Director Example 3:Simple Lingo Scripting

Here we illustrate the basic mechanism of scripting in Director by developing and extending a very basic example: Making a button beep and attaching a message to a button

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• Shockwave Movie
• Director Movie

Making the a button beep

• Open a new movie.
• Turn the looping on in the control panel.
• Open the tool palette.
  

  Macromedia Director Director Tool Palette

• Click the push button icon.
• Draw a button on the stage, and type in button (a very original name).
• Press Ctrl+click the button in the cast window and choose cast member script.
  

  Macromedia Director Script Cast Member Window

• Director writes the first and last line for us, add a beep command so the script look like this:

       on mouseUp
          beep
       end
  

• Close the window.
• Rewind and play the movie.
• Click the button a few times.

To pop up a message box on button press (and still beep)

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• Shockwave Movie
• Director Movie

• Reopen the cast member script.
• Change the text so it now reads.

   on mouseUp
     beep
     alert "Button Pressed"
   end
  

• Close the window.
• Play the movie and click the button.