Quite right, I got myself in a twist on the Flash Xtra update. Even though the updated Flash Xtra is promoted as a big feature of any Director update.
Although personally I think any Director update is a major deal as in my opinion it is still the best multimedia tool out there for serious development. I won't hold ya to ransom on the _company_policy_ debate as companies always do things that don't make much sense to the people working there (speaking from first hand experience). And I know from my many discussions and first hand experience of development that companies always listen to the financial department first and their developers advice second, not that I'm implying any one company in that statement. And as a closer, please continue to make Director a big deal internally in Macromedia as I hate it when my clients all say they want Flash because it's 'the thing' rather than the more powerful Director and shockwave and then they complain because they don't have access to all the really cool things Director does so easily. Regards to all, Peter --------------- 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!] [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!]
