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Subject: urgent: MAC & Windows Projector discrepancies
From: "1013greg" <webforumsuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:39:31 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups: macromedia.director.basics

Hey gang,

 I've run into a persistent problem here.  I'm running Director MX (can't yet 
upgrade to 11 per client because of a few issues with incompatibility) on both 
a Mac G5 Quad and MacPro, there is no difference in functionality between the 
two systems in regards to the projector files.

 With that said, the mac projectors work perfectly fine, while the PC 
projectors have one issue that I can't seem to remedy.

 First:  check out the screen-capture of the interface in use (it'll save us 
the time to explain it in text)
 the link: http://1013media.com/temp/LCA10_interface_demo.mov

 The video above was captured from the mac version of the projector, and it 
works as-designed.  The PC however, everything is the same EXCEPT for the 
ability to TURN OFF the captions.  I can swap between them no problem, but when 
it comes time to toggle them off, nope.  

 My question:  has anybody experienced this type of issue, between the mac and 
PC projectors?  I've included the scripts below.  The CC button will be the 
first script, and the script for the actual QT .mov of the CC file is the 
second one listed.  Both are attached as behaviors.  Also noteworthy, the 
reason the sprites are instructed to move off the screen is because the stage 
freaks out if two movies are stack atop one another - they flicker like mad.  
Thus, the sprite(7).visible = false option is off the table.  This explains the 
sprite(#).locV = 640 lines, with the locV = 486 being the on-screen location.

 Interestingly, as a test, I made a quick OFF button which simply told the CC 
.mov sprites to move off the screen, and even this didn't work on the PC.

 Thanks in advance for any help you can offer - will be checking in all weekend 
as we're against quite a deadline for these babies.  Cheers,
 -greg





 --moves the english CC .mov in and out of visibility

 on mouseUp
   sprite(7).toggleMe()
   if sprite(8).locV = 496 then
     sprite(8).locV = 640
   end if
 end


 --This keeps the CC movie at the same frame as the video above it. This
 --should be attached to each CC sprite. It will also get the commands to 
 --move the sprite out of, or back in to view.

 property spriteNum

 on beginSprite 
   sprite(spriteNum).locV = 640
   currentMovie = sprite(9).member.name
   sprite(spriteNum).member = currentMovie&"_cc"
   sprite(spriteNum).width = sprite(9).width
 end

 on enterFrame
   sprite(spriteNum).movieTime = sprite(9).movieTime
 end

 on toggleMe
   put sprite(spriteNum).locV
   if sprite(spriteNum).locV = 496 then
     sprite(spriteNum).locV = 640
   else
     sprite(spriteNum).locV = 496
   end if
 end


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