How director is better then flash

Question

hi
i m the user director but on some point i m so much confuse
about the director
i really feel comfort and relax in director..i can easily
develop the application in the director ..but .when y u work in
director y u are not work in flash...flash also can do all ... at
this time I have no proper and satisfy answer to give the prove
them all....
Tell me guys
Y director is good....
What r the difference b/w director and flash?
How can I satisfy them technically?
I know that flash good software but I wana know that point
which make the director better then flash.
What are these points?
Soon im going to conduct the seminer..here people think
director is not good software ..they think is so much difficult ..
So I wana tell them about the director. is good
software…y
Plz reply me
Thx a lot
Regard
farhana khan

Answer 1

> What seems to be happening with Director and Flash is
that they are more
> alike with every new release. It is getting harder and
harder to explain
> what the difference is to non-users, and that is a bad
bad sign.
Hmm.. Well, maybe it's time to explain what I meant by 'I'm
working on it'.
I sure am not adobe, or mm, but I'd bet that most of the
regular list
members care about Director more than anyone at any company.
A couple years back, shortly after mus got discontinued to be
more precise,
and by not finding any descent networking Xtra, I started
building one. The
initial goal was to build a socket Xtra that could transfer
binary strings.
But soon as I got the hang of it, I started adding all the
stuff of my
personal Director wish list that came to mind. And the Xtra
evolved beyond
and initial expectation - and timeline for that matter.
The 'official' announcement talked about unicode. But that
was just the
first object revealed.
The Xtra includes objects (strings, lists, date, image...)
that are both
faster and more flexible than their Director's equivalents,
well as new
objects that aim to include all that windows/c++ has to offer
for their
field (socket, services, file/shell...).
It has been a long and mostly lonely journey...
You can visit
http://xtrema.rtr.gr/cDown/
to get an idea.
Now that the core is finished, all experimental objects are
updated and
added to the pack. The idea is, soon as certain base objects
are completed,
to produce some freeware apps for advanced tasks (like
managing services),
in an attempt to give Director back it's good name. I guess
that at the
time, I'll make a call to any director developer that wishes
to participate
in such a project to lend a hand (gui / suggestions etc).
Don't forget: If it can be done with c++, it can be done must
faster, and
with far less debugging, in Director. Long as you can call
c++ routines that
will give you access to the system functions that is (aka
Xtras).
As a pro app builder, I find Director to have just one
drawback. No
multithreading support for lingo scripts. Any number of
threads can work on
the background (like e.g. getNetText), but there will be
bottlenecking when
it comes to callbacks. So, building a director based
enterprise server is
out of the question. But building a game or mid-business
server capable of
hosting thousands of clients isn't.
Regards,
Harris.
"LOOPING_Richard" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>-> My reply at the bottom...
>
>
>
> "alchemist" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Director was created for building stand-alone apps.
>> Flash was built to enhance web pages.
>>
>> No matter how much both (especially flash) these
programs have evolved,
>> they still are doing best what they were created to
do.
>> Director with it's open architecture (see Xtras) can
have extended access
>> to the os.
>> With Flash, you have to work with what mm/adobe is
offering - and, in the
>> latest versions, that's much more than most projects
will require.
>>
>> Director is usually faster than flash, due to it's
design.
>> I'd guess that Flash is easier to port to various
OSs because of it's
>> control-dependent nature.
>>
>> Flash is sure heading to the right direction.
>> As for Director.. It still is a great program for
rapid application
>> developing, and with adequate performance - which
can be excellent, if
>> cpu demanding code is transferred from lingo to Xtra
calls.
>>
>> So, the question should probably be Director vs VB
or something instead
>> of vs Flash.
>> Far as I am concerned, mm, after version 8.5, took
the wrong turn, and
>> instead of expanding director towards application
development, or
>> enhancing it's 3D capabilities, it just created a
new interface, added
>> javascript support -good step, but a bit out of the
blue- and buried mus,
>> which was a valuable tool for network gaming.
>>
>> Imagine if Director had all the features needed to
create professional
>> applications.. Why not? It's fast, stable, easy and
expandable. Is it
>> maybe time to leave aesthetics and animations to
Flash, and start turning
>> director to a pro-app builder? Personally, I'm sure
working on it.
>>
>>
>>
>> "farhanakhan" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> hi
>>> i m the user director but on some point i m so
much confuse about the
>>> director
>>>
>>> i really feel comfort and relax in director..i
can easily develop the
>>> application in the director ..but .when y u work
in director y u are
>>> not work
>>> in flash...flash also can do all ... at this
time I have no proper and
>>> satisfy
>>> answer to give the prove them all....
>>>
>>> Tell me guys
>>> Y director is good....
>>> What r the difference b/w director and flash?
>>> How can I satisfy them technically?
>>> I know that flash good software but I wana know
that point which make
>>> the
>>> director better then flash.
>>> What are these points?
>>> Soon im going to conduct the seminer..here
people think director is not
>>> good
>>> software ..they think is so much difficult ..
>>> So I wana tell them about the director. is good
software?y
>>> Plz reply me
>>>
>>>
>>> Thx a lot
>>>
>>> Regard
>>> farhana khan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
> Hi Alchemist,
> thats a very good point you make, and I agree totally. I
also use Director
> mostly for prototyping new applications and demo-stuff.
>
> What seems to be happening with Director and Flash is
that they are more
> alike with every new release. It is getting harder and
harder to explain
> what the difference is to non-users, and that is a bad
bad sign.
> I still suspect MM/Adobe would like to make it 1 product
that is both
> Flash and Director, and I still think that is the wrong
decision.
>
> Anyway... I hope for the best, and keep using the old
versions as long as
> possible.
>
> Richard
>