illegal_castmember

Illegal Castmember error Luke Wigley <luke@medialight.com.au> wrote on the subject of Illegal Castmember error I've experienced a similar problem. I my case, it was 2 bitmaps that were corrupted. The trick was getting access to the cast to delete them without having Director try and load them first. If I remember correctly, the way of fixing it was to do this 1. create a director movie with an external cast 2. make sure the property of the external cast is set to 'load when needed' 3. make sure that the external cast is not referenced anywhere in the main movie (eg an empty cast) 4. use a handler like this to switch the filePath of the external cast to the corrupt one and delete the offending castmember on fix oldPath = castlib(2).filePath castlib(2).filePath = the moviePath & "corrupted cast" erase member (1,2) -- erase member 1 of castlib 2 castlib(2).filePath = oldPath end 5. Make sure that the castlib window is closed before running this handler (if the window is open, then Director will try and draw the preview of all the castmembers, which will cause an error when it tries to address the corrupted member). Before you do this, though - try changing the external Quicktime file that is being referenced by the suspect cast member (ie replace the quicktime file, which must be external, with another quicktime file that you know works). Another trick is to try an open the file up on a PC (though my experience is that PCs usually seem more delicate at dealing with corrupted casts than Macs) Hope this helps (corrupted castmembers are a real pain, and they seem to happen too frequently to me). Even if this does work, I'd recommend rebuilding the cast from scratch using as much source media as you can rather than copying and pasting whatever castmembers you can recover from the problem cast)