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12/27/04
One of the music CDs I got for the holidays had the “Made with Macromedia” symbol on it. Now you don’t need to use this symbol any more, starting with MX 2004. But this was a 2001 CD. Still, I was surprised to see that the projector on the “enhanced” portion of the CD was a Director 7.0 projector. In 2001, this should have been a n 8.5 projector. Maybe I could have forgiven an 8.0. But 7.0 just told me the person that did the projector was not a “pro”. Worse, the default projector icon was used. Another sign of an amateur. Then, to make it even worse, a “Not for Resale” message indicated that the projector was made with the educational or trial version of Director. Oy.
The projector itself was unnecessary as all it did was provide a playback wrapper for a QuickTime movie. But if you have to install QuickTime anyway, why not use the QuickTime player for this? The QuickTime player would have way more controls and options than this simple projector. I wonder how much this amateur got paid to produce this piece of crap.
Anyone know how this stuff happens? Who makes these bad decisions in both the music and DVD industry?
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12/21/04
Some of my mailing lists are now discussing “wish lists” for the next version of Director. Some of the suggestions, as usual, are excellent. But I feel that others are way over the top — requests for features that would be hard for the Director engineers to implement but would be rarely used. Or, worse, when someone suggests something that won’t really make it possible to do anything you can’t do now. Like private properties. You can do them now, if you like, but it is up to you to enforce them as Director won’t do it for you. So adding private properties won’t allow you to “make that game that you can’t quite do now because a feature is missing.”
What is on your wish list?
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12/14/04
Check out this page on the Apple site which recommends Gizmos, a Shockwave-based education system. Nice to see a high profile Shockwave product like this getting attention, without them feeling the need to mention that it is Shockwave.
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12/10/04
Barry Swan, of Inludo.com has developed a very nice racing game for Ford. You can see it at TopGear.com. Nice and simple. Good physics. Yet another Shockwave 3D success story.
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12/06/04
I was just shocked to see that if you publish as “8.5″ in MX 2004 and use the “Detect Shockwave” HTML template setting, you get JavaScript on the HTML that is incapable of dealing with Shockwave version 10 on non-IE browsers. In other words, it thinks that if you have version 10.1, you have version 0 (one character to the left of the dot). If you publish as “10″ you get new JavaScript that looks for version 10, but only 10.
So if you need some JavaScript to detect version 8.5 or better, as well as 10, then you’ll need to roll your own.
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