I'm a newbie and need some basic help...

Question

I'm a newb trying to teach myself Director. I'm trying to
make a menu and I'm having some problems....
I have 3 main buttons. When you click one of the main
buttons, 3 sub buttons pop up next to the button pressed. When one
of those sub buttons is pressed, a box pops up to the right of the
sub buttons and has a list inside containing links to movies. When
one of the links is pressed i want the movie to take the place of
the links in the box. When the movie is done playing it will
disappear and show the links again.
I uploaded what I have done here...
http://www.lohrmandesign.com/uploads/Template.dir
If you look at it, could you tell me what I've done
correctly, and how I should go about implementing the rest of the
menu? I imagine you have to use director movies within the main
director movie, but I haven't figured out how to implement that. Or
possibly use the .visible command? Thanks for any help...Online
resources and examples are scarce for Director it seems.
And I'm not sure if i have to upload all the pics for you to
view my movie correctly, If I do, just let me know...

Answer 1

quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
I haven't looked at your Director file, but what you want to
do sounds
pretty simple. First of all, though, can you clarify what you
mean by
"movie," because Director's terminology makes it kind of
confusing. Are
you speaking of a Director movie, or digital video?
If you want to jump to a different Director movie, simply do
something
like this:
on mouseUp me
go to frame "StartMovie" of movie "Option1"
end
To get back to your menu, just use an exitFrame command at
the end of
the Director movie that takes you back there.
If you're referring to starting a digital video, just put
your video
somewhere in the same Director file your menu is in, label it
with a
marker, and simply jump to that marker. Like this:
on mouseUp me
go to frame "Video1"
end
To get back to your menu at the end of the video do something
like this:
on exitFrame me
if sprite(5).movieRate = 1 then
go to the frame
else
go to frame "Menu"
end if
end
Hope that helps.
Sorry, I should have clarified...When you click on a sub
category button, a Quicktime video will play, not a Director
"movie"...Thanks for the help! using the method you described, that
would make the menu disappear when the video is played, and reload
the menu when the movie is done, right? I want the menu to stay
visible while the movie is playing...