Re: FLASH: Reality check re *Flash 4 Magic* file?

[Laura Mollett]

> Even one "month ago" is kinda old these days, nicht wahr? :-)

> 

> See http://www.appleinsider.com

Certainly can be... why I mentioned the date for my info :) But is there

something on this site that says there's a difference between the chips

produced by ibm and those produced by motorola? I can't find it (or

understand it, depending :). The top thing on that G4 roadmap is this

"sawtooth" thing and the specs on it say "400, 450, 500MHz Single Cored

Mot/IBM G4 Processors" - that sounds like the same thing to me? Everything

else I see sounds like Motorola develops the chips and then IBM is licensed

to produce them, which is how I thought it worked. That's a rumor site, but

I'm afraid I'm somehow missing the rumor you're talking about :)


> Have you actually compared the allocation needs between 4 and 4.0a? So far

> I've found the difference to be less than a 5% increase, not a big price to

> pay.


I think you're missing my point. The comment was somewhat wry (with a wink),

but better memory management should indicate a *decrease* in needed memory,

not an increase, wouldn't you think? :) It may be "only 5%" but 5% is more,

not less :) I consider photoshop a hog, but I have photoshop 4 (I don't have

5) set to 20 megs and very seldom run into memory problems with it (unless I

have flash open too ;) and when I do, it never crashes, locks-up and/or

fails to reopen a previously saved file :) Occasionally it'll tell me it

doesn't have enough memory to use a filter or a plug-in. Oh and it never

greys out the menus and tells me I can't save, like flash does. My photoshop

files are certainly as large, if not larger, than the flash files. And I

have flash set to *40 megs*... and had to set it UP for 4.0a... that's

ridiculous :) Admittedly I'll be happy if it doesn't crash and burn my files

anymore so I can quit saving under a new name every half hour and filling up

my harddrive with back-ups I'm afraid to throw away for fear flash won't

open something anymore - which was my biggest concern and 4.0a apparently

fixes (corrupting it's own files is major ridiculous) - but I really think

the program doesn't run well, and it sure doesn't seem like the fix really

makes the memory management much better? Unless I'm missing something major

here that you've noticed?


> When Flash finds slightly less memory available than it wants, it opens, but

it

> gives me a message that something about MRJ (Generator-related) files not

> loading. Why not just a "make more RAM available" message? Same question

> regarding crashes and freezes and endless loops when it can't open a too-big

> file ... Flash is clearly *not* handling too-large files properly.


And this is my point :)  Oh and "some frames will be depicted as grey" - uh

that's useless, and the program won't do anything anymore when it does that

(it gives you an "unknown error" when you try to copy and paste or

something) And why is a 1.7 meg file "too large"? That's obviously not

uncommon, especially if one is importing bitmaps/picts (as recommended) and

wavs/aiffs (as required) - if the flash 4 magic samples are any indication,

my files are on the small side :) Sure, a pretty straight business site

(I've done several of these, no insult intended) can be small, but something

like Arcane or heavy music sites, or various and sundry other things are

just going to take larger initial flash files (then hopefully the swf's get

real small ;) and we need to be able to work with them, yes? Admittedly my

machine isn't current top of the line, but still, it's hardly the typical

"home computer" either and I'm not the only one having problems :)


Laura 


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