Re: horizontal scrolling

2004-08-20 Thread 2702NET
On Friday, Aug 20, 2004, at 16:58 US/Eastern, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have tried #adjust, #scroll, #fixed but none of those worked in the way mentioned above. However I recall having seen this behaviour in Lingo text fields before. Can anybody help? Thanks Michael ...and this behavior

Re: horizontal scrolling

2004-08-20 Thread 2702NET
On Friday, Aug 20, 2004, at 16:58 US/Eastern, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have tried #adjust, #scroll, #fixed but none of those worked in the way mentioned above. However I recall having seen this behaviour in Lingo text fields before. Can anybody help? Thanks Michael Hear ya go...Director-On

Re: horizontal scrolling

2004-08-20 Thread 2702NET
On Friday, Aug 20, 2004, at 16:58 US/Eastern, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not with scrollbars, but like this: Sorry...Michael, missed this part. [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 PR

Re: horizontal scrolling

2004-08-20 Thread 2702NET
On Friday, Aug 20, 2004, at 16:58 US/Eastern, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have tried #adjust, #scroll, #fixed but none of those worked in the way mentioned above. However I recall having seen this behaviour in Lingo text fields before. Can anybody help? Hi Michael, You can set up horizontal s

Re: duplicate cast members

2004-08-16 Thread 2702NET
On Monday, Aug 16, 2004, at 14:12 US/Eastern, Buzz Kettles wrote: cmd-opt-D is now the way to get Delete if I want it & to override, I selected the cast window menu item, but then changed the string in the QK dialog to be 'cmd-D', so when QKs fails to match it & posts an error dialog = "Cannot fi

Re: duplicate cast members

2004-08-16 Thread 2702NET
On Monday, Aug 16, 2004, at 12:50 US/Eastern, Buzz Kettles wrote: & I've been bitten by the cmd-S/D issue more times than I'd like to remember - it's a real annoyance. The worst is when you accidentally duplicate a movie script...then find yourself inadvertently editing the "wrong" one. You're ri

OOT: Xtra Custom Development (Audio TSM)

2004-08-13 Thread 2702NET
Hi Folks, Sorry for the off_off_topic posting. If anyone listening is willing and able to develop an Xtra for real-time Time Scale Modification of audio (or other workable solution e.g. Shared Libraries) please contact me off list. Target platform is Mac OS X. TIA, Joe [To remove yourself from

Re: Multiple copies of director

2004-08-13 Thread 2702NET
On Friday, Aug 13, 2004, at 08:10 US/Eastern, Ross Clutterbuck wrote: Hi Tim I've never had any problems at all other than the file associations as you've mentioned. In fact I've got 8, 8.5, MX and MX2004 all installed and the only problem I've ever encountered is the application icon for MX and

Re: FIXED - WatcherHelper/UiHelper wirdness

2004-08-09 Thread 2702NET
On Monday, Aug 9, 2004, at 02:44 US/Eastern, Sébastien Portebois wrote: This is only a blind guess, but are youreally sure that your new (moved) idel handler really gets called? Indeed a possible eplanation of what happens is that you have an other 'on idle' handler, in a script after the very lo

Re: FIXED - WatcherHelper/UiHelper wirdness

2004-08-08 Thread 2702NET
On Monday, Aug 9, 2004, at 00:59 US/Eastern, Troy Rollins wrote: That's the first I've heard of that one. Ah well, sometimes asking why just isn't worth it. ;-) I hear ya brother. Sounds like you found the workaround. Yes...and I now see what everybody's been talkin' 'bout. Been watching my app i

Re: FIXED - WatcherHelper/UiHelper wirdness

2004-08-08 Thread 2702NET
n idle" handler back down to the bottom again just to confirm and, sure enough, that was it. Seems weird and wrong. Perhaps I'm missing something. At least it's working now. Gilles On Monday, Aug 9, 2004, at 00:35 US/Eastern, 2702NET wrote: Hi Troy, Here's something even wei

WatcherHelper/UiHelper wirdness

2004-08-08 Thread 2702NET
Hi Troy, Here's something even weirder... "sleep" and other 'UIhelper" functions like (getdate()) work fine from the message window...the error gets thrown when I try to use "sleep" in the 'on idle' handler. Hm. Flummoxed, Gilles [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, g

Re: WatcherHelper (UIhelper)

2004-08-08 Thread 2702NET
On Monday, Aug 9, 2004, at 00:11 US/Eastern, Troy Rollins wrote: OK. It varies over platforms and versions. Is WatcherHelper manually placed in the Xtras folder? Hi Troy, Yep, "WatcherHelper PPC Xtra" is in there. Gilles [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http:

Re: WatcherHelper (UIhelper)

2004-08-08 Thread 2702NET
On Sunday, Aug 8, 2004, at 23:55 US/Eastern, Troy Rollins wrote: As I recall, I needed UIhelper to make it work. I suspect the sleep method moved around a bit as to which xtra it was included in. Try it with UIHelper in the projector's xtras folder. Ah...since UIhelper is gone...pull it from an o

Re: WatcherHelper (UIhelper)

2004-08-08 Thread 2702NET
On Sunday, Aug 8, 2004, at 23:37 US/Eastern, Troy Rollins wrote: You need to manually put UIhelper in your projector's xtras folder. Ah, Troy...was hoping against hope you'd be awake and respond (I saw all of your related posts on Direct-L). I have "WatcherHelper PPC Xtra" in my projector's Xtras

WatcherHelper (UIhelper)

2004-08-08 Thread 2702NET
Volken, I'm trying to use the oft-discussed undocumented "sleep" trick to end CPU hogging. I'm on Jaguar w/DirMX and can't get it work in authoring or runtime. I've read through all the pertinent list threads and it appears folks *have* had it working on Mac OS X. I do have 'WatcherHelper PPC X

Re: Director Multilingual IDE

2004-07-28 Thread 2702NET
On Wednesday, Jul 28, 2004, at 13:04 US/Eastern, Kerry Thompson wrote: Norwegian included in this as well? Yes ^_^ Excellent...thanks Kerry. That'll save me a bit of trouble. Gilles [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post m

Re: Director Multilingual IDE

2004-07-28 Thread 2702NET
On Wednesday, Jul 28, 2004, at 12:08 US/Eastern, Kerry Thompson wrote: With a few exceptions, all Western European languages use the same character set, ANSI or ISO 8859.1 Hi Kerry, Norwegian included in this as well? Thanks, Gilles [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode,

Re: clipboard xtra news

2004-06-02 Thread 2702NET
On Tuesday, Jun 1, 2004, at 22:35 US/Eastern, Valentin Schmidt wrote: And I've started to work on a mac version. Super. Thanks Valentin. Gilles [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 PROT

Re: zScript Xtra

2004-05-28 Thread 2702NET
Hi Colin, Nah, unfortunately it's not shipped w/the new OS X version. Looks like they're working on new docs. For the moment, I've located and will use the V1.4 doc. Joe On Friday, May 28, 2004, at 17:59 US/Eastern, Colin Holgate wrote: Sorry to ask this here on the list, but I can't get through

zScript docs

2004-05-28 Thread 2702NET
Hallo, Never mind...I found the V1.4 doc. Gilles [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 programmi

zScript Xtra

2004-05-28 Thread 2702NET
Hi Folks, Sorry to ask this here on the list, but I can't get through to the vendor and know some of you are using zScript Xtra from Zeus Prod. (Bruce Epstein). I have the sample movie that came w/my registered version but can't seem to find any documentation. Is there any? (The site says there

Re: Shell Xtra

2004-05-28 Thread 2702NET
Likewise here. Thanks Valentin. Gilles On Friday, May 28, 2004, at 11:27 US/Eastern, Florian Bogeschdorfer wrote: I will donate you when the project is done. [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, e

Re: Shell Xtra

2004-05-27 Thread 2702NET
Hi Valentin, Nice that you're developing this...potentially very handy. This is right in line w/a project I'm working on at the moment...so I can do some "real world" banging on it. I'll contact you w/any results offline. Thanks, Gilles On Thursday, May 27, 2004, at 10:34 US/Eastern, Valentin Sc

Re: OS X permissions issue? - projector --> launch app (OK) --> app to write txt file (NOT OK)

2004-05-25 Thread 2702NET
Thanks Troy, Well, that was really the only thing giving me pause. Guess it's time to jump in and make it all Lingo...or at least try it and see how the two compare (perl vs. lingo/PregEx implementation). On Tuesday, May 25, 2004, at 13:12 US/Eastern, Troy Rollins wrote: PregEx has a BLAZING fas

Re: OS X permissions issue? - projector --> launch app (OK) --> app to write txt file (NOT OK)

2004-05-25 Thread 2702NET
rsing the structured text and creating some very big lists of property lists. Gilles On Tuesday, May 25, 2004, at 11:27 US/Eastern, Troy Rollins wrote: On May 25, 2004, at 5:31 AM, 2702NET wrote: It's major text processing stuff - perfect Perl job. For me, at least, it'd be much ha

Re: OS X permissions issue? - projector --> launch app (OK) --> app to write txt file (NOT OK)

2004-05-25 Thread 2702NET
Hi Cole, That's what I'm doing w/a newer version - and that will certainly be a much "cleaner" solution. The small difference is that for my new version I'm using a perl "executable" for Darwin (vs. the older MacPerl I'm using as a stopgap). I'm using "do shell script" through zScript Xtra to l

Re: OS X permissions issue? - projector --> launch app (OK) --> app to write txt file (NOT OK)

2004-05-25 Thread 2702NET
It's major text processing stuff - perfect Perl job. For me, at least, it'd be much harder (if possible) to do it in AppleScript. Probably even possible to do a native-lingo version but that'd be many more lines of codes and maybe (almost certainly) slower. I'm around the permissions thing now.

Re: OS X permissions issue? - projector --> launch app (OK) --> app to write txt file (NOT OK)

2004-05-25 Thread 2702NET
Hi grimm... Thanks...have been toiling for hours trying to figure this bugger out. I'm convinced at this point it's not a permissions issue (I've tried what you suggest). Seems more a MacPerl runtime on Classic difficulty. Way off topic. Thanks for responding though, Gilles On Tuesday, May

OS X permissions issue? - projector --> launch app (OK) --> app to write txt file (NOT OK)

2004-05-24 Thread 2702NET
Hi Folks, I'm tying my luck w/this posting again...removed the "Slightly OT" prepended earlier in hopes of getting a taker. After seeing Kerry's permissions-related postings of earlier today, thought this might be in a similar vein...perhaps the experts might shine a little light this way. Her

[Slightly OT]: Projector launching mini app/permissions (Mac OS X/Unix)

2004-05-24 Thread 2702NET
Hi Folks, Slightly off topic - but I know there are some Mac OS X/Unix Jockeys out there who might be able to help with this/point me in the right direction. Here's the situation: I have a little mini app (not written in Lingo) that I am launching from a Mac OS X projector (DirMX[9]/Mac OS X J

Re: [x-post] How do I get the "metadata" of a PowerPointPresentation?

2004-05-13 Thread 2702NET
Hi Alex, This is just off the cuff - but have you looked into using BinaryIO Xtra from updateStage i.e. reading this information from the PowerPoint file directly? You would need the PowerPoint file specification which I assume is publicly available. Gilles On Thursday, May 13, 2004, at 07:32

Re: charToNum() on very large string

2004-05-01 Thread 2702NET
Didn't see this until after I posted... Yep. On Saturday, May 1, 2004, at 18:06 US/Eastern, Colin Holgate wrote: #2 Use Colin's first-char approach to grab each char & then use that as an index into the prooList to get it's charToNum() That wasn't my idea, but even so, the lookup table only give

Re: charToNum() on very large string

2004-05-01 Thread 2702NET
Hi Buzz, You method - defying all logic (at least *my* logic) - is actually a good deal slower than calling the charToNum() function for each loop. It's about 3 times slower. Tried it a few times just to be sure. Gilles On Saturday, May 1, 2004, at 17:12 US/Eastern, Buzz Kettles wrote: I scan

Re: charToNum() on very large string

2004-05-01 Thread 2702NET
Duh...never mind. I've parsed it. You meant limited size as opposed to the arbitrary (most often large) sized list of charToNum values we were building before got it, Gilles On Saturday, May 1, 2004, at 17:33 US/Eastern, 2702NET wrote: #1 building a limited-size string-driven pro

Re: charToNum() on very large string

2004-05-01 Thread 2702NET
Thanks Buzz. Cool idea. #1 building a limited-size string-driven proplist that contains all 256 chars & their charToNums(). (then the overhead for of the function calls is limited and DONE) What do you mean when you say "limited-size?" Won't the above prebuilt propList always be the same size?

Re: charToNum() on very large string

2004-05-01 Thread 2702NET
Perfect!...I'll keep the chunks to that size. Thanks again Colin, Gilles On Saturday, May 1, 2004, at 16:24 US/Eastern, Colin Holgate wrote: and Wow, what a nice surprise. I'm going to try dropping it in now. To save you some time, the sweet spot seemed to be about 220 character chunks. [To

Re: charToNum() on very large string

2004-05-01 Thread 2702NET
ut obvious) way to improve the speed of getting through a big string. Gilles On Saturday, May 1, 2004, at 11:32 US/Eastern, Troy Rollins wrote: On May 1, 2004, at 11:07 AM, 2702NET wrote: Ultimately, I guess I'll probably look at cooking something up in RealBasic and launching that fro

Re: charToNum() on very large string

2004-05-01 Thread 2702NET
Finally got some sleep...woke up to get a glass of water...shuffled over to the computer to check email and Wow, what a nice surprise. I'm going to try dropping it in now. Thanks, Gilles On Saturday, May 1, 2004, at 15:25 US/Eastern, Colin Holgate wrote: >I added this to your routine: As

Re: charToNum() on very large string

2004-05-01 Thread 2702NET
Ultimately, I guess I'll probably look at cooking something up in RealBasic and launching that from my projector. It'd be nice to make it work natively in Lingo though. On Saturday, May 1, 2004, at 10:40 US/Eastern, Slava Paperno wrote: Are you at liberty to use other encryption schemes that do

Re: charToNum() on very large string

2004-05-01 Thread 2702NET
Hi Slava, No, unfortunately, I'm writing to a specification. I'm not doing the encryption...just the decryption. Normally I just use DirectOS or Vlist Xtras for that. On Saturday, May 1, 2004, at 10:40 US/Eastern, Slava Paperno wrote: Are you at liberty to use other encryption schemes that don

Re: charToNum() on very large string

2004-05-01 Thread 2702NET
Whoa Nellie...that made a pretty noticeable difference. On Saturday, May 1, 2004, at 10:15 US/Eastern, 2702NET wrote: Well, unless the string is changing in size right under your nose, you don't need to calculate the number of chars every single time. That's one small optimization

Re: charToNum() on very large string

2004-05-01 Thread 2702NET
On Saturday, May 1, 2004, at 06:16 US/Eastern, Tab Julius wrote: Well, unless the string is changing in size right under your nose, you don't need to calculate the number of chars every single time. That's one small optimization you can do... numChars =the number of chars in reallyBigString re

Re: charToNum() on very large string

2004-05-01 Thread 2702NET
Hi Colin, The biggest are about 7 bytes/characters...in one "session" there may be as many as 10 or 20 of these files to import and convert. Speed in the conversion is essential. Overnight, I've adjusted my code so that bytes from the files are read in (and converted) in 5000 byte chunks.

Re: charToNum() on very large string

2004-05-01 Thread 2702NET
ation might save a little. But again, OSX is just slow with text. Regards, Daniel On May 1, 2004, at 1:32 AM, 2702NET wrote: Hi Folks, I need to grab ASCII codes for chars in a very large string and drop those codes into a list. At the moment, I'm doing the obvious and simple i.e. loopin

charToNum() on very large string

2004-04-30 Thread 2702NET
Hi Folks, I need to grab ASCII codes for chars in a very large string and drop those codes into a list. At the moment, I'm doing the obvious and simple i.e. looping to the number of chars in the big string and returning the code for each char retrieved with charToNum() then appending the code

Re: decimal to binary conversion...

2004-04-28 Thread 2702NET
: On 28/4/04 12:23 pm, "2702NET" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyone have code for decimal to binary conversion you wouldn't mind posting? Hi J, This is about 30% faster than other leading brands :-) Cheers James -

Re: decimal to binary conversion...

2004-04-28 Thread 2702NET
Actually, Chuck...thanks, I think this'll do just fine. Thanks also Daniel for the response, I'll check your code out too. Gratefully, Joe On Wednesday, Apr 28, 2004, at 09:41 US/Eastern, Chuck Neal wrote: This is old and not really optimized, but may be what you want... [To remove yourself fr

decimal to binary conversion...

2004-04-28 Thread 2702NET
Hi all, Anyone have code for decimal to binary conversion you wouldn't mind posting? TIA, 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] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Li

Re: OS X Xtra to call UNIX shell?

2004-04-13 Thread 2702NET
Being able to invoke shell scripts from lingo would also make it possible for developers to extend Director with the C language and generic tools, instead of being forced to learn all the complexities of Macromedia's open architecture with CodeWarrior and/or Visual Studio (the only two develop

Re: OS X Xtra to call UNIX shell?

2004-04-12 Thread 2702NET
J On Monday, Apr 12, 2004, at 15:15 US/Eastern, Brennan wrote: On 12/4/04 at 10:06, 2702NET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How about an apple script executable (containing 'do shell script') which you can launch from your projector? How would I pass data to the applescript app? Text file

Re: OS X Xtra to call UNIX shell?

2004-04-12 Thread 2702NET
Hi Brennan, How about an apple script executable (containing 'do shell script') which you can launch from your projector? J On Monday, Apr 12, 2004, at 05:37 US/Eastern, Brennan wrote: Hi folks, Does anyone know if there's an Xtra available which will allow us to make shell commands under OS

Re: Merits of JS in Director

2004-02-12 Thread 2702NET
Ah, you're right...good point...it's not. J On Thursday, Feb 12, 2004, at 13:18 US/Eastern, grimmwerks wrote: Ah, but is the PregEx shockwave as well? On 2/12/04 12:57 PM, "2702NET" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth: Hi Ross, You make some interesting points here

Re: Merits of JS in Director

2004-02-12 Thread 2702NET
Sorry...I meant to address Mark. J On Thursday, Feb 12, 2004, at 12:57 US/Eastern, 2702NET wrote: Hi Ross, You make some interesting points here...however, just wanted to mention for the record that you have the same RegEx power with Lingo using the free PRegEx Xtra (thanks to Thorman

Re: Merits of JS in Director

2004-02-12 Thread 2702NET
Hi Ross, You make some interesting points here...however, just wanted to mention for the record that you have the same RegEx power with Lingo using the free PRegEx Xtra (thanks to Thorman & Singh) - w/which you can even use shorthand, Perl-ish syntax...so the RegEx stuff is not really new or

Re: PC System Information

2004-02-10 Thread 2702NET
You can return all this information with DirectOS Xtra (www.directxtras.com)...also, check the lexicon for native Lingo for returning memory info (the freeBytes, etc.). You'll be able to return an *approximate* processor speed with DirectOS Xtra...but there'll be a slight variation for this val

Re: os x command line

2003-12-18 Thread 2702NET
Hi Thor, There is an Xtra which you can use to call Java classes... The Moka Xtra: http://www.integrationnewmedia.com/ However, for something so simple as what you'd like to do AppleScript, would be the way to go, right?...or maybe AppleScript and a shell script. J On Thursday, Dec 18, 2003

Re: Script window flushing

2003-12-05 Thread 2702NET
Well, yeah...turning off syntax hiliting does the trick...but I find I rely pretty heavily on syntax hiliting. On Friday, Dec 5, 2003, at 18:14 US/Eastern, Warren Ockrassa wrote: Try turning off syntax hiliting and/or line numb [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go

Re: Script window flushing

2003-12-05 Thread 2702NET
You can't, in my experience...I think saving and then relaunching works for me...but there's nothing else you can do AFAIK. J On Friday, Dec 5, 2003, at 16:07 US/Eastern, Peter Bochan wrote: Hi, Just a quick question: when working with big scripts how do I get rid of constant flushing (or flas

Re: AW: Sound recognition and comparison

2003-11-26 Thread 2702NET
On Wednesday, Nov 26, 2003, at 19:56 US/Eastern, Buzz Kettles wrote: right - as I said, it only measures volume ... -- ..and only at the input. It doesn't work on files, right? J [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To pos

Re: AW: Sound recognition and comparison

2003-11-26 Thread 2702NET
On Wednesday, Nov 26, 2003, at 14:31 US/Eastern, Florian Bogeschdorfer wrote: I would definitely take a look at http://www.as-ci.net/asSound/index.html This xtra is for analyzing sound. Just to be clear, though...this Xtra won't work for Mindy's project because it's only for analyzing audio at

Re: Sound recognition and comparison

2003-11-25 Thread 2702NET
Ai!! In two weeks?! On Tuesday, Nov 25, 2003, at 20:24 US/Eastern, Mindy McCutchan wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm in a director course at Purdue, and my professor has just assigned my group a new project. It seems impossible to me (especially since we have 2 weeks to do it), but I'm hoping someone can

HTML and email

2003-11-21 Thread 2702NET
Hi Nik (but more for Diego), Many ISPs will block this too...they don't want you running your own mail server...so you can't count on it being reliable. Plus, you've gotta do way more error handling since you're don't have a relaying mail server to take care of managing the delivery of messages

Re: HTML and email

2003-11-20 Thread 2702NET
pment, so... THANKS AGAIN! Diego Landro - Original Message - From: "2702NET" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 1:32 PM Subject: Re: HTML and email Hi Diego, Yeah, you can have them enter their own mail server...just keep in

Re: HTML and email

2003-11-19 Thread 2702NET
Hi Diego, Yeah, you can have them enter their own mail server...just keep in mind (depending on your audience) some may not know their mail server. J On Wednesday, Nov 19, 2003, at 11:29 US/Eastern, Diego Landro wrote: Now i get the point, thanks "2702Net", though i have a valid ema

Re: HTML and email

2003-11-19 Thread 2702NET
Actually, the name of the "sender" account is not the biggest issue...it's the *mailserver* being used to relay the mail that will getcha. Many ISPs require you to use their mailserver and only their mailserver. So, it might work fine on your own machine (since your mailserver, whatever it is,

Re: HTML and email

2003-11-18 Thread 2702NET
Hi Diego, The only reasonably reliable method is to use the DirectEmail Xtra from www.directxtras.com (there are some other free ways to attack the problem - but I don't recommend them). This is definitely your best bet, but even w/the Xtra you'll need to be aware of Port 25 blocking issues (m

Re: Autorun

2003-09-24 Thread 2702NET
Also, if your user is on a (Windows) LAN/corporate network, autorun is probably turned off for security reasons i.e. as I remember, unless you have administrator privileges under 2000 & XP, autorun will be OFF. So, users w/o administrator privileges won't be able to do anything about the autoru

Re: Was: Prob w/key commands. Solved...well kind of

2003-08-18 Thread 2702NET
Right. That *does* still hold true in the current version...which is why I didn't see any solution earlier. On Monday, Aug 18, 2003, at 12:51 US/Eastern, Cole Tierney wrote: Be aware that the menu will absorb all & key combo presses. Maybe this has changed in resent versions. Haven't checked

Re: Prob w/key commands w/install menu

2003-08-18 Thread 2702NET
Hi Daniel, I'm developing on Win 2000, where the problem is easily repeatable...but it's also happening on Win XP. Still need to test properly on Mac 9 & X. I'll prob give "The Logo Creator" a try here today...however, keep in mind that I've been able to open & forget MIAWs at least a couple o

Re: Was: Prob w/key commands. Solved...well kind of

2003-08-18 Thread 2702NET
Hi Alex, Thanks, that sounds like a plan. It''s a pain in the butt...but it's a plan. :-) If there are better solutions, I haven't been able to think of 'em. Cheers, J On Monday, Aug 18, 2003, at 07:01 US/Eastern, Alex da Franca wrote: At 3:31 Uhr -0400 18.08.2003,

Re: Was: Prob w/key commands. Solved...well kind of

2003-08-18 Thread 2702NET
't seem like a very serious effort. On Monday, Aug 18, 2003, at 03:05 US/Eastern, Alex da Franca wrote: At 23:50 Uhr -0400 17.08.2003, 2702NET wrote: After looking around a bit more on the web and seeing instances of similar difficulties, I employed the oft recommended "fix" of r

Was: Prob w/key commands. Solved...well kind of

2003-08-17 Thread 2702NET
Hi Dan, I've got a solution...well kind of. It's clunky and unattractive but it's working. This is definitely a Director "quirk" that spans MX and recent (heh...and not so recent) Dir. versions across all platforms. After looking around a bit more on the web and seeing instances of similar d

Prob w/key commands w/install menu

2003-08-17 Thread 2702NET
Hi All, I've some installed menus (using installMenu) which include key commands. Key commands work fine until a MIAW is opened and then forgotten. After the MIAW has been opened and forgotten key, commands no longer work with the projector. Anybody have experience w/this? What am I doing wron

Macromedia Breeze - response

2003-07-17 Thread 2702NET
Well, it might not be so cut and dry...though I'll agree that anyone that's in the multimedia consulting/contracting biz might prefer different wording. First, we have to grow and evolve as the products do...if Macromedia is selling a product that makes the deployment of simple Power Point pre

Re: Regex xtra osx?

2003-06-24 Thread 2702NET
BTW, the 'Table O' Products' maintained by Gretchen Macdowall is a great place to check for Xtras. Find it here: http://www.updatestage.com/products_table.html On Tuesday, Jun 24, 2003, at 20:47 US/Eastern, g schafer wrote: Where's the regular expressions xtra again, and is it osx? [To remove

Re: Regex xtra osx?

2003-06-24 Thread 2702NET
On Tuesday, Jun 24, 2003, at 20:47 US/Eastern, g schafer wrote: Where's the regular expressions xtra again, http://openxtras.org/pregex/ and is it osx? Yes [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, e

Re: Including Flash asset

2003-06-09 Thread 2702NET
You're better off storing your Xtras - including the Flash Asset Xtra - outside of the projector in an "Xtras" folder. This is generally regarded as the "professional" way to do it. Should also solve the Vector shape problem. HTH, J On Monday, Jun 9, 2003, at 09:29 US/Eastern, Jussi Jokinen wr

Re: Authorware/Flash/Director job op in Arlington, VA

2003-06-07 Thread 2702NET
http://www.rhassociates.com/scorm.htm On Saturday, Jun 7, 2003, at 11:18 US/Eastern, Joshua Race wrote: What the heck is a SCORM compliant environment??? [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

Re: GetPixel() to compare colors

2003-06-06 Thread 2702NET
BTW, if you don't have James' book I highly recommend it. Plenty of nice imaging lingo stuff. Kerry's and Gretchen's reviews at Amazon say it all. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0072132655/104-9270019- 9338345?vi=glance Joe On Thursday, Jun 5, 2003, at 12:01 US/Eastern, James

Re: [XPOST] Director Product survey

2003-03-28 Thread 2702NET
'cept a follow up message confirming the survey was sent by Kraig Mentor at MM...no? On Friday, Mar 28, 2003, at 02:21 US/Eastern, Mayuresh wrote: I think MM would have hosted such a survey themselves because using something like this just seems a tad bit unprofessional. -- [To remove yourself

Re: icon question

2003-02-27 Thread 2702NET
My favorite is "Versiown" from Goldshell. I've just used it recently under MX and distributed for 98,XP,2000...no problems yet. HTH, Joe On Thursday, Feb 27, 2003, at 15:35 US/Eastern, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the best way of changing icons for a pc projector? I've used microangelo in

Re: was: Director TrueType support?...now: nevermind

2003-02-21 Thread 2702NET
Hi Javier, Thanks! I did end up going with the Flash text sprite. So far so good. J On Thursday, Feb 20, 2003, at 21:02 US/Eastern, Javier R. Buzzalino wrote: I think you should put all your texts in Flash, and when you are ready, you select the text and click in the option Break Apart (Ctrl+B

Paul Farry's Xtras

2003-02-17 Thread 2702NET
Anybody know anything about the availability of Paul Farry's Xtras? The Xtras appear to be for sale but I can't seem to contact Paul. Paul are you on this list? Thanks, J [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post message

Re: record sound

2003-02-17 Thread 2702NET
I've used the Audio Xtra from updateStage (www.updatestage.com) successfully to do this. HTH, J On Tuesday, Jan 1, 2002, at 10:36 US/Eastern, universal2001 wrote: hi, I'm trying to create a pronunciation practise presentation. I want the user record thier voice and then the projector save the

Re: Unicode support

2003-02-16 Thread 2702NET
It seems the way to go for me (with an eye out for the little gotchas noted in Kerry's earlier posts)...close to enough to native for me and I don't mind the "Flash in Director" layer. As long as I get the job done. On Sunday, Feb 16, 2003, at 21:46 US/Eastern, Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions

Re: Director TrueType support?...

2003-02-14 Thread 2702NET
Thanks Mare! J On Friday, Feb 14, 2003, at 14:13 US/Eastern, mare wrote: The OS uses Unicode. But Director MX on Mac OS doesn't :-( [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: was: Director TrueType support?...now: nevermind

2003-02-14 Thread 2702NET
Kerry, As usual, that was a very helpful and informative message. Particularly grateful for the information on potential gotchas with the Flash Asset Xtra and what you did for workaround. We had a cool discussion here about some things we're doing after I shared your message w/my little group.

Re: Director TrueType support?...

2003-02-14 Thread 2702NET
Kerry, Cool beans. I've tested since writing and found that the TrueType fonts I need at the moment seem to work fine. Also discovered that previous "problems" I had with TrueType fonts were actually "code page issues" as you describe them. What's happening on OS X with support for most availab

Re: was: Director TrueType support?...now: nevermind

2003-02-14 Thread 2702NET
Yes! The Kerry answer...exactly what I was hoping for! I have actually followed, with great interest, all the discussions re: fonts over the last year - which is why I asked for your expertise in particular. When I wrote for help I was actually attempting some work with Vietnamese and with Kore

was: Director TrueType support?...now: nevermind

2003-02-13 Thread 2702NET
My bad...looks as if they are...generally...still having trouble displaying Asian TrueType fonts though. J On Thursday, Feb 13, 2003, at 23:06 US/Eastern, 2702NET wrote: Are TrueType fonts supported in Director?..looks to me like they're not...'less I'm missing somethi

Director TrueType support?...

2003-02-13 Thread 2702NET
This might be a "Kerry Question" Are TrueType fonts supported in Director?..looks to me like they're not...'less I'm missing something. TIA, 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 [EM

Re: Director on Os X

2003-02-11 Thread 2702NET
Just tested under OS X to confirm Grimm's suggestion and it works just fine. Since you can do that I don't see it as a real problem and definitely no more than a minor inconvenience. Just make a second copy of Director MX app and drag to the dock right next to your #1 Director MX app for conve

Re: Director on Os X

2003-02-11 Thread 2702NET
ahhh.that *would* work wouldn't it? I need to be more creative. :-) On Tuesday, Feb 11, 2003, at 15:52 US/Eastern, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not true. Just copy the actual director app (not the rest of the files) and just open a second app. [To remove yourself from this list, or to cha

Re: Director on Os X

2003-02-11 Thread 2702NET
Under Mac OS 9.2 (or earlier) or OS X, you can't open up more than one Director Movie at time. Also, you can't run multiple instances of Director as you can under Windows. J On Tuesday, Feb 11, 2003, at 15:45 US/Eastern, ives1026 wrote: In the past, on older OS versions, you could not open up m

Re: Director MX(& 8.5) bug

2003-02-05 Thread 2702NET
Buzz doesn't mean that it's not annoying - just that it may be an (intended) "design flaw" rather than an (unintended bug). On Wednesday, Feb 5, 2003, at 21:43 US/Eastern, Jeremy wrote: I can understand calling whatever trim white space does if its enabled, but its really lame for director to sq

Re: Shockwave keyboard focus

2003-02-02 Thread 2702NET
an be clicked anywhere by a b/vi user to give the Shockwave movie the focus before loading files and coming to the "main menu." Again, not the best but will prob do the trick. On Sunday, Feb 2, 2003, at 15:38 US/Eastern, 2702NET wrote: The issue here was what to do for my audience of bli

Re: Shockwave keyboard focus

2003-02-02 Thread 2702NET
trick. On Sunday, Feb 2, 2003, at 15:38 US/Eastern, 2702NET wrote: The issue here was what to do for my audience of blind/visually impaired users who can't *see* a button. Spent a day's work on finding a solution in and out of Lingo. Having the b/vi users maximize the browser wind

Re: Shockwave keyboard focus

2003-02-02 Thread 2702NET
thanks Buzz...I'm actually familiar with that method. ;-) The issue here was what to do for my audience of blind/visually impaired users who can't *see* a button. Spent a day's work on finding a solution in and out of Lingo. Having the b/vi users maximize the browser window and then click some

Re: Shockwave keyboard focus

2003-02-02 Thread 2702NET
Ah! Thanks Colin. That *does* make a lot of sense. I tried a bunch of different kludges and settled on putting the following (for non-visual users) into the app's help doc: "Maximize your browser window and click on the left side of the screen" Makes me cringe, but I'm all out of cleverness and

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