A brief introduction to Director

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Beginning to enter a script.

Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide

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Now you can begin scripting. Get into your first Movie Script window by pressing COMMAND+SHIFT+U (Mac) or CONTROL+SHIFT+U (Win). Into this window, type the following:

on StartMovie CheckColor() END StartMovie

Press RETURN (not ENTER — for the purposes of this document, RETURN is defined as the main key just above SHIFT on the alpha keyboard; ENTER exists on the numeric keypad) after each line, including the last one. Note that Director automatically indents for you.

What you have just done is define a handler — a series of steps contained inside a function defined by the on and END keywords . This is an extremely simple handler; all it does is call another handler, at least right at the moment.

1. Introduction	2. Definition of Objectives	3. Specific Objectives	4. Stage Size
5. Stage Location	6. Setting the Stage's Color	7. Beginning to Enter Script	8. A bit More About the StartMovie() Handler
9. Entering Another Handler	10. A Break-down of the CheckColor() Handler	11. A Quick Test	12. Adding Text to the Stage
13. Preparing to Enter a Frame Script	14. Entering the Frame Script	15. Adding a Quit Button	16. The Progress so Far
17. Preparing to Add a Menu	18. Discussion of Menu Requirements	19. Preparing the Menu Storage Member	20. Entering Menu Functions for Macintosh
21. Entering Menu Functions for Windows	22. Efficientlly Handling Multiple Menus	23. Preparing to Insert the Menus Onscreen	24. Adding the Menu Installation Handler
25. Discussion of the Menu Installation Handler	26. Adding Code for an About Box	27. Review of the Scripts	28. Creating a Projector and Running it