filmloop_lingo

lingo controls filmLoops Brennan Young enlighted us thusly: I'm doing this in D7.0.2 This might be old news, but I'm really surprised to discover that the undocumented LDM lingo 'tell sprite' also works with filmloops. The most interesting application of this is to find out information about the 'score' embedded inside a filmloop (how many frames, how many channels etc.) To find how many frames in a filmloop: tell sprite (filmloopSprite) to set f to the lastFrame To find how many channels in a filmloop: tell sprite (filmloopSprite) to set lc to the lastChannel To manipulate the playback head inside the filmloop: tell sprite (filmloopSprite) to go to frame 1 --etc. Main drawback: You can't pause a filmloop without pausing the main movie. Filmloops' playback heads are slaved to the main movie. You can, however, tell the filmloop to advance to the end, and, providing it isn't set to loop, it will stop there. You can make a channel inside a filmloop invisible: tell sprite (filmloopSprite) to set the visible of sprite 1 to 0 This will not affect the corresponding channel in the main movie! Scripts embedded inside filmloops, can be made to address their own score with the syntax tell the stage to tell sprite (whereTheFilmloopIs) to (whatever) So, to get a filmloop to restart when you click it, embed this script inside it: on mouseUp me tell the stage to tell sprite (the clickOn) to go 1 end ...or for greater flexibility, attach this script to the filmloop sprite: on mouseUp me tell sprite(me.spritenum) to go 1 end More to discover, I'm sure, but this is great! People who have got used to the joys of nested movie clips in Flash will find this very useful. I don't have D8, would somebody please try this and report back? -- _____________ Brennan Young Artist, Composer and Multimedia programmer