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!