Re: FLASH: Director7 vs. Flash4

[Yann]

>>With 

>> Director and a lot of patient you could actualy

>> rebuild Microsoft excel 

>> from scratch (I've seen it once and it work pretty

>> well).  

>---

>If you have a copy of that or a link, I'd love to see

>that.

>

That was a long time ago and it was for a in-house project, so it was 

never annouce on the web.


>>You've got to 

>> remember that director was first built for

>> multimedia application (eg. 

>> cd-rom) not for the web and flash is the opposite it

>> was first build for 

>> the web not for multimedia application.  Now both of

>> them do both but 

>> Flahs is still better for the web and Director for

>> presentation.

>> ---

>Hmmm.. so for web, at the moment you'd recommend

>Flash, and for standalone, interactive/CD type apps,

>director?

>

>What about web database connectivity?  


For web database connectivity, you could use Director or Flash, but I 

strongly recommend Generator, it's easier to use and it give great result 

because that's what it was built to do :0)


>I did notice a lot of built in functionality for

>presentation like swipes, transitions, etc... all

>built in.  And about 3 months ago I did that ALL BY

>HAND in Flash!  Ugh, what a nightmare.

>


LOL, I can just imagine the work you did... heck I tried it once to and I 

still have nigthmare LOL.



Yann


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