that's been in Director (and several other apps actually) for years.
The terminology was completely dominant long before scripting was added to
Flash. In the original ("Splash", not "Flash" then - by a company called
"FutureSplash") they followed the Director model - it wasn't until Flash 4,
really that ActionScript took off - and then it naturally continued using
the same terminology it had been using for the previous 4 years.
I did quite a bit of work with Director 4.0 in the early-mid nineties and
Flash made perfect sense to me from that perspective. Keeping that core
multimedia-author user-base was (and I think still is) a major concern for
MM.
Jim Davis
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From: Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 11:56 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: OT: Interesting article on Macromedia Central...
On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 06:10, Che Vilnonis wrote:
> http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-5167812.html?tag=st_lh
>
I just have to comment on Flash a bit because I know MM watches the list
and Che open the gate. --- I checked out writting flash code and, I am
sure you have heard this, the naming convention is ridiculous. Stage?
Actor? Wha? Most developers have spent quite a bit of time learing what
object, methods and the like are all about - why come up with a totally
unique language describing things that dont need it?
By the time I figured out Oh the "Stage" is pretty much the "Screen" I
had thrown it away. I understand it's like that because of backwards
compatiablity - and for artisy types, but can you perhaps make a
language pack called "developer" and "artist"? like how you have
"english" and "chinese".
Plus - really - editors should focus more on the code ... who can write
code in a 10 x 10 pixel window?
Those complaints are from every developer I know that has tried Flash.
I realize this is not so much about "Central" or that interesting
article Che posted - I just had to vent --
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