Re: FLASH: What is the big difference between Director and Flash

[Grimmwerks]

That's kind of a vague question....and kind of hard to answer if you 

don't actually _see_ the difference (I don't mean it to sound 

condescending...they're just some VAST differences)...


in some cases, like in shockwave, I'm coming from the other end; I know 

Director very well but my vector chops have always been lacking so I 

stayed away from Flash. Now, the stuff I'm seeing in Flash from 

programming point of view are kind of like where Director was in version 

5...some basic variables that people like Branden can stretch to do some 

extremely amazing stuff...


But the strength of Director is within the programming language; if 

you're looking at Director from a stage/score viewpoint, then yes, 

there's not a whole lot of differences....they're within the same family 

but they have different chores that each does well...


but from a Lingo standpoint, this is where Director takes off. Lingo is 

becoming on par to something like C++ with arrays, dot syntax, etc. And 

Director can be built on with XTRAs to become something that the 'bare' 

version couldn't even touch...look at the 3dgroove xtra at 

3dgroove.com....full Quake like rendering 3d engine within Director....


Now, Flash can be imported within Director and can use the Director's 

'brain' to expande it's palette as well...I've done some stuff where 

Flash will send messages to Director and Director will interpret the 

messages and execute them...now flash 4 can do some really cool things  

on it's own now, but here's a project using flash 3 that couldn't really 

be done like this on it's own:


for the songline creator I did for Sting's site, what was going on was 

that asp pages were embedding shockwave on the fly and passing a list of 

assets that the user had collected on the site through the shockwave 

embed tag...a full list of assets, be they quotes or images. The 

shockwave then went out and fetched all the image assets and pulled them 

to the users hard drive and imported them. The user can then drag and 

drop all these images/quotes to the slot boxes, pick an mp3 and fire it 

back to the asp page, which tells generator what the user has chosen (the 

generator template was tied to the song choice)...asp then returned the 

id of this movie the user created to the shockwave and the shockwave 

'grabbed' the flash movie with the id and at the same time started 

streaming the mp3 from it's directory....




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