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To set Shockwave playback options:
1
Select File > Publish Settings.
The Publish Settings dialog box appears.
2
On the Shockwave tab, select the options that you want to provide for your users, as described
in the following list:
Volume Control
lets users adjust the volume of the movie’s soundtrack.
Transport Control
provides controls for rewinding, stopping, and stepping through the movie
in Shockmachine.
Zooming
determines if Shockwave stretching is allowed. You can disable zooming with Lingo
by setting the
allowZooming
property. For more information, see the Lingo Dictionary.
Save Local
lets users save movies on their local computers for playback in Shockmachine.
Display Progress Bar and Display Logo
determine if the progress bar and logo appear while the
movie loads in the browser.
About creating multiuser applications
If you want to create multiuser movies or applications with Director, you need to use
Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX in your Director movie. You do this by importing
a Flash movie into your Director movie. This can be a Flash movie that has already been authored
to communicate with the Flash Communication server or a simple Flash movie that can serve as a
container for Flash script objects that you create with Lingo. By using Flash script objects in
Lingo, you can implement Flash Communication server functionality entirely in Director.
For more information about using Flash Communication Server MX in Director, see Chapter 11,
“Using Flash and Other Interactive Media Types,” on page 293.
For information about using the Director Multiuser Server, see the Multiuser section of the
Director Support Center. (www.macromedia.com/support/director/multiuser.html)
About streaming with the Score and behaviors
The easiest way to create a movie that streams well is to arrange the Score properly and use
behaviors to control the playhead. Director downloads cast members in the order in which they
appear in the Score. Try to arrange the Score so that events don’t make the playhead jump far
ahead in the Score, where cast members have not yet been downloaded. For example, if you place
a menu in the first frame of a movie and a user selects an option that sends the playhead to frame
400, the cast members for frame 400 probably won’t be available right away.
To avoid this problem, begin a movie with a simple introductory scene that contains a few small
cast members, preferably vector shapes. You can use a streaming behavior from the Library palette
to make the introduction loop until the cast members that are required for the next scene have
been downloaded in the background.
Several behaviors that are included with Director control the playhead or a progress bar while
media elements are downloading. These behaviors make it easy to allow enough time for
downloading to catch up with action in the Score.