Flash 8 Xtra for Director Coming

A note today on Thomas Higgins’ Blog that gives us official word that the Director engineers are working on a Flash 8 Xtra update to Director and Shockwave. Obvious to most, but there are always a few people who think that because it wasn’t released immediately that Macromedia is ignoring it. Can’t wait to be able to use some of the new Flash 8 features in Director cast members.

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3 Responses to “Flash 8 Xtra for Director Coming”

1. Michael Says:
   September 29th, 2005 at 3:13 am

   How ’bout just releasing Director 10, 10.5 or 11 (or whatever number the next version would be). Here’s hoping that Director continues to be developed and updated.
   
   

   
   
2. Casey Says:
   September 29th, 2005 at 7:31 am

   I’m wondering if the xtra might be released separately as a segway between Director MX 2004 and the next version of Director. Isn’t Director usually announced sometime around Decemeber and then released a few months later? If this cycle holds true for this release, then Director might be the first Adobe release of a Macromedia product. The Flash 8 xtra might extend the shelf life of Director 2004 and give Adobe time to evaluate and make changes to a new version of Director(better 3d, working LDMs or Movie Clips, etc.). All this is speculaton, of course, and we could just see Director 11 - now with Flash 8 features!!!

   
   

   Thanks,
   
   Casey
   
   

   
   
3. EB Says:
   September 29th, 2005 at 9:42 am

   I hope Macromedia hasnt given up on Director. I get the feeling that most developers have abandoned director for flash? Also Microsoft is in the process of developing an interaction designer called Expressions.
   
   

   
   

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