How to Add Text to a Director Movie

By adding text to a Macromedia Director movie, you can give information, offer instructions or help, ask viewers for input, or provide any text-based content you want. These instructions apply to Macromedia Director 5.0. Procedures for other versions may vary.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Macromedia Director

Creating a New Text Cast Member

1. Open your Director movie.

2. Go to the Windows menu and click on Text. The Text window appears.

3. Enter your text in the space provided. The Text window offers some of the same features that you find in a word processing program.

4. Click on the Adjust Member Properties icon (the italic "I"), then indicate whether your text is to be cropped, adjusted to fit or scrollable. Click OK.

5. When finished, click the "X" on the top right-hand side of the Text window to close it.

6. Realize that your text appears in the first available space in the Cast window.

Importing Text

7. Go to the File menu and click on Import. A pop-up window appears.

8. Click on Text.

9. Select the text file you want to import. Click OK. The text is imported to the first available space in the Cast window.

Tips & Warnings

• You can import ASCII text or rich text.
• When importing a text file, Director places each hard page break or each section break as a new Cast in the Cast window.
• When you create a Projector (that is, a stand-alone Director Movie), your text will be bitmapped.