Re: FN-FORUM Director 8 HELP!

date posted 24th April 2001 14:55

You should replace your

On Mousedown
Playmovie (WhichMovie)
end

with something like

on Mousedown
go to movie "thismovie"
end

where "thismovie" is replaced by the name of the movie you want to find (there is no need to include the ".dir" portion of the moviename the playback engine will work this out itself.

You can also use

on Mousedown
go frame "thisframe" of movie "thismovie"
end

where "thisframe" is the name of a label or you can use an absolute frame reference such as

go to frame 20 of movie "thismovie"

In order to check what is going on. (Your mousedown events may not be executing whihc could cause problems) add a line like

on Mousedown
put "About to jump to an external movie"
go frame "thisframe" of movie "thismovie"
end

Leave your message window open while testing things in the authoring environment and you should see the message appear in it as you click to go to your new movie.

One option that may be affecting things is a property director uses to determine wher it seraches for things. By default it should be set to true. You could alwsy force set it just before you try and jump to a movie just in case something somehwer is unsetting it. the lingo you need is

the searchCurrentFolder = TRUE

Hope this helps

regards


Steve


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