noelle cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have used a behavior originally written in D7 by James Newton for my > program... > JUMP BACK BUTTON
Hi Noelle, The line continuation character � was changed to \ in Director 8 to avoid cross-platform complications. The character � is numToChar(194) on Macintosh and numToChar(172) on Windows. The Windows character "�" - numToChar(194) - and the Mac character "�" - numToChar(172) - also functioned as line continuation characters prior to Director 8.5, which led to abberant behaviors within strings. Director 8.0 accepts both old and continuation characters, but Director 8.5 refuses to recognise the old one if you recompile the script. In Director 8.5, ou need to replace � by \ everywhere in your scripts. To do this, open a script containing the � character, select it, then choose the menu item Edit | Find | Select (Ctrl/Command-H), to find the next occurence of the character. Now use the menu item Edit | Find | Text... (Ctrl/Command-F), to open the Find dialog. The � character should already be entered int the Find field. In the Replace field, type \ (Shift-Option-/ on Macintosh). Choose the All Casts radio button and the Wrap Around check box, then click on Replace All. An alert will appear, warning you that you cannot undo Replace All. Click OK: you may have to wait a few moments while Director makes the change in all your scripts. -- Since I wrote the D7 version of the Jump Back Button behavior, I have written a set of new behaviors that deal with the same feature in a more elegant way. You can find these new behaviors in a couple of demonstration movies. To download these from the Internet, type the following commands in your message window go movie "http://perso.planetb.fr/newton/History.dir"; go movie "http://perso.planetb.fr/newton/GoMarker.dir"; Cheers, James [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
