User Guide

Director MX Basics Tutorial 101
Change Publish settings and publish your movie
When you use the Publish command, you can take advantage of the default Publish settings of
Director, or you can modify them with the Publish Settings dialog box.
For the tutorial movie, you’ll publish the movie using the Detect Shockwave HTML page which,
in addition to including
OBJECT and EMBED tags that are necessary to display your movie correctly
in a browser, includes JavaScript that detects if your user has the correct version of Shockwave. If
necessary, a message appears that advises your user to update the Shockwave installation.
1 Open the version of the My_Basic_start movie that resides on your desktop, within the
dswmedia folder.
2 Select File > Publish Settings.
3 On the Formats tab of the Publish Settings dialog box, select Detect Shockwave from the
HTML Template pop-up menu.
4 Verify that View in Browser is selected, and click OK.
5 Save your movie, and then select File > Publish.
Your browser opens and plays your tutorial movie.
When you save your movie, Director also saves any changes you’ve made to the Publish
Settings dialog box. The next time that you want to publish your movie in the same way, you
can simply select File > Publish without having to modify Publish settings.