Re: lingo-l Re: (OT) Mac: move up a folder

2004-10-12 Thread Sean Wilson
Here're a few lines that may be helpfull: http://putnamhill.net/codeshop/dir/cdup.html Thanks for that Cole! -Sean. [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

Re: lingo-l (OT) Mac: move up a folder

2004-10-11 Thread Sean Wilson
You want to do that in Lingo? I'm wanting to construct a full path to feed to FileXtra4 (which doesn't support '@' and variants), but having given it some more thought all I need to do is drop a directory when re-constructing the path at run time thus by-passing any need for ..\ or whatever.

lingo-l (OT) Mac: move up a folder

2004-10-10 Thread Sean Wilson
Hi All, Given that ..\ will navigate up one directory from the current one on Windows, what is the Mac equivalent? Is it as simple as ..:? And is it the same for = OS9 and OSX? Cheers, -Sean [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l Projector on NT Problem

2004-09-13 Thread Sean Wilson
It is working fine on all the test systems here and on almost all the test platforms on the client end. Unfortunately, on Win NT, SP6 - the moment the projector is launched, a Dr. Watson error is thrown. Which version of Director did you use to create the projector? (This does not happen at our

Re: lingo-l MUS Peer-to-peer

2004-09-03 Thread Sean Wilson
I guess my question is what's the best way to handle these disconnects? Firstly, be sure to read these technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/muxtra_callbacks.htm http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/multiuser_disconnection_det.htm Cheers, -Sean.

Re: lingo-l baOpenFile, a level up

2004-09-02 Thread Sean Wilson
you can't use the @ identifier for the moviepath with xtras. With version 3.6 (Windows), Buddy API added support for the @ operator. -Sean. [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

Re: lingo-l Exitlock=true, titlebar=true - closebutton doesn't work?

2004-08-24 Thread Sean Wilson
At 04:35 a.m. 25/08/2004, you wrote: Hey all -- trying to do the old school 'see quitscreen before exiting' thing in 2004. I've got exitlock to true, and am only showing the closebutton on the titlebar; I've got a main movie handler of 'on closewindow' but it doesn't seem to be getting called;

Re: lingo-l Time arithmetic

2004-08-24 Thread Sean Wilson
MOD is your friend And so is dateObject.seconds and framesToHMS() At 2:05 PM -0400 8/24/04, you wrote: Is there a built-in way to do time arithmetic like you do date arithmetic? I can get the number of days between two dates with something like date(, mm, dd) - date (, mm, dd)

Re: lingo-l Sprite alpha?

2004-08-19 Thread Sean Wilson
I'm creating some sprites at run-time, and they're showing up with odd colors. They should be a nice grey color, with a drop-shadow. Instead, the colors are all over the place--grey, lime green, lemon yellow, but with drop shadows. wild guess Sometime earlier you allocate this channel to a sprite

Re: lingo-l Setting vector colors

2004-08-18 Thread Sean Wilson
I'm trying to set the color of a vector graphic at runtime. I need to give it an rgb value, but it seems to only want to take palette colors. Here's my code: channelColorList = [160104100, 192138100, 189180112, 135162111, 112147110, 101155153, 98134145, 95113146, 127104147, 131095122]

Re: lingo-l Esc key and exitLock in Dir 10

2004-08-01 Thread Sean Wilson
You're right, Jeff--I still can't trap the Escape key when the projector runs under OS X. I wanted to use Escape for other purposes, like I do in Windows. Bummer. Hang on - can't you set the exitLock so that it won't quit your projector and set a keyDownScript to monitor for the escape key's

Re: lingo-l misbehaving scrollbar on Mac OS X

2004-07-26 Thread Sean Wilson
The problem I see is that when the text member is given a #scroll boxType, the scrollbar that appears looks like a portion of the normal scrollbar: it has only the up-arrow, and a portion of the slider. While requiring more work to implement, could you use an OSControls scroll bar to replace

Re: lingo-l Director error code -1101: ANSWER

2004-07-15 Thread Sean Wilson
The only solution we were able to find is to use MX 2004. AND to be sure to use axConvertToFile(soundName, filename, MPEG3/SWA) on a sound file that is _already_ mono OR to use axSetEnvironmentInfo(convertNumChannels, 1) prior to conversion. And that these problems seem, to date, to be

Re: lingo-l comparing lists

2004-07-11 Thread Sean Wilson
C2 = highest number of the two lists repeat with x = c1 to c2 --Some Crafty CODE While Irv has already provided some crafty code, it's worth noting that for performance's sake you only need to iterate through the _smaller_ list looking for duplicates. -Sean. [To remove yourself from

Re: lingo-l Director error code -1101

2004-07-11 Thread Sean Wilson
Thanks for telling me that MX 2004 shows the same problem--you saved me the trouble of trying the evaluation version for this issue. Sorry, I steered you wrong there. With DMX2004 I get an error code of -84 returned (which also doesn't belong to the Audio xtra). -Sean. [To remove yourself

Re: lingo-l Director error code -1101

2004-07-11 Thread Sean Wilson
Sorry, I steered you wrong there. With DMX2004 I get an error code of -84 returned (which also doesn't belong to the Audio xtra). And one final update before we should perhaps take it off-list: it works with DMX2004 if I record mono, or use axSetEnvironmentInfo(convertNumChannels, 1) prior to

Re: lingo-l Director error code -1101

2004-07-11 Thread Sean Wilson
Maurucio has now sent me a projector that he built under DMX 2004. Like on your system, it returns error -84 for recordings at 22050 /16 / 2 and 44100 /16 / 2, but succeeds without complaining for mono recordings at the same two sample rates. I have the same projector and it behaves the same

RE: lingo-l Help yourself, children

2004-06-27 Thread Sean Wilson
Because of the problem with the actorList, many years ago, I wrote a replacement for the actorList which would solve the deletion problem. Hi Irv, You know, of course, that there's a simple work-around. Before an object deletes itself from the actorList it gets its position and compares it with

Re: lingo-l The Xtras

2004-06-20 Thread Sean Wilson
I'd like to know what xtras (all of them that are available under the Xtras folder in Dir app) are needed for any projector excluding the authoring ones. For a list of Asset (not scripting) xtras required by a movie you can hit the Modify|Movie|Xtras dialog and walk the xtras listed there

Re: lingo-l net params

2004-06-10 Thread Sean Wilson
How to pass some params to the shockwave movie like in HTML pages: I'm not sure exactly what you're wanting to achieve, but here are some options: You can send a property list with getNetText or postNetText commands. See the docs for syntax and examples. To have a SW movie read information from

Re: lingo-l Problem with goToNetPage on OSX

2004-06-07 Thread Sean Wilson
Anyone know an alternate way of opening a browser (instead of using goToNetPage)? I'd recommend using Buddy API for opening browsers - it will run whatever application the user has flagged as their preferred browser as opposed to however it is that Director makes its decision. And it's more

RE: lingo-l Language Local Setting

2004-06-03 Thread Sean Wilson
When I change the language setting by following method: Windows 2000 -- Start\settings\control panel\Regional options and select the Czech option. Then I run the projector, it gives the error msg. I vaguely remember someone reporting errors with Eastern European languages and the text or font

RE: lingo-l Font problem

2004-05-18 Thread Sean Wilson
Ah, if you could only wait a couple of months, you could read the article I just wrote Hi Kerry, Just for the record - where is your article being published? Can I ask you to post a heads-up when it's out (I don't want to miss it)? Cheers, -Sean. [To remove yourself from this list, or to

Re: lingo-l Unwanted highlight

2004-04-27 Thread Sean Wilson
Has anybody run into this? Any idea what's happening? Are there any other windows - for example, a print dialog - displayed? I've seen this happen when something else steals focus such that when it returns to the stage, editable text sprites are selected/highlighted. Very frustrating and I'm

RE: lingo-l is there an escape character in Lingo?

2004-04-26 Thread Sean Wilson
How to set the value of an #editText widget in a MUI window Do you mean while constructing the dialog or as a response to user interaction with the dialog once posted? [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 (no subject)

2004-04-26 Thread Sean Wilson
Here's a MIAW question for you - Is there any way of detecting when a windowType=6 MIAW is maximized by the user? AFAIK, the on zoomWindow handler is supposed to fire when a window's maximize/minimize boxes are clicked. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l Borderless MIAWs

2004-04-26 Thread Sean Wilson
I'm sure this has been covered before, but is there a way to get a borderless MIAW? Use a 1-bit bitmap for the windowType? Or one of the border-removing xtras? Which version of Director? -Sean. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l zooming windows

2004-04-26 Thread Sean Wilson
Thanks, that works...almost. It fires for maximize and minimize, as you say, but doesn't fire for normalize (returning to an open but non-maximized state from other minimized or maximized state). I would need some way of detecting this normalize also. I'm not sure it would fire when returning

Re: lingo-l Checking file (and path) validity

2004-04-18 Thread Sean Wilson
Ultimately, I want a Shockwave movie embedded in a web-page that will find the user's CD-ROM drive letter, and open a file from that drive I don't think you're going to be able to do this even if you can determine the user's CD drive letter. It breaks the entire Shockwave security model

Re: lingo-l intercepting Taskbar/System menu Close command

2004-04-11 Thread Sean Wilson
I can't find a way to intercept the Close command when the user clicks Close after right-clicking the icon in the taskbar in Windows or clicks Quit Projector in the system menu (top left of the screen) in Mac OS X. Is there a way to intercept those two Close commands? If this is not possible

Re: lingo-l Bug of the week

2004-02-10 Thread Sean Wilson
I managed to get the startMovie handler called 7 times. I'm willing to let you guess how I managed that before I reveal yet another Stupid Lingo Trick. You created 6 timeout objects in prepareMovie and none of their targets contained startMovie handlers? [To remove yourself from this list, or

Re: lingo-l FileIO limits

2004-02-10 Thread Sean Wilson
What is the limit to the length of a path for fileIO on Windows? I have a path 130 characters long, and I'm getting an IO error. Buddy reports that the file exists. IIRC, I think it's around 128. Can you use Buddy's baShortFileName() to pass to FileIO? [To remove yourself from this list, or to

Re: lingo-l A little heads-up

2004-01-17 Thread Sean Wilson
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. The go movie call wasn't doing anything. Is there any chance 'go ...' was being issued from a prepareFrame or stepFrame event? A

lingo-l RE: Dir MX 2004 - MIAW's

2004-01-06 Thread Sean Wilson
Did I mention that you can now [SNIP] Now you're just bragging! All of this sounds VERY tasty. I can't wait to get my hands on a shipping copy ... Congratulations to you and all the Director team on what sounds like a significant release. And yet there's still even more to talk about beyond

Re: lingo-l Director MX 2004 Questions

2004-01-06 Thread Sean Wilson
OK, I've got another one off the top of my head: any improvements to the MUI xtra (above the obvious need to fix the broken getURL call on OSX)? Any chance of encapsulating it, and its callbacks, to a parent script and thus avoid polluting the global space? I'm sure there are more to come, but

Re: lingo-l Weird error code

2003-12-13 Thread Sean Wilson
I'm only checking a list to see what the count of something is (ie if gThisAssetList.assets.count) and I'm getting an alert of: is3dCastMember Unknown error code (-2147219478) ...and I'm not even DOING anything with 3d. More on this: I think it might be related to vList I suspect this

Re: lingo-l Changing name of a file

2003-12-13 Thread Sean Wilson
is it possible to change the name of a file via Director? i mean, i want to offer a way to rename an already outputed textfile, myfirstname.txt --- secondname.txt en eventually to move the file into another directory? You could use Buddy API's baCopyFile() method, or you might even be able to

lingo-l Back for the future (was: accessing ...)

2003-12-12 Thread Sean Wilson
with another founding father of Director in the house Hi Tom, Any chance you could elaborate on another? Thanks, -Sean. [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,

Re: lingo-l accessing the timeoutlist

2003-12-11 Thread Sean Wilson
It's strange: I can't seem to access items in the plain old linear list of the timeoutlist. put the timeoutlist -- [timeOut(wiper)] g = timeout( QUOTE wiper QUOTE ) put (the timeoutlist).getPos(g) -- 0 If ((the timeoutlist).getPos(g)) 0) then -- doesn't work either Somehow, some way, I

RE: lingo-l accessing the timeoutlist, part II

2003-12-11 Thread Sean Wilson
Can one imply from this statement, that JT has returned to the nest? DIRECTOR, de lekkerste! Following along this path of implications, this suggests Director may yet regain it's most delicious status ... [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

RE: lingo-l accessing the timeoutlist, part II

2003-12-11 Thread Sean Wilson
Well in my own mind, along with Febo, Director is already de lekkerste. Always has been, always will be. I'd have to agree! -Sean. [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 goToNetPage buggy?

2003-12-08 Thread Sean Wilson
* Is there some other (cross-platform hopefully) way to launch a browser with a given URL, or open that URL in an existing browser? While I won't answer any of your other questions, I _always_ use Buddy API's baOpenURL() for launching a browser from a projector. It is much better at

Re: lingo-l Script window flushing

2003-12-05 Thread Sean Wilson
Just a quick question: when working with big scripts how do I get rid of constant flushing (or flashing) of script window whenever I typed in a new character? I've had a degree of luck with turning OFF line numbering, either from Edit - Preferences - Script, or right-click in an open script

Re: lingo-l Re: QT issues

2003-11-30 Thread Sean Wilson
I am working on a interactive project and I have went to test it online and the QuickTime .mov files will not show up. I exported out the .dcr file and it shows up on the preview test; however, when it is live the .mov files don't display audio or video.I have all the files that are associated

Re: lingo-l Using Lingo to compress Casts

2003-11-26 Thread Sean Wilson
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 Unfortunately not. The best you can do (AFAIK) is: castLib(nameOrNumber).save(fullPathToFile) -Sean. [To remove yourself from this

Re: lingo-l Dumb dir question

2003-11-14 Thread Sean Wilson
Anyway of getting the projector name? the applicationName -Sean. [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

Re: lingo-l Antispam UOL?

2003-10-28 Thread Sean Wilson
Is anyone else getting those annoying spanish 'click here to make sure this email isn't spam' messages for posting to lingo-l? Much like I'll get after this one...? Yep, I've had a few and they're getting to be a real pain. I suspect a Brazilian subscriber's ISP runs this service - so if you're

Re: lingo-l Protect content outside Director

2003-10-23 Thread Sean Wilson
I'm using video (mpg) in director movies, is there a way to protect this media, so they only can use it in the movie. I've tried to encrypt the file, but the project is distributed on CD-Rom and there seems no-way to encrypt it when the file is on the CD-Rom. Thanks. A possibility that I'm

Re: lingo-l Protect content outside Director

2003-10-23 Thread Sean Wilson
just an addendum to the binaryIO suggestion, there is a detailed description and lingo code for this under http://www.updatestage.com/previous/981101.html The problem with the BinaryIO option is that since the media is on CD-ROM you can't write to it. So if you were to use BinaryIO you'd need to

Re: lingo-l printing PDF with buddyAPI

2003-10-22 Thread Sean Wilson
Doing a simple routine to print a PDF document as follows: on mHit me sPDFFileToPrint = themoviePath pPDFPathName \ gCurrentLanguage pPDFFileName .pdf returnError = baPrintFile(sPDFFileToOpen) if returnError 32 then -- issues a number of calls and then returns an alert dialogue

Re: lingo-l Accessing global variables with sent parameters

2003-10-20 Thread Sean Wilson
put the globals.count -- 1 setAProp the globals, #x, hi put the globals.count -- 2 put x -- hi What I think Agustín is (circuitously) suggesting is: on LoadDataSet stdnum tData = (the globals)[symbol(gStandard stdnum DataRef)] -- utilize tData as you see fit (it *should* hold the value

Re: lingo-l OSX baShortFileName

2003-10-13 Thread Sean Wilson
I can't for the life of me get buddyApis function baShortFilename() to work on OSX. the docs say clearly, that it should work on OSX, but the only thing I get from this function is void :-( regardless what I do. what am I missing ? The thing I *always* miss with this function is that the file

Re: lingo-l OSX baShortFileName

2003-10-13 Thread Sean Wilson
thank you Sean, but I tried it with existing files. the docs say, that if I provide the short name, I will get the short name. since I get the short file name, whenever I baGetFilename(), the following shouldn't return void IMO: It certainly looks like there's something screwy going on there. On

Re: lingo-l Scrollwheel?

2003-10-03 Thread Sean Wilson
Is there any xtra that can get a scrollwheel? WheelMouse - Windows only: http://www.mods.com.au/xtras/download/wheelmouse.zip Updatestage is a good place to check for available xtras: http://www.updatestage.com/products_table.html -Sean. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to

Re: lingo-l Can MUI bitmaps have ink effects?

2003-09-25 Thread Sean Wilson
I'm wondering if you can somehow add ink effects to bitmaps in MUIs. I ask because my MUI has a bitmap that needs a shape to it other than rectangular. Unfortunately not, in my experience. In order to work around this limitation I created a bitmap with the same bg colour as the dialog window

Re: lingo-l Open a folder

2003-09-22 Thread Sean Wilson
I thought there would have been a method somewhere to open a folder...maybe in buddyAPI or the fileXtra or something. Is there any way to open a folder (not a file)? You don't say which platform you're interested in, but this will work on Windows using BuddyAPI: -- on mouseUp me prog =

Re: lingo-l detecting quicktime player

2003-09-02 Thread Sean Wilson
Cath has shown the 'quickTimeVersion', whats the other method? and what are the advantages or disadvantages of the various methods. All approaches involve an xtra of some sort. For example 'quickTimeVersion()' is dependent on the QT3 or QT6 Asset xtra - both of which ship with Director (and are

Re: lingo-l cpu usage

2003-09-02 Thread Sean Wilson
I have made a new .dxr and in the preferences unmarked the check box animate in the background but it still use 100% cpu. I have also now tried: on exitFrame go the frame basleep(30) end And are you saying that baSleep() doesn't help? Try moving it to an enterFrame handler. That

Re: lingo-l dynamic text fields, how-to...

2003-09-02 Thread Sean Wilson
However, there are potential performance hits using lots of flash sprites on the same frame. Why do you think you have the performance hit? It is because everytime you use a Flash Member as a sprite, you are in fact invoking another instance of the Flash player (flash xtra). Yes, and each

Re: lingo-l Bloody stupid HP drivers

2003-08-27 Thread Sean Wilson
It's not Director. It's those bloody stupid buggy HP printer drivers. Every time I print something, Director starts crashing. I reboot, and everything is fine. Until I print again. Try calling fpReset() on updateStage's vList xtra after printing and see if it helps. I think it's one of the

Re: lingo-l dynamic text fields, how-to...

2003-08-27 Thread Sean Wilson
Is there any other way of making it work besides creating multiple text cast members and assigning each sprite its own cast member? I am open to suggestions - I´m not even sure how I would go about creating text members on-the-fly. Daniel showed you how to create members on the fly. Another

Re: lingo-l RGB codes

2003-08-25 Thread Sean Wilson
While I'm not sure if this is what you're asking, paste this into a movie script and call it from the message window: on mShowColors repeat with i = 0 to 255 aColor = color(#paletteIndex, i) hex = aColor.hexString() aColor.colorType = #rgb put i, hex,

Re: lingo-l RGB codes

2003-08-25 Thread Sean Wilson
I'm sure you're on the right lines for what was being asked, but which palette does the routine refer to? Excellent question, Colin! And something I struggled with. I *think* it defaults to the palette set in the movie properties dialog and for some reason that setting isn't available to

Re: lingo-l Save as binary file

2003-08-14 Thread Sean Wilson
do I need an Xtra to save a bitmap to the hard drive? This is a projector, not a Shockwave. AFAIK, yes. The best option, IMHO, is Werner's SharpExport xtra http://www.sharp-software.com (I believe DirectImage also has this kind of functionality - at a price!) -Sean. [To remove yourself from

Re: lingo-l MUI Xtra on OSX

2003-06-11 Thread Sean Wilson
I had the same problems in 8.5, and I double checked the Xtra version, and it is the MX xtra. Here's the code I'm using to build the dialog box. It works fine on Windows: In your windowPropList you don't specify anything for the modality of the dialog. In my experience, run() expects the

Re: lingo-l To hide a browser window using buddy api

2003-04-02 Thread Sean Wilson
set b1=new(xtra budapi) set OK = baOpenFile( c:\tmp.htm , hidden ) put ok -- 26031 I don't know whether it has any bearing on your ability to open a browser as hidden, or why your return value for baOpenFile is as large as it is, but you don't need to create an instance of Buddy API before

Re: lingo-l Printomatic on IBM

2003-03-20 Thread Sean Wilson
At 10:57 a.m. 20/03/2003 +0530, you wrote: While using the Printomatic xtra in Director, we found that printing on IBM machines running Windows 98 results in a failed printout. I'm not sure of the specific application, but you might want to hit updateStage and look through the docs for their

Re: lingo-l Vector out of a field or text cast member

2003-03-17 Thread Sean Wilson
Just had a quick question, I would like to have users imputing text through a normal text field and would like to be able to convert the characters of the imputed text to vector shapes for later access to the vertexList. Is there any easy way of doing this? I think there is an undocumented (=

Re: lingo-l beep command

2003-03-12 Thread Sean Wilson
I just tried using the beep command on a Windows XP machine and it doesn't work on either of my machines. I can try it in the Message window and nothing happens. I don't remember ever testing on WinXP before, but I don't think I done anything that should affect the system beep. Alert gives a

Re: lingo-l Customized hypertext

2003-03-10 Thread Sean Wilson
I know I have read somewhere that I can customize hypertext in Director to make it a different color (other than blue), but can't remember where I saw these notes. Does anyone know where I can find this information? Turn off useHyperTextStyles in the PI, select the text in your hyperlinkRange

Re: lingo-l icon question

2003-02-27 Thread Sean Wilson
What's the best way of changing icons for a pc projector? I've used microangelo in the past, but it seems to kill projectors now... I still use Microangelo successfully - you just have to be careful when updating icons to choose Update graphics 'in place' from the Edit - EXE update method menu.

Re: lingo-l sound loop question

2003-02-08 Thread Sean Wilson
I'm looking at an old Director movie with a sound in it. The sound is internal, and I don't have the source file to investigate. This sound starts with a rising pitch, reaches some point and stays there (actually, think of the sound of a car starting out and then reaching cruising speed).

Re: lingo-l Email/Mailto from Scrollable text.

2003-01-21 Thread Sean Wilson
I've placed the script 'mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]' without the quotation marks on the Text Inspector. I've also placed an on hyperlinkClicked event handler as a movie script: When I create a projector it works fine, but on the hyperlinks it opens an unfound html page, before going to the

Re: lingo-l bringing a window to the front

2003-01-21 Thread Sean Wilson
I'm using Buddy API to make sure a window stays on top of other windows, and have tried this code, without success: gBUDAPI=xtra(BudAPI).new() lwinHandle=baWinHandle() baWindowToFront(lwinHandle) I've also tried baStageHandle() to get the handle of the current window, but to no avail. I've

Re: lingo-l FindingNotWantedFonts

2003-01-14 Thread Sean Wilson
on FindFonts repeat with i = 1 to the number of castmembers of castLib 4 if the castType of cast i of castLib 4 = EMPTY then nothing else if the castType of cast i of castLib 4 = #richtext then put the memberNum of cast i of

Re: lingo-l Shockwave projector

2002-12-22 Thread Sean Wilson
This is Director MX, Win98. I just noticed that the Player radio buttons in the Projector Options dialog box has the Shockwave option grayed out. Does this mean that Shockwave projectors are no longer supported? Or is my system weird? Does anyone have the ability to make a Shockwave

Re: lingo-l Shockwave projector

2002-12-22 Thread Sean Wilson
Thanks for letting me know that it works for you. I had already tried what you suggested and it made no difference. I know they yanked the Director MX download for a while, and made some bug fixes, but I didn't hear anything about dealing with with this issue. I have the NFR (Not for Resale)

Re: lingo-l Optimizing streaming media

2002-11-21 Thread Sean Wilson
it starts to play, but the initial music and voice over don't play right away. I've created looping animations that ask to please wait while media downloads, and I've got a script preloading those items The two members are swa's, and I get the distinct feeling they're downloading fully before

Re: lingo-l bug in getPixel()?

2002-11-05 Thread Sean Wilson
i've these result instead of rgb(255, 000, 000) getPixel return rgb(248, 000, 000) rgb(000, 255, 000) rgb(000, 248, 000) rgb(000, 000, 255) rgb(000, 000, 248) and so on for every pure colors likes rgb(255, 255, 000) even rgb (255, 255, 255) --

Re: lingo-l Another Buddy API question

2002-10-17 Thread Sean Wilson
bawin is win only I thought that baWin was a Mac-compiled/compatible xtra that contained the methods that are Windows specific and that these methods did nothing. The reasoning being that you could then write (x-plat) code without having to check the platform. If it ran on Windows, you get

Re: lingo-l Cursor only on hypertext

2002-09-10 Thread Sean Wilson
At 09:22 a.m. 11/09/2002 +1000, you wrote: In using Hypertext Styles on a text member the hypertext is blue and underlined and the cursor changes to a finger over the hypertext. For the project I am working on I want the cursor to change as above, but not the blue text and underlining. Is it

RE: lingo-l Can you get rid of the black key line boarder on a projector?

2002-08-01 Thread Sean Wilson
Can you get rid of the black key line boarder on a projector? What has worked for me in the past is to make the projector In a window (File-Create Projector-Options). Then add a (projectorName).ini file and add this section/keyName to it: [Settings] FullScreen=1 I don't remember whether this

RE: lingo-l miaw problems II

2002-06-30 Thread Sean Wilson
or more precisely: the sound stops when i CLOSE the window. sorry for the mistake... i was so fixated by having found a tech note about the sound stopping that i confused opening a window with closing it. You just found the wrong TN. Here's the one that acknowledges that bug:

RE: lingo-l editable textfield jump to another field using returnkey

2002-06-13 Thread Sean Wilson
let say there is an sentence wich has open spaces where the user has to fill in one word. after he or she has done this, the enter/return key is pressed and the content is checked. if the content (the word wich was filled in) is wrong the space must be empty again. if the content is right

RE: lingo-l Fake QTVR in Shockwave

2002-06-11 Thread Sean Wilson
Most machines these days, though, have Shockwave installed. Would it be possible to create virtual reality images by mapping an image on a 3D sphere cast member, then placing a camera at its center? If this would work, I assume that creating some sort of click and drag interface to

RE: lingo-l Field member property name for drop shadow (not the text)

2002-06-10 Thread Sean Wilson
What is the property name for the drop shadow of the box ... boxDropShadow Easiest to see when a field member/sprite is selected in the cast/score, the PI is in list view, and the Field tab is selected. -Sean. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

RE: lingo-l mapping network drive

2002-06-09 Thread Sean Wilson
how do i map a network drive Run a batch file using the open command that does this for you. and also be able to get the current log-in Buddy API's baUserName() HTH, -Sean. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post

RE: lingo-l Use ActiveX Control in Shockwave Movie

2002-06-09 Thread Sean Wilson
This application requires an Xtra (ActiveX...) that either does not exist or failed to initialize properly. Please make sure the appropriate Xtras are in the Xtras folder(s). This reply from Tom Higgins (Macromedia engineer) to the same question on Direct-L: QUOTE Just to make sure the

RE: lingo-l Print

2002-06-04 Thread Sean Wilson
Hey all, trying something that I thought would be fairly simple. I'm trying to print a text field from director, not the stage and not necessarily the sprite. The sprite I'm using intentionally only includes about 1/2 the data of the text field. When printed, all data needs to be

RE: lingo-l backward compatibility of director versions

2002-05-21 Thread Sean Wilson
I have an urgent problem which is that I have developed a project on a PC with Director v8.5 and now have to make it xplatform for the Mac. BUT I only have Director v8 on the Mac and it tells me that the file is too new to open!!! Is there any way to make this happen as I do not fancy to

RE: lingo-l I've lost my mind

2002-05-20 Thread Sean Wilson
on mouseUp(me) if NOT the shiftDown then currModel = member(sprite(me.spriteNum).member).camera[1].modelUnderLoc(the mouseLoc) if NOT voidP(currModel) then -- if there is a model under the mouse tlSelectableModels = [your list of model names here]

RE: lingo-l Text Editing Functions

2002-05-14 Thread Sean Wilson
- getting a list of installed fonts (without using an Xtra) t = new(#font) put t.fontList() -- [lots of fonts here] t.erase() However, I think you'll need to include the font xtras to do this - pasting in styled text from eg. Word. Essentially, is there a way to determine the type of data

RE: lingo-l manipulating Shockwave movies

2002-05-13 Thread Sean Wilson
Wow, how the hell u do that? Do you mean set/getPref, or using the MU xtra? In either case, RTM is a good place to start ;) waitForNetConnection(), connectToNetServer(), and setNetMessageHandler() will be the first terms you'll want to come to grips with when using the xtra. There are some

RE: lingo-l building a new object and getting it's properties

2002-05-09 Thread Sean Wilson
I'm having trouble with a little script, what I need to do is, say I have ten items in my game and each item has three properties, properties are name, age and colour. I am creating each object using the following: set objOne = new(script buildObject,PeterPan,10,WHITE) I have a script

RE: lingo-l forecolor field text , integer expected

2002-05-06 Thread Sean Wilson
How can I set the color´s line of a field text member with hexadecimal representation or RGB values ? Try setting the 'color', as opposed to the 'foreColor'. It should accept rgb triplets and hex values. member(pmember).line[2].color = rgb(0,0,0) unfortunately, this syntax generates

RE: lingo-l forecolor field text , integer expected

2002-05-05 Thread Sean Wilson
How can I set the color´s line of a field text member with hexadecimal representation or RGB values ? Try setting the 'color', as opposed to the 'foreColor'. It should accept rgb triplets and hex values. member(pmember).line[2].color = rgb(0,0,0) HTH, -Sean. [To remove yourself from this

RE: lingo-l HELP with 3d director

2002-04-28 Thread Sean Wilson
I'm trying to create a primitive or place a max model in director. I need the model to be placed in a w3d object I already have on the stage. Any suggestions or sample code will be greatly appreciated. Look at loadFile() and/or cloneModelFromCastmember() in the dictionary. -Sean. [To

RE: lingo-l lingo-lHow Can I tell?

2002-04-23 Thread Sean Wilson
if ilk(sprite(spriteNum).member) = #field then I think that ilk(sprite(spriteNum).member) will always evaluate to #member. What Irv was perhaps looking for was sprite(spriteNum).member.type which will return #field when attached to a field sprite. I also think that what was being asked will

RE: lingo-l Change projector icon

2002-04-18 Thread Sean Wilson
I know that there is a way of changing the projector icon to If you alter the 'projector.skl' then every projector you create will have this new icon. If you want to give each projector it's own individual icon, one of the easiest ways is to use Microangelo. Download a copy from

RE: lingo-l shockwave error

2002-04-18 Thread Sean Wilson
Somebody know how to get what is the error? Find your Shockwave installation folder (eg. C\Windows\System\Macromed\Shockwave 8\). Locate the file named 'Shockwave.ini', and un-comment (remove the ;) from the section [Lingo] DisplayFullLingoErrorText=1 This *should* provide more information

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