>This is something that it would be useful for me to do as well. My friend
>thinks there may have been an Xtra that did this, something like "draw to
>stage", does anyone have any other information?
You can do a complete game in Director in one sprite by using imaging
lingo to do all the copying of member images yourself. It would end
up being much the same as the early arcade games, but that might be a
bit tedious.
Is there much hardship in having placeholder sprites in the channels
that you might need? You don't need one for each of the remainder of
the 1000 channels you're not using, only in channels that you will
use. I know you can argue that with Flash you can keep on adding more
and more instances, but it does all grind to a halt after a while,
unless you're on the fastest machines there are. Try this for example:
http://staging.funnygarbage.com/staff/colin/snake.swf
There are only 70 movieclips in this Flash 5 SWF, but it's already
getting slow. Would it be that terrible to have a 100 placeholders on
your Director score?
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