to the best of my knowledge, there is no need to link a MIAW's external casts to the main movie (but as long as they are set to "Load when needed" I suppose it probably won't hurt) - in fact I'm working on a project right now where all the MIAW's have external casts that are not linked to the stage movie. I would suspect it's more likely to be a path problem.
Is the projector in the same folder you use for authoring? If not, your MIAW's may still be trying to link to external casts in a different location, although that will usually bring up the dreaded "Where is castlib...?" message
That's about all I can suggest right now off the top of my head...
Hope this is of some help,
Martin Pallett
At 10:15 19/08/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> The external cast needs to be included? In both the MIAW and > in the stage movie? I assume I just use the (in somewhat > pseudo): castlib(whatCast).fileName = moviePath & > "myfolder:mycast.cst"
It doesn't need to be included in the projector, but it needs to be specifically linked. Modify | Movie | Casts | Link. Choose the cast, save and compact. That's the only way the movie knows to use that cast.
I'll admit a little uncertainty on the MIAW issue. I'm pretty sure the cast needs to be linked to the stage movie, but I could be wrong. Try linking it to the MIAW movie first, then if it doesn't work, link it to the stage movie too. I'd appreciate a confirmation.
> I'm in the middle of developing a project where I set up the > stage first by importing and creating cast members in the > internal cast and then putting them on stage by assigning > them to sprites; these cast members are used for navigational > purposes and does not take a lot of memory.
Ok, just a couple of caveats. First, have a place-holder sprite for the sprites you're going to assign. It can be a zero-pixel bitmap (open the paint window, name the cast member, and close the paint window without drawing anything), and of course the same cast member can be used for all the place holder sprites.
Also, you will probably want to specifically puppet the sprites when you assign them new members.
> The actual content consists of a lot of swf-files (and some > with quicktime > movies) that are pretty heavy (that's one of the reasons why > I want to use several external casts).
The swfs can be heavy, but you do know that QT files are always external, don't you? They're linked by nature, even if the cast is internal.
> What I have done is crate an empty cast to which I the > assign another one using fileName (see part of code below)... > So I have createted the casts and linked them to my main > movie (setting up searchPaths and such for the main movie to > know about).This all works fine during authoring; but my > problem started when I created a projector for testing (just > included the main movie and the xtras I need). The projector > runs fine EXCEPT it does not load any of the members in the > external casts. I do not get any error message; it just does > not show the cast members on stage. > > Below is part of the code I am using, like I said... > authoring-mode is excellent but when creating projector it > does not work... > -- > castLib("Content").fileName = the moviePath & "Assets:Content.cst" > > repeat with i = 1 to the number of members of castLib("Content") > setMemberPropsOfMe = member(i, "Content").name > setExternalFlaMemberProps(setMemberPropsOfMe) > end repeat > --
Ok, I assume your projector is on a Mac. If it's on Windows, you'll need to use the \ path seperator.
Is the projector in the same folder as your dir file? That is, does the Assets:Content.cst cast exist as a subfolder? I'm not sure what setExternalFlaMemberProps does--does it import swf files? If so, do you have specific paths to those swf files?
If you're using 8.5 or later, it's time to set the debugPlaybackEnabled = TRUE and do some puts to see what's happening in the projector.
Cordially,
Kerry Thompson
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