Re: FLASH: Director vs. Flash

[James Tu]

The thing I don't understand is that why don't they combine Flash and

Director together.  They are very similar but each have strengths that the

other would benefit from.


Flash could use more scripting capabilities and Director could use more of

Flash's animation tools and capabilties.


On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Warren 'The Howdy Man' Ockrassa wrote:


>

WriXoraol [dot] com wrote:

> 

> > However, I haven't found an equivalent to that "behavior inspector" thing of

> > Director.

> 

> There isn't one in Flash. At least not yet. Its script engine is still

> very much in the early stages of development by the looks of things.

> (But then Flash was never engineered to do what Director does. Of course

> one could argue that Director was never engineered to do what Director

> does either.)

> 

> > So, is that possible with Flash as it it's easily possible w/Director?

> 

> Easily I doubt. However why not, in this case, tween the eyeball through

> 360 frames -- one for each degree of rotation -- and determine which

> frame to jump to next based on the mouse pointer location?

> 

> (I am assumng this is possible in 4. I have not really gotten into it,

> and frankly my overall knowledge of Flash is spotty; I'm approaching it

> from the Director-user side.)

> 

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