A brief introduction to Director

11. Working Draft

A quick first-run test.

Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide

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Your entire script should now look something like this (note that there is a lot of space there; this is called white space and is included by good programmers to make their code much easier to read):

  on StartMovie

    CheckColor()

  END StartMovie

  on CheckColor

    if the colorDepth <> 8 then

    ALERT "Caution: This computer is set to something other than 256-color (8-bit) color mode." & RETURN & RETURN & "Some colors in this program may not be displayed correctly."

    end if

  END CheckColor

Close your Movie Script window and click the play button. If all goes well, nothing should happen at all (of course, if your monitor is not displaying 256 colors, you will get an alert message telling you so).

Why does nothing happen? Because you've not defined any onscreen events. You need to tell Director to display the phrase "Hello, World" before it can do it!