Re: [Flashcoders] Flash CS5 IDE
On 27/07/2010 11:09, Tom Gooding wrote: rant I've just moved from CS3, that I'd been happily using for a few years to CS5 (so we can target FP10) and it seems to me to be a massive step backwards in usability. The properties dialogs for pretty much everything are trickier to use especially the way you apply filters. Just arranging and navigating the panels all seems massively inferior to how it worked before. /rant Has anyone else found this transition a bit painful and/or have any suggestions as to how to improve productivity with it. Maybe... does anyone know if it's possible to rig the CS3 IDE (I am on Mac) to publish for FP10. Tom Probably best get used to it now. I have recently had to move from CS3 to CS5 because the CS5 Adobe software won't export from CS5 back to CS3 and my customers are starting to go ahead with CS5.. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash CS5 IDE
Yep - I guess I will need to get used to it - am I alone in thinking it's a bit of a dog's dinner of an app? On 27 Jul 2010, at 11:25, Paul Andrews wrote: On 27/07/2010 11:09, Tom Gooding wrote: rant I've just moved from CS3, that I'd been happily using for a few years to CS5 (so we can target FP10) and it seems to me to be a massive step backwards in usability. The properties dialogs for pretty much everything are trickier to use especially the way you apply filters. Just arranging and navigating the panels all seems massively inferior to how it worked before. /rant Has anyone else found this transition a bit painful and/or have any suggestions as to how to improve productivity with it. Maybe... does anyone know if it's possible to rig the CS3 IDE (I am on Mac) to publish for FP10. Tom Probably best get used to it now. I have recently had to move from CS3 to CS5 because the CS5 Adobe software won't export from CS5 back to CS3 and my customers are starting to go ahead with CS5.. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash CS5 IDE
On 27/07/2010 11:09, Tom Gooding wrote: Has anyone else found this transition a bit painful and/or have any suggestions as to how to improve productivity with it. Maybe... does anyone know if it's possible to rig the CS3 IDE (I am on Mac) to publish for FP10. Yes, a little painful - unfortunately some bright spark decided we did not want to lay our properties panel out horizontally anymore. I find putting this to the LHS has helped a little, but it would be nice if Adobe could have done a floating type of layout for the properties - e.g. divide properties into sections and allow each section to float left so it can be laid out horizontally or vertically. I do find there is not much stage space any more with having to have the properties panel sitting on the left the tools panel is pretty useless if you stack the properties in the same panel but I tend to have a project window open too, which fills up the space regardless. Because most of my work is code based rather than animation, I don't spend much time in the IDE, although I find authoring controls, and doing layout a chore in CS5 - hiding the timeline has helped a bit. I found Flash 8 / CS3 to be more easy for authoring, but then I had that nicely setup and I am still tweaking CS5. If I have to do any more heavily graphic oriented sites I might have to knuckle down... At least they fixed the stacking issue where SWF's used to get stuck behind the panels if they were a high resolution and it does not crash like CS4 with projects, I am reasonably happy with it. Maybe Adobe bought shares in some large computer company a while ago because we always need more real-estate, more memory and faster processors with each new upgrade of Flash ;) 2 monitors is useful, but wish I could have a setting where it always opens my test movie on the 2nd monitor without me having to move it :) ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Flash CS5 IDE
That would be nice to have it auto open in a second monitor. I think they are just trying to bring the application look feel closer to both After Effects and Illustrator. Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:02:24 +0100 From: g...@engineeredarts.co.uk To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flash CS5 IDE On 27/07/2010 11:09, Tom Gooding wrote: Has anyone else found this transition a bit painful and/or have any suggestions as to how to improve productivity with it. Maybe... does anyone know if it's possible to rig the CS3 IDE (I am on Mac) to publish for FP10. Yes, a little painful - unfortunately some bright spark decided we did not want to lay our properties panel out horizontally anymore. I find putting this to the LHS has helped a little, but it would be nice if Adobe could have done a floating type of layout for the properties - e.g. divide properties into sections and allow each section to float left so it can be laid out horizontally or vertically. I do find there is not much stage space any more with having to have the properties panel sitting on the left the tools panel is pretty useless if you stack the properties in the same panel but I tend to have a project window open too, which fills up the space regardless. Because most of my work is code based rather than animation, I don't spend much time in the IDE, although I find authoring controls, and doing layout a chore in CS5 - hiding the timeline has helped a bit. I found Flash 8 / CS3 to be more easy for authoring, but then I had that nicely setup and I am still tweaking CS5. If I have to do any more heavily graphic oriented sites I might have to knuckle down... At least they fixed the stacking issue where SWF's used to get stuck behind the panels if they were a high resolution and it does not crash like CS4 with projects, I am reasonably happy with it. Maybe Adobe bought shares in some large computer company a while ago because we always need more real-estate, more memory and faster processors with each new upgrade of Flash ;) 2 monitors is useful, but wish I could have a setting where it always opens my test movie on the 2nd monitor without me having to move it :) ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/ ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash CS5 IDE
Performance wise, so far its a lot better than CS4 was. That was a dog. on 7/27/10 5:53 AM, Tom Gooding at t...@quickthinkmedia.co.uk wrote: Yep - I guess I will need to get used to it - am I alone in thinking it's a bit of a dog's dinner of an app? John R. Sweeney Jr. Interactive Multimedia Developer OnDemand Interactive Inc 945 Washington Blvd. Hoffman Estates, IL 60169 Office/Fax: 847.310.5959 Cellular: 847.651.4469 www.ondemandinteractive.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
