Re: Corel 10

If your looking for a cost effective way to make text animation swf
files...why not use Flax?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Wilson" <webgooru(at)gte.net>
To: "Alan Wilson" <alan(at)wilson-interactive.com>; <hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: Corel 10


> > Without looking at the features, I'll venture to say there will be no
> > comparison. Flash is going to be lightyears ahead of Corel simply
because
> > it's been in the market longer and withstood the beta testing. Plus I'd
be
> > concerned about the implementation of scripting and that they are
building
> > the animation on top of an existing piece of software. Still, if all you
> > need is some basic animation without much interactivety then it might
just
> > do the trick for you. But for long term development or big projects... I
> > wouldn't go that route. You get what you pay for...
>
> Thank you Alan and thanks to Gail, Tony,  Mark, and Keith for their
off-list
> emails.
>
> Everyone agreed that Corel Rave's Flash abilities were alright for the
> casual user and basic animation, they lack advanced scripting support, are
> unable to handle transparency, and even crashed occasionally.  The big
> determiner was that scripting was a very important part of interacting
with
> the viewer in custom interfaces and that Rave was very limited there.
>
>
>
> Paul Wilson
> webgooru(at)gte.net
>

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