MACROMEDIA DIRECTOR MX-USING DIRECTOR MX, Use Manual

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Introduction 18
Conventions used in Director Help and printed books
The help system and printed books use the following conventions:
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The terms Lingo and Director refer to Director MX.
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Within the text and in Lingo examples, Lingo elements and parts of actual code are shown in
this
font. For example,
set answer = 2 + 2
is a sample Lingo statement.
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Quotation marks that are part of Lingo statements are shown in the text and Lingo code
examples as straight quotation marks (") rather than as curly quotation marks (”).
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The continuation symbol (
¬
), which you enter by pressing Alt+Enter (Windows) or
Return (Macintosh), indicates that a long line of Lingo has been broken onto two or
more lines. Lines of Lingo that are broken this way are not separate lines of code. When you
see the continuation symbol in this book, type the lines as one line when you enter them in the
Script window.
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Variables used to represent parameters in Lingo appear in
italics
. For example,
whichCastMember
is commonly used to indicate where you insert the name of a cast member
in Lingo.
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Text that you should type is shown in this font.