RE: #flash type with no #flash props

2004-03-02 Thread Todd Culley
You might want to try the .percentStreamed property and wait for this to be 100% before calling your code. And yes this does work for linked .swf files on CD-ROM. I had a project with a lot of .swf files. These files were segmented into chapters. Though I would load the file into memory and Direc

RE: cross platform xtras in external folder

2004-03-02 Thread Mark R. Jonkman
Hi Joe One other thought, if you have an OSX box kicking around, simply install the trial version of Director MX 2004 on OSX, grab the appropriate libs and xtras out of the install and use them for your shockwave projector. I'd back up the entire xtras folder. The libs are hidden in the Director M

Re: changing sprite focus

2004-03-02 Thread Craig Taylor
> Read up on the selection, selstart, selend, things like that. Thanks Colin. Turned out to be more simple than that. Apparently when you insert a new OS control it defaults to having focus on Win machines. Once I manually took its focusability away, everything worked fine. .: Craig [To remo

RE: #flash type with no #flash props

2004-03-02 Thread Mark R. Jonkman
Hi Mike One of the first things that comes to mind is attempting to access the flash sprite before it has time to initialize. But you seem to indicate that you have given time to initialize before calling the functions or accessing the properties. I have seen some strange things with puppetting. T

#flash type with no #flash props

2004-03-02 Thread Mike Gralish
What might cause a sprite to respond put sprite(aFlashSprite).member.type -- #flash but then show a "handler/property not found" error when I try to call any flash specific property (eg: .playbackMode) or function (eg: play(), goToFrame(),..) The flash member is valid and reports mediaRea

Re: Bitmap Linking

2004-03-02 Thread Valentin Schmidt
Hi Yarif, I wished there was a better solution. I tried to send all kind of http-headers with php, like Header('Content-Type: image/png'); Header('Content-disposition: inline; filename=pcw.png'); in conjunction with a fpassthru($fp) command, no success. I even tried to fool director with "fake" u

Re: OT: Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

2004-03-02 Thread Colin Holgate
My personal favorite is The Lorax, "I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues". Did Clint Eastwood sing that song? [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

OT: Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

2004-03-02 Thread Irv Kalb
Today is the 100th anniversary of the birthday of Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel)! My personal favorite is The Lorax, "I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues". Irv -- Multimedia Wrangler. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lin

undocumented feature: ActiveX callSprite method - correction: callString

2004-03-02 Thread Valentin Schmidt
sorry, made a mistake, the method's name is callString, not callSprite. valentin [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

undocumented feature: ActiveX callSprite method [direct-l reposting]

2004-03-02 Thread Valentin Schmidt
Hi list, I just found some undocumented feature in dmx2004 concerning activex-controls: I had noticed that the properties-dialog for activex-controls has 2 new tabs, "CallString" and "Constants". Doing a little google-research I found the following very interesting article: http://www.macromedia.

RE: XDK Mailing list

2004-03-02 Thread Thomas Higgins
All, > Does anyone know if Macromedia have sorted themselves out > when it comes to the XDK list? Sadly no. We (Dev&QA) put in a request to have the appropriate changes made but that hasn't happened yet (not that we've been watching too close from our end as we've been busy with the MX'04 releas

Re: changing sprite focus

2004-03-02 Thread Colin Holgate
Thoughts on why this doesn't work and what I need to do to make it work? I am working on Win 2000/XP, Dir MX. Read up on the selection, selstart, selend, things like that. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post message

changing sprite focus

2004-03-02 Thread Craig Taylor
Good Afternoon, Quick question: I have an popUp menu created with OS Control - attached is the following call: on update me, itemIndex, itemString sendSprite(pSpriteNumDataInput,#insertAltChar,itemString) the keyboardFocusSprite = sprite(pSpriteNumDataInput) end Simple stuff. It basicall

Re: Bitmap Linking

2004-03-02 Thread Yariv Alter Fin
Valentin hi, Thanks alot, its amazing and it works. it is abit of an overkill however... indeed in the case of the one image i've sent its a prefect solution, however i am working on another project that needs to get a whole bunch of images from a cgi script... i could create a php script that

RE: Search function (trying again)

2004-03-02 Thread Alex da Franca
At 10:50 AM -0500 3/2/04, Kerry Thompson wrote: >I don't want to discourage you. We do like to help people. kerry is absolutely right with what he wrote. you can't expect, that we write your movie. we can help with specific problems and discuss many long e-mail about the best OS or whatever ;-)

Re: cross platform xtras in external folder

2004-03-02 Thread Mark Jonkman
Hi Joe I'm not sure how you would do it, the libs and xtras for a stub projector have the resource and data forks seperated out into different files that must be reconstituted to work (at least that would be my interpretation. I know that many xtra developers have figured out the method of spl

Re: Search function (trying again)

2004-03-02 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Mar 2, 2004, at 9:50 AM, Kerry Thompson wrote: I don't want to discourage you. We do like to help people. It looks to me, though, like you would gain a lot from working with a more senior programmer, or taking a class, or reading some books. Warren Ockrassa has written a good book for people at

Re: cross platform xtras in external folder

2004-03-02 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Mar 2, 2004, at 8:17 AM, Joe Lister wrote: I am athoring a movie using Director MX 2004 on windows. I want to use a stub projector with the xtras kept externally. I have set this up for the pc projector - the necassary xtras copied into a folder called 'xtras', and the xtras removed from t

RE: Search function (trying again)

2004-03-02 Thread Kerry Thompson
> I need to turn the resultant member > names displayed in the "results" field into links to the > relevant points in > the timeline, so that the user can click on them and jump to > that part of the movie. > > It was suggested to me that naming the members - hence the > entries in the > res

Re: Search function (trying again)

2004-03-02 Thread Colin Holgate
You could match the names of the cast members to the names of markers, and then your script would be: go member(foundtext).name where foundtext is the cast member that has the text you were looking for, and there is a marker with named the same. Another way to work is to have the text members

Search function (trying again)

2004-03-02 Thread chris stewart
Many thanks to Kerry and Alex for the help. This code works very well: searchword = member("searchWord").text resulttext = "" repeat with n = the number of castlibs down to 1 repeat with m = the number of members of castlib n down to 1 memref = member(m,n) if memref.type = #text then

cross platform xtras in external folder

2004-03-02 Thread Joe Lister
hi I am athoring a movie using Director MX 2004 on windows. I want to use a stub projector with the xtras kept externally. I have set this up for the pc projector - the necassary xtras copied into a folder called 'xtras', and the xtras removed from the 'Movie Xtras' dialog in director. How do I