making a castmember move x,y

[ShaolinWood webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I want to run a function to move a castmember, I work in Flash and aren't so clued up in Director,
What I want to do is have a button on a menu, which is sunken down, and when you click it it slides
up into view.

Can I use functions in Lingo??
Can I refer to a cast-member's x and y coords like in Flash?

like: MyMember._x += 5; or does it work with V and H?

Thanks for any help

[ShaolinWood webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

OK, that's quite simple.
But how do you define a variable?
like if you want to state: worldDomination = true;

And then later on have some code:

if world domination = true then quit
end if

or some like that...

[Richie Bisset]

That's exactly how you do it. You'll have to declare the property
though. if you only ever reference it from the one script then at the
top of that script, outwith any of the handlers, add:

property worldDomination

if you want to use it between several scripts just add the following
to each script that will reference it (again outwith any of the
handlers):

global worldDomination


hope that helps,

richie


On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 11:12:19 +0000 (UTC), "ShaolinWood"
[email]webforumsuser@macromedia.com[/email] wrote:

>OK, that's quite simple.
>But how do you define a variable?
>like if you want to state: worldDomination = true;
>
>And then later on have some code:
>
>if world domination = true then quit
>end if
>
>or some like that...
>
>

[ShaolinWood webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

That will definitely help.
thanks for the reply
Njoy

[Rob Dillon]

A cast member is the original asset and resides in the cast. Any
instance of a member on the stage is a sprite. It's the sprite that you
want to animate.

Yes, Director has functions. The verticle component of a sprite's
location, it's loc, is the locV property.

All of this information, as well as many other interesting facts about
Director, are conveniently located in the Director Help section of the
Help Menu. You might also want to wander through some of the tutorials.
You may also find some useful information there.

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[Loren Schwarz]

> All of this information, as well as many other interesting facts about

> Director, are conveniently located in the Director Help section of the
> Help Menu. You might also want to wander through some of the tutorials.
> You may also find some useful information there.
>
> --
> Rob

Sometimes I really wonder how people can want to achieve anything using
Director without even having one single look at the manual or _at least_ at
the online help?! If you are a somehow experienced programmer, you can go
ahead and try things out in Director, but if you don't even know how a
variable is declared, then that's the best time to read about the
fundamentals of your new programming environment... (let's call Director a
programming environment, in this case ;-) )

L.S.