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 and […]
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 at […]
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 it […]
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 has […]
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 needs […]