RE: FLASH: Flash making QuickTime--why so little support and development?

[Damian Morton]

> From: Bryan Rieger

>

> I know Director, iShell, LiveStage Pro and almost every other app tries to

> provide some support here, but it's usually a high-level, abstract kludge.

>

> Self-hosting...what a concept!

> Any eager programmers out there ready to bang something out over the

> weekend? ;-)

>

> Cheers,

>

> Bryan



Heh - over the weekend huh? I think theres a long weekend coming up soon :)


Actually, I dont think any of Director, iShell, LiveStage etc really try to

do what Im talking about. Each of them presents a development environment

which is patently not the same as the delivery environment, and the

development environments arent able to be customised enough. Visual Basic is

probably the closest thing to what I am talking about, but it has no

multimedia ambitions.


Im conceiving of a development environment so maleable that I can customise

it to the extent that I can deliver to my clients an extended, simplified

and refined version of the development environment that I use.


Over and over again, I find clients that dont want multimedia delivered and

have that be the end of the story. Many clients want to be able to change

and re-arrange the multimedia they are delivered, and they want to be able

to do it themselves. Frankly, I do too, because the changes are usually

minor and it can be a huge undertaking to open up an old project to find and

change some piddling detail.


Anyway, C++ isnt the language for this kind of thing. It doesnt have enough

introspection capabilities. Im not sure what language is best, probably lisp

or one of its ilk.


Anyway, enough blue-sky dreaming for now. Back to the grind....



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