s t a r t e r s
- Macromedia Director Developers Center
- DirectThis! resources from Omni Creative
- CleverMedia Developer Resources
- Director Online Users Group
- Direct-L Newbie Notes
- DreamLight's Director Talisman
- Builder.com review of Director 8.5
t i p s
- Tip Repository from CleverMedia
- Tom McGinness reports on tips from Terry Schussler's seminar
- Jim Collins' Smoke & Mirrors Technotes
- Nightwares is Warren "the Howdy Man" Okrassa's Director resource site
g e n e r a l p r o g r a m m i n g
- Although not Director (or any software) specific, Amit's game programing information provide some good pointers for programming techniques
p r o j e c t d e v e l o p m e n t
- Fred Bals lists the 10 Bon Mots from the Client from Hell
b u g s & e r r o r s
- Director 7 Workshop shows how turning off script coloring in D7 for movies transferred across platforms can cause destruction of
high ASCII characters, including Lingo line continuation (¬)
- Michael Scaramozzino lists errors in the "Learning Lingo" manual for D6.
- Mark Arend's Development Techniques include popular solutions to recurring Lingo/Director problems
- Macintosh Error Codes
g r a b & b a g
- Watch out for the new continuation line marker for Director 8.5
- DirOpener is a (free) tool to unprotect director files (get everything but scripts). MediaMacros' Recover It also does the trick.
- Converting D7 casts to D6.5
- Fullscreen (stagesize) options in D7
- Keycodes by Jim Collins
- Using Applescript with Director
- Determining the environment (Authoring, Prjector, Shockwave)
- Eating events such as excessive mouse clicks
- Using Director as a kiosk
- Joseph Fish's tips for efficient playback from floppy disks
- The order in which cast members are saved (and written to CD)
- Preloading cast members
- Using an hidden MIAW to print a letter sized page
- Unprotection of movies.
- Shortcuts, hidden tricks, etc...