What do you need from the future KM v4.0 ?

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Originally posted by OwenAus
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And as KoolMoves gains market dominance (* evil laugh :devil: tomorrow the world! *) and new users, a revamp of the help system. A really comprehensive help with levels for beginners, intermediate, advance, and indexed.

This will save heaps of time and effort in the long term, and will, I am sure, increase upgrades from demo to licenced

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I just read a Koolmoves test on a German site. Koolmoves got a very high rating . The only important issue of critisism was the poor manual.
Anyone interested and understands German: http://www.freenet.de/freenet/comput...n/kool/01.html

That version of KoolMoves is a year old.

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Originally posted by Bob Hartzell
That version of KoolMoves is a year old.

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Anyway, the development of the help function stays far behind the great improvements of the program, so the critisism is still actual.
Non english speaking people like me are, specially small language areas (like the Netherlands) dependant of books which are written in English and are written for Macromedia Flash. For instance the actionscript might be almost the same, the implementation is much different. So if the helpfunction or an additive manual that is kept up to date with every program progress, it would be helpfull in keeping up with the development.

Most shareware programs in this cost range have an order of magnitude less help than we do. We could use a couple of current tutorials on how to use the tool. Trying to document action scripting would not make sense.

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Originally posted by Bob Hartzell
When we got AS Bob didn't add FSCommand as an AS but rather left the old implementation.

-> Do I need to do this?

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Not paticularly. The existing interface is suficient.

Bob, KoolMoves is one of the best products going.

I believe it brings flash creation into the price and ability range of a much greater audience. Props for that, truely.

However I do think that there is a blurred bit, after the initial "my first five frame" movie stage, and that stronger help documentation or tutorials would assist people to bridge that gap. I also think that this would lead to more licenced versions in the medium to long term.

Anyhow, criticism, even constructive criticism, is negative stuff, so I'll hop off this bandwagon now. KM rocks!

Now (at the risk of exceeding my wish list allocation) here is my next wish (#57):

That the KM clipboard retains content between fun-file loads and also between moveclips (one to the other) and the main movie. I know I can copy, paste to file, etc, but I am lazy ... :)

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Originally posted by OwenAus
Bob, KoolMoves is one of the best products going.

I believe it brings flash creation into the price and ability range of a much greater audience. Props for that, truely.

However I do think that there is a blurred bit, after the initial "my first five frame" movie stage, and that stronger help documentation or tutorials would assist people to bridge that gap. I also think that this would lead to more licenced versions in the medium to long term.

Anyhow, criticism, even constructive criticism, is negative stuff, so I'll hop off this bandwagon now. KM rocks!

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Bob
That's what I actually meant to say.

However I do think that there is a blurred bit, after the initial "my first five frame" movie stage, and that stronger help documentation or tutorials would assist people to bridge that gap. I also think that this would lead to more licenced versions in the medium to long term.

-> I appreciate it. It is difficult to get feedback that is not fix this problem or add this feature. I was thinking of posting a thread entitled what bothers you most about KM or what is the most frustrating feature.

That the KM clipboard retains content between fun-file loads and also between moveclips (one to the other) and the main movie. I know I can copy, paste to file, etc, but I am lazy ...

-> The clipboard does retain cut/copy shapes/frames between fun files for the same session. It is on my list for the next version to try to tackle the between movie clip clipboard problem.

It would be nice to be able to draw characters as one oject instead of everything being seperated and grouped together. I used over 25 objects to create my character in the movie I posted a while back (in the topic "Cartoon"). I don't want her whole body to be as one object (how will I animate her move?), but I want to draw most of her body and moving parts as one object for each moving part.

Also, I know I'm supposed to put only one wish, but I would like for KM to be compatible with a graphics tablet. I plan to get one in the future.

It would be nice to be able to draw characters as one oject instead of everything being seperated and grouped together. I used over 25 objects to create my character in the movie I posted a while back (in the topic "Cartoon"). I don't want her whole body to be as one object (how will I animate her move?), but I want to draw most of her body and moving parts as one object for each moving part.

-> How are you going to use separate colors in the body unless there is a shape per color? You animate all the pieces using bones.

Also, I know I'm supposed to put only one wish, but I would like for KM to be compatible with a graphics tablet. I plan to get one in the future.

-> It is. Search past threads for recommended products.

Sweet! I plan on getting a graphics tablet. Does anyone know of any deals? Also, I now understand the whole object deal. Thanks, Bob. But isn't drawing done differently in Flash?

Transparency option :D and script for dummies :confused:

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Originally posted by webula
Transparency option :D and script for dummies :confused:

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Transparency for what ?
ActionScript can be used by dummies,normal peoples & ... alien minds.
:p

You already have a transparany option.

If you are talking about transparent on the web page;

For IE:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...ents/wmode.htm

The new Beta Version of the Flash Player only info;

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* Windowless mode allows you to take advantage of the transparent movie, absolute positioning, and layering capabilities available in the browser. Windowless mode is controlled with the wmode parameter in the object tag. The Flash Player supports three windowless mode options in certain browsers:
o Window: Use the Window property to play a Flash Player movie in its own rectangular window on a web page. This is the default property for WMode and the works the way the classic Flash Player works. This normally provides the fastest animation performance.
o Opaque: By using the Opaque property you can use JavaScript to move or resize movies that don't need a transparent background. Opaque mode makes the movie hide everything behind it on the page. Additionally, opaque mode moves elements behind Flash movies (for example, with dynamic HTML) to prevent them from showing through.
o Transparent: Transparent mode allows the background of the HTML page, or the DHTML layer underneath the Flash movie or layer, to show through all the transparent portions of the movie. This allows you to overlap the movie with other elements of the HTML page. Animation performance might be slower when you use this property.
* The windowless mode feature can be invoked or affected by a Flash or HTML developer in the following ways:
- setting the wmode parameter in the object or embed tag
- setting the HTML Window Mode option in the Publish Settings HTML tab in the Flash Authoring tool
- setting the z-index or the style settings to layer a DIV on top of the plug-in using Cascading Style Sheets
* The following browsers are supported:
o Windows Netscape 7.0
o Windows AOL
o Windows Mozilla 1.0
o Windows CompuServe
o Mac OS X IE 5.1
o Mac OS X IE 5.2
o Mac OS X Netscape 7.0
o Mac OS X AOL
o Mac OS X Mozilla 1.0
o Mac OS X CompuServe
o Note: Mac Classic is not supported for this feature.
* Please see these existing documents for more information. Note that this information applies to the currently released version of the Flash Player, and will be updated when this Public Beta version is released to the general public:

Using Windowless Controls and the New Flash Player
http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl.../shock/wless2/

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I would like to be able to apply curves to text boxes.

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Originally posted by calow21202
I would like to be able to apply curves to text boxes.

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You can do it allready:
1) select "No Border" for the dynamic-text box.
2) draw the desired curves
3) type the text

...And I thought I'd tried everything?....
THX for the info

This is not for the 'look' of the box, but to curve the contents of the box.

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Originally posted by calow21202
This is not for the 'look' of the box, but to curve the contents of the box.

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Curved content ? ... aha.
Check in this forum for a thread called "Curved Text" and download my attachement (a ZIP file).
The problem is that for dynamic-text it doesn't working because you can't split it !
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Yes, thank you, I have your zip file for curving text - it's great, but what would be more versatile and helpful in designing the look of text and then being able to place it and transform it... would be a simple curve application for text boxes. It doesn't need to be for dynamic text. I could go to a word processor and use text graphics to put a template of whatever shape I want on my text, but it doesn't export or import well. Having to apply motion scripts for every piece of text becomes cumbersome. I understand this may be a big pain - code-wise, I'm just throwing it out there. It would be cool if the curve application would work on a simple text box.