Macromedia Director 8

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Macromedia Director 8

• Advanced Level Course

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Script Basics

• Lingo can be used to offer your users
  navigational control of the order of the scenes
  of your movie.

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Script Types

• Behavior Scripts are the same thing as the
  Behavior Inspector. The only difference is how
  you go about creating them. You can use the
  Behavior Inspector to add interactive features to
  movies without having to write or understand
  Lingo.

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Library Palette

• The Library Palette is basically a list of
  pre-set behaviors that can be selected for a
  movie.

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Behavior Inspector

• The Behavior Inspector allows you to create new
  behaviors, modify existing behaviors, or alter
  the order within a specific sprite that the
  behaviors are executed in.

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Events

• Events within Director are the basis of creating
  simple or complex behaviors.
• Events are pre coded Behaviors that are available
  to use through the Behavior Inspector.

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Actions

• Actions within Director are the basis of creating
  simple or complex behaviors.
• Actions are pre coded Behaviors that are
  available to use through the Behavior Inspector

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Transitions Basics

• Transitions always take place between the end of
  the current frame and the start of the frame that
  the transition has been set.
• To create a dissolve between two scenes, the
  transition must be set within the first frame of
  the second scene.

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Transitions with Lingo

• When setting a transition with Lingo, the
  puppetTransition command must be used, as it will
  allow you to choose an appropriate transition for
  movie conditions, or to apply a transition to a
  sprite before the playback head exits.

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Lingo Terms

• Lingo Terms are Arguments, Commands, Constants,
  Events , Expressions , Functions , Handlers,
  Lists, Keywords, Messages, Operators, Properties,
  Statements, Variables.

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Syntax

• Lingo Syntax supports multiple data types, from
  references to sprites and cast members, TRUE and
  FALSE (Boolean) values, strings, constants,
  integers, floating point numbers, points, rects,
  and colors, to dates.

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Cursor Commands

• Director allows you access to five built in
  cursors. But what is not usually talked about is
  the other selection of cursors that are available
  within the Director Resources.

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Sound Triggers

• Using sound segments adds appeal to a movie by
  involving a soundtrack, voice-over, ambient
  noise, or anything else that will augment the
  visuals.

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Sound Synchronization

• Synchronize a movie with sound by writing in
  Lingo to perform an action when a set cue point
  is triggered in a sound playing.

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Hyperlinks

• Director adds the standard hyperlink formatting
  to your selected text so that it appears with the
  blue underlining.

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Xtras

• All of the Xtras a movie needs have to be
  installed on a users system before the movie
  will run, so when a movie is distributed, the
  Xtras either have to be included or a way
  provided to the user on how to download the
  Xtras.

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Memory Management

• There are three types of memory that are not only
  connected, but all three must be considered while
  creating and for playing, a movie
• RAM
• Virtual Memory
• Video Memory

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The Projector

• The projector can embed just about all the data
  necessary for a complete multimedia production.
  The data mentioned are multiple director movies.