linking several .dir files? 1

[nowall]

hi, it's me again!
i have a question, i suppose the answer is simple i'm sure, some of you will laugh, but: my project is multilingual and vera "heavy", so, to organize better my work, i split it in several projects.dir, one by subject, and finally i would want to set "links between them". lets say i have a button in projectA.dir, and by pressing it you launch projectB.dir.
what is the code? objectscript, behaviour, moviescript?...
>2nd question: as i want to make a projection @ the end, is it better to cast the various projects ABC etc internally or externally?

 

[blended]

Are you using version 8? Are you referring to .dcr files? Is this for the web or a particular OS?

Blended

 

[nowall]

Using Director 8 (Mac and Win) for hybrid CD-Rom.
I want to have a general animation (later a projection) englobing several Director animations made invidually. I guess it's .dir files, but perhaps it's .dcr as you say, anyway it's uncompiled animations (or projects, name them as you want) with own internal cast.
The way i found is to save my several projects invidually, then make a new one, and import in a new cast these external projects. The problem is that it's extremely slow and huge in size...
so is there a better way to link these severals projects?

hope my precisions will help ya to find a solution to my -urgent- problem (only 10 days remaining until the final delivering of the CD-Rom to the client > glups!!)

 

[Horrid]

ok, the code you want is
gotomovie moviename.dir
(note that a dir file is not protected in any way, someone else can read your stuff but for ease of use just use this for now) its going to be a behaviour, if you know how to use them properly you will only need to write the script once and dump it on each button you use.


for media that is shared for some movies make an external cast lib and put the cast members there, usually interface and some scripts go here. note: if you have finished all your animations this will be a lot of work remapping things.

now, just in case I have missed the point and you want to run each separate animation within the main movie, not as a separate movie I would use MIAW (movie in a window).

 

[Guest_imported]

on your button script in projectA.dir use:

on mouseUp
go to movie "projectB.dir"
end