Quick Rev <=> Flash review

[MisterX]

as I mentioned in an email one or two months ago, it's not hard
to smooth out graphics in RR. Including anti-aliasing.

If you draw a black line, draw a number of intermediate grey or
your other colors to simulate the antialias. Draw from shadow to
border to avoid shadow overlap.

You can also use a control's shadow to do it in some cases.

You can use my gradient tool too.
Create a rectangle that serves as the shadow, draw the gradient from
color x to y... (hum... idea for features... )

I still have to program the angled gradients. Maybe i'll get to it
soon.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com]On Behalf Of Alex Shaw
> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 11:17
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: Quick Rev <=> Flash review
>
>
>
> hi
>
> for this particular job i just wanted to use flash for the fancy (yet
> functional) interface and somehow integrate rev (like i do for most of my
> projects :)
>
> i had explored the flash swf format before by embedding flash [as
> quicktime] and wrote a little tool to inject bitmaps into swf data and
> generate valid swf files etc
>
> but this time i wanted to do something different..
>
> hmm.. i think everyone prefers smooth anti-aliased lines over the jaggies
> so i won't go there, one day if runrev don't anti-aliase rev or integrate
> native swf, i may if time permits like to delve into imagedata but
> basically the other problem was tighter integration ie control.. so
> embedded qt flash wouldn't cut it .. Trevor's mango media dll sounds very
> useful but still looking for a project to use it on
>
> i knew rev was up for the task so .. how?
>
> this proved a good opportunity to also upgrade to the latest flash.. i
> stuffed round, read some sites & decided to use full screen projector exe
> mode for the [flash] interface component and a floating rev
> control window.
> you can get more separation between interface and logic than two separate
> exes (4 if you include the mac versions) in two separate languages :)
>
> other issues:
> - qt currently only supports flash 5 and i wanted to use the new commands
> and components in flash pro mx
> - FSCommand (currently) seems limited for future development
>
> at the end of the day rev's ability to run as a little custom tcp server
> allowed communication/control of the flash bit.. i love rev
>
> swf is an open format but qt, svg & swf are not as simple as bmp
> files so i
> can see runrev's basic problem with wanting to support something like
> actionscript (the embedded language of flash).. another language,
> need more
> developers etc heaps of reasons but a start would be nice,
> because even on
> linux delivering the full quicktime experience is limited.. yet i can run
> rev & flash easily but independently,,
>
> anyway this is all still work in progress but so far so good, rev
> is simply
> a indispensable tool
>
> regards
> alex
>
>
> At 08:37 PM 9/08/2004, Wolfgang M. Bereuter wrote:
> >>Re: Quick Rev <=> Flash review
> >Assuming you used QT for Flash or is there any other way withotu it?
> >But do you think, I dont remember when and how many times as I asked
> >for that, a nativ Flash support in rev would be that Killer App(Plug
> >in)? to revs real target market, as Dan mentioned before?
>
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