Re: FLASH: Director vs. Flash

[Warren 'The Howdy Man' Ockrassa]

James Tu wrote:


> The thing I don't understand is that why don't they combine Flash and

> Director together.  They are very similar but each have strengths that the

> other would benefit from.


Well superficially they appear similar. However I suspect that under the

hood they are radically dissimilar beasts. For instance the behavior

engine in Dir7 does a *lot* more than simply keep track of a few lines

of Lingo you enter here and there.


There is some interaction possible between Flash and Director, BTW -- 7

does a pretty good job of handling Flash, and Flash has the capability

of talking to Director.


Finally, though, monolithic software may not be the best approach. A

recent thread over on Direct-L was covering some of the *massive*

problems 7.0 had, and related to the fact that modularization of the

environment may have helped prevent some of those problems. The current

way Flash and Director interrelate is, I believe, a modularization which

keeps both healthy -- Flash releases do not have to wait for Director

revisions and vice-versa.


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