CompuServe Thread

The only problem I'm aware of with regards to The Director and DCTV is in the overscan centering for which there is a workaround. The Director will center an overscan image around the current Preferences setting, which means that if Preferences is too far up and to the left, it could push the DCTV magic-cookie off screen (and therefore out of DCTV display mode). In fact, it is even possible that an overscan image can be too large to be centered properly around ANY Preferences setting, in which case the safest thing to do is to use the POSITION command to explicitly adjust the centering so that the DCTV magic-cookie is guaranteed to be onscreen regardless of Preferences setting. A simple script like this can be used to determine appropriate centering values: load 1,"dctv.picture" x=100 y=40 /loop: PRINT "X=";x;" Y=";y POSITION x,y GETKEY key IF key='8' THEN y=y-1 IF key='4' THEN x=x-1 IF key='6' THEN x=x+1 IF key='2' THEN y=y+1 GOTO loop Once the picture appears, you can use the numeric keypad's 8/4/6/2 keys to position the picture so that it is as far as possible in the upper left but still shows proper DCTV video. Then, using the Amiga-N/M key's you can switch to the workbench and read the values in the Projector window. Keith

Perhaps 2.0's default Preferences screen positioning if different from your customer's current 1.3 setting? Blaq!