Advanced Macromedia Director

Using Flash Components
I am using Tree Component of Flash Mx 8 in Director Version 10. I want to get the index or value of node if any one of clicked by the user. Regards, Shahzad ... 21 Jan 2008 11:11

Download from FTP
Hello: Is possible to download automatically from an FTP server one or more files with Lingo? I have to make an application that detect if new files are in the FTP server then begin the download automatically. Do I need any Xtras or can you guide me about this? Thank you very much. ... 21 Jan 2008 09:30

2 button mouse for MAC
I'm authoring a project on a PC but also need a MAC version. There are some functions that require a right mouse click. They work fine on the PC but can't get them to work on the MAC. I have emulateMultiButtonMouse = TRUE. I have a two button mouse on my MAC. Right clicking does not work and Control clicking do... 17 Jan 2008 16:02

turn hardware acceleration off
hi, is there a way to turn sound hardware accelaration off via lingo, xtras or dll call? regards ... 17 Jan 2008 09:51

Log in Screen
Hi everyone, iv only just joined this forum and am relatively new to Director and all this kinda stuff and the 'help' files in the program seem pretty diar in my opinion, and never really have what im looking for. basically im making an interactive fitness program, and what i want is for the users to have the... 20 Jan 2008 06:07

Editable field sprites capture a mouesdown on right click
That is weird! I had never noticed that. It only seems to happen if the #field member is editable. If the SPRITE is editable instead (in the Property Inspector on the Sprite tab), then there is no problem. That should be an easier fix than switching over to #text members at least. ... 16 Jan 2008 14:13

Editable field sprites capture a mouesdown on rightclick
I have editable field members and am using buddy to make a right click copy/paste menu - problem is that editable field sprites seem to think that a rightmousedown is also a left mousedown. This completely breaks my behaviour. Anyone ever come across this before? I'd rather not replace all my field members with... 16 Jan 2008 13:04

Showing video window in the same scene
Hi there I?m doing a project for university and i have a section just for videoclips. I want to have a menu list on the left of the screen that when the user presses each element in the list a video will show up in the middle of the screen. I was thinking in linking the video to another scene like i wa... 16 Jan 2008 15:53

Send a mouse click?
Does anyone know how to generate a mouse click with lingo? I need a 'genuine' mouse event - not sendsprite(x,#mouseup) Cheers ... 16 Jan 2008 14:13

expert on PC, newbie on Mac - Xtras
Hi I develope director apllications on PC for over 10 years. Now my customer wants to port couple of applications, made for PC, on mac platform As I understand, the problem is to rewrite everything, wat is done with xtras and script, that contains relative pathes to external files My questions concerns mo... 16 Jan 2008 11:24