Thanks very much for the comments, I know it seems basic (heck it is!)but I
can't seem to get it happening. I'm pretty new to Lingo and haven't had to
learn it before (mostly self taught, and FWIW I love the built in
behaviours, I study them, take them apart and build my own).
Pranav, I tried relinking the filename as I wasn't doing this before but it
still doesn't work.
I have included the code that deals with this ....can anyone see what I am
stupidly missing.
just to fill you in:
The user clicks on an area (pSecTitle)which starts downloading an external
linked cast (pSecTitle&&"thumbnails"), then gets a comma delimited text file
(pSecTitle&.txt) mainly to build new checkboxes ( the text part actually
works including having the check boxes appear)
It then changes over 20 dummy sprites to 10 thumbnails and 10 checkboxes
(and will set up some sort of paging)
The error I get is when it goes to assign the thumbnail, the cast member
can't be found, I don't get an error in the download.
I had used puppetsprite and parent script(just starting to learn this) to
generate these but I couldn't make the buggers go away so I opted for crude
but effective dummy sprites.
on mouseUp me
if the runmode = "author" then
set pExt = ".cst"
else
set pExt = ".cct"
end if
gInSection=TRUE
pNetTextFlag=FALSE
pNetCastFlag= FALSE
Updated = FALSE
-- preload thumbnails
pCastURL=the moviepath & pSecTitle && "thumbnails" & pExt
if pExt = ".cct" then
pCastNetId = preloadNetThing (pCastURL)
end if
-- get text file
myTextURL= the moviepath & pSecTitle & ".txt"
pTextNetID= GetNetText (myTextURL)
-- display loading feedback
displaymember.text = loadtext
SectionClicked=TRUE
end
on exitframe me
if Updated =FALSE and SectionClicked=TRUE then
-- check if text is loaded
if netdone(pTextNetID) and pNetTextFlag=FALSE then
error = NetError(pTextNetID)
if error <> "OK" then
displaymember.text = errortext
else
displaymember.text = ""
-- create the internal text file from imported text
hCREATELISTMEMBER
-- create the new checkbox members based on the imported text file
information
hCREATEMEMBERS pSecTitle
pNetTextFlag=TRUE
end if
end if
if netdone(pCastNetID) and pNetCastFlag= FALSE and pNetTextFlag=TRUE
then
error = NetError(pCastNetID)
if error <> "OK" then
displaymember.text = errortext
else
castNumber= castLib(pSecTitle&&"thumbnails").number
castLib(castNumber).filename = pCastURL
pNetCastFlag=TRUE
end if
end if
-- once we're all done downloadin
if pNetCastFlag= TRUE and pNetTextFlag=TRUE then
go to "thumbs"
hASSIGNMEM 1, 10, 11 -- this calls with first, last and chkbox sprite
channels
Updated = TRUE
SectionClicked=FALSE
end if
end if
end
on hASSIGNMEM firstchan, finalchan,ChkBoxChan
thumbsCast=castLib(pSecTitle&&"thumbnails").number
checkboxCast=castLib("checkbox").number
-- dont call more sprites than there are items
if finalChan>CurrListCount then
finalchan=CurrListCount
end if
repeat with Chan=firstchan to finalchan
myCheckBox=gCurrNameList.getAt(Chan)
mythumPic= myCheckBox&&"thum"
sprite(Chan).member = member(mythumPic, thumbsCast)
sprite(ChkBoxChan).member=member(myCheckBox, checkboxCast)
ChkBoxChan=ChkBoxChan+1
updatestage
end repeat
-- turn off any leftover dummy sprites
if finalchan<20 then
repeat with i = 1 to 20
if Sprite(i).member.name contains "dummy" then
Sprite(i).visible=FALSE
end if
end repeat
end if
end hASSIGNMEM
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:22:36 +0530
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: <lingo-l> How do I use external casts in shockwave
Hi Brad,
Preloading a cast works like this:
When working locally your cast points to a file called "bigcast.cct"
So if you upload it to a url called............
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