This cast contains universal handlers, artwork, buttons and text that are used throughout all the movies in the Macromedia Instructional Media Group's "Show Me" and example movies. To view them, set the cast window size to 10 wide and rows of grouped types will appear.
Members 1 thru 10 contain this note and Lingo handlers used throughout the movies. Review the comments within the script to see more about what they do and how they work.
Members 11 thru 15 contain universal artwork, the background, a layout grid, standard window sizes with drop shadows and a pale yellow QuickDraw rectangle for use with windows that have text. If you reuse this one, you'll save a lot of cast members.
Members 20 thru 29 contain the navigation buttons at the bottom of the movie's screen. Each has a "normal" view plus an "In" version for how it looks when it's clicked on, and a "Hi" version when it's rolled over. Note that for these and all button cast members, the sequence of "Norm", "In" and "Hi" must be maintained for the rollover and dobutton handlers to work. There is also a "Flasher" cast that's used to flash a small light over the next appropriate button for the user to interact with. Refer to the "doFlash" script for how it works.
Members 31 thru 43 contain standard buttons in the same setup as the "Norm", "In" and "Hi" versions of the navigation buttons. There are 4 sets of sizes, 296, 185, 121, and 49 pixels wide, which corresponds to some standard widths on the layout grid. The varying widths allow the button to detect rollovers over the text to the right of the button. Note that for these to work, you must set the ink of the sprite to Background Transparent and the back color to the green color found in each button. Member 43 contains a button called "Not Uttonbey", use it when you need the image of a button on the stage that isn't identified as a button by the idle handler. Hence the name "Uttonbey" (pigeon-english for "button")
Members 51 thru 56 contain the Page Up and Page Down cast members for the paging buttons used for multiple pages of text. For this to work, review the "Paging Text" frame of the movie "StandardNavigation.dir".
Members 61 thru 66 contain the Scroll Up and Scroll Down cast members.
Members 71 thru 73 contain the button text for the navigation buttons.
Notes on script customizing
The following global have names that must be localized to the movie they are used in to keep them from interfering with other "Show Me" movies:
Generic Name Custom Name Example
gButtonPropertyList gMovieNameButtonPropertyList
gPagePropertyList gMovieNamePagePropertyList
Use the Find dialog to change the names everywhere in the movie with Replace All with the All Casts radio button selected.
