I spend a lot of my time "updating" 10 years worth of large aging projects from Director into Xerte & Flash to run on the web or in clients' LMS systems. Don't know how similar Director is/was to Authorware, but the only way I can figure out to do it is to extract all the text & assets and basically recreate everything.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Dave Burnett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:d_b_burnett@hotmail.com">d_b_burnett@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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There is a way, but no one seems interested. ;-)<br><br><div><hr>From: <a href="mailto:Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:51:04 +0000<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>Subject: [Xerte] Re: Mobile flash news<br><br>
<div><p><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31, 73, 125)">Quite. When Authorware went away, a lot of people were left with an awful lot of proprietary content that didn't work well on the web and was difficult to do anything with to get it into a different format. That should have been a major lesson learned.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"> </span></p><div><div style="border-right:medium none;border-width:1pt medium medium;border-style:solid none none;border-color:rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color;padding:3pt 0cm 0cm">
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><b><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US"> <a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Andrew Molloy<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 10 November 2011 14:15<br><b>To:</b> 'Xerte discussion list'<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Mobile flash news</span></p></div></div><p style="margin-left:36pt"> </p><p style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31, 73, 125)" lang="EN-US">The separation of data is probably the most important thing. It should become irrelevant which tool you use or what </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31, 73, 125)">you’re</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31, 73, 125)" lang="EN-US"> publishing to. Xerte is obviously a prime example of that ethos. Digital preservation is becoming a really big deal and I think big organizations are starting to realize that too.</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31, 73, 125)" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31, 73, 125)" lang="EN-US">And with the increasing number of platforms and configurations to cater for, not only is it important for the data to be easily accessed and manipulated but also a single form of logic creation and rely on the tool to take care of publishing to those different formats. That Xerte is actionscript based almost doesn’t matter as long as the tool can translate that to Android/iOS etc. I’m seeing the same trend in 3D gaming/simulation with Unity where it’s (almost) create once and “single click” publish to a variety of platforms. In the case of Unity they’re adding an export to Flash! </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31, 73, 125)" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><div><div style="border-right:medium none;border-width:1pt medium medium;border-style:solid none none;border-color:rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color;padding:3pt 0cm 0cm">
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><b><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US"> <a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Julian Tenney<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 10 November 2011 13:35<br><b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Mobile flash news</span></p></div></div><p style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p style="margin-left:36pt">
<span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31, 73, 125)">We need to remember that for Xerte, essentially nothing has changed. Delivering content to desktops is still supported, Flash Player on the desktop is going nowhere and adobe are still actively developing the flash player for desktops. Nothing really changes.</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"> </span></p><p style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31, 73, 125)">The announcement does put the issue of how to deliver content to mobile devices in the spotlight (it already was), essentially it means we have to treat all devices as we treat iOS where there is, already, no browser based flash player to get content to, so nothing changes as we couldn’t ignore iOS anyway.</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"> </span></p><p style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31, 73, 125)">We have a really powerful thing on our side: the separation of the data and the logic in toolkits. Already we are starting to use that data to drive the delivery of the content onto different platforms (mobile xerte) and plan to think about HTML5 as well.</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"> </span></p><div><div style="border-right:medium none;border-width:1pt medium medium;border-style:solid none none;border-color:rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color;padding:3pt 0cm 0cm">
<p style="margin-left:72pt"><b><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US"> <a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Andrew Molloy<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 10 November 2011 13:21<br><b>To:</b> 'Xerte discussion list'<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Mobile flash news</span></p></div></div><p style="margin-left:72pt"> </p><p style="margin-left:72pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31, 73, 125)" lang="EN-US">An ad blocker written in HTML 5, or an ad blocker to block adverts for HTML5? ;-)</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:72pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31, 73, 125)" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><div><div style="border-right:medium none;border-width:1pt medium medium;border-style:solid none none;border-color:rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color;padding:3pt 0cm 0cm">
<p style="margin-left:72pt"><b><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US"> <a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Burnett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 10 November 2011 12:39<br><b>To:</b> Xerte list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Mobile flash news</span></p></div></div><p style="margin-left:72pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><div><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:72pt">
<span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US"><br>I'm starting work on an HTML5 ad blocker...</span></p><div><p style="margin-left:72pt"><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US">> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:19:04 +0000<br>
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