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Navigation and user interaction overview

Adding interactivity lets you involve your audience in your movies. Using the keyboard, the mouse, or both, your audience can download content from the Internet, jump to different parts of movies, enter information, move objects, click buttons, and perform many other interactive operations.

Unless made to do otherwise, a movie plays through every frame in the Score from start to finish. Behaviors and Lingo can make the movie jump to a different frame, movie, or URL when a specified event occurs. With Lingo, you can include simple navigation instructions as part of more complex handlers; you can also place navigation Lingo in movie scripts and scripts attached to cast members such as buttons.

There are several other interactive features that you can add to your movie:

| Draggable sprites give your audience the ability to move sprites anywhere on the Stage. You can also create boundaries beyond which sprites cannot move.
| Editable fields are fields in which your audience can enter or edit information.
| Rollovers make certain sprites change in appearance when the mouse pointer passes over them, even if the user has not clicked the mouse. Using rollovers is an excellent way to give your audience feedback based on their actions.
| The cursor (that is, the mouse pointer) can be changed based on criteria you choose. Using Lingo, you can provide animated cursors or specify one of the standard cursors or a bitmap cast member as a cursor image. See `cursor (command)` and `cursor (sprite property)`.