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Controlling a Flash movie with Lingo
Lingo gives you precise control over the way Director streams and displays a Flash movie. You can use Lingo to check and control member streaming, zoom and colorize the Flash asset, and pan the Flash image. To see an animated demonstration of controlling a Flash movie with Lingo, see the Flash Lingo movie.
When a movie is playing, Lingo can change the Flash cast member's properties. Some cast member properties, such as the flashRect
and frameRate
cast member properties, are valid only after the Flash movie's header has streamed into memory.
Director provides the following Lingo that lets you manage how Director uses a Flash movie.
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To control whether changes to a Flash movie cast member immediately appear in sprites that use the cast member, set the cast member's |
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To control whether a Flash movie is stored in an external file, set the |
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To control which frame of a Flash movie Director uses for the Flash movie's thumbnail image, set the |
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To display a list of a Flash movie's current property settings in the Message window, use the |
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