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Gestures not working

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 20:53:58 GMT

I'm using the following script to enable the swipe gestures on iOS...

Movie Script

on startMovie

_touches.registerGesture([#swipeRightGesture:#handleSwipeRight])

_touches.registerGesture([#swipeLeftGesture:#handleSwipeLeft])

end

Frame Script

on handleSwipeRight

go next

end

However this dosen't work - ie nothing happens when I swipe the screen (on either the iphone iOS7 or ipad iOS6. Is this how the code should be implemented?

newproxycallback question

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 21:10:09 GMT

hello

inside a flash sprite behaviour I initialize my callback

on beginssprite me

pCB = sprite(me.spriteNum).newProxyCallback(#sendToLingo)

sprite(me.spriteNum).stage.getChildAt(0).addEventListener("sendToLingo", pCB)

end

-- this function is called from the flash.

on sendToLingo me, evt

put "Data received from AS3:" && evt.data

end

inside flash I have a class to get some values via tcpip, this works fine...

I add an ondataArravied eventlistener to rhis object.

com_pci.addEventListener("dataArrived",onDataArrived);

that calls the method

function onDataArrived(e:Event){

trace("onDataArrived " + getTimer() );

comInAry = com_pci.data;

var tempPos:String = (comInAry[0]).toString();

if (tempPos != currSlidePos) {

trace("onDataArrived and changed" + getTimer() );

dispatchEvent( new LingoEvent("slidePos:" + currSlidePos) );

}

OK, when I onDataarrived is called one, I get a bunch of events in director, every time the tempPos != currSlidePos I get 20 or 30 times the sendToLingo

event in director. why, the trace inside flash is only fired once...

would be nice to get some help.

regards.

How to increase maximum channel count?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:58:25 GMT

Hi,
i have a big problem with my director app.

I create for a game(dots and boxes) 300 objects by using a parent skript. Each generated Sprite takes his own channel. But director offers only 150 channels so i can only add 150 Sprites.

Does anybody have an idea to increas the maximum channel count.

-- Edit

Oh, sorry. I have found the option in the settings. 1000 is the highest.

Kiosk application - Need to controller lights (on/off) from Director

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:42:34 GMT

|
I have been searching for a solution to a project I am working on. I am
working on a touchscreen kiosk application that will be displayed in a
Public Aquarium. This kiosk will display fish, etc. related to a
particular reef. There is a simulated rock formation and the included
fish built around the kiosk touchscreen. The plan is that when the touch
a button, the display will play a video with voice-over (simple) but
also switch on a spotlight pointed to that specific fish being
highlighted. There are 12 total in this exhibit. After searching for
hours for a solution (it seemed simple back in the 80's/90's with basic
serial device switches..) where I can turn on/off the lights via a
computer interface (more-over a custom script able to run from within
Director).

The closest I found is the X10 system w/USB device but not sure how will
can control via lingo/javascript.

Thank you for your time and consideration - I greatly appreciate any
advise/support you can provide (as well as any other solutions that
might address the above.

Sincerely,

Michael Hamstra
mjh@mjh-media.com
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member text with line numbers

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 06 May 2014 13:14:05 GMT

Hello:

Do you know how to write or add the line number inside a member text?

I have some different word documents and I have to add the line number. I was trying with member("mytext").text.line, but when is a paragraph does not count, only detect RETURN between lines.

Can you help me or guide me?

many thanks

how to change text alignment in flash listbox component

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:11:41 GMT

In my project flash list box component is used and (1) i want to align it's text to right alignment. it is possible if yes then what is the command/method/property for that. (2) its scrollbar's default position is on right side and i want to left side is it possible.

thanks

dharam

VeriSign

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:49:33 GMT

Has anyone any experience with VeriSign for Dir11 projectors? I need to sign my projector to get rid of the 'trust' messages that occur on XP sp2 and vista.

I have had no response from VeriSign themselves.

member preload woes

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 18 May 2006 22:46:37 GMT

First, a quick rundown of how I have the movie set up...

the first couple hundred frames of the movie are strictly for handling the custom progress bar I designed... I won't even go into trying to get that to work yet, since just the preloading and preload checks all seem to not be working

first of all, the movie playback options are set to play while downloading (0 frames set to preload here, because I wanted to control it with lingo instead)

the first cast member is a global script with the following:

-----------
on prepareMovie
_movie.preLoad(1, 151)
end
----------------

this should load all cast members needed for frames 0 through 151, but doesn't seem to be working

frame 3 has a frame script that instructs the movie to preload the remaining needed cast members (all the ones that aren't used in the first 151 frames)

----------
on exitFrame me
preLoadMember(36, 249)
end
----------

can't be certain if this is working properly or not, because my next framescript also isn't working...

-------
on exitFrame me
if member(249).loaded = true then
go to frame 152
else go to frame 4
end
-------

the only way I can even try to gauge what is happening, is by staring at my modem light, and when the net activity stops, the movie still doesn't advance to frame 152.

The documentation I've found on preload methods has been awful

(in fact, I've found 2 completely different variations of the preload method alone - [ preLoadMember(x, y) ] and [ member(x).preLoad(y) ] both claim to tell shockwave to preload cast members x through y)

I'm dead tired of doing trial-and-error by re-uploading the published movie every 3 minutes to test it, since there's obviously no way to test preloading on a local drive. Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong?

final note, this is in Director MX 2004

Handler not defined error message

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:13:39 GMT

Hello - I'm having difficulty with a custom handler I've created. Everything works well in authoring mode, but as soon as I try to create a projector and run it, I get a "Handler not defined" error message. The handler is used to query an sqlite database. Here's the code which sits in a linked cast movie script

on startmovie
set gDBInstance = new(xtra"sqlite")

on mDBQuery gSqlstring

gDBInstance.sqlite_open(the moviepath&"halloffame.db")
gQuery_fetch_data = gDBInstance.sqlite_fetch(gSqlstring)
gDBInstance.sqlite_close()

end

end startmovie

The handler is called from a frame script as below:

on enterframe

gSqlstring = "SELECT file_location FROM mediaitem NATURAL JOIN category WHERE category = 'Equipment' ORDER BY mediaitem.name ASC"
mDBQuery(gSqlstring)

end enterframe

I'm using Director 11 on Windows XP. I do have all of the sqlite xtras in an xtras folder next to the executable. Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong??

THX!

Mike M

Lingo Airbrush

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:48:47 GMT

I have Director 8 and I'm trying to develop an airbrush in Lingo that works like ones included with most image editing applications. What I have so far works pretty well although it's not as good as it should be. There seems to be a problem with the way Director composites alpha channels. The DIR file with the pertinent code can be downloaded from:

DIR file
or
ZIP file

To see the problem, try painting with white (rgb(255, 255, 255)) on a white background. One would expect the brushtrokes to be invisible, but they're not. The transparent areas of each brushtroke end up as shades of very light grey - making it look like the brush is "dirty."

I have tried everything that I can think of to fix the problem but I'm stuck. My hope is that someone here will be able to help me to get this airbrush working the way it should. Perhaps it's already as good as it will ever be. Either way, you're welcome to use the code if you're interested in Imaging Lingo.

director decompiler

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:40:55 GMT

am looking for a way to decompiler a director/shockwave file same way you would with flash...
any tips?

IF AND multiple statements?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:47:11 GMT

I'm trying to program up a multiple IF statement, where I want to check the condition of a number of sprites. Here's what i got:

if sprite(5).visible=TRUE then
sprite(6).visible=TRUE
sprite(7).visible=TRUE
sprite(8).visible=TRUE
go to "Win"

I want my lingo to check the status of all the sprites and then if they are all true I want them to go to "Win", but at the minute it's only checking that of 5. If I put 'then' at the end of each statement I get an error....any ideas

Ronan

Drop Down Menus

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:47:09 GMT

I am putting together a project in Director 8 which contains four drop down
lists.
Here are the parameters...
There are four layers of images placed over each other to make up one
complete picture.
Each layer contains 50 options to choose from.
A drop down menu will be below each layer to allow the user to choose one of
the 50 options.

To save space on the timeline and not load all the images onto separate
channels, I would like to make it so that as a choice is selected, the
selected image will replace the existing image on its relative channel.

How to I do all this?

open a cst file and launch Director

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:01:50 GMT

Hi there all,
I heard from the graet vine that it is possible to open another program with lingo, and I also notcied that if you double click a cst file in Windows Explorer, it will launch Director with the following cst file that you have double clicked on through windows explorer. However, is it possible for a projector to be able to do the same thing. For example, lets say a user is working on something in my projector movie. Then I would like for the user to be able to save the work, that would be in the cast member window, as a cst file, and be able to click on a button that would launch Director with the user's saved cst file. Is this possible? I know this might sound dumb, and you are probally wondering why a user would want to do this, but it is really hard to explain without giving you my great idea and then I would not be able to sell it because someone else might patten it before me. So you have to trust me that I believe that with my end result, many users will be so happy with my projector.

Formatted text file Into TextMember with Scrolling... Problem.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 18 Oct 2014 00:07:59 GMT

Hi,

I have this script which works OK but...

member("MyTEXT").importFileInto("mytext.rtf")

It preserves the RTF word format, but the scrolling disappears.

Is there any solution to this? I want to have a external RTF file that when imported into a text member with scrolling, it preserves its formatting

without messing up the text member.

Thanks

BuddyAPI baGetFilename not opening in correct location in OSX Mavericks

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 02:39:58 GMT

I have an application built in Director 11.5 using BuddyAPI xtra file selection dialogue baGetFilename. In OSX Mavericks (10.9.4) the dialogue doesn't seem to open in the specified path any more. It seems to default to the path last accessed in the previous file open dialogue. This has worked reliably in previous versions so I assume something has been changed in 10.9 that is confusing it.

Has anyone else come across this issue? Can anyone suggest a workaround or alternative for the file selection dialogue. I basically need to specify the path for the file selection dialogue so I can open the appropriate folder for the type of file rather than relying on the end user to successfully navigate to the location every time. I also need to filter the dialogue to particular file types. Is there an alternative to the BuddyAPI xtra that is compatible with Director 11.5 and Mavericks? Is there a workaround to get BuddyAPI to work correctly?

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

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --

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

Director 12.0.9r149 update to app - anyone?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 04:43:05 GMT

I just updated to Director 12.0.9r149 (OS X) and now my iPad app crashes.

It's not iOS 7.1.1 as an older version of the app works fine.

I put an alert into a prepareMovie handler and it doesn't get to it so it can't be my code which was working perfectly (cough) before the update.

Anyone else having problems since the update? Also: please tell me if YOU'RE NOT!

Nested quotes, value(), and string() and other fun "Headaches"

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 05:59:57 GMT

So I have a handlerA in which I do something like this all with local variables:

VariableA = "The Planet" VariableB && "orbit" && VariableB

I need to store stuff in a big list in a separate handlerB , for example, without the VariableD expanding, which is why I have to put it

in quotes:

DB = []

DB.append("This" & QUOTE && "&&" && "VariableD" && "&&" && QUOTE & "ThisToo" & QUOTE & "&&" & QUOTE & "That")

s = string(DB)

s = value(s)

put s

seems to work but I am not sure I am doing this right. Any input would be appreciated.

I need to be able to call tokens/items from the content of DB, much like what is assigned to VariableA

then have it's variables expand like it does in handlerA

Thanks

return for text does not display correctly in Notepad

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:23:00 GMT

I used myString = myString & temp & return to generate text with multiple lines. It displays correctly in MS Word, Write, but they are all packed together in one line when opened with NotePad on Windows.

What command do I need to add for it to display correctly in NotePad and MS Word, etc word processor programs?

Same with import with FileIO, text made with Notepad would have any extra return character at the beginning. I need to delete the first character in order for it to display correctly in Director.

What is the best approach dealing with return key in Director?

Thanks,

Is it better to put Lingo to BeginSprite or EnterFrame

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:35:15 GMT

I have done some projectors using VizionDB database, and I have put most of the Lingo to EnterFrame. However, some people on this board have said that it's not good programming method, and it would be better to put code to BeginSprite. I'm starting a new project now, and I'm planning to use BeginSprite more than before. However, I'm wondering now why BeginSprite is better than EnterFrame? Isn't there less code when EnterFrame is used?

For example, I have a page with 30 text fields, and all values are from the database. Earlier the values to all fields were inserted in one EnterFrame script, but now there's BeginSprite script in 30 sprites. I'd like to get some opinions from other developers about this, thanks!

PS. I used the EnterFrame in a way that it's not repeated over and over again, but it's done once and after that it goes to the next frame.

Auto resize a director movie

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 01:20:22 GMT

Dear All

Is there a way in director to have the movie size match the resizing of the projector ,so as I make the projector large by either clicking the normal expand button or clicking and dragging the movie the sprites on the stage resize to fit the window,like some web pages.If Director cannot do this is there a plugin that can be loaded to accomplish this .

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Peter

Fileio user permission problem in director 11.5

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:41:25 GMT

hi,

i am making application for windows in director with fileio xtra and i am trying to open xml file with fileio open file command and then read it eith fileio.readfile() command, it is work fine when my windows xp system login with administrator rights user but when i am login with user permission it is giving me a blank string what is the issue i dont understand, any body help me pls. (it is urgent)

Note:- xml file path getting from windows registry by buddy api's baReadRegString() command

my lingo code is like this

global

Gdb

global

glinenum,sname,chb,fname,st

property

presult

global

gParserObject,objFileio,epath,abc,theList,errCode

startmovieme

to frame 1

abc = baReadRegString("SOFTWARE", "AXDM", "False", "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE")& "vlc\SETTINGS.XML"

objFileio = new xtra("fileio")

objFileio.openFile(abc,0)

member("XMLtext").text = objFileio.readFile(abc) -- here i get error String expected

gParserObject = new(xtra "xmlparser")

errCode = gParserObject.parseString(abc)

theList = gParserObject.makeList()

st = false

end

thanks

Simple if / then statement

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:18:55 GMT

I have a variable “textInput” that contains a string of letters derived from a user's text input. I would like to set up an if/then statement or case statement that sends the user to a “congratulations” marker if their input was the lower-case letter "a" and send them to a “try again” marker if their input was otherwise. Thanks for helping with an issue this basic,

David

Drop down lists

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:16:54 GMT

Hey, im still having trouble with the drop down list behaviour, basically what value does it return when you select something from the list. iv tried reverse engineering the script but iv basically got no where, also is there a way of defining how big the drop down is, it automatically creates a scroll bar if the amount of properties makes the list bigger than the stage, but iv got a drop down that holds like day and year values, which create huge lists.

i just need to know what values the list returns when u pick something, and how to change the size.

cheers guys

Read/Write mode in FileIO doesn't work?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:28:26 GMT

It seems it's not possible to both read from and write to a file in the same
openFile session? I had the following code:

fObj=xtra("FileIO").new()
fObj.openFile(the moviePath & fName,0)
fObj.writeString(fileString)
fObj.closeFile()
fObj=0

fName and fileString are preset before this starts, but are not relevant to
the issue. This code was working for saving existing files, but wouldn't
create files if they didn't exist already. So I added the following:

fObj=xtra("FileIO").new()
fObj.openFile(the moviePath & fName,0)
if fObj.readFile() = VOID then
fObj.createFile(the moviePath & fName)
fObj.openFile(the moviePath & fName,0)
end if
fObj.writeString(fileString)
fObj.closeFile()
fObj=0

Basically, I'm checking and see if the file exists already or not. It opens
it and reads it to see if there's anything there already. If not, it
creates the file and opens it. This did the opposite, working fine on new
files but wouldn't save data to existing files. So I had to add yet another
chunk of code to make it work all around:

fObj=xtra("FileIO").new()
fObj.openFile(the moviePath & fName,0)
if fObj.readFile() = VOID then
fObj.createFile(the moviePath & fName)
fObj.openFile(the moviePath & fName,0)
else
fObj.closeFile()
fObj.openFile(the moviePath & fName,0)
end if
fObj.writeString(fileString)
fObj.closeFile()
fObj=0

So if the file does exist, it has to close it and then open it again in
order to write to it? I thought that mode 0 was supposed to be
"Read/Write". So I should be able to both, but apparently not in the same
session? Is there a better way to check if the file exists first? Seems
like I'm using twice as much code as should be necessary to do this...

EvalScript

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:21:06 GMT

can anyone tell me why this is not working!!?



<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>game231</TITLE>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor="#336600">
<center>
<TABLE border=0 width=100% height=100%>
<TR><TD valign=middle align=center>
<OBJECT classid="clsid:166B1BCA-3F9C-11CF-8075-444553540000"
codebase=" http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/director/sw.cab#version=8,5,1,0"
ID=game231 WIDTH=640 HEIGHT=400>
<param name=src value="game231.dcr">
<PARAM NAME=swStretchStyle VALUE=none>
<param name=swRemote value="swSaveEnabled='true' swVolume='true' swRestart='true' swPausePlay='true' swFastForward='true' swSendUrl='www.game2.html' swContextMenu='true' ">
<PARAM NAME=bgColor VALUE=#336600>
<EMBED SRC="game231.dcr" bgColor=#336600 WIDTH=640 HEIGHT=400 swRemote="swSaveEnabled='true' swVolume='true' swRestart='true' swPausePlay='true' swFastForward='true' swSendUrl='www.game2.html' swContextMenu='true' " swStretchStyle=none
TYPE="application/x-director" PLUGINSPAGE=" http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/"></EMBED>
</OBJECT>
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</CENTER>

<CENTER>
<SCRIPT>
function EvaluateIt() {
theArgs = document.theForm.entry1.value + ",
document.game231.EvalScript(theArgs)
}
</SCRIPT>

<FORM name=theForm><INPUT value="ENTER NAME" name=entry1> <INPUT onclick=EvaluateIt() type=button value=SUBMIT>
</FORM></CENTER></BODY></HTML>

the lingo code i have is as follows

on evalScript argString
set the text of field "display" to item 1 of argString

end

Off stage printing

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:24:01 GMT

I have a director movie from which I wish to print. I have created the image I wish to print, which is made up of several sprites, and put a border sprite around this. What I wish to be able to do is to print this group of sprites from off stage. The user should never see them appear on screen. I have previously used code along the lines of:

stageImage = (the stage).image
spriteImage = stageImage.crop(sprite(83).rect)
member("printimage").image = spriteImage

to take a section of the stage and store it as a cast member which I can then print. However because I want my section to be taken from offstage I am unsure how to do it. I have tried taking using the sprite(83).rect to define the image but this doesn't work.
Any help will be most appreciated.

Control 100 TFT

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:31:57 GMT

Hello:

I have no too much information yet but what I know now is to control about
100 tactile TFT´s.
The application in Lingo show in each TFT one different picture, the user
touch one of this TFT and something happens.
Do you know what devices I need to do this?
Or is better to control by network? In that case, what Xtras or devices I
need?

Thanks in advance

How can I use a ActiveX control to display a picture?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 02:13:36 GMT

First,I've used the Microsoft Forms 2.0 Frame(and Image) control,my code is like:

on enterFrame me
filePath=_movie.path & "Snap151.bmp"
sprite("frm").CallString("Picture("& filePath &")")
end

but I'v got the following error:Picture(...) Call of Picture failed

Then I tried the Microsoft Forms 2.0 Label control. The following is my code:

on exitFrame me
filePath=_movie.path & "Snap151.bmp"
sprite("lbl").Picture=filePath
end

also I'v got the error:Property not found

Does Anybody know how to use this ActiveX to display a picture?I'll appreciate your help or suggestion.

Text Xtra error after D11 update

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:34:19 GMT

My client is getting the following error on a projector we just upgraded from Director MX to D11:

"Director Player Error. The application requires an Xtra (Text) that either does not exist or failed to initialize properly. Please make sure the appropriate Xtras are in the Xtra folder(s)."

I don't get the error on my machine so it's really baffling and I'm not sure how to troubleshoot it. The Xtras folder is external, and I've confirmed that the TextXtra, TextAsset, FontAsset and FontXtra are all in the folder.

Any ideas?

Help with formatting hyperlinks

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 14 May 2006 11:29:02 GMT

here is some code i extracted from the lingo help to make a sprite an active hyperlink

this script is part fo a start movie event which is attatched to the movie

member("web_address").word[1].hyperlink = " http://www.unn.ac.uk"

and this script is attatched to the sprite (which is a text field), as a behaviour

property spriteNum
on hyperlinkClicked me, data, range
if data starts " http://" then
unnlink = sprite(spriteNum).member
unnlink.word[4].hyperlinkState = #visited
gotoNetPage(data)
end if
end

however when i do this i get that hideous blue coloured hyperlink. i have looked in every option within director to change the colour of this and get rid of the underline but i cannot find this.

i also checked through the lingo help and there doesnt seem to be anything there either

does anyone have any suggestions on how to recolour hyperlinks and to not display the underline.

i am guessing i could convert my sprite to an image but i do not want this as i want my whole movie to be vector and not bitmap for obvious anti aliasing avoidance.

please help of you can

cheers