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Managing and Testing Director Projects

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Testing often during development

Testing should be an integral part of your Director development process. You should test the 
functionality of each small part of your movie as you add it rather than waiting until the movie’s 
whole feature set is implemented.

When you build features that are interdependent, you should test each one before adding the 
next. If you test this way, you’ll know that the most recently implemented feature is the most 
likely source of the problem. If you wait to test one feature until after the next feature is 
implemented and one of those features exhibits a problem, you have a more complex set of 
possibilities to evaluate.

Save multiple versions of your movie as you progress. When difficulties arise, compare the current 
version with the last saved version to help locate the source of the problem.

Testing on all target platforms

When you develop a Director movie, you should spend some time defining its audience. Part of 
this process is deciding what the minimum system requirements should be for the computers used 
by that audience. 

You should determine the slowest processor speed you want your movie to play on and verify that 
the performance of your movie is acceptable on a processor of that speed. You should also 
determine if there is a range of configurations you have to support (such as Macintosh, Windows 
NT, and Windows 2000) and test enough of them to ensure success. Be sure to include 
parameters such as browser software, screen resolution, and available memory in your testing. 

This approach can help you find problems that are specific to an operating system or 
configuration, which are distinct from authoring errors.

Testing strategies

You can use the following strategies to test your movies effectively:

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Be sure to use the Control > Preview in browser command. Testing in Director is different 
from testing a Director movie (DCR) file. The Preview in Browser command demonstrates the 
true behavior of the DCR file.

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If you encounter a problem, try to isolate the problem in a new Director file that incorporates 
only the problem feature or item. Make a list of the minimum steps that are required to 
reproduce the problem in a new file. This process usually reveals the source of the problem in 
your movie. It also reveals whether the problem is limited to one feature or if it is caused by the 
interaction of two or more features in your movie.

•

Try to re-create the problem with different media. Sometimes the source of a problem is within 
a specific media item used in your movie. 

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Try to re-create the problem on a different computer. This will help isolate problems with 
hardware configuration or with the Director installation on a specific computer. If the problem 
exists only when the movie is posted to a server, determine whether the problem exists on only 
one server or all servers. Occasionally the server’s MIME types might need editing to include 
the MIME types for Director. For more information, see Director TechNote 16509, 
Configuring your server for Macromedia Shockwave Player, at www.macromedia.com/
support/flash/ts/documents/tn4151.html.

•

When you use Lingo, look for typing errors, missing punctuation, or inconsistent naming.

Содержание DIRECTOR MX-USING DIRECTOR MX

Страница 1: ...Using Director MX Macromedia Director MX...

Страница 2: ...de contains links to third party Web sites that are not under the control of Macromedia and Macromedia is not responsible for the content on any linked site If you access a third party Web site mentio...

Страница 3: ...in the Score 43 About adding interactivity with Lingo 44 Converting movies created in previous versions of Director 45 Managing the Director authoring environment 45 About using Xtra extensions to ext...

Страница 4: ...s 111 View a 3D world 112 Use the camera 112 Set model rollover cursors 121 Use 3D behaviors for navigation 122 Play your completed movie 125 To learn more 126 CHAPTER 4 Cast Members and Cast Windows...

Страница 5: ...ng sprite frames 192 Frame by frame animation 193 Shortcuts for animating with multiple cast members 195 Using film loops 197 Setting film loop properties 198 Step recording animation 199 Real time re...

Страница 6: ...po and Transitions 255 Controlling color 255 Setting palette cast member properties 266 About tempo 267 Using transitions 270 CHAPTER 10 Text 273 Embedding fonts in movies 274 Creating text cast membe...

Страница 7: ...internal and linked sounds 320 Setting sound cast member properties 321 Controlling sound in the Score 321 Looping a sound 322 Using sound in Windows 323 Playing sounds with Lingo 323 About Shockwave...

Страница 8: ...ith Lingo 375 Detecting mouse clicks with Lingo 377 Making sprites editable and draggable 377 Making sprites editable or moveable with Lingo 378 Checking which text is under the pointer with Lingo 379...

Страница 9: ...3D cast member 455 Model resources 456 Models 458 Shaders 458 Textures 459 Motions 460 Lights 460 Cameras 461 Groups 462 Creating 3D text 462 Modifying 3D text 463 Lingo for 3D text 464 Using 3D beha...

Страница 10: ...HAPTER 22 Using the XML Parser Xtra 543 About XML 543 Using XML parser objects 544 Using XML document nodes 545 Accessing attributes 548 Parser objects and XML nodes 548 Treating white space 549 XML a...

Страница 11: ...d frame by frame bitmaps 586 Setting QuickTime export options 588 About organizing movie files 590 CHAPTER 27 Using Shockwave Player 591 About streaming movies 591 About network operations 592 Setting...

Страница 12: ...Contents 12...

Страница 13: ...processor running Windows 98 2000 or XP 128 MB of available RAM plus 100 MB of available disk space a color monitor and a CD ROM drive For the Macintosh A Power Macintosh G3 running System 10 1 or la...

Страница 14: ...he application s strong integration with Macromedia Flash MX ColdFusion MX Flash Communications Server MX and other Macromedia MX products The Macromedia MX workspace lets you organize and customize a...

Страница 15: ...ble accessible content that doesn t rely on screen readers Any user with Shockwave Player and an installed speech engine which ships with current operating systems can then use your accessible content...

Страница 16: ...ng the printed books Using Director MX and Director MX Lingo Dictionary both of which are also available as online help Using Director MX contains two tutorials The Director MX workspace contains tool...

Страница 17: ...the item Keyboard shortcuts Many commands that are available from Director menus are also accessible through keyboard shortcuts When you display a menu or submenu the appropriate key combinations are...

Страница 18: ...ight quotation marks rather than as curly quotation marks The continuation symbol which you enter by pressing Alt Enter Windows or Option Return Macintosh indicates that a long line of Lingo has been...

Страница 19: ...e can link to external media or be one of a series of movies that refer to one another Your users view completed Director movies in one of the following ways In the Macromedia Shockwave movie format w...

Страница 20: ...ctor The Stage If the Stage is not open select Window Stage The Stage is the visible portion of a movie on which you determine where your media elements appear During authoring you have the ability to...

Страница 21: ...back in the authoring environment To go to a specific frame number in a movie enter the number in the frame counter and press Enter Windows or Return Macintosh You can also use the toolbar buttons or...

Страница 22: ...h the floating Control panel to the Stage do one of the following Right click Windows or Control click Macintosh the Control panel In the context menu select Attach Control Panel Right click Windows o...

Страница 23: ...ow you can view your cast members which are the media in your movie such as sounds text graphics and other movies Cast members can also include assets that you use in your Score but not on the Stage s...

Страница 24: ...of any selected object or multiple objects in your movie After you select an object relevant category tabs and associated fields appear in the Property inspector If you select multiple objects only t...

Страница 25: ...at appears in the Property inspector depending on what is selected In the first illustration a sprite is selected In the second illustration a cast member is selected To show more or less information...

Страница 26: ...Chapter 1 26 The following illustrations show different information appearing in the Property inspector depending on whether the expanded information is hidden or shown...

Страница 27: ...e Stage during playback if the movie does not take up the full screen select an option from the Location pop up menu or enter values for Left and Top these values specify the number of pixels the Stag...

Страница 28: ...Software specifies Director s built in software renderer that works with Macintosh and Windows platforms Auto specifies that the most suitable renderer should be selected This option is the default v...

Страница 29: ...Stage size To zoom in while selecting an area of the Stage to center within the zoomed window select the Magnifying Glass tool from the Tool palette Click a point on the Stage to zoom and center To z...

Страница 30: ...channels most movies use as few channels as possible to improve performance in the authoring environment and during playback Sprites in higher channels appear on the Stage in front of sprites in lowe...

Страница 31: ...n To show or hide the special effects channels Click the Hide Show Effects Channels button in the upper right corner of the Score to change the display About Frames A frame in a movie represents a sin...

Страница 32: ...the playhead to that frame and you can drag the playhead backward or forward through frames Changing your view of the Score To narrow or widen the Score you change the zoom percentage Zooming in wide...

Страница 33: ...zoomed out to 50 Score at 100 Score zoomed in to 200 You can also display more frames in a Score without changing the zoom setting To do so place a sprite in the rightmost frame of the Score Director...

Страница 34: ...uctivity You can group panels together in a tabbed view to form a panel group expand and collapse panels and panel groups and dock panels or panel groups to each other or to the Director application w...

Страница 35: ...dows Property inspector Tool palette Object inspector Library palette Behavior inspector Text inspector Memory inspector Control panel Onion Skin Align Color palettes Markers Tweak Managing panels and...

Страница 36: ...e Options menu see Using panel Options menus on page 40 Right click Windows or Control click Macintosh on the panel group s header bar and select Close Panel Group Select the window name from the Wind...

Страница 37: ...ter of the docking channel s separator bar Collapsing a docking channel increases the space allocated to the View Port To resize a docking channel Drag the docking channel s separator bar Panel dockin...

Страница 38: ...ize button Windows only Note To return the document window to its original state double click the Title bar again or click the Restore Down button Windows only Working with panel groups You can combin...

Страница 39: ...new name for the panel in the Panel Group Name text box and click OK To rearrange the order of tabs within a panel group 1 Select a tab within a panel group 2 Select Group Panel Name With from the pan...

Страница 40: ...ictions see Working with panel groups on page 38 Rename Panel Group opens the Rename Panel Group dialog where you can rename the panel or panel group If the current window cannot be renamed this item...

Страница 41: ...To change Score settings 1 Select Edit Preferences Score 2 The Extended display option lets you display information within sprites in the Score See Displaying sprite labels in the Score on page 165 To...

Страница 42: ...s navigation references than frame numbers which can change if you insert or delete frames in the Score You can use the Markers window to write comments that are associated with markers you set in the...

Страница 43: ...rker name that appears in the comments column When the insertion point appears click again to deselect the marker name and press Control Enter Windows or Control Return Macintosh to start a new line T...

Страница 44: ...the entire sprite can fit without being truncated or overwriting other sprites To add new frames 1 Select a frame in the Score 2 Select Insert Frames 3 Enter the number of frames to insert The new fra...

Страница 45: ...rector 8 or Director 8 5 for use in Director MX You can also update movies to Director MX by simply opening and saving them but the Update Movies command is faster for converting large projects It s a...

Страница 46: ...depth of a movie on page 256 Animate in Background runs animation in the background while you work with other applications When you are running animation in the background the Stage remains on the sc...

Страница 47: ...ght not always display the most current version of a page Every Time checks for changes whenever you request a page This option slows performance but ensures you are always viewing the most current ve...

Страница 48: ...t cast art cast thumbnails and the comments in the Markers window The Scripts Cast Text Cast Art and Cast Thumbnails print options specify a range of casts and cast members internal or external Inform...

Страница 49: ...intensive operation Note The Memory inspector is not available on Macintosh To use the Memory inspector 1 Select Window Memory Inspector 2 Observe the following memory use indicators Total Memory dis...

Страница 50: ...r displays a red X as a placeholder Types of Xtra extensions The following types of Xtra extensions are supplied with Director Cast member Xtra extensions provide new media types to Director They crea...

Страница 51: ...te the movie as a Shockwave movie that plays within a web page or as a projector that downloads to the user s computer or that you distribute on a disk A Shockwave movie is a compressed version of the...

Страница 52: ...ick access to information that helps you work effectively with Director including TechNotes articles and other useful content To open the Answers panel Select Window Answers To get the latest Director...

Страница 53: ...n sound and video The movie you ll create is designed to suggest what is possible with Director rather than simulate a fully developed Director project What you ll learn This tutorial introduces you t...

Страница 54: ...e However the score of a Director movie contains more than just music The Score window in Director contains information about when and where each of the cast members will appear on the Stage The Score...

Страница 55: ...trol the playback of the video clip The movie consists of three scenes The first is a title scene that contains buttons for navigating to the other two scenes The second scene is an animation of a sun...

Страница 56: ...e List View Mode icon to deselect it The Property inspector lets you change attributes of a selected object 2 In the Stage Size pop up menu select 500 x 330 Note You can view tooltips for pop up menus...

Страница 57: ...torial 57 4 In the Property inspector select a dark orange color from the Stage Fill color picker 5 Save your movie by selecting File Save or clicking the Save button in the toolbar Window Toolbar Sta...

Страница 58: ...ggle from List view to Thumbnail view click the Cast View Style button in the upper left corner of the Cast window The Cast window contains cast members that you can use in your movie The first is a t...

Страница 59: ...ciated windows that you can use to view and edit the cast member 2 If the text is not already selected select it then select 36 point from the Size pop up menu in the tool bar near the top of the wind...

Страница 60: ...ls when where and how cast members appear in a movie You create sprites by placing cast members on the Stage or in the Score To build the first scene of the movie you place sprites of the TitleText ca...

Страница 61: ...to select it On the Sprite tab in the Property inspector select Background Transparent from the Ink pop up menu Inks control the way a sprite color appears on the Stage Background Transparent ink mak...

Страница 62: ...ick the button cast member in cast slot two 2 Click the Cast Member Name text box at the top of the Cast window and type Animation Press Enter Windows or Return Macintosh 3 Drag the Animation button c...

Страница 63: ...ers Cast members are often created in separate windows and then dragged from the Cast window to the Stage You create a button cast member directly on the Stage using the Tool palette You ll use the Bu...

Страница 64: ...learned earlier in this tutorial when you drag cast members onto the Stage you create sprites Sprites are instances of cast members that appear on the Stage and in the Score window The Score window d...

Страница 65: ...fy Extend Sprite The sprites shorten in length so they occupy only frames 1 through 10 You can use the Extend Sprite command to either lengthen or shorten sprites Change the default length of sprites...

Страница 66: ...rt in frame 15 you ll place a sprite of the mountain range on the Stage in frame 15 1 Open the Stage if it is not already open by selecting Window Stage 2 Open the Score if necessary and click frame 1...

Страница 67: ...cast member in cast slot 4 Click the Name text box at the top of the Cast window and type Mountain Press Enter Windows or Return Macintosh Draw using the Paint window The animation of the sunset will...

Страница 68: ...of line widths at the bottom of the left side Paint window toolbar 5 In the Paint window draw a small flat cloud with the pencil tool Be sure that the cloud has no gaps in the outline Use the Eraser...

Страница 69: ...o fill enclosed lines 2 Select an orange color from the Gradient Start color box This will be the starting color of your gradient Your cloud will look best if you select the same orange you used for t...

Страница 70: ...n as mathematical descriptions of an image Because of this difference vector cast members generally use less memory than comparable bitmap cast members There are some differences in the kinds of effec...

Страница 71: ...of the window 2 Select 0 point from the Stroke Width pop up menu 3 Drag the pointer in the window to make a circle 4 Click the first Gradient Color box on the left and select a bright shade of yellow...

Страница 72: ...r boxes 7 The gradient fill in the circle changes color from left to right To rotate the gradient so it changes from top to bottom enter 90 in the Angle text box at the top of the window 8 Click the C...

Страница 73: ...is not already on frame 15 the beginning of the second scene click frame 15 in the frame number bar at the top of the Score 2 Make sure the Cast and Stage windows are open Drag the Cloud cast member f...

Страница 74: ...sent points in the sprite s animation path When you first drop a sprite on the Stage there is no animation so there s only one dot The line on the Stage that connects the dots represents the animation...

Страница 75: ...ed to lengthen the Mountain sprite to extend the duration of the entire animation scene 3 Click the end frame of the Mountain sprite in frame 24 of the Score and drag the end frame to frame 50 The nex...

Страница 76: ...untains because the stacking order of sprites on the Stage is from the lowest numbered Score channel to the highest numbered channel The sprites in lower numbered channels appear below sprites in high...

Страница 77: ...ns users to the first scene Later you ll add Lingo to these buttons to make them function Add an existing button First you add the Go to Sound and Video button that you created earlier for scene 1 1 C...

Страница 78: ...4 In the button text box type Go to Start and then click the Stage outside the button 5 In the Cast window select the new button cast member and type GoStart in the Cast Member Name text box at the to...

Страница 79: ...sunset animation once before returning to frame 1 and playing again 4 If your movie plays only once turn on looping by clicking the Loop Playback icon on the Control panel or by selecting Control Loop...

Страница 80: ...erence rather than fully import your media Referencing media offers greater flexibility in terms of how you manage and where you locate your media assets When the referenced file is edited using the L...

Страница 81: ...use button reverts to a Play button The QuickTime window has its own playhead that moves to the right as the video plays You can use the playhead to jump to a specific point in the video or to scrub t...

Страница 82: ...Stage option which lets the video play at the fastest possible speed However when Direct to Stage is selected for digital video the video appears in front of all other sprites regardless of the chann...

Страница 83: ...m control the QuickTime sprite You ll put the buttons near the bottom of the QuickTime sprite allowing room on the Stage for the scene navigation buttons as well 1 To place the Play button on the Stag...

Страница 84: ...s at once by selecting them all in the Score or on the Stage and selecting the new ink in the Property inspector 5 In the Score or on the Stage Shift click the three buttons 6 Select Background Transp...

Страница 85: ...lect File Import In the Import dialog box navigate within your Director MX application folder to Tutorials Basics BasicsMedia folder and open the Sounds folder 2 Select the sound file named drumloop a...

Страница 86: ...member from the Cast window to frame 55 in sound channel 1 The sound is now ready to play when frames 55 to 64 of your movie play 2 Rewind and play your movie The playhead moves through all the frame...

Страница 87: ...the Score to the sound and video scene When you do this the button occupies the same space on the Stage in both scenes 1 Drag the end frame of the GoStart button sprite in frame 50 channel 6 to frame...

Страница 88: ...ts that control the playhead Loop the playhead with Lingo The scenes of your movie aren t much good as scenes if the playhead simply races through them without stopping to let the user absorb their co...

Страница 89: ...ow select the new script and type Loop in the Cast Member Name text box at the top of the window Press Enter Windows or Return Macintosh 6 Rewind and play your movie The movie plays to frame 10 and st...

Страница 90: ...he last frame of the animation scene However this new script will send the playhead to the first frame of the animation rather than to the frame where the script is located Because the first frame of...

Страница 91: ...ript already entered 2 Inside the default script on line 2 type the following go to frame Animation 3 In the Name text box at the top of the window type AnimLoop and close the Script window The new sc...

Страница 92: ...te to which the script is attached Specifically the mouseUp event refers to the action of releasing the mouse button after it has been pressed This way the script is not run until the user releases th...

Страница 93: ...press Enter Windows or Return Macintosh Save your movie Write Lingo that refers to scenes You can write scripts that refer to any of the three scenes by name You ll now add a script to the Go to Sound...

Страница 94: ...avigation buttons is to add the GoAnim script you ve already written to the Go to Animation button in the sound and video scene Add scripts to the sound and video scene You ve already added the naviga...

Страница 95: ...o plays from start to finish once To play the video again without first leaving the scene you need to rewind it You rewind the video by setting its movieTime property The movieTime property indicates...

Страница 96: ...sprite with a dot or period The equal sign is sufficient to indicate that the property should be set to the specified value as in sprite 1 movieTime 0 7 Close the Script window Rewind and play your mo...

Страница 97: ...u can also add Lingo to make a short sound effect play when the video control buttons are clicked Control sound with Lingo To control sound with Lingo you use commands that are specifically intended f...

Страница 98: ...e video will resume and the sound plays again Modify the script for the Rewind button You can modify the RewindScript Lingo so that the sound stops when the user clicks the Rewind button 1 In the Cast...

Страница 99: ...new line type the following Lingo sound 2 play member button The 2 specifies the second sound channel 4 Close the Script window and save your movie 5 Repeat steps 1 through 4 for the PlayScript and P...

Страница 100: ...ode the files must be in a folder named dswmedia This is the only folder name that lets the Player access linked local files The file naming convention applies only to DCR movies that you play on your...

Страница 101: ...ssary a message appears that advises your user to update the Shockwave installation 1 Open the version of the My_Basic_start movie that resides on your desktop within the dswmedia folder 2 Select File...

Страница 102: ...Score Use sounds Write simple Lingo scripts Publish your movie for web playback To learn more about using Lingo to create sophisticated Director movies see Chapter 16 Writing Scripts with Lingo on pa...

Страница 103: ...movie without using the Lingo scripting language directly Lingo enthusiasts can refer to 3D Lingo by Feature in the Lingo Dictionary for information on Lingo syntax in Director MX The tutorial takes a...

Страница 104: ...scene Press the Spacebar to return to the original view 5 When you finish viewing the movie either click Stop along the bottom of the Stage window or select Control Stop Open the tutorial movie To be...

Страница 105: ...le text is 2D text created in Director MX 3 In the Score Window Score select frame 1 in channel 3 4 Drag the Title text cast member from the Internal Cast window to the upper left area of the Stage as...

Страница 106: ...Windows or Return Macintosh You use the X and Y text boxes to place the sprite precisely 7 Type 70 in the End frame text box and press Enter Windows or Return Macintosh to extend the Title text sprite...

Страница 107: ...3D text by changing settings in the Property inspector 3D Extruder tab 1 Click the Property inspector 3D Extruder tab 2 Move the Tunnel Depth slider left and right to see the different effects When yo...

Страница 108: ...sional objects in Director can use both ambient and directional lights By specifying Top Center as the light you re indicating where on the text it should appear as though a light is shining The Title...

Страница 109: ...3D behaviors actions and triggers Actions specify what occurs in the movie such as a camera rotating around a model You ll learn more about actions and triggers later in the tutorial 2 Resize the Lib...

Страница 110: ...l and vertical axes respectively the z axis refers to the depth of the model 6 To view the 3D text rotating play your movie The rotation speed seems a bit fast To avoid making your users dizzy you ll...

Страница 111: ...the Property inspector Behavior tab 2 With Automatic Model Rotation Internal selected in the Property inspector click the down arrow to the right of Rotation Speed and move the Rotation Speed slider...

Страница 112: ...axis such as when a camera turns from side to side on a tripod You use two panning behaviors in the Library palette to pan the camera up down left and right Specifying parameters for the panning behav...

Страница 113: ...an horizontally you still must identify how the user activates and controls panning during movie playback As you learned earlier Pan Camera Horizontal is an action behavior you apply a trigger behavio...

Страница 114: ...eyboard Input behavior once making it part of your cast Drag the Keyboard Input behavior from the Cast window to the Magic trick sprite on the Stage 2 In the Parameters for Keyboard Input dialog box s...

Страница 115: ...ors stop and rewind the movie Apply an action behavior to pan the camera vertically Attaching the Pan Camera Vertical behavior is similar to attaching the Pan Camera Horizontal behavior 1 In the Libra...

Страница 116: ...appears in the third text box Confirm that Group Pan Pan Camera Up appears in the Select a Group and Its Action pop up menu Then click OK Add the panning trigger for the opposite direction You can pro...

Страница 117: ...rted forward and backward without turning on a tripod with wheels For dollying you will drag the behavior to the Score rather than the Stage although you could use either procedure 1 If the Score is n...

Страница 118: ...Key Will Be Used pop up menu select The Custom Key I ve Entered Below if it s not already selected In the If Using a Custom Key Enter It Here text box type f Verify that No Modifier Key is selected f...

Страница 119: ...the Which Modifier Key Will Be Used pop up menu In the Select a Group and Its Action pop up menu select Dolly Move Camera Out Then click OK Note Remember to save your work frequently Dolly the camera...

Страница 120: ...camera resets whenever the user presses the Spacebar 1 Drag the Keyboard Input behavior from the Cast window to the Magic trick sprite on the Stage 2 In the Parameters for Keyboard Input dialog box sp...

Страница 121: ...nu select Table 1 In the Which Cursor pop up menu verify that Finger is selected Then click OK Note Because the Model Rollover Cursor behavior is an independent action you do not need to assign a trig...

Страница 122: ...se on the tables If you look in your Score you see that the text associated with the merchandise first appears in frame 10 of channel 1 A marker named Cards marks where the card text begins just as ma...

Страница 123: ...rds Then click OK Add the trigger behavior You ll now add a behavior that triggers the Click Model Go to Marker behavior when the user clicks the left mouse button Note When a movie with a Mouse Left...

Страница 124: ...select Table 2 In the Go to Which Marker pop up menu select Hat In the Which Group Does This Behavior Belong To text box type hat Then click OK 3 In Cast window drag the Mouse Left behavior to the Mag...

Страница 125: ...m the Cast window to the Magic trick sprite Repeat the steps from the two previous times you ve applied this behavior except this time in the Select a Group and Its Action pop up menu select Group Rin...

Страница 126: ...other tables to see where in the Score the playhead jumps 5 Use the arrow F and B keys to move the camera around the world Use the Spacebar to reset the camera 6 When you finish viewing your movie sto...

Страница 127: ...e cast windows together in a tabbed panel layout Cast window with tabs in Thumbnail view You can create and edit cast members in Macromedia Director MX using basic tools and media editors such as the...

Страница 128: ...text cast members in your movie from English to French by simply switching the cast the movie uses rather than each individual cast member Using external casts can keep the movie size small for downlo...

Страница 129: ...akes the cast available for sharing with other movies For information about internal and external casts see Managing external casts on page 153 4 If you chose External and you don t want to use the ca...

Страница 130: ...elect Insert Media Element and then select the type of cast member to create For more information on each choice see the following sections Using the Paint window on page 206 Using the Color Palettes...

Страница 131: ...member Note Cast members created on the Stage are automatically placed in the Score Using the Cast window In the Cast window you can view the cast in either the default List view or the Thumbnail vie...

Страница 132: ...enu located in its upper right corner The Options menu contains items for grouping closing and renaming panels To use a Cast panel Options menu Click the Options menu control in the upper right of the...

Страница 133: ...group 1 Select a tab within the Cast panel group 2 Select Group Panel Name With from the panel group s Options menu then choose the name of the Cast panel group that contains the selected panel The ta...

Страница 134: ...the Cast button and select a cast from the context menu A dialog box reminds you to save your panel layout if you want to restore your Cast panel configuration the next time you open your file For mo...

Страница 135: ...he last cast member in the range To select multiple nonadjacent cast members In either List or Thumbnail view Control click Windows or Command click Macintosh each cast member that you want to select...

Страница 136: ...ur additional columns are available in the Cast Window Preferences dialog box See Setting Cast window preferences on page 140 The additional columns that you can display are described in the following...

Страница 137: ...lowing In List view Director places new cast members at the end of the list and the cast member number becomes the first available number after the current selection You can use Thumbnail view to reor...

Страница 138: ...your system s Clipboard You can copy the image from any bitmap editor including the Paint window The image can be any size but smaller images look better because they require less scaling 2 Using Thu...

Страница 139: ...In Thumbnail view select an empty position in any open Cast window and then select Edit Paste In List view deselect all cast members by clicking anywhere in the window except on a cast member name Th...

Страница 140: ...largest files appearing first Empty at End places all empty cast positions in the selection at the end 4 Click Sort Director reorders the cast members according to the sorting method you selected The...

Страница 141: ...view The default is Fit to Window 8 To set the size of each cast thumbnail image that appears in the Cast window select one of the following options from the Thumbnail Size pop up menu Small 44 x 33 p...

Страница 142: ...begin playing sooner This setting is the best choice when controlling cast members loading with Lingo After Frame One loads all cast members except those required for frame 1 when the movie exits fram...

Страница 143: ...ems Editable fields to view or change the cast member s name the Name text box a Comments text box to enter text that appears in the Comments column of the Cast List window and an Unload pop up menu t...

Страница 144: ...page 326 Launching cast member editors You can open any cast member in the appropriate editor directly from the Cast window You can use the Director internal media editors such as the Text Paint or Ve...

Страница 145: ...rd 2 and Bird 3 Select Type and select an option from the pop up menu to search for cast members by media type Select Palette and select an option from the pop up menu You can use this option to searc...

Страница 146: ...can either import data into a Director movie file or create a link to the external file and re import the file each time the movie opens Linked files let you display dynamic media from the Internet su...

Страница 147: ...dd Click Add All You can switch folders and import files from different folders at the same time 6 From the Media pop up menu at the bottom of the dialog box select an option to specify how to treat i...

Страница 148: ...import options for PICS and Scrapbook files on page 150 8 When you finish selecting the files click Import If you ve imported a bitmap with a color depth or color palette that differs from the current...

Страница 149: ...include all linked cast member files and they must be in their expected locations In addition the Xtra extensions that are used to import the media must be present when the movie runs either on the u...

Страница 150: ...s while you are importing a bitmap image using File Import select one of the following Color Depth options Image specifies the color depth and palette of the image Stage specifies the color depth of t...

Страница 151: ...g box After you set up an external editor for a particular media type Director launches the application when you edit a cast member of that type When you finish editing a cast member in an external ed...

Страница 152: ...re lost Director warns you of this possibility 3 Save and close the file Director re imports the cast member Controlling cast member unloading When Director runs low on memory it removes cast members...

Страница 153: ...cify that the cast be stored as an external cast If you don t want to use the cast in the current movie deselect the Use in Current Movie option 4 Click Create The cast is created and a Cast window fo...

Страница 154: ...mber properties using Lingo Lingo lets you control and edit cast members by setting their properties Some properties are available for every type of cast member and other properties are available only...

Страница 155: ...mined by the developer of the Xtra For non Macromedia Xtra extensions refer to any documentation that the developer supplies To view or change Xtra cast member properties 1 Select an Xtra cast member...

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Страница 157: ...acteristics that are related to the specific sprite type For example Lingo has several digital video properties that determine the contents of tracks in digital video sprites To control the way a spri...

Страница 158: ...sprites must be manually tweened when new frames or keyframes are added to the sprite For additional information on tweening see Chapter 6 Animation on page 185 4 To determine the length of sprites me...

Страница 159: ...ect On the Stage click a sprite to select the entire sprite span You can change sprite preferences so that selecting a sprite on the Stage selects only the current frame instead of the entire sprite S...

Страница 160: ...indows or Command click Macintosh the keyframe and the desired sprites To select a frame within a sprite that isn t a keyframe do one of the following In the Score Alt click Windows or Option click Ma...

Страница 161: ...hange the order of sprites Drag the sprite in the Score from one channel to another If you selected a channel drag its contents to another channel Displaying and editing sprite properties As you work...

Страница 162: ...ow Property Inspector The Property inspector opens with focus on the Sprite tab The Graphical view is the default view You can toggle to the List view by clicking the List View Mode icon The Property...

Страница 163: ...how the size of the sprite s bounding rectangle in pixels The Ink pop up menu displays the ink of the current sprite and lets you select a new ink color See Using sprite inks on page 180 Blend determi...

Страница 164: ...r tab for a vector sprite the Text tab for a text sprite and so on To open the Sprite tab in the Property inspector click this icon To open the Behavior tab in the Property inspector click this icon S...

Страница 165: ...nd quickly locate the problem in a sprite label You can change the information that appears in labels for example you can use the Extended display option to display the precise location of a sprite in...

Страница 166: ...ink effect that is applied to each sprite Blend displays the blend percentage Extended displays any combination of display options select options by selecting Edit Preferences Score Editing sprite pr...

Страница 167: ...k the padlock icon Right click Windows or Option click Macintosh and select Lock Sprite from the context menu In the Score a locked sprite appears with a padlock in front of its name On the Stage a lo...

Страница 168: ...structions on changing a vector shape cast member s registration point see Editing vector shapes on page 249 Visually positioning sprites on the Stage You can position sprites on the Stage by dragging...

Страница 169: ...ut resizing it adjust only the x and y coordinates Positioning sprites with the Tweak window You can use the Tweak window when you want to move sprites by a certain number of pixels To position sprite...

Страница 170: ...guide move the pointer over the guide When the sizing handle appears drag the guide to its new position 6 To remove a guide drag it off the Stage 7 To remove all guides click Remove All on the Guides...

Страница 171: ...t Edge Align Horizontal Center Align Right Edge Align Horizontal Registration Point Align Top Edge Align Vertical Center Align Bottom Edge or Align Vertical Registration Point For Distribute select Di...

Страница 172: ...determine whether a sprite s bounding rectangle touches the bounding rectangle of a second sprite Use the sprite within operator to determine whether a sprite is entirely within a second sprite See s...

Страница 173: ...ite a duration of 28 frames You can change the duration of a sprite that is the amount of time the sprite appears in a movie by adjusting its length changing the number of frames in which it appears o...

Страница 174: ...animation as separate sprites and now want to move the entire sequence in the Score you would join the sprites Splitting and joining also lets you update movies created with older versions of Director...

Страница 175: ...s can cause noticeable delays If a bitmap sprite must be a particular size make the cast members that appear in the sprite the proper size You can do this with Modify Transform Bitmap or in any image...

Страница 176: ...d skew sprites on the Stage by dragging To rotate and skew sprites more precisely use Lingo or the Property inspector to enter degrees of rotation or skew The Property inspector is also useful for rot...

Страница 177: ...ither of the following To rotate the sprite move the pointer inside the sprite and drag in the direction you want to rotate To skew the sprite move the pointer to the edge of the sprite until it chang...

Страница 178: ...u resize Enter new values on the Sprite tab in the Property inspector Director resizes the sprite at the current skew or rotation angle To restore a skewed or rotated sprite to its original orientatio...

Страница 179: ...ackground color changes white pixels within the sprite to the selected color and blends light colors with the new color Director can animate foreground and background color changes in sprites shifting...

Страница 180: ...the Blend pop up menu in the Property inspector or enter a blend percentage between 0 and 100 To set blending with Lingo Set the blend sprite property See blend in the Lingo Dictionary Using sprite i...

Страница 181: ...e have been blended or are fuzzy applying these inks might create a halo effect Use the Paint window or an image editing program to change the background to true white and harden the edges You can als...

Страница 182: ...ent invisible 4 Drag the original cast member to the Stage or Score to create a sprite 5 Make sure the new sprite is selected and select Mask ink from the Ink pop up menu on the Sprite tab in the Prop...

Страница 183: ...g colors except nonoverlapping colors are transparent The sprite is not visible unless it is overlapping another sprite Not Copy reverses all the colors in an image to create a chromatic negative of t...

Страница 184: ...nd Lighten inks on page 182 Lighten changes the effect of the Foreground and Background color properties of a sprite so that it is easy to create dramatic color effects that generally lighten an image...

Страница 185: ...s the animation frames where major changes take place called keyframes Assistants draw the frames in between Frame by frame animation involves manually creating every frame in an animation whether tha...

Страница 186: ...ar for all sprites for selected sprites or only when the pointer rolls over a sprite See Using the Sprite Overlay on page 164 You can tween a sprite directly on the Stage by editing the sprite s path...

Страница 187: ...Alt key Windows or Option key Macintosh and move the pointer on the Stage over a tick mark When the pointer changes color drag the tick mark to a new location This creates a new keyframe and records...

Страница 188: ...or deceleration of a sprite 1 Use one of the tweening methods to create a moving sprite 2 Turn on View Sprite Overlay Show Paths to see how far the sprite moves between each frame 3 Select the sprite...

Страница 189: ...g and skewing sprites on page 176 To tween color use the color boxes in the Property inspector to open the color palette for foreground and background color or enter the RGB values for a new color in...

Страница 190: ...ore information see Using film loops on page 197 To make a sprite jump instantly between settings in different keyframes turn off all tweening options Changing tweening settings To change tweening pro...

Страница 191: ...e In defines the percentage of the sprite span through which the sprite accelerates Ease Out defines the percentage of the sprite span through which the sprite decelerates Switching a sprite s cast me...

Страница 192: ...ently it s especially useful for cell animation in which each frame contains a different cast member in a different position Ordinarily clicking a sprite on the Stage or in the Score selects the entir...

Страница 193: ...roach sparingly for movies that will be downloaded from the Internet because all cast members must be downloaded before the animation can run As an alternative to this type of animation consider using...

Страница 194: ...er to select frames within a sprite See Editing sprite frames on page 192 6 Select the frames in the sprite where you want a different cast member to appear 7 Open the Cast window and select the cast...

Страница 195: ...kly place them in the Score as a single sprite The Director onion skinning feature is also useful for creating and aligning a series of images for use in animation For more information see Using onion...

Страница 196: ...prites 2 Select an empty frame in the Score This is usually at the end of the Score 3 Drag cast members onto the Stage to create sprites where you want them to appear in the animation As you position...

Страница 197: ...a film loop Use sprites in as many channels as you need in film loops even in the sound channel Select sequences in all the channels you want to be part of the film loop You can select sprite fragmen...

Страница 198: ...bytes The cast member creation and edit dates The name of the last person who modified the cast member 4 To view or edit the cast member name use the Name field 5 To add comments about the cast member...

Страница 199: ...begin 4 Select Control Step Recording The step recording indicator appears next to the channel numbers for the sprites being recorded and the selection border widens 5 Press 3 on the numeric keypad ma...

Страница 200: ...To use real time recording 1 Select one or more sprites on the Stage or in the Score Recording will begin at the playhead It s best to select a sprite in a channel that contains no other sprites later...

Страница 201: ...f the pasted sprite where the previous sprite ends Repeat the process as many times as you need to create one continuous animation across the Stage Animating sprites with Lingo Lingo can create animat...

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Страница 203: ...ressed mathematically Bitmaps are suited for continuous tone images such as photographs You can easily make minute changes to a bitmap by editing single pixels but resizing the image can cause distort...

Страница 204: ...generally 72 to 96 dots per inch Higher resolution images that you place on the Stage in Director might appear much larger than you expect Other applications particularly those focused on creating im...

Страница 205: ...ead of being first composed in an offscreen buffer with other sprites A direct to Stage GIF takes less time to load but you cannot place other sprites in front of it or use any ink effect To set prope...

Страница 206: ...click it and hold down the mouse button to display a pop up menu of options for that tool To select an irregular area do one of the following Click the Lasso tool in the Paint window and drag to enclo...

Страница 207: ...Shift click to zoom out See Zooming in and out in the Paint window on page 214 To select a color in a cast member 1 Click the Eyedropper tool 2 Do one of the following Click a color to select it as th...

Страница 208: ...ing the Airbrush tool on page 212 To brush strokes of the foreground color Click the Brush tool and drag it in the Paint window To constrain the stroke to horizontal or vertical Shift click and drag T...

Страница 209: ...ckground colors Use the Foreground Color pop up menu to select the primary fill color used when the pattern is solid and the ink is Normal Use the Background Color pop up menu to select the secondary...

Страница 210: ...change the color depth of the current cast member Double click the Color Depth button to open the Transform Bitmap dialog box The button displays the color depth of the current cast member See Changin...

Страница 211: ...lasso to tighten around the selected object so that only the object is selected No shrink lets you select the entire area you drag around The lasso selects whatever is inside the selected area See Th...

Страница 212: ...en the pointer is positioned on the Airbrush tool the Airbrush pop up menu appears Each of the five settings in the pop up menu can be defined so you can have several types of spray available without...

Страница 213: ...the pop up menu 5 To create a new brush shape select Custom from the pop up menu and select the brush shape you want to modify from the chart below the pop up menu 6 Edit the current brush shape by c...

Страница 214: ...a particular place To return to normal view do one of the following Click the normal sized image in the upper right corner Select View Zoom 100 Changing selected areas of a bitmap After you select par...

Страница 215: ...e selection is made with the Marquee tool Effects that change colors within the selection work with the Marquee and the Lasso tools Lingo flips and rotates bitmaps by flipping and rotating bitmap spri...

Страница 216: ...ate handles in any direction You can rotate a sprite that contains a bitmap instead of the bitmap See Rotating and skewing sprites on page 176 To skew the selection click the Skew button and drag any...

Страница 217: ...around the edges of the selected artwork click the Trace Edges button To apply color effects to a selected area 1 Select an area within a bitmap cast member using either the Marquee or the Lasso tool...

Страница 218: ...ation color click the Switch Colors button Using Auto Distort You can use Auto Distort to create animations that show bitmap cast members gradually changing from frame to frame Auto Distort generates...

Страница 219: ...or assigns a registration point in the center of all bitmaps but for many types of animation you might want to move the registration point To do this you can use the Registration Point tool You can ed...

Страница 220: ...palette If you want to keep a cast member s original bitmap unchanged but temporarily apply a different palette use the Member tab in the cast member s Property inspector To change the size of only th...

Страница 221: ...he following remapping options Remap Colors replaces the original colors in the graphic with the most similar solid colors in the new palette This is the preferred option in most cases Dither blends t...

Страница 222: ...ember property to the Stage s picture property See picture cast member property in the Lingo Dictionary For example the member Archive picture the stage picture statement makes the current image of th...

Страница 223: ...he color of an individual pixel of an image object or set that pixel s color Use the getPixel or setPixel command To copy part or all of an image object into a different image object Use the copyPixel...

Страница 224: ...one side or the center of an image and another color the destination color at the other side or outside edge of the image Between the foreground and destination colors Director creates a blend of the...

Страница 225: ...up menus that control the style of your gradient fill Each choice you make is immediately previewed on the left To edit gradient settings 1 Select Gradient Settings from the Gradient Colors pop up me...

Страница 226: ...ransparent ignores the order of the colors in the palette and uses only colors that create a continuous blend of the foreground and background colors White pixels in patterns created with this method...

Страница 227: ...he following list Equal provides even spacing of colors between the foreground and destination colors More Foreground increases the amount of the foreground color in the gradient More Middle increases...

Страница 228: ...f patterns or create a custom pattern 1 Select Pattern Settings from the bottom of the Patterns pop up menu 2 Select an option from the pop up menu at the top of the Pattern Settings dialog box To sel...

Страница 229: ...t and click Built in 4 Click Cast Member The cast member appears in the box at the lower left The box at the right shows how the image appears when it is tiled The dotted rectangle inside the cast mem...

Страница 230: ...A gradient fill is one that progresses from one color called the foreground color to another color called the destination color You can paint with Gradient ink using the Brush tool the Bucket tool an...

Страница 231: ...e as reducing a color s brightness with the controls in the Color Palettes window You can change the rate of this ink effect in the Paint Preferences dialog box Lighten makes colors lighter The more t...

Страница 232: ...a filter to several cast members at once by selecting them all in the Cast window To apply a filter to a selected portion of a cast member use the Marquee or the Lasso tool in the Paint window to sele...

Страница 233: ...cast member use the Marquee or the Lasso tool in the Paint window to select the part you want to change 2 In the Auto Filter dialog box select a filter 3 Click Set Starting Values and use the filter...

Страница 234: ...ves as the background while you paint a series of foreground images Onion skinning uses registration points to align the current cast member with the previous ones you selected Be careful not to move...

Страница 235: ...e Onion Skin toolbar appears 2 In the Paint window open the cast member that you want to use as the reference image or background 3 If necessary click the Toggle Onion Skinning button on the Onion Ski...

Страница 236: ...Onion Skin toolbar 8 Paint the new cast member using the background image as a reference 9 When you finish drawing the cast member click the New Cast Member button again to create the next cast membe...

Страница 237: ...p tab using the Graphical view 4 To invert the current cast member when the user clicks it select Highlight Use this option to create buttons Even if Highlight When Clicked is selected the cast member...

Страница 238: ...ins selected for the next time you use the Brush or Airbrush tools Remember Ink remembers the last ink used with a tool which remains selected for the next time you use any tool 3 To control the way c...

Страница 239: ...s in the Director Support Center website at www macromedia com support director vector d8 fw_bitmaps html To compress a bitmap at the cast member level 1 Select bitmap cast members or sprites and clic...

Страница 240: ...ur bitmap is compressed that is 100 indicates no compression Note Director saves your publish settings when you save your movie Working with Macromedia Fireworks You can combine the power of Macromedi...

Страница 241: ...yers exports each layer in the document Select this option if you are exporting layered content or an animation Fireworks Slices exports the slices in the document Select this option if you are export...

Страница 242: ...options if desired Color lets you specify a color depth for the imported graphics If the graphics contain transparency select 32 bit color Registration lets you set the registration point for the impo...

Страница 243: ...ternal editor for bitmap graphic file types The file opens in Fireworks and the document window indicates that you are editing a file from Director 3 Make changes to the image and click Done when you...

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Страница 245: ...e entirely with Lingo or modify an existing one as the movie plays Because vector shapes are stored as mathematical descriptions they require less RAM and disk space than an equivalent bitmap image an...

Страница 246: ...nd then select the level of magnification Right click Windows or Control click Macintosh and select Zoom In or Zoom Out from the context menu Press Control the Plus key Windows or Command the Plus key...

Страница 247: ...Member button 2 Select the Filled or Unfilled Rectangle Rounded Rectangle or Ellipse tool 3 Hold down the mouse button to start a shape drag to draw and release the mouse button to end the shape To c...

Страница 248: ...ontrols in the Vector Shape window or Lingo to choose a vector shape s fill color line width and color and background color The background is the area outside of a vector shape but within the cast mem...

Страница 249: ...curves You can also change the way a vector shape is placed on the Stage by moving its registration point using either the Vector Shape window or Lingo To adjust the outline of a vector shape 1 Open a...

Страница 250: ...curve 2 Select Modify Join Curves To split two curves Select two adjacent vertices and select Modify Split Curves To change the registration point 1 Click the Registration Point tool The dotted lines...

Страница 251: ...nt how it is placed within a shape and how many times it cycles within the shape A gradient for a vector shape shifts between the fill color and the end color you define You can create linear or radia...

Страница 252: ...ntains the location of each vertex and control handle in a vector shape test the vertexList property To access a vertex directly use the vertex chunk expression To add or delete a vertex use the addVe...

Страница 253: ...how you resize the sprite even if it means cropping the vector shape 10 To change the size of the cast member either enter a percentage in the Percentage text box Graphical view or use the Scale slid...

Страница 254: ...tor removes the cast member from memory if memory is low select an option from the Unload pop up menu See Controlling cast member unloading on page 152 4 To change the type of shape click the Shape ta...

Страница 255: ...Director controls color Director provides a variety of color controls The following list describes the most important Use the Movie tab in the Property inspector to change modes for selecting colors T...

Страница 256: ...st color in the current color palette to approximate the RGB color To choose the color mode for the current movie you use the color mode settings on the Movie tab of the Property inspector When you se...

Страница 257: ...from the Color menu specifies the RGB value of the color not its index value For an explanation of the difference between index and RGB color see Specifying palette index and RGB color on page 255 Th...

Страница 258: ...or index hold down the Alt key Windows or Option key Macintosh while clicking the color box To select colors not on the Color menu 1 Open the Color menu 2 Click Color Picker 3 Use the color picker th...

Страница 259: ...s a viable option for displaying 8 bit graphics with the best possible colors If you place a cast member that has its own custom palette on the Stage and if it s the first cast member that has a diffe...

Страница 260: ...l in the upper right of the score window 2 Select the options you want to use in the Frame Properties Palette dialog box Select a new palette Specify how you want Director to manage the palette change...

Страница 261: ...lor Palettes window does not change the palette for the movie or any frame in the movie Use the Movie tab in the Property inspector to select the movie color palette or select Modify Frame Palette to...

Страница 262: ...ndow If the selection arrow is not active click the Arrow tool at the bottom of the window 2 To select a range drag across colors or click the first color in the range and then Shift click the last 3...

Страница 263: ...ct the cast member 2 Select Window Color Palettes 3 Click the Select Used button in the Color Palettes window 4 In the Select Colors Used In Bitmap dialog box click Select To select all colors not cur...

Страница 264: ...rols click the arrows next to the controls Hue is the color that is created by mixing primary colors Saturation is a measure of how much white is mixed in with the color A fully saturated color is viv...

Страница 265: ...ette can be active Whenever it s necessary to display more than one 8 bit bitmap on the screen at one time as is often the case in Director movies all the images must refer to the same palette To solv...

Страница 266: ...ory To view or change color palette cast member properties 1 Select a color palette cast member 2 To display the Property inspector select Modify Cast Member Properties or select Window Property Inspe...

Страница 267: ...tempo You can t make a movie go faster than the computer allows Many factors can make movies play more slowly than the specified tempo such as the following Playing the movie on a slower computer Mak...

Страница 268: ...e Properties Tempo dialog box To set a new tempo for the movie select Tempo then use the Tempo arrows or drag the slider To pause the movie at the current frame for a certain length of time select Wai...

Страница 269: ...rol panel with the actual speed shown there If you haven t recorded the actual speed of a movie in a particular frame the actual tempo field displays two dashes Locking frame durations To make Directo...

Страница 270: ...set If you want to create a dissolve between two scenes set the transition in the first frame of the second scene not in the last frame of the first scene To add a transition 1 In the transition chann...

Страница 271: ...ion Xtra extensions appear in the Frame Properties Transitions dialog box Transition Xtra extensions are often more complex than the transitions that are provided with Director and might include an ad...

Страница 272: ...s about the cast member use the Comments field 6 To specify how Director removes the cast member from memory if memory is low select one of the following options from the Unload pop up menu 3 Normal s...

Страница 273: ...After text is part of your movie you can format the text in a variety of ways using the Director formatting tools Director offers standard professional formatting functions including alignment tabs k...

Страница 274: ...font Director uses the embedded font for all the text in the movie that uses the original font This saves you the trouble of manually reapplying the font to all the text in existing movies After you...

Страница 275: ...int The height adjusts automatically when you add text When you release the mouse button a text insertion point appears in the area you defined 3 Enter text The new text cast member appears in the fir...

Страница 276: ...you import text from an RTF file Director recognizes most standard RTF formatting but it does not import pictures embedded in the file The amount of text in a cast member is limited only by the memor...

Страница 277: ...at display the text cast member Note If you re changing the background color of text you have two options To change the background color of the cast member double click the text sprite on the Stage an...

Страница 278: ...increase or decrease the spacing with the Spacing option To specify kerning between selected characters use the Kerning option to specify the number of points This setting supplements the standard ker...

Страница 279: ...djusts line spacing to match the size of the text you are using If you change the line spacing setting Director stops making automatic adjustments To resume automatic adjustments of spacing enter 0 in...

Страница 280: ...s in a compact window for use on the Stage or with entire cast members in the Cast window Most of the formatting controls also appear at the top of the Text window and in the Font and Paragraph dialog...

Страница 281: ...e characters in the cast member according to standard kerning tables see Setting text or field cast member properties on page 285 The setting you enter in the Kerning text box in the Text window or Fo...

Страница 282: ...with blue underlining You can turn off this formatting in the Property inspector s Text tab See Setting text or field cast member properties on page 285 The following procedure describes how to add a...

Страница 283: ...indow If necessary use the Previous Cast Member and Next Cast Member buttons to navigate to the field you want to edit See Setting text or field cast member properties on page 285 Using editable text...

Страница 284: ...ndow After you convert a cast member to a bitmap graphic you cannot undo the change This command works only with text and field cast members You can t convert a shape to a bitmap To convert text to a...

Страница 285: ...one of the following actions Select Modify Cast Member Properties Select Window Property Inspector 3 Click the Member tab if it s not already selected using the Graphical view The following noneditab...

Страница 286: ...nt to the next editable sprite on the Stage when the user presses Tab DTS Direct to Stage text cast members only makes text display more quickly by rendering it directly to the Stage without composing...

Страница 287: ...sing the Save Bitmap feature for pre rendered text The Save Bitmap feature works with pre render options to display a buffer image of your text while your user waits for the actual text to load This f...

Страница 288: ...ontStyle property To specify the drop shadow size for the characters in a field cast member set the boxDropShadow property To specify additional spacing to be applied to a chunk expression in a text c...

Страница 289: ...g text boxes with Lingo Lingo can specify the type of box that surrounds a text or field cast member For field cast members Lingo can also specify box characteristics such as borders margins drop shad...

Страница 290: ...tion To determine the number of the line that appears at a specific vertical position in a text or field cast member use the locVToLinePos function This measures the distance from the top of the cast...

Страница 291: ...ext The chunk can be a string or another text cast member To combine character strings use the and operators The operator attaches the second string to the end of the first string The operator include...

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Страница 293: ...ing Flash Movies You can incorporate Flash vector based animation in your Director movies projectors and Macromedia Shockwave movies for the web simply by importing a Flash movie into Director and usi...

Страница 294: ...ndow To add a Flash movie as a cast member 1 Select Insert Media Element Flash Movie 2 In the Flash Asset Properties dialog box select the Flash movie SWF file you want to add to your Director cast To...

Страница 295: ...select Auto High to have Director start playing the movie with anti aliasing on but turn it off if it can t play the movie at the required frame rate Select a low quality setting to turn off anti alia...

Страница 296: ...cts will be ignored Only the Copy Transparent Background Transparent and Blend ink effects work with Flash movies and only when the sprite is not played Direct to Stage Blend and color settings are su...

Страница 297: ...member s properties Some cast member properties such as the flashRect and frameRate cast member properties are valid only after the Flash movie s header has streamed into memory Director provides the...

Страница 298: ...the Lingo Dictionary To specify the color of a Flash sprite Set the color sprite property To specify the blend for a Flash sprite Set the blend sprite property Scaling Flash movies You can use Lingo...

Страница 299: ...point after resizing the cast member set the centerRegPoint property to TRUE Placing Flash movies on the Stage Lingo can set whether a Flash movie appears at the front of the Stage and whether specif...

Страница 300: ...eck the current state of a streaming file test the state property To attempt to forcibly stream a specified number of bytes of a Flash movie use the stream command Playing back Flash movies with Lingo...

Страница 301: ...hether the mouse pointer is over a button in a Flash movie test the mouseOverButton property Using Lingo to set and test Flash variables Two sprite functions exist to support access to ActionScript va...

Страница 302: ...or frame and then assign it a Get URL action in which you specify the Lingo that the Flash cast member sends To set up a Flash movie to generate an event 1 In Flash select a button 2 Select Window Ac...

Страница 303: ...receives the getURL message from the Flash movie the movie immediately executes the Lingo statement In this case the movie jumps to the frame containing the marker Dali To send XML data from a Flash s...

Страница 304: ...and myNewFlashObject sprite 1 newObject Array apple orange banana In this example the specified sprite sprite 1 is the Flash sprite The object is an array In Lingo arrays are called lists The array co...

Страница 305: ...that need to be routed to an appropriate Lingo handler For example a Flash Communication Server connection object generates an event each time an incoming message is received from the server You can...

Страница 306: ...local connection object Initialize properties The first thing to do is declare some properties that you will use throughout the local connection script to store references to the local connection obj...

Страница 307: ...ns it is the same script object that contains this setCallback command referred to as me Note the quotes around the event name and the pound sign preceding the handler name The pound sign converts the...

Страница 308: ...message is displayed in a chat input field If no error occurs a text output field is updated with the contents of the chat input field For more information about the Flash infoObject see the Flash Com...

Страница 309: ...sing the statement sendSprite 1 closeConnection You might also use the close method in an endSprite handler on endSprite me pLocalConn close end endSprite Now that the local connection object is set u...

Страница 310: ...object that does not require a sprite reference Use the newObject command and include the NetConnection object as a parameter and omit the sprite reference myStream newObject NetStream myNetConObject...

Страница 311: ...e Macromedia Flash Player Help section of the Macromedia website www macromedia com support flashplayer help Opening the Settings panel You must have a Flash sprite on the Stage to display the Setting...

Страница 312: ...the following on mouseUp if the rightMouseDown or the controlDown then sprite 1 settingsPanel 0 end if end or on rightMouseUp sprite 1 settingsPanel 0 end You can also choose to use ActionScript in y...

Страница 313: ...member modifies values at the cast member level and broadcasts the change to all sprites on the Stage This overhead can affect performance If you have only a single sprite for the cast member modify t...

Страница 314: ...pears as a single cast member 5 Click Import To place a Director movie cast member in the current movie 1 Do one of the following For an internal movie drag the film loop cast member to the Stage or S...

Страница 315: ...ars within the sprite bounding rectangle select a Framing option Crop displays the movie image at its default size Any portions that extend beyond the sprite s rectangle are not visible Center is avai...

Страница 316: ...a software Macromedia Technical Support does not support them Inserting an ActiveX control You can place ActiveX controls in a Director movie and have them function as sprites Note that this procedure...

Страница 317: ...value The generic Lingo syntax for getting an ActiveX control property is as follows value sprite X propertyName As an example if the Microsoft Access Calendar control is inserted into a Director movi...

Страница 318: ...k event when the button is pressed and a calendar ActiveX control may generate a dateChanged event when the date within the calendar is changed Director converts any event generated by the ActiveX con...

Страница 319: ...Sound makes significant demands on a computer s processing power so you might need to manage sounds carefully to make sure they do not adversely affect your movie s performance Lingo gives Director mo...

Страница 320: ...est of the sound continues to load from its source whether on disk or over the Internet This can dramatically improve the downloading performance of large sounds Linked sounds are best for longer soun...

Страница 321: ...sound file to which the cast member is linked if it is a linked sound enter a new path and file in the Filename text box You can also use the Browse button to select a new file 8 To specify how Direc...

Страница 322: ...end the sound through as many frames as necessary New sounds are assigned the same number of frames as set for sprites in the Sprite Preferences dialog box You might need to adjust the number of frame...

Страница 323: ...at aren t cast members Using Lingo to play sounds lets you control the exact timing of when sounds start and stop Lingo also lets you play only part of a sound cast member or play several sounds in su...

Страница 324: ...und playFile in the Lingo Dictionary Playing external sound files from disk minimizes the amount of RAM that is used to play sounds However because the computer can read only one item from disk at a t...

Страница 325: ...sing the same sound at several different bit rates to see how the sound changes Select the bit rate that is appropriate for the intended delivery system modem ISDN CD ROM hard disk and so on the type...

Страница 326: ...ression Xtra is already included in the Shockwave player If you compress sounds in Shockwave format in a projector you must provide the SWA Decompression Xtra for the projector To have Director compre...

Страница 327: ...el not one of the sound channels to create a sprite Extend the sprite through all frames in which the sound should play or use the tempo channel to make the movie wait for the end of the sound See Syn...

Страница 328: ...video is reached you can use the Wait for Cue Point option in the Tempo dialog box You can also use this function to wait for the end of the sound or digital video even if it has no cue points Cue poi...

Страница 329: ...points When the movie plays the playhead pauses at the frame until the cue point passes Synchronizing sound with Lingo By writing Lingo that performs an action when a cue point is reached in a sound...

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Страница 331: ...kTime 3 or later QuickTime 6 or later is recommended from Apple The Director media synchronization features let you synchronize events in a movie to precise cue points embedded in digital video Video...

Страница 332: ...ore information see the Director Support Center website at www macromedia com support director To import a digital video 1 Select File Import 2 Select QuickTime AVI Windows only or RealMedia Windows o...

Страница 333: ...the properties for RealMedia cast members see The RealMedia tab in the Property inspector on page 349 7 To determine how a movie image appears within the sprite bounding rectangle when the movie is r...

Страница 334: ...ollowing options from the Rate pop up menu to set the rate at which a digital video plays Normal plays each frame at its normal rate and no frames are skipped Maximum plays the movie as fast as possib...

Страница 335: ...rectangle around the video use the Background Transparent ink to remove it Inks don t work if Direct to Stage is turned on see Playing digital video direct to Stage on page 334 Matte ink does not wor...

Страница 336: ...to 1 To play a digital video sprite in reverse set the sprite s movieRate property to 1 To rewind a digital video sprite to the beginning set the sprite s movieTime property to 0 To control a digital...

Страница 337: ...for AVI You can use Lingo to control a QuickTime video s appearance and sound volume For QuickTime VR you can use Lingo to pan a QuickTime VR digital video and specify what happens when the user clic...

Страница 338: ...the hotspot if any at a specific point on the Stage use the ptToHotSpotID function To specify the name of the handler that runs when the user clicks a hotspot in a QuickTime VR sprite set the trigger...

Страница 339: ...e VR sprite property To swing a QuickTime VR sprite to a specific pan tilt or field of view set the swing function Cropping digital video Cropping a digital video means trimming the edges off the top...

Страница 340: ...wsers Director can handle digital video the same way it handles all other media or it can stream the digital video using QuickTime 4 or later You can link the digital video to a URL and the movie begi...

Страница 341: ...it into memory If this option is turned off Director does not load the movie into memory and instead plays it from disk This results in slower animation speeds since each frame must be retrieved from...

Страница 342: ...available for download at www real com To view Shockwave movies containing RealMedia content the following software must be installed The Shockwave player RealPlayer 8 or RealOne Player If a user with...

Страница 343: ...system and are familiar with Director viewing and using RealMedia files in Director is incredibly quick and easy Before you begin reading this document please view the RealMedia sample file included o...

Страница 344: ...ject RealVideo is fully integrated into the graphics capabilities of Director and you add RealMedia cast members containing RealVideo to a movie just as you would any other cast member The RealVideo c...

Страница 345: ...ing viewing and listening to video and audio content on the Internet Users can begin viewing content as soon as a small portion usually a few seconds of the file has downloaded As the stream plays the...

Страница 346: ...etwork congestion and rebuffering RealPlayer is not designed to play concurrent streams and since RealAudio and RealVideo files in Director movies are played by an embedded RealPlayer engine playing m...

Страница 347: ...lMedia tab For details see The RealMedia tab in the Property inspector on page 349 To create a RealMedia cast member from a local file using File Import 1 Select File Import or press Control R to open...

Страница 348: ...you can adjust the height and width of RealMedia sprites on the Stage to fit your movie s proportions It is important to remember that the actual playback time of a stream can vary depending on the l...

Страница 349: ...m plays TRUE or not FALSE The default setting is TRUE This property has no effect if realPlayerNativeAudio is enabled soundChannel RealMedia specifies the Director sound channel where the RealAudio pl...

Страница 350: ...ble values see the state RealMedia entry This property cannot be set About RealMedia behaviors The RealMedia behaviors are designed to let you easily add playback controls for RealMedia streams in you...

Страница 351: ...behavior to the RealMedia sprite on the Stage 4 Enter the number of milliseconds for a long and short seek operation and assign the behavior to a group or accept the defaults The number of millisecon...

Страница 352: ...iewer has the following controls New Cast Member lets you create a new RealMedia cast member You need to open the Property inspector to specify the name and filename for the cast member Next Cast Memb...

Страница 353: ...current time and duration of the stream on the right in the format MM SS S or HH MM SS S If the stream is playing the status appears as Playing To view a RealMedia cast member in the RealMedia viewer...

Страница 354: ...Although you can use the following Lingo elements with a RealMedia cast member they cause problems when used on a sound channel For example you can use member Real stop but should not use sound which...

Страница 355: ...channels playing the audio portion of a RealMedia stream breakLoop channelCount endTime getPlayList loopCount loopEndTime loopsRemaining loopStartTime playNext puppetSound queue rewind sampleCount set...

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Страница 357: ...rs on the Director Support Center at www macromedia com support director lingo d8 d8behaviors html Attaching behaviors You use the Library palette to display behaviors included in Director Director al...

Страница 358: ...over a behavior icon If the behavior includes a longer description you can view it in the Behavior inspector See Getting information about behaviors on page 361 The behaviors included with Director c...

Страница 359: ...r is copied to an internal cast to prevent you from accidentally changing the original behavior To attach the same behavior to several sprites at once using the Library palette Select the sprites on t...

Страница 360: ...he Behavior tab has the same fields for the behavior as those in the Parameters dialog box Changing the order of attached behaviors Director executes behaviors in the order they were attached to a spr...

Страница 361: ...havior description 1 Open the Behavior inspector 2 Select a sprite or frame to which a behavior has been attached 3 Click the arrow that expands the Behavior inspector s description pane You can leave...

Страница 362: ...hortcut for writing simple scripts Note To always edit behaviors in the Script window instead of the Behavior inspector select Edit Preferences Editors In the Editors Preferences dialog box select Beh...

Страница 363: ...the sequence of actions in an event or action group select an event from the Events list select an action from the Actions list and then click the up and down arrows above the Actions list to change...

Страница 364: ...he specified frame Go to Movie opens and plays the specified movie Go to Marker moves the playhead to the specified marker Go to Net Page goes to the specified URL Wait on Current Frame waits at the c...

Страница 365: ...variety of actions you want The behavior can have parameters that users edit from the Parameters dialog box The optional on getPropertyDescriptionList handler sets up the Parameters dialog box See on...

Страница 366: ...g a behavior s property If a behavior s script includes an on getPropertyDescriptionList handler Director lets users set the property s initial values from the Parameters dialog box The behavior s Par...

Страница 367: ...aximum or minimum number the Parameters dialog box provides a slider that sets the value To specify no range omit the range parameter If the property s definition doesn t include range a text entry fi...

Страница 368: ...to do the same as the previous handler on getPropertyDescriptionList return Movement default 5 format integer comment Set motion to the right range min 1 max 10 noise default format sound comment Soun...

Страница 369: ...e stageRight then set the locH of sprite the spriteNum of me the stageLeft else set the locH of sprite the spriteNum of me to the locH of sprite the spriteNum of me movement end if end When this behav...

Страница 370: ...behaviors Unlike the sendSprite command the call command doesn t pass the message to frame scripts scripts of the cast member or movie scripts Before sending a message to a specific behavior check the...

Страница 371: ...ance see Using parent scripts and child objects on page 417 To make a script an ancestor do one of the following Declare that ancestor is a property in the property statement at the beginning of the b...

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Страница 373: ...ch as buttons There are several other interactive features that you can add to your movie Draggable sprites give your audience the ability to move sprites anywhere on the Stage You can also create bou...

Страница 374: ...d the behavior Notice that the movie is still playing but the playhead remains on the single frame Use the Go Next Button behavior to send the playhead to a new frame and continue playing as described...

Страница 375: ...other frames to other movies or to Internet movies and web pages You can also use Lingo to make a movie appear to pause by looping in one frame or a group of frames For details about specifying the l...

Страница 376: ...but keep it playing so the movie can react to events use the statement go to the frame to loop in the current frame To resume playing a movie that is looping in one frame use the go to the frame 1 st...

Страница 377: ...the mouse button is pressed check the mouseDown property To determine whether the mouse button is released check the mouseUp property To determine whether the user presses the right mouse button Windo...

Страница 378: ...text sprite editable with Lingo set the text sprite s editable property to TRUE For best results set this property in a script that is attached to the sprite or the frame where the sprite is located...

Страница 379: ...function Responding to rollovers with Lingo You often want some action to occur when the user rolls the mouse pointer over a sprite or a particular place on the Stage You can use Lingo to specify how...

Страница 380: ...functions in the Lingo Dictionary To obtain the ANSI value of the last key that was pressed use the key function To obtain the keyboard s numerical or ASCII value for the last key pressed use the keyC...

Страница 381: ...ursor consists of a series of bitmap cast members Each bitmap cast member is a frame of the cursor You can control the rate at which Director plays the frames of an animated cursor Using the Cursor Pr...

Страница 382: ...ratio as it scales them If you specify a cast member smaller than the maximum size Director displays the cast member at its original size without scaling For example if you select a maximum size of 1...

Страница 383: ...tion fields specify the location of the mouse pointer s active point Director uses this point to track the mouse pointer s position on the screen For example Director uses this point s location when i...

Страница 384: ...stMember substitute a cast member name surrounded by quotation marks or a cast member number For example the following sprite script changes the cursor to the cast member named myCursor when the curso...

Страница 385: ...in this chapter the term behavior refers to any Lingo script that you attach to a sprite or a frame This differs from the behaviors that come in the Director Library Palette For more information about...

Страница 386: ...repeat loop structures For example you can create an if then structure that tests whether text has finished downloading from the Internet and if it has then attempts to format the text See Controlling...

Страница 387: ...ehavior channel in the frame that you want to attach a behavior to When you create a new behavior the behavior receives the cast number of the first available location in the current Cast window When...

Страница 388: ...or Alternatively you can open the Script window and cycle through the scripts until you reach the behavior To remove a behavior from a Score location Select the location and then delete the script fro...

Страница 389: ...click the Cast Member Script button in the Cast window Lingo terminology Like any programming language Lingo uses specific terminology and has rules of grammar and punctuation that you must follow Thi...

Страница 390: ...m one or more values For example the addition operator adds two or more values together to produce a new value Properties are attributes that define an object For example picture is a property of a bi...

Страница 391: ...e used in this book to make it is easier to identify names of handlers variables and cast members when reading Lingo code Literal strings are case sensitive See Writing strings on page 405 Comments Co...

Страница 392: ...statements in a Lingo script you can choose between two types of syntax verbose syntax and dot syntax Verbose syntax Verbose syntax is similar to English Because of this verbose syntax is an excellent...

Страница 393: ...to an object or to specify a chunk of text within a text object A dot syntax expression begins with the name of the object followed by a period dot and then the property function or text chunk that y...

Страница 394: ...Movie in a window MIAW events Movie events Synchronizing media events Idle events Timeout events Authoring behavior events Defining custom messages In addition to using built in message names you can...

Страница 395: ...y after the prepareFrame event Director plays sounds draws sprites and performs any transitions or palette effects This event occurs before the enterFrame event An on prepareFrame handler is a good lo...

Страница 396: ...quired depending on the situation To create arguments for a handler Put the arguments after the handler name Use commas to separate multiple arguments For example the following handler called addThem...

Страница 397: ...r in a behavior attached to the frame For example to have a handler respond to a mouse click while the playhead is in a frame regardless of where the click occurs place an on mouseDown or on mouseUp h...

Страница 398: ...property list each element contains two values separated by a colon One value is a property name always preceded by a pound sign the other value is the value associated with that property For example...

Страница 399: ...100 top 150 right 300 bottom 350 sprite2Location left 400 top 550 right 500 bottom 750 To create an empty property list Set the list to Setting and retrieving items in a list Lingo lets you set and r...

Страница 400: ...the property list foodList breakfast Waffles lunch Tofu Burger dinner Hungarian Goulash the expression foodList breakfast represents the value associated with the property breakfast The value is Waffl...

Страница 401: ...s of two continents The statement continentList landList assigns the same list to the variable continentList However adding Australia to landList using the statement add landList Australia automatical...

Страница 402: ...rom other languages such as Java in which a variable s type cannot be changed For example the statement x 1 creates the variable x which is an integer variable because you assigned the variable an int...

Страница 403: ...d by the goToNetPage command Every handler that declares a variable as global can use the variable s current value If the handler changes the variable s value the new value is available to every other...

Страница 404: ...Assign the variable a value using the equals operator or the set variableName value command Unless the handler uses the term global to declare that a variable is global the variable is automatically...

Страница 405: ...An integer is a whole number without any fractions or decimal places Director works with integers between 2 147 483 648 and 2 147 483 647 For numbers outside this range use decimal numbers sometimes...

Страница 406: ...l To specify a cast without parentheses when using member include the term of castLib followed by the cast s name or number When the cast member s name is unique in the movie the cast s name or number...

Страница 407: ...er after the current frame If the frame is marked marker 0 returns the frame number of the current frame if not marker 0 gives the frame number of the previous marker The term movie followed by the mo...

Страница 408: ...ngo follows to determine which operators to execute first This is called the operators precedence order For example multiplication is always performed before addition However items in parentheses take...

Страница 409: ...re the comparison operators available in Lingo Logical operators Logical operators test whether two logical expressions are true or false These are the logical operators available in Lingo The not ope...

Страница 410: ...tement following then in the same line as then or you can place it on its own line by inserting a carriage return after then If you insert a carriage return you must also include an end if statement a...

Страница 411: ...tion exists To repeat an action a specified number of times Use a repeat with structure Specify the number of times to repeat as a range following repeat with This structure is useful for performing t...

Страница 412: ...e Script window To open the Script window do one of the following Select Window Script Double click a script cast member in the Cast window For more ways to create and open scripts see Performing comm...

Страница 413: ...p right or bottom from the Debugger Panes menu Inserting common Lingo terms The Script window provides pop up menus of common Lingo terms that you can use to insert Lingo in a script The same menus al...

Страница 414: ...indows or Option Return Macintosh where you want to insert a soft line break The continuation symbol that appears indicates that the statement continues on the next line Director 7 and earlier used a...

Страница 415: ...you want to find 3 Click Find The handler appears in the Script window The title bar at the top of the Script window indicates the script s type To find text in scripts 1 Make the Script window active...

Страница 416: ...runtime Director projectors and Shockwave use a special internal copy of the script data stored in the movie This way your linked scripts need not be distributed with your movies and cannot be copied...

Страница 417: ...created from the same parent script You can create as many child objects as the computer s memory can support Director can create multiple child objects from the same parent script just as Director ca...

Страница 418: ...g the other child objects based on the same parent script Similarly a child object can have a property set to either TRUE or FALSE regardless of that property s setting in sibling child objects Differ...

Страница 419: ...y variables these variables represent properties for which each child object can contain a value independent of other child objects See Parent script and child object basics on page 418 Sets up the in...

Страница 420: ...behavior by including in the parent script the handlers that produce the desired behavior For example you could add a handler to the code above to make the sprite change color The following parent sc...

Страница 421: ...child object s on new handler The new function creates a child object whose ancestor is scriptName It then calls the on new handler in the child object with the specified arguments You can issue a new...

Страница 422: ...eck whether the object car1 was created from the parent script named Car if car1 script script Car then beep end if You can also get a list of the handlers in a child object by using the handlers func...

Страница 423: ...ld objects Using actorList Lingo can set up a special list of child objects or any other objects that receives its own message each time the playhead enters a frame or the updateStage command updates...

Страница 424: ...led and the frequency with which you want the handler to be called Once a timeout object is created Director keeps a list of currently active timeout objects called timeOutList To create timeout objec...

Страница 425: ...an individual timeout object by its number in the list The following statement deletes the second timeout object in timeOutList See forget in the Lingo Dictionary timeOut 2 forget Relaying system eve...

Страница 426: ...is currently running the sequence of handlers that Lingo ran to get to its current point and the value of variables and expressions that you select The Script window lets you enter comments insert st...

Страница 427: ...tart locating a problem Think backwards through the chain to identify where the unexpected started to happen Use the Message window to trace which frames the movie goes through and the handlers that L...

Страница 428: ...re spelled correctly spaces are in the correct places and necessary punctuation is used Lingo can t interpret incorrect syntax Quotation marks surround the names of cast members labels and strings wit...

Страница 429: ...rizontal divider to a new position To hide the Output pane completely Click the Collapse Expand button in the center of the horizontal divider When the Output pane is hidden output from Lingo that exe...

Страница 430: ...o all at once by copying and pasting Lingo statements into the Message window or by pressing Shift Return after each line of Lingo To execute multiple lines of Lingo by copying and pasting 1 Copy the...

Страница 431: ...Lingo includes all Lingo except 3D Lingo presented in an alphabetical list Categorized Lingo includes all Lingo except 3D Lingo presented in a categorized list Alphabetical 3D Lingo includes all 3D L...

Страница 432: ...where its value is displayed and updated as the movie plays For more information about the Object inspector see Using the Object inspector on page 433 When you are in debugging mode you can follow ho...

Страница 433: ...where the two differ You can also copy the section into the original piece and see whether this corrects the problem Using the Object inspector With the Object inspector you can view and set properti...

Страница 434: ...ctor Sprites sprite 3 Cast members member 2 Global variables gMyList Child objects gMyChild Flash objects gMyFlashObject For more information about using Flash objects in Director see Using Flash obje...

Страница 435: ...you entered in the Object inspector remain This makes it easy to compare different versions of the same movie When you exit Director the items in the Object inspector are lost Using the Debugger windo...

Страница 436: ...use the Debugger to tell Director how to proceed If you have multiple Script windows open Director searches for one containing the script where the breakpoint occurred and changes that window to debu...

Страница 437: ...nce is called the call stack Use the call stack to keep track of the structure of your Lingo while you are debugging You can view the variables associated with a specific handler by clicking the handl...

Страница 438: ...he new value for the variable 3 Press Enter Window or Return Macintosh Viewing objects in the Watcher pane With the Watcher pane in the Debugger window you can view variables and other data objects as...

Страница 439: ...in the current handler When you are confident that nested handlers are performing as expected and want to concentrate on Lingo in the current handler the Debugger window can step over nested handlers...

Страница 440: ...To Handler button 3 When you are finished debugging and editing scripts click the Stop Debugging button The Script window returns to Script mode 4 Click the Recompile All Modified Scripts button Usin...

Страница 441: ...Writing Scripts with Lingo 441 To add the selected expression or variable to the Object inspector Click Inspect Object To recompile the movie s scripts Click Recompile All Modified Scripts...

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Страница 443: ...tor If you re not familiar with Director you should gain at least a basic knowledge before using 3D in Director MX The Director MX documentation and help files included with Director MX are the place...

Страница 444: ...are stored Cast members are the media in your movies such as sounds text graphics and 3D scenes Sprites are instances of cast members that appear on the Stage with individual properties and attributes...

Страница 445: ...re information see Creating 3D text on page 462 Lingo is the Director scripting language It can be used to create movies that are more complex and interactive For detailed Lingo information see About...

Страница 446: ...W3D Web 3D format which Director supports Typically each rendering application requires its own specific file converter to create W3D files See the documentation for your 3D modeling software for inf...

Страница 447: ...era Transform buttons let you set and undo the changes you make to camera angles Set Camera Transform remembers the current camera position Reset Camera Transform restores the camera to the previously...

Страница 448: ...cal The Property inspector s 3D Model tab provides several options The fields at the top of the tab show the initial position and orientation of the default camera The default 0 0 0 represents a vanta...

Страница 449: ...assign a texture to a shader You can also control its specular highlight color its diffuse overall color and its reflectivity For more information see The 3D world on page 452 and Chapter 19 Working w...

Страница 450: ...other against each other and against the background Anti aliasing of 3D sprites is particularly well suited for merchandise demos and other e commerce applications because its image quality is high an...

Страница 451: ...in Lingo as shown in the following example on beginSprite check whether anti aliasing is supported by the current 3D renderer if sprite 5 antiAliasingSupported TRUE then if it is turn on anti aliasing...

Страница 452: ...u on the Text tab of the Property inspector 3 Set properties of the 3D text using the 3D Text tab to manipulate the specific properties of the 3D text You can also manipulate the text cast member with...

Страница 453: ...els don t appear in and can t be controlled from the Score For example a 3D cast member might contain two model resources One could be the geometry for a car body and the other could be the geometry f...

Страница 454: ...n have one or more children It has no other properties The highest level group is the group called world which is essentially synonymous with the 3D cast member For more information see Groups on page...

Страница 455: ...objects include the following Model resources are elements of 3D geometry used to render models The same model resource can be used by several models in the 3D world Models are visible objects in the...

Страница 456: ...owing figures show the relationships between cameras lights and models within the 3D cast member as well as the relation of a model to a model resource and of a model to shaders textures and motion Al...

Страница 457: ...point of a triangle numTextureCoordinates is the number of user specified texture coordinates Enter 0 or omit this step to get the default coordinates Returns a new mesh model resource with a unique n...

Страница 458: ...t exists Returns void if the object does not exist at that index number newModel name modelResource Creates a new model named name and adds it to the world Fails if a model by that name already exists...

Страница 459: ...f the cast member Integer texture name Returns the texture object named name Returns the texture object named name if it exists Returns void if the object does not exist texture index Returns the text...

Страница 460: ...urns the motion object at that index number if it exists Returns void if the object does not exist at that index number newMotion name Creates a new motion object Returns a new motion object with a un...

Страница 461: ...ast member Integer camera name Returns the camera named name Returns the camera object named name if it exists Returns void if the object does not exist camera index Returns the camera at the designat...

Страница 462: ...g the Drag Cast Member button next to the Name text box in the Text window 5 Click the Property Inspector button in the Director toolbar 6 Click the Text tab in the Property inspector Command Function...

Страница 463: ...ation with the values that you enter in the text boxes at the top of the pane The default camera position represents a vantage point looking up through the middle of the scene Note You might prefer to...

Страница 464: ...ity As with any model you can apply a texture that uses a bitmap cast member You can import a bitmap cast member or create a new one in the Paint window Be sure to give your bitmap cast member a name...

Страница 465: ...TextProperty For example to set the bevelDepth property of the first model in cast member 1 to a value of 25 use the following syntax member 1 model 1 resource bevelDepth 25 Member command scrollByLin...

Страница 466: ...th different triggers These behaviors can be used with any 3D cast member displayFace Get and set Faces of shape to display front tunnel back Default is to show all three faces displayMode Get and set...

Страница 467: ...s separate triggers To view 3D action behaviors 1 Click the Library Palette button on the Director toolbar 2 Click the Library List button and select 3D 3 Select Actions from the 3D submenu Name Descr...

Страница 468: ...s a sphere to the 3D world each time the trigger action occurs The author can set the diameter and texture Drag Camera Camera Provides full camera control including panning changing the direction in w...

Страница 469: ...s the camera around the z axis by a specified number of degrees each time its trigger is activated This makes the 3D scene appear to rotate and turn upside down Toggle Redraw Drawing Toggles the redra...

Страница 470: ...e a unique trigger to activate it To apply a 3D behavior 1 Open the Library palette 2 Open the 3D library 3 Attach an action behavior to the sprite either on the Stage or in the Score The Parameters d...

Страница 471: ...About groups on page 471 7 Specify options in the Parameters dialog box 8 Click OK About groups The Parameters dialog boxes of the local and public action behaviors give you the option to assign the...

Страница 472: ...Chapter 18 472...

Страница 473: ...o use the Director 3D behaviors or Lingo to manipulate camera positions About models and model resources Models are the objects you see in the 3D world You can create models within Macromedia Director...

Страница 474: ...n page 498 for more information Primitives Each type of primitive has its own set of Lingo commands and properties used to define its appearance Use the newModelResource command to create new primitiv...

Страница 475: ...sphere surface The higher the value the smoother the surface An integer value of 1 or greater The default is 20 startAngle Get and set Starting angle of the sweep Floating point value of from 0 0 to 3...

Страница 476: ...hether the front of the box is closed or open TRUE 1 closed TRUE 1 or FALSE 0 The default is TRUE 1 back Get and set Value indicating whether the back of the cylinder is closed or open TRUE 1 closed T...

Страница 477: ...umber of vertices along the length of the plane 2 or more The default is 2 width Vertices Get and set Number of vertices along the width of the plane 2 or more The default is 2 Property Access Descrip...

Страница 478: ...egers specifying the indexes of the normals in the normalList that each point of the triangle should use Don t set a value if you aren t defining your own normals face index textureCoord inates face i...

Страница 479: ...ption Value Range lifetime Get and set Lifetime of all particles emitted in milliseconds Positive integer The default is 10 000 ms colorRange end Get and set Color value of a particle at the end of it...

Страница 480: ...set Point line or region from which particles are emitted Possible values single vector for point source two vectors for line segment four vectors for quadrilateral emitter distribution Get and set Ha...

Страница 481: ...ls as children of the world and updates all palettes You can call this function only if the cast member s state property is either 1 meaning that an error occurred during a previous attempt to load th...

Страница 482: ...the same transform parent and child properties The others are cameras lights and groups Models cameras lights and groups are generically referred to as node types or nodes Nodes can be each other s pa...

Страница 483: ...get and set properties on this list The default list includes the properties assigned in the 3D modeling tool Additional properties may also be added resource Get and set Model resource object defini...

Страница 484: ...around the model TRUE 1 or FALSE 0 The default is FALSE 0 bounding Sphere Get A list containing a vector and a floating point value The vector represents the position of the model in world space and...

Страница 485: ...mand Nothing getWorld Transform Sets this model s position and orientation relative to the world model s position and orientation Nothing remove FromWorld For models whose parent hierarchy terminates...

Страница 486: ...Rotates the model by x around the x axis y around the y axis and z around the z axis The relativeTo argument is optional and defaults to self If included it defines the coordinate space of the axes Th...

Страница 487: ...tate 0 10 0 or car child 1 rotate 0 10 0 self where the fourth parameter of the rotate command is the object the rotation should be relative to Parent relative A model s transform property expresses i...

Страница 488: ...t seems to give off This does not turn the surface using this shader into a light source it just gives it the appearance of being one rgb 0 0 0 blend Get and set An integer between 0 and 100 indicatin...

Страница 489: ...ayer Set Specifies a texture to be used in the third layer and applies the following values textureModeList 3 reflection blendFunctionList 3 blend blendSourceList 3 constant blendConstantList 3 50 0 v...

Страница 490: ...eLight specularLight none textureMode Get and set Access to the texture coordinate generation function for the first layer Possible values are as follows none wrapPlanar wrapCylindrical wrapSpherical...

Страница 491: ...regardless of the textureMode property setting This is the last modification of the texture coordinates before they are sent to the renderer Allows you to manipulate the scale orientation and position...

Страница 492: ...ratio The blending ratio in this case is the value of blendConstant for layer index For example if the layer at that index position s blendConstant value is 0 9 the resultant texture will be 90 of th...

Страница 493: ...s set to FALSE 0 the border of the texture is extended past the unit UV coordinate range TRUE 1 textureRepeat List Get and set Access to the list of texture clamping behaviors one per layer When set t...

Страница 494: ...ideo RAM at the same time If not Director switches to software rendering which slows performance Be aware of the limitations of your video RAM and that of your intended audience Some video cards have...

Страница 495: ...uality Get and set Property with the following possible values low texture is not mipmapped medium mipmapping is at a low bilinear setting default high the mipmapping is at a high trilinear setting Fo...

Страница 496: ...orientation transform position gives the relative position transform rotation gives the relative rotation Set a transform object Get reference to a transform object userData Get and set A property li...

Страница 497: ...ary group instances Lingo group object cloneDeep name Clones both the group and the parent used by the group s children Modifications to the clones resource don t affect the parent This is a more memo...

Страница 498: ...e vector directionVector The relativeTo argument is optional and defaults to self Nothing translate x y z relativeTo Moves the group distance x along the x axis distance y along the y axis and distanc...

Страница 499: ...ic mode A value of 0 0 is most aggressive and removes all polygons A value of 100 00 should result in no visible degradation of the geometry A middle level can be used to remove polygons at runtime th...

Страница 500: ...silhouettes Get and set TRUE 1 or FALSE 0 value indicating presence or absence of lines around silhouettes TRUE 1 whichModel toon creases Get and set TRUE 1 or FALSE 0 value indicating whether lines a...

Страница 501: ...to TRUE and set the resolve property to FALSE Use these properties to work with the collision modifier Property Access Description Default whichModel sds enable d Get and set Enables disables subdivis...

Страница 502: ...al contact TRUE 1 whichModel collision immovable Get and set TRUE 1 or FALSE 0 value indicating whether the model can be moved If a model cannot be moved the 3D Xtra can save time by not checking it f...

Страница 503: ...to the end of the list Using the play command starts the motion immediately The motion previously at the beginning of the play list is halted unless autoBlend is turned on When you use queue the moti...

Страница 504: ...abled blending begins the instant play is called Nothing whichModel bonesPlayer playNext Ends the currently playing motion removes it from the play list and begins the next motion if blending is enabl...

Страница 505: ...endTime Get and set Length in milliseconds of the period when blending takes place between motions The blendTime property is linked to motion duration Motion blending is disabled if blendTime 0 and au...

Страница 506: ...the top pointing along the z axis set lockTranslation to z lockTranslation all is equivalent to rootLock TRUE 1 none Event name Description animation Started This is a system defined notification even...

Страница 507: ...called Nothing whichModel keyframePlayer playNex t Ends the currently playing motion removes it from the play list and begins the next motion If blending is enabled blending begins the instant playNe...

Страница 508: ...econds of the period when blending takes place between motions The blendTime property is linked to motion duration Motion blending is disabled if blendTime 0 and autoBlend TRUE 500 whichModel keyframe...

Страница 509: ...operty maintains any or all of the rotational changes after playing is complete The values are as follows none x y z xy xz all all whichModel keyframePlayer lockTranslation Get and set Defines the axi...

Страница 510: ...ed mesh whichModel meshDeform mesh index face count Get Returns the number of triangular faces in a given mesh whichModel meshDeform mesh index face index Get Returns a list of three indexes into the...

Страница 511: ...bout behaviors see Chapter 18 The 3D Cast Member 3D Text and 3D Behaviors on page 455 More complex manipulations require the use of Lingo commands and properties These are detailed here and in the Lin...

Страница 512: ...g ambient applied to all sides of the model directional applied to those parts of the light facing the light s direction Distance to the light isn t important point Like a bare light bulb omnidirectio...

Страница 513: ...form is interpreted as remaining parent relative Nothing child index Returns the child at the specified position in the index Lingo light object child name Returns a reference to the named child Lingo...

Страница 514: ...l and defaults to self Nothing translate x y z relativeTo Moves the light distance x along the x axis distance y along the y axis and distance z along the z axis The relativeTo argument is optional an...

Страница 515: ...group that is this light s parent If the camera has no parent it cannot contribute light group world child count Get Number of immediate children no grandchildren the camera has 0 transform Get and s...

Страница 516: ...ponential projection Get and set Method of determining the vertical field of view which must be of type perspective or orthographic perspective fieldOfView Get and set A floating point value specifyin...

Страница 517: ...Scale value used by a specific backdrop in the camera s list of backdrops 1 0 backdrop index rot ation Get and set Rotation value used by a specific backdrop in the camera s list of backdrops 0 0 bac...

Страница 518: ...is option lets you quickly create temporary camera instances Lingo camera object cloneDeep name Clones both the camera and all resources used by the camera s children Lingo camera object addtoWorld Ad...

Страница 519: ...To argument is optional and defaults to self This command can also be written as translate vector x y z relativeTo Nothing rotate x y z relativeTo Rotates the camera by x degrees around the x axis y d...

Страница 520: ...Chapter 19 520...

Страница 521: ...back You can also find the commands and properties given here in tabular form in alphabetical form with accompanying syntax definitions and examples in the Lingo Dictionary Help Lingo Dictionary 3D Li...

Страница 522: ...plicitly registered when setCollisionCallback is called Equivalent to calling model collision setCollision Callback timeMS Sets up a time based simulation callback using the format registerForEvent ti...

Страница 523: ...hat an action such as a button being pushed or a door being opened has taken place Picking can be accomplished using cast member or camera commands pointOf Contact Get Vector describing world space lo...

Страница 524: ...t within the rect of the sprite using this camera The location point is relative to the upper left corner of the sprite in pixels The ray is cast forward in the direction the camera is looking This fu...

Страница 525: ...in an index between 1 and 3 x Get and set The x component of a vector y Get and set The y component of a vector z Get and set The z component of a vector Command Description Returns normalize Normaliz...

Страница 526: ...x equaling 1 through 3 A new vector object vector1 vector2 Returns the product of the two vectors A floating point value vector1 vector2 Not supported 0 vector2 scalar Returns a new vector equaling v...

Страница 527: ...vary because of the permissible types of transform operation For example translate followed by rotate gives a different value than rotate followed by translate and the results can t be differentiated...

Страница 528: ...0 0 90 After this series of transformations performed in this order the model s local origin will be at 100 0 0 assuming the model s parent is the world Nothing rotate point vector angle Similar to t...

Страница 529: ...form2 Alters the original transform by preapplying the positional rotational scaling effects of transform2 to the original transform If transform2 describes a rotation of 90 around the x axis and this...

Страница 530: ...raw themselves This property must be set before any 3D sprite comes into existence Its default value is determined by the preferredRenderer property of the first cast member loaded from file This is a...

Страница 531: ...You can fit twice as many 16 bit textures as 32 bit textures in the same space If a movie tries to use more textures than will fit on a card at a single time Director switches to software rendering Po...

Страница 532: ...thBufferRange list of bit depth resolutions available colorBufferRange list of bit depth resolutions Property Access Description the preferred3d Renderer Get and set The renderer a particular movie pr...

Страница 533: ...ith values ranging from Float_Min to Float_Max vector 0 0 0 0 250 0 camera Rotation Get and set Independent x y z rotation transforms for the default camera with values ranging from Float_Min to Float...

Страница 534: ...s are as follows 0 unloaded 1 headerLoading 2 headerLoaded 3 mediaLoading 4 mediaLoaded 1 error Once state 3 or 4 has been reached it s safe to execute Lingo that manipulates the 3D world Before then...

Страница 535: ...sted addCamera camera index Adds a camera named camera at the specified index number If the index number is greater than the number of cameras in the sprite s camera count or if there is no index the...

Страница 536: ...Chapter 20 536...

Страница 537: ...vie to the window Open the window and play the movie Delete the window when the reason for playing the movie no longer applies When you create a MIAW decide how you want it to function For example dec...

Страница 538: ...and the Open Window command Use the following Lingo on beginNewMovie theMovie global newWindow set newWindow to window theMovie set newWindow titleVisible to FALSE open newWindow end beginNewMovie Th...

Страница 539: ...om memory performance slows down if the window is reopened because the movie has to reload however it doesn t consume memory until the movie is reloaded You might want to use this option if you don t...

Страница 540: ...controls the initial position of the window setting them after the window appears moves the window To specify the screen coordinates for a MIAW Set the rect property to the coordinates of the locatio...

Страница 541: ...hind other windows and has a title For more information see the Lingo Dictionary To specify whether the window is visible Set the window s visible window property To avoid a potential time lag when th...

Страница 542: ...ed When you want a MIAW to send a Lingo message to the main movie use the stage to refer to the main movie For example the statement tell the stage to go to Help instructs the main movie to go to the...

Страница 543: ...any data Any application that reads HTML must understand the meaning of tags such as TITLE P and BODY HTML tags also describe how information appears on the screen XML on the other hand consists of a...

Страница 544: ...a create a parser object by using Lingo to assign a new instance of the Xtra to a variable This variable now contains the parser object Use a global variable if you need to access the XML data from an...

Страница 545: ...previous XML example would look like the following code ROOT OF XML DOCUMENT ATTRIBUTES e1 ATTRIBUTES tagName ATTRIBUTES attr1 val1 attr2 val2 e2 ATTRIBUTES CHARDATA element 2 e3 ATTRIBUTES CHARDATA...

Страница 546: ...ue if text Return value if Processing Instruction type element text procInst name String representing the name of the element VOID String representing the name of the processing instruction child N N...

Страница 547: ...this example the gParserObject variable refers to the root node of the XML The child 1 refers to the e1 tag which occupies the first level down in the XML s nested structure The child 2 refers to the...

Страница 548: ...on with the attributeName property to return the number of attributes in the first child of the e1 tag put gParserObject child 1 child 1 attributeName count 2 Parser objects and XML nodes As described...

Страница 549: ...TES The following Lingo statements set ignoreWhiteSpace to FALSE and parse the given XML into a list The sample element now has a child that contains one space character XMLtext sample sample parserOb...

Страница 550: ...sets commonly used in most non Western countries The first 127 characters binary codes 1 127 are the same in most countries UTF 8 An 8 bit encoding of the Unicode character set This is the XML defaul...

Страница 551: ...accessibility behaviors or special Lingo commands The text to speech behaviors and Lingo require the Speech Xtra If you use text to speech in your movie you need to add the Speech Xtra to your movie...

Страница 552: ...ie Testing the Speech Xtra To verify that your computer is configured correctly to let the Speech Xtra work you can perform a simple test To test the Speech Xtra type the following Lingo into the Mess...

Страница 553: ...essibility Target Accessibility Item Accessibility Text Edit Item Accessibility Group Order and Accessibility Keyboard Controller behaviors together To apply the Accessibility Target behavior 1 Create...

Страница 554: ...ly below the Stage You can expand the Stage window to display more of this area if necessary 3 Drag the Accessibility Keyboard Controller behavior from the Library palette to the sprite 4 In the dialo...

Страница 555: ...the other accessibility behaviors in the scene such as Accessibility_Scene_1 3 Enter the tab order for the sprite This is the order in which the sprites are selected when the user presses the Tab key...

Страница 556: ...n by using the Accessibility Speak Member Text behavior To apply the Accessibility Speak Member Text behavior 1 Apply the keyboard navigation behaviors to sprites in your scene For more information se...

Страница 557: ...ying text that corresponds to spoken narration or other sounds being played Using the captioning behaviors in addition to the text to speech behaviors lets you make your movies accessible to users wit...

Страница 558: ...number that you selected in the previous step This is the number of words that can appear in the captioning sprite when the captioning begins For example if you want the first section of text to begin...

Страница 559: ...t to speech is not available end if end To determine the number of available voices Use the voiceCount function To return a property list that describes the name gender age and index number of the cur...

Страница 560: ...Lingo by Feature section of the Lingo Dictionary Deploying accessible movies To successfully deploy an accessible movie you become familiar with the Speech Xtra s system requirements and download proc...

Страница 561: ...efault It can be downloaded from the Microsoft website at www microsoft com speech A separate screen reader application is not necessary Macintosh OS 8 6 and later include text to speech software No a...

Страница 562: ...Chapter 23 562...

Страница 563: ...an make intelligent choices about when and how to perform memory management tasks yourself if necessary A cast member is automatically loaded into memory when Director needs to draw a sprite of it on...

Страница 564: ...t in the same frame as a cast member is used the cast member will be treated as if it had its old priority because all drawing on the screen is done before any enterFrame or exitFrame scripts are perf...

Страница 565: ...ore 2 Begin the sprite one or two frames before the frame where you want to display the video 3 Locate this sprite off the Stage except for at least one pixel of one corner of the sprite This is so th...

Страница 566: ...Chapter 24 566...

Страница 567: ...linked media The following guidelines can help make your project go smoothly Before you begin a project plan where media should be located when you deploy your movie and replicate that organization a...

Страница 568: ...rame and use the marker name as in the following Lingo go to frame Main_menu During work sessions save your movie file often Save a copy of the movie after each milestone such as a day of work or afte...

Страница 569: ...creen resolution and available memory in your testing This approach can help you find problems that are specific to an operating system or configuration which are distinct from authoring errors Testin...

Страница 570: ...e information about debugging Lingo scripts Index of Director testing and troubleshooting TechNotes at www macromedia com support director troubleshoot html TechNote 13872 General troubleshooting tips...

Страница 571: ...and protect them from being edited Shockwave browser compatibility Shockwave works with Netscape Navigator as a plug in with Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows 95 98 ME NT 2000 XP as an ActiveX c...

Страница 572: ...review a movie in a browser Select File Preview in Browser or press F12 About Xtra extensions All Xtra extensions a movie requires must be installed on your user s system when the movie runs When you...

Страница 573: ...installation programs or other means of modifying Xtrainfo txt automatically If a user chooses to download an Xtra extension Director retrieves the Xtra extension from the URL specified in Xtrainfo tx...

Страница 574: ...Third party Xtra extensions often include some explanations and information about the developers Note Another way to include Xtra extensions with a movie is to create an Xtras folder containing all r...

Страница 575: ...play faster than Shockwave movies from a disk because they do not need to be decompressed These movies are preferable if disk space isn t limited Like Shockwave movies protected movies do not include...

Страница 576: ...ify a different file location hold Alt Windows or Option Macintosh when you select File Publish Continue to hold the key for access to dialog boxes that let you specify new paths for both your DCR and...

Страница 577: ...lect Fill Browser Window To play a loader movie while the Shockwave file downloads select Loader Movie To display a game with a progress bar while the Shockwave file loads select Loader Game To displa...

Страница 578: ...can disable zooming with Lingo by setting the allowZooming property For more information see the Lingo Dictionary Save Local determines if the movie can be saved to Shockmachine Display Progress Bar...

Страница 579: ...vie select Compression Enabled and select the level of compression from the kBits second pop up menu For more information about sound compression see Compressing internal sounds with Shockwave Audio o...

Страница 580: ...s the image is compressed To specify that the image download as a progressive JPEG select Progressive The JPEG will then display at low resolution and increase in quality as it continues to download M...

Страница 581: ...hat you specify in step 4 To change the size of the movie to fit the size of the browser select Stretch to Fill Any browser resizing stretches the movie to fill the width and height parameters Note ho...

Страница 582: ...include Xtra extensions inside the projector itself so there s nothing to unpack Creating projectors When creating a projector place the starting movie at the top of the list of files in the Create P...

Страница 583: ...colors the monitor automatically switches to thousands of colors 6 To determine how the projector appears on the screen make an Options selection Full Screen displays the movie in the entire screen p...

Страница 584: ...or the projector To avoid problems with linked media create the new projector in its final folder location and do not move it to a different folder Director turns the movies casts and included Xtra ex...

Страница 585: ...e and compress movies and casts 1 Select Xtras Update Movies The Update Movies dialog box appears 2 Select one of the Action options Update converts movies from Director 5 or later versions to the lat...

Страница 586: ...to external casts in the Shockwave format Protected movies have the DXR extension and protected casts have the CXT extension Exporting digital video and frame by frame bitmaps You can export all or p...

Страница 587: ...ickTime Movie MOV Macintosh PICT Scrapbook PICS or QuickTime Movie BMP is the standard format for a Windows bitmap series PICT Scrapbook and PICS are all Macintosh bitmap file formats 5 If you are exp...

Страница 588: ...e more frames per second A movie that would work well with Tempo Settings as the Frame Rate option is one in which the tempos have been carefully timed For instance some frames could be set to a tempo...

Страница 589: ...es the size of the file 7 To determine the color depth the number of colors of your artwork select a setting from the Color Depth pop up menu The compression method you select determines the color dep...

Страница 590: ...tected movies This saves you the trouble of re creating the projector every time you change one part of a movie A typical file organization for a distributed movie This approach also makes sense for m...

Страница 591: ...and to use the behaviors that are built in to Director to make the movie wait while certain cast members download Controls and Lingo commands offer methods for sending and retrieving media and other...

Страница 592: ...s background loading lets Director perform multiple operations while loading files Because something else is happening while files are loading the user doesn t perceive the wait Note Loading data from...

Страница 593: ...not been downloaded select Show Placeholders The placeholders appear as rectangles when the movie plays 5 To lock the movie to its current tempo settings select Lock Frame Durations See Locking frame...

Страница 594: ...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 o...

Страница 595: ...the playhead to the specified frame after a certain cast member has been downloaded Jump When Media in Frame is Available moves the playhead to the specified frame after the media elements for a parti...

Страница 596: ...pacts performance When using network Lingo the current handler must finish before an operation s result can return For best results place Lingo that initiates a network operation and Lingo that uses t...

Страница 597: ...he page The gotoNetPage command is similar to the Director open command It doesn t return a value To preload a file from the server into the cache Use the preloadNetThing function See preLoadNetThing...

Страница 598: ...th Internet security restrictions Because of security issues for movies that play back in browsers the following Lingo features are unsupported for Shockwave movies playing in a browser Many of these...

Страница 599: ...s can use URLs to Shockwave Audio SWA sound files as file references streamName URL cast member property The following Lingo elements can use URLs as file references only during authoring or in projec...

Страница 600: ...for Windows and Macintosh are described in the following list Windows The Macromed Shockwave 8 subfolder of the system folder the system folder is typically c winnt system32 or c windows system Macint...

Страница 601: ...ie uses nonstandard fonts use embedded fonts See Embedding fonts in movies on page 274 Check for sound problems particularly if you stream sounds with SWA About downloading speed Developers distributi...

Страница 602: ...Chapter 27 602...

Страница 603: ...independent 466 469 local 466 468 public 466 469 viewing 467 actions Behavior inspector Beep 364 Change Cast Member 364 Change Cursor 364 Change Ink 364 Change Location 364 Change Palette 364 Change...

Страница 604: ...line spacing 279 AVI Video for Windows See digital video axis and camera movement 447 and model generation 475 and model movement 486 487 498 camera movement 469 colors 469 in animation 491 506 509 B...

Страница 605: ...in 572 status area text 600 Bucket tool Paint window 207 button cast member properties 375 button tool palette 253 C cache clearing 47 call command 370 cameras commands 518 524 defined 454 515 manipu...

Страница 606: ...l and external 128 managing external 153 casts continued opening in new window 134 preferences 138 saving 153 saving as libraries 154 centering the Stage 46 centimeters specifying as unit of measure 2...

Страница 607: ...97 puppetTransition 271 showGlobals 403 showLocals 404 comments Lingo scripts 391 uses for 426 comparison operators 409 compressing bitmaps 579 movies 576 sounds See Shockwave for Audio concatenating...

Страница 608: ...proving playback performance 341 preloading 341 synchronizing with cue points 328 341 turning tracks on and off with Lingo 337 using on the Internet 340 Video window 332 digital video cast member prop...

Страница 609: ...option 191 extruder model resource 481 Eyedropper tool 262 Eyedropper tool Paint window 207 F facets text 463 Fade to Black White 260 fading sprites 180 188 FALSE keyword definition of 392 testing for...

Страница 610: ...31 jumping to with Lingo 375 looping 376 moving sprites in 172 printing 48 selecting within a sprite 160 start and end 163 Full Screen projector option 583 functions charToNum 381 contains 290 defini...

Страница 611: ...cast members 146 color palette requirements 266 digital video 332 image options 150 JPEG files 204 importing continued linking to files 149 PICS and Scrapbook 150 Preserve Original Data for External...

Страница 612: ...model resources 474 modifier 469 level of detail LOD modifier automatic assignment of settings 474 properties 474 libraries creating new 154 Library palette Behavior library 467 Lighten button Paint w...

Страница 613: ...r 595 looping and frames containing transitions 271 animation 449 frames 376 sound 322 lowercase letters using in Lingo 391 405 M Macromedia Director cast members 243 exporting to 241 placing Firework...

Страница 614: ...Within event 364 Movie Casts command 153 movie in a window closing 539 controlling appearance 541 controlling interaction with other movies 542 movie in a window continued creating with Lingo 538 crop...

Страница 615: ...ot Copy ink 183 Not Ghost ink 183 Not Reverse ink 183 Not Transparent ink 183 Novell networks movies on 575 numbers decimal 405 floating point 405 numToChar function 381 O object relative model moveme...

Страница 616: ...g 523 524 PICS import 150 PICT Cast Member Properties 238 pixels specifying as unit of measure 278 placing handlers 397 planes 477 Play Animation option in Property inspector 449 Play Cast Member acti...

Страница 617: ...eating interaction with Lingo 338 exporting options 588 importing files 147 masks 337 rotating and scaling with Lingo 338 See also digital video QuickTime VR 335 337 interaction 338 panning 339 R radi...

Страница 618: ...scaling movie in a window 540 sprites 175 vector shapes 251 Score 20 444 adding frames 33 basics of 22 Blend display 166 channels 27 Score continued digital video in 335 displaying sprite information...

Страница 619: ...ties 254 shape drawing tools Paint window 208 shapes 253 creating with Tool palette 253 Sharp Changes tweening option 188 191 shocked fonts 274 Shockmachine exporting movies for 579 Shockwave and glob...

Страница 620: ...6 creating 157 defined 29 displaying and editing properties 162 displaying Sprite toolbar 163 displaying the Sprite Overlay 164 editing frames 192 editing properties with Lingo 166 sprites continued e...

Страница 621: ...decimal and floating point numbers 405 for frames and movies 406 for integers 405 syntax continued for lists 398 for strings 405 of Lingo elements 390 troubleshooting 426 system events relaying to ch...

Страница 622: ...orm operator 530 transforms 487 commands 528 defined 526 functions for creating 526 properties 527 transition cast member properties 272 transition Xtra extensions 51 transitions adding 270 channel 27...

Страница 623: ...for with Lingo 252 vectors 524 binary operations 526 commands 525 functions for creating 525 manipulating with transform functions 526 properties 525 verbose syntax in Lingo 392 Verisign Xtra downloa...

Страница 624: ...mmand 232 importing 50 installing 51 managing for distributed movies 572 scripting 50 tool 51 transition 51 270 271 viewing properties 142 143 Xtras Cast Member Properties dialog box 155 Z z axis and...

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