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Using Markers in Active Media and Flash labels

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soulknite

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Jan 11, 2002
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I'm using the Active Media Xtra and I've got 3 markers in my video to keep track of using ques.
I'm using this script to call on a flash sprite to go to and play starting at a label name in flash when a marker in the video has been passed. It looks like this:

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on exitFrame me
go to the frame
on cuePassed channel, number, name
if (number = 1) then
goToFrame(sprite (2), "welcome_start")
end if
if (number = 2) then
goToFrame(sprite (2), "section1_start")
end if
if (number = 3) then
goToFrame(sprite (2), "section2_start")
end if
end
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Ok Now it only works on Marker 1 (the welcome_start). After that it doesn't do anything for the rest of the marker. Is it because the conditions has already been satisfied and it doesn't go back and check again? We tried using the "repeat while" statment but that only kept any other handlers and events from working. Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.
 
fist thing I would do is add the follow line
put channel & " channel " & number & " number" & name & "name"

Then you can watch your message window to make sure the events are really happening. What would should get is something like

1 channel 1 number cue1 name
so if 1 channel 2 number cue2 name never shows up you know the even never even happened and that its probably somewhere else. What software did you use to make the cuepoints? Director is a tad fussy about that.
 
Well, the Active Media Xtra from Tabulero has a options interface when you look at the cast properties of the video. within that, you have a section that allows you to place markers in parts of the video. These markers definitely show up when you go into the tempo properties and click on "wait for cue", and they work exactly too. I will try to see if it's seeing the other markers go by I'll let you know.
 
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