Cast Member name in SuperHero trailer

Just upgraded imovie after upgrading to Mavericks. After creating a SuperHero trailer, I noticed the cast - in the credits - is still listed as Mom, Dad, Jia.
When I go to Outline, under cast, I can only set their sex (Male/Female). I cannot enter any names. Has anyone else experienced this bug?
R.

This video is created with same template, see the issue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7I_-IcCynY

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Missing Cast member names in score

Hi,
I'm having a problem with the Score when I open Director.
The names of the members on each sprite don't show up (see image), now I can work around this, but I'm editing someone else's document so locating each cast member on the score is turning into a time consuming and confusing issue.
I'm on Director 2004 MX and I'm fairly new to Director so I haven't found anything in the help files or the forum

Thank you!
So obvious when you know how
Cheers!

Changing the cast member of a sprite

Hi, I have the following code so that when a user clicks on a
shape (acting as a button), it changes the cast member of an
existing sprite called "base" on the stage to an image cast member
called "Italian Lira". However the code does not work, any
suggestions what I have done wrong?
on mouseUp me
currency = "Italian Lira"
sprite("base").member = member(currency)
end

Thanks for keeping me sane Mike. I've always used a global
list with sprite
assignments so I never had to deal with whether or not the
sprite names
feature worked. But I guess you've dispelled the myth.
Thanks.
I guess we still don't know whether "base" is a sprite name
or mistakenly
and cast member name. I see that we haven't heard back from
pete_484 on
this.
Craig Wollman
Lingo Specialist
Word of Mouth Productions
212-928-9581
www.wordofmouthpros.com
"Mike Blaustein" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:enthgu$22c$[email protected]..
> Yes they did. I am not sure why so many people are
saying not to do it,
> because I name sprites in practically every project I do
these days.
> Assuming that you sprite is named correctly, this should
work (I just
> removed the word member in the 2nd line):
>
> on mouseUp me
> currency = "Italian Lira"
> sprite("base").member = currency
> end

How do I get Lingo to cough up the member name of a sprite?

I've tried:
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put the currentspriteNum into holding
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Thank you!!!!! It worked. You've saved me.

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Hi,
I need to create a dynamic menu for an application. Right
now I am creating every item as a new cast member:
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What I would like to do, is have an existing cast member with
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create all my new cast members based on the existing one, so I
would only need to change the text it contains and not the color,
size....
It could also be usefull to do this since I could attach a
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Hi Pat, and welcome to the list.
As for your question, I'd suggest you work with a single cast
in general,
unless it really helps organizing your project.
Creating members on the fly -as it seems you are doing- is a
much cleaner
approach.
Why don't you create a handler that would accept as arguments
the formatting
options and the member they should be applied to?
Or e.g. two handlers that each would apply some fixed
formatting to a member
that is passed to it.
The less the members, the smaller the project, btw.
> It could also be useful to do this since I could attach
a behavior to the
> existing cast member
I suppose you are talking about cast member scripts, not
behaviors. Another
thing you'd better avoid, since behaviors (scripts attached
to sprites) are
more flexible, receive notifications that script members
don't (like e.g. on
beginSprite), and are designed for oop (a reference to the
script
object -me- is passed as the first argument by the system
when calling
behaviors' handlers).
"PDiLalla" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:f97p50$rh1$[email protected]..
> Hi,
>
> I need to create a dynamic menu for an application.
Right now I am
> creating
> every item as a new cast member:
>
> newMember = new(#text)
> member(newMember).name = "Item1"
> member(newMember).text = "Blabla"
>
> What I would like to do, is have an existing cast member
with the good
> font,
> font size, color, etc... and in my lingo script, create
all my new cast
> members
> based on the existing one, so I would only need to
change the text it
> contains
> and not the color, size....
>
> It could also be usefull to do this since I could attach
a behavior to the
> existing cast member and then all my new ones would have
the same behavior
> attached to them.
>
> I hope this can be done, sorry if it is obvious, I'm in
the process of
> learning Director and Lingo.
>
> Thanks,
> Pat
>

Change image property changes member name

Hello. I know that surely this is answered already. But can
you tell me why if I change the image or picture property of a cast
member it also changes the member's name? The thing is that I take
the images from a valentina database and I put the on a list. Then
I assign the image to a "joker" cast member. But as soon as I
cahnge the cast member image it also changes the name of it and I
can't refer to it anymore
Thanks a lot

I get sdome images to a lingo list with getImage valentina
function. then I do
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image in imagelist[1].
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and the image pereserves its name. So I guess I will use the
picture property ans getPicture function
johnAq's approach also works. I also agree that there is a
mistake to my code(lingo specific) , maybe references or something
but I don't know what is exactly.
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Script cast member not found

Can anyone tell me why the %^$& I get a "script cast
member not found"
error?
I've been working in Director for 17 years and I get this
from time to time.
I generally just copy the code from the behavior, paste it
into a new
behavior, name the new one the same as the old on, then copy
the new cast
member over the old one and it solves it. But it happened
rarely enough
that I didn't bother questioning why. I know it's not a
syntax error
because the code runs fine after the above process. But it
does only
happens when I've made a change to the code in that behavior.
Now I'm working with a simple movie with one parent script
and a
prepareMovie handler that instantiates one child object and
I'm getting this
darn error all the time. My above solution isn't working
anymore. The
error points to the first line of a particular handler. That
first line was
a comment. So I got rid of the comment and the new first line
of the
handler is code and the error points to it. If you see where
I'm headding,
no matter how many lines of "errored" code I get rid of the
error alert will
always point to the first line of that handler.
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every version
of Director I've owned. And by the way, I'm in MX on a PC.
Craig Wollman
Lingo Specialist
Word of Mouth Productions
212-928-9581
www.wordofmouthpros.com

Dean, I might do that. No, this has been going on long enough
that I sure
it's not any definable user error.
But, I did, after all of these years, discover something last
night. In one
case, I did get a legitimate script error that I fixed. When
I ran the
project again, I received the same script error, even though
it was a simple
fix and I was sure I corrected it. I recompiled several times
and ran it
again and received the error again. Then it dawned on me that
since parent
scripts remain in memory until disposed of, Director must
have been, for
some reason, referring to the old parent script. I had
already set the
object's global variable to 0 in my stopMovie handler and
even though that
handler might not always run when errors occur, I ran it from
the message
window to insure that the object's global was 0. But that
still didn't
solve the problem. Then I used clearGlobals in the message
window and
voila, the issue went away. Dare I say that this is a
shortcoming of
Lingo's design to allow variables to persist/linger after an
error?
But what still baffles me is that most of the time when I get
that
particular error,, even though I seemed to have found a
workaround, it is
not an actual issue with any code.
When it happens again, I'll send you the code. Obviously, if
I'm correct
about the scripts lingering in memory, then you won't receive
the error when
you run the movie.
I just find it interesting that there haven't been a bunch of
"Yeah, I get
that darn thing too" here.
Craig
Craig Wollman
Lingo Specialist
Word of Mouth Productions
212-928-9581
www.wordofmouthpros.com
"Dean Utian" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hi Craig,
>
> Could it be a simple mistake of the script type not
being properly defined
> (movie/parent/behavior)?
>
> If you have a very baic movie where this error occurs
repeatedly, you
> could
> email me ([email protected]) and I'll take a fresh
perspective look at
> it.
>
> regards
> Dean
>
> Director Lecturer / Consultant
>
http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/learning/director
>
http://www.multimediacreative.com.au
>
>
>
>

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