Looping and Stopping...

Im trying to make a little multimedia application. Obviously
I dont want my homepage to just go to the next script, i went it to
loop so that it repeats the script untill the user clicks to go
onto another link.
At the moment i have created a new behaviour and my event is
"Exit Frame" and my action is "Go to marker" which is the start of
the homepage. However for some reason, the marker just seems to
pause at the beginning of the marker therefore it does not play
some of the animations i have put in.
Does anyone know how to correctly put in some type of loop
that will play all my animations and just go back to the marker or
frame i have chose?
Thanks

Hi Badderman,
As Rob alluded to in his reply, your message is not clear in
what you actually
want to do. I suspect this is because you're still at the
early stages of learning
Director so you're not familiar with the various terminology,
and as such, you are
misusing those terms in your message.
I'm going to try guess what you're doing.
You have an animation from say frame 1 to 30, which you want
to loop. This is your
homepage section. To get the animation to loop, you can
insert a behavior (a type
of script) into frame 30 that says:
on exitFrame
go to "homepageStart"
end
homepageStart - is the name of the marker at frame 1.
Now, if you don't need to loop an animation, but you want to
just loop in the
frame, you'd put the behavior bellow into frame number 30 of
the Scripting
channel.
on exitFrame
go the frame
end
This plays the same frame (frame 30) over and over until
Director is told to jump
somewhere else. Maybe that's what you mean by "it repeats the
script until the
user clicks to go onto another link."
To create a link to another marker, a behavior may be added
to a sprite as
follows:
on mouseUp
go to "someOtherMarker"
end
You could get into trouble if you drag a frame behavior onto
a sprite. So, if you
had a graphic sprite with the behavior
on exitFrame
go to "homepageStart"
end
then, you'd experience the problem of the movie appearing to
always pause at the
"homepageStart".
So, look through all your sprites and see if you have
attached that behavior to
any of them.
regards
Dean
Director Lecturer / Consultant / Director Enthusiast
http://www.deansdirectortutorials.com/
http://www.multimediacreative.com.au
email: [email protected]

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