Printing Cast Text

[Jeff Friedman]

I want to be able to print the info in the cast window list view. I tried
printing CAST TEXT in the print dialog popmenu but nothing happens. Am I
doing something wrong? I selected ALL so its not as though there is nothing
to print.

[JB]

The built in printFrom function is limited to printing an image of the
stage.

Use the printomatic xtra for any serious printing, check for a light
version (once distributed with director)

The Flash print function is available for flash members.

[Jeff Friedman]

I'm just interested in printing it for myself in the authoring environment



in article [email]lingoguy-61C9F6.15432528102003@forums.macromedia.com[/email], JB at
[email]lingoguy@sbcglobal.net[/email] wrote on 10/28/03 6:43 PM:

> The built in printFrom function is limited to printing an image of the
> stage.
>
> Use the printomatic xtra for any serious printing, check for a light
> version (once distributed with director)
>
> The Flash print function is available for flash members.

[Mark A. Boyd]

On 28 Oct 2003, Jeff Friedman <jfriedman@interactiveinventions.com> wrote:

> I want to be able to print the info in the cast window list view.

I don't think Director provides a way to do that. It would be handy,
though. FWIW, many of those items can be obtained through Lingo so you can
roll your own. I didn't figure out how to get the creation/modified Time
this morning, but here's what I found in a quick test:

put member(2,1).creationDate
-- date( 2003, 10, 28 )
put member(2,1).modifiedDate
-- date( 2003, 10, 29 )
put member(2,1).creationTime
put member(2,1).type
-- #script
put member(2,1).scriptType
-- #score
put member(2,1).comments
-- "This is a comment I wrote."

I just looked at the Property Inspector in List View while looking for
these properties.


--
Mark A. Boyd
Keep-On-Learnin' :)

[Andrew Morton]

> I didn't figure out how to get the creation/modified Time this morning

More coffee would have reminded you that date objects have a seconds property:-

put framesToHMS(member(1).modifieddate.seconds, 1,0,0)
-- " 12:26:07.00 "

Yes, that does agree with the property inspector.

Andrew

[Jeff Friedman]

Will this work with filename (linked file)? Thanks....


in article Xns94233A5334C83mblistssanDotrrcom@65.57.83.209, Mark A. Boyd at
[email]mblist@sanDotrr.com[/email] wrote on 10/29/03 8:46 AM:

> On 28 Oct 2003, Jeff Friedman <jfriedman@interactiveinventions.com> wrote:
>

>> I want to be able to print the info in the cast window list view.

>
> I don't think Director provides a way to do that. It would be handy,
> though. FWIW, many of those items can be obtained through Lingo so you can
> roll your own. I didn't figure out how to get the creation/modified Time
> this morning, but here's what I found in a quick test:
>
> put member(2,1).creationDate
> -- date( 2003, 10, 28 )
> put member(2,1).modifiedDate
> -- date( 2003, 10, 29 )
> put member(2,1).creationTime
> put member(2,1).type
> -- #script
> put member(2,1).scriptType
> -- #score
> put member(2,1).comments
> -- "This is a comment I wrote."
>
> I just looked at the Property Inspector in List View while looking for
> these properties.
>

[Mark A. Boyd]

On 29 Oct 2003, "Andrew Morton" <akm@in-press.co.uk.invalid> wrote:

> More coffee would have reminded you that date objects have a seconds
> property:-

I MUST start waiting for the coffee to finish brewing! You're right on both
counts.


--
Mark A. Boyd
Keep-On-Learnin' :)

[Mark A. Boyd]

On 29 Oct 2003, Jeff Friedman <jfriedman@interactiveinventions.com> wrote:

> Will this work with filename (linked file)? Thanks....

Yes. Just check the .linked property and if true, get the .fileName
property.


--
Mark A. Boyd
Keep-On-Learnin' :)

[Mark A. Boyd]

Hey! You can even the the .thumbnail property, though it is a <picture> and
not an <image>. If it has no thumbnail it returns 0.

put member(1,1).thumbnail
-- 0
put member(3,1).thumbnail
-- <Picture:223744>

member("TempBitmap").picture = member(3,1).thumbnail

You could even print the thumbnails if you create some #bitmap members to
print with PrintOMatic. Of course, you would want your script to exclude
these members since they're not actually part of the project.


--
Mark A. Boyd
Keep-On-Learnin' :)