On May 10, 2004, at 2:11 PM, Alex da Franca wrote:
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.
Agreed.
Macromedia doesn't seem to recognize that Director without Flash is still very much an option - maybe now more than ever. Processor speed and general system speeds have benefited all the cool stuff Director has been able to do before, but can do much faster now. Imaging and 3D are both dramatically faster now. Flash, is still a pig, even on a fast system (when it comes to heavyweight processing... like the Flash Tree component.)
Comparing Flash components to native lingo components is quite comical. Flash benefits from encapsulation... that is about the only place it wins. With proper LDM support, it wouldn't even have that.
I don't mind using Flash for things that Flash is good for... we include lots of interactive animations in our Director stuff, it is great for that. But for data handling UI components? Please. That is no solution. Native stuff both looks better, and performs better.
Director deserves better. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net
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