anyone else feel like MM pulled the old bait n' switch?
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anyone else feel like MM pulled the old bait n' switch?
Same pig, different color lipstick.
Anyone else notice that any mention Central was eerily left out of all that info on the new version of Flash?
There's nothing really that needs to be built into Flash for Central. Aside from the components and updated reference.Quote:
Originally posted by PAlexC
Anyone else notice that any mention Central was eerily left out of all that info on the new version of Flash?
How so?Quote:
Originally posted by aa
anyone else feel like MM pulled the old bait n' switch?
sorry, what is "central"?Quote:
Originally posted by PAlexC
Same pig, different color lipstick.
Anyone else notice that any mention Central was eerily left out of all that info on the new version of Flash?
In the PRO version of MX2004 they list "MIDI Ring Tone support"...eww does this meen I can listen to the same ringtones on my computer as I can on my cell??? Arn't I so lucky.
But, if I get a new phone I get polyphonic ringtones, eww!
Sarcasm aside, at least MM's stock responded nicly today.
http://flashkit.com/board/showthread...hlight=centralQuote:
Originally posted by aa
sorry, what is "central"?
Quote:
Originally posted by I_am_TheFlasher
How come nobody told me another version of flash was comeing out?
i only found out about 2 days ago mate also! came on all of a sudden!
Maybe were the first to know, and we just don't know it.
i can't find a damn thing on AS2.0.. This syntax overhaul is nothing to sneeze at, it's a huge deal -- and macromedia's site doesn't have anything on it. wtf!
Very similar...
AS2 Syntax: http://www.mozilla.org/js/language/es4/
flash mx 2004 review: http://www.flashdevils.com/flashmx2004/review.html
enjoy!! :)
have a look here:Quote:
Originally posted by erova
One-of-a-kind.
Each MX 2004 t-shirt will be given your unique order number. The sooner you order, the lower the number.
how retarded is this? if this product is for superior developers (oh wait, professionals) this hardly seems a way to reward early deployment.
i think this and all of macromedia's strategy continues to remind me why i want to get more into business development and get out from behind my monitor.
http://www.macromedia.com/software/m...rstinline.html
and yeah.. i agree, that is so f**king pretentious and lame. is that supposed to want to make me drop $300 minimum to sit down and commit a **** load of hours to stay on top of their game?
just need to get off my chest how not-excited i am about this release. i was SO psyched about flash 5 and mx, how they built on AS to really wield some power and it made sense to me.
now i'm looking at new sample code for as2.0 and i'm like WTF!!?? now i have to have each class in a separate file??? sweet... reviewing the mx 2004 inteface i don't know WHAT the hell i'm looking at.
it seems both dumbed down, with all these transition behaviors, text effects and crap, but yet has the potential to severely complicate my development methodoligies with entirely transformed code syntax and.
i can't explain other than the above why i'm so not psyched about this, whereas i embraced the changes with each previous version.
Man, that code looked horrible! Im just now getting dab in the middle of Cold Fusion, and that is actually my second language of code. Whatever that new AS2 is, seems 10% more complicated. I dont like ripp offs. . . seriously. . .
You don't have to use as2 and as2 isn't ripping off anything. it's attempting to conform to a standard, as was as1.
hmmm, there's a lot of negativity about this here, this is a product upgrade and there will always be the same problems with making decisions about upgrades and new features, sytaxes, how about backward compatibility, etc etc. I think that's fair enough concerns but maybe some people need to hold off on the woeing and the lamenting until the facts are in.
of course we would all be better informed if MM had released this with proper information available, a launch like this should be accompanied by extensive documentation to inform these concerns people are voicing here, then at least we could greet this release without all the worries.
I'm pretty excited about seeing flash MX 2004 and it's features, figuring out exactly what's new and available.
I have to agree, I think this stinks.Quote:
Originally posted by CNO
And pardon me for being less than contrite, but why are we posting Macromedia press releases when, despite ending just a day or so before this announcement went live, Macromedia didn't mention one thing about the new version of Flash at the Flashkit conference?
Do you smell that? I think Macromedia just shat on the community again.
http://www.markme.com/jd/archives/003145.cfm
Hmm. They had a special event for Bloggers last night and couldn't say anything at the Flashkit conference?
Why would MM not address the community? Does it consider the bloggers more important than communities like flashkit? It would seem so. I think there's quite a clique going on in the flash blogging community and obviously the 400,000 people at flash kit, nevermind ultrashock and were here, etc, aren't worth informing.
this, this is pretty pathetic.
I hadn't even seen that... sucks. But I heard that Forest Key just danced around and hinted about new stuff, two days later they release it all.Quote:
Originally posted by CNO
http://www.markme.com/jd/archives/003145.cfm
Hmm. They had a special event for Bloggers last night and couldn't say anything at the Flashkit conference?
Breeze Presentation: http://www.macromedia.com/software/s...ures/brz_tour/
Flash Breeze Presentation: http://www.macromedia.com/software/f...ures/brz_tour/
you're going to hate me for saying this, but i love the fact that as2 approaches more to java, as i code in java aswell, and love it. There are advantages in coding everything as a class, and being more strict. From my point of view, scripting should be left to scripters. There's a lot of people trying to make amazing actionscript the easy way, without taking the effort to learn it pretty well. I think that the basic stuff would be still easy to do (gotoAndPlay, stop, duplicate, and all that)....but a more trustable and complete coding language is what flash needed to make it stronger and i'm happy bout that.
Nevertheless, i feel the community is being left aside, they don't ask, they just don't care. I feel flash is taking other way than that we used to think flash was made for (animation and interactivity for the web). Apparently, now you can have a full frontend in flash, with good db connectivity. A strong tool, but what about people that use it for design, interactivity, WEB?
From my point of view, they are Microsoft little brother now. They don't ask, just impose what people should use.
I have to see what comes in the new flash, but in the other hand, my desires to see SVG growing on the internet and really competing agains swf is bigger and bigger. We are being left with very few choses, and macromedia is taking advantage of that. Now that they own the market, they don't care anymore.