Folks: Here (according to our Director developer) is the rundown on where Director is apparently falling short when it comes to developing the product we need. Can anyone tell me if Rev can solve these problems or if we're overlooking something in Director?
------ Dynamic population of drop down boxes with multiple language types. For example, I would like to have an external (maybe XML) list of language names, all using their appropriate font set. I would like to have a drop down box that's on the stage to gather all elements from the external file to populate the drop down. Each element in the drop down would be a separately executable when selected. Browser Interaction- Embedding a browser within a Director window. The purpose of this browser, would be to seamlessly integrate into the Director stage and interpret an HTML file properly (including multiple language support). This embedded browser could have external Director controls that would print, navigate this HTML file. Also, a director search box could be embedded into the Director environment and allow for user searching of web pages... 3 D model control To be able to have full control over a 3 D model (rotate, pan, zoom), and embed hotspots on particular sections of the model. I would like to be able to click on a spot to navigate to another area of the score within the Director environment, and/or launch an external browser or an embedded browser. ------ Just to recap the complexity of this project: The project will deal with very large amounts of text. The text needs to be formatted with many different styles and includes detailed tables and graphics with captions. The text will originate from an XML file, needs to be searchable, and be displayed in multiple languages. All languages will be included in the project and users should be able to switch from one to the other seamlessly. All drop-down boxes and interface elements will need to change on the fly when the user selects a new language. Dynamic text based on user search strings must be generated. Users must be able to print the content of windows (even windows holding dynamic content.) To cap it, the project must interact with the user's system for base technology checks and a few other things. We've looked at many different solutions. From what we can tell, the best way to do this consistently and effectively is through an embedded browser window and use XHTML/HTML to handle the formatting and unicode. An additional benefit is that we will be able to handle pdfs if we use a browser. For this project, Director may not work because of the problems mentioned above. Flash will not work because it's inability to handle large amounts of formatted text. iShell may work but it's ability to work with the operating system seems limited. So, can anyone tell me if the Rev/altBrowser combination is the best way to go with this? Are we missing something in Director? Ideally, we'd like to have absolutely everything handled from within the app but I don't think this is possible. Any help would be really appreciated. I've been banging my head against the wall looking for decent solution for some time now. Steve _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
