Laurie, > I see that it is the player that is the problem and not the engine. I > definitely noticed a difference between the player used in the > development environment and the player in a browser: if I remember > one of them was key events and text manipulation that appear to > behave differently.
Yes, things like system event handling and whatnot will be a bit different in Shockwave as we are a loaded plug-in and must receive some events of that nature from the browser application (the browser gives focus for example, if you're typing in a form field in the HTML that field has focus and not the Shockwave movie). This is obviously different in Director and our projectors as in those cases we're the application ourselves and not a hosted plug-in. > So if you have an activity driven by the mouse in shockwave, it will > continue playing (using CPU cycles) even if there is a top window > over shockwave. Yup, for some events we're constantly tracking that information (mouse locations for example), it's in the case of input events that things get different (key events are the obvious biggie). > The only thing I could do was to deactivate the action when the mouse > events when outside the window that is when mousemember is null. > theCursor = the mouseMember > if (NOT voidP(theCursor)) then > doActivity > > But the problem remains when the mouse is in the area of the > shockwave piece but inside a different window. If you're relying on Shockwave Player version 10, and your scriptExecutionStyle property is set to 10 (the default value for movies authored in MX'04) then your Shockwave content will get activateWindow and deactivateWindow events and you can enable/disable using that. For example, if I have a DCR in window "A", and then I open browser window "B" such that it gets focus, the movie in window "A" will get a deactivateWindow event and thus allow you to disable rollovers and the like as you are hoping to do. Unfortunately this is not an option in prior players IIRC. Someone want to help refresh my failing Friday afternoon memory, does Shockwave 8.5 offer activateWindow and deactivateWindow events to DCRs in the browser? I don't recall so and I'm a bit busy (and lazy) to go through a reinstall of SW8.5 at the moment. Cheers, Tom Higgins - Technical Product Manager Macromedia Director and the Shockwave Player http://weblogs.macromedia.com/thiggins/ ... [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 lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
