Accessibility Behavior and Lingo "Play Movie"

[ForeverTangent webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Does anyone have an suggestions for this...

I have many "Accessibility Item" enabled buttons in a Director Projector, all with have a corresponding "Command to Execute".

The command(s) to excute, involve the playing of a new movie, with the LINGO "Play" command. Unfortuantely, I seem to run into problems with this.

If the Accessibility Item executes a LINGO "play" command directly, my projector completely locks up, [this sometimes happens in Director as well].

However if I build a Handler, in which the Accessibility Item can execute instead, to launch a movie, I get a "script error."

To complicate the matter further, if I click the corresponding button with a mouse [which executes the command associated with the "Accessibility Item"] I generate no script error at all.

This project HAS to be Accessibility Enabled, so I cannot dump that. Also I cannot put everything into one movie, to avoid having to use the "play" command.

Any Suggestions.

Stan

[sludge]

how about using a go to movie command instead of play?

ade

In article <bk5den$lja$1@forums.macromedia.com>, <
[email]webforumsuser@macromedia.com[/email]> wrote:

> Does anyone have an suggestions for this...
>
> I have many "Accessibility Item" enabled buttons in a Director Projector, all
> with have a corresponding "Command to Execute".
>
> The command(s) to excute, involve the playing of a new movie, with the LINGO
> "Play" command. Unfortuantely, I seem to run into problems with this.
>
> If the Accessibility Item executes a LINGO "play" command directly, my
> projector completely locks up, [this sometimes happens in Director as well].
>
> However if I build a Handler, in which the Accessibility Item can execute
> instead, to launch a movie, I get a "script error."
>
> To complicate the matter further, if I click the corresponding button with a
> mouse [which executes the command associated with the "Accessibility Item"] I
> generate no script error at all.
>
> This project HAS to be Accessibility Enabled, so I cannot dump that. Also I
> cannot put everything into one movie, to avoid having to use the "play"
> command.
>
> Any Suggestions.
>
> Stan
>
>
>

[Gretchen Macdowall]

In article <bk5den$lja$1@forums.macromedia.com>, "ForeverTangent"
[email]webforumsuser@macromedia.com[/email] wrote:

> Does anyone have an suggestions for this...
>
> I have many "Accessibility Item" enabled buttons in a Director

Projector, all with have a corresponding "Command to Execute".

>
> The command(s) to excute, involve the playing of a new movie, with the

LINGO "Play" command. Unfortuantely, I seem to run into problems with
this.

>
> If the Accessibility Item executes a LINGO "play" command directly, my

projector completely locks up, [this sometimes happens in Director as
well].

>
> However if I build a Handler, in which the Accessibility Item can

execute instead, to launch a movie, I get a "script error."

>
> To complicate the matter further, if I click the corresponding button

with a mouse [which executes the command associated with the
"Accessibility Item"] I generate no script error at all.

>
> This project HAS to be Accessibility Enabled, so I cannot dump that.

Also I cannot put everything into one movie, to avoid having to use the
"play" command.

>
> Any Suggestions.
>

It sounds like something similar that happens when you do a "go movie"
inside a callback handler. If so, you can fix it by just setting a
variable to the name of the movie you want to go to and having a script
that is completely outside the callback keep looking at the variable and
do the actual play movie.

So your Accessibility item would execute a handler like:

on pickedItem
global whichMovie
whichMovie = "somemovie.dir"
end

And you'd have this behavior attached to some sprite in the same frame:

-- behavior on some sprite in the same frame

on exitFrame
global whichMovie
if voidP(whichMovie) then exit
if whichMovie <> "" then
mName = whichMovie
whichMovie = ""
play movie mName
end if
end

Gretchen Macdowall
[url]http://www.updatestage.com/[/url]