Uses of markers

[Word of Mouth Productions]

Pluse, it's "If I were to create" not "was"

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"Stephen Whipp" <Stephen.Whipp@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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> If I was to create a fast forward button for a movie running in a miaw,
> whicxh would skip to the next marker if one was defined otherwise skip
> forward by a number of frames. Can anyone see any potential problems with
> this functionilty?
>
> I've never really used markers so I'm not sure of the uses to which they
> are put.
>
> Would it be safest to check for markers and disable the fastforward button
> when they are defined?
>
> thanks in advance for any help
>
> --
> Stephen Whipp
> Eastmond Publishing Ltd. (UK)
> -----------------------------------------------
> Visit our website at:
> [url]www.autograph-maths.com[/url]
> ----------------------------------------------
>
>

[Word of Mouth Productions]

Nah, you have complete control over the playback head if you want and I've
never seen any problems when navigating in any way through or between
markers.

One of the best things about makers is that you can get the frame value of
any one.

marker (something) always returns the value of that marker's frame so you
can do lots of math with them. Since scrolling a large bitmap in the score
rather than with lingo seems to perform better, creating a nice smooth
accelerating and decelerating scroll is easy with the help of markers. I
know that's not your issue here but I would worry about jumping between or
over markers.


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Craig Wollman
Word of Mouth Productions
phone 212 724 8302
fax 212 724 8151
[url]www.wordofmouthpros.com[/url]
"Stephen Whipp" <Stephen.Whipp@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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> aye, my grammers never been that hot :)
>
> What I was wondering is, do people sometimes use markers that do not run

in

> sequential fashion, and having an FF button that would shift to the next
> marker might at best cause the DCR to run in the wrong order and possibly
> cause crashes if it required some information in a "scene" from "scenes"
> that were not executed.
>
> Stephen Whipp <Stephen.Whipp@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
> news:bj9sqe$dj9$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> > If I was to create a fast forward button for a movie running in a miaw,
> > whicxh would skip to the next marker if one was defined otherwise skip
> > forward by a number of frames. Can anyone see any potential problems

with

> > this functionilty?
> >
> > I've never really used markers so I'm not sure of the uses to which

they

> > are put.
> >
> > Would it be safest to check for markers and disable the fastforward

button

> > when they are defined?
> >
> > thanks in advance for any help
> >
> > --
> > Stephen Whipp
> > Eastmond Publishing Ltd. (UK)
> > -----------------------------------------------
> > Visit our website at:
> > [url]www.autograph-maths.com[/url]
> > ----------------------------------------------
> >
> >

>
>

[Word of Mouth Productions]

Just my fatherly instinct and my contribution to the slowing of the momentum
of the downfall of society.


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Craig Wollman
Word of Mouth Productions
phone 212 724 8302
fax 212 724 8151
[url]www.wordofmouthpros.com[/url]
"Andrew Morton" <akm@in-press.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message
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> > Pluse, it's "If I were to create" not "was"

> ^^^^^
>
> Bait?
>
> Andrew

[Robert Tweed]

"Word of Mouth Productions" <lingoboy@wordofmo.com> wrote in message
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> Just my fatherly instinct and my contribution to the slowing of the

momentum

> of the downfall of society.

These kids today! You'd think they'd use a spellchecker.

- Robert

[Stephen Whipp]

If I was to create a fast forward button for a movie running in a miaw,
whicxh would skip to the next marker if one was defined otherwise skip
forward by a number of frames. Can anyone see any potential problems with
this functionilty?

I've never really used markers so I'm not sure of the uses to which they
are put.

Would it be safest to check for markers and disable the fastforward button
when they are defined?

thanks in advance for any help

--
Stephen Whipp
Eastmond Publishing Ltd. (UK)
-----------------------------------------------
Visit our website at:
[url]www.autograph-maths.com[/url]
----------------------------------------------

[Stephen Whipp]

aye, my grammers never been that hot :)

What I was wondering is, do people sometimes use markers that do not run in
sequential fashion, and having an FF button that would shift to the next
marker might at best cause the DCR to run in the wrong order and possibly
cause crashes if it required some information in a "scene" from "scenes"
that were not executed.

Stephen Whipp <Stephen.Whipp@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
news:bj9sqe$dj9$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> If I was to create a fast forward button for a movie running in a miaw,
> whicxh would skip to the next marker if one was defined otherwise skip
> forward by a number of frames. Can anyone see any potential problems with
> this functionilty?
>
> I've never really used markers so I'm not sure of the uses to which they
> are put.
>
> Would it be safest to check for markers and disable the fastforward button
> when they are defined?
>
> thanks in advance for any help
>
> --
> Stephen Whipp
> Eastmond Publishing Ltd. (UK)
> -----------------------------------------------
> Visit our website at:
> [url]www.autograph-maths.com[/url]
> ----------------------------------------------
>
>