Macromedia Director MX Demystified

Phil Gross is the founder of Mel Co., a San Francisco Bay Area consulting firm that offers programming and instructional design support. He has written books and training materials on such topics as UNIX, assembly language, and OS/2, and he wrote the Macromedia Press/Peachpit Press bestsellers Director 7 and Lingo Authorized and Director 8 and Lingo Authorized.

Contents.


Introduction.


Prelude.
I. DIRECTOR BASICS.

1. A Guided Tour of Director.
2. The Elements of Animation.
3. Making It Multimedia.
4. Introducing Interactivity.
5. Creating Your Movies.
6. Introducing Shockwave.
7. Deeper Into Graphics.
8. More Production Tools.
II. DIGGING DEEPER.

9. The Anatomy of Lingo.
10. The Elements of Scripting.
11. Building the Interactive Movie.
12. Deeper into Lingo.
13. Other Lingo Flavors.
14. Reusable Behaviors.
15. Working with Multiple Movies and Casts.
16. Scripting with Net-Savvy Lingo.
17. Deeper Into Shockwave.
18. Communicating with a Browser.
III. SPECIAL TOPICS.

19. Lingo and Lists.
20. Text and Input.
21. Debugging and Troubleshooting.
22. Lingo and Audio Elements.
23. Imaging Lingo.
24. Flash.
25. Accessibility.
26. Parent/Child Lingo; Parent/Child Project. An Arcade-Style Game.
27. Director and Digital Video.
28. 3D.
29. Extracurricular Lingo; Xtras.
30. Using MUI Xtra.
32. Professional Topics and Techniques.
IV. REFERENCE.

Appendix A. Director Resources on the Internet.
Appendix B. Keyboard Shortcuts in Director.
Appendix C. ASCII Codes.
Appendix D. Keycodes.
Appendix E. Third-party Xtra Company Directory.
Glossary.
Index.