Lingo sorcery

If you have said "yes" to any of the above, you have the right book in your hands. It is the first choice of both professionals and learners alike and is the most frequently recommended book on the Director User Internet forums for understanding the black art of OOPS and taking Lingo programming to areas the manuals never reach.

This second edition covers two major advances in Director which have opened up new vistas to users. Behaviors are easy to conceptualize, and allow those who have very little programming knowledge to design in an object-oriented programming (OOP) style. The new Application Programming Interface (API) introduced along with a set of Net Xtras has transformed Director from a closed application into an open system, allowing it to become the new killer app for the Internet and the Web.

Peter Small has again employed his unique powers of explanation and analogy to help Director users who have no technical, programming background, to think and understand Lingo's OOP functionality, expanding the envelope of Director even beyond the visions of its creators.

Table of contents :

Preface To The Second Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Making An Independent Object

2 Adding Sophisticated Features To Objects

3 Getting Object-Oriented

4 Messages, Control And Feedback

5 The Ancestor Portal

6 The Basis Of Complex Object S

7 The Mechanics Of Linear Lists

8 The Mechanics Of Property Lists

9 Using Lists

10 Messages And Message Paths

11 Using Lists In Message Paths

12 The Object-User Interface

13 Object-Controlled Menus

14 Magical Tricks With Lists And Objects

15 Making A Paint Box With A Memory

16 Intelligent Button And Palette Objects

17 The Magic Of Miaw Objects

18 Using Miaw Objects

19 Behaviors

20 Intranets, Kiosks And Avatars

Epilog

Index