At 23:16 +0800 04/26/2002, noelle cheng wrote:
>>Well, that would be one example of the PI's appearance, yes. ;)
>
>There's more? I thought there was only one PI?
There is, but its appearance changes depending on what particular
thing you've selected for property inspection, of course, so when
you're looking at a behavior in the PI, it will appear different than
when you are looking at movie properties.
>>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.
>
>I've changed it, yet the problem remains.
Huh. Are you using a Library Palette behavior for this, or something
you got from someplace else? If you haven't tried the library
behavior, try it instead.
>>>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.
>
>I tried this, too... Oh dear? Is this problem too difficult to solve?
On a mailing list from the other side of the planet, possibly.
>The higher the JPEG compression, the smaller the file size?
Generally yes. But the lower the quality of the images too.
> May I check with you: 04-gnt.dir that I downloaded - is this a working file?
When I uploaded it, I believe it was, yes.
>When I opened the file, the font 'charcoal' was missing.
Arg. that's another fontmap issue. I thought I'd gotten them all.
It's annoying but doesn't represent anything like a serious error
condition.
>Why do you want to do things in a StartMovie handler?
Sometimes you want to initialize conditions, and that's a good place
to do it if you're setting up general parameters.
>When you were helping me with making sprites invisible and visible,
>it was definitely not created there. Is there anything significant
>about a StartMovie handler?
Many things. Visible/nonvisible sprites are best handled using
behaviors. StartMovie would be for program-wide stuff, rather than
specifics such as individual sprite things.
Actually I've gotten to the point that I don't use movie scripts at
all any more, but that's almost a philosophical thing as much as it
is an issue of programming approach.
What I'm saying is that Director is very flexible and there are
usually several different ways -- all equally workable -- to get any
one task done.
>By the way, I like what is written on page 71 paragraph 3. It is a
>pity I do not have a barbecue grill.
Well, you could try writing your concerns on paper napkins and
flushing them down the toilet instead. The point there was to give a
bit of a pep talk. Too many times we start things with unfortunate
preconceptions about how difficult they're going to be, and that
turns into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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