Hi,
I'm having trouble opening up my stub projector.
What are the Xtra's required (in the Xtra's folder) , to open it up?
It keeps coming up with an error message.
thanks, emmet
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 12:37 AM
Subject: <lingo-l> Re: A Stub Projector Question...
> 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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