yesā¦ Flash 6.0 is still due to be released or am I insane because all my capaciters have blown?
Is Flash MX not Flash 6.0? I donāt really know. I was under the impression that Flash MX is Flash 6.
hmmmā¦ now thatās a thought that I had not had before. Itās quite possible that my brain went when my motherboard blew. Iāll go to Macromedia and see if I can discover the answer to that question.
I will no doubt give the demo a tryā¦but i will have to get a few more projects before i can afford itā¦ ;]
Cheerio,
Benā¦
Well, the upgrade is listed at 149ā¦ thatās not that bad at all, as far as those kind of things go. If it is Flash6.0, then I will definitely be buying it at that price. As it is, because I have a tax id number, I can write it off on my taxes anyway, so there is little reason why I wouldnāt upgrade.
This suckz. I just get one therefore blowing all of my spare cash (I am 15) and now I have to get another.
Why oh why does the technical world hate me???
Canāt Macromedia release a freebie thing with less features for the students among us???
Well Iām off to wallow in the self pitty of having no cash.
John
Keep an eye out on Ebay. I just saw multiple sale copies of Flash 5.0 both the academic version, and the regular retail version. If you donāt mind not registering it, youāll find some really really nice prices. I think that there was one there for 28 bucks.
I have no doubt that FlashMX will be on ebay quickly after itās release. You might have to wait a month, but I doubt much longer than that.
I will definitely buy MX asap, even if i donāt like the new name. Why? well, hereās just a few lines of Pope de Flash review on Flashkit:
āā¦And now for what I think is the most significant addition to the FMX new features: first is the ability to load both .jpgs and .mp3 sound files dynamically WITHOUT using generator. This is huge in the area of being able to make apps that have skins and the ability to now send sound at broadcast quality over the web and dynamically change a play list on the fly. The other is the ability to import video natively into Flashā¦ā
Besides all the other new features, just these 3 points are so cool, i canāt wait to get it! Upgrade your players now, the web enters a new age!
I think Flash MX is Flash 6. I noticed a post on Wildform.com with the text Flash MX (Flash 6); so I can assume that Flash MX is Flash 6.
For those that are interested - I have been testing Flash MX for 2 weeks now. (And yes flash Mx is the new name for flash 6ā¦MX is a whole new series of apps are comming out that will communicate easily between each other ie: Dreamweaver MX (New ultradev) Coldfusion MX ā¦etc, etc)ā¦
The new features / new look / enhanced actionscript and modular design of things like ui components, are all a big step forward in my humble opinionā¦I cannot wait for the other MX apps to be released! The complete web applications we are going to be able to build with this release will be phenominalā¦
Quite a few things are different in this release and the whole asctionscript interface is very different with a lot of old methods and actions now depreciated. Anyone thinking of buying books on flash 5 should wait for new books to come out on Flash mx as you will need to unlearn quite a few thingsā¦
Start saving your penniesā¦the year ahead is going to be fun!
some of you in previous posts were wondering about making the upgrade to Flash MX or buying flash 5 books or just waiting a while. My suggestions is to wait till march 15 - get the trial download of mx from the macromedia site and see for yourselfā¦
In my mind, to spend hard earned cash on a flash 5 or actionscript book now would be a bad idea. Flash Mx is going to be more expensive than previous releases as wellā¦But thats the price of progress. We always seem to be buying new hardware / software / books ā¦and having to spend large amounts of time learning how to use them. Thatās I.T for you! Que Sera Seraā¦
It sucks - yesā¦But I wouldnāt go back to my Intel 286 with 16mb of ram, windows 3.1 and programming solely with htmlā¦ (Arghhhh). We have come a long way and change is good!
Hi Down Under (as your pseudo suggests),
as you seem pretty well informed about new Macromedia products, any idea when they plan to release Dream/fireworks 5/MX ?
I just had an ideaā¦make Flash have a sendTo button that works like Photoshop/Image Ready, so you open Dream directly from within Flash to edit the htmlā¦
How come you can test Flash MX and we canāt? Not fair!!
As for the books, i just bought 2 ofāemā¦can still continue using Flash 5 untill users upgrade their playersā¦but if nobody produces flash 6, nobody will (need to) upgrade their playersā¦which came first, the chicken or the egg?..
You know on the Macromedia website how if you right-click the swf it gives you only 1 option on the menu (About Macromedia Flash Player 5ā¦), what about the possibility of a plugin or a 3rd party that does a drag and drop interface to do that to your files. I wish I knew how to do it.
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any incorrect spellings are purely intentional- or just me being a raubbish typer.
Hi eyezbergā¦all macromedia is saying at the moment is that dreamweaver mx / fireworks mx / coldfusion mx/ and the new mx server applications will be released ālater in the yearā. I am not aware of any dates yet. There is a lot of beta testing of these products happening, so hopefully we wont have to wait too long! I am sure for publicity and marketing reasons, that they will stagger the releases a few months apart.
As far as people downloading the new plugin is concerned, I personally think it will happen pretty quickly. You can still nominate to publish files in flash 4 or 5 format and you will be prompted if there are any incompatabilities with your code. But new enhancements in the publishing of flash MX.swf files and the new flash player actually compress the files more and make them faster to load and play smoother.
The general public are pretty savy now when it comes to technology. The new flash player is only a small download and with intelligent programming and presentation of links to the download itself, we as designers and developers can assist in the uptake of it.
Apparently macromedia say that MX doesnāt stand for anything. I say they need new marketing peopleā¦lol.
ciao. (I mean cya mate!..)
Anche ciao va bene per meā¦
And i just got the trial version (donāt ask me where fromā¦); it really looks good, but there are tons of new scripts available, waow, this will take some time and effort to on (install) {update(this.knowledge)}! Guess Iāll order the boxed version so as to at least have the manualsā¦
Thanks for the fast answerā¦are you Down Under, or just a nick?
I am down under - in sunny Queensland (beautiful one day, perfect the next)!
I am sure you will enjoy the trial now that you have it. If you buy and register the full product - you apprently can get some bonus stuff (developers kit and templates and extra tutorial stuff etc, etc)ā¦God, I sound like a macromedia salesmanā¦DOH!..
Flash Mx is one hot program though. Hope we see some of your creations on the net soon.
I canāt wait to write a lot of tutorials for Flash MX. Iāve postponed many of my Flash 5 tutorials for the release of Flash MX so I donāt have to make the content cross-version compatible (a time-consuming process).
ME!
Nick the Freshman
So if I get what you mean, Aussie, I must NOT buy a book about Actionscript right now ?
pom 0]
Exactement, pomme!
I just got (glad it was a gift!) Phillip Kermans excellent Action Script book, send a mail to the author and had a look at his site, and heās already publishing Sams Teach yourself Flash MX in 24 hrs, and the update for my book is being written too!
So just wait a frame, in a month or so new books should start to hit the shelves!