Advanced Macromedia Director

How do YOU organize your scripts?
That is something that depends ALOT on what you are doing and how you do the whole development. I'm from a more "structured" programming environment and find it funny how Director manages the "programming" in it. My development efforts in D11 will make me do the following structure for ALL scripts: 1.... 6 May 2008 23:28

External source editor
Anyone know how to setup an external source editor? D11 allows one to change loads of media editors based on its "extension" and/or "mime/type", but there is in the list support for source editor, which IMHO is the most important of all. That and all the scripts DEFAULT to be writen as text files in the sam... 6 May 2008 22:24

Flash Variable with FileXtra4
Hi I'm wondering how to use flash variables with director mx 2004 or 11. What I need to do is open external photo from my app (cd-rom). I try with fileXtra4 to launch the external photo but I dont know how to tell director to launch the selected image wich is call (selectImg) flash variable. It normaly refering t... 6 May 2008 22:24

Help
thx for the remark.. i got it working now. but i still need the code for the random thing i mentioned above if someone can help. ... 6 May 2008 23:28

director LoadMovie
Hi I was wondering if its possible in Director 11 to load external swf files. Like LoadMovie with Flash. In my application: I have a projector (director one) Inside the projector I have a swf file, main project. I use Director only to create the projector and a couple director fonction not included in flash. Wh... 6 May 2008 22:24

Set Focus
How would I set the focus to a specific text input field? I have several input fields that are tested after the user submits the information and I would like to send them back to the first field with incorrect information in it. ... 6 May 2008 22:24

Pan zoom in and out with sprites
www.deansdirectortutorials.com www.lingoworkshop.com and look for links on Luke's and Dean's sites. Wolfgang ... 6 May 2008 21:28

Read / Write to baSysFolder("46") - BuddyApi
I was going to have my Director App read/write settings to a public folder. I was gonna use BuddyApi's baSysFolder("46") function to set this folder... In Vista baSysFolder("46") is "C:\Users\Public\Documents\" In XP baSysFolder("46") is "c:\Documents and Settings\All Users \Documents" Since this is a "shared"... 6 May 2008 21:28

something 's wrong with the linked files
I have a web movie with 6 linked images; if i publish with director mx, they load perfect; if i publish with the director 11 demo versi�n, they don't load. I think the problem is with the path, but i can't find where. any idea? sayeg ... 6 May 2008 21:28

Text member slowness
Okay, I've got a text object, 16 lines with various tabs in it for columns. I've discovered that accessing this text member in order to change things is abyssmally slow. E.g.: member("Text Object").line[2].word[4] = "Blah" takes about 1 second to execute, which is terrible, because with 16 lines times 11 c... 25 Apr 2008 00:36