Taking the reader beyond the basics of the documentation set to the intermediate and advanced levels of Director 6, this text includes techniques, tips, and 100 complete Lingo scripts ready for immediate use. The CD-ROM incudes project files, sound files, and Director and Macromedia applications.
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Inside Macromedia Director 6 with Lingo is an outstanding all-around guide to the Windows and Macintosh versions of Director 6, the multimedia authoring tool. Unlike other Director books, the instruction includes both basic and advanced features, and it delves deeply into the intricacies of Lingo, Director's scripting language. It also combines step-by-step instruction with discussions of the various features. The book has a few introductory chapters, but to get the most out of the book you should already be fairly familiar with Director: The writers target both artists who don't know programming and developers who are new to artistic concepts. Topics include planning and testing projects; creating animations; working with multiple casts; and using Director's bitmap, paint, 3-D, text, sound, and digital-video features. There's also thorough coverage of Shockwave and NetLingo, the Internet-specific extensions to Lingo. You also learn about everything from the essential Lingo commands and functions to object-oriented programming, and even Xtras and XObjects, the modules for extending Director's functionality. A hybrid CD- ROM includes sample movies, Lingo scripts, practice files, filters, and demo versions of Kai's Power Tools and DeBabelizer.
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Director 6 continues to grow as the tool for multimedia design because it is much easier and quicker to do nifty things in Director than with Java, Javascript, or VisualBasic. While it is easier, it is not easy?because to get at the real power of Director the designer must understand the programming language Lingo. This book will work for both beginners and advanced users who are new to version 6. The first 100 pages deal with project design and management, then the authors go into animation, multiple casts, 3-D graphics, text, sound, digital video, and, finally, Lingo and object-oriented programming. A great addition for medium and larger collections.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Very good,
By jaratsun@usa.net (MI, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Inside Macromedia Director With Lingo (Paperback)
This book is good for beginner and intermediate level but for who want to know in deep in Lingo, you have to looking for other books.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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if you're reading this, it's not too late,
By A Customer
This review is from: Inside Macromedia Director With Lingo (Paperback)
If I want to hear how good Director is, I'd go to the Macromedia web site. This book does not go into the specific. It tells you WHAT you can do with Director not actaully HOW to do it. The money I spent on this book does not worth the education I received from it. Oh well, Director 7 is coming out by the time you read this, lt's hope these guys would do a better job at actaully writing a reference book instead of a brouchure.
1.0 out of 5 stars
....but it makes a good doorstop.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Inside Macromedia Director With Lingo (Paperback)
This book was the required text for my multimedia authoring class because no other Director 6 books were available at the time. It was so poorly laid out that after a few weeks my instructor gave up on teaching with the book. Now that I use Director at work, I've realized that it doesn't even cut it as a reference. Inside Director tries to teach general multimedia rather than the fundamentals of Director. The book attempts to teach you how to create sound and digital movies in other programs(Which has nothing to do with learning Director), yet it severely lacks in explaining how to handle sound and movies in Director. The book also teaches you more about how to write HTML(Which also has nothing to do with learning Director), then how to create streaming shockwave movies with net Lingo. Save your money and buy a different book.
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