FLASH: Re: Director 7 is released

[Rob w, Current Marketing]

Flash and Director are two totally different animals. Macromedia is wisely integrating the two, but Director is a multimedia authoring software with its own scripting language (lingo) that calls C++ routines, whereas Flash is primarily an animation tool that uses limited interaction. From a programming standpoint, Flash is rinky-dink compared to Director. From an animating POV, Director is a hippo in a tutu compared to Flash.


D7 is integrating Flash, but not replacing Flash as a vector animation authoring tool. The plug-ins are chunks of code that enable the browser of your choice to run the shockwave files (again playback as opposed to authoring).


I doubt seriously Macromedia is going to throw away a nice fat juicy piece of pie like Flash by making it obsolete. 



On Tue, Nov 17, 1998, 2:12:28 PM GMT flasher-digest wrote:



>Maybe someone could flesh this out a little bit.  Director 7 was just

>released.  From what I read the plug-in is already inside of the Mac OS and

>Win98.  Why doesn't this make Flash obsolete?  Or does it?  Sure it's a

>steaper learning curve but it's (I assume) infinitely more powerful and just

>as compatible.    Where am I going wrong with this?

>

>Sincerely,

>

>Al Rosetti

>http://www.websitepartners.com

>



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