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CHAPTER 6
Media Types
The media types in Macromedia Director MX 2004 provide access to the functionality of the
various media types, such as RealMedia, DVD, Animated GIF, and so on, that are added to
movies as cast members.
Literally, media types are not actually objects, but rather cast members that are of a specific type of
media. When a media type is added to a movie as a cast member, it not only inherits the
functionality of the core Member object, it also extends the Member object by providing
additional functionality that is available only to the specified media type. For example, a
RealMedia cast member has access to the Member object’s methods and properties, but it also has
additional methods and properties that are specific to RealMedia. All other media types also
exhibit this behavior.
For an illustration of how the cast member media types relate to each other and to other objects in
Director, see “Object model diagrams” on page 53.
Animated GIF
Represents an animated GIF cast member.
You can add an animated GIF cast member to a movie by using the Movie object’s
newMember()
method.
-- Lingo syntax
_movie.newMember(#animgif)
// JavaScript syntax
_movie.newMember("animgif");
Some of the following methods or properties may apply only to sprites that are created from an
animated GIF cast member.