Rob, thanks for the offer to help! I did base my controller code on the way you did yours.
Turns out I have to turn my attention away from this for the moment but when I get back on it I'll pinpoint a reproducable instance of this problem and email you. (And post the problem/solution to the list!) Thanks again... --- Rob Romanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Leah, > > I think the points that Jakob listed may be able to help you. Often > problems in LDM's can be solved by restructuring the chain of command. > That said I can't say that I've ever had experienced these refresh > problems you are having. Probably the most extreme case of LDM testing > I've done is have 16 instances of an LDM on screen with each instance > containing 4 levels of nested LDMs each and somewhere down about the 4th > level a quicktime movie is running along with some other animation and > yes it all ran extremely slowly but it did run without crashing my > fairly modest system. > > I've never applied the above depth with rewinding or ffwding ldm's so it > could be something in there that is causing the problem. Is this based > on code that I put up a while back? If you don't ever rewind or ffwd > does the problem occur? Does this happen with only one LDM or only with > multiple LDMs? Can you provide samples of your code or a sample movie > where this happens? If you can I wouldn't mind digging through it and > trying to figure out what is going on. > > Let me know... > > Rob > > Leah Kramer wrote: > > >For those of you who have worked with linked director movies... > > > > > >A problem that I'm seeing from time to time, however, is that Director > doesn't > >always repaint the ldm's stage when it should. What I mean is that previous > >frames don't always get cleared before new frames are drawn. So picture an > >animation of a person flapping his arms. In some cases, 8 pairs of arms > would > >show at once! > > > > > [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!] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com [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!]