Apple DVD Studio Pro 4 - Manual (Page 477)

You can add sophisticated interactivity and control to a project with only a few simple
scripts.
This chapter covers the following:
• Introduction to Scripts (p. 477)
• Pre-Scripts (p. 478)
• Scripting Overview (p. 479)
• The Scripting User Interface (p. 480)
• About the Script Tab (p. 481)
• About the Script Inspector (p. 484)
• About the Script Command Inspector (p. 485)
• Creating and Testing Scripts (p. 486)
• Script Command Details (p. 489)
• System Parameter Register Memories List (p. 499)
• System Parameter Register Memories Details (p. 500)
• Using Bit-Wise Operations (p. 511)
• General Purpose Register Memories (p. 512)
• Scripting Examples (p. 517)
• Language Code Table (p. 525)
Introduction to Scripts
The DVD-Video specification includes a simple yet powerful scripting language. This
scripting language provides for extensive interactivity between the viewer and the DVD
player. DVD Studio Pro gives you full access to these scripting capabilities.
Scripts in DVD Studio Pro are created as separate elements within a project, so they can
be assigned easily to any element that supports a script. Scripts can be assigned to buttons
or attached to the start or end of any track, story, menu, or marker.
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