good news for miaws, but all these new settings (cast members masks for non-rectangular miaws and projectors, icons, buttons on the title bar, etc) may be set using lingo? and what do you mean by "Mask animation"?
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At 14:57 6/1/2004, you wrote:
Troy,
> I see the projector publishing... but what are the MIAW changes? > Docking? For tool xtras?
The changes to MIAWs are _awesome_ IM-not so-HO:
1. Official support for non-rectangular MIAWs and non-rectangular stage windows! Windows can now also mask themselves. Mask animation is _much_ smoother to boot!
2. Support for "drag masks" so that you can get OS dragging on various window areas (esp. if you use masked windows) instead of having to roll your own "dragging" code.
3. Instead of a single "windowType" property you now have full control over the elements that appear in your window: close box, minimize box, maximize box, border or no border, etc., and a "metal" appearance (OSX only) and you can define an icon (bitmap member) to be used in the MIAW's title bar (Win only)!
7. All of this window structure is now settable via the Property Inspector on a new tab, Display Settings. This allows you to set up a template of sorts for how that movie will appear when opened as a MIAW. Then you just open that window and move on, no need to format the window everytime you open it in your code. Of course you can aways create the window object then over-ride the template settings before opening, your choice.
I'm sure there are a few other items in there I'm not remembering at the moment, but the above should get you interested enough, I hope. :) Yes, backwards compatibility is in the product so your old movies with their old MIAW code will still behave as they always have.
Cheers, Tom Higgins Product Specialist - Director Team Macromedia
Announcing Director MX 2004, de lekkerste! http://www.macromedia.com/software/director
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