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MULTIMEDIA • Making a Shockwave movie

Instructor: Tiffany Holmes • tholmes@artic.edu • 312.345.3760

LINGO EVENT HANDLERS: on mouseDown, on mouseUp, on mouseEnter, on mouseLeave, on exitframe

LINGO COMMANDS: go to the frame, go to "name of marker", go to frame 1, puppetSound, quit, go next, go previous

LINGO FUNCTIONS: random(), the mouseH, the mouseV, the clickOn

LINGO PROPERTIES: memberNum, locH, locV, blend, width, height, rotation, forecolor

 

DIRECTIONS: You can solve these problems using simple VECTOR cast members, just to practice the lingo code. If you get stumped, move on to next one. ALL MOVIES SHOULD BE ONLY ONE FRAME LONG but make a button to advance you to the next marker with a "go next" script. You will have a total of 3 markers in your movie, one for each exercise. Movies should be 320 x 240 in size.

 

PART A:

  1. Make a movie in which the user types their name into an editable text field, clicks a button, and a sentence using the name appears on stage.
  2. Make a movie in which ten sprites continually change position on stage.
  3. Make a movie with a moveable circular sprite that when dragged to the right, a sound plays loudly, and when dragged to the left the sound (or volume property) vanishes.

PART B:

1. Create a new folder on the desktop titled "yourname_shockwavetest." Now save your Director movie as techex5.dir. After the movie is saved, go to File and select Publish. Check your folder. You have two new files, a shockwave file (with .dcr extension) and an sample html text file: techex5.html.

2. Now open Fetch and drag the shockwave movie and also the .html file over into your public folder. If you do not remember how to do this see this FTP HELP LINK.

3. Check your techex5.html link to see how the movie plays live. The proper URL would be:

http://www.artic.edu/~YOUR_LOGIN_NAME/techex5.html

 

(YOUR_LOGIN_NAME=your artic login ID)