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From: Darrel Hoffman on 8 Apr 2008 09:24
I've just run into a real doozy - I'm using a bunch of Film Loop animation
sprites in my project (about 35 on stage at once, approx. 100 pixels square
each), and for some reason, several of them have decided to just completely
stop behaving properly. They've moved themselves to the upper-left corner
of the stage, scaled themselves up to twice their proper size, and refuse to
be moved or resized back to where they're supposed to be. They're not
locked, but when I try to move or resize them, they just stay right where
they are. I've tried deleting the offending sprites and copy/pasting a
similar sprite to position it in the same place, but then this makes BOTH
sprites go wonky. Everything I do just seems to make it worse. I've even
tried saving/restarting the program to see if it'll clear out the memory or
something, and it makes no difference. Has anyone ever run into this bug?
Is there any solution? This could kill my project if I don't get it cleaned
up. I'm afraid to do anything now because it just seems to get worse every
time I try...


From: wherold on 8 Apr 2008 20:17
scale with .with and .height does that behaviour.
move with .loc, .locH and .locV should work.

try to scale and move with sprite(x).rect, it's more calculation, but worked
for me in most cases.

regards
Wolfgang

From: Darrel Hoffman on 9 Apr 2008 09:09
> scale with .with and .height does that behaviour.
> move with .loc, .locH and .locV should work.
>
> try to scale and move with sprite(x).rect, it's more calculation, but
> worked
> for me in most cases.

Most of them (including the wonky ones) aren't being scaled via scripts, but
are manually scaled by dragging the rect-corners. (Holding down CTRL to
keep the aspect ratio the same.) There ARE film loop sprites that are being
scaled via scripts (using width and height), but these ones haven't had any
problems so far. None of them are being moved via scripts in this case. I
ultimately solved this problem by deleting all of the offending film loop
members and recreating them from scratch (I make a habit of keeping any
sprites involved in film loops sitting together on a frame past the end of
my used frames, in case I need to make any changes - that saved my butt this
time.)

Incidentally, does anyone know WHY scaling film loops via height/width has
this problem? It's particularly annoying, and a bug you'd think somebody
would've noticed by now, considering the film loop feature has been in the
program since I-don't-know-what version, but at least as far back as 3. I'd
also like it if it were possible to reverse-engineer a film-loop, converting
it back into its component sprites so you can make changes - that way I
wouldn't have to keep them around on that dead-frame at the end. (It'd also
be nice if you could run other stuff on film loops, e.g. change their color,
ink settings, etc. But I suppose that's a lot to ask for an old feature
that hasn't changed in at least 7 versions.)

Just out of curiosity - has any of this been changed at all in Dir11? I'm
still on MX2004, so I don't know what-all has been improved yet. Crossing
my fingers for a few recent annoyances like this...


From: LOOPING_Richard on 9 Apr 2008 10:16

"Darrel Hoffman" <no.address(a)all.com> wrote in message
news:ftif5a$p0m$1(a)forums.macromedia.com...
>> scale with .with and .height does that behaviour.
>> move with .loc, .locH and .locV should work.
>>
>> try to scale and move with sprite(x).rect, it's more calculation,
>> but worked
>> for me in most cases.
>

%< snip

> program since I-don't-know-what version, but at least as far back as
> 3. I'd also like it if it were possible to reverse-engineer a
> film-loop, converting it back into its component sprites so you can
> make changes - that way I wouldn't have to keep them around on that
> dead-frame at the end. (It'd also

There is a way to do that:

"
Note: If you need to edit a film loop and you have deleted the
original Score data that it was based on, it is possible to restore
the Score data for editing. Copy the film loop cast member to the
Clipboard, select a cell in the Score, and then paste. Director pastes
the original Score data instead of the film loop.
"

From:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/director/mx2004/release_update_en/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=Director_MX_2004_Documentation&file=06_ani14.htm

Richard.


From: UdoGre on 9 Apr 2008 10:33
[q][i]Originally posted by: [b][b]Newsgroup User[/b][/b][/i]
I'd also like it if it were possible to reverse-engineer a film-loop,
converting
it back into its component sprites so you can make changes - that way I
wouldn't have to keep them around on that dead-frame at the end.
[/q]

Hi Darrel,

you can do that: Copy your film loop member and paste it in your score in an
area with enough room.

Udo

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