Lingo Linkshttp://www.macromedia.com/support/director/docstuff/errata/. See part 1 of 'Learning Lingo Fixes' by Michael Scaramozzino, DreamLight Incorporated: http://www.dreamlight.com/insights/07/llmfixes.htm.I'm currently working on part 2 of ' Learning Lingo Fixes': More than 150 additional corrections to that handbook! a) Study and understand all the Director handbooks, and especially learn the "Lingo Dictionary" by heart. And keep the 4.0 Dictionary, it has valuable information on many Lingo elements plus a Quick Index that all got lost since then... ;-) b) Carefully study all of Director's "Read Me" files, over and over again, even the old ones... ;-) c) Download and study Macromedia's "Director Knowledge Base" from one of the Macromedia online places: http://www.macromedia.com/support/director or http://support.macromedia.com/director, CIS: go MACROMEDIA, MSN: Goto Macromedia. d) Download and study as many " TechNotes" from Macromedia Technical Support on Director as you can get hold of, like TN #3135 'Director Top 30 Questions', TN #3174 'Director and Palettes', TN #3129 'Debugging Director', TN #3180 'Director FAQ about texts and fields', TN #3184 'Member vs. Membernum', TN #3125 'Using the searchPath in Director', etc. (Hm, haven't done that myself for a while now...) e) Regularly read, download, and study the "Director Web" Internet site ( http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/director), especially the 'Director FAQ' there. This is also the place to sign onto the 'DIRECT-L' mailing list for Director orientated discussions. f) Check out all the other interesting Director online places mentioned at the "Director Web". g) Frequently check out Gretchen Macdowell's "601 Quirks" for a list of problems with Director ( www.updatestage.com/buglist.html). She moved the "501 Quirks" to www.updatestage.com/501list.html. h) Subscribe the "Lingo User's Journal" by Tab Julius. It has articles for Lingo beginners as well as for experts ( http://www.penworks.com/). And join Tab's Lingo Mailing List <lingo-l>, which now is also available in digested form at www.penworks.com. Not to mention Tab's "Global Lingo Dictionary" of Global Lingo commands provided by commercial Xtras at www.penworks.com/LUJ/glingo/. i) Get the book "Inside Director..." by Lee Allis, Gretchen Macdowell a.o. from New Riders Publishing ( http://www.mcp.com/newriders/gm2/macromedia/macromedia.html#lingo, additonal info at www.updatestage.com/idl.html). There is a 6.0 version out now. j) Get the book "Lingo!" by Tab Julius (written 1996) from New Riders Publishing, a really nice introduction and still worth its money for the 6.0 Director version ( http://www.mcp.com/newriders/gm2/macromedia/macromedia.html#lingo).
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