imported direcotor movie script problem

[Robert Ludewig]

Hello

we are currently working on a lager Director project (using Director MX).
The problem is that we need to find a way to merge our wok easily at the
end. This is how we tried:
Everybody will make some submovies and one is making the framework-movie. At
the end we will import all submovies into the framwork-movie. This works
quite fine , there is only one big problem:
The scripts of the imported submovies do not work anymore.
The error code we mostly got was:

scripterror, hander not found in object
sprite(29).play()
#play

we could narrow this error down:
It looks like we get all these errors because the scripts of the submovies
refer to the score of the framework-movie andf not to the score of the
submovie. When we put a sprite (in this case a flash movie) for example in
channel 29 of the frame-movie the corresponding error disappears. How can we
get the scripts of the submovies working again ?
Is there any way to get all the submovies working in one big frame? Like in
flash, were I can load the a flash into a flash with all its functionality.
Or is there any other good way to organize a big project, were a lot of
different poeple work on ? Or is Dirctor just not made for such things ?

[Doug Golenski]

Robert,
You don't have to import all the sub movies into the framework movie. I'm
not sure exactly how everything is set up, but you can simply call your sub
movies from the framework movie. That way everything is self contained.
You can protect the sub movies at runtime by using the Xtras>>Update
command. Make sure to back everything up first.

hth,
Doug
"Robert Ludewig" <schwertfischtrombose@gmx.de> wrote in message
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> Hello
>
> we are currently working on a lager Director project (using Director MX).
> The problem is that we need to find a way to merge our wok easily at the
> end. This is how we tried:
> Everybody will make some submovies and one is making the framework-movie.

At

> the end we will import all submovies into the framwork-movie. This works
> quite fine , there is only one big problem:
> The scripts of the imported submovies do not work anymore.
> The error code we mostly got was:
>
> scripterror, hander not found in object
> sprite(29).play()
> #play
>
> we could narrow this error down:
> It looks like we get all these errors because the scripts of the submovies
> refer to the score of the framework-movie andf not to the score of the
> submovie. When we put a sprite (in this case a flash movie) for example in
> channel 29 of the frame-movie the corresponding error disappears. How can

we

> get the scripts of the submovies working again ?
> Is there any way to get all the submovies working in one big frame? Like

in

> flash, were I can load the a flash into a flash with all its

functionality.

> Or is there any other good way to organize a big project, were a lot of
> different poeple work on ? Or is Dirctor just not made for such things ?
>
>

[Robert Ludewig]

Maybe someone could explain or give a link to a short tutoraial how to set
this up. Looks like it is called extra castmember ...

[Robert Ludewig]

hm with go movie it looks like the old movie (the framework-movie) will be
closed and the new movie will be opened but we need a movie WITHIN a movie
.....

[Robert Ludewig]

we now tried to do MIAW but it is also not working. There it is not possible
to get the background transparent ...
I wonder how larg professional teams do large projects. Or are the using
another software ?

[Doug Golenski]

Well, most of us break the project into smaller dir files and plan it that
way from the beginning. Plus we use behaviors and code encapsulation.
"Robert Ludewig" <schwertfischtrombose@gmx.de> wrote in message
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> we now tried to do MIAW but it is also not working. There it is not

possible

> to get the background transparent ...
> I wonder how larg professional teams do large projects. Or are the using
> another software ?
>
>

[Robert Ludewig]

Is it possible at all to play a childmovie within a parentmovie so that
- the parentmovie is still visible
- the childmovie has a transparent background
- the scripts of the childmovie can be run (including mouseevents)

[Doug Golenski]

You can use an MIAW. If you mask it you can have a transparent background.
Here is an article:
[url]http://www.director-online.com/buildArticle.php?id=332[/url]

There is also an example at:
[url]http://www.quantumwave.com/html/funkyWindow.html[/url]

hth,
Doug
"Robert Ludewig" <schwertfischtrombose@gmx.de> wrote in message
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> Is it possible at all to play a childmovie within a parentmovie so that
> - the parentmovie is still visible
> - the childmovie has a transparent background
> - the scripts of the childmovie can be run (including mouseevents)
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