I had planned to do that originally but after having no success getting linked casts to work, I wasn't confident. Now I'm getting somewhere I'll take your advice as it seems a far better way to work. By the way I'm on N4.7, PC and I had no problem with the .dcr Thanks Brad ps. If you hear shouting that will be me celebrating getting this shockwave to work properly;) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:11:36 +0530 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: <lingo-l> Further to " How do I use external casts in shockwave" I dont think you need to use 50 different casts, Brad. What you should do instead is swap the filename that the cast member points to based upon the section that the user selects. What I mean to say is that within Director <snip> [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/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!]