Overview

Role

Who's in who's

Prereq check

Art 3830 and Art 3840

Overview

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1985

Videoworks

Written for the new Mac

1988

Director 1.0

Really Videoworks Interactive, first scriptable authoring system

1988 (approx)

Hypercard

Apple's scripting system

1992

Director 3.0

First object oriented version of Director

1992 (approx)

Authorware

A visual scripting system

1996

FutureSplash Animator

Precursor of Flash 1.0

1997

Flash

Vector-based web oriented application

1999 (approx)

5,000,000 Players installed

Today

360,000,000 + Players installed

Others

Authorware

Microsoft Visual Basic

Microsoft Powerpoint

Scripting Language

What is it?

A digital language used to communicate with an application or operating system to instruct it what to do when an event occurs.

Which Ones

	WEB	CD ROM Broadband	Games
Director: Lingo	3	1	2
Flash: ActionScript	1	2	3
C++	0	0	1
JavaScript	2	0	0
Java	4	0	4

Language History

Closer then further

	1GL		(First Generation Language) 1001010010100
	2GL		Assembler
	3GL		Java, C
	4 & 5GL		...

Locked-in vs Reusable

	1& 2GL		Machine specific
	Early 3GL		Task oriented
	Modern 3GL		Object oriented

Object-Oriented Language

Task Oriented


	 on mouseDown
	 go to frame 3
	 end mouseDown

Object Oriented


	 myObject.onMouseDown = function( ) {
	 gotoAndPlay(3)
	 }

Harder, yes, but oh so reusable.

Objects can be very complex

More to come...

The nitty gritty

Objects

Commands

Properties

Syntax

Lingo: myFunction(3)


	 on myFunction(myProperty)
	 -- This is a comment 
	 doThisCommand myProperty
	 end myFunction

Actionscript/Javascript: myFunction(3)


	 myFunction = function(myProperty) {
	 // This is a comment
	 doThisCommand myProperty ;
	 }

Useful Links

1GL, 2GL, 3GL, 4GL, 5GL language history

The Object model

Director history

Flash history