| Page # |
Problem |
Correction |
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" |
Some examples in the Lingo Dictionary include curly quotes, which do not work in Lingo. If you copy code from the Help system that contains curly quotes, the script does not compile. Substitute straight quotes in all of these instances. |
| * |
applicaitonName |
Director 7.0.2 includes a new property, applicationName. See applicationName. |
| 20 |
addVertex |
Director Help for version 7.0.2 includes a new description. |
| 35 |
bgColor |
Director Help for version 7.0.2 includes a new example. |
| 54 |
charSpacing |
Director Help for version 7.0.2 includes a new example. |
| 62 |
color() |
Director Help for version 7.0.2 includes a new example. |
| 96 |
emulateMultiButtonMouse |
Replace the existing example with the following:
The following statement checks if machineType is greater or less than 256 (a Windows computer) and if so, sets the emulateMultiButtonMouse property to TRUE :
if the machineType <> 256 then set the ¬emulateMultiButtonMouse to TRUE |
| 101* |
environment |
Director 7.0.2 includes these new properties for environment: #productBuildVersion , #uiLanguage , and #internetConnected . See environment. |
| 104* |
evenPassMode |
This property passes an event message to the next location in the message hierarchy, not just to behaviors as implied in the current definition. |
| 110 |
externalParamValue() |
See also "Parameters for OBJECT and EMBED Tags" in the Director Developers Center. |
| 119 |
fixStageSize |
The description of the example should read as follows:
This statement determines whether the fixStageSize property is turned on. If fixStageSize is false, it sends the playback head to a specified frame. |
| 123* |
font |
The description should state that this property is available for both field and text cast members. |
| 124 |
fontSize |
Director Help for version 7.0.2 includes a new example. |
| 125 |
fontSpacing |
fontSpacing is not a valid Lingo property. It has been removed. |
| 125 |
fontStyle |
Director Help for version 7.0.2 includes a new example. |
| 126 |
foreColor |
Director Help for version 7.0.2 includes a new example. |
| 136 |
getaProp |
The second example is supposed to include brackets, as follows:
put ages[#joe] |
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getFrameLabel() |
This function has been added to Director 7.0.2 and is documented in Director Help. |
| 144 |
getNetText() |
Director Help for version 7.0.2 explains several changes made to this function. |
| 155 |
gotoNetMovie |
Director Help for version 7.0.2 includes new information about this function. |
| 157 |
hilite |
Director Help for version 7.0.2 includes new information about this command. |
| 164* |
idleHandlerPeriod |
You can lower the amount of CPU on Windows usage by increasing the idleHandlerPeriod. See idleHandlerPeriod. |
| 169 |
ilk() |
Director Help for version 7.0.2 includes a substantially rewritten description of this function. |
| 201 |
loop(Flash property) |
The third sentence in the example of loop(Flash property) refers to the flash movie in channel 6 instead of 5. The sentence should read: "It then starts the movie in channel 5." |
| * |
Machine type |
Movies which rely on the machineType to be less than 256 to detect a Macintosh may return the wrong result. See machineType. |
| 204 |
mask |
Director Help for version 7.0.2 includes new information about this property. |
| 245* |
netError() |
When operating on an invalid URL, it is still conceivable to have netError() return OK. See netError(). |
| 267* |
open window |
The See also list under this command should include forget window . |
| 280* |
pausedAtStart |
This property is for Flash cast members only, not for sprites. |
| 293 |
postNetText |
Director Help for version 7.0.2 explains several changes made to this command. |
| 319 |
recordFont |
Director Help for version 7.0.2 includes corrected information about this command. |
| 327 |
restart |
Director Help for version 7.0.2 includes a new example. |
| 349 |
selection() |
Director Help for version 7.0.2 includes a new example. |
| 351 and 352* |
sendSprite and sendAllSprites |
sendSprite and sendAllSprites return a value when no handler is invoked. |
| 360 |
shutDown |
Director Help for version 7.0.2 includes a new example. |
| 372 |
stageColor |
Director Help for version 7.0.2 includes corrected information about this property. |
| 396 |
thumbnail |
The "Example" heading is mistakenly repeated. Lingo supports the thumbnail property in the authoring environment only. |
|
URLEncode |
Director Help for version 7.0.2 includes a complete description of this new function. |
| 419* |
version |
The lingo property the productVersion and the global variable version now return "7.x" . In the past they returned a language version indicator, such as "6.0.1J" . Use the #uiLanguage property of the environment function to determine the language. |
| 427 |
volume (system property) |
This property should be listed as volume (sound channel) . It is not a system property.
The new dot syntax does not function for this property. Do not use the syntax shown as
sound whichChannel.volume and use only
the volume of sound whichChannel |
| 435 |
Lingo by feature |
The last sentence of the first paragraph on page 435 is "Click an element to go to that element's Lingo Dictionary entry." This is not applicable to the printed version of the Lingo Dictionary. |
| 444 |
frameLabel |
frameLabel is not associated with Flash and has been removed from the Flash Lingo-by-Feature list. |
| 444 |
obeyScoreRotation |
This Flash cast member property has been added to the Flash Lingo-by-feature list for Director Help in version 7.0.2. |
| General* |
media of window |
References to the media of window should be changed to the picture of window . |
| General* |
Floating point coordinates |
Points and rects in Director 7 can now contain floating point coordinates. |
