Director? 7 and Lingo Bible [With CD-ROM]

This book is really user friendly with lots of examples and illistraions and at no point was I ever lost, never! With all the examples that are available one learns quickly and before you know it you have reached the end of the book. To all the authors I would like to say with confidence that you have put a great book together, including every little detail and yet keeping it simple enough for one to understand. I cannot wait for Director 8 and Lingo Bible as I will be the first one in the cue to purchase the book.

This is the most well rounded book on Director available. When used in combination with Bruce Epstein's Nutshell series you have 80% of the information required for advanced Director programming (DIRECT-L and your own effort will get you the final 20%). A beautifully organized easy to follow book you can use as both a reference and instructional guide. The sections on object-oriented lingo are reason alone to buy the book. Individuals who have difficulty with Peter Small's Lingo Sorcery will find the OOP style refreshing (then go back to Sorcery for the true "gems" it contains).If you want to expand your Director skill set - get this book.

I turned to this book after making the mistake of buying Lingo Sorcery to learn object-oriented programming in Director. It was a great relief to find (at last) a coherent introduction to OOP in Lingo, with lots of examples in the text and code on the CD. The rest of the book is terrific, too.

I'm a graphic designer and I always felt like reading a book about Lingo programming like this! It's straightforward and full of practical examples. If you want to improve your jobs and reach another level as a good professional, I think you must acquire this book! Congratulations!!

When I began reading this book, I had been a user of Director for about three years. While my experience producing multimedia CD-ROMs using Director had been good, it always took forever to work out the bugs in my Lingo code. I knew there was a better way to write the Lingo scripts using object-oriented programming techniques, but I didn't understand the concepts or how to do it very well. I was also reluctant to change from my tried-and-true style of programming that had worked for me since beginning with Director 3.I'd read other books about Director and tried a few things to push my personal envelope, without a lot of success. But as I began to read in this book about how to use OOP structures in behaviors, it was like a light turned on. This book made it very understandable. I kept (figuratively) slapping my forehead and saying "of course!" as I tried the examples in the chapters. I can't remember the last time I've become so excited about learning something new as I have with this book. It has really empowered me to become a better multimedia developer. With the new understanding this book gave me, I'm more confident that I can build any interface feature I want into my Director projects. Before, when a client would ask for some feature, I would be hesitant to agree or promise it. Now I don't have to "kludge" things together...and I can implement it fast and with high reliability so that works consistently in cross-platform projects. My turn-around time on projects is also a lot faster now.