Interesting that you mention Director. I've been also been a Director developer since 1995. I'm hoping for a comeback as well. For awhile it was looking as though it was completely dead, which is why we made the switch.
I would prefer an Adobe solution as well. Not being able to use the Flex debugger (and the profiler in Flex 3) with Zinc is a shame. Looking forward to AIR, although I've seen some posts that suggest the runtime performance will not be as great as these wrapper things. I suppose only the benchmarks will tell. August On Jan 8, 2008 2:42 PM, Kerry Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ian Thomas wrote: > > > > It was quite some time ago now, but we had a lot of problems with Zinc's > > stability; in particular, upgrades to Zinc broke existing (critical for > > us) functionality and a fix wasn't issued for several months. > > > > As a result, we moved away from the product. > > I haven't used Zinc, so I can't comment on it. Adobe does publish two very > viable alternatives, AIR and Director. > > Personally, I would go with the Adobe product--my choice is Director > because > it is so powerful in its own right, and because it's what I'm familiar > with > (and also what I own a license for). It is well integrated with Flash, and > was the standard for multimedia applications for nearly a decade before > Flash came of age. Adobe have announced a new version Real Soon Now, so > the > "Director is Dead" rumors are false. Except for 3D, it's not a real viable > Web platform, but it's unrivaled on the desktop. > > I do know that the new version of Director will support Unicode--that's > public knowledge. I don't have specific knowledge of other capabilities, > but > I'm hoping that MacIntel support will be in the new version. > > Flash remains my choice for RIA's, but I haven't found anything better > than > Director for the desktop or for a Flash wrapper for desktop apps. > > Cordially, > > Kerry Thompson > > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > -- --------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------- August Gresens Technical Director Black Hammer Productions, NYC [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
