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Welcome! In this forum I hope to offer relevant online resources to support the book Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide, published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill. Here you will find sample code from all the chapters, as well as errata, links to other resource sites and so on.

Chapter samples are available here as HTML. Get a look at the book and, if it intrigues you, buy it!

FileIO

Click here to access Macromedia's pages regarding FileIO, including examples and documentation.

MUI (Macromedia User Interface)

Click here to access Macromedia's pages regarding MUI, including ezamples and documentation.

Chapter Samples, Errata and Code

In this table you will find links to chapter samples (for those of you who have not yet decided whether to buy the book), fixes to errata as they become known to me, and to the sample code for each chapter. Some chapters include incremental code samples (meaning they are stepped to reflect progress made through the chapter with which they're associated). Note there is no code for the fourth chapter.

Chapter Title Macintosh code Windows code
1 Getting Acquainted with Director's Tools 56201-code.sit.hqx, 12 Kb 56201-code.zip, 8 Kb
2 The Library Palette 56202-code.sit.hqx, 128 Kb 56202-code.zip, 96 Kb
3 Code Tools 56203-code.sit.hqx, 76 Kb 56203-code.zip, 60 Kb
4 Well-Written Lingo N/A N/A
5 The Debugger 56205-code.sit.hqx, 32 Kb 56205-code.zip, 28 Kb
6 Preparing to Create a Program 56206-code.sit.hqx, 12 Kb 56206-code.zip, 8 Kb
7 Creating Programs 56207-code.sit.hqx, 20 Kb 56207-code.zip, 16 Kb
8 Integrating Lingo and Sprites 56208-code.sit.hqx, 80 Kb 56208-code.zip, 88 Kb
9 Understanding the Power of Lists 56209-code.sit.hqx, 128 Kb 56209-code.zip, 148 Kb
10 External Files 56210-code.sit.hqx, 56 Kb 56210-code.zip, 44 Kb
11 The Internet Revisited 56211-code.sit.hqx, 44 Kb 56211-code.zip, 36 Kb
12 The Fundamentals of OOP 56212-code.sit.hqx, 64 Kb 56212-code.zip, 56 Kb
13 Behaviors are OOP Too 56213-code.sit.hqx, 120 Kb 56213-code.zip, 92 Kb
14 Movies in a Window (MIAW) as OOP Code 56214-code.sit.hqx, 80 Kb 56214-code.zip, 64 Kb
15 Communication With MIAWs 56215-code.sit.hqx, 84 Kb 56215-code.zip, 64 Kb
1 - 15 All chapters everything.sit.hqx, 904 Kb everything.zip, 776 Kb

All sample files here are Director 8.5 format. They will not work in previous versions of Director. You can download a 30-day trial copy of Director 8.5 from Macromedia. The trial version is fully functional. At the end of your 30 days you can purchase it.

Found a mistake? Perish the thought the book might contain errors. However if you've found something, click here or email dir-bg-errata@nightwares.com to report it to me. Please make sure to indicate the page number, paragraph and so on.