Synopses & Reviews
If Macromedia Director MX 2004 can do it, you can do it too...
Macromedia Director joins sound, video, 3D images, and still photos into interactive presentations that can enthrall, entertain, educate, and sell on any desktop or laptop, the Web, a kiosk, CDs, or DVDs. Directors magic is its ability to let you author it all in a single environment, and with this comprehensive manual in hand, you can harness its amazing power. Develop multimedia presentations, create graphics from scratch, maximize Directors versatility with scripting solutions, add interactive capabilities, and much more.
Inside, youll find complete coverage of Macromedia Director MX 2004
- Explore enhancements in the newest version of Director, such as new Flash support and new 3D tools
- Use the Library palette to create sophisticated interactivity and animation without writing code
- Learn the exciting new ECMAScript language, rooted in the same standard as JavaScript™ and ActionScript
- Discover Lingo and JavaScript syntax and program Director to meet your needs
- Work with vector shape members and Flash
- Delve deeper into scripting and learn to manipulate video, play sound, and manage Directors powerful text-handling properties
- Manage memory, handle menus and dialog boxes, script for Web-related applications, and create 3D objects
- Troubleshoot Lingo and debug your scripts
All this on the bonus CD-ROM
- Macromedia® Flash™ MX 2004, Director® MX, Fireworks® MX 2004, and FreeHand® MX trial versions
- Trial of Caligari trueSpace, Sorenson Squeeze® Compression Suite, and a demo version of Swift 3D®
- Author files and finished projects from the tutorials, including still images, audio, and video
Synopsis
The completely revised "Macromedia Director Bible is a 100omprehensive, authoritative guide to creating professional presentations for CDs, DVDs, kiosks, Web sites, and desktop computers. Whether readers are Director novices or experienced users, the step-by-step tutorials and reference resources in this book will help them get the most out of Director. Subjects covered include: Working in the authoring environment; Production and editing; Programming with Classic Lingo and ECMAScript; Controlling assets and movies with scripts; and Application development. The CD-ROM includes source files and finished projects (still images, audio, and videos) from the tutorials. It will also include valuable trial software and freeware.
Synopsis
* The ultimate guide to creating professional presentations for CDs, DVDs, kiosks, Web sites, and desktop computers with Macromedia Director
* Step-by-step tutorials and reference resources help both novices and experienced users get the most out of Director
* Completely revised to cover enhancements to Director, including new support for Flash components, new ECMAScript language (based on the same standard as the popular JavaScript and ActionScript), improved dynamic and server-side support, and new 3D support and tools
* Covers both Windows XP and Mac OS X platforms and discusses working in the authoring environment, production and editing, programming with Classic Lingo, controlling assets and movies with scripts, and much more
* Bonus CD-ROM includes source files and finished projects (still images, audio, and videos) from the tutorials in addition to valuable trial software and freeware
Synopsis
* Bonus CD-ROM includes source files and finished projects (still images, audio, and videos) from the tutorials in addition to valuable trial software and freeware
Synopsis
- Now revised and updated for the latest program versions, this bestseller is a comprehensive reference and tutorial for architects, engineers, drafters, and others using the leading computer-assisted design software, AutoCAD, or its "lite" version, AutoCAD LT
- Begins with AutoCAD basics, including the AutoCAD interface and commands, and progresses to complex topics such as programming and customization
- No AutoCAD experience is required to use this book, and a Quick Start guide shows beginning AutoCAD users how to create a technical drawing their very first day
- More than 150 tutorials use drawings collected from AutoCAD pros, giving readers valuable, real-world experience
- Includes coverage of AutoCAD LT, the world's most popular inexpensive 2D technical drawing program
- The CD-ROM contains before and after real-world drawings, bonus appendices, freeware and shareware programs, the book in searchable PDF format, and a 30-day trial version of AutoCAD software
System requirements: For Windows 2000 or XP - PC with Pentium processor running at 200 MHz or faster; at least 64MB of total RAM installed; recommend at least 128MB; Ethernet network interface card (NIC) or modem with speed of at least 28,800 bps; a CD-ROM drive. CD includes real-world drawings for the exercises; bonus chapters, freeware & shareware programs, a 30-day trial version of AutoCAD software, and more.
Synopsis
If AutoCAD 2005 or AutoCAD LT 2005 can do it, you can do it too...If you have invested in AutoCAD 2005 or AutoCAD LT 2005, you want to get the most from these top quality tools. This comprehensive guidebook gives you a ready reference on every detail of both products. The Chapter 1 tutorial gets you going immediately, and the early chapters provide a thorough education in drawing basics. From there, you’ll examine layers, text, dimensions, 2D and 3D coordinates, 3D modeling, rendering, customizing the program, and everything else you need to know.
Inside, you’ll find complete coverage of AutoCAD 2005 and AutoCAD LT 2005
- Draw and edit 2D and 3D objects, including tables, text, and dimensions, use layers, colors, and linetypes, and print (or plot)
- Work with blocks, reference other drawings, and connect to external databases
- Manage drawing data using tool palettes, fields, and drawing sets, integrate other applications, and post your work on the Web
- Create scripts, custom linetypes and hatch patterns, shapes, fonts, and custom menus
- Program AutoCAD with AutoLISP® and VBA
Bonus CD-ROM!
This value-packed CD-ROM includes:
- Real-world sample drawings integrated with the exercises
- A large assortment of freeware and shareware programs
- Two bonus chapters
- Trial version of AutoCAD 2005
- A searchable version of the book in PDF format
About the Author
Brian Underdahl is the well-known, best-selling author of over 70 computer books on a broad range of subjects. He has appeared on a number of TV shows including The Computer Chronicles and several TechTV programs. His books have won awards including an Award of Merit from the Northern California Technical Communications Competition and the Referenceware Excellence Award for best title in the Graphic Design and Multimedia category. He has been involved in personal computers from their beginning and has a background in electrical engineering. His last “real” job was as a Senior Programmer/Analyst for a large company where he worked hard to bring the power and freedom of PCs to the desktops.
John R. Nyquist is Software Engineer–Developer, Advisory for StorageTek. As an award-winning designer/illustrator, John became obsessed with programming when he started using a Macintosh in 1987. He went on to program in C, Pascal, HyperTalk, Prograph CPX, and AppleScript before his introduction to Lingo in 1993. Since then, he has also worked with C++, Java, JavaScript, ActionScript, and C#.
John worked as Senior Software Engineer/Project Lead for Ingenius, a Reuters/TCI company, on its award-winning, cable- and Web-delivered educational software What On Earth. He led software engineering for CurrentWorks, Inc., developing entertaining educational software—including QuizWorks, Bingo! With Mr. Vern, and Quiz 6—to encourage teamwork, group interaction, and cooperation. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP), a Sun Certified Instructor, and has worked as an instructor for Sun Microsystems teaching Java to programmers and nonprogrammers. He coauthored the previous editions of this book, Director 8 and Lingo Bible and Director 7 and Lingo Bible. John is technical editor for Sun Certified Programmer & Developer for Java 2 Study Guide, Advanced Lingo for Games, and The Director 6 Book.
You can reach John at [email protected], or you can visit his Web site at http://nyquist.net/. When he isn’t programming, writing, or doing artwork, John spends his time enjoying life in Colorado with his wife, Laura, and their children, Alice and Richard.
Robert Martin is the Director of Multimedia Services for Klein Buendel, a multimedia development company that specializes in designing interactive health communication programs. He is also an instructor in the multimedia design program at a local college.
Rob has been using Macromedia Director for over 10 years to create almost every type of application imaginable, from a Web-based interactive presentation system to an award-winning daily multimedia news journal for kids.
Rob began his career over 20 years ago, creating optical special effects for film and multi-image presentations. After 10 years in the dark and up to his elbows in photographic chemicals, he decided the time was right to jump into computer graphics. Not quite ready to leave film entirely, he spent a couple of years running a service bureau that specialized in high-resolution output of computer graphics to film. He went on to design one of the first Director-based interactive presentation systems for a large data-storage company. This experience introduced him to his next career path, interface design. He fine-tuned those skills as the creative director for a company that created educational multimedia applications for kids and teachers.
When he’s not teaching or creating multimedia projects for research scientists, Rob can be found floating the rivers of the American West in his raft, taking QuickTime VR Panoramas, and writing stories for his Web site, River Journals.
Table of Contents
Foreword.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Part I: AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT Basics.
Chapter 1: Starting to Draw.
Chapter 2: Opening a Drawing.
Chapter 3: Using Commands.
Chapter 4: Specifying Coordinates.
Chapter 5: Setting Up a Drawing.
Part II: Drawing in Two Dimensions.
Chapter 6: Drawing Simple Lines.
Chapter 7: Drawing Curves and Points.
Chapter 8: Viewing Your Drawing.
Chapter 9: Editing Your Drawing: Basic Tools.
Chapter 10: Editing Your Drawing: Advanced Tools.
Chapter 11: Organizing Drawings with Layers, Colors, Linetypes, and Lineweights.
Chapter 12: Getting Information from Your Drawing.
Chapter 13: Creating Text.
Chapter 14: Drawing Dimensions.
Chapter 15: Creating Dimension Styles and Tolerances.
Chapter 16: Drawing Complex Objects.
Chapter 17: Plotting and Printing Your Drawing.
Part III: Working with Data.
Chapter 18: Working with Blocks and Attributes.
Chapter 19: Referencing Other Drawings.
Chapter 20: Working with External Databases.
Part IV: Drawing in Three Dimensions.
Chapter 21: Specifying 3D Coordinates.
Chapter 22: Viewing 3D Drawings.
Chapter 23: Creating 3D Surfaces.
Chapter 24: Creating Solids and Editing in 3D.
Chapter 25: Rendering in 3D.
Part V: Organizing and Managing Drawings.
Chapter 26: Keeping Control of Your Drawings.
Chapter 27: Working with Other Applications.
Chapter 28: Getting on the Internet.
Part VI: Customizing AutoCAD.
Chapter 29: Customizing Commands, Toolbars, and Tool Palettes.
Chapter 30: Creating Macros and Slide Shows with Script Files.
Chapter 31: Creating Your Own Linetypes and Hatch Patterns.
Chapter 32: Creating Shapes and Fonts.
Chapter 33: Customizing Menus.
Part VII: Programming AutoCAD.
Chapter 34: Understanding AutoLISP and Visual LISP Basics.
Chapter 35: Exploring AutoLISP Further.
Chapter 36: Exploring Advanced AutoLISP Topics.
Chapter 37: Programming with Visual Basic for Applications.
Part VIII: Appendixes.
Appendix A: Installing and Configuring AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT.
Appendix B: What’s on the CD-ROM.
Bonus Chapters.
Chapter 1: Command and System-Variable Changes.
Chapter 2: AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT Resources.
Index.
End-User License Agreement.