Macromedia Director 8 Advanced Level Course

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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