RE: lingo-l getNetText - getStreamStatus - error = 4152?

2002-02-07 Thread Sean Wilson
I'm performing a getNetText to an ASP page which calls a COM object and writes an XML response back to my Shockwave engine. The list returned by getStreamStatus immediately contains an #error property of 4152. I looked through the docs, and searched the Tech Notes, but there's no mention of a

RE: lingo-l creating a bitmap cast member

2002-02-10 Thread Sean Wilson
always creates a 16-bit image, even though the tif file may be a 16-million colors picture. What's the colorDepth of your monitor set to? 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 messages to the list,

RE: lingo-l how do u concatenate vars inside repeat loop?

2002-02-10 Thread Sean Wilson
here is the part of the code that needs fixing: global gnumPlayers--(this derived from text user input earlier.) repeat with i= 1 to (gnumPlayers) global (ginventorylist i) = [:] end repeat You could try: repeat with i= 1 to (gnumPlayers) (the globals)[symbol(gInventoryList

RE: lingo-l sure-fire cross platform video support?

2002-02-12 Thread Sean Wilson
I was wondering there was anyone willing to discuss a general approch, that resulted in a sure-fire, fool-proof way of supporting digital video, running in a projector on cross-platform CDrom. I would go with QT and use quickTimePresent() and quickTimeVersion() to check the plugin, then

RE: lingo-l Extra development and .net

2002-02-13 Thread Sean Wilson
I'm just getting started with extra development and i'm wondering if it is possible to develop extras using the .net framework and managed C++? Also is it possible to use the new C# language to develop extras? If not is this being worked with so it will be possible in the near future?

RE: lingo-l copypixels and quads

2002-02-18 Thread Sean Wilson
both workarounds came to my mind as well, but I didn't want to use masks, because they are slow to render. ? I was suggesting you use the mask image in a copyPixels parameter list dImage.copyPixels(sImage, dRect, dRect, [#maskImage: mImage]) thus there is no rendering as such. By rendering

RE: lingo-l Buddy API

2002-02-20 Thread Sean Wilson
I am having a problem where under Director 8.5 and Buddy API, I have a behavior, which I've used on more than one project using Director 7.02, which goes out and opens a file in a destination relative to the projector. It returns a file not found reply. So how are you building this

RE: lingo-l Buddy API

2002-02-20 Thread Sean Wilson
The path is defined as /files/anyfile.pdf A few more questions/comments: 1). This is not a fully qualified path. Wouldn't you expect something more along the lines of 'D:\files\anyfile.pdf'? Presumably your applicationPath is prepended. 2). Why are there forward slashes in there? Are we talking

RE: lingo-l Buddy API

2002-02-20 Thread Sean Wilson
This code was purchased when I bought my buddy API application. It was an add-on offered. Specifically, it is the open PDF file AND the open any file behavior. Should I assume from this that you're not confident about modifying these behaviors to include an alert line so you can see the

RE: lingo-l Opening browser

2002-02-20 Thread Sean Wilson
How do you open browsers pointing to a specific website like macormedia.com using lingo? on mouseUp me gotoNetPage http://www.macromedia.com; end Strangely, this works for me with version 7, 8 8.5, but not 8.5.1! Anyone else care to try? -Sean. [To remove yourself from this list, or to

RE: lingo-l Opening browser

2002-02-20 Thread Sean Wilson
Strangely, this works for me with version 7, 8 8.5, but not 8.5.1! Anyone else care to try? Sorry, I need to qualify that. It works from an 8.5.1 projector, but not in the authoring environment. At least, not for me. -Sean. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go

RE: lingo-l Opening browser

2002-02-20 Thread Sean Wilson
Is it possible your network preferences have the Launch Browser When Needed option unselected? Thanks Kraig. That was it. -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 a simple list question!

2002-02-20 Thread Sean Wilson
tempList = initialList.duplicate() ^^^ 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 messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L

RE: lingo-l Stupidly EASY question

2002-02-21 Thread Sean Wilson
How do I call for eg. The 3 record called loc Ie.. [member: 2, loc: 12,4, size: 100,100, member: 5, loc: 17,3, size: 50,100, member: 9, loc: 9,4, size: 190,100] I would suggest that, looking at your list, it might be better structured as a linear list of property lists. eg. [[member:

RE: lingo-l Stupidly EASY question with more detail

2002-02-21 Thread Sean Wilson
In my list I have 2 properties. #membernumber and #location How do I use a repeat loop to count through 100 sprites and add them... This is what ive already used but its giving me weird results Please help repeat with i = 1 to 100 q = sprite (i).membernum w = sprite

RE: lingo-l Getting into a .dcr file

2002-02-21 Thread Sean Wilson
I have a .dcr file from and old project. I need to get into it and get a flash movie out of it. The original work files were all lost thanks to a hard drive crash. I have been trying to open the movie in a window and then telling the window to save itself as a .dir with the saveMovie

RE: lingo-l do command execution in list assignment?

2002-02-25 Thread Sean Wilson
I don't always know that it is going to be a script. There are times when I want to use this to instantiate a stack of xtras, in which case I would need: newStackObject = new(xtra stackScrip/XtraName) I tried to address this by using typeofstack, which would be either xtra or script,

RE: lingo-l Parameter Oddities, Director-Flash

2002-03-03 Thread Sean Wilson
For some reason or another, flash cannot call my director objects directly (or at least, I have yet to be able to get that to work). To work around this problem, however, I created a handler called flashstackaccess which accepts a parameter stackcmd and executes that. Could your flash

RE: lingo-l web speed

2002-03-04 Thread Sean Wilson
i would like to know if it would be possible to check the user connection speed and return a value . in director 8 Download a file of a known size a number of times and average out the speeds obtained. Check downLoadNetThing/preloadNetThing, getStreamStatus, and clearCache in the

RE: lingo-l how to read from an .ini file

2002-03-04 Thread Sean Wilson
Does anyone know how to read in information from an .ini file so that it can be put into separate variables within Director? Can this be done with the FileIO xtra? It can be done with FileIO, but it's more work than necessary when you have Buddy API at your disposal. Download it from:

lingo-l MIAW and prepareMovie, openWindow

2002-03-14 Thread Sean Wilson
Would anyone else care to confirm that opening a MIAW from the stage's prepareMovie handler causes the MIAW's prepareMovie handler to fail? And when run as a projector, the openWindow, prepareMovie and beginSprite (for a sprite in frame 1) events display a different order from the authoring

RE: lingo-l MIAW and prepareMovie, openWindow

2002-03-14 Thread Sean Wilson
This is a known issue - it doesn't exactly 'fail', that message doesn't get sent in a MIAW, so the handler never gets called. It does get sent/received (in the MIAW) if opened from the startMovie handler, but not if you open the MIAW from a prepareMovie handler in the stage. -Sean. [To

RE: lingo-l calculating the point of intersection of two lines

2002-03-17 Thread Sean Wilson
Suppose you have two straight lines, defined by two points: Let's say point(x1, y1) and point(x2, y2) for line 1 and point(x3, y3) and point(x4, y4) for line 2. What's the algorithm for calculating the point where these two lines intersect? Convert them both into the form y = mx + c

RE: lingo-l Tracking a Button

2002-03-18 Thread Sean Wilson
I would like to add a counter to one of the buttons track how many people using the program. Try using FileIO to write some text into a named file either on the local machine or onto another networked machine. I think you'll find documentation for FileIO at MM's site. HTH -Sean. [To remove

RE: lingo-l Changing an icon of the projector

2002-04-03 Thread Sean Wilson
I used MicroAngelo to change it is icon, however when I save it it changes an icon, but the projector size reduces to 44 kb and it can't be run. There was an acknowledged problem with version 5.5 of Microangelo. The latest version (5.53) fixes this. There are instructions specific to

RE: lingo-l XTRA Suggestion

2002-04-11 Thread Sean Wilson
If you were looking for suggestions on how to format a question to tease people, then I don't have any suggestions, you're already very good at it. (I think he was asking more along the lines of what the AutoComplete xtra provides. Still, your guess is as good as mine)

RE: lingo-l Size of Projector

2002-04-12 Thread Sean Wilson
Is there any workaround/way of creating a projector less than 1MB so as to make it easy on the Autorun? Yes. Don't bundle xtras and DLLs into the projector. Beside your file, create a folder called 'Xtras' Into this folder, from your D8.5 installation folder, *copy* the following DLLs:

RE: lingo-l always on top

2002-04-15 Thread Sean Wilson
please, there is a way to do a projector that is always on top, not going to a second plane when other window is active? Buddy API. Find it at: http://www.mods.com.au The function/call you want is: baSetWindowState( baWinHandle(), StayOnTop ) (it's free for 2 functions, so you're

RE: lingo-l installMenu question

2002-04-16 Thread Sean Wilson
I am working with a stub projector that loads another dir movie. The stub contains no installMenu command, but the second movie (the dir file) does. When I try to load this movie I get an error. The install is in the prepareMovie Movie Script of the second movie. My ESP xtra(TM) is playing

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

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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]

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 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 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 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

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 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

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