changing cast members

[Lifehouse webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I hope you guys can understand what i'm about to write here: I created a button(I called it BUTTON A) and a display box(i called it DISPLAYBOX);i also created another button(i called it BUTTON B) and another display box with text inside the display box(i called it TEXT),i had created some behaviours where when i move within BUTTON A,BUTTON A will change to BUTTON B by changing the cast member to BUTTON B, this is the script(set the member of sprite the currentSpriteNum to member "book2aa"),i also wanna change the DISPLAYBOX to TEXT when i move my mouse within BUTTON A,so is there any LINGO script that i can use to perform this action, thanks...

[Stephen Whipp]

one way to achive this is as follows

Add the following script to the display box

on ChangeMyMember me, i
case i of
1: sprite( the currentspriteNum).member = "TEXT"
2: sprite( the currentspriteNum).member = "Display"
end case
end changeMyMember

then in your button script you can use the following to call the custom
handler

sendallSprites(#ChangeMyMember, <value>)

where value is either 1 or 2

This is not the ideal method as it will cost in perfomance when you have a
large amount of sprites but it will work. Alternatively you have to send the
message to the correct sprite Channel. If you do this then you should set up
a global variable to hold the spriteChannel number. Set up its value in the
StartMovie handler in a movie script and then use the variable throughout.
This means that if you move the sprite you only have to alter the value in
one place to get the movie working again.

to send the message explicitly use

sendsprite( <whichsprite> ,#ChangeMyMember, <value>)
or
sprite(<whichsprite> ).ChangeMyMember( <value> )


hope this helps

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Lifehouse <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> I hope you guys can understand what i'm about to write here: I created a

button(I called it BUTTON A) and a display box(i called it DISPLAYBOX);i
also created another button(i called it BUTTON B) and another display box
with text inside the display box(i called it TEXT),i had created some
behaviours where when i move within BUTTON A,BUTTON A will change to BUTTON
B by changing the cast member to BUTTON B, this is the script(set the member
of sprite the currentSpriteNum to member "book2aa"),i also wanna change the
DISPLAYBOX to TEXT when i move my mouse within BUTTON A,so is there any
LINGO script that i can use to perform this action, thanks...

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