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| VLIST XTRA: | FEATURES |
Review some of the features that make vList Xtra an ideal tool for Director users. For a complete list of functions, go to vList Xtra Online Help.
| Reliability | vList correctly retrieves lists regardless of the data content. Director's value() function is tripped up by certain list content and may not be able to rebuild a list saved as a string. | |||
| Data Protection | vList Xtra offers optional encryption of a stored list using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) encryption , the standard for secret-key encrypted transfer of unclassified information recently adopted by NIST, the US National Institute of Standards, as a replacement for DES.Encryption can protect sensitive data as well as cast member media that is expensive to produce such as the new 3D cast members in Director 8.5. | |||
| Internet Features | vList can save data to the user's local drive from Shockwave and it can load vList files from the local hard drive or from remote URL's | |||
| Performance | vList, unlike Director's value() function, preserves the sorted state of a saved list when it is retrieved, eliminating the time hit to do a resort upon restoration of the list, and therefore greatly speeding up any subsequent search of the list | |||
| Flexibility | vList Xtra was designed to store lists, but you can use a vList file or vList member to store any supported data type without first writing it to a list. | |||
| More Data Types | vList can read and write the following data types, which are not supported by the Lingo value command:
member.media
The media property of a member saved by vList is completely independent of the cast member it came from. You can use this feature to extract members from one movie and recreate them in another. |
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