I know what you're thinking: just what in Sam Hill tarnation are we doing reviewing a keyboard? After all, keyboards aren't hard to get a hold of. Hell, you can't even walk down the street these days without tripping over a keyboard, so what makes this one any different? Well, the long and short of the Matias Tactile Pro keyboard is that it isn't different, provided you're nostalgically stuck (as many of us are) several years in the past. And that's what makes it great.

When we last left off, we were knee-deep in the creation of our masterpiece cross-platform Projector in Director MX 2004, one that consists of a single button that launches a PDF file. Exciting stuff, to be sure, but we're only halfway there. Join me as we continue our journey, this time as we venture outside the cozy confines of DMX04 and into the equally exciting world of moving files and manipulating text documents. And with a buildup like that, how could you not be breathless with anticipation?

If you're reading this now, you either 1) bought into the whole "you should really be using ActionScript even though you're a designer" schpiel I outlined in our last installment, or 2) are here as a result of some sort of freak accident. Either way, today we're going to embark on the second leg of our journey into the strange and wonderful world of ActionScript, this time focusing on object targeting by examining how Flash keeps track of stuff behind the scenes.