Advanced Macromedia Director

Two Qs: Retrieve time/date & projector remove "close"button
Dear All, Two different questions with regards to lingo's abilities: 1) How can I get through a script/lingo a server's date and time? I want not to rely on the PC's clock (the user can change it) but instead get the time/date remotely to make sure it is right. I am thinking of getting a string from a web p... 17 Apr 2008 17:21

Exporting an application for a Mac
Does anybody know how to export a Director application to work with a Mac? I have exported using the 'Mac Projector' but it won't actually play on Macs. Am I missing something here? Cheers, Rich ... 17 Apr 2008 18:08

Quicktime audio fader
Sorry, How would I go about this? I'm really strugling with it and nothing in the docs seems to help! Many thanks, Rich ... 17 Apr 2008 18:08

rectangular to polar via imaging lingo?
Hi all, I just wanted to know if anyone has ever tried to reproduce the Photoshop Filter 'polar coordinates/Rectangular to Polar' on the fly in Director with imaging lingo? I'm making a program that projects on a globe, the static images are easily created in Photoshop with above filter, but ideally I would g... 18 Apr 2008 05:13

Inert Button
Hiya i need a piece of lingo code that can make a button inert, in other words once i have pressed on it and its taken me to that page, i cannot press it again. So it becomes inactive until i press another button which takes me to another page. thanks in advance ... 17 Apr 2008 10:56

[Announcement] Directorforum.com launched
Hi folks, after 5 years of running the german Director User Group on www.directorforum.de we decided to launch the english site http://www.directorforum.com yesterday. [b]Why?[/b] I've been thinking a while about how to get Director a bit more into public attention. I strongly believe that we all can ... 17 Apr 2008 08:33

Key Down
Hi and sorry my bad english. I try to create a game for my son. This is my problem: I have made a script of keydown, in that the personage jumps, what happens is that if the tight key is kept this one stays above(up) until free the key. It is possible to create the script so that it jumps, one supports in the a... 16 Apr 2008 18:04

alphabetized variables list in the debug pane
How come in Director 11 it is no longer possible to sort variables listed in the debug window alphabetically. In previous versions, you could click on the tab to have the globals and properties sorted from a to z. This no longer works. It is really difficult to visually scan a long list for a particular varia... 16 Apr 2008 16:26

Printing from Lingo
I have a database of names in MM Dir MX 2004. I want to print out one line from the text string onto each page output. Is there a way to do this? Thanks William ... 19 Apr 2008 08:21

Photo Scrolling
I have a series of images (roughly 100x80 px) in a row or a column. I am looking to add a 'scroll bar' so that these images can be scrolled along as is possible to do with text. i am wondering if anyone here knows how to do this or even if it is possible? thanks ... 16 Apr 2008 14:02