Flash/QTdebug/ActiveX

Mark Paris mark at bcesouth.com
Wed Mar 19 13:49:01 EST 2003


Yes, could someone post some sample code of how to talk to flash via
quicktime via RR?  The best thing I have seen thus far was a post from Gary
Rathbone about using RR as a server application, similar to his (most
excellent) excel web query demo.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Bradley Borch" <brad at activadesign.com>
To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: Flash/QTdebug/ActiveX


> > FYI and FWIW: we've used QuickTime to handle Flash in our shell, with
> > DebugStr for callbacks, using QT5/Flash 4.  Never had any problems
> > with it.
>
> Did you use LiveStage to create the DebugStr hooks? That's a lot of $$
> for just that feature. I'd love to find a way around that.
> >
> > Just curious, what would be the benefit of running Flash natively
> > within
> > Rev?  You can build a standalone Flash projector so you can already
> > build
> > Flash applications.
> >
> > Personally, I would rather see Rev updated with some of Flash's
> > features:
> > text and graphic antialiasing, draw object transparency, multichannel
> > sound
> > (not using QT), rotatable text, etc.  Why use two separate tools to
> > get the
> > job done when you could use one?
>
> I do a lot of multimedia for presentations/education. Flash is great at
> these, with anti-aliasing, a timeline, etc. So, for example, I can
> create a dozen or so animations as standalone modules. The beauty of
> this is that these modules can be much smaller than QuickTime video,
> using the compression of Flash, and they can be embedded in a web page
> or, with a few tweaks for less compression/higher quality, included in
> a Director project on CD.
>
> However, I really dislike Director and think it's terribly clumsy. Most
> of pro developers use very little of the timeline capabilities of
> Director for most projects, as they wind up being very card-like. The
> way it's done is to create a script in Director that says "go the
> frame", essentially telling Director to stand still. Most of the
> control comes through swapping media, using Lingo.
>
> The point is that if I could get the same functionality out of Rev, I'd
> be very happy. Happy to leave Macromedia's $800 upgrades behind. Happy
> to gain a new, intuitive development environment with commands that
> make my life easier (the replaceText?? command in Rev requires a loop
> and five lines in Director to complete the same thing, e.g.) Don't get
> me wrong, I'd love to see the same features in Rev, but  the modularity
> of the Flash anims is what makes it work for me.
>
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