Student Project - Slide Show

Question

Hi,
I've been reading through the Director MX User Guide and Help
function but I'm still not able to get my Play, Pause and Stop
buttons to work right. Here's what I'm trying to do:
I have a slide presentation that I made in Director MX for my
class project. There are 12 slides in the presentation. Each slide
has a thumbnail in the left navigation panel so you can jump from
slide to slide. I have this part worked out. What I can't figure
out is the following:
1. How do I get play to function like a real Play >
button?
2. How do I pause play once the slide presentation has
started (i.e. get the Pause | | button to function like a pause
button)?
3. How do I resume play once the slide presentation has been
paused or stopped (using the Play > button)?
4, How do I get Stop to either return to the first frame or
to the previous marker?
Thank you for your help,
Mindforge

Answer 1

Hi Mindforge,
Here's a behavior that will pause/resume by actually holding
the playback head in
the frame. Attach it to a sprite:
property pPauseVariable
on beginSprite me
pPauseVariable = 1
end
on mouseUp me
pPauseVariable = not(pPauseVariable)
end
on exitFrame
if pPauseVariable = 0 then
go the frame
end if
end
If in a paused state, the variable pPauseVariable is 0,
otherwise 1. When you
click, the value toggles between 1 and 0.
To jump to the next marker:
on mouseUp
go next
end
To jump to the previous marker:
on mouseUp
go previous
end
To jump to a specific marker
To jump to the next marker:
on mouseUp
go "markerName"
end
you can use:
go to 10
to jump to frame 10.
BUT DON'T!!!. It is bad to jump to a frame number. rather
link to a marker. You can
always insert or delete frames and if you link to a frame
number, the script will
become buggy.
Hope that answers your question.
regards
Dean
Director Lecturer / Consultant / Director Enthusiast
http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/learning/director
http://www.multimediacreative.com.au
email: [email protected]