From: Troy Rollins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2 August 2004 2:59:51 PM To: How to use Revolution <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Animation library Reply-To: How to use Revolution <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I for one have never used the animation library (although someone who did some Rev development for me tried it – to not very great effect) so won't be particularly sad at its passing (if it is indeed being phased out). However, the lack of serious animation capabilities does not necessarily diminish Rev's value as a multimedia development tool. I too use Director on a daily basis to develop rich multimedia projects yet rarely use its animation capabilities (which tend to be favoured by graphic designers but not educational designers in my experience). If I need animation it generally gets done in Flash and imported into Director, which works well given that Director and Flash are so well integrated.
While the same level of integration with Rev and Flash clearly isn't available, you can play Flash within QuickTime and with the help of Trevore Devore's QT external (http://www.mangomultimedia.com/developer/revolution/enhancedqt.html) even pass messages from Flash to Rev using FSCommand. If the reverse were also true...
Perhaps if the Rev team provided some support in that direction?
Cheers,
Terry...
It seems that with 2.5b RunRev is opting to phase out the animation library. I can understand this... I've played with it, but never used it for real. Mostly because it wasn't all that great - though it did have some really nice concepts.
Pretty much anybody who has paid any attention to my posts, knows that I come from a heavy Director background, and in fact still use Director daily, still more than Revolution except when I am deep in a Rev-based project.
At this stage, Rev and Director are moving father apart, with Rev more in line with tools like RealBasic, for "application building" rather than "multimedia building." Though, it is getting to the stage where while Director can make a credible application, Rev will have a harder time making credible multimedia.
So, I ask this... was anyone using the animation library? If so or not, why, or why not? Should it be replaced? If so, with what? What might it look like or do differently than the old library did?
One thought I had is just some sort of time-driven callback list with a graphical interface for setting it up, editing, etc. Then I realized, well that's about what the animation library was...
Hate to see a feature, even a little used one, pass without any discussion at all - especially since, in a certain regard, it changes the development landscape of Rev, and modifies development approach options.
Any thoughts at all? -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net
Dr Terry Judd Lecturer in Educational Technology (Design) Biomedical Multimedia Unit Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences The University of Melbourne _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
