Re: lingo-l CounterClockWise

2004-10-04 Thread Carl West
and you'll get +/- 360. -- Carl West mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://carl.west.home.comcast.net [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

Re: lingo-l Negative verbose statement

2004-09-29 Thread Carl West
-- -(the pFoo of me) -7 boo.setme(-1234567) boo.test() -- pFoo -1234567 -- -pFoo 1234567 -- me.pFoo -1234567 -- -me.pFoo 1234567 -- -(me.pFoo) 1234567 -- the pFoo of me -1234567 -- -the pFoo of me 1234567 -- -(the pFoo of me) 1234567 -- Carl West mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http

lingo-l Obfuscation was: OT: don't do that

2004-09-18 Thread Carl West
. Hmmm... -- Carl West mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://carl.west.home.comcast.net [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

Re: lingo-l Getting separate parts of a number

2004-09-03 Thread Carl West
Carl West wrote: ... splitList = [[integer(pVal+[.5,-.5][1+(pVal0)]),pVal-integer(pVal+[.5,-.5][1+(pVal0)])],[0,0]][1+(pVal=0)] Oh never mind, Colin's answer can be made into one line and it beats the pants off us: splitList = [bitor(pVal,0),pVal- bitor(pVal,0)] 4x faster than mine which

Re: lingo-l Getting separate parts of a number

2004-09-02 Thread Carl West
, and I want to be able to store the whole number part and the fraction part separately,... -- Carl West mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://carl.west.home.comcast.net [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

Re: lingo-l Getting separate parts of a number

2004-09-02 Thread Carl West
)])] * With care you can even make it a 'case'-less 'case'. Ick. I'd hate to have to de-bug this kind of code. -- Carl West mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://carl.west.home.comcast.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages

Re: lingo-l Drawing curves on the fly

2004-08-29 Thread Carl West
the animation will look like you can do it that way. The roots of MacroMind Director lie in frame animation. Sometimes it's easiest to go back to the roots. -- Carl West mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://carl.west.home.comcast.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go

Re: lingo-l D5-7 help files

2004-07-31 Thread Carl West
: Director 7.0 Help and Director 7.0 Help.1 another 15.9MB -- Carl West mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://carl.west.home.comcast.net [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: lingo-l excluding duplicates from a list

2004-07-12 Thread Carl West
if boldListC.add(x) end repeat What the heck, shorten it to: repeat with x = aa to ab if not boldListC.getPos(x) then boldListC.add(x) end repeat -- Carl West mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://carl.west.home.comcast.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode

Re: lingo-l SIL again

2004-04-19 Thread Carl West
Kurt Griffin wrote: ... t = script(MoveObject_Behavior).new(sprite(1)) sprite(1).scriptInstanceList.add(t) Or, if you know that this is the only behaviour you want on the sprite: sprite(1).scriptInstanceList = [t] -- Carl West mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://carl.west.home.comcast.net

Re: lingo-l error messages

2003-06-18 Thread Carl West
. I've had instances of parent scripts hang around from one project to the next in a Director session. Weird errors, very confusing. Just issuing clearGlobals() in the message window has always solved it. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous

Re: lingo-l easing equations

2003-06-11 Thread Carl West
went to the .dir URL and used File Save As... and saved as 'source' Mac, Netscape 4.78, OS9.2 -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure

Re: lingo-l Write in order

2003-06-08 Thread Carl West
by simply adding spaces. (I was a type designer at Bitstream for four years, every now and then I get to use a little bit of what I learned there) This is probably a place for imaging lingo. Or multiple fields, arranged dynamically. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com

Re: lingo-l transparency in Mac OS X icons

2003-06-08 Thread Carl West
. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go

lingo-l Projectors for WinXP affected by custom icons?

2003-06-06 Thread Carl West
at the icon layout? -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest

lingo-l Projectors for WinXP affected by custom icons? Addendum

2003-06-06 Thread Carl West
the ModifyMovieXtras dialog is different in MX from 8.5 so I couldn't help him there. So I've told him to copy the Xtras folder from his Director into the folder of my stuff. Maybe that'll work. What're my chances? What've I missed? -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I

Re: lingo-l GetPixel() to compare colors

2003-06-05 Thread Carl West
dkbrn.paletteIndex -- 238 put dkcyan.paletteIndex -- 102 -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [To remove

Re: lingo-l GetPixel() to compare colors

2003-06-05 Thread Carl West
need to get their distances from vector(0,0,0) and compare those Just totaling the r,g, and b values should give a reasonable measure of the lightness of a pixel. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other

lingo-l Custom icon screwing up Windows projector

2003-06-04 Thread Carl West
I'm using ResHack to change the icon on my standard windows projector. When I finally succeed, the projector errors saying that it needs the Shockwave Player. Where do I look for an answer to this? -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure

Re: lingo-l Custom icon screwing up Windows projector

2003-06-04 Thread Carl West
Carl West wrote: I'm using ResHack to change the icon on my standard windows projector. When I finally succeed, the projector errors saying that it needs the Shockwave Player. Worked it out. Fortunately I'm using D8.5. The trick was getting ResHacker to look at the .skl file (All Files

Re: lingo-l Dynamic scripts?

2003-06-03 Thread Carl West
a script twice if you use .add, it can lead to very weird behaviour and it's hard to find. G'night. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella

Re: lingo-l masking out video background

2003-05-31 Thread Carl West
they're squashed, squeezed and flipped. Hmm... playtime. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [To remove

lingo-l Making fire was:masking out video background

2003-05-31 Thread Carl West
Carl West wrote: ... He's on the right track, I'd say. You can get away with a very few frames of fire, say, 12 or so and show them randomly or psuedo-randomly whilst varying the amount they're squashed, squeezed and flipped. Hmm... playtime. Playtime is over. Spent too much time

Re: lingo-l Why do fonts change appearance when embedded?

2003-04-03 Thread Carl West
characters. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [To remove yourself from this list, or to change

lingo-l Cross-tool question: alphaThreshold

2003-03-30 Thread Carl West
Does Authorware have an equivalent to Director's alphaThreshold property for bitmaps with alpha channels? -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile

Re: lingo-l wait

2003-03-27 Thread Carl West
that to the start and end times, get a factor out of that and apply it to the loc of the sprite taking into account the start and end locations. Hmm... where should the sprite be _now_? The motion will be as smooth as the speed of the machine will allow and still end when and where you want it to. -- Carl

lingo-l Apple Menu/Clipboard Persistence?

2003-03-18 Thread Carl West
do to stop it? MacOS 9.2.2, Dir 8.5, standard projector, minimal Xtras included. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure

Re: lingo-l Re: Apple Menu/Clipboard Persistence?

2003-03-18 Thread Carl West
Brennan wrote: On 18/03/2003 at 12:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've written a little piece that takes the text from the clipboard, processes it and writes the result back to the clipboard. ... BUT! If I put the projector or an alias

Re: lingo-l line break

2003-03-17 Thread Carl West
DT-Rene Vazquez wrote: Hi, how can I insert with lingo in a string expression a line break after a word and then another word thisText = some amount of text return Another line of text -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay

Re: lingo-l was comparing 2 images

2003-03-10 Thread Carl West
(average, returnImg.rect, average.rect) -- 3 - return the result return returnImg end -- average method -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile

Re: lingo-l Is this an error?

2003-03-06 Thread Carl West
be superfluous. Works that way for me, I can throw in as many 'end's as I like. Mac D8.5 -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure

Re: lingo-l object / stopmovie question.

2003-03-06 Thread Carl West
error conditions not tested or accounted for. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [To remove yourself from

Re: lingo-l LDM and Child Script Objects

2003-02-08 Thread Carl West
that the LDM has on the stage. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 - [To remove yourself from this list

Re: lingo-l Creating a cuepointing tool

2003-02-01 Thread Carl West
a supposedly cross-platform scripting language/tool like unto AppleScript that might be useful. I've never messed with it and I've forgotten it's name at the moment, but it is regularly mentioned on the various AppleScript lists. Good luck Kurt. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: AW: lingo-l create a mask of an image

2003-01-22 Thread Carl West
Andreas* Gaunitz* wrote: http://lumpymuffins.home.attbi.com/masking It's a little bit rude, it's on a tight repeat loop, but it listens at the end of a cycle. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com Looks nice! It closed it's own window immediately

Re: lingo-l content of the TextMember2

2003-01-22 Thread Carl West
universal2001 wrote: ... but I have 4 cast libabries and the one that I want is the first word of the first member of the 4th castLib This worked for me: firstWord = (member text of castlib 2).text.word[1] -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have

Re: AW: lingo-l create a mask of an image

2003-01-21 Thread Carl West
, hite, 1) maskmem.image.copyPixels(tempimage, original.rect, original.rect) tempImage = void greyimage = void end You could even skew the mask toward different colors by messing with the rgb value greyImage gets filled with. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com

Re: AW: lingo-l create a mask of an image

2003-01-21 Thread Carl West
I had some fun with it at http://lumpymuffins.home.attbi.com/masking It's a little bit rude, it's on a tight repeat loop, but it listens at the end of a cycle. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other

Re: lingo-l create a mask of an image

2003-01-20 Thread Carl West
the resulting image into a 1-bit image -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [To remove yourself from

Re: lingo-l [OT]Exporting sound from mpg file.

2003-01-20 Thread Carl West
even had to do the double export. (It was a quick test, not an exhaustive survey) macbbdemux is not working for me on my G3 running 9.2.2 with QT 5.02. Any idea what the system requirements are for it? I can't find any documentation. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com

lingo-l Director/Authorware/Other Question

2003-01-15 Thread Carl West
authoring tools. Director handles images with alpha channels and lets you set the Alpha Click Threshold. What about Authorware? Other tools? Off-list replies are probably appropriate. Up to you. TIA. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure

Re: lingo-l FindingNotWantedFonts

2003-01-14 Thread Carl West
pretty verbose, but it's pretty thorough too. Have a ball. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [To remove

Re: lingo-l Percentage calculations

2003-01-11 Thread Carl West
=PercentAddition/100.0 or eq=PercentAddition/float(100) or eq=float(PercentAddition)/100 But this won't work because the result is already an integer before you take the 'float' of it: eq=float(PercentAddition/100) -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous

Re: lingo-l Writing sound members

2003-01-08 Thread Carl West
, it would be a lot like imaging lingo, but for sound. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [To remove

Re: lingo-l Writing sound members

2003-01-07 Thread Carl West
spot. That's what I was suspecting. AFAIK there are no inbuilt methods and no Xtras for altering an audio file/ RAM chunk, like eg imaging lingo does with an image. And that's what I feared. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my

Re: lingo-l Trying to recreate this in Lingo

2003-01-07 Thread Carl West
or you could kick a global around to keep track of which channel has the oldest sound in it, either to interrupt or to see if it's done. Eight sounds should be more than enough to play at one time. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my

Re: lingo-l how to get the brows window open?

2003-01-06 Thread Carl West
Evan Adelman wrote: ahhh - that would make so much more sense. lewis, to get a file open dialog box i've used the mui xtra, w/ code something around: g=new(xtra mui) filename = FileOpen(g,C:\) Or filextra3 but neither seems to be shockwave-save. And therefor no help here. -- Carl

lingo-l Writing sound members

2003-01-06 Thread Carl West
? -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. - Isabella, Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go

Re: lingo-l pointToChar with centered text members

2003-01-04 Thread Carl West
. The text is center justified, so there's empty space both to its left and right. ... Any ideas? Lead the word with a space (and follow it with one too to keep the balance) and offset your character counting by one. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have

Re: lingo-l randomize

2003-01-03 Thread Carl West
(randNum) end repeat This will place the graphics with their labels at a random four of the locations in the list in random order. -- Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eisen.home.attbi.com I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile

Re: lingo-l Message BOX ?

2002-12-31 Thread Carl West
Or maybe, depending on what you want, a text or field member whose text gets changed by code. something happens, either an event or a calculation member(MessageBox).text = Hey! Something happened the message will stay there until you change it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure. Alert Whatever

Re: lingo-l script errors

2002-12-30 Thread Carl West
kevin pyatt wrote: Below is the sample code. Part 1 works, part 2 does not.When i run part 2 i get the Script error: object expected member(Eqnm1box).text=gquestion. Any ideas. I greatly appreciate your time. It doesn't look like gquestion is actually being declared as a global or a

Re: lingo-l 1000 sprites - there must be another solution

2002-03-09 Thread Carl West
for background and title graphics. There must be another solution to this - can anyone help? You'd have to do a little more keeping track of your data and probably disallow the use of the Return character, but you could do it with 25 text members of 40 lines each. -- Carl West mailto:[EMAIL