Comments on: Adobe Launches Director 11

By: ConnorBehan

ConnorBehan — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:56:21 +0000

I have asked for a version of Shockwave for Linux for a long time. Yes there are compromises one can make, wine, crossover, cedega and reaktivate, but in the end, nothing is as good as a native shockwave executable.

Shockwave can do much more than Flash and that is why I keep saying I will pay $1,000 if Adobe ports it to Linux. They just aren’t listening.

By: Deane Venske

Deane Venske — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:59:43 +0000

For linux users why not leave director behind finally and use flex/flash. Great support of linux flash player. Not to mention AIR coming. But if you want to use director and your app is shockwave safe just use wine. I have firefox running under wine with shockwave plugin. But you MUST use the windows version of firefox so it’s using wine and the win32 API.
Enjoy

By: Johan-Belgium

Johan-Belgium — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:54:43 +0000

Linux is on my wish-list too. Especially for Kiosk applications: a museum that wants to install 20 computers wouldn’t have to pay for 20 windows or mac licences, it could re-use old computers and if the application would crash and the OS would be wide open, not a lot of youngsters know enough Linux to wreck havoc…

By: TJ

TJ — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:22:36 +0000

What no support for AS3? – why dont Adobe support their other products integration into Director? Its basically Director 10 with a few little improvements. Nothing that hasnt been possible with 3rd party Xtras. For the upgrade price Im disappointed.

By: JP

JP — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:40:18 +0000

“The system requirements (for Mac) indicate Intel Macs ONLY (for authoring)! Why? Shouldnâ€™t it be a Universal Binary?”

+1!!!

Some Intel macs (Mac Pros) were introduced less than 2 years ago, meaning there are a LOT of G5 machines still in circulation.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:59:17 +0000

yeeaaaaah! I like it.. i like it!!
Kinda surprised they called it ‘Director 11′ but like thename.

By: LingoMan

LingoMan — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:22:26 +0000

i found they add the UNICODE Support to this release, i hope to be able to develop multi language applications especially engilsh and arabic

By: N. Desjardins

N. Desjardins — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:47:34 +0000

I don’t know where you get your number but Linux Desktop is, dependending on W3Ccounter, at 1.34%, the same as Win98 now. As for mac OSX is at 4%…. not very far beyond.

Should there only be a WinXP and 2000 Director version? No. Ubiquity is the answer, no matter the popularity of the OS. Flash 9 is playing on Linux, why not Shockwave. And since OSX is a nix based OS, the port to linux should be straitghtforward.

By: Smshr

Smshr — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:13:52 +0000

Those linux users represent less tham 1% of the market and think the others should stop working for the 99% to please them

By: Rob Gordon

Rob Gordon — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:23:02 +0000

I’m at the GDC, met the Adobe gang, and got a pen! BTW, in case no one knew, the engineering team for Director has over 40 people on it…Toodles!