Mac OS X Bug?

[Flaevo]

Can anyone verify that when you publish in flash and see the preview there ( cmd+enter ) the fps seems to be about 1/2 it should be.

However if you click on the window menu bar ( grey strip at top ) and hold it down it runs at full speed?

I might need to get updates or something

[sekasi]

Does not happen on 10.4.8 here.

[Flaevo]

Does not happen on 10.4.8 here.


hmm.. Might need to do updates then. I havn't reinstalled since the beta copy from work. heh

[Garou]

I'm having quite a few problem too on my macbook with the new cs3 :(
And btw don't you think it runs a little too slow for a native application?

[Flaevo]

I'm having quite a few problem too on my macbook with the new cs3 :(
And btw don't you think it runs a little too slow for a native application?

not slow here.. just the weird bug where if I hold the test movie window bar the frame rate goes what it's supposed to.

[jakattak]

Can anyone verify that when you publish in flash and see the preview there ( cmd+enter ) the fps seems to be about 1/2 it should be.

However if you click on the window menu bar ( grey strip at top ) and hold it down it runs at full speed?

I've seen this a couple times as well. It isn't happening consistently for me, but I've noticed this exact behavior 3 or 4 times now (happens on but an intel imac and a macbook pro)

In other news, I have noticed since installing CS3 on my Macs, I can no longer open pdfs :(

[darth]

pdf import is not working anymore. if you have illustrator you can save pdf-s as .ai otherwise you're out of luck.

I am making a list of OSX Flash CS3 bugs - heres what i have got so far -


1. Debugger is unusable. It seems that this part of Flash is half finished - how can they ask money for half finished product??
2. Selection bugs - If you are editing textfield contents and select arrow afterwards you cannot move the textfield with arrows, it's like the textfield is not selected - you need to press on it again.
If you have free transform tool selected and an object selected(movieclip) - if you go inside the movieclip to edit the contents and go back outside while free transform tool is still selected the movieclip is selected without free transform tool controls and you need to press on the free transform spot to make them appear.
3. Dynamic textfield problems - if you have text as static textfield and you change it to dynamic textfield the text inside shifts down a few pixels.
Again if you publish movie with dynamic text and font embedded the text appears few pixels up - not as it appears on flash stage.

These in my opinion are quite big problems and I hope Adobe will issue a patch or update for flash cs3 soon. Until then I will continue with my list.

[NElizaga]

Can anyone verify that when you publish in flash and see the preview there ( cmd+enter ) the fps seems to be about 1/2 it should be.

However if you click on the window menu bar ( grey strip at top ) and hold it down it runs at full speed?

I might need to get updates or something

I've seen this before too, also in Flash 8. What I've found lately is that the Help panel will drastically slow down performance when you test in Flash. If you've got the Help panel open, close it when you test a movie. That usually does the trick.

Another weird thing I noticed... my Flash CS3 was running at 25% CPU while idle with NOTHING open (Powerbook G4 1.67mhz, 1GB ram), which is not nice. I tried different things then found that disabling all my extensions through Extension Manager made all the difference. I haven't narrowed it down to any specific extension yet, but if you see this same problem try disabled those bad boys.

One last weird thing... if I run a simple Flash 8 file that just has an FLVPlayback component with a relatively small FLV within the Flash 8 IDE, it runs fine. If open that same file and test it in Flash 9, it runs very choppy. This is even after fixing the things I mentioned above. Damn it.

[gordonf238]

I've experienced the same exact problem. CS3 for OS X was bound to be buggy, being that it's a recompile and all. It's also not performing as smoothly as I'd expect on a 2.16Ghz Intel Core Duo with 2GB RAM. Controls, interface, etc. don't seem to respond as "instantenously" as they do on a PC.

Although I was glad to see none of the nuisances and problems that plagued Flash 8 fixed. Great job Adobe.

[rhamej]

3. Dynamic textfield problems - if you have text as static textfield and you change it to dynamic textfield the text inside shifts down a few pixels.
Again if you publish movie with dynamic text and font embedded the text appears few pixels up - not as it appears on flash stage.
This has been happening in F8 also. It really pisses me off :fight:

[paularmstrong]

I think that CS3 is a huge improvement over CS2. The only thing that I've found a problem with is the Debugger... it doesn't seem to do what it is expected to do... debug things...