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From: Mike Blaustein on 11 Apr 2008 11:10
So, in the midst of all this hate and dismay at the new version of
Director, I went ahead and installed it and tested out one of my
rather complex recent programs. I installed it on Vista, which is
running in Parallels on my Mac.

Director installed without a hitch. No errors or anything.

I opened the dir file and it converted it to D11 format without any
trouble. Apart from the stuff that relies on 3rd party xtras that do
not yet have D11 equivalents, everything worked great. Surprisingly
great. There is a lot of 3d, imaging lingo, a bit of netLingo, and
some very complex code with A* pathfinding and all sorts of good
stuff.

The only problems I came across were text related and they were fairly
minor, some text coloring code didn't work, and some code to determine
the number of lines in a text member failed. That's it. Admittedly,
this project doesn't use much text.

I used BuddyAPI, BudMenu, and BudFile a lot, and the new D11 versions
that were released for them worked like a charm. I even used D10
versions of propSave, DirectImage, and SharpExport, and they worked
fine (I suspect they would fail if you try to use them with UNICODE
file names though).

The D10 version of PrintOMatic caused Director to crash completely.
But I have been led to understand that they are working on a D11
version, so that should be fixed soon, I hope.

So it isn't quite as bad as everyone seems to be making it out to
be... at least in the single instance of this program. I'll try
converting a few more and see how it all works out.
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