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RIP Director Online, November 20, 1996 -- October 23, 2011

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:36:04 GMT

Thanks Adobe.

Statement on director-online.com:

October 23, 2011: This forum is no longer active. Please use the Director Forums at Adobe.com if you have questions.

It was a good run. So long.

Randal.

Rotating Display object around center point

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:03:30 GMT

I have spent several hours trying to get a display object to rotate about it's center with little success. No matter what I try it ends up rotating around some point out side of the object and with each rotation it translates a few pixels. The most basic version of my code is below. Any insights to what I'm doing wrong would be much appreciated.

Multilingual Database Design

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:49:44 GMT

I'm designing a database for a multilingual project and I see a couple different ways of approaching the problem.

1. I can have different colums for each language, let's say English and French. I.e.
Categories
ID
CatName_En
CatName_Fr

2. I can keep the colum names the same and use seperate tables for each language. I.e.
Categories_En
ID
CatName

Categories_Fr
ID
CatName

There are pros and cons for either approach. I'm curious if anyone has dealt with this and would be generous to relate their experiences.

Randal

Arca Database and Media Object

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:01:29 GMT

I'm using the database browser that comes with the Arca Database xtra to add JPEGs and PNGs to the database.

When I query the database in Director, the PNGs come back as Image objects which works great. However, the JPEGs are returned as Media Objects. This seemed odd but workable. I just set the media property of a bimap member to the media object, ie member(x).media = mediaObject. Doing this creates the error: "Invalid parameter error."

Has anyone tried this and gotten it to work?

I'm using a Mac and MX 2004.

Randal.

URL encoding problem with Mac OSX "mail" program

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:13:49 GMT

I’m using BuddyAPI’s baOpenUrl() to send email through a user’s default mail client which generally works fine. Exceptions occur when the subject or body has any of the following symbols - ™ ® ©. If there is one or more of these symbols then the subject and body are blank on a Mac, but come across fine in outlook on Windows.

I’m wondering if anyone has run into this. And, better yet. Did you find a way to make the mail program on the Mac behave properly?

Here’s the code I’m using:

In the message window type:

Address = ""
Subject = "Company Trademark™"
Body = "Check out our new Product®"
sendEmail(Address, Subject, Body)

Movie Script handlers:

on sendEmail Address, Subject, body
Subject = URLEncode(Subject)
Subject = fixUrlEncode(Subject)
body = URLEncode(body)
body = fixUrlEncode(body)
baOpenUrl("mailto:" & Address & "?subject=" & subject & "&body=" & body, "normal")
end sendEmail

on fixUrlEncode aString -- changes "+" to the correct urlencoding for a space.
_player.itemDelimiter = "+"
NewString = aString.item[1]
repeat with ItemNum = 2 to aString.item.count
NewString = NewString & "%20" & aString.item[ItemNum]
end repeat
return NewString
end fixUrlEncode

Thanks.

Randal.