The flash stuff keeps its functionality, as long as it's flash 4 you are
talking about,
I'm very new to director too, and what I do (maybe it's malpractice, but it
works fine)
is creating all buttons and stuff in flash, so I don't have to bother with
lingo for rollovers
and stuff.
One tip however; if you make e.g. a flash button, don't set the flash stage
size bigger than necessary, because director keeps that rectangle "in mind",
which can be the cause of a
serious headache, if you put a series of that button close to each other,
just trying to click the one you need.
However i think you should consider using lingo for the calculator tingie -
Lingo is far more robust than actionscript - especially flash 4
actionscript.
If you ever tried C or some other nasty language, you'll find lingo to be
quite easy to learn.
I managed to make a full fledged database app after my first week with
director - so I think that proves it's not that big a deal to learn (basic)
lingo.
Have fun, I know you will.
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 1:17 PM
Subject: <lingo-l> First Time: Please be gentle
> I have just been asked to carry out a project to create a cd rom, the
> original plan was for it to all be in Flash, but i have been asked to
author
> it in director, which is new to me, quick steep learning curve ...>!
>
> The idea is this:
>
> to have a intro (probably flash authored), which leads to a main
> navigational page(director), this then forms the base for the project,
> launching all other sections. in all, 4, 1 quicktime movie, 1 director
> presentation, 1 flash based web site.. and the main part. A flash based
> calculator,(for a new product) whereby the end user enters variables(8 in
> total) which are then accumulated and then calculated against an equation
to
> show them what would happen if they use this product. It works on a
> comparatative basis ie : this is your current price, this is what you
would
> spend, and the saving is therefore this....
>
> Sorry for the detail, but i am expecting to be asking a lot of questions
> over the next couple of weeks, so for anyone who may have a few moments to
> pass on their wisdom, i thought it important to get things right early
on..
>
>
> My questions are simple:
>
> 1) any advice on planing, best practise?
> 2) considerations with regard layout/ interaction?
>
>
> As i understand it, director allows you to play flash movies within it, so
> can/does this allow flash to still pull in the external variables... from
> different files (.txt or .swf)?
>
>
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