Them changes...
Every technical book has its share of necessary amendations, and the recent
editions of Demystified are no exception. What follows is a list
of clarifications, additions and outright corrections, corresponding to
the page numbers of the first printing of the third edition. You'll find
author's commentary in red throughout.
Some of these
are simple typos and production inconsistencies. A few are the result
of unnoticed changes made to the software itself (there were several beta
versions), and still others are simple, no-excuses author errors. Our
apologies for anything that may serve to sour your learning experience.
We'd like
to thank Hans Steinhau, our German translator, for pointing out many of
these. Next time, we hope to get him involved a little sooner in the process!
Changes/updates
for Director 6 Demystified
Page 67:
Step
1. Should read "Shift-click to select all of channel 2; select "Join Sprite"
from the Modify menu.
[This is a case of a menu change we didn't catch.]
Page 87
Last sentence, last paragraph, should read:
Experiment
with the Font settings in the Modify menu until you've found a suitable
"8" (I used 18 point New York, bold).
[These settings were in a different location in
Director 5.]
Page 103:
The second caption should read:
There'll
be a slight delay: When the playback head enters a frame with a Tempo
channel command, the field above the Tempo channel displays a description.
Page 147:
First sentence. "In the previous chapter" should read "In a previous
chapter".
[Yup, we were juggling the order of chapters until
the last minute!]
Page 197:
3rd paragraph. Should be "by number and name" to "(by number or name)".
Last paragraph
(heading) Should read "Viewing non-sprite info (in D5 mode)"
[The
information in this section is valid only if the "Director 5 display style"
mode is chosen in Director 6.]
Page 211:
Last paragraph. The phrase "Update and Compact." should read simply
"Update."
Page 229:
In the caption, "the Script display mode" should read "The Behavior
display mode."
Last paragraph.
"the upper right-hand corner" should read "to the right of the marker
"gutter"."
Page 251
Step 1. Change to "Open the BINGO.DIR movie that you created earlier."
[In
other words, I want you to open your own "Bingo" movie, not the one included
on the CD-ROM. By the way, some people are reporting that this exercise
doesn't work as described on their machines. It may have to do with the
color-depth settings of your monitor; try changing it to 8-bit color.
If that doesn't do the trick, let me know.]
Page 304:
1st tip box. Change "20 lines of script" to "21 lines of script".
[Guess counting isn't my forte!]
Page 317:
3rd full paragraph. Ignore the sentence "We'll be visiting it in subsequent
pages for "clip script" ideas.
[Actually, we never do visit it again. The "clip
scripts" was a feature we took out of the book as soon as we learned about
Behaviors, since they do more or less the same thing. This passing reference
is all that remains of that earlier draft.]
Page 327:
3rd paragraph. "That's why Lingo that" should read "That's why Lingo".
Page 408:
First graph under heading. Change "a choice in the Events" to "a choice
in the Actions".
Page 416:
[Important: This one
was a real brain-bomb. The dang script won't work unless you invoke newFrame, as below.]
Step 7. Change
text to:
newFrame 3
newFrame 4
newFrame 3
newFrame 5
newFrame 6
newFrame 7
Page 451:
Step
1. Change to "Open the movie "Running."
Page 496:
Last paragraph, last line. Change end birth to
end.
[This
script will work as is, but the term birth is now falling out of favor
with Macromedia.]
Page 502:
Paragraph 4. Change "Using the property count" to
"Using the function count".
[One
of many instances in which I call a function a property, or vice versa.
Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference...and sometimes the distinction
seems almost arbitrary.]
Page 514:
Last paragraph, second sentence. Change "enabled in the "Type" pull-down"
to "enabled in the "Show" pull-down".
[Another case of the interface changing on us.]
Page 517:
4th paragraph. Change both instances of the word "nine" to "six".
Page 552:
Last callout box, last paragraph. Word "Properties" is typoed as "Propertoes".
Page 562:
3rd paragraph. Change "without having to having the master" to " without
having to master".
Page 573:
[Important: Another case
where a typo effects the functionality of the script.}
Step one. Change word showXlibs to
showXlib.
Page 595:
Wrong
caption. Ignore entirely.
[Oops. That cut-and-paste feature is a double-edged
sword.]
Page 634:
First paragraph, fifth sentence. "D6D Intro" should be "6Intro".
[When we burned the CD-ROM, some file names were
changed to the old 8.3 naming convention (for Windows compatibility) out
of force of habit. We forgot that introduced an inconsistency with the
text.]
Page 637:
First graph. "D6D Intro" should be "6Intro".
Page 646:
4th graph. "the"CopyToHD" folder" should be "the"Then copy to your
desktop" folder".
Page 661:
"Keep it lean" bullet point. "Creating the minimum file size" should
be "Creating for the Web".
Page 723:
on endSprite: Delete
"it'll simply execute if one or more new sprites is encountered."
in Notes:
on beginSprite should
be on endSprite.
Page 735:
on RightMouseUp. Phrase
"on rightMouseDown" should be in Lingo script.
In context:
line end if should
be deleted.
Page 737:
In context: line end if should
be deleted.
Page 742:
Last in context: Script is incorrect. should read:
In context:
If an object "lovechild" has been created with "hippie" as an ancestor,
and the "hippie" script included a "hairlength" handler, this would return
that handler's value:
call #hairlength, lovechild
Notes: This
command can call handlers in behavior scripts, parent scripts and ancestors.
Page 743:
First in context: Script is incorrect. should read:
In context:
If an object "lovechild" has been created with "hippie" as an ancestor,
and the "hippie" script included a "hairlength" handler, this would return
that handler's value:
call #hairlength, lovechild
Notes: This
command can only call handlers in ancestor scripts.
Page 755:
First in context: last line
getLast petList
should be
getLast (petList)
Page 766:
play definition:
delete line "play frame of movie [name]".
[This variation of the command used to work in earlier
versions of Director, but doesn't seem to any more.]
Page 778:
First two in contexts: last line of first should read:
scrollByLine member "User List", 7
last line
of second should read:
scrollByPage member "User List", 7
Page 780:
Second
in context: Change to:
setTrackEnabled 1 = 0
Page 829:
First
in context: Term on birth me should
be on new me.
Second purpose:
"Use this property" should be "Use this function".
Page 832:
First purpose: "This property" should be "This function".
Page 842:
Second in context: Second line should be in parenthesis.
Page 855:
The heading "the beep On" should be "the beepOn"
[It's important to pay attention to spaces, or the
lack thereof.]
Page 858:
First elements: Quote marks should be placed around [pathname]
in first line.
Page 868:
First pupose: "expressed in seconds" should read "expressed in milliseconds".
Page 941:
Second in context: in script , "TRUE" should read "FALSE".
[Sheepish grin.]
Page 958:
First in context: Change the ink me to
the ink of me
Page 966:
First
in context, last script line: The line end should
read end repeat.
Page 972:
Last
elements: should read
word [number] of [expression]
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