At 22:08 +0800 04/25/2002, noelle cheng wrote:
>>>>Well, somewhere in the rollover code then there's a line that's
>>>>supposed to change the sprite's Cast member onscreen. The first
>>>>thing >>>to do is check the code in the Property Inspector under
>>>>the Behavior tab and see if there are properties that can be set,
>>>>such as the >>>"normal" and "rollover" sprite members. If so,
>>>>you'd change the settings there.
>
>I believe you are referring to figure 2-3 on page 48.
Well, that would be one example of the PI's appearance, yes. ;)
>The strangest thing is that when I compared it to a button which
>worked properly, the settings here are identical.
>
>I've checked everything, including the other two behaviors and
>everything is the same.
>
>Do I still change my settings list?
Possibly. Without actually seeing the rollover code in question, I'm
assuming it has settings that let you pick the specific button that's
supposed to be switched. That is, the behavior should let you pick
the Cast member that's supposed to come onscreen when the rollover
takes place.
If the settings in your behavior, though, are identical to the
original movie from which you got the behavior, you might be in
trouble -- for unless your movie has the same Cast member as the one
being switched in the original movie, things will not work as you
expect them to.
So if the original movie references a Cast member named (as an
example) "rolloverButton" for the rollover, but your current movie
does not have any such Cast member included, it won't work.
You'll need to actually change the behavior settings to make sure it
is pointing to the correct Cast member in your current Director movie
Cast.
>Otherwise the behavior has been hard-coded in some way (probably).
>Those can be harder to modify because you don't necessarily know
>exactly where and how things are being modified on the Stage by the
>code.
>
>If it was such , what can I do?
Try using the rollover member change library palette behavior.
> >That's another reason I recommend against copy and paste in
>general; you just can't be sure that what you're getting will owrk
>in your >files at all.
>
> I am beginning to understand why I must not do this. Thank you, I
>will heed your advice.
I wouldn't say you mustn't do it; rather, be aware that in doing so
you might have to do so much adjusting with the code you've copied
that it would take the same amount of time to just write it yourself.
>Under bitmap, my Palette is at system-mac. But I am on a PC. Does
>not the system recognize this? Would it make any difference?
It's only an issue if the user's system is set to display 256 colors.
If they're showing thousands or more you don't have any reason to be
worried.
That said, it's a good practice to make sure everything is set to Web
216. This is a more or less crossplatform optimal palette. When a
user's system is set to show 256 colors, the Web 216 palette will not
interfere with the system's color scheme.
>The compression for a bitmap should it be for a movie setting? Or
>JPEG? Under what circumstances does one choose movie settings over
>the other?
You really don't need to worry about that at all unless you are
planning to release your file in the Shockwave format. In that case
you'd probably be reasonably happy with JPEG compression. You'll have
to try several different exports and check the image quality until
you get something that's an acceptable (to you) compromise of visual
quality versus file size.
JPEG compression, when it's on relatively high, can cause pretty
substantial degradation of graphic quality. If you've got a client
that is used to high-resolution printed media, such a person might
have less tolerance for this than someone who's more used to working
with GIFs and so on.
>On page 58, I am not sure how to create the movie.
>
>You indicate that I need to create a #text sprite. From page 24, I
>understand this to be A in the toolbox on the left.
>
>To create this #text sprite, I drag this to the stage. Do I need to
>make amendments to this sprite?
>
> I note that here the PI contains only four items:
>i member, A text, 3D Extruder and Cast.
>
>I click on A text to change its' framing pop-up to scrolling. I
>then dragged the behaviour
>
>Get Net Text onto this empty text member. I entered the url as
>stated and connected to the internet.
>
>When I played the movie, I did not see any text on stage.
Did you have a 'go the frame' script in the script channel? If not,
you'll want to add one, to keep the play head on that frame while the
net text is retrieved.
If so, it's possible there was just a delay in the net that kept the
text from being accessed. That happens sometimes too. ;)
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