Adobe Director 2007-2008-2009-???

There we have it.
First Adobe Director 2007 would be released (well, they
thought so) in
the first half of 2007.
Now on the site they claim that MAYBE there is a POSSIBILITY
that it
will arrive in 2nd half of 2007.

Release date unknown :-(



Does anyone have ANY information about this director?



To be honest I am actually busy to evaluate the creation of
our own
kind of shockwave-like player. I don't want to claim that we
will make
the next director killer, because that would not be easy and
is also
not my goal.

My company makes educational software and we mainly use only
a very
small subset of shockwave possibilities.

3D is however becoming a feature which we want to add to our
software
because in educational stuff it can make the presentation
of
information so much easier.

If only we could know what might be new in D2007 then maybe
the
waiting would not be so difficult.


So if anyone has any information that he or she can spread,
please
help my blood pressure lower.



Regards,

Bart Libert
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Publicly, the Adobe Director team has said the follow will
be in the next
release.

Windows Vista support
Mac Intel support
Unicode
DirectX 9 version of the 3D engine

This info is from various mailing lists and web forums to
which the team has
replied to. will there be more to the release beyond the
above? Only Adobe
knows.

Charles P.


On 3/19/07, Bart Libert (EducaSoft BVBA) <educasoftgmail.com> wrote:
>
> There we have it.
> First Adobe Director 2007 would be released (well, they
thought so) in
> the first half of 2007.
> Now on the site they claim that MAYBE there is a
POSSIBILITY that it
> will arrive in 2nd half of 2007.
>
> Release date unknown :-(
>
>
>
> Does anyone have ANY information about this director?
>
>
>
> To be honest I am actually busy to evaluate the
creation of our own
> kind of shockwave-like player. I don't want to claim
that we will make
> the next director killer, because that would not be
easy and is also
> not my goal.
>
> My company makes educational software and we mainly use
only a very
> small subset of shockwave possibilities.
>
> 3D is however becoming a feature which we want to add
to our software
> because in educational stuff it can make the
presentation of
> information so much easier.
>
> If only we could know what might be new in D2007 then
maybe the
> waiting would not be so difficult.
>
>
> So if anyone has any information that he or she can
spread, please
> help my blood pressure lower.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Bart Libert
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Bart,

This announcement was made by Ritesh Banglani, the
Director/Shockwave
product manager, to the Director 3D online forum:
 
"Still here, guys. I cannot give an exact release date
for the next version,
but it will likely be towards the end of the year rather
than the middle.
The Shockwave Vista release (with DirectX 7) will be out
sooner - in 6 weeks
or so.

We will NOT upgrade the 3D feature set in the forthcoming
Director release.
Requirements like new platform support, performance and text
engine
enhancements are very urgent, and we don't want to delay
this release beyond
2007. However, we are committed to maintaining Shockwave as
the leading 3D
format on the web, and you WILL see 3D enhancements in a
subsequent release.
The move to DirectX 9 is a signal of our long term
commitment to Shockwave
3D.

I know this is not the answer many of you are looking for. I
appreciate your
patience, and hope to keep the channels of communications
open!

 -Ritesh"

...

So, reading that literally, it lists these 3 main areas for
the 2007
release:

* new platform support -- obviously Mac/Intel and Win/Vista
* performance -- unclear, but could be the new SpiderMonkey
engine for JS
* text engine -- this is clearly adding Unicode

"Performance" might also be taken care of more or
less by the upgrade to
Flash 9 support, and some of the direct-from-Flash features
that Tom Higgins
spoke of (like access to on-sprite shadow effects, and image
filters). One
might vainly hope for performance tweaks to the SW3D engine,
but isn't it
more likely that they're not going to touch it at all?

Adobe is probably thinking, OK so this is a relatively
pedestrian update,
but Intel and Vista support will be enough to sell it, and
Unicode for some.
I can't really blame them... I just think, when will we see
a bigger push
for Director? Will the team stay minuscule, because then it
might take very
long before we see any of our wished improvements...


/Rasmus



On 19/03/07 21:55, "Bart Libert (EducaSoft BVBA)"
<educasoftgmail.com>
wrote:

> There we have it.
> First Adobe Director 2007 would be released (well, they
thought so) in
> the first half of 2007.
> Now on the site they claim that MAYBE there is a
POSSIBILITY that it
> will arrive in 2nd half of 2007.
> 
> Release date unknown :-(

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On Mar 19, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Bart Libert (EducaSoft BVBA)
wrote:

> There we have it.
> First Adobe Director 2007 would be released (well, they
thought so) in
> the first half of 2007.
> Now on the site they claim that MAYBE there is a
POSSIBILITY that it
> will arrive in 2nd half of 2007.
>
> Release date unknown :-(
>
>
>
> Does anyone have ANY information about this director?

Yeah, they are working on it.

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