Re: FLASH: Aaaggh - Flash 5 programming

[Christina Tracy]

I negotioned on a freelance job for them to buy me

Flash 5. Which I will happily recieve this week.


I did not want to do the upgrade and disable my

Flash 4 version. I am finding that the majority of

my clients do not want their viewers

to have to go and down load a new Flash 5 player...



>

>

> > > ... or don't. If this is how you make decisions, then really, maybe

> > the

> > > world is better off if your work doesn't get as much exposure.

> > >

> > > sorrowfully,

> > > jd

> >

> > Sheesh, I think that was an incredibly rude response.  I have been

> > carefully watching the posts on Flash 5 trying to make a decision if

> > upgrading will improve work performance.  It appears that most people

> > at least those posting to the list have chosen to go use the Flash 4

> > preferences rather than 5.  In fact the world is very happy with my

> > work, in fact Macromedia awarded one of my sites as site of the day

> > last year.  I love Flash and my clients love my work.  I have a pretty

> > good handle on Flash 4 programming, but honestly the programming in 5

> > scares me off.  I'm not saying I will never upgrade, but I wonder why

> > many of the interfaces --  such as setting an alpha transparency in

> > gradients -- have been changed and are more difficult to use when

> > there was nothing wrong with them in the first place.  It sounds like

> > the programming in 5 is way more powerful, but I use it mainly as an

> > animation tool. I don't have the time right now (because of the amount

> > of paying flash jobs I have) to have to get out the manual to try to

> > figure out how to do what used to be a simple things.

> >

> > I always though Macromedia listened, but now I wonder.

> > Karin

> > www.linkline.com/personal/karinc/



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