On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 01:59 PM, Robert Tweed wrote:
You think so? I think a codebase that's managed to keep its core file format intact for almost a decade and a half is pretty damned well written. I cannot think of many apps that can say they've done that. (Actually, I can't think of *any*.)----- Original Message ----- From: "Howdy-Tzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>There are fundamental realities about the Director architecture, and the internal cast is one of them. I think what Buzz is indicating is that it would essentially require a top-down rewrite of the entire Director engine -- while breaking ALL backward compatibility to all previous file formats -- to accomplish that.That would suggest that Director is really badly written.
I would onlyOn what do you base that assessment? You seem to believe that Director is completely modular, that severing connections to a default internal media storage container is as simple as choosing to open a document window. I'm guessing it's nowhere near that simple, and that a movie without a default cast is a little like a stage without a score. Removing it is not only not trivial, but actually impossible.
request something like this on the assumption that it is trivial to
implement. In a half decent architecture it should be a few lines of code at
most.
-- WthmO
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