On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 10:43 AM, Daniel Nelson wrote:
Yes, I wish there were an option to say "hey, this is just a regular app, not a multimedia project". It's so very easy to make great looking and functioning stuff in Director that it would be nice if it had the ability to act just like other applications.
Exactly, DMX (with some xtras) is capable of very credible cross-platform shareware utilities. The versatility of powerful multimedia options, as well as OS native behaviors creates a compelling reason that it not only could - but *should* be used in this way. In the past, I have used alternate authoring tools to create "utilities" and Director to create "multimedia." It is a really nice benefit to do both in the same package - and then, when one wants to create a multimedia enabled utility, it starts to get great.
Many of the small utilities I write are meant to be running pretty much all of the time... minimized, in the dock, offscreen, whatever. The fan-starting, CPU-hogging behavior prevents anything like that from being distributable. Even if it is actually "playing nice."
What's the wish list URL? Since Macromedia changed their site around, I don't visit too often.
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