This is a job for Director MX.
McDonalds,
Toyota,
BMW,
Toys
R Us, Harry
Potter, Mattel,
Disney.
All of these companies and countless others have turned
to Macromedia Director during its 14-year history—to
get a job done that was otherwise not possible without
this powerful application. Since the 1980s, Director
has enabled businesses to use multiple media types
to communicate messages effectively. It's just that
simple. Director allows businesses to communicate
with customers in the most interactive and engaging
ways possible.
Fourteen years later, still going strong
Director MX is a completely up-to-date application
that is just as fresh today as the day it was born.
And now it has joined the MX product family with a
new user interface and tight integration with the
other MX products to ensure that developers can create
effective rich content and applications.
With Director MX, you can make content accessible
to computer users who have hearing, visual, or mobility
impairments by using text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities
(with the new Speech Xtra), captioning, and completely
customizable tab navigation.
Powerful
Director MX allows you build your project
efficiently for the web (through Shockwave Player)
or as a stand-alone application. Create presentations,
applications, and games using the media you prefer—audio,
video, graphics of all sorts—the choice is yours.
Then, deliver your content wherever your message
makes the most impact.
Don't waste development time recreating content for
every platform and delivery method. With Director,
author your content and your users can view it wherever
they are—whether they are on the web, playing
a CD/DVD, or using a kiosk.
Powerful means you're never limited by the application.
Director is completely extensible through extensions
called Xtras. There are hundreds of Xtras available
to take your projects in whatever direction you choose.
For instance, if you want to add joysticks to a kiosk-based
project, you can...if you use Director.
Integrated
Macromedia knows that many developers use Macromedia
Flash and Director together, but that the workflow
between these products has not been as streamlined
as it could be—until now. In this release, Macromedia
has optimized the workflow and process.
With Director MX, developers can now import Macromedia
Flash MX files and then edit them quickly and efficiently
with the new Macromedia Flash launch and edit functionality.
Additionally, Director developers can now access and
control elements in a Macromedia Flash movie from
directly within the Director application, using Lingo
control over Macromedia Flash objects. Learn more
about these features in Mark
Fletcher's Director MX video tutorials.
For instance, if you were to insert a Macromedia
Flash movie that has a blue house and then you decide
to change it to green, you can change its color from
within Director without having to launch Macromedia
Flash. If you want to create a Macromedia Flash XML
socket to use in Director, you can create it in Lingo.
Developers now have more control over how they use
these applications together.
Director applications can even connect to servers
including ColdFusion MX and Macromedia Flash Communication
Server MX. Director MX includes a copy of Macromedia
Flash Communication Server MX Personal Edition, so
you can get started right away.
Accessible
Accessibility
is especially important for Director developers, the
vast majority of whom create content that must adhere
to federal accessibility guidelines. Director MX enables
developers to create accessible content in unique
ways. With Director, you can create applications that
are self-voicing for visually-impaired users, tab
navigable for physically-impaired users, and captioned
for hearing-impaired users. The self-voicing capability
does not require a screen reader, thereby broadening
access to accessible content.
You can update existing Director projects easily
to fulfill accessibility guidelines by using drag-and-drop
behaviors in Director. Moreover, accessible Director
applications can be deployed on both Macintosh and
Windows machines in a browser or as stand-alone applications.
Check it out
There's a lot you can do in Director MX—take
the feature
tour and see for yourself.
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