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Adobe has stuffed Flash - it's official
Posted by acousticguitarist • 2/20/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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I have been teaching Flash animation for 7 years and after having a look at the new version, I have to say that Adobe has completely ruined the program. What they have done is create a broader gap between designers and programmers.
I highly recommend if you are using the new version of Flash and have a good working knowledge of the program, save your files as Actionscript 2.0 and pretend there wasn't a down grade.
I'm am waiting for the next upgrade to to see if sanity will be restored. I can't make any sense of why they have made these bizarre changes.
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I don't have a very high opinion of Adobe Flash anyway. I think it's way overused. I don't mind little things here and there on a website that are done with Flash, but when the entire website is nothing but Flash, it gets a little frustrating and incredibly non-user-friendly.-
I agree with you, it's hardly used correctly at all, it's often used by people trying to show off.
It is a very complex program to learn because it is not intuitive, but I've taught over 300 classes of it. There are great uses for it, and they are not necessarily on the web. I draw in flash, export to illustrator, most designers think it's a bit mad, but for me it works.
As I said, it is totally user unfriendly, but in a couple classes I can teach what people can't sort out in two years with a book. The secret to flash is knowing what errors people are going to make and telling them before they do it. 100% of people make the same mistakes. (Yes everybody)
It's complex for people because they don't understand where they are on the timeline and on which layer.
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Who knows why these software companies do what they do? Half the "upgrades" make no sense!
Either way, I'm with Kristi... I'm not a fan of Flash. If there's a reason, fine, but most sites that use only Flash, I leave within about 10 seconds.
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Upgrades are often crazy.
I was talking this morning to 3 other IT teachers and between them they've taught computers for 60 years, and each of them had Microsft upgrade issues.
A simple thing like saving an image embedded in an email in the new Outlook has gone crazy, they recommend that you write a macro to do it. Hilarious.
I found a fix in 2 seconds. Save the email to the desktop, open the folder that was created when the email was saved..there's the image.
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Why should adobe have a monopoly on action scripting - swishmax?-
Hi Kevin: The actionscript is not the issue.
The issue is this. Previously we could create a button and add a simple script, no probs. In the new version there's a need to create a listener, declare a variable and write a function. I used to be able to use very cool simple scripts to do everything, now they don't work.
e.g I could open a directory by using
on(whatever){
getURL(" ");
}
Now nothing works and as someone that has taught so many hundred people to use this program how to do things simply, it's frustrating because only about 5% of the people that I've taught would have the brain cells to get their heads around the changes. So, they have isolated their clients, in fact, this will chase people away.
And it forces me to change what I teach so it's usable but does not have the power as before. It's crap.
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I believe Microsoft created Silverlight because of the widening gap between the coder and the designer in Adobe Flash. I don't know if Silverlight will answer all the problems or will you just get a blue screen? :|-
thanks for mentioning it, I've only met one person that has tried it so far and not one other person has said anything to me about it, I had forgotten it existed
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I think Adobe got a bit distracted by the challenges posed by Microsoft's Silverlight and its companion Expression Studio tool set. Flash now has inverse kinematics and 3d space, but it isn't a dedicated cartoon animation software. And then there's a new Flash tool in development called Flash Catalyst, that looks like a better match for Expression Blend, than the current Flash Professional. Adobe wants Flash to be all things to all people it seems.
So what about the Flash game developers? I wonder when Adobe gonna get serious about the Flash game development market the way they did with e-learning. Flash has all kinds of drag-and-drop components for that, but none for Flash game development. When are they gonna release a software similar to YoYo Games' Game Maker and Microsoft's XNA Game Studio, so we can have a dedicated set of tools for rapid Flash game development? Where is the Flash Game Studio, Flash Game Express, or Flash Game Producer? Whatever they want to call it, where is it? -
"I think Adobe got a bit distracted by the challenges posed by Microsoft's Silverlight and its companion Expression Studio tool set. "
I agree.
Adobe must have changed the whole actionscript structure bcs one cannot use the version 2.0 especially with a framework. Now there's a Framework and MVC madness in the software world: Ms(asp.net), Php (ZendFramework),..etc.
Next Stage: Adobe(or some companies) will build Flash Frameworks. That's my prediction of course. -
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Adobe ruins everything they buy out. Including CoolEdit Pro which is now their stupid Adobe Audition. -
The progress of Flash is somewhat inevitable. I've been on the Flash platform since 1999 (Flash 4) and the whole thing has evolved greatly since then. You can do much more now than just gotoAndPlay(2); or stop(); . It's the era of Rich Internet Applications.
After Adobe took over we have seen a lot more bugs (e.g. tekkie.flashbit.net/flash/embedding-fonts-in-flash-cs3 ) but also more functionality. You can work seamlessly in conjunction with Adobe software now, something that was a bit problematic in Macromedia era.
And Re e-learning the process diagram would look like: eHelp > Macromedia > Adobe.
The thing is, a threat always relies in a monopoly. So let us welcome anything that Microsoft struggles with.
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