Controlling a film loop

[fugigoose]

Is there a way to control a film loop with Lingo. I've done that with flash movie clips in director before, but never with film loops. Instead of a film loop just looping, i'd like it to run once whenever i tell it to.

 

[Horrid]

not really. Film loops really are horrible things to work with, but it can be done. I think what I would do was put a script on the film loop that incremented every time an enterframe event occured so I could count then number of frames played, I would then have a variable that stored the number of frames in the film loop, when I had played all the frames in the film loop I would swap the cast member with a static picture, then switch it back in when I needed to play the loop again.

Film loops are a huge problem in Director, its almost worth doing your loops in flash, at least you get some control.

 

[fugigoose]

Bummer. THanx ne way Horrid, for awhile there none of my posts were beign responded to! Flash....e

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I hate flash. Cheap Director with a really bad GUI. Oh well. Me thinks I try the script thing.