Comments on: Underwhelmed by Macromedia Flash 8

By: sabatian

sabatian — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:12:02 +0000

a foos discussion of flash 1.

By: in my diatribe » putting my whiskers back on

in my diatribe » putting my whiskers back on — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:47:36 +0000

[...] I got some work done on the Flash conversion of the Kuma redesign. Which I’ve come to a conclusion, Flash 8 on a Mac sucks ass. It’s horrible, from what I’ve read Adobe (Macromedia) isn’t investing time in making their Mac IDE usable, which blows. The project I’m working on has Mac fonts and after doing some reading about conversion to PC fonts, I’ve found that the designer wasn’t using True Type or Type 1 fonts, ergo I can’t convert them. So I need to find font substitutes and do this all on my PC. [...]

By: and then some « Ramblings

and then some « Ramblings — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 23:55:58 +0000

[...] Underwhelmed by Macromedia Flash 8 at Dynamic Flash [...]

By: Jaclyn

Jaclyn — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 17:03:11 +0000

I am going to have a nervous breakdown with Macromedia Flash 8 because I cannot even uninstall it. I have tried everything that the support center had to offer and nothing worked. Everytime I do uninstall it, it reinstalls itself. I absolutely hate it

By: Mohawke

Mohawke — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 16:52:04 +0000

Flex? I prefer Openlaszlo because I am poor. not sure about componants, but I would think Laszlo has similar goodies as Flex. http://www.openlaszlo.org/

Off subject a tad

I am playing with mtasc, swfmill (which brought me here), and have been using this Python coded scintilla based ActionScript editor SePy. If you haven’t used it I highly recommend giving it a try. http://www.sephiroth.it/python/sepy.php

Of course it’s free…

By: David

David — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:48:51 +0000

I’m very dissapointed too..i was waiting for, at least, performance improvements (when working on large projects, i’m tired of “Exporting Flash Movie…”)

And the “Normal Mode” of the Actionscript window, let me say, (they put it as an excelent new feature) really really really sucks!!

By: .:: carlosrovira.com - RIA Development ::. » Hablemos un poco del nuevo Flash 8

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:30:41 +0000

[...] Despues de la esperada salida de Flash 8 ya podemos leer en muchos blogs sobre las primeras impresiones. Parece que existen dos grupos…aquellos que est�n flipados con las nuevas posibilidades de Flash en cuanto a expresi�n y los que compartiendo el entusiasmo general (aunque de forma m�s comedida) est�n algo decepcionados por la falta o mejora de ciertos aspectos. [...]

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:35:06 +0000

Brian: Unfortunately both of those component sets are each lacking a different vital component that our flagship application requires. mCOM rather bafflingly doesn’t include a Tree control, and the Bit Component Set is a missing DataGrid component.

My long term hopes for a quality component set actually lies with ActionStep. The architecture requires a bit of a paradigm shift, but it doesn’t take long to get used to it. I only wish I had the time to help out.

By: Brian Randall

Brian Randall — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:22:39 +0000

okay, I had the wrong page on the bit component set. Here’s the correct link:

http://www.flashloaded.com/bitcomponents.php

By: Brian Randall

Brian Randall — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:20:44 +0000

There are some 3rd party UI component sets out there that are apparently pretty good, although they are not exacly free:

here’s one that Grant Skinner’s team (I think) did:
http://www.metaliq.com/mcom/

(here’s a link to Grant’s comments and some developer feedback: http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2005/09/mcom_glic_compo.html)

And - coincidentally - Keith made a set of components that were provided by Beam Jive Consulting, but then got bought by FlashLoaded - and currently their site is down for some reason:

http://www..flashloaded.com/

Also check out these sites that collect various compontents by various developers:

http://www.flashcomponents.net/
http://www.flashcomponent.com/components.php