User Guide

Index750
parent nodes, Lingo for 33
parent scripts
ancestor property 71
me keyword 366
objects created by 446
parentheses operator () 47
parents 460
particle systems
distribution 197
gravity 280
Lingo for 38
particles, Lingo for 38
Paste command, enabling 208
pasting Clipboard contents into cast members 464
pathname operator (@) 54
pathnames 54, 409, 466, 580
paths
applicationPath property 76
browsers and 109
searched by Director 580
patterns, filling shape cast members with 236
pausing movies 154, 467, 471
pausing playback of cast members 470
picking, Lingo for 39
planes, Lingo for 39
playback capabilities, determining with Lingo 37
playback rates 410
playing
AIFF files 613
AVI files (Windows) 613
digital video tracks 597
Shockwave movies from Internet 283
sound 609, 613, 614
WAVE files 613
playing movies
after a pause 154
going to a frame 280
going to a marker 282
setting frame rate 252
with play command 477, 481
playing time of sound sprites 168
plus sign (+) 48
points
coordinates of 485
identifying 347
point function 485
positioning and sizing 360
type of 303
position
of cast members 126
of mouse pointer 394, 402, 403
of sprites 152, 348, 349, 351, 619
of Stage on desktop 622, 623, 624
positioning rectangles and points 360
pound sign (#) 43, 517
preloading
cast members 299
files from Internet 200, 500
Shockwave Audio cast members 501
primitives, Lingo for 38
printing
frames 507
Stage 507
projectors
exiting 222
hiding 77
minimizing 77
property lists
adding to 65
deleting values from 185
findPos command 238
findPosNear command 239
position of properties in 238, 239
replacing property values from 589, 595
setaProp command 589
setProp command 595
property variables 508, 516
proxy servers, setting values of 509
puppets
palette channels as 510
puppet sprite blend values 94
sound channels as 511
sprites as 509, 511
tempo channels as 512
purge priority of cast members 514
Q
QuickTime 3 masks 363
quitting
Director 522, 604
handlers 56, 221, 286
projectors 222
quotation mark (") 54, 522
R
radio buttons, checkBoxAccess property 129
random integers 524
random number generation 525