RE: lingo-l Controlling Flash Buttons?

2001-07-24 Thread Chris Aernoudt
Carl, Why do it in lingo?? You could also set a toggle variable in your flash movie, check from within and set your button accordingly. You can then use getURL(lingo:) to set a var in director so that you'd know wether it has been clicked or not. //Make a movie clip, and use 2 frames, the

Re: lingo-l Controlling Flash Buttons?

2001-07-24 Thread Carl West
Chris Aernoudt wrote: Carl, Why do it in lingo?? Because I don't do Flash and the Flash assets have already been delivered to me as buttons. I'm already talking to the artist about getting them as straight animations that I _can_ control with Lingo. (They're more than up/hilite/down

RE: lingo-l Controlling Flash Buttons?

2001-07-24 Thread Steven Sacks
I'd like to learn Flash too, but right now I can't afford to. See the .sig below. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones Flash is cake. I remember everything about Director, and, if anything, programming in Flash has improved my

Re: lingo-l Controlling Flash Buttons?

2001-07-24 Thread Carl West
Kerry Thompson wrote: Steve's helpful hints about flash buttons deleted ... However, I'd like to add a word of caution. Don't go overboard with your Flash assets. ... At one point I decided to try Flash for the other 44 sprites, to smooth out the on-the-fly resizing. Big mistake. My

Re: lingo-l Controlling Flash Buttons?

2001-07-24 Thread Carl West
Steven Sacks wrote: I'd like to learn Flash too, but right now I can't afford to. See the .sig below. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones Flash is cake. I remember everything about Director, and, if anything,

Re: lingo-l Controlling Flash Buttons?

2001-07-24 Thread Kerry Thompson
Did you use .static ? The book claims it will help a great deal. I haven't messed with it yet. Won't for the prototype. Keep their expectations down. Surpass their expectations later. Static does help, but I can't use it for my current project. The original designers wove the Flash and