Archive for February, 2004
Greek Game Ban Update
Saw that there is a news story today on the 2-year-old Greek ban on video games. If you haven’t heard before, Greece has a law banning ALL video games. It was created to stop illegal gambling, but the law was too broad and is now used by police to shut down normal Internet cafes [...]
Cataloging New Lingo
I’m trying to put together a list of all the new Lingo commands in DMX04. So far, it seems like a lot was added. You can see my efforts at http://director-online.com/lingo.phpI’ve yet to cover some of the large areas like DVD playback. Not sure if I will cover Real Media or Windows Media playback [...]
Thoughts about Lingo vs JavaScript
So, the big new feature in Director MX 2004 is the addition of JavaScript next to Lingo as a programming language. As a writer, sometimes teacher, and otherwise so-called expert on Director, I thought it would be good for me to try to write something in JavaScript so I could get the hang of [...]
First Use of DMX 2004
So now that DMX 2004 has been released, I can start talking about it here. One of the first things I did when I got the final release was to try updating a DMX project to it. I immediately ran into 2 problems. The first was that the .windowType property created errors. MIAW functionality [...]
Shockwave 3D Multiple Sprites Bug
Here’s one that only happens on Mac OS X, in Shockwave. I’ve got four 3D sprites on the stage. The idea is that each shows a model and the user selects a model by clicking on it. But on the Mac, it crashes after the click.I narrowed it down to the fact that Shockwave [...]