There is a great article about exchanging external casts in Shockwave on http://www.director-online.com .
(http://www.director-online.com/buildArticle.cfm?id=145) Read it. Live it. Love it. Leif >External casts are pretty much available in Shockwave movies too. But you >need to preload the files to the users machine with the preloadNetThing() >function. Once the network operation is complete, you can then refer to the >cast file by the URL on which it resides >(http://www.yourserver.com/thecast.cct). > > >Pranav Negandhi >New Media Applications. >Learnet India Limited, Mumbai. >Phone: 91-22-859 8042 Ext: 410 > > > ><snip> >I am currently in the middle >of a large director project for the web which has in total about 80 >different dcr files linked together and external casts which are >shared amongst these movies. Yet when i have tested it on our >development server i keep getting the following error. > >" Director Player Error > > Unable to open file "navbar.cxt " > >and likewise for other cast members. All my cast members end in .cct >i'm puzzled! What does this mean? And can you use external cast in >shockwave movies??? ><snip> > > > > > >[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/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/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!]
