Re: FLASH: Flash making QuickTime--why so little support anddevelopment?

[Bryan Rieger]

on 5/3/00 12:08 AM, Damian Morton at

mortondennisinter [dot] com

 wrote:


> Did you ever get a chance to look at Apple's SK8? A nice tool, and pretty

> much self-hosting too!


I've heard of it - never actually got my hands dirty in it.

 

> That should be the first level requirement for any new media dev tool,

> Self-hosting: The development tool should be written in itself. You should

> be able to create work like a sculptor - by taking bits away until only the

> essentials are left. You should also be able to customise the dev tool to

> the extent that other interfaces arent necessary, like the interface of

> Mozilla being created in Mozilla itself, only moreso, with vectors and video

> sprites and 3d objects and database integration and, and, and, and.....


Yes, yes...yes. The idea of being able to build a tool using the tool.

I think alot of companies have been thinking that way, it's just very

difficult to implement right through. At some point something has to be

written with C++. I think the closest to this was version 2 of mTrop - where

tools could be made in mTrop to extend the app, and you could get a little

deeper using MOM.


I know Director, iShell, LiveStage Pro and almost every other app tries to

provide some support here, but it's usually a high-level, abstract kludge.


Self-hosting...what a concept!

Any eager programmers out there ready to bang something out over the

weekend? ;-)


Cheers,


Bryan



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