When On is selected as the Interactivity setting in the Digital Movie Icon Properties dialog box, all the Director movie's Lingo (except for elements related to a movie in a window) works when the movie plays within Authorware. Besides making the movie interactive for the user, this feature lets you take advantage of Lingo's ability to precisely control movie components such as sprites, sound, palettes, and transitions.
For example, an exitFrame handler that contains the statement go to frame 50 always sends the movie to frame 50 when Director encounters the handler. The same script in a mouseUp handler, however, works only if the user clicks the proper object and On is selected in the Interactivity pop-up menu in the Digital Movie Icon Properties dialog box.
An Authorware piece and a Director movie within it can be interactive simultaneously. Authorware passes any relevant events to the Director movie and lets the Director movie handle them. When On is selected as the Interactivity setting, Authorware shares mouse and keypress events with the Director movie.
The Director movie's interactivity works only when the Authorware piece is running. When Authorware is paused, when the movie is playing in preview or when the Digital Movie Icon Properties dialog box is open, the movie's interactivity is turned off.
Authorware passes the Director movie any mouse clicks, including location coordinates, that occur in the part of the screen where the movie is playing. All Authorware variables related to the mouse are updated when the mouse cursor is over a Director movie. This permits Authorware to continue tracking what users do when they interact with the Director movie.
Authorware and Director both support text entry, but only one of them can have text-entry objects active at a time. A text insertion bar in the text-entry object indicates which object is active.
A text object is active when it first appears in the Director movie or the Authorware piece; it remains active until another text-entry object opens or is clicked.
While you are authoring, Authorware translates and processes any of its keyboard shortcuts and doesn't pass them on to Director. After the piece is packaged, keyboard shortcuts have no effect and are treated as regular text. However, any hot keys that were set up for Authorware still act as hot keys; Director doesn't receive hot key entries.
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