The Director 6 Book: The Ultimate Guide for Multimedia Professionals

Rating:
Summary: Great book for pros!
Review: Finally a Director book that goes beyond the basics! This book is worth the money for the advanced coverage of Lingo, Shockwave and more. Not for the casual user. Lots of useful info for the Director power-user/programmer.

Rating:
Summary: Not bad, some errors.
Review: While this book has a lot of solid information, the author often glosses over powerful concepts that could prove to be more useful if explored in greater detail. There are a few errors in the book, such as the diagram on p. 55 of the Import dialog box, which is a screenshot from Director 5.0 Mac; the descriptive text in this chapter mentions nothing about the newer interface faound in Director 6.0.

Other than a few errors, the book presents itself fairly well. The Lingo Machine found on the CD ROM is very valuable, and contains excellent examples that are pretty easy to learn by. Goes well with The Lingo Programmer's Reference, now unfortunately out of print.