Macromedia Director is a media application created by Macromedia—now part of Adobe Systems. It allows users to build applications built on a movie metaphor, with the user as the "director" of the movie. Originally designed for CD-ROMs and kiosks, it has become more popular for the use of online 3D game development. Image File history File links Directormx2004. ... Download high resolution version (1024x768, 255 KB)Macromedia Director Screenshot This is a screenshot of copyrighted computer software. ... Windows XP is a line of operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on general-purpose computer systems, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, and media centers. ... Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. ... Adobe Systems (pronounced a-DOE-bee IPA: ) (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. Adobe was founded in December 1982[1] by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, who established the company after leaving Xerox PARC in order to develop and sell... Macromedia was an American graphics and web development software house headquartered in San Francisco, California producing such products as Macromedia Flash. ... A software release is the distribution, whether public or private, of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product. ... March 14 is the 73rd day of the year (74th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... // An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... Computer software can be organized into categories based on common function, type, or field of use. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible... Macromedia was an American graphics and web development software house headquartered in San Francisco, California producing such products as Macromedia Flash. ... Adobe Systems (pronounced a-DOE-bee IPA: ) (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. Adobe was founded in December 1982[1] by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, who established the company after leaving Xerox PARC in order to develop and sell... Look up metaphor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Its scripting language Lingo motivated some to use this application. Many companies deliver demonstrations or use it as a user interface (UI) for content on CDs and DVDs. It can incorporate many different file formats (e.g. AVI, BMP, QuickTime, TIFF, PNG, JPEG, RealVideo), making it possible to integrate without re-encoding files. It also supports vector graphics and 3D interactivity (via Shockwave 3D), which can be used for producing games. Version MX and its successors are also easily linked with Flash animation. The name Lingo has been used by several unrelated programming languages. ... A graphical user interface (GUI) is a type of user interface which allows people to interact with a computer and computer-controlled devices which employ graphical icons, visual indicators or special graphical elements called widgets, along with text labels or text navigation to represent the information and actions available to... A Compact Disc or CD is an optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio. ... DVD (Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... AVI, an acronym for Audio Video Interleave, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992, as part of the Video for Windows technology. ... DIB redirects here. ... QuickTime is a multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc. ... This article is about TIFF, the computer image format. ... PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is a bitmapped image format that employs lossless data compression. ... In computing, JPEG (pronounced JAY-peg; IPA: ) is a commonly used standard method of compression for photographic images. ... RealVideo is a proprietary video format developed by RealNetworks. ... It has been suggested that Vector monitor be merged into this article or section. ... Adobe Shockwave (formerly Macromedia Shockwave) was Macromedias first and most successful multimedia player prior to the introduction of Adobe Flash, called Macromedia Flash at that time. ... Adobe Flash, or simply Flash, refers to both the Adobe Flash Player, and to the Adobe Flash Professional multimedia authoring program. ...

Director's functionality can be extended through plug-in applications called Xtras. These can be created by users or purchased from third party vendors. They are created using Macromedia's XDK (Xtra Development Kit), a C++ SDK. Xtras are plug-in applications (alternatively know as extensions, add-ons, or components) for Macromedia products, in particular Macromedia Director or Authorware. ... A Software Development Kit, or SDK for short, is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, operating system or similar. ...

Director started out as MacroMind "VideoWorks", an application for the original Apple Macintosh. Its name was changed to "Director" in 1987, with the addition of new capabilities and the Lingo scripting language in 1988. A Windows version was available in the early 1990s. MacroMind was an Apple Macintosh software company founded in Chicago in 1984 by Marc Canter, Jay Fenton and Mark Stephen Pierce. ... The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac. The Macintosh or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ...

One type of file created by Director can be viewed in a web browser using the Shockwave plugin. These files have a .DCR extension. Macromedia Shockwave is frequently confused with Macromedia Flash. ...

Director can also create stand-alone executable applications from a project, called projectors, which can be compiled for Macintosh or Windows operating systems.

Product Timeline

• 1985 VideoWorks
• 1988 Named Director 1.0
• 1993 Macromind Director became Macromedia Director (v 3.1.3)
• 1993 Macromedia Director 4 was released
• 1996 Macromedia Director 5 was released
• 1997 Macromedia Director 6 was released
• November 16, 1998 Macromedia Director 7 was released
• 2000 Macromedia Director 8 was released
• 2002 Macromedia Director MX was released
• January 5, 2004 Macromedia Director MX 2004 was released
• 2007 Adobe Director 11 will be released

Adobe stated that a new version of Director, presumably Adobe Director 11, is likely to ship in the second half of 2007. Adobe, however, had not published an official time frame and will not disclose details of this release at least until 30 days before the Director's expected shipping date.^[1] Year 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar). ... November 16 is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 45 days remaining. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

See also

• Revolution (development environment)
• GLPro

Revolution is a development environment/multimedia authoring software in the tradition of Hypercard. ... GLPro is a multimedia authoring application for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. ...

External links

• Official site of Macromedia Director
• Director Online
• mmorpg's made with director
• Macromedia History
• IEEE History Center: John Thompson, inventer of Lingo Programming Language
• Future of Adobe Director (Adobe Director 11)