At 3:51 PM -0800 1/2/2001, Tom Jacobs wrote:
>On 1/2/01 at 5:34 PM, Roy Pardi shared the following:
>>If you want to show a splash sreen while things load, Director 8
>>has an undocumented functionality where you can show a bitmap while
>>the projector loads. Name a bitmap the same as the projector with a
>>(mac) .pct or (PC) .bmp extension. This displays very fast. There
>>are a few quirks with this but in general it works well.
>
>Wow, I just tried it...this is awesome! Why is it undocumented? One
>of the quirks seems to be that it doesn't work with stubs, just
>regular standalone projectors (at least when I just tried it).
There are some quirks (see updatestage.com for details) but in
general it seems to work ok. Its undocumented because they probably
didn't test it on all machines/configurations, etc.
Don't understand what you mean about it not working with stubs- a
stub IS a standalone projector, yes?
Anyway- just another indication that the engineers at Macromedia
really do love us and want us to be happy ;-)
/r
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Roy Pardi
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