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video is not displaying in the latest shockwave

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 19:58:12 GMT

After updating to the latest version of Shockwave, .flv videos are not displaying. The audio is there but no video.

What is going on Adobe?

Icon sizes to include as dependent files (for iPhone)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 10:19:37 GMT

What size icons must include in an application for iphone?

newProxyCallback question

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 08:06:51 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.

Or is there a way to read as3 vars direct from director?

regards.

previous version of Director Movie - cannot be updated

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 15:48:56 GMT

I am upgrading my previous director movies and get an error "This Director movie was created with a much earlier version of Director. It cannot be updated".

I am using Director 12 and I think the .dir and .cst files were used pre Director 8.5. I know I should open them in 8.5 and convert and then maybe have to do this again in v12? But I do not have version 8.5. Does Adobe or can anyone offer the service of updating previous versions of my director movies? Any suggestions?

OSX Mavericks, Director 12

I have just tried to open my Director 11 but all I get is a white black screen.

kind regards

Tristan

deactive director 12 without internet

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 06:36:07 GMT

I need to deactivate 20 copies of Version 12 Director but the connection to adobe servers are block due to security restriction

I there any way this can be done without a internet connection

How to add 'Publisher' info in Projector (.exe) file?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 18:27:10 GMT

The title says all about what I want to know. As you are aware that, Windows showing a security warning (as Unverified and Unknown Publisher) when we run a Projector (.exe) file. I just wanted to put something instead of showing Unknown Publisher.

I am aware that, I need to buy some certificate (digital signature) to become a Verified Publisher, but at this moment I just wanted to put something as Publisher information. Do you guys did the something before, or have any idea?

MP4 video crashes projector on Windows 7?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 01:04:36 GMT

I have a program that plays a sequence of MP4 videos (loads one after another if unattended). The projector runs great on Mac and on Windows XP/Vista. On Win 7 the projector stops working after 30-60 minutes.

I set up a trace log, but no errors are surfaced.

Any help is appreciated.

Max

i have imported .wmv video into director with link to external file but it take forever to start the movie or connect to others

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 08 Nov 2014 14:00:34 GMT

When I import .wmv video into director 11.5 with external link to file, it takes forever to load. It seems that the movie is loading all my videos into memory before starting. Can anyone help with an explanation. I am running windows 7.

thanks

Mick gallagher

Director Stage - HD Video performance, need Help !

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 08:05:30 GMT

Hi all,

im using Director for 3D projects but now i have a client who want to create some multimedia kiosks.

Is the first time i'm creating projector to play videos, and im having very big problems playing videos on the stage ..

The videos im playing are in 1920x1080 ( fullHd ), and i have a lot of troubles with performance.

i add a link to download ( .dir + .exe + .f4v )

http://www.360map.eu/test/test_video.zip

Unfortunatly i tried many video format and compressions, DTS on or off... but all seems to be the same.

Is there a way to improve video quality and smoothness performance ?

Im playing them on my I5 + NVidia gcard, but the videos , even if im not adding lingo code in my "projector.exe", are not smooth as they should be !!

i hope this forum could help me, thanks!

Mauro

alert() not displaying dialog box in mac/windows projectors

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 16:29:00 GMT

while alert() works fine inside Director 12, in published movies on both mac and pc, I hear a system beep, but get no dialog box displayed.

I've searched and searched for a solution and come up empty. Most I've found was this discussion Re: alert() not working where the OP's problem just seemed to magically disappear.

Unfortunately my problem has continued through several reboots for a few days now. I'm using Director 12 on OS X 10.6.8, publishing to both Mac and PC.

Director 12 hotfix for iOS7

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 23:26:32 GMT

Where do I get the update for Director12? Creative Cloud says I'm up to date but I'm not

Adapt application for iphone 5 and 6

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:11:35 GMT

To create an adaptable application for iphone 5 and 6

Do I have to put the 3 files as dependent launch?

Default-568h@2x.png

Default-667h@2x.png

Default-736h@3x.png

Or do I have to create a separate application for each device?

Where to Buy Macromedia Director MX 2004 (ver 10)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 17:01:32 GMT

I have an application that uses CTX files created from MX 2004. Newer versions won;t work and the developer fo tha application has no plans on upgrading the application to make it compatible with newer versions of Director.

I have searched in vain to find someplace to purchase of copy of MX2004.

Ten years is old for software but not ancient; I find it strange that in this day and age there's nothing available.

Does anyone have an idea of where I might be able to locate this?

praetorians

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 02:50:23 GMT

So, I'm watching "The Net" (I know, I know), when I suddenly spot something I never noticed before on the desk of the fake Angela Bennett (and propped open too):

http://www.funnybusinessstudio.com/director/IMG_0213.JPG

Why Isn't Director Included with Creative Cloud?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 15:23:33 GMT

I don't get it ...

Flash and Dreamweaver (which were acquired from Macromedia along with Director) are included with my expensive CC subscription, but Director isn't?

Cash grab, right?

Install of Shockwave stops.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 17:06:56 GMT

I downloaded Shockwave - full version - when I run it, it stops at: Execute:c:/Windows\system32\Adobe\Director\SwDnld.exe/regserver.

system: windows 7. On a laptop with windows 8 verything works fine.

thanks for helping.

HotFix4 create hot bug :-(

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 23:11:33 GMT

Hello,

I've just update DIr12 with the HotFix4 (now the version is 12.0.9r149); before the update, I use 12.0.4.

Since the update , my iOS app leave randomly.

I tried to take the exact same file that worked in the old version, I published and I see the same error. But if I use an old version it works :-(

My iPad is version iOS7 .

How can I do to get back to the version before the " HotFix4 " or better to eliminate this problem ?

It feels a little lonely when developing in Director . It's a shame , because I started using Director when he was still called VideoWorks ...

Regards

Bernard Degex

ios memory usage - possible to increase?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 22:51:38 GMT

I'm building an ipad app that uses sequential jpegs to simulate playing video. The total file size of the ipa is around 16mb. When playing back on an ipad mini, It crashes near the end. If I use the unload command I can get all the way through the jpegs - but the goal is to have it lay back smoothly and be able to have all jpegs in memory without unloading. A 16mb file doesn't seem like much, I tried increasing the memory on publish settings but that didn't work. Is there any way to script it so that IOS allocates more memory to the app?

Thanks

Joe

How do I hide the top bar of iphone information indicating coverage, time and battery status? When running my application this sige appearing

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 11:58:39 GMT

xcode 6.1 and ios 8.1 solution for ipa

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 19:37:56 GMT

FYI

Downloaded xcode 6.1

Put os 8.1 on my phone - and will on my ipad mini

In xcode 6.1 I went into preferences - Locations and specified command line tools

I removed CFBundleResource Specs from info.plist

I went back to oxygene for compiler.

BuildMachineOSBuild refers to the machine you are working on - so I am using Mac Yosemite so number is 14A389 - see wikipedia for Yosemite number

DTPlatformBuild - refers to the platform you are building for 12B411 for ios 8.1

DTPlatform Version then is 8.1

DTSDKBuild is also 12B411

DTSDKName is iphoneos 8.1

DTXcode refers to version of xcode 0610

DTXCode Build (see wikipedia for xcode6.x) but for 6.1 is 6A1052d

xcode 6 and ios8

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 19 Oct 2014 04:12:02 GMT

Has anyone figured out the info.plist specs for xcode 6 and ios 8 - so that one can save a director file to ipa?

Director and OSX Yosemite

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 18:08:15 GMT

Is anybody using OSX Yosemite? Does Director work fine with it?

Is there any simulator to test ipad iphone ipa files created with Adobe Director 12?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 22:40:30 GMT

Is there any simulator to test ipad iphone *ipa files created with Adobe Director 12?

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"

Is it Still Possible to Create Classic Radio Buttons

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 18:46:23 GMT

If so - how do you create the classic radio button in Director 12?

iOS fields or text

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 18 Oct 2014 21:14:55 GMT

Does it matter - in iOS apps - if you use fields or text?

How to create a non-accessible script?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 16:44:08 GMT

I have to develop a script member that contains some procedures and functions.

Is there a way to produce some "hidden" script?

I think the first solution is to put this script in an external cast and protect it (AKA make it CXT).

But...

Is there a way to hide all variables so they cannot be seen as globals?

Thank you.

Director 12 xTras

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 22:05:38 GMT

Does anyone know of a list of Director 12 xtras?

Specifically I am looking for a bluetooth xtra and a serial xtra.

I can't publish my project to a CD using Director 11 on my 10.9.5 system. Do I need to upgrade again? If so this is getting to be a pain in the you know what.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 15:25:47 GMT

I can't get anyone to respond on using chat. It sucks not to be able to connect with a real person anymore.

My next Director project

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 09:24:57 GMT

Hi community folks.

Don't know if you can be interested in this, but I'd like to show you our next project, a Mac (and in the next future Windows) application dedicated to podcasters to help them cleanup audio and auto-sync multiple recording tracks.

Here's a preview of the interface:

PodCleaner: interfaccia utente | Video DiggaZ

And here's the first part of the user manual:

Come si usa PodCleaner? [prima parte] | Video DiggaZ

Both pages are in Italian but you can easily translate them to your language using Google... ;-)

Don't know why I'm sharing this to you.

Maybe to let the community feel that Director isn't already gone... :-)

Thanks.

Is there anything similar to Director in the Creative Cloud?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 14:12:42 GMT

We are considering updating our current (wildly out of date) version of Director, but there are a number of other products in which we are interested that are part of the Creative Cloud. So, I was wondering if there was anything included in the Creative Cloud that is similar to Director, so we could just purchase just that subscription...? We are currently using Director to create Interfaces and launch videos/PDFs.

Thanks for your help.

How I can test an application on multiple devices?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 11:24:57 GMT

How I can test an application on multiple devices?

Any information about it?

Once I have created the .ipa file that I have to do?

ios Keypressed, and fields not updating

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 02:36:07 GMT

HI,

I'm using Dir 12, quite successfully, for iOS, but I have a few issues that I need help with. I'm guessing it's Director itself, but who knows?

keypressed() doesn't work at all in iOS.

Neither does the Key.

In fact, neither does monitoring an editable field for changes!

For example, have an editable field in a frame that just repeats. In the frame script, simply set an Alert if any text gets entered into the field (field "text" <> "") or even length(field "text")>0 and nothing I can do seems to catch any text entry from a keyboard at all :-(

I program for kids with disabilities and it's critical that I detect a <space> being typed during iOS execution.

Anyone have any ideas?

Or even listens here anymore?

Dir 12 is still GREAT for iOS if you don't need text entry via an external keyboard (Bluetooth).

Please cc to rj@rjcooper.com also?

Time to a New Director Version

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 01:55:11 GMT

It is time to a new Director version...

Xtras for iOS!

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 02:41:17 GMT

Yes, I've almost got this. I've followed Adobe's own documents for creating Xtras and am almost there. Unfortunately, their document doesn't work. I have an excellent Mac programmer that has made Xtras for me for Mac. He's tried everything to make an Xtra I desperately need for my work with disabled children. He was VERY close. We have contacted Adobe and a gentleman said he was asking another dept. to work on it. It's been almost 3 weels now and we haven't heard back.

9/19: I have already forwarded your issue to the product team and I am currently waiting for their response on this. Please allow me some time to check with them , I will surely update you once I get any response from them .

Thanks,

Himanshu

If Adobe can help us with this, we plan to share this knowledge. Director is still the best, fastest, and most versatile RAD tool available. Even now for iOS it might be best out there. Nothing comes close!

Please Adobe, follow through on your own documentation and help us to complete our Xtra! It will help many children!

full screen iphone 5

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 22:03:06 GMT

hi:

How can I play full screen on a file ipa iphone 5 made with adobe Director 12?

Thank you.

NetConnection and NetStream in Director: Is it impossible to have more than one incoming Stream?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 18:06:41 GMT

Hi there,

I'm working on a Director 11.5 video chat for 3 people. You shall see your webcam video as a little and the two you are connected with as a big video panel. So good so far, I managed to show my own webcam video without streaming it and managed to see one of the others as an incoming stream.

The problem is: as soon as there's a second script initiating a second InStream (no matter how I name it), only the one with the lower sprite number shows it's stream. When I disable the script for this lower sprite, then the second one is playing, so it can't be due to an incorrect script.

I already emilinated two misstakes which made it not working at all at the beginning:

First I tried to use the NetConnection object (for sending my own video stream, works fine) also for creating an input stream. That didn't work. It's a different scene where I set up and play the inStreams (I made the NetConnection object global). So now I set up a new NetConnection for each stream: one outStream and two inStreams.

First I also used only one swf member and made several sprites of it. This didn'Ät work at all, also using the same behavior for the two other-perople-players. So i copied ad pasted the swf and also the behavior. I also renamed every variable in the second behavior with a "2" at the end, just to be sure.

Then it worked at least - but still only for one inStream.

The architecure of my Director film is the following:

I've got two scenes. First scene is an input field to type your name and a "connect" button. Behind this button there's a behavior setting a connection to the server (by using a swf sprite which isn't visible yet) and sending my webcam video and name to the server. This part works fine.

(Picture shows scene 2)

Second scene consists of three swf sprites - one is to show my own webcam video directly from PC. This one already existed in the first scene, for I have to use a swf for setting up a NetConnection. The second and third swf sprites are connected to a behavior script which sets up a new connection (in exitFrame, with a bool variable "firsttime" to make sure it only happens once).

I also have two drop down field each below a partner chat swf. Here I show all people who are logged in at the server, it automatically updates. The one you chose in the drop down is the video you will see in the swf sprite above. Thid works fine (if it works with the inStream).

The script for playing the own webcam video is placed at the first frame of the second scene and only refers to the swf for my own video (which already occurs in scene 1). Well, that's all I think. I'll post the code for the two partner player swf here. Please have a look at it to find a misstake - or maybe again it's some strange Director behavior (like two sprites of one member didn't work) which I cannot think of...

Code for the behavior script of the partner swf for partner 1. The script for partner 2 is exactly the same, but every variable has a "2" at it's end.

global firsttime1
global gUserList

property gNetConn
property InStream

on exitFrame  me 
  if (firsttime1) then   
    pSprite = sprite(me.spritenum)   
    gNetConn = pSprite.newObject("NetConnection")   
    gNetConn.connect("rtmp://212.122.56.2/flashcam")   
    InStream = pSprite.newObject("NetStream", gNetConn)    put "InStream " & InStream
    InStream.play(gUserList[1])   
    pVideoClip = pSprite.getVariable("VideoClip",FALSE)
    put "pVideoClip " & pVideoClip
    pVideoClip.attachVideo(InStream)   
    firsttime1 = false
  end if 
end exitFrame

on updateInStream aArg1, aArg2
-- that method is called by the drpdown script when some change occured 
  put "neuer Partner 1: " & aArg2
  partner = aArg2
  InStream.play(partner)  
end updateInStream

on endsprite me 
  if not(voidP(InStream)) then
    InStream.close()
  end if   
end endsprite

I'd appreciate every idea or help! Thank you!

Jana

How do I extend the duration of a movie?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 22:08:17 GMT

I'm new to Director and haven't been able to get my full video to play. When I publish the .exe, the video will only play for 32,000 frames. It's about 350,000 frames though. I was able to extend its length, but it will only allow me to choose 32,000 as an end frame. Please advise..

Strange error: "Handler not found in object: #newObject" (at a sprite object)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 08:02:58 GMT

Hi there,

I'm facing a strange error in Lingo. I'm using Director 11.5 on Windows 7.

First I was reconstructing a tutorial for netConnection in Director. This worked fine.

Then I added some further functionality and then - a strange error occured where nothing much has been altered and which was working fine before. Now Lingo doesn't know the handler "newObject" at the sprite pSprite anymore! Why???

The regarding code for this error is a behavior for the button to connect. The code is the following:

global pNetConn
global gUserList
property pSprite

on beginSprite (me)    
  pSprite = sprite(me.spriteNum)
  pSprite.cursor = 280  
end beginSprite




on mouseDown (me)  
  sIch = me.stripSpaces( sprite(3).text ) 
  put "eigener Name ist: "& sIch
  if ((sIch = "") or (sIch = void)) then    
    alert "Bitte geben Sie Ihren eigenen Namen an."     
  else       
    gNameSelbst = sIch    
    if voidP(pNetConn) then
      me.setConnection()
    end if
    me.getUserList()    
    go frame(23)      
  end if  
end mouseDown





on setConnection me  
  pNetConn = pSprite.newObject("NetConnection")  
  pSprite.setCallback(pNetConn,"onStatus",#statusUpdate,me)
  pSprite.setCallback(pNetConn,"clientListChannel",#userListUpdate,me)
    tURL = "rtmp://xxxxxxxx"
  pNetConn.connect(tURL)  
end setConnection


on statusUpdate aArg1, aArg2  
  if (aArg2.code = "NetConnection.Connect.Success") then    
    -- Hier erfolgt später die Sendung des eigenen Videostreams an den Server
  end if  
end statusUpdate





on userListUpdate aArg1, aArg2  
  luserList = aArg2  
  if   (luserList <> void) then    
    put "-----USER-LIST UPDATE------"
    gUserList = []    
    repeat with counter = 0 to luserList.length -2      
      sname = luserList[counter].label
      gUserList.add(sname)  
    end repeat    
  end if  
end userListUpdate



on stripSpaces (me, aString)  
  -- clear all spaces from the string
  repeat while offset(SPACE,aString)
    tCharIndex = offset(SPACE,aString)
    delete aString.char[tCharIndex]
  end repeat  
  -- return the string
  return aString  
end

The tutorial code which works is the following:

Here the netConnection is built in the on exitFrame - but I already tried this in my new code above without any success. By the way, I intentionally xxx-ed the URL ;-) Of course in the original there's a correct server adress.

global gNames
property pCamera
property pInStream
property pMicrophone
property pNetConn
property pOutStream
property pSprite

on exitFrame (me)
  if voidP(pNetConn) then
    me.initiateConnection()
  end if  
end exitFrame

on initiateConnection (me)
  pSprite = sprite(me.spriteNum)
  pNetConn = pSprite.newObject("NetConnection")
  pSprite.setCallback(pNetConn,"onStatus",#myOnStatus,me)
  tURL = "rtmp://xxxxxx"
  pNetConn.connect(tURL)
end initiateConnection

on initiateStreams (me)
  tCamObj = pSprite.newObject("Camera")
  pCamera = tCamObj.get()
  tMicObj = pSprite.newObject("Microphone")
  pMicrophone = tMicObj.get()
  pOutStream = pSprite.newObject("NetStream",pNetConn)
  pOutStream.attachAudio(pMicrophone)
  pOutStream.attachVideo(pCamera)
  pOutStream.publish(gNames.publishName,"live")
  pInStream = pSprite.newObject("NetStream",pNetConn)
  pInStream.play(gNames.subscribeName)
  pVideoClip = pSprite.getVariable("VideoClip",FALSE)
  pVideoClip.attachVideo(pInStream)  
end initiateStreams

on endSprite 
  if not( voidP(pOutStream) ) then
    pOutStream.close()
  end if
  if not( voidP(pInStream) ) then
    pInStream.close()
  end if  
  if not( voidP(pNetConn) ) then
    pNetConn.close()
  end if  
end endSprite

on myOnStatus me, aArg1, aArg2  
  put aArg2.code  
  if (aArg2.code = "NetConnection.Connect.Success") then    
    me.initiateStreams()    
  end if  
end myOnStatus

Did anybody ever face the same error? Can anyone tell me where the misstake lies? Or is it a kind of bug? I really don't knwo what could be wrong. I'd appreciate any help!

Thanks

Jana

I am working on a HPCompaq Pro 6300, w 7. My Director 11.5 stopped working when I installed

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 11:36:09 GMT

I am working on a HPCompaq Pro 6300, w 7. My Director 11.5 stopped working when I installed Dreamweaver CS4. This happened once before -and I had to reestall my system to get it going again - but this time I thought it would be Ok shen I installed ONLY Dremweaver. What should I do?

Text field issue

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 08:32:07 GMT

Hi there, who can help me with this,

i made some field members bij using insert --> control--> field = named Field 1

and i made i the movie script the following lines

put empty into field 1 = to start with an empty field

then i put this line to get words at random

put word random (5) of "zien lopen gaan zitten ziek" into field 1

the problem is that the field is not seen as an field

and so far there is no text displayed

tia

Herman

Firewalls and SendNetText / GetNetText

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 06:17:07 GMT

I have a lot of issues where if a user has a Firewall running, SendNetText and GetNetText won't connect to the internet properly.

Are there any work arounds for this, other than asking people to turn off their Firewall?

Thanks!

Xtras Errors

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 21:52:55 GMT

I have an ongoing problem with random Xtras errors. When some movies begin, a box pops up that says the "text xtra is either missing, or didn't initialize properly. Please be sure all the appropriate Xtras are in the Xtras folder." Or, it is often some other Xtra. No amount of juggling with putting them in the Xtras folder, or including them in the projector seems to make any difference. It seems that more times than not, when I make a projector, I get into that loop and can't seem to get out of it. I imagine I am doing something wrong, but I make notes, and try to do things the way that worked before each time. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.

I never have really understood just how to determine which Xtras are really needed by a movie, and whether they go into the Xtras folder, or should, or should not be, included in the projector. What is the exact procedure for including the proper Xtras, and placing them where they belong? And perhaps I am not utilizing the Publish Settings properly as well...?

Those problem seem to occur on the Macintosh mostly. It is running OS Mavericks. I have very little problem with them on my Windows machines running Win7-64.

Thanks to anyone who can lend me a hand with this..

Dewey

Radio Button editable (?)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 18:04:49 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to prevent a radio button from being clicked.

I know that I can set the hilite to 0 or 1, but if its set at 1 already- I want to prevent the user from changing it to 0.

Thanks!

Changing monitor resolution with proper aspect ratio

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 19:32:26 GMT

My project size is 800x600 and I wanted to provide an option to the user to change their monitor resolution at 800x600 by clicking on button. I have also planned to do it by using buddy api xtra, and already tested it. The problem is, when I am doing this on a PC with panoramic monitor (native resolution 1920x1080), it got stretched. I know it's very natural (as the aspect ratio has changed ) and I can get it in shape by squeeze the width using 'draw.rect'.

I noticed, there are some PCs with advanced display card that don't even get stretched, but shows the 800x600 resolution in proper aspect ratio by keeping the extra space black both sides. And I don't need to write any further codes (squeeze the width using 'draw.rect') to keep it in shape.

The real problem starts here, I can't able to filter the above situations by any logical means. I wanted to write codes only for the PCs that get stretched, but I didn't able to find any support from Director to determine which type of display card has been attached. I need to know whether it will get stretched, or the display card can able to manage the aspect ratio.

Any one have any solution in this matter?

Please don't hesitate to ask if you need any more info.

Codesigned Projector and BuddyAPI (or other File Open/Save Dialogue)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 16:13:11 GMT

I noticed that with the Buddy Xtra, if baGetFilename call is made when an application is Codesigned, it will crash.

Actually ANY attempt to use any file open/save dialogue attempt in a Codesigned application will not work.

Has anybody found a work around for this?

D12: 3D objects are ALWAYS in front

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 06 Sep 2014 15:59:25 GMT

Hi guys,

we try to develop an iOS-app and detect some mysterious things with 3D objects! Hope somebody can explain?!

Usually sprites in higher-numbered channels appear in front of sprites in lower‑numbered channels. Sole exception "DirectToStage"!

But 3D objects in D12 on Mac OS X 10.8.5 and 10.9.4 are alway in front! Same effect on iPad Air (iOS7)!

Very funny: On Mac OS X 10.7.5 everything works correct!

Any ideas?

Director Publish IOS not found xtra

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 05:04:46 GMT

Director Publish IOS not found xtra?Why?How to set?

Thanks !!

Behavior popup doesn't show all scripts

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 18:46:03 GMT

I want to add a script to a sprite. When I press the behavior popup, not all the available scripts appear (I have many). Can't find a way to get the script I need attached to the sprite.

Shockwave plug in failure in Mavericks

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 08:17:10 GMT

I wanted to test my director shockwave project in Mavericks but keep getting 'plugin failure'.

I was able to install shockwave in Mountain Lion to test my project but can't in Mavericks.

I installed shockwave 12.1 from Adobe site.

I uninstalled and reinstalled several times but no go. This is both in Firefox and Safari.

Does shockwave work in Mavericks? Any help in how to get it to work.

I think I may have shockwave 11 still in there somewhere but don't have 11 uninstaller.

Thank you for any help