Re: lingo-l refreshing image info - Additional Q

2002-02-21 Thread Andreas Gaunitz P11
Q: How do I reset the sprite so that it automatically adjusts to the size of its contents? (_Before_ displaying the contents, that is...) Hi Andreas, You can use the obsolete sprite property stretch... sprite(x).stretch = FALSE Hm, this might be worth a test. ... or two lines of

RE: lingo-l refreshing image info - Additional Q

2002-02-21 Thread seb
Hi Andreas, But if I resize the sprite (using width or rect or whatever) and load new members into it, every image will be resized to the set sprite dimensions. Compensating for this creates all kinds of flickering and inconssistent behavior for the end user. (See example* further down.)

RE: lingo-l refreshing image info - Additional Q

2002-02-21 Thread Andreas Gaunitz P11
Grimmwerks, seb, The problem is to avoid flickering when loading the next member. Grimmwerk's solution will not work because the old member is still in the sprite when you begin scaling, and the sprite is automatically redrawn when it's changed. What will happen is that the user sees the old

RE: lingo-l refreshing image info - Additional Q

2002-02-21 Thread Howdy-Tzi
At 15:57 +0100 02/21/2002, Andreas Gaunitz P11 wrote: The problem is to avoid flickering when loading the next member. Grimmwerk's solution will not work because the old member is still in the sprite when you begin scaling, and the sprite is automatically redrawn when it's changed. What will

RE: lingo-l refreshing image info - Additional Q

2002-02-21 Thread Irv Kalb
Sorry, I haven't followed this thread, but I have a question you about it. Are you executing a line like: member(someMemberName).fileName = someFullFilePath ??? Irv At 6:18 PM +0100 2/21/02, Andreas Gaunitz P11 wrote: Mr Howdyman, snip I don't expect this to work because pausing the

RE: lingo-l refreshing image info - Additional Q

2002-02-21 Thread Irv Kalb
I have just found (in the last couple of days) a bug in Director related to this. The bug is that whenever you execute a line like the one below (that sets the filename of a linked member), Director refreshes the screen (in effect, it does an updateStage). If you have the member in a

RE: lingo-l refreshing image info - Additional Q

2002-02-21 Thread Andreas Gaunitz P11
I have just found (in the last couple of days) a bug in Director related to this. The bug is that whenever you execute a line like the one below (that sets the filename of a linked member), Director refreshes the screen (in effect, it does an updateStage). If you have the member in a