Re: Final checks (World's longest post!)

Howdy there! It's never too late to hear any tips and advice from you guys!

Very interesting tips and scripts, I currently use the preLoadMember but I might just try out those other ones ; )

Also had another bit of a breakthrough where I now simply load any media files into the project via external dummy media. Here is a breakdown, quoted from Irv Kalb at director-online, for anyone that isn't sure how the dummy media functions:

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Regarding the dummy media, here's the idea. Imagine that you have all your photos stored externally in a folder called "photos" which is at the same level as your movie. For simplicity, let's say that you have A.jpg, B.jpg, C,jpg, etc. in that folder. In that photos folder, create an additional picture called "dummy.jpg", and have it consist of a single black pixel.

Now, in Director, you create a single bitmap cast member, give it a name (let's call it "PhotoToShow"). In the properties for this member, you set the "linked" option. This says, this member will always be linked to some external media (file). By default, set the linkage to the dummy.jpg so it links to the smallest possible file (one pixel).

In your program, when you are ready to display a picture from your photos folder, you set the "filename" property. So to show a different picture, you do this:

delimChar = the last char of the moviePath -- or just "" is this is PC only
member("PhotoToShow").filename = the moviePath & "photos" & delimChar &
This changes the linkage from the one member in the cast to whatever picture you want to show. Using this approach, your Director program will only take up memory for the largest picture you are showing.

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I've now implemented this approach to hopefully improve memory usage and this coupled with PreLoadMember and a few other of those scripts, Brodd, might just solve any issues I'm having : ) so fingers crossed!

Cheers again,

Darren