At 12:44 +1000 05/10/01, Richard Turner-Jones wrote: I recently saw some coworkers copying stuff from one .dir to another. For reasons I cannot comprehend, they seemed compelled to use two instances of Director for this operation. It semed as if they were totally unaware of the fact, that one instance of Director can copy stuff from one .dir, open another .dir and paste into that.
Is this what is at play here? Just because Director on Windows *can* open more than one instance, some folks mistakenly believe they need to use this feature all the time, and make life more dificult for themselves? Jakob >That's the way I do it... >The only catch with that is that it won't copy cast members not used in the >score (eg button rollover states, field members used to store data, etc) > >You may have to select those cast members manually in the original file and >repeat the process, except that you will paste into the cast window. > >If you've referenced your members by name, this should be no problem, but if >you are using there cast location (like the button's memberNum + 1 for a >rollover), you will have some editing to do if they are not in the same >location > >Richard > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Madeline Booth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 12:28 PM >Subject: Re: <lingo-l> Scores & cast members > > >> To Sean, Kerry & Tab >> >> >> Thank you! >> >> It is possible to do it. >> >> >> The way to do is to select all the sprites in the score, right mouse >click, >> copy sprites. Then I close this Director program. I then open a new >> Director program, choose file>new movie. Then Edit>Paste sprites. >> >> >> Voila! All the sprites are in the *exact position* as in the previous .dir >> movie and all the cast members, including scripts can be copied over. >> >> >> This is indeed a very good time -saving tip! It makes my work so much >> easier! I can now combine two or even more .dir files into a single score >> without rebuilding a new movie. >> >> >> >> Madeline >> >> >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp >> >> >> [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!] >> >> > > >[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!] [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!]
