Hi all. I've encountered a strange thing going on on one of my, but here's a little background: I'm working on this project with a couple of questions, and if answered correctly, the questions play little QT movies, then after the user answers all of the questions, we go to a 'thank you screen' which has a lot of small animations, mostly using GUI sprite stuff, a couple of fades, a then a "continuous rotation" from the library palette. What's strange is this: For some reason, I was experiencing a lot of inconsistency in the playback, fast and slow, on the same machine. At first I thought it was some modifications to the tempo I made, or some strange thing happening on every exitframe, or whatever. But seems not. Then, by accident, I figured out that if the mouse was inside the stage during this session, the screen slowed down. If the mouse was outside of the stage the whole time, it kept going fast -- at least until I moved the cursor inside, and then it slowed to molasses again. I looked in the behaviors for something that may have been kicked in by a mouse event, but couldn't find any. So, I was just wondering if this is some kind of quirk of Director, that things slow down when the mouse in inside the stage? (I'm using Dir 8 or a Mac w/ OS 8.6) Since the particular screen has quite a few elements (mostly flash), maybe moving the cursor onto the stage makes Director start to check the elements one after another to see if they have some event or something? Anyhow, just wondering if anyone else has had this problem? Also, 2 more things: 1. Would it be wise/possible, if after a transition screen, you take a snapshot of the screen and then use that as a background (since those elements are no longer moving), or is the overhead not really that much? 2. I also noticed somewhere in the movie, at one point in the middle of a Quicktime movie, the RAM used by the Program skyrockets to from under 3 to over 512 MB!!! (Tried this on a B/W G3 running 8.6 & a PowerBook Pismo w/ 9.1!) Is there any standard procedure for checking this? I've narrowed it down to occurring during a Quicktime movie, and I've got it repeating on the same sequence of events, more or less this movie. What's weird though, is the director part of this scene is the same across 14 or some movies, and it only happens on this one movie... Suggestions? Any advice would be most appreciative! Happy Valentines Day all! M. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/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!]
