Local help is a joke in Flash - if you install the AIR app, it just
downloads their help pages in HTML - my browser is slightly faster, but
still navigating the API's is soooo slow!
I agree about Google - someone needs to make a swf panel which hooks
into google to search for flash stuff based on the ide, etc.
On 22/04/2011 18:55, Merrill, Jason wrote:
I miss the good old days when Adobe's local help was easy to access and find
information. I find better results with Google.
Jason Merrill
Instructional Technology Architect
Bank of America Global Learning
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I usually just put the class name with as3 into google (LocalConnection
as3) - it almost always gives me something useful.
I do generally agree that's it's often hard to find anything using Adobe's
built in documentation tool - especially using the search field (which is local
in CS5). Though you can just type your keyword into Flash's action dialog, or
an as document, then click that little ? icon
- sometimes pulls it right up (after 17 update dialog boxes maybe).
I don't agree with your conclusions about competitiveness based on that
difficulty, but yeah, it could be better.
Kevin N.
On 4/21/11 1:54 PM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) wrote:
Hey folks
Every time I do a big search I seem to get a LOT of as2 links and when
I add
as3 into the search terms I keep getting links to either a page
offering up a bunch of generic documentation pages (ie not direct
links to the class I'm looking for) or I get class documentation pages that are
only half full.
Seriously do a search on the livedocs site for the flvplayback class,
its shocking especially in light of the fact that there is no longer
any local docs installed with the software any more
What is going on with this? With people (rightly or wrongly) bashing
flash in favour of the yet untried html5 spec, adobe can ill afford
this kind of crap support for the flash platform.
Come on
A
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