If Flash is a power tool, Director is a bulldozer. Director has been significantly expanded to handle a wide
variety of file types??”QuickTime, MP3, RealAudio, and RealVideo, for example??”with advanced streaming
capabilities. Supporting multimedia interactivity is Director??™s own programming language, Lingo, which has
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also been enhanced. Furthermore, Director now includes multiplayer support for network game play and
chat rooms, XML parsing, embedded compressed fonts, up to 1,000 sprite channels, and a potential frame
rate of 999 frames per second. Luckily, Dreamweaver enables you to pack all that power into a Web page
with its Shockwave object.
Including Flash and Shockwave Movies
in Dreamweaver Projects
Dreamweaver makes it easy to bring Shockwave and Flash files into your Web pages. The Insert bar provides
an object for each type of movie, located in the Media menu of the Common category.
Because Shockwave and Flash objects insert both an ActiveX control and a plugin, Dreamweaver enables
you to play the movie in the Document window. When not playing, Dreamweaver displays a plugin placeholder
icon (see Figure 25-3).
FIGURE 25-3
Dreamweaver includes many interface elements for working with Shockwave and Flash.
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