Advanced Macromedia Director

Director/Projector hangs on exit/halt on Windows
Hi Andy. Although I have not had any of the described problems, I'd suggest looking into registered Objects etc. Since the app hangs and resides in memory, it might be a good idea to unset all globals and objects that are being used before executing the 'halt' command. Might give it a try. Cheers, Jochen ... 14 Nov 2006 05:42

BudAPI questions
Hi all, I wonder if there is any way to do the following by using Budapi i have a number of cast members that write on mousedown a specific line of text in a prefs file. Now, when my user exists the application i would like to renae the file to reflect the different users of my system. For example, if us... 9 Nov 2006 10:03

Socket comunication.
I recently discover the XMLSocket Object in flash. I think is the simplest solution for to develop socket comm, is clean, free, safe for shockwave (it comes with the flash xtra) but it has several problems. It can not stay in listen mode, it can not connect to ports lower than 1024, among others. So i?ve de... 10 Nov 2006 15:34

Burn DVD with Director
Hi, I need to burn information (text files and images) on DVD from a projector. I already burn CDs with FireFly Xtra from Ingeniak. This Xtra does not allow me to burn DVDs (it is suppose to... but return errors). Does someone know an other way to burn DVD from a projector? I am using Director MX 2004, Wi... 20 Nov 2006 09:46

Annoying - Sounds Repeat!
I have made a game, and several of the sounds that correspond with events, should only place once, and they place twice! I have tried various iterations. I have tried "WAVE" files in 11.025, 22.050, 44.1, and in 8-bit and 16-bit versions... I have tried "SWA" files in a couple of different bps sample rates / ... 7 Nov 2006 10:08

Simple Lingo help, placing a sprite
Im looking for a way to place a cast member by clicking the mouse button. (Everytime someone clicks the stage, a new cast member (or bitmapped dots) will be created-- in the future, those dots will contain information). Ideally, I want the user to click the stage and see a dot in the exact place he clicked, t... 31 Oct 2006 13:22

how to use in Lingo XML-RPC file
Hello: I have to read an XML-RPC file from other application. Do you know how to read this kind of files? The enterprise of XML-RPC file told me that I have to use Sockets for read it. Can you tell me please, how to do it with Lingo? Thank you very much. ... 31 Oct 2006 12:19

Read from a text file
Hello: I need to control if any change has done in a text file. So, it can be to read the file in a infinite loop and when a change is done, write this change in a text field? Can you tell me how to do this? thanks a lot. ... 27 Oct 2006 08:41

Xtra no loger recognised help
Hi everyone, My experience with director is not good and I know that this is an old and repeated question. But I need help in order to resolve this problem. I created a Director project in Mac 2 years ago. It worked perfectly! But now I have a PC and the following error pops up when I play the project. (I a... 1 Nov 2006 06:05

Positioning MIAWs in relation to the stage
Does anyone know how I can get a third (or fourth) MIAW of the same movie to open slightly above and to the right of the second as the second is slightly above and to the right of the first. Here is the code that opens the first from the movie (glossary) playing on the stage which tells it where to open the fi... 26 Oct 2006 17:53