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Director and FantaVs?

    14-Jan-93 23:50:02
Sb: Director and FantaVs?
Fm: Jim Ventola 70626,423
To: all
I have been playing around with FantaVision. It's great fun. But I would like to make interactive things with it. That is, I would like to play the anims it creates from The Director. If a button were clicked, the FantaVison anim would be played. Ideally, I would like to be able to have the buttons on the same screen, with the anim above in its own window. There is a FantaVision player, but it doesn't have ARexx so I don't know how to invoke it. Or else: is there any way to convert FantaVision films to ANIM format–a painless way, that is. I thought of trying to grab each screen, but gee… Have any ideas? I remember reading that the program was still being supported by its authors. Is that true? If so, I would like to find out what if any plans there may be for an upgrade. . It is, BTW, an amazing program. My 1987 copy runs perfectly under 2.04. I can even load a pic of the wrong resolution now without a crash. (I am not sure who gets the credit for that: the original programmers or the folks at Commodore. I'll give credit to both.)