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79. Mouse Double click |
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Date: |
6 October 1996 |
| Type Of Suggestion: | AMT |
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Description: |
A Mouse double click event would help people simulating a GUI! Think about it! |
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78. Flipbook *PLUS* |
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Date: |
1 October 1996 |
| Type Of Suggestion: | AMT Framework |
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Description: |
These suggestions would require major changes to flipbooks, but would make working with animations much easier. 1) some kind of inter-frame compression, like the QT animation compressor. A simple animation becomes huge as a flipbook. 2) a way (preferably with a graphical interface) of specifying a path for a flipbook to follow on the screen. Even simple paths are a real pain to program in AML mTropolis has implemented versions of this with the "Toons" media type, and both features would have been very helpful for us on our current project. Pick an object, draw a path, set a duration. Then all the start/stop/ etc, commands applied to picts, flipbooks, text or whatever could control fairly complex animations. |
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76. Extending Projects using AML [related to 13] |
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Date: |
29 September 1996 |
| Type Of Suggestion: | Apple Media Tool Programming Environment |
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Description: |
I realize this has been mentioned in an earlier point, but I wanted to present my views on this matter. Currently, a major problem we have found in using AMT and AMTPE is the inability to return to AMT after extension using AMTPE. Often interface changes need to be made, which are sometimes major, and once a significant amount of work has been done on the title using AMTPE it is difficult to revert back to AMT. Our interface designers therefore have much trouble in making changes. Clearly, there is a need for either AMTPE to become integrated in AMT, a subset of AMTPE be provided in AMT for minor work, or for AMT to import and preserve specialized AML code. Any of these implementations would represent a major improvement. |
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75. AMT/PE graphical interfase |
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Date: |
23 September 1996 |
| Type Of Suggestion: | Apple Media Tool Programming Environment |
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Description: |
It would be great if the programming interfase could be graphical, like some new autohring tools that are just being released. You could choose from drop down menues, check boxes and latter. This will defintely make a very good product just excelent ! |
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74. mouse moved |
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Date: |
23 September 1996 |
| Type Of Suggestion: | Apple Media Tool |
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Description: |
On the mac, when you depress the mouse over a button then move the mouse(out of the button area) before letting go it is the same as having not pressed it at all. Since this is the way the mac operating system works is seems(to me) only natual that you could do the same in AMT. I believe mtropolis has this feature. |
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73. Media Palette not hiding |
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Date: |
15 September 1996 |
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Description: |
When you switch to the finder the Media Palette is hiding. This isn't good because if you want to drag and drop files from the Finder into the media list, this isn't possible. |
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72. Extra Browser Palettes |
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Date: |
15 September 1996 |
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Description: |
When you have to create a serie of actions for a certain media it is very often the case that you just have to copy and paste a list of actions from other media. Today this a pain to do so. That is why it would be great if we could "instanciate" new action palettes. The design of these palettes could be different then the current browser so it take less space. For example. Just the actions part with a bove 2 popupmenus: object : events: We should be able to create any number of those actions palettes. |
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71. replace media (sound) |
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Date: |
12 September 1996 |
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Description: |
the ability to replace a .wav sound w/ an audio-only quicktime.mov-- currently the "replace" dialog box only recognizes sound media types. |
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69. Media Browser |
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Date: |
24 August 1996 |
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Description: |
When you have a lot of media in your project it becomes hard to handle by Apple Media Tool. Nice to have a way to group or filter media. |
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68. More flexible bit depth switching on the Mac |
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Date: |
23 August 1996 |
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Description: |
When a Media Tool application is launched instead of just switching the user's monitor to the highest bit depth available it could display a dialog box informing the user that the application could be run at a higher bit depth and asking if the user would like the bit depth switched. A less fancy solution is to just have the application run at the depth the user has selected in the monitor control panel. Often performance is increased and memory requirements are decreased when the application is run at a lower bit depth, especially if separate versions of media are used. |
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67. Only hot text active, not the whole text object |
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Date: |
22 August 1996 |
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Description: |
I think this is just better from a user interface stand point and it's a fairly easy feature to add. |
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66. Multiple, easy to implement custom scroll/control bars |
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Date: |
22 August 1996 |
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Description: |
It would be nice if custom scroll bars and control bars could be added to AMT without having to rebuild the engine every time. It's also useful to have a variety of control/scroll bars available for use in a single title instead of only one. I have rebuilt the engine to make this possible, but it seems like a feature that should be built in? |
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64. Transitions |
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Date: |
16 August 1996 |
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Description: |
after setting duration for a transition, it should not default back to 30 if you change the transition type. also-- more transitions from which to choose (like from Premiere);specifically, an iris open/close where the start/end point can be set (not just from the center of the screen). AMT 2.1 adds 2 extra transitions |
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63. Internet primitives |
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Date: |
15 August 1996 |
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Description: |
- Support for Internet Config (and Windows INI files). - Support for TCP Open, TCP Close, TCP read, TCP Write, TCP Status. (i.e. TCP scripting Addition functions). - Sample code using: e-mail, FTP, Gopher, and HTTP AML code. |
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62. Support for Netscape plugin's |
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Date: |
15 August 1996 |
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Description: |
Allow AMT/PE to use Netscape plugin's interface and HTML options to use new media types. |
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61. Optimal engine for AMT |
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Date: |
15 August 1996 |
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Description: |
- Support for Text and Graphics (for optimal code size). With no QuickTime or Sound calls on Macintosh and Windows. - Support for Text, Graphics and Sound (for optimal code size).With no QuickTime or Sound calls on Macintosh and Windows. i.e. AMT would have four engines (old engines: QTVR, QT, and two new engines: Text+Graphics, Text+Graphics+Sound). |
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