Re: FLASH: Reaction to SW 7.0.2

[Warren 'The Howdy Man' Ockrassa]

Dorian Nisinson wrote:


>         To add to the previous note. I wonder why I have to make the skin

> bitmap when Flash would be so much better for making skins?


Vectors aren't something a lot of OSen can comprehend any more. Since

the skin components of the remote have to be compatible with what

primitive-advanced system components can handle, they gots ter be

bitmaps.


In the guts of things, application development engines such as C++

(which was probably used to construct the remote) generally expect their

internal graphics to be bitmaps.


And even program icons are bitmaps, though you'd expect that a more

compressed format would be used on such a low level...


An idiosynracy of software creation, in other words.


Course you're right. Vector skins could be much cooler, at least in some

cases. ;)


--WthmO


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