Yes, could someone post some sample code of how to talk to flash via quicktime via RR? The best thing I have seen thus far was a post from Gary Rathbone about using RR as a server application, similar to his (most excellent) excel web query demo.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bradley Borch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 1:34 PM Subject: Re: Flash/QTdebug/ActiveX > > FYI and FWIW: we've used QuickTime to handle Flash in our shell, with > > DebugStr for callbacks, using QT5/Flash 4. Never had any problems > > with it. > > Did you use LiveStage to create the DebugStr hooks? That's a lot of $$ > for just that feature. I'd love to find a way around that. > > > > Just curious, what would be the benefit of running Flash natively > > within > > Rev? You can build a standalone Flash projector so you can already > > build > > Flash applications. > > > > Personally, I would rather see Rev updated with some of Flash's > > features: > > text and graphic antialiasing, draw object transparency, multichannel > > sound > > (not using QT), rotatable text, etc. Why use two separate tools to > > get the > > job done when you could use one? > > I do a lot of multimedia for presentations/education. Flash is great at > these, with anti-aliasing, a timeline, etc. So, for example, I can > create a dozen or so animations as standalone modules. The beauty of > this is that these modules can be much smaller than QuickTime video, > using the compression of Flash, and they can be embedded in a web page > or, with a few tweaks for less compression/higher quality, included in > a Director project on CD. > > However, I really dislike Director and think it's terribly clumsy. Most > of pro developers use very little of the timeline capabilities of > Director for most projects, as they wind up being very card-like. The > way it's done is to create a script in Director that says "go the > frame", essentially telling Director to stand still. Most of the > control comes through swapping media, using Lingo. > > The point is that if I could get the same functionality out of Rev, I'd > be very happy. Happy to leave Macromedia's $800 upgrades behind. Happy > to gain a new, intuitive development environment with commands that > make my life easier (the replaceText?? command in Rev requires a loop > and five lines in Director to complete the same thing, e.g.) Don't get > me wrong, I'd love to see the same features in Rev, but the modularity > of the Flash anims is what makes it work for me. > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
