I was going to ask as well about the performance loss/drag of using flash files in MX compared to 8.5.1. Some of the cool and useful components out there for Flash MX, being able to use them in Director with out any or little performance loss would really be useful. As someone else mentioned it would be nice to see a list of the changes etc. in the new MX for the more curious among us.
Regards to all. Peter Witham Internet and Multimedia Solutions http://www.evolutiondata.com icq: 4436851 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Robert Tweed Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 9:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: <lingo-l> ANN: Director MX ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Higgins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > And what about... gXML = new("XML")? > > Yup. I chose not to explicitly mention all objects by name, the list is long. Interesting. I take it that this means you could put a stub swf with no content in your Director movies as a factory for spawning XML parser objects that work properly? This might be a good thing... In fact, do you even need an embedded Flash asset to access the Actionscript object library, or can you just drop them into your code wherever you want them, like script Xtras? If so, how many other useful objects are there in Flash that are currently missing from Director, or not working, that this effectively fixes? How does the performance compare to native Director objects, and are all the features generally compatible with Lingo (i.e., are there any datatype conversion issues, etc.)? On a related topic, one of the biggest questions I want answered about the new tighter integration of Flash is whether we can now have as many Flash sprites on the stage as we want without instantly crippling performance. For instance, if we wanted to replace all our textboxes with Flash sprites for Unicode support, would it work well enough to be practical? - Robert [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!] [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!]
