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question about length of strings

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 16:54:36 GMT

what are the characters that appear below as black diamonds with a white question mark inside? They are weird because when you do charToNum on just that character, Director returns a question mark PLUS the next character. For example, if I say "put theString.line[9].char[16]" (where theString is the text below), it returns "?R", which is strange because that is two characters. The length of line[9] is evaluated as one less than it should be.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

" ,A ,,BOAT ,,RIDE

,,& ,,O!R ,,/ORIES

0,,NEIL ,,BLACKFIELD

,PUBLI%$ BY

,HI< ,NOON ,BOOKS

,NOVATO1 ,,CA

,COPY�R #AIII BY

,NEIL ,BLACKFIELD

,ALL ,�RS ,RES]V$

,,ISBN3 #A-EGABH-AJI-F

,ADAPT$ = ,,SAL #B BY

,EXCEP;NAL ,T1*+1 ,9C4

#A-HJJ-EDI-FIII

_+WWW.EXCEPTIONALTEACHING.COM_:

,9 ,�O ,VOLUME

,FULLY ,3TRACT$ ,BRL"

director 12 cant update files

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 14:55:00 GMT

I am trying to open files that worked fine in dir 11.5. When I try to update, sometimes it works, but sometimes I get a message that says there is not enough memory to save the file. This is a new laptop running windows 8. Help.

fix variable alphabetizing in debug pane

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:18:31 GMT

I have been trying to use Director 11 for months, but have more or less given up because of one problem that is probably very easy to fix: when debugging, it does not appear to be possible to have the list of variables sorted alphabetically. this makes it really hard to use. If Adobe wants more people to use Director, which is a great program, they have to fix this. Another killing problem for me is that when you use a custom icon for a projector, it is not sized correctly, and looks terrible on the user's desktop. We can't distribute applications like that, so it has to get fixed!!

director 11

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:44:06 GMT

I am wondering if anyone knows any details about the release date for Director 11. I have been waiting to upgrade my products for that release. My company's products completely depend on Director, which is an amazingly great piece of software, and whose functionality for programming in the kiosk and museum exhibit environment is not duplicated in any other existing programming environment. I am desperately hoping that Adobe realizes this and does not have plans to give up on a community of developers who don't have clear alternatives. That seems like an especially bad thing to do considering all of the encouragement we were given to hold out for the update version. Without that, my products will probably die.

shutting down applications that were opened using open method

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 11 May 2008 23:09:57 GMT

I can call other applications from Director using the "open" command. Is there any way to force the computer to exit an application that was opened this way? I want to turn on Windows Narrator to read a file open dialog box, but then after they have browsed for a file and clicked OK, I want Narrator to shut down. How do I do that?

making pull down menus and file open dialogs speak

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:55:47 GMT

Hi,
I'm trying to create some applications that include speech assistance for the visually impaired. there are two things that are causing problems:
1. I can't make the file open dialog boxes speak. I would like to emulate the behavior of third party screen reader applications that speak the identites of GUI elements as the user tabs through them. I am able to do this for custom dialogs made with the MUI Xtra by putting voiceSpeak commands in the callback handler so that as each widget gets focus during tabbing, it speaks its identity. But this doesn't appear to be possible with file open dialogs created with FileXtra.
2. I have created pull down menus using installMenu. This works great, but I would like the user to be able to navigate these menus using the arrow keys, and have each menu item speak as it navigated to.

If anyone has any ideas about how to accomplish these things in D11, I would be very grateful.
thanks.

icons look fuzzy in D11

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:59:08 GMT

When I make a projector in Director 11 with a custom icon, it looks really crappy when I place the icon on the desktop. I am using the same .ico file in Windows that I used with Director 10, and it used to look great. Is Director 11 using a lower resolution version of the icon? How can I fix this problem?

bugs in director 11

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:42:28 GMT

I'm finding some weird things in Director 11, and I am wondering if Adobe is going to issue a patch to address some of these things. It looks they released this before they had completed debugging. It crashes a lot for no reason, and you can never recover your work after a crash. Also, there are strange problems in formatting the script window, and it is impossible to have the variable lists to be presented in alphabetical order, which makes debugging almost impossible. Are other people finding these things?

alphabetized variables list in the debug pane

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:56:17 GMT

How come in Director 11 it is no longer possible to sort variables listed in the debug window alphabetically. In previous versions, you could click on the tab to have the globals and properties sorted from a to z. This no longer works. It is really difficult to visually scan a long list for a particular variable name. Is this a bug, or is there some other way to do it?

multiple displays for projector

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:47:43 GMT

I want to make a kiosk application with Director with two separate video cards and two displays. I know that deskTopRectList returns a list of connected monitors with their relative positions and sizes. I am hoping that I can set the stage very large in the movie properties, then set each monitor to only display a portion of the stage. Can anyone confirm that this will work, and also let me know the best way to tell Director the location and size for each display? I imagine it has to do with drawRect, but I am not sure exactly how to do it...

By the way, I am really pleased that Adobe will be releasing Director 11. I encourage everyone who had been waiting to pre-order the new version to signal to Adobe that we appreciate their continuing support of this excellent product.

speech xtra crashes

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:55:28 GMT

I have used the speech xtra extensively and really like it. However, I am having a problem now, and am wondering if anyone else has confronted this. When I make rapid calls to voiceSetRate(), I get random crashes, and I can't seem to pinpoint what causes it. It seems to depend somewhat on which computer the application is running on. Here is some code that crashes randomly, especially when I am holding down a key that triggering the handler rapidly. If anyone knows what causes this, I would be very grateful.

installMenu and stub projectors

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 24 May 2007 17:14:23 GMT

I am running a movie from a stub projector. The movie uses pull-down menus made with installMenu. If I set the publish option in the stub to "full screen", then the menu bar does not appear. If I don't set it to full screen, then I get the following message: "Must have either Full Screen or Show Title Bar set to show user menus." I don't believe that Show Title Bar is an option in Director 2004MX, at least I can't find it anywhere, and using Full Screen prevents the menus from appearing. Does anybody know the answer to this?

handler not defined in random places

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 21:44:08 GMT

I have created a fairly involved application. All of a sudden, I am getting errors when I run the application from a stub projector. These are unpredictable and don't really make sense to me. Here's an example:

handler not defined
if firstTimeInPV = VOID then
#listOfLineColors
script error. Continue?

I am able to continue fine. firstTimeInPV and listOfLineColors are global variables, not handlers. Any help would be greatly appreciated.