Re: FLASH: Aaaggh - Flash 5 programming

[Karin Christensen]

Please, let me say, first of all (Branden) that I am not afraid of

trying new things.  I was on this list when Flash 4 came out and from

what was said about it on this list I eagerly upgraded.  After using

it for an hour I never went back to 3. Everything was such an

improvement over 3.  I had a lot of fun learning the action scripting

and discovered that I had at least a certain degree of intuition

toward programming which I had never done before.  I have never

criticized the manual, I've always found that experimenting is the

best way to learn.   I never said that I would never upgrade to 5.  I

just have not seen anything yet that has urged me to jump in and spend

the money just to have to relearn it.  Don't you kind of wonder why a

program would be upgraded with the choice to revert back to original

version?  I don't own any other software that gives this option.  This

tells me something.

Karin

Of course, I still use Windows 95 because it works just fine.


> Well said, JGL!  I agree with all of this and just wanted to add

that I

> didn't mean to criticize Karin or anyone else who chooses to stay

with

> F4.  No reason to switch if everything will be exported as F4 files

> anyway, and there is much to be said for keeping the workflow (and

> moneyflow) going in the best way one can  (I could take a lesson or

two

> from that, as I'd always rather play around with something new and

fun

> like F5 than work on my paying old-tech jobs ;-)  I see the main

plus of

> F5 being its value as a real programming language rather than the

unique

> (albeit functional) language of F4, but that's only useful if you're

> creating F5 swf's and have time to learn the dot syntax and

> associative-array-syntax that F5 uses.

>




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