Archive for August, 2005
Shareholders Approve Adobe Purchase of Macromedia
It is somewhat more official now, with 99%+ of the shares on each site voting for the acquisition. Here are articles at ZDNet, Business Wire, and Mac DVD Pro.
In included the last because they speculate in the article what may happen after this is all over. Specifically, that Fireworks “will wisely be put to sleep.” [...]
Flash 8 Upload File Functionality
One of Flash 8’s new features will be the ability to allow the user to select a file for uploading. Browsers have allowed this for some time now, so this just allows you to do it without any messing about with a separate page and HTML form. Oinam Blog has a good example of how [...]
Flash on the Sony PSP?
There is an article at GameSpot that mentions that Sony is considering adding Flash support to its PSP browser in the future. They are worried about the performance, however. But if Flash is already on the unbearably slow PocketPC devices, then I’d imagine the graphics-accelerated PSP would offer decent performance.
Not sure of any business opportunities [...]
3D Modeling Toolkit Made in Director
CanDoInteractive has released an 3D modeling kit that uses Shockwave 3D. From their site: “The basic concept is based on driving a vehicle ( using Havok physics ) around the environment that the 3D artist has created. An easy, single step export process from your 3D app is all that is required to interact with [...]
Fun with Director and TCP/IP Sockets
Posted a new article on Director Online from Steve Hagenlock. He uses the WinsockQ ActiveX component and the VBScript Xtra to allow Director to create a socket server on a Windows machine. This means you can use it to remotely control the movie over telnet, or build a socket server, like the ones Flash multiuser [...]