Director MX and Revolution

[Wolfgang M. Bereuter]

On Dienstag, Dezember 3, 2002, at 05:32  Uhr, Troy Rollins wrote:

> On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 08:04 AM, Simtech Publications wrote:
>
>> Knowing what Director MX looks like I'm  more inclined than ever
>> to update all of my special educations programs in Rev instead of 
>> Director
>> so they run under Mac OS X. While Director MX itself looks lovely 
>> with its
>> new aqua interface it produces movies with almost none of the OS X GUI
>> elements, not even jellybean buttons, radio buttons or checkboxes. At 
>> least
>> not in the last beta that was available to us before they shut the 
>> tests
>> down. Completely unbelieveable! I hope for the sake of Director users 
>> that
>> the release version will correct this but I highly doubt it. For my 
>> part,
>> I'm switching to Rev.
>>
> Glad to have you here, Bill. But, at my place anyway, we use both 
> Director and Rev. We use Rev when it has to look and work "like an 
> application." My point is - Director has *never* had the things you 
> mentioned, why would it now? That's not what it is about. Director is 
> aimed at those who want to design every last bit of the interface and 
> experience. We added Rev to our toolbox because Director is ill-suited 
> to developing "applications", however we still feel it is *extremely* 
> strong at its own field - multimedia, interactive, online...
>
> I, for one, am looking forward to D-MX almost as much as Rev 2.0

I think I understand Bill very well. My goal is to have one tool to 
build (author hasslefree) apps for any OS without a ticket to hell and 
back. that my it can run aon the, no matter if they are Mulitmedia 
Apps. Taht why I looking for a kind of this famous, non existing german 
"eierlegendewollmilchsau"-tool (let me try that in english: 
eggbreedingwoolmilkpork-tool). Because the main focus of my (maybe hes 
too?) multimedia apps is not the authoring and scripting part. Its the 
UI, the content, the story, the idea, the multimedia features and so 
on. Thats why a lot of developing happens in other tools, and so we 
expect at only one for the authoring...

Bill, pls correct me if I did not understood you wright...

So, let us see what kind of animal will Rev 2.0 be, and how close it 
comes to the "eierlegendewollmilchsau" for the rest of us ;))

regards
Wolfgang M. Bereuter

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