Advanced Macromedia Director

2d collision
I'm creating a game where various object have to be inserted into odd shaped objects. What's the best way to detect if a particular point is on one side or another of a shape or curve? ... 21 Jan 2008 19:03

sound playfile jerks
Hi, I have done an application in director 10.1. it works for 2-3 years on many PCs. no problems the whole time. today I've got the feedback that on one maschine the play soundfile jerks... it starts, you can here the beginning.. then half of a seconds its jerking or complete quiet... than it plays OK. Any ideas... 15 Jan 2008 05:45

Message Window in Projector
I remember there used to be a setting where you could make a Message Window open up in a Projector, by dragging any file onto your .exe in order to run it instead of double-clicking the normal way. Obviously, this was a bug, and it's since been fixed, but damned if it wasn't useful for debugging errors that ap... 15 Jan 2008 05:45

Accessing sprites on the stage via MIAW
Something about this doesn't seem to be working as advertised. I'm trying to change some properties on a few stage sprites via scripts from an MIAW. According to the documentation, I should be able to do this via: window("stage").movie.sprite(X).someProperty = value Although the example shows it done with me... 15 Jan 2008 02:24

Progress bar
Hello everyone: I was looking online on how to create my own progress bar...and everything I found are tutorials made for lingo masters! There has to be a simpler way of explaining us mortals how to create something as simple as a progress bar. What I am trying to accomplish is to give the CD user a load bar... 18 Jan 2008 17:20

Any way to scroll the viewport of a cropped LDM?
I?m modifying Spenspark?s vertical scroll bar example (http://nonlinear.openspark.com/tips/oop/scrollBar/index.htm) to allow both vertical and horizontal scroll bars on the same LDM. Essentially these scripts cycle through every sprite in the LDM and move them a given increment. It works well enough but I?m ban... 15 Jan 2008 09:59

How to stop Quicktime .mov from looping when reverse scrubbing
Does anyone know how to prevent direct to stage QT .Mov movies from "looping" when reverse scrubbing? My app has a joystick that scrubs the video forward or reverse. When scrubbing forward the movie halts at the end. When reversing the scrub it gets to the start and loops back to the end!!! Maddening.... So, it ... 14 Jan 2008 00:30

Publishing .wmv to CDROM
I am trying to publish a CDROM which includes several .wmv's in it. They all work fine locally, but they look for the path to my C: "media" folder instead of a "media" folder on the CD drive or the moviePath. Is there a place to define where the movie is using the moviePath & media. Not every computer it runs o... 13 Jan 2008 14:34

Displaying PPT 2007 files
Hello - our application used to use the RavWare PPTViewer Xtra for embedding PPT files within it and gave us neat controls like working out the page that had been viewed. It relied on PPTViewer97 and there was also a beta version which supported PPTViewer2003. However times have moved on and now our clients are... 14 Jan 2008 09:13

How do I open a TIFF from a Mac projector?
I am using Director MX on a PC. I need to create a projector that will open a TIFF on a Mac. The TIFF is in the same folder as the Director Projector. I can get a PC version to work using BudApi. Cannot get the mac version to work. I would very VERY much appreciate any help or suggestions as to how to open a ... 1 Feb 2008 00:51