Flash complaints??
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- CyBrainX
I'm going to Flash Forward in NYC next month. There will be Macromedia techs there, taking suggestions and requests for future releases. Any suggestions?
How about this for examples:
better functioning undos with description in the menu (ie-undo rotation)
resizing of the movie based on corner the way Photoshop does canvas size.
Publish settings with better html control and directory options for output files
CONSISTENT SPEED IN PLAYBACK FOR CROSSPLATFORM!!
native 3D vector graphic editing (Doesn't Swft 3D need to be put out of our misery?)
letting the fill transform tool work on more than one shape at a time.
better get timer scripts. Lingo is so much easier: pause (milliseconds)
make tween along a path work more than 10% of the time!!!
8 bit masking
That's it for now. I'll have a lot more later.
- unformatted0
check out the NT flash wishlist too!
- mbr0
FONTS!!!
Why do I have to stress about aligning the damn fonts to whole pixels??? Even then, they blur like crazy. I've had to use gifs instead of typing in Flash because of the blurring.
IMPORTING!!
Importing from Illustrator should be painless, but it's next to impossible to get reliable results. I import a lot of CAD drawings, and things are randomly distributed, making them illegible or impossible to edit.
Those were my frustrations for the today.
Oh, and can we put images in the scroller? I haven't tried, but I am guess not. You should be able to.
- unfittoprint0
BIGGER MOVIE STAGE!!!!
WTF! When creating a new movieclip symbol, if I exceed 700-760px in size (width) I will not be able to see its end!?
Why not allow to draw wherever you want like in Freehand, Illustrator or CorelDraw.
Damn.
- 4cY0
i never understood that part either, unfit.
it's one of the worst limitations in Flash.
really annoying!
- unfittoprint0
Janne, these are the people that created Freehand. That's why is so difficult for me to understand the stage issue. And the damn thing is on its 6th version for crying out loud.
- sexypixel0
tell them to realease a reliable crack, my current crack is infected
:o)
- quamb0
crossplatform playback issues.
and no fingerpointing- macromedia and apple need to work it out together.
- CyBrainX0
I'd really like to see them work on things that have been shaky since the beginning rather than add new features and programming.
- sexypixel0
so what do they call it MX2?
Flash 7?
MZ?
- intoxicated0
Definately better symbol alignment options instead of just the top left or center. Tell them that the best vector animation program should take a few feathers from the best vector drawing program, CorelDRAW. (Yeah I said it! Corel rules!)
- spclarke0
Maybe I'm just incredibly lazy, but when I create lots of text buttons I hate having to keep drawing appropriately sized rectangles to designate the hit area. It would be nice to have the option to automatically make the dimensions of the text box the hit area.
Come to think of it ... yeah ... I AM incredibly lazy ...
- sexypixel0
if you do scroll = no the html page within the iframe will have its own scroll, i think
- sexypixel0
shit!
- j_red0
I think the default stage should be a 2Advanced template.
- kodap0
sexypixel, pass me the joint now!
- birichino0
Oh yeah I have a number of complains but lets list the most obvious:
a. The stage problem as already mentioned.
b. Font aliasing. Too blured in my opinion. It would be nice to have the choice we have in Fireworks for example.
c. Bitmaps rendering. Eliminate that strange effect of image moving when Alpha turns to 100%.
- stewart0
i want "multiply" transparency in Flash MX+
- Seph0
Sort out the 5 second pause on start up.
Put back the option (In Flash 5 but not in MX) of double clicking a frame to open ActionScript automatically.
Blurring fonts as already mentioned.
More open source deveopment possibilities.
Better intergration with Director. flash runs too slowly in director, which is not only a problem for Director to resolve, it has to be both parties working on it.
And finally, more obvious control over the the timeline, removing frames, adding frames, keyframes, blank keyframes, its all so bloody complicated and without reason, whereas Director is so obvious and easy.