On May 10, 2004, at 10:32 AM, Brennan wrote:
I am finally getting some time with DMX 2004, and one thing I noticed was that the old fashioned hypercard pushbutton from the toolpalette has been replaced by a flash component.
Yeah. Those are neat. Take a look and play around. Then, never ever use them again.
Add just one of those things to a Director project and watch the performance hit. Their Tree, or Listbox? Forget them. They are so slow, and have so many caveats to their use that they can kill an otherwise good Director project.
Somehow Macromedia missed it, but Imaging Lingo's time has finally come. It really shows just how bad Flash's performance is in the UI field. The tool palette should have IL components in it, not Flash.
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just paying a bit attention to linked director movies, better spoken the ability of importing director movies, not just linking them, would lead to the encapsulation, we need so badly in director.
fixing the remaining few issues with LDMs would open up the door for teamwork and protected components.
when people say they need something like movieclips, they do not mean they need flash in director, but rather something LIKE movieclips, but with directors flexibility.
unfortunately the descision makers at macromedia seem to think, that it is the name 'flash' which sells and nothing else.
so instead of offering a tool, which is an evolution for a flash user, they make director a flash player, which is (and can only be) worse than taking the flash player in the first place.
translating lingo into javascript doesn't help much, IMHO.
it is not the language difference between lingo and AS, which make me stick to director, I just don't know flash that well and do not know the keywords and functionality of flash that well, rtegardless, if they resemble lingo, javascript or C, if I would dig into flash, it would be the easiest part. I don't care if I have to learn:
'movieclip.tell.something()' or 'tell something to movieclip' I'd have to learn both of them in the first place.
of course that is just my personal opinion.
I wouldn't complain, if hundreds of thousands of flash users would rather switch to director because of javascript syntax, than because of the coolness of IL and sw3d and the frightning abilities it offers.
but I doubt it.
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