peat
end if
boldListC.add(x)
end repeat
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exit repeat
end try
end if
else
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
end tell
end tell
After you run the script it will hang, you then have to switch to Director
manually, and the script will do the right thing. Unfortunately Director
ignores the '
jectors unless you
explicitly use it in your code. The UIHelper Xtra is mostly used in
authoring. It has some neat features for 'tool movies' (such as opening a
cast member's default editor or bringing authoring windows to the front).
Squish is used for compressing dcr media, and sh
o 3
> Audio 22.050 Khz-Mono (Qdesign 2)
> only takes 5 Megs !
> Result: good quality, dropped frames, but overall it's ok !
I made it 5fps. How are you getting those files? Try opening this one in
directly QuickTime Player (File->Open URL)
<http://movielibrary.lynda.com/de
o do it?
BTW 'Hypercard' style buttons behave 'properly' (except that they too
'rollover' when you've clicked something else.
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orted by the XDK).
It's a whole lot easier to learn to write a UNIX executable from scratch
than it is to ascend the himalayas of Xtra development.
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t just too much overhead. I want a lightweight solution.
I can do much of what I want with Applescript studio, but as soon as I
move away from standard Aqua widgets and into a more custom GUI, it gets
nasty.
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7;do shell script' with Bruce Epstein's 'zScript' but
that's overkill (and rather expensive).
I'm hoping for a simple, lightweight solution.
Does such a beast exist?
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woods:
I have no idea whether Director will see the track properly (never tried
it). I know that dynamic text tracks are not seen properly by Director,
which suggests that Director creates a lookup table of all text samples
when it loads a Quicktime movie. This could be problematic. Again, I'd
t resource here for checking codecs against
QuickTime versions:
<http://www.simnet.is/klipklap/quicktime/>
I'd like to see more detail in the point releases, but it is still pretty
good if you have to deliver for an older install.
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an Xtra, they might consider opening general
wired actions to lingo instead, i.e. so that we could send messages to
wired movies, which would give us MIDI and a whole lot more in one fell
swoop).
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be more amenable to calling it
something other than a bug.
(Anyone remember the 'Noh Tale to Tell' example in 'Learning Director 4'
used auto distort to make the cartwheels turn? Brr!).
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it's a shame we can't use 'filter bitmap' in imaging lingo.).
You might not think anyone uses 'auto distort', but I do, especially when
I am teaching, because it's a quick way of getting an animated series of
bitmaps together.
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p = [#comment:"destination", #format:#marker, #default:"one"]
pdlist[#dest] = p
p = [#comment:"cleanup", #format:#boolean, #default:false]
pdlist[#cleanup] = p
return pdlist
end
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off list and I will send you an example file to play with. It's quite an
interesting effect.
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ot;").type, regardless of whether I
had changed the names of any cast members (whatever that result might be),
I would not consider this a bug either, but while it sort of makes sense,
I still regard it as a bug. It's certainly unreasonable to expect that no
single cast member in a lar
owing about it can cause some hassle or havoc.
I shall be reporting it, because it hints at something messy underneath
the cast member naming/reference resolving mechanism which is not
particularly comforting.
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to use this kind of script to publish multiple versions
of a dcr in one fell swoop - or even just to increment a counter in the
filename. I think this is possible, but the 'publish settings' dialog box
seems to be constructed very strangely.
You can find out more about this featur
round - if you're going to
launch an app, why not just lauch your server directly?
[So, when is someone going to make a 'do shell script' xtra for OSX?]
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ng QuickTime Player (and hoping
that it doesn't go out of synch with your Director stuff). If this is
still desirable, I can help you put together a script.
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husiasm for Director.
(Sorry, couldn't resist).
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o assume it is not coming from the
Xtra.
Any ideas?
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lks sitting at Macs who don't use it are quite literally wasting their
time. OK, it's got that old fashioned hypertalk syntax, but it's also got
a bunch of other stuff that Lingo can't shake a stick at. (Exception
handling anyone?)
I'm certainly interested in where you
nows which QuickTime bugs got fixed in Director MX, I am sure
everyone would love to hear about it, but right now it's kind of occult.
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xactly the right background, going in the correct direction, and so
on, but I often see situations like where this technique can work.
If you include a short 'whoosh' sound, the effect is even more impressive,
but this is not always acceptable/desirable.
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th = the moviepath & "zxxz.txt"
f.createFile(dummyFilePath)
errCode = f.status()
if errCode <> 0 then
-- some error, assume that disk can not be written to
return false
end if
f.openfile(dummyFilePath, 0)
f.delete()
return true
end
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d be 'nayme' or 'nam' or even 'nom' (if you have any
French).
It's certainly an advantage to be a non-english speaker because you can
use other language words for you own variable and handler names, although
it's best to stay with the roman alphabet if you
ssible to make a fairly respectable AfterEffects-like
application using Director if only they would open up the export Xtra.
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#x27;m pretty impressed with fileIO being able to do this stuff. When I get
my code working I will be happy to share it. I have a parent script
wrapper for fileIO featuring handlers like 'readByte()' 'readCstring()'
and (coming soon with your help) 'readShort()' and '
t; then
-- whatever
end if
end try
This would certainly be faster than taking myObject to string before doing
stuff, because the exception would simply not occur in many cases.
Stick that in your wishlist and smoke it.
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X's standard audio features and getting stuck
somewhere.
In the old days, it was the Mac sound manager, which did not offer
'overdrive', now it's QuickTime. Coincidence?
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ra which is
lacking.
In particular, if a QuickTime movie changes the matrix of one or more of its
own tracks (which might have been a solution to this problem), Director does
not update it properly.
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e QuickTime movie, but the 'view'
is always based on the original matrix - i.e. it is cropped. (Look up
'translation' in the Lingo Dictionary).
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made plugin from the DOUG article and use that.
5) The image now looks HORRIBLE, but don't despair. It will come out alright.
6) FLATTEN the image (very important)
7) Save and import into Director and wonder at its beauty.
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t. We all know that strings can be very long (as in 'how long is a
piece of...'), so an assignment involving the concatentation of two long
strings must be quite expensive. Using 'put after' or 'put before' should
allow some of this lost efficiency to be regained.
How
ole multimedia engine).
Do you have Director MX? Try making a carbonized projector, run it under OS9
and see if this bug is still present.
Sorry I can't be of more help.
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Colin Holgate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> the framelabel = 0
Of course! I should have guessed that using a completely different datatype
would work. Actually, I'm sure I knew this once and had forgotten it.
Thanks Colin.
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The documentation for frameLabel claims that it can only be set in a "Score
generation session." Obviously not true.
Were you further aware that 'the updateLock' works at runtime too (since D7 I
think). - I wonder if this might solve the transition problem mentioned on the
other
Is it possible to delete framelabels with lingo?
I just accidentally created loads of frame labels and then had to delete them
all manually. ARRGH!
Note: Setting the frameLabel to "" does not work, and it's how I got in a
pickle in the first place.
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On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:20:43 -0600, Howdy-Tzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday, Mar 12, 2003, at 09:44 America/Chicago, Brennan wrote:
>
> > Trying to get Director to open a path in BBEdit - or anything for that
> > matter.
> > The app is getting activ
as my system. Could this be a
factor?
I can't really believe this is a Director bug or I would surely have heard of
it. Any ideas?
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ry
interesting.
> It's funny how often I hear of Be as the greatest OS of all
> time. It's too bad I never had a chance to use it myself.
Truly, especially when you consider that there's not an OS in
existence today that is anywhere near capable of emulating it either.
I a
e planning to deliver interactive Quicktime Content
on the web, or mess around with some of QuickTime's more esoteric
features, it's a must have. VERY Applescriptable too. There's a free
demo which now even allows you to export movies for 30 days. Do check
it out.
Brennan
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it's a good approach for some other designs. By setting the
filename of a QuickTime member to the SMIL file you just exported with
(say) fileIO, you get almost realtime feedback. This works quite well.
Brennan
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her possibility is 4D, which has a plugin called Qmedia which
allows you to do loads of funny stuff with QuickTime. Again, this is
way off my radar. (Not least because it's quite expensive).
Note, there's a neat little shareware (freeware?) app called 'Final
Chapter' which does ch
le movie + sound as a quicktime (standard
> procedure). Re-import the quicktime, then export sound.
This wont work. QuickTime can't demux these files when exporting so you always
lose the sound.
If you're using a Mac, try using a utility like bbDEMUX
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/m
On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 09:40:22 +0100, Andreas Gaunitz P11 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wow! This is great. Director is crawling out of its shell!
If the Register's rumour is to be believed, it might be crawling out of a shell into a
.net
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them seem to
be duds, obsolete/deprecated terms or reserved for future developments, but there may
still be secrets to be prized out.
Brennan
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).
We're talking about a handful of hooks to things which are already implemented in
Director's GUI, but are tantalizingly beyond reach of Lingo.
Brennan
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On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:00:24 -0500, Howdy-Tzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 03:10 PM, Kurt Griffin wrote:
>
> > Brennan has been after this kind of thing at a more meta level for a
> > while -
> > the ability to script Director. If
Any cats you can let out of the bag to help us manage our expectations?
If macromedia really are ignoring requests and the wishlist, we ought to organize to
let the management know our dissatisfaction. We've already seen some kind of response
to complaints about poor developer suppor
Evan Adelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> my problem is, it seems that the loaded property returns true before the
> video is actually loaded into memory, causing a nice blank type
> appearance while it finishes loading. I've been watching win 2k pro's
> memory inspector, and it shows the memo
I'm getting some OSX-only shockwave errors. Does anyone know where to put the
shockwave.ini file on OSX so that I can get full error text?
Thanks in advance.
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FYI:
> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:59:09 -0700
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: David Gratton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: uk users! livestage free!
>
>
> At 3:17 PM +0100 7/22/02, jake williamson 28 wrote:
> >hey chaps and lass's,
> >
> >just been to my local newsagents and the august edit
" & out & "\""
Duh! Hope someone finds it useful/interesting.
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Hi folks,
A bit off topic this one, I'm afraid (sorry Tab), but I am no longer able to send
messages to DirectL for some reason.
I got a request from a friend about getting media out of an old projector. She had
lost the original files (etc. etc.). Now, we all know there are tools out there to
aw itself is being
replaced by Quartz.
(Although Apple haven't brought OpenGL inside Quicktime yet).
Brennan
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Howdy-Tzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> So I returned to my Classic extensions manager and started looking
> for likely culprits.
> And THEN I took a close look at my third-party INITs. There were
> about a dozen Microsoft extensions, all having to do with OLE.
>
> Oho. Well OLE lets you *drag
"Justin Olmanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> Go through Brennan Young's "Invadirs" game tutorial. Stop when you get lost
> and finish the project as best you can. Revisit the tutorial very two to
> three months making a new game each time (noting your
me to make into a tool MIAW, but have never
actually needed the functionality. Could be nice though.
Brennan
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"Mathew Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> I am quite platform-agnostic, but I do like the premise of Open-Source
> software. The Squeak language is something I have come across over the years
> and it seems to be steadily developing into a Director-like tool but with
> many, many more advantages.
ovie's xtra list too?
I'm seeing exactly this issue - the error 'xtra not found' appears in the main movie
even though it's flagged to download.
Why else would an Xtra fail to download?
Thanks in advance!
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marc real <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i have launched authorware from director 8 but there
> wasno audio from authorware.
> how or what lingo will i use to have audio and mpeg
> playing from authorware after being launched or opened
> from director-with audio and no quicktime or .avi
Sounds lik
has side effects?
on brennanscode
the itemDelimiter = ":"
out = ""
str = "Macintosh HD:Documents:Porn:GoatLover.jpg"
c = str.item.count
repeat with n = 1 to c
j = jakobsCode(str, n)
out = j.item[n]
end repeat
end
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To increase the number of available 'virtual sound channels' from 4 on Windows you
have to faff around with the Director.ini file.
Anyone know what the story is with Shockwave?
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