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Overview
in this volume, Warren Ockrassa introduces new users to Director 8.5's new features and functionality. He covers basic Lingo programming for the beginner and focuses on the introduction and impementation of concepts through the use of projects.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780072195620 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media |
| Publication date: | 01/23/2002 |
| Series: | Beginner's Guides (Osborne) |
| Pages: | 544 |
| Product dimensions: | 7.36(w) x 9.14(h) x 1.17(d) |
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | xi | |
| Introduction | xiii | |
| Part 1 | Getting Acquainted with Director's Tools | |
| 1 | Director's "Physical" Tools | 3 |
| Scripting? What's Scripting? | 6 | |
| Other Scripting-Style Programming Environments | 7 | |
| Director's Primary "Physical" Tools | 8 | |
| Indispensable Tools | 10 | |
| The Almost-Indispensables | 19 | |
| What's Left? | 33 | |
| Project 1-1 | Creating a Classic Program | 34 |
| Mastery Check | 39 | |
| 2 | The Library Palette | 41 |
| Director's Library Palette | 42 | |
| Exploring Behaviors | 44 | |
| Practical Uses for Behaviors | 49 | |
| A Taste of 3-D | 55 | |
| Behaviors That Collect Information | 57 | |
| Changing the Library Palette | 62 | |
| Getting Your Library Card | 64 | |
| Project 2-1 | Exploring Library Behaviors | 66 |
| Mastery Check | 67 | |
| 3 | Code Tools | 69 |
| Preparing for Adventure | 70 | |
| Variables Are Just Containers | 71 | |
| Persistence of Memory | 77 | |
| Script Anatomy 101 | 78 | |
| Making Decisions | 85 | |
| Do This That Many Times | 89 | |
| Do This Until | 92 | |
| Keywords | 93 | |
| Types of Lingo Script | 96 | |
| Project 3-1 | Getting a List of Files | 98 |
| Mastery Check | 102 | |
| 4 | Well-Written Lingo | 105 |
| There's More to Programming than Typing Commands | 106 | |
| How to Handle Yourself Properly | 106 | |
| Neatness Counts | 109 | |
| Toward a Taxonomy of Variables | 112 | |
| Read the (Built-in) Manual | 118 | |
| A Clean, Well-Lighted Script | 123 | |
| Project 4-1 | Text Editor a la Lingo | 126 |
| Mastery Check | 130 | |
| 5 | The Debugger | 131 |
| The Three Choices in Script Errors | 132 | |
| Messing Up on Purpose | 133 | |
| Stepping Through Code | 135 | |
| More Debugger Features | 142 | |
| The Other Debugger Controls | 147 | |
| Using the Debugger to Understand Others' Programs | 149 | |
| Project 5-1 | Stepping Around Town | 150 |
| Summary | 151 | |
| Mastery Check | 152 | |
| Part 2 | Using Director to Create Programs | |
| 6 | Preparing to Create a Program | 157 |
| Glamour? | 158 | |
| Finding Your Audience | 159 | |
| Entertainment | 161 | |
| Education | 162 | |
| Sales Support | 163 | |
| Utility | 163 | |
| Determining Your Release Platform | 164 | |
| Windows Only | 164 | |
| Macintosh Only | 165 | |
| Shockwave | 165 | |
| Multiple Platforms | 166 | |
| Choosing Your Tools | 168 | |
| Internal Tools | 170 | |
| External Files | 173 | |
| Xtras | 176 | |
| Decisions, Decisions | 178 | |
| Project 6-1 | Making an ASCII Key Utility Program | 179 |
| Project Summary | 182 | |
| Mastery Check | 183 | |
| 7 | Creating Programs | 185 |
| Screen Testing | 186 | |
| Knowing How You're Displaying Yourself | 189 | |
| The colorDepth | 189 | |
| The deskTopRectList | 196 | |
| Testing, 1, 2, 3 | 200 | |
| Alpha Testing | 200 | |
| Beta Testing | 202 | |
| That's a Wrap? | 206 | |
| A World About Safety | 207 | |
| Pack It Up and Ship It Out | 208 | |
| Before You Even Make the CD | 208 | |
| Planning the CD Layout | 211 | |
| Common Release Troubles | 213 | |
| Remote Troubleshooting Suggestions | 215 | |
| Maintaining and Upgrading Your Programs | 217 | |
| Project 7-1 | Repurposing Keyster | 218 |
| Mastery Check | 223 | |
| 8 | Integrating Lingo and Sprites | 225 |
| Interface | 226 | |
| Project 8-1 | Up the Paddle Without a Creek | 227 |
| Project 8-2 | Having a Ball | 235 |
| Project 8-3 | Upping the Ante | 246 |
| Taking It Easy | 249 | |
| Summary | 250 | |
| Mastery Check | 251 | |
| Part 3 | Unlocking the Power of Lingo | |
| 9 | Understanding the Power of Lists | 255 |
| Lists Aren't Just for Shopping | 256 | |
| Organizing Lists More Effectively | 258 | |
| Sorting Our Shopping | 261 | |
| Care and Feeding of Properties | 263 | |
| Getting Some Dimension | 264 | |
| List Caution | 265 | |
| Project 9-1 | Putting Lists to Work | 267 |
| Mastery Check | 287 | |
| 10 | External Files | 289 |
| It's All Just Ones and Zeros | 290 | |
| File not Found | 291 | |
| Opening a Dialog Box | 293 | |
| Getting Something Back | 294 | |
| Opening Files | 296 | |
| Filtering the Files | 301 | |
| Project 10-1 | Making Ourselves Useful | 304 |
| Other External Files | 320 | |
| Summary | 324 | |
| Mastery Check | 325 | |
| 11 | The Internet Revisited | 327 |
| Distributed Information | 328 | |
| Web Content | 328 | |
| Aren't Programs Supposed to Be Interactive? | 332 | |
| Are You Being Served? | 334 | |
| Pages Are Just Part of the Story | 337 | |
| Another Way of Getting Files | 339 | |
| Getting Net-Happy | 342 | |
| Project 11-1 | A Simple Web Browser | 344 |
| Mastery Check | 347 | |
| Part 4 | Object Oriented Programming | |
| 12 | The Fundamentals of OOP | 351 |
| The Black Box and the Pizza Shop | 352 | |
| How OOP Is Related to Other Kinds of Programming | 353 | |
| How OOP Isn't Like Other Programming Methods | 354 | |
| Alley OOP | 358 | |
| Making an Instance | 359 | |
| Adding an Employee | 360 | |
| Closing the Shop | 364 | |
| Project 12-1 | Doing Something Useful | 366 |
| Interface Revisited | 391 | |
| Summary | 392 | |
| Mastery Check | 393 | |
| 13 | Behaviors Are OOP Too | 395 |
| You've Been Object Oriented All Along | 396 | |
| Behavior Instantiation, Destruction, and Messaging Hierarchy | 397 | |
| Project 13-1 | Out of Sorts | 404 |
| Before You Make That Projector | 436 | |
| Summary | 437 | |
| Mastery Check | 438 | |
| 14 | Movies in a Window (MIAW) as OOP Code | 439 |
| MIAWs: Better than Cats | 440 | |
| Project 14-1 | Getting Started with Renaming | 442 |
| Project 14-2 | One More Utility MIAW | 460 |
| More Xtras | 473 | |
| Summary | 474 | |
| Mastery Check | 475 | |
| 15 | Communication with MIAWs | 477 |
| Not Just Stand-Alone | 478 | |
| Zoom! | 478 | |
| Project 15-1 | Hammer Your Thumb Again | 481 |
| Project 15-2 | One More Idea | 485 |
| What Next? | 494 | |
| Mastery Check | 495 | |
| A | Answers to Mastery Checks | 497 |
| Module 1 | Director's "Physical" Tools | 498 |
| Module 2 | The Library Palette | 499 |
| Module 3 | Code Tools | 499 |
| Module 4 | Well-Written Lingo | 500 |
| Module 5 | The Debugger | 501 |
| Module 6 | Preparing to Create a Program | 502 |
| Module 7 | Creating Programs | 503 |
| Module 8 | Integrating Lingo and Sprites | 504 |
| Module 9 | Understanding the Power of Lists | 506 |
| Module 10 | External Files | 507 |
| Module 11 | The Internet Revisited | 508 |
| Module 12 | The Fundamentals of OOP | 509 |
| Module 13 | Behaviors Are OOP Too | 509 |
| Module 14 | Movies in a Window (MIAWs) as OOP Code | 510 |
| Module 15 | Communication with MIAWs | 511 |
| Index | 513 |
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