Impressario Thumbnail Slider

Purpose:

• Use this LDM to display a slider bar with thumbnail previews of the pages of a PDF document.
• For use with the Impressario Xtra in Macromedia Director.
• It is fully customizable and works with Impressario 1 + 2 (light and full version and Shockwave with Impressario 2 Full version)

Requires:

• "alextra_ThumbSlider.dcr" LDM with all its scripts
• "impr_Imager.dcr" if not used with Impressario 2 Fullversion
  (it is used as MIAW to get the images of the PDF pages, since getting the image of a PDF page is only supported in the full version).
• ... and Macromedia Director and the Impressario Xtra of course.

Usage:

Installation:

• (Create an impressario member and drag it onto the stage)
• Import "alextra_ThumbSlider.dcr" file as Linked Director Movie: File -> Import...
• Drag it to the score/stage (move it offstage)
• Extend the sprite span to begin at least one frame before your impressario sprite
• Move the playback head to a sprite within the sprite range of the Impressario sprite
• Type the following into the message window:
  tell sprite <x> to mInstallRequiredScripts <y>
  (where <x> is the channelnumber of the LDM sprite and <y> is the channelnumber of your Impressario sprite)
• Adjust the rect of the newly created sprite to match the desired size of the thumbnail slider.
  Adjust the settings of the slider bar in the behavior tab of the property inspector (PI)

Customization:

• Customize the slider appearance properties via the GPDL properties of the behavior "ImageSliderBeaverHost": Background, color, margins etc.

Help:

• Read the comments at the top of the Behaviors
• call interface() on the sprites:
  put sendSprite(<y>, #interface)
• Drop me a line: Alex da Franca

Sample + Download :

• Shockwave example
• Download sample Director movie (388KB)