<HTML><BODY STYLE="font:10pt verdana; border:none;"><DIV>A good place to start with is newly integrated msdn where I can not find them anymore there used to be a lot of very good examples.</DIV> <DIV>But I've found the old link it is still there, not all of the examples are going to work. But its the best place to start for now. You will find that DirectX is more complex than you've thought, It has sections like direct animation, direct show, direct transform, etc.</DIV> <DIV><A href="http://www.microsoft.com/directx/dxm/">http://www.microsoft.com/directx/dxm/</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message -----</DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt Arial; COLOR: black"><B>From:</B> rhh</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, June 30, 2001 2:13 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>To:</B> javascript@LaTech.edu</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Javascript] flash v dhtml</DIV> <DIV> </DIV>Dramatic! Do you know some site to learn more about directX?<BR>Ric<BR><BR>As far as I'm concerned, when using dial up connections I always skip Flash<BR>pages. They are usually very heavy 100 kb <...<BR>Comparing to DHTML I personally think that they are almost equal, except<BR>some vector graphic font manipulations, nice alpha filtering, but both are<BR>two dimensional. !you can use vectors in DHTML also.<BR>I prefer DirectX more than both, but still don't know much about it.<BR>Same problem, user has to download the Flash engines before he can preview<BR>the content if he haven't done it before. DirecX comes with windows<BR>operating system, it is also incorporated in the browser, so it gives you<BR>less trouble.<BR><BR>Here, for instance: try the power of the DirectX (less than 1.3 kb of code,<BR>and yet 3D manipulation), absolutely different experience.<BR><BR><HTML><BR><body bgcolor=navy><BR><script language="Jscript" for="Seq" event="oninit"><BR> Seq.item("ActionSet1").At(0.000, "RotateAll()",730, .0050);<BR> Seq.item("ActionSet1").Play();<BR></script><BR><script language="JScript"><BR>function RotateAll() {<BR>sgMSDHTML.Rotate(1.2, -1.2, -1.2);<BR>sgMSDHTML.scale(1.005,1.005,1.005);<BR>}<BR></script><BR><object id="Seq"<BR>classid="CLSID:B0A6BAE2-AAF0-11d0-A152-00A0C908DB96"<BR>align="baseline" border="0" width="0" height="0"><BR></object><BR><object<BR>id="sgMSDHTML"<BR>classid="CLSID:369303C2-D7AC-11d0-89D5-00A0C90833E6"<BR>align="baseline" border="0" width="14" height="14"<BR>style="Position:Absolute; HEIGHT:400px; WIDTH:700px; Top:15%; border:inset<BR>3 blue;<BR>Left:2%;background-color:black"><BR><param name="Line0001" value="SetLineColor(255,255,255)"><BR><param name="Line0003" value="SetFillSTYLE(1)"><BR><param name="Line0004" value="SetLineSTYLE(0)"><BR><param name="Line0002" value="SetFillColor(0,200,255)"><BR><param name="Line0005" value="SetFont('haettenschweiler',140,850)"><BR><param name="Line0006" value="Text('Trojani', -120, 0, 0)"><BR><param name="Line0007" value="Text('2000', -45, 115, 0)"><BR></object><BR></body><BR></html><BR><BR>----- Original Message -----<BR>From: Andrew Dunn<BR>Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 8:13 AM<BR>To: javascript@LaTech.edu<BR>Subject: [Javascript] flash v dhtml<BR><BR>Hi,<BR> What do people think about using flash instead of dhtml? What are the<BR>cons and pros of using both? I don't know how to use flash and I was<BR>wondering what sort of things are capable with it? One thing that would be<BR>attractive I guess is that you do not have to worry about cross-browser<BR>issues.<BR><BR>Andrew<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Javascript mailing list<BR>Javascript@LaTech.edu<BR>http://www.LaTech.edu/mailman/listinfo/javascriptGet more from the Web.<BR>FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com<BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Javascript mailing list<BR>Javascript@LaTech.edu<BR>http://www.LaTech.edu/mailman/listinfo/javascript<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML><br clear=all><hr>Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : <a href='http://explorer.msn.com'>http://explorer.msn.com</a><br></p>