Guys?
1 more... with video, how about transitions like in Director?
Just a thought...
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Guys?
1 more... with video, how about transitions like in Director?
Just a thought...
3 Cheers for LGX...just downloaded the alpha for WIN and keep getting a "could not communicate with the server, error1" any help would be appreciated...FlashPantz
Anyone figure out a way around it yet? Or are they gone away for a bit and the server is down?
Bummer.
okay i have been researchin flash programs for a while now and i was just wondering why is this the first time i have heard about such a wonderful program that is free? i dont get it? shouldnt be like bigger then swish and stuff or is it just because its new? it sounds like a wonderful program. *i dont really respect swish although i use it*~! this program sounds great ! peace.
It didn't really get much press. In fact there was a rumor going around that if you wrote about it you would get blacklisted by Macromeda- This was untrue but it kept a lot of people away.
I wrote an article about it at http://www.koolmovers.com and when the threats of being blacklisted were going around they linked to us on thier homepage and we kept up the article.
After the rumors died off they killed our link (The Article wasn't all that good), but we still plan on doing at least 2 or 3 tutorials about Open LGX though and cover its luanch.
[Edited by johnie on 07-10-2001 at 07:16 PM]
awesome.. but i dont understand why all the blacklist talk? what did these guys do that other swf publishin companies havent started to do!? thanks. peace
It started way down the chain at Macromedia (In customer support) with a book author if I understand. The rumor spread like wildfire. Finaly they got a hold of somone up the chain at Macromedia and they endoresed the rumor and issued a statement. The same thing happened with The SWFSource's SDK and it delayed it's release a couple of weeks.
It was just a rumor- No one is being blacklisted... not even us.
I can't believe this OpenLGX thing is still going on.... this program, concept or whatever doesn't exist and unfortunately never will. I still can't get hold of why these guys are applying all this energy but it all looks like a big scam. First they invented the story of the blacklist, then a letter from Mike Chambers that he NEVER sent (I asked), version of the software that are one day beta, the next one alpha, something that can be downloaded but it's just an empty installer (it is supposed to be an over-the-net installation, but it points out to a non existant URL and why such a sophisticated installation when the program is just in it inception? And no, I haven't tried to install the Linux version on my 'dell win2k tricked out box', the download link pints to a Window excutable). There are only a couple of Photoshop mocked up pictures showing an highly improbable interface (and the Windows one that looks exactly like the Unix one, even the font?). I've read in the past messages about OpenLGX, and the guy that was constantly pumping up this thing (trakko, if I remeber well) saying that the software can even call your press center to order the business card you just draw with OpenLGX. It starts as a free project, but they already asking for money from investors (improbable investments in Open Source Software, if it's free where investors are expect to make money? Support? Packaged versions? Oh come on.....). Any other project the guy claim to have been involved has an home page dedicated (gravity-OS, Laser Transmission etc), everything is free and everything is there, except that you can't download, and you can't find any tangible proof that they exist and everything end in a 'give a call to us?. And I called, many times, wrote, many times, nobody ever answered. I'm afraid that today at FF2K1 we are going to be presented with mocked up stuff and static pictures, but will see. I would suggest in the future to have a critical look at the things instead of just reporting what some people write on their site.
Cheers,
lev
Lev,
Maybe you're correct, but that z-axis is just so easy to want! Gimme. If believing in this is wrong, I don't wanna be right...
Sem.
I hope not to be correct too. But there some things about the whole project and its feasibility that cannot be dismissed. Did you ever wondered why companies like Adobe, Microsoft etc haven't tried to step on Macromedia toes? Because the market it's saturated with the Flash solution, and whatever they try to do will be inevitably compared with the effectiviness of it and, more important, market penetration. To support OpenLGX features (event the less incredible ones) a new plugin needs to be developed and, most important, needs to be deployed on people's system. How this thing is going to work? The minute you mention 'but you need a new plugin...' people and clients will simply walk away. Why do you think that Adobe SVG, which has been released over one year ago, didn't took off at all? It's open, it's free, it's great etc etc....
Cheers,
Lev
What is openlgx. The link on the first page doesn't work. Have they moved or something?
OK, I took some time to read most of this thread andI think this LGX thingy is wicked! It would be helpful though if I could see screenshots of it. The website seems to be down. If LGX can do everything Flash can and much more I'm switching over to it entirely.
One question:
If it's open source does that mean we have to use VB,Smalltalk or Delphi or whatever to view/edit the source? Or has it been made in something like C++ that everyone can view the source(if they have a compiler)?
i think you are correct. which pisses me off cuz i was really excited about it ! but it did sound too good to be true. i did think it was weird that they only had two screen shots.. *cough cough* oh well.. i guess it goes to show if it looks too good to be true.. it probably is :)! peaceQuote:
Originally posted by Leviathan
I can't believe this OpenLGX thing is still going on.... this program, concept or whatever doesn't exist and unfortunately never will. I still can't get hold of why these guys are applying all this energy but it all looks like a big scam. First they invented the story of the blacklist, then a letter from Mike Chambers that he NEVER sent (I asked), version of the software that are one day beta, the next one alpha, something that can be downloaded but it's just an empty installer (it is supposed to be an over-the-net installation, but it points out to a non existant URL and why such a sophisticated installation when the program is just in it inception? And no, I haven't tried to install the Linux version on my 'dell win2k tricked out box', the download link pints to a Window excutable). There are only a couple of Photoshop mocked up pictures showing an highly improbable interface (and the Windows one that looks exactly like the Unix one, even the font?). I've read in the past messages about OpenLGX, and the guy that was constantly pumping up this thing (trakko, if I remeber well) saying that the software can even call your press center to order the business card you just draw with OpenLGX. It starts as a free project, but they already asking for money from investors (improbable investments in Open Source Software, if it's free where investors are expect to make money? Support? Packaged versions? Oh come on.....). Any other project the guy claim to have been involved has an home page dedicated (gravity-OS, Laser Transmission etc), everything is free and everything is there, except that you can't download, and you can't find any tangible proof that they exist and everything end in a 'give a call to us?. And I called, many times, wrote, many times, nobody ever answered. I'm afraid that today at FF2K1 we are going to be presented with mocked up stuff and static pictures, but will see. I would suggest in the future to have a critical look at the things instead of just reporting what some people write on their site.
Cheers,
lev
Giving them the benift of the doubt... It could be bugs in the installer. If it is a Hoax then they got a lot of people including Internet.com and FlashMag.
Me too, and then their site went down, and then codelogix just redirected to motionculture and <paranoia>I'm a likkle concerned about the port scans that seem to show up everytime I run the lgx-setup</paranoia>Quote:
Originally posted by FlashPantz
3 Cheers for LGX...just downloaded the alpha for WIN and keep getting a "could not communicate with the server, error1" any help would be appreciated...FlashPantz
Is it just too good for this world to handle???
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I just hope the benevolent openglx crew haven't been kidnapped at flashforward!
So is there anyone here who was beta-testing openLGX on linux?
And did they ever make it to flashforward (don't know whether that has started yet ;))
the mystery thickens...
i bet there were going to go to ff but there plane got delayed but dont worry cuz things are gonna be bigger and better once they get there servers up ! right.. not.. i think its fake @ :)
Arthur Stevens is one of the people listed as developing this app. Contact him and ask him if its for real.
Last night- before the sever went down they put a new installer out but the error message it gave this time was that a new installer was available to please re-download.
Like I said I'm giving them the benifit of the doubt- If by the 15'th or so it is still the same then you could probably write it off as vaporware.
heh.. i have never heard that one beforeQuote:
Originally posted by johnie
vaporware.