Advanced Adobe Director MX 2004

Objectives

This course provides a design-oriented workshop in Director, building on knowledge gained from or equivalent to the Fundamentals course. Delegates will look further into interactivity and the development of complex, interactive movies, using practical examples to give a broad understanding of Lingo. An alternative, more technically oriented course is our Introduction to Lingo course, which concentrates more on Lingo syntax and programming techniques.


Pre-requisites:

Previous attendance on the Fundamentals of Director course, or a previously-acquired working knowledge of Director.


Course Includes:

A comprehensive set of reference notes covering course topics, follow-up telephone support and, for training on Transmedia premises, lunch and refreshments.


Course Outline


Basic Lingo Concepts


· How Lingo works
· The Lingo help system
· The message window
Using Javascript option


Behaviours


· Using behaviours
· Creating generic behaviours
· Creating a behaviour library


User Interaction


· Making sprites visible and invisible
· Controlling the appearance of sprites
· Reacting to the keyboard
· Creating editable text fields


User Controls


· Creating a volume slider
· Creating video controls
· Creating custom colour animated cursors
· Creating and using Buttons and Rollovers
· Devising a Help screen
· Creating a custom menu






More Lingo


· Handlers
· If... Then statements
· Repeat loops


The Web


· Shockwave movies
· Using Net Lingo
· Optimising for size and speed


Final Production


· Linking several movies
· Protecting Movies
· Projectors
· Distributing your Movies