Description:
The Director 6 Book is a solid introduction to the essential and advanced aspects of this multimedia authoring program for Windows and Macintosh. It discusses each feature as opposed to giving step-by-step instruction. The author, Gary Rosenzweig, assumes you're fairly familiar with Director, although he does provide an overview of the interface and elements such as the score and cast. You first learn about working with images, paint tools, color palettes, sounds, digital video, and text, and then you learn the basic and advanced aspects of Lingo, Director's scripting language. Rosenzweig also discusses how to work with Xtras, the add-ins for extending Director's functionality; and how to create stand-alone movies, or projectors, as well as Shockwave movies. There's a lot of sample Lingo code. The appendices include references to new Lingo commands, Lingo commands arranged by subject, keyboard shortcuts, and Xtras, as well as tables on ASCII characters and colors for Macintosh and Windows systems. A hybrid CD-ROM includes demo versions of several Macromedia apps, including Director 5, and third-party Xtras.
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