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If you are writing scripts, use these Lingo terms to refer to frames in a
movie:
- The function the frame refers to the current frame.
- The frame number or the frame marker label refers to a specific
frame. For example, frame 60 indicates frame 60.
- The keyword loop refers to the marker at the beginning of the
current segment. If the current frame has a marker, loop refers to
the current frame; if not, loop refers to the first marker before
the current frame.
- The word next or previous refers to the next marker or
the marker before the current scene, respectively.
- The term the frame followed by a minus or plus sign and the
number of frames before or after the current frame refers to a frame
that's a specific number of frames before or after the current frame. For
example, the frame - 20 refers to the frame 20 frames before the current
frame.
- The function marker() with the number of markers used as the
parameter refers to the marker that's a specific number of markers before
or after the current frame. For example, marker(-1) gives the
previous marker. If the frame is marked, marker(0) gives the current
frame; if not, marker(0) gives the name of the previous marker.
- The word movie followed by the movie name refers to the
beginning of another movie. For example,
movie "Navigation"
refers to
the beginning of the Navigation movie.
- The word frame plus a frame identifier, the word of, the
word movie, and the movie name refers to a specific frame in another
movie; for example,
frame 15 of movie "Navigation"
refers to frame 15 of
the Navigation movie.
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Dave Marshall
10/4/2001