lingo-l PI Charts

2002-03-22 Thread Jason Gruhl
I'm looking to do some pie charts in director. Does anyone have some suggestions for the best way to go about doing this? Thanks. Jason _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com [To remove yourself from

lingo-l Unlocking Windows Files

2002-03-02 Thread Jason Gruhl
Not sure if this is possible with any language, but has anyone been able to unlock a file being used by a windows application with lingo or any xtra, so that another instance of the application can have access to that file? Jason _ Do

Re: lingo-l Timer or Counter

2002-03-01 Thread Jason Gruhl
Fred: There is the timer variable. If you use it with setTimer() I think you can do what you want. So the code might be. on startmovie setTimer() --This sets the timer to o and starts it. end on exitFrame --the 36000 is ten minutes. the timer stores --ticks which are 1/60 of a

lingo-l Best way to find if an application is installed.

2002-02-28 Thread Jason Gruhl
I am creating an installer. Currently, I am using buddyapi and the baFindFirstFile and then supplying the application's executable name. I first check the program files folder and if this doesn't work then I check the whole c drive. This as you can guess can take a very long time if your dealing

Re[2]: lingo-l puppeted sprite width left over.

2002-02-20 Thread Jason Gruhl
Wednesday, February 20, 2002, 10:32:14 AM, you wrote: HT At 22:09 -0500 02/19/2002, Jason Gruhl wrote: I am puppeting sprites. HT Don't unless you are creating them on the fly. From Dir7 up there's HT no need to explicitly puppet sprites when you're using Lingo to HT manipulate them

lingo-l Hotspots for clicking on bitmap.

2002-02-06 Thread Jason Gruhl
Hello List: I am displaying bitmaps and I won't areas of the bitmaps to be hotspots for on mouseup events. My initial idea was to create vector rectangles and lay them underneath the bitmap and have them catch the events of mouseenter,mouseleave, and mouseup. The problem is they do not pick up

Re: lingo-l dynamic Lingo ?

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Gruhl
I'm not sure about dynamic variable names... However it sounds like you could utilize parent scripts for this. What you do is make a parent script like this: property variableName property value on new(me, iVariableName, iValue) variableName = iVariableName value = iValue end Then