moving MIAW's

2001-07-30 Thread Paul Fletcher
Hi guys, I have a small problem where MIAW's are concerned. I have a main control movie - which opens center screen with a title bar, and several MIAW's that open above it. These are called and the window positions and properties are then set. Having just changed the setting of 'full scre

Re: RE: 2 Monitor System

2001-07-18 Thread Paul Fletcher
Yes you can, You have to extend the whole window onto your second monitor, that way you can move your casts etc anywhere on either screen. This is the way i have mine set up. Hope this helps Paul Past Forward Limited, England, UK mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pastforward.co.uk/ CONFID

Flash Asset.x32

2001-06-29 Thread Paul Fletcher
Hi guys, A quick qestion, Has anyone experienced problems when using Flash in director. I have rollover animated buttons created in flash. Every now and again I get this error: Flash Asset.x32. Obviously it is an xtra error but I can't suss out what is causing it. Is it wise to attatch scrip

freezing MPEG2?

2001-06-22 Thread Paul Fletcher
Hi list, Has anyone had problems when playing MPEG2? The problem being the video actually freezes after a day or two. (Running on a touch screen interactive, turned on constantly and never turned off) Is this a memory issue? Will unloading the members clear the memory enough to run the next on

Highlighting words

2001-06-11 Thread Paul Fletcher
Hi list, I have a slight problem when it comes to highlighting multiple words. The words needed to be highlightd are retrieved from a database and comes in one string ie. ' put,the words,here'. I then set this as a global, then to be extected into seperate items to be highlighted. It seems a

Re: need advice on alerthook

2001-06-11 Thread Paul Fletcher
Hi Pekka, I use the alertHook recently and as I could only dupicate the error in the .exe and not in Director thus had no way of finding what was causing the error. The following code is how I captured and displayed the error while the .exe was running. on alertHook me, err, msg put err

zooming vectors?

2001-05-31 Thread Paul Fletcher
Hi all, Can anyone tell me a quick way to scale a vector map? The idea is to touch an area of the map and then it zooms up to that point and position it in the center of the stage.??? Will appreciate any help Paul F Past Forward Limited, England, UK mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pas

RE: Choking video

2001-05-21 Thread Paul Fletcher
Hi Victor, I have a suggestion to your choking video suggestion! When you mean choking does this mean struggling to play? We have seen something of this before, however it had nothing to do with director or the code. The DMA setting was not enabled on the hard drive which meant that there was

Re: MIAW (Invalid Page Fault Error)

2001-05-17 Thread Paul Fletcher
Hi Ravi, I had this problem a while ago. It is nothing to do with your MPEG. It is the way you are closing your MIAW's. Keep the code simple when you close the MIAW A simple way around this is to go to and 'end' frame in the MIAW with the following code on the exitFrame. If you add any code aft