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Include Cast Member Comments lets you include comments you might have entered in the Comments text
box of the Property inspector for your cast members. You can then use Lingo or JavaScript syntax to access the
comments in the DCR file.
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Enabled context menu items
Volume Control lets users adjust the volume of the movie's soundtrack.
Transport Control provides controls for rewinding, stopping, and stepping through the movie.
About creating multiuser applications
If you want to create multiuser movies or applications with Director, you must use Flash
Director movie. This can be a Flash movie that has already been authored to communicate with the Flash Media
Server or a simple Flash movie that can serve as a container for Flash script objects that you create with Lingo or
JavaScript syntax. You can create applications that use the Flash Media Server entirely in Director by using Lingo or
JavaScript to create Flash script objects.
For more information about using Flash Communication Server in Director, see
and Other Interactive Media
About streaming with the Score and behaviors
The easiest way to create a movie that streams well is to arrange the Score properly and use behaviors to control the
playhead. Director downloads cast members in the order in which they appear in the Score. Try to arrange the Score
so that events don't make the playhead jump far ahead in the Score, where cast members have not yet been
downloaded. For example, if you place a menu in the first frame of a movie and a user selects an option that sends
the playhead to frame 400, the cast members for frame 400 might not be immediately available.
To avoid this problem, begin a movie with a simple introductory scene that contains a few small cast members,
preferably vector shapes. You can use a streaming behavior from the Library palette to make the introduction loop
until the cast members that are required for the next scene have been downloaded in the background.
While media elements are downloading, several behaviors included with Director control the playhead or a progress
bar. While media elements are downloading. These behaviors make it easy to allow enough time for downloading to
catch up with action in the Score.
Looping behaviors
Looping behaviors make the playhead return (loop) to a frame or stay on the current frame until specified media
elements have been downloaded and then continue to the next frame. Attach a looping behavior to a frame in the
script channel, not to a sprite. The following looping behaviors are accessible by selecting Internet > Streaming from
the Library List menu in the Library palette:
Loop Until Next Frame Is Available loops the playhead to a specified frame until all the media elements that are
required for the next frame have been downloaded.
Loop Until Member Is Available loops the playhead to a specified frame until a certain cast member has been
downloaded.
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