Create a child cast member

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

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
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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:
>
> 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
>

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I want to create an instance of a cast member on stage, that
will not exist as a new member in the cast.
I read some stuff about child objects, but I wasn't
successful in getting it to work.
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"ytlevine" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I want to create an instance of a cast member on stage,
that will not exist
>as
> a new member in the cast.
> I read some stuff about child objects, but I wasn't
successful in getting
> it
> to work.
> I also want to be able to create more than one instance,
and to be able to
> manipulate them separately.
> Can someone help?
> Thanks a lot,
> Isaac
>

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I copied an Excel style table out of MS Word and pasted it
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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
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into a new
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the new cast
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rarely enough
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syntax error
because the code runs fine after the above process. But it
does only
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Dean, I might do that. No, this has been going on long enough
that I sure
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night. In one
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I ran the
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shortcoming of
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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
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the error when
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I just find it interesting that there haven't been a bunch of
"Yeah, I get
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Craig
Craig Wollman
Lingo Specialist
Word of Mouth Productions
212-928-9581
www.wordofmouthpros.com
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> (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
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>
> regards
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>
> Director Lecturer / Consultant
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg598921.aspx
http://vsarbranchingguide.codeplex.com/
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