Flash :: External Swf Into Director.

External SWF's In Director
I've seen a couple of queries vaguely related to this subject elsewhere, but just wanted to more specific.

I'm currently creating a CD-Rom which shows off Quicktime movies, print work, other Director presentations, and... in the case of this post, various Flash websites I've done.

Here's the rub:

The two chosen sites are broken into many swf files that load in when required. And obviously, once the base level swf is imported into Director, it no longer has the ability to recognise that it needs to load in all the other movies when required.

Is there some sort of Lingo I need to know (no pun intended) for Director, that allows it to import these external swf's independantly?

Or am I completely stuffed, admit defeat, and get Director to open up a Web Browser and view the sites in there?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

.swf's And External .swf's In Director?
hey everyone,

say i have a main file called main.swf and it loads externally home.swf and about.swf.

if i import main.swf into director and export it as a projecter file. will the main.swf still load the external files?

thanks in advance

Working With External Fonts And Director
Hi,

when working with UTF-8 fonts or other big fonts compiling can be such a
pain. When having multiple big fonts I could go and get me a coffee
every time I compile my flash movie.

I use textfields for every font format I use so I could use it as linked
library member but it does not work when using it in director.

Does anyone know a solution to this? How to avoid compiling big fonts?

Loading An External .mpeg With Authorware Or Director
Using MX, from CD not web.

I can load an .mpg using get URL if they play my CD in thier D drive. I have major problems with people using a drive other than D for thier CD drive.

I am sure there is an easy fix to source a file if I do not know what drive the CD is in, but cant seem to figure it out. Please help!!!

Would it better to use Authorware or Director to accomplish this task. If yes, then please give detailed instructions. Thanks!

A .swf Embedded In Director 8 Should Tell Director To Call And Play An Mp3 Within...
please,somebody tell me how can i tell director8 to bring into a flash file an mp3 file, playing at a certain frame and layer,if: the mp3 is in director library,,,???

regards to any evangelist able to help!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Director Question : Flash´ KeyDown In Director
Hi

I've been working on a project in flash where I have used keyDown commands. It works fine in actionscript. The problem is that I would like to import it into director. But my keyDowns doesn´t work in director. If I made buttons in flash it works in director. But keyDown doesn´t work. Do anyone know why it doesn´t work? I hope someone can help me.
Thank you.

A link to the flash-file : www.mohrdesign.dk/test ( I have used key a, b, c, d, e)

mamo

Flash Button Within Director Movie To Go To Other Director Movie
I have made a menu in flash with various buttons on it, and imported it into a director movie. I was wondering if I could 'within flash' tell each button to open up a different director movie using the actions panel, ie 'open movie - whatever.dir'. is this possible.

Some Help With Director
I NEED HELP!!!!!

trying to import flash movies (5) into director (8.5) which
supposed to support "Action Script" got me confused...

the movie are playing smooth and fast - most of the action
do actually work, but - BUT!!! - but LoadMovie action
just seems not to b doing anything---> so my question is:
how can I load a flash movie - into a director file from
another flash movie that already had been imported as a caast member????

Save your knoldge =- spred it out.

_-=^thnx any how^=-_-=^=-_-=^=-_-=^=-_-=^=-_-=^=-_-=^

Director
Is there a Flash equivalent to the Director "on idle" frame function?

In Director you can pause the playback head at a frame, and then use the "on idle" function to do a repetative task as often as the cpu has free cycles.

eg script:
on enterFrame
pause
end

on idle
do something processor intensive here
end

In Flash, I am using "gotoAndPlay" to a frame label located 1 frame before the script that needs repeating indefinately. This seems like a waste of processing power.

How do YOU do it?

MX Or Director
Now with the video capabilities of MX is this a good option for CD presentation making. I've used flash for awhile and I know that director has a steep learning curve. I'm not going to be using 3D really so is mx the better option?

Are there any problems in making .exe/.hqx files? Will I need pc and mac versions if I want to make cross platform stuff?

Thanks for any info.

later

DIrector
Hi... i was just wondering..
Is there any website for Macromedias Director on the web ones like flashkit i mean (e.g DirectorKit)

Director Help
how do I write a script to attach to a graphic(button) to go to frame30?

heres my code so far

on mouseDown
if the clickOn = 0 then go to frame 30
end

Director
i dont know to to post this but. does director use the language c++?

Director Kit
Director kit beta trial goes on line @

http://webdb.ucs.ed.ac.uk/ddm/2003/m..._Kit/index.htm

please take look and post feedback and suggestions to site designers.

Pt

Director
Hey guys, I need a stub projector exe and Xtra bundle for windows
I have it for mac but need windows. Can anyone help out

Director ?
Hi,

I need to put together a CD which contains a menu to offer various options which will describe a product. The menu would autorun from the CD and then automatically start a video running introducing various aspects of the company and products with a profesional narration over the top of it. The video would then end and a menu would be available behind with options to view different video clips going into more detail. I have restrictions in that the CD must be a conventional CD-R of say 650Mb so I cannot use DVD-R's however the video would not have to run full screen or at exceptional quality. Would Director be the answer? I have Flash 5 and Flix already so could I get away with this? I do not have ages to learn Director or another piece of software but if it is fairly straight forward and would do the best job I do have the budget to buy it.

Thanks for any comments.

DAL

Director
Hi guys,
I know this is a Flash site but I have a question about Director that I guess would be very simple to answer.
How do you change the background of a sprite from solid colour to transparent.
Any ideas would be much appreciated
thanks

Director Is ...?
Hello,

Looking for opinions, comparisons, rants etc concerning the above and Flash.

Invested a little time and money in Dir8 some time back and wondering whether to persist.

Director ?
i just got director 2004 mx Ver 10
does anyone know any tutorials for it??
what is this program mainly used to make??

Director Help
Hi,

Does anyone know where the best place to get tutorials or source files on learning games like drag and drop for macromedia director pref v8.5???

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

Director....
Hi,

Does anyone know where the best place to get tutorials or source files on learning games like drag and drop for macromedia director pref v8.5???

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

Director.
Hey All,

I know this is the wrong place to put this but i dont really believe there is a right place.

I have had this game in my head for ages now and although its simple to look at (pacman is like doom 3) i want to add alot of general physics in which i believe flash just couldnt cope (plus i dont much care for flash games).

Wheni first started learning Flash i instantly googled flash and found this site. Thats nice and its a nice place to be

However, now i want to look into director. I dont know anything about it (i can use the development tool ok but lingo). I dont know its capabilites, can lingo work with particles without slowing to the speed of a C64? Anyways thats off topic.

Why is it that Director or more inportantly, Lingo is a well kept secret? lol well i mean, no one cares about it. I have been to a site which i have read is the oldest director community site but the design is so bad that i cant actually navigate it.

OReilly publish no lingo books (there might be one but its old skool) director books, or the ones i have thumbed through all have 30 pages on Lingo and i cant seem to find a forum based site for it (like this) but that would be ok IF i could maybe find some other source but there is none available.

Anyone know where i can go to learn Lingo?

I didnt know where to post but because im guessing there is similarity of some sort i thought this may be the best place!

Director Help?
Oh I'm also having trouble with bringing a flash clip into director. I just want the clip to loop continuosly throughout the section that I am working on. How do I do it??

Thanks in advance....

Megs

Anyone Know Director 8.5?
I know this is a weird place to ask, haha, but I am trying to get my head around Director 8.5 for a project for college.

I need to know how to make a simple rollover and simple interactivity, such as clicking a button to go to a different frame in the movie.

Director is so confusing compared to Flash. Can anyone help?

Thanks!!!

Director
I'm trying to import my flash file (.swf) into Director 8.5. But the file comes in with the sides cut off ..... it has a fullscreen command in the start as well. Anyone had this problem before or know why this is happening

Thx
Sandman9

FMS + Director. Can I Use?
Hi,

I have 2 questions. One is with SWF decompile problem

1 - If we are using SWF with Flash media server than how come SWF is cached on user computer and be able to decompile it. I have read that Flash media server dont cache SWF on user computer. Need answer please

2 - If we are using director. Can we use it with Flash media server for multiplayer games etc? Dont want to use Xtras that give multiplayer capability to director. Any one tell director has good integration with Flash media server? and is wise to use it with FMS

Thanks

Director
Hi,

Does anyone know where the best place to get tutorials or source files on learning games like drag and drop for macromedia director pref v8.5???

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

Director 8 - Anybody Use It Before?
Ive heard alot of good things about the software - but dont know a darn thing about it.

What does it do mainly?

Any advice before i go out and buy it?

Director
Hi,

Does anyone know where the best place to get tutorials or source files on learning games like drag and drop for macromedia director pref v8.5???

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

Director Help
hello,
i would like to attach a 'print screen' or 'print window' function to an icon. I am using Director 8.5.
I would appreciate any assistance.
Regards
Guy

Does Anyone Know Director?
Does anyone know director?

Im looking to get into it and i was hoping my flash skills could transfer over,

i have director mx 2004 and i see it supports its native lingo and javascript ....what about actionscript??

Director MX Help
I need some help on making a horizontally scrollable backround, which wil also have other sprites attached to it scrolling.... any ideas???

Director And .NET
Hi there,
I am looking for a way to read data from an ASP.NET page into director. Is this possible? I tried using getnettext() but no luck. All i am wanting to do is perform some processing on the server (read values from Database) and pass them into director movie. I am aware that this can be done with ADOXtra but i am trying to avoid it as it needs web server setup for remoting etc...

any help in this regard will be highly appreciated

thank you
ashwin k

Help Please,director
hi,

i'm doing a project the now on macromedia director 8.5.. i aint too clued up on lingo, especially radio buttons.

Say i have 2 radio buttons, a yes and a no.. if i were to summit the page, wat script do i use for it to know if its yes or no...
say it were yes that was selected, how would that take me to another marker..?

as i was wanting it so if someone selected no or yes, it would go to the right markers, once i press the 'go' or 'summit' button..

please help, i am totally stuck!

HELP Flash To Director
anyone knows how to open an .exe from Flash swf or Flash exe files.

im trying to open a Director projector after my Flash intro is done i want it to open the projector.

FLASHKIT For DIRECTOR
Does anyone knows a "Flashkit" for Director?
Open sources, tutorials, good stuff...
Thanks!

Moving UP? To Director - Oh Help
I have previously made flash presentations for CD-rom output that check, using a simple Load variables loop, to check if the user is on line and if so give improved functionality to the presentation.

However the powers that be now want the same thing in a director presentation and I HAVE NOT GOT A CLUE!!!!!

If you can think of a way or point out a director tutorial I would be grateful.

also If you can tell me can I reuse the flash loop (mentioned above) in the director environment to accomplish the same effect and how to implement it.

All help gratefully received,
Jon 8o)

Director Forum
Hello there.
I was wondering to know if anybody knows a good director forum ? If not can any body answer one question about it ?
Thanks a lot.
alex

OT - Director 8 Queries
Sorry that this is so off-topic, but there seems to be a complete lack of useful Director resources. Someone pointed me in this direction saying i may get help here.

I'm pretty much a beginner with Director and I've got 2 questions about scripting. The first is,I want a generic rollover script for changing a sprite to another(I can make ones that are sprite specific but that means a lot of seperate scripts).
Theres something in the helpfile under rollovers about a script that swaps the sprite with the next one in the cast which would be perfect, but im a bit clueless with scripting at the mo and it doesnt explain it simply enough.

Secondly, I've got 5 rollover sprites that, when the mouse moves over them, i want some text to appear elsewhere on the stage.
Someone said about creating an invisible sprite and making it so the rollover changes the invisible sprite to some cast members consisting of the pieces of text. But im getting a pretty stuck with all the scripting for this as well.

Any help is appreciated
Thankyou

Quicktime To Director
How I can import a director movie in a Flash Movie? I need to do this because I've a Quichtime movie with sound i MPEG format that I want to import in Flash; this file is toolarge for flash (more than 2500 JPEG files) without sound and I cannot export sound track because is equal with film track. Thank you

F. Pacienza

Flash & Director - Please Help
I am working for the past few weeks on a CD-Rom about a company's presentation. I have designed it in flash, and now I have imported it in Director 8.5

My problem is that my client wants in a section to show some thumbnails of pictures and to provide the chance to the viewer to download the hi-resolution picture to his/her PC (or Macintosh).

How can I do it? How can I make a script that when I click on the picture (in Director 8.5) a browzer window will appear that will give me the chance to choose where I want the picture to be saved in my computer?

Thank you in advance.

Director 8.5 LOADMOVIE?
Does anyone know if Director 8.5 supports Flash's loadmovie command? If so how do I set the swf files in director for it to work correctly????

Flash And Director
Anyone know how to create a projector with Live Motion????

I have created the swf and now need it to go on a CD rom for a presentation.

I need it as a standalone application without any browser frames.

I've tried to put it in Director but it just blows through on the timeline and doesn't stop.

HELPPPPPPPPP !!!

Due 01/23/02.

Anyone who knows lingo and flash, how do I stop the timeline and let the Flash movie work in a "director movie".

desperate.

Flash And Director
does anybody know if flash onclick actions can be used in director, for example i have created roll down menus in flash and put them in director but the only way i can get a click on a menu option go to a director frame is by putting a transparent box created in director over a menu option from the roll down and place an onclick goto frame behaviour on te box
any help appreciated

Flash 5 Or Director
Can anyone tell me which was used to create the Kodak Picture Viewer. Upon closing Kodak credits Macromedia but there is no indication which was used Flash or Director. You can take a look at the viewer by downloading free from

http://www.kodak.com/global/en/digit...OZ2LQHIO2SXWKI

Is this a program that could be designed by a newbie or should I seek professional help?

Thanx in advance...patchUK

Communcating With Director
2 Questions

1) If i use my flash navigation in a director 8.5 movie, how do i communicate with the Director timeline, so that the flash movie can navigate around it.

2) How do i create a Mask in Director. I want to do the same sort of thing that i would do with a flash mask (ie i want to scroll images within a certain part of the screen) But i dont seem to be able to find any references to it anywhere. I dont want to use a flash mask as it slows down the director movie.

Help !!

Thanks

Director And Flash
How do make my buttons from flash work when i import my flash files into director ?

What i did in flash was a text button that call out a movie clip submenu. I want to import that into director. how do i make it work ? Thanx

GetURL And Director(8)
has anyone got any methods of passing information to
director which results in anything other than a go to frame
or go to marker command ? eg changing a variable or calling
a custom handler....
if so I and a million more'd be grateful to hear from you....

FlashMX/Director
Please Help!!!

Dos anyone know if Flash MX can cooperate Macromedia Director 7/8???

I have earlier, imported Flash 5 into Director without any problems, but after using Flash MX, I cant get Director to import my Flash movies. (it's like I cant find the movie when I want to import, as it dos not support the format!!)

I have also upgradet to windows XP, is that the problem???

I'm going nuts - Please help me!!