----- Original Message ----- > > > On a related topic, one of the biggest questions I want > > answered about the new tighter integration of Flash is > > whether we can now have as many Flash sprites on the stage > > as we want without instantly crippling performance. > > Well, I never like phrases like "have as many Flash sprites on the stage > as we want without instantly crippling performance". You may want 15, but > the next guy wants 50. ;) That aside, we did not change the fact that each > Flash sprite gets its own instance of the Flash Xtra and thus the memory > and performance demands of multiple SWF sprites is the same as in previous > releases.
That's essentially what I was asking, but I am not familiar enough with the details of implementation to know why performance of Flash objects in Director is so much lower than if the same objects were arranged in a single Flash movie. > We are most definitely looking into changing this so that all Flash > sprites play under one Xtra instance but that's a *significant* change to > the Xtra that we felt was far too much work to accomplish in this release > given everything else that is going on. We have a keen eye on this moving > forward as it would be a big boost for using multiple assets in a single > movie. What I'd really like to see is a shared code-base and consistent object-model between both Flash and Director. If both of them used the same low-level rendering engine (which Lingo would have access to, of course, through imaging Lingo) and could each access any property of any object in either language, then it should be a lot easier to mix the two. This would basically mean that Flash and Director would be the same thing, except that Flash would be a scaled down plugin with no support for secondary scripting languages (i.e., Lingo, but while your at it...); Xtras, etc. Shockwave/Director would be like Flash plus a load of other cool stuff including more direct access to the low-level rendering engine. To me, this seems like an obvious natural progression towards convergence for the two. - Robert [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
