Warren, I hope you're online buddy, You gotta hear this:
I gave dragging and dropping casts a shot, and the results were something I never would have predicted. First, let me explain. I have three copies of the exact same project in three different folders. Touch screen kiosk, CD delivery and web delivery. Each has twelve sub-folders each with multiple movies and a shared.cst. I dragged the shared cast into the internal cast in one movie in one of these subfolders (called limestone) that has nine .dir files. It worked! Everything was there, and played perfectly. I went to the next .dir file in "Limestone". There was no shared cast to copy! Somehow, with the modify/movie/casts menu I was able to get it back into the second movie and copy it. On to the third movie. No shared.cst. Can't get it back. I looked at it and it was down to 2k from 400+. No problem, I've got it in two other places: the Kiosk and CD folders. NO HERE'S WHERE IT GETS WEIRD: Inside the Limestone sub-folder of all three top level folders, the shared cast is no longer accessible from any of the seven remaining movies in their respective Limestone folders. It's as if by editing the movie in the folder for web delivery I automatically was editing all three copies in three places on the drive. Can anybody explain how this could happen? How can you make copies for back-ups if the copies get edited with the original? Luckily I have this on CD. Course I've make a hundred changes since then, but at least I know the shared cast will be there. Or will it? TIA, Michael > Now for option #1. Is that something I can ask my hosting company to > set-up for me, or should I just give up and copy/paste/exchange all of > the shared cast members? Well, if you give up you don't have to copy/paste/exchange. You can just drag and drop from your external cast to your movies' internal casts. If you drag a cast member from one window to another Director automatically updates its references. As to the rest ... well, one can only guess. Things should be working fine, or at least I'd hope so. Have you tried not protecting the external cast just to see if that makes a difference? Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com/director_beginners_guide/ [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!] [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!]
