Also, multimedia authors are faced with trying to design and enforce style guidelines without any assistance from Director. Asante is a set of extensions to Director to aid in both of these tasks. These extensions rely on a couple of offline visual tools to help in the authoring process. You might be surprised to know that Asante will have a visual tool to construct scripts. Then again you might not.
Agents are nominally a part of the future of computing.
Few people even talk about how end users will actually tell these agents what to do. Unfortunately, programming does not appeal to most consumers. In this project, I tried to come up with a programming language that could be generated by visual tools and used to program autonomous agents that actually wager money. This project is on hiatus until I actually graduate. For a number of years I worked on the Ensemble project.