up about this thing on the arpa-net called electronic-mail. Hell she even
expected us to wrap our heads around tcp/ip. I sat through her classes and
found these limitations:
the university wasn't handing out accounts to students
[and even if they were]
I didn't own a pc
[and thus] I didn't have a modem
I was happy 'programming' stuff in dBaseIII+ on a 4.77 MHz Zenith
Fact is that (as Dave is questioning) there's nothing you've mentioned
within the context of this thread (multiple media types, xml, rich user
interface, web-connections, etc.) that Director cannot do with aplomb.
Yes I'm biased because I made a decent living for nearly 10 years doing
many things Director. Hell, thanks to a (formerly) supportive boss & some
tech-transfer managers, I have a patent-pending (knowledge-base /
whiteboard / app generator thingy) coded (ok - prototyped) in 100%
Director. Director is a killer tool that's worthy of more than a reference
to a demo from 20 years ago.
[jumping off high-horse] So, if you want to learn more, just ask or point
your browser to http://www.macromedia.com/software/director/
Best of luck,
-mike
Dick Applebaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
06/30/2004 10:47 AM
Please respond to cf-talk
To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cc:
Subject: Re: Blackstone @ CF-FUN '04
On Jun 30, 2004, at 6:29 AM, Dave Watts wrote:
> Out of curiosity, what can't you do with Director that you need to do
> for
> your application?
>
Why, that's Marc Cantor's old program -- saw him demo that years ago at
the SF Computer Faire (circa 1985)
I sat through the preso and found these limitations
1) Mac and Win only
2) no real good native DB capability
3) orientation wrong for what I want to do
It seems that director would be very good to publish a CD/DVD with the
results of some of the apps I want to write -- rather than use director
to write the apps themselves
Dick
"You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty."
- Cecil Baxter -
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