Yes, becasue most people have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA what this Unicdoe issue is and are compeltely perplexed that Director does not support it (mind I am too!!!)
And the work arounds are so time consuming and in my case impossible (I mean how do you create a workaround for charactersets you don't even knopw will be used? My app will be rolled out globally and I cannot make a work around for every character set now, isn't it. I might as well do that for Adobe directly! ;) It is very frustrating as I am faced with re-creating the project in something else or scrap it, which I don't think they'll like very much? Or do you know another dev tool that can be used to create a suite of software apps that allow you to translate content into other languages, then select / compile courses from a HUGE pool of content (using various tree View style menus), store these course on your disk, include a certain degree of hard disk admin, then create the set of files for the final course to go onto the DVD (including the autorun file, .ico file, etc.), and then go and burn the DVD AS WELL? Flash can do bits and pieces, but can it burn DVDs? Does it have a close access to the machines OS as Director - I don't think so. Does it have Xtras, or the possibility to write one if you need some more featurs? - I don't think so! ... Nik On 6/30/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yeah, great fun explaining that to your boss... I had the same problem when suddenly a major client wanted their corporate CD-ROM in Chinese a couple of years back, and they weren't prepared to pay for all the extra work required to work around the lack of Unicode support... Really fun getting slapped around for using a MM product for which you have nothing to do with it's lack of up-to-dateness... Chris. -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens nik crosina Verzonden: vrijdag 30 juni 2006 11:43 Aan: Lingo programming discussion list Onderwerp: Re: <lingo-l> Unicode Update Hi Chris, Mentioning the 5 billion or so people who can't use Director easily or BE REACHED easily with any Director made product is a very good point. I have developed a training application that organises a huge content library of video clips, PowerPoint's, text docs, images, etc. and that can be used to create tailor made course for clients, and burn a DVD with it literally within minutes. Easy to use even for filed based sales people who use their laptop only to keep in touch with head office from the road side. Hugely popular with the middle and upper management as it saves them hundreds of thousand of pounds or dollars or whatever the currency you choose... So far rolled out in Europe. Now they want to take it global. This is a training product that could find itself in every Hilton Hotel, Mac Donald, Pizza Hut, Burger King, WalMart, Sainsbury, Radisson, etc (training cleaning staff) I get emails from people in Malaysia, China, Thailand, India, Brazil, Czech Republic, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Pakistan, etc., etc. basically saying one thing: WHEN CAN WE START USING THIS AS IT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE NEED TO QUICKLY TRAIN OUR PEOPLE. What do I have to tel my Boss? ...Shame the global roll out was not an original requirement, because Director doesn't do UNICODE, so I got to do it all over again. ... It only took me 6 month to get it all done.... It is hugely frustrating, that with Director we have such a brilliant development tool that allows you to work in a 1000 different ways, that has a huge third party developers following with its Xtras, that has been around for way more than 10 years... ... but can not be used on a global basis! Very frustrating! *sigh* Nik On 6/30/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been naggin' about this for 5 years... I've stopped counting on it long since... real great customer support :) (guess the five (?) billion people that don't use friggin' ASCII aren't supposed to be that important a target according to the director marketing reps) > > Chris. > > > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens nik crosina > Verzonden: donderdag 29 juni 2006 11:28 > Aan: Director - Shockwave - and Flash Game Production; Lingo programming discussion list > Onderwerp: <lingo-l> Unicode Update > > Hi, > > Has anyone heared an update on how the Unicode implementation in > Director is coming along? (Tom Higgins; are you reading this?) > > I got to start implementing Unicode support to our global training > tool soon and would not want to move it to Flash or another app. > > Is it such an issue, hard to code, difficult to support, or what is > exactly the reason that this is not in place by now? Isn't there a > tremendous lost opportunity for martketing Director into countries > that do not follow the currently implemented character set? > > Having lived and worked in this area for years (amongst other teaching > Director), I am thinking mainly of Asia Pacific, but it is hard to > even get proper character set support for Polish, Czech, etc. > > Does anyone know whether there is a firm plan or commitment to this > issue from Adobe? > > Thanks!! > > > -- > Nik C > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > -- Nik C [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
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