User Guide

Lingo Dictionary 163
creationDate
Syntax
member.creationDate
the creationDate of member
Description
This cast member property records the date and time that the cast member was first created, using
the system time on the computer. You can use this property to schedule a project; Director doesn’t
use it for anything.
This property can be tested and set.
Example
Although you typically inspect the creationDate property using the Property inspector or the
Cast window list view, you can check it in the Message window:
put member(1).creationDate
-- date( 1999, 12, 8 )
See also
comments, modifiedBy, modifiedDate
crop() (image object command)
Syntax
imageObject.crop(rectToCropTo)
Description
When used with an image object, returns a new image object that contains a copy of the given
image object, cropped to the given rect. The original image object is unchanged. The new image
object does not belong to any cast member and has no association with the Stage. If you wish to
assign it to a cast member you can do so by setting the
image property of that cast member.
This is different from using
crop with a cast member, which crops the cast member itself, altering
the original.
Examples
This Lingo takes a snapshot of the Stage and crops it to the rect of sprite 10, capturing the
current appearance of that sprite on the Stage:
set stageImage = (the stage).image
set spriteImage = stageImage.crop(sprite(10).rect)
member("sprite snapshot").image = spriteImage
This statement uses the rectangle of cast member Happy to crop the image of cast member
Flower, then sets the image of cast member Happy to the result:
member("Happy").image = member("Flower").image.crop(member("Happy").rect)