RE: FLASH: CD Presentation

[Merrill, Bob]

I respect your opinion as a Director user, but I can easily have users enter

things in a text field, write out to an external text file or database, then

parse the information I want and concatenate the results. Not a problem. Of

course my office is in a dental school (really) so I have to spend the day

at the dentist anyway :-)


I do agree with the clunky-ness in part. But Authorware was not intended to

do the same thing as Director. If you built your own that works better, hats

off to you. I don't think that is something the average user would be

undertaking anytime soon. 



BobMerrill

TV/ Multimedia Production

The University of Texas

Health Science Center at San Antonio

Http://oerweb.uthscsa.edu/tv/taac98/taac98.htm

//boboerx [dot] uthscsa [dot] edu (mailto://boboerx [dot] uthscsa [dot] edu)

>  Authorware, in my opinion as a CBT producer, is a bad choice for CBT. It

> does have the tracking, testing, etc- but I built my own in Lingo and it

> works much better than the built in Authorware stuff. Authorware's just so

> clunky- and god forbid you want to have users enter something into a text

> field. I would rather spend a day at the dentist. With that being said (as

> I

> stray) yes- you can write text out from director using the fileIO methods

> included.

> 

> -----Original Message-----

>

From: Merrill, Bob <merrillruthscsa [dot] edu>

>

To: 'flasherchinwag [dot] com' <flasherchinwag [dot] com>

> Date: Friday, December 10, 1999 1:10 PM

> Subject: RE: FLASH: CD Presentation

> 

> 

> >And let's not forget Macromedia's red headed step child, Authorware. If

> you

> >have to do things such as testing and tracking of students, CBT's and

> such,

> >it's hard to beat. Not quite as robust as Director, but quicker to

> develop

> >things like that, especially using ver5.1's knowledge objects (wizards).

> >Like Director using it to it's fullest will require some coding. You can

> >also pass variables from AW to Flash, include movies etc. I have an intro

> >piece you can look at. http://oerweb.uthscsa.edu/tv/shocked/shortoer.htm

> I

> >wouldn't try it on a slow connection though. It's meant for intranet not

> >internet. Sorry, I just realized how far I've strayed off topic :-O

> >

> >BobMerrill

> 

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