Thanks for the detailed answer.
Actually, I've build the interface using the Director GUI method twice now,
with 10 chapters, buttons working and able to load new movies, play sounds,
etc.
Needing to rebuild the movie over and over (for whatever client reasons)
seems to be the norm for this project as the content is being developed as
the director files are being worked on. As it looks now, this procedure
will repeat itself a few more time.
So I'm just trying to convert my efforts from rebuilding element that I
already know the locations of into a script that will do most of the work
for me.
thanks for the tips.
G
Message: 8
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 10:37:24 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Howdy-Tzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: <lingo-l> Authoring from Lingo import to Cast and Position in
Score
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is why I was advising you to look over Director's actual UI. If
you have an understanding of how the Score, Cast and Stage operate,
you will be able to make files that are "legitimate" as far as
Director is concerned.
Look at this another way. Would you create an HTML generator without
any knowledge whatsoever of how HTML should be written or parsed, but
based only on what you see in browsers and what you've read in some
HTML forum someplace? Or would you, instead, experiment a bit wht
HTML formattng yourself first, perhaps playing about with other HTML
generators, to see how the different tags behave, how they work in
browsers and so on?
It seems to me that generating Director movies from Lingo without
knowing how Director movies are made sans Lingo is a similar thing.
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