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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...

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...

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...

This post relates to my previous one. Does anyone know how (if possible) to set the amount of space between paragraphs in a text field. ie "This is all one great long sentance which has been word wrapped. (Return) This is the second item and hense second paragraph of the text field...

ok... this is a hard one to describe I am adding, via lingo, lines of text to a field. Each line has a different "item" on it, which is being accessed using the member(x).line[] format. I have found that when this method is integrated into a field which uses word wrap my program is...

Hi all, I would like to make my main window irregularly shaped. This is possible in a MIAW. Can I shape my main stage irregularly, or must I have a second base movie in order to open a shaped miaw with the desired director file in it? If the latter, how do I make the main stage invisible or...

Hi all. I'm creating a search menu. Its all going well, and the point i am up to is such: I have a list containing the sorted material. [["name of item1", location of item1],["name of item2", location of item2]......] etc now I wish to display each of the names on...

Hi all... If you make a complex list (list of lists)such as.... myList = [[cat, 1],[dog, 2],[chicken, 3]] how do you go about accessing the individual parts of the lists... ie if we want to access the first member of the second list (dog)? thanks in advance

Hi all... I am creating a photo gallery type cd-rom. I have 160+ photos and I want to put on a search engine which will check through the photo titles and display all titles with the desired search parameter. Anyone have any suggestions as to the easiest way to do this? thanks in advance,

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone knew how to use a transition so that it affects only specific sprites. By default there are two settings, affect the whole stage, or affect all changing objects. However, I would like it to affect only certain of the changing objects. can this be done. thanks...

Hi all, I know how to make a text field MEMBER change its content using lingo. I'm wondering if there is a way to use a single text field member, and have each sprite/instance of that member display different text. ie I would like to have a "caption" text field under photos, and I...

Hi all, I am making a director cd-rom, and in part of it I wish to have a 3d model rotate twice then stop. Then, on rollover of several buttons, I wish to have parts of the model change colour (depending on the button rolled). Now for something like that, is it worth using director 3d or should...

I have a completly empty channels and I want to load cast members into these channels 'on the fly' ie create sprites. This is supposed to load the first 6 cast members into the first 6 channels and position them 30 frames vertically apart. It doesn't work, and nothing is being added to the...

Hi all, I know its possible to load sprites into empty channels using just by using the sprite(x).member = member. How do you "delete" or "unload" these sprites and re-empty the channels when you have finished with them. e.g. If I load 10 pics into channels 1-10, and then in...