Focuses on professional techniques for creating, manipulating and optimizing files. Shows how to create efficient, Director-ready files. Covers advanced features, including Lingo operations, digital video tricks and text-management techniques. Explains how to apply Shockwave technology for both Internet and non-Internet projects.
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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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Gary Rosenzweig is a programmer, Web site developer, Internet entrepreneur, podcaster and computer book writer. He is the host and publisher of the MacMost video podcast and Web site. He has also programmed more than 200 Web-based and iPhone games. He has written many books on Flash and Shockwave game development.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book for pros!,
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This review is from: The Director 6 Book: The Ultimate Guide for Multimedia Professionals (Paperback)
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.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not bad, some errors.,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Director 6 Book: The Ultimate Guide for Multimedia Professionals (Paperback)
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.
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