[22 Nov 2007] Hollywood, I have a problem

[Juan Carlos]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:27:31 +0100 (CET)

Hello dear friend Andreas:

I have been tested the instruction StringRequest that recently I have discovered thanks to Paul, well, now I'm doing a program of fiscal calculate, and I'm using the StringRequest to get the infomation in numerical variables but this instruction in #NUMERICAL type show numbers in box that after it use for calculations and I not get put to zero the variable, give me much problems, this: DNI$=StringRequest("D.N.I.", "Introduce tú número de DNI:", "", #NUMERICAL, 8, FALSE) Here I need one string of 8 numbers or 7 for calculation.

Other problem that I have and I hope that does not offend you but is that it would have liked to me, that the Hollywood has more different examples, use the save files, open files example to do notebooks, bases of information, one enviroment editor for Hollywood as Amiblizt, etc.; other graphic examples because also I'm testing doing animations with PNG alpha graphics instead of iff or gif animations, but neither I get the animation, but this is a problem that I shall have to dedicate more time, when I shall can.

And other question, with the future AROS PPC for Efika boards, you will make a new player for this system? when the Hollywood players for will can compile the program as applets instead of version for every system?

Best regards from your friend Juan Carlos, and I hope not to have bothered with this mail.

[airsoftsoftwair]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:17:58 +0100

Hello dear friend Andreas:

I have been tested the instruction StringRequest that recently I have discovered thanks to Paul, well, now I'm doing a program of fiscal calculate, and I'm using the StringRequest to get the infomation in numerical variables but this instruction in #NUMERICAL type show numbers in box that after it use for calculations and I not get put to zero the variable, give me much problems, this: DNI$=StringRequest("D.N.I.", "Introduce tú número de DNI:", "", #NUMERICAL, 8, FALSE) Here I need one string of 8 numbers or 7 for calculation.

Yes, this seems to be a bug. I'll fix it in the next version. Thanks for the report.

Other problem that I have and I hope that does not offend you but is that it would have liked to me, that the Hollywood has more different examples, use the save files, open files example to do notebooks, bases of information, one enviroment editor for Hollywood as Amiblizt, etc.; other graphic examples because also I'm testing doing animations with PNG alpha graphics instead of iff or gif animations, but neither I get the animation, but this is a problem that I shall have to dedicate more time, when I shall can.

I'm not sure if I understand what you mean but an editor for Hollywood scripts is currently not planned. So you will have to write them using your favorite text editor. I use GoldEd Studio AIX for all my coding and also for Hollywood scripts.

You can create animations that have an alpha channel. You just have to store all the single frames in one big PNG pictures. Then you load this picture as a brush into Hollywood. Then you can create an animated sprite from this brush using CreateSprite().

And other question, with the future AROS PPC for Efika boards, you will make a new player for this system? when the Hollywood players for will can compile the program as applets instead of version for every system?

AROS PPC support is planned, but not for the next version.