Macromedia Flash 8 Bugs and Emerging Issues

[senocular]

No application is bug free on first release, especially one as large scale as Flash. There are bound to be issues in both the Flash IDE as well as the Flash player. If you find one, let us know. A list will be kept here to keep everyone aware of known issues and hopefully workarounds can be found to deal with them until Macromedia corrects them. Remember, for any problem you encounter, let Macromedia know so that they may be aware of it and hopefully find a solution.

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[senocular]

I thought I would start this now with the release so close.

(post reserved for more space if needed)

[isaacrivera]

Ok, I have a first one!

On a Mac G5 Dual 1GHz, Mac OS 10.4.2, the trial version of Flash 8 Pro. In the Preferences panel, ActionScript tab, if you try to select colors for the different language elements, a blank color chooser sheet pops up. Nada in it. clicking on it selects white as the element color!!! Choose "Reset to Defaults" to undo.

peace

[cruci]

When I tried to publish an existing project using mx.transitions.Tween and mx.transitions.easing.* in F8 it gave me a bunch of errors. I renamed the mx folder and copied the one from Flash7 and everything worked fine.

Someone with more AS knowledge than me might be able to figure out what's different.

[antonin]

We have two servers at work : one with the flas and one with the swf and all the media. With mx2004 we used to put
\\pc-internet\myProject\mySwf.swf
in the publish setting but this kind of path don't work anymore with flash8...
It's very annoying cause we have to create maps and put :
Z:/myProject/mySwf.swf

[cruci]

If you detach the timeline from the stage, and then save the layout, the timeline will revert back to being attached to the top of stage when you reload the saved layout.

It's like the Library all over again!

isaacrivera: That works fine for me. OSX 10.4.2, Flash 8 Pro Trial.

[cruci]

Open the Help and Search for something.
Open one of the resulting pages, and then choose Reload (right-click).
Hard crash to desktop every time.

[Immulsifier]

Originally Posted by cruci

Open the Help and Search for something.
Open one of the resulting pages, and then choose Reload (right-click).
Hard crash to desktop every time.

Works fine on both my laptop and main rig.

[cruci]

I'm on OSX 10.4.2, you?

[Immulsifier]

No Windows XP on both computers.

[senocular]

Matrix Transformations Not Considerate of Flash Player Zoom

Certain matrix transformations do not consider the Flash player zoom when used.
Example:

http://www.senocular.com/pub/flash/8...?f=smileyshake

Notice the location of a smiley when clicked. Matrix operations perform this using concatenatedMatrix, invert and concat. Deselect the smiley to return the shaking on the left. Now right-click on the player and Zoom in. Click on another smiley and notice that it is positioned not where it should in respect to the gray circle but in the player as though it had not zoomed at all.

Windows XP SP 2, Flash player 8,0,22,0

[VersusMG]

if i use this code in the actions panel

import flash.filters.BlurFilter;
import flash.filters.ColorMatrixFilter;
import flash.geom.Rectangle;
import flash.geom.Point;
/* THIS CODE RUNS ONCE */
// set up the blur filter (2x2 blur, quality of 1):
blurF = new BlurFilter(2,2,1);
// set up the color matrix filter:
colorF = new ColorMatrixFilter([
			0.97,0,0,0,2, // reduce red fastest
			0,0.99,0,0,3, // reduce green slowest
			0,0,0.98,0,4, // reduce blue
			0,0,0,1,-0.7 // fade down alpha
		]);
// set up the rect that we will apply the filter to:
rect = new Rectangle(0,0,WIDTH,HEIGHT);
// set up the point that we will use:
pnt = new Point(0,0);
/* THIS CODE RUNS ONCE EVERY 5 FRAMES */
// apply the filters to the bitmap:
canvasBmp.applyFilter(canvasBmp,rect,pnt,colorF);
canvasBmp.applyFilter(canvasBmp,rect,pnt,blurF);

And click the Check Syntax it says there are no errors. But if i click the Auto Format it says that the script contains Syntax errors and it can't be processed.

[TheCanadian]

Originally Posted by cruci

When I tried to publish an existing project using mx.transitions.Tween and mx.transitions.easing.* in F8 it gave me a bunch of errors. I renamed the mx folder and copied the one from Flash7 and everything worked fine.

The location of the tween class files has probally changed with Flash 8 will need to import it from a different location.

This is strange since I just imported one of my older files into Flash 8 and
the tweens worked fine.

[TheCanadian]

Originally Posted by VersusMG

if i use this code in the actions panel

import flash.filters.BlurFilter;
import flash.filters.ColorMatrixFilter;
import flash.geom.Rectangle;
import flash.geom.Point;
/* THIS CODE RUNS ONCE */
// set up the blur filter (2x2 blur, quality of 1):
blurF = new BlurFilter(2,2,1);
// set up the color matrix filter:
colorF = new ColorMatrixFilter([
			0.97,0,0,0,2, // reduce red fastest
			0,0.99,0,0,3, // reduce green slowest
			0,0,0.98,0,4, // reduce blue
			0,0,0,1,-0.7 // fade down alpha
		]);
// set up the rect that we will apply the filter to:
rect = new Rectangle(0,0,WIDTH,HEIGHT);
// set up the point that we will use:
pnt = new Point(0,0);
/* THIS CODE RUNS ONCE EVERY 5 FRAMES */
// apply the filters to the bitmap:
canvasBmp.applyFilter(canvasBmp,rect,pnt,colorF);
canvasBmp.applyFilter(canvasBmp,rect,pnt,blurF);

And click the Check Syntax it says there are no errors. But if i click the Auto Format it says that the script contains Syntax errors and it can't be processed.

Delete all of the comments within the new ColorMatrixFilter object.

[MichaelxxOA]

if you draw a rectangle on one layer, then select it and copy it, then try to paste it onto a different layer it won't let you.. or me at least.
-Michael