Re: FLASH: Moused out to the Max

[brent simpson]

I totally agree with you Len...

My work in Flash cost my insurance company $230 dollars in a trip to a hand

and wrist specialist for me. It got so bad that I couldn't even develop in

Flash anymore because it was so mouse intensive.  Flash doesn't have enough

keyboard shortcuts and the cut and paste stuff is, I agree, horrible.


bas.


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From: Len Harrison <

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Date: Wednesday, November 11, 1998 5:57 PM

Subject: FLASH: Moused out to the Max



>Fellow Flashers --

>

>It is just me or do you find yourself totally maddened by the need to

>repeatedly define similiar actions on buttons and frames with the

>mouse-heavy Flash interface? Is it only me that spends literally days

>programming stuff into these little boxes when the conceptual element is

>done and the design aspect half complete, wishing for ctrl-C, ctrl-V if

>nothing else? Am I alone in wondering why the copy/paste frames command

>renames your layers and adds new ones instead of just copying the frames

>down their timeline in a logical way?

>

>There are a lot of cool possibilities for the future of Flash. For myself

>I'd like to see string variables and a text entry box if nothing else.

>Assuming stringvars could be used as labels, that could open the program up

>tremendously.

>

>BUT, more than anything else, I'd like to be able to type commands into

>Flash, copy/paste, and search/replace. A simple text interface would be so

>much easier than these insane dialogs when you have a lot of code to get

in.

>In fact, I don't even care about an editor. I've got a bunch of those. Just

>let the program read ASCII files. I don't even care how arcane the syntax

>is.

>

>YES I have written the Flash Wish List about this. That's why I'm writing

>this list now. If you are experiencing mouse madness also, please join me.

>Let's lobby for something a bit more humane.

>

>Yours in RMI,

>

>len harrison

>instructional designer

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lenhabtcorp [dot] com

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