Change cast members at runtime

[Gary]

Is it possible to permanently change the contents of castlibs or
castmembers at runtime? Or are all changes only in memory?

For example, what if I want to import new bitmaps into the cast?

[Ned]

dont protect the cast, and use lingo "saveCastLib" keyword (never tried with
bitmaps, thought, only to keep user-typed texts and it worked good)

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"Gary" <nospam@nojunk.com> a écrit dans le message de
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| Is it possible to permanently change the contents of castlibs or
| castmembers at runtime? Or are all changes only in memory?
|
| For example, what if I want to import new bitmaps into the cast?
|

[Rob Dillon]

If this is a projector and not SW then yes, you can change members in a
cast. To do this the cast must be external and exist on some writable
media. In other words, you can't make changes to a cast on a CD because
you can't write to the CD.

One common method of doing this is to write the external cast to the
user's hard drive. On every play of the projector, test to see if this
new external cast exists on the user's drive, if it does then use it's
members instead of the original on the CD.

Use the save castLib() function to accomplish this.

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