RE: FLASH: looking for Flash article for Director users

[Mark Zukiwsky]

>I familiar with Director and am confident working in its environment.

>I really want to get into Flash, and I've been caught up with other

>obligations like school and work.  I'm wondering -- is there an article

>out there that describes Flash from the perspective of a Director

>user, explaining and comparing the features in Flash with/to their

>counterparts in Director?

>

>Any other pointers for coming to Flash with a Director mindset?



While I can't recall any thing that relates to the above, you may 

want to check out the Director Online User Group (DOUG). You can DOUG 

at:


   http://www.director-online.com


Just do a search for Flash and you'll find a few articles. The 

articles deal mainly on how to integrate Flash within Director. You 

may be able to find something in the articles to help you understand 

Flash better.


As far getting into Flash, if you a simple Shockwave or Director 

project that you can "convert" to Flash format that my be the ticket. 

That's how I learned Flash. If you have your application logic down 

already, it's easier to migrate that logic to Flash than start from 

scratch in Flash. By application logic, I mean the application you're 

building with Director, not Director itself. Start with something 

simple and work from there.


If you have some sort of middle-ware like ASP, ColdFusion, PHP, or 

other CGI, you can pass a lot of the complicated logic on the the 

middle-ware for processing, but that's maybe getting a ahead of 

ourselves at this point. But the important thing to realize is that 

if Flash can't process your variables or data using actionScripts, 

you can all use http POST and GET methods to easily pass those 

variables or data to a CGI for more processing power.


I was "forced" to switch to Flash because the company I was working 

for would not install Shockwave on their machines but were willing to 

install Flash. So, I had "port" my application over to Flash. It was 

actually a good way to learn Flash for me. I knew what I wanted to 

build, I just had to learn how to wield a new hammer.


Mark Zukiwsky

Edmonton, Canada


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