Restoring sprites to original positions?

[doobious]

I am trying to find a way to restore some draggable sprites to their original position within a shockwave movie. I am making a sort of interactive educational game. There are upwards of 75 sprites that the user soon has dragged all around the screen and I want them to be be returned to their pre-interaction state upon clicking a button.
Is there an easy way to do this?

Anything would help.

 

[silverblue]

hi there. Actually this can be done is quite simple way.
First you declare a new property...call it... pOriginalLoc
and assign the original location to that variable.
Write a handler to re-assign the original loc back to the sprite.
example code below. Never tested the code.

-- For the draggable sprite
property pOriginalLoc

on beginSprite me -- On begin sprite, assign the location
pOriginalLoc = sprite(me.spriteNum).loc
end

on backToOriginal me -- being call when button is click
sprite(me.spriteNum).loc = pOriginalLoc
end

-- For the button to restore the original location
on mouseUp me
sendAllSprites(#backToOriginal)
end

Hopes this help.
Final words, if you are serious about getting help on director, you should visit the forum at director-online.com
A lot of expert there.

 

[doobious]

Thanks. I will check it out.