Using The Script Window - MACROMEDIA DIRECTOR MX 2004-GETTING STARTED WITH DIRECTOR Getting Started

DirectX 5.2
specifies the DirectX 5.2 drivers for hardware acceleration that work only with
Windows platforms.
Software specifies the Director built-in software renderer that works with Macintosh and
Windows platforms.
Auto
specifies that the most suitable renderer should be selected. This option is the default
value for this property.
Note: If the preferred renderer is not available on the client computer, the movie selects the most
suitable available renderer.
In the About and Copyright boxes, enter copyright and other information about the movie.
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This information is important if your movie will be downloaded from the Internet and saved
on a user's system.
To save the current font map settings in a text file named Fontmap.txt, click Save. To load the
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font mapping assignments specified in the selected font map file, click Load.
Note: More advanced movie properties are available on the Display Template tab, next to the Movie
tab in the Property inspector. For example, you can control the location of the stage on a user's
screen by using the Display Template tab in the Property inspector.

Using the Script window

The Script window in Director allows you to add advanced, scripting-based interactivity to
movies. In the Script window, you can code in either Lingo or JavaScript syntax. Lingo is the
traditional scripting language of Director, while JavaScript syntax was recently introduced to
support multimedia developers who prefer working with JavaScript.
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