Near as I could figure Director has a buffer that it writes the Flash and Quicktime content to that doesn't necessarily get cleared but does get displayed when you return from another app.
Strangely enough I remember it occuring the opposite of what was stated here. I thought my experience was having it appear when I was NOT direct to stage i.e. this is the buffer that director uses to display non-direct to stage stuff, both QT and flash. I think using direct to stage when I could eliminated the problem.
Oh, just found this which I had posted on another board:
've just been battling this same issue. I don't think "unload" or anything like that will help because this doesn't feel like its member based but more related to a image buffer in Director.
I had it occur when I displayed a flash movie over a quicktime movie then dismissed the flash movie. Then if I tried to capture the image of the stage or, get this, went to another app on windows and then returned to the projector, parts of the flash image would appear.
My solutions included never displaying flash and quicktime over each other on the stage and also displaying a flash movie immediately after the initial flash movie that had a more acceptable image even if it did display. In this instance, I used an image of the background. I just had to do some conscious management of this "buffer".
I'm having an issue with a project I'm working on, and I'm hoping someone either has a solution, or some information to help me figure this out. I'm creating a CD-ROM that has some QuickTime video, software demonstrations as .swf files, and some links out to HTML pages directly on the CD. The problem I am having is this.
When I run the program, both in authoring and runtime modes, if I view a software demo, come back to the demos menu, then click to go to a different marker with the HTML links, open Internet Explorer, then close IE to come back to the Director movie, the last graphic viewed of the Flash movie is placed over the entire stage, with the menu buttons on top. It's like it's not refreshing the screen, but it already did, when loading a new menu. Very strange.
I've tried several possible things, and the only thing I can come up with that has really changed since the last version of this disc that we did, is the upgrade from Director 8.5 to MX. This only happens on Windows, and again, it happens in both authoring and runtime environments.
I've tried to force updateStage in several places, I've changed the method of opening the HTML files from DirectOS to gotoNetPage, etc. But I can't seem to see it make any difference. I'm stumped. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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