director 8.5 part ii: intro to interactivity with director user manual
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1. End You now have a mouseUp handler in the cast member script attached to the Beep button that displays an alert message when the Beep button is clicked You also have a mouseUp handler in the frame script attached to frame 1 that displays an alert message whenever the mouse is clicked For the frame script to go into action the mouse doesn t have to be clicked on any particular object such as a button Try it out 16 Play the movie and click the Beep button Because the cast script takes precedence over the frame script you see an alert box with the cast script message and the mouseUp handler in the frame script is not executed Copyright Arizona Board of Regents 2002 Filename director2 User pmd University of Arizona Last modified 03 06 02 DIRECTOR 8 5 PART II Intro to Interactivity with Director User Manual 16 17 Click OK to dismiss the alert box and then click anywhere except on the Beep button You see an alert box with the frame script message This is because a mouseUp message was generated by the mouse click Even though the Beep button contains a handler for the mouseUp message you did not click the Beep button itself so that cast script is not executed because it never received the mouseUp message Sprites and casts receive the mouseUp message only if the sprite or cast member is the object being clicked Because Director can t find a sprite or cast script to handle the mouseUp message the message is sent up2. Now when you click on the Beep button an alert box displays This is the sprite script B Play the movie and click the Beep button You should see this is the sprite script an alert box with you message N and an OK button 4 Click OK to dismiss the alert box D Stop the movie Now you re going to create a cast script for the Beep button Internal Cast 6 In the Cast window select the Beep button cast member 1 Then click the Cast Member Script button The Script window appears already containing the Lingo command on mouseUp and end Whenever you create a cast script these lines appear in the Script window Recall that these lines are also displayed whenever you create a sprite script Tip With a cast member selected you can also create a cast member script by choosing Modify gt Cast Member gt Script Windows Ctrl Macintosh Commandt or by clicking the Script button on the toolbar Filename director2 User pmd Copyright Arizona Board of Regents 2002 Last modified 03 06 02 University of Arizona DIRECTOR 8 5 PART II Intro to Interactivity with Director User Manual 14 Internal Cast Create the handler shown here and then close the Script window On mouseUp me Alert This is the cast script End Take a look at the Cast window and you will see that there is no new cast member That s because cast member scripts are included within the cast member to which the script is attached
3. Examining Lingo Elements lesen nennen 12 Exercise 12 Creating Different Types of Scripts ccccccccecccseeeecseeeseseecceeessaueesegeesseeeenaaees 13 iis de cR Um 17 Filename director2_User pmd Copyright Arizona Board of Regents 2002 Last modified 03 06 02 University of Arizona DIRECTOR 8 5 PART II Intro to Interactivity with Director User Manual 3 EXERCISE 1 FILM LOOPS Film Loops provide the following another level of animation similar to Movie clips in Flash help to simplify the score by combining sprites and channels can have scripts attached to them Creating a Film Loop Create cast members and use of these commands copy sprites paste sprites and reverse sequence to create a bouncing ball animation that will be used to create a film loop Steps 1 File gt New gt Movie 2 Window gt Paint 3 With the paintbrush draw a small ball appx 20 pixels Name the cast member smallBall with out the quotes 4 Click the New Cast Member button in the upper left of the Paint Window to create a new cast 5 With the rectangle tool draw a small gray box appx 50 pixels wide Name it grayBox Your cast should now look like this Internal Cast Place them in the score and Tween an animation of a ball bouncing on the grayBox by EXERCISE 2 TWEENING Steps 1 Drag the smallBall cast member to the middle of the stage It should appear in the firs
4. You can tell when a cast member has a script by the script icon at the lower left of the cast member s thumbnail Now you have a mouseUp handler in both the sprite script attached to the Beep button and the cast script attached to the Beep button According to the message order listed previously the mouseUp handler in the sprite script should take precedence and the mouseUp handler in the cast script should not be executed Try out the button now 8 10 Play the movie and click the Beep button As Expected you see the alert box with the sprite script message This is because sprite scripts take precedence over the cast scripts Click OK to dismiss the alert box and then stop the movie Next you ll remove the sprite script to se how the mouseUp message passes through the sprite level to the cast member level Select the Beep button on the stage Then choose Clear All Behaviors from the Behaviors menu in the score Untitled Score 2E 1 Button n Internal m E mre A m opm m Behaviors se L IL IL IL i a o Mil LiL px m ak lal maja n t o LL LLL LT fu This removes the sprite script from the button sprite Take a look at the Cast window though and you ll see that even though you cleared the script from the sprite the behavior still exists as a cast member The Clear All Behaviors selection affects only the selected sprite if other sprites have this behavior attached they are not affected
5. Behavior from the Behavior pop up menu in the sprite toolbar You re creating a Sprite Script which affects only this sprite Filename director2 User pmd Copyright Arizona Board of Regents 2002 Last modified 03 06 02 University of Arizona DIRECTOR 8 5 PART Il Intro to Interactivity with Director User Manual 10 The Script Window appears already containing the Lingo commands on mouseUp me and end Whenever you create a Sprite Script these lines will already be entered in the Script window by default Behavior To on mouzellp me 11 Type Beep in the Script window at the insertion point below on mouseUp Beep is a Lingo command that sounds a system beep on the computer This is how the script should look on mouseUp me EVERY HANDLER STARTS WITH THE WORD ON beep end EVERY HANDLER ENDS WITH THE WORD END 12 Save your work as Button 1 in a Projects folder EXERCISE 9 TESTING A SCRIPT Any scripting language has certain elements you must use and rules you must follow If you follow the rules you are rewarded when the script performs as you expect If the script does not work you perform debugging to correct the syntax or change the elements to satisfy Lingo s rules In this task you will test the script you just created Steps 1 On the toolbar click the Rewind and Play buttons to rewind and play t
6. Multimedia Module DIRECTOR 8 5 PART Il INTRO TO INTERACTIVITY WITH DIRECTOR USER MANUAL For information and permission to use these training modules please contact Limell Lawson limell u arizona edu 520 621 6576 or Joe Brabant jorabant u arizona edu 520 621 9490 Modules available on line at http mll arizona edu workshops shtml tutorialpdfs director2 User pmd Last modified 03 06 02 DIRECTOR 8 5 PART II Intro to Interactivity with Director User Manual r TABLE OF CONTENTS Exercise 1 Film LOOPS AREE TU UU Tm 3 Exercise 2 irae Eininn 3 Exercise 3 Full Sequence with Reverse Path Create Down Motion 4 Exercise 4 To Create a Film Loop sssesssesssesssseeeeen nennen nennen nnn nnns r sensn nnne nns 5 Exercise 5 More on Creating Film Loops ccccccccscecceseeceeeeeceseeceusecsaueecseeseeesessueessueeeseaeesees 6 Exercise 6 Attaching Behaviors imiuiscomcsiessnsvanedtantacyiundasuninroysaneinniuerpsddensaeseteadoummanbabubersumesunsnesin T Exercise 7 Creating Behaviors M 8 Exercise 8 Creating a Simple Lingo Script ccccccecccsesccceseeceseeceeseeceeeeceueecsueeeseeessaeessaeeesees 8 Exercise 9 Testing SDi MT UU UU Tm T UT 10 Exercise 10 Using the Message Window seeeseeeseeeeeeeeneen nnne nennen nenne nnn nnns 11 Exercise 11
7. and the behavior s cast member is not affected either And nonce of this of course had any affect on the script attached on the button cast member Filename director2 User pmd Copyright Arizona Board of Regents 2002 Last modified 03 06 02 University of Arizona DIRECTOR 8 5 PART II Intro to Interactivity with Director User Manual 15 11 Play the movie click the Beep button Now an alert box appears with the cast script message This is because there is no mouseUp handler at the sprite script level so the message was sent to the next level in the message order 12 Click OK to dismiss the alert box and then stop the movie Next you ll add a frame script to the movie but you need to make a minor adjustment first 13 If the button sprite in your score spans more than one frame adjust the sprite s duration so that the sprite occupies only frame 1 Button Score beep Sprite 1 Button E m Internal zZonmousellpm IT BIEN E 42 7 p le EN fod ta 4 ET ES en LLLI 14 Double click the script channel frame 1 The Script window appears already containing the Lingo commands on exitFrame and end To see how the message order works in this task you need to change the default handler name from on exitFrame to on mouseUp 15 Select all the text in the Script window and delete it Type the following and then close the window On mouseUp Alert This is the frame script
8. e Melcome to Director Howie Varoom Dezktop Folder Projects Button dir Frame 25 Script member 2 of castLib 1 Handler mouselUp gt beep end 4 Click the Trace button to turn off tracing When left on the Trace feature dramatically slows the speed of the movie In addition to seeing the messages Director is sending you can use the Message window to talk to Director yourself using Lingo You can test commands by typing them directly in the Message window Director will run them immediately You will use the Message window often for creating testing and debugging your Lingo scripts Filename director2 User pmd Copyright Arizona Board of Regents 2002 Last modified 03 06 02 University of Arizona DIRECTOR 8 5 PART Il Intro to Interactivity with Director User Manual 12 EXERCISE 11 EXAMINING LINGO ELEMENTS Steps ds 2 i Message In the Message window type put the date and then press Enter You should see the date displayed in the Message window put the date j 1807157 601 The the time function returns the current time according to the computer s system clock Check it out Type put the time in the Message window and then press Enter You should see the time displayed in the Message window Properties return information about specific items For instance you can use properties to get information about the background color of a sprite the cast member number of a
9. he movie The movie loops because you turned on looping with the Control gt Loop Playback command 2 Click the button you created You should hear a beep or see the Menu bar flash If you don t repeat the steps for creating the script in the preceding task Make sure you type beep correctly and close the window when you re done Also make sure your speakers are turned on S4 Stop the movie Filename director2 User pmd Copyright Arizona Board of Regents 2002 Last modified 03 06 02 University of Arizona DIRECTOR 8 5 PART II Intro to Interactivity with Director User Manual 11 EXERCISE 10 USING THE MESSAGE WINDOW 1 Choose Window gt Message Windows Ctrl M Macintosh Command M The message window will appear Welcome to Director 2 Turn on the Trace function by clicking the Trace button When Trace is on the Message window displays messages and scripts as the movie plays 3 Rewind and play the movie Then click the Beep button you created When you click the button on the stage the Message window displays the messages Director sends and the lines of the script it executes The lines in the Message window preceded by indicate Director messages that are generated automatically The lines preceded by gt are the lines in the mouseUp handler you created The actual content in your Message window may differ from what is shown here but it should include Handler mouseUp beep and end Messag
10. l keyframe hold down the shift key to constrain and move the sprite to the right Lo qp Y 11 Play the movie You should get two motions for one now 13 tubar GS fubar m Try the copy reverse sequence copy make film loop techniques to create a complete sequence to play in only one frame EXERCISE 6G ATTACHING BEHAVIORS Attach a behavior to sprites or frames using the Behavior Inspector Steps 1 Choose Window gt Inspectors gt Behavior to open the Behavior Inspector 2 Select a sprite or frame 3 Choose a behavior from the Behavior pop up menu Filename director2 User pmd Copyright Arizona Board of Regents 2002 Last modified 03 06 02 University of Arizona DIRECTOR 8 5 PART II Intro to Interactivity with Director User Manual I EXERCISE 7 CREATING BEHAVIORS Steps 1 Click the Behavior pop up menu 2 Choose New Behavior B Enter a name for the new behavior 4 Choose a new event from the Event pop up menu 5 Choose an action for the event from the Actions pop up menu EXERCISE 8 CREATING A SIMPLE LINGO SCRIPT Every Lingo script is attached to an element of a Director movie a sprite on the stage a member of the cast a frame of the score or the movie itself In this task you ll create a movie with a button cast member and then attach a script to that button Ls Untitled Movie E Eres Steps 4 T 1 Choose File gt New gt Movie Windows Ctrl N Macintosh Co
11. me the film loop 3 Enter a name for the film loop Something descriptive Filename director2 User pmd Copyright Arizona Board of Regents 2002 Last modified 03 06 02 University of Arizona DIRECTOR 8 5 PART II Intro to Interactivity with Director User Manual 6G EXERCISE 5 MORE ON CREATING FILM LOOPS Create a Film Loop which will simplify your score and also enable more complex motion and interactivity Steps 1 Using the loopExercise dir file you created open the Behavior Inspector 2 Drag this behavior to the next to last frame of the sprites in the script channel Enter in frame 1 when the dialogue prompt box appears Note This behavior is now in cast library also B Drag up in the score so you select all frames that have info in them Copy 4 Paste into an empty cast member slot 5 Create Film loop prompt appears Name the Film Loop fubar Create Film Loop Filename director2 User pmd Copyright Arizona Board of Regents 2002 Last modified 03 06 02 University of Arizona DIRECTOR 8 5 PART II Intro to Interactivity with Director User Manual P4 Add more animation 6 Select frame 60 in channel 1 Drag the cast member to the stage 7 Select frame 60 in the script channel Adda Go O Internal Ca Loop behavior from the Library Palette to it l gt I EIS as v Frame amp fubar b 8 Select the final keyframe and Insert gt Keyframe 9 Drag the marker label to frame 60 10 Select the fina
12. mmand N This opens a new Director Movie You need to do this only if you already have another movie open 2 Choose Modify gt Movie gt Properties When the Property Inspector opens use the View Mode button to view the window in Graphics Mode In the Property Inspector window make sure that the stage size is set to 640 by 480 pixels and the stage location is set to Centered Also make sure that the default palette is set to the system palette for your system System Win for Windows and System Mac for the Macintosh ao x 192 144 92 LE Score Channels a RGE 3 Palette Index L Remap Palettes If Needed ef Enable Edit Shortcuts About Copyright Created By Joseph Boudreaux CCIT Modified By Joseph Boudreaux CCIT 3 If the Stage Location pull down menu seems to have no effect try selecting Center and then choosing View gt Standard View Windows Ctri Alt 0 Macintosh Command Option 0 or View gt Restore View The Keyboard shortcut for normalizing the stage Windows Ctrl Alt 0 Macintosh Command Option 0 is handy to remember if part of the canvas appears around the stage and you don t want to see it or if you need to center the stage in the Stage window Filename director2 User pmd Last modified 03 06 02 Copyright Arizona Board of Regents 2002 University of Arizona DIRECTOR 8 5 PART II Intro to Interactivity with Director User Manual 10 Control gt Loop Playback to make su
13. ona DIRECTOR 8 5 PART II Intro to Interactivity with Director User Manual T Play the movie with the score open Demo the use of selected looping in score Demo the use of Center Current Frame button in the score window Demo score coloring of selected sprites The score should look like this Ec an E Copy eloo ico z s EC jE 8 Add a Hold on Current Frame behavior from the Library Palette to the last frame in the behavior script channel 9 Play the movie again to see the result Notice in the Control Panel that the movie is still running even though the animation stops If you had sounds or script processes running they would continue even though the movie appears stopped 10 Save As loopExercise dir to your computer drive The dot dir dir extension naming allows cross platform work EXERCISE 4 TO CREATE A FILM LOOP Steps 1 In the Score select the sprites you want to turn into a film loop Use sprites in as many channels as you need in film loops even in the sound channel Select sequences in all the channels you want to be part of the film loop You can select sprite fragments if you first select a sprite and choose Edit Edit Sprite Frames Control click Windows or Command click Macintosh to select sequences that aren t in adjacent channels 2 Choose Insert Film Loop you can also copy the selections to an empty cast member slot A dialog box appears asking you to na
14. ovie You re going to clear the frame script to see how the mouseUp message is forwarded to the movies script 24 Select the behavior channel frame 1 Then choose Clear All Behaviors from the Behaviors menu in the movie script Z9 Play the movie and click the Beep Button The cast script messages is displayed in the alert box 26 Click Ok to dismiss the alert box and then click anywhere except on the Beep button Because you removed the frame script the mouseUp message is sent to the next level in the message order and you see the movie script message 2f Stop the movie Filename director2 User pmd Copyright Arizona Board of Regents 2002 Last modified 03 06 02 University of Arizona DIRECTOR 8 5 PART II Intro to Interactivity with Director User Manual 17 CRITERION TEST 20 minutes 4 minutes Construct a Director movie where there are 4 labeled sections with marker labels on each Put text in each to identify it 6 minutes The initial menu screen will have 4 choices Create 4 simple buttons on this first screen Put a hold on current frame behavior in the script channel for this screen 10 minutes Demonstrate the use of 3 of the 4 types of scripts to navigate to each section of the movie Provide a way to get back to the men cast script sprite script frame script and movie script Filename director2 User pmd Copyright Arizona Board of Regents 2002 Last modified 03 06 02 University of Arizona
15. re the Loop Playback command is checked Windows CtrI Alt L Macintosh Command Option L When the Loop Playback command is checked the playback head returns to frame 1 when it reaches the end of the last sprite in the score The movie will continue to loop until you stop it Untitled Score e a Gers CIS TI J E a w EAO l L le Open the score and select Channel 1 Frame 1 If you don t see the sprite toolbar at the top of the Score window choose View gt Sprite Toolbar Windows Ctrl Shift H Macintosh sShift Command H Open the tool palette by choosing Window gt Tool Palette Windows Ctrl 7 Macintosh Command 7 Click the Button Tool in the tool palette Click the Stage where you want to place the button A button appears where you click with a blinking insertion point indicating where you can type the button name Remember that you can reposition the button sprite later if you want Type Beep in the Button Text field This names the button Note Director is preset to add new sprites to the score with a duration of 28 frames The length of the sprite isn t important in this task so you need not worry if your button spans a different number of frames If you want to have your score look the same as the illustrations choose File Preferences Sprite and make sure the span duration is set for 28 frames Select the button sprite in Channel 1 of the score and choose New
16. sprite in a particular channel or the last frame of a movie You will next try using the the colorDepth property of the computer monitor which returns the current color depth setting Type put the colorDepth in the Message window and then press Enter The result should be 8 Assuming your monitor is set to 8 bit color The the loc of sprite property determines the coordinates loc is short for location of the specified sprite The coordinate value is returned as appoint X Y where X is the horizontal location and Y is the vertical location Earlier you created a button called Beep and placed it in channel 1 frame 1 You can use the the loc of sprite property to get that button s location Type put the loc of sprite 1 in the Message window and then press Enter The result is the horizontal and vertical coordinates of the button for example the point 181 293 Your result will likely be different because your button is probably in a different location Operators compare or change values The operator adds two numbers together as you will see next Type put 5 5 in the Message window and then press Enter The result should be 10 Try another operator Type put 5 lt 9 in the Message window and press Enter The result is 1 or TRUE Remember that 1 represents True and 0 represents FALSE Type put 5 gt 9 in the Message window and press Enter The result is 0 or FALSE Remember that TRUE and FALSE are constants and their val
17. t open sprite channel with a duration of 28 frames 2 Select the final keyframe and Insert gt Keyframe Filename director2 User pmd Copyright Arizona Board of Regents 2002 Last modified 03 06 02 University of Arizona DIRECTOR 8 5 PART II Intro to Interactivity with Director User Manual e 9 Holding the shift key down move the smallBall sprite up 20 or 30 pixels to the top of its bounce It should look like this EMI ES kakti m m Untitled Stage 100 zz E xz araras aonan ETTTTITI TD epee eens s B si E Sbrite 1 121 71 172 50 Copy 100 sma llBall i 1 d 4 Rewind and Play the movie with the score still visible The ball should appear to bounce up and then start over at the bottom EXERCISE 3 FULL SEQUENCE WITH REVERSE PATH CREATE DOWN MOTION Steps 1 Select and copy the sprite in the score 2 Paste after the first sprite in frame 29 9 While still selected Modify Reverse Sequence 4 Play to test It should first go up and then down 5 In channel 2 frame 1 drag an instance of the grayBox cast member to the score Adjust it so that it just touches the smallBall at the bottom of the bounce 6 On its final keyframe in frame 28 Insert gt Keyframe and then extend the sprite Dragging the keyframe is one technique Filename director2 User pmd Copyright Arizona Board of Regents 2002 Last modified 03 06 02 University of Ariz
18. to the next level in the message order the frame script level Because you have a mouseUp handler in the frame script that handler is executed here 18 Click OK to dismiss the alert box and then stop the movie 19 Press Ctrl Shift U Windows or Command Shift U Macintosh to open a new movie script You can also open a new movie script by clicking an empty cast slot and then clicking the script button on Director s tool bar or choosing Window gt Script Notice that the Script button for a movie script contains no default Lingo commands and that the title bar for the window identifies it as a movie script This is different than when you create a sprite script cast script or frame script 20 Type the following and then close the window on mouseUp alert This is the movie script end You now have a mouseUp handler in the cast member script attached to the Beep button You have a mouseUp handler in the frame script attached to frame 1 You also have a mouseUp handler in the movie script Test the handlers 21 Play the movie and click the Beep button As expected the cast script message is displayed in the dialog box 22 Click OK to dismiss the dialog box and then click anywhere except on the Beep button According to the message order the frame script takes precedence over the movie script so the frame script message is displayed in the alert box and the mouseUp handler in the movie script is not executed 23 Stop the m
19. ues never change Type put TRUE in the Message window and press Enter The result is 1 because TRUE is a constant value and always equals 1 Close the message window You ve just used the Message window to see how various Lingo elements work This window is a great tool for testing Lingo commands and functions to see how they work before you add them to your scripts Filename director2 User pmd Copyright Arizona Board of Regents 2002 Last modified 03 06 02 University of Arizona DIRECTOR 8 5 PART II Intro to Interactivity with Director User Manual 13 EXERCISE 12 CREATING DIFFERENT TYPES OF SCRIPTS 1 Select the Beep button on the stage Then choose Modify gt Sprite gt Script Windows Ctrl Shift Macintosh ShifttCommand You already assigned this sprite a script that sounds a beep when the Beep button is clicked You will now change the script to do something else The alert command sounds a beep and displays an alert box containing a message you specify Replace the beep command with the alert command now Tip Here and in the following steps notice that the Script window s title bar identifies the script type If you re ever unsure of the type of script being displayed check the title bar 2 Make the changes shown here in bold and then close the Script window On mouseUp me Alert This is the sprite script End The quotation marks tell Director that this is the text of the message you want to display
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