Advanced Macromedia Director

quicktime video flickering
This has definately worked in stopping the flicker but now there is a 7 second delay whilst the lingo is switching the DTS to True, there is nothing else on the screen at the time of the QT movie playing. If I disable the DTS switching on and off, it plays through faster but I get the flicker back ... 19 Jun 2008 01:21

Problems with D11 authoring on a 1920x1200 monitor
Hi I recently purchased a 24" widescreen monitor as I need to create my projects in 1600x1200. However when authoring in D11 with this monitor I find the cursor is incorrectly positioned in the script window. It is so far out of alignment with the relevant character position that editing scripts within D11 is almo... 19 Jun 2008 01:21

Creating a lingo audio level meter?
I?ve got a corporate project that will be using a Rock and Roll theme as a backdrop. It?s not functionally important to the project but I thought for eye candy it would be cool if the audio meter designed into the background functioned and actually responded to the short bits of music used throughout. The meter... 19 Jun 2008 01:21

Flash Text Input Component
Hello - I'm attempting to use the Flash Text Input component, but can't figure out how to get the text input! I see in the help files there's a event called "TextInput.enter" which is triggered when the user hits the enter key, but can't figure out how to work that event. I've been trying: on TextInput.trig... 19 Jun 2008 01:21

Loading Bar managing multiples netthings
Hi friends. It's been a while. I working on a project that parses multiples XML and image files. The first XML (initial data file, idf.xml) contains a serie of nodes, for example: example of idf.xml <data><file_name>"data.xml"</file_name></data> <prefs><file_name>"preferences.xml"</file_name></prefs> ....... 19 Jun 2008 01:21

Generic behavior to change System Cursors
-- Generic behavior to change System Cursors -- Desktop Xtra 1.0 or later required -- Compatibilities: Director 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, Windows property Cursors property Appstarting, Arrow, Crosshair, Ibeam, No, Sizeall, Sizenesw property Sizens, Sizenwse, Sizewe, Uparrow, Wait, Hand on getPropertyDescri... 19 Jun 2008 01:21

quicktime usage in director
Hi all, I am using quicktime movies in director and trying to get them to play smoothly, at the moment the quicktime movies are set as: 1024x576 (have to use it at this size) 25 fps Sorenson 3 compression Can anyone recommend which Data Rate or any other settings I should use to try and get this to ... 19 Jun 2008 01:21

Embedded font fails on Mac
Okay, I'm working on PC primarily (MX04), but I needed to make a Mac projector of this project to show to somebody. Just about everything works, with one exception. An embedded font I'm using extensively doesn't work at all on the Mac, I just get a bunch of rectangles. I know it works fine on PCs that don't ... 19 Jun 2008 01:21

Bugs in Debugger
Have any of the following ever happened to you? Because they're beginning to happen more and more frequently to me for some reason... 1. Program crashes, gives non-specific error message (e.g. "Cannot divide by zero", but without giving you the line of code that caused the error), and then you open the Debugg... 19 Jun 2008 01:21

load cursors
ok i have made my own cursors. There not cursors made in director. and i have set them up as a cursor scheme in the windows cursors folder. Now how do i get my director game i made to load the cursors when the game starts.? ... 19 Jun 2008 01:21