Interactivity with Director

[MikeHill webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hi all,

I'm currently entering my final year at university (England) and am now selecting my final year project. I'm looking at creating a Director application for first time users of Windows XP, which simulates Win XP so the user can play around with changing their desktop etc. However I've been informed that to achieve a high grade, I would need to implement some more advanced features. My ideas are to either have the director app interact directly with Windows, for example so the user could change their actual windows desktop from inside the application, or to have some form of network learning, whereby a teacher could demonstrate on one pc running the application and this would be visible to the user on a different pc.

I've been hunting around the net for examples of uses of Director like this, but have had no luck so far. Can anyone give me any advice of what is needed here. Can i use activeX for the windows interactivity? Are there any Director Xtras i should consider? Any other ideas of 'advanced techniques' which could add to this project?

I would be very grateful for any advice you could offer,

regards, Mike Hill

[JPrice]

I'd definitely get BuddyAPI, if I had to tackle something like this.

Judy

"MikeHill" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I'm currently entering my final year at university (England) and am now

selecting my final year project. I'm looking at creating a Director
application for first time users of Windows XP, which simulates Win XP so
the user can play around with changing their desktop etc. However I've been
informed that to achieve a high grade, I would need to implement some more
advanced features. My ideas are to either have the director app interact
directly with Windows, for example so the user could change their actual
windows desktop from inside the application, or to have some form of network
learning, whereby a teacher could demonstrate on one pc running the
application and this would be visible to the user on a different pc.

>
> I've been hunting around the net for examples of uses of Director like

this, but have had no luck so far. Can anyone give me any advice of what is
needed here. Can i use activeX for the windows interactivity? Are there
any Director Xtras i should consider? Any other ideas of 'advanced
techniques' which could add to this project?

>
> I would be very grateful for any advice you could offer,
>
> regards, Mike Hill
>
>