What You Will Learn

In the course of completing the lessons in this book you'll learn the skills necessary to create many different types of multimedia applications for both CD/DVD-ROM and Web delivery.

By the end of this course, you'll be able to:

• Navigate and use Director's development environment and its toolset

• Use casts and cast members effectively

• Create sprite animation using both keyframe techniques and programmatic techniques

• Add and control sounds within your movies

• Use various video formats such as DVD, QuickTime, and Windows Media, among others

• Write and understand basic Lingo, Director's object-oriented scripting language

• Use Flash movies as assets within your Director applications

• Create dialog boxes using another Director movie running in a window

• Use imaging Lingo to draw dynamic graphs and images

• Publish your projects to CD and/or the Web

• Filter keyboard input and allow keyboard control

• Detect basic collisions in both 2D and 3D

• Use object-oriented programming techniques to simplify your projects

• Use databases for storage and retrieval

• Identify potential problems and use Director's debugger