VectorPath - a new plugin for Tween Engine

Deep Linking in Shockwave

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This article treats an exemplary implementation of deep-linking in Director. In the following example we will use the unFocus History Keeper library, and especially the script called unFocus-History-p.js. This script will manage the browser history entries. The communication between the shockwave movie and the java script will be supplied by Valentin's Director / JavaScript Integration Kit. Read more

Extended Object

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Some peculiarities of the inheritance in Lingo have always seemed to me to be limiting factors. By the standard means we are not able to know (for sure) if a given object implements a specific handler. Also, we do not know (for sure) if a given object has a specific property. We can not find out what is the object type, nor we can inherit in an easy and flexible way a number of parents. Let me show you the following example... Read more

Score Commander

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Some years ago, I worked on a project, in which Director was used in a specific way – whole animation scenes were fitted and after that the .dir files were used for Bink video files. So, we had to work with big scores – 50 channels, 300-400 frames. This provoked a lot of tasks which demanded automation. ScoreCommander is... Read more