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#Anyone Using Director2?

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#45095From: George S. RolandJan 8, 1995 9:19 PM
I am wondering if there are any people in this forum using Right Answers Group's The Director2 display and animation language for the Amiga. I use this program daily and find it wonderfully capable for the work I do. I know the company doesn't exist any longer and that many of you have probably moved on to SCALA, CanDo, AMOS Pro or some other authoring package still being supported by its authors. But if there ARE any others using The Director, I'd like to find out about you, perhaps with an eye to exchanges of information, programming tips etc. George Roland
#45195From: Charles BlaquiereJan 15, 1995 11:47 AM
George, I have The Director 2, hold it in great praise, yet don't use it currently. I don't have a use for its abilities at the moment, and will probably buy Scala this year, what with the price being $150 and all. In addition, for light multimedia, I would probably turn to AmigaVision; but if I ever need to do serious programming, I'll certainly blow the dust off my D2 package. One example: I want to create a macro to automatically dump an entire CD-ROM's worth of stock images to my optical disc recorder, thus creating an instant-access visual catalogue. I'd use The Director to display the filename of each image on my Amiga screen, which would automatically overlay the 24-bit image displayed by my Firecracker24 board. The video output would be recorded (1 frame) on my optical disc recorder. This is the kind of thing which I feel would be perfect for the enhanced programming capabilities of D2. In conclusion, I don't really use D2 currently, but you can certainly put me on any reference list of yours. I'm a competent programmer, a great troubleshooter, and am always on the lookout for stimulating technical conversation. Blaq!