This movie demonstrates the use of various _key messages and properties to handle keyboard events in Adobe Director Movies. All code in this movie makes use of modern DOM syntax, and various techniques for handling keyboard input are described.

This movie includes a behavior that implements a simple state machine to grow a flower. This script can be easily modified for other 2-state animations.

 

This example illustrates a technique that can be used to randomize a series of numbers so that each one is unique. Real die would of course produce a random value that could be shared by other dice. In this case each mouse click produces a "large straight," to use Yahtzee? terminology.

This movie assembles a story, based on the randomized contents of a series of text files that contain nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. The scripts in this movie can be easily modified to generate interesting and sophisticated stories. The story generated may be optionally spoken by a synthetic computer voice that converts text to speech.

This movie includes a behavior that can be used to associate one sprite with another when one sprite is dragged into the geometric bounding box area of another sprite. This technique and behavior is useful for various matching games and interactive UI elements.