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Subject: RE: FLASH: What is the big difference between Director and Flash
From: Cordaro, Vince
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 20:05:20 GMT

Grimm
I now know what you meant. I when under behaviors and loocked at Lingo ,
man there is a lot to choose from. Can you put javascrip right in there.
Or just use only thos commands under the list?

Vince

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> From: Grimmwerksataol [dot] com [SMTP:Grimmwerksataol [dot] com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 2:30 PM
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> Subject: Re: FLASH: What is the big difference between Director and
> Flash
>
>
> 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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