Adobe Flash

I am so lame in flash... :(

If this software we should not be what we!!

Took me a very long time to get used to it, but it's pretty cool, with its vector-based objects and easy to use functions. Beginners will have to struggle with it, though. I learned Flash CS4 in school, so I was spoonfed with codes for AS and whatnot.

Pfft, flash.

Silverlight vs. Flash ? :>

i have been using flash since flash 4. i admire the way it has evolved. the things that can be done with flash is enormous and it is the apt application to make light and engaging games. however the latest versions are hungry for memory and ofter make the system too slow to actually work on them. if we end up writing heavier applications/games, working with memory hungry flash can become frustrating.

I use it, but man is it bloated and a waste of memory.

Like samurai I think this application is an absolute need. But I can't stress enough how far from perfect it is. Although adobe finally unified the interface across the CS4 suite it is really glitchy on the Mac. Switching apps with expose might cause render errors (WTF, I didn't buy a Mac for that!) and basics things any text/source code editor can are missing from the application. I would love to see support for selecting how my source code should be formatted (e.g. spaces instead of tabs, line endings etc.) and change the color scheme to a black or dark background. ActionScript 3 is a breeze though, I really like it though unification of the API with the one for Flex and Air would be nice. Last but least it's a shame they removed the help documentation and refer you to the online spec. Especially since it was offline a few weeks ago for a complete day and is slow as hell...

All in all Adobe should really put more of its resources at work to upgrade the platform and the tools if they don't want to get eaten by Silverlight and the HTML5 Video support.

Interesting reviews here... Almost as if trained monkeys were let loose on keyboards and enticed to vote 5 stars for everything.

Whilst I do stress this application is a must have for anyone "in the know", it is far from perfect. It's resource hungry, and the latest version has only made things even worse with reports of the software taking as much as 5 mins to properly load up on a high specification system.

The interface is clean, with easy to find options for what you want - and should you get stuck on anything, there's always someone around who can help you. Failing that, there's always Youtube.

Lastly... the price is nothing short of disgusting. Adobe seem to think that anything they produce is worthy of a price tag that wouldn't go amiss next to a brand new car in a showroom. They don't even compare when viewing the official prices from different countries, with huge discrepancies due to their monopoly. $699 in the US vs. $830 in the UK for exactly the same product.

How some of you can literally hold your heads high after voting this a 5/5 for value is beyond belief.

Overall, a decent software... probably the best, but seriously let down by the resources it needs to run, and the pricing that Adobe seem to enjoy increasing each year.

My work lies on dealing with interactive content, and Flash is the one and only reliable solution for it. Since version 3 it cought my attention, and I never let it go much further from me.

Though indispensable, Flash throughout the years has been a love hate relation. Fortunately AS3 has been a huge improvement. Plus, with the rise of RIAs and Silverlight, it's once again having to compete for its position, which is never a bad thing.

I love flash so much, brilliant for making vectors out of bitmaps with very little work ^^

a vision that grew up to become the only lucrative platform for expressive digital artists... and spread deeply into the dense jungle of motion graphics. and now with cs4, it simply murders the scene.

It's one of the best programs I use. Great to make websites in it, even better to make an animation movie! Love it!

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