Hi Pekka -
I'd suggest: go forward ->
d702 had MANY issues that got addressed in d8 (more effort was
placed on addressing older bugs than in any other release of
Director) and there's no way to know if your code/project was not
dependent on something that got fixed in d8. Therefore, I'd consider
going back to be potentially more risk than moving forward and a
whole lot more tedious.
Since your project was done in d8, the features you used would not
be within the X.0 areas of d8.5 (it's not using 3D, Real, or MUS).
Also, perhaps you didn't realize that when you update an entire
project (by pointing to the top of a file tree & selecting Include
All), Director performs the update in place, but first saves a copy
of the entire original project's file tree at a location that you
specify so that you can always go back if you need to.
And Lastly, I wish people would stop referring to the D8 media
loading issue as a sound bug. Sound just makes the issue obvious.
Please stop shooting the messenger.
hth
-Buzz
At 12:08 PM +0300 8/2/01, Pekka Buttler wrote:
>Hi people.
>
>I have a problem which I have been pondering on for some while, and I would
>appreciate some input.
>
>I've done a project in D8, and now I need to do a vastly similar project.
>The reason why I would not like to use D8 again is the D8 sound engine bug.
>Now AFAIK, that bug was not present on D7 and the bug has been fixed in
>D8.5, which makes both options viable. I have donw a lot of projects with
>D7.02 and am very comfortable with it's stability, D8.5 I am totally new to.
>All features for needed are already present in D7.
>
>If I go for D7 I basically have to reprogram the whole application
>(copypaste works though). This would naturally lengthen development, but at
>the same time I would automatically get rid of any redundant code, which
>might otherwise slow down the app or create problems. The problem is not as
>severe as It might seem as probably less than 20 percent (some 10 000 lines)
>of the code is automatically reusable anyway.
>
>If I go for D8.5 I can (comparatively) speed up the development (I have D7
>now, I can get D8.5 in a few weeks). Thenagain, as I already mentioned, I am
>totally new to D8.5, which makes me slightly uneasy. Also, I have the
>problem with D8.5 that If I run into trouble, there's no way back. With D7 I
>could always update the whole project to D8.5. D8.5 might have the advantage
>of D8's faster Lingo engine, which might be slowed down by all that new
>(untested) 3D code....
>
>I asked my boss for any ideas, but he told me that it is up to my expertise
>to decide (he's right), but he also said out of HIS experience (as a C++
>programmer) that you should always "go for the newest compiler"...
>Basically, as he's not aquainted with Director's X.0 problems (in this case
>I consider D8.5 to equal D9.0), and as his answer reveals is ignorant of the
>possible problems, I do not give this statement very much weight.
>
>As you can see, the equation is not an easy one. What makes me most
>ambivalent about the issue is that I am not certain of D8.5's stability, as
>I have never used it. This combined with D8.5 being a dead end (no updating
>possible), makes me extremely uneasy.
>
>With D7 I'd be playing safe. With D8.5 I'd be taking a huge risk.
>
>You are free to comment on any of these points, but what I'd really like is
>to know about any firsthand experience with stability issues and
>undocumented quirks connected to creating CD-ROM-based products with D8.5.
>
>TIA
>
>Pekka Buttler
>
>
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