Movie

Represents a movie being played within the Director player.

The Director player can contain one or more movies. A movie can consist of one or more cast libraries. A cast library can consist of one or more cast members, which represent the media and script assets in a movie. Media cast members may be text, bitmaps, shapes, and so on. Script cast members include behaviors, movie scripts, and so on. Sprites are created from cast members and are used on the Stage of a movie.

You can refer to the currently active movie by using the top level _movie property. You can refer to any movie in the player by using the Window object's movie property.

• Refer to the currently active movie.

  -- Lingo syntax
  objMovie = _movie
  
  // JavaScript syntax
  var objMovie = _movie;
  

• Use the Window object's movie property to access the movie in a particular window.

  -- Lingo syntax
  objMovie = _player.window[2].movie
  
  // JavaScript syntax
  var objMovie = _player.window[2].movie;
  

In Director MX 2004, you can use a movie reference to access not only the methods and properties of a movie itself, you can also call Lingo and JavaScript syntax handlers, and access the movie's cast members and sprites, including their methods and properties. This differs from previous versions of Director in which you had to use the tell command to work with movies. The Movie object provides a simpler way to work with movies.

Note: The tell command is obsolete in Director MX 2004,

Method summary for the Movie object

beginRecording()

newMember()

cancelIdleLoad()

preLoad() (Movie)

clearFrame()

preLoadMember()

constrainH()

preLoadMovie()

constrainV()

printFrom()

delay()

puppetPalette()

deleteFrame()

puppetSprite()

duplicateFrame()

puppetTempo()

endRecording()

puppetTransition()

finishIdleLoad()

ramNeeded()

frameReady() (Movie)

rollOver()

go()

saveMovie()

goLoop()

sendAllSprites()

goNext()

sendSprite()

goPrevious()

stopEvent()

idleLoadDone()

unLoad() (Movie)

insertFrame()

unLoadMember()

label()

unLoadMovie()

marker()

updateFrame()

mergeDisplayTemplate()

updateStage()

Property summary for the Movie object

aboutInfo

frameTransition

active3dRenderer

idleHandlerPeriod

actorList

idleLoadMode

allowCustomCaching

idleLoadPeriod

allowGraphicMenu

idleLoadTag

allowSaveLocal

idleReadChunkSize

allowTransportControl

imageCompression

allowVolumeControl

imageQuality

allowZooming

keyboardFocusSprite

beepOn

lastChannel

buttonStyle

lastFrame

castLib

markerList

centerStage

member (Movie)

copyrightInfo (Movie)

name

displayTemplate

paletteMapping

dockingEnabled

path (Movie)

editShortCutsEnabled

preferred3dRenderer

enableFlashLingo

preLoadEventAbort

exitLock

score

fileFreeSize

scoreSelection

fileSize

script

fileVersion

sprite (Movie)

fixStageSize

stage

frame

timeoutList

frameLabel

traceLoad

framePalette

traceLogFile

frameScript

traceScript

frameSound1

updateLock

frameSound2

useFastQuads

frameTempo

xtraList (Movie)

See also

_movie, Cast Library, Member, movie, Player, Sprite, Window

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