hi
for this particular job i just wanted to use flash for the fancy (yet functional) interface and somehow integrate rev (like i do for most of my projects :)
i had explored the flash swf format before by embedding flash [as quicktime] and wrote a little tool to inject bitmaps into swf data and generate valid swf files etc
but this time i wanted to do something different..
hmm.. i think everyone prefers smooth anti-aliased lines over the jaggies so i won't go there, one day if runrev don't anti-aliase rev or integrate native swf, i may if time permits like to delve into imagedata but basically the other problem was tighter integration ie control.. so embedded qt flash wouldn't cut it .. Trevor's mango media dll sounds very useful but still looking for a project to use it on
i knew rev was up for the task so .. how?
this proved a good opportunity to also upgrade to the latest flash.. i stuffed round, read some sites & decided to use full screen projector exe mode for the [flash] interface component and a floating rev control window. you can get more separation between interface and logic than two separate exes (4 if you include the mac versions) in two separate languages :)
other issues:
- qt currently only supports flash 5 and i wanted to use the new commands and components in flash pro mx
- FSCommand (currently) seems limited for future development
at the end of the day rev's ability to run as a little custom tcp server allowed communication/control of the flash bit.. i love rev
swf is an open format but qt, svg & swf are not as simple as bmp files so i can see runrev's basic problem with wanting to support something like actionscript (the embedded language of flash).. another language, need more developers etc heaps of reasons but a start would be nice, because even on linux delivering the full quicktime experience is limited.. yet i can run rev & flash easily but independently,,
anyway this is all still work in progress but so far so good, rev is simply a indispensable tool
regards alex
At 08:37 PM 9/08/2004, Wolfgang M. Bereuter wrote:
Re: Quick Rev <=> Flash reviewAssuming you used QT for Flash or is there any other way withotu it? But do you think, I dont remember when and how many times as I asked for that, a nativ Flash support in rev would be that Killer App(Plug in)? to revs real target market, as Dan mentioned before?
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