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Contents
Chapter 1: Getting started
- Installation
- Adobe Help
  - Adobe Help resources
- Resources
- What's new
Chapter 2: Workspace
- Introduction
- User Interface enhancements
- Undo multiple actions
- Understanding the Director metaphor
- Navigating the Director workspace
- Getting to know the workspace
  - Manipulating the default workspace
    - Display or hide a window
    - Change window preferences
- Getting to know window types
- Using the Stage
- Using the Score
- Using the Control panel
- Using the Cast window
  - Create a new cast member
  - Import a cast member from an existing media file
- Using the Property inspector
- Using the Script window
  - Opening and closing multiple script windows
    - Open multiple Script windows
    - Close a Script tab
- Using the Message window
- Customizing your workspace
- Working with Xtra extensions
- Connecting to the Internet
Chapter 3: Score, Stage, and Cast
- Using the Tool palette with the Stage
- Setting Stage properties
  - Setting guides and grid properties
- Using multiple Score windows
- Changing Score settings
- Selecting, editing, and adding frames in the Score
- About cast members
- Using the Cast window
- Using Cast List view
- Using Cast Thumbnail view
  - Creating a custom cast member thumbnail
- Launching external editors
  - Define an external editor
  - Launch an external editor
- Managing external casts
- Creating libraries
- Setting cast member properties by using Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Setting Xtra cast member properties
Chapter 4: Sprites
- About sprites
- Creating sprites
- Setting sprite general preferences
- Selecting sprites
- Naming sprites
- Finding sprites
- Creating sprite channel names
- Layering sprites
- Displaying and editing sprite properties
- Locking and unlocking sprites
- Positioning sprites
- Controlling the entrance of a sprite on the stage
  - Change when a sprite appears on the Stage
  - Copy or move sprites between frames
- Controlling the duration of a sprite on the stage
  - Extend or shorten a sprite
  - Extend a sprite to the current location of the playhead
- Splitting and joining sprites
  - Split an existing sprite
  - Join separate sprites into a single sprite
- Changing the appearance of sprites
- Using sprite inks
- Assigning a cast member to a sprite with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
  - Specify the cast member, including its cast
  - Determine which cast contains the cast member assigned to a sprite
- Exchanging cast members
Chapter 5: Animation
- About animation
- About tweening in Director
- Tweening the path of a sprite
- Accelerating and decelerating sprites
- Tweening other sprite properties
- Suggestions and shortcuts for tweening
- Changing tweening settings
- Switching a sprite’s cast members
- Editing sprite frames
  - Use Edit Sprite Frames
  - Return sprites to their normal state
- Frame-by-frame animation
- Shortcuts for animating with multiple cast members
  - Using the Cast To Time command
  - Using the Space To Time command
- Using film loops
- Setting film loop properties
- Step-recording animation
- Real-time recording animation
- Linking a sequence with Paste Relative
- Animating sprites with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
Chapter 6: Bitmaps
- Introduction
- About importing bitmaps
- Using animated GIFs
- Using the Paint window
  - Using Paint window tools and controls
  - Using the Lasso tool
  - Using the Marquee tool
  - Using the Airbrush tool
    - Use the Airbrush tool
    - Define airbrush settings
  - Using the Brush tool
    - Use the Brush tool
    - Change brush settings
  - Using rulers in the Paint window
    - Hide or show the rulers in the Paint window
    - Change the location of the zero point
  - Zooming in and out in the Paint window
    - Zoom in or out
    - Return to normal view
- Changing selected areas of a bitmap
  - Reposition the selected area
  - Specify how a selected area behaves when you drag it
- Flipping, rotating, and applying effects to bitmaps
  - Flip, rotate, skew, or apply effects to part of a bitmap
  - Apply color effects to a selected area
- Using Auto Distort
- Changing registration points
  - Set a registration point
  - Set a bitmap’s registration point with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Changing size, color depth, and color palette for bitmaps
- Controlling bitmap images with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
  - Change the image assigned to a bitmap cast member
  - Specify the background or foreground of a bitmap sprite
  - Capture the current graphic contents of the Stage
  - Creating image objects
  - Editing image objects
- Using gradients
  - Editing gradients
- Using patterns
  - Editing patterns
- Creating a custom tile
- Using Paint window inks
- Using onion skinning
  - Activate onion skinning
  - Define the number of preceding or following cast members to display
  - Create a new cast member by tracing over a single cast member as a background image
  - Use a series of images as a background while painting a series of foreground images
- About the Paste As PICT option
- Setting and changing bitmap cast member properties
- Setting and changing PICT cast member properties
- Setting Paint window preferences
- Compressing bitmaps
  - Compress a bitmap at the cast member level
  - Compress bitmaps at the movie level
- Working with Adobe Fireworks
  - Placing Fireworks files into Director
  - Editing Director cast members in Fireworks
    - Optimizing cast members in Director
- Bitmap filters
  - Install a filter
  - Create a filter
  - Apply a filter
  - Modify a filter
  - Modify filters using Lingo/JavaScript
  - Re-order filters applied to a sprite
  - Enable or disable all filters for a sprite
  - Enable or disable a filter applied to a sprite, using Lingo/JavaScript
  - Remove filters applied to a sprite
  - Remove a filter applied to a sprite, using Lingo/JavaScript
  - Find filters applied to a sprite
  - Create custom filters
  - Using filters to create animated effects
Chapter 7: Vector Shapes
- About vector shapes
- Drawing vector shapes
- Editing vector shapes
- Defining gradients for vector shapes
  - Define a gradient for a vector shape
  - Specify a gradient in Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Controlling vector shapes with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Setting vector shape properties
- Using shapes
- Setting shape cast member properties
Chapter 8: Color, Tempo, and Transitions
- Introduction
- Controlling color
- Setting palette cast member properties
  - Create a color palette as a cast member
  - View or change color palette cast member properties
- About tempo
- Using transitions
Chapter 9: Text
- About text
- Embedding fonts in movies
  - Embed a font in a movie
  - Embed a font in a movie with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Creating text cast members
- Editing and formatting text
- Creating a hypertext link
- Working with fields
  - Create a field cast member
  - Specify field settings
- Using editable text
- Converting text to a bitmap
- Mapping fonts between platforms for field cast members
- Setting text or field cast member properties
  - Using the Save Bitmap feature for pre-rendered text
- Formatting chunks of text with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
  - Formatting text with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
  - Applying paragraph formats with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Formatting text or field cast members with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Controlling scrolling text with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Checking for specific text with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Modifying strings with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Unicode support in Director
Chapter 10: Using Flash, Flash Components, and Other Interactive Media Types
- Introduction
- Using Flash Content
- Adding a Flash content cast member
  - About using Flash content in a Director movie
- Editing a Flash cast member
  - Specify a source file (FLA) path for an SWF cast member before initiating a launch and edit session
  - Add Flash to the list of external editors
- Controlling Flash content with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Controlling Flash content appearance with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
  - Flipping, rotating, and skewing Flash sprites
  - Colorizing and blending Flash sprites
    - Specify the color of a Flash sprite
    - Specify the blend for a Flash sprite
  - Scaling Flash content
    - Control the scaling of Flash content
    - Set the scale percentage of Flash content within its sprite’s bounding rectangle
  - Obeying the Flash content cursor settings
  - Controlling the Flash content bounding rectangle and registration points
  - Placing Flash content on the Stage
- Streaming Flash content with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Playback Flash content with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
  - Controlling Flash content playback with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
  - Controlling Flash content interactivity with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Using Lingo or JavaScript syntax with Flash variables
  - Set a Flash variable
  - Get the value of a Flash variable
  - Execute a Flash method
- Sending messages from Flash content using getURL
  - Sending simple messages and script statements
  - Sending script statements with arguments
- Sending XML Data from Flash to Director
- Using Flash objects in script
  - Setting callbacks for Flash objects
- Using the Flash local connection object
  - Initialize properties
  - Creating the local connection object
  - Setting up callbacks
  - Writing callback handlers
  - Sending messages and closing the connection
- Using Flash Media Server
  - Create a NetConnection object
  - Create a NetStream object
  - Create a global NetConnection object that does not require a sprite reference
  - Create a global NetStream object that does not require a sprite reference
  - Send text messages with the NetStream object
  - Associate a video camera with the NetStream object
  - Associate a microphone with the NetStream object
  - Publish a video, audio, or other data stream with the NetStream object
  - Play a non-video data stream from the server with the NetStream object
  - Create a script reference to the video clip object in the Flash sprite
  - Play a video stream through the video clip object
- Using the Flash Settings panel
  - Opening the Settings panel
  - Emulating the Flash Player context menu in Shockwave Player
- Playback performance tips for Flash content
- Using Director movies within Director movies
  - Import a Director movie
  - Place a Director movie cast member in the current movie
- Setting linked Director movie properties
- Using ActiveX controls
  - Inserting an ActiveX control
  - Setting ActiveX control properties
  - Using ActiveX control methods
  - Using ActiveX control events
- Using Flash components
  - Selecting Flash components
  - Selecting components by using the Tool palette
  - Setting Flash component parameters
  - Handling Flash component events
    - Set the Flash Button component events
- Button component
  - Button parameters
  - Using styles with the Button component
  - Property summary for the Button class
  - Event summary for the Button class
- CheckBox component
  - CheckBox parameters
  - Using styles with the CheckBox component
  - Property summary for the CheckBox class
  - Event summary for the CheckBox class
- DateChooser component
  - DataChooser parameters
  - Using styles with the DateChooser component
  - Property summary for the DateChooser class
  - Event summary for the DateChooser class
- Label component
  - Label parameters
  - Using styles with the Label component
  - Property summary for the Label class
- List component
  - List component parameters
  - Customizing the List component
  - Using styles with the List component
  - Method summary for the List class
  - Property summary for the List class
- NumericStepper component
  - Using the NumericStepper component
  - NumericStepper parameters
  - Customizing the NumericStepper component
  - Using styles with the NumericStepper component
  - Property summary for the NumericStepper class
  - Event summary for the NumericStepper class
- RadioButton component
  - RadioButton parameters
  - Customizing the RadioButton component
  - Using styles with the RadioButton component
  - Property summary for the RadioButton class
  - Event summary for the RadioButton class
- ScrollPane component
  - Using the ScrollPane component
  - ScrollPane parameters
  - Method summary for the ScrollPane class
  - Property summary for the ScrollPane class
  - Event summary for the ScrollPane class
- TextArea component
  - TextArea component parameters
  - Using styles with the TextArea component
  - Property summary for the TextArea class
  - Event summary for the TextArea class
- TextInput component
  - TextInput component parameters
  - Customizing the TextInput component
  - Using styles with the TextInput component
  - Property summary for the TextInput class
  - Event summary for the TextInput class
- Tree component
  - Formatting XML for the Tree component
  - Tree parameters
  - Customizing the Tree component
  - Method summary for the Tree class
  - Property summary for the Tree class
  - Event summary for the Tree class
Chapter 11: Sound and Synchronization
- About sound and synchronization
- Importing internal and linked sounds
- Audio mixers and sound objects
- Setting sound cast member properties
- Controlling sound in the Score
- Looping a sound
- Using sound in Windows
- Playing sounds with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- About Shockwave Audio
  - Compression quality in Shockwave Audio
- Compressing internal sounds with Shockwave Audio
- Streaming linked Shockwave Audio and MP3 audio files
  - Create external Shockwave Audio files
  - Stream a linked Shockwave Audio or MP3 sound
- Playing audio with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Synchronizing media
- Synchronizing sound with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Accessibility
Chapter 12: Using Digital Video
- About digital video
- Importing digital video formats
- Adding an MP4Media member to a movie
  - Streaming members
- Using the video windows
- Playing digital video Direct To Stage
- Controlling digital video in the Score
  - Playing complete digital videos
- Playing digital video with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Setting QuickTime digital video cast member properties
- Controlling QuickTime with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Using Windows Media files in Director
- Using DVD media content in Director
- Cropping digital video
  - Crop a digital video
  - Use Lingo or JavaScript syntax to move the image of a QuickTime video around within the sprite’s bounding rectangle:
- Using digital video on the Internet
- Synchronizing video and animation
- Using RealMedia content in Director
- Using Lingo or JavaScript syntax sound elements with RealMedia
  - Supported sound elements
  - Unsupported sound elements
Chapter 13: Behaviors
- About behaviors
- Attaching behaviors
- Changing the order of attached behaviors
- Getting information about behaviors
- Creating and modifying behaviors
  - Events and actions in the Behavior inspector
- Writing behaviors with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Setting up a Parameters dialog box
- Setting behavior properties with script
- Customizing a behavior’s property
- Creating an on getPropertyDescriptionList handler
- Including a description for the Behavior inspector
- Example of a complete behavior
- Sending messages to behaviors attached to sprites
- Using inheritance in behaviors
Chapter 14: Navigation and User Interaction
- About navigation and user interaction
- Creating basic navigation controls with behaviors
- Adding push buttons, radio buttons, and check boxes
  - Setting properties for push buttons, radio buttons, and check boxes
- Jumping to locations with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Detecting mouse clicks with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Making sprites editable and draggable
  - Make a sprite draggable on the Stage
  - Make a text sprite editable
- Making sprites editable or moveable with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Checking which text is under the pointer with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Responding to rollovers with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Finding mouse pointer locations with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Checking keys with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Equivalent cross-platform keys
- Identifying keys on different keyboards
- About animated color cursors
  - Xtra extensions that support animated cursors
  - Requirements for animated color cursors
- Creating an animated color cursor cast member
- Using an animated color cursor in a movie
Chapter 15: 3D Basics
- Introduction
- What you need to know
- About 3D in Director
- The 3D Xtra extension
- Using the Shockwave 3D window
- Using the Property inspector for 3D
- Using rendering methods
- Using 3D anti-aliasing
- 3D behaviors
- 3D text
- The 3D world
Chapter 16: The 3D Cast Member, 3D Text, and 3D Behaviors
- Introduction
- 3D cast members
- Model resources
- Models
- Shaders
- Textures
- Motions
- Lights
- Cameras
- Groups
- Creating 3D text
- Modifying 3D text
- Script and 3D text
  - Exceptions
  - Lingo and JavaScript syntax script for 3D text
- Using 3D behaviors
Chapter 17: Working with Models and Model Resources
- Introduction
- About models and model resources
- Model resources
  - Common model resource properties
  - File-defined model resource properties
- Primitives
- Cast member methods
- Models
- Shaders
- Textures
  - Texture properties
  - Texture methods
- Groups
  - Group properties
  - Group methods
- Modifiers
- Animation modifiers
- Motions
  - Motion properties
  - Motion methods
- About lights and cameras
- Light properties
- Light methods
- Cameras
  - Camera properties
  - Camera methods
- Collada models
  - Import a Collada model
- Google SketchUp models
  - Import a Google SketchUp model
    - Import models through scripting
Chapter 18: Controlling the 3D World
- Introduction
- 3D Lingo or JavaScript syntax events
- Collisions
- Vector math
- Transforms
- Rendering functionality
Chapter 19: Movies in a Window
- Introduction
- About MIAWs
- Creating or declaring a MIAW
- Opening and closing a MIAW
  - Opening a MIAW
  - Closing a MIAW
    - Close a MIAW but keep it in memory
    - Close a MIAW and remove it from memory
- Setting the window size and location for a MIAW
  - About rect, drawRect, and stageRect
  - Specify the screen coordinates for a MIAW
- Controlling the appearance of a MIAW
- Controlling MIAW layering
- MIAW events
- Listing the current MIAWs
- Controlling interaction between MIAWs
Chapter 20: Using Xtras
- Using the XML Parser Xtra
- Using the MUI Xtra
- Using the Physics (Dynamiks) Xtra
Chapter 21: Making Director Movies Accessible
- Introduction
- Using the Accessibility Behavior library
- Accessibility scripting with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Deploying accessible movies
Chapter 22: Managing Memory
- About managing memory
- How Director unloads items from memory
  - Monitoring memory use
- Loading and unloading individual cast members
- Preloading digital video
Chapter 23: Managing and Testing Director Projects
- Managing Director projects
- About testing movies to avoid problems
  - Testing strategies
- Printing movies
- Resources
Chapter 24: Packaging Movies for Distribution
- Introduction
- About distributing movies
- Shockwave player browser compatibility
- Using the lingo.ini file to run startup scripts
- Previewing a movie in a browser
  - Specify the browser to use for previewing
  - Preview a movie in a browser
- About Xtra extensions
  - Including Xtra extensions
- Managing Xtra extensions for distributed movies
- About Distribution formats
  - Using linked media on the Internet
  - Distributing movies on a disk
  - Distributing movies on a local network
- Creating Shockwave content
- Using default Publish settings
- Changing Publish settings
  - Selecting a publishing format
  - Using the DCR and HTML file format
  - Setting Projector options
  - Setting Files options
  - Setting Shockwave options
  - Setting HTML options
  - Setting Image options
- Using dswmedia folders and the support folder to publish Shockwave content
- Using linked media when testing Shockwave content
- Converting movies created in previous versions of Director
  - Upgrade movies and casts by opening them in Director 11
  - Upgrade movies and casts using the Update Movies option
- About projectors
- Creating projectors
  - Create a projector
  - Set Files tab options
  - Create a fast-start projector
  - Excluding Xtra extensions from projectors
- About cross-platform projectors
  - Custom Xtra extensions and cross-platform projectors
- Processing movies with Update Movies
- Exporting digital video and frame-by-frame bitmaps
- Setting QuickTime export options
- About organizing movie files
Chapter 25: Using Shockwave Player
- About Shockwave Player
- Streaming movies
- About network operations
- Setting movie playback options
- Setting Shockwave playback options
- About creating multiuser applications
- About streaming with the Score and behaviors
  - Looping behaviors
  - Jumping behaviors
- Checking whether media elements are loaded with Lingo or Java Script syntax
  - Checking whether a cast member or sprite is loaded
  - Checking whether a frame’s contents are loaded
- Downloading files from the Internet with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Retrieving network operation results with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Using Lingo or JavaScript syntax in different Internet environments
- Testing your movie
- Cross-domain policy
  - Shockwave movie properties
    - _movie.enableSecurityDialog
    - cdpCheckMode
- About downloading speed
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