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[Michael Stuhr]

Martijn de Visser schrieb:

>So would I... :)
>
>Please post to the list if you hear something from Michael Stuhr. In the 
>meantime, I hope to find some sparetime to rethink the way the editor 
>mode is setup in the GUI.
>
>I think the Wizards are fine for now (although they should also be 
>ported to an all -AS2 solution), but the interaction design of the 
>Editor requires some redesign, both functional and graphical.
>  
>
Sorry i didn't reply earlier, i'm running low on batteries these days :-)
Here's what i meiled to Helmut,

yes i had some deeper look at the GUI File. But first let me introduce 
myself.
My name is ... well you know it already, and i'm from northern Germany.
I was an early beta-tester for SMIX and have loved it from day one.

Back in those days i was doing alot of Flash based things.
Now, that was back in those days, i haven't slept til then, but feel a 
little
bit rusty, since i digged very deep into HTML and CSS the last two years.
I currently work for a company called "enteraktiv" 
(http://www.enteraktiv.de),
which does Accessible Webdesign.

If you know German, you can read more about what we do at our site.
If not, you won't miss very much i think, it hasn't much to do with 
flash anyway  :-) 
I have done some little things in Flash though, and never lost the touch 
to it.
Now that SWOS is alive and very kickin',i feel the need to give some 
action back,
since i got a free copy back then for beta-testing ...

Now back to what i said i would do:
I had some deeper look at the GUI, and first thing i stumbled upon was 
that all those
wizards, and the editor and everything are being kept in one place. That 
makes it
very hard to debug.
Second thing is the use of AS1, which should change. Maybe F8 can give 
us some
double-extras in there. Nothing special i think of right now.

When i first saw this my thought was: "this is definately way too much 
work for me".
But since so few people were on the track than, i thought it was better 
to be patient
til somebody says: i wanny help too!
Now that Thomas Wester and Martijn de Visser seem to be "back", i feel 
much better now  :-) 
Since my daily work wouldn't let me do too much work on this, i think it 
is best
if i take the role as a 'junior-developer-hard core-tester'.

Well much said now, here's my thoughts on how we should start our work:
Apart from the GUI-Fla, we should make sure, we always have the latest /or
at least the same engine / base. That said, i must admit, i have no idea 
how i
should compile this beast, since i have no VS, and this might be over my 
head,
at least til Darron posts some solution for the poor  :-) 
(read: not willing to use a cracked or sortof version of VS and not having
anything to do with c++ anyway)

I don't know, how this can be handled, maybe we should gather our team, and
create some 'private mailinglist', until we are clear about what should 
be done.

Maybe you can moderate this, since you cannot trust those SMIXies  :-) 
they seem to be everywhere  :-) 


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Some loose thoughts till now:
1) split the editor and the wizard (maybe some loadMovie Stuff would be 
handy ... since the idea of having swf-dll's is not the badest)
2) split the GUI stuff from API calls. maybe it's not even needed to 
make those as classes and stuff, think more of dll's.
It doesn't need to be that compicated. And by keeping things simple, we 
keep the chances of being
better supported by the community, keeping it simple.


Well i hope i didn't bore you too much ... i'm electrified by the whole 
thing!

hope you didn't mind my loooong mail

greetings
micha