lingo-l open file in shockwave?

2002-01-15 Thread grimmwerks
Is there any xtra/way to get a user to have an open file dialog and return the path to the file in shockwave? I know that directftp can have the chooser select a file, but it's for immediate upload, ie there's no passing of the file to shockwave. [To remove yourself from this list, or to

lingo-l update

2002-01-16 Thread grimmwerks
from macnn: Ambrosia releases Coldstone gaming engine Ambrosia has released its Coldstone game engine, which brings professional-quality game building tools to the masses. No programming is required to produce polished, stand-alone games that run on Mac OS, OS X, and Windows. A demo of the $50

lingo-l zip xtra

2002-01-18 Thread grimmwerks
Hey - trying to use this guy, but the files I'm getting from playing with it aren't the zipped files. I know it's unsupported, but is there anything on DOUG, etc that perhaps overviews this? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

lingo-l shockwave updater

2002-01-21 Thread grimmwerks
DOG SLOW 31 minutes on a fast cable connection??!? [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

Re: lingo-l LiveUpdate

2002-01-24 Thread grimmwerks
Sure, look to member.filename stuff. On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Tony Åström wrote: Hi List, anybody who knows how to update cast members and text files from a remote file on the internet? Can this be done without an Xtra? TIA Tony [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest

Re: lingo-l Damn, kids...

2002-01-25 Thread grimmwerks
Well howdy Warren! Nice to have you back [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

Re: lingo-l imma.dk problems

2002-01-28 Thread grimmwerks
Strange though, how it translates to imma dick. On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Howdy-Tzi wrote: Hey all. The problem is with their server. It translates the @ symbol as the , symbol. I tried to contact the sysadmin there, but got an unresoved bounce like the ones we've been seeing for root,imma.dk.

Re: lingo-l SMTI switch

2002-01-29 Thread grimmwerks
Do you mean smpte code? Maybe the sequence xtra could send mtc over midi? On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, the nightboy wrote: I am creating an application with Director that would be triggered by SMTI time code. I am searching for xtras to bridge the two. Can anyone offer any suggestions? b

Re: lingo-l SMTI switch

2002-01-29 Thread grimmwerks
Well, if you want to control a vcr or laserdisc, there's a freebie extra on the mac - check updatestage.com On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, the nightboy wrote: At 12:36 -0500 01/29/2002, the nightboy wrote: I am creating an application with Director that would be triggered by SMTI time code. Do

Re: lingo-l SMTI switch

2002-01-29 Thread grimmwerks
Well that's a good point - does the thing you want to control generate smpte? If it does, then what kind of connections does it have? For instance, my da88 can send/receive smpte commands, but it does it over the midi on the sync card, so any midi device can send midi machine control. [To

Re: lingo-l SMTI switch

2002-01-29 Thread grimmwerks
What kind of connection does the vcr have? On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, the nightboy wrote: Well that's a good point - does the thing you want to control generate smpte? If it does, then what kind of connections does it have? For instance, my da88 can send/receive smpte commands, but it does it

RE: lingo-l linked director movie question

2002-01-29 Thread grimmwerks
I'm coming in late on this thing - but you're trying to link a member in a LDM on the fly? Are all the LDM in the same path? Are the linked members? Can you put teh path in a global and each LDM links a member via member.filename=global membername? On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, the nightboy wrote:

Re: lingo-l SMTI switch

2002-01-29 Thread grimmwerks
So the vtr has midi connections? Then I'd look to the SequenceXtra -- I think that can send midi machine control from smpte, could be wrong though. But it does support system exclusive messages. Then, if it does send smpte over midi, you just have your director app have a proplist playlist

RE: lingo-l Time Machine

2002-01-30 Thread grimmwerks
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Howdy-Tzi wrote: -- Welcome to Director -- oNewMe = new ( me ) Need we say more? As long as the new(me) is not a -(new(me)) [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 importFileInto

2002-01-30 Thread grimmwerks
I wouldn't do it that way, I'd do member(whatever).filename = the moviepath externalFileName On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, the nightboy wrote: I am running into a bit of a stumper. i use importFileInto and it works fine in the authoring environment but once I go to a projector any movie that I

Re: lingo-l Xtra that will zip external files?

2002-01-31 Thread grimmwerks
Zip Xtra is installed wih Director. Check the media folder inside of the xtras folder. On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Jonathyn B. Tellez wrote: Hi Lingo L, A project I'm working on could potentially generate a lot of data that will need to be archived. I'd prefer to store it in some compressed

Re: lingo-l Xtra that will zip external files?

2002-01-31 Thread grimmwerks
Yeah, but buddy is for only pc, what of us macheads? On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Howdy-Tzi wrote: At 09:53 -0800 01/31/2002, Jonathyn B. Tellez wrote: A project I'm working on could potentially generate a lot of data that will need to be archived. I'd prefer to store it in some compressed

RE: lingo-l Xtra that will zip external files?

2002-01-31 Thread grimmwerks
BUT THERE'S A ZIP XTRA ALREADY! Straight from macromedia. sigh. no one listens to me... On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Howdy-Tzi wrote: At 16:34 -0500 01/31/2002, Erik Sandbergen wrote: Yeah, but buddy is for only pc No it's not. I have a perfectly workable version running under 8.5.1 /

lingo-l 3d groove/nick game

2002-02-06 Thread grimmwerks
Hey all - a link was put up yesterday for a 3d groove nickonline game; what was the link? Not trying to be sneaky or anything (hey Chris!) but I got an error when shockwave was instantiating, NOT in the shockwave itself (if you get my drift). I'm wondering if it's 1) not supported on mac 2)

lingo-l integer/string question

2002-02-07 Thread grimmwerks
I just noticed this and I'm curious if it was always this way since I don't recall it happening before: h = 5 put h -- 5 put h + 10 -- 15 all well and good h = 5 put h -- 5 put h+ 10 -- 15. Yeah, I know about float precision, integer(h) and all that, I just don't remember strings

Re: lingo-l Director multiuser talking to Flash XMLSocket via aJava server

2002-02-11 Thread grimmwerks
I'd do something like myText = text you want to send numToChar(0) then just send the myText variable -- no? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email

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

2002-02-12 Thread grimmwerks
Sure, if they don't mind installing quicktime. I've also used mpg for video, playing back through QT on mac and video for windows on pc. On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Clars Danvold wrote: Hello all- I was wondering there was anyone willing to discuss a general approch, that resulted in a

Re: lingo-l saving files from a projector

2002-02-14 Thread grimmwerks
yeah, you can do this but you do need an xtra- the filextra is a freebie and can do it; otherwise a bunch can such as buddy api, binaryio, etc. check updatestage.com/xtras/ for links. On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that it is possible to save a .dir file from a

lingo-l 8.5.1 weirdness

2002-02-14 Thread grimmwerks
Ok, other than that xl_syntaxcolor thing which shows up as a global once in a while, there's some weirdness I'm experiencing on mac with quicktime. I _thought_ that you used to be able to have 2 directtostage quicktimes on top of each other in different channels, and if the topmost channel was

Re: lingo-l ALPHAMANIA substitute

2002-02-19 Thread grimmwerks
How bout that Fireworks to Director xtra from macr? On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Howdy-Tzi wrote: At 13:19 -0500 02/19/2002, the nightboy wrote: Does anyone know of an Xtra besides alphaMania that will antiAlias Bitmaps in director on Runtime. We have been looking at alphamania, but the problem

Re: lingo-l swa export xtra

2002-02-19 Thread grimmwerks
That's not what I was asking for though ...I was thinking Director could record audio and compress to mp3. I'm aware that I can use masterapp to control external appsjust asking specifically about the swa export xtra. On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: For windows, the

Re: lingo-l swa export xtra

2002-02-19 Thread grimmwerks
Oh, you mean mac director natively can record audio? I was thinking Audio xtra to record the aiff/wav, then (originally) using the swa export to compress. But of course, yes, I can use masterapp and a standalone mp3 encoder. T'would be nice if macr added that since it's already there (the

Re: lingo-l OT: wireless network

2002-02-21 Thread grimmwerks
Honestly, any wireless network device uses 802.11b at the moment (linksys, apple). I've got an airport basestation here that I use with both mac and pc, wired and -less. On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, lpovoas wrote: Sorry about the OT, i don't know were else would I ask it. I am working with a

Re: lingo-l white flash

2002-02-28 Thread grimmwerks
Is the white flash the color of your stage? Make sure that you don't have a blank first frame in the new movie or blank last frame in the one you're coming from. On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Tom Vandenbossche wrote: I've made a project in several languages. When they f.ex choose for english the

Re: lingo-l Flash MX--less likely to slow Director projectors?

2002-03-05 Thread grimmwerks
the flash player still has weird fps issues on the mac. [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

RE: lingo-l The new director?

2002-03-05 Thread grimmwerks
But y'all have to agree that Flash has had more high-profile exposure than director, and seems to have been helped along by Macromedia as well. I don't blame them, as I too would push the product that was getting attention. With that in mind, it's sometimes been a hard sell with director in

Re: lingo-l xml file xml xtra - african swallows may be holdingmy file hostage

2002-03-08 Thread grimmwerks
Laden or unladen swallows? [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.

Re: lingo-l smpte switch

2002-03-12 Thread grimmwerks
The midi Sequence Xtra does system exclusive stuff. check updatestage.com On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, brian wrote: Does anyone know of an xtra similar to this for the PC? http://www.rfbl.demon.co.uk/ Brian Douglas (:ub)

lingo-l to macromedia: jumpstart kit PC ONLY!?!?

2002-03-15 Thread grimmwerks
Well I got my jumpstart kit for Maya today and I'm disgusted to see that it's pc only -- ok, I can understand teh exporter being pc only, but COME ON, the content, the interactive presentation is pc only? Really dissappointed in this. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to

Re: lingo-l to macromedia: jumpstart kit PC ONLY!?!?

2002-03-15 Thread grimmwerks
What exactly does this mean? Doesn't change my complaint. On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Jason Je wrote: From AW... Maya is available for these platforms: Windows® NT, Windows® 2000 Professional, IRIX™, Linux and Macintosh OS X. Does this make you feel any better??? :) Have a nice weekend!!!

Re: lingo-l Re: [3DDirector-L] to macromedia: jumpstart kit PCONLY!?!?

2002-03-19 Thread grimmwerks
Ne-ope - the return address is Macromedia, Inc, 600 Townsend Street unless Alias' new office is in your basement;P On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Peri Cumali wrote: Uhm, that as far as I know it was made by Alias/Wavefront. I would think so anyway, if it came with Maya. But I'm not

lingo-l powerpoint and director question - runtime?

2002-03-22 Thread grimmwerks
Is there any way of importing a powerpoint presentation into a projector, not just during authoring? [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

Re: AW: lingo-l 'go to the frame' from an on stepframe handler

2002-03-31 Thread grimmwerks
I don't think a stepframe handler in a parent script will do it - surprisingly enough. I think you might have to do something along the lines of a global spread across all frames, that if it's true, go the frame, if not continue on. Then that global is triggered by the other media/parent

Re: lingo-l Silly Mac users

2002-04-02 Thread grimmwerks
Oh please - let's get off this now. Besides you still sound like an ass. You like Windows 2K? Fantastic. Still a rip off of the mac os, which is a rip off of a xerox idea. [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 Silly Mac users

2002-04-02 Thread grimmwerks
Yes, sorry. It's pointless, I agree. Tired...so tired... On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Kerry Thompson wrote: Please, please, can we stick to Lingo and Macromedia? Religious wars are so irritating, and seem to just end up with good people calling other good people bad names. Back to Lingo?

lingo-l bowing out (mac vs pc)

2002-04-02 Thread grimmwerks
Sorry all. No more. [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 The Wonders of Squeak - Was: Silly Mac users

2002-04-03 Thread grimmwerks
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Mathew Ray wrote: ~Mathew J. Ray Senior Interactive Design Student www.seriphdesign.com/mathew Sorry - but I'm really curious about this - senior interactive design STUDENT? I mean are you in your senior year, or do you tell the other students what to do...? [To

lingo-l Quicktime Xtra memory problem

2002-04-03 Thread grimmwerks
Hey all - I've just been told by a company I did 2 apps for that they get crashes with a memory not being free error for the QT xtra -- basically I'm flipping the qt member to new Qt's by changing the filenameand there are a LOT of QT. Is the problem one where the video is not getting

Re: lingo-l The Wonders of Squeak - Was: Silly Mac users

2002-04-04 Thread grimmwerks
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Mathew Ray wrote: ~Mathew J. Ray Interactive Design Student Who Happens To Be In His Final Quarter of Enrollment (I like the other one better) heh - IDSWHTBIHFQoE is so much more fun to say thoughtry it, you sound like a Superman villain [To remove yourself

lingo-l print from dir...

2002-04-04 Thread grimmwerks
Ok, I'm a pain in the ass today So I can print from director using the old internal frame printing -- or the printomatic xtra (which I could never get working properly) -- is there any way else to print specific media/assets -- like imaging Lingo? Like if I want to print a frame from QT,

lingo-l integers are symbols?

2002-04-10 Thread grimmwerks
Hey all - just trying to figure out the best way of keeping a faked timecode to trigger animations, and in testing in the message window, I was going to keep the timecode as the property (I know, not the best way of doing things) with the animation to trigger as the value. Tried putting in

Re: lingo-l integers are symbols?

2002-04-10 Thread grimmwerks
Yeah; easier to deal with flipping to integers from strings rather than having the extra char to remove. [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

Re: lingo-l Good compression vs quicktime

2002-04-12 Thread grimmwerks
I think DirectMedia handles mpeg 1, not mpeg 2. On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Manisha Sinha wrote: But i wan't to program a director movie installation free (no quictime installation require). I once faced the same problem and found out that there is no way to avoid QT installation unless you

lingo-l resolution xtra bug...

2002-04-14 Thread grimmwerks
when you set a flash movie to not direct to stage, it flips the res back to the original [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]).

Re: lingo-l Suppress error messages

2002-04-14 Thread grimmwerks
Ah yeah - I was trying to remember what to look up in Bruce's LIAN ...but if you create a script for the alert hook, you have 3 different ways of returning the error to the user. On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Howdy-Tzi wrote: At 23:51 -0700 04/13/2002, Kerry Thompson wrote: When I ship my final

Re: lingo-l Message Window

2002-04-15 Thread grimmwerks
Sure - select all in the message window before you run it again. On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Robert Rycroft wrote: I apologize if this is not a true Lingo question. I frequently use the Message window to debug programs. I will run the program once and get a bunch of data in the Message Window.

Re: lingo-l getPropertyDescriptionList code error

2002-04-26 Thread grimmwerks
The problem is with the way director sees the line continuation or \ character. TAke out all of them (so that you have one long line) and I'll bet you'll be fine. On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, noelle cheng wrote: Hi, I do regret posting this but I am confused. on getPropertyDescriptionList me

Re: lingo-l sequenceXtra problem URGET!!!!!!!!

2002-04-29 Thread grimmwerks
WEll, is the instance of the seq xtra a global? Is the midi file done playing? I'd void out all that before clearglobals. On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, brian douglas wrote: could anyone with any experience to sequenceXtra please reply. I am getting a fatal error, that did not exist before. when i

Re: lingo-l Refreshing sprites after use?

2002-05-06 Thread grimmwerks
Well I hear if you have a sprite you haven't used in a year or so, it automatically becomes a virgin. Or something like that. On Mon, 6 May 2002, bhakti wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - it will be a virgin again. wow, i wish i'd have known it was that easy... --bh,

Re: lingo-l stopmovie and branching

2002-05-06 Thread grimmwerks
Why not just trap the quit - not allow quiting, and when the user quits, go to a 'quit' movie to do what you want? [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 Pictures in text boxes.

2002-05-10 Thread grimmwerks
Or if you REALLY want to get into headaches, do it all in imaging lingo using the text member's imagewhat hell for positioning, but if you wanted to show off your kung fu... [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To

Re: lingo-l little OT: Director Lingo event names -- Flash 6ActionScript event names

2002-05-15 Thread grimmwerks
beginsprite is on clipEvent(load) I think on clipEvent(enterframe) -- on clipEvent(unload) -- endsprite If you think about movieclips as sprites.. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email

Re: lingo-l cheking if property of property list exists

2002-05-16 Thread grimmwerks
If you do a PropList.getPos(whateverProperty) and it returns 0, then you know there's no property. [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

Re: lingo-l is HILITING possible

2002-05-19 Thread grimmwerks
Sure, but not with the hilite command. You want to set up a sprite using a text member to have a number of ref (look that up in the manual), then on mouseover/mouseout you set the ref to any color you want. On Sun, 19 May 2002, Jayp wrote: Is it possible to have a text member have a

RE: lingo-l is HILITING possible

2002-05-19 Thread grimmwerks
Sure, but it'll take some lingo. The lines would of course be a list of the subjects of each email, then hiliting by line as I said. Clicking one would load that one email in the text file etc... again, it's going to take some knowledge of lingo. On Sun, 19 May 2002, Jayp wrote: Im not sure

Re: lingo-l Lingo questions

2002-05-20 Thread grimmwerks
Hmm...I'm not sure if I should help a man called Dr. Evil...I mean, how will you use this new knowledge? I think of Maxwell Smart when I say If only he used his powers for Good instead of Evil Ok, so I'm older. So kill me. (not you Dr. Evil!). Or nature will do that soon enough.

Re: lingo-l Lingo questions

2002-05-20 Thread grimmwerks
Well, cloning is really just the creation process, not a way of life... We could go onto talking like Dicks (er...Philip K Dick I mean), but think about it: man gets cloned. The minute that clone is alive, it's a seperate entity -- it has memories different from the man from moment 1; they

Re: lingo-l batch converting sounds?

2002-05-20 Thread grimmwerks
Well, on the mac, iTunes and any other app... hell Peak does batch processing... On Mon, 20 May 2002, Leah Kramer wrote: Hi all, I have a bunch of sounds (hundreds) that were created in Peak and SoundEdit as 16 bit 44 khz aifs. I need to just quickly downgrade the quality to make them

Re: lingo-l Linux Director

2002-05-22 Thread grimmwerks
You can either use an xtra to communicate with sql databases, or use something like php as a middle-ground, director posting info via regular post name=value (look at getnetpage / postnettext), and then php transferring that to whatever you need. [To remove yourself from this list, or to

Re: lingo-l sounds

2002-05-29 Thread grimmwerks
Puppetsounds do seem to be the best way to play sounds for events, like impact, etc. But remember, heck the sound itself for any deadspace/cuttoffs, and if you trigger one sound in one channel, puppet the next one in the next so the first doesn't get cut off. When I did the marvel comics

Re: lingo-l IMPORTING FILE ISSUE - help!

2002-05-29 Thread grimmwerks
Are you unloading the members? if you're importing members to a cast, then going on to the next 30, pretty soon you'll have a big ass cast. Linked files (I believe) remain in memory, so you have to UNLOAD the members you processec. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest

lingo-l one of these things is not like the others...

2002-05-29 Thread grimmwerks
from macnn: Macromedia today began shipping its recently announced HTML authoring and Web graphics tools, including Dreamweaver MX and Fireworks MX as well as Studio MX, a bundle of Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX (released in March), Fireworks MX, and FreeHand 10 Sigh.. [To remove yourself

Re: lingo-l frame scripts?

2002-06-03 Thread grimmwerks
Frames are sort of like any other sprite - they have beginsprite me/endsprite, their sprite number is -5. You can also have your own functions that a frame will call from itself, just like any other behavior. But it sounds like what you need to do is more moviescript functions, right? [To

Re: lingo-l avi and blend of text fields on mac

2002-06-06 Thread grimmwerks
Well quicktime can usually display avi unless they're using an incompatible codec - there are many codecs for avi compression. Try opening an avi on the mac by itself. Does it work? Next make sure that you're doing the linking properly; remember if you're doing it via lingo that directories

Re: lingo-l MidiTimeCode

2002-06-06 Thread grimmwerks
SequenceXtra can handle MTC through OMS I think. [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

lingo-l Help! List madness.

2002-06-06 Thread grimmwerks
Hey, after 2 hours of sleep and trying to work whilest watching Jack Black on the MTV music awards (gotta love my job) -- I'll just bring it to the crowd before I try to deal with this myself. I've got this mad nested proplist (always my style), and deep within one of the proplist is a

lingo-l nevermind listus...

2002-06-06 Thread grimmwerks
Prob messy but it works: on checkList whichList tList = whichList repeat with tEntry = tList.count down to 1 this = tList[tEntry] prev = false repeat with i = 1 to tList.count if tList[i] = this and i tEntry then prev = true end if end repeat if prev

RE: lingo-l multiuser

2002-06-09 Thread grimmwerks
There's all kinds of different ways - from doing a postnettext call to a php/asp/cgi, to passing in variablename/value through the embed tag, etc etc, but since you're working on a MU shockwave, look specifically to the MU database stuff -- that's built exactly for what you want to do. On

RE: lingo-l multiuser

2002-06-09 Thread grimmwerks
Ah, that's right. Probably the easiest is getpref/setpref. But again, look to the MU docs. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]).

RE: lingo-l multiuser

2002-06-09 Thread grimmwerks
Well using html and javascript you'd pass in username and password like this in the embed tag: mymovie.dcr?username=bob+password=whatever [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 multiuser

2002-06-09 Thread grimmwerks
Oh yeah, duh. Even simpler. I was thining flash-centric for some reason. On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Kerry Thompson wrote: How do I pass parameters from the html page to the shockwave movie. Check externalParamName, externalParamValue, and externalParamCount. In the help file ^_^ Cordially,

Re: lingo-l is there a linecount for text members?

2002-06-10 Thread grimmwerks
You have to play with the locPosV or something like that... [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

lingo-l htap error in win98?

2002-06-11 Thread grimmwerks
Hey I've got a client that got some work from another director guy (that'll learn ya!) and he says he's getting htap errors in Win98. Now, I don't know what version of Director this is yet, nor what's trying to be done. Just putting out feelers if anyone else has seen this, under what

Re: lingo-l Best/easiest 3D Modeler for Shockwave 3D

2002-06-11 Thread grimmwerks
Personally I dig Cinema4d. I've played with Lightwave, 3dMax, and Maya as well as other 'low levels' such as Carrara, Infini-D, Strata, etc. 3dMax seems to be the best intergrated with Director3d, but I find the interface adn tools a bit of a ita to get into. Lightwave deals with scenes

lingo-l changing a property of a list...?

2002-06-12 Thread grimmwerks
Ok so I've got a few nested proplists where the property is spelled wrong. I can get the property via gAreas[1].getPropAt(1), but there's no setPropat? [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 changing a property of a list...?

2002-06-12 Thread grimmwerks
Ah yeah, that would be a good way to flip it...thanks1 On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Buzz Kettles wrote: add the new prop copy the values from the old misspelled prop (use duplicate()) delete the original prop original copy of the values -Buzz At 10:39 AM -0500 6/12/02, you wrote: Ok so I've

lingo-l OS Control Xtra

2002-06-12 Thread grimmwerks
Hey Pimz, if you be around... I've been authoring with the OS Control xtra on the mac (and, if anyone's even curious about getting this DO! It really does kick things up a notch for director...and it's so cheap for a cross platform tool). I just moved the file to WinXP to do some authoring,

lingo-l pretend you're my parents and ignore me

2002-06-12 Thread grimmwerks
I'm a dope. I just realized I had timbuktu'd to this machine and left the connection open - screen wasn't redrawing. Duh. I hang my head in shame. And will now update my addressbook. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi

lingo-l win xp probs

2002-06-12 Thread grimmwerks
Ok, it doesn't seem to just be the OS Control xtra... almost EVERYTHING with Director needs to be moved until it's redrawn -- what's the deal? I've upgraded to 8.5.1 -- WinXP and Radeon 8500 [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

Re: lingo-l changing a property of a list...?

2002-06-13 Thread grimmwerks
Huh - gonna have to look at that. I've been using the freebie propsave xtra, but the shockwave save support in vlist might be worth it... On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Daniel Devolder wrote: Ok so I've got a few nested proplists where the property is spelled wrong. I can get the property via

lingo-l fileIO docs?

2002-06-13 Thread grimmwerks
They be around anywhere? Or does someone want to toss me some cross platform code to save a text member to a file? [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 fileIO docs?

2002-06-13 Thread grimmwerks
Thanks Kerry - figured out the code, but now I'm adding em to my xtra manual folder ;) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]).

Re: lingo-l fileIO docs?

2002-06-13 Thread grimmwerks
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Howdy-Tzi wrote: For instance hitting cancel on a save as dlog on Mac returns for the file path, and void on Win. Gotta look out for that. Argh. Address book. Thanks for the above, good to know. Course I can't WRITE the correct carriage returns on windows so that

Re: lingo-l [OT] Recording audio in Flash

2002-06-13 Thread grimmwerks
Well the audio won't be recorded using flash as taht's an MX thing [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

lingo-l happy now howdy? scaling a sprite

2002-06-13 Thread grimmwerks
What's the best way of scaling a sprite in lingo while keeping the same centerpoint, ie getting the centerLoc = point(s.rect[3] - s.rect[1], s.rect[4] - s.rect[2]) Then doing the division against the sprites height/width, ie scW = integer(s.width * .80) * .5 scH = integer(s.height * .80) *

lingo-l Thanks DOUG!

2002-06-13 Thread grimmwerks
for the new 'view in new window' ability. [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

Re: lingo-l Thanks DOUG!

2002-06-13 Thread grimmwerks
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Howdy-Tzi wrote: Re your sprite scaling question -- if it's a registration point issue, why not set the regPoint on the member to 0,0 before you begin? Or would that not work for other reasons? Well I'd really have to set the regpoint to be the center of the

lingo-l OS Control - popupmenu

2002-06-13 Thread grimmwerks
Can anyone else confirm that the popmenu member of the OSControl Xtra won't allow / as text? Seems to be skipping it entirely. I understand the '(' stuff (killed something else I was doing). [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to

lingo-l sigh. proplist fun

2002-06-13 Thread grimmwerks
So I've got this hugeass proplist. (although I have gained some weight recently. As has my donkey.). I've been changing properties of it, then making a member's text the string(proplist). All good. Course then every once in a while I'd proplist = value(member.text), thinking it loaded in

Re: lingo-l sigh. proplist fun

2002-06-13 Thread grimmwerks
Thanks Buzz - but that's not it. It's definately what Colin pointed out - director 'remembers' the actual property spelling, etc. [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 gotonetpage busting?

2002-06-14 Thread grimmwerks
I'm in authoring, mac, 8.5, doing gotonetpage(url, ) and it's not doing a damn thing [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 winxp and creating a projector...

2002-06-14 Thread grimmwerks
I've got 8.5.1 -- but I can't add ANY file to create a projector??! WTF? [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

lingo-l fft? how was this done...

2002-06-14 Thread grimmwerks
http://www.play-create.com/pieces/piano.html [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

RE: lingo-l winxp and creating a projector...

2002-06-14 Thread grimmwerks
Totally strange; I tested, still not good here, and I'm admin on the machine. It's also pretty damn new (last week) and director is one of 3 apps on here so far On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Kenneth Prat wrote: Turns out it won't make a projector of a file from the desktop; I put it in a

Re: lingo-l FYI... Invision won 11 Awards

2002-06-14 Thread grimmwerks
Huh. Well I remember doing work for you guys years ago. Never got paid either. On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Jeff Shachtman wrote: Good morning Just a quick note to say that we've just won eleven awards - most of them First Place - at the New Jersey Ad Club and New Jersey Art Director's Club

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