Hi,

Thanks Florian and Tab for helping to solve my problem. Sorry, Florian for 
not replying earlier.

>I think Tab explained very good what to do.
>Also be sure to include the script member "scriptb" in your movie.


Yes, Tab did explain it very well. In fact he hit the nail on the head. As 
I has copied the contents from another file, there were  now actually two 
'start movie' scripts.

Wow, you are all very good at debugging scripts. You were able to pinpoint 
my mistakes very quickly.

Anyway, after I corrected this, I ran the movie again and the error message 
was :

Error: cast member not found.

I think I can't do anything anymore.

Thank you for helping me learn.  Yes, I spent hours on it but I believe 
that it was worth the trouble.

First thing I've learnt is that I must never copy code blindly. There will 
definitely be errors.


>Something more general Noelle: what is it you want to do? No offense
>meant, but you seem to be a very beginner with Director and Programming.
>It might not be the best idea to use quite "complicated" object
>orientated scripting. We all gladly help, but using more simple lingo
>might do a better job for you to learn lingo.

Thank you for your concern.

  To be honest, I was trying to create a quiz  in my .dir movie. I wanted 
to create something nice instead of using PS and embed everything  in the 
score to do it. I wanted it to be interactive. But my knowledge of lingo is 
very very limited.

Initially, Irv was kind enough to send me his file.

I studied it and tried to modify and fit it into my movie. No, the debugger 
didn't appear when I ran the movie. Instead the tempo was all wrong and 
the  scenes were not smooth.  The sequencing of events was wrong. Well, I 
couldn't very well ask Irv what he put inside his movie,  now, could I? It 
was  very embarrassing.

Then I was very fortunate to receive another quiz .dir  file. But this time 
I made  the mistake of not testing it by saving it after copying it in.  It 
worked after I copied it  in. If I had saved it and ran it, I would have 
known of the errors then . But I didn't do so. This is another lesson 
learnt.  After I saved it  I do not  run it but  immediately started 
modifying the questions etc - after all it was  something like a 'generic 
file'.

Only after I tried to run this file did the errors come out. Well, it was 
in a way better than Irv's so I immediately started using  the debugger.

The same thing with the volume control script. I still can't make it work 
properly. But I am not giving up. I still want to try.

I'm sorry. I know that this is definitely not the way to learn lingo. And I 
wouldn't have said anything if you hadn't asked me. I'm very afraid that I 
may be wasting your time.

May I ask a question? Is math required for lingo?  In the university, I 
only studied statistics. But I studied some general math during my  'A' 
levels. Is this still too little?

Noelle



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