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[Joe 10 Enterprises]

At 3:13 PM -0400 6/10/02, Ziya Oz wrote:

>MM could invoke the host OS's UI widgets instead of creating an alternative
>GUI. For obvious strategic reasons, they chose not to work with the native
>OS, but introduce their own in Flash MX.
>

Amen. They did it in Director (and it's evil twin Shockwave) over a 
decade ago... why they don't put native toolbox calls in the Flash 
player has been a subject of debate for years now. The standard 
answer I get is player download size vs. that as a feature request. I 
find it hard to believe that people writing apps in Flash really dig 
making their own widgets...
/Joe
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