Po' Smedley's Life And Brain Drippings
Published on September 11, 2005 By PoSmedley In Object Desktop
I am a newbie and haven't gotten into scripts yet. I am working on an object/widget (my second) and have ended up going in circles trying to figure out the 'Action" settings.

I have gotten my object to do what I want, but not the way I want it to. I can set the following actions with no problem...mouseaway, mouseover, mouse down and up...and default. Even manged to figure out the Command exe.

My object consists of animation files and sound files. All my images are good, same size and all.

Here's my problem.

If I try to set the 'Show' action..it will not execute and keeps the 'default' action from executing. I want one specific thing to take place when it loads/shows...and not again.
When I set the 'HIde' action, that action does not execute when I hide or close the object. Again, I just want it to do one specific thing when it hides/closes.

I have goen through the tutorials all day. I have tried setting it as a layer and a widget. I have juggled and renamed all the animations to make sure they aLL WORKED. The Hide and Show actions WILL execute if I have NO other actions set, but they run when I load the widget and thats all.

Am I trying to do something that can't be done or am I just missing something? For these 2 actions, do I have to write a script??? (shudder, groan)

Any help would be apreciated.

Thank you,

Noah99

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