Re: FLASH: Flash 4

[Laura Mollett]

>1. Shockwave audio support.

>SWA files are currently my favorite sound compression format for the web

>(though beatnik is pretty nifty too).  Since macromedia already owns the

>technology i would tend to think that it should not be too difficult to

>support swa sounds in flash, which would be a vast improvement to flash's

>sound capabilities, and certainly solve a lot of my problems =).


something that'll make a smaller sound file or support for midis is a must

in my personal opinion. beatniks cool, but i won't demand another plug-in

download on top of shockwave and there is that doesn't work with msie

problem (or is that fixed now?)... and i thought no shockwave for unix

(thanks MM!) was bad enough :).


>2. Text-handling

[snip]

>least, we need the ability to import text files. 

YES! please :). I was rather shocked the first time I pulled down the

file menu looking for something like 'get text' to discover it wasn't

there.

 

>The line space and letter

>space options should also be more accessible.  

I'm not so worried about accessibility (least I found 'em), but that

'narrower'

kerning setting is awful :p... i often want text kerned to a smaller amount,

but there's no inbetween options at all. I have similar problems with line

spacing, but it doesn't seem as bad... at least there's -1 even if it won't

do

-1.5 (what is the default line spacing in flash? seems like mine is set at 2

which seems sorta silly).


>And though I suspect text

>wrapping features would be a bit much to ask for, one can always dream =).

flash'll wrap if you set the text box size first and then enter the text...

or am i misunderstanding what you're asking for?


i'd die for a spellchecker, but that's probably more than i can hope for,

but if i have to spellcheck externally, we *really* need the ability to

import text :).


[snip]


>4. Bezier curves

>Although flash's forgiving line drawing tools are very nice, I have often

>found myself wishing for bezier tools when trying to replicate a particular

>curve.

<nod> that would make the hand tracing a lot easier (cheers for my new wacom

tablet tho :) At times I feel like flash has some of the nicest

drawing/painting 

options I've seen (smooth, complete, and ignoring gaps in fills) and

sometimes

am just boggled at how hard simple things are. The options for lines for

example. Couldn't the shift key provide a full fledged horizontal, vertical

or 45 deg. line like it does in almost every other program? (instead of the

snap

to grid thing), and how come there are no options for lines with arrows on

the

ends? Customized lines don't seem to have too many options (basically it

seems like you can get what's already there, unless I'm missing something),

and does checking the 'square corners' on lines work at all? i can't seem to

make it do that.


[more good stuff snipped]

>Karen


thanks, and i agree :)

laura


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