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| Preface | |
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| Shockwave: The Possibilities | |
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| Examples of Shockwave on the Web | |
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| Timing Is Everything | |
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| Dance to the Music | |
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| More Power to You | |
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| Manage a Rain Forest | |
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| Other Examples | |
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| Nine Forms of Interactivity | |
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| Choose | |
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| Animate | |
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| Search and Find | |
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| Buy and Sell | |
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| Manipulate | |
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| Construct | |
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| Question | |
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| Converse | |
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| Play | |
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| Shockwave and Interactivity | |
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| How Shockwave Works | |
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| Shockwave and Director | |
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| Shockwave on the Web | |
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| Lingo and Interactivity | |
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| Working with Director | |
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| When to Use Shockwave | |
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| Choose | |
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| Animate | |
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| Search and Find | |
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| Buy and Sell | |
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| Manipulate | |
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| Construct | |
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| Question and Converse | |
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| Play | |
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| Shockwave versus Flash | |
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| The Shockwave Development Environment | |
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| Director's Stage, Cast, and Score | |
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| The Stage | |
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| The Cast | |
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| The Score | |
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| The Control Panel | |
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| The Tool Palette | |
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| Coordinated Windows | |
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| Actors: Text, Images, Sound, Music, and Video | |
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| Preparing the Elements | |
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| Time: Frames, Scenes, Movies, and Markers | |
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| Frames | |
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| Channels | |
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| Sprite Channels | |
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| Markers | |
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| Movement: Sprite Position and Types | |
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| Sprite Location | |
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| The Stage | |
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| Kinds of Sprites | |
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| Scripts: Behaviors and Lingo | |
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| Creating a Simple Production | |
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| Planning and Preparing | |
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| Planning the Shockwave Project | |
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| Writing a Project Development Plan | |
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| Setting a Project Schedule | |
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| Drawing a Flow Chart | |
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| Organizing and Labeling the Production | |
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| Setting the Stage Size | |
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| Creating Markers in the Score | |
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| Listing the Media Elements | |
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| Preparing the Media Elements | |
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| Preparing Text | |
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| Preparing Images | |
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| Preparing Edited Sound | |
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| Preparing Unedited Sound | |
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| Preparing Video | |
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| Preparing 3-D Graphics | |
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| Preparing Shapes | |
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| Preparing Vector Graphics | |
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| Putting the Cast on the Stage | |
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| Confirming the Setup | |
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| Importing the Actors | |
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| Importing Images, Sound, Video, and 3-D Files | |
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| Importing and Creating Text | |
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| Importing Animations | |
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| Naming the Cast Members | |
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| Setting the Properties of the Cast Members | |
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| Designing the Stage | |
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| Placing the Cast on the Stage | |
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| Using Sprite Channels in Director's Score Window | |
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| Aligning Sprites | |
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| Resizing Sprites | |
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| Looking Ahead | |
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| Making Things Move | |
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| Types of Animation | |
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| Path Animation | |
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| Parts-in-Place Animation | |
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| Animation Synchronized with Sound | |
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| Film Loop Animation | |
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| Lingo-Scripted Animation | |
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| Size and Rotation | |
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| Built-in Behaviors | |
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| Other Types of Animation | |
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| Animation Concepts | |
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| Location and Time | |
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| Tweening | |
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| Fixed versus Random Animation | |
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| Creating Path Animation | |
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| Animating a Single Sprite Along a Path | |
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| Real-Time Recording of a Path | |
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| Synching the Sound | |
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| Changing Size and Rotation | |
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| Creating Parts-in-Place Animation | |
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| Setting Up a Parts-in-Place Animation | |
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| Setting the Registration Points | |
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| Modifying the Animation | |
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| Creating More Complex Animations | |
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| Creating a Film Loop | |
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| Combining Animation Frames into a Film Loop | |
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| Animating the Film Loop | |
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| Creating User-Initiated Animation | |
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| Using Built-in Animation Behaviors | |
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| Hints and Tips on Animation | |
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| Creating Scripted Animation | |
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| Creating Rollover Animation | |
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| Creating MouseDown Animation | |
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| Creating Moveable Sprites | |
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| Looking Ahead | |
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| Building Basic Interaction | |
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| How Scripts Work | |
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| Why Do We Need Scripts? | |
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| How Do Scripts Work? | |
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| Where Do I Write My Scripts? | |
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| What Can Scripts Do? | |
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| How Do I Find the Script to Do What I Want? | |
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| How Do I Use the Behavior Inspector? | |
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| How Do I Know If My Script Works? | |
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| Writing Navigation Scripts | |
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| Creating Buttons for Navigation | |
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| Creating Cast Members for Navigation | |
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| Creating Text for Navigation | |
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| Creating Hot Areas on the Stage | |
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| Some Easy Lingo Scripts for Navigation | |
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| Stopping the Forward Motion | |
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| Setting Up Your Navigation | |
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| Controlling Transitions | |
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| Frame Transitions | |
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| Puppet Transitions | |
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| Controlling Tempo | |
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| Using Conditional Tests (If ... Then ... Logic) | |
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| Using Scripts for Sprite Control | |
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| Hiding or Showing a Sprite | |
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| Changing the Location of a Sprite | |
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| Picking Up the Collision of Two Sprites | |
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| Creating Drag-and-Drop Sprites | |
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| Enabling Drag | |
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| Enabling Drop | |
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| Enabling Snap | |
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| A Drag-and-Drop Example | |
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| Trying It Yourself | |
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| Creating Complex Interaction | |
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| Animating with Lingo Scripts | |
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| Scripting Random Movement | |
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| Scripting Other Random Events | |
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| Controlling and Modifying Sprites with Scripts | |
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| Switching Cast Members | |
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| Dealing with Visibility | |
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| Using Repeat Loops | |
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| Using Sliders to Control the Environment | |
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| Enabling Text Functions with Lingo | |
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| Creating Hypertext Systems | |
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| Creating String Functions | |
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| Interacting with Text: An Example | |
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| Interacting with Sound | |
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| Using the Sound Channel | |
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| Using Puppet Sounds | |
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| Using a Sprite Channel | |
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| Interacting with Video | |
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| Preparing the Video | |
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| Importing the Video into the Cast | |
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| Setting the Video's Properties | |
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| Dragging the Video onto the Stage | |
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| Controlling the Video | |
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| Interacting with Web Resources | |
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| Opening a Web Resource | |
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| Getting Cast Members from the Web | |
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| Creating Custom Cursors | |
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| Making Big Colorful Cursors | |
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| Making Little Black-and-White Cursors | |
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| Changing Cursors on Rollovers | |
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| Keeping Score | |
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| Looking Ahead | |
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| Publishing Your Project | |
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| Reviewing and Testing Your Project | |
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| Reviewing Your Project | |
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| Saving and Compacting Your Director File | |
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| Testing Your Project | |
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| Adding Xtras | |
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| Creating a Shockwave File | |
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| Saving Your Shockwave File | |
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| Testing the Project Locally | |
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| Posting Your Project to a Web Server | |
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| Posting the Files | |
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| Testing the Project on the Web | |
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| Troubleshooting Your Project | |
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| Managing the User Experience | |
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| Answers to Odd-Numbered Review Questions | |
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| Index | |
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| Credits | |