Hi Dean.

Wenesday 6 April.

I think that you'll send us a link for the chat? Will you?

Why you don't cross post this topic also in Director online?

Thanks a lot.

My question:

Does Abobe Know that with xtra and Activex controls Director is the best tool for Kiosk applications and perhaps the easy way to build stand alone software?

it seems that Director is only 3d.

Thanks for posting this article Dean. I look forward with interest to the online discussion.

It's 18:54 here in the UK, so not sure of the time difference. I am guessing it's early morning your side of the pond.

Looking forward to the Live Chat.

Many Thanks

Tristan

I don't suppose it would be at all possible to get a simple yes or no answer from them at this point?  I'm not too concerned if they continue with Director per se, but is there any inclination that they will support fully functional Lingo scripting and import of existing Director projects in a near future revision of Flash/AIR or other platform?  Sure, it would be nice to know if we can hope for multi-touch support and iOS publishing capabilities, but the continued retraction of this dangling carrot of answers is a little nerve wracking.  I've been sitting on a project for the better part of a year, worried that Director has been shelved and looking for any reasonable alternative.

That being said, thanks for organizing the meeting, Dean and Adobe.  It's great to see the commitment to the community.

So, any insights at all before next week?

for those of us that can not attend next week, would it be possible for Adobe to record the meeting and then

post , so we can view it later?

Dean , thank you for all your hard work arranging this meeting

Hi

I joined the chat a little late - got held up.

Is there news as to when the new version will be released and if so, will there be or are there plans for SWF export?

Will the chat be summarised and posted here?

Thanks

Tristan

Unfortunately I`ve lost the meeting. Any comments, links, recordings are welcomed.
One link for Adobe – detailed Beta survey from Autodesk (3DS Max development)

http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/ken/3ds_max_2012_and_3ds_max_design_201 2_is_available_for_download

Read and learn!

Mihai

I thought Direct_L was closed now? Anyhow, is it possible you can post summary here or maybe on http://director-online.com perhaps? I was unable to capture the text of the chatroom during the live meeting. Had to log back in several times and lost the cache!

Thanks

Hi

Do we have any clue as to when Director 12 will be released? Days or months??

Many thanks

Tristan

>> this release could be a patch rather than a full point update.

WOW ! - AMAZING :-)

Dean - seriously speaking - can we know at least what bugs thispatch is going to fix?

This is not that stupid question actually as Adobe/Macromedia used to develop Director through adding new (mostly pointless) features but carefully preserving old nasty bugs untouched.

I do not want to say Director is completely useless at the moment, but critical bugs like LDM flaws render Director "sloution of last choise" at the moment. Simply speaking - having faulty LDMs there is no convinient way to make a library of handy "prefabs" what could be recycled in various projects (like Flash components). Simply speaking - bahaviors are not enough - the real time saver are functional prefabs with standarized interfaces. Unless LDM flaws are not fixed, I do not see real interest to do yet another Director project as each time I have to build all functional elements again and again what is time consuming and I am unable to get paid for this any more.

Then - buggy text objects with buggy fonts embedding are disaster. I am really not happy with Adobe's approach "please use Flash text" as this breaks internal harmony in the project. Why the hell, having spending years on Director refactoring, Adobe engineers cannot provide working, solid text feature to Director?

Arghh - I just recall one of my most advanced projects, what was a specialized database (Valentina) driven engineering application faciliating design of cable layout in buildings I completed a few years ago. I spent weeks on interface design full of custom widgets (tabbed pannels, selectable drop lists, sketching tool, helper-calculators, layout preview, etc.) and I sold this for good money what I am unable to get today any more! - Simply speaking because I am unable to convince the customer "such a basic functionalities have to be recreated from scratch in Director". The customer feedback is simple - use another tool then! And please notice - since it's possible to run Windows on Apple - Director's cross-platform functonality is not such a big advantage any more...

Sorry Dean,

I am not interested in supporting Adobe with Director development now. I have no time to allocate on that.

On the other hand - pretty complete list of Director's bugs and quirks was once upon a time available on one of a the most renown websites covering Director development. But thanks to Adobe's customer-policy - practically all Director-related web resources are already down or dying. So, if Adobe is now telling us "oh please dear customers provide us the list of Director bugs, we want to improve", my answer is rather plain vulgar. They should rather collect the list while it was available. And thanks to dr Allen Partridge  arrogance even Martin Schaefer was deffered when he wanted to supply Adobe team with valuable customer feedback. Please notice recently he finally decided to phase-out Directorforum.

So, please - I treat Adobe "Director prelease program" or whatever as yet another ridicule. If they really were interested in customer feedback, they should become much less snotty first. For the time being the only message I have to Adobe Director team is here:

No specific "positive outcomes" in my humble opinion - you may browse full thread here:

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/838351

Rgs,

Ziggi