lingo-l Shockwave 3D position available in NC

2004-10-06 Thread Tab Julius
I received this... Please do NOT respond to the list - he's not on it. If interested, contact him directly. - Hi, I'm looking for a great Shockwave 3D developer to come join a group of 3D technology gurus in NC to help with some really cool military contracts. The

Re: lingo-l Case-sensitive symbol quirk

2004-09-14 Thread Tab Julius
Director internally keeps a list of symbols, and it respects the case of the first use of a given symbol. If you're not getting your choice of case, then somewhere internal in Director that symbol is in use, and it's capitalized. - Tab At 03:00 PM 9/13/04, Ross Clutterbuck wrote: Hi List Can

Re: lingo-l Getting separate parts of a number

2004-09-03 Thread Tab Julius
A more traditional way, just using abs and some math, gives you: intPart =integer(abs(myFloat) - 0.5) * (-1 + (((myFloat + abs(myFloat)) / (myFloat * 2))*2)) floatPart =abs(myFloat) - abs(intPart) It's the same as my original posting, but abs'ing everything to get the numbers, and that

Re: lingo-l Getting separate parts of a number

2004-09-02 Thread Tab Julius
This is all you need: intPart =integer(myFloat - .5) floatPart =myFloat - intPart - Tab At 10:32 PM 9/1/04, John Waller wrote: Hi, I have a floating point number, e.g. 45.6200, and I want to be able to store the whole number part and the fraction part separately, so that I can increment an

RE: lingo-l Sound queueing

2004-08-21 Thread Tab Julius
No, they're .WAV files. I tried .MP3, and they do have a more noticeable gap, but there's still a short hitch there with the .WAV. - Tab At 09:02 AM 8/21/04, Stany De Roos wrote: Hi Tab, Are that MP3 files you're playing? MP3 files have a small but noticeable noise gap at the start, that why

Re: lingo-l Sound queueing

2004-08-21 Thread Tab Julius
of granularity, but for this particular application it needs to be consistent with zero breaks. - Tab At 03:44 PM 8/21/04, John R. Sweeney Jr wrote: on 8/20/04 10:29 PM, Tab Julius at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody come across this and any insights on how to work around it? - Tab Do you have

lingo-l Sound queueing

2004-08-20 Thread Tab Julius
I'm researching an issue with sound queueing and am wondering if anyone has run into this. The objective is to play sounds one after another, with no breaks. According to the documentation, you can do sound(x).queue([info]) on a number of members, which has them preload, and then do

lingo-l Autoresponders

2004-07-09 Thread Tab Julius
(1) PLEASE turn off autoresponders, or unsubscribe. (2) If you see an autoresponder, TELL ME, but DON'T reply back to the list - that just makes more traffic and creates another autoresponder thread. Thanks - Tab [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

lingo-l test - ignore

2004-06-16 Thread Tab Julius
test post [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. Thanks!]

Re: lingo-l 3D Othello

2004-06-03 Thread Tab Julius
Hi Per, I was curious to try this, since Othello's my favorite game, and the first real graphic one I ever programmed (1984 or 1985, I think). 1) Looks very good visually 2) The prompts that show where to put the piece are too intrusive. They look like chips, and it makes it hard to visualize

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

2004-05-01 Thread Tab Julius
Well, unless the string is changing in size right under your nose, you don't need to calculate the number of chars every single time. That's one small optimization you can do... numChars =the number of chars in reallyBigString repeat with x=1 to numChars ... I doubt the size of the string

Re: lingo-l MUI widgets

2004-05-01 Thread Tab Julius
At 07:04 AM 5/1/04, Peter Bochan wrote: Hey, Just been playing around with MUI xtra, and found out that widgets display the lunar interface buttons (like XP) in authoring but when exported to projector they don't. Not that I want to say that the xtra doesn't work, but snip Just so you know,

Re: lingo-l Ideas on how Record User Setting

2004-04-16 Thread Tab Julius
You don't even need BuddyAPI, you could just use Lingo's built-in SetPref and GetPref, which is made for exactly this, and Lingo takes care of where they're stored - you just need to give it a name of your program (or whatever) and pass down a string that has the preferences in it. Then in

RE: lingo-l Autoloading director

2004-04-10 Thread Tab Julius
Viktor, I honestly have no idea what question you're asking. Are you asking if shipping a projector.INI file that overrides default settings is better? What kind of optimization are you looking for? Do you have some part of your product that's slow? If so, tell us about it and how you've

RE: lingo-l Autoloading director

2004-04-10 Thread Tab Julius
The thing is pretty optimized already. Most of that stuff, with the exception of DisplayFullLingoErrorText you can leave alone unless you're seeing specific problems. For instance, when doing a product on Mac OS/9 there could be memory problems and you might need to fiddle with the memory

Re: lingo-l Autoloading director

2004-04-10 Thread Tab Julius
The frame rate acts as a governor. In the old days, games that were released on, say, the original IBM PC, were lucky to have any speed at all. Programmers just tried to make them as fast as possible. Then when faster machines were released, suddenly the old games were TOO fast, things sped

Re: lingo-l Opening one projector from another projector

2004-04-09 Thread Tab Julius
At 01:43 PM 4/9/04, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Are there any caveats to opening one Director projector from another Director projector? Shouldn't be, unless you count things like running out of memory. If Xtras are bundled, you'd have to test to make sure they properly got unpacked and deleted

Re: lingo-l Go back to handler name

2004-04-09 Thread Tab Julius
No, but if you hold down the ALT key when you click go to handler it'll open it up in a second window, leaving your first window intact. - Tab At 03:18 PM 4/9/04, Peter Bochan wrote: Hello, If you click Go to handler button in script window it will navigate there. Is there a way to go back to

Re: lingo-l New guy on the list

2004-03-27 Thread Tab Julius
At 03:56 PM 3/26/04, Alexx wrote: Hi all, I'm new on this list, I hope I'll find / give a lot of help here ;) Welcome, Alexx! [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 Javascript onSubmit() - notify Lingo?

2004-03-27 Thread Tab Julius
Hi Rob, On Internet Explorer, you don't need an Xtra - you can call a function myMovieName.evalScript and pass it a string (which you can parse out later). It takes a return value. In Lingo, put 'on evalScript' in a movie handler. To send in the other direction (to IE) you call

Re: lingo-l Javascript onSubmit() - notify Lingo?

2004-03-27 Thread Tab Julius
a director projector and director. valentin Tab Julius wrote: Hi Rob, On Internet Explorer, you don't need an Xtra - you can call a function myMovieName.evalScript and pass it a string (which you can parse out later). It takes a return value. In Lingo, put 'on evalScript' in a movie handler

Re: lingo-l exit button

2004-03-25 Thread Tab Julius
You spend too much time in those casinos -- YES button on mouseUp halt end -- NO button on mouseUp -- go to wherever doesn't have your quit/exit screen end At 01:40 PM 3/24/04, Fred Westermeyer wrote: Help! Ok, I lost my head some where on the road to work today. How do i make a

Re: lingo-l Setting properties via a method's parameters

2004-03-23 Thread Tab Julius
Irv, You are right - parameters are stack allocations; I've never seen anyone directly have a property as a parameter and pick them up directly. I suppose you could write a compiler to do so - but C and Lingo aren't written that way, afaik. If it does work in Lingo then someone went out of

Re: lingo-l (-1) or-(- 1)?

2004-03-22 Thread Tab Julius
Basic math - the negative of any number is that same number but on the opposite side of zero. A negative of 2 is -2. A negative of -2 is 2 again. In your x=-1 then put -(-x), the answer is correctly -1. The two negatives basically cancel each other out. X was -1. -x flips it to 1. -(-x)

Re: lingo-l Cursor command not working

2004-03-22 Thread Tab Julius
That's quite the if statement. You want to change the cursor while you're in there? First, you're doing this on mouseWithin, so it will get executed a lot, just so you know. You might want to toss an 'updateStage' command after the cursor. Also, cursors behave differently in MIAWs, so if you

Re: lingo-l (-1) or-(- 1)?

2004-03-22 Thread Tab Julius
At 04:54 PM 3/22/04, Warren Ockrassa wrote: The point that confused me was: at school teachers explained that two minuses can never give birth to a plus, so I was just thinking how come the mentioned issue would work. Your teachers were incorrect, as you have found. Two negatives can yield a

Re: lingo-l (-1) or-(- 1)?

2004-03-22 Thread Tab Julius
At 05:59 PM 3/22/04, Warren Ockrassa wrote: Of course, two wrongs still don't make a right,* but that's another topic entirely. ;) But three lefts make a right.. right? :) I heard about someone who went to a Sierra Club get-together and pulled aside three members. He ended up with a single

Re: lingo-l What happend to fps?

2004-03-18 Thread Tab Julius
Contrary to popular belief, if your program isn't animating fast enough, raising the fps won't make it magically faster. FPS (frames per second) acts more like a governer - specifying the maximum frames per second allowable - anything over that, and it will wait. However, your machine may not

Re: lingo-l EXE

2004-02-29 Thread Tab Julius
Sure. But not in a single file. What you will do is ship a playback projector / .exe that uses an external cast called slideshow (or whatever). Then from the authoring program you create that external cast and save it. - Tab At 01:34 AM 2/29/04, juan colon wrote: lets say a user creates a

Re: lingo-l alerthook

2004-02-12 Thread Tab Julius
There is a setting you can put in your .INI file [Lingo] DisplayFullLingoErrorText=1 This affects the normal alert boxes you get when you run a projector so I would guess it has the same impact on the alert hook. - Tab At 06:15 AM 2/12/04, Michael von Aichberger wrote: Hi List! I have a

Re: lingo-l Repost: File storage

2004-02-10 Thread Tab Julius
Pranav, If you want to make one big file with lots of little binaries in it, and will just use a straight binary writer (as opposed to a database), then you will have to put up front (or in a separate info file or something) a table of contents, or at a minimum, before you write each chunk of

RE: lingo-l shutdown NT

2004-01-31 Thread Tab Julius
IIRC, there is a setting in later versions of Windows (ME+ maybe?) where you can indicate the action you want it to take when receiving a shutdown request. IOW, it varies by machine. One machine might perform the shutdown, the other might just log off, depending on how it's configured. It

Re: lingo-l movie stops running without apparent cause

2003-12-26 Thread Tab Julius
, which is a good thing. It'd be a nightmare to debug if it didn't. - Tab At 06:13 PM 12/23/03, Bruce Mitchener wrote: Tab Julius wrote: As was mentioned, look for a halt command. Another simple answer is, if you normally have the movie loop around, and you accidentally turned off the loop

Re: lingo-l movie stops running without apparent cause

2003-12-23 Thread Tab Julius
) and when it runs out of sprite frames, it will call stopMovie. It's a little hard to say without seeing the movie and/or knowing how it's structured. - Tab At 08:52 PM 12/22/03, Bruce Mitchener wrote: Tab Julius wrote: Does it die with a crash, or just stop responding? For most of today

Re: lingo-l movie stops running without apparent cause

2003-12-22 Thread Tab Julius
Hi, Does it die with a crash, or just stop responding? If it dies, you can narrow it down by bracketing it until you find the place that is causing its death. If it just stops responding, my guess is that you might have an infinite loop, which would be hard to further diagnose without the

Re: lingo-l Weird error code

2003-12-13 Thread Tab Julius
That error code translates to One arg expected meaning it's expecting one parameter/argument. At 02:15 PM 12/13/03, grimmwerks wrote: 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

Re: lingo-l [OFFTOPIC] Xtras development list mmxdk-l

2003-11-28 Thread Tab Julius
The list is active, but it's not a Majordomo list anymore. I'm not exactly sure how you sign up, as I was ported over from the old list. I'm not familiar with lyris myself, but you could try going to lyris.macromedia.com - not sure if that would work or not... - Tab At 02:03 PM 11/28/03,

Re: lingo-l Hidden files

2003-11-04 Thread Tab Julius
It depends on who's looking for them. A program doing a directory search for them won't find them, unless they specifically look for hidden files. A program trying to open the files will work fine. I think autorun.inf probably needs to be visible, but maybe not. For the other files, if the

Re: lingo-l Fluke in Windows XP

2003-10-20 Thread Tab Julius
1) Besides testing HIS cd, send him one that you know works and have him try THAT on his machine. If the one you send works, but his original doesn't, then the problem is with the physical disk. If neither work, then it's something about his configuration. 2) Please don't copy direct-l and

RE: Flash Xtra Updates (was: RE: lingo-l Those OS's again and a que stion)

2003-10-15 Thread Tab Julius
I think much of this derives from the original understanding of Xtras, and the migration of a lot of Director functionality from within the runtime engine itself into Xtras (said migration occurred mainly between D5 and D6.x, complete with the engine overhaul in D7). The touted benefit was

Re: lingo-l TRUE or FALSE

2003-10-05 Thread Tab Julius
Lingo doesn't have a boolean variable type. A true is considered an integer 1. Easy test: testVar =TRUE put testVar -- 1 testVar =FALSE put testVar -- 0 For the purposes of testing (expression evaluation), any non-zero value is considered TRUE. At 05:47 AM 10/5/03, Peter Bochan wrote: Hi

Re: lingo-l TRUE or FALSE

2003-10-05 Thread Tab Julius
At 03:28 PM 10/5/03, Buzz Kettles wrote: At 7:40 AM -0400 10/5/03, you wrote: Lingo doesn't have a boolean variable type. A true is considered an integer 1. Actually, TRUE = anything non-zero ( VOID since that's also treated as zero) for instance: Yes, as I indicated in my statement For the

Re: lingo-l Finding a Key trigger

2003-09-25 Thread Tab Julius
I haven't read the previous messages, and aren't familiar with masterApp or BuddyAPI (I know what they are, but I mean I don't use them), but how are you sending the key code? Do you specify the destination window? And are you sending the ASCII value, or sending they keycode? (they're

Re: lingo-l Open a folder

2003-09-22 Thread Tab Julius
Well, you can't really open a folder as you would a file. I think you mean open it onscreen so you can choose a file? If so, look at both fileXtra and fileIO - FileXtra has functions like fileOpenDialog (for getting a filename), fileSaveAsDialog (for choosing a name to save as), and FileIO

Re: lingo-l undocumented Lingo

2003-09-15 Thread Tab Julius
Macromedia wants people to know about all great features - no point having a great feature if no one knows about them. Occasionally an undocumented feature is one that is powerful but not safe in the hands of people who don't know what to do with it. Nothing in Lingo comes to mind that

Re: lingo-l undocumented Lingo

2003-09-15 Thread Tab Julius
That happens too... no one wants to officially release it yet because it was either tossed in at the last minute, or they didn't get it working until the last minute, and it never really got tested and vetted. And, occasionally, from other places I've been, I know developers have their own pet

Re: lingo-l memory usage of bitmap 24/32-bit images/ bitmap cast members

2003-09-12 Thread Tab Julius
The problem with one-bit stuff is getting that bit out of there. You have to break apart a byte to get at each bit and it's a hassle with code. It keeps the image size down, sure, but it's not fast. You'd be much better off going with 256-color images. Still enough color to do most artwork,

Re: lingo-l any body knows a good source of the info on prevaling wages

2003-09-08 Thread Tab Julius
I'm not charging $10/hr myself, I was talking about a junior developer / content integrator - most jobs seem to want to lowball the cost of the talent nowadays. At 08:54 PM 9/7/03, Fletcher Moore wrote: I charge $80/hr in Boston and have plenty of work. I think if you are just starting, you'd

Re: lingo-l any body knows a good source of the info on prevaling wages

2003-09-07 Thread Tab Julius
If you're in MA, and want a job as a content integrator / junior multimedia developer, with all due respect, I'd say you'd consider yourself lucky to even get employed at the moment. That said, anywhere from $10/hr to $20/hr would probably be the range. If you haven't noticed, the market is

Re: lingo-l Erratic behavior with fileIO xtra

2003-09-02 Thread Tab Julius
don't see any reason that you'd have a conflict between FileXtra and FileIO as long as they weren't both holding the same file open simultaneously. - Tab At 06:47 PM 9/1/03, Howdy-Tzi wrote: On Monday, Sep 1, 2003, at 15:51 America/Chicago, Tab Julius wrote: Does it always delete the file

Re: lingo-l Erratic behavior with fileIO xtra

2003-09-01 Thread Tab Julius
It might help if you would post the code you are using. At 05:04 AM 9/1/03, Enrique Nivasch wrote: Hi, I'm having a weird problem with the fileio xtra. I want to create a text file on the disk and the file is only created every now and then. Sometimes Director creates the file, at other

Re: lingo-l Erratic behavior with fileIO xtra

2003-09-01 Thread Tab Julius
Enrique, Does it always delete the file? If the file is in use (for instance, some process has it open - you perhaps, if you didn't close it) - it won't be able to be deleted, at least not without rebooting in between or killing the process that has it open. Before seeing if it creates every

Re: lingo-l sorting is such sweet sorrow

2003-08-26 Thread Tab Julius
Alphabetically, that's correct (because they're strings). One way around it, if you MUST have them as strings, is to pre-pend them with 0's, so you get 001, 002, 003, ... 010, 011. Write a function to prepend zeros until you reach a certain length, and another to strip them. Stripping is

Re: lingo-l RGB codes

2003-08-25 Thread Tab Julius
At 04:29 PM 8/23/03, Peter Bochan wrote: Hi Lingo Developers! I was just curious how can I figure out the list of RGB colors codes? Should I make up a loop in Director that will show me that index or is there another way to accomplish that? If you are talking about the indexed 256 colors in a

RE: lingo-l lingo-lno video, only sound - directmedia xtra on NT and XP

2003-08-25 Thread Tab Julius
I agree with what Kerry said, and would suggest that you see if those users can play the video normally, outside of Director. If they can't play it normally on the system, using a standard player, then it's highly unlikely that it will magically work inside of Director. On the other hand, if

RE: lingo-l Hijacked e-mail

2003-08-20 Thread Tab Julius
You have to disregard the from address. That's totally fakeable. The only thing trustworthy is the source IP address. We have separate accounts here (like [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc.). It's amusing to see our tech support account receive email from [EMAIL

Re: lingo-l Director Programmer Position

2003-08-19 Thread Tab Julius
For the San Jose area, it'd only make sense if it you had a day job and was doing it on the side. There is another listing (on dice.com) as follows. Note that two listings for the whole country is a sad state of affairs. But anyway: Title: Director Programmer Skills: Macromedia Director

Re: lingo-l File Open dialog

2003-08-15 Thread Tab Julius
No, but there is if you use FileXtra (the free one that used to ship with Director) * FileOpenDialog string initialDir, string filtStr, string dlogTitle, Boolean createPrompt, Boolean fileMustExist - Tab At 06:35 AM 8/15/03, Kerry Thompson wrote: With FileIO, is there a way to make the File

Re: lingo-l OT: Adios

2003-08-14 Thread Tab Julius
Adios, Pranav, glad you were able to join us. Good luck in your new position (hope you have one!) I agree, it's clear the market is dramatically reduced. Just curious, compared to a couple of years ago, where do people think it is? 30% of what it was? 10%? 60%? Where do you think it will

lingo-l Re: Fake James Newton post?

2003-08-14 Thread Tab Julius
I have a few that didn't make it to the list - all have .scr attachments. Pretty sure it's a virus, and probably just arbitrarily used a user name (James Newton) that happened to match one of our subscribers, unless of course James himself is infected without realizing it. If it truly came

Re: lingo-l Save as binary file

2003-08-14 Thread Tab Julius
Probably, but do you want to save it and retrieve it later, or save it in bitmap form (for another app to read)? If you want to retrieve it later, I guess you could use imaging lingo to go through it pixel by pixel and convert to hex and use fileio to write it out to a text file, then rebuild

Re: lingo-l Fooling Windows

2003-08-05 Thread Tab Julius
John, We did an Xtra for this once. Contact me offline at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll see what I can find. - Tab At 09:39 AM 8/5/03, John R. Sweeney Jr wrote: My client has there screensavers set through out the field at 3 minutes to turn on. They don't want to turn them off. Is there a way in

Re: lingo-l MIAW and script error

2003-07-22 Thread Tab Julius
Okay, even if you get away with this in authoring, it will crash in a projector. You cannot forget the active movie MIAW from the MIAW itself. Basically that's pulling the rug out from under its feet. The mouseUp function needs to return somewhere, and if the movie has disappeared, you are

Re: lingo-l Strange strings?

2003-07-01 Thread Tab Julius
No, that'd be one heck of an ascii value (ascii of 'a' is 97). No, what you're seeing is probably the sum of the internal memory pointer to the string, plus 1. At 07:41 AM 7/1/03, biju george wrote: Hi list, When i suddenly found the following result in Message Window, i could not understand

Re: lingo-l List bracket access

2003-07-01 Thread Tab Julius
Nothing will give you the first property and value together. There's no format for that. You have to query them separately, they're separate entries. You could do getPropAt() and getAt(), as you suggested. Depending on how often you need to use this, you could write a function to return you

Re: lingo-l Archives?

2003-06-30 Thread Tab Julius
Your message header says: List-Archive: http://mail4.fcgnetworks.net/archives/lingo-l/ Though it only goes back a year, from the time we moved to MailMan. Somehow I have to figure out how to archive all the previous years when we were under majordomo software. I started the list in, I think,

Re: lingo-l setPref data maxlength

2003-06-29 Thread Tab Julius
Last I checked, it was 32k, the max size of a string (because you can only store a string at a time). That was under D7; haven't checked if it's any different now. At 03:41 PM 6/29/03, Mike Warner wrote: Does anyone know the max amount of data that can be stored/retrieved from one file via

Re: lingo-l phantom scripts?

2003-06-27 Thread Tab Julius
Try the recompile all scripts off of the Modify menu (I think). At 06:47 AM 6/27/03, Fletcher Moore wrote: Hi all, I've got a problem: 1) I've got a movie script that is linked to a bunch of different director apps. One app, however, needs a slightly altered version of said script. 2) So, in

Re: lingo-l x-post: DMX issues (summary)

2003-06-20 Thread Tab Julius
20.06.2003, Tab Julius wrote: I've noticed that occasionally commands issued in the message window are ignored. I haven't figured out the rhyme or reason to this, but in testing various command-line Xtras, occasionally, a call garners no result at all. A breakpoint and/or printout in the Xtra shows

Re: lingo-l x-post: DMX issues (summary)

2003-06-19 Thread Tab Julius
I've noticed that occasionally commands issued in the message window are ignored. I haven't figured out the rhyme or reason to this, but in testing various command-line Xtras, occasionally, a call garners no result at all. A breakpoint and/or printout in the Xtra shows it was never called.

Re: lingo-l Runtime Error!

2003-06-18 Thread Tab Julius
That could originate anywhere. What you should do is try to narrow down roughly the area where it occurs in your program (for instance, as a result of a mouse click?), put a breakpoint just before that place, and then step through in the debugger. If it crashes on a call to the third-party

Re: lingo-l rounding numbers....

2003-06-17 Thread Tab Julius
The integer() function in Lingo happens to round UP (some languages it rounds down, or just acts as a trunc() (truncate) function. Lingo doesn't have a truncate function. To round up, just do: result =integer(myNumber) To round down, you have to subtract .5: result =integer(myNumber -

Re: lingo-l rounding numbers....

2003-06-17 Thread Tab Julius
The integer() function in Lingo happens to round UP (some languages it rounds down, or just acts as a trunc() (truncate) function. Lingo doesn't have a truncate function. To round up, just do: result =integer(myNumber) To round down, you have to subtract .5: result =integer(myNumber -

RE: lingo-l Disney Interactive...not

2003-06-16 Thread Tab Julius
This isn't really a Lingo topic, but since it's pretty quiet... I agree, except that I'm not all that happy with Infogrames. my son brought home an Infogrames CD (published under the auspices of Nickelodeon) that his grandmother got for him when he was visiting them. It wouldn't run on

Re: lingo-l QT Authoring advanced question...

2003-06-16 Thread Tab Julius
Sure, we've written similar Xtras with QT. If you're just wondering about it, then the answer is yes. If you're actually interested in something like that, write me off-list. - Tab At 09:30 PM 6/16/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just curious, and would like to bounce the idea off of

Re: lingo-l Interactive text

2003-06-14 Thread Tab Julius
Probably what you want to look into is a Movie in a Window also known as a MIAW. They are director movies that you can launch from other director movies, and they run in their own window. They can share global variables with the main movie, even be linked to the same external casts. And one

Re: lingo-l MUI Xtra on OSX

2003-06-11 Thread Tab Julius
Works fine for me - just tried a quick fileOpen, and then an alert with an alert list. Didn't try building a whole one from scratch, though. Does your same code work properly in D8.5? At 12:24 PM 6/11/03, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: Has anybody used the MUI Xtra on OSX? I'm trying to port

Re: lingo-l Property list value

2003-06-08 Thread Tab Julius
You're almost there... repeat with aa = 1 to count(propertyListName) set TheName to getPropAt(propertyListName, aa) set TheValue to ??? set the value to getAt(propertyListName, aa) getPropAt gets you the prop at the location getAt gets you the value at the location. Optimization hint - get

Re: lingo-l OS Control emergency

2003-06-06 Thread Tab Julius
Then you need to contact whatever company you bought it from. Unfortunately the list can't help you with that... At 06:50 PM 6/5/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HEY! We're trying to register the new osControl xtra for a gig that we're working on, but although it's been purchased we haven't

Re: lingo-l OS Control emergency

2003-06-06 Thread Tab Julius
Regardless, that's between them and PegHole and/or OpenSpark... so, the list can help how?? At 09:07 PM 6/5/03, Colin Holgate wrote: Then you need to contact whatever company you bought it from. Unfortunately the list can't help you with that... Not sure that's exactly right, The key came

lingo-l Authorware/Flash/Director job op in Arlington, VA

2003-06-06 Thread Tab Julius
[This posting was on DICE.COM, contact instructions at the bottom. Requires Authorware and Lingo skills] Title: Sr. Multimedia Specialist Skills: Macromedia Authorware, SCORM, dev. CBT Date: 6-5-2003 Location: Arlington, VA Area code: 703 Tax term: CON_W2 Pay rate: DOE Length:

lingo-l ANNC: CD Pro 2.0 Xtra MX BETA version

2003-06-04 Thread Tab Julius
Thank you! Tab Julius Penworks Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ p e n w o r k s c o r p o r a t i o n software architecture + multimedia engineering specialists in custom xtras www.penworks.com [To remove yourself from this list

Re: lingo-l Custom icon screwing up Windows projector

2003-06-04 Thread Tab Julius
I'm not familiar with ResHack, but I do know that the internals of the projector changed with 8.5.1 (XP release); that was the first one we were unable to support with Iconizer without rewriting Iconizer (or parts thereof). Chances are that you can modify a 8.5 projector just fine, but not a

Re: lingo-l masking out video background

2003-05-31 Thread Tab Julius
VPlayer also supports chroma, so since it's 3D, you could make the background some unused color that won't appear in the fire (like lime green) and filter that color out at playback time. That should give you the effect you want. - Tab At 01:11 PM 5/30/03, Vittorio Marchi wrote: we need to

Re: lingo-l masking out video background

2003-05-31 Thread Tab Julius
Part of the problem is that compression functions introduce a lot of visual noise. What might have been a pure (0,0,0) black in the source rendering might have a lot of different colors when compressed to a video like MPEG. That's where the chroma range comes in - think of it as the

Re: lingo-l xtraP( instance ) ?

2003-04-02 Thread Tab Julius
I would suggest organizing your vars so you know which is which, but failing that, you could do this: on xtraP whichInst instType =string(whichInst) isXtra =instType starts Xtra return(isXtra) end - Tab At 09:52 AM 4/2/03, Daniel Plaenitz wrote: At 14:15 02.04.2003 +0100, you wrote:

Re: lingo-l [XPOST] Director Product survey

2003-03-28 Thread Tab Julius
Okay, originally the announcement of the survey seemed to be a scam (coming from New Zealand with no obvious Macromedia connection) but I was able to verify that it is, in fact, actually legit. If you visit http://www.macromedia.com/special/director_sweepstakes/ then you will see the reference

Re: lingo-l [XPOST] Director Product survey

2003-03-27 Thread Tab Julius
TO ALL USERS - NOTE THAT THIS SURVEY IS NOT HOSTED FROM THE MACROMEDIA SITE - BE CAREFUL WHEN RESPONDING. At 10:50 PM 3/26/03, Sean Wilson wrote: With apologies to those subscribed to other lists where the original message may have been sent, MM are surveying Director features. Feel free to use

Re: lingo-l Image size

2003-03-26 Thread Tab Julius
At 08:37 AM 3/26/03, Alex wrote: Quick simple question that is bugging me, I have a series of Jpg images that in the windows folder register as being 12k in size the biggest ones being 96k. When I import them into Director each of the images shoot up to a massive 1.8mb in size? I wonder why it

Re: lingo-l send me your CD drivers!

2003-03-25 Thread Tab Julius
are that it emulates poorly, if at all. Tab Julius Penworks Corporation At 04:51 PM 3/25/03, Fletcher Moore wrote: Hi, Can every Mac user on this list do me a favor? I am testing which Apple CD drivers work with the CDPro Xtra. I've tried 1.4.8 and 1.4.7 (no luck) and 1.2 (worked). I've also got

Re: lingo-l Import compressed images.

2003-03-24 Thread Tab Julius
Director will expand internally to full format. It does not keep them in memory in compressed form. At 09:38 AM 3/24/03, Tom van Gemert wrote: Hi, Does anybody know if it is possible to import a compressed image format (like JPG) in director (not transforming to a bitmap, so keeping the

Re: lingo-l OT very and X post: A plea

2003-03-19 Thread Tab Julius
appreciate your help in this. Thanks Tab Julius List adminstrator, Lingo-L [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

Re: lingo-l Scripting Xtra

2003-03-19 Thread Tab Julius
A better forum for you would be the mmxdk-l listserv, which is this list's equivalent but for Xtras developers. To do that, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body of the message subscribe mmxdk-l This list is for the Lingo side of things. Mmxdk-l is for those working with MOA and the

Re: lingo-l Text/Integers?

2003-03-18 Thread Tab Julius
As a side note (as the question's already been answered about explicitly converting it to a string), if you are adding OTHER text in, and the number is at the end, then an implicit conversion is made: This would NOT work: member(MyTextBox).text =c But this WOULD work: member(MyTextBox).text

Re: lingo-l beep command

2003-03-12 Thread Tab Julius
Beep was originally a speaker beep, and at least on my machine on D8.5.1 it still is. It's almost a click from the built-in computer speaker, not the amplified wave sounds. Probably in a noisy office, you wouldn't even hear it. At 07:41 PM 3/12/03, Phil Gross wrote: I just tried using the

Re: lingo-l beep command

2003-03-12 Thread Tab Julius
Yes, I hear the same system beep. However, I checked my sound choices. I normally have all sounds off. The one in question is Default sound. If that is not assigned, you will get the machine beep (assuming your machine has an internal speaker). If I reassign it to, say, ding.wav, then I

Re: lingo-l another CDPro question

2003-03-10 Thread Tab Julius
Or, more correctly, drivers 1.4.7 or 1.4.8 do not work properly with CD Pro. The distinction being that I think this is a bug in the drivers; 1.34 and 1.35 were seriously broken, but they fixed them by the time 1.38 came out. Apparently shortly thereafter they introduced the stopping bug.

Re: lingo-l External casts.

2003-03-05 Thread Tab Julius
You can either protect them or compress them. Compressing them is save as shockwave or just publishing, and I prefer it because not only are they better protected, but they are smaller too. At 07:23 AM 3/5/03, Jeremy wrote: When using external casts, is the a way to protect them from just

lingo-l Reminder: Lingo-L down tomorrow morning (Friday)

2003-02-27 Thread Tab Julius
. to 9 a.m. West Coast US time This will be 13:00 to 17:00 hours GMT I apologize for any inconvenience. Tab Julius __ p e n w o r k s c o r p o r a t i o n software architecture + multimedia engineering www.penworks.com [To remove

Re: lingo-l symbol(s01.mp3) vs. symbol(01.mp3)

2003-02-26 Thread Tab Julius
Symbols aren't really meant to be exact string holders. They are a shortcut to give you string-like recognition (visual) without the overhead of strings. They're not meant to be a container for shipping strings around. Two solutions: 1) Prepend a number to the string, always, like symbol(9

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