Flash: LOOK AT THIS FUCKING FONT MENU!
- Tiny fiddly custom scroll bar, overshoot and it closes the menu
- HARD CODED WINDOWS 95 SELECTION COLOUR!
- Stolen Windows opentype/type1/true type icons with messy anti-aliasing on the opentype one
- UTTERLY FUCKING USELESS PREVIEWS, yeah can totally tell the difference between those Gothams, you can tell this shit was only approved by developers no designer looked at that before it got shipped because firstly they’re too fucking small to be of any use and secondly what sort of designer needs font previews in a fucking menu? Leave that shit where it belongs next to word art, if I want to browse fonts I’ll do it in my font manager, I’d rather have my font menu open quickly without previews.
- Love how the tick is off center too, looks like it doesn’t want anything to do with those shitty windows icons.
- Doesn’t support consecutive searching, e.g typing “Hel” will take you to fonts starting with L not Helvetica
Look Flash team, its about time you started using your own software. I understand you are all a bunch of massive nerds and would rather play in Eclipse or Flash Develop but some of us actually have to use your unwanted child and would greatly appreciate it if you started using it yourself so that it wasn’t a pile of shit. I mean half the stuff you are putting in there feels like indulgent rubbish because your bored of programming the UI, like that IK tool I mean its a nice idea but it was just too processor intensive to actually use in any project, and the deco brush nice concept but who the hell designs in Flash? no one because the IDE is such a fucking mess. All the new features just feel like little indulgent things to keep developers occupied because they haven’t a clue where to take the IDE next because none of them use it.
I mean look at that motion editor, it felt like a developer had been given a checklist of things required by the motion editor and then just added them and ticked them off without even thinking about how anyone would use the fucking thing. I have yet to hear from a designer that has even touched it because its so fucking tedious to get it to do the slightest thing correctly, especially when you can’t even use your mousewheel to scroll the thing without risking changing all your values.
Thanks for everyone sending things in, I’ll get through them after my holiday.
