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  1. fjp476

    Control .AVI playback in the movie

    Try sprite(sprite channel).movieRate=0 Cheers~Frank
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    viewing snippits of video

    Check out movieTime. :) Cheers~Frank
  3. fjp476

    print button question

    What does your script look like? Cheers~Frank
  4. fjp476

    Upgrading an old Director project

    Just thought I'd share the "fix". It turns out that it had been updated a few years ago using MX and opening it in MX2004 was causing the conflict. I uninstalled 2004 and installed MX and Bingo. Anyway, just posting to maybe save someone else the grief. Cheers~Frank
  5. fjp476

    Simple GIF Question but its annoying

    Make your graphics .pngs and use Flash for your animations. :) Cheers~Frank
  6. fjp476

    Upgrading an old Director project

    Hi, I've been given the task of translating an old (95 0r 96) poject and when I change the text, no problem but when I change some of the images it works fine in authoring mode but crashes the projector. The original images are 8 bit pct files. I've tried replacing them with pngs, jpgs, and pcts...
  7. fjp476

    My first tip

    Thanks for the tip. Nice way to get started here. :) Cheers~Frank
  8. fjp476

    Progress bar of movie

    Thanks Kenneth. :) Cheers~Frank
  9. fjp476

    Progress bar of movie

    A very simple graphical solution is to have your bar start Full and then Empty as they progress. Just make your bar and have the sprite run the entire length of your timeline. Add a Key frame at the end. Then click on the keyframe in the last frame and set the width (or height depending on your...
  10. fjp476

    Multi-language kiosk - Switching language on the fly

    On thinking about this, this option might me a bit processor intensive and there may be a more efficient method for performance sake??? Cheers~Frank
  11. fjp476

    Multi-language kiosk - Switching language on the fly

    Yes, you can use up to 8 sound channels using Lingo. You could have them all playing simultaneously but only have the selected one unmuted and for the text on the selected language set the visiblity to true and the others false. Cheers~Frank
  12. fjp476

    .Avi jumpy when playback on C.D

    You can use the preLoad command. Cheers~Frank
  13. fjp476

    .Avi jumpy when playback on C.D

    Sounds like a compression issue. I have always used Cleaner but have recently started using Sorenson Squeeze and outputting to Flash Video swfs for Director and really like the results. Small file size, good quality and no player required on the endusers machine regardless of platform. Cheers~Frank
  14. fjp476

    How to detect the file??

    You'll need to use an Xtra either Buddy API or File IO etc. Buddy API is free to use up to twice iun any given project and if you need to use more instances than that then it's a nominal registration fee. Here's a code that I used to do something very similar to what your after. I hope it helps...
  15. fjp476

    Read / write to floppy disk

    Good point Kenneth! Tim~Where's Q when you need him? ;) Cheers~Frank
  16. fjp476

    Read / write to floppy disk

    Sounds tricky, since many people consider zip disks also to be "floppy" and now with the advent of memory keys even more so. You may want to have them choose from a list of the drives that you detect. Why not just write to the hard drive? Cheers~Frank
  17. fjp476

    Problems creating projector (exe file)

    You can protect them by converting them to .dcr files (and they'll still work) but be careful and work on copies because it's not a reversible process. Cheers~Frank
  18. fjp476

    Problems creating projector (exe file)

    You anwered your own question regarding the linked movies. If they're not on the CD, how can your projector movie (which is) find them? They need to be on the CD in the same relative place to your main movie. Not sure what the problem is, with Win2000, I've made projectors with MX 2004 and run...
  19. fjp476

    Saving a file so that the background won't be white in illustrator

    Save it as a .png file and that should do the trick. :) Cheers~Frank
  20. fjp476

    Looping my intro

    No problem, just use this code on a frame script: on exitFrame me sound(1).play(member("yoursoundname")) end *This will play it in sound channell 1. If you're going to have any narration etc. you may want to change the (1) to (2) and then put your narrations etc. in (1). If you drag sounds...

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