Thanks guys for all the help Warren, sorry I misunderstood you, i thought you meant placeholders for those new sprites. I{ll try that approach now. Yhank you veery much and I hope I can be of some use for you in the future, guys. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howdy-Tzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 11:29 PM Subject: Re: <lingo-l> creating a new sprite using lingo
> On Friday, Jun 20, 2003, at 19:57 America/Chicago, Diego Landro wrote: > > > Thanks a lot for the info you provided, but what i was trying to do was > > creating a sprite out of nowhere (meaning no placeholder on the stage) > > and > > from the info you provided i deduce that{s not possible if there are no > > placeholders where my sprites would be. > > I'm afraid you misunderstood; the technique I detailed will work > without placeholders. You can use it to put any sprite onto any empty > channel. > > By explicitly puppeting the empty channel first, you can do exactly > what you need to do: > > > puppetSprite someChannel, TRUE > sprite(someChannel).member = theMemberYouWant > sprite(someChannel).ink = theInkYouWant > sprite(someChannel).loc = theLocYouWant > > > Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] > nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ > Developer | Structor, a presentation development/programming tool > Info and demo | http://www.nightwares.com/structor/ > Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide > Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com/director_beginners_guide/ > > [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!] [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!]