Hi John,
If you make the text field in flash a dynamic text field, and you name it,
you can retrieve it's contents via getVariable(), then you parse it in lingo
like you normally would...
It's true that lingo is much faster than actionscript, but just look at the
size of the flash vs the shockwave plugin... and lingo isn't all that fast
either - the other day i wrote this fractal thingie to test the speed of
lingo vs c++ - the c version was like quadraticly faster - it did a 640x480
32bit render about 500 times faster than the lingo version....
However, when it comes to web content, I must say I prefer flash... we just
can't sell shockwave to our clients - a lot of people out there are still on
a 48k connection, and the shockwave plugin is a burden to download... it
just takes forever.
Chris.
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From: "John Beck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 6:56 AM
Subject: <lingo-l> Keyword search of text in flash in Director?
> Hello List,
> I have two questions.
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> I was wondering if there is anyway I can perform a keyword search of
> text in a flash file using Lingo that has been imported into Director?
> If so, does anyone know the Lingo code?
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> I don't know/care for action script. Does anyone know the action script
> code to perform a keyword search in flash or if it even can be done?
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> I love Director but when comes to flash...well don't get me started!
> It is part of an experiment. Maybe some of you have been to the Director
> Online site.
> On that site there is an article and files that proves that Lingo runs
> about 45 times faster than action script.
> http://www.director-online.com/buildArticle.cfm?id=973
> http://www.director-online.com/howTo/other/LL47.zip
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> Say you wrote a keyword search algorithm using Lingo of text in flash.
> Say you wrote a comparable keyword search algorithm in flash itself
> using action script to search for keywords in flash.
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> If Director is able to do keyword search for text in flash, would it not
> do it about 45 times faster than flash could do it on it's own? Does
> that make any sense?
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> Thanks
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