Scripts n' Lingo
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  1. Robotduck's programming techniques includes source code fof several games as well as behaviors for motion.
  2. The Lingo TimeSaver by Gretchen Macdowall
  3. Charles Wiltgen's Bag of Scripts
  4. Cole Tierney's Code Corner
  5. David Jackson-Shields' Utility Scripts
  6. A generic multiple choice quiz algorithm for Director, HyperCard, or Toolbook.
  7. Paul Farry's handy scripts for padding text and compiling paramters
  8. CleverMedia Tips and Tricks
  9. How to Cook 3D in Director by Che Tamahori

    l i n g o   m a n u a l s

  10. Michael Scaramozzino lists errors in the "Learning Lingo" manual for D6.
  11. The unLingo Dictionary

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  12. Zac Belado provides this excellent summary of dot syntax [DOUG article]
  13. Bruce Epstein's dot syntax (in a nutshell?)
  14. Steven Sacks writes a clear lesson on dot.syntax and objects

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  15. Sprites in a circular path
  16. How to script a circular path for a sprite
  17. Darrel Plant's approach for contraining sprite movement to Bezier paths. See also his tak from 1997 UCON on on Time-Based & Bézier Curve Animation ...
  18. Contraining sprite movements to circles and arcs
  19. Joe Sparks' ghost-like typing of text
  20. Animated drop shadow ~~ [Mac 28k] ~~ [Win 20k] ~~ shockwave
  21. Fade to Black transition via Lingo
  22. Animating for gravity
  23. Graphing a function
  24. Controling a navigation in a maze and some more ideas.
  25. Creating a movable hole with the mask ink
  27. Movable Masks by John Dowdell
  28. Screen Drawing lines with trails
  29. Synchronizing animation and sound
  30. Jim Collins' magical Wanda

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  31. 3D Programming in Director 7

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  32. Converting a list to a rect and other obscure list goodies
  33. Converting string values to dollars
  34. Hex to Decimal conversions

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  35. A list of built-in cursors (D7)
  36. Color cursors from from parent scripts
  37. Custom Cursors cast and masks
  38. Custom Cast cursors with parent-child scripting
  39. Determining the pixel color underneath the cursor.
  40. What's Under the Cursor?

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  41. script for uniform short date: fixShortDate()
  42. Countdown Timer DD:HH:MM:SS
  43. Finding the day of the week
  44. Timer script
  45. Converting time variables to consistent format
  46. Working with the format and values of the System Date and Time
  47. Dealing with international date formats

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  48. The myth and the truth about searchpaths
  49. Semi-calibrated CPU Speed test
  50. Checking for installed Mac Extensions
  51. Platform independent file path specifier (using "@")
  52. Freeing up memory by using saveMovie
  53. Properly setting the forecolor of field text when running in 16-bit and 24-bit environments
  54. A list of Mac models by Machine Types
  55. Formatting the appearance of your scripts

    h a n d l e r s   &   e v e n t s

  56. Global Handlers is a special list that Director maintains for keeping track of all handlers used in an application
  57. Idle, all about the event and handlers
  58. Inverse sin and cosine
  59. mouseWithin or mouseEnter handler with undocumented Lingo
  60. Detecting mouseUp messages inside a repeat loop
  61. Passing parameters to and from functions
  62. simple character substitution

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  63. Fullscreen (stagesize) options in D7
  64. Balloon Help [Mac] ~~ [Windows] Automatically creates Mac-like Balloon Help that are properly scaled- also works for Windows.
  65. Collapsible Finder-like Lists [Mac]
  66. counter, with animated spinning wheel
  67. Faking a marquee selection tool
  68. Selecting a folder/directory with FileIO
  69. Fast panning over the stage
  70. Who needs QTVR? Panoramas for the rest of us... doing it the Lingo way with Jim Collins

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  71. Calculate the angle between two vectors
  72. Inverse Trig functions
  73. ArcSin function

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  74. Rollover Switcher switches another sprite besides the one the mouse is over
  75. The clickloc for getting position of last mouse click
  76. Handlers for double-clicks that respond differently than single clicks
  77. Flushing mouse clicks

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  78. Scaling Objects while dragging
  79. Drawing a scaled minature of a users sketch
  80. Scaling and Dragging Objects

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  81. handler that will translate a frame number into the frame label that exists on or before that number
  82. Finding the closest label to a frame
  83. "Pause" vs "exitframe-go to frame the frame" debate
  84. Score vs Lingo debate
  85. turns sprites on/off handlers

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  86. Some handy functions for dealing with rect()
  87. Getting the height and width of a rect (without any math!)
  88. Bubble sorts for points and lists

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  89. Zip Parent - read the directory contents of a .ZIP archive, including file names, paths, sizes, dates and times.
  90. when void is void and not
  91. An approach for fast encryption/decryption
  92. Flushing Mouse Events the simple way
  93. Coding Clipboard Functions for #text & #field
  94. D7 random() syntax
  95. Capturing the stage image to a cast member in D7
  96. What does "do" do?
  97. Disabling Keys
  98. Getting rid of ghost/phantom scripts
  99. Multi-dimensional arrays
  100. Using the map function for tracking sprite positions
  101. Exiting from repeat loops
  102. A printf function for lingo
  103. Putout is a routine that zaps all of those lines of "put" commands used for debugging.
  104. Setting the width of a field via Lingo
  105. Trapping stopMovie calls for command-Q exits.
  106. Article19 Group's Slider Puzzle Engine
  107. How to recombine strings using recursion