<?xml version='1.0' ?><rss version='2.0'><channel><title>Lingoworkshop: News and Views</title><link>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/</link><description>News from the Lingoworkshop.</description><language>en-au</language><docs>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/news.xml</docs><item><title>Andrade Arts is back!</title><description><![CDATA[Like a successful full-forward for a team in its premiership window, Andrade Arts/  is back from retirement - with a new Universal Binary version of its Resolution Xtra for Mac Director 11!]]></description><link>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/news.php</link><guid>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/feeds/news.xml?114</guid></item><item><title>Director 11 is out! Really!</title><description><![CDATA[Director 11 is out! Really!  (You'd never know by visiting Adobe.com). The big changes (Unicode, MacIntel Support) have meant it can be a lot of work to make Xtras compatible with Director 11. This has thrown a blowtorch on Xtra developers and a few have, unfortunately, announced they will not be updating or continuing to sell Xtras and are shutting up shop. Some notable losses include 

   http://www.andradearts.com/ 
   http://www.updatestage.com/
  OSControls (!!!)

 
Note that Xtras from Gary Smith (BuddyAPI, BuddyFile), Tabuleiro (vList, Arca etc), Marmalade  (Amplitude), INM (Impressario,SecureNet etc), Schmittmachine (asFFT etc) have already been updated for Director 11,  Chris Thorman has indicated that he is planning to update the fabulous (and free) PregEx Xtra (yay!), Electronic Ink has announced D11 version of Printomatic and hopefully the proficient Valentin Schmidt will update his many useful Xtras.
Also note that the Mile High Table from Updatestage has found a new home on Dean's site
]]></description><link>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/news.php</link><guid>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/feeds/news.xml?113</guid></item><item><title>Director 11 is out!</title><description><![CDATA[Lock up your children and Flash coders, Adobe have released Director 11. Get it here]]></description><link>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/news.php</link><guid>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/feeds/news.xml?111</guid></item><item><title>Director 11!! Director 11!! Director 11!! Director 11!! Director 11!!</title><description><![CDATA[Macro
  Adobe have announced Director 11 and are taking pre-orders. New (and 'enhanced') features include


  Unicode Supprt (aft!)
  DirectX 9 support
   "Support for Flash CS3 Professional software and video created with Flash"
   "Advanced physics with included AGEIA? PhysX? engine"
  Text rendering and bitmap filters

Check it out: http://www.adobe.com/products/director/features/]]></description><link>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/news.php</link><guid>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/feeds/news.xml?112</guid></item><item><title>It has been quiet, but thats all about to change...</title><description><![CDATA[Lots happening in Lingo land over Jan/Feb so far. Version 4 of the Lingoworkshop’s One Sprite Widgets are about to be released (now compatible with LDMs, and have full key-board control) as well as some new tutorials (side scrolling game and multiuser chat environments).  Elsewhere, 
Magicgate Software's Director Podcast is back after a lengthy hiatus. And the word is that there will be an official announcement from Adobe regarding the imminent release of Director 11.  Exciting stuff.

]]></description><link>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/news.php</link><guid>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/feeds/news.xml?110</guid></item><item><title>Its summer time, and the fishing is easy...</title><description><![CDATA[Happy holidays and see y'all in the new year. Should be an interesting year with Director 11 due any time now (maybe January?) ]]></description><link>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/news.php</link><guid>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/feeds/news.xml?109</guid></item><item><title>Director 11 is coming! Lock up your IDEs and head for the hills!</title><description><![CDATA[Some early   reports MAX regarding what Adobe have to say about Director have been fairly   underwhelming:

  Flash Player 9 / Actionscript 3 support 
  Mac Intel/ Vista / DirectX9 
  unicode support 
  new 'Adobe CSS' UI
   nine new bitmap filters

However, it appears that the code base for Director has been completely overhauled
  with an eye on future development (Director 12 and 13 are already being discussed).
  Also, it appears that there are plans to sell Director for $99 to students
  (a good way to increase the user base). ]]></description><link>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/news.php</link><guid>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/feeds/news.xml?108</guid></item><item><title>Shockwave 10.2.0.023</title><description><![CDATA[Apparently Shockwave 10.2.0.023 for Windows has been released which no longer redirects users to Shockwave.com at the end of the installation - a little 'feature' that has driven developers mad and turned away publishers (I mean, site owners are working hard-enough to get visitors to their sites and having  shockwave installers that sends the visitors away to another site is really, really unhelpful. Also, its hard convincing Shockwave's non-games publishers to treat Shockwave seriously when the installer sends users off to a game site).Anyway, lets hope this removal is a permanent feature of shockwave (and not an oversight)]]></description><link>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/news.php</link><guid>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/feeds/news.xml?107</guid></item><item><title>Spam, Email and Capitalism Gawn Mad</title><description><![CDATA[Spam email, spam referrers, spam comments, spam, spam, spam. Some days, the poor old server can barely cope. Recently, a whole bunch of emails sent via the LingoWorkshop enquiry form have been discovered buried under a pile of spam 

Some days, Spam - along with repeats of 'Big Brother Uncut" and franchised coffee shops - seem tolerable because they can be ignored. Other days, however... ]]></description><link>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/news.php</link><guid>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/feeds/news.xml?106</guid></item><item><title>Safari 3.0 beta update (3.0.2) - Still has mouseDown bug</title><description><![CDATA[Whilst I am sure that fixing any issues with Shockwave is at the top of Apple's priority list (pushing iPhone and Leopard back in the schedule), the mouseDown bug is still there. 

On a brighter note, the Mighty Tigers finally won a match (their first for the year). Woo! ]]></description><link>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/news.php</link><guid>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/feeds/news.xml?105</guid></item><item><title>Safari 3.0 beta - embed now works, but mouse-Down bug still there</title><description><![CDATA[Safari 3 beta has been released. The good news is this new versions fixes an annoying issue introduced with Safari 2 that prevented Shockwave from being displayed using strictly valid XHTML (see this test page for a description of the 'shockwave  lemak' method for embedding Shockwave using only the OBJECT tag). However, bad news is that the the even more annoying mouseDown bug is still present.]]></description><link>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/news.php</link><guid>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/feeds/news.xml?104</guid></item><item><title>Valentin announces some new and updated Xtras</title><description><![CDATA[Valentin has been busy and recently anounced some new and updated Xtras: 1) Dbg Xtra: -- "xtra Dbg  * dbgPropList (object scriptInstance)  * sleep (integer milliSec) http://dasdeck.de/staff/valentin/xtras/dbg/win/  http://dasdeck.de/staff/valentin/xtras/dbg/mac/ This tiny scripting xtra replicates 2 functions from Macromedia's UiHelper Xtra, but with the following differences:    the xtra is shockwave safe, so if you put it into your local shockwaves's xtras folder, you can use dbgPropList() for debugging shockwave movies.sleep() behaves consistently on both platforms, the parameter always specifies  the time in milliseconds (whereas UIHelper uses milliseconds on the PC and ticks on the Mac) 2) castXtra:  -- "xtra castXtra  * AttachCastLib string castLibName, string path  * DetachCastLib any castLibNameOrNum  * NewCastLib string castLibName, *externalFlag http://dasdeck.de/staff/valentin/xtras/cast/win/  http://dasdeck.de/staff/valentin/xtras/cast/mac/ 3) BinFile Xtra v2 now has functions for displaying file open/save dialogs on both platforms  http://dasdeck.de/staff/valentin/xtras/binfile/]]></description><link>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/news.php</link><guid>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/feeds/news.xml?103</guid></item><item><title>Shockwave player update</title><description><![CDATA[Official word from Adobe (we don't get many of those since Comrade Higgans moved on....)

"The Shockwave player 10.2.0.022 has been released. It has also been enabled to show the upgrade offer to users of all earlier versions since 8.5. It also contains the Flash security fix."

This release follows a recent rush of releases (mainly addressing issues with Vista compatibility for the three people who have upgrade)]]></description><link>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/news.php</link><guid>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/feeds/news.xml?102</guid></item><item><title>The Router is dead! Long live the router!</title><description><![CDATA[Router blew up on Friday... #$@#@#!!~~  So all service (web, email, compassion) was temporarily interrupted whilst a newer, more modern (and still in warranty) replacement was flown down from Syd-En-ney. The Mighty Tigers also got beaten again on Friday. It was a bad day.

But if you're reading this now, it means the new router works and the mysteries of CISCO Router configuration have been mastered. ]]></description><link>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/news.php</link><guid>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/feeds/news.xml?101</guid></item><item><title>Authoring Tools</title><description><![CDATA[Inspired by some show and share on Direct-L (see the Mummy's little helpers thread) - I've uploaded a few new utilities in the Codelib area. Recently updated include:  Search Utility - for regex searches of scripts Xtra Helper - find all the Lingo Xtras used by a movie, and list which scripts use them. Cast Finder - find unused cast members.   The 'Xlib' has also had a few updates recently - mostly minor, as well as a new MIAW XTRA for installing and updating Xlib scripts. ]]></description><link>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/news.php</link><guid>http://www.lingoworkshop.com/feeds/news.xml?100</guid></item></channel></rss>