User Guide

Chapter 16
Cast members
The terms in this section are useful for working with cast members.
Creating cast members
Use
importFileInto and new() to create cast members.
Authoring
Use
duplicate member, erase member, and pasteClipBoardInto to work with cast members
during authoring.
Graphic cast members
Use these terms to check and set the images assigned to graphic cast members:
General cast member properties
Use these terms to check and set cast member properties:
Graphic cast member dimensions
Use
height, rect (member), and width to check and set dimensions for graphic cast members.
Casts
The terms in this section are useful for working with casts.
Loading casts
Use
preLoadMode to check and set when Director preloads a cast.
Cast properties
Use these terms to specify cast properties:
center palette
crop (cast member property) picture (cast member property)
depth pictureP()
media regPoint
fileName (cast member property) number (cast member property)
media preLoadMode
modified type (cast member property)
name (cast member property) URL
castLib number (cast property)
fileName (cast property) number (system property)
name (cast property)