Peter, > Actually a question for you all, what's your opinion on what > appears to be the new tactic of having to upgrade Director > everytime a new version of Flash comes out rather than just > updating the Xtra like in the old days?
Pardon me but what old days are you referring to? My recollection is that we've _never_ released an updated Flash Asset Xtra outside of a major product release so there's no "new tactic" here, thus I'm puzzled at your statements above. Last year we did try to get a new Flash Asset Xtra out for D8.5 users that supported Flash 6 player files (exported from Flash MX), but that effort didn't work out and so we did not do that release (it came out with Director MX). So we've had one attempt at doing this but we've never actually done it. Updating the Flash Asset Xtra is not an insignificant amount of work. There is a lot of development time and QA effort that go into ensuring that Flash playback is up to snuff before a new Xtra can go out and as such Macromedia has made the decision to provide the updated versions of the Xtra in major releases of Director. We could probably debate the benefits and problems with our current update model until the cows come home, but I'm not really into having that conversation today so hopefully folks don't take my having pointed out _company_policy_ as any sort of implied personal support for that distribution model. Again, just wondering what old times you're referring to as for at least the past 5 years over 5 releases of Director, I don't recall us ever having provided an updated Flash Asset Xtra outside of a major product release (thus you had to upgrade Director to get it). Cheers, Tom Higgins Product Specialist - Director Team Macromedia ... MAX, the 2003 Macromedia User Conference November 18-21, Salt Lake City, Utah Register today at http://www.macromedia.com/go/max/ ... [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!]
