Hi Brian
As a general rule of thumb, I never use the visible property to toggle a
sprite's visibility on and off. I prefer to either move the sprite offstage
to an invisible area or most likely set the member of a sprite to be another
member and using a zero pixel placeholder as the initial graphic. It
certainly beats going through a huge list of visibilities to get the job
done.
Example:
Lets say that you have to show an image at screen coordinate point(200,200)
when the enduser clicks a button at some other coordinate. Then I would
create a placeholder called "Blank" or whatever you want to call it, this is
done by creating a new paintwindow bitmap by opening the paint window (and
hitting the + sign if necessary) and just typing in the name "Blank" for the
member's name and then closing that window. Next I drag it onto the score
and move it to the correct coordinate point(200,200) on the stage. Then I
basically just script my button handler to a hardcoded or a GPDL value for
that sprite number and assign it to a property pAliasSprite. Then
on mouseUp me
sprite(pAliasSprite).member = member("someMember",someCastLibNum)
end mouseUp
Hope that might help you a bit.
Sincerely
Mark
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> Behalf Of Brian Farmer
> Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 11:20 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: <lingo-l> Help with changing castmember
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>
> Hello list!
>
> I am working on a project that the end user can choose several
> options. (Doors) I was wondering how I can swap the current
> castmember for the one they choose. Also, what if they want to
> change that castmember for another one. I am confused!
>
> On a slightly different problem....I have small alias images for
> several buttons within my interface. What I am doing at this
> point is turning the alias's on and off based on the button that
> is clicked. Great so far. But I am wondering if there is a
> simpler way of doing it. Here is the code I am using:
> sprite(1).visible = false
> sprite(2).visible = false
> sprite(3).visible = false
> sprite(4).visible = false
> sprite(5).visible = false
> sprite(6).visible = false
> sprite(7).visible = false
> sprite(8).visible = false
> sprite(9).visible = false
> sprite(10).visible = false
> sprite(11).visible = false
> sprite(12).visible = false
> sprite(13).visible = false
> sprite(14).visible = false
> sprite(15).visible = false
> sprite(16).visible = false
> sprite(17).visible = false
> sprite(18).visible = false
> sprite(19).visible = false
> sprite(20).visible = false
>
> Then I turn them on if the end user clicks on the button for that
> catagory. If I do this: sprite(2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10).visible =
> false it will not work. What am I doing wrong? Thanks everyone
> for all your help!
>
> p.s. I am developing on a mac. This will be a shockwave piece.
>
>
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