mixed up sprites

[Scott42 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I'm having a rather strange / frustrating navigation issue. Here's the scenario:

On one frame I have a full-screen flash sprite. A few frames down is a JPEG sprite, plus a QT video and some other buttons in different channels.

Within the flash member is a getURL("lingo: go to frame x") command to skip to the other frame in Director. This works fine. The QT movie appears, so I know I'm in the correct frame, but the strage thing is that the flash sprite is still visible, where the JPEG should be. I'll actually see the JPEG for a split second, but the flash image pops right back on. Additionally, the button in that frame is also invisible until I mouseOver it.

Another odd thing is that this generally only happens the first time the jump is made. The second time around, everything happens exactly like it's supposed to.

I've tried:
Putting the flash sprite and JPEG sprite on different channels.
Using unLoad
Using the getURL("event: goFrame x") to tell director to make the jump itself.

If anyone knows why this is happening, I would love to hear it.
Thanks in advance.

[vij010]

Hi,

What you're actually seeing as the flash sprite is the ghost of it , the stage is not updating..., what you can probably do is...uncheck the DTS option of the flash sprite...also use a transition to force the stage to refresh...maybe this will help...


Vj

[Ivan Darío Alviar]

Maybe if you split your action in two steps could work... Some ideas:

1. In the x frame where you have actually the jpeg and quick time....
- leave it blank
- put a goto statement ( to your qt movie frame)

2. At the begin of the stage sprites where you qt movie is:
- insert in the code channel:
UpdateStage

3. In the getUrl statement in flash:
- Call a function
-In your function use both ideas:
- clean stage
- goto statement

Hth
Ivan

"Scott42" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> I'm having a rather strange / frustrating navigation issue. Here's the

scenario:

>
> On one frame I have a full-screen flash sprite. A few frames down is a

JPEG sprite, plus a QT video and some other buttons in different channels.

>
> Within the flash member is a getURL("lingo: go to frame x") command to

skip to the other frame in Director. This works fine. The QT movie appears,
so I know I'm in the correct frame, but the strage thing is that the flash
sprite is still visible, where the JPEG should be. I'll actually see the
JPEG for a split second, but the flash image pops right back on.
Additionally, the button in that frame is also invisible until I mouseOver
it.

>
> Another odd thing is that this generally only happens the first time the

jump is made. The second time around, everything happens exactly like it's
supposed to.

>
> I've tried:
> Putting the flash sprite and JPEG sprite on different channels.
> Using unLoad
> Using the getURL("event: goFrame x") to tell director to make the jump

itself.

>
> If anyone knows why this is happening, I would love to hear it.
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>

[Scott42 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Thanks for the advice. What fixed the problem was turning ON the flash sprite's DTS and updating the stage in the later frame.