> Xavier, > > Your 'average' DC user isn't likely to roll his/her own *anything*. > > Once you become a real geek, it is soooo easy to forget about > the millions and maybe billions of people who are not.
It does take a rocket scientist to do any basic animation... I agree it can get complicated but it's not that hard... Here's my favority tutorial in flash... it's really quite simple and present nice effects used in modern animation techniques... http://www.bit-101.com/tutorials > Yes, if _I_ had a need to incorporate Flashs files, yes, I > _could_ spend an hour or two (or three or...?) investigating > (those of others) and/or writing my own various hacks. But > they'd still be hacks, wouldn't they? No, they would be absolutely not hacks but your own technique based on someoneelses. > Allow me to quote from Rev's top-line webpage regarding Dreamcard: > > "Dreamcard: build it. Software design and programming for > the rest of us... Make multimedia..." I haven't tried dreamcard but even if it is simple like HyperCard, animation is possible... repeat with x = 1 to x1 set the left of grp "animated" to x set the top of grp "animated" to the top of grp "animated" + (random(3)-2) -- give is a wobble effect end repeat > Okay, now, You just can't go about advertising yourself as an > ideal instrument for creating multimedia (for beginniers, > i.e., "the rest of > us") and then not provide any native support for what is next > to QT one of the more ubiquitous multimedia file formats OR > by not providing your own animation tool. It's like tellling > people to write their own routines to support color because, > after all, any _real_ geek could do so him/herself. you have to start somewhere ;) > I, too, await with hopeful optimism that previous hints > regarding the re-release of a better animation builder will > be addressed in the not-so-distant in the future upgrades. It would be a plus for those starting, i agree. > And, experience has largely shown me that it is the squeaking > wheel that gets the grease rather sooner than later. Or it gets replaced with maintenance free ball-bearing wheels ;) cheers Xavier _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution