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There will always be two solitudes. One one side the programmers: they hate
Director, they want to learn AS3 as soon as possible, and If Director could
become faster, even if that implies (like it did for AS3) more complexe
programming and variable typing, they would be happy. After all, these guys
did learn C++, so they don't care about AS3 becoming too complexe. In the
other side, you have artists who managed to add some interativity to their
projects. I hate AS3, FLex and all these impossible to understand syntaxes.
It's not that I am stupid, as I can program complexe games with Javascript,
LIngo or actionScript 2. Don't tell me I can keep using AS2 if I want, this is
like telling some one he can't be part of the party anymore, but he still can
have a bear on the porch. But I did try to make a real effort. After an
afternoon with FLex and AS3, discovering with horror that it would take me
hours and many many lines of codes and build classes to make a SIMPLE ROLLOVER
!!! Hey, that's going back ten years ago !!! HELLO ADOBE ! If I want to works
with classes, types variables, etc,etc, I'll go for Java or C. With AS3 and
Flex programming, Adobe is Killing a thing called MULTIMEDIA, whereas artists
like me could do some basic programming like we used to do in Director. I
wouldn't be supprised that Director 13 will have a WHOLE NEW re-writen engine,
yes a lot faster, yes ECMA compatible, but impossible to understand to
designers like me. To me it is what happened to our great softwares: a few
year ago, a bunch of jalous programmer were put in charge of the design and
ergonomics at Adobe, with the pedagogical desaster we face today. I'll quit
programming with adobe, and go for www.unity3D.com instead. At least with
them, all the new very complexe programming skills I will learn wil be used for
a real BUZZ and interactive 3D world, and leave you guys with the numerous
hours it will take you to master Flex and finnally be able to populate a popup
menu with XML content WOW ! cool, I used to do that 10 years ago with Director
and File IO. Adobe killed the multimedia.
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