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to clarify the last part of my q. How can a miaw tell its parent movie to close? also.... how can you position a projector to be "off screen" cheers

Hi all.... I have put together a series of director movies for a cdrom... I have 2 splash movies to be played one after the other. each one closing as it finishes, and finally the main movie which is loaded after the second one. I was thinking of doing it with miaws, however you need to keep...

Hi, can anyone tell me where to find the rules for crediting macromedia on a cd-rom... ie the correct phrasing the "Made with Macromedia" phrase, macromedia logo presentation, how long it must be displayed for etc cheers

Hi all... I have a bit of a corker for you all (I think!) I will try and simplify my problem as much as possible. My example movie contains: A textfield called "variables" containing the text: --------------- var1 = "Hello world" var2 = "Goodbye moon" A...

Hi all, I have written a cd rom which will use the file i/o xtra to place a cookie on the users computer to remember preferences etc. I was thinking the best place to put this would be the cookies directory of the browser. Is this my best bet? Also, once I have decided where to put it., How do I...

Hi all, This is probably relatively simple, and I know how to do it in flash but I'm not sure of the lingo syntax. I would like to assign a whole lot of variables in a text file, and then load them from a director movie. can anyone help me out. thanks in advance ;)

Hi All, Happy New Year!!! Id like to write a script which performs similarly to a getPropertyDescriptionList but is able to be assigned to a cast memeber. ie. Basically I have a collection of photos. I would like to assign each photo a category, keywords, and description. The rest of the...

Hi all, I am writing a program with a large library of images. I am making the program multi-lingual, and therefore each image has several names (one for each language). When creating a behavior for sprites, you can use the getPropertyDescriptionList handler to create an interface to input...

Look into MIAW's (Movie in a window) there is lingo (windowType) for creating different styles of windows; With or without borders, task bars etc etc. good luck

Nah, As far as I know, there is no converter. One of the best tips I was given when I started using director, was to create a dummy or stub projector on MAC and PC, which contains lingo telling it to run "Main.dxr" then name your main movie "Main.dxr" that way you can use it...

G'day everyone. Just a simple problem. I am trying to make an irregularly shaped MIAW. I have a specific shape I would like to make it, and I have an Illustrator file with the vector shape in it. My problem is, how do you import it into director as a 1-bit bitmap? Director doesn't import...

Hey dude, You still need help? I only just got your message now. Let me know if u do.

I rekon your best bet is to ask for some nice Mac-using, 8.5 owning person to make you a stub projector which will run your director file. I'd help you myself, but I'm a PC man. good luck

Is the sprite set as "direct to stage"? Joel

Hi All, I have a field, and I want to change the color of the first letter of each paragraph. This can be easily done to a text member using: member("text member").item[x].char[1].color = rgb(255,0,0) however, when you try the same thing on a field member it says "property not...