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Flash Fatigue
It didn't take long. I got really tired of Flash this week. My big 3 complaints:
Scripts all over. I had actionscript on this button and that button, scripts on several frames in their own "as" layer, scripts on movieclips, scripts on frames within movie clip timelines. It's crazy to keep those things all over the place.
Windows everywhere. I am accustomed to coding in BBEdit, where I've got a window full of text an little tray of the related text files I'm working on. Pretty simple. In Flash there are so many palettes, plus the stage and the timeline and my super sized script window, that I need an external monitor just to fit them all.
Compiling. What a drag to have to compile a swf file every time I want to see how it's going. Especially as the swf file gets bigger.
Admittedly most of my trouble comes from being new to something. I would find ways to keep my actionscript external and edited in BBedit, and mostly in one place, and written in a way that makes compiling faster. But that's not easy, and I'm also still troubled by using a development platform owned by a corporation. It just doesn't feel right.
I think I'm better off redoubling my efforts to improve my DHTML skills, and couple those with PHP to make dynamic web apps.
Tags: Flash actionscript