mouseEnter / mouseLeave sprite error

[geneonlbk webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I get the error "This shockwave movie has errors that have causes playback problems" when I repeated pass the mouse over a text sprite with a hilite behavior. I have tried the movie without audio and the problem persists. The hilite works fine for a while then fails as the mouse repeatedly passes over the sprites. It happens even when the mouse is moved slowly or even paused between passes.

[url]http://www.unisource.dns2go.com/sunmaid/default.htm[/url]

Behavior script:

on mouseEnter me
tMember = sprite(me.spritenum).member
sprite(me.spritenum).blendlevel = 255
tMember.forecolor = 4
palette
end

on mouseLeave me
tMember = sprite(me.spritenum).member
sprite(me.spritenum).blendlevel = 127
tMember.forecolor = 0
end





Referring URLs
[url]http://www.unisource.dns2go.com/sunmaid/default.htm[/url]

[Arturo Toledo]

Don´t use blendlevel

1. Use blend

2. Make sure that the tMember is a correct member type for the forecolor
function

3. Try not using the me.spriteNum... . instead place a on beginSprite
handler and declare a property called pSprite = me.spriteNum

Then use pSprite as the sprite number wherever else required.

Arturo


"geneonlbk" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> escribió en el mensaje
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> I get the error "This shockwave movie has errors that have causes playback

problems" when I repeated pass the mouse over a text sprite with a hilite
behavior. I have tried the movie without audio and the problem persists. The
hilite works fine for a while then fails as the mouse repeatedly passes over
the sprites. It happens even when the mouse is moved slowly or even paused
between passes.

>
> [url]http://www.unisource.dns2go.com/sunmaid/default.htm[/url]
>
> Behavior script:
>
> on mouseEnter me
> tMember = sprite(me.spritenum).member
> sprite(me.spritenum).blendlevel = 255
> tMember.forecolor = 4
> palette
> end
>
> on mouseLeave me
> tMember = sprite(me.spritenum).member
> sprite(me.spritenum).blendlevel = 127
> tMember.forecolor = 0
> end
>
>
>
>
> Referring URLs
> [url]http://www.unisource.dns2go.com/sunmaid/default.htm[/url]
>
>
>
>

[geneonlbk webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Thanks Artura -

corrected code to hilite a text sprite:

property spriteNum
property tMember
property pSprite

on beginSprite me
pSprite = me.spriteNum
end
on mouseEnter me
tMember = sprite(pSprite).member
sprite(pSprite).blend = 100
tMember.forecolor = 4
end

on mouseLeave me
tMember = sprite(pSprite).member
sprite(pSprite).blend = 50
tMember.forecolor = 0
endText

[Andrew Morton]

> Don´t use blendlevel

>
> 1. Use blend

Your reason being what? Mine would be that blend is faster than blendLevel, but
you may have a different reason.

> 3. Try not using the me.spriteNum... . instead place a on beginSprite
> handler and declare a property called pSprite = me.spriteNum
>
> Then use pSprite as the sprite number wherever else required.

Or just declare spriteNum as a property and use that, because that automatically
makes it available and avoids storing exactly the same information twice:

property spriteNum

on beginSprite
put "I'm sprite " & spriteNum
end beginSprite

Also, I tend to assign the sprite reference to a property like this:

property spriteNum, self

on beginSprite
self=sprite(spriteNum)
end beginSprite

And similarly for storing a direct reference to the sprite's member.
So geneonblk's code would look like this:-

property spriteNum, self, pMember

on beginSprite
self=sprite(spriteNum)
pMember=self.member
end beginSprite

on mouseEnter
self.blend = 100
pMember.forecolor = 4
end mouseEnter

on mouseLeave
self.blend = 50
pMember.forecolor = 0
end mouseLeave

Andrew Morton

[CJ]

I'm trying to understand this script.
Why do you need self and pMember?
couldn't you just use self for both blend and foreColor?
I tried it and it highlights the bounding box instead of the text so I see
it doesn't work.
Can someone explain why? What is the difference between pMember and self?
thanks
cj
"Andrew Morton" <akm@in-press.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message
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> > Don´t use blendlevel
> >
> > 1. Use blend

>
> Your reason being what? Mine would be that blend is faster than

blendLevel, but

> you may have a different reason.
>

> > 3. Try not using the me.spriteNum... . instead place a on beginSprite
> > handler and declare a property called pSprite = me.spriteNum
> >
> > Then use pSprite as the sprite number wherever else required.

>
> Or just declare spriteNum as a property and use that, because that

automatically

> makes it available and avoids storing exactly the same information twice:
>
> property spriteNum
>
> on beginSprite
> put "I'm sprite " & spriteNum
> end beginSprite
>
> Also, I tend to assign the sprite reference to a property like this:
>
> property spriteNum, self
>
> on beginSprite
> self=sprite(spriteNum)
> end beginSprite
>
> And similarly for storing a direct reference to the sprite's member.
> So geneonblk's code would look like this:-
>
> property spriteNum, self, pMember
>
> on beginSprite
> self=sprite(spriteNum)
> pMember=self.member
> end beginSprite
>
> on mouseEnter
> self.blend = 100
> pMember.forecolor = 4
> end mouseEnter
>
> on mouseLeave
> self.blend = 50
> pMember.forecolor = 0
> end mouseLeave
>
> Andrew Morton
>

[Andrew Morton]

> Can someone explain why? What is the difference between pMember and self?

pMember is a reference to the member whereas self is a reference to the sprite.

[A sprite is an instance of a member, but you cannot always use the same
properties of each and sometimes you can set a property of either but only one
will work.]

Andrew