On Tuesday, September 3, 2002, at 05:10 PM, Ross Clutterbuck wrote:
> Are we going overboard now in what
> Director, or more specifically Lingo, can do?
Lord no. Those who fear coade bloat or feature creep can go to Flash
for a while and, after finding everything much harder to do than
necessary, can return to Director with a sigh of relief. ;)
> or are we pushing Director into a role of
> application development that can rival the greats like C++ and VB?
For starters I'm not sure I'd call VB a "great". ;) But Director's been
an app dev environment since at least version 5.
> Do we really
> need to manipulate and process images in Director?
Buzz et al have responded to this -- but consider assembling images for
printing; or my own stego routines (impossible without iLingo). It's a
great innovation.
> The question is this: can Director do more than we really need?
Until I have creation and destruction routines for entire universes, no.
> Fruther to that, if anybody has used some of the real kick-ass
> scripting
> stuff (like extensive Imaging Lingo or OOP) in a real-world situation
> I'd be
> keen on hearing what you did and why (benefits, etc.)
I used Dir851 to make a complete programming environment that permits a
single "librarian" to assemble packages of canned rich media
presentations for use in distributed "builder" programs. Users of the
builder can assemble their presentations from pools of media containers
(somewhat slidelike), but can assemble them in any random order as
needed for their specific presentation, without disrupting the
continuity of anything, and while preserving critical links to specific
items (so if they need to go to a slide they didn't mark for inclusion
they can get there without errors, on the fly). I used iLingo to create
a stack of fun little transitions.
I refer to it as a programming environment because that's essentially
what it is. If you can present something in Boolean logic you can
create it in this thing. Options include runtime editability, printing,
and exporting your "presentation" to a leave-behind read-only player so
you can burn it to disc.
This thing is pure OOP. One hundred percent instantiation.
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