On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 01:12 PM, Brennan wrote:
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 09:52:18 -0700, Buzz Kettles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I don't think that's what Buzz meant. I think he's implying that removing the "internal" cast is almost certainly not going to happen, any more than (for instance) it would be likely that a request for all Xtras to be converted to Lingo could be addressed either.
Buzz, this strikes me as rather gloomy, especially coming from an ex-Macromedia guy.don't hold your breath on it getting removedI wouldn't bother with wishlist - there's no way your request would get addressed.
I was (perhaps naively) under the impression that the wishlist is not ignored, but that multiple requests from unique users are what really counts.
There are fundamental realities about the Director architecture, and the internal cast is one of them. I think what Buzz is indicating is that it would essentially require a top-down rewrite of the entire Director engine -- while breaking ALL backward compatibility to all previous file formats -- to accomplish that.
Not that wishlist items are ignored; rather, this particular wish is ungrantable.
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