Well for what it is worth, 2 points:
(admittedly based on 6 months work with Director 5
years ago)
1. Moving from Fortran, Basic, Pascal (blah, blah,
blah) to Hypercard
was a fairly smooth process (and hence into
Metacard and Runtime
Revolution) allowing me to produce something
effective fairly
rapidly.
2. 5 years ago the EFL department of the University of
the United
Arab Emirates (where I was working at the time)
decided to throw
out their Macintosh computers and replace them
with Pentium IIIs
running Microsoft Windows 98.
So I had to dump all my Hypercard stuff and start
to produce for
Windows - and was set up with TOOLBOOK and
DIRECTOR.
TOOLBOOK struck me, at the time, as cumbersome,
with none of
the advantages of Director, nor the simplicity of
Hypercard.
DIRECTOR struck me as Superb!!! capable of
producing things for
both Mac and Windows that made Hypercard look
fairly second
class.
However, I found that I sat and stared at DIRECTOR
and its very
complicated manual for about 2 weeks before I
produced anything
at all (maybe I am just stupid ???) - a very steep
learning curve indeed
and very expensive in terms of man-hours.
I have not looked at anything much apart from RR
and Metacard for
the last 5 years because I have not needed to.
Certainly my own
humble forays into multimedia with RR seem to
indicate that it far
outstrips what Hypercard had to offer - admittedly
part of that may
be down to my G4 rather than the old Performa 5200
I had in the
UAE. Should I decide to go "all out" for a
bells-and-whistles
multimedia production I would not both to change
over to Director.
I would either stick with xTalk or go towards
Quicktime.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewon
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meanings users attach to words and phrases."
Mathewson, 2006
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