This sounds like a simple question, but I can't think of a way
around this. I have an animation of a bird that follows a curved
path. I want to put it into a single frame, so the normal way to do
this would be to use a film loop. However, I am using a script on
the bird to make it flap it's
On a PC, select the cast member. THen select the thumbnail image of the
of member in the Property Inspector. Right click on the thumbnail and
you can copy/paste thumbnails.
Same works on a Mac. Control-click if you don't have two mouse buttons.
You can also use lingo to automate the process after
At 6:27 PM -0800 3/10/05, Lars Liden wrote:
FYI - there is an easy work around (at least for the flash XML component.)
If you use the .load method it doesn't block so you have to use the callback.
Instead, load the XML file into a text string then just parse if with
the flash component (which
At 3:03 PM + 3/11/05, nik crosina wrote:
I am looking for a method to test whether the item at the end of a
path (e.g. the movie path this_one is a file or a folder.
BuddyAPI can help out here. Check out:
* baFileExists string Filename -- returns 1 if Filename exists
* baFolderExists string
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I have settled on using QuickTime exclusively
for even Windows-only projects. It is reliable
across many different Windows configurations
...much better than Windows Media. In the past,
I've downloaded the full install for Windows and
included it on the CD-ROM. My stub projector
looks for
I think it's always the case that you're only really licensed to
include the most recent installer, but I can't believe that part of
the license requires that you retrieve existing stock when there's a
new installer released. I also don't think that Apple ask to see
your order books, and that
My guess is that the path to the dvd in OS X isn't
dvdname:folder:file as it is in OS 9.
Give this a try:
/Volumes/dvdname/folder/file
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At 9:26 AM -0400 5/12/05, Kurt Griffin wrote:
Fun glimpse at our past. Good to see Tab so active on the list
again, and thanks for recommending Toast 3.0.
I almost replied to one! Need more coffee.
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At 4:38 PM -0500 5/18/05, John R. Sweeney Jr wrote:
on 5/18/05 4:05 PM, Bryan Thompson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it just me, or is everyone getting ten million copies of this message?
Some are doubled, but not all.
Weird???
Same here.
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At 12:33 PM -0400 5/24/05, Colin Holgate wrote:
At 9:16 AM -0700 5/24/05, Michael Collins wrote:
I will be out of the office Tuesday May 24, 2005. If this matter
requires immediate attention, please send to Jennifer Tan @
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Don't panic!
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At 2:02 PM -0400 5/26/05, Thomas W.J.C. McCrystal wrote:
On a whim, I tried a variation of Zav's sleep() trick, and it worked --
no beachball! Replace the nothing statement with sleep(1):
on test
loopMore = 1
repeat while loopMore
if _key.keyPressed(SPACE) then loopMore = 0
sleep(1)
At 1:17 PM -0400 6/8/05, Carl West wrote:
Can I get the projector's name?
I think what you're looking for is the applicationName.
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At 2:13 PM +0200 6/10/05, Valentin Schmidt wrote:
I thought I share what I've just discovered:
the logical operators AND and OR also work for lists:
Interesting! I didn't know that. And if the lists have different
lengths, the resulting list is clipped to size of the smaller one.
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Hello,
Does anyone know if there are any problems using set/getpref on a
locked down WinXP systems? Does it work or fail silently?
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At 10:02 AM -0500 6/10/05, John Mathis wrote:
Does anyone know if there are any problems using set/getpref on a
locked down WinXP systems? Does it work or fail silently?
I believe it works just fine.
Thanks John. Do you know if it also would work if the projector was
installed into the
At 4:21 PM +0100 6/10/05, James Newton wrote:
On 6/10/05 3:44 PM, Cole Tierney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know if there are any problems using set/getpref on a
locked down WinXP systems? Does it work or fail silently?
Hi Cole,
If a projector is run from a locked disk, setPref
Thanks for the advice, Michael. I'll probably
do something similar in the end. At this point,
I'm driven mostly by curiosity. And my lazy
side would prefer to only use setpref. ;) I'll
whip up a little test projector and see how far
I push setpref.
Here comes a similar solution I've been
At 11:29 PM +0200 6/10/05, Sébastien Portebois ou Véronique Sou
mis wrote:
Hi
Is a reason for using the string indows?
Juste a stupid paranoia of case sensitive check
(this test is still from my very first lingo
days)
So it's totally useless :) (but it's friday, ;)
Thanks Séb.
Hi,
I'm working on a project that needs to go movie some
existing_movie. The problem is that this existing_movie calls
clearglobals a couple times and tromps on my global space. I could
get access to existing_movie and toss a reference to
gMySpecialPlist into a temp variable and restore it
At 12:18 PM +1200 6/17/05, Sean Wilson wrote:
on restoreMyStuff
But isn't your restoreMyStuff handler going to have to go into the
file you're navigating to? You said you didn't want to touch the
code in this file, and you shouldn't have to:
The the movie I'll go to will return to my movie
Hello,
I've been fooling around with the mui xtra, having just read Rob
Wingate's informative article at DOUG (thanks Rob!). Everything's
going well except that all the widgets are left justified. I've tried
different combinations of
#attributes:[#layoutStyle:[#centerH]] and
At 10:41 AM -0400 6/24/05, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote:
I've seen what you're talking about where all the widgets align to the
left. I've had plenty of success when the window #mode is set to
#dialogUnit.
Thanks for the tip, Michael. I'll give that a try.
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At 2:30 AM +0200 7/12/05, Valentin Schmidt wrote:
Now there is also a mac version (carbon):
http://dasdeck.de/staff/valentin/xtras/sqlite/mac/
That's great! Thanks so much, Valentin.
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At 9:58 AM -0700 7/13/05, JOHN HART wrote:
I have plain text in a field, in a projector. Is there any way, using
Lingo or Javascript, to extract the plain text and create a new html
page from that text? My next step would be to upload the html page to
a server using something like DirectFTP.
does anyone understand what i'm talking about, and recognize the problem?
I haven't worked with flash xmlSockets, but you could test your
theory by having the php send an additional \n or \0. If that doesn't
help, I would run a packet sniffer to see what's really going on.
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Just set the scriptExecutionStyle=9 somewhere before the legacy
code. If you are likely to start using any of the new lingo for
MX04, just set the scriptExecutionStyle=10 before the new code.
You can also just set it in the message window and the property will
be saved with the movie.
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At 01:06 PM 8/12/2005, you wrote:
Except that doesn't actually work for MIAWs or Timeout objects and
probably some other objects, too.
I'm finding that out right now. Nothing seems to make the old code
work properly. Even this:
the scriptExecutionStyle = 9
windowObj.windowType = 49
Hi,
I've got an MX 2004 (10.1) projector that will not register keyDown
events while the command key is pressed. This is unfortunate, since
I've set exitLock = TRUE and would like to detect command - Q for
quit on the mac.
I've seen this behavior in earlier versions of director for mac when
At 12:36 PM -0400 8/15/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The modifier keys don't generate keyDown events themselves.
Otherwise, you'd get two events when the user presses Command and Q.
Just wait until the Q key is pressed, and then test for the presence
of the command key using the commandDown
At 2:24 PM -0400 8/15/05, Cole Tierney wrote:
The keydown doesn't fire while the command key is pressed, at least
it doesn't for me. Just try in a frame script:
on keyDown
if the commandDown then
beep
end if
end
To hear the beep you need to remove the commandDown check.
A clearer
. Just use a keyDownScript to redirect the
presentation on a command-Q keydown to your credits. When entering
that section, turn off the exitLock and they can leave from there at
any time.
On Aug 16, 2005, at 10:00 AM, Cole Tierney wrote:
At 10:27 AM -0500 8/16/05, Daniel Nelson wrote:
Does
At 11:34 PM +0200 9/7/05, Michael Nadel wrote:
Is there a way to get the music to restart where it left off after pausing?
If you don't actually pause the movie, then you should be able to use
sound(1).pause() and sound(1).play() to continue playing audio at the
point where it was paused.
At 12:45 AM +1000 9/17/05, Elvin wrote:
I have a director presentation with a link (using buddy) to open up
the default mail. I would like to however, place some texts on the
subject line of that email. How do i control this?
You can try something like this:
baOpenURL(mailto:[EMAIL
Seems very interesting, but can you change the value of a prop of an
uninstantiated script?
Yes you can. Hear's some more info:
http://director-online.com/dougwiki/index.php/Static_Scripts
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At 11:34 AM +1200 9/22/05, Sean Wilson wrote:
-- with some trimming (leading/trailing whitespace, fractional seconds):
put framesToHMS( (the systemDate).seconds, 1, 0, 0 )
Great tip!
I was just about to post a big old ugly lingo one-liner (mostly as a joke!). Oh
what the heck (watch for line
Hello,
I'm experimenting with inflating the stage's drawRect to fit the
user's current monitor resolution, but the stage is being clipped by
the size of my stub projector's stage.
I seem to be missing a piece of the puzzle. Could someone give me a
nudge in the right direction?
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I'm experimenting with inflating the stage's drawRect to fit the
user's current monitor resolution, but the stage is being clipped by
the size of my stub projector's stage.
Never mind. Helps to change (the stage).rect as well as (the stage).drawRect.
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Hi Michael,
But what, if I have the name of the property in a variable?
Does the following work?
me.setAProp(myProp, some value)
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Just can't seem to get it. The following verbose works, so I should
just use it and be done with it. But I'm still curious. How would the
following look in contemporary syntax:
put - into char 5 of someString
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put - into someString.char[5]
Thanks Tom and Daniel!
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At 1:27 PM -0700 10/5/05, Buzz Kettles wrote:
someString = someString.char[1..4] -
someString.char[6..someString.char.count]
That having been said, 'put' works so straightforwardly that the hybrid
(verbose + dot) seems like a much better approach. :)
Thanks for pitching that in, Buzz. I
Is it possible to send an attachment with an email message generated out
of baOpenURL?
If it is possible, it may not be reliable. Some email clients can't
even handle: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Looks like DirectEmail xtra can do it:
http://directxtras.com/demail_home.asp?UUID=1427945
Or you
I wonder if one could protect a project by simply omitting external
scripts. The only down side I can think of is not having other assets
protected.
Has anyone ever tried or considered this?
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on memberExists (someName)
return (member(someName).membernum 0) -- only for dir 10
return (not voidP(member(someName))) -- only for dir =10
end
Here's the obvious/ugly way that you probably would like to avoid:
on memberExists (someName)
if the scriptExecutionStyle 10 then return
At 12:47 PM -0400 10/7/05, Cole Tierney wrote:
on memberExists (someName)
return (member(someName).membernum 0) -- only for dir 10
return (not voidP(member(someName))) -- only for dir =10
end
Here's the obvious/ugly way that you probably would like to avoid:
on memberExists (someName
When you protect a dir/cst, the external scripts are no longer referenced.
What I'm getting at is using external scripts exclusively and leaving
them off the final cd as an _alternative_ to protecting the director
files. I'm guessing that if someone were to open the one of these
files,
I wonder if one could protect a project by simply omitting external
scripts. The only down side I can think of is not having other
assets protected.
Has anyone ever tried or considered this?
To what end? Protect from whom? Why not just make a dxr or dcr?
Just to save a step. If I don't
I've seen a few of you post replies like Roy's, but I have yet to see
one of his messages myself.
I'll bet your server is rejecting them as spam based on the encoding.
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Hi James,
At 6:47 PM +0100 10/8/05, James Newton wrote:
If you option-drag a script with a missing link to a new cast member slot,
it creates an unlinked script, with the entire script text visible. So this
technique is about as good as locking the door and leaving the key in the
lock.
I
Saving a Director file causes linked script members to be saved, so
they update their scriptText.
Now it's making more sense. Thanks Buzz!
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At 12:12 AM +0300 10/19/05, Petro Bochan wrote:
I've got to delete extra RETURN characters on each line to reduce the number
of page breaks. When I issue this code it works only with the trace command.
Whatever the combination I've tried it doesn't seem to work. Please help.
Here's another
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I have NO idea, why this is happening.
Asian auto responder. It seems the liist is on
auto pilot. If we can spoof the return address,
maybe we could do them and us a favor and unsub
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At 4:54 PM +0200 10/24/05, Steffi Oberheim wrote:
how is it possible to colorize a grayscale picture by lingo in such a
way, that white and black resist while the other nuances of the image
become shades of blue?
Hi Steffi,
This might not be what you're looking for, but you could use a solid
in the
publish settings in Dir MX 2004.
27 sep 2005 kl. 15.58 skrev Cole Tierney:
I'm experimenting with inflating the stage's
drawRect to fit the user's current monitor
resolution, but the stage is being clipped by
the size of my stub projector's stage.
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Basic realm authentication should work. Just send your
username:password as a base64 encoded string as an Authorization:
Basic header. Guess that's why called basic authentication. :)
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At 5:45 PM +0100 11/23/05, Valentin Schmidt wrote:
I wonder if (depending on the authorization
Good work, Tom! Eat some turkey, have a nap, then regroup. Thanks for
sharing that link, Darrel.
At 9:47 AM -0800 11/23/05, Darrel Plant wrote:
I don't know. It sounds like coverage of the race was pretty
positive. 25% of the vote when you got outspent over 10:1? That's a
good thing.
At 8:38 AM -0800 11/24/05, Alejandro Tejada wrote:
Do you keep downloable archives from previous years, like many mail
list that use mailman?
Here's the help page (displayed in the headers of each post):
http://lists.fcgnetworks.net/mailman/listinfo/lingo-l
The archives should be here, but
At 11:03 AM -0500 12/7/05, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote:
I'm using buddy API's baOpenURL to generate an email message and
populate it with some body text. (We're all on Windows XP using
Outlook.) My issue is that the code below doesn't render a carriage
return in the body. Anyone ever do this
At 3:27 PM + 12/20/05, Alan Skinner wrote:
Does director run them off a single thread or might it possibly use
multiple threads to run them?
Just a hunch, but I think timeout objects are serviced sequentially.
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At 11:01 AM -0500 1/9/06, chris phillips wrote:
if you need to place an item in startup items on OSX 10.4 and above
you may need to do it as root.
take a look at this apple tech note:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300962
-c
i have done this on all flavors of OSX, if you need
At 12:26 PM + 1/11/06, Ross Clutterbuck wrote:
Any more contributions list?
Another option is to ensure all users have only read access to the
directory containing your projector. Then you shouldn't have to worry
about locking files.
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When I forget a #dialog miaw on windows, focus is not returned to the
stage. Pressing keys produces sysbeeps and the keydown script of my
stage does not fire. If I click on the stage, it regains focus and
all is well. If I switch to type #document, the problem goes away.
This is in a D10.1r11
At 5:46 PM -0800 1/14/06, Buzz Kettles wrote:
At 10:36 AM -0500 1/13/06, you wrote:
At 6:30 PM -0500 1/12/06, Cole Tierney wrote:
At 2:35 PM -0800 1/12/06, Buzz Kettles wrote:
or if the #dialog is really the issue why not make it invisible,
change it's type then forget it?
I didn't think
At 4:44 PM -0500 2/3/06, Jamie Ciocco wrote:
I'm looking for feedback from anyone who's tried running DMX2004
projectors on Win98. Please respond if you've ever run your
projector on Win98, whether or not you succeeded.
No problems here.
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Probably getting clobbered by spam, too. Check out all the yummy
clear text email addresses:
http://www.tribeka.com/html/contact/email/email_executiveteam.htm
Stephen, do yourself a favor and hide those addresses.
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At 11:08 AM -0700 2/23/06, Leila Singleton wrote:
Great response --
At 7:20 PM + 2/23/06, Ross Clutterbuck wrote:
The problem I'm having is that I can't find the Mac OSX projector
resources anywhere on my OSX installation! Usually the DPLib,
IMLLib, etc. files are in the same place as the Director
application, but they are just not there on my Mac. I've
At 6:00 PM +0200 3/2/06, Michael Nadel wrote:
If I have a cast of 1000 bmps pictures and I want to save each cast
member as a jpg or gif (or even as bmps, if I have to) onto my computer
somewhere as individual files, Is there a way? Can anyone help me with
the code to do this?
First get this:
At 11:41 PM +0200 3/7/06, Michael Nadel wrote:
I have a problem though. The xtra SharpExport doesn't export gifs. I
have a cast with a few hundred gifs that I want to export to my computer
as either gifs or jpgs... Any ideas how to do this?
While authoring you could just plop them on the stage
At 1:05 PM -0500 4/4/06, Stephen Ingrum wrote:
...umm, what's with the Is being held until the list moderator can review
it for approval. The reason it is being held: Message has a suspicious
header ?
That might be a long wait, as the list seems to be on auto-pilot. Can
you post a copy of the
At 2:24 PM +0200 4/28/06, Valentin Schmidt wrote:
when opening those (fixed) URLs with MU Xtra and my little HTTP
Sniffer
(http://dasdeck.de/staff/valentin/lingo/http_class/http_class_v1.1.zip;
really a handy tool :-)...
Yes it is! Nice work Valentin.
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At 11:48 AM +0200 6/2/06, Bart Pietercil wrote:
Macromedia applications that Adobe is evaluating for Intel support
include Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, Flash Basic, Fireworks and
Contribute.
Is it just me, or is there something missing? Getting real nervous...
I highly recommend
At 7:10 PM +0200 7/26/06, Michael Nadel wrote:
A program I made once in Director 6.1 that runs with a projector, in
one in about 50 computers a customer on Windows XP, gets an error
message about needing 3 MB of virtual memory to run. Does any body
have any idea what this could be from, or a
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