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Macromedia Director 8 and Lingo Authorized

Macromedia Director 8 and Lingo Authorized
By: Phil Gross
Publisher: Macromedia Press
Pub. Date: March 30, 2000
Print ISBN-10: 0-201-70262-2
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-201-70262-0
Pages in Print Edition: 816
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A short course in online movie-making. Learn to use Macromedia Director 8, the powerful, cross-platform application that helps you create dynamic interactive movies for multimedia and Internet productions. Presented in manageable step-by-step sessions, this book helps you learn to use Director 8 at your own pace. The enclosed cross-platform CD-ROM contains all the files you need to work through the lessons, plus completed versions with which you can compare your own results.

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Table of Contents

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Copyright

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Introduction

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Authorized Training from Macromedia

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What You Will Learn

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Minimum System Requirements

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1 TokenLesson 1. Director Basics

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What You Will Learn

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Approximate Time

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Creating A Folder On Your Hard Drive

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Opening Director

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Opening The Toolbar

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Using The Control Panel

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Viewing The Cast

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Opening The Score

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Opening The Text and Paint Windows

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Using The Help System

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Setting Up Your Window For Convenient Work

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Creating A New Movie

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Setting The Stage Size

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Importing an Image

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Adding Sprites to the Stage

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Creating Text Cast Members

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Changing the Color of Cast Members

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Adding Sprites to the Score

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Making Changes to Multiple Sprites

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Sequencing Sprites

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Playing the Movie

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What You Have Learned

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1 TokenLesson 2. Animated Bullet Lists

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What You Will Learn

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Approximate Time

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Opening The File

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Adding Text Cast Members

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Using the Paint Window

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Placing Sprites in the Score

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Positioning Sprites on the Stage

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Aligning Sprites with the Align Panel

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Naming Cast Members

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Animating Text Using Keyframes

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Repeating the Animation Process

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A Deeper Look at the Property Inspector

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Aligning Sprites Using The Property Inspector

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What You Have Learned

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1 TokenLesson 3. Reversing Animations

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What You Will Learn

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Approximate Time

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Setting the Stage Color and Movie Tempo

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Importing Media Elements into the Cast

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Using Ink Effects on the Background Image

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Animating a Graphic Image

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Reversing Animations

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What You Have Learned

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Lesson 4. Transitions, Sounds, and Video

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What You Will Learn

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Approximate Time

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Setting Registration Points

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Exchanging Cast Members

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Using a Screen Transition

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Adding Sounds to the Score

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Adding Digital Video

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What You Have Learned

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1 TokenLesson 5. Adding Interactivity

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What You Will Learn

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Approximate Time

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Building a Menu Screen

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Writing a Lingo Script

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Creating a Destination Screen

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Adding Markers for Navigation

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Creating Navigation Scripts

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Creating a Projector

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What You Have Learned

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1 TokenLesson 6. More Animation Techniques

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Setting Movie Properties

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Creating Keyframes

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Creating a Circular Path Animation

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Animating with Real-Time Recording

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What You Have Learned

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1 TokenLesson 7. keyframes and layers

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What You Will Learn

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Approximate Time

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Creating a Custom Stage

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Importing the Media

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Setting the Movie Tempo

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Placing the Graphics on the Stage

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Copying Sprites to a New Location

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Creating the Animation with Keyframes

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Locking Sprites

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Playing Selected Frames Only

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Finishing the Basic Animation

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Layering the Sprites

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Exchanging Cast Members

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Adding Background Music

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What You Have Learned

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1 TokenLesson 8. Film Loops and Buttons

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Approximate Time

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Exchanging Cast Members

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Creating a Film Loop

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Creating Keyframes with a Film Loop

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Layering the Sprites

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Reversing an Animation

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Creating Buttons

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Adding Interactivity with the Behavior Inspector

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Adding a Second Behavior

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Creating a Behavior to Pause the Movie

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What You Have Learned

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1 TokenLesson 9. Built-In Behaviors

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Placing The Graphics

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Adding Behaviors

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Using the Behavior Inspector

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Modifying Behaviors

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What You Have Learned

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1 TokenLesson 10. Custom Cursors and Buttons

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What You Will Learn

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Changing the Cursor

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Restoring the Cursor

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Working with Sprite Bounding Areas

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Changing the Sprite

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Building Better Buttons

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Creating a New Animated Cursor

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Applying the Cursor

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Modifying the Frame Rate

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What You Have Learned

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1 TokenLesson 11. Alpha Channels and Masks

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Defining the Alpha Channel

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Experimenting with an Alpha Channel

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Using Masks in Director

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Applying Different Inks

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Creating an Alpha Mask

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Layering the Mask

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What You Have Learned

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1 TokenLesson 12. Sprite Properties and Palettes

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Approximate Time

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Importing Media Elements

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Setting a Movie's Stage Size, Background Color, and Default Palette

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Setting Cast and Sprite Preferences

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Organizing the Cast

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Setting the Location of a Sprite

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Snapping to the Grid

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Creating a Behavior for Navigational Elements

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Using a Palette Index

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Modifying Sprite Properties

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Adding An Introduction

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1 TokenLesson 13. Markers and Navigation

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Approximate Time

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Inserting Markers

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Building a Destination Screen

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Exchanging Cast Members

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Navigating to a Marker

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Looping on a Frame

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Using Relative Markers

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Simplifying Scripts Using Relative Markers

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What You Have Learned

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1 TokenLesson 14. Fonts and Menus

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What You Will Learn

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Approximate Time

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Adding a Marker for a Closing Sequence

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Changing the Background Transparent Color

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Animating Sprites

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Working with Text and Fonts

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Animating with Blends

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Creating Custom Menus

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What You Have Learned

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1 TokenLesson 15. Shockwave for Director

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Approximate Time

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Obtaining Shockwave Plug-Ins and the Browser Software

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Creating and Playing a Shockwave Movie

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Preparing a Movie for Streaming Shockwave

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What You Have Learned

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1 TokenLesson 16. Learning Lingo

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What You Will Learn

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Creating a Simple Lingo Script

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Testing a Script

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Using the Message Window

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Examining Lingo Elements

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Examining Types of Lingo Scripts

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Creating Different Types of Scripts

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1 TokenLesson 17. Handlers And Events

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What Events Are

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Watching Events

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Handlers and Handler Hierarchy

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Parameters and Return Values

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1 TokenLesson 18. Navigating with Lingo

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Approximate Time

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Setting Up For This Lesson

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Checking Movie Properties and Filling In the Score

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Using Lingo to Wait at the Main Menu

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Using Markers to Label Frames

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Branching to a Marker

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Adding a Back Button

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Branching to Another Movie

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Implementing a Quit Button

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What You Have Learned

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1 TokenLesson 19. Advanced Navigation

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Setting Up For This Lesson

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Adding Visual Feedback Using mouseEnter

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Completing the Feedback Sequence Using mouseLeave

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Assigning Additional Scripts to a Sprite

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Navigating Relative to Markers

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Adding Audio Feedback

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Testing Conditions with Lingo

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Using a Repeat Structure

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1 TokenLesson 20. Synchronizing with Digital Video

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Setting Up For This Lesson

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Importing a Digital Video

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Playing a Digital Video Cast Member

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Creating Animated Text

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Using Cue Points in the Quicktime Movie

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Synchronizing the Animation Using the Tempo Channel

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Synchronizing the Animation Using Lingo

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Using Variables

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Adding Comments and a Global Variable to a Movie Script

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Moving Text Off the Stage

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Getting Timing Information from a Digital Video

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Synchronizing with a Voice-Over in a Movie

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Adding a Background by Moving Channels

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Using a Transition to Play Over a Digital Video

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What You Have Learned

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1 TokenLesson 21. Controlling Sprites with Lingo

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What You Will Learn

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Approximate Time

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Setting Up For This Lesson

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Using the Score to Animate the Arm

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Adding Sprites to the Stage

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Using Rollover to Control Button States

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Using locH and locV to Move the Arm

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Creating Custom Messages and Handlers

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Calling a Movie Handler from a Cast Member Script

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Using if-then to Set Limits

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Increasing the Arm Speed

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Swapping Cast Members

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Calling the Handlers

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What You Have Learned

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1 TokenLesson 22. Optimizing Scripts

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What You Will Learn

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Approximate Time

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Using a Local Variable

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Using a Case Statement

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Using Parameters

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Using a Global Variable

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Using Symbols in a case Statement

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Using Symbols as Parameters

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Using Lingo to Play Sounds

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Using the Memory Inspector and Preloading Cast Members

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What You Have Learned

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1 TokenLesson 23. Keyboard Control

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Approximate Time

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Determining Key Codes

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Setting Up For This Lesson

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Creating the Drawing Dot

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Using Key Codes to Control Action Using the Keyboard

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Using a case Statement instead of if-then-else

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Creating a Bounding Rectangle

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Using the Constraint of Sprite to Limit Movement

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Using the Width of Sprite to Increase Drawing Speed

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Adding Key Codes for the Up and Down Arrows

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Using the keypressed

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Using the optiondown and the stagecolor to Add Features

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What You Have Learned

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1 TokenLesson 24. Using Lists and Multiple Casts

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Setting Up For This Lesson

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Planning a Strategy for Multiple Casts

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Creating a New External Cast

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Moving Assets to an External Cast

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Linking an Existing External Cast to a Movie

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Creating a Template Layout in the Score

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Using Lingo to Switch Casts

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Controlling Navigation with an if-then or case structure

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Creating a Navigation List

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Writing a Navigation Script

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Deleting a Portion of a String

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Aligning Registration Points

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What You Have Learned

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1 TokenLesson 25. Databases and Lists

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Looking at the Finished Movie

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Setting Up For This Lesson

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Using a Field Cast Member

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Creating a Property List from Field Text

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Using the Watcher

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Watching the Script in the Debugger

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Retrieving Data from the Property List

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1 TokenLesson 26. Using a List Database

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Approximate Time

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Creating a Highlight

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Using the the rect Function To Move Highlights

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Retrieving Values with getaProp

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Using Chunk Expressions

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Concatenating Two Expressions

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Setting the membernum Property

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Sending Parameters

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Combining Your Work into a Handler

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Adding a Script to a Button

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Adding Another Highlight

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Changing Directions

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Adding a Background Sound

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1 TokenLesson 27. Using Lingo on the Web

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Setting Up For This Project

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Selecting a Web Browser

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Using gotonetPage to Launch a Web Browser

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Using a Test File on a Local Drive

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Testing Your Movie on the Internet

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Using a Field to Display Status Information

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Using the Timer to Reset Status Messages

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Using getNetText to Retrieve Data from the Internet

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Creating a Scrolling Text Field

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Using netDone and getNetText to Display the Downloaded Text

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Understanding Shockwave Movies

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What You Have Learned

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Approximate Time

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Retrieving the Current Date

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How to Compare Dates

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Creating a Date Calculator

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Displaying the Current Date

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Making Fields Editable

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Setting Up a Date Comparison

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Preventing Your Movie from Running after a Certain Date

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1 TokenLesson 29. Creating Hypertext

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Setting Up Your Movie for Hyperlinks

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Assigning a Hyperlink

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Creating a Handler for a hyperlinkclicked Event

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Modifying Hyperlinks with Lingo

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1 TokenLesson 30. Monitoring Director

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Watching the Mouse Position

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Monitoring the Current Sprite and Frame

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Sending Yourself Feedback

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Logging Messages to a File

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What You Have Learned

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Download Chapter
1 TokenAppendix A: Windows Shortcuts

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Numeric Keypad Shortcuts

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Keyboard Shortcuts

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Director Window Shortcuts

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Numeric Keypad Shortcuts

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Keyboard Shortcuts

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Director Window Shortcuts

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