Thanks for looking into it, Thomas
Turns out its the mac that's playing up.
I tried to run the projector on another (older) mac and it works as
expected. Now the machine that doesn't play along is a G4 QuickSilver.
I must confess that when coming out I tried to make MX2004 run on this
machine and I never could get it to work. Now I would like to try out
the projectors you linked to but I'm getting 404/file not found ?
And back on the main issue. Two years ago I called tech support to
resolve the mac issue. We found nothing then and I decided to switch to
WIN in order to not loose to much time. Is there now a list of know
issues as to what software is incompatible with MX2004 on OSX. OSX is
an updated Panther. Machine specs G4 896MB RAM
As I said we can rule out the faulty movie, there is merely something
more than this script. It's my stub who does a screen size check and
then enables a continue button that loads the "real" project. When I
run it on this G4 it launches and then just stays on frame 1, passes
the alerts and then freezes ???. I don't know, the last thing I tried
was the debugenabled but message window doesn't pop up.
As always any insights much appreciated.
Regards
Bart
On 30 Jun 2005, at 18:18, Thomas Higgins wrote:
So again, any clues, anyone ?
Yes, something is wrong with your movie other than this code that's
preventing you from seeing the alert (my best guess). I took your code,
commented out the extraneous parts that don't deal with timeout objects
and used that as a behavior on a QuickDraw sprite on stage. Other than
that sprite there is a script to hold the playback head on one frame
and
that's it, there's nothing else in my test movie. I did authored on
WinXP using Director MX 2004 10.1.0r11, I published both a Windows and
a
Mac OSX projector. I ran both projectors and everything behaved as
expected, I saw the first alert telling me the timer exists then the
second telling me it was called. I ran the Win projector on WinXP and
the Mac projector on both 10.3.8 and 10.4.1 and in all cases I only saw
expected behavior (both alerts appeared).
So, what else are you missing from your movie? Are you looping on that
frame for _at_least_ two seconds in order to wait long enough to see
your own timeout alert (if you're leaving that frame in under two
seconds your endSprite handler clears the timoeut object before it gets
called the first time)? Do you have any other code that touches that
sprite or the timeoutList?
I've posted my sample files here:
http://poppy.macromedia.com/~thiggins/bugs/timeout/Timeout.dir
http://poppy.macromedia.com/~thiggins/bugs/timeout/Timeout.exe
http://poppy.macromedia.com/~thiggins/bugs/timeout/Timeout.osx
http://poppy.macromedia.com/~thiggins/bugs/timeout/Timeout.osx.hqx
I posted the Mac projector in its original HQX file and as the
projector
found within separately. I also copied my modified version of your
behavior below my signature for easier inspection.
Cheers,
Tom Higgins - Technical Product Manager
Macromedia Director and the Shockwave Player
http://www.markme.com/thiggins/
property SpriteNum, myTimer, screen1,OrigText
on beginSprite me
-- OrigText = member ("line1").text
-- spritesToDimList = ["button_continue","button_stop"]
-- repeat with i in spritesToDimList
-- sendSprite(i,#dim)
-- end repeat
if(checkResolution(me)) then
myTimer = timeout().new("GoOn",2000,#GoOn,sprite(SpriteNum))
if(not(VoidP(myTimer))) then
alert("timer exist")
end if
else
myTimer = timeout().new("StopIt",2000,#StopIt,sprite(SpriteNum))
end if
end
on checkResolution me
-- screen1 = the desktoprectlist[1]
-- if(screen1.right >= 1024) then
return TRUE
-- else
-- return FALSE
-- end if
end
on GoOn me
alert("called")
myTimer.forget()
-- aText = OrigText & return & member("line2").text &&
-- string(screen1.Right) && "*" && string(screen1.bottom) & return
-- member ("line1").text = aText
-- updatestage
-- aText = aText & member("line3_correct").text
-- member ("line1").text = aText
-- sendSprite("button_continue",#UnDim)
end
on StopIT me
myTimer.forget()
-- aText = OrigText & return & member("line2").text &&
-- string(screen1.Right) && "*" && string(screen1.bottom) & return
-- member ("line1").text = aText
-- updatestage
-- aText = aText & member("line3_wrong").text
-- member ("line1").text = aText
-- sendSprite("button_stop",#UnDim)
end
on EndSprite me
if(ObjectP(myTimer)) then
myTimer.forget()
end if
-- member ("line1").text = OrigText
end
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