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FocusMgr

Fetched: April 24th, 2008, 4:39am CDT

Although 'device independence' is completely possible using lingo alone (you need that initial mouseClick to give Shockwave focus), once Shockwave has focus, you can use the following script to manage keyboard control over your interface.

Extending the MUI Xtra

Fetched: April 23rd, 2008, 7:35pm CDT

Once annoyance with the MUI Xtra is you cannot set a callback target - you have to create a global movie script function. Here is a script for extending the MUI Xtra. The purpose of this script is to allow you to specify a callback target for the MUI Xtra (it is a bit of a frankenstein hack - but its does its business fairly discreetly so you can create multiple MUI xtras without having to use global variables or global functions).

Flight-Check: Xtras

Fetched: April 23rd, 2008, 7:35pm CDT

Flight Check: Xtras is a 'MIAW Utility Xtra'. Its function is to trawl through all your scripts looking for occurances of 'global functions' that require an Xtra, as well as all 'named' Xtras. All the required Xtras are listed in a tree widget. Clicking on the Xtra shows which scripts use the Xtra.

Flight-Check: Cast Members

Fetched: April 23rd, 2008, 7:35pm CDT

Flight Check: CastCleaner is a 'MIAW Utility Xtra' that lists all the cast members that it thinks are not being used. Clicking on a list item will open the cast window and select the relevant cast members.

Flight-Check your Xtras

Fetched: April 23rd, 2008, 7:35pm CDT

Ever got to the end of a job, sat down to make the some projectors and wondered what Lingo Xtras you have ended up using (and need to include)? Or even taken over someone elses project or revisited an old project or your own, and seen some vaguely familiar 'global functions' but can't remember which Xtra provides them? If so, this script might be of use to you. It has two main functions: GetUsedXtras and WhoUsesXtra(xtraName).

Safari 3.0 beta - embed now works, but mouse-Down bug still there

Fetched: June 13th, 2007, 12:54am CDT

Safari 3 beta has been released. The good news is this new versions fixes an annoying issue introduced with Safari 2 that prevented Shockwave from being displayed using strictly valid XHTML (see this test page for a description of the 'shockwave lemak' method for embedding Shockwave using only the OBJECT tag). However, bad news is that the the even more annoying mouseDown bug is still present.

Export/Import Scripts

Fetched: April 19th, 2007, 6:27pm CDT

A simple utility for exporting scripts, as well as externalising/internalising scripts.

XLIB Utility

Fetched: April 13th, 2007, 9:31pm CDT

Xlib Xtra is a MIAW utility (a director movie you add to Director's Xtras folder and access via the Xtras menu) that provides a GUI for installing and updating Lingoworkshop's XLib scripts.

Script Search

Fetched: April 13th, 2007, 9:31pm CDT

ScriptSearch is a 'MIAW Utility Xtra' (a director movie you add to Director's Xtras folder and access via the Xtras menu). It provides an alternative interface to searching scripts. It has the options to search words only and to be case sensitive (like the built in search interface) and to use regular expressions (unlike the built in search interface). Clicking the resulting member will open the script editor window to the matching line. If there are more than one matches in the member, then repeated clicking will cycle through all the matches in that script.

FlightCheck- Xtras

Fetched: April 10th, 2007, 5:53pm CDT

Adobe MAX Conference 2006

Posted: November 3rd, 2006, 1:03am CST by Director Online

A look at Director, Flash and other Adobe news from the 2006 conference in Las Vegas.

Adobe MAX Conference 2006

Posted: November 3rd, 2006, 1:03am CST by Director Online

A look at Director, Flash and other Adobe news from the 2006 conference in Las Vegas.

MAX 2005 and Director

Posted: October 20th, 2005, 3:07pm CDT by Director Online

News related to Director from the 2005 Macromedia User Conference in Anaheim, California. A summary of news from the sneak peak, birds-of-a-feather gathering and sessions.

A Balrog in the Browser

Posted: October 10th, 2005, 12:00pm CDT by Director Online

This article outlines the process of creating a fire simulation with semi-realistic properties for use in a typical game engine or other real-time 3D environment. Fire simulation is broken down into three major areas: point-sprite generation, image animation, and additional effects (smoke, sparks, and glow). Also discussed are additional solutions for multi-texturing and manipulation of the textures needed to produce the simulation, as well as discussion of directions this work could be extended.

Communicating With Flash Code Objects

Posted: September 30th, 2005, 4:15am CDT by Director Online

Development can involve writing code in a Flash movie, that is to be run embedded in Director as a Flash sprite. A reliable way of establishing links between your Flash code objects and your Lingo code is required. A technique for establishing those links, in both directions, is described here.

Fun with TCP/IP Sockets

Posted: August 23rd, 2005, 3:50am CDT by Director Online

There are options available for working with TCP/IP sockets, which allow you to develop networking solutions that are not available through the Multiuser Xtra or an embedded Flash XML Socket solution. In this article, well discuss how this can work for you.

Case Study: Sony Videoconferencing PCS Series Communications Toolkit Project

Posted: August 5th, 2005, 11:45am CDT by Director Online

A case study for SONY U.K.'s new Communications Toolkit CD for its PCS Series Videoconferencing product. Project uses several third-party Xtras including a custom version of INMs Impressario, INMs V12 Database Engine, DirectImage and DirectFTP.

Meliora Software releases KeyboardControl Xtra version 3.0

Posted: June 22nd, 2007, 3:23am CDT by Director Online

Meliora Software is pleased to announce KeyboardControl Xtra version 3.0. KeyboardControl Xtra is the most advanced and efficient keyboard input filtering solution for Adobe Director available on the market today. What's new in version 3.0: - Multiple keyboards support added. Now you can set hotkeys, start and stop filtering for each installed keyboard independently. - Windows Vista support added. Upgrade to version 3.0 is available free of charge to all registered KeyboardControl Xtra customers. Please, visit http://www.meliorasoft.com for more details.

ISO Interactive Gets New Site

Posted: April 18th, 2007, 7:20am CDT by Director Online

ISO Interactive has developed a number of interactive projects ranging from typical web sites, online shockwave games, 3D development and full customized content management systems. Our ISO Interactive CMS platform has been used for a number of projects. The new ISO site uses a version that has additional controls over flash and shockwave content. A few of our customized CMS driven sites: ISO New Site: ISO Interactive (http://www.isointeractive.com ) Corporate: Coca-Cola (http://www.cokecce.com) COPPCO (http://www.coppcoonline.com) Game related: Shocksites (http://www.shocksites.com ) Chamber of Chat (http://www.chamberofchat.com ) Thank you and have a great day.

INM PDF Xtra 8 now compatible with Acrobat 8

Posted: January 12th, 2007, 3:56am CST by Director Online

INM recently released INM PDF Xtra 8 for Director. This highly-anticipated version ensures that developers can continue to create up-to-date compelling content while integrating Acrobat 8. Special upgrade prices are available for owners of INM PDF Xtra 7 and 3. Read the full press-release: http://www.inm.com/about/newsroom/pressrelease/070110-pdf-xtra8-official.htm Product information: http://www.inm.com/products/pdfdirector/

Paradigma Releases Valentina 2.5 Server and Developer Products

Posted: December 8th, 2006, 4:40am CST by Director Online

New Data Analysis and Secure Networking Features Added to Ultra Fast Developer Database December 8, 2006. Beaverton, Oregon-based Paradigma Software, Inc announces the immediate availability of Valentina Technology Release 2.5 for all developer and business products. This upgrade adds significant new features to both Paradigma business products and developer products. All Valentina 2.5 products gain two new SQL syntax features for reducing complexity in SQL queries and greatly enhancing data analysis queries: * PIVOT, SQL Syntax. Create virtual cross-tabs of data results to greatly enhance data analysis capabilities of applications built around Valentina. * WITH-statement, SQL Syntax. A new Common Table Expression and similar to Views; the WITH statement acts much like a VIEW that is temporary to the query. All Valentina 2.5 business products gain both SSL and automatic network discovery features, with options available for Valentina Developer Network: * SSL Support. Built in SSL support for Valentina Office Server and Valentina Studio, allowing optionally adding secure communications or disabling non-SSL communications. An SSL Adapter is available for Valentina Developer Network for $99. * Bonjour Support. Built in Bonjour support (a form of zero-config) for Valentina Office Server and Valentina Studio. This allows automatic discovery of a database server on a network. A Bonjour Adapter is available for Valentina Developer Network for $99. * Redesigned Valentina Studio. The database creation, browser, query builder and server maintenance tool has a new, modern, tabbed interface. In addition to customer feedback, Paradigma Software also incorporated dozens of minor fixes and improvements. The technology upgrade is free for all licensees of Valentina 2.x products. The Bonjour and SSL Adapters cost $99 and are licensed so that VDN subscribers can incorporate them into their projects royalty free. Valentina Application Developer Kits allow developers utilizing Adobe Director, Runtime Revolution, REALbasic, any .net framework solution, any COM based solution, Delphi, MS Visual C++ or Apple xCode to power their applications with Valentina database technology. Valentina ADKs start at $149. Valentina Developer Network adds royalty free distribution of Valentina Embedded Server, allowing developers to save over $300 per deployment compared to competing solutions; Embedded Server can be deployed royalty free. Valentina Developer Network starts at $399 during December 2006, new seats of VDN Platform are discounted by $100.

Magicgate Releases Pre-Made CD-ROM Interfaces

Posted: October 23rd, 2006, 8:11am CDT by Director Online

Magicgate Software has launched a series of pre-made, ready to use multimedia interfaces for CD-ROM projects. Give your next CD-ROM project a head start with our completely customizable, professional layered interfaces. Our multimedia interfaces take all the work out of creating a spectacular front end to your next CD-Rom project! Our artists have created theme based interfaces to give your project that unique edge that it deserves. Talk about sticking out of the crowd and making an impression. In just a matter of minutes you will have your complete front end up and running. Features: =>Layered Photoshop files for easy import into Director =>Standard 800x600 resolution interfaces =>Available in 3 different purchase options =>Eliminates the need for paying for expensive graphic design Requirements: Adobe Photoshop 7 or later and/or Adobe Director 8.5 or later We have three options for you when purchasing this interface: 1) Layered Photoshop (PSD) file 2) Layered Photoshop (PSD) file AND a Director file with the layers already imported and navigation programmed for the menu choices along with any mouse over actions (This is an 8.5 Director version of the file which is also compatible with MX and MX2004 and future versions) 3) Layered Photoshop (PSD) file that will be exclusive to your project and not sold to any other vendor. For more information, please visit: http://www.magicgate.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=C&Category_Code=MMINTF

INM Releases The Essential Pack for Director

Posted: October 18th, 2006, 3:13am CDT by Director Online

Be the first to experience the Essential Pack for Director, a uniquely powerful publishing solution! Integration New Media, Inc. (INM) recently announced the official combined release of INM Impressario 3 and INM VizionDB 4.1, two of the most praised Xtras on the market combined into one exceptional value package. The new INM Impressario 3 allows you to create, interact and customize PDFs in Director and, when combined with INM VizionDB 4.1, becomes the essential solution for indexing, searching and retrieving relevant information from a large number of PDFs. The Essential Pack for Director is ideal for those wishing to create searchable libraries such as educational reference, technical documentation and e-learning materials. To experience this powerful publishing solution, try INM Impressario 3 and INM VizionDB 4, free for 30 days http://www.INM.com/Products/Essentials/ Exceptional value pricing is also available, visit: https://Store.INM.com For more information, please contact info@INM.com

INM VizionDB Desktop In Public Beta

Posted: May 12th, 2006, 2:51am CDT by Director Online

Integration New Media, Inc. (INM) recently announced that their flagship product, INM VizionDB Desktop is in its public beta phase. INM VizionDB is designed to meet the needs of both the creative individual and the skilled programmer, it combines visually appealing graphical interfaces and easy-to-use productivity tools, with the power of industry-strength database technology. This results in the fastest design-to-delivery cycle for the user. INM VizionDB for Adobe Director is actively recruiting beta testers. This product will be available for purchase later this spring. To join the beta team and to download the free, fully-functional beta, please visit: http://www.INM.com/products/viziondb/desktop/ The top 3 beta testers will be given a free INM VizionDB Desktop license.

INM Publishes Paper on the Transition to Intel-based Macs

Posted: February 9th, 2006, 5:38am CST by Director Online

The paper gives an overview of the situation, and offers some guidelines on what the transition will entail, including some special considerations for Director developers. It also mentions the official position from some of the main Xtra developers on their plans to convert their Xtras. Should you require additional information, please feel free to contact me. Here is a direct link to the PDF document (317 KB http://www.inm.com/about/newsroom/whitepaper/intel-mac-whitepaper.pdf

ISOstudio Update

Posted: January 4th, 2006, 6:39am CST by Director Online

Just a notice on latest project with the isoEditor/ISOstudio and upates to our softare. 1. The Chamber of Chat is an example of a real world project that gets updated on regular bases. Our isoEditor (ISOstudio software), Macromedia Director, MySQL and .asp were used to build this online community. It has a built in content management system as well as HTML newsletter functionality. Visit the site at: http://www.chamberofchat.com There are even more members (about 4500), more rooms and improved functionality. Take a look at some pics at: a. http://www.shocksites.com/images/common/coc1.jpg b. http://www.shocksites.com/images/common/coc2.jpg c. http://www.shocksites.com/images/common/coc3.jpg d. http://www.shocksites.com/images/common/coc4.jpg 2. Keep up with the lasted updates here on the officail ISOstudio forums. Also notice that there is a new Forum there called "RED5 Zone" at: http://www.shocksites.com/forum/default.asp?CAT_ID=9. This is for a new multi user and streaming technology for Flash and Director. It is very similar to the multi user technology used in the Chamber of Chat. So be sure to as ask question on that at the forums. And it is FREE! 3. Do not forget about the Director-online Wiki for details on samples of ISOstudio. http://director-online.com/dougwiki/index.php/ISOengine News Source Provided by ISOinteractive, LLC www.isointeractive.com

RED5 Server Fourm

Posted: January 4th, 2006, 6:14am CST by Director Online

Shocksites.com is hosting the current Official RED5 Forums at: http://www.shocksites.com/forum/default.asp?CAT_ID=9 RED5 Overview: It is software developed that soon will have the ability to manage multi user/real time game environments, streaming services (including video and audio), and other interactive with OSFlash, Flash and Director. So drop by and ask or answer questions about this FREE Open Source application. Informatin provided by ISOinteractive, LLC www.isointeractive.com

Royalty Free Music - Whitebeetle Ltd

Posted: September 23rd, 2007, 12:46am CDT by Director Online

Download royalty free music by browsing our catalog or using our search facility then purchase and download immediately. Top class musicians and composers used exclusively for Whitebeetle.com.

Royalty Free Music : Whitebeetle.com

Posted: July 11th, 2007, 2:16am CDT by Director Online

Your ultimate source for maximum impact, cutting edge royalty free and commissioned music. Many genres and original content available.

Loopsound - Royalty Free Music

Posted: July 9th, 2007, 11:58am CDT by Director Online

Music loops, Loop packs, Downloadable CDs featuring Electronic dance music compilations and our Royalty Free Classical music library. WAV and MP3 instant download.

Gemafreie Welten - Gemafreie Musik - Royalty free Music

Posted: July 6th, 2007, 1:27pm CDT by Director Online

Gemafreie Welten.de offers a wide range of different royalty free music tracks. There are over 1000 Tracks and various soundeffects online. Easy licensing and fast archivebrowser options.

WireCASE

Posted: July 2nd, 2007, 5:20am CDT by Director Online

High quality 3D models in various categories and file formats

Sound Loops Studio

Posted: February 3rd, 2007, 9:07am CST by Director Online

Collection of royalty free music loops, suitable as background music with flash and websites, games, PowerPoint, presentations, video, films.

The Music Tracks Library

Posted: February 3rd, 2007, 9:04am CST by Director Online

Royalty free music for multimedia projects including films, video, multimedia, Web, and Flash.

Chris Worth Productions

Posted: February 1st, 2007, 11:40pm CST by Director Online

Royalty Free Music Library covering a wide range of styles from Techno to real Orchestral Classical Music in broadcast quality recordings. All tracks can be previewed online and are available for instant download.

Dcomsoft

Posted: January 29th, 2007, 10:47pm CST by Director Online

SWF utilities including Flash Decompiler for Windows, SWF Compressor-Decompressor, SWF Picture Extractor, Dump Flash decompiler, SWF Protect Remover, SWF Debug Remover.

Massivetracks

Posted: December 30th, 2006, 2:17am CST by Director Online

Royalty free sounds and music for Flash, Shockwave, Broadcast, Video and Website Developers.

netDone

Posted: February 16th, 2006, 1:12pm CST by Director Online

Whie preloadNetThing, it seems netDone returns 1 as soon as the download process begins. Use getStreamStatus.state to check was it completed !

EvalScript

Posted: January 31st, 2006, 11:02am CST by Director Online

doesn't work with firefox, IE mac, and versions of netscape without LiveConnect. you must name the .dcr in both the embed and object tags. liveconnect=true must be on if you're targeting netscape that supports it. alternatives? possibly gotonetpage/geturl

showLocals

Posted: January 27th, 2006, 1:41pm CST by Director Online

isn't there a way to put the local variables in a string instead

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ref

Posted: January 4th, 2006, 3:48pm CST by Director Online

Obtaining a reference to text only works on #text members. It fails on fields with Object Expected.

keyCode

Posted: December 16th, 2005, 2:22am CST by Director Online

using "the key" can determine the key related to a keycode only when the key has just been pressed. How do i pick an arbitrary number and determine the key to which it corresponds?

scriptInstanceList

Posted: January 21st, 2005, 6:20am CST by Director Online

You can affect this property as though it were a linear list. So: sprite(7).scriptInstanceList = [] clears all behaviors attached to a given sprite. Also: for those using javascript, this syntax works: sprite(7).scriptInstanceList.add(script("myBehavior")); It seems to hang if you use the above code to initialize the list, but this worked for me: sprite(7).scriptInstanceList.deleteOne(script("myBehavior"));

modal

Posted: October 30th, 2004, 3:47am CDT by Director Online

windowRef.modal is obsolete and not supported in MX 2004 as mentioned. Use windowRef.type=#dialog instead

textureMember

Posted: October 21st, 2004, 8:34am CDT by Director Online

I couldn't get this to work with the sytax sample style listed here. I had to use a simple string which was the name of the bitmap member. Example: sprite(1).member.textureMember = "mybitmap"

importFileInto

Posted: October 2nd, 2004, 3:58pm CDT by Director Online

The return value of importFileInto is a boolean that shows whether the command did work or not.

locVToLinePos

Posted: September 29th, 2004, 8:56am CDT by Director Online

You can get the total number of visual lines in a text member (lines created by word wrap and carriage returns) rather than the lines calculated by carriage returns when you use member().line.count. Anyways, to calculate the visual lines you can do this: vLineCount = member("myText").locVToLinePos(member("myText").height)

Hello world!

Fetched: March 25th, 2007, 1:57am CDT

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

Help me out, vote for Podcast Salad

Fetched: August 2nd, 2006, 10:59am CDT

So my video podcast enterprise plods on. We’ve got 8 shows, four in regular production. At this point I seriously doubt some of the numbers thrown out by other shows — viewers in the hundreds of thousands. I think bad stats, YouTube popularity and other factors inflate that number. Nevertheless, I still see the key to [...]

More Director 2007 News, FAQ

Fetched: July 26th, 2006, 6:40pm CDT

Digital Media Designer posed an interview with Thomas Higgins entitled “Director Is Not Dead”. More statements that Director 2007 is the next version and that Director and Shockwave are being updated for both Mac Intel machines and Windows Vista. Among other things, Tom said: “I have … made crystal clear that Director and the Shockwave [...]

Webcam Jigsaw Puzzle

Fetched: July 18th, 2006, 3:39pm CDT

Here’s a Flash jigsaw puzzle that takes the input from your Webcam or other video device and makes a puzzle from it. I’ve got an iSight on my Mac and that’s what I’ve been using to test. But I’d love for some others to test it with various machines and Webcam devices. Try it out [...]

Director 2007?

Fetched: July 11th, 2006, 8:44am CDT

Hanford Lemoore noted in his blog that Thomas Higgins mentioned at the Casuality conference last week, and then on Lingo-L, that the next version of Director will come out in the first part of 2007.

1000 Words, For Free!

Fetched: July 7th, 2006, 1:52am CDT

So I noticed a lot of people are putting up these pages where you can buy a word on a page for $X and it links to your site. A marketing thing. It was curious as to how simple the code would be for something like that, so I built one. Took me a few [...]

Shockwave Player Swaps Yahoo Toolbar for Google Toolbar

Fetched: June 21st, 2006, 6:07pm CDT

Check out Tom Higgins’ blog today: Tom Higgins: Shockwave Player Update. So, basically, we still have an optional toolbar install when installing Shockwave. No change there. But read between the lines. They have a “mutli-year” agreement. This must mean that Adobe is getting money from Google, which flows directly to Director and Shockwave development. In addition, [...]

Colorado Rockies and the iPod

Fetched: June 19th, 2006, 6:41pm CDT

Seems my company is not the only one in Colorado getting some benefit out of using video iPods. My baseball team, the Colorado Rockies, are using them in the dugout to review plays and such. Cool. Video iPods help Rockies prepare for game - Yahoo! News.

MAX 2006!

Fetched: June 8th, 2006, 4:00pm CDT

Adobe has officially announced the MAX 2006 conference. There was some doubt in my mind whether Adobe would continue the Macromedia tradition of developer conferences. But here it is, Oct 23-26 in Las Vegas. One worry is that I saw it called a “user conference” on one page, which is different than a “developer” conference. Macromedia [...]

What Does It Take to Get Podcasts Featured on iTunes!?!

Fetched: June 7th, 2006, 4:18pm CDT

So I’ve been spending a lot of time, money and energy on video podcasting. After doing nothing but making games for 10 years, this is a big departure and a big risk for me. I’ve invested about 1.5 salaried positions in video podcast production, and we have 6 shows up and running on CleverMedia.tv. Two [...]

One Stop Desktop Multimedia

Fetched: March 24th, 2006, 2:14pm CST

newly added to the DirWeb Shockwave List

SuperTour

Fetched: March 24th, 2006, 2:14pm CST

newly added to the DirWeb Shockwave List

Multiplayer Superyatzy

Fetched: March 24th, 2006, 2:14pm CST

newly added to the DirWeb Shockwave List

Supertour uses Shockwave to create next generation travel portal

Fetched: March 24th, 2006, 2:14pm CST

SuperTour (www.SuperTour.com) is a travel portal that uses Shockwave to present users an interactive product demonstration of hotels and travel destinations. Users can navigate virtual walks from the beach to the hotel lobby, and to the rooms, creating a more compelling experience for travelers and enabling hoteliers to showcase their hotel properties in greater detail. Check it out and let me know what you think. In the meantime, if youd like more information, feel free to contact me by phone at 781.487.4680 or by email at jchng@digtrends.com.

Flush-a-Bush

Fetched: March 24th, 2006, 2:14pm CST

A new, politically incorrect variant of Whack-a-Mole.

Portfolio of a multimedia developer

Fetched: March 24th, 2006, 2:14pm CST

My site contains lots of applications done with Macromedia Director and xtras. Also, my personal portfolio containing multimedia projects and articles.

Director @ Night: new blog goes live

Fetched: March 24th, 2006, 2:14pm CST

A blog focusing on Director, Lingo, and most anything related to technology and multimedia that I stumble across.

LingoPark Forum Relaunch

Fetched: March 24th, 2006, 2:14pm CST

The MMUG-D / LingoPark Website & Forum has been relaunched, please come and visit the all new forum!

Intel-based Macs Are Here - What it Means for You!

Fetched: March 24th, 2006, 2:14pm CST

Apple recently released its first Intel-based Macintosh. INM has written a white paper to learn more about this. I thought this paper might be of interest to your readers. The paper gives an overview of the situation, and offers some guidelines on what the transition will entail, including some special considerations for Director developers. It also mentions the official position from some of the main Xtra developers on their plans to convert their Xtras. Should you require additional information, please feel free to contact me.

Portfolio of a Director Programmer

Fetched: February 27th, 2006, 6:02pm CST

A portfolio of all my Director work. The website also includes details about me, and a selection of my photographs.

Buncha new quirks up

Posted: May 18th, 2006, 4:55pm CDT

Add quirks having to do with closeRequest, ilk, the keyword 'filename' and the Flash 8 Xtra.

erase quirk

Fetched: February 27th, 2006, 6:05pm CST

Added a quirk with erase that can erase the wrong member.

Free Windows installer

Posted: February 19th, 2006, 8:13am CST

Added NSIS to the Mile High Table. NSIS is a free full-featured scriptable Windows installer.

Vector math quirk

Posted: February 12th, 2006, 8:34am CST

Added a Mac problem with the distanceTo function that may exist in other vector ops that return floating point numbers.

Selection and projector close box quirks

Posted: December 16th, 2005, 3:41pm CST

Added some interesting but not life-threatening quirks to the list having to do with text.selection and the close box on projectors.

Go to page behavior for Acrobat 7 Win

Posted: November 2nd, 2005, 7:27am CST

Updated a behavior to work with Acrobat 7 that uses MasterApp Xtra to tell Acrobat to go to a particular page in a PDF file.

Flash listbox component keypress quirk

Posted: October 29th, 2005, 6:54am CDT

Added a quirk with using a keypress to make a selection in the Flash listbox component.

MP3Xtra

Posted: October 27th, 2005, 8:06am CDT

Added MP3Xtra to the Mile High Table. Free Win xtra that converts internal sound members to external MP3 files.

Bunch o' quirks

Posted: October 22nd, 2005, 10:05am CDT

Added a few quirks to the Quirk List. One about how xtras affect symbols used in lists, one about the Flash TreeView component, and one about Director's built-in zip xtra.

EZIO Xtra

Posted: October 22nd, 2005, 7:37am CDT

Added EZIO Xtra to the Mile High Table. Free x-platform xtra that controls via the serial port, the EZIO board, which itself controls multiple devices such as lights, motors,sensors, etc. You can talk to the EZIO board with a regular serial xtra too, but EZIO Xtra has the EZIO board protocol built in.

Habemus Datum

Posted: February 8th, 2008, 4:33am CST by Aldo

June 6, 2008

Kite Aerial Adventures at Sziget

Posted: January 1st, 2008, 9:14am CST by Aldo

In november, VRMag returned with a brand new issue. Marco Trezzini chose one of my Sziget panoramas for the interactive index of the issue. The issue got a very nice mention on boingboing. If you just glance over the article on boingboing, it is almost as if John Gaeta is talking about my panorama ;-)

Click the image for the interactive panorama.

This post is a reprint of the VRMag article, including some bonus images.

Some seriously good news for Mac enthusiasts

Posted: October 25th, 2007, 4:18am CDT by Aldo

The good news I have is not the imminent release of Apple's new version of OS X.

You see, I really like my HP TC1100 tablet PC. But it was getting very sluggish, sometimes flaking out on me during presentations etc. Unfortunately, there has been very little in terms of an upgrade to that particular tablet; HP have moved away from the tablet formfactor and only have 'convertibles' these days. And I was not looking forward to Windows Vista on the new machine either. But I finally gave in and ordered a HP 2710p. I am still in the process of transfering my daily life to the new machine, but there's enough to like to this machine. I am keeping the TC1100 around though...

The great news for Mac lovers around the world is, that after a couple of days of use I am starting to get used to the ugglyness and inconsistencies that are Vista. So now that Leopard is picking up some of the same transparency ugliness and inexplicable inconsistency, there is hope for you yet: You'll get over it!

Wohoo, I am famous!

Posted: October 11th, 2007, 6:17am CDT by Aldo

I warned you about this: I am getting famous! I got featured on the front page of the blog of Dutch technology lifestyle magazine Bright!

Here's a couple of videos of me at this summer's panorama conferences, showing the setup I brouight to Bright, as well as some others:

Adobe Bridge CS3 Geotagger

Posted: October 11th, 2007, 5:51am CDT by Aldo

When I've been working too hard on projects that take a lot of energy, I often indulge myself in doing something completely different (though Tessa would argue that it's still behind a computer, so it is not all that different).

Ian Wood showed me some nice workflow tools for Aperture, and I wanted to do something similar with Bridge. Bridge, unlike Adobe Lightroom, was built from the ground up to be extensible; many of Adobe's own applications use javascript to plug into Bridge, and they have a very nice SDK. There's even an embedded browser available in Bridge, based on Opera.

Sziget 2007 panoramas

Posted: August 29th, 2007, 6:57am CDT by Aldo

For the third year, I joined Andras Frenyo shooting panoramas at the Sziget Festival in Budapest, Hungary.

I arrived at the third day (the Panotools meeting in Lucerne coincided with the festival), so I missed out on Within Temptation, the only Dutch act of the festival; Even with only one Dutch act, I was somewhat surprised at the number of Dutch people at the festival.

Rotterdam Zomer Carnaval

Posted: July 28th, 2007, 3:50pm CDT by Aldo

There are so many stories still to tell about Tessa's and my trip, but as an intermezzo I shot this panorama at the Rotterdam Summer Carnival:

Click the image for the interactive panorama.

Today's Rotterdam Summer Carnival attracted just under a million spectators. This makes the Rotterdam carnival one of the largest in Europe.

Tessa said Yes!

Posted: July 1st, 2007, 9:09am CDT by Aldo

After climbing 545 meter over an 13 km hike, I asked Tessa to marry me. Fortunately, Tessa said 'yes', under the watchful eyes of three marmots. Click the image to enjoy the moment (and to find the marmots).

This is your chance to invest in a piece of history

Posted: April 27th, 2007, 11:45am CDT by Aldo

The house I grew up in is for sale.

This is your chance to own a piece of history. You never know, I might become really famous ;-)

First images of the surface of Gliese 581 C

Posted: April 26th, 2007, 10:37am CDT by Aldo

Gliese 581 C, an Earthlike planet spotted outside our solar system is the first found that could support liquid water and harbor life, scientists recently announced.

Second Director 11 Online Meeting

Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 8:04pm CDT by Raman

For you Director users out there be sure to keep an hour free tomorrow for the 2nd online meeting related to the future of Director.

According to Macromartin, the organizer, the meeting will be held for 1 hour to discuss:

1. The current state of Director
2. The future of Director
3. Introducing the public Director Feature Request System & Poll
4. Q&A and community chat

‘The future of Director’ is my most concern. But I doubt that the answer will be a negative one since participants are all Director users.

For more information and the location of the online meeting read this post on K-Director.

I’ll be there!

PRegEx Xtra Coming Soon

Posted: June 13th, 2008, 8:20pm CDT by Raman

On Direct-L it was announced that an updated version of the PRegEx Xtra for Director 11 will be release in the next few weeks. Great news!

PRegEx is a free, open source, Xtra that brings the power of Perl regular expressions and list handling to Lingo.

New Home for Director Bugs

Posted: June 12th, 2008, 8:17pm CDT by Raman

Do you happen to know of any Director bugs? Be sure to visit The Director Community Bugbase and report them if they aren’t already in the list. Even Adobe is keeping an eye on this list!

For many long-time Director Developers, the time between Director releases can be frustrating. Bugs crop up. Is it you? Is it Director?

The Director Community Bugbase is designed to help you find answers. Having a problem? Search the bugbase to see if sombody’s run across it before. Think you’ve found a bug? Enter it, and save somebody else the frustration you’re having.

The Director Community Bugbase is generously hosted and maintained by Creative Perspectives, Inc. one of the industry’s premier developers of multimedia applications.

Serious/Meaningful Game Competition

Posted: May 18th, 2008, 6:45pm CDT by Raman

Last year Michigan State U (where I got my PhD) started a Master’s program for Serious Game Design. I wish they’d had that back when I was there!

This fall they will be holding the Meaningful Play 2008 Conference.

Whether designed to entertain or for more “serious” purposes, games have the potential to impact players’ beliefs, knowledge, attitudes, emotions, cognitive abilities, and behavior.

Meaningful Play 2008 is an interdisciplinary academic conference that explores the potential of games to entertain, inform, educate, and persuade in meaningful ways. The conference includes thought-provoking keynotes from leaders in academia and industry, peer-reviewed paper presentations, panel sessions (including academic and industry discussions), innovative workshops, roundtable discussions, and exhibitions of games.

Director 11 is being marketed towards the serious game community and it just so happens that there is a competition for serious games at the conference. If you have a serious game ready (or even an idea or something under development) you may want to read a bit more in their call for games.

The submission deadline isn’t until August 15, 2008, so get busy. Sounds like a great contest for something done in Director.

If you make it there, be sure to stop by the cyclotron…and catch a football game.

Attack of Spambots = Quiet Time

Posted: May 6th, 2008, 10:55pm CDT by Raman

I’ve been rather quiet lately. My spare hours have been working on recovering from an attack of spambots attacking this site, and others. My poor little Mac Mini hosts a dozen sites while holding a martini glass for any visitors that may drop by. I’ve ignored security for the past N (where N > 10) on my blogs, but that has rapidly become a thing of the past. Hopefully I’m back up and running now, preferably without scissors

While I’ve been quiet I also noticed how quiet it was on the MXNA (Macromedia XML News Aggregator). They had some issues with their server, but the site is back up with a new and improved name of Adobe Feeds. Thanks to all of those at Adobe for the feeds. The site sure is faster than it used to be! Guess they now have a bit of power behind it. I know I’ll feel better now that I can browse through it in the morning.

Stay away hackbots…stay away…please!

Director 11 for Mac Updated

Posted: April 28th, 2008, 9:02am CDT by Raman

An updated version of Director 11 was released over the weekend for Mac users:

This is a Mac only update that addresses the following issues:

Referencing a cast member fails when the Cast name has special characters like
!, @, #, $, %, ^, &, *, (, ), _, +, |, },etc

Shockwave Audio (SWA) files were not streamed properly

Field component performance is very slow on MAC

For detailed installation instructions and files changed, please see the readme.txt file.

You can download this update on the Director downloads page.

Shockwave.ini jumps to new home (OSX)

Posted: April 24th, 2008, 8:03am CDT

For the developers out there that like to get a slightly more descriptive error message in their Shockwave-based content you need to have a Shockwave.ini file placed in your shockwave folder. This prior post talked about where you should put it for Shockwave 10 on OSX.

With Shockwave 11 you should navigate to your /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Shockwave 11/ folder. There you will see the DirectorShockwave.bundle. Control-click (right-click) on that bundle and choose “Show contents.” Inside that sits the Plugin.framework folder.

Place the Shockwave.ini in that folder (you will probably have to enter your password at that time) with this text in it.

[Lingo] DisplayFullLingoErrorText=1

That usually makes debugging just a bit easier

Note: I haven’t yet looked in to the location for Windows. If anyone knows feel free to comment. I’m sure I’ll need to look for it one of these days.

New Director Sites Pop Up

Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 7:45am CDT

Looks as if two new Director sites popped up recently. You can drop by CodeRecipe: A recipe for 3d game coders which seems to focus on using the Ageia PhysX engine to do 3d gaming in Director, and Adobe Director Online which is the site for Director users from Director users.

Most Director sites haven’t been really lively in the past few years (including this one) as compared to five or ten years ago, so it is good to see a few sprouts popping up here in the springtime.

Hello World! Yet Again.

Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 6:32am CDT

Welcome to WordPress…yet again. I made quite a few behind the scene changes. Thanks to those that pointed out some things wrong on the site. I still have some changes to make, but I think I have things stabilized.

Hello world! Again.

Posted: April 20th, 2008, 11:43am CDT by admin

Welcome to WordPress. I’m currently working on doing some updates to wordpress. Sorry for the downtime. Stuff should be updated soon…hopefully.

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Posted: February 8th, 2008, 9:09am CST by info

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Hash Functions in Director

Posted: February 7th, 2008, 3:35am CST by info

MD4, MD5 and SHA-1 inECMAScript for Director

Beware though, all three of these functions have been reported to collide, meaning that different strings can yield to same results.

Geotagging

Posted: February 4th, 2008, 7:22am CST by info

Geotagging your media seems to be quite en vogue right now… a german computer magazin as well as SPIEGEL ONLINE had both an article about geotagging capabilites for your cameras, based on cheap GPS mice or geotagging services.

While listening to the excellent Lounge-Radio, I came across the song

2/4/2008 2:14:23 PM		Artist :	piero umiliani	buy
Track :	genova, p.zza de ferrari, dalle 2 alle 7
Album :	easy tempo vol.6 - import

and i was wondering if it would make any sense to geotag music? I looked up the place on google maps that served as the title to the song… nothing special there, yet i am still wondering if there would be any use to that…

Shockwave3D examples for architects

Posted: January 30th, 2008, 5:10pm CST by info

Some interesting examples done by Lutz Westermann.

Convert your image into 3d model

Posted: January 29th, 2008, 6:10am CST by info

Overview website from Stanford.

3-D Reconstruction from a Single Still Image in SW3D

Posted: January 29th, 2008, 6:05am CST by info

From the page:

“We consider the problem of estimating detailed 3-d structure from a single still image of an unstructured environment. Our goal is to create 3-d models which are both quantitatively accurate as well as visually pleasing.”

There used to be a try-it-yourself page, but apparently, it has been closed down.

(courtesy of slashdot)