Hey Carol, If you haven't had a read of my article on DOUG http://www.director-online.com/accessArticle.cfm?id=439
then you should have a look. It's getting a little old but it covers the big problems with LDMs. Primarily the mouseEnter/Within/Leave issue. Since the article (D7) support has been added for Quicktime movies to play within LDMs but there is still no editable text. You can set text to editable and it won't cause a crash like it used so that's a start. If you are changing text dynamically you will have to force the LDM to refresh it. There was a discussion on Direct-L about a month ago on this. Basically when you update text set the visible of the sprite, containing the text member, visible =0 then back to visible=1 and that is enough to force the refresh. With audio you still have to work within the confines of 8 channels and there are some problems with cuepoints. I can't remember them all extactly but there always seems to be a workaround as well. So if you find you have problems let me know and I'll dig through my code library for a fix for you. hth, Rob Carol Mahaffy wrote: > hey list -- > I am thinking that linked director movies are way cool but I know from > experience that first impressions are not what they seem in director. Can > anyone give me input in regards to pit falls? mainly audio, quicktime ect. I > want to use them in similiar fashion to a miaw. Before I get to far down the > road, feedback on horror stories or things gone well would be good. thanks. [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!]
