Hi Warren, I am quite platform-agnostic, but I do like the premise of Open-Source software. The Squeak language is something I have come across over the years and it seems to be steadily developing into a Director-like tool but with many, many more advantages. Imagine Director that was opensource, editable, and recompilable... If we don't like how Macromedia is doing things, then hey, we can go create our own module to plug into it and add functionality (kind of like Xtras, but all the way down to the fundamental App level). Also interesting is that Alan Kay is one of the people behind squeak, ironically enough. Perhaps squeak is his solution for Apple and MS making BILLIONS off of his team's ideas. Anyway, be sure to check it out at:
http://www.squeak.org/index.html The virtual machine is a lot like Java, but MUCH MUCH faster and Squeak is also completely PLATFORM INDEPENDANT. Makes sense to me...now they just need to get 200 million people to download the virual machine :0) ~Mathew J. Ray Senior Interactive Design Student www.seriphdesign.com/mathew <snip> The closest I have seen to a Directoresque language for nix is Python, which is another one of those command-prompt languages (initially). But it doesn't have the particular suite of graphic, sound and time manipulation tools Director owns which makes it such a distinctly usable critter. Director is really rather unique in that sense -- invented *after* GUIs became widely available, it is one of the few major programmer tools that doesn't more or less require you to start with ASCII and project files in text format. It incorporates the graphics from the start. I like that, and I think a lot of UNIX programmers would like it too. </snip> [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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
