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Develop powerful games and high-performance multimedia applications for the Internet, CDs, DVDs and kiosks

Macromedia Director MX 2004 is the proven authoring tool for creating powerful games, simulations and multimedia applications. Director combines broad support for media types, ease of use, bit-mapped graphics, true 3D rendering, high-performance, and an infinitely extendible development environment to deliver games, rich content and applications for the Internet, desktop, CDs and DVDs.

Professionals rely on Director to quickly take their ideas from concepts to prototypes using Director’s intuitive design and object-oriented development environment. Director’s powerful features include two scripting languages, cross-platform publishing, and Flash integration.

Making Connections

Exchange messages and information between two pieces of content using LocalConnection objects. This article introduces a simple and straightforward solution that allows any number of movies, all running on the same client machine, to exchange messages and information.

Creating Accessible Content

Macromedia supports the goal of making applications accessible to all, including people with disabilities. Director MX 2004 provides drag-and-drop behaviors that let you repurpose existing content easily to adhere to accessibility guidelines.

Director MX 2004 and DVD-Video

This article present some of the new DVD-Video functionality in Director MX 2004, and describes how you can use these features to create enhanced, highly interactive DVD experiences for your users.

Create streaming, interactive, multiuser content using:

Deploy cross-platform accessible content for people with disabilities that does not require a screen reader.

Director MX 2004 is ideal for creating accessible CD/DVD-ROMs, kiosks, and web-based applications that run on systems based on both Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows. Visually impaired Internet users frequently use screen-reading software, which reads aloud the contents of a web page. Because Director MX 2004 uses native text-to-speech capabilities within the OS, you can create accessible self-voicing content that works without screen readers or other assistive technologies. This is important in situations where it's impractical to ins tall expensive screen readers, such as in public libraries and museum kiosks.