On Apr 30, 2011, at 4:33 PM, tbodine wrote:

> How long would you estimate it would have taken you to do a similar program
> in Director or Flash?


Director doesn't do mobile, but to do what you see in the web version wouldn't 
have taken too long. Flash does do mobile, and multitouch, but in slightly 
harder ways. Still, it does do graphical things a lot better than LiveCode. For 
example, you can have a movieclip in Flash that just has the mask, and then 
another layer for the image, and copying bits of the source image into place 
would have been single line commands.

A lot of the time I spent on it in LiveCode involved doing things in a 
different way to how it ended up, and then trying to figure out better ways to 
do it. So, given that I know a lot about Director and Flash, and with the same 
time incentives, I would probably have got just as far in the same time, but 
not had to spend half of the time learning new things.

What I have said though that not everyone works with Flash in the easiest way 
that you can. Instead there's pressure to create projects in very formal ways, 
and working that way has its own overhead.
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