Director 7 and Lingo Bible

• Master the fundamentals of Director movies—cast members, sprites, and scores
  
• Discover the new text capabilities of Director 7
  
• Incorporate digital audio and video into your projects
  
• Use built-in behaviors to quickly add interactivity and animation to movies
  
• Explore new techniques for streamlining production processes
  
• Learn to program using Director's scripting language, Lingo
  
• Create reusable, custom sprite behaviors using Lingo
  
• Learn how to efficiently handle text, sound, and video with Lingo
  
• Understand the opportunities and constraint related to Web delivery
  
• Create applications, Shockwave movies, and Java applets

Table of contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I: Working with Director

Chapter 1: Introducing Director

Chapter 2: Working with Graphics

Chapter 3: Working with the Stage, Sprites, and Score

Chapter 4: Using Text in Director

Chapter 5: Using Sound

Chapter 6: Using Digital Video

Part II: Bringing It All Together

Chapter 7: The Power of Behaviors

Chapter 8: Fine-Tuning and Outputting Your Movies

Chapter 9: Creating an Interactive Presentation

Chapter 10: Designing a Production Process

Part III: Learning Lingo

Chapter 11: Programming Fundamentals

Chapter 12: Lists and Other Structures

Chapter 13: Object-Oriented Programming with Lingo

Chapter 14: Building Buttons

Chapter 15: Controlling Sprites with Lingo

Chapter 16: Text Manipulation with Lingo

Chapter 17: Vector Shape and Flash Lingo

Chapter 18: Sound and Video Lingo

Part IV: Further into Lingo

Chapter 19: Lingo Troubleshooting

Chapter 20: Memory Management

Chapter 2 1: Menus and Dialog Boxes

Chapter 22: Movies in a Window (MIAWs)

Chapter 23: Shockwave and NetLingo

Chapter 24: Xtras and File Manipulation

Appendix A: Installing and Configuring Director

Appendix B: Director's Built-in Behaviors

Appendix C: Summary of Lingo Statements

Appendix D: Shortcuts

Appendix E: Resources

Appendix F: What's on the CD-ROM?

Glossary

Index