Complete Reference

The Complete Reference

By: David Mennenoh

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Paperback | 18 January 2002

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Master using Director--and develop rich media content for the Web, CD-ROMs, and DVD-ROMs--with help from this one-stop resource. Beginning with a quick overview of Director, you'll then get in-depth details on programming with Lingo and creating multimedia and 3-D applications. And, each chapter includes a helpful tutorial-based example, to reinforce what you've just learned.

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Computer Programming & Software Development Graphical & Digital Media Applications Web Graphics & Design Digital Animation

Acknowledgments	p. xx
Introduction	p. xxi
Quick Tour	p. 1
The IDE	p. 2
The Toolbar	p. 6
Supporting Windows	p. 6
Preferences	p. 15
The Help System	p. 16
Summary	p. 17
Getting Started	p. 19
Director Is an Animation Package	p. 20
Creating a Cast Member	p. 20
Using Sprites	p. 21
Creating Score Animation	p. 26
Adding Sound	p. 36
Adding a Transition	p. 38
Using the Marker Channel	p. 40
Using the Tempo Channel	p. 41
Summary	p. 42
Your First Presentation	p. 43
The Basic Corporate Presentation	p. 44
Creating the Projector	p. 66
Summary	p. 69
A Deeper Look into Director	p. 71
Saving Your Movies	p. 72
Exporting from Director	p. 73
Creating Projectors	p. 75
Director's Preferences	p. 78
Sprite Helpers	p. 89
More on the Score	p. 97
Working with Casts	p. 100
Summary	p. 103
An Introduction to Lingo	p. 105
A Word on Dot Syntax	p. 106
The Ubiquity of Lingo	p. 107
Events, Messages, and Handlers	p. 108
Types of Scripts	p. 111
Changing Script Types	p. 117
Attaching Scripts	p. 118
Tutorial: The Button Behavior	p. 118
Summary	p. 122
Intermediate Lingo	p. 123
Operators and Precedence	p. 124
Variables	p. 127
Decision Making	p. 133
Looping	p. 137
Writing Behaviors	p. 140
User Input	p. 144
User Feedback	p. 148
Tutorial: Ballistic Motion Simulator	p. 152
Summary	p. 161
Introducing Shockwave 3D	p. 163
Director's Evolution	p. 164
The 3D World	p. 165
Primitives	p. 167
Modifiers	p. 168
3D Text	p. 169
From 2D to 3D	p. 171
Havok	p. 172
The Shockwave 3D Window	p. 174
Tutorial: Your First 3D World	p. 175
Summary	p. 180
Multimedia in Director	p. 181
Bitmaps	p. 182
Custom Cursors	p. 189
Digital Video	p. 196
Using Sound	p. 219
Using Flash Members	p. 236
Summary	p. 240
Lists and Strings	p. 241
Lingo Lists	p. 242
String Handling	p. 265
Tutorial: A Simple Lingo Database	p. 279
Summary	p. 286
MIAWs, LDMs, and Film Loops	p. 287
MIAWs	p. 288
Linked Director Movies	p. 305
Film Loops	p. 314
Summary	p. 323
Shockwave 3D: Beyond the Basics	p. 325
Polling the Hardware	p. 326
The Skybox	p. 327
Textures and Shaders	p. 337
Making Objects Face the Camera	p. 350
Modifiers	p. 351
Particle Systems	p. 352
Picking 3D Models with a 2D Mouse	p. 353
Overlays and Backdrops	p. 355
3D Pong	p. 357
Summary	p. 372
Director and the Internet	p. 375
The Net Support Xtras	p. 376
The Multiuser Server	p. 391
Summary	p. 405
Tools for the Developer	p. 407
MIAW Xtras	p. 408
Keeping a Code Library	p. 420
Debugging Tools	p. 422
The Debugger	p. 425
The Trace Commands	p. 430
The .INI File	p. 432
Summary	p. 433
Xtra, Xtra, Read All About It!	p. 435
Using Xtras	p. 436
Including Xtras in Shockwave	p. 441
Director's Included Xtras	p. 442
Third-Party Xtras	p. 452
Free Xtras	p. 452
Xtra Error Checking	p. 455
Getting Started Writing Xtras	p. 456
Summary	p. 456
Menus	p. 459
Director's Menus	p. 460
Menu Xtras	p. 463
Creating a Custom Menu Behavior	p. 464
Pop Menu 2.1	p. 475
Summary	p. 475
Printing	p. 477
File Print	p. 478
Printing from Lingo	p. 479
Other Printing Methods	p. 486
Summary	p. 491
Advanced Lingo Topics	p. 493
OOP Basics	p. 494
Imaging Lingo	p. 521
Summary	p. 551
Distributing Your Work	p. 553
Creating Projectors	p. 554
Projector Customization	p. 560
Distribution Formats	p. 563
Licensing Issues	p. 571
Installing Your Software	p. 573
Summary	p. 577
Other Resources	p. 579
Director Web Sites	p. 580
Newsgroups	p. 583
Mailing Lists	p. 585
User Groups	p. 587
Search Engines	p. 587
Un-Lingo Programming	p. 588
Summary	p. 591
Tips and Tricks	p. 593
One Frame Movies	p. 594
Fun in the Score	p. 594
Numbers	p. 595
Imaging and Color	p. 596
Lists	p. 599
Pre-Initializing Global Variables	p. 599
Projector Command Line Arguments	p. 599
Removing Linefeeds in Text Files	p. 600
Using the itemDelimiter	p. 600
Cursor Hiding	p. 601
Network/Internet	p. 601
Shockwave Audio	p. 601
MIAWs	p. 602
Speeding Up Flash	p. 602
Problems with File Extensions and preloadNetThing	p. 602
Calculating Frames per Second	p. 603
Using randomSeed	p. 603
Keyboard Shortcuts	p. 605
Movie Shortcuts	p. 606
Interface Shortcuts	p. 606
Stage Shortcuts	p. 607
Playback Shortcuts	p. 608
Sprite Shortcuts	p. 609
Formulas, Conversions, and Measurements	p. 611
Astronomical Measurements	p. 612
Conversion Equivalents	p. 612
Geometry	p. 614
Trigonometry	p. 615
Weights and Measures	p. 616
Other Useful Stuff	p. 617
Index	p. 619
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