Send a behaviour to a sprite

Hello:
I have a behaviour with 1 parameter and I want to send to a
sprite.
How can I do it?
Thanks

two ways.
Assuming param is any type of variable that has been
initialized and has a
valid value, in the behavior from which you want to send the
parameter, add:
SendSprite (12, #TakeParam, param)
or
SendAllSprites (#TakeParam, param)
then in behavior on sprite 12
on TakeParam me, param
put param -- (or do something else with param)
end
If you use the second option in the behavior of the sprite
that is sending
the parameter, every sprite will be checked for the TakeParam
handler but
only those with the TakeParam behavior will actually receive
the message
(and thus the parameter). Of course, I chose sprite 12
arbitrarily.
Craig Wollman
Word of Mouth Productions
phone 212 928 9581
fax 212 928 9582
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NY, NY 10032
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>
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to a sprite.
> How can I do it?
>
> Thanks
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�crit dans le message de news:
e2o0j5$kng$[email protected]..
> Here's my scenario. It's probably really simple but i'm
quite new to
> Director
> and 3D with the Chrome Library.
>
> This is a test piece which preceeds my next assignment
for University.
>
> Using Director MX 2004 v10.1 and the latest Chrome
Library from this
> website.
>
> I have a simple 3DSMAX phone model with a body, a
screen, three buttons
> and a
> bounding box surrounding the screen and body, their
names in max are
> phoneBody,
> screen, button01, button02, button03 and boundingBox
respectively.
>
> I added my 3d sprite to the screen and turned dts off
and background
> transparency on. I add a change camera chrome library
behaviour to the
> sprite
> to change to "frontCamera" (there are three cameras,
frontCamera,
> leftCamera
> and perspectiveCamera). I left cut and constant speed
unchecked the
> default
> interpolation value.
>
> I then added a "3D Rollover Model UI" to the sprite and
the settings are
> as
> follows, Model : Button01, Display hand : yes, no
highlight, added to W3D
> sprite 1 as its the only 3D sprite on the stage and in
the movie, added to
> behaviour 6 (this is definitely correct!), mouse event
#press and
> handlerCall :
> beginSprite() (also tried beginSprite(). with a full
stop after!).
>
> When i try and run the movie the change camera behaviour
starts
> automatically
> and pans to the frontCamera view. When i click on the
button that the UI
> event
> was added to i get this error "Script error: Value out
of range pCamera =
> pMember.camera(pCamera) -2147219496"
>
> Any help that anyone could give in discovering the
reasoning behind all
> this
> heartache will be incredibly appreciated. Student on a
deadline here.
> Please
> help!!
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve
>

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