Direct to Stage

Hi
I'm trying to play a windows media file in my Director
project, but its always on top, and I cannot put a button on top of
it, of course, to let the user choose to skip the intro movie. Well
the movie is always on top because of direct to stage, but I dont
see the option to turn it on or off in the property inspector
window. I thought maybe they moved the option, but the help file
says to click the sprite, and uncheck or check the DTS option in
under the windows media tab in the property inspector, but I see no
option for this. Any help
would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Chris

I don't think that this will work with Windows Media files,
but if you
can convert your digital video to Quicktime, you can do a few
things
1) play not DTS
2) Use a 1-bit mask to make bits of the QT sprite invisible
(even
playing DTS)
Using option 2 is the best since it will let you play the
video with
full performance and still allow you to use buttons with
rollover states.
If that is not an option, you can use the video as a button
(like Sean's
advice), and check which part of the video the mouse is over
and change
the cursor at different times. It is not as good as having a
rollover
effect on the actual button, but it is better than nothing.
-Mike
SlickZ wrote:
> Hi Sean
>
> Thank you for your reply. I did think of that, but the
way this project is
> layed out, they want the entire video to cover the whole
projector window,
> although that would work what you suggested, but i would
have no way to let the
> user know to click the video to skip the intro. Although
I suppose I could
> superimpose the word in the video itself. But then
again, they want every link
> to have a rollover state. Thanks again for your reply.
>
> Chris
>

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               vScrollBar2.move(txt.x + txt.width, txt.y-19);
               vScrollBar2.height = txt.height+29;
               vScrollBar2.scrollTarget = txt;
               mcEncadre.addChild(vScrollBar2);
               vScrollBar.update();
               vScrollBar2.update();
I tried .update() and it changes nothing. With this code only the first scrollbar works but if I add the second mcEncadre directly to the stage instead of to my text container (zoneTxt_mc) then they both work. Urgh!
Anyone encountered this before?

A spelling or punctuation mistake, or sometimes a trailing space usually causes this after the artists and/or song/album name, which fools the iPod into thinking that there are two different artists, albums or songs. The trailing space is the hardest to spot.
Best way to cure this is to go into iTunes, highlight that artist and/or songs/albums, right click on them and select "get info".
This brings up the multiple song info window. If you see the "artist" field is left blank, then there is a discrepancy with that name.
So to correct this, retype the name, as you would like it, and then click ok. You should do this even if no mistakes are immediately visible.
Re sync this new artist/song/album info to your iPod.
If the above is not the issue, try this also. Highlight all the songs for that artist, right click on them and select "apply sort field/same artist".
See if that works.

Move container sprite according to mouse movement

Hi All,
Currently I'm developing a game where there is a object which follows mouse. Also there are other objects and a map on the screen.I want all of background content(whole map and other objects) to move when user moves mouse left or right. That is, if user moves mouse on right side then all content(except object which moves as per mouse) should move left side so that user can see remaining part of map on the right side.
As of now I have created new Container sprite in which I have added all of my objects and map. So when user moves the mouse right, I move the container sprite to left so it looks all stuff moves to left. Code looks like as below
var pt:Point = new Point(character.x, character.y);
pt = dori.localToGlobal(pt);
if (pt.x > (stage.width * 0.5))
container.x -= 5;
Structure of project is such that, I add Container directly to stage. and this container contains everything like map, character and other objects.
Now issue is that as soon as mouse goes beyond middle of stage...it creates distance between mouse location and character..!! I mean it does move according to mouse but some distance get created between mouse and character. and this distance keeps increasing as I continue to move mouse away from center of stage!!
I'm really stuck with this issue. Please someone help with this. I hope I have explained this well. Let me know if you need more info but please help.

No see......I dont want ease in n all....and character following the mouse logic is working fine if I dont use above linear interpolation to move the container mc.....
but I do want to move container mc as well so I will have to use what you gave to move the all background objects when user moves mouse....
so Again to clarify, in the game when user moves mouse the character should follow and at the same time bakckground objects which are in container mc should move opposite to mouse movement so that remainng mape gets visible to the user....
just now when I was debuggin the linear interpolation logic...I got to know that there something I need to change in it...because accroding to that logic...let say for example
stageWidth is 480
maze.width is 551
then x1 will be 480
y1 will be -71
x2 will be 0 and
y2 will be 0
so m = (y1 - y2) / (x1 - x2) = -71 - 0 / 480 - 0
m = -0.147
b = y1 - m * x1 = -71 - (-0.147 * 480) = 0
so on each enter frame when mouseX wil be multiplied with m....it will create lag in moving container(character is in container as well!
bcoz
container.x = m * stageRef.mouseX + b;
so I'm confused!!
where do u think shall correction be made??

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