lingo-l duplicate cast members

Every now and then I see a duplicate of a cast member (a script) appear for no apparent reason. Both copies have the same name, different dates, and different cast member number--and identical text (unless I edit one before I notice the duplicate). I've seen this happening in Dir MX 9, and I

lingo-l Esc key and exitLock in Dir 10

Thanks, Sean! Yes, in OS X, the closeRequest handler is called when you click the Quit command in the OS X system menu or the Close box in the projector's title bar, and also when you press Escape (with exitLock set to true). Perfect! closeRequest is not in Dir MX 10 Help, but there is a

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

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. S. At 10:10 AM 8/1/04 -0700, you wrote: At 1249 -0400 08/01/2004, Slava Paperno wrote: Thanks, Sean! Yes, in OS X, the closeRequest

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

This works in Windows, where I use QuitMsg from mediamacros, but I can't find a way to make it work in OS X. With exitLock set to true, pressing Esc calls up closeRequest exactly the way it is called up when the user clicks the Close button in the title bar or the Quit command in the

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

I should have added that in OS X closeRequest is called BEFORE the keyDownScript handler or a keyDown test can be applied--Esc seems to bypass that test. S. At 07:50 PM 8/1/04 -0400, you wrote: This works in Windows, where I use QuitMsg from mediamacros, but I can't find a way to make it work

lingo-l how to crash Dir MX 9 and 10 in Mac OS X

My movie was written entirely in Windows--first in Dir MX 9, then in MX 10. I've just started testing it in Dir MX 9 and 10 under Mac OS X and discovered that a certain block of Lingo always crash Director, causing it to close without a warning or any error messages. I wonder if this is a

lingo-l baOpenURL() fails for local file in Panther

In my movie, both in projector and authoring, baOpenURL() works for remote Web pages (http:// etc) but fails for a local file. It returns 1 as if the browser was successfully opened, but in fact the browser is closed. This is under OS X 10.3.4. Can someone confirm or disprove this, please?

lingo-l misbehaving scrollbar on Mac OS X

I have a movie where the text members' scrollbars msibehave in a particular way, and I wonder if there's a cure for that--or if that's something I'm ignorant about. The text member is assigned to the sprite when the playhead enters the frame. In several frames, the same sprite has different

lingo-l Esc key and exitLock in Dir 10

It seems that even in Dir 10 there's no way to trap the Esc key when exitLock is set to false. I other words, suppose I want to enable the standard OS X ways of quitting the application--the X button and the Quit command in the system menu--but don't want Esc to close the projector. Is there a

lingo-l projector icon formats in OS X

What graphic formats does the projector icon accept in Publish Settings under Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)? I've tried pict and tif and png, but my projector still has the standard Director icon. Help doesn;t explain this, a search for a technote doesn'r bring anything up, and I don;t have the

lingo-l Do MX 9 and MX 2004 co-exist?

The Upgrade Guide on the MM site doesn't mention this. Can someoone please tell me if the MX 9 continues to function normally on a Windows XP machine where the new MX 2004 is installed? Thanks! Slava [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

RE: lingo-l All those DLLs

Tom, Shouldn't your Point 4 include and any subfolders within it? I've always used subfolders within the Xtras folder but never knew how many levels down the projector looks. It might be useful to know. Thanks for an excellent writeup, I'll save it. Slava At 10:36 AM 7/15/04 -0700, you

lingo-l Director error code -1101

Sorry to bother you guys with a trivial question, but I did look at the MM site first: where is a table of Director MX (9) error codes? Is -1101 in that table? I'm getting it when trying to encode a wave to MPEG3 in WIndows XP using AudioXtra (but it's not an AudioXtra code). Thanks! Slava

Re: lingo-l Director error code -1101

Thanks to Pedja and Colin for responding. Pedja's suggestion won't work for me because I need to convert wave and aiff files at runtime, in projector. I don't know of a Lingo equivalent to convert swa to wav, and that command doesn't even exist on the Mac. Colin's guess doesn't seem to apply

lingo-l Director error code -1101

At 10:49 AM 7/11/04 -0400, Colin Holgate wrote: Do you have write access to C:\WALSampler\WalSampler\? Yes, I successfully used Director's Convert WAV to SWA for this file, placing the output in the same folder. So it appears Director has no trouble writing to that folder. I even wondered if

lingo-l Director error code -1101

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. The mono recordings it produces are actually 16

lingo-l stopEvent and the Function keys

Thanks for your response, Kurt. I'm sure input can be validated that way, although it's not very efficient, especially since my users' input comes from the entire range of ANSI 32 to 255 decimal, and the offset function insists on using its own judgement on character equivalencies (lower case

lingo-l stopEvent and the Function keys: (messy) solution

but cannot be stopEvent'ed. Slava At 01:30 PM 7/2/04 -0400, Slava Paperno wrote: At 12:44 PM 7/2/04 -0400, Kurt Griffin wrote: 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

lingo-l F12 defamation retracted

I have to apologize to the F12 key: it returns keyCode 11 only on my PC with the Russian keyboard driver activated. It normally returns keyCode 111. Humbly, S. [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

lingo-l stopEvent and the Function keys

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: lingo-l stopEvent and the Function keys

could help with this if the keycode stuff isn't working out... ~Mathew Slava Paperno wrote: 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

lingo-l hex 07 06 in output file resolved

A few days ago, I posted a message about the hex 97 06 characters in my output files that were supposed to be plain text. I wrote them out using Ultimate File IO Xtra from http://www.reallingo.cc (RealLingo.cc). It turned out that the Xtra uses these two characters as a delimiter when appending

Re: lingo-l Text question

You have to do this manually, through lingo. E.g., if you put a button on the stage that says Italics, this would be the button's script: on mouseUp me locFocusMember = sprite(the keyboardFocusSprite).member if locFocusMember.type #text then alert Before using this button, select

lingo-l CR, LF, and RETURN

I thought I understood the CR/LF situation vis-a-vis RETURN until today I discovered that RETURN is written out to a text file as chars hex 07 and 06... Where did these come from? What am I missing? I'm using the Ultimate FileIO Xtra to write strings to a file. This is with Dir MX (9) and Win

lingo-l Video Recommedations in Director

All that being absolutely correct, I want to report that my MPEG-1 videos are 720 x 400, and so far (after a year) I haven't run into any problems. I compress with vegas and playback with MpegAdvance Xtra from Tabuleiro, cross-platform. Slava At 06:27 PM 6/9/04 +0200, Bertil Flink wrote: For

lingo-l Sorting Challenge

Is there an xplat Xtra that expands Directors limited ability to sort lists? Or, can someone please advise me on how to implement this sort? I have a linear list where the value of each item is a property list, [ [#Prop1: abc, #Prop2: 02, #Prop3: 02], [#Prop1: abc, #Prop2: 02, #Prop3: 01],

lingo-l Sorting Challenge

, #Prop3: 02], [#Prop1: xyz, #Prop2: 02, #Prop3: 01]] Hope this help. /Per-Erik Bergman http://www.uncle.nu/ Slava Paperno wrote: Is there an xplat Xtra that expands Directors limited ability to sort lists? Or, can someone please advise me on how to implement this sort? I have a linear list where

lingo-l turning off useHypertextStyles thru Lingo REPOST

I guess this wasn't a very exciting problem :-) No responses... Even if no one has a solution, I'd really like to know if it's a legitimate quirk... I would then send it as such to updateStage.com. Could someone please confirm that they see the same behavior? It can be done in authoring and

Re: lingo-l turning off useHypertextStyles thru Lingo REPOST

Sorry, haven't seen either of those... Don't know how that could happen--I watch my email around the clock... Can I persuade someone to resend, perhaps off-list? Many thanks! Sorry for the extra traffic. S. At 06:11 PM 5/24/04 -0400, you wrote: On May 24, 2004, at 5:50 PM, Slava Paperno wrote

lingo-l turning off useHypertextStyles thru Lingo

This must be a known quirk: in Dir MX (9), when member().useHyperTextStyles is turned off through lingo at runtime, the Property Inspector shows it to be off, but the text of the member still shows all hyperlinks in blue and underlined. I think I remember seeing a trick for forcing the member

lingo-l html in D8 or D9

Please let us know what you discover, Mike, if you keep at it. I constantly use Director's HTML displaying capabilities because I have huge numbers of texts that are already formatted as HTML, including tables. Like you, I lament the incomplete implementation. I need a crossplatform solution

RE: lingo-l Font problem

, you wrote: I do really need pointers. I've been having problems for years with Serbian language which uses Ciryllic very similar to that of Russian. Thats why I am asking for help. Zoran -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:lingo-l- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Slava

lingo-l Font problem

I, too, will look forward to reading Kerry's article, since he's our leading expert in these things, but in the meantime, don't despair: I've been using Russian in my Director projects for years, with various Cyrillic fonts based on code page 1251 in Windows and Apple Cyrillic on the Mac (both

lingo-l Font problem

Hi Kerry! At 05:44 PM 5/18/04 -0400, you wrote: Slava, you said you have had success with these fonts. I'm guessing that you are able to get Czech fonts to display on Latin-2 (code page 1250) systems, and Russian on CP 1251 systems. I've had some success with embedding Czech and Russian fonts on

Re: lingo-l Window in front

Buddy API baWindowToFront() S. At 05:04 PM 5/5/04 -0500, you wrote: Hello, I am opening a projector.exe from a projector. The problem is that the projector that I am opening is opening behind the first projector application. Is there a way tell which application should be in the forefront. Thank

Re: lingo-l Hybrid DVD

Burning ROM can create hybrid discs on a PC if a Mac-formatted volume is attached to your PC. Burning ROM is the most advanced DVD-creation app that I know of. I've never used it with a Mac volume, though. It may be worth a call to their tech support. Slava At 10:42 AM 5/4/2004 -0500, you

Re: lingo-l Hybrid DVD

Yes, it can. I do this with Toast 5 under OS X 10.2. Toast doesn;t care what size your hybrid disc is. Toast 5 doesn;t even call it a hybrid CD-ROM; it says hybrid disc. I put PC and Mac executables, shared data, and all the rest of it on my hybrid DVD-ROMs, and they work exactly as hybrid

Re: lingo-l charToNum() on very large string

Are you at liberty to use other encryption schemes that don't require char-by-char conversion? UpdateStage has a bunch at http://www.updatestage.com/products_table.html#Encryption . I use BlowFish. Slava At 10:15 AM 5/1/04 -0400, you wrote: Conceptually, what I'm trying to do is pretty

lingo-l Checking file (and path) validity

Can't you use the Buddy API function baFileExists()? At 12:15 PM 4/19/04 +1000, you wrote: Hi list I am looking for a way to test if a movie name (and it's file path) are valid, and if so, go to that movie [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

lingo-l unable to load movie playlist (on Mac OS X) SOLVED

I'm posting this to explain the reason for the weirdd failure, with an erroneous error message under Mac OS X with Director MX 9.0. I know same frivolous error message is displayed in other situations, and therefore I paste the responses I received. But my case seems to be new. Here is the

lingo-l intercepting Taskbar/System menu Close command

It's important for me to be able to intercept the Close/Quit command so I can warn the user of unsaved data. In my Dir MX (9.0), I set exitLock to true and use QuitMsg Xtra (Windows) from mediamacros to intercept the Close command when the user clicks Close in the window's system menu

lingo-l unable to load movie playlist (on Mac OS X)

This is on a OS X machine. A Director MX (9.0) stub projector displays this error message when I attempt to start it, and quits: Unable to load the movie playlist. Does the INI file exist? It must contain a section [Movies] with an entry 'Movie01=pathname.dir' I confess that even though an

Re: lingo-l exit button

Use the Buddy API function baMsgBx(). Also, look into exitLock, a movie property. S. At 10:40 AM 3/24/04 -0800, you wrote: Help! Ok, I lost my head some where on the road to work today. How do i make a quit button or exit button with Yes or No button. Fred W [To remove yourself from this

Re: lingo-l EXE

A user of a Director projector cannot generate another projector, if that's what you mean. But you can write your projector in a way that will allow it to read your user's slides and display them. If you want the user to be able to compile his own slide shows, the user does not need to generate

Re: lingo-l Changing icon on exe

Look in the list archives, and you'll find lots of pointers. This subjects is revived every couple of months. I've used Microangleo (icon editor) and IconWorkShop from Axialis, both pretty good. Microangelo has a technote in the FAQ somewhere on their site written specifically for Director

lingo-l Mac/Win upper-ANSI chars and MX 2004

I know Kerry will know a thing or ten about this, but I hope other knowledgeable parties are also listening. Most of my movies include text members in Russian. The Cyrillic character sets that are used in applications that don't support Unicode are located in the 128-255 decimal range of the

lingo-l Mac/Win upper-ANSI chars and MX 2004

of any changes to MX2004, but then again I wouldn't notice something that I don't use. Sincerely Mark R. Jonkman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Slava Paperno Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 10:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l

lingo-l XPOST: Audio Xtra interest

Sounds almost too good to be true, but yes, this would be a useful addition to the arsenal of good audio Xtras that we have now. S. [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 why palletized images?

I want to be... after more than two full days of duplicating my efforts. Still--I will save your advice in case I see this again. As you say, Gratefully, Slava At 12:25 PM 1/18/04 +1100, you wrote: On 18/1/04 4:01 AM, Slava Paperno wrote: I do switch image types, and maybe that's

Re: lingo-l why palletized images?

Thanks to Colin, Warren and Troy. I've checked the things you all mentioned. I think imageCompression imageQuality only apply to saving movie as Shockwave, but I understand those comments, too. My problem happens in authoring as well as in standard projector. I've reduced the problem to one

lingo-l adding a volume level meter to a sound recorder

I'm answering my own question from last summer. I was then working on a Director application that recorded sound and wanted to display a level meter so the user can see and adjust the input volume or just speak louder. It's also reassuring for the user to see that someting is actually

lingo-l why palettized images?

This must be somethig very simple--something I accidentally messed up--but I can't find what. All of a sudden all images on the stage are palettized, look like 8-bit color or worse. Yet all bitmaps in the movie have member().depth of 32 bits. According to Properties Inspector, all bitmaps have

Re: lingo-l Disable button

The buttons in OSControl Xtra from openspark.com have a property that makes them enabled or disabled. When disabled, they look like any disabled button in the current OS, and don't accept any clicks. Slava At 09:52 PM 1/11/04 +0100, you wrote: Is there a property I can set to

Re: lingo-l multi-select dropdown menus?

I use OSControls Xtra for doing exactly this. Once you learn how to use the Xtra, this is very easily done, and the Xtra is easy to learn. You'll only need to learn how to use their popup menu. See http://xtras.openspark.com/ Slava At 02:53 PM 1/10/04 -0500, you wrote: Hey all: Sorry if this

Re: lingo-l multi-select dropdown menus?

SORRY--I have to take it back. OSControls popup menus don't allow muliple selectiosn. I wrote that at a mloment of temporary insanity. It's still a great Xtra, of course. S. Erroneously posted at a mloment of temporary insanity: I use OSControls Xtra for doing exactly this. At 02:53 PM 1/10/04

lingo-l Dir MX 2004 and MP3

Can someone tell us if the new Director MX 2004, with its expanded media support, adds the capability to record sound and encode it to MP3? I'm currently using the AudioXtra from updateStage.com to record, and lame.exe as an external app to encode. This works well, but I wonder if any new

lingo-l the controlDown on a Mac

This script is attached to a sprite with an editable text member: on keyUp if the controlDown then put the keyCode end if end I'm trying to understand why in my movie this works differently under Windows than under Mac OS X. In Windows, if I keep the Ctrl key pressed as I tap letter

lingo-l DVD-ROM: hiding Windows files from Mac OS X ANSWERED

as well. valentin Slava Paperno wrote: Is there a way to produce a DVD-ROM that shows only the Mac files when used under Mac OS X, and only Windows files when used under Windows? In other words, is there such a thing as a hybrid DVD-ROM? I know how to make a cross-platform DVD-ROM (the UDF

lingo-l DVD-ROM: hiding Windows files from Mac OS X

This is slightly off the subject of Lingo, and I apologize for that, but still think the issue may be of interest to some members. Is there a way to produce a DVD-ROM that shows only the Mac files when used under Mac OS X, and only Windows files when used under Windows? In other words, is

Re: lingo-l baOpenURL and hyperlinkClicked

, Bertil Flink wrote: Have you included the FontXtra with the Projector or in the Xtras folder? I think it's needed for anti-aliased #text among other things, not only for embedded fonts. Bertil Flink Creative Media - Original Message - From: Slava Paperno [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

lingo-l baOpenURL and hyperlinkClicked

I've been using Buddy API's baOpenURL() with no problems until I tried to put it in a hyperlinkClicked handler. This is the entire handler: on hyperlinkClicked me, data, range locResult = baOpenURL(data, Normal) put data locResult --projector opens a debugging window end hyperlinkClicked

lingo-l bulleted lists in text members

I know this line of lingo will create a bulleted list in the text member: member(1).html = html ullione/lilitwo/li/ul /html But does someone know how to *type* a bulleted list in Dir MX's text editor? Thanks, Slava [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l bulleted lists in text members

in authoring--I'm writing a long Help text where I need bulleted lists. Gratefully, Slava At 12:48 PM 12/9/03 -0600, you wrote: On Dec 9, 2003, at 11:16 AM, Slava Paperno wrote: I know this line of lingo will create a bulleted list in the text member: member(1).html = html ullione/lilitwo/li/ul

lingo-l DVD Creation

Double negatives in a foreign language may be confusing... Yes, you can combine DVD Video content and DVD-ROM (like CD-ROM) on the same DVD disc. When placed in a DVD Player, it will play the DVD Video content--not an interactive Director aplication. When placed in your computer's DVD drive,

lingo-l Lingo equivalent to scrollIntoView

members as well. Thanks again to those who suggested this. Slava At 04:55 PM 11/21/03 -0600, Warren Ockrassa wrote: I thought I'd seen that question answered earlier this week. Hmm. At 13:39 Uhr -0500 21.11.2003, Slava Paperno wrote: Would someone please share their script or strategy for scrolling

lingo-l highlighting a chunk in text member

Many thanks to those who responded to my question about scrolling a certain word into view in a text member. Member.charPosToLoc() and of course Member.scrollTop is what I needed. Now a related question: what's the best way to highlight a chunk of text in a text member? Color doesn't work for

Re: lingo-l highlighting a chunk in text member

by the sprite of text member myAnswer so that characters 6 through 10 are highlighted: member(myAnswer).selection = [6, 10] At 2050 -0500 11/21/2003, Slava Paperno wrote: what's the best way to highlight a chunk of text in a text member? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode

lingo-l highlighting a chunk in text member

My question still remains: what's a good way to highlight a chunk of text in a text member, other than by color or font size? I can't use color because hyperlinks don't allow a color change and I want to keep useHyperText as true. I don't want to use font size because the text jumps when

lingo-l scrollIntoView

Would someone please share their script or strategy for scrolling a *text* member so that member.word[X] becomes visible? Thanks! Slava [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

lingo-l pageHeight

I thought pageHeight was a field member property (and the Dir MX Lingo Dictionary and Help confirm that), not a text member property. Yet Property Inspector shows fixed values for pageHeight for my text members. I don't know where they come from. What sets them and what defines their values

lingo-l cast member list

Is there a quick and efficient way to get the names of all members in a cast as a list? It seems there must be something better than looping through the cast, no? Slava [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages

lingo-l task bar icon, closing

Under Windows, all my projectors use the QuitMsg Xtra (http://mediamacros.com/files/quitmsg.zip) to intercept the system Close command when the user clicks the X in the top right corner of the projector window. This works great, and I couldn't live without this Xtra, because one really has to

Re: lingo-l BaFileList() and .sort

They *are* in order, alphanetically speaking. If you want file2 to come right after file1, use leading zeroes when naming them, file01, file02, etc. If you have more than 99 files, use two leading zeroes. S. At 10:53 AM 8/26/03 -0400, you wrote: So I'm using baFileList with a list of files as

Re: lingo-l government / video question

I've had good luck with MPEG-1 recently. Plays great on Windows and Macs without installing anything, and even the warnings about non-standard video window sizes have so far proven to be unjustified. I've used 720 x 404 video in one product and couldn't find a Windows machine that would not

Re: lingo-l RE:Mpeg pathing problem

John, Assuming you're using MPEG Advance Xtra from Tabuleiro, here is the approach that works for me when I have to switch source mpg movies while the projector is running. In the stopMovie handler, I have this Lingo (it prevents saving the movie with a hardcoded path to something I don't

Re: lingo-l when/why is pupperSprite necessary?

Thanks, Mark, At 07:32 AM 7/30/03 -0700, you wrote: Does it work any better if you swap out members of the same type? I seem to recall that D7 would actually bug out if you swapped a sprite's member type out from under it. I avoid it so I don't know how newer versions behave. Yes, when the

Re: lingo-l when/why is pupperSprite necessary?

Nope, no other puppetting. And I just tried tirning the member DTS off, and also the stageColor trick. That doesn;t help. But the puppetting trick always does. Thanks. S. At 11:01 AM 7/30/03 -0700, Mark A. Boyd wrote: At 08:41 2003-07-30, Slava Paperno wrote: I thought that I may have some code

lingo-l when/why is pupperSprite necessary?

I thought the puppetSprite command became more or less unnecessary a few versions ago, and that a sprite's behavior can now be controlled through Lingo in almost all situations, but I'm finding that I can't live without this command any more in Dir MX (Windows XP). This used to work without

Re: lingo-l when/why is pupperSprite necessary?

Thanks for thinking about it, Colin. I do use updateStage (my example that you cite below shows it), but without puppetting, the sprite that is reported to have a bitmap member assigned to it displays its previous text member instead. Similarly, the sprite that reports its visibility as true

Re: lingo-l when/why is pupperSprite necessary?

Thanks, Anan, I do use the updateStage, see my original post. Without puppetting, I still don't see the bitmap member that my Lingo assigns to the sprite. I see the text member that was assigned to it previously. The Message window and the Object Inspector all report that the member attached

Re: lingo-l Dictionary Search - conceptual/approach issues

Have you looked at TextCruncher from http://www.updatestage.com/xtras/xtrahome.html? That's what people use for fast text searches. Simple string searches like those you've tried are very slow. S. At 03:56 PM 7/26/03 +0100, you wrote: Dear List Long time no post - I trust you are all well.

Re: lingo-l Filename, path and other

Look up the @ symbol and the searchPaths in the Lingo Dictionary. S. At 12:19 PM 7/26/03 -0300, you wrote: Oops, sorry I've clicked the wrong button in the other email :-/ Hi list, I think this is a dummy question but It's frying my brain. I have a folder with many dxr files. In another folder

Re: lingo-l Filename, path and other

At 03:50 PM 7/26/03 -0300, you wrote: Hi, I've tried to use @, but I couldn't understand it's function exactly, since it wont work as I wanted. If not ask to much, can you send me some example in how to use it?? thank's If your movie/projector may run either under Windowas or on a Mac, you can

Re: lingo-l Dropdown List

Wow! Many thanks, Daniel, Slava At 03:48 PM 7/25/03 -0500, you wrote: Hi Peter, I have a text based menuing system (although it used to be in fields and was changed to take advantage of anti-aliasing) that might suit your needs. It is viewable from and available from the following URL:

lingo-l OSX/9 bundle puzzle: foo.app = foo.app SOLVED (sort of)

! ~Mathew -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Slava Paperno Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 6:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: lingo-l OSX/9 bundle puzzle: foo.app = foo.app Thanks a million for responding, Matt. Here

Re: lingo-l lingo.ini -- necessary?

Not necessary, but handy. You can define global variables there, and your projector will read them. You can establish settings there as well, such as set the soundkeepdevice to 0. In other words, if there's a setting or variable you want to be able to change without modifying your movie or

lingo-l OSX/9 bundle puzzle: foo.app = foo.app SOLVED (sort of)

Thanks for your clarifications, Howdy-Tzi :-). Very nice! I have one more comment that may be helpful (and I still don't know the answer to my big question at the bottom). At 12:48 PM 7/9/03 -0500, you wrote: The MM write-up says nothing about the contents of the plist files and does not

Re: lingo-l Where do I add xtras

Alan, If your projector calls the other movies, and they call each other, add the Xtra to the movie that you build into the projector. But a better arrangement, the so-called fast-start projector is one where all Xtras are in their own folder, and none of them is included in any of the movies

lingo-l OSX/9 bundle puzzle: foo.app = foo.app

I'm trying to create a Mac OS 9 / OS X bundle for my Director application, and I've run into a puzzle. I wonder if anyone else has seen the same thing. I followed the directions at http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/bundle_proj.htm One of the first claims made there is

RE: lingo-l OSX/9 bundle puzzle: foo.app = foo.app

PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Slava Paperno Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 4:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l OSX/9 bundle puzzle: foo.app = foo.app I'm trying to create a Mac OS 9 / OS X bundle for my Director application, and I've run into a puzzle. I wonder if anyone else has seen the same thing. I

Re: lingo-l Registering fonts

Andrew, Is this Windows or Mac OS? Have you checked the user's permissions? Windows won't allow a Restricted User to install fonts. Slava At 03:06 PM 7/2/03 +0200, you wrote: Hi all. I am using the buddy xtra to install a font on the user's machine by copying the font from the CD into the

Re: lingo-l need to attach a behavior

Look up scriptList and ScriptInstanceList in the Lingo Dictionary. S. At 02:10 PM 6/30/03 -0500, you wrote: Is there a way for lingo to attach a behavior to a sprite and then unattach it as well? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l Allowing the user to change fonts

Matt, If you have an embedded font in your movie, you can do this to see a list of all fonts currently on the system: put member(YourEmbeddedFontMemeber).fontList() You can offer this list tot he suer to chose from, and then set the font property of your text members to the selected value:

lingo-l Sound Import Export.x32 crashes Win XP movie

Short version: sound(2).play for an external member that is a wave file causes the movie to crash both in authoring and projector under Windows XP. The same movie plays fine in authoring and projector under Windwos 2000. Long version: I wonder if anyone has encountered this error under Windows

lingo-l transparency in Mac OS X icons

can be ignored or used at will. Slava At 09:53 AM 6/9/03 -0500, you wrote: On Monday, Jun 9, 2003, at 00:43 America/Chicago, Slava Paperno wrote: But there are still mysteries galore in that info.plist file that no one tells you about... [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest

lingo-l transparency in Mac OS X icons

What's up with transparency in icons in OS X? In OS 9 I used to be able to paste a PNG image into the Get Info Icon, and what was transparent in the PNG remained transparent in the icon. Now in OS X 10.2.6, The transparent areas become black. If I have to use an icon editopr to achieve

Re: lingo-l CGI challenged

Phil, Feel free to use http://132.236.21.132/form_input.cfm Slava At 08:54 PM 6/8/03 -0700, you wrote: I'd like to test the getNetText and postNetText commands on a CGI script, but don't know anything about writing cgi scripts. Is it possible to throw together a simple cgi script onto my web

Re: lingo-l transparency in Mac OS X icons

Carl, At 01:04 AM 6/9/03 -0400, you wrote: Hmmm. Where were you _copying_ the image from? All I've managed to get is rectangles with white where I wanted transparency. When I was successful with this, I actiually copied from the *icon* of the image file. That was under OS 9.1.When I stopped

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

Carl, You may want to look up Microangelo and icon in the list archives for the past month. This came up a few times and people posted various bits of info about this subject. I discovered the same situation when switching the D version and Windows version, and my solution is to use

Re: lingo-l re: Custom icon screwing up Windows projector

My pleasure! Visit www.microangelo.us/FAQ.asp and scroll halfway down (or Find Director in the page). You'll see short step-by-step instructions for changing a Director porjector's icon. I've been using that program and that procedure with Dir 8.5 under Windows 2000, and it works as advertised.

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