Adobe Director discussions?

[wfzen]

I still use Adobe Director Lingo once a while. There used to be a discussion forum but it's gone. Is there an archive that I may search for answers that people asked before? Is there another public forum for this old software?

I have a question in sorting a list. When sorting, it sorts in alphabetic order. How do I know the order of the sort so I can find the items in a different list?

For example: 

list1 = ["aaa", "zzz", "mmm", "bbb"]

list1.sort would make it ["aaa", "bbb","mmm","zzz"], but I'd like to know the changed order is 1, 4, 3, 2 if the original is 1, 2, 3, 4. I need this so I can pick up the value from another related list based on the new order after sorting.

Sorry to post it hear. I thought there were many Lingo developers moved to ActionScript in the past.

[ClayUUID · Accepted solution]

I don't know Lingo, but I've never heard of any language providing such a feature. This very strongly points toward your approach to whatever problem you're trying to solve being fundamentally flawed. Perhaps you need to learn how to use property lists.

[wfzen]

Thank you for the answer. That's the way to do it. I have to create a new property list and sort the list and then I can see the number in the changed order. THANKS for the great idea.

[Colin Holgate]

On the part about where to talk about Lingo, Direct-L is still around. I'm sure people would be excited to hear a Lingo question.

http://listserv.uark.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=DIRECT-L

[Ken VanBree]

Colin,

I just ran into your link to listserv.uark.  I would be interested in accessing the Direct-L folk.  I have been using Director for 25+ years and am not getting much support from Adobe these days. (although I still pay them monthly for access to Director 12).  Do you have any feel for how many users may still be out there?  An I the only one?

Ken VanBree

ken@eBuilts

[Colin Holgate]

Direct-L is still going, and has been more active than usual recently. Valentin has been posting a build of Director that will work in recent versions of macOS. It's actually using the Windows version in a Wine wrapper.

The link I gave above is slightly confusing, in that you have to sign in on that page. I see though that one of the options is to register a password. I guess that will get you through to where you can subscribe.

[Ken VanBree]

Colin,

Thanks for your response, I look forward to seeing the discussion about director on a mac. 
I was able this morning to get my password on listserv.uark verified, and logged into the listserv.  When I tried to go to Direct-L it gave me the following message:

"Sorry, you are not authorized to browse the archives of the DIRECT-L list from the email address (kvanbree@imagingperspective.com) you entered on the login screen."

Is there a separate password for Direct-L?  I could see some of the other topics once I logged in, but not Direct-L.

[defaultyy304tvcnga5]

Colin: how might a Mac user open old Director files on modern hardware? The 11.5 trial gives me the "PowerPC not supported" message (which makes sense — that's ancient relatively speaking!) Really just need to open things enough to take some screenshots of an old project. 

Is this build of Valentin's publicly available?

Thanks!

[cogdogblog]

Hello, this is very much late, but I was very involved with Director in the 1990s and created the DirectorWeb site before then Macromedia even had any web site-- that site is gone too, you can find ghosts in the wayback machine . Learning to program Lingo, being part of the beta of Shockwave, it taught me much.

The archives of DIRECT-L are closed up, you can find shreds of them in the Internet Archive

This of course does not answer your four year old question, but came across this link looking for some history of the listserv.