Re: TechNote 2106
Re: TechNote 2106
- Subject: Re: TechNote 2106
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:27:29 -0600
On 3/6/04 4:01 AM, "Brennan" <email@hidden> wrote:
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One tool which springs to mind is tribeworks iShell, which is a candy
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colored outliner for creating dynamic multimedia. Very elegant. It's for
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multimedia, but I can see its GUI extending to pretty much any scripting
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task.
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They've licensed the editor for authoring MPEG4 BIFS content, and also
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have a product for authoring content for the Kinoma player. When you save
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your document, it's stored as XML rather than bytecode, which of course
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can be tweaked as text if that's your bag.
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Then of course, the old but still great 'mTropolis'. If you can get hold
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of a copy and you still have an OS9 machine somewhere, do check it out.
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It's about the best 'scriptless' authoring product I've ever seen.
And at the high end...Edify, <
http://www.edify.com/> . I built monstrous IVR
apps with it. No coding. Drag and Drop. It totally rocked...Apple used it
for their IVR in the mid to late 90s.
It started on OS/2, (which, esp. by version 3, aka "Warp" was object
oriented in ways that OS X STILL cannot touch. EVERYTHING was Drag & Drop.
Want to change an icon for an app? No problem, drag an new image to the icon
in the get info window. It then messaged EVERY instance of that icon, alias
or not, and changed it. *live*. OS/2 RULED).
But it was insane how you could just do stuff with it, and never have to
write anything but comments and labels for objects.
The printouts ruled...big 1"x1" squares...a big app could cover a wall. You
could tell how well an app was written by the layout. Everything jammed in a
straight line == n00b. The idea was to go high and narrow, which indicated
good use of subroutines. The cool thing was, you could drop modules onto a
working system, and have it just work. I could fix almost any app for y2K
compliance in under ten minutes. Had the sweetest trick for alpha entry on a
phone pad you've ever seen.
john
--
"We aren't going to try to train you,we're going to try to kill you."
- Soldier I, SAS
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