Why I upgraded to Dir 12?

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To set the Stage.... I had been a long time Director user back with Macromedia and long before Flash but stopped using it about 2007.   So why did I upgrade to Director 12?   The price of the upgrade was cheap ($299) and the number of additions since MX 2004 seemed great...especially the H264 video... but most importantly and intriguing for me was the ability to port to iOS.
I had tried the free version but it took me a while to figure out provisioning for iOS so... my trial ran out....the decision had to be made.   Buy or not buy.
For $299 I gambled and bought it...figuring I could figure out this provisioning thing between my day job and my obessive need to play World of War Craft.  
The good news is ... I have figure out how to use _Touches, the accelerometer and gyro and have made a few prototypes, applications and presentations for use on the iPad and iPhone.  The bad news is... the documentation is lacking as everyone has pointed out and there are some very basic iOS problems in this release:  3D objects still have to be w3d an old format that current 3D platforms don't export anymore, no video support, vector objects created within director don't render in IOS, Enterprise provisioning has issues ( havent gotten this to work yet ), rgb(255,255,255) doesn't key out properly on text, and VoiceSpeak doesnt work - nor do any third party xtras, transitions do not work ( frame or puppet )...and I have only been at this for about a week so i know there i alot more issues I have yet to uncover.  My biggest grief is... no books...only PDFs to search.   I do my biggest research when the computer is not on and thumbing threw the lingo dictionary...just wondering what a particular property or command does....then when the question arrise... I can go...oh ya..read that somewhere...I can do that.....the PDF thing for me stinks...good thing I still had my printed MX Lingo Dictonary.
But is this all bad news?  I don't think so...at least I hope not.  Adobe hasn't figured out what to do with Director but with Flash loosing ground and relegated now to just creating banner ads, at least in the agency I work for and Edge so far behind where we all wish it was....there is a window of opportunity for Director...but where and in what market?   Adobe thinks its games and all things shockwave.   If you open the IPA you will find the famous .dcr and their website promotes the fact that you can "publish games directly to iOS"...they did not mention anything else you could do with iOS.... I don't think they are thinking they want to put up a significant fight yet to handle the xtra security issues and they aren't really certain what the director community is going to do with the tools they have.
This is where Director was at version 1.0  - a collection of tools and a few people wanting to push the envelope of interactivity.   Luckily for us,  there are alot more now than just a few people.  But if I were Adobe and I didn't know what to do with the product I would do exactly what they have done.   Provide a few updates and see who is buying, deetermine my market size and see what they do with the tools they provided.  
Since my main goal was to produce iOS apps,  Director 12 with its problems is definately a step backwards in its functionality due to its current limitations....but what it is providing is the ability to develop quickly and easily for iOS.   I can make prototypes applications faster and cheaper and get them in the hands of clients in days vs. months.   
Perhaps Adobe doesn't know why I bought Director 12.  Perhaps they don't know why anyone buys Director anymore and believe games are the only reason anyone does it.  My fear is that Director has been on its death bed for several years and unless we ( the community ) can convince Adobe where this product can be used in the mobile space ( games or otherwise ) its future will continue to be uncertain.   I believe they have given us an opportunity - its iOS and we have to once again push the limits of the features they have provided.  
Well at least thats why I upgraded......why did you?

Answer 1

Hi Orjan Bark
We need your help as u r Director Lover.
We are working on a projetor using Flash (AS 3) and Director 11.5, and stuck at an issue of External Loding of Swf from swf link in director.
i.e. In dir file there are several swf (with AS3 code). These swf runtime load external swf file(which is in the same folder).Parent swf is usning only library asset from external; files.
The problem is that it takes too long long long time to load that swf files.
When we run swf file it works fine without any delay.(without director all goes perfect).
We had tried to solve this problem using diffternt method of AS3. But it seems that problem occur at director side,( as every time it work fine with out director).
So do you have any idea, what's wrong with director......
Thanks in advanced if u can solve this.....