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Subject: re: FLASH: Re: Director 7 is released
From: Mike Greenberg
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 16:33:17 +0000 (GMT)

One of the beautiful things about Director 7 is that you can make Lingo
calls to Labels and Scenes. 2 separate animals yet they work so well
together.

Michael


On Tuesday, November 17, 1998 11:16:11 AM, Rob w, Current Marketing wrote:

>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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>New Media Director
>CurrentMarketing
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