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Adobe MAX Conference 2006 by Chris Griffith, November 3, 2006

MAX 2005 and Director by Gary Rosenzweig, October 20, 2005

A Balrog in the Browser by Andrew M. Phelps and Christopher Egert, October 10, 2005

Communicating With Flash Code Objects by Hugh Campbell, September 30, 2005

Fun with TCP/IP Sockets by Steve Hagenlock, August 23, 2005

Case Study: Sony Videoconferencing PCS Series Communications Toolkit Project by Kristen Banham, August 5, 2005

Adding Behaviors to 3D Models by James Newton, June 7, 2005

Making 3D Simpler by Gary Rosenzweig, May 20, 2005

Reading XML Into Director MX 2004 With a Simple Flash Object by Darrel Plant, May 9, 2005

Creating Time-Based Animation With Lingo by Gary Rosenzweig, May 2, 2005

Scrolling Text Horizontally by James Newton, April 11, 2005

Highlighting Multiple Text Selections by James Newton, April 7, 2005

Using Director at RIT by Andrew M. Phelps, February 3, 2005

Video the Way Your "Ancestors" Intended by Chuck Neal, December 27, 2004

Tapping the Power of Unix from Within Director - Part 1 by Cole Tierney, December 22, 2004

Case Study: HUGO Academy CD-ROM by Thomas Biedorf, December 8, 2004

Double-Clicking a Document by Tom Rockwell, December 2, 2004

Building an Email Client in Director by James Newton, November 19, 2004

Spot Lights, Angles, Faces and Distance by James Newton, November 15, 2004

All About Character Encodings by Kerry Thompson, November 8, 2004

Simulating Water with Shockwave 3D by Andrew M. Phelps, October 25, 2004

3D Lingo: Using Vector Math to Move a Model In a Plane by James Newton, October 19, 2004

3D Lingo: Cameras, Overlays and Background Color by James Newton, October 19, 2004

Designing Kiosk Systems by Roy Crisman, September 28, 2004

Building Tooltips in Director by Irv Kalb, September 17, 2004

Keeping Tabs On Director by James Newton, August 28, 2004

Architecting a Console-Style RPG in Lingo: Part Three by CC Chamberlin, July 2, 2004

Architecting a Console-Style RPG in Lingo: Part Two by CC Chamberlin, June 25, 2004

Architecting a Console-Style RPG in Lingo: Part One by CC Chamberlin, June 18, 2004

Dynamic Sprite Creation/Destruction in Windows For Shockwave by Jim Andrews, May 21, 2004

Solving Complex Mathematical Tasks With a Simple Recursive Solution by Lee Cullens, April 27, 2004

Multiple Undo Functionality for Director Applications by James Newton, April 22, 2004

What's (really) New in Director MX 2004 by Tom McCrystal, April 9, 2004

Simulating Arcade Style Explosions in Game Environments by Andrew M. Phelps & Aaron S. Cloutier, March 31, 2004

Animating With B?©zier Curve Paths and Velocity Control by Lee Cullens, March 16, 2004

Build Jigsaw Puzzle Pieces with Imaging Lingo by Michael Pelzer, March 5, 2004

Inverse Kinematics Tutorial by Christoffer Enedahl, February 17, 2004

Stopping DCR Thieves by Gary Rosenzweig, January 6, 2004

Case Study: Creating a Customized Display of Results Function by Jason MacDonald, December 12, 2003

Ending CPU Hogging in Director by Alex Zavatone, December 1, 2003

Creating a Simple Flight Simulator with Shockwave 3D by Gary Rosenzweig, November 13, 2003

In Search of Working LDMs by Peter Sorenson, October 9, 2003

Polygon Gardens by Jerry McManus, September 26, 2003

Overview of Windows for Shockwave 3.0 by Jim Andrews, June 24, 2003

Graphing With Imaging Lingo by Robert J. Cameron, June 20, 2003

"Matrix"-Style Animation: Building a Bitmap Text Engine by Jerry McManus, May 8, 2003

Methodologies for Quick Approximation of 2D Collision Detection Using Polygon Armatures by Andrew M. Phelps & Aaron S. Cloutier, April 16, 2003

Making Modifier Key Events by Alex Zavatone, April 11, 2003

Director Get-Together at GDC 2003 by Darrel Plant, March 28, 2003

The Combination Generator: Producing Permutations for Fun and Profit by Jerry McManus, March 4, 2003

Additive Blending Effects in Shockwave 3D by Malachy Duffin, January 30, 2003

Screen Capture Screen Saver by Andrew Murchie, December 31, 2002

updateLock: Make Director a Game Level Editor by Lucas Meijer, December 6, 2002

Talking to Proxy Servers from Director by Gabrielle Dara Krim, December 4, 2002

Dynamic Event Propogation by Warren Ockrassa, November 8, 2002

Rendering Only to the Z Buffer by Lucas Meijer, October 28, 2002

Color Picker by Ivan Bachev, September 20, 2002

Internet Updater by Daniel Nelson, September 10, 2002

Using Imaging Lingo with the Mui Dialog Xtra by Robert Wingate, August 16, 2002

Creating Prologue SundayPlus by Susi Sloan, August 9, 2002

Using Your Ancestors by Dave Mennenoh, August 7, 2002

specialmoves: "The Osbournes" by the specialmoves staff, July 30, 2002

Bowling with Havok, Part 2 by Darrel Plant, July 29, 2002

Bowling with Havok, Part 1 by Darrel Plant, July 22, 2002

Bringing Security to Director by Gabrielle Dara Krim, July 18, 2002

Using Scientific Numbers with Director by Will Turnage, July 11, 2002

Opening a Specific Browser by Will Turnage, July 3, 2002

Writing Binary Files with FileIO by David Pollock, July 2, 2002

Checking for the Mouse inside a Triangle by Will Turnage, June 14, 2002

Reading Binary Files with FileIO by David Pollock, June 12, 2002

Drawing 3D Bar Charts by Will Turnage, June 4, 2002

Drawing Dynamic Pie Charts by Will Turnage, May 21, 2002

Choosing the Right Design Tool for Your Project by Victoria Grujicic, May 15, 2002

Toss That Ball, Fire That Gun, Shoot That Arrow; Projectiles in 3D Games, Part 4 by Allen Partridge, May 10, 2002

Flash MX Local Shared Objects (aka Flash Cookies) by Gary Rosenzweig, May 9, 2002

Drawing Dynamic Charts & Graphs, Part 1 by Will Turnage, May 8, 2002

Toss That Ball, Fire That Gun, Shoot That Arrow; Projectiles in 3D Games, Part 3 by Allen Partridge, April 30, 2002

Changing Your Movie Based on the Time of Day by Will Turnage, April 26, 2002

Toss That Ball, Fire That Gun, Shoot That Arrow; Projectiles in 3D Games, Part 2 by Allen Partridge, April 19, 2002

Creating a 3D Maze From a Picture by Will Turnage, April 17, 2002

Toss That Ball, Fire That Gun, Shoot That Arrow; Projectiles in 3D Games, Part 1 by Allen Partridge, April 8, 2002

Rolling Dice in 3D by Will Turnage, April 5, 2002

Maxon Cinema 4D XL7 and Shockwave 3D, Part 2 by Darrel Plant, April 2, 2002

Automating Your Authoring Some More by Danny Kodicek, March 29, 2002

Updating Director Movies Delivered on CD-ROM, Part 2 by Will Turnage, March 28, 2002

Multiuser Presentations in Director by Chris Griffith, March 22, 2002

Updating Director Movies Delivered on CD-ROM, Part 1 by Will Turnage, March 20, 2002

Scripting Color Transitions by Darrel Plant, March 18, 2002

3DISO: Adapting Isometric Scrolling Theory to 3D Worldspace, Part 6 by Andrew M. Phelps, March 14, 2002

Using Webcams in Director by Will Turnage, March 12, 2002

Shockwave@6, Part 3 by Darrel Plant, March 8, 2002

3DISO: Adapting Isometric Scrolling Theory to 3D Worldspace, Part 5 by Andrew M. Phelps, March 6, 2002

Creating a Digital Portfolio, Part 3 by Will Turnage, March 5, 2002

Maxon Cinema 4D XL7 and Shockwave 3D, Part 1 by Darrel Plant, February 27, 2002

3DISO: Adapting Isometric Scrolling Theory to 3D Worldspace, Part 4 by Andrew M. Phelps, February 22, 2002

Creating a Coloring Book by Will Turnage, February 21, 2002

3DISO: Adapting Isometric Scrolling Theory to 3D Worldspace, Part 3 by Andrew M. Phelps, February 18, 2002

Customizing the Color of Your Hyperlinks by Will Turnage, February 14, 2002

3DISO: Adapting Isometric Scrolling Theory to 3D Worldspace, Part 2 by Andrew M. Phelps, February 7, 2002

Scrolling Text Horizontally by Will Turnage, February 6, 2002

3DISO: Adapting Isometric Scrolling Theory to 3D Worldspace, Part 1 by Andrew M. Phelps, February 1, 2002

Creating a Digital Portfolio, Part 2 by Will Turnage, January 31, 2002

Creating a Digital Portfolio, Part 1 by Will Turnage, January 17, 2002

Shockwave@6, Part 2 by Darrel Plant, January 17, 2002

Rolling (and Pitching and Yawing) the Bones, Part 3 by Darrel Plant, January 10, 2002

Explaining centerStage and fixStageSize by Will Turnage, January 8, 2002

Rolling (and Pitching and Yawing) the Bones, Part 2 by Darrel Plant, January 3, 2002

Rolling (and Yawing and Pitching) the Bones, Part 1 by Darrel Plant, December 28, 2001

Shockwave@6, Part 1 by Darrel Plant, December 21, 2001

Save the Screen by Darrel Plant, December 17, 2001

Detecting a User's Modem Speed by Will Turnage, December 11, 2001

Detecting and Launching Audio CD Players by Will Turnage, December 4, 2001

Breaking Into Flash Functions by Darrel Plant, November 30, 2001

Psychotically Fast Anti-aliased Text Scroller (and a free kitten!) by Scott Southworth, November 15, 2001

Creating a Picture-Based Password System by Will Turnage, November 14, 2001

From Strings to Lists...and Back Again by Dan Manes, November 9, 2001

Making MUI Dialogs Easier by Will Turnage, November 8, 2001

randomVector (un, doc, umen, ted) by Paul Catanese, November 2, 2001

Animating Changes in Image Size by Will Turnage, October 31, 2001

Playing a Sequence of Director Movies by Will Turnage, October 25, 2001

Hysteresis is a Funny Name by Daniel Cummings, October 23, 2001

Tracking the Cursor by Will Turnage, October 18, 2001

Using Director 8 Features in a Shockwave 7 World by Colin Holgate, October 17, 2001

Masks & Effects: PhotoCaster 3 Review by Darrel Plant, October 12, 2001

Zooming In and Out of an Image by Will Turnage, October 10, 2001

Vector Math is Not the Tool of Satan by Paul Catanese, October 4, 2001

Creating Splash Screens for Projectors by Will Turnage, October 2, 2001

Image Blender by Frank Di Luzio, September 26, 2001

Making Characters Run and Jump by Will Turnage, September 24, 2001

The Name of the Sprite by Darrel Plant, September 21, 2001

Blur with Imaging Lingo, Part 2 by Sébastien Portebois, September 11, 2001

Wreaking Havok with Physics, Part 3 by Darrel Plant, August 30, 2001

Blur with Imaging Lingo, Part 1 by Sébastien Portebois, August 29, 2001

Wreaking Havok with Physics, Part 2 by Darrel Plant, August 24, 2001

Using Color Objects in Behaviors by Will Turnage, August 22, 2001

Wreaking Havok with Physics, Part 1 by Darrel Plant, August 16, 2001

Creating Multi-lingual Director Movies by Will Turnage, August 14, 2001

Highlight Words in a Text Member by Will Turnage, August 9, 2001

Shockwave 3D Tools 4 U by Darrel Plant, August 7, 2001

Imaging Lingo Text Scrollbar by Steve Bullock, August 2, 2001

Controlling Animated GIFs by Will Turnage, July 31, 2001

Portable Password Pages by Paulmichael Blasucci, July 25, 2001

Creating a Multiple Choice Quiz Using XML, Part 2 by Will Turnage, July 24, 2001

Automating Your Authoring, Part 2 by Danny Kodicek, July 18, 2001

Creating a Multiple Choice Quiz Using XML, Part 1 by Will Turnage, July 17, 2001

Automating Your Authoring, Part 1 by Danny Kodicek, July 11, 2001

Snapping random letters into place by Will Turnage, July 10, 2001

Mining Graphic Gems by Daniel Cummings, June 27, 2001

Creating Anchors in Text Members by Will Turnage, June 26, 2001

"Star Wars" Crawl: The Texture Generation by Colin Holgate, June 22, 2001

Director 8.5: Following Models with the Camera by Gary Rosenzweig, June 21, 2001

Finding All of an Object's Handlers by Will Turnage, June 19, 2001

Director 8.5: Moving Primitives Around by Gary Rosenzweig, June 14, 2001

Encryption Utility Lingo by Michael Szabo, June 13, 2001

Pointing the Finger at Flash Buttons by Will Turnage, June 12, 2001

Director 8.5: More About Primitives by Gary Rosenzweig, June 7, 2001

Director 8.5: A First Look by Brian Robbins, June 6, 2001

Extracting Links from HTML by Will Turnage, June 5, 2001

SatisfActionScript by Darrel Plant, June 4, 2001

Director 8.5: Learning 3D Basics by Gary Rosenzweig, May 31, 2001

Teaching Old Turtles New Tricks: Artificial Life Simulation Using Lingo, Part 2 by Andrew M. Phelps & Daniel R. Kunkle, May 30, 2001

Creating Internet Shortcuts by Will Turnage, May 29, 2001

Teaching Old Turtles New Tricks: Artificial Life Simulation Using Lingo, Part 1 by Andrew M. Phelps & Daniel R. Kunkle, May 23, 2001

Mixing Sound with Digital Video and Flash Audio on Windows by Will Turnage, May 22, 2001

Timeout Objects by David Berger, May 15, 2001

Dynamically Creating Radio Buttons by Will Turnage, May 15, 2001

Using the V12 Xtra, Part 2 by Phillip Kerman, May 10, 2001

What Xtras Should I Include? by Will Turnage, May 9, 2001

Adding Cue Points To Quicktime Movies by Will Turnage, May 1, 2001

Using the V12 Xtra, Part 1 by Phillip Kerman, April 30, 2001

Creating a Branching Menu by Will Turnage, April 23, 2001

LingoLand: Simple 3D Terrain Simulation in Lingo, Part 2 by Andrew M. Phelps, April 22, 2001

What I Saw of the Revolution: UCON 2001 by the DOUG staff, April 18, 2001

LingoLand: Simple 3D Terrain Simulation in Lingo, Part 1 by Andrew M. Phelps, April 17, 2001

Shooting in All Directions by Will Turnage, April 16, 2001

Digital Fade Effect by Gary Rosenzweig, April 6, 2001

Balancing the Scales by Will Turnage, April 3, 2001

Performance Tips by Werner Sharp, April 3, 2001

On the Web, Can Anyone Hear You Stream?: Streaming Playback in Shockwave, Part II by Darrel Plant, March 28, 2001

Customizing a sprite's cursor by Will Turnage, March 27, 2001

I Miss Behaviors: Code Encapsulation in Flash by Darrel Plant, March 26, 2001

Comparing Lingo and ActionScript, Part II by Gary Rosenzweig, March 22, 2001

On the Web, Can Anyone Hear You Stream? Streaming Playback in Shockwave, Part I by Darrel Plant, March 20, 2001

Copying files off a CD-ROM by Will Turnage, March 19, 2001

Creating small-footprint transitions by Peter Sylwester, March 16, 2001

Comparing Lingo and ActionScript, Part I by Gary Rosenzweig, March 15, 2001

Queueing Net Operations by Will Turnage, March 12, 2001

Using Director with Databases Part 4 by Gary Rosenzweig, March 8, 2001

Hammers Within Hammers: Dynamic Hierarchical Structures in Flash by Darrel Plant, March 6, 2001

Making Your Own Film Loops by Will Turnage, March 5, 2001

Motion Blur, Part I: Multiple Sprites by Andy Purviance, March 1, 2001

Creating an Odometer by Will Turnage, February 27, 2001

Flash Forward 2001 Highlights by Darrel Plant, February 23, 2001

Using Director with Databases: Part 3 by Gary Rosenzweig, February 23, 2001

Perspective Based Lingo Mazes: The Director Dungeon Crawl by Andrew M. Phelps, February 22, 2001

Where do I put all this code? by Will Turnage, February 19, 2001

Using Director with Databases: Part 2 by Gary Rosenzweig, February 14, 2001

Raytracing in Lingo: Silly Spheres with Sexy Shadows by Andrew M. Phelps, February 14, 2001

Creating your own sound controls by Will Turnage, February 12, 2001

Using Director with Databases: Part 1 by Gary Rosenzweig, February 8, 2001

Isometric Views in Director: Theory and Game Application by Charles Forman, February 6, 2001

Dynamically Resizing a Projector by Will Turnage, February 5, 2001

Matching Text to Screen Positions by Gary Rosenzweig, February 1, 2001

Passing string variables from Flash to Director by Ryan Todd, January 31, 2001

Collecting information from sprites by Will Turnage, January 29, 2001

Rolling Text by Gary Rosenzweig, January 24, 2001

Behavior Initializers 2: runPropertyDialog by Brennan Young, January 24, 2001

Creating a typing test by Will Turnage, January 23, 2001

Linking Multiple Text Entry Fields by Gary Rosenzweig, January 17, 2001

What is the EZIO Board? by Paul Catanese, January 16, 2001

Calling behaviors and objects directly by Will Turnage, January 14, 2001

Creating a Radar Sweep Effect by Gary Rosenzweig, January 8, 2001

Creating a Movie In A Window by Will Turnage, January 8, 2001

Behavior Initializers by Brennan Young, January 4, 2001

2001 New Year's Resolutions by Zac Belado, January 3, 2001

Creating Ripples with Imaging Lingo by Gary Rosenzweig, December 13, 2000

Uuencoding/Uudecoding with Director by Krister Olsson, December 12, 2000

Creating a Slider Bar for Text by Will Turnage, December 10, 2000

Capturing Double Clicks with Lingo by Gary Rosenzweig, December 6, 2000

Detecting QuickTime by Zac Belado, December 5, 2000

Racing in a Figure Eight by Will Turnage, December 3, 2000

Building game displays by Zac Belado, November 28, 2000

Keyfinder Utility by Pat McClellan, November 26, 2000

Asking a Question with the MUI Xtra by Gary Rosenzweig, November 14, 2000

Relative filenames for linked members by Pat McClellan, November 12, 2000

Simple encryption for Shockwave games by Jim Hayes, November 9, 2000

Animated Bubble Background by Gary Rosenzweig, November 7, 2000

Some Fuss, Some MUS by Alan Levine, November 7, 2000

Slider control behavior by Pat McClellan, November 5, 2000

Customize getPropertyDescriptionList dialogs by Reda Choukairi, November 2, 2000

The Circle Out Transition by Gary Rosenzweig, November 2, 2000

getPropertyDescriptionList tips by Pat McClellan, October 29, 2000

Creating a Soft Wipe by Gary Rosenzweig, October 24, 2000

Multi-track cycling animation by Pat McClellan, October 22, 2000

Using Hidden Debugging Tools by Gary Rosenzweig, October 18, 2000

Multimedia made to order by Mark Daggett, October 17, 2000

Simulating icon selection and drag selection by Pat McClellan, October 15, 2000

Creating a Random List by Gary Rosenzweig, October 11, 2000

Create Particle Systems Dynamically by Charles Forman, October 10, 2000

Scaling text members with imaging by Pat McClellan, October 9, 2000

No Fuss, No MUS by Alan Levine, October 4, 2000

Poaching Adobe's RGB Color Picker by Tim Bank, October 1, 2000

Restricting Behaviors to the Proper Sprites by Gary Rosenzweig, August 30, 2000

Telnet using Director by Daniel Cummings, August 29, 2000

keyDown Navigation with Logic by Pat McClellan, August 27, 2000

Using Score Labels to Create Navigation Buttons by Gary Rosenzweig, August 23, 2000

From Photoshop layers to Flash 4 symbols by Mike Weiland, August 22, 2000

A Button Behavior with a Visited State by Gary Rosenzweig, August 17, 2000

Using RGB colors in behaviors by Zac Belado, August 15, 2000

Vertically centering text by Pat McClellan, August 14, 2000

Making a Magnifying Glass by Gary Rosenzweig, August 9, 2000

By no stretch of the animation by Frank Di Luzio, August 8, 2000

Navigating a Flash member by Pat McClellan, August 6, 2000

Using the fileXtra: Part 2 by Zac Belado, August 2, 2000

Text Files and the FileIO Xtra by Gary Rosenzweig, August 1, 2000

Shopping cart behaviors by Pat McClellan, July 30, 2000

Using the fileXtra: Part 1 by Zac Belado, July 26, 2000

Flash + Director = not quite so slow by Gary Rosenzweig, July 25, 2000

3D Shockwave? James Khazar gives us details by the DOUG staff, July 25, 2000

Skewing an elipse by Pat McClellan, July 23, 2000

Limiting text input by Gary Rosenzweig, July 19, 2000

Building your own dialog boxes with MUI Xtra by Robert Wingate, July 18, 2000

Survey says...PostNetText it! by Alan Levine, July 17, 2000

Dynamic width adjustment of text members by Pat McClellan, July 16, 2000

Flash + Director = Slow by Gary Rosenzweig, July 12, 2000

Using the value() function by Zac Belado, July 11, 2000

Spreadsheet Lingo by Pat McClellan, July 9, 2000

Making timers that display in Time format by Gary Rosenzweig, July 6, 2000

Manipulating an embedded Flash movie by Tim Friedmann, July 3, 2000

Scrolling icon menus by Pat McClellan, July 2, 2000

Using Date Objects and HTML to Make Calendars by Gary Rosenzweig, June 28, 2000

Printing using FDF forms by Doug Brown, June 28, 2000

Dynamic cast assignment by Pat McClellan, June 25, 2000

Using the randomSeed by Gary Rosenzweig, June 21, 2000

Look, no sprites! by James Newton, June 20, 2000

This Year's Model by Zac Belado, June 19, 2000

Discovering locZ by Pat McClellan, June 18, 2000

Using Date Objects by Gary Rosenzweig, June 14, 2000

Using the Director Debugger by Irv Kalb, June 13, 2000

Pause, continue and Flash interaction by Pat McClellan, June 11, 2000

Comparing Text Display Methods by Gary Rosenzweig, June 7, 2000

Automating the localization process by Christopher Schmidt, June 6, 2000

Memory Management Techniques by Pat McClellan, June 4, 2000

Creating Starfields and Galaxies from Scratch by Gary Rosenzweig, May 31, 2000

The Physics of an Elastic: Part 2 by Danny Kodicek, May 30, 2000

Progress Bar Penalty/Reward by Pat McClellan, May 29, 2000

The Physics of an Elastic: Part 1 by Danny Kodicek, May 24, 2000

Lengthening sounds with internal loops by Gary Rosenzweig, May 23, 2000

Censoring User Input by Pat McClellan, May 21, 2000

Text Auto-Completion by Gary Rosenzweig, May 17, 2000

Intro to Imaging Lingo: Part 2 by Zac Belado, May 16, 2000

Text Trailing Effect by Pat McClellan, May 14, 2000

Lingo Collision Detection, Part 3 by Gary Rosenzweig, May 10, 2000

Sprite Magazine Object by Robert Wingate, May 9, 2000

Touch screen text input by Pat McClellan, May 7, 2000

Lingo Collision Detection, Part 2 by Gary Rosenzweig, May 3, 2000

Intro to Imaging Lingo: Part 1 by Zac Belado, May 3, 2000

I Want Real Looking Menus! by Alan Levine, May 1, 2000

Making thumbnail images by Pat McClellan, April 30, 2000

Lingo Collision Detection, Part 1 by Gary Rosenzweig, April 26, 2000

Ink Well by Frank Di Luzio, April 24, 2000

Superscript in Text members by Pat McClellan, April 23, 2000

Simon Says by Gary Rosenzweig, April 19, 2000

Movie variables and sprite.name by Rob Romanek, April 18, 2000

I love you just the way you were by Zac Belado, April 17, 2000

Scrolling Images using Imaging Lingo by Pat McClellan, April 16, 2000

""Goo" With Director 8 by Gary Rosenzweig, April 12, 2000

Preloading Xtras for Shockwave by Doug Brown, April 11, 2000

Me, my code and I by Pat McClellan, April 9, 2000

Using Lingo to Create Brownian Noise by Gary Rosenzweig, April 5, 2000

Pitching an Idea by Colin Holgate, April 4, 2000

Image scroller by Pat McClellan, April 2, 2000

Shining a Flashlight with Alpha Channels by Gary Rosenzweig, March 29, 2000

Putting your Director project on a CD-ROM: Part 2 by Will Turnage, March 28, 2000

Knocking on Opportunity's Door by Pat McClellan, March 27, 2000

Poker Evaluation by Pat McClellan, March 26, 2000

Building a Game: Sprite Invaders: Part 3 by Gary Rosenzweig, March 22, 2000

Putting your Director project on a CD-ROM: Part 1 by Will Turnage, March 21, 2000

X-Box. More than just a console by Zac Belado, March 20, 2000

Forms, Text Parsing, and email by Pat McClellan, March 19, 2000

Building a Game: Sprite Invaders: Part 2 by Gary Rosenzweig, March 15, 2000

Multilingual bookmarks by Michel Croibier, March 14, 2000

Jigsaw Puzzle behavior by Pat McClellan, March 12, 2000

Using property lists by Zac Belado, March 8, 2000

Building a Game: Sprite Invaders: Part 1 by Gary Rosenzweig, March 7, 2000

Is Director Dead? by Alan Levine, March 6, 2000

Cannon and Bullet Behaviors by Pat McClellan, March 5, 2000

Table Manners by Gary Rosenzweig, March 1, 2000

Pacman-style games in Director by Mika Tuupola, February 29, 2000

Random numbers, list operations, and math puzzles by Pat McClellan, February 27, 2000

Director 8 First Look: Part 2 by Zac Belado, February 24, 2000

Vector Member Fireworks by Gary Rosenzweig, February 22, 2000

Towers of Hanoi game by Pat McClellan, February 20, 2000

Director 8 First Look: Part 1 by Zac Belado, February 13, 2000

Welcome to the Lingo Lounge by Gary Rosenzweig, February 13, 2000

Number Sorting by Pat McClellan, February 13, 2000

Is anything really "OK for All Movies?" by Steve Kury, February 9, 2000

Soup to Nuts: Where's the Value? by Pat McClellan, February 7, 2000

Steering with Momentum by Pat McClellan, February 6, 2000

The Physics of an Elastic Collision (Part 2) by Raman Pfaff, February 1, 2000

Steering Control Behavior by Pat McClellan, January 31, 2000

Sprite Management by Zac Belado, January 25, 2000

Reality check by Zac Belado, January 24, 2000

Proximity Monsters by Pat McClellan, January 23, 2000

Using databases with the Multiuser Server by Doug Brown, January 19, 2000

Text Entry Behavior by Pat McClellan, January 16, 2000

A framework for functions by Chris Griffith, January 11, 2000

What's Between Your Faces? by Alan Levine, January 10, 2000

Quiz with random order and text evaluation by Pat McClellan, January 9, 2000

Sending email in Director by Zac Belado, January 5, 2000

The More Things Change... by Pat McClellan, January 3, 2000

ScrollTop triggered member swap with sound by Pat McClellan, January 2, 2000

The CBT Primer by Jim Rudnick, December 21, 1999

High Score Strategies by Pat McClellan, December 19, 1999

Simulating turbulent particle behavior with Lingo by Glenn Mitchell, December 14, 1999

1999 Interesting Things column by Zac Belado, December 13, 1999

Flash-Lingo integration by Pat McClellan, December 12, 1999

Shockwave VR with a grip by Jean-François Cloutier, December 6, 1999

PIN entry by Pat McClellan, December 5, 1999

Scrolling text with Graphics by Mario Victor, November 30, 1999

A Look Inside Macromedia by Pat McClellan, November 29, 1999

Formatting Text with Lingo by Pat McClellan, November 28, 1999

The physics of an elastic collision: Part I by Raman Pfaff, November 22, 1999

Password entry and validation by Pat McClellan, November 21, 1999

Hyperlinks in Director 7 by Zac Belado, November 16, 1999

When the web isn't by Zac Belado, November 15, 1999

More Maze Game behaviors by Pat McClellan, November 14, 1999

Information Technology: Controlling information in Director by Danny Kodicek, November 9, 1999

Time Management: the inherent paradox by Pat McClellan, November 8, 1999

Calendar functions by Pat McClellan, November 7, 1999

PDF Documents inside Director by Mike Weiland, November 2, 1999

More Fun with Maze Games by Pat McClellan, October 31, 1999

Reusable UI elements in Flash 4 by Jim Hayes, October 26, 1999

REALbasic 2.0.2 by Zac Belado, October 25, 1999

Collector Game Status Test by Pat McClellan, October 24, 1999

Beyond Desktop Video by Brennan Young, October 19, 1999

Browser. This is Shockwave! I said Print, Damnit! by Alan Levine, October 18, 1999

Matching game behaviors by Pat McClellan, October 17, 1999

Data Cast Members by Irv Kalb, October 12, 1999

Slot machine simulation by Pat McClellan, October 10, 1999

Linked Director Movies by Rob Romanek, October 6, 1999

Crisis Management 101 by Pat McClellan, October 4, 1999

Random Access by Pat McClellan, October 3, 1999

PseudoCode Works! by Jim Rudnick, September 28, 1999

XML and you by Zac Belado, September 27, 1999

Time based progress bar by Pat McClellan, September 26, 1999

Multidimensional Arrays - Answering the challenge by Irv Kalb, September 21, 1999

Typewriter Effect modification by Pat McClellan, September 19, 1999

Making the Connection: Multiuser Syntax by Doug Brown, September 14, 1999

My So-Called Life with Director by Alan Levine, September 13, 1999

Auto-indexing User Text Entry by Pat McClellan, September 12, 1999

Saving game states with objects by CC Chamberlin, September 7, 1999

The Seven Habits of Moderately Successful Geeks by Pat McClellan, September 7, 1999

Free range maze monsters by Pat McClellan, September 5, 1999

Flash Text in Director by Eric Coker, August 31, 1999

Creating a sound channel server for puppetSounds by Pat McClellan, August 29, 1999

Debugging Projectors Using the traceLogFile by Will Turnage, August 24, 1999

Getting the (Power)Point by Fred Bals, August 23, 1999

Sequential image animation by Pat McClellan, August 22, 1999

How much is that download in the window? by Zac Belado, August 17, 1999

When free isn't by Zac Belado, August 16, 1999

Lists for Item collection in a Game by Pat McClellan, August 15, 1999

Client Relationship Management by Pat McClellan, August 9, 1999

Controlling the Shockwave Remote by Zac Belado, August 8, 1999

Parsing Text and Lists by Pat McClellan, August 8, 1999

A New Dimension: 3D Lingo in Director by David Cole, August 3, 1999

Screen Saver by Pat McClellan, August 1, 1999

Smart Property Description Lists by Chuck Neal, July 27, 1999

shockwave.com: The next big thing? by Pat McClellan, July 26, 1999

Multiple Timer Behavior by Pat McClellan, July 25, 1999

Multiuser - Asynchronous Coding by Doug Brown, July 20, 1999

Taking responsibility by Zac Belado, July 19, 1999

Dynamic Vector Drawing by Pat McClellan, July 18, 1999

Bodies, Rest, and Motion by Raman Pfaff, July 13, 1999

Timing multiple events by Pat McClellan, July 11, 1999

Into the Nth dimension by Brennan Young, July 7, 1999

Shockwave for Algernon by Zac Belado, July 5, 1999

Pixel operations: getPixel and setPixel by Pat McClellan, July 4, 1999

Button. Button. How do I code this button? by Irv Kalb, June 29, 1999

Drag to Click Dial Rotate by Pat McClellan, June 27, 1999

Salary: How much should I be making? by Pat McClellan, June 23, 1999

Director 7: color object by Zac Belado, June 21, 1999

TimeOut, timer scripts and timer objects by Pat McClellan, June 20, 1999

Inter-sprite Communications by James Newton, June 15, 1999

Tongue lashing monster behaviors by Pat McClellan, June 13, 1999

Non-rectangular MIAWs by Mark Reijnders, June 8, 1999

The Yin and Yang of Information Systems by Zac Belado, June 7, 1999

User entry key filtering by Pat McClellan, June 6, 1999

Saving a User's State from a Shockwave Movie by Mike Weiland, June 1, 1999

Acme Multimedia vs. Brand X by Pat McClellan, May 31, 1999

Game Spinner by Pat McClellan, May 30, 1999

Now you see it. Now you don't! by Irv Kalb, May 24, 1999

OpenSpace 3D Review by John Elstad, May 24, 1999

Vector Shape Morphing by Pat McClellan, May 24, 1999

Shopping Cart for Director by Jim Rudnick, May 19, 1999

Arrow Keys for Game Play by Pat McClellan, May 17, 1999

Fun with FileIO by Fred Bals, May 12, 1999

Getting the most out of UCON by Pat McClellan, May 10, 1999

Drag 'n Drop into a List by Pat McClellan, May 9, 1999

Integrating with Cold Fusion by Zac Belado, May 4, 1999

Dangerous at any throughput by Zac Belado, May 3, 1999

Paint Bucket Behaviors by Pat McClellan, May 2, 1999

Director 7: Vector Shapes by Will Turnage, April 26, 1999

Grabbing the mouseWord by Pat McClellan, April 25, 1999

Using the BinaryIO Xtra to create binary files by Michael Geary, April 20, 1999

RegPoint Kaleidoscope by Pat McClellan, April 18, 1999

Private property by Frank Di Luzio, April 13, 1999

Green beans and Pentium IIIs by Zac Belado, April 12, 1999

Group drag sprites by Pat McClellan, April 12, 1999

More black magic by Frank Di Luzio, April 6, 1999

One Day at a Time by Pat McClellan, April 5, 1999

Dynamic sprite re-ordering by Pat McClellan, April 4, 1999

Vector Shapes as Animation Tools by Will Turnage, March 30, 1999

Scrollbar Cast Cycling by Pat McClellan, March 28, 1999

Crossing Platforms: Pitfalls and Priorities by Tommy Kiser, March 23, 1999

Deciding on DSL by Mark Castle, March 22, 1999

Counting down to the end of the world by Pat McClellan, March 22, 1999

director[7].syntax by Zac Belado, March 16, 1999

Hey Browser it's Me! Shockwave? Hello? by Alan Levine, March 16, 1999

Random Shuffle Memory Match by Pat McClellan, March 14, 1999

Why Use Lists? by Judi Taugher, March 9, 1999

EZI/O Board by Gavin Sade, March 8, 1999

Multi-rect Sprite Constraint by Pat McClellan, March 7, 1999

Alpha Channel Importing in Director 7 by Andrew White, March 2, 1999

Movie Credit Scroller by Pat McClellan, February 28, 1999

Object Oriented Sprite Modeling by Paul Hemmer, February 23, 1999

3D in Director by Alex Zavatone, February 23, 1999

Maze Behaviors by Pat McClellan, February 22, 1999

Director 7 Sprite Follies by Zac Belado, February 16, 1999

Quiet Gratitude by Zac Belado, February 15, 1999

Tweening sprite motion by Pat McClellan, February 14, 1999

Save as Java by Steve Kury, February 9, 1999

BOGOs Product Endorsement and other Marketing Options for Freelancers by Pat McClellan, February 9, 1999

Property lists and passwords by Pat McClellan, February 7, 1999

Orderly Behaviors by Alex Zavatone, February 3, 1999

A popup soundLevel utility by Pat McClellan, January 31, 1999

A customized Movie-In-A-Window that can be dragged anywhere on the screen by Paul Hemmer, January 27, 1999

Confessions of a beta tester by Zac Belado, January 25, 1999

Whack a mole by Pat McClellan, January 24, 1999

Making Score Recording Work for You! by Chris Griffith, January 19, 1999

Copy files in Director by Pat McClellan, January 17, 1999

Understanding Director Basics by Alex Zavatone, January 12, 1999

Moving the digital homestead by Zac Belado, January 11, 1999

Learning to crawl by Pat McClellan, January 10, 1999

PowerPoint in a Window by Fred Bals, January 5, 1999

Predictions Priorities and Perspective by Pat McClellan, January 4, 1999

Curved motion scroller by Pat McClellan, January 3, 1999

Technology Lag by Alex Zavatone, December 29, 1998

Creating the Ultimate Button by Alex Zavatone, December 23, 1998

Protect your work by Pat McClellan, December 20, 1998

Building the Right Database For Your Director Application by Tommy Kiser, December 15, 1998

Finally giving a fair share of attention to the Intel world by Alex Zavatone, December 14, 1998

Flash Asset-Lingo communications by Pat McClellan, December 13, 1998

Je ne comprend pas by Zac Belado, December 10, 1998

The Macintosh Powerbook G3 by Alex Zavatone, December 7, 1998

A sprite blend behaviour by Pat McClellan, December 6, 1998

Lingo in a Nutshell by Zac Belado, December 3, 1998

Turn off sprites on a mouseDown by Pat McClellan, December 3, 1998

Using databases to drive multimedia projects by Michael Geary, December 1, 1998

Animate buttons on a rollover by Pat McClellan, November 22, 1998

Education and clocks by Alan Levine, November 20, 1998

Where oh where did my globals go? by Alex Zavatone, November 18, 1998

Link matching sprites by Pat McClellan, November 16, 1998

To global or not to global? by Alex Zavatone, November 12, 1998

Guidelines for your Dog and Pony Show by Pat McClellan, November 10, 1998

Searching through a property list by Pat McClellan, November 9, 1998

The Travelling Programmer by Alex Zavatone, November 4, 1998

Piecharts and Director by Michael Geary, November 3, 1998

Randomly bouncing sprites by Pat McClellan, November 2, 1998

Free Xtras for everyone! by Brian Gray, October 29, 1998

Imagemaps in Director by Alex Zavatone, October 28, 1998

Behaviors party manners by Pat McClellan, October 26, 1998

Controlling the insertion point location by Alex Zavatone, October 21, 1998

How to do storyboards in Director by Alan Levine, October 20, 1998

Spinning virtual objects by Pat McClellan, October 19, 1998

Happy Birthday to us by Alex Zavatone, October 16, 1998

Pointer Operations in Lingo by Brennan Young, October 14, 1998

Learning lessons from a changing market by Pat McClellan, October 13, 1998

Modifying a behavior's property dialog box by Pat McClellan, October 12, 1998

Some of my best friends are developers by Zac Belado, October 9, 1998

Object Oriented Debugging in Director by Zac Belado, October 8, 1998

Glowing sprites by Pat McClellan, October 5, 1998

mBed Interactor by Gavin Sade, October 3, 1998

Make your own screen savers by Pat McClellan, October 3, 1998

A Year in Paradise by Pat McClellan, October 1, 1998

MPEG and Director: by Al Hospers, October 1, 1998

FilmStrips by Pat McClellan, September 28, 1998

Soft Masking Technique and Drop Shadow by Frank Di Luzio, September 24, 1998

Have Joystick. Will travel by Pat McClellan, September 21, 1998

Perl or How I learned to stop fearing and love CGIs by Alan Levine, September 20, 1998

Sprite channels by Zac Belado, September 17, 1998

Drag and Drop puzzles by Pat McClellan, September 14, 1998

Editable Rich Text Engine by Alex Zavatone, September 10, 1998

What was that sound? by Zac Belado, September 9, 1998

Wheels go spinnin’ by Pat McClellan, September 7, 1998

The Do' and Don't of Interviewing by Bret Wright, September 6, 1998

Age Wisdom and What We Do With It by Alex Zavatone, September 4, 1998

Matt Cave's Director Development Tools by Zac Belado, September 3, 1998

Fetching External Media for Shockwave by Alex Zavatone, September 3, 1998

Generator? by Pat McClellan, August 31, 1998

Unglobals by Brennan Young, August 27, 1998

Memory by Pat McClellan, August 24, 1998

A memory space of one's own by Alan Levine, August 20, 1998

Authortime Assignment of Property Dialog Box Defaults in Director 6 by Andy Rose, August 20, 1998

Spotlights by Pat McClellan, August 17, 1998

Hot under the color by James Newton, August 13, 1998

External casts by Pat McClellan, August 10, 1998

May I have the envelope please? by Zac Belado, August 9, 1998

Negotiating Tactics: by Pat McClellan, August 6, 1998

Protecting your Shockwave from Pirates by Alex Zavatone, August 6, 1998

Really nice people by Alex Zavatone, August 4, 1998

The Lingo Programmer's Reference by Zac Belado, August 3, 1998

Multi-state switches by Pat McClellan, August 3, 1998

V12 Whitepaper by Paul Hemmer, July 30, 1998

Panning a large graphic by Pat McClellan, July 27, 1998

Upgrade. Upgrade. Upgrade by Alex Zavatone, July 23, 1998

Random numbers by Alan Levine, July 20, 1998

Tracking multiple users by Pat McClellan, July 20, 1998

The Joy of Look Up Tables by Alex Zavatone, July 16, 1998

Importing Graphics by Pat McClellan, July 13, 1998

Fly me to the moon by Zac Belado, July 9, 1998

"A Bug's Life" by Alex Zavatone, July 9, 1998

Job Security the Easter Bunny and Other Myths by Pat McClellan, July 6, 1998

Multiple rollOver sounds by Pat McClellan, July 6, 1998

Director's Grand Unification Theory by Alex Zavatone, July 4, 1998

Interactive filmLoops by James Newton, July 2, 1998

Adjusting volume with a slider by Pat McClellan, June 29, 1998

Memory Managment in Director by Alex Zavatone, June 25, 1998

Swarming the mouse by Pat McClellan, June 22, 1998

Auto-scaling sprites for a MIAW by Pat McClellan, June 18, 1998

Snap to a sprite by Pat McClellan, June 15, 1998

Using the streamStatus function by Rett Crocker, June 11, 1998

Giving it away by Zac Belado, June 9, 1998

Renaming castMembers by Pat McClellan, June 8, 1998

Watch Your Egg Basket! by Pat McClellan, June 6, 1998

For the want of a Browser Flag... by Alex Zavatone, June 4, 1998

Writing Structured Code and Using Structure in Development by the DOUG staff, June 4, 1998

Cross-platform sound by Pat McClellan, June 1, 1998

Wrapper Classes for Third Party Components by Paul Hemmer, May 28, 1998

Keeping your sounds in line by Pat McClellan, May 25, 1998

Easy Shockwave previews by Alex Zavatone, May 21, 1998

Get the Mouse! by Pat McClellan, May 18, 1998

OOP and Avatars by Peter Small, May 14, 1998

Editable custom scrolling fields by Pat McClellan, May 11, 1998

What you don't know can hurt you by Zac Belado, May 9, 1998

A suitable frame by Zac Belado, May 9, 1998

Designing for Reuse with Inheritance by Paul Hemmer, May 7, 1998

So What's All This Gonna Cost? by Pat McClellan, May 6, 1998

Productivity Aids by Alex Zavatone, May 4, 1998

Zipping up by Pat McClellan, May 4, 1998

DIY OOP by Zac Belado, April 30, 1998

Repeat loop blues by Pat McClellan, April 27, 1998

Dynamic cast updating by Pat McClellan, April 20, 1998

Callback procedures by Andrew White, April 16, 1998

Keeping a poker face by Pat McClellan, April 13, 1998

Forward to the Future! by Zac Belado, April 9, 1998

The Chicken or the Portfolio: by Pat McClellan, April 6, 1998

Thinking in an OOP way by Pat McClellan, April 6, 1998

Destructive Recursion by Alex Zavatone, April 4, 1998

Speed controlled single frame animations by Steve Kury, April 2, 1998

DIY Slide Shows by Pat McClellan, March 30, 1998

Pop'n Fresh! by Peter Wolfrum, March 26, 1998

Cross platform fun by Pat McClellan, March 23, 1998

Searching a field by Pat McClellan, March 16, 1998

Shockwave Chat by Andrew White, March 12, 1998

Let the eat Java by Zac Belado, March 9, 1998

text to URLs by Pat McClellan, March 9, 1998

Do unto your clients before they do unto you by Pat McClellan, March 6, 1998

Repeat Basics by Alex Zavatone, March 4, 1998

Rollover sounds and things that go "bump" in the night by Pat McClellan, March 2, 1998

Z-ordering by Alex Zavatone, February 26, 1998

A history question by Pat McClellan, February 23, 1998

A math question by Pat McClellan, February 16, 1998

IE4 mouseUp workaround by Andrew White, February 12, 1998

Windows 98? by Zac Belado, February 9, 1998

the Object Oriented Paradigm Shift by Paul Hemmer, February 5, 1998

Oh how we underestimate things by Alex Zavatone, February 4, 1998

Not quite Director by Bill Ford, January 29, 1998

Flash Asset Xtra by Pat McClellan, January 22, 1998

Even more Flash by David Calaprice, January 15, 1998

Loading a Shockwave game by Pat McClellan, January 15, 1998

Director 7? by Zac Belado, January 9, 1998

Dissolving behaviors by Pat McClellan, January 8, 1998

Go OOP Young Man by Alex Zavatone, January 4, 1998

Efficient button rollovers by Alex Zavatone, January 1, 1998

Scrolling behaviours by Pat McClellan, January 1, 1998

Dragging multiple sprites by Alex Zavatone, December 25, 1997

Taking out extra spaces by Pat McClellan, December 25, 1997

Making a quiz by Pat McClellan, December 18, 1997

Internet Operations Management by Steve Kury, December 11, 1997

Generating Messages by Pat McClellan, December 11, 1997

The next killer app by Zac Belado, December 9, 1997

Pat's 1998 Predictions by Pat McClellan, December 6, 1997

mouseDelta by Alex Zavatone, December 4, 1997

Anti-aliasing by Alex Zavatone, December 4, 1997

Keeping time by Pat McClellan, December 4, 1997

Changing Fonts by Matthew Cave, November 27, 1997

Shockwave Communication by Pat McClellan, November 27, 1997

MUI Xtra by Pat McClellan, November 20, 1997

Object Oriented Scripting by Alex Zavatone, November 13, 1997

Cursors and behaviours by Pat McClellan, November 13, 1997

How the web was lost by Zac Belado, November 9, 1997

preLoadNetThing by Alex Zavatone, November 6, 1997

Autorun by Pat McClellan, November 6, 1997

Your next OS? by Alex Zavatone, November 4, 1997

Understanding Director 6 by the DOUG staff, October 30, 1997

Color cursors by Pat McClellan, October 30, 1997

Waiting for my QT by Pat McClellan, October 23, 1997

Variables in Director by Alex Zavatone, October 16, 1997

ExitLock by Pat McClellan, October 16, 1997

Golden Gate dreams by Pat McClellan, October 9, 1997

Creating a button behaviour by Alex Zavatone, October 9, 1997

Teapot 7 by Stephen Taylor, October 4, 1997

Mac font display in Director by Alex Zavatone, October 2, 1997

DIY Web serving by Alex Zavatone, September 25, 1997

Is Java dead? by Zac Belado, September 9, 1997

Sit and be humble with me by Alex Zavatone, September 4, 1997

Looking at Lingo: Part 2 by Zac Belado, August 9, 1997

id Director and a Texas state of mind by Alex Zavatone, August 4, 1997

Looking at Lingo: Part 1 by Zac Belado, July 9, 1997

OS wars by Zac Belado, June 9, 1997

Stupid Director Tricks by Zac Belado, June 9, 1997

Browser Wars by Pat McClellan, May 9, 1997

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