In Macromedia Director MX 2OO4 Training From the Source, learn how to:

• Take command of Director's development environment
• Use casts and cast members effectively
• Integrate video, Flash, images, sound, and more to create interactive presentations
• Write behaviors and create custom dialogs for them
• Create sprite animation using both keyframe and programming techniques
• Use imaging Lingo to draw dynamic graphs and images
• Publish your projects to CD and the Web
• Use a database to store and retrieve information using SQL
• Use object-oriented programming techniques to simplify your projects
• Use Director's debugger to identify potential problems

Learn by Doing:

This book is designed to be a hands-on guide that teaches you to start developing multimedia applications in Director MX 2004. In the course of this book, you will complete four exciting projects, broken down into 17 different lessons. Each project and lesson builds on what you've already learned, so that when you're finished you will have a firm understanding of the development process. Throughout the book you'll find notes and tips that further explain key details and give you indispensable information. The included CD-ROM contains everything you need to build the projects, demo versions of some third-party extras, as well as 30-day trial versions of both Director and Flash.

System Requirements

• Windows
  • 600 MHz Intel Pentium III or equivalent
  • Windows 2000 or XP
• Macintosh
  • 500 MHz Power Macintosh G3 or higher
  • Mac OS X 10.2.6 or 1O.3