Re: FLASH: Flash vs. Dir for CD-rom development?

[Nigel Randsley-Pena]

Brad Bechtel wrote:

 

> Flash is not designed for CD-ROM development.  It's designed to be used with your internet browser to display animations with some interactivity.

> Director has far greater capabilities and many features that are designed for CD-ROM development.  It has much greater interactivity, supports a wider variety of file formats, and is a larger program because of it. 

> You should use the right tool for the right job.


All of the above might be very true, but any tool is what users make of

it, and Flash is no exception.

I use Flash for web dev. true but not exclusively, and saying it just

good for using with a browser is not understanding all it's potential.

Before going into Flash usage for CD first some other areas :

Through ActiveX Flash is a great way to build interactive buttons and

other hot things in Windows based apps enabling innovative program

interfaces.

What can be done with ActiveX can be also done in a OS independent way

with the Flash Java API. Java, Swing and Flash are a real hot combo for

gui building even considering we have to do with Flash2 only.


Now for Dave's question. I wouldn't put it as a Flash vs. Director but

more as Flash or Director.

Let's take an example or two.

First case : Client, a big car maker, requests a promo CD for their

company. This will be a one time CD and you have 3 months to produce it.

Contents are mostly images and video with text.

What do you use ? Director no doubt. Version 6 in my case, I was one of

the smart people that didn't switch to 6.5 ;).

Second case : Client, a publisher, wants to start including in one of

it's monthly magazines a CD. Content is mostly image and text and you

have about two weeks to produce each CD. Also as they don't want to

raise the cover price client is working on a shorter budget.

So what do you do here ? Would you use Director ? Would it be cost

effective for you to do so ? Would it be time effective to do so ?

This is a case where I would not use Director but Flash. Final costs are

lower, margins are higher, client pays less, in the end everybody is

happy.

Of course my opinions are arguable but as a developer I know where the

money comes from and using Flash only for web dev. would be stupid.



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