MACROMEDIA DIRECTOR MX-USING DIRECTOR MX Use Manual page 138

Icon Cast member type
Movie script
Palette
PICT
Radio button
Shape
Shockwave Audio
Text
Vector shape
To turn off or on the display of cast member icons in Thumbnail view and change the Cast
window display:
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Select Edit > Preferences > Cast. See "Setting Cast window preferences" on page 140.
Creating a custom cast member thumbnail
For most cast members, Director displays a scaled version as the thumbnail unless you define a
custom thumbnail. Creating a custom thumbnail is useful for behaviors that you want to identify
in the Library palette, because behaviors have no identifying image.
To create a custom cast member thumbnail:
Select the bitmap image to use as the new thumbnail, and copy it to your system's Clipboard.
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You can copy the image from any bitmap editor, including the Paint window. The image can
be any size, but smaller images look better because they require less scaling.
Using Thumbnail view, place the pointer over the cast member for which you are creating a
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custom thumbnail.
Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh), and select Paste Bitmap from the
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context menu.
The image from the Clipboard replaces the current cast member thumbnail.
You can also use text as a thumbnail. Select text instead of a bitmap image in step 1, and then
select Paste Text from the context menu.
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Icon Cast member type
OLE
Parent script
QuickTime video
RealMedia
Shockwave 3D
Sound
Transition
Xtra