Re: Memory Inspector

2004-09-17 Thread Kurt Griffin
I'm using Dir MX (not 2004) with MacOS 10.3.4. I went to use the Memory Inspector and could not find it. I looked up the manual and it says it should be under Window/Memory Inspector. The Help says the same but it is not there. And I cannot see it anywhere else. There is no memory inspector on Mac.

Re: Projector problem

2004-09-14 Thread Kurt Griffin
You might try Xtras/Update Movies on the original movies, then open and save them. IIRC, that was what you had to do to get from Dir 7 files to Dir 8. I recall that with really old versions on the PC you had to open it in Director 7 and save it first. Then open in a more recent version. I'm not

OSX stub projector

2004-09-01 Thread Kurt Griffin
I just noticed something annoying. I have a CD-ROM series. It's a director shell that's skinnable and gets its content from external XML. The shell is a dxr. called from the usual stub projector (DMX). In the past, I'd change the name of the stub projector to match the product, swap content and

Re: RE: Stub protection technique?

2004-08-19 Thread Kurt Griffin
One preliminary thought I had was to embed a user specified key in the published stub that the author would set a global to in the actual project. Very little security in that on its own. As you're trying to protect this from unscrupulous developers, using an open global is not the best approach,

RE: Director Multilingual IDE

2004-07-29 Thread Kurt Griffin
In OSX.3, you can set the language you prefer (though, the list is not comprehensive), and Apple's applications will use that language (Safari, Mail, QT, iCal, iMovie, Garageband, etc.). I can't find any third-party apps that do so, though. Even stuff that's bundled with the system, like Art Di

Re: controlling multiple dvd players

2004-07-20 Thread Kurt Griffin
I believe there are some piracy safeguards that don't allow more than one app to have control of a DVD player, and I'm pretty sure you can't have two instances of the player open (though I don't have two DVD drives, so I can't test the theory). I could be wrong. is it possible to control 2 or m

Re: xmlparse

2004-07-19 Thread Kurt Griffin
Any ideas why XMLParse fails to produce correct XML-file when I load SW-movie for the first time? It returns "successful parse" and a list of some kind, but it's definitely not the one expected (there seems to be loads of information missing, cut strings etc.). Strange thing is, that when page i

Re: sound stop doesn't stop sound (test dir)

2004-07-12 Thread Kurt Griffin
Works fine here. Mac, Panther, in both MX and MX2004. I'm beginning to think that directors sound engine is as bad as its text engine. In fact, I always have to find workarounds for sound bugs in Director, but this one really bites. When I stop a sound and play a new one in its place, I hear a sm

Re: stopEvent and the Function keys

2004-07-02 Thread Kurt Griffin
I'm trying to intercept and cancel function key presses by using statements like this in the handler that is assigned as the keyDownScript: if the keyCode = 11 then --the F 12 key stopEvent exit end if The values of keyCode for the function keys are between 96 and 101, and also 103, 109,

Re: preserve regpoint with imported png at runtime

2004-06-16 Thread Kurt Griffin
with code like the following you can restrict the sensitive area to the non-transparent part of the image: on mouseUp me s=sprite(me.spriteNum) m=s.member col=m.image.extractAlpha().getPixel(the mouseloc-point(s.left,s.top)) if col=0 then return -- or use ilk(col)<>#color if col.paletteIn

Re: exitFrame

2004-05-11 Thread Kurt Griffin
I have a project with two sounds. Sound(1) is supposed to come on a few seconds before sound(2) and continue together. The direction of sound(1) is controlled by one of 5 buttons on the screen. The direction (or pan value) of sound(2) is controlled by the mouse. I want to make a record of the pa

RE: Dynamic Flash Sprite

2004-05-04 Thread Kurt Griffin
Next question--is there a way to get Flash to call an object in the Director movie? I have a navigation manager object, and it would be nice to have it get the callback. The Flash movie has this: getURL("lingo:flashAnimDone"); The only way I can figure to get the flashAnimDone call to the object

OT: Flash and Linux

2004-04-30 Thread Kurt Griffin
Hey all, Sorry to use the "F-word" here, but I have an issue I've never had to deal with before. Got a big CD ESL project, done in Dir, which the client wants to port to Linux because Spain has decided to go with Linux in schools and government offices. Dir doesn't support it, but Flash does,

Re: progress bar

2004-04-24 Thread Kurt Griffin
You can use a timeout object and a counter property to get the same functionality as a repeat loop. I use this approach often, when I'd like something going on that a repeat loop mike choke. Skeleton code for an object below: property pCounter property pListToLoop property pTimerObject property

Re: SIL again

2004-04-18 Thread Kurt Griffin
MoveObject_Behavior: property sp on beginSprite(me) sp = sprite(me.spriteNum) end sp is not going to get set here. BeginSprite has fired before you attach your script. on exitFrame(me) sp.locH = sp.locH + 1 end I run the movie and in the Message Window: t = scri

Panther DirMX Heads Up

2004-04-07 Thread Kurt Griffin
Hi all, Just thought I'd share a little problem I had to work through today. I recently installed shockwave 10 on my work computer. Today, I started having problems with authoring in MX. When trying to create a filmloop, I kept getting an error that said "Not enough memory to do this." Quittin

Re: PrintOMatic and Panther

2004-03-31 Thread Kurt Griffin
register xtra "PrintOMatic", "PMAT170-923-38748" is working for me under Panther. Any chance you've got the classic version installed? That would likely show up in the xtra list, but wouldn't function (or let you add it to the movie). [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest m

RE: QuickTime & Director

2004-03-17 Thread Kurt Griffin
1. When I go into QuickTime control panels-> video settings and change it to safe mode, I never crash anymore. But I am not allowed to give this instruction to my users, considered too technical. If it was a Mac, I'd try to write an Applescript that would do that on startup. Perhaps some Win guru

Re: QuickTime & Director

2004-03-16 Thread Kurt Griffin
On the sound issue - have you set the soundDevice = "QT3Mix"? Hi, I am working on a Director CD project and I am using an MX version. I develop on a Mac and movies look great. On the PC (my end-user machine) the QuickTime is looking strange. It is displaying noise on playback. These machines are

RE: Using @//

2004-03-03 Thread Kurt Griffin
Well, I think (haven't checked out) that @ is for Lingo only, and not really appreciated by Xtras... have you tried if getNthFileNameinFolder, or only baFileExists? Actually, I have. I usually don't post a question until it's stumped me for at least a half hour ^_^ fName = "@//UserData/Users.xml"

Re: Polling a Flash sprite for its current frame

2004-02-28 Thread Kurt Griffin
Any hints? any reason why mySprite.Frame wouldn't work? Nope - that works perfectly. When you look in the script window's Lingo pull down for Flash members or Flash sprites, "frame" isn't there (at least in MX). I guess I should have dug deeper into the docs, but it was late, and I was look

Polling a Flash sprite for its current frame

2004-02-27 Thread Kurt Griffin
I think this has been covered, but I can't seem to find it in the archives. Must be searching on the wrong terms. Anyway, I've got a little Flash animation of a curtain dropping, pausing for a 1/2 second or so, then rising. I need to swap another sprite's member out when the curtain has dropped

Re: Video in perspective

2004-02-16 Thread Kurt Griffin
Basically I would like to skew a video sprite to simulate a perspective panel for video playback (I'll worry about performance issues a bit later). Anybody got any tips or pointers on the best way of approaching this? It can be done in 3D, though I don't know what the machine specs would be. Here

Debugging

2004-02-12 Thread Kurt Griffin
So, those of you who were beta testers, I have one question - has MACR continued with the short error messaging as a default, requiring us to either to put an ini file on our CDs that allows full lingo error messages, or in the case of shockwave, makes us walk some schlub through installing a s

Re: Dot syntax (was: Merits of JS in Director)

2004-02-12 Thread Kurt Griffin
-- Welcome to Director -- put version -- "10.0" put castlib(1).member[1].name -- "foo" put the name of member 1 of castlib 1 -- "foo" Returns "" if you do it on an empty member. One of the main thrusts (shaddup, Grimm ;) of MX04 was plugging the holes (I've warned you already) in .syntax. You shou

A little heads-up

2004-01-17 Thread Kurt Griffin
Hey all, I just ran into a weird problem that I thought I would share. I came up with a workaround, so I'm posting just in case I can save somebody from my 2-day headache. I have a nav button which turns into a cascading menu (which expands and contracts via a film loop). When the user chooses

Re: rightMouseUpOutside?

2004-01-13 Thread Kurt Griffin
Thanks, Buzz and Kerry. Turns out that the onMouseUp handler was the culprit... I reset the locZ of the sprite to its original locZ there, and the property storing the sprite's original locZ was in the mouseDown handler. So, the locZ was getting set to 0 in the rightmouse case. However, mouseU

rightMouseUpOutside?

2004-01-12 Thread Kurt Griffin
I tried searching for this, because part of it seems like it should be logged a bug, but I'm not sure if I searched on the correct terms. Regardless, here's my problem. I have a simple "drag and drop" activity, where the user left-clicks on a bitmap sprite, drags it to a target, and releases. W

RE: Prevent Second Click

2004-01-08 Thread Kurt Griffin
The solutions presented will lock off a double click on a button, but that's only part of the issue - the button under the second mouse click might not be the same one as under the first mouse click, so it could easily be getting only a single click. I'd throw a little delay into the second but

RE: Director MX04

2004-01-06 Thread Kurt Griffin
Note: we're also hoping to put together a list of bug fixes (XML memory leak, embedded fonts on user restricted systems, dot-syntax with field cast members and user installed menus, etc.). That's on top of some hoped-for DevNet articles about the details of JS syntax usage in Director. Oh for an

RE: Dir MX 2004

2004-01-06 Thread Kurt Griffin
And yet there's still even more to talk about beyond all this... Feel free to talk on. The info posted at MM doesn't go into any depth and the more you talk it up the more we users slaver in anticipation. No, no - please, stop. I can't take it any more. I was sold with the DVD thing. All of this

Re: Shared cast error

2003-12-14 Thread Kurt Griffin
I know this is a real Shockwave newbie question, but: [MF] I'm adapting several existing director movies to shockwave for internet distribution. They utilize a shared cast, cleverly titled Shared.cst. It is in the same directory as the movies. I publish the movies, and put them up with ftp. The

Re: Using Lingo to compress Casts

2003-11-26 Thread Kurt Griffin
Is there a 'lingo access' to the "Update Movies" option that we use to compress and 'encrypt' the cast libraries? I want to make a projector that is able to do it Nope. Been asking for it off and on since 1999 at least. 1998, I think ;) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mo

Re: 'Failure while compositing bitmap member' error message

2003-11-18 Thread Kurt Griffin
>> Has anyone ever gotten this error message: >> 'Internal error: Unexpected failure while compositing bitmap member 7 >> of >> PLAYER-CAST 1' >> >> The technote >> (http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/sw_error.htm) >> says it's the result of a sound.playFile command. But when

Re: Fake James Newton post?

2003-08-14 Thread Kurt Griffin
>> I think you're right, Grimm--it's a virus. The .scr is pretty much a >> dead giveaway. >> >> I don't think it's from James, though--the e-mail address was >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] I know James' e-mail address, and that's not >> it, unless he's using a new one. And, James is more than savvy enough >

Re: Lingo-l digest, Vol 1 #885 - 19 msgs

2003-07-17 Thread Kurt Griffin
> Have you checked a copy of the replicated disc against the gold master? > I'd check all file sizes and dates to make sure they are the same. Yep, the client did that before calling us. > I'm assuming you have an installer that writes the app to the hard > drive. I'd run an install from both th

Error I haven't seen before

2003-07-16 Thread Kurt Griffin
Hey all, Sent out a gold master a month and a half ago, and now the client is calling with an error that's happening after duplication. The master I sent works on all of their PCs (14 or so). The duplicated disks do not. The error happens on launching the projector, and is "The application can not

RE: Re: where is the file start.dir?

2003-07-08 Thread Kurt Griffin
BTW, it's really weird. I tried a different stub projector calling directly "myfirstmovie.dxr" and the stub still look for "myfirstmovie.dir" on opening even if it works perfectly without it, so, checking if "myfirstmovie.dxr" exist with buddy api or fileIO Xtras do not provide any solution. S

acrobat reader

2003-07-02 Thread Kurt Griffin
> I'm trying to open a pdf file in lingo. I can open the file by > specifying the location of the acrobat reader, hover I may not know > where the reader is on each computer. How can I find out the location > of the acrobat reader exe file without using buddy api? If it's on a CD-ROM, you could

Re: phantom scripts?

2003-06-29 Thread Kurt Griffin
6) dumb user realizes he's a much better at perl than lingo lol. Don't beat yourself up too much - happens to us all from time to time. -Kurt [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 PRO

Re: making thumbnail bitmap cast from digital video

2003-06-28 Thread Kurt Griffin
i want to make a thumbnail bitmapped cast member from a digital video(mpeg) running on the director stage. how can i do this. You need a little bit of imaging lingo for that. Put your video onstage, with DTS turned off (this is important... if it is DTS, you'll just get a box of stage's color

creating a new sprite using lingo

2003-06-21 Thread Kurt Griffin
I want to create a lot of text fields to display information on the stage and dont want to do it by hand. So i thought to create a script to generate child objects and display them on the screen. I can easily cretae a new field in the cast, but how can i assign that new cast member to a sprite usin

Re: Editable of member -- more

2003-06-19 Thread Kurt Griffin
> Any other idea? Try setting the keyboardFocusSprite as well, just to give it an extra nudge. [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: [OT] Disney Interactive...not

2003-06-17 Thread Kurt Griffin
> Researching a bit more, I find it's written by "Infogrames" (what kind of > name is that?). It's French for Atari. http://www.gamemarketwatch.com/news/item.asp?nid=2690 -Kurt [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: Authorware/Flash/Director job op in Arlington, VA

2003-06-07 Thread Kurt Griffin
Yeah, there's a number of CIA director jobs, believe it or not. Why wouldn't there be? It's a busy company worldwide, striding to meet the challenge of their marketing-department. Though recently the marketing dept. has met some problems, stretching the products a bit far... Jakob Has anyone else n

Re: progress bar with goToNetMovie

2003-06-06 Thread Kurt Griffin
> Could someone please share the concept of scripting a progress bar for > goToNetMovie? > > It's different from loading just frames inside a single dcr, isn't it? Use preloadNetThing to download the new dcr to the cache. You can check the progress of the stream using getStreamStatus() and update

Re: uppercase

2003-04-01 Thread Kurt Griffin
Some people get into using ASCII codes instead, but I think they're masochists. Well done, Colin. Masochistic, and, if they're working in a language other than English, buggy. The lazy way is to subtract 32 from the ASCII value. E.g.: put numtochar(chartonum("a") - 32) "A" Colin's method will wor

Re: ERROR!!

2003-03-14 Thread Kurt Griffin
> I want to make .EXE with director 8.5, > in director there is no error, > but when i create projector and run it, error message is appear > title : director player error > message : script error, continue? > I click ok but it still continue to show the error message > what is wrong, where is the

Re: Is this an error?

2003-03-07 Thread Kurt Griffin
And, by the way, which event triggered "--yada yada?" If all the previous discussion is correct, 'keyDown'. It's easily proved, just set a breakpoint. Running the movie doesn't trigger it, but pressing a key does. Yes, easily proved, as I found 5 minutes after posting... forgive my waste'obandwi

RE: Is this an error?

2003-03-06 Thread Kurt Griffin
on prepareMovie on keyDown --yada yada end keyDown end prepareMovie And, by the way, which event triggered "--yada yada?" -kurt [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] (Probl

RE: Is this an error?

2003-03-06 Thread Kurt Griffin
Flakey movie everywhere would break! :) -Buzz Amen to that. All your movie belong to us. It's amazing what you can get away with in Lingo. I took over a project not long ago, and one of the first things I noticed was this movie handler: on prepareMovie on keyDown --yada yada end keyDown end pr

Re: Go movie

2003-03-05 Thread Kurt Griffin
>after i do "go to movie blah blah, can add >other lines of code? > >or once it goes to the movie, it ignores your code after the go movie >command? > > > >eg: > on mouseup > go movie "blah" > doThis() -- will the next movie read this command? > end Well, yes and no. You *can* do such a thing, b

Re: mouseLine from a text member

2003-03-04 Thread Kurt Griffin
> easy one: how can i get the number of the line clicked on a text sprite, > the same way with fields using the mouseLine? i just can´t figure it out, > but i´m sure it´s simple. It's not obvious. The "equivalent" is to use pointToLine(sprite, the mouseLoc - sprite.loc). pointToLine works on the c

Re: XML parser xtra... still buggy?

2003-02-24 Thread Kurt Griffin
Hey all, Way back, I switched over to Andrew White's lingo-based xml parser, due to certain problems with the xml parser xtra. Now, that code is a bit dated, and doesn't do certain things that the latest xml parser handles. My questions are, have the earlier memo

XML parser xtra... still buggy?

2003-02-22 Thread Kurt Griffin
Hey all, Way back, I switched over to Andrew White's lingo-based xml parser, due to certain problems with the xml parser xtra. Now, that code is a bit dated, and doesn't do certain things that the latest xml parser handles. My questions are, have the earlier memory leaks been resolved, and has

Re: Linked Sound Cast Members in Shockwave file

2003-02-21 Thread Kurt Griffin
Have you made sure to include the swa xtras in your shockwave (swa import/export, swa decompression, etc.), and mark them for download? -Kurt [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: Not getting mails

2003-02-18 Thread Kurt Griffin
Not getting any mails in the list for the last few days. Why? Can you hear me now? Best to send inquiries like that to the admin (it's in each message, but here it is anyway - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ). If any of us could tell you why, you wouldn't be able to read the explanation. [To remove yourse

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

2003-02-15 Thread Kurt Griffin
Kerry Thompson wrote: More accurate than most, Brad ^_^ Here goes Kerry, chasing the localization goose again. Please to stifle the groans ^_^ I bow down before your vastly superior intelligence. ;) Damn - You certainly know your fonts and I'm sure nobody was groaning. Brad Yup, you need to

Re: Director TrueType support?...

2003-02-15 Thread Kurt Griffin
The OS uses Unicode. But Director MX on Mac OS doesn't :-( Yeah, that was a BIG disappointment in the MX upgrade. Flash has had it for a while now, and I would have thought it would be a priority. I guess there weren't enough wish-list posts on the subject. Perhaps we could change that? (hint,

Re: Cuepointing tool in Director

2003-02-05 Thread Kurt Griffin
And now my little thread has come full-circle. Thanks for all of the insights... Brennan, you brought me back to where I started, with Applescript as the means to the final end product. It is indeed a nice tool for those of us that prefer to live on the Mac side (Yes, it is nicely accessible to

RE: Creating a cuepointing tool - Lingo version

2003-02-03 Thread Kurt Griffin
> Woking on the PC I had this problem many years ago as there was no PC > software for putting cue points into a QuickTime file back then (and > still today I think). So I approached it from a Lingo level and wrote a > behavior that simulates the effect of cuepoints by just using counting > the amo

Creating a cuepointing tool

2003-01-31 Thread Kurt Griffin
Hi all, I'm looking for a way to add tracks to a QuickTime file via a Director app, and then save the modified QT to hard drive. What I'd like to do is import a QT and a "transcript" test file into a Dir tool, then let the user create cuepoints that are associated with lines from the transcrip

RE: Movie transparency

2003-01-31 Thread Kurt Griffin
> That's what I'm trying to do, but it goes back to my original question, > when I key out the background in after effects the background color > shows through, but I want transparency and not a background color, and > AFX doesn't have an option to set the background to transparent, and I'd > rathe

[OT] Authorware cracking

2003-01-27 Thread Kurt Griffin
Hi all, sorry for the OT... A client wants us to redo an authorware CD for them. They would like to pick up a bunch of the content, but they don't have the source for some stupid reason. I know how to crack protected Dir files - anyone know of similar tools/methods for authorware files? [To remo

Re: content of the TextMember

2003-01-23 Thread Kurt Griffin
> firstWord = member("text",4).text.word[1] Just an aside - when dealing with chunks of a text or a field member, you don't need the "text" reference. member("text", 4).word[1] is equivalent to member("text", 4).text.word[1] 2 cents, Kurt [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to dige

Re: bluring rounded bitmaps

2003-01-22 Thread Kurt Griffin
> hi, imaging lingo gurus out there > i´m trying to simulate the effect of an image that goes in and out of focus > according to the lens position on a telescope. you can see it at > http://planeta.terra.com.br/arte/quixada/mast/tele.htm. the problem is that > the image must be rounded, and when th

Sound channel re-use problem

2003-01-03 Thread Kurt Griffin
Hi all, Forgive me if this has been answered before, but I'm not quite sure how to search for it in the archives. Believe it or not, I haven't used sound(x).queue before now - I've always used soundbusy() to check for the end of one sound before starting another. Background - I'm making an alp

Re: Copypixels from one "alpha-ed" image to another

2002-12-19 Thread Kurt Griffin
Thanks, Pranav, James - saved me a bit of tail chasing, there ;) -Kurt [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

Copypixels from one "alpha-ed" image to another

2002-12-18 Thread Kurt Griffin
This is a bit brain-dead on my part, and I will figure it out eventually, but I thought I'd throw it out to the list in hopes of a quick solution ;) I'm copying a dupe of the image of a text member into a dupe of the image of a png member. Given the fact that both carry alpha images, the resul

Re: Embedded font problem

2002-12-13 Thread Kurt Griffin
> I have embedded arial into a director movie. On windows 2k and xp > machines and Mac OS X it looks fine. On windows 98 SE, I have strange > kerning problems and text suddenly wraps that didn't before. Any > suggestions? I ran into that bug a while back - text wrapping after a few characters o

Re: Irregular shape of rollover 2

2002-12-10 Thread Kurt Griffin
> I want to create a sprite which will response (more or less like html > image map). A while back I needed to do this kind of thing for a map of the U.S., where rolling over a state triggered a variety of actions. I ended up having two map graphics as cast members, both the same size. The pretty

RE: ANN: Director MX

2002-11-25 Thread Kurt Griffin
> Beyond the above two examples please also know that you can create these > objects directly from Lingo as well: > > pArray = sprite(1).newObject("Array","hi","Charlie","how","are") > pArray.push("you?") > > or do it without a sprite at all!!!: > > pArray = newObject("Array","hi","Charlie","how

Re: object snapping

2002-11-22 Thread Kurt Griffin
There's a set of articles on doug about collision detecting, you might try there as a first step. Personally, I'd use the intersect() function instead of sprite.intersects(). This compares 2 rects and returns the rect of the shared space. So, stepping through and using intersect((sprite x).rect, (

Re: Since we're on the topic of bugs

2002-11-13 Thread Kurt Griffin
I mean movies created in the current version, not legacy code. They have never been anything but 8.5 movies. > Um, convert it to the current version? > > At 03:48 PM 11/12/02, Kurt Griffin wrote: >> Anyone know if there's a cure to the periodic "This movie was created

RE: Since we're on the topic of bugs

2002-11-13 Thread Kurt Griffin
>> Anyone know if there's a cure to the periodic "This movie was created with >> an older version of Director..." bug? It's been happening quite frequently > > External read-only castlibs? I'm using external castlibs, but they're all open. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to dige

Since we're on the topic of bugs

2002-11-12 Thread Kurt Griffin
Anyone know if there's a cure to the periodic "This movie was created with an older version of Director..." bug? It's been happening quite frequently to me lately, and has really gotten under my skin (each alert doesn't really chew up that much time, but it's a cumulative annoyance). -Kurt [To re

RE: Start the PC-machine when dead.. Lost gone

2002-11-07 Thread Kurt Griffin
All your base are belong to us. [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 Lingo. Th

Re: more than 1 ancestor

2002-10-28 Thread Kurt Griffin
> Is it possible to have more than 1 ancestor script? Nope. > me.ancestor1 = new(script "blah") > me.ancestor2 = new(script "blah2") > > I know that you can nest ancestor scripts but this is not what I want. What I > want to do it to have a library of scripts and then add them to other scripts >

Re: List archives?

2002-10-25 Thread Kurt Griffin
>> Sorry, I don't get this header. And on penworks there is no link to an >> archive. Thank you very much The headers don't mention archives, just list maintenance. But, it's on the same page. To search, you'll have to download the full archive and search it yourself (via Lingo is one way ;)) htt

Re: Getting rid of "Internal"?

2002-10-23 Thread Kurt Griffin
>> a) is no problem, just click on the internal cast to make it the active >> window, then use the Property Inspector to change the name. > > D'oh! Why did I think that couldn't be done? I'm certain I must have tried > it before sometime... > >> Something else that might be useful is if you could

Re: hit rect question.

2002-10-19 Thread Kurt Griffin
No, each screen has multiple rects. Ie the full presentation is a bigass proplist with each screen having a proplist of hitrects. Each rect actually has different things to do, so with the repeat loop returns the right one within the hitlist, the behavior knows what function to call. I think it's

Re: Audio xtra

2002-10-17 Thread Kurt Griffin
> I got a project from another client. In those scripts he uses the > register command to register the Audio Xtra on PC. The problem is that > my Director gives an error on that command. "#register: handler not > defined" While I use the Authoring version of the Xtra Do you have version 4 or s

Re: Text and Field cast member

2002-10-16 Thread Kurt Griffin
>> for text cast member, i'm getting error "lineHeight" property not >> found for text cast member. What's substitute or option available >> in text cast members to find out lin height. > > Hi Shailendra, > > There is no substitue: you have to work it out by hand: > > tLineHeight = member("Text"

Re: What's the best way to try and make your movie play at the same speed across different speeds of computer?

2002-10-10 Thread Kurt Griffin
>> What's the best way to try and make your movie play at the same speed >> across >> different speeds of computer? Best way? Always debatable. Colin wrote: > If you're talking about an animation sequence, you could do something > like this: > > on exitframe > go label("first frame") + (t

Re: How can I install a minimum QT Player without going...

2002-10-04 Thread Kurt Griffin
> Well, we always ship with QT4 on the basis that it works and it's better > than nothing. We use two files (remembering this name, might not be right) - > QTinstaller.exe and QTInstallcache.qdat (the latter being the bit that the > QT installer usually tries to download). QTInstaller.exe automati

Re: insert animation to director

2002-10-02 Thread Kurt Griffin
> I am looking for a way to compress the animation before I insert it into the > Director, without any limitations of the frame size I've told Art Directors to insert entire CDs before, but I'm not sure if those suggestions were successful or not (and, I wouldn't compress anything in such a situ

Re: problem moving cast members in OS 10.2

2002-09-12 Thread Kurt Griffin
> i just upgraded my macintosh system to 10.2 (jaguar) and have noticed > that when i move cast members within a cast lib, they are > automatically duplicated (instead of just being moved). this happens > almost about 90% of the time. the other 10% of the time, i can move > the members normally wi

Re: OT: last names (was Re: To Ockrassa and others)

2002-09-11 Thread Kurt Griffin
> I'm sure that if Warren is ex-military, he won't mind being called Okrassa. You could also shout "Prisoner 824762! Fall in!" and see if he flinches. [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: Best way of setting up cuepoints in video

2002-09-11 Thread Kurt Griffin
> Firstly, I've found the movieTime to be really inaccurate (but I've reduced > the need for such accuracy in my structure plan). How so? I've done lots of video driven projects, and not had a problem with the movietime. One project in particular, the author wanted to pause dvs at every jump cut

Re: Are we going over the top now? (was no errors...)

2002-09-04 Thread Kurt Griffin
> many of the tricks that it helps with could've been done before, but > they were cumbersome & convoluted. I'll second that. I took a crossword engine that I wrote a while back, which used a sprite for every letter in the grid (max grid, 22x22), and rewrote it with IL. Instead of a 500 sprite ch

Re: Director color and image color don't match

2002-08-20 Thread Kurt Griffin
>> To be efficient, I am using Director's shape tools to create parts of my >> interface. There are also graphics that I created in Photoshop that >> butt up >> against the shapes made in Director. As you have probably have >> experienced, >> they don't match so well. > > Hmm. Are the PSD files

Re: and if its a folder?

2002-08-16 Thread Kurt Griffin
> how to i manage to retreive the next directory? > Well, I would certainly use Buddy for digging around in directories. You have baFolderList() which returns all folders at a given path, and baFileList() which returns all the files at a given path. Using the two in tandem can map a drive nicel

Re: Lingo-l digest, Vol 1 #424 - 16 msgs

2002-08-16 Thread Kurt Griffin
>> you can save some cpu cycles if you store the reference to the >> sprite object in a property: >> >> property mySprite >> >> on beginSprite >> mySprite = sprite(me.spriteNum) >> end > > the cost. of course. is a miniscule amount of RAM > - a worthy tradeoff > > Nearly EVERY sprite behavior I

RE: message window with projector?

2002-07-31 Thread Kurt Griffin
> I get the message window too - but you have to make sure you're not in > full-screen mode, obviously, and that you set it up properly. In fact, I > don't know I've ever seen a text dump to the hard drive, but maybe that's > some other option I'm not familiar with. I think Tom was speaking abou

"Unable to load movie playlist" error (some info)

2002-07-03 Thread Kurt Griffin
I've seen this error mentioned on the list a few times before, so I thought I'd pass on what I found when this error suddenly popped up here. The full error message is "Unable to load movie playlist. Does the .INI file exist? It must contain a section '[Movies]' with an entry 'Movie01=Pathname.di

Re: patch

2002-07-02 Thread Kurt Griffin
> is it possible to make a patch for a director movie. If you set it up ahead of time, you can just stick your code in an external cast. Have the program look for that cast at a specified place on the HD, and if it's there, link to it (if not, use the default cast... I'm assuming a CDR here). Th

Re: Best way to do it?

2002-07-02 Thread Kurt Griffin
> I need to create a multi-languages e-learning cd-rom where you can save > your settings and answers on a floppy disk. > The cd-rom will as well look for the floppy at the beginning to load > those parameters to avoid starting everything again. > > I would like to avoid buying too many Xtras. So

Re: Numeric Range Search in List

2002-06-27 Thread Kurt Griffin
> The area consists of 9500 non-overlapping rectangles, and you want to > test a point to see which rectangle it's within. Go through all the > rects and fill an area of an image with a particular color (perhaps > make it a 16 bit image, which would be enough for testing up to 32768 > rects). The

Re: Audio is poor in XP but not in 2000

2002-06-25 Thread Kurt Griffin
> I am finding audio stutters and pops in Windows XP yet on the same machine in > Windows 2000 the audio is fine. I am also finding that on other new XP > machines the audio is doing the same thing. Is director and XP compatible? > > Have other people had similar issues?? Macromix does not work

Re: multi cd (6 cd's) application

2002-06-20 Thread Kurt Griffin
>> Sure, but DVD is not the market standard yet. Tough sell to a client who >> doesn't want to cut out a healthy chunk of legacy machines. > > If this is being developed in Dir85, that question is moot anyway. ;) How so? There are plenty of machines being sold right now with CDR drives, not DVD

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