MIAW in MX (NOT 2004)

[tnewman]

I am running Director MX (but NOT 2004!!). I am trying to put a MIAW on the
stage in the main movie, but there is a border around it. That did not happen
in 8.5. All the fixes I can find on this are for 2004. MX does not use the
new Lingo commands, so "window("win").appearanceOptions.border = #none" does
not exist!

I have played around with all the windowTypes and I cannot find one that
doesn't have a border.

So then I imported the whole movie into the main movie as a cast member. Now
it appears on the stage perfectly - no border. However, NOW I can't control
the Quicktime movie embedded in the smaller movie, nor do any of the rollovers
work. I imported it as "linked to external" and I have the checkbox for
"enable scripts" checked in the Property inspector.

Can anyone help with this issue? We can't upgrade to MX 2004 until July 1!

Tracy

[JB]

Searching for "borderless MIAW" should yield some info, macromedia site
gave mx 2004 specific info.

Maybe Direct-L

[url]http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/director/digest/index.html[/url]


setting the windowType to a member (acting as the mask) may be a work
around. Member masks seem to only work in projetors.



Can the imported linked movie control it's own video?

One way I have communicated to these movies is by passoing messages in
global variables being monitored.