lingo-l use of ilk()

2001-05-02 Thread Ian Jempson
of? I suppose I could write a method in each class to return the name of the parent script. just thought I would check if there is any easier way... thanks in advance Ian -- Ian Jempson Senior Developer Media-X Systems Inc. (613) 722-9990 ext. 17 http://www.media-x.com [To remove yourself from

lingo-l linePosToLocV() difficulties

2001-04-24 Thread Ian Jempson
overlooking? Could there be anything in the html that might cause this problem. I'm generating the html so that's under my control if revisions are required there. thanks in advance Ian -- Ian Jempson Senior Developer Media-X Systems Inc. (613) 722-9990 ext. 17 http://www.media-x.com [To remove yourself

RE: lingo-l linePosToLocV() difficulties

2001-04-24 Thread Ian Jempson
with programming Lingo. Thanks!] -- Ian Jempson Senior Developer Media-X Systems Inc. (613) 722-9990 ext. 17 http://www.media-x.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED

lingo-l Spell Check xtra???

2001-04-02 Thread Ian Jempson
. thanks Ian -- Ian Jempson Senior Developer Media-X Systems Inc. (613) 722-9990 ext. 17 http://www.media-x.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email

lingo-l DropDownList behaviour

2001-01-26 Thread Ian Jempson
I have been fighting with this all afternoon and I just can't make this work for some reason. Sprite 23 is a text member and I have dropped the DropDownList behaviour on it from the Library pallette. My current code is follows (adapted from the comments in the source for the behaviour):

lingo-l Shockwave problems

2001-01-23 Thread Ian Jempson
I'm having some problems with publishing one of my movies to Shockwave. I'm getting exception errors when closing Internet Explorer. This is a recent development, since this didn't happen a couple of days ago. It is only happening with one of my movies and it runs with no problems in Director.

Re: lingo-l Shockwave problems

2001-01-23 Thread Ian Jempson
ok, I was just told that it's a known bug with an Xtra that I'm using that's causing my troubles...so it turns out that it's not my code after all! Ian I'm having some problems with publishing one of my movies to Shockwave. I'm getting exception errors when closing Internet Explorer. This is a

lingo-l actorlist

2001-01-18 Thread Ian Jempson
I have a parent script for the connection to my back end application server. Up till now I have been creating a new instance of that object and storing it in a global variable. I have just read about the actorlist (I'm new to Director so I keep discovering these things) and now my current

Re: lingo-l char limit in getnettext?

2000-12-20 Thread Ian Jempson
According to the Lingo dictionary it is either 1k or 4k depending on the browser. By coincidence I had the manual open to postNettext when I read this email... Ian What's the char limit for getnettext return? [http://www.grimmWERKS.com ]-- [ graphic

lingo-l scope of methods in Lingo

2000-12-13 Thread Ian Jempson
I'm new to Lingo so please forgive me if I'm asking some dumb questions to begin with. I have a couple of questions at the moment. In a few scripts I have noticed that there are references to Public methods in the comments. Nowhere do I see any ability to specify the scope of a method by

lingo-l listbox UI elements

2000-12-13 Thread Ian Jempson
I'm trying to come to grips with the UI elements available to me in Lingo. We're using Director asa database front end. I'm currently displaying a list of students in a scrolling field. They are colour coded according to the marks they receive. This part is all working quite nicely, but what I