Re: overwriting lingo commands

2004-05-18 Thread Buzz Kettles
forget what I suggested - use Colin's approach It was silly of me not to think of it - I've used that approach many times when working in someone else's code & don't want to interfere with their calls to that handler (with my incoming extra parameter enabling the special code.) In this case, tha

Re: overwriting lingo commands

2004-05-18 Thread Daniel Nelson
Hello Valentin, I ran into something similar to this when defining my own ilk functions. The "solution" I used was to declare a movie level g_ilk() function and to call this within objects that had an ilk() function. Of course, this only helps with parent and behavior scripts, not movie script

Re: overwriting lingo commands

2004-05-18 Thread Troy Rollins
On May 18, 2004, at 8:18 PM, Valentin Schmidt wrote: on alert any alert(string(any)) end Don't you actually want "alerthook"? -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post mess

Re: overwriting lingo commands

2004-05-18 Thread Buzz Kettles
change it slightly (see modification below At 2:18 AM +0200 5/19/04, you wrote: hi list, does anyone know if/how I can overwrite an existing lingo command with a custom function in a moviescript, but then use the original command inside my custom function (with dir version before MX2004)? what I wa

Re: overwriting lingo commands

2004-05-18 Thread grimmwerks
Shouldn't you look into the alerthook? [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 Lin

Re: overwriting lingo commands

2004-05-18 Thread Colin Holgate
what I want to do is something like: on alert any alert(string(any)) end which of course doesn't work, because it creates an recursive circle ad infinitum. An easy solution is: on alert thestring,reallymeanit if voidp(reallymeanit) then alert "here's what you were trying to say:" && thes

overwriting lingo commands

2004-05-18 Thread Valentin Schmidt
hi list, does anyone know if/how I can overwrite an existing lingo command with a custom function in a moviescript, but then use the original command inside my custom function (with dir version before MX2004)? what I want to do is something like: on alert any alert(string(any)) end which of

Font problem

2004-05-18 Thread Slava Paperno
Hi Kerry! At 05:44 PM 5/18/04 -0400, you wrote: >Slava, you said you have had success with these fonts. I'm guessing that >you are able to get Czech fonts to display on Latin-2 (code page 1250) >systems, and Russian on CP 1251 systems. I've had some success with >embedding Czech and Russian fonts

RE: Font problem

2004-05-18 Thread Kerry Thompson
> This is a GREAT response, and should be codified somewhere in > the www.macromedia.com/support/director site. *blush* Well, fwiw, that was from an article I submitted for the MX User's Journal. If it's accepted and published, it will at least be in print. Slava, you said you have had success

RE: Font problem

2004-05-18 Thread Sean Wilson
Ah, if you could only wait a couple of months, you could read the article I just wrote Hi Kerry, Just for the record - where is your article being published? Can I ask you to post a heads-up when it's out (I don't want to miss it)? Cheers, -Sean. [To remove yourself from this list, or to chang

Re: Accessing selectedItem of Flash List

2004-05-18 Thread Troy Rollins
On May 18, 2004, at 3:01 PM, Tom Jacobs wrote: put flashSprite.member.selectedItem but this generates a "Property not found" error. I'm sure it's something simple, but what? Try the same as a property of the sprite rather than the member. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net [To remove

Re: Font problem

2004-05-18 Thread Andrew Dempsey
This is a GREAT response, and should be codified somewhere in the www.macromedia.com/support/director site. Last month I ran into a huge problem with a projector running on a system in Slovakia, and it all boiled down to this. If I had had this info, it would have saved a lot of time and pain. T

RE: SMUS on FreeBSD

2004-05-18 Thread Peter Bochan
Sebastien Portebois > Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 2:40 PM > Hi Peter > Macromedia SMUS isn't nix-based, and there's no plan no port if onto some > kind of unix OS. > but you should have a look at Tabuleiro's Neubulae server, which is > compliant to the mus protocal and Xtras (but server-side scripts

Forgive me for the multiple postings

2004-05-18 Thread Tom Jacobs
Sorry, sorry, sorry! -- ~~ Tom Jacobs-InterVision --- (541) 343-7993 http://www.intervisionmedia.com

Accessing selectedItem of Flash List

2004-05-18 Thread Tom Jacobs
I'm trying to access the selectedItem in a Flash List. I've tried various Lingo syntax but can't get it to work. It seems something like this should do it: put flashSprite.member.selectedItem but this generates a "Property not found" error. I'm sure it's something simple, but what? Thanks, Tom

Re: Accessing selectedItem of Flash List

2004-05-18 Thread Rob Adams
I don't have 04 installed yet, but can't you use the Object Inspector to figure it out? > > From: Tom Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2004/05/18 Tue PM 02:59:53 EDT > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Accessing selectedItem of Flash List > > I'm trying to access the selectedItem in a Flash L

Accessing selectedItem of Flash List

2004-05-18 Thread Tom Jacobs
I'm trying to access the selectedItem in a Flash List. I've tried various Lingo syntax but can't get it to work. It seems something like this should do it: put flashSprite.member.selectedItem but this generates a "Property not found" error. I'm sure it's something simple, but what? Thanks, Tom

Accessing selectedItem of Flash List

2004-05-18 Thread Tom Jacobs
I'm trying to access the selectedItem in a Flash List. I've tried various Lingo syntax but can't get it to work. It seems something like this should do it: put flashSprite.member.selectedItem but this generates a "Property not found" error. I'm sure it's something simple, but what? Thanks, Tom

Re: Setting focus on a specific MUI widget

2004-05-18 Thread Rob Wingate
Michael, > Am I missing some attribute somewhere? No. You place focus onto a specific widget by hitting the TAB key until focus arrives where you want it. IOW, you don't put focus on a specific widget; the user does that. Expecting a user to press the spacebar to "hit" your #defaultPushButton se

Font problem

2004-05-18 Thread Slava Paperno
I, too, will look forward to reading Kerry's article, since he's our leading expert in these things, but in the meantime, don't despair: I've been using Russian in my Director projects for years, with various Cyrillic fonts based on code page 1251 in Windows and Apple Cyrillic on the Mac (both O

RE: Font problem

2004-05-18 Thread Kerry Thompson
> I tried to use the Czech font in DirectorMX2004 - but some > characters changes to other characters. Even by dynamically > loading the text form XML or text files the characters like u > changes to u. Please help me with this! Ah, if you could only wait a couple of months, you could read the

Re: Font problem

2004-05-18 Thread Valentin Schmidt
but you don't neccessarily need unicode, but you can embed a "normal" font that contains all the czech characters and make sure that the text you want to display is encoded with the codepage as required by the font (this works for kyrillic, greek text etc., so I guess it should work with czech as w

Re: Font problem

2004-05-18 Thread Deane Venske
Hi There, I have some bad news for you, and some good news. The bad news is the Director doesn't support unicode, and if you're using unicode characters they are not going to work in straight up text/field sprites. Good news is that you can embed flash into your director which supports unicod

Font problem

2004-05-18 Thread Sehdev, Deepesh \(Corporate\)
Hi All, I tried to use the czech font in DirectorMX2004 - but some characters changes to other characters. Even by dynamically loading the text form XML or text files the characters like u changes to u. Please help me with this! [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, g