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Make simultaneously or sequentially moveable and editable fields or text sprites in movie.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 30 May 2014 14:29:58 GMT

I am having a bit of a problem with creating field or text sprites that are both editable and moveable. I want a user to be able to enter text into the sprites and move them around on the stage to serve as labels for schematics they are making. I can easily make them moveable or editable, but when trying to do both one property interferes with the other. I have been using various combinations of the properties on the mouseenter, mouseleave, and mousedown handlers. One version of my non-workable efforts are below. Seems I can move a sprite but once editable gets focus can't move it anymore. Any ideas?

rod

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property spritenum

on mouseenter me
sprite(spritenum).moveablesprite = true

sprite(spritenum).editable = false
end
on mouseleave me
sprite(spritenum).editable = false
sprite(spritenum).moveablesprite = false

end

on mousedown me
sprite(spritenum).moveablesprite = true
sprite(spritenum).editable = false
end

on mouseup me
sprite(spritenum).moveablesprite = false
sprite(spritenum).editable = true
end

Use Excel to send commands from PowerPoint to open specific screens in a movie in a window

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 23 May 2014 00:34:58 GMT

Hello All,

Excel allows a user to create a Drop Down menu that can be embedded into a PowerPoint presentation. The links in the Drop Down menu can contain hyperlinks. My question is, can the hyperlink contain the information needed to launch a MIAW that, for example, used the following criteria:

gCommercial = window().new("RooferManual_Fall_Protection2.dxr")

gCommercial.movie.go(190)
gCommercial.open()

I can do this out of a director projector, added to the PowerPoint, but they perform inconsistently. Clearly, if the .dxr launch could be linked to a hyperlink in an Excel drop down menu, I'd be in clover.

There are about 80 frame based links in two movies that we would like to be able to access from within the PowerPoint through a drop down menu at anytime an instructor using the PowerPoint wanted to access them.

Any thoughts about this, including other solutions that can be easily added to PowerPoint?

Rod

How to delete objects created with new

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 08 May 2014 01:20:29 GMT

Hello,

I am having a problem creating a behavior or script to delete new sprites created in channels. I have a behavior script that creates new sprites using the following (simplified) script:

First, a Beginsprite creates a gChannel_list and assigns a beginning gChannel value. pSprite is used to establish the sprite that in the mousedown is clickon.

on Beginsprite me
gChannel_List =[]
gChannel = 70
pSprite = sprite(Spritenum)
end

In the mousedown the gChannel is incremented and the newly created channel is added to the gChannel_list.

on Mousedown me

gChannel = gChannel + 1
theChannel = addat(gChannel_List,gChannel)
themember = pSprite.member

........

channel(gChannel).makeScriptedSprite(themember, point(80,160))
sprite(gChannel).width = thememberW
sprite(gChannel).height = thememberH
sprite(gChannel).rotation = theMemberR
sprite(gChannel).moveablesprite = 1
sprite(gChannel).ink = 36
........

etc

After creation of several sprites based on the the gChannel, the following globals, for example, are returned.

-- Global Variables --
gChannel_List = [71,72,73,74]
gChannel = 74

My problem is that I am unable to delete these created gchannel sprites with a lingo command. Deleting them from the list, for example, using deletat(gChannel,1), does nothing to remove them from the stage (they do disappear from the list). And while I can display their attributes such as width [n=getat(gChannel_list, x); put sprite(n).width], nothing seems to relate to deleting these gchannel sprites.

How is it done?

Hope this is enough information. If not, please let me know. I can provide whatever you might need. Please help.

Rod

Problem with Script Using New() to Create a #Vectorshape

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 16:56:03 GMT

Hello,

I am having a problem integrating an existing movie script into a movie I am building and I can't figure out why.

The single movie script, developed by JC in 2004, appears below. It works perfectly in a movie all by itself. But I need to integrate it into an existing movie in which other sprites and behaviors must coexist.

The problem I am seeing is that gMem is created with the new command (can see it in the message window using put gMem), but it will not allow attachment of gMem.regPoint, gMem.centerRegPoint, and so on. These all return errors.

I would also be open to another solution to the problem. What I need to do is create rectangles that represent a plan view of a rooftop on an underlying grid and then be able to drag and place other images on it (it is for training purposes, not a game).

I am using MX2004 on a PC. Any help, deeply appreciated.

Rod Wolford

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global gMem, gCount, gNum, gLoc, gCreateVert, gMemNum

on prepareMovie
clearGlobals()
_movie.puppetTempo(60)
gCreateVert = False
gMemNum = 5
end

on mouseDown
if not(gCreateVert) then
    gMem = new (#vectorShape, member gMemNum of castLib 1)
    gMemNum = gMemNum + 1
    gMem.regPoint = point(0,0)
    gMem.centerRegPoint = False
    gMem.closed = False
    gMem.antialias = True
    gMem.strokeWidth = 0.25
    gMem.strokeColor = rgb(0,0,0)
    gNum = getFreeChannel()
    channel(gNum).makeScriptedSprite(gMem, point(0,0))
    sprite(gNum).ink = 36
    gCount = 0
    gCreateVert = True
end if

if gCreateVert then

    if the doubleClick then
      gCreateVert = False
      gCount = gCount - 1
      gMem.deleteVertex(gCount)
      gMem.closed = True
      gMem.fillMode = #solid
      gMem.fillColor = rgb(random(256) - 1,random(256) - 1,random(256) - 1)
      gFinished = True
      exit
    end if

    gCount = gCount + 1
    gMem.addVertex(gCount, the mouseLoc)

    gCount = gCount + 1
    gMem.addVertex(gCount, the mouseLoc)
    gLoc = the mouseLoc

end if

end

on enterFrame

if gCreateVert then

    gMem.moveVertex(gCount, the mouseH - gLoc[1], the mouseV - gLoc[2])
    theLoc = (gMem.vertexList)[gCount][1]

    if not(theLoc = the mouseLoc) then
      gMem.moveVertex(gCount, the mouseH - theLoc[1], the mouseV - theLoc[2])
    end if

    gLoc = the mouseLoc

end if
end

on stopMovie
theCount = castLib(1).member.count
repeat with i = 1 to theCount
if member(i).type = #vectorShape then member(i).erase()
end repeat
end

on getFreeChannel

repeat with i = 1 to the lastChannel
    if sprite(i).member.type = #empty then
      aNum = i
      exit repeat
    end if
end repeat

return aNum

end

Full Shockwave Installer that IS!

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 20:29:03 GMT

Hello,

I need to have a way to have folks be able to download the full installer because of some of the xtras it contains. Used to be that you could use http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/alternates/#sp. And that seems to be the current recommendation, even up to a few days ago. However, a click on the link for full and for slim give the same size, so I can't see how one is full and the other is slim. Where does one reliably get the full installer?

Rod

Location for Download Full Installer V12.0.2

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:15:04 GMT

Hi,

This link http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/alternates/#sp is given as the link to download most recent full installer. However, the link only lists Shockwave Player V11, not 12. Is there a more recent or updated link?

Thanks

Rod

Difficulty with Speech Xtra working in Shockwave in Firefox & Chrome

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:01:33 GMT

Hi,

With several Director 10.5 Shockwave movies I use the Speech Xtra for 508 compliant accessibility. Problem is, it works in IE 6 through 9, but not in Firefox or Chrome. Anybody know why this would be the case?

I have asked this question in the Shockwave forum, but on second thought felt it might be more appropriate for the Director forum because it involves an Xtra. Also thought someone might have a suggestion for a debugging method that would let me follow what is, or is not, happening.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Rod Wolford

Speech in Shockwave Movie IE9 vs Firefox and Chrome

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:09:03 GMT

Hello,

I have several Shockwave movies that use the Director Speech X32 xtra. Not sure why, but the speech works in IE 6 and above, but does not work in Firefox or Chrome. Any suggestions for why, options to test why, or fixes?

Thanks,

Rod

Can't get Speech.X32 to access SAPI 5.4 on a 64-bit Windows 7 machine.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:46:50 GMT

I can't seem to get the Speech.X32 to work in a Director 10.1 projector or in Shockwave on a 64-bit Windows 7 machine. It works fine on XP and Windows 7 32 bit, but not on Windows 7 64 bit. I placed the following script in first frame of movie. On all machines it says it is available.

on beginsprite

if voiceInitialize() then

alert "Text-to-speech is available"

else

alert "Text-to-speech is not available"

end if

end

However, I imagine this is just referring to the Xtra, not to the Microsoft SAPI. I can go into the accessibility features of the Windows 7 64-bit machine and use the voice. It just won't work in my projector or shockwavae movies. I have seen a number of discussions from gamers about loosing access to the voice option on Windows 7 64 bit machines. But none seemed to offer any solution. Any ideas?

Regards,

Rod Wolford

Getting OSControl Xtra to load in Shockwave Movie using IE 9 browser on a Windows 7 machine.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:27:11 GMT

Hello all,

For a couple of months now, I have been trying to get the OSControl Xtra to load in a Shockwave Movie built with Director 10.1 using IE 9 Browser on a Windows 7 machine. In previous posts, I had indicated that the Xtra would not load with IE 9, displaying the red X wherever an OSControl sprite was expected. However, if I loaded the same movie using FireFox or Chrome, it would load. And in subsequent loads with IE 9 it would now work.

My question had been, "Why won't the Xtra load in IE 9, but will in others. Fortunately, I think I have an answer to that question. A friend of mine discovered that when using IE 9, and the Red X appears indicating that OSControl Xtra has not downloaded, you can right click on the OSControl sprite, select properties from the menu that appears, and in the properties menu, uncheck the checkbox next to backward compatibility. Next refresh the page and suddenly you will get a VeriSign message and be given the opportunity to download the OSControls Xtra. You can try this for yourself using this sample on my site http://www.fofcom.com/dswmedia/BigInch6.htm

Now here are my new questions: 1) Is there a way modify the shockwave movie so that a person using IE9 will not have to go through this strange set of actions to view a Shockwave movie using OSControls? 2) Is there possibly be a javascript that could be included in the htm to invoke the download or turn off the backward compatibility? and 3) Does this have anything to do with the recent absence of backward compatibility of the Shockwave player to Version 10 that I have been reading about, thereby making the question moot?

Would like to hear what anyone might know about this. Thanks in advance for any comments.

Regards,

Rod Wolford

FOF

Does OScontrols now work in Shockwave on Windows 7?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 15:50:15 GMT

Hello,

For many years I have used OScontrols with MX2004 for drop down menus and other input or navigation controls. Many of our .DXR materials were converted to Shockwave and worked perfectly on the Web until Windows 7. With Windows 7 and the new Windows browser, OScontrols stopped working. A red box would appear and James Netwon decided not to upgrade unicode.

Just the other day, I was working on converting some of our materials to Director 11.5, when I happened to open a couple of our old Shockwave files on a Windows 7 machine in a browser. Low and behold, OScontrols was working! I tried Chrome and Firefox and they worked too! Am I delusional? Did I overlook something? Or does the new Shockwave (or the new browsers) now support OScontrols? Or maybe they always did and I just couldn't see it?

I just hope I haven't overlooked something and that suddenly it turns to illusion! Anyone know anything about this?

Rod Wolford

FOF Communications

Any good methods for 508 compliance with Director 11.0 or 11.5?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 01:55:48 GMT

Hello,

We have a lot of great materials developed in Director 2004 and Director 11.0 that now must be converted to meet 508 (access for impaired) standards. Are there any good places to begin thinking about this? Some have wanted us to just convert to HTML5, but this would be a nightmare for us. Much of it already has audio files in english and spanish. Unfortunately, that doesn't account for things like "capability to tab through a document" or "every graphic must have a verbal description." Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Rod

Help with Closing a Shockwave (.DCR) movie called in Moodle.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 02:04:32 GMT

Hello,

I have several Director MX2004 movies that are saved as Shockwave (DCR) movies that are called using htm in MOODLE 2.4+. They open and play just fine, but I haven't figured out how to close them, using lingo, after they play, so that the area from which they were called is the "active window" and the Shockwave movie is closed. Hope this makes some sense and someone can give me an idea about what to do. As it stands now, when the shockwave movie finishes, the back arrow on the browser navigation is the only way back. I'd rather just be able to click a "quit" button in the shockwave file to get back.

Thanks,

Rod Wolford

Access to CourseBuilder templates in Dreamweaver CS6.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 01:46:01 GMT

Hello,

I have the CS6 E-learning Suite. I have been trying to access Coursebuilder and its templates in DreamWeaver without success. I have accessed them in Flash, but not in Dreamweaver. I can look under extensions in Dreamweaver, and see Course Builder 7.0. But I can find no way to access it. My understanding was that I should see an option for them under the file menu, but I do not. Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Rod

Help displaying Instructional Objectives 1-at-a-time using mouse down on a button on one screen.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:19:18 GMT

I am brand new to Captivate 6 and have encountered my first coding problem. I have six instructional objectives and would like to display them one at a time with a mouse click on a button. I would like some guidance either with making what I a trying to do work or in the alternative telling me what I should be doing instead. Here is what I tried to do.

1. I created 6 instructional objectives on a single screen.

2. Then I created a user variable "increment_objectives." It's starting value was set to 0.

3. Next, I built an advanced conditional action. It contained seven conditional statements, each built the same way. The purpose of the seventh was to move to the next slide after all instructional objectives were viewed.

The advanced conditional action IF statement was: If increment_objectives = x then (where x varied from 0 to 7)

The ACTION statements contained the names of the six instruction objectives (objective_1 through objective_6) and these were either shown or hidden, based upon the increment_objectives value.

4. This advanced conditional action was attached to the enter frame on the slide and "no action" was on the exit frame on the slide.

5. On a Button I attached an increment value that added 1 to increment_objectives variable.

6. I set all frame objects to "duration of slide" turning off all timing increments.

I had expected that this would increment the increment_objectives variable when the mouse was clicked and that the advanced actions conditional statements would be interpreted and display the objectives one at a time. How wrong I was. Not only did they not display, but after a few seconds, the screen would flip to the next slide.

Can you offer me some help?

Rod Wolford

Need Help with MIAW Issue

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 16:56:04 GMT

Background:

A. I have a movie that works as a menu to open other movies. For example here is code in a mousedown handler over a list:

......

case (x) of

gmiaw = "RooferManual_Hazards_in_Roofing_Waterproofing"

lframe = 8

-- go to frame 8 of movie "RooferManual_Hazards_in_Roofing_Waterproofing"

gmiaw = "RooferManual_Your_Role_in_Safety"

lframe = 6

-- go to frame 6 of movie "RooferManual_Your_Role_in_Safety"

3: etc

end case

.........

go to frame lframe of movie gMiaw -- I know this is not a MIAW. I use the term for simplicity.

B. When it opens the new movie, it closes the menu movie. When the new movie is done, the new movie is re-opened. This has worked perfectly for about 8 years.

C. Recently, the client has asked for the ability to have a MIAW open up along side each new movie that can contain "instructor" notes. This I have been able to do, using a movie called "notes."

When an arrow at bottom of a screen in a movie is clicked, the "notes" movie opens in a "sidebar." The movie contains two fields, one for the location of the note (moviename + frame number in the movie. These fields are saved into a notes folder as .txt files, and when present are loaded into the "notes" movie when it opens, or, when added by a user, are saved in that file. PHEW!

This actually works pretty good -- when I run any individual movie, not using the menu to access the movie (either as projector or in author mode in MX 2004).

Problem:

Unfortunately, When the movie is called from the menu using the code in A., those movies where I have inserted the MIAW notes option, return an error that says, for example,

"Unable to open file <the movie path> <the movie name> because it is already open with permission by another user."

This does not happen in movies where I have yet to install the notes option.

I have followed the problem to the end of the "menu" movie, using break points and puts for the windowlist and I see no other window open (I get a [] for the result) nor the writing of any global value which would indicate another movie is open. Below is part of my stopMovie code to try to make sure I have no other windows open.

on stopMovie

window("notes").forget()

lWindows= the windowlist

q = lWindows.count

if the windowlist <>[] then

repeat with i = 1 to q

n= getat(lWindows,i)

forget window(n)

end repeat

end if

I also have tried break points at the prepare movie and start movie handlers in the beginning of the new movie being opened, but it never reaches it.

Finally, here is code used on the arrow button within the new movie to create the "notes" MIAW. This code is used in a mousedown handler. At this point in time, I am doing nothing in the beginsprite handler for the behavior attached to the arrow to create the MIAW. So I can't see what effect it might be having at all. Beyond that, I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS GOING ON AND DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO NEXT!

On mousedown

x= the moviename

olditemdelimiter = the itemdelimiter

the itemdelimiter = "."

y = x.item[1]

gTheNotesLocation = the moviepath & Y & "Notes"

gTheNotesName = "S" & gFrame --gFrame is the current frame in the movie

NotesName = y && "S" & gFrame

window("notes").movie.member("moviename").text = NotesName

the itemdelimiter = olditemdelimiter

Result = baFolderExists( gtheNotesLocation )

put result ........., etc. rest is just preparing folder and location..........

Can anyone tell me what is going wrong or give me a pathway for finding out?

Thanks,

Rod Wolford