MACROMEDIA DIRECTOR MX 2004-DIRECTOR SCRIPTING Reference page 699

If you try to set a monitor's color depth to a value that monitor does not support, the monitor's
color depth doesn't change.
On computers with more than one monitor, the
displaying the Stage. If the Stage spans more than one monitor, the
indicates the greatest depth of those monitors;
specified depth.
Example
This statement tells Director to open the movie Full color only if the monitor color depth is set to
256 colors:
-- Lingo syntax
if (_system.colorDepth = 8) then
window("Full color").open()
end if
// JavaScript syntax
if (_system.colorDepth == 8) {
window("Full color").open()
}
The following handler tries to change the color depth, and if it can't, it displays an alert:
-- Lingo syntax
on tryToSetColorDepth(desiredDepth)
_system.colorDepth = desiredDepth
if (_system.colorDepth = desiredDepth) then
return true
else
_player.alert("Please change your system to" && desiredDepth && "color \
depth and reboot.")
return false
end if
end
// JavaScript syntax
function tryToSetColorDepth(desiredDepth) {
_system.colorDepth = desiredDepth;
if (_system.colorDepth == desiredDepth) {
return true;
}
else {
_player.alert("Please change your system to " + desiredDepth +
" color depth and reboot.");
return false;
}
}
See also
System
property refers to the monitor
colorDepth
colorDepth
tries to set all those monitors to the
colorDepth
property
colorDepth 699