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on prepareMovie

Syntax

on prepareMovie

statement(s)

end

Description

System message and event handler; contains statements that run after the movie preloads cast
members but before the movie does the following:

•

Creates instances of behaviors attached to sprites in the first frame that plays.

•

Prepares the first frame that plays, including drawing the frame, playing any sounds, and
executing transitions and palette effects.

New global variables used for sprite behaviors in the first frame should be initialized in the

prepareMovie

handler. Global variables already set by the previous movie do not need to be reset.

on prepareMovie

handler is a good place to put Lingo that creates global variables, initializes

variables, plays a sound while the rest of the movie is loading into memory, or checks and adjusts
computer conditions such as color depth.

The

play

, and

updateStage

commands are disabled in an

on prepareMovie

handler.

Example

This handler creates a global variable when the movie starts:

on prepareMovie

global currentScore
set currentScore = 0

end

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Страница 1: ...Lingo Dictionary Macromedia Director MX...

Страница 2: ...de contains links to third party Web sites that are not under the control of Macromedia and Macromedia is not responsible for the content on any linked site If you access a third party Web site mentio...

Страница 3: ...movies accessible to the disabled Text to speech Keyboard navigation voiceCount voiceSet voiceGet voiceSetPitch voiceGetPitch voiceSetRate voiceGetRate voiceSetVolume voiceGetVolume voiceSpeak voiceI...

Страница 4: ...essages to behaviors Use these commands to send messages to behaviors attached to sprites Identifying behaviors Use these terms to identify the behaviors attached to sprites directToStage pause movie...

Страница 5: ...objects Buttons See Buttons and check boxes in the Interface Elements section alphaThreshold foreColor backColor palette blend picture cast member property depth pictureP dither rect member trimWhiteS...

Страница 6: ...es Graphic cast member dimensions Use height rect member and width to check and set dimensions for graphic cast members Casts The terms in this section are useful for working with casts Loading casts...

Страница 7: ...er pasteClipBoardInto erase member save castLib findEmpty selection cast property move member beep freeBlock beepOn freeBytes cpuHogTicks maxInteger emulateMultiButtonMouse multiSound floatPrecision r...

Страница 8: ...HotSpotRect pan QTVR property hotSpotExitCallback ptToHotSpotID hotSpotEnterCallback quickTimeVersion invertMask rotation isVRMovie scale loopBounds swing mask staticQuality motionQuality tilt mouseLe...

Страница 9: ...Window close window on mouseWithin on cuePassed open window on deactivateWindow on prepareFrame on enterFrame on prepareMovie on EvalScript on resizeWindow on exitFrame on mouseUpOutside on idle on ri...

Страница 10: ...playBackMode centerRegPoint playing clearError posterFrame clickMode print defaultRect printAsBitmap defaultRectMode quality directToStage rewind sprite endTellTarget See tellTarget rotation eventPas...

Страница 11: ...at specific events within a frame Frame properties Use these Lingo terms to check and set frame properties hitTest stream hold streamMode imageEnabled streamSize linked tellTarget loop keyword URL mo...

Страница 12: ...eyboard interaction Use keyPressed lastEvent and lastKey to detect what the user types at the keyboard Keyboard events Use these terms to set up handlers that respond to pressing keys enabled name men...

Страница 13: ...to control how a script executes Code structures Use if to create if then statements Use case end case and otherwise in case statements Use these terms for repeat loops Syntax elements Use these terms...

Страница 14: ...eving values from a list Use these terms to retrieve values from a list Getting information about lists Use these terms to get information about lists Setting values in a list Use these terms to set v...

Страница 15: ...erms to load media into memory and check whether media are available Available memory Use these terms to check how much memory is available cuePointNames on cuePassed cuePointTimes isPastCuePoint most...

Страница 16: ...itor Mouse interaction The terms in this section are useful for Lingo related to using the mouse Mouse clicks Use these terms to detect what the user does with the mouse put traceLoad showXlib traceLo...

Страница 17: ...hese terms for opening and closing windows Window appearance Use these terms to check and set the appearance of a movie s window mouseDownScript on mouseUp event handler mouseUpScript on mouseUpOutsid...

Страница 18: ...s being worked on by more than one person Saving movies Use saveMovie and updateMovieEnabled to save changes to a movie Error checking Use the alertHook event to post alerts that describe errors in a...

Страница 19: ...dia Use these terms to obtain or stream media from the network Checking availability Use frameReady and mediaReady to check whether specific media are completely downloaded Using network operations Us...

Страница 20: ...mValue to access EMBED and OBJECT parameter tags Operators The terms in this section are operators available in Lingo Math operators Use these terms for math statements Comparison operators Use and no...

Страница 21: ...working with projectors Puppets Use these terms to control the puppet property of sprites and effects channels Random numbers Use random and randomSeed to generate random numbers actorList property a...

Страница 22: ...eam and play Shockwave audio sounds beginRecording scoreSelection clearFrame scriptNum deleteFrame scriptType duplicateFrame tweened endRecording updateFrame insertFrame updateLock scoreColor filled p...

Страница 23: ...Lingo that you want to run when a sprite begins or ends Assigning cast members to sprites Use castLibNum member sprite property or memberNum to specify a sprite s cast member channelCount soundEnabled...

Страница 24: ...ck and set the size of a sprite s bounding rectangle You can also manipulate a sprite s bounding rectangle with Lingo for rectangles See Points and rectangles Sprite locations Use the loc locH and loc...

Страница 25: ...e strings Chunk expressions Use these terms to identify chunks of text backColor color sprite and cast member property bgColor foreColor centerStage stageColor fixStageSize stageLeft picture window pr...

Страница 26: ...content of a text cast member Lingo that applies to chunk expressions is also available to the text within a text cast member line of string number characters stringP number items value number lines w...

Страница 27: ...k with constants Time The terms in this section are useful for working with time Current date and time Use these terms to determine the current date and time pointInHyperlink pointToParagraph pointToC...

Страница 28: ...ariables Testing and changing variables Use these terms to check and change the values assigned to variables framesToHMS ticks HMStoFrames time milliseconds timer startTimer timeoutKeyDown timeoutMous...

Страница 29: ...iginH closed originMode defaultRect originPoint defaultRectMode originV deleteVertex rotation directToStage scale endColor scaleMode fillColor showProps fillCycles skew fillDirection static fillMode s...

Страница 30: ...Chapter 1 30 Xtra extensions Use these terms to work with Xtra extensions movieXtraList xtra name system property xtraList number of xtras xtras...

Страница 31: ...so the lists of terms for the Keyframe player and Bones player modifiers Anti aliasing Use these terms to work with anti aliasing animationEnabled pause 3D autoblend play 3D blendTime playing 3D clone...

Страница 32: ...ackdrop scale backdrop and overlay insertOverlay source loc backdrop and overlay autoblend play 3D blendTime playing 3D bonesPlayer modifier playlist count playNext 3D currentTime 3D playRate getBoneI...

Страница 33: ...iew 3D translate hither userData isInWorld worldPosition name yon newCamera addChild count child parent collision modifier pointOfContact collisionData registerForEvent collisionNormal registerScript...

Страница 34: ...emoveBackdrop deleteModel removeFromWorld deleteModelResource removeOverlay deleteMotion color fog far fog decayMode fog enabled fog near fog addChild newGroup addToWorld pointAt boundingSphere pointA...

Страница 35: ...yNext 3D count playRate currentLoopState positionReset currentTime 3D queue 3D keyframePlayer modifier removeLast lockTranslation rootLock pause 3D rotationReset play 3D update auto level bias lod mod...

Страница 36: ...eform neighbor clearAtRender resetWorld clearValue revertToWorldDefaults directToStage sendEvent loadFile setCollisionCallback registerForEvent unregisterAllEvents registerScript revertToWorldDefaults...

Страница 37: ...Use these terms to manage nodes A node is any object that exists in the world including lights cameras models and groups Particle systems See Primitives Picking See Selecting models name userData new...

Страница 38: ...control properties of 3D meshes Particle systems Use these terms to control properties of 3D particle systems back length 3D bottom 3D lengthVertices front right 3D height 3D top 3D heightVertices wid...

Страница 39: ...rag region gravity sizeRange contains end and start lifetime texture loop emitter tweenMode maxSpeed wind length 3D width 3D lengthVertices widthVertices endAngle resolution radius state 3D modelsUnde...

Страница 40: ...e streaming of 3D cast members diffuseColor textureModeList diffuseLightMap textureRepeat emissive textureRepeatList flat textureTransform glossMap textureTransformList name transparent newShader type...

Страница 41: ...the Toon modifier depth 3D sds modifier enabled sds subdivision error tension autoCameraPosition displayMode bevelDepth extrude3D bevelType smoothness displayFace tunnelDepth compressed newTexture co...

Страница 42: ...nterpolate rotate interpolateTo rotation transform inverse scale transform invert transform property multiply translate pointAt worldPosition pointAtOrientation xAxis position transform yAxis preMulti...

Страница 43: ...by any number of alphabetical or numerical characters A symbol can do the following Assign a value to a variable Compare strings integers rectangles and points Pass a parameter to a handler or method...

Страница 44: ...statement displays the current member contained by the sprite in channel 10 put sprite 10 member To use the alternate syntax and call a function you can use this form myColorObject color rgb 124 22 23...

Страница 45: ...her than a Lingo statement The Director player for Java accepts Lingo that uses this delimiter but comments do not appear in the final Java code Example This handler uses a double hyphen to make the s...

Страница 46: ...in the Message window put abra cadabra The result is the string abracadabra This statement concatenates the strings and the content of the price variable and then assigns the concatenated string to t...

Страница 47: ...operator to define a pathname and filename Director interprets only the string before the operator as the filename For example Lingo interprets the statement open window the applicationPath theMovie a...

Страница 48: ...age window put 2 3 This statement adds the floating point numbers 2 5 and 3 25 and displays the result 5 7500 a floating point number in the Message window put 2 5 3 25 addition 3D Syntax vector1 vect...

Страница 49: ...plies the transform by the vector and returns a new vector The new vector is the result of applying the positional and rotational changes defined by transform to the vector Note that vector transform...

Страница 50: ...and determines whether expression1 is less than or equal to expression2 TRUE or whether expression1 is greater than expression2 FALSE This operator can compare strings integers floating point numbers...

Страница 51: ...s less than or equal to expression2 FALSE This operator can compare strings integers floating point numbers rects and points Be aware that comparisons performed on rects or points are handled as if th...

Страница 52: ...ty in a linear list When using strings as entries in a list enclose the string in quotation marks For example 6 3 8 is a linear list The numbers have no properties associated with them However gears 6...

Страница 53: ...ty list create the list pieces as a string before converting them into a useful list myListString numToChar 91 numToChar 93 put myListString myList myListString value put myList put myList listP 1 myL...

Страница 54: ...acter instead See continuation It is recommended that you replace this symbol with the symbol in your older scripts continuation Syntax first part of a statement on this line second part of the statem...

Страница 55: ...specify subfolders and files within folders You can use relative pathnames in Lingo to indicate the location of a linked file in a folder different than the movie s folder Examples These are equivalen...

Страница 56: ...nction calculates the absolute value of a numerical expression If numericExpression is an integer its absolute value is also an integer If numericExpression is a floating point number its absolute val...

Страница 57: ...ot the actionsEnabled of sprite whichSprite end activateApplication Syntax on activateApplication Description Built in handler runs when the projector is brought to the foreground This handler is usef...

Страница 58: ...open active3dRenderer Syntax the active3dRenderer Description 3D Lingo movie property indicates the renderer currently in use by the movie for drawing 3D sprites This property is equivalent to the get...

Страница 59: ...An equivalent way to write this is selectedMembers castLib the activeCastLib selection activeWindow Syntax the activeWindow Description Movie property indicates which movie window is currently active...

Страница 60: ...tatement adds a child object created from the parent script Moving Ball All three values are parameters that the script requires add the actorList new script MovingBall 1 200 200 This statement displa...

Страница 61: ...value addAt list position value Description List command for linear lists only adds a value specified by value to a list at the position specified by position This command returns an error when used w...

Страница 62: ...multiple views within the sprite Example This statement inserts the camera named FlightCam at the fifth index position of the list of cameras of sprite 12 sprite 12 addCamera member scene camera Flig...

Страница 63: ...ber model whichModel addModifier modifierType Description 3D model command adds the specified modifier to the model Possible modifiers are as follows bonesPlayer collision inker keyframePlayer lod lev...

Страница 64: ...ber Scene camera 1 addOverlay t1 point 20 20 45 See also removeOverlay addProp Syntax list addProp property value addProp list property value Description Property list command for property lists only...

Страница 65: ...gbCyl addToWorld See also isInWorld removeFromWorld addVertex Syntax member memberRef AddVertex indexToAddAt pointToAddVertex controlLocH controlLocV controlLocH controlLocV addVertex member memberRef...

Страница 66: ...ipt that contains the on alertHook handler Use alertHook to control the display of alerts about file errors or Lingo script errors When an error occurs and a parent script is assigned to alertHook Dir...

Страница 67: ...ook script Alert end parent script Alert on alertHook me err msg member Output text err msg return 1 end See also safePlayer alignment Syntax member whichCastMember alignment the alignment of member w...

Страница 68: ...omCaching Syntax the allowCustomCaching Description Movie property will contain information regarding a private cache in future versions of Director This property defaults to TRUE and can be tested an...

Страница 69: ...l Description Movie property This property is provided to allow for enhancements in future versions of Shockwave This property defaults to TRUE and can be tested and set See also allowGraphicMenu allo...

Страница 70: ...hat point is equal to or greater than the threshold Setting the alphaThreshold to 0 makes all pixels opaque to hit detection regardless of the contents of the alpha channel See also useAlpha ambient S...

Страница 71: ...ember Room ambientColor rgb 255 0 0 See also directionalColor directionalPreset ambient ancestor Syntax property optionalProperties ancestor Description Object property allows child objects and behavi...

Страница 72: ...y variable breed to Mutt sets the ancestor of Dog to the Animal script and sets the legCount variable that is stored in the ancestor script to 4 property breed ancestor on new me set breed Mutt set th...

Страница 73: ...n property However the direction of emission of a given particle will deviate from that vector by a random angle between 0 and the value of the emitter s angle property The effective range of this pro...

Страница 74: ...uce high quality rendering but possibly slower playback of the movie The antiAlias property is TRUE by default For vector shapes TRUE is the equivalent of the high quality setting for a Flash asset an...

Страница 75: ...liasingSupported property If anti aliasing is supported the second statement turns on anti aliasing for the sprite with the antiAliasingEnabled property if sprite 2 antiAliasingSupported TRUE then spr...

Страница 76: ...e list s order This command returns a script error when used with a property list Example This statement adds the value 2 at the end of the sorted list named bids which contains 1 3 4 even though this...

Страница 77: ...intosh application menu This is useful for projectors and MIAWs that play back without a title bar See also windowType atan Syntax number atan atan number Description Math function calculates the arct...

Страница 78: ...r 5 0 0 darkening it slightly member 3d world light HouseLight attenuation vector 5 0 0 See also color light attributeName Syntax XMLnode attributeName attributeNumber Description XML property returns...

Страница 79: ...llows you to play TRUE or mute FALSE the audio in the RealMedia stream The default setting for this property is TRUE 1 Integer values other than 1 or 0 are treated as TRUE 1 Setting this property has...

Страница 80: ...modeling programs The value of the type property of the model resources used by these models is fromFile The modifier cannot be added to primitives created within Director Example This statement sets...

Страница 81: ...sition property of the cast member named Headline to FALSE When the cast member is displayed in 3D mode the camera will not be positioned automatically member Headline autoCameraPosition FALSE See als...

Страница 82: ...ember Comments autotab TRUE Verbose Lingo syntax set the autoTab of member Comments to TRUE axisAngle Syntax member whichCastmember model whichModel transform axisAngle member whichCastmember camera w...

Страница 83: ...ound color from the tool palette when the sprite is selected on the Stage For the value that Lingo sets to last beyond the current sprite the sprite must be a puppet The background color applies only...

Страница 84: ...ation member whichCastmember camera whichCamera backdrop index rotation sprite whichSprite camera index backdrop index regPoint member whichCastmember camera whichCamera backdrop index regPoint sprite...

Страница 85: ...See also overlay backgroundColor Syntax member whichVectorMember backgroundColor the backgroundColor of member whichVectorMember Description Vector shape cast member property sets the background color...

Страница 86: ...TY then beep 2 beepOn Syntax the beepOn Description Movie property determines whether the computer automatically beeps when the user clicks on anything except an active sprite TRUE or not FALSE defaul...

Страница 87: ...statements that run when the playhead moves to a frame that contains a sprite that was not previously encountered Like endSprite this event is generated only one time even if the playhead loops on a f...

Страница 88: ...10 0 Example In this example the cast member named Logo is a text cast member This statement sets the bevelDepth of logo to 5 5 When logo is displayed in 3D mode if its bevelType property is set to mi...

Страница 89: ...ty system property and 3D cast member property determines the background color of the sprite specified by whichSprite the color of the Stage or the background color of the 3D cast member Setting the b...

Страница 90: ...his statement sets the bias property of the lod modifier of the model named Spaceship to 10 If the lod modifier s auto property is set to TRUE the modifier will very aggressively lower the level of de...

Страница 91: ...s 12 14 18 See also recordFont characterSet originalFont bitNot Syntax integer bitNot bitNot integer Description Function converts the specified integer to a 32 bit binary number and reverses the valu...

Страница 92: ...e also bitNot bitAnd bitXor bitRate Syntax member whichCastMember bitRate the bitRate of member whichCastMember Description Shockwave Audio SWA cast member property returns the bit rate in kilobits pe...

Страница 93: ...property can be tested but not set Example This statement assigns the original bit rate of the file used in SWA streaming cast member Paul Robeson to the field cast member How Deep Dot syntax put mem...

Страница 94: ...nly For best results use the blend ink with images that have a color depth greater than 8 bit Examples The following statement sets the blend value of sprite 3 to 40 percent Dot syntax sprite 3 blend...

Страница 95: ...atio used for the first texture layer of the shader If the shader s useDiffuseWithTexture property is set to TRUE the texture blends with the color set by the shader s diffuse property If useDiffuseWi...

Страница 96: ...Source property of the corresponding texture layer is set to constant The range of this property is 0 to 100 the default is 50 Example In this example the shader list of the model named MysteryBox con...

Страница 97: ...ePlayer modifier blendFunction Syntax member whichCastmember shader whichShader blendFunction member whichCastmember model whichModel shader blendFunction member whichCastmember model whichModel shade...

Страница 98: ...ame value at one time by not specifying the optional index parameter Use the index parameter to set the list one index position at a time Each index position of the blend function list can have one of...

Страница 99: ...ange end Description 3D property when used with a model resource whose type is particle allows you to get or set the start and end of the model resource s blend range The opacity of particles in the s...

Страница 100: ...property are as follows alpha causes the alpha information in the texture to determine the blend ratio of each pixel of the texture with the color being used for blending see above constant causes th...

Страница 101: ...nstantList for more information The default value of this property is constant Example In this example the shader list of the model MysteryBox contains six shaders Each shader has a texture list that...

Страница 102: ...ntries for count bonesPlayer modifier transform property and worldTransform for more details See also count bonesPlayer modifier transform property worldTransform bonesPlayer modifier Syntax member wh...

Страница 103: ...e lockTranslation indicates whether the model can be displaced from the specified planes positionReset indicates whether the model returns to its starting position after the end of a motion or each it...

Страница 104: ...tom of sprite whichSprite Description Sprite property specifies the bottom vertical coordinate of the bounding rectangle of the sprite specified by whichSprite When a movie plays back as an applet thi...

Страница 105: ...of the cylinder intersected by its Y axis is sealed TRUE or open FALSE The default value for this property is TRUE Example This statement sets the bottomCap property of the model resource named Tube t...

Страница 106: ...member whichCastmember model whichModel inker boundary member whichCastmember model whichModel toon boundary Description 3D inker and toon modifier property allows you to set whether a line is drawn a...

Страница 107: ...determines the size in pixels of the drop shadow for the box of the field cast member specified by whichCastMember Example This statement makes the drop shadow of field cast member Title 10 pixels wid...

Страница 108: ...ion 3D newsprint and engraver shader property indicates the amount of white blended into the shader The range of this property is 1 to 100 the default value is 0 Example This statement sets the bright...

Страница 109: ...browserName pathName browserName browserName enabled trueOrFalse Description System property command and function specifies the path or location of the browser You can use the FileIO Xtra to display...

Страница 110: ...esStreamed preLoadRAM stream streamMode build Syntax member whichCastmember modelResource whichModelResource build Description 3D mesh command constructs a mesh This command is only used with model re...

Страница 111: ...ember Shapes newModel TriModel nm See also generateNormals newMesh face buttonsEnabled Syntax sprite whichFlashSprite buttonsEnabled the buttonsEnabled of sprite whichFlashSprite member whichFlashMemb...

Страница 112: ...ted with that button This property can be tested and set in any type of script Examples The following statement sets the buttonStyle property to 1 the buttonStyle 1 This statement remembers the curren...

Страница 113: ...the Message window how many bytes have been streamed Dot syntax on fetchMovie whichFlashMovie repeat while member whichFlashMovie percentStreamed 100 stream member whichFlashMovie put Number of bytes...

Страница 114: ...ion is not valid for Shockwave movies because they use the network settings of the browser in which they run on resetCache current cacheDocVerify if current once then alert Turning cache verification...

Страница 115: ...ot passed to other scripts attached to the sprite cast member scripts frame scripts or movie scripts Examples This handler sends the message bumpCounter to the first behavior script attached to sprite...

Страница 116: ...nces the script instance or a list of script instances and args are any optional parameters to be passed to the handler If script is a single script instance an error alert occurs if the handler is no...

Страница 117: ...is statement creates a second instance of the parent script set m2 new script man This statement sends a message to the ancestor script for both men callAncestor run m m2 Animal running with 2 legs An...

Страница 118: ...amera property of a sprite is the first camera in the list of cameras of the sprite The camera referred to by sprite whichSprite camera is the same as sprite whichSprite camera 1 Use the addCamera and...

Страница 119: ...x member whichCastMember cameraRotation sprite whichSprite cameraRotation Description 3D cast member and sprite property indicates the position of the default camera The default value of this property...

Страница 120: ...ing expression When more than one possible match could cause Lingo to execute the same statements the expressions must be separated by commas The syntax line containing expression3 and expresssion4 is...

Страница 121: ...ember castLibNum the castLibNum of member whichCastMember sprite whichSprite castLibNum the castLibNum of sprite whichSprite Description Cast member and sprite property determines the number of the ca...

Страница 122: ...ist of cast members that make up the frames of a cursor For whichCursorCastMember substitute a cast member name within quotation marks or a cast member number You can also specify cast members from di...

Страница 123: ...ee also crop cast member property centerRegPoint regPoint scale centerRegPoint Syntax member whichCastMember centerRegPoint the centerRegPoint of member whichCastMember Description Flash vector shape...

Страница 124: ...rojector This property can be tested and set Note Be aware that behavior while playing back in a projector differs between Windows and Macintosh systems Settings selected during creation of the projec...

Страница 125: ...not set Examples This statement determines the number of channels in the sound cast member Jazz Dot syntax put member Jazz channelCount Verbose syntax put the channelCount of member Jazz This stateme...

Страница 126: ...Set the characterSet of member whichFontMember Description Font cast member property returns a string containing the characters included for import when the cast member was created If all characters i...

Страница 127: ...of the string is identified If lastCharacter is before firstCharacter the function returns the value EMPTY To see an example of chars used in a completed movie see the Text movie in the Learning Ling...

Страница 128: ...for testing the ASCII value of characters created by combining keys such as the Control key and another alphanumeric key Director treats uppercase and lowercase letters the same if you compare them u...

Страница 129: ...s to 1 This statement records the current setting of the checkBoxAccess property by putting the value in the variable oldAccess oldAccess to the checkBoxAccess See also hilite cast member property che...

Страница 130: ...ms script menu child Syntax member whichCastmember model whichParentNode child whichChildNodeName member whichCastmember model whichParentNode child index Description 3D model group light and camera p...

Страница 131: ...yntax member whichCastMember chunkSize the chunkSize of member whichCastMember Description Transition cast member property determines the transition s chunk size in pixels from 1 to 128 and is equival...

Страница 132: ...clearAsObjects See also newObject setCallback clearAtRender Syntax member whichCastmember camera whichCamera colorBuffer clearAtRender sprite whichSprite camera index colorBuffer clearAtRender Descri...

Страница 133: ...cast member s pathName linked and preload properties also automatically clears the error condition Example This handler checks to see if an out of memory error occurred for a Flash cast member named D...

Страница 134: ...ng a new movie that requires a new set of global variables Example This statement sets all global variables to VOID clearGlobals clearValue Syntax member whichCastmember camera whichCamera colorBuffer...

Страница 135: ...ere within the sprite s bounding rectangle and detects rollovers at the sprite s boundaries opaque default Detects mouse click events only when the pointer is over an opaque portion of the sprite and...

Страница 136: ...ssociated with it When the user clicks the Stage clickOn returns 0 To detect whether the user clicks a sprite with no script you must assign a placeholder script to it for example so that it can be de...

Страница 137: ...pot clone Teapot2 See also cloneDeep cloneModelFromCastmember cloneMotionFromCastmember loadFile cloneDeep Syntax member whichCastmember model whichModel cloneDeep cloneName member whichCastmember gro...

Страница 138: ...The children of Pluto are also imported as are the model resources shaders and textures used by Pluto and its children member Scene2 cloneModelFromCastmember Planet Pluto member Scene See also cloneMo...

Страница 139: ...number in windowList Closing a window that is already closed has no effect Be aware that closing a window does not stop the movie in the window nor clear it from memory This command simply closes the...

Страница 140: ...specify a pathname If no file is specified all open Xlibraries are closed Xtra extensions are stored in Xlibrary files Xlibrary files are resource files that contain Xtra extensions HyperCard XCMDs an...

Страница 141: ...ollision events see the registerForEvent entry A collideAny event is generated when a collision occurs between models to which the collision modifier has been attached A collideWith event is generated...

Страница 142: ...ollideAny putDetails 0 on putDetails me collisionData put collisionData modelA put collisionData modelB put collisionData pointOfContact put collisionData collisionNormal end model GreenBall model Yel...

Страница 143: ...e particle nmr emitter mode burst nmr emitter loop 0 nmr emitter minSpeed 30 nmr emitter maxSpeed 50 nmr emitter angle 45 nmr colorRange start rgb 0 0 255 nmr colorRange end rgb 255 0 0 nmr lifetime 5...

Страница 144: ...olor regardless of its type newColorObj color rgb 155 0 75 put newColorObj green 0 put newColorObj paletteIndex 106 newColorObj green 100 put newColorObj paletteIndex 94 put newColorObj rgb 155 100 75...

Страница 145: ...b value of the light The default value of this property is rgb 191 191 191 Example This statement sets the color of the light named RoomLight to rgb 255 0 255 member Room light RoomLight color rgb 255...

Страница 146: ...ngs This property can be tested but not set Example This statement shows that the colorBufferDepth value of the user s video card is 32 put getRendererServices colorBufferDepth 32 See also getRenderer...

Страница 147: ...e change your system to desiredDepth color depth and reboot return false end if end When changing the user s monitor color depth settings it is good practice to restore the original depth when the mov...

Страница 148: ...to the value of end over the course of its life The start and end properties have a default value of rgb 255 255 255 Example This statement sets the colorRange properties of the model resource named T...

Страница 149: ...the generateNormals command Line 7 uses the build command to construct the mesh Line 8 creates a new model named TriModel that uses the new mesh nm member Shapes newMesh Triangle 1 3 0 3 0 nm vertexLi...

Страница 150: ...ie and thus responds to and intercepts any key combinations that are also browser keyboard shortcuts For example if the user presses Control R or Command R the browser reloads the current page the mov...

Страница 151: ...tandard compression used for bitmap cast members when a Director movie is saved The default value for this property is TRUE Example This statement sets the compressed property of the texture Plutomap...

Страница 152: ...or a slider control or to restrict where on the screen a user can drag an object in a game The constraint sprite property affects moveable sprites and the locH and locV sprite properties The constrain...

Страница 153: ...nV function for sprite 1 when it has top and bottom coordinates of 40 and 60 put constrainV 1 20 40 put constrainV 1 55 55 put constrainV 1 100 60 This statement constrains a moveable slider sprite 1...

Страница 154: ...he Director player for Java this function returns TRUE only if a second key is pressed simultaneously with the Control key If the Control key is pressed by itself controlDown returns FALSE The Directo...

Страница 155: ...al video always returns FALSE The digital video must be in direct to stage playback mode to display the controller Example This statement causes the QuickTime cast member Demo to display its controlle...

Страница 156: ...symbol or the corresponding numeric ink value The default ink is copy See ink for the list of possible values blendLevel The degree of blend transparency to apply to the copied pixels The range of va...

Страница 157: ...mber flower it is pasted over member flower image copyPixels member Happy image member Happy rect member Happy rect blendLevel 50 See also ink color copyrightInfo Syntax member whichCastMember copyrig...

Страница 158: ...o cos Syntax angle cos cos angle Description Function calculates the cosine of the specified angle which must be expressed in radians Example The following statement calculates the cosine of PI divide...

Страница 159: ...child count sprite whichSprite camera index backdrop count member whichCastmember camera whichCamera backdrop count sprite whichSprite camera index overlay count member whichCastmember camera whichCam...

Страница 160: ...raCount cpuHogTicks Syntax the cpuHogTicks Description System property determines how often Director releases control of the CPU to let the computer process background events such as events in other a...

Страница 161: ...ll be drawn at all creases in the model that exceed this threshold This setting will only take effect if the inker modifier s creases property is set to TRUE member shapes model Teapot inker creaseAng...

Страница 162: ...ient2 image createMask maskOffset point 10 10 See also copyPixels createMatte ink createMatte Syntax imageObject createMatte alphaThreshold Description This function creates and returns a matte object...

Страница 163: ...image object that contains a copy of the given image object cropped to the given rect The original image object is unchanged The new image object does not belong to any cast member and has no associat...

Страница 164: ...rops the resulting image to a rectangle equal to sprite 10 member stage image picture the stage picture member stage image crop sprite 10 rect See also picture cast member property crop cast member pr...

Страница 165: ...oduct perpendicularTo crossProduct Syntax vector1 crossProduct vector2 Description 3D vector method returns a vector which is perpendicular to both vector1 and vector2 Example In this example pos1 is...

Страница 166: ...n t generate sounds Example This handler placed in a Movie or Frame script reports any cue points in sound channel 1 to the Message window on cuePassed channel number name if channel Sound1 then put C...

Страница 167: ...entLoopState Syntax member whichCastmember model whichModel keyframePlayer currentLoopState member whichCastmember model whichModel bonesPlayer currentLoopState Description 3D keyframePlayer and bones...

Страница 168: ...ent on mouseDown sprite the currentSpriteNum member member DownPict end See also me spriteNum currentTime Syntax sprite whichSprite currentTime the currentTime of sprite whichSprite sound channelNum c...

Страница 169: ...y or queue command is multiplied by the modifier s playRate property and the resulting value is multiplied by the motion s original speed to determine how fast the model will execute the motion and ho...

Страница 170: ...0 to the duration of the stream Setting currentTime is equivalent to invoking the seek command x seek n is the same as x currentTime n Changing currentTime or calling seek will require the stream to b...

Страница 171: ...movie that is loaded in a presentation using a custom cursor for multiple movies store any special cursor resource number as a global variable that remains in memory between movies Cursor commands ca...

Страница 172: ...r to specify default system cursors The term whichCursor must be one of the following integer values To use custom cursors set the cursor sprite property to a list containing the cast member to be use...

Страница 173: ...r whichCursorCastMember Bitmap cast members smaller than the specified size are displayed at full size and larger ones are scaled proportionally to the specified size The default value is 32 for Windo...

Страница 174: ...es the first vertex of the first curve in a vector shape down and to the right by 10 pixels member 1 curve 1 vertex 1 member 1 curve 1 vertex 1 point 10 10 The following code moves a sprite to the loc...

Страница 175: ...rs if char 1 to 4 of the date 1 1 then alert Happy New Year Note The three date formats vary depending on the country for which your operating system was designed These examples are for the United Sta...

Страница 176: ...ndler is useful when a projector runs in a window and the user can send it to the background to work with other applications Any MIAWs running in the projector can also make use of this handler During...

Страница 177: ...del Dog debug TRUE See also boundingSphere debugPlaybackEnabled Syntax the debugPlaybackEnabled Description Property in Windows opens a Message window for debugging purposes in Shockwave and projector...

Страница 178: ...rty is set to 100 and the far property is set to 1000 the fog will begin 100 world units in front of the camera and gradually increase in density to a distance of 1000 world units in front of the came...

Страница 179: ...operty can have these values flash default Sets the default rectangle using the size of the movie as it was originally created in Flash fixed Sets the default rectangle using the fixed size specified...

Страница 180: ...rFrame or on exitFrame handler To mimic the behavior of a halt in a handler when the playhead is not moving use the startTimer command or assign the current value of timer to a variable and wait for t...

Страница 181: ...word 1 This statement deletes the first character of the string in the variable bidAmount if that character is the dollar sign if bidAmount char 1 then delete bidAmount char 1 See also char of field i...

Страница 182: ...in a cast member this command removes the camera from the cast member and the 3D world Children of the camera are removed from the 3D world but not deleted It is not possible to delete the default cam...

Страница 183: ...e endRecording end See also beginRecording endRecording updateFrame deleteGroup Syntax member whichCastmember deleteGroup whichGroup member whichCastmember deleteGroup index Description 3D command rem...

Страница 184: ...the 3D world but not deleted Examples The first line of this example deletes the model named Player3 from the cast member named gbWorld The second line deletes the ninth model of gbWorld member gbWorl...

Страница 185: ...with the deleted value If the value appears in the list more than once deleteOne deletes only the first occurrence Attempting to delete a property has no effect Example The first statement creates a l...

Страница 186: ...leteShader index Description 3D command removes the shader from the cast member Example The first line of this example deletes the shader Road from the cast member named StreetScene The second line de...

Страница 187: ...or dots used to create the effects of these specialized shader types Higher values result in more lines or dots For engraver shaders this property adjusts the number of lines used to create the image...

Страница 188: ...s sds modifier property specifies the maximum number of levels of resolution that the model can display when using the sds modifier If the sds modifier s error and tension settings are low increasing...

Страница 189: ...pop up windows appear entirely on one screen The result is a list of rectangles where each rectangle is the boundary of a monitor The coordinates for each monitor are relative to the upper left corne...

Страница 190: ...ed Globe to rgb 255 0 0 member MysteryWorld shader Globe diffuse rgb 255 0 0 See also diffuseColor useDiffuseWithTexture blendFunction blendSource blendConstant diffuseColor Syntax member whichCastmem...

Страница 191: ...glossMap region specularLightMap digitalVideoTimeScale Syntax the digitalVideoTimeScale Description System property determines the time scale in units per second that the system uses to track digital...

Страница 192: ...e direction in which the particles of a particle system are emitted A particle system is a model resource whose type is particle The primary direction of particle emission is the vector set by the emi...

Страница 193: ...n 3D cast member property indicates the direction from which the default directional light shines relative to the camera of the sprite Changing the value of this property results in changes to the pos...

Страница 194: ...ite directly to the screen without first compositing it in the Director offscreen buffer The result can be similar to the trails ink effect of the Stage Explicitly refresh a trailed area by turning th...

Страница 195: ...In this example the model resource of the model named Slogan is extruded text This statement sets the displayFace property of Slogan s model resource to back tunnel The front face of Slogan will not b...

Страница 196: ...hich means that the RealNetworks logo is displayed when the movie starts to play and when it is stopped or rewound put sprite 2 displayRealLogo 1 put member Real displayRealLogo 1 The following exampl...

Страница 197: ...when it is displayed at a color depth of 8 bits or less 256 colors if the display must show a color gradation not in the cast member TRUE or tells Director to choose the nearest color out of those ava...

Страница 198: ...of two vectors multiply the x component of vector1 by the x component of vector2 then multiply the y component of vector1 by the y component of vector2 then multiply the z component of vector1 by the...

Страница 199: ...Normalized function returns the normalized values of pos5 and pos6 and stores them in the variables norm1 and norm2 The dotProduct of norm1 and norm2 is 0 7071 which is the cosine of 45 pos5 vector 10...

Страница 200: ...FTP or HTTP server an HTML page an external cast member a Director movie or a graphic localFile The pathname and filename for the file on the local disk Director movies in authoring mode and projecto...

Страница 201: ...aws a line or an unfilled shape of color colorObject in a rectangular region of the given image object as specified in any of the three ways shown The draw returns a value of 1 if there is no error Yo...

Страница 202: ...be tested and set Example This statement displays the current coordinates of the movie window called Control Panel put the drawRect of window Control Panel rect 10 20 200 300 The following statement...

Страница 203: ...unction as the insertFrame command Example When used in the following handler the duplicateFrame command creates a series of frames that have cast member Ball in the external cast Toys assigned to spr...

Страница 204: ...able workingImage workingImage member Lunar Surface image duplicate See also duplicate member duplicate member Syntax member originalMember duplicate member originalMember duplicate new duplicate memb...

Страница 205: ...effect as the Duration setting in the Frame Transition dialog box This property can be tested for all cast members that support it but only set for transitions To see an example of duration used in a...

Страница 206: ...D duration RealMedia Syntax sprite whichSprite duration member whichCastmember duration Description RealMedia sprite or cast member property returns the duration of the RealMedia stream in millisecond...

Страница 207: ...e by using the Editable option in the Field Cast Member Properties dialog box You can make a field sprite editable by using the Editable option in the Score For the value set by Lingo to last beyond t...

Страница 208: ...ess of any looping setting of the currentTime or other manipulation Use the currentTime to test for the current absolute time within the sound The value of this property is a floating point number all...

Страница 209: ...lResource emitter region member whichCastmember modelResource whichModelResource emitter distribution member whichCastmember modelResource whichModelResource emitter angle member whichCastmember model...

Страница 210: ...responses for cross platform movies Example The following statement checks if the computer is a Macintosh and if so sets the emulateMultiButtonMouse property to TRUE if the platform contains Macintos...

Страница 211: ...sion property allows you to get or set whether TRUE or not FALSE collisions are detected on models Setting this property to FALSE temporarily disables the collision modifier without removing it from t...

Страница 212: ...without an error message Be careful when using the sds modifier with the lod modifier For more information see the sds modifier entry Example This statement turns on the sds modifier attached to the m...

Страница 213: ...by sweeping a 2D line around the sphere s Y axis from startAngle to endAngle If startAngle is set to 0 and endAngle is set to 360 the result is a complete cylinder To draw a section of a cylinder set...

Страница 214: ...e endFrame Syntax sprite whichSprite endFrame Description Function returns the frame number of the end frame of the sprite span This function is useful in determining the span in the Score of a partic...

Страница 215: ...essage and event handler contains Lingo that runs when the playhead leaves a sprite and goes to a frame in which the sprite doesn t exist It is generated after exitFrame Place on endSprite handlers in...

Страница 216: ...Lingo checks whether the sound member Jingle is set to play all the way through in sound channel 1 if sound 1 startTime 0 and sound 1 endTime member Jingle duration then alert Not playing the whole s...

Страница 217: ...ript has its own handler If the frame script has its own handler the on enterFrame handler in the frame script overrides the on enterFrame handler in the movie script The order of frame events is step...

Страница 218: ...achine Integer TRUE or FALSE value indicating whether the movie is playing in ShockMachine shockMachineVersion String indicating the installed version number of ShockMachine platform String containing...

Страница 219: ...th setting is high and its subdivision setting is adaptive this will cause a very pronounced effect on Baby s geometry member Scene model Baby sds error 0 See also sds modifier subdivision depth 3D te...

Страница 220: ...ipt aParam if word 1 of aParam myHandler then do aParam end if end The following handler normally requires a string as its argument The argument is received as a symbol and then converted to a string...

Страница 221: ...n else sprite 5 eventPassMode passAlways end if end exit Syntax exit Description Keyword instructs Lingo to leave a handler and return to where the handler was called If the handler is nested within a...

Страница 222: ...prepareFrame enterFrame and exitFrame Examples This handler turns off all puppet conditions when the playhead exits the frame on exitFrame me repeat with i 48 down to 1 sprite i puppet FALSE end repea...

Страница 223: ...peat loop when a specified condition such as two values being equal or a variable being a certain value exists Example The following handler searches for the position of the first vowel in a string re...

Страница 224: ...define and name this function in the HTML header In the movie the function name and parameters are defined as a string in externalEvent Because the parameters must be interpreted by the browser as se...

Страница 225: ...yntax externalParamName n Description Function returns the name of a specific parameter in the list of external parameters from an HTML EMBED or OBJECT tag This function is valid only for Shockwave mo...

Страница 226: ...the applet s parameters instead of the EMBED tag parameters Accepts only string parameters Returns a zero length string rather than VOID See Parameters for OBJECT and EMBED tags and Parameters access...

Страница 227: ...ate a model named 3dLogo myTextModelResource member Logo extrude3d member Scene member Scene newModel 3dLogo myTextModelResource See also bevelDepth bevelType displayFace smoothness tunnelDepth displa...

Страница 228: ...e coordinate list of the model resource to use for each of the vertices of the face vertices indicates which indices in the vertex list of the model resource to use to define the face See the entry fo...

Страница 229: ...deOut milliseconds fadeOut sound channelNum milliseconds Description This function gradually reduces the volume of sound channel channelNum to zero over the given number of milliseconds or 1000 millis...

Страница 230: ...ALSE has the numerical value of 0 Conversely 0 is treated as FALSE Example This statement turns off the soundEnabled property by setting it to FALSE the soundEnabled FALSE See also if not TRUE far fog...

Страница 231: ...Syntax sprite whichQTVRSprite fieldOfView the fieldOfView of sprite whichQTVRSprite Description QTVR sprite property gives the specified sprite s current field of view in degrees This property can be...

Страница 232: ...rom the Internet and minimize download time use the downloadNetThing or preloadNetThing command to download the cast s file to a local disk first and then set fileName castLib to the file on the disk...

Страница 233: ...in the background before assigning a new file to a cast member Changing the fileName member property in a movie playing as an applet can make the applet wait for the new file to download This property...

Страница 234: ...m colorObjectOrParameterList imageObject fill point x y point x y colorObjectOrParameterList imageObject fill rect colorObjectOrParameterList Description This function fills a rectangular region with...

Страница 235: ...f fillColor used in a completed movie see the Vector Shapes movie in the Learning Lingo Examples folder inside the Director application folder Example This statement sets the fill color of the member...

Страница 236: ...cast member is filled with a pattern TRUE or not FALSE Example The following statements make the shape cast member Target Area a filled shape and assign it the pattern numbered 1 which is a solid colo...

Страница 237: ...xample This statement changes the fill offset of the vector shape cast member miette to a horizontal offset of 33 pixels and a vertical offset of 27 pixels member miette fillOffset point 33 27 See als...

Страница 238: ...abel doesn t exist or if that portion of the Flash movie has not yet been streamed in findPos Syntax list findPos property findPos list property Description List command identifies the position of the...

Страница 239: ...of the value with the most similar alphanumeric name This command is useful in finding the name that is the closest match in a sorted directory of names Example This statement identifies the position...

Страница 240: ...f each line in the chunkExpression portion of the text cast member The value itself is an integer indicating height in absolute pixels of each line The default value is 0 which results in natural heig...

Страница 241: ...ageSize property cannot change the Stage size for a movie that is currently playing This property can be tested and set Examples The following statement determines whether the fixStageSize property is...

Страница 242: ...its upper left corner The cast member s originPoint property is used only for rotation and scaling not to calculate movie coordinates The flashToStage and the corresponding stageToFlash functions are...

Страница 243: ...te whichSpriteNumber flipH the flipH of sprite whichSpriteNumber Description Sprite property indicates whether a sprite s image has been flipped horizontally on the Stage TRUE or not FALSE The image i...

Страница 244: ...cision 1 put 2 2 4 put 2 float 2 4 0 the floatPrecision 4 put 22 7 3 put 22 float 7 3 1429 See also floatPrecision ilk floatP Syntax expression floatP floatP expression Description Function indicates...

Страница 245: ...nt numbers are rounded to the absolute value for the number of decimal places Trailing zeros are dropped This property can be tested and set Examples This statement rounds off the square root of 3 0 t...

Страница 246: ...lso color fog decayMode enabled fog far fog near fog font Syntax member whichCastMember font the font of member whichCastMember Description Text and field cast member property determines the font used...

Страница 247: ...sted and set When tested it returns the height of the first line in the field When set it affects every line in the field To see an example of fontSize used in a completed movie see the Text movie in...

Страница 248: ...in the Learning Lingo Examples folder inside the Director application folder Examples This statement sets the variable named oldStyle to the current fontStyle setting for the field cast member Rokujo...

Страница 249: ...oreground color of sprite 5 oldColor sprite 5 foreColor The following statement makes 36 the number for the foreground color of a random sprite from sprites 11 to 13 sprite 10 random 3 foreColor 36 Th...

Страница 250: ...respond to the forget command Example This statement instructs Lingo to delete the window Control Panel when the movie no longer uses the window window Control Panel forget See also close window open...

Страница 251: ...member property indicates the number of frames in the Flash movie cast member The frameCount member property can have integer values This property can be tested but not set Example This sprite script...

Страница 252: ...Palette 45 See also puppetPalette frameRate Syntax member whichCastMember frameRate the frameRate of member whichCastMember Description Cast member property specifies the playback frame rate for the s...

Страница 253: ...sprite whichFlashSprite frameNumber Description Function for a Flash movie determines whether a streaming movie is ready for display If enough of a sprite has streamed into memory to render the frame...

Страница 254: ...layhead proceed to the next frame of the Director movie on exitFrame if the frameReady sprite 5 25 FALSE then go to the frame else play sprite 5 end if end See also mediaReady frameScript Syntax the f...

Страница 255: ...ding session this statement assigns the sound cast member Jazz to the second sound channel the frameSound2 member Jazz number framesToHMS Syntax framesToHMS frames tempo dropFrame fractionalSeconds De...

Страница 256: ...tement checks the tempo used in the current frame In this case the tempo is 15 frames per second put the frameTempo 15 See also puppetTempo frameTransition Syntax the frameTransition Description Frame...

Страница 257: ...freeBytes Syntax the freeBytes Description Function indicates the total number of bytes of free memory which may not be contiguous A kilobyte K is 1024 bytes A megabyte MB is 1024 kilobytes This func...

Страница 258: ...tem property indicates which movie in a window MIAW is currently frontmost on the screen When the Stage is frontmost front window is the Stage When a media editor or floating palette is frontmost fron...

Страница 259: ...led by that normal are determined by the shader If the vertex normal points away from the camera the area of the mesh controlled by that normal will be non visible After using the generateNormals comm...

Страница 260: ...doesn t exist a script error will occur if the property doesn t exist when using bracket access See also getAt getOne getProp setaProp setAt getAt Syntax getAt list position list position Description...

Страница 261: ...loyeeInfoList 1 put firstPerson Dennis consulting 510 firstPersonDept firstPerson 2 put firstPersonDept consulting As with getAt brackets can be nested firstPersonDept employeeInfoList 1 2 See also ge...

Страница 262: ...tiple line descriptions Example This statement displays Jigsaw puzzle piece in the description pane on getBehaviorTooltip return Jigsaw puzzle piece end See also on getPropertyDescriptionList on getBe...

Страница 263: ...rom loading fileFormat The file was found but it appears to be of the wrong type or an error occurred while reading the file other Some other error occurred When an error occurs as a cast member strea...

Страница 264: ...Artists else go to frame Sorry end if end if end See also clearError getErrorString state Flash SWA getError XML Syntax parserObject getError Description Function returns the descriptive error string...

Страница 265: ...ovie clips or levels within a Flash movie This is similar to testing sprite properties within Director The targetName is the name of the movie clip or level whose property you want to get within the g...

Страница 266: ...t with information about the user s video card The list contains the following properties present is a Boolean value indicating whether the computer has hardware video acceleration vendor indicates th...

Страница 267: ...the hot spot doesn t exist or isn t visible on the Stage this function returns rect 0 0 0 0 If the hot spot is partially visible this function returns the bounding rectangle for the visible portion ge...

Страница 268: ...meter propertyList to take a property list for CGI queries The property list is URL encoded and the URL sent is urlstring encodedproplist Use the optional parameter serverOSString to encode any return...

Страница 269: ...as the previous example but it uses a property list to submit a CGI query and does the URL encoding for you getNetText http www yourserver com cgi bin query cgi name Bill See also netDone netError ne...

Страница 270: ...tosh use a pathname such as HardDisk Director Movies To look for files on the Macintosh desktop use the path HardDisk Desktop Folder This function is not available in Shockwave Example The following h...

Страница 271: ...ing on the bit depth of the image If you include the optional parameter value integer however it s returned as a raw number If you re setting a lot pixels to the color of another pixel it s faster to...

Страница 272: ...rtTime 3000 endTime 10000 loopCount 5 loopStartTime 8000 loopEndTime 8900 sound 2 play put sound 2 getPlaylist end member member 12 of castLib 2 startTime 3000 endTime 10000 loopCount 5 loopStartTime...

Страница 273: ...prefFileName with the name of a file created by the setPref function If no such file exists getPref returns VOID The filename used for prefFileName must be a valid filename only not a full path Direct...

Страница 274: ...on for property lists only identifies the property name associated with the position specified by index in the property list specified by list If the specified item isn t in the list or if you use get...

Страница 275: ...so addProp on getBehaviorDescription on runPropertyDialog getRendererServices Syntax getRendererServices getRendererServices whichGetRendererServicesProperty Description 3D command returns the rendere...

Страница 276: ...amStatus URLString Description Function returns a property list matching the format used for the globally available tellStreamStatus function that can be used with callbacks to sprites or objects The...

Страница 277: ...not be a valid object reference Examples This statement sets the variable tValue to the string value of the Flash variable named gOtherVar in the Flash movie in sprite 3 tValue sprite 3 getVariable gO...

Страница 278: ...mber 3d world model Box getworldTransform rotation vector 0 0000 0 0000 0 0000 See also worldPosition transform property global Syntax global variable1 variable2 variable3 Description Keyword defines...

Страница 279: ...in the list with the associated paired value You can use the following list operations on globals count Returns the number of entries in the list getPropAt n Returns the name of the nth entry getProp...

Страница 280: ...u to get or set the gravity property of the resource as a vector This property defines the gravity force applied to all particles in each simulation step The default value for this property is vector...

Страница 281: ...vie file to a local disk first and then use the go to movie command to go to that movie on the local disk The following are reset when a movie is loaded beepOn and constraint properties keyDownScript...

Страница 282: ...frame 1 if there are no markers in the movie The go next command is equivalent to the statement go marker 1 that was used in earlier versions of Lingo Example This statement sends the playhead to the...

Страница 283: ...ng handler branches to different points within a Flash movie in channel 5 It accepts a parameter that indicates which frame to go to on Navigate whereTo sprite 5 goToFrame whereTo end gotoNetMovie Syn...

Страница 284: ...that window or frame If targetName isn t a frame or window that is currently open goToNetPage opens a new window Using the string _new always opens a new window If targetName is not included gotoNetPa...

Страница 285: ...gradientType linear else member backdrop gradientType radial end if end See also fillMode group Syntax member whichCastmember group whichGroup member whichCastmember group index Description 3D element...

Страница 286: ...SE if it does not The script object must be a parent script a child object or a behavior Example This Lingo code invokes a handler on an object only if that handler exists if spiderObject handler poun...

Страница 287: ...s setting the sprite s height automatically sets the sprite s stretch property to TRUE For the value set by Lingo to last beyond the current sprite the sprite must be a puppet This property can be tes...

Страница 288: ...model s resource Set the renderStyle property to point to see just the vertices of the mesh The value of this property must be greater than or equal to 2 The default value is 4 Example The following...

Страница 289: ...ength property of the toon modifier for the model named Teapot to 0 5 The model s highlights will be moderately bright member shapes model Teapot toon highlightStrength 0 5 See also highlightPercentag...

Страница 290: ...to select the button cast member powerSwitch by setting the hilite member property for the cast member to TRUE member powerSwitch hilite TRUE See also checkBoxAccess checkBoxType hitTest Syntax sprit...

Страница 291: ...tes the distance in world units from the camera beyond which models are drawn Objects closer to the camera than hither are not drawn The value of this property must be greater than or equal to 1 0 and...

Страница 292: ...tempo is 30 frames per second Neither the dropFrame nor fractionalSeconds arguments is used put HMStoFrames 00 01 30 10 30 FALSE FALSE 2710 This statement converts 600 seconds into minutes put framesT...

Страница 293: ...utside the bounds of the cursor produces an error For example setting the hotspot of a 16 by 16 pixel cursor to point 16 16 produces an error because the starting point is 0 0 not 1 1 This property ca...

Страница 294: ...Syntax member whichMember HTML Description Cast member property accesses text and tags that control the layout of the text within an HTML formatted text cast member This property can be tested and set...

Страница 295: ...e character range of the hyperlink in the text It s possible to get the text of the range itself by using the syntax member Ref char range 1 range 2 This handler should be attached to a sprite as a be...

Страница 296: ...ndow put member Glossary hyperlinks 3 8 10 16 41 54 hyperlinkState Syntax textChunk hyperlinkState Description Text cast member property contains the current state of the hyperlink Possible values for...

Страница 297: ...the model named Box to the identity transform member 3d world model Box transform identity See also transform property getWorldTransform on idle Syntax on idle statement s end Description System messa...

Страница 298: ...ount of time between idle events is determined by idleHandlerPeriod Possible settings for idleHandlerPeriod are 0 As many idle events as possible 1 Up to 60 per second 2 Up to 30 per second 3 Up to 20...

Страница 299: ...ds according to the following values 0 Does not perform idle loading 1 Performs idle loading when there is free time between frames 2 Performs idle loading during idle events 3 Performs idle loading a...

Страница 300: ...puter is idle The idleLoadTag is a convenience that identifies the cast members in a group that you want to preload The property can be tested and set using any number that you choose Example This sta...

Страница 301: ...ondition that is met or not met Thus faster code may be created by nesting if then statements on separate lines instead of placing them all on the first line to be evaluated When the condition is a pr...

Страница 302: ...easure end if end if See also case ignoreWhiteSpace Syntax XMLparserObject ignoreWhiteSpace trueOrFalse Description XML Command specifies whether the parser should ignore or retain white space when ge...

Страница 303: ...space character XMLtext sample sub phrase 1 sub sample gparser ignoreWhiteSpace FALSE gparser parseString XMLtext theList gparser makeList put theList ROOT OF XML DOCUMENT ATTRIBUTES sample ATTRIBUTES...

Страница 304: ...llo void void void ilk void picture picture picture ilk member 2 picture parent script instance instance object ilk new script blahblah xtra instance instance object ilk new xtra fileio member member...

Страница 305: ...e object to the specified type If the object is of the specified type the ilk function returns TRUE It the object is not of the specified type the ilk function returns FALSE The following table shows...

Страница 306: ...to the image of the specified member or window If you make changes to the image the contents of the cast member or window change immediately If you plan to make a lot of changes to an item s image pr...

Страница 307: ...member or window To see an example of image used in a completed movie see the Imaging movie in the Learning Lingo Examples folder inside the Director application folder Example These statements create...

Страница 308: ...mpression that Director will apply to the member when saving the movie in Shockwave format This property can be tested and set and has no effect at runtime Its value can be any one of these symbols Yo...

Страница 309: ...a later frame of the movie this frame script checks to see if the Flash movie sprite specified by the global variable gStreamingSprite has finished streaming into memory If it has not the script keeps...

Страница 310: ...ful as a way of improving performance during animation because models that do not move do not need to be checked for collisions by Lingo This property has a default value of FALSE Example This stateme...

Страница 311: ...ion of the download before using importFileInto with the file In Director and projectors importFileInto automatically downloads the file for you Example This handler assigns a URL that contains a GIF...

Страница 312: ...on reduces the rectangle s size Examples This statement increases the rectangle s width by 4 pixels and the height by 2 pixels rect 10 10 20 20 inflate 2 1 rect 8 9 22 21 This statement decreases the...

Страница 313: ...amples This statement changes the variable currentInk to the value for the ink effect of sprite 3 currentInk sprite 3 ink This statement gives sprite i 1 a matte ink effect by setting the ink effect o...

Страница 314: ...perty allows the user to enter double byte characters directly into the Director Text Field Script and Message windows on Japanese systems This property can be tested and set The default value is dete...

Страница 315: ...yntax sprite whichSprite camera index insertOverlay index texture locWithinSprite rotation member whichCastmember camera whichCamera insertOverlay index texture locWithinSprite rotation Description 3D...

Страница 316: ...playing To remove the custom menus use the installMenu command with no argument or with 0 as the argument This command doesn t work with hierarchical menus For an explanation of how menu items are def...

Страница 317: ...ion Description Function indicates whether the expression specified by expression can be evaluated to an integer 1 or TRUE or not 0 or FALSE P in integerP stands for predicate Examples This statement...

Страница 318: ...fference of two numbers by the percentage For example interpolation from 4 to 8 by 50 percent yields 6 Example In this example tBox is the transform of the model named Box and tSphere is the transform...

Страница 319: ...ectangle toolKit intersect Ramp See also map rect union interval Syntax member whichCursorCastMember interval the interval of member whichCursorCastMember Description Cursor cast member property speci...

Страница 320: ...he invert function Example This statement inverts a copy of the transform of the model named Chair boxInv member 3d world model Chair transform inverse See also invert invert Syntax member whichCastme...

Страница 321: ...nnelNum isBusy Description Function returns TRUE if sound channel channelNum is currently playing or pausing a sound and FALSE if it hasn t started playing any of its queued sounds or has been stopped...

Страница 322: ...an add this handler to a behavior in order to check the type of sprite the behavior is being attached to and prevent the behavior from being attached to inappropriate sprite types When the behavior is...

Страница 323: ...WA sounds can appear as sprites in sprite channels but they play sound in a sound channel It is recommended that you refer to SWA sound sprites by their sprite channel number rather than their sound c...

Страница 324: ...me VR movie FALSE Testing for this property in anything other than an asset whose type is quickTimeMedia produces an error message This property can be tested but not set Example The following handler...

Страница 325: ...chunk between the commas The following statement looks for the third through fifth items in the chunk expression Because there are only four items in the chunk expression only the third item is used a...

Страница 326: ...s automatically kerned when the contents of the text cast member are changed When set to TRUE kerning is automatic when set to FALSE kerning is not done This property defaults to TRUE See also kerning...

Страница 327: ...ler checks whether the Return key is pressed and if it is navigates to the main menu marker on prepareMovie the keyDownScript checkKey end prepareMovie on checkKey if the key RETURN then go to frame M...

Страница 328: ...Lingo to test which characters correspond to different keys on different keyboards This function can be tested but not set Examples This handler uses the Message window to display the appropriate key...

Страница 329: ...in the applet before the applet can receive any keys that the user types When the movie plays back as an applet an on keyDown handler always traps key presses even if the handler is empty If the user...

Страница 330: ...s The following statement sets keyDownScript to if the key RETURN then go to the frame 1 When this statement is in effect the movie always goes to the next frame whenever the user presses the Return k...

Страница 331: ...dicates whether the model can be displaced from the specified planes positionReset indicates whether the model returns to its starting position after the end of a motion or each iteration of a loop ro...

Страница 332: ...n Lingo is in a repeat loop Use the sample movie Keyboard Lingo to test which characters correspond to different keys on different keyboards This property can be tested but not set Examples The follow...

Страница 333: ...the field Where you place an on keyUp handler can affect when it runs as follows To apply the handler to a specific editable field sprite put it in a behavior To apply the handler to an editable field...

Страница 334: ...ker label specified by expression The term expression should be a label in the current movie if it s not this function returns 0 Examples This statement sends the playhead to the tenth frame after the...

Страница 335: ...lines and ranges within containers Examples This statement identifies the last word of the string Macromedia the multimedia company and displays the result in the Message window put the last word of M...

Страница 336: ...er lastError Description RealMedia sprite or cast member property allows you to get the last error symbol returned by RealPlayer as a Lingo symbol The error symbols returned by RealPlayer are strings...

Страница 337: ...the lastKey Description System property gives the time in ticks 1 tick 1 60 of a second since the last key was pressed Example This statement checks whether 10 seconds have passed since the last key w...

Страница 338: ...e Stage s left edge the script runs the handler offLeftEdge if sprite 3 left 0 then offLeftEdge This statement measures the left horizontal coordinate of the sprite numbered i 1 and assigns the value...

Страница 339: ...he number of characters in the string specified by string including spaces and control characters such as TAB and RETURN Examples This statement displays the number of characters in the string Macro m...

Страница 340: ...shader to wire to see the faces of the mesh of the model s resource Set the renderStyle property to point to see just the vertices of the mesh The value of this property must be greater than or equal...

Страница 341: ...icle This statement sets the lifetime property of ThermoSystem to 90 0 This means each particle of ThermoSystem will exist for 90 milliseconds member 8 2 modelResource ThermoSystem lifetime 90 0 See a...

Страница 342: ...e Action to the field cast member To Do member To Do text Action line 1 4 This statement inserts the word and after the second word of the third line of the string assigned to the variable Notes put a...

Страница 343: ...ns a 0 or 1 indicating the slope of the line drawn If the line is inclined from left to right the property is set to 1 and if it is declined from left to right the property is set to 0 This property c...

Страница 344: ...member whichCastmember model whichModel toon lineOffset member whichCastmember model whichModel inker lineOffset Description 3D toon and inker modifier property indicates the apparent distance from t...

Страница 345: ...ng of the member If Lingo changes the member s lineSize setting while a sprite is on the Stage the sprite s lineSize setting remains in effect until the sprite is finished For the value set by Lingo t...

Страница 346: ...inked member to an internally stored member member homeBodies linked 0 See also fileName cast member property pathName cast member property list Syntax list value1 value2 value3 Description Function a...

Страница 347: ...y whichCastMember is loaded into memory TRUE or not FALSE Different cast member types have slightly different behaviors for loading Shape and script cast members are always loaded into memory Movie ca...

Страница 348: ...Roadway If any imported objects have the same names as objects already in Roadway Director will create new names for them member Roadway loadFile Truck W3d FALSE TRUE The following statement imports...

Страница 349: ...3D locH Syntax sprite whichSprite locH the locH of sprite whichSprite Description Sprite property indicates the horizontal position of the specified sprite s registration point Sprite coordinates are...

Страница 350: ...del bonesPlayer lockTranslation member whichCastmember model whichModel keyframePlayer lockTranslation Description 3D bonesPlayer and keyframePlayer modifier property prevents displacement from the sp...

Страница 351: ...mouseV See also bottom height left loc locH point right top updateStage width locVToLinePos Syntax member whichCastMember locVToLinePos locV locVToLinePos member whichCastMember locV Description Func...

Страница 352: ...epare for the next mouseUp call on mouseUp me global gHighestSprite sprite me spriteNum locZ gHighestSprite 1 gHighestSprite gHighestSprite 1 end See also locH locV lod modifier Syntax member whichCas...

Страница 353: ...property is 0 0 to 100 00 Note For more detailed information about these properties see the individual property entries See also sds modifier auto bias level addModifier log Syntax log number Descrip...

Страница 354: ...fined by the emitter s region property A value of FALSE causes the particles to die at the end of their lifetime The default setting for this property is TRUE Example In this example ThermoSystem is a...

Страница 355: ...downloading the movie advances to the next frame and the loop property of the Flash movie in channel 6 is set to FALSE so that it will continue playing through to the end and then stop imagine that t...

Страница 356: ...lNum loopCount the loopCount of sound channelNum Description Cast member property the total number of times the current sound in sound channel channelNum is set to loop The default is 1 for sounds tha...

Страница 357: ...playback to fractions of a millisecond This property can only be set when passed as a property in a queue or setPlaylist command Example This handler plays sound cast member introMusic in sound chann...

Страница 358: ...ating point number allowing you to measure and control sound playback to fractions of a millisecond The default is the startTime of the sound if no loop has been defined This property can only be set...

Страница 359: ...000 MyVec2 vector 100 100 0 put MyVec2 magnitude 141 4214 See also length 3D identity makeList Syntax parserObject makeList Description Function returns a property list based on the XML document parse...

Страница 360: ...based on the relationship of a source rectangle to a target rectangle The relationship of the targetRect to the sourceRect governs the relationship of the result of the function to the destinationRect...

Страница 361: ...eck The model will sit down and look up at the same time member Restaurant motion SitDown map LookUp Neck See also motion duration 3D cloneMotionFromCastmember mapMemberToStage Syntax sprite whichSpri...

Страница 362: ...ze in pixels of the margin inside the field box Example The following statement sets the margin inside the box for the field cast member Today s News to 15 pixels member Today s News margin 15 marker...

Страница 363: ...Credits 15 Main Menu 26 Closing Credits marker mask Syntax member whichQuickTimeMember mask the mask of member whichQuickTimeMember Description Cast member property specifies a black and white 1 bit c...

Страница 364: ...est value in the specified list or the highest of a given series of values The max function also works with ASCII characters similar to the way and operators work with strings Example The following ha...

Страница 365: ...In this example ThermoSystem is a model resource of the type particle This statement sets the maxSpeed property of ThermoSystem to 15 which causes the fastest particles of ThermoSystem to move fairly...

Страница 366: ...the script named Bird The me keyword accepts the parameter script Bird and is used to return that parameter myBird1 new script Bird This is the on new handler of the Bird script on new me return me e...

Страница 367: ...er Dawn by setting the media member property value for Dawn to the media member property value for Sunrise member Dawn media member Sunrise media See also type cast member property media mediaReady Sy...

Страница 368: ...ring indicates that the RealMedia stream is being downloaded into the playback buffer When buffering is complete percentBuffered equals 100 the RealMedia stream begins to play if the pausedAtStart pro...

Страница 369: ...16 1 put member scene texture gbTexture member member 16 of castLib 1 member keyword Syntax member whichCastMember member whichCastMember of castLib whichCast member whichCastMember whichCastLib Descr...

Страница 370: ...alert Sorry that member doesn t exist Alternatively you can check for the existence of a member by testing for its type memberCheck member Epiphany type if memberCheck empty then alert Sorry that memb...

Страница 371: ...property by using the phrase the number of the member of sprite x You can also retrieve other cast member properties by using phrases such as the name of the member of sprite x or the rect of the mem...

Страница 372: ...within a script while the playhead is not moving be sure to use the updateStage command to redraw the Stage This property can be tested and set Examples The following statement switches the cast membe...

Страница 373: ...here is not enough memory to run this movie See also freeBlock freeBytes ramNeeded size menu Syntax menu menuName itemName script itemName script or menu menuName itemName script itemName script more...

Страница 374: ...tom handler convertThis menu File Open O go to frame Open Close W go to frame Close Convert C convertThis Quit Q go to frame Quit See also installMenu name menu property name menu item property number...

Страница 375: ...d set access to the properties of the specified texture layer face index allows you to get or set the vertices normals texture coordinates colors and shaders used by the faces of the specified mesh fa...

Страница 376: ...of faces in the model named gbFace put member 3D World model gbFace meshDeform face count 432 The following statement displays the number of meshes in the model named gbFace put member 3D World model...

Страница 377: ...end See also max minSpeed Syntax member whichCastmember modelResource whichModelResource emitter minSpeed Description 3D property when used with a model resource whose type is particle allows you to g...

Страница 378: ...e expression is the integer remainder of the division It always has the sign of integerExpression1 This is an arithmetic operator with a precedence level of 4 Examples This statement divides 7 by 4 an...

Страница 379: ...odal window property is FALSE movies can respond to events outside the window Setting the modal window property to TRUE lets you make a specific movie in a window the only movie that the user can inte...

Страница 380: ...Description 3D collision modifier property indicates the geometry to be used in the collision detection algorithm Using simpler geometry such as the bounding sphere leads to better performance The po...

Страница 381: ...e to the model named Player Avatar in the variable thismodel thismodel member 3DWorld model Player Avatar This statement stores a reference to the eighth model of the cast member named 3DWorld in the...

Страница 382: ...gument with the collideWith and collideAny events to the handler specified in the registerForEvent registerScript and setCollisionCallback commands The collideWith and collideAny events are sent when...

Страница 383: ...ource thismodelResource member 3DWorld modelResource HouseA This statement stores a reference to the fourteenth model resource of the cast member named 3DWorld in the variable thismodelResource thismo...

Страница 384: ...furthest from the viewer Only one intersection the closest intersection is returned per model The command returns an empty list if there are no models found under the specified point Example The firs...

Страница 385: ...to index into the face list of the meshDeform modifier vertices is a 3 element list of vectors that represent the world space positions of the vertices of the intersected face uvCoord is a property l...

Страница 386: ...nt The third line displays the result in the message window on mouseUp pt the mouseLoc point sprite 5 left sprite 5 top m sprite 5 camera modelUnderLoc pt put m end See also modelsUnderLoc modelsUnder...

Страница 387: ...dDate Syntax member modifiedDate the modifiedDate of member Description Cast member property indicates the date and time that the cast member was last changed using the system time on the authoring co...

Страница 388: ...index within the model s attached modifier list The value returned is a symbol If no modifier is found at the specified position then this property s value is void To obtain information about a model...

Страница 389: ...ement tells the Message window to display the number for the most recent cue point passed in the sprite in sprite channel 1 put sprite 1 mostRecentCuePoint This statement returns the ordinal number of...

Страница 390: ...ins the number of the character that is under the pointer when the property is called The count is from the beginning of the field If the mouse pointer is not over a field or is in the gutter of a fie...

Страница 391: ...d to explicitly pass the mouseDown message on to the next location To have the same response throughout the movie when pressing the mouse button set mouseDownScript or put a mouseDown handler in a Mov...

Страница 392: ...u try to test mouseDown inside a repeat loop in an applet the applet hangs Example This handler causes the movie to beep until the user clicks the mouse on enterFrame repeat while the mouseDown FALSE...

Страница 393: ...nScript go next In this statement when the user clicks anywhere on the Stage the computer beeps the mouseDownScript if the clickOn 0 then beep The following statement sets mouseDownScript to the custo...

Страница 394: ...pixels the cursor is positioned from the left edge of the Stage The mouseH function is useful for moving sprites to the horizontal position of the mouse pointer and checking whether the pointer is wit...

Страница 395: ...to a local variable Examples This statement determines whether the pointer is over a field sprite and changes the content of the field cast member Instructions to Please point to an item when it is n...

Страница 396: ...tMember sprite spritenum member number sprite spritenum member currentMember 1 end See also on mouseEnter on mouseWithin mouseLevel Syntax sprite whichQuickTimeSprite mouseLevel the mouseLevel of spri...

Страница 397: ...handler or repeat loop If a handler or repeat loop uses this property multiple times it s usually a good idea to call the property once and assign its value to a local variable Examples This statemen...

Страница 398: ...ith a consistent value assign the mouseMember value to a local variable when the handler starts and use the variable For casts other than cast 1 mouseMember returns a value that does not distinguish b...

Страница 399: ...lick here to go to the next page FALSE member Message Line text end case updatestage end on mouseUp event handler Syntax on mouseUp statement s end Description System message and event handler contain...

Страница 400: ...pt reference me Example This handler assigned to sprite 10 switches the cast member assigned to sprite 10 when the user releases the mouse button after clicking the sprite on mouseUp sprite 10 member...

Страница 401: ...eUpScript property is defined Lingo executes the instructions specified for the mouseUpScript property first Unless the instructions include the pass command so that the mouseUp message can be passed...

Страница 402: ...e Director player for Java doesn t update the mouseV property when Lingo is in a repeat loop This property can be tested but not set Examples This handler moves sprite 1 to the mouse pointer location...

Страница 403: ...od idea to call the function once and assign its value to a local variable Examples This statement determines whether the pointer is over a field sprite and changes the content of the field cast membe...

Страница 404: ...ent checks whether a sprite is moveable and if it is not displays a message if sprite 13 moveableSprite FALSE then member Notice text You can t drag this item by using the mouse See also mouseLoc move...

Страница 405: ...ont myWindow If the you know the name of the window you want to move to the front use the syntax window Demo Window moveToFront moveVertex Syntax member memberRef MoveVertex vertexIndex xChange yChang...

Страница 406: ...of the second vertex point in the vector shape Archie 15 pixels to the right and 5 pixels up MoveVertexHandle member Archie 2 1 15 5 See also addVertex deleteVertex originMode vertexList on moveWindow...

Страница 407: ...ure versions of Shockwave This property can be tested but not set Example This statement displays the copyright information in a text cast member member Display text Copyright the movieCopyrightInfo S...

Страница 408: ...the movieFileVersion 800 movieImageCompression Syntax the movieImageCompression Description Movie property indicates the type of compression that Director applies to internal non linked bitmap member...

Страница 409: ...tax the movieName Description Movie property indicates the simple name of the current movie In the Director authoring environment a new movie that has not been saved has an empty string as this proper...

Страница 410: ...actors such as the performance of the computer the movie is playing on and whether the digital video sprite is stretched This property can be tested and set To see an example of movieRate used in a co...

Страница 411: ...name entry such as when the Xtra exists only on one platform packagefiles Set only when the Xtra is marked for downloading The value of this property is another list containing a property list for eac...

Страница 412: ...ne sound channel if the multiSound then sound playFile 2 Music wav name Syntax member whichCastmember texture whichTexture name member whichCastmember shader whichShader name member whichCastmember mo...

Страница 413: ...n Cast member property determines the name of the specified cast member The argument whichCastMember is a string when is used as the cast member name or an integer when used as the cast member number...

Страница 414: ...menus name menu item property name menu item property Syntax the name of menuItem whichItem of menu whichMenu the name of menuItem whichItem of menu whichMenu Description Menu property determines the...

Страница 415: ...o Xtra Xtra extensions that provide support services or other functions not available to Lingo will not support this property This property can be tested but not set Example This statement displays th...

Страница 416: ...Lingo return value indicates that a specified Lingo expression is not a number This statement attempts to display the square root of 1 which is not a number in the Message window put 1 sqrt NAN See a...

Страница 417: ...improves appearance at the expense of performance with bilinear being less performance costly than trilinear When the property s value is TRUE bilinear filtering is used When the value is FALSE biline...

Страница 418: ...seUp netAbort myNetID end See also getNetText postNetText netDone Syntax netDone netDone netID Description Function indicates whether a background loading operation such as getNetText preloadNetThing...

Страница 419: ...work operation Use netError netID to test the network operation specified by netID Several possible error codes may be returned 0 Everything is okay 4 Bad MOA class The required network or nonnetwork...

Страница 420: ...that the operation is complete and successful After the next operation starts the Director movie or projector discards the results of the previous operation to conserve memory The actual date string i...

Страница 421: ...yMimeType of image jpeg go frame jpeg info image gif go frame gif info application x director goToNetMovie theURL text html goToNetPage theURL otherwise alert Please choose a different item end case e...

Страница 422: ...e file on the network If the specified network operation was postNetText the result is the server s response After the next operation starts Director discards the results of the previous operation to...

Страница 423: ...cast members the type parameter sets the cast member s type Possible predefined values correspond to the existing cast member types bitmap field and so on The new function can also create Xtra cast me...

Страница 424: ...ax set newMember new bitmap After the line has been executed newMember will contain the member reference to the cast member just created put newMember member 1 of castLib 1 The following startMovie sc...

Страница 425: ...child object the speed of the object is displayed in the Message window myBird1 script Bird new 15 myBird2 script Bird new 25 myBird1 fly myBird2 fly This message appears in the Message window I am fl...

Страница 426: ...new group newGroupName and adds it to the group palette You cannot have two groups in the palette with the same name Example This statement creates a group called gbGroup2 within the cast member Scen...

Страница 427: ...is argument to get default white color per face corner numTextureCoordinates is the optional number of user specified texture coordinates used by all the faces Enter 0 or omit this argument to get the...

Страница 428: ...Shapes newModel Pyramid1 nm See also newModelResource newModel Syntax member whichCastmember newModel newModelName whichModelResource Description 3D command creates a new model in the referenced cast...

Страница 429: ...ing front back both A facing of both creates the double amount of meshes and consequently produces double the number of shader entries in the shaderList There will be 2 for planes and spheres for the...

Страница 430: ...t be separated by a comma The command returns a reference to the new object The following syntax creates an object within a Flash sprite flashSpriteReference newObject objectType arg1 arg2 The followi...

Страница 431: ...all of the standard properties colorSteps hilightPercentage hilightStrength name shadowPercentage shadowStrength and style engraver shaders are lined have the appearance of an engraving and have the...

Страница 432: ...eference parameter must be a cast member reference if you specify fromCastMember or must be a Lingo image object if you specify fromImageObject Example The first line of this statement creates a new t...

Страница 433: ...t node ID displayed by the sprite This property can be tested and set nodeEnterCallback Syntax sprite whichQTVRSprite nodeEnterCallback the nodeEnterCallback of sprite whichQTVRSprite Description Quic...

Страница 434: ...callback The QuickTime VR sprite receives the message first To avoid a performance penalty set a callback property only when necessary This property can be tested and set nodeType Syntax sprite which...

Страница 435: ...List property may be generated for you by the generateNormals method of mesh model resources In the context of the meshDeform modifier the normalList property is similarly a linear list of vectors fro...

Страница 436: ...ms a logical negation on a logical expression This is the equivalent of making a TRUE value FALSE and making a FALSE value TRUE It is useful when testing to see if a certain known condition is not the...

Страница 437: ...This handler instructs the movie to do nothing so long as the mouse button is being pressed on mouseDown repeat while the stillDown nothing end repeat end mouseDown See also if nudge Syntax sprite wh...

Страница 438: ...CastMember is an integer The property is a unique identifier for the cast member that is a single integer describing its location in and position in the castLib This property can be tested but not set...

Страница 439: ...aracters in the word i located in the string Names charCounter the number of chars in member Names word i You can accomplish the same thing with text cast members using the syntax charCounter member N...

Страница 440: ...lines and ranges in containers Note The count function provides a more efficient alternative for determining the number of lines in a chunk expression Examples This statement displays the number of l...

Страница 441: ...o set up a custom menu bar Note Menus are not available in Shockwave Examples This statement sets the variable fileItems to the number of menu items in the custom File menu fileItems the number of men...

Страница 442: ...the multimedia company The result is 4 This handler reverses the order of words in the string specified by the argument wordList on reverse wordList theList EMPTY repeat with i 1 to the number of word...

Страница 443: ...r monaural or 2 for stereo This property is available only after the SWA streaming cast member begins playing or after the file has been preloaded using the preLoadBuffer command This property can be...

Страница 444: ...ss of the cylinder s surface depends upon the value specified for this property The greater the property value the smoother the cylinder s surface will appear Example This statement sets the numSegmen...

Страница 445: ...tion from the Score or the older rotation property of Flash assets This property is automatically set to FALSE for all movies created in Director prior to version 7 in order to preserve old functional...

Страница 446: ...movie or section that you don t want to repeat if objectP gDataBase then nothing else gDataBase script Database Controller new end if See also floatP ilk integerP stringP symbolP of The word of is pa...

Страница 447: ...tput end See also chars length contains starts offset rectangle function Syntax rectangle offset horizontalChange verticalChange offset rectangle horizontalChange verticalChange Description Function y...

Страница 448: ...n specified by the string whichApplication Use whichDocument to specify a document that the application opens when it is launched When either is in a different folder than the current movie you must s...

Страница 449: ...waiting for the movie to download For local media the movie is not loaded into memory until the open movie command is executed This can create a noticeable delay if you don t use preloadMovie to load...

Страница 450: ...Stuff Transporter Xtras See also closeXlib interface showXlib optionDown Syntax the optionDown Description System property determines whether the user is pressing the Alt key Windows or the Option ke...

Страница 451: ...ates in the Message window whether at least one of the expressions 1 2 and 1 2 is TRUE put 1 2 or 1 2 Because the first expression is TRUE the result is 1 which is the numerical equivalent of TRUE Thi...

Страница 452: ...See also recordFont bitmapSizes characterSet originH Syntax sprite whichVectorOrFlashSprite originH the originH of sprite whichVectorOrFlashSprite member whichVectorOrFlashMember originH the originH o...

Страница 453: ...erty sets the origin point around which scaling and rotation occurs as follows center default The origin point is at the center of the Flash movie topleft The origin point is at the top left of the Fl...

Страница 454: ...to integers As a rule of thumb use the originH and originV properties for precision use the originPoint property for speed and convenience You can set the originPoint property only if the originMode p...

Страница 455: ...riteNum originMode point sprite me spriteNum originH 100 sprite me spriteNum originV 80 end See also originH originPoint scaleMode otherwise Syntax otherwise statement s Description Keyword precedes i...

Страница 456: ...overlays contained in the camera s list of overlays to be displayed When used as overlay count this property returns the total number of overlays contained in the camera s list of overlays to be displ...

Страница 457: ...put member Today s News pageHeight palette Syntax member whichCastMember palette the palette of member whichCastMember Description Cast member property for bitmap cast members only determines which p...

Страница 458: ...gle on the screen appears in remapped colors Example This statement tells the movie to remap the movie s palette whenever necessary set the paletteMapping TRUE paletteRef Syntax member whichCastMember...

Страница 459: ...ee the Sound Control movie in the Learning Lingo Examples folder inside the Director application folder Example This Lingo pans the sound in sound channel 2 from the left channel to the right channel...

Страница 460: ...set counter the paramCount parent Syntax member whichCastmember model whichModel parent member whichCastmember camera whichCamera parent member whichCastmember light whichLight parent member whichCast...

Страница 461: ...the variable gParserObject will contain the parsed XML data errorCode gParserObject parseString member XMLtext See also getError XML parseURL parseURL Syntax parserObject parseURL URLstring handlerTo...

Страница 462: ...ie script contains the on parseDone handler on parseDone global gParserObject if voidP gParserObject getError then put Successful parse else put Parse error put gParserObject getError end if end This...

Страница 463: ...the handler would otherwise intercept the event Example This handler checks the keypresses being entered and allows them to pass through to the editable text sprite if they are valid characters on ke...

Страница 464: ...specified by whichCastMember and erases the exiting cast member For example pasting a bitmap into a field cast member makes the bitmap the cast member and erases the field cast member You can paste an...

Страница 465: ...me of member whichFlashMember Description Cast member property controls the location of an external file that stores the assets of a Flash movie cast member are stored You can link a Flash movie to an...

Страница 466: ...and set Example In this example ThermoSystem is a model resource of the type particle This statement sets the pathStrength property of ThermoSystem to 0 97 If a path is outlined by ThermoSystem s emi...

Страница 467: ...use Description 3D keyframePlayer and bonesPlayer modifier command halts the motion currently being executed by the model Use the play command to unpause the motion When a model s motion has been paus...

Страница 468: ...video Syntax member whichFlashOrDigitalVideoMember pausedAtStart the pausedAtStart of member whichFlashOrDigitalVideoMember Description Cast member property controls whether the digital video or Flas...

Страница 469: ...ow that the pausedAtStart property of sprite 2 and the cast member Real is set to FALSE which means that the RealMedia stream will automatically begin to play once buffering is complete put sprite 2 p...

Страница 470: ...er soundSWA pause else member soundSWA play end if end See also play member stop member pause sprite Syntax sprite whichGIFSpriteNumber pause pause sprite whichGIFSpriteNumber Description Command caus...

Страница 471: ...g process and then displaying the stream on the Stage as it actually begins to play For more information see the example in the pausedAtStart RealMedia entry Examples The following examples show that...

Страница 472: ...streamed from an HTTP or FTP server For SWA this property differs from the percentPlayed property in that it includes the amount of the file that has been buffered but not yet played This property ca...

Страница 473: ...to 100 There is no default value for this property Example This statement shows that the cast member PartyScene has finished loading put member PartyScene percentStreamed 100 period Syntax timeoutObj...

Страница 474: ...eoutObject persistent Description Object property determines whether the given timeoutObject is removed from the timeoutList when the current movie stops playing If TRUE timeoutObject remains active I...

Страница 475: ...ame property use the following statement member whichCastMember picture member whichCastMember picture where you replace whichCastMember with the name or number of the affected cast member Because cha...

Страница 476: ...eValue The second statement checks whether Shrine is a picture by checking the value assigned to pictureValue set pictureValue to the picture of member Shrine put pictureP pictureValue The result is 1...

Страница 477: ...her folder whichMovie must specify a path The play command is like the go to command except that when the current sequence finishes playing play automatically returns the playhead to the frame where p...

Страница 478: ...play motionName looped startTime endTime scale offset member whichCastmember model whichModel keyframePlayer play motionName looped startTime endTime scale offset Description 3D keyframePlayer and bon...

Страница 479: ...nitiated motion When the newly initiated motion ends if it is non looping or if the playNext command is issued the interrupted motion will resume playback at the point where it was interrupted Example...

Страница 480: ...property list you can specify exact playback settings for a sound These properties may be optionally set To see an example of play sound used in a completed movie see the Sound Control movie in the L...

Страница 481: ...possible lockStep Plays the Flash movie or GIF file frame for frame with the Director movie fixed Plays the Flash movie or GIF file at the rate specified by the fixedRate property This property can b...

Страница 482: ...h movie sprite in channel 5 is playing and if it is not starts the movie on enterFrame if not sprite 5 playing then sprite 5 play end if end playing 3D Syntax member whichCastmember model whichModel k...

Страница 483: ...erty to determine the actual speed of the motion s playback The playlist property can be tested but not set Use the queue play playNext and removeLast commands to manipulate it Example The following s...

Страница 484: ...yntax member whichMember model whichModel bonesPlayer playNext member whichMember model whichModel keyframePlayer playNext Description 3D keyframePlayer and bonesPlayer modifier command initiates play...

Страница 485: ...r playRate 3 See also play 3D queue 3D playlist currentTime 3D point Syntax point horizontal vertical Description Function and data type yields a point that has the horizontal coordinate specified by...

Страница 486: ...ward direction vector points at the world relative position specified by vectorPosition then it rotates the referenced object to point it s up direction vector in the direction hinted at by the world...

Страница 487: ...node pointAt vector 0 0 0 non default pointAtOrientation node transform scale scale See also pointAtOrientation pointAtOrientation Syntax member whichCastmember model whichModel pointAtOrientation mem...

Страница 488: ...ointOfContact Syntax collisionData pointOfContact Description 3D collisionData property returns a vector describing the point of contact in a collision between two models The collisionData object is s...

Страница 489: ...de burst nmr emitter loop 0 nmr emitter minSpeed 30 nmr emitter maxSpeed 50 nmr emitter direction vector 0 0 1 nmr colorRange start rgb 0 0 255 nmr colorRange end rgb 255 0 0 nmr lifetime 5000 nm memb...

Страница 490: ...emText end See also itemDelimiter mouseLoc pointToChar pointToWord pointToItem pointToLine pointToParagraph pointToLine Syntax sprite whichSpriteNumber pointToLine pointToTranslate pointToLine sprite...

Страница 491: ...put Clicked paragraph paragraphNum the text paragraphText end See also itemDelimiter mouseLoc pointToChar pointToWord pointToItem pointToLine pointToWord Syntax sprite whichSpriteNumber pointToWord po...

Страница 492: ...rtcut to the getWorldTransform position version of this property for that object Examples The following statement displays the parent relative position of the model named Tire put member scene model T...

Страница 493: ...ng postNetText url postText serverOSString serverCharSetString Description Command sends a POST request to url which is an HTTP URL with postText as the data This command is similar to getNetText As w...

Страница 494: ...rbitrarily long whereas the getNetText query is limited to the length of a URL 1K or 4K depending on the browser Note If you use postNetText to post data to a domain different from the one the movie i...

Страница 495: ...s property is used as the default for the Renderer Services object s renderer property This property differs from the getRendererServices object s renderer property in that the preferred3dRenderer spe...

Страница 496: ...es into memory and stops when memory is full or when all of the specified cast members have been preloaded as follows When used without arguments the command preloads all cast members used from the cu...

Страница 497: ...memory This property can be tested and set Examples This statement reports in the Message window whether the QuickTime movie Rotating Chair can be preloaded into memory put member Rotating Chair prel...

Страница 498: ...hen all of the specified cast members have been preloaded The preLoadMember command returns the cast member number of the last cast member successfully loaded To obtain this value use the result funct...

Страница 499: ...following statement tells Director to load the members of the cast Buttons before the movie enters frame 1 CastLib Buttons preLoadMode 1 preLoadMovie Syntax preLoadMovie whichMovie Description Command...

Страница 500: ...unction does not parse a Director file s links Thus even if a Director file is linked to casts and graphic files preloadNetThing downloads only the Director file You still must preload other linked ob...

Страница 501: ...elNum preLoadTime Description Cast member and sound channel property for cast members specifies the amount of the Shockwave Audio SWA streaming cast member to download in seconds before playback begin...

Страница 502: ...s the transform of the model Mars to the transform of the model Pluto member scene model Pluto transform preMultiply member scene model Mars transform on prepareFrame Syntax on prepareFrame statement...

Страница 503: ...isabled in an on prepareMovie handler Example This handler creates a global variable when the movie starts on prepareMovie global currentScore set currentScore 0 end See also on enterFrame on startMov...

Страница 504: ...cene model bip01 rotate 20 20 20 Generally preRotate is only useful when dealing with transform variables This line will orbit the camera about the point 100 0 0 in space around the y axis by 180 t tr...

Страница 505: ...Increment yIncrement zIncrement transformReference preTranslate vector member whichCastmember node transform preTranslate xIncrement yIncrement zIncrement member whichCastmember node transform preTran...

Страница 506: ...s have been labeled the whole movie prints Both arguments to this function are optional The target movie is the movie or movie clip to be printed If you do not specify a target or if the target is 0 t...

Страница 507: ...a projection member whichCastmember camera whichCamera projection Description 3D property allows you to get or set the projection style of the camera Possible values are perspective the default and or...

Страница 508: ...manipulating other properties For example this statement sets the motionStyle property of a child object set the motionStyle of myBouncingObject to frenetic Use the count function to determine the num...

Страница 509: ...tement returns the IP address string of an HTTP proxy server put proxyServer http This statement turns off an FTP proxy server proxyServer ftp stop ptToHotSpotID Syntax ptToHotSpotID whichQTVRSprite p...

Страница 510: ...ting in the palette channel of the Score and assign palettes to the movie The puppetPalette command sets the current palette to the palette cast member specified by whichPalette If whichPalette evalua...

Страница 511: ...ns control of the sound channel to the Score Puppet sounds can be useful for playing a sound while a different movie is being loaded into memory The Director player for Java supports the following ver...

Страница 512: ...licit control is still useful if you want to retain complete control over a channel s contents even after a sprite span has finished playing Examples This statement makes the sprite in channel 15 a pu...

Страница 513: ...t 27 Random rows 02 Wipe left 28 Random columns 03 Wipe down 29 Cover down 04 Wipe up 30 Cover down left 05 Center out horizontal 31 Cover down right 06 Edges in horizontal 32 Cover left 07 Center out...

Страница 514: ...ty the purgePriority of member whichCastMember Description Cast member property specifies the purge priority of the cast member specified by whichCastMember Cast members purge priorities determine the...

Страница 515: ...evaluates a Lingo expression converts the value to a string and inserts the resulting string after a specified chunk in a container without replacing the container s contents If chunkExpression speci...

Страница 516: ...graph word of put after put into put into Syntax put expression into chunkExpression Description Command evaluates a Lingo expression converts the value to a string and uses the resulting string to re...

Страница 517: ...ion level key not a system level key After the application unregisters the key only movies encrypted with this key continue to play Other media will no longer be accessible See also qtRegisterAccessKe...

Страница 518: ...ion Flash cast member and sprite property controls whether Director uses anti aliasing to render a Flash movie sprite producing high quality rendering but possibly slower movie playback The quality pr...

Страница 519: ...pping is higher in quality and uses more memory than bilinear mipmapping Mipmapping is not the same as filtering although both improve texture appearance Filtering spreads errors out across the textur...

Страница 520: ...ayed starting at its 3 second point with a loop repeated 5 times from the 8 second point to the 8 9 second point and stopping at the 10 second point on playMusic sound 2 queue member member Chimes sou...

Страница 521: ...e motion to play to the end scaleismultipliedbytheplayRatepropertyofthemodel skeyframePlayermodifierorbonesPlayer modifier to determine the actual speed of the motion s playback offset is measured in...

Страница 522: ...ickTimeVersion quit Syntax quit Description Command exits from Director or a projector to the Windows desktop or Macintosh Finder Example This statement tells the computer to exit to the Windows deskt...

Страница 523: ...ramNeeded Syntax ramNeeded firstFrame lastFrame Description Function determines the memory needed in bytes to display a range of frames For example youcantestthesizeofframescontaining32 bitartwork if...

Страница 524: ...s random values to the variable diceRoll set diceRoll random 6 random 6 This statement randomly changes the foreground color of sprite 10 sprite 10 forecolor random 256 1 This handler randomly chooses...

Страница 525: ...and set Example This statement displays the random seed number in the Message window put the randomSeed See also random ticks randomVector Syntax randomVector Description 3D command returns a unit vec...

Страница 526: ...ns the previous value of the flag To be effective this flag must be set before RealPlayer is first loaded when the first RealMedia cast member is encountered in the Score or with the first Lingo refer...

Страница 527: ...nd alert system using the realPlayerVersion function and custom code If this flag is set to FALSE and an alternate RealPlayer 8 detection and alert system is not in place users without RealPlayer will...

Страница 528: ...ed in Lingo or appear in the Score This function should be set in a prepareMovie event handler in a movie script Use the xtraList system property to verify that the Xtra for RealMedia RealMedia Asset...

Страница 529: ...more memory characterSubset String of characters to be encoded Only the specified characters will be available in the font If this argument is all characters are encoded If only certain characters are...

Страница 530: ...mple This statement sets the rect of the default camera of sprite 5 to rect 0 0 200 550 sprite 5 camera rect rect 0 0 200 550 See also cameraPosition cameraRotation rect Syntax rect left top right bot...

Страница 531: ...tangle put rect 60 40 120 200 80 rect 140 120 200 280 This statement divides each coordinate in a rectangle by 3 put rect 60 40 120 200 3 rect 20 13 40 66 See also point quad rect image Syntax imageOb...

Страница 532: ...0 0 The Director player for Java can t set the rect member property This property can be tested It can be set for field cast members only Examples This statement displays the coordinates of bitmap ca...

Страница 533: ...ourceRect ref Syntax chunkExpression ref Description Text chunk expression property this provides a convenient way to refer to a chunk expression within a text cast member Examples Without references...

Страница 534: ...FunctionList 3 blend shader blendSourceList 3 constant shader blendConstantList 3 50 0 When tested this property returns the texture associated with the model s third texture layer The default is void...

Страница 535: ...efault value for this property is vector 0 0 0 Example In this example ThermoSystem is a model resource of the type particle This statement specifies the four corners of a rectangle from which the par...

Страница 536: ...he begin parameter have elapsed after registerForEvent is called The period parameter determines the number of milliseconds between timeMS events when the value of repetitions is greater then 0 If rep...

Страница 537: ...roup registerScript eventName handlerName scriptObject begin period repetitions Description 3D command registers the specified handler to be called when the specified event occurs for the referenced n...

Страница 538: ...repetitions is 0 the timeMS event occurs indefinitely The handler you specify is sent the following arguments type is always 0 delta is the elapsed time in milliseconds since the last timeMS event tim...

Страница 539: ...et to FALSE This property can be tested and set Examples This statement displays the registration point of the bitmap cast member Desk in the Message window put member Desk regPoint This statement cha...

Страница 540: ...relative See pathname removeBackdrop Syntax member whichCastmember camera whichCamera removeBackdrop index Description 3D command removes the backdrop found in the position specified by index from th...

Страница 541: ...playlist Example This statement removes the last motion from the playlist of the bonesPlayer modifier for the model named Walker member MyWorld model Walker bonesPlayer removelast removeModifier Synta...

Страница 542: ...ext menu in Shockwave If the user selects the Obey content settings option the renderer specifiedbytherenderer orpreferred3DRendererpropertiesisusedtodrawthemovie ifavailable on the users system other...

Страница 543: ...Format Syntax member whichCastmember texture whichTexture renderFormat member whichCastmember texture index renderFormat member whichCastmember shader whichShader texture renderFormat member whichCast...

Страница 544: ...to get or set the renderStyle for a shader as determined by the geometry of the underlying model resource This property has the following values fill specifies that the shader is drawn to completely f...

Страница 545: ...d countTime See also exit exit repeat repeat with keyPressed repeat with Syntax repeat with counter start to finish statement s end repeat Description Keyword executes the Lingo specified by statement...

Страница 546: ...erefore repeat loops are best used for short fast operations or when you know the user won t be doing other things While in a repeat loop Lingo ignores other events To check the current key in a repea...

Страница 547: ...n t detect mouse movements update properties that indicate the mouse s position or update the status of mouse button presses when Lingo is in a repeat loop Example This statement displays four values...

Страница 548: ...e when the window that the movie is playing in is resized on resizeWindow centerPlace sprite 3 loc centerPlace end See also drawRect sourceRect resolution Syntax member whichCastmember modelResource w...

Страница 549: ...ee also collisionData collisionNormal modelA modelB pointOfContact resolveA Syntax collisionData resolveA bResolve Description 3D collision method overrides the collision behavior set by the collision...

Страница 550: ...e resolution 20 restart Syntax restart Description Command closes all open applications and restarts the computer Example This statement restarts the computer when the user presses Command R Macintosh...

Страница 551: ...frame after the current frame if it s been paused This command has no effect if the animated GIF sprite has not been paused See also pause sprite rewind sprite RETURN constant Syntax RETURN Descriptio...

Страница 552: ...ives you a way to pass back a reference to an object that was created so it can be assigned to a variable name The return keyword isn t the same as the character constant RETURN which indicates a carr...

Страница 553: ...Scene to the values stored when the member was first created member Scene revertToWorldDefaults See also resetWorld rewind Syntax sound channelNum rewind rewind sound channelNum Description Function...

Страница 554: ...s a color based on a the value specified for red green and blue The range for each of the threee color values is 0 255 Example This Lingo displays the color of sprite 6 in the Message window and then...

Страница 555: ...her the right of the box is sealed TRUE or open FALSE The default value is TRUE Example This statement sets the right property of the model resource Crate to TRUE meaning the right side of this box wi...

Страница 556: ...ing pressed TRUE or not FALSE OntheMacintosh rightMouseDownisTRUEonlyiftheemulateMultiButtonMousepropertyisTRUE Example This statement checks whether the right mouse button in Windows is being pressed...

Страница 557: ...ude parentheses The rollOver function is typically used in frame scripts and is useful for creating handlers that perform an action when the user places the pointer over a specific sprite It can also...

Страница 558: ...uses a single byte character set Normally romanLingo is set when Director is first started and is determined by the local version of the system software If you are using a non Roman script system but...

Страница 559: ...positional rotational and scale offsets held by the node s transform object or the directly referenced transform object The rotation must be specified as a set of three angles each of which specify an...

Страница 560: ...Member rotation sprite whichSprite rotation the rotation of sprite whichSprite Description Cast member property and sprite property controls the rotation of a QuickTime movie animated GIF Flash movie...

Страница 561: ...layhead continues to the next frame on exitFrame if sprite 5 rotation 360 then sprite 5 rotation sprite 5 rotation 16 go the frame end if end This handler accepts a sprite reference as a parameter and...

Страница 562: ...ject Setting the rotation of a node s transform defines that object s rotation within the transform s frame of reference Setting the rotation property of an object s world relative transform using get...

Страница 563: ...aintains rotation around its z axis when the currently playing motion or loop ends member NewAlien model Monster bonesPlayer rotationReset z See also positionReset bonesPlayer modifier RTF Syntax memb...

Страница 564: ...the behavior is attached to a sprite or when the user changes the initial property values of a sprite s behavior The current settings for a behavior s initial properties are passed to the handler as a...

Страница 565: ...orcloseResFilecommand is disabled Saving a movie or cast by using Lingo is disabled Printing by using the printFrom command is disabled Opening an application by using the open command is disabled The...

Страница 566: ...44100 When multiple sounds are queued in a sound channel Director plays them all with the channelCount sampleRate and sampleSize of the first sound queued resampling the rest for smooth playback Direc...

Страница 567: ...me newFileName is included in a new file If no filename is given the original cast must be linked Further operations or references to the cast use the saved cast member This command does not work with...

Страница 568: ...ale the sprite s bounding rectangle or the sprite s controller Instead it scales the image around the image s center point within the bounding rectangle The scaling is specified as a Director list con...

Страница 569: ...ie s scale to 0 so it disappears and then scales it up again in 5 increments until it is full size 100 again on scaleMovie whichSprite sprite whichSprite scale 0 updatestage repeat with i 1 to 20 spri...

Страница 570: ...scale command adjusts the referenced node s transform scale property but it does not have any visual effect on lights or cameras as they do not contain geometry The scaling values provided must be gre...

Страница 571: ...his statement sets the scale property of the transform of the model named Moon to vector 2 5 3 member Scene model Moon transform scale vector 2 5 3 See also transform property getWorldTransform positi...

Страница 572: ...ript checks the Stage color of the Director movie and if the Stage color is indexed to position 0 in the current palette the script sets the scaleMode property of a Flash movie sprite to showAll Other...

Страница 573: ...ar list of linear lists Each contiguous selection is in a list format consisting of the starting channel number ending channel number starting frame number and ending frame number Specify sprite chann...

Страница 574: ...irector application folder Examples This statement makes goHandler the handler that is executed when the user chooses the Go command from the custom menu Control set the script of menuItem Go of menu...

Страница 575: ...tList It may not be set during a score recording session Example This statement displays the list of scripts attached to sprite 1 in the Message window put sprite 1 scriptList member2ofcastLib1 myRota...

Страница 576: ...scriptText the scriptText of member whichCastMember Description Cast member property indicates the content of the script if any assigned to the cast member specified by whichCastMember The text of a...

Страница 577: ...tive the field scrolls down When amount is negative the field scrolls up Examples This statement scrolls the field cast member Today s News down five lines member Today s News scrollbyline 5 This stat...

Страница 578: ...ield This is a way to make custom scrolling behaviors for text and field members For example the following Lingo moves the field cast member Credits up or down within a field s box depending on the va...

Страница 579: ...ifier to a model resource you can get or set the following properties enabled indicates whether subdivision surfaces functionality is enabled TRUE ordisabled FALSE The default setting for this propert...

Страница 580: ...rchCurrentFolder TRUE See also searchPaths searchPath This is obsolete Use searchPaths searchPaths Syntax the searchPaths Description System property a list of paths that Director searches when trying...

Страница 581: ...ent is the same except that trailing colons have been omitted set the searchPaths hard drive director projects cdrom sources These statements cause Director to search in a folder named Sounds which is...

Страница 582: ...ing the stream rebuffers and automatically begins playing at the new location in the stream If seek is called when mediaStatus is closed nothing happens If you attempt to seek beyond the stream s dura...

Страница 583: ...tion to select a string of characters Example This statement checks whether any characters are selected and if none are displays the alert Please select a word if the selection EMPTY then alert Please...

Страница 584: ...o that characters 6 through 10 are highlighted member myAnswer selection 6 10 See also color selStart selEnd selEnd Syntax the selEnd Description Global property specifies the last character of a sele...

Страница 585: ...prite that was involved in the event As with any other message the message is sent to every script attached to the sprite unless the stopEvent command is used For best results send the message only to...

Страница 586: ...called when the jump event is sent The fourth line sends the jump event The handlers jumpMars in a moviescript and jumpPluto arecalled along withanyotherhandlers registered for the jump event Note tha...

Страница 587: ...global Flash XML object created in Lingo When this happens the Lingo on sendXML handler is called and the same parameters are passed to the handler The following Lingo illustrates how the parameters...

Страница 588: ...ing member User Info text displayString end See also organizationName userName window set to set Syntax set the lingoProperty to expression the lingoProperty expression set variable to expression vari...

Страница 589: ...ing the alpha layer from an image member Foreground image setAlpha 255 member Foreground image useAlpha FALSE This Lingo gets the alpha layer from the cast member Sunrise and places it into the alpha...

Страница 590: ...pecified by value in the list specified by list When orderNumber is greater than the number of items in a property list the setAt command returns a script error When orderNumber is greater than the nu...

Страница 591: ...al Flash commands to work correctly You add Xtra extensions to the Xtra list by choosing Modify Movie Xtras For more information see Managing Xtra extensions for distributed movies in Using Director E...

Страница 592: ...when the model named Sphere collides with another model member 3d world model Sphere collision setCollisionCallback bounce member colScript See also collisionData collision modifier resolve resolveA r...

Страница 593: ...SetPixel function returns FALSE if the specified pixel falls outside the specified image To see an example of setPixel used in a completed movie see the Imaging movie in the Learning Lingo Examples f...

Страница 594: ...for the file name After the setPref command runs if the movie is playing in a browser a folder named Prefs is created in the Plug In Support folder The setPref command can write only to that folder I...

Страница 595: ...ield cast member Text Entry in a file named DayWare settings on mouseUp me setPref CurPrefs member Text Entry text end See also getPref setProp Syntax setProp list property newValue list listProperty...

Страница 596: ...opened by right clicking Windows or Control clicking Macintosh on a Flash movie playing in a browser The integerPanelIndex can have a value of 0 1 2 or 3 indicating which panel to activate when the d...

Страница 597: ...acks this means they will no longer be updated on the screen To test whether a track is already enabled test the trackEnabled sprite property Example This statement enables track 3 of the digital vide...

Страница 598: ...ing used by a model is deleted Thesyntaxmember whichCastmember model whichModel shadergivesaccesstothefirstshaderin the model s shaderlist and is equivalent to member whichCastmember model whichModel...

Страница 599: ...t with this syntax member whichCastmember model whichModel shaderList index whichProperty propValue Set a property of all of the shaders of a model to the same value with this syntax note the absence...

Страница 600: ...whichShader shadowStrength Description 3D toon modifier and painter shader property indicates the brightness of the area of the model s surface where light does not create highlights The default valu...

Страница 601: ...key See also commandDown controlDown key optionDown shininess Syntax member whichCastmember shader whichShader shininess member whichCastmember model whichModel shader shininess member whichCastmember...

Страница 602: ...window This command is useful only within handlers or parent scripts that contain local variables to display All variables used in the Message window are automatically global Local variables in a han...

Страница 603: ...RETURN member i whichCast showProps end if end repeat end See also queue setPlaylist showResFile Description This Lingo is obsolete showXlib Syntax showXlib Xlibfilename Description Command shows all...

Страница 604: ...el Silhouette lines are drawn around the model s 2D image on the camera s projection plane Their relationship to the model s mesh is not fixed unlike crease or boundary lines which are drawn on featur...

Страница 605: ...tart and sizeRange end over the lifetime of each particle This property must be an integer greater than 0 and has a default value of 1 Example In this example mrFount is a model resource of the type p...

Страница 606: ...t an integer controlling the number of segments used to create a 3D text cast member The higher the number the smoother the text appears The range of this property is 1 to 10 and the default value is...

Страница 607: ...r inside the Director application folder Example This handler accepts a member reference and toggles the member s sound property on or off on ToggleSound whichMember member whichMember sound not membe...

Страница 608: ...ells the SWA streaming cast member Frank Zappa to play in sound channel 3 member Frank Zappa soundChannel 3 soundChannel RealMedia Syntax sprite whichSprite soundChannel member whichCastmember soundCh...

Страница 609: ...und close This is obsolete Use puppetSound instead soundDevice Syntax the soundDevice Description System property allows the sound mixing device to be set while the movie plays The possible settings a...

Страница 610: ...mines whether the sound is on TRUE default or off FALSE When you set this property to FALSE the sound is turned off but the volume setting is not changed This property can be tested and set Example Th...

Страница 611: ...5000 See also sound fadeOut fadeTo sound fadeOut Syntax sound whichChannel fadeOut sound whichChannel fadeOut milliseconds sound fadeOut whichChannel sound fadeOut whichChannel ticks Description Comma...

Страница 612: ...the sound has finished Setting this property to FALSE may adversely affect performance if sound playback is used frequently throughout the Director application This property can be tested and set Exam...

Страница 613: ...cast members It is possible that slight differences may occur in the way Flash sounds play back To hear the Flash sounds exactly they would be rendered in Flash set this property to FALSE sound playF...

Страница 614: ...und 1 stop This statement checks whether a sound is playing in sound channel 1 and if it is stops the sound if soundBusy 1 then sound 1 stop See also puppetSound soundBusy source Syntax sprite whichSp...

Страница 615: ...window whichWindow Description Window property specifies the original Stage coordinates of the movie playing in the window specified by whichWindow This property is useful for returning a window to i...

Страница 616: ...cular FALSE See also silhouettes specularLightMap specular shader Syntax member whichCastmember shader whichShader specular Description 3D standard shader property allows you get or set the specular c...

Страница 617: ...tMap Syntax member whichCastmember shader whichShader specularLightMap member whichCastmember model whichModel shader specularLightMap member whichCastmember model whichModel shaderList shaderListInde...

Страница 618: ...t s intensity falls off with the distance from the camera The default value for this property is FALSE Example The following statement sets the spotDecay property of light 1 to TRUE Models that are fa...

Страница 619: ...d cast member Notice to You placed it correctly if sprite i intersects j then put You placed it correctly into member Notice See also sprite within quad sprite within Syntax sprite sprite1 within spri...

Страница 620: ...ler uses the automatic value inserted into the spriteNum property to assign the sprite reference to a new property variable pMySpriteRef as a convenience property spriteNum pMySpriteRef on beginSprite...

Страница 621: ...ion plane of the camera of sprite 5 put sprite 5 camera spriteSpaceToWorldSpace point 50 50 vector 1993 6699 52 0773 2263 7446 See also worldSpaceToSpriteSpace rect camera camera sqrt Syntax sqrt numb...

Страница 622: ...nce of 50 pixels from the bottom edge of the Stage stageHeight the stageBottom the stageTop sprite 3 locV stageHeight 50 Sprite coordinates are expressed relative to the upper left corner of the Stage...

Страница 623: ...ty is 0 which is the location of the left side of the applet This property can be tested but not set Sprite coordinates are expressed relative to the upper left corner of the Stage Example This statem...

Страница 624: ...coordinates it is used only for rotation and scaling The stageToFlash function and the corresponding flashToStage function are helpful for determining which Flash movie coordinate is directly over a D...

Страница 625: ...as a floating point value from 0 0 to 360 0 The default value for this property is 0 0 The startAngle property determines the starting sweep angle of the model resource and works in conjunction with...

Страница 626: ...rFrame event An on startMovie handler is a good place to put Lingo that initializes sprites in the first frame of the movie Example This handler makes sprites invisible when the movie starts on startM...

Страница 627: ...playback For sound channels this property indicates the start time of the currently playing or paused sound as set when the sound was queued It cannot be set after the sound has been queued If no valu...

Страница 628: ...upon creation of the model file will be loaded at this time because they are part of the initial load segment You can perform most 3D Lingo associated with objects that have a load priority of zero D...

Страница 629: ...treaming has stopped 1 The cast member is reloading 2 Preloading ended successfully 3 The cast member is playing 4 The cast member is paused 5 The cast member has finished streaming 9 An error occurre...

Страница 630: ...Media cast member For each state there is one or more corresponding mediaStatus property value each mediaStatus value is observed only in one state For example the mediaStatus property values seeking...

Страница 631: ...ing for the mediaStatus property 4 playing indicates that the RealMedia stream is playing or paused without problems or errors Thisisthestateduringnormal playback Thisstateistheequivalent of playing o...

Страница 632: ...age is static Possible values are minQuality maxQuality and normalQuality This property can be tested and set status Syntax soundObject status the status of soundObject Description Read only property...

Страница 633: ...epareFrame message Assign objects to actorList so they respond to stepFrame messages Objects must have an on stepFrame handler to use this built in functionality with actorList The go play and updateS...

Страница 634: ...on enterFrame repeat with i 5 to 10 sprite i stop end repeat end See also hold stop RealMedia Syntax sprite whichSprite stop member whichCastmember stop Description RealMedia sprite or cast member met...

Страница 635: ...also applies to sprite scripts Use the stopEvent command to stop the message in a primary event handler or a sprite script thus making the message unavailable for subsequent sprite scripts By default...

Страница 636: ...Movie Syntax on stopMovie statement s end Description System message and event handler contains statements that run when the movie stops playing An on stopMovie handler is a good place to put Lingo th...

Страница 637: ...umber of bytes to stream as an integer value If you omit the numberOfBytes parameter Director tries to stream the number of bytes set by the cast member s bufferSize property The stream command return...

Страница 638: ...f end streaming Syntax member whichMember streaming the streaming of member whichMember Description QuickTime cast member property When TRUE allows QuickTime playing over the Internet to begin playing...

Страница 639: ...n be tested and set Example This startMovie script searches the internal cast for Flash movie cast members and sets their streamMode properties to manual on startMovie repeat with i 1 to the number of...

Страница 640: ...of bytes for the cast member using the streamSize member property The script keeps the playhead looping in the current frame until the movie finishes loading into memory on exitFrame if member Intro...

Страница 641: ...external cast member from a URL A streamStatus handler will be called with information about all network streams Place the streamStatus handler in a movie script Example This handler determines the s...

Страница 642: ...a string TRUE or not FALSE The P in stringP stands for predicate Examples This statement checks whether 3 is a string put stringP 3 The result is 1 which is the numeric equivalent of TRUE This statem...

Страница 643: ...dth 10 style Syntax member whichCastmember model whichModel toon style member whichCastmember model whichModel shader style member whichCastmember shader whichShader style Description 3D toon modifier...

Страница 644: ...odifier entry for more information Example The following statement sets the subdivision property of the sds modifier of the model named Baby to adaptive Baby s geometry will not be modified uniformly...

Страница 645: ...rite containing a VR Pano around to the new view settings The swing is a smooth camera dolly effect whichQTVRSprite Sprite number of the sprite with the QuickTime VR member pan New pan position in deg...

Страница 646: ...or s color depth is higher than that of the movie reducing the monitor s color depth plays the movie using the minimum amount of memory loads cast members more efficiently and causes animation to occu...

Страница 647: ...systemDate Syntax the systemDate Description System property returns the current date in a standard date format and can be used in conjunction with other date operations for international and cross p...

Страница 648: ...property indicates how many unique tab stops are in the specified chunk expression of the text cast member The value is an integer equal to or greater than 0 and may be tested but not set tabs Syntax...

Страница 649: ...cannot be used in a Lingo expression See also PI target Syntax timeoutObject target Description Timeout object property indicates the child object that the given timeoutObject will send its timeout e...

Страница 650: ...indow specified by whichWindow The tell command is useful for allowing movies to interact It can be used within a main movie to send a message to a movie playing in a window or to send a message from...

Страница 651: ...ge to go frame Main Menu When you use the tell command to call a handler in another movie make sure that you do not have a handler by the same name in the same script in the local movie If you do the...

Страница 652: ...ntaining a loaded Flash movie certain commands act on the targeted components rather than on the main Timeline To switch focus back to the main Timeline call endTellTarget The only valid argument for...

Страница 653: ...mber whichCastMember text the text of member whichCastMember Description Text cast member property determines the character string in the field cast member specified by whichCastMember The text cast m...

Страница 654: ...t layers of textures These eight texture layers are either created from bitmap cast members or image objects within Director or imported with models from 3D modeling programs Create and delete texture...

Страница 655: ...change the mapping between textureCoordinates and the corners of a mesh face Example put member 5 2 modelResource mesh square textureCoordinateList 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 3 0 2 0 1...

Страница 656: ...ayer a texturecoordinatelist model meshdeform texturelayer b texturecoordinatelist See also meshDeform modifier mesh property textureCoordinateList add 3D texture count texture textureModeList texture...

Страница 657: ...member shader whichShader textureMode member whichCastmember model whichModel shader textureMode member whichCastmember model whichModel shaderList index textureMode Description 3D standard shader pro...

Страница 658: ...exture coordinates are generated in model space With an identity wrapTransform List textureLayerIndex the default the cylindrical mapping is oriented such that the texture is wrapped from the Y axis s...

Страница 659: ...t formats i e 32 bit variants such as rgba8888 generally look better In order to use alpha transparency in a texture the last bit must be nonzero In order to get smooth transparency gradations the alp...

Страница 660: ...and the value of the x and or y components of shaderReference textureTransform scaleislessthan1 thetextureistiled repeated acrossthe surface of the model When textureRepeat is set to FALSE the texture...

Страница 661: ...surfaces rather than tile across those surfaces when the shaderReference textureTransform textureLayerIndex scale is less than 1 in x or y Think of it as shrinking the source image within the frame o...

Страница 662: ...ween 0 0 and 1 0 in that case To apply a rotation to a texture layer use shaderReference texture Transform rotate 0 0 angle Rotations around the Z axis are rotated around the 0 0 2d image point which...

Страница 663: ...o avoid 0 0 scales even in Z as that will negate the effect of the entire texture To offset the image by point xOffset yOffset use textureTransformList whichTextureLayer translate xOffset yOffset 0 0...

Страница 664: ...assuming that textureList 3 is a 128x128 sized texture s member scene shader gbCyl3 s textureTransformList 3 translate 64 64 0 s textureTransformList 3 rotate 0 0 90 s textureTransformList 3 translat...

Страница 665: ...member in the Cast window This image can be customized for any cast member This property can be tested and set only during authoring Example The following statement shows how to use a placeholder cast...

Страница 666: ...United States theshort and abbreviated formats are the same Example The following statements display the time in different formats in the Message window Possible results appear below each statement p...

Страница 667: ...eout name new to add a new timeout object to the timeoutList See new Example This handler deletes the timeout object named Random Lightning on exitFrame timeout Random Lightning forget end See also fo...

Страница 668: ...timeoutKeyDown Syntax the timeoutKeyDown Description System property determines whether keyDown events set the timeoutLapsed property to 0 TRUE default or not FALSE This property is useful for restart...

Страница 669: ...s or 3 minutes Example This statement sets timeoutLength to 10 seconds set the timeoutLength to 10 60 or the timeoutLength 10 60 timeoutList Syntax the timeoutList Description System property a linear...

Страница 670: ...be tested and set Example ThisstatementsetstimeoutPlaytoTRUE whichtellsLingotoresetthetimeoutLapsedpropertyto0 after a movie is played set the timeoutPlay to TRUE or the timeoutPlay TRUE timeoutScrip...

Страница 671: ...elay on beginSprite startTimer end on exitFrame if the timer 60 2 then go the frame end This statement sets the variable startTicks to the current timer value startTicks the timer See also lastClick l...

Страница 672: ...eat with set to set toon modifier Syntax member whichCastmember model whichModel toon toonModifierProperty Description 3D modifier once you have added the toon modifier to a model you can get and set...

Страница 673: ...to 100 The default is 50 highlightStrength allows you to get or set the level of brightness applied to the highlighted portion of the model s surface Possible values are any non negative floating poin...

Страница 674: ...x modelResourceObjectReference top Description 3D command when used with a model resource whose type is box allows you to both get and set the top property of the model resource The top property deter...

Страница 675: ...value greater than 0 models using Tube will be conical member 3D World modelResource Tube topRadius 0 0 topSpacing Syntax chunkExpression topSpacing Description Text cast member property allows you t...

Страница 676: ...e This statement causes the movie to display the names of cast members as they are loaded the traceLoad 1 traceLogFile Syntax the traceLogFile Description System property specifies the name of the fil...

Страница 677: ...s in the specified digital video sprite This property can be tested but not set Example This statement determines the number of tracks in the digital video sprite assigned to channel 10 and displays t...

Страница 678: ...sprite property indicates the time of the next sample that follows the digital video s current time This property is useful for locating text tracks in a digital video This property can be tested but...

Страница 679: ...ck Description Digital video cast member property returns the start time of the specified track of the specified digital video cast member This property can be tested but not set Example This statemen...

Страница 680: ...property returns the stop time of the specified track of the specified digital video sprite When a digital video movie is played trackStopTime is when playback halts or loops if the loop property is...

Страница 681: ...on checkForText if member Today s News trackType 5 text then textFormat end trackType sprite property Syntax sprite whichDigitalVideoSprite trackType whichTrack trackType sprite whichSprite whichTrac...

Страница 682: ...a Examples This statement creates an identity transform and stores it in the variable tTransform tTransform transform This statement creates an identity transform by specifying all 16 of its elements...

Страница 683: ...transform of a bone represents the bone s rotation relative to its parent bone and its position relative to its original joint position The original joint position is determine upon creation of the mo...

Страница 684: ...transform position vector 94 1448 119 0128 0 0000 put member 3d world model box transform rotation vector 0 0000 0 0000 0 0000 See also interpolateTo scale transform rotation transform position transf...

Страница 685: ...elative to the node s parent s coordinate system This value is used as the default if you use the translate command with a transform reference and the relativeTo parameter is not specified world appli...

Страница 686: ...ty is set to FALSE the translation property is ignored and the sprite is always positioned at the upper left corner of the sprite s rectangle This property can be tested and set Example The following...

Страница 687: ...r returns determines how the movie processes the hotspot If the handler returns continue the QuickTime VR sprite continues to process the hotspot normally If the handler returns cancel the default beh...

Страница 688: ...he result in a new image object Example This statement trims the white space from member Flower and returns the new trimmed image object in the variable trimmedImage trimmedImage member flower image t...

Страница 689: ...ill be extremely deep member scene model Slogan resource tunnelDepth 1000 See also extrude3D tweened Syntax sprite whichSprite tweened the tweened of sprite whichSprite Description Sprite property det...

Страница 690: ...ib type member whichCastMember of castLib whichCast type the type of member whichCastMember of castLib whichCast Description Cast member property indicates the specified cast member s type This proper...

Страница 691: ...this type cast their light evenly on all surfaces The intensity of ambient lights is not affected by distance from the light source directional lights appear to shine in a particular direction but are...

Страница 692: ...and sphere indicates that this model resource is a primitive sphere resource created using the newModelResource command fromFile indicates that this model resource was created external to Director and...

Страница 693: ...er shader newsprint indicates that this is a newsprint shader engraver indicates that this is an engraver shader Examples This statement shows that the shader used by the model named box2 is a painter...

Страница 694: ...mage property using the newTexture command fromImageObject indicates that this is texture was created from an image object using the newTexture command importedFromFile indicates that this texture was...

Страница 695: ...the least recently used cast members to accommodate preLoad commands or normal cast loading When used without an argument the unLoad command clears from memory the cast members in all the frames of a...

Страница 696: ...ber name or number that you specify When used with the arguments firstCastMember and lastCastMember the unLoadMember command unloads all cast members in the range specified When used in a new movie wi...

Страница 697: ...the registerForEvent command will no longer be triggered when those events occur Example This statement unregisters the cast member named Scene for all event notifications member Scene unregisterAllEv...

Страница 698: ...e recording FALSE or not TRUE You can keep the Stage display constant during a Score recording session by setting updateLock to TRUE before Lingo updates the Score If updateLock is FALSE the Stage upd...

Страница 699: ...he sprite appears in the new location without having to wait for the playhead to move on moveRight whichSprite howFar sprite whichSprite locH sprite whichSprite locH howFar updateStage end moveRight U...

Страница 700: ...data is handled exactly as by getNetText converted from the named character set to Shift JIS If you use AUTO the posted data from the local character set is not translated the results sent back by the...

Страница 701: ...s a texture list which contains up to eight textures The diffuseColor property of the cast member Level2 is set to rgb 255 0 0 The blendFunction property of all six shaders is set to blend and the ble...

Страница 702: ...e This behavior toggles the formatting of hypertext on and off in text cast member myText on mouseUp member myText usehypertextStyles not member myText usehypertextStyles end useLineOffset Syntax memb...

Страница 703: ...Prop and deleteProp commands documented in the main Lingo Dictionary Examples This statement displays the userData property of the model named New Body put member Car model New Body userData driver Bo...

Страница 704: ...e following examples show that the user name for the RealMedia stream in the cast member Real or sprite 2 has never been set put sprite 2 userName put member Real userName The following examples set t...

Страница 705: ...o text fields by end users string expressions passed to Lingo by Xtra extensions or any other expression you need to convert from a string to a Lingo value Keep in mind that there may be some situatio...

Страница 706: ...and orientation This function returns a vector object Vector values can be operated upon by the and operators See their individual definitions for more information Examples This statement creates a v...

Страница 707: ...f the location is 0 0 Each vertex can have two control handles that determine the curve between this vertex and the adjacent vertices In vertexList the coordinates of the control handles for a vertex...

Страница 708: ...f any size for this property but it will store only the number of items specified when using the newMesh command to create the mesh model resource Example This statement sets the vertexList of the mod...

Страница 709: ...achieve an outward pointing surface normal If you make changes to this property or use the generateNormals command you will need to call the build command in order to rebuild the mesh Example This ex...

Страница 710: ...n and off during playback Examples The following examples show that the video property for sprite 2 and the cast member Real is set to TRUE put sprite 2 video 1 put member Real video 1 The following e...

Страница 711: ...w entirely This property can be tested and set Note This property must be set to the default value if the scaleMode property is set to autoSize or the sprite will not display correctly Example This ha...

Страница 712: ...sion use the originPoint property for speed and convenience This property can be tested and set The default value is point 0 0 Note This property must be set to the default value if the scaleMode prop...

Страница 713: ...ber and sprite property controls the vertical coordinate of a Flash movie and vector shape s view point specified in pixel units The values can be floating point numbers The default value is 0 A Flash...

Страница 714: ...will not automatically reset to TRUE when the sprite ends You must set the visible property of the sprite to TRUE in order to see any other members using that channel Example This statement makes spri...

Страница 715: ...an integer This number of voices can be used with voiceSet and voiceGet to specify a particular voice to be active Example This statement sets the variable numVoices to the number of available text to...

Страница 716: ...is a string Possible values include Teen Adult Toddler and Senior as well as numeric values such as 35 Actual values depend on the operating system speech software version and voices installed gender...

Страница 717: ...unction returns the current playback rate of the text to speech engine The return value is an integer The valid range of values depends on the text to speech software and operating system platform In...

Страница 718: ...puter s text to speech engine and then test for whether the text to speech engine has completed loading before using the voiceSpeak command to speak the phrase Welcome to Shockwave err voiceInitialize...

Страница 719: ...fied must be an integer The valid range of values depends on the number of voices installed on the user s computer If an out of range value is specified the voice is set to the nearest valid value If...

Страница 720: ...st valid value Example This statement sets the playback rate of the text to speech engine to 7 voiceSetRate 7 See also voiceSpeak voicePause voiceResume voiceStop voiceGetRate voiceGetPitch voiceSetPi...

Страница 721: ...WordPos voiceState Syntax voiceState Description Function returns the current status of the voice as a symbol The possible return values are playing paused and stopped Example These statements check w...

Страница 722: ...st member is being spoken when the function is used the return value is 5 Example The following statements cause the sentence Hello how are you to be spoken and display the current word position in th...

Страница 723: ...member to half the possible volume member SWAfile volume 128 volume sound channel Syntax sound whichChannel volume the volume of sound channelNum Description System property determines the volume of...

Страница 724: ...lues of 0 or less mute the sound Values exceeding 256 are loud and introduce considerable distortion Example This statement sets the volume of the QuickTime movie playing in sprite channel 7 to 256 wh...

Страница 725: ...ment assigns the width of member 50 to the variable height height member 50 width This statement sets the width of sprite 10 to 26 pixels sprite 10 width 26 This statement assigns the width of sprite...

Страница 726: ...wind modelResourceObjectReference wind Description 3D property allows you to get or set the wind property of a model resource whose type is particle as a vector This wind property defines the directi...

Страница 727: ...windowList the windowList See also windowPresent windowPresent Syntax windowPresent windowName Description Function indicates whether the object specified by windowName is running as a movie in a wind...

Страница 728: ...49 specifies a stationary window You can set this property before opening the window Numbers 6 7 9 10 11 13 14 15 and 17 through 48 have no effect when used as the windowType value You can change the...

Страница 729: ...nd text cast members and variables that hold strings To see an example of word of used in a completed movie see the Text movie in the Learning Lingo Examples folder inside the Director application fol...

Страница 730: ...es is the vector 1333 2097 0 0000 211 0973 put member scene model Mars worldPosition vector 1333 2097 0 0000 211 0973 See also getWorldTransform position transform worldSpaceToSpriteSpace Syntax membe...

Страница 731: ...mber whichCastmember model modelName shader wrapTransform member whichCastmember model shaderlist shaderListIndex wrapTransform Description 3D standard shader property this property provides access to...

Страница 732: ...only the orientation of how the shader applies the texture Note wrapTransformList textureLayerIndex only has an effect when textureModeList textureLayerIndex is set to planar spherical or cylindrical...

Страница 733: ...is now the vector 0 0000 0 0000 1 0000 This means that the x axis of ModCylinder now is aligned with the negative z axis of the world member Engine model ModCylinder transform identity put member Engi...

Страница 734: ...their information listOfXtras the xtraList Initialize the local variable to contain the version theVersion Iterate through all the Xtra extensions listed repeat with currentXtra in listOfXtras If the...

Страница 735: ...odCylinder to the identity transform The next two lines show that the Y axis of ModCylinder is the vector 0 0000 1 0000 0 0000 This means that the y axis of ModCylinder is aligned with the y axis of t...

Страница 736: ...ts the yon property of camera 1 to 50000 member 3d world camera 1 yon 50000 See also hither z vector property Syntax member whichCastmember vector z member whichCastmember vector 3 Description 3D prop...

Страница 737: ...e the expanding windows in the Macintosh Finder The zoom effect starts at the bounding rectangle of startSprite and finishes at the bounding rectangle of endSprite The zoomBox command uses the followi...

Страница 738: ...sprite 3 to the coordinates stored in the variable centerPlace when the window that the movie is playing in is resized on zoomWindow centerPlace point 10 10 sprite 3 loc centerPlace end See also drawR...

Страница 739: ...es 613 alert command 66 alertHook event handler 215 alignment of member field property 67 allowZooming movie property 70 Alt key Windows 450 ampersand operators or 45 46 ancestor sending messages to 1...

Страница 740: ...mbers 238 438 castLibNum of member 121 changing cast member names 413 changing cast members used for cursors 170 copying 158 204 367 475 creating 423 cursor command 170 deleting 218 determining if loa...

Страница 741: ...acter constant 210 ending character in selections 584 expressions as 642 field keyword 231 highlighting 289 in field cast members 653 integer function 317 item of keyword 324 last function 335 length...

Страница 742: ...OTE 522 RETURN 551 SPACE 615 TAB 648 TRUE 688 VOID 722 continuation symbol 54 Control key Macintosh 154 Control key Windows 150 154 converting ASCII codes to characters 444 characters to ASCII codes 1...

Страница 743: ...ale for 191 turning play of on or off 709 714 digital video sprite properties trackNextKeyTime 678 trackNextSampleTime 678 trackPreviousKeyTime 678 trackPreviousSampleTime 679 trackText 680 trackType...

Страница 744: ...in 244 logical negation of 436 F fading in sound 610 fading out sound 611 FALSE logical constant 230 field cast member properties autoTab of member 82 border of member 104 boxDropShadow of member 107...

Страница 745: ...function 291 inserting 315 labels assigned to 251 listing frame labels 334 marker function 362 marker labels and 334 markers before and after 362 memory needed to display 523 number of palette in 252...

Страница 746: ...sh 450 RETURN character constant 551 Shift key 601 Tab key 648 L labels 251 334 launching applications 448 less than operator 50 less than or equal to operator 50 level of detail LOD modifier 35 modif...

Страница 747: ...w display 676 logarithm functions 223 353 logical constants FALSE 230 TRUE 688 logical expressions 72 logical negation of expressions 436 long time format 666 loops loop keyword 354 next repeat keywor...

Страница 748: ...motion 389 playback 478 timing 169 mouse clicks assigning scripts for 392 401 clickLoc function 135 clickOn function 136 determining if mouse button is pressed 392 398 doubleClick function 199 emulate...

Страница 749: ...files on 268 new line symbol 54 newsprint shader Lingo for 40 nodes deleting 182 managing with Lingo 37 parent child Lingo for 33 normals 259 375 434 list of 435 not equal operator 50 not logical oper...

Страница 750: ...sprites 168 plus sign 48 points coordinates of 485 identifying 347 point function 485 positioning and sizing 360 type of 303 position of cast members 126 of mouse pointer 394 402 403 of sprites 152 3...

Страница 751: ...679 saving changes to casts 567 movies 568 698 Score associated with current movie 572 channels selected in 573 recording 86 214 Score color assigned to sprites 573 updating 86 698 screens centering S...

Страница 752: ...ume of sound 723 volume of sprite 724 sound sprites current playing time of 168 space character 615 specular 3D property light property 616 shader property 616 specularity 616 spheres Lingo for 39 spr...

Страница 753: ...browser window 422 do command 197 EMPTY character constant 210 ending character selections 584 expressions as 642 field keyword 231 highlighting 289 in field cast members 653 integer function 317 ite...

Страница 754: ...comparison operator 626 strings in field cast members 653 text boxes for cast members 107 textures 654 coordinates 375 Lingo for 41 ticks converting time to 665 lastClick function 336 lastKey functio...

Страница 755: ...windows 422 events outside of 379 forget window command 250 frontmost movie in 258 moving windows behind other windows 405 moving windows in front of other windows 405 naming 415 on activateWindow eve...

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