On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 04:24 PM, g r i m m w e r k s wrote:
> hey all - thinking of making the switch to total osx bootup, and
> wondering
> who is authoring in Classic mode rather than booting into 9?
I am. Is that all you wanted to know?
I can tell you that you need to get rid of *all* the MS shi'ite from
your 9 extensions. the OLE stuff. The hyperlink library. Anything that
has the name "Microsoft" in the extensions manager. If you don't you'll
run into substantial problems with drag and drop; even after pulling
that stuff it gets dodgy at random times.
It's gotten to the point that I select the Cast members I want and cast
to time rather than drag to place on the Stage or in the Score.
Resizing windows is a problem too, particularly dragging them *smaller*
in size. Powie. Hot death.
<rant>
It is a giant pain in the ass and I find it deeply offensive that the
morons at Macromedia who make such decisions would rather pour money
into DumbWeaver. The entire company is run by idiots.
I can say that here with impunity because I know none of them are subbed
to this list. They're barely literate, let alone net-savvy enough, to
handle email. All they know or care about is whether they will be
putting their laundered money into the Caymans this year, or Switzerland
again.
Used to be Director was a product engineered by people who worked at a
company that cared about its quality. Now it's a company run by
money-grubbing greedy sacks of excrement and the few people left there
who do care end up getting ignored because they can't be heard over the
whine of the turbines on the fourth Lear in the CEO's personal fleet.
ARGH.
</rant>
That said overall the author experience in Classic is not god-awful, but
it certainly could be much better. I was running 9 when I put my book
together because I needed to assemble examples fairly quickly and needed
good sharp-edged screenshots, and at the time X's screen grabber was
primitive compared to the refinements 9 had.
Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/
Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting
Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide
Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill
http://shop.osborne.com/cgi-bin/osborne/0072195622.html
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