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

[Catherine Kunicki]

umm. This might sound heretical, but have you tried HyperCard? The person 

who has been writing HyperCard for the past few versions is a member of the

Quicktime team and HyperCard support for quicktime is pretty good. Its also

simple enough that clients - with a suitable help system - should be able to

do changes themselves. HyperCard has been a means Apple has used

internally to test Quicktime features.


QT in HC supports sprites, the text track, the music track, QTVR, url

encoding (with InternetConfig installed), alpha and other color or video

commands, matrix scriptability and some other stuff. You can get pretty good

results if you're clever.


Drawbacks to QT in HyperCard -


1) Mac only

2) the QT commands don't directly support clickable hot spots, although you

can define them yourself. They kept this stuff for LiveStage only I guess.

3) HC my not be supported in OSX.

4) no web delivery of interactive elements


Worth a look, anyhow. And of course, a joy to script in a language that is

as elegant as HyperTalk.


Catherine


ps. you also might take a look at MetaCard (a HC clone) , which has versions

for Mac, PC and UNIX.


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>

>From: mortondennisinter [dot] com (Damian Morton)

>> Visual Basic is

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

>> multimedia ambitions.


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