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From: farhanakhan on 28 Jul 2007 12:44
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

From: Dave C on 28 Jul 2007 12:49
Just so you know, cross posting is considered bad netiquette. The reason is
that someone may spend considerable time responding to a post, only to
discover that the question was already answered by another forum user on the
other thread..


From: Aquilonian on 28 Jul 2007 16:18
For the web, noone can never make anything serious, or important in flash since
anything in flash can be decompiled and stolen.
I dont know of any decompiler for director
There is also his 3d powers,3d aceleration that flash dont have and that makes
possible things like this:
http://www.maidmarian.com/Sherwood.htm

The drawbacks?Well, many flash users will complain about directors language,
cos it doesnt have the oop boureaucracy that actionScript have.This is the
people that is not goal oriented.



From: Dean Utian on 28 Jul 2007 23:59
Hi farhana,

A lot of people ask about the differences between Flash and Director. Here's my
answer

Director is extremely powerful at application development for off-line delivery. It
can communicate with hardware and Operating System level stuff - something out of
the realm of Flash. As an example, the Kodak Photokiosk interface was developed
with Flash. This kiosk allows a person to insert a memory card, interact with an
onscreen set of menus to load the image, manipulate it, send it to a printer, store
the persons details.... So, Director is able to communicate with the card reader
and other devices and have allow the creation of of a sophisticated piece of
software to manage printing of digital pictures.

Real-time 3D
Director has a real-time 3D engine that is not available in Flash. Aquilonian
mentioned this and gave a link to MaidMarian. For more, look at my Shockwave Hall
of Fame page at:
http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/learning/director/resources/cool.asp

Xtras
Director has the ability for plugins known as Xtras. These allow the extension of
Director to all sorts of things. Third Party developers make Xtras to give support
for additional media types, to allow quick creation of menus and so many other
areas. Just look at the following to se how much Xtra stuff is around:
http://www.updatestage.com/MileHighTableOfProducts/products.html
You can also make your own Xtras.

Media support
Director has far more support for the range of media around - like DVD-Video,
Flash, MP3, QT, image formats

Here are some further links:
The Best Kept Secret in Town - Application development with Macromedia Director
http://webddj.sys-con.com/read/45623.htm
Has a 'How Director Differs from Flash' section.

My own FAQ page (which needs some updating), which has a few more links:
http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/learning/director/resources/FAQ/web.asp#5

The Director Podcast - The Battle of the Software.
This is an audio discussion of the differences between Flash and Director. It is
done in a lighthearted way.
http://www.magicgate.com/podcast/director/shownotes/director_podcast_ep20_06_13_06.html

Hope that helps.

regards
Dean

Director Lecturer / Consultant / Director Enthusiast
http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/learning/director
http://www.multimediacreative.com.au
email: d.utian(a)unsw.edu.au

From: Aquilonian on 29 Jul 2007 01:35
Also, for a long time flash main point WAS that actionScript was easy and fast
to have things done
That allow DESIGNERS, NOT CODERS, to make flash the most popular plugin on
the web
Now with actionScript3 this is all gone.Its not intuitive anymore, its full of
errors and you have the same work as if you were coding in java


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