Re: Property lists

2001-06-02 Thread R. Bhakti Klein
yikes you got all kinds of confusion here, like the difference between variables and their values, and the difference between properties and globals. there are two main things wrong with the getPropertyDescriptionList method. 1. you're naming the property vMode in the method, but you declare vMod

capturing key events for F keys and specialty keys

2001-06-02 Thread Steven Sacks
Hello, I have a unique situation where I need to capture keyboard events off of a specialty keyboard. I tried to capture the key and keycodes but it returns a square for the key and 16 for the keycode for all of those (just like an F key). What can I do to get a unique key code from each of the

Re: Re:Re: globals vs properties

2001-06-02 Thread Tab Julius
I don't think this is going to make an iota of difference in how fast your movie runs. I'd look instead at one of the other things you might have done. Unrelated hint: Put your clearGlobals in your prepareMovie, not your stopMovie. This will allow you to rerun the program, resetting all glo

Re:Re: globals vs properties

2001-06-02 Thread schmidt-r
-- at first i set the properties in every behavior: property canvasSprite property surfaceSprite property vectorSprite property crossSprite property ballSprite on beginSprite me canvasSprite = sprite( 2) surfaceSprite = sprite( 7) vectorSprite= sprite(10) crossSprite = sprite(