Well for what it is worth, 2 points: (admittedly based on 6 months work with Director 5 years ago)
1. Moving from Fortran, Basic, Pascal (blah, blah, blah) to Hypercard was a fairly smooth process (and hence into Metacard and Runtime Revolution) allowing me to produce something effective fairly rapidly. 2. 5 years ago the EFL department of the University of the United Arab Emirates (where I was working at the time) decided to throw out their Macintosh computers and replace them with Pentium IIIs running Microsoft Windows 98. So I had to dump all my Hypercard stuff and start to produce for Windows - and was set up with TOOLBOOK and DIRECTOR. TOOLBOOK struck me, at the time, as cumbersome, with none of the advantages of Director, nor the simplicity of Hypercard. DIRECTOR struck me as Superb!!! capable of producing things for both Mac and Windows that made Hypercard look fairly second class. However, I found that I sat and stared at DIRECTOR and its very complicated manual for about 2 weeks before I produced anything at all (maybe I am just stupid ???) - a very steep learning curve indeed and very expensive in terms of man-hours. I have not looked at anything much apart from RR and Metacard for the last 5 years because I have not needed to. Certainly my own humble forays into multimedia with RR seem to indicate that it far outstrips what Hypercard had to offer - admittedly part of that may be down to my G4 rather than the old Performa 5200 I had in the UAE. Should I decide to go "all out" for a bells-and-whistles multimedia production I would not both to change over to Director. I would either stick with xTalk or go towards Quicktime. sincerely, Richmond Mathewon ____________________________________________________________ "Philosophical problems are confusions arising owing to the fluidity of meanings users attach to words and phrases." Mathewson, 2006 ____________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ Inbox full of spam? Get leading spam protection and 1GB storage with All New Yahoo! Mail. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution