Re: StartMovie Problem

[Rob Romanek]

Did prepareMovie always exist? Deep in my memory I seem to remember only 
startMovie at some point. And I thought that preparemovie was introduced 
to get rid of some of these problems. It seems that the order of events is 
that sprites initialize themselves prior to startMovie. As a result you 
see the beginsprite handler fired prior to startMovie on sprites in frame 
1. PrepareMovie fires before anything else that's why it is good practice 
to put all your variable initialization here and not in startMovie. Then 
any beginsprite scripts can use those variables without choking.

Eliminating frame 1 would not be the cure since as I mentioned yesterday 
you get the same problem with intermovie navigation if you specifically 
jump to a frame other than 1. It all comes down to the sequence of events. 
As long as any dependancies in your beginsprite code have be set up in 
prepareMovie and not startMovie you should be okay

If you set up the movieevent traps in your timeout objects and follow the 
above rule I don't think you'll run into any problems with sprites on 
frame 1. Okay here is a possible problem scenario.

You have sprites on frame 1 that have beginsprite which manipulate some 
variable you set up in prepareMovie, but you startMovie handler has a 
go(someFrame) and because of that you thought frame 1 is skipped all 
together and won't affect your variable set in prepareMovie so you jump to 
someFrame only to find your variable to not be what you expected it to be.

I think it all boils down to planning.
But I have no idea about the inner workings in Director I can only make 
best guesses by observing what happens on the outside. (Boy this is 
amazingly similar to my previous career in biochemistry/cell biology where 
I used to poke cells with electrodes run some current, see what happened 
and made best guesses as to what was going on inside the cell)

-Rob
On Thu, 19 May 2005 08:41:30 -0400, Mentor, Kraig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Since the problem was so deep, there was, at one time, discussion of
changing the score, so that frame one just didnt exist anymore on the
Director interface. It would just have been moved off to the left with
frame 2 becoming the new frame one.
K

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