad text, using FileIO, and re-import it, I retrieve the whole text, intact. If I copy it and paste it in Word or TextEdit, no problem: No more white area, the

lingo-l Cps users?

2003-12-03 Thread grimmwerks
Anyone here using CPS from bonneville.nl? [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

Re: lingo-l Cps users?

2003-12-03 Thread Valentin Schmidt
very interesting technology, but unfortunately i never had a project where i could actually use it. but i have it installed (v1.30, on win xp pro), in case you just need someone to test some code for you. grimmwerks wrote: Anyone here using CPS from bonneville.nl? [To remove yourself from this