Custom MUI Dialogs

Bonus Chapter 21

Lingo in a Nutshell

Bonus Chapter

Chapter 21, Custom MUI Dialogs, expands on Chapter 15, The MUI Dialog Xtra, of Lingo in a Nutshell. It is available in PDF format. You will need Adobe Acrobat version 2.0 or higher to read it. It is printable, but not editable.

• Download Custom MUI Dialogs in a StuffIt archive (179 K)
• Download Custom MUI Dialogs in a Zip archive (179 K)

Example Code

The following archives contain example Lingo code for working with MUI. The archives contain an extrnal Director 6 Cast file for Macintosh or Windows. It will also work with Director 7.

• Download MUI Examples in a StuffIt archive (15 K)
• Download MUI Examples in a Zip archive (15 K)

Other MUI Resources

Macromedia has posted a detailed white paper on the MUI Xtra at:

• http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/how/d7/MUI.html
• http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/how/subjects/usingxtras.html
  

UpdateStage has the following items related to the MUI Xtra:

MUI's inability to create dialogs bigger than the screen:

• http://www.updatestage.com/previous/970801.html#item3

Small sample Director movie:

• ftp://ftp.shore.net/members/update/muihowto.zip

Detailed MUI article by Macromedia's John C. Ware at:

• ftp://ftp.shore.net/members/update/muilingo.zip

Example MUI code:

• ftp://ftp.shore.net/members/update/dialogs.zip

MUI Maker Dialog Xtra by RavWare:

• http://www.updatestage.com/xtras/muimaker.html

The free MUIComposer Xtra by Rainer Ohman:

• http://home1.swipnet.se/~w-10540/mui.htm
  

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