links, scaling

[JJJ5]

I've only started using director, so excuse my entire lack of knowledge and
stupidity. I have a few basic questions.

1. I know I can use part of the text within a text box to create hyperlinks by
going to Window -> Inspectors-> Text and typing in the address. What about a
link to a marker?

2. It's easy to change the cast member and location in a sprite's behavior,
but what about rescaling or resizing it? I am trying to read up on lingo, but i
haven't found a way to rescale it in its behavior. I am use to C, and lingo
looks a bit wierd to me.

3. I've some of the replies about having clocks in the movie, what about
digital clocks which uses one's PC as a reference?

Thanks.

[JB]

The hyperlink setup using the text inspector passes the entered link to
a handler when clicked, you deside in that handler code how to respond
to th click, going to a marker takes about the same effort as calling a
web address.

You can change a sprite's rect or it's width and height to alter it's
dimensions, there are some predefined behaviors in the Library pallete
that allow the end user to interactively resize a sprite, these behviors
might be a good jumping off point.

The Time returns the user's system time, you can put the time string or
a portion of it into a a text member, perhaps using an LED style font.

member("timeDisplay").text = word 1 of the time -- truncating AM/PM

[JJJ5]

thanks.

with the rescaling problem, i've been having trouble with the syntax from the
standard library.
can someone give me a sample line that works?
sorry, i just don't get lingo at the moment, trying to read up on it.

[JB]

on hyperlinkClicked me, data, range
if label(data) then -- validates that marker exists
go to data
else
alert "no such hyperlink marker: "& data
end if
end



on way to scale a sprite dims

scaleFactor = .5

sprite(1).width = sprite(1).width * scaleFactor
sprite(1).height = sprite(1).height * scaleFactor

this shrinks it toward the upper left unless it's a bitmap with a
centered regpoint.




One lingo trick is rect math:

sprite(1).rect = sprite(1).rect * .5

will half the dimensions, but also move it half way to the 0, 0 location.