I must ask. Does anyone else find Macromedia Flash to be the most obtuse and user-unfriendly application ever designed? I *hate* this program. Everything is hard to do. It's not even easy to add text without the text shifting and blurring and seeming to have
a mind of its own. And trying to dynamically change text with ActionScript? How the hell is it done???? I have text on the movie, given it a variable name (debug), and set it to be dynamic. What's the ActionScript command to change this text?
None of these
obvious commands work. Changing the text to an input box doesn't help, either. How can I debug Flash if I can't even get a debug label working??? Argh!!!!! I *hate* Flash. Am I the only one????
I've worked out the dynamic text trick. (It was anything but intuitive ... I only got it working by copying and pasting from another's Flash movie.) I'd still love to hear what others think of Flash.
anything macromedia makes bothers me. I think it goes along the lines of a love-hate relationship. I absolutely love hating macromedia. Especially Flash (yeah, I've been where you were/are), Dreamweaver, and I SOOO HATE ColdFusion. When I was contracting, I'd
charge double for even looking at coldfusion. hah
If you're a developer, you hate flash.. If you're a disgner: you love it... ;-) what i really hate are the flash intro's without a skipbutton.. (or a skip-button in the movie itself, so you have to wait until all the garbage is loaded AND THEN you can skip)...
what i hate almost at this moment are the Big flashbanners on every site... because they support tranparancy this days they are used everywhere on portals...
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I have the entire Macromedia suite but I rarely use it. I guess I am developer but I only do that for the money I'm more interested in design and let me say that most designs using flash suck. They have no business screwing up my user experience doing unexpected
things and making me sit through boring animations. It's like I bought a wedding dress so of course I wanted to show it to all of my girlfriends? But how can I? Well see for yourself on MikaellaBridal.com they have to look through all of them to find out whichc
on I'm talking about. That is SO DUMB and inefficient! On that note, I have 2 books on Flash and Actionscripting of which I haven't read one page. On the other hadn I thought Dreamweaver and ColdFusion were OK. . But I've never done any major projects in either.
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For web content, flash sucks. the only thing I've found it useful for is for desktop applications - if we aren't allowed to install the .net framework on the client, well I hate trying to work in vb6 with anything that has a good interface. I embed flash into
director files. I HATE working in flash passionately. Director I can tolerate. Flash has lousy xml handling, no schema validation, you have to construct all xml by hand. To make matters worse - you can't assemble a soap packet and send to a web service because
flash can't alter the http header (soap action header). So I wrote a dumb handler that intercepts the call, adds the header, then forwards to the web service. Pretty lame, but it gets the job done. And they charge what, 5 grand for the remoting server!! hey
whats the emoticon for the super angry face?
> hey whats the emoticon for the super angry face? It's >:< for >:< And I'm relieved to see that I'm not the only one frustrated by Flash. My Flash element is a tiny 50px by 20px music controller. And that tiny thing took me all day to get working. How anyone
can create an entire site in Flash is beyond me.
thanks, let me try >:< who makes entire web sites in flash are beautiful ponytail designers who can hack some php and perl scripts, no understanding of a for loop even, etc. Keep in mind however that for somethings, flash can come in handy. It does support
xml, you have some pretty weak intellisense, and when you have to appease cross browser / platform situations and can't realy on all the super cool ie functions like querying a web service every x seconds without refreshing the page, etc. that flash can actually
help out somewhat. Lets say you have a datagrid and need to cause an update if data is updated. You have to support safari, all these lame ass browsers. Sometimes flash is all you got
::who makes entire web sites in flash are beautiful ponytail designers who can hack some php and perl scripts I hope these are chicks you got in mind. I don't think a pony tail is exactly "beautiful" on guys (I use the term loosely because guys with poytails
remind me of chicks). In fact, I don't think I've ever met a guy with a pony tail that knew what he was doing - or wasn't living with his parents - or wasn't kinda greasy. So in closing, ponytails on guys are oooogly and are only worn by the extreme lazy and
/ or social reject. And that is MY contribution to this flash debate. For those of you about to flame me, I salute you. :)
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debug = "test"; debug.text = "test"; debug.value = "test";None of these obvious commands work. Changing the text to an input box doesn't help, either. How can I debug Flash if I can't even get a debug label working??? Argh!!!!! I *hate* Flash. Am I the only one????SomeNewKid
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