Building The First Scene With Text And An Image; Edit A Text Cast Member - MACROMEDIA DIRECTOR MX 2004-GETTING STARTED WITH DIRECTOR Getting Started

Building the first scene with text and an image

Building a scene in Director requires creating or importing the cast members for the scene and
placing sprites on the Stage. As you learned in
on page 17, sprites are objects that control when, where, and how cast members appear in a
movie. You create sprites by placing cast members on the Stage or in the Score. To build the first
scene of the movie, you will place sprites of the TitleText cast member and two buttons on the
Stage. One of the buttons is already in the cast, and you will create the other button.

Edit a text cast member

The first cast member you will use in your movie is the text cast member containing the words
"Trio Motor Company." You will edit the text to give it a more appealing graphic design.
In the Cast window, double-click the text cast member in cast slot 1.
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The Text window opens.
You use the Text window to edit text cast members. You will find that most Director cast
member types have associated windows that you can use to view and edit the cast member.
Note: While completing the tutorial, you might find it useful to undo a change that you made.
To undo, select Edit > Undo. Conversely, you can redo what you have undone by selecting
Edit > Repeat.
Select Edit > Select All. The entire text block is selected.
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