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Adobe MAX Conference 2006
Posted: November 3rd, 2006, 1:03am CST by Director Online
A look at Director, Flash and other Adobe news from the 2006 conference in Las Vegas. -
Adobe MAX Conference 2006
Posted: November 3rd, 2006, 1:03am CST by Director Online
A look at Director, Flash and other Adobe news from the 2006 conference in Las Vegas. -
MAX 2005 and Director
Posted: October 20th, 2005, 3:07pm CDT by Director Online
News related to Director from the 2005 Macromedia User Conference in Anaheim, California. A summary of news from the sneak peak, birds-of-a-feather gathering and sessions. -
A Balrog in the Browser
Posted: October 10th, 2005, 12:00pm CDT by Director Online
This article outlines the process of creating a fire simulation with semi-realistic properties for use in a typical game engine or other real-time 3D environment. Fire simulation is broken down into three major areas: point-sprite generation, image animation, and additional effects (smoke, sparks, and glow). Also discussed are additional solutions for multi-texturing and manipulation of the textures needed to produce the simulation, as well as discussion of directions this work could be extended. -
Communicating With Flash Code Objects
Posted: September 30th, 2005, 4:15am CDT by Director Online
Development can involve writing code in a Flash movie, that is to be run embedded in Director as a Flash sprite. A reliable way of establishing links between your Flash code objects and your Lingo code is required. A technique for establishing those links, in both directions, is described here. -
Fun with TCP/IP Sockets
Posted: August 23rd, 2005, 3:50am CDT by Director Online
There are options available for working with TCP/IP sockets, which allow you to develop networking solutions that are not available through the Multiuser Xtra or an embedded Flash XML Socket solution. In this article, well discuss how this can work for you. -
Case Study: Sony Videoconferencing PCS Series Communications Toolkit Project
Posted: August 5th, 2005, 11:45am CDT by Director Online
A case study for SONY U.K.'s new Communications Toolkit CD for its PCS Series Videoconferencing product. Project uses several third-party Xtras including a custom version of INMs Impressario, INMs V12 Database Engine, DirectImage and DirectFTP.
Director Online Announcements
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Meliora Software releases KeyboardControl Xtra version 3.0
Posted: June 22nd, 2007, 3:23am CDT by Director Online
Meliora Software is pleased to announce KeyboardControl Xtra version 3.0. KeyboardControl Xtra is the most advanced and efficient keyboard input filtering solution for Adobe Director available on the market today. What's new in version 3.0: - Multiple keyboards support added. Now you can set hotkeys, start and stop filtering for each installed keyboard independently. - Windows Vista support added. Upgrade to version 3.0 is available free of charge to all registered KeyboardControl Xtra customers. Please, visit http://www.meliorasoft.com for more details. -
ISO Interactive Gets New Site
Posted: April 18th, 2007, 7:20am CDT by Director Online
ISO Interactive has developed a number of interactive projects ranging from typical web sites, online shockwave games, 3D development and full customized content management systems. Our ISO Interactive CMS platform has been used for a number of projects. The new ISO site uses a version that has additional controls over flash and shockwave content. A few of our customized CMS driven sites: ISO New Site: ISO Interactive (http://www.isointeractive.com ) Corporate: Coca-Cola (http://www.cokecce.com) COPPCO (http://www.coppcoonline.com) Game related: Shocksites (http://www.shocksites.com ) Chamber of Chat (http://www.chamberofchat.com ) Thank you and have a great day. -
INM PDF Xtra 8 now compatible with Acrobat 8
Posted: January 12th, 2007, 3:56am CST by Director Online
INM recently released INM PDF Xtra 8 for Director. This highly-anticipated version ensures that developers can continue to create up-to-date compelling content while integrating Acrobat 8. Special upgrade prices are available for owners of INM PDF Xtra 7 and 3. Read the full press-release: http://www.inm.com/about/newsroom/pressrelease/070110-pdf-xtra8-official.htm Product information: http://www.inm.com/products/pdfdirector/ -
Paradigma Releases Valentina 2.5 Server and Developer Products
Posted: December 8th, 2006, 4:40am CST by Director Online
New Data Analysis and Secure Networking Features Added to Ultra Fast Developer Database December 8, 2006. Beaverton, Oregon-based Paradigma Software, Inc announces the immediate availability of Valentina Technology Release 2.5 for all developer and business products. This upgrade adds significant new features to both Paradigma business products and developer products. All Valentina 2.5 products gain two new SQL syntax features for reducing complexity in SQL queries and greatly enhancing data analysis queries: * PIVOT, SQL Syntax. Create virtual cross-tabs of data results to greatly enhance data analysis capabilities of applications built around Valentina. * WITH-statement, SQL Syntax. A new Common Table Expression and similar to Views; the WITH statement acts much like a VIEW that is temporary to the query. All Valentina 2.5 business products gain both SSL and automatic network discovery features, with options available for Valentina Developer Network: * SSL Support. Built in SSL support for Valentina Office Server and Valentina Studio, allowing optionally adding secure communications or disabling non-SSL communications. An SSL Adapter is available for Valentina Developer Network for $99. * Bonjour Support. Built in Bonjour support (a form of zero-config) for Valentina Office Server and Valentina Studio. This allows automatic discovery of a database server on a network. A Bonjour Adapter is available for Valentina Developer Network for $99. * Redesigned Valentina Studio. The database creation, browser, query builder and server maintenance tool has a new, modern, tabbed interface. In addition to customer feedback, Paradigma Software also incorporated dozens of minor fixes and improvements. The technology upgrade is free for all licensees of Valentina 2.x products. The Bonjour and SSL Adapters cost $99 and are licensed so that VDN subscribers can incorporate them into their projects royalty free. Valentina Application Developer Kits allow developers utilizing Adobe Director, Runtime Revolution, REALbasic, any .net framework solution, any COM based solution, Delphi, MS Visual C++ or Apple xCode to power their applications with Valentina database technology. Valentina ADKs start at $149. Valentina Developer Network adds royalty free distribution of Valentina Embedded Server, allowing developers to save over $300 per deployment compared to competing solutions; Embedded Server can be deployed royalty free. Valentina Developer Network starts at $399 during December 2006, new seats of VDN Platform are discounted by $100. -
Magicgate Releases Pre-Made CD-ROM Interfaces
Posted: October 23rd, 2006, 8:11am CDT by Director Online
Magicgate Software has launched a series of pre-made, ready to use multimedia interfaces for CD-ROM projects. Give your next CD-ROM project a head start with our completely customizable, professional layered interfaces. Our multimedia interfaces take all the work out of creating a spectacular front end to your next CD-Rom project! Our artists have created theme based interfaces to give your project that unique edge that it deserves. Talk about sticking out of the crowd and making an impression. In just a matter of minutes you will have your complete front end up and running. Features: =>Layered Photoshop files for easy import into Director =>Standard 800x600 resolution interfaces =>Available in 3 different purchase options =>Eliminates the need for paying for expensive graphic design Requirements: Adobe Photoshop 7 or later and/or Adobe Director 8.5 or later We have three options for you when purchasing this interface: 1) Layered Photoshop (PSD) file 2) Layered Photoshop (PSD) file AND a Director file with the layers already imported and navigation programmed for the menu choices along with any mouse over actions (This is an 8.5 Director version of the file which is also compatible with MX and MX2004 and future versions) 3) Layered Photoshop (PSD) file that will be exclusive to your project and not sold to any other vendor. For more information, please visit: http://www.magicgate.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=C&Category_Code=MMINTF -
INM Releases The Essential Pack for Director
Posted: October 18th, 2006, 3:13am CDT by Director Online
Be the first to experience the Essential Pack for Director, a uniquely powerful publishing solution! Integration New Media, Inc. (INM) recently announced the official combined release of INM Impressario 3 and INM VizionDB 4.1, two of the most praised Xtras on the market combined into one exceptional value package. The new INM Impressario 3 allows you to create, interact and customize PDFs in Director and, when combined with INM VizionDB 4.1, becomes the essential solution for indexing, searching and retrieving relevant information from a large number of PDFs. The Essential Pack for Director is ideal for those wishing to create searchable libraries such as educational reference, technical documentation and e-learning materials. To experience this powerful publishing solution, try INM Impressario 3 and INM VizionDB 4, free for 30 days http://www.INM.com/Products/Essentials/ Exceptional value pricing is also available, visit: https://Store.INM.com For more information, please contact info@INM.com -
INM VizionDB Desktop In Public Beta
Posted: May 12th, 2006, 2:51am CDT by Director Online
Integration New Media, Inc. (INM) recently announced that their flagship product, INM VizionDB Desktop is in its public beta phase. INM VizionDB is designed to meet the needs of both the creative individual and the skilled programmer, it combines visually appealing graphical interfaces and easy-to-use productivity tools, with the power of industry-strength database technology. This results in the fastest design-to-delivery cycle for the user. INM VizionDB for Adobe Director is actively recruiting beta testers. This product will be available for purchase later this spring. To join the beta team and to download the free, fully-functional beta, please visit: http://www.INM.com/products/viziondb/desktop/ The top 3 beta testers will be given a free INM VizionDB Desktop license. -
INM Publishes Paper on the Transition to Intel-based Macs
Posted: February 9th, 2006, 5:38am CST by Director Online
The paper gives an overview of the situation, and offers some guidelines on what the transition will entail, including some special considerations for Director developers. It also mentions the official position from some of the main Xtra developers on their plans to convert their Xtras. Should you require additional information, please feel free to contact me. Here is a direct link to the PDF document (317 KB http://www.inm.com/about/newsroom/whitepaper/intel-mac-whitepaper.pdf -
ISOstudio Update
Posted: January 4th, 2006, 6:39am CST by Director Online
Just a notice on latest project with the isoEditor/ISOstudio and upates to our softare. 1. The Chamber of Chat is an example of a real world project that gets updated on regular bases. Our isoEditor (ISOstudio software), Macromedia Director, MySQL and .asp were used to build this online community. It has a built in content management system as well as HTML newsletter functionality. Visit the site at: http://www.chamberofchat.com There are even more members (about 4500), more rooms and improved functionality. Take a look at some pics at: a. http://www.shocksites.com/images/common/coc1.jpg b. http://www.shocksites.com/images/common/coc2.jpg c. http://www.shocksites.com/images/common/coc3.jpg d. http://www.shocksites.com/images/common/coc4.jpg 2. Keep up with the lasted updates here on the officail ISOstudio forums. Also notice that there is a new Forum there called "RED5 Zone" at: http://www.shocksites.com/forum/default.asp?CAT_ID=9. This is for a new multi user and streaming technology for Flash and Director. It is very similar to the multi user technology used in the Chamber of Chat. So be sure to as ask question on that at the forums. And it is FREE! 3. Do not forget about the Director-online Wiki for details on samples of ISOstudio. http://director-online.com/dougwiki/index.php/ISOengine News Source Provided by ISOinteractive, LLC www.isointeractive.com -
RED5 Server Fourm
Posted: January 4th, 2006, 6:14am CST by Director Online
Shocksites.com is hosting the current Official RED5 Forums at: http://www.shocksites.com/forum/default.asp?CAT_ID=9 RED5 Overview: It is software developed that soon will have the ability to manage multi user/real time game environments, streaming services (including video and audio), and other interactive with OSFlash, Flash and Director. So drop by and ask or answer questions about this FREE Open Source application. Informatin provided by ISOinteractive, LLC www.isointeractive.com -
Winners of the 2005 INM Impressario Project Contest Announced
Posted: December 14th, 2005, 1:48am CST by Director Online
INM is pleased to announce the winners of the INM Impressario Project Contest sponsored by Macromedia and Adobe: 1st Place: Sony Marketing Resource Toolkit by Blueburst Ltd. 2nd Place: Swarovski's Introduction to Digiscoping by Sony DADC 3rd Place: Weber Knapp Video by Chase Information Systems, Inc. Find out more: http://www.INM.com/contest/impressario2005/winners.htm -
Jabber Shockwave Lingo Libray Released
Posted: December 10th, 2005, 2:25am CST by Director Online
Tagarela is a jabber client library, written to ease the development of jabber shockwave based clients, hiding the XMPP/Jabber protocols as much as it can on, offering an easy to use and powerfull library. Tagarela was developed under a great program, called "Summer of Code" for Google. You can learn more about it here, but there is a great deal of gratitude for Google and Jabber Software Foundation to make this library work. All of the protocol documentation used by Tagarela can be found in here. Altough Tagarela was first written for jabber clients, most of the good work on Director's movies are games. With this in mind, there are many features for games developers who want to use the secure and robust jabber network for writing multi player games. For more information, visit http://wiki.jabber.org/index.php/Shockwave_Lingo_Library Contact Samuel Goto samuelgoto@gmail.com, samuel.goto@ic.unicamp.br
Director Online Resources List
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Royalty Free Music - Whitebeetle Ltd
Posted: September 23rd, 2007, 12:46am CDT by Director Online
Download royalty free music by browsing our catalog or using our search facility then purchase and download immediately. Top class musicians and composers used exclusively for Whitebeetle.com. -
Royalty Free Music : Whitebeetle.com
Posted: July 11th, 2007, 2:16am CDT by Director Online
Your ultimate source for maximum impact, cutting edge royalty free and commissioned music. Many genres and original content available. -
Loopsound - Royalty Free Music
Posted: July 9th, 2007, 11:58am CDT by Director Online
Music loops, Loop packs, Downloadable CDs featuring Electronic dance music compilations and our Royalty Free Classical music library. WAV and MP3 instant download. -
Gemafreie Welten - Gemafreie Musik - Royalty free Music
Posted: July 6th, 2007, 1:27pm CDT by Director Online
Gemafreie Welten.de offers a wide range of different royalty free music tracks. There are over 1000 Tracks and various soundeffects online. Easy licensing and fast archivebrowser options. -
WireCASE
Posted: July 2nd, 2007, 5:20am CDT by Director Online
High quality 3D models in various categories and file formats -
Sound Loops Studio
Posted: February 3rd, 2007, 9:07am CST by Director Online
Collection of royalty free music loops, suitable as background music with flash and websites, games, PowerPoint, presentations, video, films. -
The Music Tracks Library
Posted: February 3rd, 2007, 9:04am CST by Director Online
Royalty free music for multimedia projects including films, video, multimedia, Web, and Flash. -
Chris Worth Productions
Posted: February 1st, 2007, 11:40pm CST by Director Online
Royalty Free Music Library covering a wide range of styles from Techno to real Orchestral Classical Music in broadcast quality recordings. All tracks can be previewed online and are available for instant download. -
Dcomsoft
Posted: January 29th, 2007, 10:47pm CST by Director Online
SWF utilities including Flash Decompiler for Windows, SWF Compressor-Decompressor, SWF Picture Extractor, Dump Flash decompiler, SWF Protect Remover, SWF Debug Remover. -
Massivetracks
Posted: December 30th, 2006, 2:17am CST by Director Online
Royalty free sounds and music for Flash, Shockwave, Broadcast, Video and Website Developers. -
Falling Pixel
Posted: December 18th, 2006, 10:13am CST by Director Online
Europes leading 3D Marketplace featuring a collection of high quality 3D models, textures and materials. Falling Pixel gives its users the ability to buy and sell models to a worldwide audience. -
Opuzz Music
Posted: December 15th, 2006, 5:38pm CST by Director Online
Royalty Free Music. Hi-Quality music for film, video, broadcast, web, flash, games, events, music on hold and more. Music from $2.99 only. -
Classical USA
Posted: December 7th, 2006, 1:00am CST by Director Online
Home of Classical Music. Royalty free classical music for your productions. -
Model3D
Posted: November 13th, 2006, 2:14pm CST by Director Online
3D model site which includes furniture and garden objects. Site has a large section of free models. Useful for landscape and interior designers who need 3d models for their projects. -
The123D
Posted: September 26th, 2006, 10:29pm CDT by Director Online
The123D is a databank of hundreds of high quality 3D models and resources for digital artists. -
3D Gurukul
Posted: September 15th, 2006, 5:08pm CDT by Director Online
Free 3D models in Max,Maya, Poser, C4D, and others, as well as a gallery, artwork, textures, tutorials. -
Soundrangers
Posted: September 10th, 2006, 5:55pm CDT by Director Online
All original, broadcast quality sound effects and music optimized for interactive media. -
SWFsound.com
Posted: September 5th, 2006, 3:10am CDT by Director Online
Background music loops and sound effects for websites, including SWF sound files and HTML code to play sound automatically when a page loads. -
Plasmaplugs
Posted: August 18th, 2006, 1:12am CDT by Director Online
Scrollbar Flash compment for scrolling any movie clip and progressbar Flash component to display the progres of loading content. -
Beatsuite
Posted: August 17th, 2006, 12:46pm CDT by Director Online
Royalty Free Music Library featuring thousands of music tracks, Flash music loops and sound effects. Instant Preview, Purchase, Downloads. Download entire previews free by becoming a member. -
Flash Wanted
Posted: June 28th, 2006, 11:12pm CDT by Director Online
Flash Wanted - Ultimate Flash Directory - Flash components, applets (swf), tools, utilities, FLA dources files. -
Groovy Loops
Posted: May 14th, 2006, 7:58am CDT by Director Online
Royalty free music, sound effects, music loops for TV, radio, film, video, multimedia productions and the Internet. -
Meliora Software
Posted: May 9th, 2006, 10:31pm CDT by Director Online
A variety of Xtras for Macromedia Director and Authorware, Director behaviors and articles. -
Inovartis
Posted: May 8th, 2006, 2:33pm CDT by Director Online
Inovartis Flash Videos are the next generation of motion graphics for Flash, an amazingly diverse royalty-free collection of professionally produced Flash Videos. -
LingoPark / MMUG-D
Posted: February 12th, 2006, 3:45am CST by Director Online
The German Macromedia User Group Website since 1997, with a huge online forum, and many articles & tutorials for Director users. -
Selling-Sound
Posted: February 11th, 2006, 3:22am CST by Director Online
Royalty free music, songs, jingles and sound loops for multimedia and web productions.. -
MagicsSoft xtras for
Posted: February 7th, 2006, 7:18am CST by Director Online
Commercial/Free Xtras from Database support to OS control for Director. -
Flash-Menu.Net
Posted: January 20th, 2006, 2:08am CST by Director Online
Flash menu components for Flash authoring and standalone SWF-files for web delivery. -
Nusic Sound Studio
Posted: December 6th, 2005, 1:14am CST by Director Online
Nusic Sound Studio, located in Poland, specializes in converting emotions into instrumental music and designing sound effects for video arts - motion pictures, multimedia shows, and computer games worldwide. -
Director authoring resources
Posted: February 7th, 2005, 12:36pm CST by Director Online
Director shortcuts compilation and a cursor resource package available free to the Director authoring community. -
Stock Flash Preloader Animation Library
Posted: January 27th, 2005, 4:52am CST by Director Online
Stock Flash vector 3D clipart animations perfect for eye-catching Flash banners, preloaders, buttons or just to add excitement and motion to your website. -
CYGAD
Posted: January 17th, 2005, 7:11pm CST by Director Online
Free 3D Model & Texture Downloads, Free & Commercial 3D Model & Texture Resources, Galleries, Software overviews for Modeling, Animation, Rendering, Terrain & Landscape, Web3D, 3D Game Development, 3D Engines, Plugins, Books, Web3D, Sound Files -
DiskJockey CD-ROM Builder
Posted: January 5th, 2005, 6:57pm CST by Director Online
The fastest, easiest, and coolest way to burn your Director or Flash presentation onto CD-ROM. Make CDs that autorun, switch resolution, handle installations, and launch your program. -
Amara Flash Intro and Banner Builder
Posted: December 13th, 2004, 4:16pm CST by Director Online
Amara Flash Intro and Banner Builder is the ultimate Flash text effect tool to help the web designer create and design animated Flash intros, Flash banners, Flash ads, Flash pop-ups and any other Flash animation.
Director Online Lingo Notes
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netDone
Posted: February 16th, 2006, 1:12pm CST by Director Online
Whie preloadNetThing, it seems netDone returns 1 as soon as the download process begins. Use getStreamStatus.state to check was it completed ! -
EvalScript
Posted: January 31st, 2006, 11:02am CST by Director Online
doesn't work with firefox, IE mac, and versions of netscape without LiveConnect. you must name the .dcr in both the embed and object tags. liveconnect=true must be on if you're targeting netscape that supports it. alternatives? possibly gotonetpage/geturl -
showLocals
Posted: January 27th, 2006, 1:41pm CST by Director Online
isn't there a way to put the local variables in a string instead -
ref
Posted: January 4th, 2006, 3:48pm CST by Director Online
Obtaining a reference to text only works on #text members. It fails on fields with Object Expected. -
keyCode
Posted: December 16th, 2005, 2:22am CST by Director Online
using "the key" can determine the key related to a keycode only when the key has just been pressed. How do i pick an arbitrary number and determine the key to which it corresponds? -
scriptInstanceList
Posted: January 21st, 2005, 6:20am CST by Director Online
You can affect this property as though it were a linear list. So: sprite(7).scriptInstanceList = [] clears all behaviors attached to a given sprite. Also: for those using javascript, this syntax works: sprite(7).scriptInstanceList.add(script("myBehavior")); It seems to hang if you use the above code to initialize the list, but this worked for me: sprite(7).scriptInstanceList.deleteOne(script("myBehavior")); -
modal
Posted: October 30th, 2004, 3:47am CDT by Director Online
windowRef.modal is obsolete and not supported in MX 2004 as mentioned. Use windowRef.type=#dialog instead -
textureMember
Posted: October 21st, 2004, 8:34am CDT by Director Online
I couldn't get this to work with the sytax sample style listed here. I had to use a simple string which was the name of the bitmap member. Example: sprite(1).member.textureMember = "mybitmap" -
importFileInto
Posted: October 2nd, 2004, 3:58pm CDT by Director Online
The return value of importFileInto is a boolean that shows whether the command did work or not. -
locVToLinePos
Posted: September 29th, 2004, 8:56am CDT by Director Online
You can get the total number of visual lines in a text member (lines created by word wrap and carriage returns) rather than the lines calculated by carriage returns when you use member().line.count. Anyways, to calculate the visual lines you can do this: vLineCount = member("myText").locVToLinePos(member("myText").height)