Director 7 Demystified

Director 7 Demystified is a comprehensive reference guide to all the complexities and concepts you need to know to master Director and the related Lingo and Shockwave technologies. Accompanying the straightforward explanations are exercises that let you put your newfound knowledge into practice, and techniques designed to help you tap the creative potential of Director. The CD that comes with the book contains many of the tools and scripts discussed in the lessons.

Table of contents

Prelude

Book 1: Director Basics

Chapter 1: A Guided Tour of Director

Chapter 2: The Elements of Animation

Project Profile 1: Oracle Screensaver

Chapter 3: Making It Multimedia

Chapter 4: Introducing Interactivity

Chapter 5: Introducing Shockwave

Chapter 6: Deeper into Graphics

Chapter 7: More Production Tools

Book 2:Digging Deeper

Chapter 8: The Anatomy of Lingo

Chapter 9: The Elements of Scripting

Chapter 10: Building the Interactive Movie

Chapter 11: Deeper into Lingo

Project Profile 2: Levi's Screensaver

Chapter 12: Other Lingo Flavors

Chapter 13: Working with Multiple Movies and Casts

Chapter 14: Scripting with Net-Savvy Lingo

Chapter 15: Deeper into Shockwave

Book 3: Special Topics

Chapter 16: Lingo and Lists

Chapter 17: Debugging and Troubleshooting

Project Profile 3: Universal Import

Chapter 18: Parent/Child Lingo

Chapter 19: Lingo and Audio Elements

Project Profile 4: Simple Invaders

Chapter 20: Lingo and Digital Video

Chapter 21: Extracurricular Lingo: Xtras

Chapter 22: Professional Topics and Techniques

Appendix A: Director Resources on the Internet

Appendix B: The Lingo Graveyard

Appendix C: A Lingo Lexicon

Appendix D: Lingo Code Reference