Re: FLASH: Am I alone in being frustrated at Flash's user interface?

[Russell E. Unger]

Fraser...


Is it possible that you are just perhaps a bit frustrated at the differences

between the tools?  I certainly can appreciate your comments and concern and

we've all said it's not the world's most ingenious interface, but it's also

not the world's most difficult, either.


It *is* a little different line of thinking than Director, however, as I'm

certain the Howdy Man will let you know.  Bear in mind that Director is not

a "Vector-based" application.


For all of your other issues, Sir, I think you need to "toy around" with the

tool a bit more.  Director is pretty easy to YOU who has become an "old

hand" at it.  Dare I mention my frustrations with Director 7, simply because

I'm fairly new to it?  No, I need to bite at the bit a little and learn some

things about it.


No tool is perfect; neither is the creator nor user.


Regards,


Russ

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Date: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 3:58 PM

Subject: FLASH: Am I alone in being frustrated at Flash's user interface?



>Hi,

>

>I'm an old Director hand who has just started using Flash 4. I'm redoing a

>set of animations I produced a few years ago in Director, so I am no

>stranger to the issues of multimedia production.

>

>I am absolutely amazed at how terrible the user interface and capabilities

>of Flash are. Why on earth does moving a selection of frames on the stage

>have to be so hard? Why have all the subtle and useful abilities of

>Director's score been ignored in Flash? I can understand that having been

>written by a different group some of the interface elements might work

>differently, but in this case it is rediculous - half the things I want to

>be able to do are either impossible or needlessly labourious. I could go on

>for hours giving examples!

>

>So convinced that a product now on version 4 could not be as lacking, I

>have wasted hours trying to find the missing capabilities. Every website I

>trawled this evening tells me nothing more than the useless manual. No

>Macromedia technical notes even address the issues I have. Can someone at

>least point me in the direction of decent bug list so I can avoid some of

>the stupid and unexpected pitfalls I keep finding? (example: turn on stream

>on your voice-over track and listen to all your other sound effects (hammer

>on nail etc) wander miles out of sync. It is 1999 for heavensake - I never

>expected to have to find workarounds for such age-old issues, let alone put

>up with a user interface that is inferior to a Macromedia/mind product of

>some 5 years ago.

>

>Please someone tell me I am wrong. Please please please!

>

>Fraser

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>Fraser Stephens at Imparta

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