Adobe Using Director MX 2004 User Guide Drmx2004 En

User Manual: adobe Adobe Director - MX 2004 - User Guide Free User Guide for Adobe Director Software, Manual

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Contents
Introduction
- About Director
- What’s new in Director MX 2004
- Guide to instructional media
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 and editing frames in the Score
- About Cast Members
- Creating new casts
- Creating cast members
- Using the Cast window
  - Switching from one Cast window view to another
  - Working with Cast panel groups
  - Managing Casts
    - Managing casts in older Director movies
    - Using Cast window controls
  - Selecting cast members in the Cast window
  - Copying cast members
- Naming cast members
- Using Cast List view
  - Resizing columns in Cast List view
  - Sorting Cast List view columns
  - About cast member order in Cast List view
- Using Cast Thumbnail view
  - Creating a custom cast member thumbnail
- Moving cast members within the Cast window
- Organizing cast members within the Cast window
- Setting Cast window preferences
- Changing Cast properties
- Viewing and setting cast member properties
  - Launching cast member editors
- Finding cast members
- Importing cast members
  - About import file formats
  - About linking to files
  - Choosing import image options
- Launching external editors
  - Controlling cast member unloading
- Managing external casts
- Creating libraries
- Setting cast member properties using Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Setting Xtra cast member properties
Sprites
- Creating sprites
- Setting sprite general preferences
- Selecting sprites
- Naming sprites
  - Setting the Sprite name property in Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Finding sprites
- Creating sprite channel names
- Layering sprites
- Displaying and editing sprite properties
- Locking and unlocking sprites
- Positioning sprites
- Changing the appearance of sprites
- Using sprite inks
- Assigning a cast member to a sprite with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Exchanging cast members
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
- 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
Bitmaps
- 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
  - Using the Brush tool
  - Using rulers in the Paint window
  - Zooming in and out in the Paint window
- Changing selected areas of a bitmap
- Flipping, rotating, and applying effects to bitmaps
- Using Auto Distort
- Changing registration points
- Changing size, color depth, and color palette for bitmaps
- Controlling bitmap images with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
  - Creating image objects
  - Editing image objects
- Using gradients
  - Editing gradients
- Using patterns
  - Editing patterns
- Creating a custom tile
- Using Paint window inks
- Using bitmap filters
  - Using filters to create animated effects
- Using onion skinning
- About the Paste as Pict option
- Setting bitmap cast member properties
- Setting PICT cast member properties
- Setting Paint window preferences
- Compressing bitmaps
- Working with Macromedia Fireworks
  - Placing Fireworks files into Director
  - Editing Director cast members in Fireworks
    - Optimizing cast members in Director
Vector Shapes
- Drawing vector shapes
- Editing vector shapes
- Defining gradients for vector shapes
- Controlling vector shapes with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Setting vector shape properties
- Using shapes
- Setting shape cast member properties
Color, Tempo, and Transitions
- Controlling color
- Setting palette cast member properties
- About tempo
- Using transitions
Text
- Embedding fonts in movies
- Creating text cast members
- Editing and formatting text
- Creating a hypertext link
- Working with fields
- 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
Using Flash, Flash Components, and Other Interactive Media Types
- Using Flash Content
- Adding a Flash content cast member
  - About using Flash content in a Director movie
- Editing a Flash cast member
- 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
  - Scaling Flash content
  - 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
- Playing back 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 to set and test Flash variables
- 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 Communication Server MX 2004
- Using the Flash Settings panel
  - Opening the Settings panel
  - Emulating the Flash Player context menu in Shockwave
- Playback performance tips for Flash content
- Using Director movies within Director movies
- 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 using the Tool palette
  - Setting Flash component parameters
  - Handling Flash 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
Sound and Synchronization
- Importing internal and linked sounds
- 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
- Playing Shockwave Audio, Windows Media Audio, and MP3 audio with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Synchronizing media
- Synchronizing sound with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Accessibility
Using Digital Video
- About digital video formats
- 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
- About 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
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
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
- 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
3D Basics
- What you need to know
- About 3D in Director MX 2004
- The 3D Xtra
- 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
The 3D Cast Member, 3D Text, and 3D Behaviors
- About the 3D cast member
- 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
Working with Models and Model Resources
- 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
Controlling the 3D World
- 3D Lingo or JavaScript syntax events
- Collisions
- Vector math
- Transforms
- Rendering functionality
Movies in a Window
- About MIAWs
- Creating or declaring a MIAW
  - Assigning a MIAW a filename and title
- Opening and closing a MIAW
  - Opening a MIAW
  - Closing a MIAW
- Setting the window size and location for a MIAW
  - About rect, drawRect, and stageRect
- Controlling the appearance of a MIAW
- Controlling MIAW layering
- MIAW events
- Listing the current MIAWs
- Controlling interaction between MIAWs
Using the XML Parser Xtra
- About XML
- Using XML parser objects
- Using XML document nodes
- Accessing attributes
- Parser objects and XML nodes
- Treating white space
- XML and character sets
Making Director Movies Accessible
- About government requirements
- Making Director movies accessible
  - Using the Speech Xtra
  - Testing the Speech Xtra
- Using the Accessibility behavior library
- Accessibility scripting with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
- Deploying accessible movies
Managing Memory
- How Director unloads items from memory
  - Monitoring memory use
- Loading and unloading individual cast members
- Preloading digital video
Managing and Testing Director Projects
- Managing Director projects
- About testing movies to avoid problems
- Printing movies
- Resources
Packaging Movies for Distribution
- About distributing movies
- Shockwave browser compatibility
- Previewing a movie in a browser
- About Xtra extensions
  - Including Xtra extensions
- Managing Xtra extensions for distributed movies
- About distribution formats
- Creating Shockwave content
- Using default Publish settings
- Changing Publish Settings
- 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
- About projectors
- Creating projectors
  - 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
Using Shockwave Player
- About 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 JavaScript 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
- About downloading speed
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