RSSDipping my toes into Flash CS4 and AS3
26 Jun 2009 No Comments
Well, I downloaded the Flash CS4 trial and have been experimenting with it for a day or so.
Overall I’m positive about what I’ll be able to do with the AS3, but a little disappointed in Flash CS4. I’ve never been that excited about the fancy new features in it, although I’m sure I will end up finding them useful. What my problem is, is that there was a few things about the interface and set up that I’d hope they would have improved.
The main one is the colour palette. You still can’t save swatches or custom colours. How annoying! It is also irritating that the ‘Free Transform’ and ‘Gradient Transform’ tools are together – it does get frustrating having to click between them when you are doing a lot of resizing and colour shading.
I have struggled a little today with AS3, but I think a good sit down reading ‘Learning ActionScript 3.0′ will probably let me understand better how it’s structured, then it will be a lot easier to make the transition from AS2 – I’m already am quite fond of the event listener.
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