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Documentation for myMessWin tool xtra for Director

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Purpose

Use this movie in your Director Xtras folder for an enhanced message window. More details

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Requirements

•  Adobe Director authoring environment
•  Pregex Xtra for autocomplete,  Shell xtra
• UIHelper xtra (Standard director xtra)
• Multiuser xtra for socket connections (http, ftp and ssh) (Standard director xtra)

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Installation

• Download and unstuff
• Move the file "myMessWin.dir" to your Director Xtras folder. (Director application folder -> Configuration -> Xtras)
• Restart Director and choose "myMessWin" from the "Xtras" menu

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Usage

• Type "mw_help" or "-h" to get a help message
• Type "clear" to clear the window
• Type "mw_setcolors" to set the colors for the syntax coloring
• Type "mw_setfont" to set the font for the lingo message window
• Type "mw_setfontsize" to set the fontsize for the lingo message window
• Type "mw_alias <aliasname>" to get the value for the specified alias or a list of all alias names
• Type "mw_setalias <aliasname> = <somestring>" to define an alias
• Type "mw_rescanscripts" to rescan the scripts of the stage movie for the autocomplete function
• Type "ftp", "sftp" or "ssh" to start an interactive socket connection to a ftp-/ssh-server using the multiuser xtra
• Type " http://<webserver>/<file>" to send a GET request to a webserver
• Type "shell" to begin a shell session using Valentin Schmidts shell xtra
• Type "lingo" to return to message window mode
• Use the arrow up and arrow down keys to browse the history of recent commands
• Use the option key to escape the special keys (return, up-arrow. down-arrow) useful for multiline statements
• TAB key for autocompletion of lingo keywords.
• live preview image objects
• format list output
• reveal handler in script editor

More details

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Additional notes

IMPORTANT NOTE

This movie calls the sleep method of the UIHelper xtra on idle, as otherwise the CPU usage would permantly be very high and not only consume my powerbook battery power, but also heat the computer up and make the fan spin as if there is no tomorrow. In order to avoid that stupid behavior I spin the performance down making the engine release the cpu for 1 tick on mac (1/60 second) and 1 millisecond on a windows PC on every idle event. This impacts the playback speed of your movie too. So keep in mind, to close the tool miaw, if you make performance tests with your movie.