Director is one of the oldest (circa 1989/1990 I think) and most robust, multimedia application development environments going. Macromedia left it by the wayside after the MX2004 release, but adorned in its new clothes I am hoping this will be the software release of the year for me.
Director is vastly more capable than Flash although across the whole domain of development tools, not just for the web.
It has had object oriented programming capability since about version 6 (we have had 7, 8, 8.5, MX, MX2004 and now 11). The IDE layout is much easier to get on with than Flash, as it uses a theatre analogy, the stage, the cast, the members of the cast, etc.
It has plugins galore (many of which work through all versions 5 onwards...).
Flash is brilliant and very capable, but underpowered when sheer grunt is required, I actually would not have been surprised if they'd stuffed Director in a vault deep underground and left it there , giving us a bit more power in Flash by embedding the zinc libraries and maybe FUSE into the next version to give it some more flounce... but luckily no.
The upgrade price is also a brilliant way of saying "thank you" to all those companies who have stuck with 8.5 (MX and MX2004 were poor upgrades really) and the 3D in 8.5 was totally rubbish. Let's hope this new version will do us proud.
Go Adobe!
IPete2.
Director is vastly more capable than Flash although across the whole domain of development tools, not just for the web.
It has had object oriented programming capability since about version 6 (we have had 7, 8, 8.5, MX, MX2004 and now 11). The IDE layout is much easier to get on with than Flash, as it uses a theatre analogy, the stage, the cast, the members of the cast, etc.
It has plugins galore (many of which work through all versions 5 onwards...).
Flash is brilliant and very capable, but underpowered when sheer grunt is required, I actually would not have been surprised if they'd stuffed Director in a vault deep underground and left it there , giving us a bit more power in Flash by embedding the zinc libraries and maybe FUSE into the next version to give it some more flounce... but luckily no.
The upgrade price is also a brilliant way of saying "thank you" to all those companies who have stuck with 8.5 (MX and MX2004 were poor upgrades really) and the 3D in 8.5 was totally rubbish. Let's hope this new version will do us proud.
Go Adobe!
IPete2.