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Multimedia Programming:Scripting (Lingo)

In the last chapter we covered many Multimedia Authoring paradigms. Some of these basically involve only graphical programming. However, there is always a limit to how much can be achieved this ways, and so we must resort to scripting or hard programming.

We will examine two of these programming paradigms a little further in the coming 2 chapters:

Scripting -- we will overview the Director Authoring systems and in particular it's LINGO scripting language
Tagging -- we will overview SMIL an extension of XML for synchronised media integration.

Director programming/Lingo Scripting
Director Basics
Overview and Definitions
The Score and the Stage
Using The Score
The playback head
Channels
Frames
Sprites
Cast members
Lingo
Markers
Editing Frames
Identifying Frames with Lingo
Lingo Scripting
When does Lingo run?
The Lingo language
Dot Syntax
Parentheses
Character spaces
Comments
Optional keywords and abbreviated commands
Literal Values
Identifying cast members and casts
Lingo operators
Lingo Lists
Types of Scripts
Messages and Events
Director Example 1: Simple Animation
Director Example 2:Importing media
Director Example 3:Simple Lingo Scripting
Director Example 4:Controlling Navigation with Lingo

Dave Marshall
10/4/2001