On 1/2/01 at 7:10 PM, Roy Pardi shared the following:
>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?
You're right, of course. But in my quick trials, it consistently
didn't work on my stub projectors but did work on a non-stub
projector. I thought it might be because the stub immediately opens a
Director movie. Again, I only spent two minutes on this...
Tom
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