RE: FLASH: Selection ??

[Sohrab Pirayesh]

Hey Andrew,


I think the major problem macromedia wanted to correct was the flash 4 font

selection problem. All of the fonts were cut off so you couldn't tell the

difference between say "Futura MD BT" and "Futura LT" cause they both read

"Futur".


But I agree with you. When switching from flash 4 to 5, alot of things seem

counter productive. Especially cause you have been doing it the one way for

soooo long.


But you gotta cut macromedia some slack. They wanted to standardize their

interface. They wanted everything to have a panel. And for the most part it

is more productive ( especially with changing alpha properties for a large

number of symbols). But be happy that they changed the stuff now as opposed

to 2 version from now, where it would be almost impossible for you to switch

to a new workflow.


My only major problem with the panels is that unless I have a 21-inch

monitor running 1600-1200 resolution, I cant get any work done. There are

simply too many panels that are used too often. And 1024-768 just wont cut

it.


But for the most part you shouldn't get too worried. I am sure that both you

and myself will eventually get used to the *NEW* way of doing things.


my2sense


-sohrab



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Subject: FLASH: Selection ??



In Flash 4 if you selected a range of cells and inserted Keyframe, Flash

created a keyframe in each of the selected cells.  I was just reading in a

book that Flash 5 does the same, but I haven't been able to get that

function

to work?  Has anyone had any luck with that?  Why would they remove that

feature?


Some of the action Panels also seem to create more work than the simple

modifiers that we had before, especially the text modifiers.  They used to

be

so simple right there as soon as you clicked any text, now you've got to go

to a panel with a pull down menu, it's really very counter productive.  If

they wanted panels why couldn't they leave all the modifiers on the tool bar

as well?  Argghhh!!


Andrew


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