Carol Mahaffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The project has 4 main levels, and in each main there are > approx 10 sub levels. within those sub levels are secondary sub levels (so > about 3 levels deep). This is how i would set this project up: base level > that has links to all the base levels and the sub levels. Then create a miaw > for each sub level and within the miaw build the secondary sub level.
Hi Carol, What exactly do you mean by "main", "sub" and "secondary sub" levels? Is this a way to arrange your content, like "book", "section", "chapter" and "verse", or do you require to have several windows open at a time? If it is the latter, then there is no alternative to MIAWs. If it is the former, then Director enables you to create the "verse" level by using markers within a movie. In the Score window, you can stretch a number of sprites in the lower-numbered channels across all the frames of your movie to provide a background, then arrange the content for each sub-sub-section (images, text, QuickTime movies and so on) between an appropriately marker and a frame script that says: on exitFrame go loop end For each "chapter" you can create a separate movie. You might want to use the same layout of background sprites in each movie, but change the color scheme, or you might change the layout more radically to suit the content. In the first case, you could create an empty template movie, and modify a copy of this for each "chapter". You can arrange a group of movies together in a folder on your hard disk. It is fairly straightforward to write a script that will read the names of all the movies in the same folder, and thus provide an index to the chapters in that part of the project. Likewise, you can organize groups of folders inside other folders. Your main index movie (which could be in a separate window) could include a behavior that reads in the names of all the folders at the same level as the movie itself, and presents these in a list. A click on the name of a folder could open the index.dir movie inside that folder, which would use the same behavior to provide the names of the other movies or folders at that level. And so on. You can also provide cross-references between movies using hypertext. If you only want to have a single interactive area open at any one time, then you do not need to use any Movies in a Window. MIAWs are useful for providing features such as a Search facility, a list of consulted sections, a Glossary or a Help window. These are features that you would want to have available in all places in your project, so you would want to develop them once, and keep them self-contained. Cheers, James [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!]
