Identifying Keys On Different Keyboards; About Animated Color Cursors - MACROMEDIA DIRECTOR MX-USING DIRECTOR MX Use Manual

Lingo term
optionDown
controlDown
ENTER
BACKSPACE

Identifying keys on different keyboards

Characters can vary on different keyboards. You can avoid possible confusion by identifying a
character by its ASCII value. See individual properties and functions in the Lingo Dictionary.
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To obtain a character's ASCII value, use the
For example, the following statement finds the ASCII value for the letter A and displays it in
the Message window:
put charToNum("A")
-- 65
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To find out which character corresponds to an ASCII value, use the
For example, the following statement finds the character that corresponds to the ASCII value
65. The result is the letter A:
put numToChar(65)
-- A

About animated color cursors

Director supports animated cursors. You can use any 8-bit bitmap source in your Director cast as
an image in the cursor animation, automatically scale images, and generate masks for 16 x16 pixel
and 32 x 32 pixel cursors. (Macintosh computers don't support 32 x 32 pixel cursors.)
An animated cursor consists of a series of bitmap cast members. Each bitmap cast member is a
frame of the cursor. You can control the rate at which Director plays the frames of an animated
cursor. Using the Cursor Properties Editor, you designate one or more bitmap cast members as
frames of a single cursor cast member.
Xtra extensions that support animated cursors
The Director installation program places two animated color cursor files in the Media Support
folder within the Director application's Xtras folder. The specific files depend on the platform
you are using.
Windows
Cursor Options.x32
Cursor Asset.x32
Windows key
Alt
Control
Enter key on the numeric keypad
(during authoring, pressing Enter
starts playing the movie)
Backspace
PowerPC Purpose
Cursor Options This file supports the creation of cursors while you author
movies in Director. Do not distribute this file with projectors; it
is not licensed for redistribution.
Cursor Asset Distribute this file with any movies or projectors that you
create using the animated color cursors.
Macintosh key
Option
Control
Enter key on the numeric keypad
(during authoring, pressing Enter
starts playing the movie)
Delete
function.
charToNum()
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function.
numToChar()