Create Navigation In Lingo Using Marker Names; Add Lingo To Navigation Buttons - Adobe 65036570 - Director - PC Tutorial

Markers are a way of giving a name to a specific frame in the Score. If you name the first frame of the animation scene
and then decide to move the scene, you can simply move the marker in the Score along with the rest of the scene.
1 In the Score, display frame 15.
Click the Marker bar above frame 15.
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Marker menu
A new marker appears in the Marker bar in frame 15. The text box next to the new marker contains "New
Marker" as placeholder text.
In the text box next to the new marker, type Animation, and press Enter (Windows) or Return (Macintosh) to
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name the marker.

Create navigation in Lingo using marker names

You can write a script that loops the playhead in frames 15 through 50 using the name of the marker.
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Double-click the Script channel in frame 50, the last frame of the animation scene. The script window opens with
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the default
on exitFrame
Inside the default script, on line 2, type the following:
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_movie.go("Animation")
In the Name text box at the top of the window, type AnimLoop, and close the Script window.
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The new script cast member appears in the first available cast slot of the Cast window, and the new sprite appears
in frame 50 of the Script channel in the Score.
Click frame 15 in the frame number bar in the Score, and click the Play button at the bottom of the Stage.
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The animation scene plays, and the playhead loops back to frame 15 when it reaches frame 50. The animation of
the tire bouncing repeats continuously.
6 Click the Stop button at the bottom of the Stage.
Each of the scenes in your movie has a script that prevents the playhead from moving to a different scene. Now you'll
add scripts to the navigation buttons so the user can move from scene to scene.

Add Lingo to navigation buttons

To make the navigation buttons function, you need to add scripts to the buttons. These scripts should be attached to
the button sprites, rather than to frames in the script channel. Your frame scripts respond to
you write the button scripts, they will respond to mouse clicks.
script already entered.
ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0
Create a basic movie
events. After
exitFrame
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