Flash Team

How about full mouse wheel support for the Mac? Both in the IDE and Flash Player? In the IDE, it really bugs that the wheel works in most places, but not in the timeline panel for scrolling through layers. I'm sure I've got tons of other requests, but this is one that just really bugs me for some reason.

JSFL wishlist :
- get the use count of an item in library.
- determine the context timeline ( in the main timeline or in the item n of the library )
- A method to turn a standard shape into a graphicObject
- when doc.testMovie() or doc.testScene(), the availabily to close the opened window
- XML2UI : menulist, radiogroup, availability to get selected value by item idx, not only by label
- XML2UI : popupslider, availability to give a start value
- doc.breakApart() , determines whether you can use the doc.breakapart() method like "canBreakApart()". Actually, if you use it when it 's not possible, an alert message that stops the script. Also in a try..catch
- a simple method to set the position on stage. ex : setPosition(x,y) , not with doc.moveSelectionBy
- In library : item.name gave the full path "Folder_1/Symbol_1". A property to access the short name "Symbol_1" could be nice
- Layer Object : a simple method that return an array of the keyframe position. Like layers[0].keyframes

ACTIONSCRIPT wishlist :
- Array.indexOf()
- Array.lastIndexOf()
- Array.unique()
- Array.min()
- Array.max()
- Math.roundToDecimal()
- String.trim()

Advanced sound manipulation. It would be interesting to match the new visual richness in the audio dimension.

A fullscreen option that can be triggered form a webpage.

Extra's like in Director.

Hi,

first of all: Flash is superb, but there is one thing that really stops Flash from overtaking rich GUI or game applications:

I would like Flash 9 to make use of OpenGL and/or DirectX. I would like to have Actionscript offer OpenGL/DirectX graphic commands in addition to the timeline (e.g. MovieClip versus OpenGLClip ;-). Have a look at "http://www.processing.org" and see how they do it rather comfortably.

Regards
Sabrina

Here goes:

1/ symbol distortion

It would be nice for designers and developers to be able to distort instances of symbols (perspective,etc). It would be nice to have it without implementing it in some difficult actionscript only BitmapData Filter API. It would be nice if this could apply to any graphical symbol: MovieClip, Button,TextField, Video, etc.

This would allow easier access to 3 dimensional effects that are traditionally rendered out as video or image sequences.

2/Team Workflow,kill FLA

Mike, I did a presentation a while ago in Toronto that you sat in on, where I explained all of the headaches of team development in Flash. The FLA format locks many hybrid teams into waiting for another team member to finish working with an FLA before you can work on it. Perhaps a new way to allow teams to work on traditional Flash projects that is similar to Flex, but looks like Flash.

This would allow my design and development teams to work together at the same time on the same project from start to end. The value on that is priceless.

3/ A real project Panel

I realize that GProject is out there, and is great, but there really should be a proper project panel in Flash.

This again is time save because a group could work as a team and not need to individually update their own FLP files. =(

I have a few others related to the JSAPI that I was upset about from awhile ago, but they are more minor. I will save them for another time.

- association for flv format so they can be previewed without using a 3rd party viewer

- greater text support like mouseLine, mouseWord,mouseChar (drawing from director)

- inherent doubleclick

-jsfl - date support ( in terms of referencing)

- more sound properties, like determining if a sound is playing on a timeline (soundBusy), or something of that sort. Its pretty limited and could use some work, altho I am sure others would disagree.

- Hardware accelerated graphics for better performance. Almost all PCs have GPUs today and more performance could make Flash a real application platform.

- Create players that can do some OS stuff. Make a new 'Director' Flash player with abilities to run high end video and access the file system etc. Director has aged too much for serious cd-rom development.

- More and better base classes and components to ease up the development cycle. With good documentation of course.

- Other performance enhancements

The ability to playback video and audio at non-realtime speeds while maintaining audio integrity.
Imagine being able to playback a video-recording of a lecture at 200% speed. That 1-hour lecture can now be experienced in just 30 minutes! Similar benefits for podcasts, seminars, presentations, shows, etc.
This may involve dynamic frame-rates which I'm sure would be handy for many other applications too.

Port Shockwave 3D to Flash. I don't understand why you didn't start work on this three years ago.

hitTest() detection between two shapes (not point-to-shape or box-to-box).
This would save many loop cycles in game development where we currently have to define several hitTest() points at the verticies of complex shapes.

How about reworking Remoting to better integrate with .NET applications. Take a look at how FlashOrb/WebOrb makes remoting much more robust.

Also - a rework of the Service Browser to recognize .NET gateways and methods like it does for ColdFusion.

More robust implementation for XML data handling via Xpath API.

A few more (couldn't hold back):

JSAPI

- Native XML Class
- Support for importing assets
- Data Update Events for SWFPanels

Flash Player

- MovieClip.framelabels

- This one is different but I would like more sophisticated pre-loading controls that do not force you to preload dynamic assets to the stage. Instead I would prefer to preload them to the library. It would be nice if I could load an external swf file into a slot in the library, and when it is done use attachMovie to assign it to the stage when ever I want. The same for any other asset.

I disagree with Lol Desai - we dont need the player being bloated 300% - keep 3d to shockwave.

The featuare I want the most, is for the Flash IDE to have a in built tea/coffee maker. Saves me getting up from my desk.

In all seriousness though, there something minor which realy gets my goat.

when I hit F8 to create a library instance, the IDE remembers my last selection. I'd prefer it to be always MovieClip by default.

Second - hardware acceleration would truely rock

How about a debugger that actually debugs?
http://www.flashmagazine.com/897.htm and
http://www.flashmagazine.com/1131.htm

J

Components enhancement:

I would like to see the components base code streamlined and brought up to date with strong typing. I would also like to see the process of skinning and customizing components simplified to the point where a non-developer can do it.

Already mentioned by Sabrina above but...

A hardware-accelerated graphics 'option' for the Flash Player that implements DirectX and/or OpenGL, which also would hopefully lead to runtime 3D support. With Microsoft's Sparkle on the horizon, it's something that urgently needs looking into given the ubiquity of hardware-acclerated graphics cards nowadays.

Overides....overides and a couple more overides on methods would be cool.

I would really love 3d in flash....maybe you could have an addin which included the engine which just extended flash....optional download. Hopefully all my wishes for workflow will come from Zorn :o)
Threading would be great aswell but a major im guessing. Wow do you guys never rest....just released and your into scoping the next release.

Well done on 8....very stable!

Flash 9 ? :)
Speed wishlist for me :

- RegExp !
- SVG ! (MovieClipLoader >> dynamic svg)
- AS2 : final, abstract, protected, destructor keywords ....
- synchronous calls
- ECMAScript V4 ? or Full Ecmascript prototype based with more instructions ...
- HTML 4 or XHTML in TextFields (smiley in text etc...)
- Natives API more complete : Collections/Iterators/Map/Stacks/LinkedList/BlackRedTree.... etc.
- native XML 367 ?
- change the operators
- Operators with Arrays or other Type : example [a,b] + [c,d] = [a, b, c, d] likes ruby api.
- More Geometry & Shapes Api (roundedRectangle, BevelRectangle, Round, Ellipse etc..)
- native EventDispatcher (or better event's api)
- stop progressive download (XML, LoadVars)
- Object.StyleSheet for skin components with css
- xtras , dll ?
- sleep() function
- Flash Right To Left : http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000559.php#000559

- compilation more fast !!!
- intrinsic auto-make

PS : sorry for my english ;)

1 - Customizeable "Significant Frame" ennumeration in the timeline. I am an animator & work at 24 frames per second. It kills me that the timeline is marked out in 5's & there is no way for me to change that. I would REALLY like to be able to change it to show frames by 4's or 6's sometimes.

2 - Synchronized Sound Channel Editing. I still have to manually edit the the 2 sound channels to match by eye. Please add an option to synchronize the changes from one channel to the other.

3 - Commands pulldown Subfolders. I use a lot of commands and there is no way for me to sort them by association into submenus off the pulldown.

4 - Image properties. In the stage, it would be nice to be able to right click on an image & get the properties panel associated with it rather than having to go find the item in the library.

5 - Spline handles in the Sound Editor. So I can fade a sound out exponentially with 2 points instead of having to faux it with 5.

6 - Actionscript Snippets - I would really like to be able to highlight a chunk of Actionscript code and store into an Snippet library available within Flash.

7 - Selection Filters. I would like to be able to filter the general selection tool to limit it "Only Fills", "Only Strokes", "Only bitmaps", "Only MovieClips" or any combination therein. Often I am trying to pull a specific set of items off the stage & this would save me the time of having to choose things one at a time.

8 - Image Compression Panel. As a web developer who does a lot of banners, I often have to compress images on an individual basis. I would like a common centralized location that I could do this instead of having to open the context menu of each individual image one at a time. (The same with sound compression).

1) Hardware accelleration for the Authoring Flash Player:

The Component Inspector panel and LivePreviews are too slow in the authoring environment. (I'm still on a slow Mac but have seen poor performance on a 3Ghz PC with the same component). The Flash MX Component Parameters panel seemed to perform good even on a 500Mhz G3 PB, so I guess it wasn't processing the parameters to send to the xch object using the Flash Player.

- BETTER ACTIONSCRIPT EDITOR (all caps intended)
- Smaller, more-efficient components.
- Better error catcher.
- More complete and better documentation.
- Help window that minimizes. It is still in the way
when you "collapse" the panel.

Ekameleon picked up a very important point:

To stop a download in a browser you simply hit the "stop" button. There's no native equivalent in Flash.

A native stopHTTP() (or stopLoading() methods added to the MovieClipLoader/LoadVars/XML classes) to halt progressive downloads is very important to stop hogging bandwidth.

IDE whishlist :

- When rollover an instance on stage, a function that wrote in alt-text the instance name of the symbol. No more need to select to symbol to know it.
- Output window : enable Keys Home, End, Page Up, Page Down. (I can't believe it doesn't exist already)
- Output window : possibility to inverse the messages output. The last always on the top, on the first line.

PLAYER wishlist :

- ZLib : Can send and load compressed datas ( I think about people who need to generate picture on serverside of screen captures takes with BitmapData )
- MovieClip.framelabels
- System.capabilities.framerate (Not the runtime fps, just the "built-in" fps of the swf)

Here's my list from after the Eclipse release. I haven't had a chance to check if any/all of these have been fixed in Flash8, but I know some of the main ones weren't.
-- there's no support for SUP and SUB tags.. and so no way to add superscript and subscript in dynamic text fields..
-- ordered lists.. I can do unordered lists with the LI tag.. but no OL tag support
-- there's no way to load a standard XML document and embed in the SWF at compile time. I can #include, but I have to mangle the original file to do it. I should be able to specify an XML doc to embed/include in the SWF, and the object or string name it should be given once it's embedded.. not everybody wants or has the option to load XML from a server.
-- JSFL can't be used to import images into the library. Or if there's a way to do it then it involves some top secret ninja moves.
-- Support for Right to Left text (Arabic) in the Flash Player. **this is a major need for me** See how many want this feature here: http://the-right-to-flash.amirdotan.com/
-- can't put an https URL in the WebServiceConnector WSDL parameter..
-- movieclip in the library set to "always update" degrades publish performance (it takes longer to publish each time)
-- sometimes trying to open "windows SWF A" from the Window>Other Panels menu actually opens "window SWF" B
-- in the Flash Player.. shift key is ignored on non-English keyboards.. an issue since Flash 6. See here: http://oddhammer.com/blog/comments.php?id=135_0_1_0_C (not fixed in Flash Player 8)
-- the Flash IDE shouldn't hide windows when it loses focus. I work on 3 monitors and the benefit of having the IDE spread across multiple monitors is lost when I have to keep clicking on it to see something in one of the Flash windows.
- code folding

I have examples of many of the problems and can come up with use cases as well.. just get in touch.

I think the major focus in Flash 9 should be where you can differentiate yourself from HTML. With the combination of CSS, DHTML, and AJAX, we're starting to see stuff that previously would have been done in Flash.

So far the only thing that has come to mind that I'd like to see is advanced text layout. I'd like to see the ability to wrap text along a path, make text flow around objects I specify (preferably live updating of the wrapping at author and runtime), and the ability to make non-rectangular textboxes and flow text within them (quick and dirty example). This opens the door to more magazine-like layout, which is VERY difficult to do in HTML.

Also, since you'll soon be part of Adobe, please go back to the Flash 5 style of grouping palettes. The prompt every time you grab a tab is ridiculous.

Whoops, quick and dirty example was at http://www.richarddoyle.net/example.gif

* Perspective Distortion Control
* The Usual Speed Improvements
* The Ability to Animate in a 3D space (like with Toon Boom Studio)
* Possible AS access to the above (using global focal control and a z axis)
* E4X!!!!
* XHTML and Proper CSS text rendering support
* And more of the usual stuff that make us go "woah!"

- Direct access to the BitmapData pixel array so it is not necessary to read out an image pixel by pixel if one wants to send it to a server.

- A new blendMode - the opposite of "overlay", something like "underlay": the closer a channel value is to 128 the more visible it will be. This is useful for the construction of special displacementMaps.

- A Minimax filter for BitmapData - very useful for removing pixel noise

- A Median filter for BitmapData

- The possibility to move the handles in the custom ease panel above 100% and below 0%

- A SoundData Object, analog to the BitmapData Object which makes it possible to generate or manipulate sound data within actionscript.

Better HTML support in text fields. Now with upload ability, more and more CMS's will be built in Flash, but there is no GREAT rich text editor because of the minimal HTML support.

I'll take some of the earlier comments
- RegExp !
- final, abstract, protected, destructor keywords, etc.
- Full ECMAScript V4X
- Full XHTML and CSS3 in TextFields. Pass ACID 2.
- AS2lib or equivalent : Natives API more complete : Collections/Iterators/Map/Stacks/LinkedList/BlackRedTree.... etc.
- Operators with Arrays or other Type : example [a,b] + [c,d] = [a, b, c, d] likes ruby api.
- More Geometry & Shapes Api (roundedRectangle, BevelRectangle, Round, Ellipse etc..)
- Event Delegation Model (Java, as2lib, etc.)
- Plugins (audio/video codecs, etc.)
- OGG support
- Hardware acceleration (OpenGL), detectable in System.capabilities, of course.
- 64bit support
- Linux player released at the same time as the others.
- Speeeeed

IDE
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- A real coding IDE (include Zorn or something similar)
- If you really believe in video, let us manage it like in Avid, etc. We have a timeline, let us add video and audio there, visually.
- Cleaned up intrinsinc classes. The ones in Flash 8 are a total mess.

Many have added some great comments... super and subscript support espcecially.

A few more wishes:

- more full-featured keyframing abilities in the IDE... thinking much more like After Effects. Custom ease-in/out is a great start, but AE is still far more usable.

- layout components, like in flex

- keyframable bitmap effects in the timeline... (animators haven't complained about it yet, but I know its coming.)

- preview window with magnification - dragging reticle affects window position like the hand tool

Also wanted to add something Tinic mentioned a few days ago:

- ability to connect two timelines in lockstep...
syncTo a movieClip or a netStream.

- AS execution speed - At the moment Flash is too slow to be a competitive dev platform.

- Faster object access - Why is it that Flash can render video at 20fps, but I can’t even fill a screen with pixels at 1fps? (Using setPixel)

With just those two improvements Flash wouldn’t need to have a lot of the above suggestions. 3D, Array operators etc could all be coded by us the end user.

If you give us everything pre-made - Flash will become boring to develop in.

Access to the joystick.

I echo the call for RTL.

The basic version should be able
to edit/create AS, JFSL files too...

All the rest is great for me

MIDI support! MIDI support! MIDI support! MIDI support! MIDI support!
MIDI support! MIDI support! MIDI support! MIDI support! MIDI support!
MIDI support! MIDI support! MIDI support! MIDI support! MIDI support!
MIDI support! MIDI support! MIDI support! MIDI support! MIDI support!

Please!

A more efficient way to exclude classes at compile time. Hand-coding on xml file, especially without the help of wildcards and packages, is a real pain.

In an ideal world, we would have a command like "importNoCompile" which uses the class/package for syntax and type checking at compile time, but doesn't emmbed the class in the compiled swf.

Pretty please?

- Please correct all the bugs with MovieClipLoader and make it reliable
- abstract, final, protected keywords
- Interfaces instanceof Object
- destructors

Anyway, keep on the great work

A quick list:

1. ActionScript:
- E4X
- RegExp
- advanced sound controls!

2. IDE:
- a real AS editor - don't tell us there are other alternatives (like FDT), a good editor should be a part of the IDE
- better project panel (some of gProject functionality + source control with SVN/CVS)
- ability to import a .psd file as layers

- Contour gradients like FreeHand
- LAYER Z-DEPTH like AE (with easing and overlaping)
- Text underlining and bulleting
- Ability to tween blending modes
- Quoting David: 64bit support, more Geometry & Shapes Api (roundedRectangle, BevelRectangle, Round, Ellipse etc..),plugins (audio/video codecs, etc.), OGG support, Hardware acceleration

Sorry, the quote in my previous post is by interfaSys not by David.

Cheers to you both guys

-XHTML & CSS & advanced Text Flow / Rendering
-3D and very fast 2D access
-Plugin / Module structur for the Flash Plugin ala shockwave that allows the download of the module after the capabilities of the host are enough.

* Masking of non-embedded fonts
* Getting "equalizer" values of a sound
* Regular Expressions
* Better support for creating standalone players, I want to be able to create CD-ROM projects without using an external tool (ie: SWF studio)
* Joystick access
* Being able to underline text (I was really disappointed that it is still not possible to do so in Flash8)
* Deconstruct for classes
* setTimeout

@MCVirus >> setTimeOut exist in flash 8 ;)
example : http://www.sephiroth.it/index.php?blogId=2005_09_13_weekly.html

XHTML, CSS, and better <img /> support in textfields. I know this was mentioned a few times before, but this is REALLY important for the incorporation of content management systems.

Expanding HTML support and CSS would be nice, but full XHTML+CSS3+pass Acid2 is beyond what any browser maker has done. Let's be realistic here, guys.

Definitely the ability to add underlines and bullets (numbered and not) in the authoring tool would be great.

I'd also like to see easier updating of text externally. Anything on the web needs to be able to be changed constantly, but updating text in Flash is a huge pain, especially if you need to make it editable by a client. This may be as simple as creating a very easy to use XML editor for use with Flash, available for free, or at least cheap, so it can be included in the cost of a project.

Agree with above -

Please try to focus on HTML / xHTML and CSS rendering in flash 9.

Adding table/div support would be nice.

Proper display of images within html content.

Ability to add xHTML or HTML forms to flash dynamically (perhaps rendering with text input components?)

Hello,

Nice to hear *so* soon what we want for the next release!

It's been said:

- "A more efficient way to exclude classes at compile time. Hand-coding on xml file, especially without the help of wildcards and packages, is a real pain."

- Also native RegExp and XPath.

Native (read: optimized, in the player code) Regular expressions and XPATH would be nice;

Native 3d vector math would be great -- non-affine transforms (access to all values of the transformation matrix) would be beautiful;

ability to grab spectrum data from a sound into AS;

3- or n- dimensional perlin noise, currently limited to 2d;

components that are easier to skin;

less strict HTML parsing for wildcard content creators who enter invalid html into CMSes;

more compiler optimizations? inline keyword? or virtual-machine level debugging?

PSD import would be amazing.

Ability to use 3d card pipeline if pixel-perfection is not important to your app (left off by default to allow pixel-perfect backwards compatibility).

Hmm, how about JIT compilation of custom BitmapFilter subclasses? looping through pixel data is painfully slow in the VM...

Oh yeah, mouse wheel on mac.

Built in batch preferences/linkage operations for bitmaps & symbols in the library -- JSFLs are cool but this could be part of the IDE.

Unbelievable work on flash 8 guys :)

Runtime registration poing modification would be really great.

Different languages for native FP dialog windows, eg ExpressInstall or Settings Panel. What have to do the users that do not understand english?

My humble suggestions - although most have been mentioned already:

(more *'s means more important)

- **** hardware graphics acceleration (to better compete w/ sparkle and other technologies)
- *** General runtime speed improvements
- *** enhanced real-time sound control (ie SoundData to go along w BitmapData, which enables accesss and manipulation of equalizer vals)
- *** AS language improvements - abstract, final, protected, destructors, method & constructor overloading
- *** some features to make designers/animators and developers work together easier (see below)
- ** correct bugs with MovieClipLoader and Netstream (haven't tested it in Flash 8 yet, but sometimes events seem to be dispatched at the wrong times)
- ** RegEx
- * MovieClip.framelabels
- * System.capabilities.framerate (so you can monitor expected framerate vs actual framerate and adjust accordingly - I know this can simply be done by defining a var in the fla, but it seems easy enough to implement and will ensure that that value is always there)
_ * sleep() - might be cleaner than having to break up a function into steps and call them with setTimeout or setInterval

As far as as2lib and other code and component libraries are concerned: I say provide us with the essential, slimmed down classes and components, and let the community come up with the extra stuff that it needs.

Note about designers and developers: Flash faces the problem that many other web authoring apps face - the problem of reconciling the very different worlds of designers and developers. How can developers - who tend to find timeline-based behavior and animation troublesome - find a common ground with designers, who tend to prefer timeline-based stuff over script? When Zorn comes out, won't this divide become even bigger? After working on many projects with designers, and trying out several ways of balancing my method of architecting apps with the animator's method, I have found that there is always a danger of the app becoming either a pain to code or a pain to animate. If these two mindsets were somehow connected better, it would be much easier to create great user experiences. It's obviously also a question of workflow and dev process, but how might Flash help to achieve this connection?

I would like to get the features....

1. can get subfolder/files list under the dir.

2. can write data on server side. ( for example: \\mydata\data.txt)

3. more filters for movieClip.

Well I didn't play a lot with flash 8 yet, but there's some stuff that I wish happened to flash a long time ago

Better looking rules ( ctrl+shift+alt+r one's )
better control of the guides ( a la illustrator where you can add points to them )

an fix the annoying bug that when you go to workspace view ( ctrl+shift+w ) and came out from it, don't zoom on the stage!!!!

I bet these are the easier one heh!

A few more come to mind...

- Dynamic Text support for superscript & subscript text.

- Property timeline keyframing similar to AE & most 3d app's so that I can offset easing & keyframes for multiple transformations.

- A video object that can access MPEGs, Quicktimes & AVIs within the Flash Player

Another two:

- INCREASE THE WORKSPACE SIZE for Christ sake! Sometimes we all need "a little" much nore space to put things there and organize later
- Zoom to 4000 or 6000 instead of just 2000%

- Improve working with fonts, so that they can be loaded once, anywhere and work for all text boxes once they've been loaded. Also, embedding the outlines tremendously increases the filesize - would it be possible to load the fonts directly?

- Improve the context menu to work on any item at any depth.

- Rather than include things like 3D in the default player, just some of the common 2D / 3D formulas and transformations implemented in the intrinsically for performance would be great. IE: Math2.transformX({x, y z}) would perform y = Math.cos(tx) * y + Math.sin(tx) * z; z = -Math.sin(tx) * y + Math.cos(tx) * z;

- Bitmap.getPixels() and Bitmap.setPixels(array) implemented natively for those of us who would like to do demo-scene style effects or send bitmap data over the wire, etc.

- Unclutter the IDE, perhaps taking clues from the VisualStudio .NET IDE. Accordian panes take a ton of vertical space, whereas tabs on a single collapsable region take less cumulative space. In addition, they should be customizable what goes where.

- Improvements to the code editor to bring it up to speed with other editors. Things like code folding, auto-complete (for classes, methods, variables, etc), keyboard shortcuts (ctrl-f3 for find next, ctrl-f2 for goto definition, etc), highlight matching tags (ala eclipse, ascs).

- Math.round(number, [decimalPlaces]);

- Distortion of clips into an arbitrary shape.

- Version of the player that provides limited access to the system for creating desktop apps, cd-rom apps, etc.

- Simplify and reduce the component sets. I never use the components anymore if I can help it simply because of the filesize and the complexity in skinning them (for when clients wants an XP-style interface, etc).

- Additional collision detection options for working with the true shape of the clips (separating axis theorem, Grant Skinners method using the bitmap object?).

- Full XPath support, or at least close to complete.

- Complete formatting options of text fields (underline, sub, super, etc), including ability to dictate the padding (to remove the 2px padding in text fields). There are still many things that cannot be done to provide rich text presentation to clients in their applications.

- Ability for future extentions to be provided, separately from the core player. Then game-engines, 3D support, etc can be supported without penalizing those who would not use them.

- ZLib compression support. The more applications are brought into flash, the more this is required to reduce bandwith consumption and increase responsiveness.

- The ability to capture keystrokes inside flash (like Control-C, Control-O, etc) for being able to provide similar capabilities as applications users are accustomed to. Currently browsers grab these for themselves, and they are different for each browser. Providing standard shortcut keys for an application is frustrating at best.

- Some way to allow for a preloader in your movies / applications while being able to access exported library items without having to dump all your assets on the second frame. Possibly an "export on x frame"?

- Additional text options for more expressiveness, such as was mentioned previously with Fill Shape, Follow Path, Flow Around, etc.

- Update file uploading to allow for additional parameters in the post.

- Update file uploading to allow for return values from the post target.

- Eliminate the need to embed the default fonts for rotation and masking.

- More sound controls like equalization data, spectrum data.

- I agree with the elimination or modification of the .FLA - it becomes more of a hinderance in team environments. In addition, possibly the "code" window association could be eliminated by intrinsically associating an .as file with a .fla and opening that in a new tab (ala VS.NET), like form.fla and form.fla.as.

- Some way to better manage resources / library items for cases where that is the only reason where you have the .fla. For example, I create an application that has dozens of .as files and everything is either user-drawn or attached from the library - in that case, why should I need an .fla? Especially if I have a "suite" of applications that need to share the same interface elements.

Improved text handling. First by fixing (still) existing bugs listed at http://play.ground.gr/?p=77

I'd like to set the size of a TextField by numbers
in the property pannel without scaling the font, only the bounding of it.

I'm still using MX SO I don't know if these have been added yet.

I would like to see.

-NTSC Safe Colors. (Flash is used widely for brodcast animation.)

-RBG Color Mode for output to print.

-Ability to export Adobe illustrator files without the transparent colors becoming corrupted.

To include 'collapse' in ActionScript, but better that the one of DW.

When you create a class (or includes a external one) at 'Classes' folder and calls this class in AS, be able to arrange the methods of the class.

php remoting. Yes I am aware of amfphp (which does rock). Just some better support for it. Component wise and so on.

A scaleType attribute for MovieClips and TextFields.
Posible values could be:
normal: The way it works now.
fixedRatio: would automatically scale the movieClip mantaining a fixed aspect ratio proportional to the scaling of the parent movieClip.
none: The movieClip would mantain its size regarding of the scaling of the parent movieClip.
This attribute would help a lot in the development of full screen or full window flash applications.

I would like to see more options, like sound options, examples, more actionscript functions and a brand new layout of Flash 9. Also more support with other Browsers like FireFox and Netscape, because it is a problem that diffrent browsers will show your flash file in another format or show nothing. Flash 8 is almost the same as 7!

otherwise
Suprise us with Flash 9, give us another Flash than the versions before!!!

Wow! Reading through this list, the one feature I would love to see most of all isn't even mentioned.

I would love to see a vector-based bones system and IK solution for character animation.

I also think something like toon titan should be included as standard. A nice cell shading system with a varied ink stroke generation option.

Up till now my biggest issue has been rendering small type and apparently that has been fixed with Flash 8.

Cheers,
Jeremy

Remove this limitation please..
**Warning** The class definition for 'class' exceeds the bytecode limit of 32,767K. Please extract some functionality into other classes or risk unexpected behavior at runtime.

code collapse would be really nice.

RTL language support - come'on... it is time, don't ya think?

There are many changes I would like to see in Flash 9--joystick support, better symbol packaging, more projector customization, and revamped terminology (e.g. change "Flash Slide Presentation" to something that will make it clearer to new users that such documents are not only for slide presentations) rush to mind--but I would love to see you fix the bug I found within my first few minutes with Flash 8 before then: please STOP Flash from modifying documents when selecting "Save As..." from a newer version of Flash than that which created the document. The current document should *NEVER* be modified without permission and there is certainly no need to do so in response to a "Save As..." command.

It seems that the bug details I mentioned were not quite correct: "Save As..." changes the modification time (and who-knows-what else) of Flash documents even within the *SAME* version of Flash that created the document. Either I never noticed this in Flash MX 2004 before just testing it a few minutes ago after seeing the above behavior in Flash 8 or I forgot about it.

just rtl support, and not something else

multi-threading :)

1. Real motion blur -- think AfterEffects. I want to be able to tell Flash to blur this object based upon its movement around the screen.
2. RegularExpressions
3. Time to update HTML support!!!
4. onHTTPStatus for loadMovie
5. Implement Cubic Beziers!!
6. AfterEffects Timeline w/ built-in support for IK in the IDE.
7. Export to AEP :) :)

I would really like to be able to change the angle of the control points, the position of the nodes, and the control point weight all while using the pen tool and pressing alt or shift. I want the same bezier drawing tool Illustrator has.

Also pretty please get transperancy working with window forms? just expose the alpha channel. The guys at screenweaver open source have been rendering it off screen with a black background...then a white....then calculating the alpha from that. Pretty expensive operation which limits the usefullness of flash as a grahical userinterface option. Pleeeeeease with sugar on top.

- use of xhtml-strict publishing (never use alternative publish/code anymore)

OK, Flash 8 is great! But I wish the filters be able to use on every thing, I mean like graphics and shapes. You can improve the filters' commands
like in photoshop.
It's will be great!!!
Sorry about my english, it's not my strong side.
Thanks!

I really like the object/global undo feature but would like to use them both (perhaps with ctrl-z and ctrl-shift-z) and not have to toggle each in the preferences

Here are few things still missing,

1) More supported HTML tags in Text Fields i.e. support for Sub Script, Super Script text(Dynamic Text)
2) Method like Copy To ClipBoard (Not just Text), which can copy a perticular area as a screen grab to clip board.
3) Ability to build sub menu using ContextMenu Class
4) Ability to add icons to menu built using ContextMenu Class
5) More features which SWF to EXE applications provides. i.e. Ability to communicate with Host Machine (Registry, Comman Dialogue Boxes).

Regards,
Tushar

IntelliSense!
R-T-L support in the IDE!

Here is a radical idea- have the same language support in all the players.

Since flash player 6 and up (including flash 8) on OSX-
* it is impossible to switch to a Hebrew keyboard when in a flash based form widget.
* certain dynamic Hebrew text does not disply in the mac player (see the comic ballon in the screen shot:
http://img144.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture26sw.png )
This is regardless of the browser used.

As these two (basic) feature *do* work with the Windows player, and many dev's (rightfully) assume that "flash player 8 is flash player 8", the result is that many Hebrew web sites built on Windows DO NOT work on OSX, that that flash based rich web applications are limited to Windows users if you want to use Hebrew. For example, sending Hebrew email using http://webserver001.goowy.com/ .

I am not even asking for full RTL support (althugh that will be nice)- just for the ability to type in my language and view Hebrew text people put in flash applications.

fl.getDocumentDOM() -- returns a script file, .as, .asc, .jsfl, etc...

being able to execute applications through the jsapi

being able to reference frames by their labels like:
if( mc._currentframe == "over" )....

being able to extend trace

Hello,

The size of the SWFs produced by the IDE is larger when using longer variable names.

So, have the compiler shorten variable names when compiling! It's just incredible that the compiler (apparently) includes the variable names in the compiled code.

Thanks,
Mike

- Frame Bookmarks
Animators would be happy to bookmark frames and navigate through the bookmarks with Bookmarks panel. It is possible to implement Bookmarks just by extending current frame labels feature and creating special Bookmarks Panel. Bookmarks should be visualised on timeline.
- Througout Bookmarks and Bookmarks Panel. Throughout bookmarks can be implemented to support not only frames, but code, movieclips, effects, panels etc. Bookmarks accesible through single Bookmarks Panel will create solid, consistent workflow.

Anchor and control points of paths should can be aligned with align tool. Maybe distrubuted too but align is needed strongly.

Not sure how to achieve either of these two? Maybe with the Adobe merger you can figure these out.

1. FlashHD: Maybe a new IDE and/or player. HD is on the rise as we all know and Quicktime already supports it. I can make millions the minute Flash can support HD coupled with current Flash capabilities.

2. 3D sound: Something along the lines of Maven3D incorporated into the Flash IDE. Its great to have more sound channels in Flash 8, but it would be great if we can actually use them to a fuller extent. Panning sounds is very cumbersome and non-convincing.

There is a huge market out there for dynamic HD w/ 3D sound. A whole new market that is untapped.

Lets jump to the next curve!

When using the component inspector to assign data and labels to a combobox or list control, you have to go into separate fields, one for data, and the other for label. Maybe combine the two so that the developer can enter both simultaneously. The Delphi IDE has a feature like that, and it is very convenient!

if i draw in pen-tool, give me access to these bezier's in drawing api. I i make any other vector, give me access to these bezier's corner points, please

look at what you can do with flash editor and x3d, since we're close to conecting flash-player to grapics-card-driver

wishful thinking, start putting a z-point in the editor :-)

any_mc.loadSharedMovie("any.swf")
Movieclip loaded with this command should add its Library objects to main (_root) movie's Library (considering _lockroot). Herewith characters in the same fonts must be added to existing rather than replacing whole existing font libraries (so, existing characters must still be accesible). This it is important for such languages as Chinese or Japanese. Also, it would be great to provide such type of loading by the existing MovieClipLoader class.

Actionscript access to all vector data contained in a swf and also to the font glyphs. I don't care if the retuned data is cryptic or difficult to parse - I just want some way to access it.

TextFormat.getTextExtent should work properly and with HTML (XHTML) too. HTML support is very important problem.

For web-mapping applications, we are still lacking :
- access to inner polygons/polylines and
vertex coordinates especially for shapes drawn with the drawing API :
MovieClip.getRingAt(i)
MovieClip.getNodesAt(i)
MovieClip.nbNodes
MovieClip.nbRings...
- dashed lines
- decimal stroke widths, not only integers 1-255
- ability to change independently stroke attributes (width, color, line style) and fill atrributes after a shape is drawn, without having to rebuilt it from scratch.

I would love to see the IDE become able to reflect changes made on the stage reflected as code and vice versa.
So if you draw a vector shape it should be accessible as code and if you code a vector is should be visible on the stage without compiling.
Dragging a bitmap onto the stage should result in an attachMovie being visible in the actionscript editor.

I tend do do most of my work now using MTASC and SciTE, but if the IDE could be used to draw elements reflected as code and visualize coded elements in realtime the advantages would be enormous for the way I work.
I can also imagine that that kind of integration would make it a lot easier for people to learn how to code actionscript.
I guess it needs some major changes to the way the IDE works, but it would be truely awsome if it was at all possible.

One minor thing that I think would be very cool is the ability to read amplitude values from audio.
Now it's only possible with sound from the microphone or with a 3rd party app like FlashAmp requiering you to process the audio and save the amplitude data as a text file.

A Simple one.....It would be fabulous to be able to underline copy in the IDE. Currently this can only be done by code.

convert timeline motion to graphics/movie clip like in adobe ae

gradient transparency (mask)
symbols multi swap

please do this!!!!!

good work on flash 8 - here are some thoughts -
first next flash player should be a universal player that will also handle windows and real and quick time - just like the swf does for flv - there is no reason there is no universal player ...
as an inventor i am always studying things from the oustide in and inside out - i think as a deconstructionist with learning disabilities - i take things apart and knoodle them - suggest you try learning and creating a more friendly un-flash way of building flash - lots of things in flash could be more intuitive - you also get your info from experts - you might want to take novices and see how they learn and approach learning to make a more intuitive experience...
i am interested in multi video/media non-linear metaphors that are almost there in flash 8 but could be more there - also more detail oriented flash files and video flash tutorials with examples like gotoandlearn.com - i know all this will change when adobe integrates their film/video experience - and am passing this post on to one of adobe people too - thanks for all the years of hard work too

IDE

basics:

it's amazing how Flash IDE is poor.
learn from SE|PY!!, is it possible that flash doesn't have something like its Members / ClassExplorer panels?

the IDE should really implement a project.
this means the possibility to refactor (change the name of a variable/class name-method-properties) part of the project.

you could show a Class explorer tree containing the classes inserted into the project..come on !! give us new developing tools.

I don't pretend it to warn me if I reference a variable that doesn't exist
e.s: _root[var1+"_"+var2]._name
could be everything..but most of the Visual Studio and Eclipse-Java features could be implemented.

AS2

some Java OOP features, overload at least !!!!
Interfaces instanceof Object

DEBUGGER

basics:

make it really works !!!

substitute the awful combo box (that list the impoted classes) with a big tree component (classes represented according to their inheritance hierarchy)..a subset of the Class hierarchy panel you will create.

thanks for allowing Flash8 to remember breakpoints position.

the new custom easing tween tool needs easing presets an a "save as"-button like the fmx2004 extension from http://laco.wz.cz/tween/

I'm a game programmer, use AS1.0 mainly. Here're my comments:

1 Option to hide right-click menu

Right-click is standed control in many games. Although we can handle this message in flash, we'll see the About menu at the same time.
I noticed my friends always tried right-click to cancel an option in my strategy games and RPGs, result in losting focus and got confused; In a shotting game, I have to use 'R' to reload, which is traditionly by right-click.

2 Tips and a view panel for custom functions

Script tips for custom functions would be nice, ie: params in declear code& the prefix comments.I also wish to see which functions we have In current scope. When programming a project more than 3000 lines in AS1.0, I have to use Ctrl + F to find definition to see the exact name and params.

I know it's difficult cause functions in AS1.0 are dynamic. But for example you can use the first declear in " function myFunc() " style --- that may not always be exactitude but may help a lot.

3 Use MIDI in Flash

This would help me minish my file size. one single back ground music in mp3 tooks about 1M. in mamy cases, 80% of the file is swelled with music.

well its a small request but just seems like something that would give more power to switchs...

Its about the switch command. it would be nice if there was a way to enter other values then fixed cases in the cases like in VB, here is an example:

switch(someVar){
case 1-10: doSomthing; break;
case 15: doSomthingElse; break;
default: someCode;
}

thnx ,

Ben Fhala.
p.s. ver8 is a gr8 release :)

correct shape tween
"Save As..." for all flash versions

i want Flash9 can make Three-dimensional cartoon

We want new keyword "sequence" and new programming paradigm.
We are software company that making online casinoes. We made 7 ones so far. And every time we work on complex animation/interactivity task, we always fighting with lots of sequences of actions (flying cards, then moving chips,then user input, etc). We found that standard c++/java programming model is not fit for flash. Sometimes flash requires something to control hundreds of objects on scene, including pauses between actions for animation to finish, user to input data or server to respond. We made some sort of command conveyor and tried to use it in our projects. It decreased time of programming and complexity of code but, since it written on AS, it not fast enough.
So, our wish is "sequence" keyword and new programming paradigm for flash:

sequence seqLogin(){
{seqAnimateWindow("openWindow")}
{this.x=new XML(seqWaitForUserToHitOk())}
{if(!seqSendToServer(this x)) this.goto("error");}
{seqAnimateWindow("closeWindow")}
{return "ok"}
error:{return "error"}
}

Sequences are functions with many bodies (steps). They can be paused between two steps for some milliseconds (or forever) and resumed afterwards. They have local variables visible in each step. Sequences can have parameters and can return values. When sequence called from another sequence, the parent sequence paused until child finish. You can label steps and use "goto" keyword to skip steps. Also there is the need of "dynamic sequences" - when child sequences added dynamically and executed as they added (for example to execute server commands).
It is just explanation on how WE done our conveyor. Macromedia's solution might be much more elegant and powerful. But the main idea is to eliminate ragged code and have all parts of each procedure in one place.

Automatic Library Item updates. If any external resource used in library (for example, bitmap) had had been updated, Flash should handle such event and automatically propose to update corresponding library item. There should the possibility to set such updates to one of three modes: Automatic, Manual (as today) and Automatic with item-by-item prompt for updating.

Aligning anchor points of paths. Anchor and control points of paths should can be aligned with align tool. Maybe distrubuted too but align is needed strongly.

Brushes with soft edges. Illustrators and designers will be happy to have brushes with soft edges.

Color Mixer Panel Should Be rezisable to adjust gradients, colors and alpha more precise. Current compact mode should be preserved. Last panel settings should be saved as default.

Colored Frames / Layers. Frames which belong to different layers should be colored in corresponding different colors.

Frame Bookmarks. Animators would be happy to bookmark frames and navigate through the bookmarks with Bookmarks panel. It is possible to implement Bookmarks just by extending current frame labels feature and creating special Bookmarks Panel. Bookmarks should be visualised on timeline.

"File > Publish All" [Ctrl+Shirt+Alt+F12] menu command.

"File > Save and Compact All" [Ctrl+Alt+F12] мenu �?ommand.

TextFormat.getTextExtent should work properly and with HTML too.

Find in Library. At this moment, only thirt-party JSFL solutions avasilbale, but this feature is strongly needed as built-in.

Bookmarks. Throughout bookmarks can be implemented to support not only frames, but code, movieclips, effects, panels etc. Bookmarks accesible through single Bookmarks Panel will create solid, consistent workflow.

Colored Frames / Layers. Frames which belong to different layers should be colored in corresponding different colors.

Frame Bookmarks. Animators would be happy to bookmark frames and navigate through the bookmarks with Bookmarks panel. It is possible to implement Bookmarks just by extending current frame labels feature and creating special Bookmarks Panel. Bookmarks should be visualised on timeline.

TextFormat.getTextExtent should work properly and with HTML too.

Find in Library. At this moment, only thirt-party JSFL solutions avasilbale, but this feature is strongly needed as built-in.

Bookmarks. Throughout bookmarks can be implemented to support not only frames, but code, movieclips, effects, panels etc. Bookmarks accesible through single Bookmarks Panel will create solid, consistent workflow.

3d opengl or DirextX support

I dream it
Macromedia do it

Please a complete and better support of html tag

i have a few but necessary wishes:

1. i want dynamic-text (and input) will have some of the qualities of static-text, like applying mask on a dynamic text, or applying tweening of alpha on a movieclip with a dynamic-text (the dynamic text in this situation wont get transparent like the rest of the movieclip).

2. a better support with different languages. for example, while writing in hebrew the text is inverted, when finishing writing the text get inverted again and if it is a dynamic text it will be invertedt once again in an exported movie (in the swf file).

3. a better performance of loading variables will be great (like LoadVars or loadVariables etc). i cant load hebrew for example, if i'm loading a text file which contains "var1=1&var2=עברית" it refers to var2 as an empty text.

local scope for event objects
improved soap handeling (doc-lit, support for more schemas)

I want flash to work with core PHP, so we can use PHP in actionscripts OR a function that gives you the possibility to import external ationscripts when the site is online. That would say that we could manage and edit that external script with PHP.

One of these two functions would make it much easier to make fully dynamic flash sites.

How about clear pricing policies and an Online Shop that works.

I am a Mexican programmer currently working on Vienna. A couple of weeks ago I tried to buy Studio 8 upgrade from the macromedia online store using my Mexican credit card but I kept getting an error message, by the validation, that the name and address given didn’t match those from my credit card billing address. On the error message was a telephone number with which I could place the order. A telephone number to which I was never able to connect. So I called my credit card company in Mexico to check if every thing was Ok, which it was. I tried to find a customer support telephone number at the macromedia store but I couldn’t find any. So I wrote an Email to the email support address. A couple of days later they answer telling me that they couldn’t help me but that I should try another telephone number, and finally was able to reach someone who could give me some information. She told me that even though my credit card and address were valid, they denied the transaction because I placed the order while being in Austria. But the best part is that because I tried repeatedly to place an order with that credit card, when I thought I may had spelled something incorrectly in my address, my credit card is now marked as invalid in the Macromedia online store, so even when I get back to Mexico, I will still never be able to buy something again from them with my card.

My only chance now is to buy it from amazon, for example, which is going to cost me around 150 USD more!!!!

And don’t tell me this post is out of place because a good shop is a very important part of a good product.

Build small 3д the editor in flash 9 as in macromedia the director for example and accordingly make codes in ACTION SCRIPT for job with 3d by objects! I IMPLORE!:)

It was mentioned before, but the ability to use 'distortion' and 'enveloping' on movieclips would be my no. 1 wish (which I have for many years) It would make 3D in Flash a breeze.

Another great one: support for Photoshop plug-ins...

Rough and soft brushes and erasers!

The mentioned suggestion above 'If you draw a vector shape it should be accessible as code and if you code a vector it should be visible on the stage without compiling.' is brilliant (but of course very hard to implement).

More and better sound support...

Realtime animation recording: drag an object and record this movement as a timeline or scripted animation.

The abilty to embed an iframe (that can have any browsercontent) within Flash :-)

My only wish actually is not really a wish, it's more a missing feature in Mac Flash Player (sorry: it's not really exciting):

the Key listeners don't trigger Mac Keyboard Commands like cut/copy/paste!

It works fine on Windows, but on Mac, it's impossible to know if a user paste text, or select all text... and it's really bad when you have to control the usage of text in an application (I build a really killer Styled text editor but I have some problems on Mac).

- pre-compiler macros like #define
- own typedefs (like in c)
- more performance
- Array.walk
- perspective transformations of movieclips and bitmaps

>support real 3d system
>enhance code editor

OpenGL Accelerated Graphics across MAC/PC, of course this can be realized on many levels the ultimate being Flash's drawing code running completely within the GPU itself offering blistering performance. I believe Apple helped get the current Flash 8 partially accelerated on Mac OSX, if this is so, fantastic, work more with Apple! Maybe you could find a mutually beneficial arrangement, as I think Apple are very interested in resolution independent user interfaces themselves as they're getting the OS ready for a vector based UI.

OpenGL 3D objects/views. Imagine being able to composite real 3D elements into scenes, especially with all the advanced shader capabilities of modern GPU's like normal mapping.

Features to integrate Flash into web browsers better such as: being able to use browsers back/forward to navigate, use browser history, and any other things you'd typically be able to interact with a html page that are currently hard or impossible to do with Flash.
Indexing Flash sites for search engines for example, changing UI/Font size via web-browser enlarge text button.

Ability for Flash to detect computers performance/speed/mhz in order for the site to disable/enable site features to best suite the computers power.

File drag and drop into Flash view, say for uploading files.

Ability to duplicate and move within the scenes hierarchy any loaded movie-clip.

Ability to change the column width in the 'Find' window for Mac Flash 8 Authoring app

Better visualization of CPU usage, what's being redrawn (i know flash 8 has show redraw regions, but its not as helpful as it could be) some way to help determine what area of your code is using up the CPU, say some color coded view of the actionscript that changes the color darker the more often that line is executed or something visual.

Background compiling as you work on the file, so when you come to preview it, it may have already completed.

Better caching of compilation so when you keep recompiling it only updates what it needs to, basically, anyway you can make compiling faster! transparent or instant!

Stop, Pause, Resume file downloads at any point.

Image smoothing on loaded graphic files.

See exactly how much disk space assets in the compiled flash file are taking up.

Completely integrated Flash Player update mechanism so that it updates itself without needing to restart the users browser, at worst it simply reloads the current running SWF

Ability to control caching of graphics, say pre-load graphics, control what's stored in ram for fast access, better caching so that items that go off screen stay cached if the programmer requires it. Many times i have seen things run very fast in Flash 8, only to come to a crawl when they leave the stage and come back on due to the unloading of the bitmap cache.

Ability to see the memory usage and pinpoint what's causing it.

Realtime audio effects could be fun

Scale9 work with bitmaps as well as vector.

Built in code obfuscation to stop people stealing your compiled code, off by default.

IDE
- Moving items on the stage when Snap to pixels is checked, should result in the item snapping to even pixels.

- Get rid of the textfield handles when the textfield hasn't been selected yet. Trying to move a textfield from one of the corners, to keep the snap to pixels functionality happy, is VERY hard to do with those resize handles being there all the time. The resizing and handles are great, but should only be active when the textfield is selected.

- Update the x, y, width, and height values WHILE the stage item is being moved/resized, like in Fireworks. Right now, we need to resize the textfield, let go to see if we got it, resize, check, resize, check, etc.

- Make the tabbing to be the way it used to be. Tabbing should not be fixed to items on the stage. Tabbing should be passed to the selected panel. SWFPanels used to be able to take advantage of some keyboard keys, like Tab, to manage usability. The default now of Ctrl+Alt+Tab is completely unintuitive.

- Ctrl+Tab to move between documents is great but should be consistent. Currently the order changes depending on what panel was selected last.

- Closing a document should cause the next document to the right to be selected, until there are no more to the right, and then the next to the left. Currently this seems to be somewhat random.

- The Timeline should remain the size I left it. Currently if I set the height of a docked Timeline and then open a new document, then flip back to the original document, the timeline height has now changed to the height of the newly added document's timeline height.

- Modeless Find and Replace.

- Remembering previous X number of items in the Find and the Replace (separately).

- RegEx for Find and Replace.

Take a look at EditPlus for the previous 3.

- A text selection mechanism (in AS panel) that makes sense. Currently Flash always understands the leftmost/topmost cursor position to be the anchor point of text selection. In any other editor the anchor point is the first selected point. This is difficult to describe, but here goes:
Place cursor somewhere in the middle of some text. Hold shift and place the cursor to the left of the original position. Text is highlighted. Keep holding shift and place the cursor to the left of the second position. Notice that the selection is between the second and third position, not the first and third position, like every other text editor behaves.

- Being able to export IDE settings as ONE file to ease moving from one computer to another (or after reinstalls). Hunting down registry settings and multiple XML files in multiple locations is annoying at best. It would be great to setup the IDE how I like, export my settings, and at home import the settings. Being able to do this with a next version of Flash would be great too, so that we can immediately start using the new IDE without fumbling around yet again to set it up the way we like.

- The Actions panel and AS editor should optionally be the same beast (or some other behaviour). Having an AS file take over the stage renders a panel setup for FLAs useless. There should be a way to link the file type to a panel setup. This can currently be done with some key mapping, but linking filetypes would be great.

JSFL
- include AS files (and JSFL files for that matter) in the Object Model. Right now only FLAs are even recognized by JSFL. I have a SWFPanel that backs up my FLAs (includes incrementing number to the filename and saves it to a given location), but it would be great to be able to do this with any file in the IDE.

- The ability to target the currently selected line of code/cursor position in the AS panel/AS file editor. This would allow JSFL to be written to do things like code snippets, text filtering, and other AS automation.

FLA
- Doing something to make FLAs (or insert format here) easier to manage with source control software (Source Safe). Storage in FLAs is great, but it pales in comparison to having a format that could be used for source control.

A lot of this behaviour has been around for multiple versions. I LOVE the improvements that were made to the panel behaviours (except tabbing), but more needs to be done to fix the usability issues.

I guess that's it for now ...

- a flash IDE for linux

i've got about 50 animators in my group. we create vector animation(for TV,DVD and for web) using vector softwares such as MOHO,ToonBoom,Expression,and of course Flash.

Normally we combine all their best features to fit our needs. but that leads to heavy work when switching different softwares, import,export, again and again and again...

we are really happy to see the improvements in flash 8. but those new features are far inadequate to fullfill our needs. we would like to see flash become a real animation software(not only for web animation, but also for complex TV aniamtion). Flash 8 is much more powerful than ever, and Flash animation is becoming more and more complex. Flash animation is about to span its orginal goal, so why not make it more powerful? why not change it into a REAL verctor animation software?

I have a dozen of request, below are part of them.

1.make filters and blends for graphic symbol. Please do this in Flash 9, at least.

2.For now, from MC to Avi, only one frame(1st frame) can be exported. please enhance the "export movie" function, let user decide how many frames in MC can be exported to avi and which scene can be exported.

3.A better shape tween function, just like Moho. In TV animation we need to draw 12 frames(or 24) in one sec. Most of these tactic frames are actually formed up by shape transforming. I am saying: in a TV animation, shape tween is used much more frequently than motion tween. Moho knows this and its shape tween function is quite good. So...ehmmm...is it possible to add something like Control Vertices to flash shapes? (not only the simple shape hint in flash, but some accurate and controllable points)

4.a skeleton with Inverse Kinematic and Forward Kinematic. just like Maya or Moho,etc. I think flash is the best way making vector shapes move around, but it is weak to make character action. Of course we can animate the character frame by frame, but if Moho has this advanced function, can flash do the similar(or better) job for us?

5.a camera function will be great.(tracking,zooming, rolling, panning,etc.) make the layer 3D(with z-depth and distance bluring),that saves a lot of time for most animation team.

6.If it is possible, add a function that can create REAL INBETWEEN FRAMES, such as: using 2 or 3 key frames of a face, to create a series of continuous real inbetween frames, making the face tunning 90 degrees. (Toonboom Harmony does that)

7.make the whole workspace rotatable, such as when holding the z key, the workspace rotates CW slowly (or user define). This is very needed for all hand drawing animators. (we usually rotate the paper to draw better curves,that is a habbit for all animators)

Regards
lloyd

TextField XHTML and CSS2 support would be great.

1.for copy/paste from clipboard
Ctrl+Ins
Shift+Ins
2.attach movieClip from stage

Hi, it is very needed -
TextFormat.getTextExtent should work properly and with HTML too.

Without a 3D engine, it's gonna be difficult to compete with M$ Sparkle.

Hi,

Great job on 8ball. :-)

Flash 9 : Better support for CSS would be great !!

c like templates
DataClass
DatClass

and (operator)overloading..

DataClass<Number>
DataClass<String>
(html chars got knocked out)

artist really need a gradients along curves... like in corel draw etc...

-- sub and sub html tags for text.

- use proper xhtml text formating tags (em and strong)

- MovieClip.framelabels

- specify dynamic text field wrapping around images and movieclips.

- linking of two text fields to create multicolumn layouts

- a z axis (a kin to how after effects handles it - i'm not asking for a full 3-D world, jsut the ability tozoom/flip rotate a symbol or two)

- incorporate zeh (hosted.zeh.com.br) or laco's tweening prototypes/classes for easy actionscript based animations

- movieclip expressions or something similar to after effects motion math... ability to create relationships between clips to create dynamically interactive animations.

- psd layers

- code folding!

- better support for illustrator gradient imporitng (many times things get changed ind into bitmaps ad the compound paths or masks get blown away)

- support for webserver based localization/translation methods (i.e php getText())

- code folding!!! please!!! and code bookmarks.
- list of variables and functions.
- code hints for "flash" class library.

What I realy want for now, is promised RegExp... :|~~~

1. More control over the right-click menu.
- disable it completely, and handle within flash
- submenus
- icons next to menu items
- checkboxes next to menu items
- remove the about/settings/etc entries

2. It would be cool, if instead of the .FLA format, there was some project format, where all the assets are not glommed into a single file, but kept in a directory layout, corresponding to the folders in the Library. This would make it very easy to use with various source control solutions (CVS, SVN, VSS, etc), allowing one developer to work on a certain asset, while another developer works on another asset, and not losing the ability to compile / edit the entire thing at once.
Actionscripts left on movieclips or on the stage, should automatically be saved to separate .as files within the project folder, instead of embedded in the .FLA

3. actionscript speed! We want it on the order of java or .net!

4. Linux support...ideally the same as win/mac support, instead of having to wait months after the other platforms, and getting a player with various problems.

5. An IDE that runs under linux. If you are using Eclipse anyway, that is already 80% of the work. Just make the rest of your tools that plug into eclipse cross-platform as well!

6. opengl or DirectX 3D support. I want to write 3d apps/games and get some real performance.

7. multi-threading, so I don't need callbacks and intervals everywhere.

8. BitmapData.getPixelArray(rect:Rectangle):Array
BitmapData.setPixelArray(rect:Rectangle, data:Array);
to be able to get & set chunks of pixel data at once, instead of having to read / set them one at a time in a loop.

Bring back the double click on the frame to bring the action script editor unless you redo it to something better :)

Please add 3d capabilities (OpenGL / DirectX) to compete with Avalon and Sparkle !!!

Thanks
Bernd

It's been requested a number of times, but 3D capabilities using DirectX or OpenGL would be extremely usefull. Just take the Director 3D Xtra and port it to Flash ;)

QUAD for 3D textures :)
bitMap.quad(point1,point2,point3,point4)

When I load some external swf with library to e.g movieclip container, i can attachMovie from this library only to container or its child movieclip. Can be this done in a way, that stuff from library can be use in every movieclips of main swf, not only container mcs?

send BitmapData object to server as PNG

access to SoundData as BitmapData

A smarter ActionScript panel.

In Visual Studio .NET 2003, the IDE actually parses through IL code in compiled classes in order to give you member information for them.

It would be nice if the ActionScript panel parsed through the plain-text .as files in your classpaths, read JavaDoc comments (to display along with available members for a particulare class). That way I could edit MovieClip.as, and my changes would appear in a little pop-down menu when I type myMCInstance..

A better debugger would be nice too. I would like to step through my code, roll-over variable names and get their values (after they've been defined), etc.

Something that i think would give the FlashPlayer strong points :

1) Real Hardware Acceleration ( directx+opengl ... )
2) Player + IDE on Linux (Bring the suite to Linux)
3) Allow us to build full desktop(thus crossplatform - but not in the Central way) applications.
4) A font engine like the one used by GTK or GNOME in linux, gee .. those fonts are eatable! (yes i know about the new font egine, but it cant compete with that of GTK/GNOME(PANGO))
5) A sort of a player or VM with extensions abillities.(such as xpi extensions are for mozilla suite)
6) TRUE DEBUGGER & TRUE NET CONNECTION DEBUGGER
7) REWRITTEN .NET, JAVA REMOTING ... give us a PHP version from you!
8) Accept different versions of video streaming protocols(not your only rtmp)

Even better text handling, Flash has the benefit of embedding fonts and a great text renderer, now let this stand out.
I'm ok with the html/xhtml/css support, but with the benefit of embedding fonts maybe you should get some typographic insights of Adobe and eg. ommit the Bold and Italic styling buttons, more custom tags for eg. super/subscript, better typographical features in general… flash is more then html, so maybe it should not follow html so strictly

More 3D, example vector rotation.

text flow !!!

Pass letter another input text when input text is full.

I stand in line with all of the previous posters that have asked for a 3d engine. When playing with the very cool and simple 3d software sketchUP it's easy to start dreaming of how cool 3d could look and work in the flash environment.

1. Better drawing tools!
2. Better animation tools - something like the bones feature in Moho ( http://lostmarble.com/moho/index.shtml )
# Bone system with inverse kinematics: makes character animation like working with puppets.
# Lock inverse kinematic chains using Moho's bone constraint system. In this case, only the center of the body is animated - Moho is controlling the character's arms and legs automatically.
# Bone dynamics: automatically animate parts of a character using springy bones.

Agree with Sébastien Ballesté-Antich above.

Macromedia has built into the player the ability to download extensions from Macromedia in order to dynamically add features to the basic player. The Breeze presenter extension is an example.
The extensions, such as an early version of file upload, and the Breeze screen capture feature, have not always been available to third party developers. For example the screen capture utility is not available to Flash Media Server 2 developers.
I would like to see Macromedia make available extensions that third party users can use. I think an improved 3D extension (better than Shockwave please) would be a great example. Director as a development tool is out of sync with Flash and the workflow hassles and integration irritations of combining Flash and Director (or imagine Flex and Director) just to get at 3D are too great.
Yours truly,
-Brian

Linux Flash Player... you're talking about 8.5 and still no 8 for linux!

hurry up!

Flowchart a la After Effects for better view of what goes where and what parent to who

Thankfully everything I've ever wanted will apparently be a part of zorn and the 8.5 player.

So freeing me up to thing about some creative features, I'd say

1) A really nice component skinning tool with the ability to animate and morph components as their state changes and blend video into a component's design.

2) really good shape morphing

3) A good particle engine
(like 3dStudioMax's Particle Flow?)

- Fillet tool

Known well in the architecture and design world, this is a very useful tool for creating rounded corners.

Many peoples designs often use rounded corners of some sort and I think it would cut time out of designing if there was a tool to select a point in subselection mode and enter a radius value and to see it create a perfectly rounded corner. I would hope this would work on all corners whether they are obtuse, accute, or 90 degree angles.

I think the major thing that holds Flash from completely securing itself as the Web Application platform of the future is Text Control and Display. Having more advanced HTML and CSS control over text display would make Flash always the answer for ANY web application scenario.

Here's some Text related features that would make the above happen:
- linking text fields to one large body of text could flow over several text fields via textfield.grouping array.
- text flow to path
- text fill into complex shape
- all the regular HTML and CSS text controls.
- render text as bitmap? or other text display performance boosting (currently large bodies of text outside a textField chug hard on the processor)

All this ofcourse makes the Flash plugin a bigger download but I think it's worth it.

How about sorting out superscript & subscript within dynamic textfields? just a little wish, but in car sites etc it crops up all the time!
:)

1) Better timeline control(stretch keyframes, put tweens end on end, cascade tweens, ect.)
2) Motion blur
3) Alpha masks
4) Better Mac playback

Support for keyboard access to hypertext links in TextFields.

true search engine support.
render bitmaps better when they are scalled down

and for the love of god...
GRAY SCALE MASKS!!!

Flash UIComponents more light and litle...
Mid Suport...
Gray Scale Masks...
Can will be save an MovieClip in JPG file on user PC...
Create Chromaqui Alpha channel in Flash Video Encoder (Select color and alpha in this...)

And create player for Linux ;)

Director is a disaster.Bunch of dumb people wants to make flash a disaster too.
NO 3d.
NO Xstrass.
This is the entire opposite way that the one that makes flash the greatest plugin over the net
Anyway, those who really want those things, already have it in director.No need to screw up flash.

-Better support for html in TextFields. For example, be able to have images inline with the text.

-Fix issues with Shared Libraries. Like the hack workarounds you have to do in order to have shared font symbols.

-Better AS editor

-hitTest detection between two shapes

hitTest - to detect shape with shape, not only shape with point or bounding box with bounding box

I second "Hardware accelerated graphics for better performance. Almost all PCs have GPUs today and more performance could make Flash a real application platform."

I just would like to run this (http://www.everflash.com/flash/choppytest.html) kind of animations smooth and without tearing.

IDE:

More and more of computer graphics experts uses 2 screens to work. The scene only should be déplacable on the 2 eme screen in full MDI.

De plus en plus d'infographistes utilise 2 écrans pour travailler.
La scene seule devrait etre déplacable sur le 2 eme ecran en MDI.

A stretchable timeline...
Just like Livemotion had (make animation longer? Simply stretch the timeline...)
Now THAT would be so cool!

Scriptable Drawing API strokes ie (hairline, dot, slash, ect.)
Scriptable Drawing API stoke placement ie ( inside, outside, centered)

and for the love of god...
GRAY SCALE MASKS!!!

In the next Flash player releases it would be nice to find the following extensions of the Sound class:
1) the possibility to read the Sound object level in the certain moment of time to build waveforms of the signal according to obtained values. The values would be put to the array, and then parts of the signal's waveform would be drawn using the lineTo method;
2) the possibility to show spectrum characteristics of the signal using Fast Fourier Transform;
3) the possibility to equalize the signal of Sound object (at least low- mid- high- frequencies);
4) the possibility of putting reverb onto Sound object.

"Linux Flash Player... you're talking about 8.5 and still no 8 for linux!

hurry up!"

Second that, get to it you slackers!!

I'd like to see these things intergrated in flash9:

- Better intergration with the browser (backbutton/advanced history and rightmouseclick control)
- A good flash check in the publish settings, give us the option not to deal with that stuff.
- Real support for CSS3 and (X)HTML.

3D!

Mac IDE:
*INTERFACE SPEED*
Flash 8 is noticably sluggish during common operations like selecting text and switching from Actionscript Editor to FLA editor.
Flash 7.2 felt much snappier.

Actionscript Editor:
-Code folding ala Dreamweaver
-Function/Variable browser

I don't think 3D in Flash need to be as 'powerful' as those in Director or Swift 3D, however I do hope that AS can include some 3D related class in it.

I think there's a need as you can see many ppl are developing their own 3D class. I know many programs can do 3D, but Flash is a bit different isnt it? I think including some 3D classes is a good idea.

Can comment a entire AS code block with a click, like DW 8 make with the PHP.

:-)

Function/Variable browser

... more complex class's

Here we go -- the _long_ version.
Some things have been said by other guys but I'm repeating them to help you getting a feeling how important some things are...

Prio 1+
=======
* You should enhance the text fields. Proper HTML and CSS support would be a good start, although you should also incorporate more high-quality typographic features as in InDesign. See below for more suggestions.

Prio 1
=======
* IDE: Recognize UTF-8 AS files also without BOM.
* support Soft hyphens, \u200B (zero width space), non-breaking hyphen and non-breaking space in text fields.
* Proper HTML/XHTML and CSS support. CSS Support at least: Superscript, subscript, line-through, line-height, background-color, background-image, background-repeat, background-position, word-spacing, vertical-align, display, the border and padding styles, list-style-image and list-style position, page-break-before and page-break-after (for flow between text fields).
* Advanced layout features in text fields: baseline offset, compressing and extending letters, space between paragraphs, text flow between text fields, Fill Shape, Follow Path, Flow Around, customizable small caps and initials. Text flow to path
* Support inline images and fix _all_ text field bugs (also resize-related bugs).
* in text fields, support events (onMouseOver for a span).
* You should generally support linking textfields for flowing text between text fields
* fonts: loading once and sharing at runtime, full control over glyph tables. Make sure they work for all textfields.
* loading and sharing of symbols at runtime, also cross-library. Preloading into library.
* Perspective Distortion Control
* MovieClip.framelabels
* MovieClip.isPlaying
* System.capabilities.framerate (Not the runtime fps, just the "built-in" fps of the swf)
* Custom easing as in After Effects. Full control in AS if a property is controlled by timeline tween or AS (fixed or offset)
* pre-compiler macros like #define and #ifdef
* "Output window : enable Keys Home, End, Page Up, Page Down. (I can't believe it doesn't exist already)" - quite true!
* Agree: "INCREASE THE WORKSPACE SIZE for Christ sake! Sometimes we all need "a little" much nore space to put things there and organize later"
* Agree: "Zoom to 4000 or 6000 instead of just 2000%"
* Agree: "Update file uploading to allow for additional parameters in the post. Update file uploading to allow for return values from the post target."
* Agree: "Real motion blur -- think AfterEffects. I want to be able to tell Flash to blur this object based upon its movement around the screen."

Prio 2
======
* IDE: Direct shortcut für "Export with simulated download Show Streaming"
* Advanced sound controls (playback speed/pitch, EQ, filtering, sound synchronisation). Possibility to exactly synchronize sounds with animations.
* Stop/Resume methods for all kinds of downloads
* Agree: there's no way to load a standard XML document and embed in the SWF at compile time. I can #include, but I have to mangle the original file to do it. I should be able to specify an XML doc to embed/include in the SWF, and the object or string name it should be given once it's embedded.. not everybody wants or has the option to load XML from a server.
* Library: export on x frame
* more projector customization
* Cubic Beziers. Also for the pen tool. Improve adding/deleting of anchors.
* Agree: JSFL: - include AS files (and JSFL files for that matter) in the Object Model.
* Prio 3
* XPath.
* AS: Random seed
* hitTest detection between two shapes
* Method to copy HTML Text to clipboard
* MIDI support!
* Agree: NTSC Safe Colors. (Flash is used widely for brodcast animation.)
* Agree: "Method like Copy To ClipBoard (Not just Text), which can copy a perticular area as a screen grab to clip board."
* Scale9 work with bitmaps and text as well as vector.

Prio 3
======
* XPath
* Random seed
* hitTest detection between two shapes
* Method to copy HTML Text to clipboard
* MIDI support!
* Agree: NTSC Safe Colors. (Flash is used widely for brodcast animation.)
* Agree: "Method like Copy To ClipBoard (Not just Text), which can copy a perticular area as a screen grab to clip board."
* Scale9 work with bitmaps and text as well as vector.

Cheers,
david

Graphic:

- perspective effect (as in Photoshop)
- different brushes (as in Photoshop)
- Combine Fireworks with Flash :)

Interface:

- 3D
- flv preview
- MovieClip as default in F8
- Copy Layer
- Flash for Linux
- Flash Player for Linux
- sound editor
- ActionScript snippets
- alpha for layers/frames

ActionScript:

- pause();
- play();
- Windows API (as in SWF Studio/Zinc)
- onDoubleClick();
- playRight();
- System.capabilities.framerate();

:: Command line compilator [must be]
:: Native transparent background support in List, TreeView etc. components
:: Copying PNG-images to clipboard from IDE for using in another applications
:: Implement text antialiasing customization for components
:: Saving all timeline settings as short, tiny etc. in .fla-file
:: Add a few classes like ExternalInterface for more friendly interaction with desktop applications [or change if possible rpc-like protocol, it is almost unusable now]
:: Add a tool for text warping like in Photoshop

I would really like to be able to drag and drop images from the desktop to inside the application.

Very important: Rightclicking inside the library, should give me the option to import. Or atleast place a button on the bottom.

And I would also like basic imagetools inside flash, so I could remove borders and such with for instance tools like crop and the magic wand.

A little bit more advanced shapetween. Images? Or better, anything.

I would love to see these improvements in the animation style:

1) Bones - Bones that can be part of other bones, eg if you move the forearm, the hand moves, but if you move the hand, the forearm doesn't move. Animation can really be sped up with this.

2) 3rd Dimension - Not as a complete 3d modeling or animation suite, but the ability to rotate your 2-d objects on the 3rd axis.

3) Liquid movement options - I am not sure how this would be implemented, but some fluid movement other than FBF would be quite cool. Perhaps a distort over time, or patterned liquid?

ok. here is my comment
i found flash is a very useful and powerful tool for desiners and programmers but it lacks a proper controlling over sound.

what im trying to say is that the sound controlling options in flash versions up to flash 8 are very limitted to the basic options. i really expected that in this laterst version (8) flash could control the ease of the sound. for example if i want the sound to play slower of faster in NUMBER% or so.

so again, it is great that u keep working on flash and i.. and im sure most flash users appriciate the hard work at improving the Graphic and Programming capabilities in flash but flash really lacks the campability of controlling sound in my (and many others) opinion.

hope to see a change in the next version.
thanks.

ohh
and another HIGHLY IPMORTANT suggestion.
u must make flash capable of reading asian languages without scrambling the position of the leters or presenting on the screen gibrish instead of words.
both in the textfields and in reading from outside soure as txt and xml and stuff without using utf-8

Faster AS 2.0 compiler like MTASC would be great.

It's my birthday, and here's what I wished for when I blew out my candles:

1. Auto-detection of GPS devices, similar to the way Webcams and Microphones are currently detected. Access to GPS properties.

2. Joystick support (at least 2-players), similar to the way Webcams and Microphones are currently detected. Access to Joystick properties.

3. Easier/more reliable way to share fonts between .swf files.

4. Code snippets or starter templates for .as Class files.

5. Ability to create/modify UI components that fit into the V2/V3 component framework, in a similar way that Microsoft Sparkle allows designers to create functional components.

6. Built-in inverse kinematics for animation.

7. More tutorials/tools for all the "tweeners" designer/developer types that want to learn how to merge the gap between designing and developing with Flash. Those of us who have grown up with Flash since the early days understand this, but it hard to grasp for new students of Flash - especially since Macromedia now seems to want to segregate the designers from the developers with the Flex 2.0 builder.

8. The ability to write applications in AS3 and have Flash automatically convert it to FlashLite code at "compile-time".

9. Flash Player 8.5 looks like it might have enough power to handle some 3D work. It'd be great to have built-in 3D classes to make development easier.

10. Allow non-11khz-multiples of sound frequency sound files to be playable in Flash, or at least display an error/warning screen when there might be an issue with the sound file. Currently it can be very frustrating trying to figure out why some sound files just won't play.

11. Have the Actionscript window still visible when switching to another program.

My birthday is almost over so I'll stop now ;)

Flash 8 is an awesome release, so I'm happy for now. But if you could add a few features from the list above by my next birthday, I'd be a very happy man!

- Full XPath Support would be great!

AS wishlist :

- MovieClip.framelabels
- MovieClip.lineStyle readable, return object with actual thickness , color...
- MovieClip.position( x , y ) // mc._x , mc._y;
- MovieClip.size( w , h ) // mc._width , mc._height;
- MovieClip.scale( x , y ) // mc._xscale , mc._yscale;
- Math.round(number, [decimalPlaces]);
- Array.indexOf()
- Filter.stroke ( like the effect in Photoshop )
- double click detection
- extend Trace. Possibility to pass multiple arguements. and in class : function toString ( arg1 , arg2 )
- Direct access to the BitmapData pixel array so it is not necessary to read out an image pixel by pixel

Player wishlist :

- Justify for dynamic textfield
- AttachMovieClip through levels , also with loaded swf

JSFL wishlist :

- get the use count of an item in library.
- JSFL encrypted files. Only readable by IDE. For sharing or saling JSFL.

IDE wishlist :

- Line duplicate in the Editor

I think that there needs to be a web browser component to allow loading of external web pages into flash movies. There are ActiveX components that give this functionality to .net applications. It would also give Flash full HTML / XHTML support.

Adding russian lang. of interfases.

I agree with Sébastien Ballesté-Antich regarding expansion of animation tools and would like to see also

- Timeline more suitable for complex animation, like in other professional animation programs
- Graphical nonlinear animation editing (curves)
- Timeline structure import/export
- Effect layers (highlight/shade etc) and/or layer correspondence as already implemented for objects (overlay/multiply/screen etc)
- Color keying and matting for bitmaps (great for hand tracing)
- Well... built-in lipsync? :)

and... already mentioned but still...

- Camera
- Bones/IK

yea, that would be marvelous!

Yes, Sebastien and Ikar hit some of my biggest annoyances. It would be great to see better shape animation tools in Flash. Better control over points, advanced features like IK...At the very least, full curve editing of tweens would help things immensely.

for Array
i want to have a function to automatically set the array elements all to 0

It would be great if Flash 9 have SoundData.

FlashCom and Flash Video rock - Except of the inherently large bandwith costs of providing such videos to a large number of concurrent users. A Bit-Torrent-like way to distrubitue the video data would be a phonomial. i.e. the video data is primarialy obtained from other users viewing the same video, with the flashcom(flash media) server being in control of the whole operation. This would enable widespread and cost effect use of Flash video supporting a huge number of users.

My today most wanted:
- free standalone FLV-Encoder for my customers to encode and upload videos... e.g. CMS (or a eBay-auction... openSource 10kb swf for videoplayback is not the problem :))
- 2pass encoding
- function to 'auto drop-frame' in the videoencoder for very high quality video with the cost of not very smoothe playback

- copy layer in the Flash Timeline (frames, keyframes)

Cool example for Enduser-Encoder (eBay-auction) on http://cgi.ebay.de/Rattenfalle-Marderfalle-Lebendfalle-Kastenfalle_W0QQitemZ7188063326QQcategoryZ13401QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

hi,

my Needs:
- By importing my own AS2-Classes, Flash should
recognize all methods and attributes of my own
Class and it should display me an DropDown-Menu
filled with this things.

Little example:
Just write "MovieClip" and a "." (dot) and you get
this DropDown-Menu I'm talking about.

- The FlashPlayer should be able to view complex
animations with high FPS but without bringing my
System to its knees.

thx, Regan.

Maybe one day flash brings me the coffee..?

- using mxml without flex (directly from flash) ;)

advanced sound object---> pitch? read out the level of different frequency bands? would be good for graphic "equalizer".

And graphiccard support.

- bones
- joystic support
- MovieClip._scale(100%,55%);

Mike Downey has promised synchronous functions for things like loading .swf's, playing sounds, and - most important for me each and every day - AS execution pause:

http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2005/08/the_lesser-know.cfm

Will AS 3.0 have these new functions? I am immensely looking forward the day when I can untangle the layers of callbacks I am forced to use now.

ACTIONSCRIPT wishlist :
-MovieClip._skewX
-MovieClip._skewY
-String.trim()
-System.getFPS()
TYPE wishlist :
-Vector,Int,Long,Short...,without Array
OOP wishlist :
function func(num:Int[]=[1,2,3]):Void{
//........
}
function func(str:Strung[]=["a","b","c"]):Void{
//.............
}

movieClip_mc.moveTo("path.to.target", true);

to move a movieclip to a new position across the timeline, where path.to.target is the new position and the second parameter is to tell flash if to create empty movieclips if the path doesn't exist

I agree totall with ekameleon

Point #6 - Actionscript Snippets - I would really like to be able to highlight a chunk of Actionscript code and store into an Snippet library available within Flash.

That would be really really helpful, and would increase productivity

hi all,

things have been getting steadily better. People above have brought up some really good "wishes".

The sound object is something that needs some work. I'm sure we all have had that wonderful moment where you're background music plays different on every computer that runs it. There are ways around this, but it would be more user friendly to not make people tear their hair out looking for solutions. Also the spectrum analyzer value issue for AS2.0., mentioned above, would really add something wonderful to flash. I have built crude applications that are mere clip shufflers,based on a sound object, but a real analyzer would be quite a thing. (think sick flash skins for a music player).

I completely agree that since Macromedia and Adobe are now one big happy family, lets get the .psd, .ai, and adobe effects support integrated into the new flash. Currently we sometimes use a 3rd party script called "psd to fla". It's good, but requires meddling for optimization(i.e. changing properties of large file sized transparent gifs). Something native to Flash would probably do a cleaner job.

My final wish goes back to the text issues, raised by others, and the HTML support issue. The XML object is really helpful, but it has a lot of snickety rules, which have nothing to do with the CSS file, that is supposedly defining it. This is a real drag. I believe a developer involved in content management was bemoaning this fact above. He's right. More supported HTML tags...perhaps a dynamic field object which behaved more like dreamweaver. I would pee my pants for that.

thanks guys

MathML rendering

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding

- better speed for drawing with brush, (flash 8 is much slower than the previous versions, and its very hard to draw freely)

- Guidline layer with rasterized Sketch pencil, for animators (to be able to sketch freely in rasterized tool, like on "Corel Painter" or Photoshop, before inking with the flash's brush tool).

- Right to Left writing... pleeease...

- Color pallete realtime mixer, as illustrator CS2- to be able to take bunch of colors and filter them all together- very useful for animators and graphic designers

It should just have two buttons:

GO

and

GENERATE INVOICE

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding

Hello for everybody
A beginning we thank for a administration of the pioneer company macromedia for its continual effort and hairless in development in the milions program (macromedia flash)
But in all of the preceding versions the supporting of the arabic language and encoding don't become complete .
we realy need supporting writing right to left .
This point the tribute became complete to it
it doesn't rise developed by dissolution this former simple and an addition of this characteristic which will add a special zest for users of a flash and specially that he is true a large spread in the Arabic states our indefectible call for the company is the support of the arabic language
so

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding
support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding
support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding
support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding

I've read through and couldn't see reference to it - if it was mentioned, apologies!!

File browsing
There are a few locations where file browsing is required - for instance the media components - it'd be nice to actually browse for the file and not have to type in the url from scratch
Also in fields within components - the ability to paste text

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding

SUPPORT ARABIC . SUPPORT ATL Encoding

support ARABIC

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding

we need support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding
on the flash 9
bcoz a cant do action movie by arabic

help us for arabic flash thank you

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding

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yes i want to the flash mx 2004 support arabic
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id really love to see hardware rendering support, its really frustrating how little you can have happening on screen in games before it starts to lag, especially with the internet explorer plugin

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i see a few people have suggested it but i want to stress it again: - stop progressive download (XML, LoadVars)

hi
I wish that the new vwersion support arabic

thanks,
Mariam

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How about an actionscript command that will force the player to drop frames when running sluggish rather than displaying every frame and slowing everything down?

I know this can be accomplished by using an audio file of silence and set it to stream so that it forces the Flash player to keep the same timing, but that takes time and filesize.

Or is there a better way to do this? If anyone knows of a better option, please let me know.

andrew@langleycreations.com

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My wishes:

#1. Right-click on symbol (MC, Graphic, Button) at scene and option -> (ie) "Show this symbol in library"

#2. Right-click on symbol in library and option -> "Show (maybe TRACE) objects where this symbol is used"

That's all folks ;)

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First i want says Thank you all for helping us b4
and i hope some new help
i want at new Flash version is { supporting ARABIC } plz;
Thanx

Im a designer at oddcast and we use your products alot heres what needs to bechanged ASAP!

1. A new pen tool. Please make it like illustrator. I just cant stand the flash pen tool.

2. illustrator gradient import. Why does it get
so screwed up!! I dont want it to turn into bitmaps. It used to work fine back in the day.

3. Other symbol distortions like free distort in illustrator.

4. a better way to export flash to any video file.

thanks

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Just a few things (some of which I provided at MAX 2005)

1. The ability to dock the timeline elsewhere in addition to the main window would be nice.

I work on a dual monitor setup where all my panels are on one monitor so that I can utilize the other screen to work on the document. But it sucks because I can't simply dock the actions panel and the timeline panel into one block. each are seperate blocks. rather annoying.

2. The library allows you to right click symbols and you can "Move to a new folder". Well how about "Move to existing folder ->" which would then open up a sub menu allowing you to select from a list of folders already in your library to move that symbol to.

3. The library allows us to "Keep use counts updated" Well it would be nice if a sub-feature of that would be to right click a symbol in the library and choose an option called "List locations used" where a panel would open up listing all the places where that symbol is used so that it's easy to find them all and do any editing that we may need to. In large .fla it's sometimes very hard finding instances of symbols. especially if you come back to the file months after first creating it.

4. When creating a new symbol it would be nice if you could choose an option to "preserve layer integrity" which would simply create the new symbol for you for the object(s) you have selected but would also copy over the layer names and keep the same layer structure as well (layer properties, layer color, etc...). Otherwise we have to re-do our layer labeling and distribute the layers all over again ourselves. Not hard to do, just tedious.

That's all I can think of for now.

Thanx!

Keep up the good work Macromedia.

It was great meeting the few of you that I did at MAX 2005.

:)

Hello,

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Hi!
The very first thing I wish is free distortion for movie clips, and some improvement for sound design (I've got too many headhaches working with sound ;) )like getting the peaks for instance. That's all!
Sorry for my bad english, I'm french ya know...And please stop begging for an arabic version, we all understood that you want one ;)

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fonts are still a big problem: you still can't use device fonts under a mask, and the 'bitmap fonts - no anti alias' still uses anti aliasing on the pixeled fonts!

A publish to Quicktime/AVI option that takes into account nested movieclip animtations and actionscript.

I want flash to work with core PHP

Not directly flash9, but still very usefull for the game & entertainment industry (and me):
A DirectX Rendering Filter implementation of the flash Player. Imagine Flash Movies combined with DirectShow Captured Video mapped on a rotating 3d Cube...

Hello

I started working with Macromedia flash 4 years ago.
It is the best flash program.

1-But it would be good if you can create a
little smart & super tool with a friendly interface
to manage and create ActionScript.

2-Inserting html,php,asp files into the flash
some thing like html frames so the flash file will Explore web pages.

3-Please try to support all languages as Arabic and Chinese.

i'd like flash 9 to support arabic language ..
thanks,

hello,
well ... i guess that working with sound files is really frustrating !!
u should make it more simple :)

that's all and keep up the good work macromedia ;)

When a flash movie tries to access something outside of it's domain, I wish it would not fail silently. It would be great if flashed popped a dialog box asking for permission from the user to access content outside of it's domain. This would keep users secure, but still allow web applications to access the wider network (with user permission of course).

This is the biggest wish list item...

Please maintain previous Macromedia product pricing for Flash 9 and NOT Adobe's!!!

Eg. Price of Photoshop, compare Photoshop to any version of Flash - Flash was always better value for the consumer. I stuck with 'The Gimp', all the photoshop tools, effects with the added bonus of being totally FREE. Hell you could buy the whole Macromedia Studio for the price of one Adobe graphics program!

Other wishlist items:

* Ability to add the new effects Blur, Drop Shadow, etc.. to 'Graphic' symbols as well as the already supported 'Movieclips' and 'Buttons'.

* Better support for Javascript Actionscript communications.

* Like someone mentioned earlier - better hit test detection between shapes (not coord to shape or coord to box etc...) how about shape to shape to avoid multiple hit coord test's

Support PERSIAN (fa) and support content for cd catalogues.

Flash is an amazing product. So please pardon the bluntness of what follows. Even great products can get better!

RETHINK THE NAMING CONVENTIONS FOR MENUS/BUTTONS/DIALOGUES:
-- I teach Flash for a living, and my students continually get confused due to interface naming conventions.

-- In order to embed a font in a dynamic/input text field, what do you click? Where's the clearly marked EMBED FONT button? There is none. Instead it's called CHARACTER. Was this originally intended to lead you to many character options? It doesn't. It' leads you to embedding options, so why not label it as such.

-- Along the same lines, change ACTIONSCRIPT 2 OPTIONS to SET CLASSPATH, because those are the options you see when you click the button.

-- Why does "motion" tweening animate opacity? Is that motion? Rotation, scale (and now filters) are a stretch for "motion" too. How about the tween dropdown has three options: off, on and morph (for shape tweening)?

-- CONVERT TO SYMBOL. This creates so much confusion, I almost don't know where to start. When you select, say, a vector circle on the stage and press F8, you're not converting it into anything, you're PUTTING IT INSIDE SOMETHING. Saying that you're "converting it into a symbol" is like saying that when you put a baby in a car, you're converting the baby into a car. How about EMBED INSIDE SYMBOL?

-- Window > Actions should be changed to Window > Actionscript Editor or Window > Code Editor.

-- "Static Text" is very confusing. I've met so many people who say, "I want my text to move around the screen, so I guess I should choose Dynamic Text." Why not label the dropdown Programmable (or scriptable)? Options inside will be No, Yes (formerly dynamic) and Form Field (input).

-- File > Import to Stage vs. File > Import to Library. These are misleading. The first option should be called File > Import to Stage & Library.

-- File > Open External Library should be called File > Open Library from File...

-- Insert > Timeline > Keyframe, Insert > Timeline > Blank Keyframe and (the very worst!) Insert > Timeline Frame. VERY confusing.

How about?:

Insert > Timeline > Copy Left Keyframe F6
Insert > Timeline > Empty Keyframe F7
Insert > Timeline > Hold Last Keyframe F5

By the way, why doesn't Keyframe have a keyboard shortcut listed next to it in the menu?

-- Button is clear, but movieclip and graphic? So many people think if it's still, it should be a graphic. They don't understand that graphics have internal timelines. How about button, advanced movie (movieclip) and simple movie (graphic)?

-- There are more naming problems. I suggest someone at MM take a close look at this, because it makes the application unnecessarily hard for new users! If anyone there takes this seriously, and needs to talk to someone who has given this a lot of thought, I would be more than willing to help.

UPDATE THE AS EDITOR
-- No code folding makes the editor horrible for long applications.

-- Allow me to split a pane so that I can look at two parts of my code at once (i.e. keeping one pane scrolled to the top, where I place all my variables)

-- The default color-coding choices are horrible, and many people never change them. So they get needless syntax errors. The real problem is that the Keyword/Identifier colors are way too close to the background color. After 10 minutes, most people's eyes can't tell the two colors apart.

By changing the Keyword/Identifier colors to red, I have seen instant improvements in my students' code.

And size 10 fonts??? There must be some young eyes at MM!

-- Why can't I used Dreamweaver's code view to write AS? Surely it wouldn't be too hard to add code hinting and color-coding to it for AS syntax.

INTERFACE ISSUES

-- On the PC, stop the test window from popping up full screen. It does this when the document window is maximized. It shouldn't.

-- *** VERY IMPORTANT *** It's great that you can edit a symbol (in context) by doubleclicking an instance, but you should be able to turn this ability OFF by setting a preference. People are constantly doubleclicking by accident and not realizing they are no longer on the _root. This leads to endless confusion.

-- When placing text within a button, the Selectable Text option should be automatically TURNED OFF or Flash should generate a warning saying, "You've set your text to be Selectable. This may interfere with the user's ability to interact with the button."

-- Migrate ALL the tool options to the Properties panel. Why are some of them still at the bottom of the tools panel?

-- Fix docking on the PC. It's easy to float the Properties panel and then be unable to redock it.

ANIMATION

-- There are three major types of animation that many people would like to do in Flash, but which are difficult to do:

(1) Painting (i.e. an animated signature). You kind of have to do this frame by frame or via actionscpript.

(2) Complex text animation. After Effects got this right in version 6 and 6.5. Take a close look at their solution.

(3) Virtual cameras.

-- If there's every time, it would be great to have some sort of skeleton and IK system. But I think more people would benefit from the first three I listed.

-- I agree with others here that keyframes should be separate for each property, as in most animation programs. You've made great progress with the easing. Now we just need a more complex timeline in general.

SCRIPTING
-- can we ditch the / before droptarget names? This is an absurd amount of backward compatibility. If it can't be ditched, how about a new property, i.e. droppedOn, which is droptarget without the slash.

-- In a perfect world, Flash would work like Maya. In other words, ANYTHING you did via the design/animation interface would generate code. I realize that this is a tall order (I imagine the whole application would need to be rewritten), but it would be great to slowly move in that direction.

-- Specifically, I would like to be able to access FRAMES of a movieclip via code, after writing a createEmptyMovieClip command. Maybe something like...

_root.createEmptyMovieClip("mc",0);
mc.createKeyframe(1,"tween");
mc.attachToFrame(1,"circle");

-- it's probably too late to do anything about this, but the AS naming conventions need an overhaul, just like the interface ones do. Why do some property names start with underscores and others don't? Why do you attach Jpegs with attachMovie? Why the constant change between movie and movieClip? Needlessly confusing!

PLAYER

-- I'm sure some would disagree, but I would love MM to build a preloader into the player. Maybe it could be optional (when publishing, you could disable it). This would stop the endless time wasted creating preloaders. Also, animators who know no AS still need preloaders, and this would give them easy access to them.

Macromedia should allow Flash to play Shoutcast/Icecast stream from a buffer instead of storing the received data to the hard-drive. This would allow flash developers to build stream players that can connect to any shoutcast/icecast server and play indefinitely without using up the local machines hard-drive.

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Yes I need Arabic support in flash 8 or 9

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but i faced many problems but the main one is,

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It is a strange thing to find a famous program and powerful programmers but you can't use Arabic. Please, include Arabic in your new version. We suffer a lot when we use the program. Swish had done a great job by making the Arabic language available and usable.

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Maybe this time you'll build a complete IDE for Actionscript 2.0 ... by this I mean having a Class Browser and a complete CodeComplition editor with sintax highlight..

That's my wish since version 6.0.. but I think I can keep wishing right ?

TextFormat.getTextExtent should work properly and with HTML (XHTML) too
or TextField.textWidth with different text formats

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I think action script commands should be make more easyer for buttons, and preloaders should be made into flash 9.

So just figure a drag and drop preloader with a loading bar that you can custom with the script aready in there that auto updates with every frame made so you wont have to edit it.

Also, the action script changed but why not make buttons easyer to be made? Like in the props menu have Button URL: _____________

Speical effects, I do think some of theses should be made.

BTW, PLEASE USE SOMETHING ELUS THIS JAVA flash 8 screwed up me java and I cannot use any of the effects that use java.

IDE:

I'd really like Flash to have code hints for custom functions and classes without having to edit the XML files.
I think that would be cool because I always forget my own function and class names.
While I'm in this greedy rut, I also want drop downs for these custom classes to have properties and methods.
Basically the same 'hin-action' for user-defined classes and functions.

The Filereference Class :

Browsing and you can see the FULL path,
that's very usefull for desktop applications !!!!

> Improve FLA mobility
Add an option like "Save as FLX" or something to package (selectable) external resources.

Add an option like "New internal Font" to the libary panel to overcome the endless font issues when working in teams and still respect the font licensing (as font is not extractable)

> Object sensitive text wrapping
TextField.wrapRound(MovieClip, Hspace, Vspace)

> Improve memory control
Sound.useCache(false)
(for use with MP3 streams or large files)

> Improve loading control
Seamless loading control (like LoadQue Class idea)

Minor request: auto-hide the AS-editor when viewing/opening an *.as file

The flash 8 loader that appears when opening flash 8 is annoying because it stays on top of everything. I think that it would be better if it wouldn't stay on top of everything.

Through my limited experience with jsfl, I've already had the need to be able to get the duration of a sound in the library. I mean, we can get the name, the encoding rate, the bits, but not the duration? huh?

Also, why is it that insertFrames has the ability to add frames to every layer in a single call, but removeFrames doesn't have the same ability? It'd be nice if insertFrames( qty, allFrames, startingFrame) had a truly oppsite function, removeFrames( qty, allFrames, startingFrame).

And while I'm at it, why not give jsfl full access to the entire Flash code library? Maybe it does and I'm missing something...

Oh! And having a 'Find...' command that searched through all scripts at once? And to be able to click on a item in the library and find all instances on the timelines? And maybe even to be able to swapMovieClip(), switching one clip on the timeline with another?

And I second the suggestion to have native clip distortions. the DistortImage script floating around is a good start, but it has limitations.

Linux Flash Player!!!

at te moment the "multiplatform" flash 8 cover *only* win ad mac... 2 platforms!!! so what is the bigger difference with products like ms sparkle?

don't forget us!

Sound control in Flash has always been very limited - you can adjust the volume and panning but that's it. It'd be great to see more control.

I don't suppose it would be possible in AS3 to have sound envelopes and other manipulation effects similar to Java's JSyn? See here: http://www.softsynth.com/jsyn/docs/usersguide.html#CreatingEnvelopes

For example, being able to adjust the treble or bass of a sound or other equalizer-type effects would be extremely useful for improving low-quality streaming video or sound.

+ allow for TEAM development of flash source files. We love SVN with AS files but the binary format of the FLA restricts team development. Not sure how you would pull this off but definitly something I would gladly pay for.

+ Xpath optimized xml parser in the player. All of our components rely on Xpath and this would make a huge spead increase.

+ components panel is a joke. plugins are out there to make this better but the organization of the most important panel needs an upgrade.

+ MXI creator in flash. I know that this is a simple task, lots of open source plugins, etc. But the feature would really aid in our development team with everyone using the same process.

+ Multipol directories in the components menu. We have component packs. The pack is one folder and then would like to put other component types in sub folders.
ie Calculators->Loan->investment

+ Remoting inspector is a joke. This is such a cool technology but very hard for people to test within the flash ide.

+ class and method browser for actionscript. I guess we can just keep using eclipse but it would be nice. Code completion of included classes.

+ I could keep going but the above list would make me poney up for 22 new licenses. That's probably what you need to hear!

Better support for images in html textfields. Be able to have them inline with the text just like in html.

1. I wish that flash 9 code cannot be easily cracked any more (Obfurscator).

2. A problem with arrays is that until a certain number (around 150-200) they will be filled correctly one by one using array.push in a for-loop. However, then it becomes irregular and only every second array member will be added. Contact me for examples.

Ah, this is gonna be fun..

- Math.roundTo(number:Number):Number For rounding to a number, such as round 15 to the nearest ten, 20.
- 3D. Other people have mentioned it, and I see why it has not been done yet. I just think you could do something to help us coders out with 3D :)
- Automatic tooltips for user created functions/classes, I noticed this in the Flex 2.0 alpha and it's a great feature.
- Better filters, the glow is just laughable currently.. the Fireworks equivelant is a lot better.
- A framerate variable, showing the rate the Flash is playing at. This is easy to do manually, but it would be nice for debugging.
- Don't depreciate random, it's what everyone I know uses because Math.round(Math.random()*Number) is just too long, and I'll just have to create my own random function to replace it.
- Convert fills to lines, somebody I know suggested this the other day and I think it's a good idea, though it may be tough for you.
- BitmapData.lineTo(x, y), I've created my own simple function for this because it's useful.. implement it :)
- Context menu pop-outs, I don't know the actual name but we should be able to create our own.. the same way the Quality menu is done. Something like ContextMenuItem(caption, onselect, seperater, enables, visible, popout:Menu);

Thats all I can think for now =)

In addition to my reqeusts in my last post,

1 - Dynamic Area class similar to the Vector Class that the JAVA J2SE has where you can create an object

var myVectorArray:Vector = new Vector();
myVectorArray.addElement( String("John") );
myVectorArray.addElement( String("Jr.") );
myVectorArray.addElementAt( String("Smith"), 1 ); // adds element at index 1 of Vector Array
myVectorArray.addElement( 532456 );

But this class would allow you to add objects to this Vector array at particular locations, remove objects at a location, etc..

I won't go into details about this because they can all be viewed at the Vector Class Definition in JAVA

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/Vector.html

2 - Ability to zoom in greater than 2000% on the stage

3 - "Split Stage" feature that would allow you to split the stage into two (or more) viewable windows that each could view a different area of the .fla that you are working on. Switching between each of these views would also allow you to view the timeline, actions, etc... that pertain to that view.

4 - I submitted this request 2 versions ago and it still hasn't been implemented - Math.roundTo(num,numberOfDecimalPlaces)

5 - MovieClip._framelabel - ability to read what frame label the frame head is currently at

6 - the ability to add objects to a certain frame of a dynamically created MovieClip. And:

7 - In conjunction with previous request, MovieClip.setFrameLabel(label,frame) - when dynamically creating movieclips, would be nice if we had the ability to set a frame label.

8 - Better .swf import protection (I know practically everything can be reverse engineered, but how about making it at least a little bit more difficult). Current password protection doesn't do anything really.

How about support for gradient masking?

Attach movie clips via library linkage, from externally loaded movie clips.

I'm using flash for high end system emulations, i'd like the ability to bring in data from more external sources like .mdb files and manipulate them in the same manner as the XML class. Rather than at the moment have to develop other programs to convert the source to XML.

And the ability to see the actions panel of a fla and edit a .as file without the need for another Actionscript editor.

I'm working in vector design and using vector editors very much, and usual for adding and removing points to line(shape) using one tool. In Flash very complicated for adding new POINT. I think: if tool "Subselection" be able using for adding(double click) and removing POINTS. It make easy create desing in Flash.

camera movement,brushes (pay close attention to Microsoft expression.. they want to compete with drawing tools that flash should have had since some versions ago)

MovieClip.nextFrameLabel();
MovieClip.prevFrameLabel();

IDE :

- Help Panel : Tabs like in Firefox. To keep search.

- Help Panel : Option to sort result! Try search "attachBitmap" only in AS2.0 guides , you obtain 50 results. You read all lines... and find that "attachBitmap" method is at 48's line ! This is an every day waste of time.

I am a sound guy as well as an actionscripter, so some thigs I'd like you guys to take into consideration is:

-Audio effects, both real time (microphone, pressing buttons to change in the player) and in the IDE.

-Audio recording - Don't know how you guys will do that, but it'd be really nice. Microphone.record()

-Variables for both the default FPS it was set to, and what FPS it's running at in real time.

-Direct access to pixel value object for the BitmapData class. In case a developer wants to upload something to a website or maybe recreate a screenshot function by saving the data to a share object, it'd be nice to just call the function and get it, instead of looping through the whole thing and getPixel()

I would be a dream come true to have some more compression when exporting to swf, so the movie lags less, more detailed content could be inserted

I would like if Alt was a shortcut to the eyedropper tool. Like in Photoshop.

In as3 docs I can see for MovieClip property :

currentLabel : String [read-only]

It will be nice if we can access all the labels of the time line in one action, get an array of labels :

- getLabels

or walk trhough labels :

- nextLabel
- previousLabel

Thanks

I like a lot of the suggestions made here:

Javascript, HTML, CSS advances and Native functions

I know I would love to see actionscript be able to handle server side things natively. For example, PHP is an open source technology, it could somehow be built in to have its own api and actionscript functions to interact with a webserver like PHP does.

Also, having OpenGL would be great, but why not build in internal 3d functionality like in Swift3d. Swift3d imports great with flash, why not build its functionalit and interface in with flash that would make 3d rendering so much easier to do with flash.

Those were my big ideas, I will post more if I think of some that haven't already been mentioned.

-Operator Overloading/Proper method overloading
-a non deprecated random function not Math.random()
-a more full Math class, atm i have made my own math class extended with all trig functions and things such as Gamma, Factorial, Complex Numbers, Binomial Coeffecients etc.
-a more full BitmapData class with things like lineTo etc instead of using the draw() method all the time with a movieclip
-like people have said, openGL would be very very veyr very nice even with the massive speed improvement in AS3, 3d is still relatively limited

-Thanks to the new bitmap features in Flash 8, we now have access to a much better means of accurate collision detection, and there are already a number of websites that demonstrate how to do this. Obviously, pixel level hit detection is always going to be fairly processor intensive, but I can't help but get the feeling that this process could be streamlined and optimized if Macromedia would do us the huge favor of making it a built-in, native process. Hit detection is definitely one area where we need to squeeze as much power from the processor as possible.

-Ability to group timeline with other windows. 75% of the time I have the actionscript editor maximized to occupy most of the screen and it would be great to be able to dock the timeline in the same window as the editor and be able to see it while I'm working with scripts, collapsing the timeline with a single click when I don't need it. Currently I have to constantly shift the editor window around the screen to keep the editor at my preferred size while referencing the timeline at the same time.

-Ability to automatically send selected frames to a specified frame number. Sometimes you need to move frames to a specific frame and currently that means manually scrolling through sometimes thousands of frames. (I apologize if there is already a way of doing this through JSFL or otherwise, but I haven't had a chance to fully explore that feature yet)

-When "exporting movies" (such as Quicktime) from Flash it would be nice if there was an option to render ActionScript output. For example, in the "Export Movie" dialog box, there could be an option to specify a length of time during which the movie's ActionScript automatically runs and any changes it makes to the screen are saved to the exported file. ActionScript is great for creating a wide variety of effects, but it's a shame that we can't directly output those effects to a digital video file (currently I have to do screen captures of a running SWF and then compile those into a digital video file if I want to use prerendered versions of ActionScript generated graphics. This is a huge headache of a workaround and still leaves me with no alpha channel support). JSFL can be used to create images approximating what ActionScript would produce (which would then export properly), but ActionScript is still much more capable (for one thing, it's easier to test ActionScript output while writing it) and it'd be nice to be able to use the exact same ActionScript code that you use for runtime effects (ie, in a SWF file) in a digital video file for use with prerendered portions of a project. Macromedia seems to be struggling to find a balance between Flash as designers use it and Flash as developers use it, and most of the recent Flash releases have been criticized as pandering to one group while completely ignoring the other. Part of this problem is that, for animation houses that utilize Flash, the recent ActionScript updates have been completely meaningless to their traditional product development pipelines. ActionScript can't be (easily) used to develop prerendered features for television or film output. This is unfortunate because ActionScript has tremendous potential for not only speeding up and simplifying many traditional animation processes, but it's also a tremendously untapped resource for enhancing prerendered animation. Imagine animators being able to specify a behavior for a specific object that is used in multiple scenes, and then being able to easily change that behavior in all instances simply by updating the associated ActionScript without having to manually change numerous keyframes. It's a benefit that we currently enjoy when deploying SWF files but is completely inaccessible for prerendered content. ActionScript is also great for producing any number of visual motion graphic effects and the ability to prerender would provide many traditional animators a powerful tool for easily enhancing their productions through preprogrammed behaviors. Really, the possibilities and benefits are endless.

hi

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A spray paint tool would be nice :)

I would love to be able to distort/envelope movie clips.

On the topic of enveloping, PLEASE make the steps undoable! If you accidentally click outside of the envelope, then you just have to start over again.

It would be nice if you could sync sound so that it would stretch to fit the frame rate rather than dropping frames.

Changing the frame rate via action script would be uber helpful. You could have a flash website that would run at 30fps until it loaded in an animation done at 24fps, like a portfolio site for example. It would also make it so you could compensate for the fact that a swf always runs slower when viewed in a browser.

It would be nice to have a simple pre-made embedded video player with control buttons and all we could just upload to our server.

Would make for easy embedded for those less tech savy.

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The things that i think of now for Flash 9 are:

- graphic card support (via openGL or DirectX), instead of using the CPU for almost everything;

- correct exportation of movie clips while exporting to a movie file;

- a method like : my_mc._newname="name2";

What I would like to see is "raw" sound support.

Maybe some kind of ByteArray you can write to, and it controls the speaker "rawly". Meaning you can make a sawtooth or sinewave or something like that.

Howabout better alignment tools (Modify>Align)?

Support Arabic

Yes I need Arabic support in flash 8 or 9

Keep __proto__ FOR EVER please!
Or, make it possible to have many classes in one *.as file.
We are big combany maintaining huge amount of online casinoes and we will be forced not to move to as3 or as4 if there won't be support of many class declarations in one file or, __proto__ keyword.

things such:

1- my_mc._tint, my_mc._luminosity, and so on

2- support for dynamic audio generation (like MIDI)

users of a flash an specially that he is ture a large spead in the Arabic states our indefectible call for the company is the support of the arabic language so

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How about a script that plays movieclips in reverse?

ex.

myBtn.onRollOut= function()
{

myMC.playReverse();

}

- MovieClip/Sprite Quad deformation

- geom.translate( Point( x,y ) ) // Point argument possibility

Use a better audio codec than MP3. Even though you now have a better encoder, your audio codec bloats files as compared to Windows Media. Small file size is mission critical for what we do.

-More html support, so you can use tables or divs inside the textfields. This would be a great enhancement for full-flash sites combined with a cms. If the table layout with css rendering.

-Perspective tool for shapes/clips

-As far as as3 goes, it looks like a LOT of work typing all that code, not very designer friendly.
And it takes a programmers-mind to cope with all the changes in syntaxing etc. Maybe some easy shortcut-type-thingys for designers? (not like the point&click easy editor, but just a bit more condensed)

- maximize button on the AS panel for a second screen.

- scale 9 function idea is great, but bitmap support would be better.

- i liked the actionscript dictionairy (like in mx2004) better then the flash 8 help function

being able to stretch/shrink the time of an animation, reverse frames is already there so seems like a reasonable update?

Six other things:
1) Fix windowing issues!!! There are so many inconsistencies with windowing and wmode cross-browser and cross-platform. I know all of aren't your fault (such as the Mac clipping issue), but so many more can be fixed by you. Please, for instance, go through Bugzilla and find issues that you can fix.
2) Provide a workaround for the Firefox Flash 8 memory corruption issue. I know it's not your fault, but we're going to shut off the ability for Gecko 1.7.5 through anything less than 1.8 to use Flash on our content to improve user experience.
3) Please provide a developer tool to more quickly switch Flash versions. Some issues I deal with on a daily basis are version-dependent, and having to uninstall Flash and reinstall an older version each time, then return back to the newer version kills productivity. We otherwise have to have 5 computers per developer, or lose workplace productivity.
4) Come out with sub versions (patches) when severe issues are found and force patch installation. I have to do a nasty workaround for Flash 7 because of your memory corruption issues and windowing issues. I don't understand why things like this weren't patched immediately, and therefore still only 22% of people have this fixed. It's silly for some things to take 3 years to appear fixed for more than 90% of users.
5) FORCE seamless (without messages) auto-upgrades instead of prompting when updates are available. If users want to turn this off, they can do it manually in options, but turn it on by default.
6) Please provide a way to embed the quicktime and windows media player inside a Flash movie and control the playback programattically.

As a prototyper on multi-lingual projects, I really need RTL support for Arabic languages. I was shocked when I found out that Flash text isn't bi-directional, and there doesn't seem to be any feasible work-arounds for this. If Flash is supposed to be an international development platform, this should be the first priority.

support ARABIC. support RTL Encoding.

hi,

great requests so far. but there's quite low number of requests that point to the Flash Authoring, and i think Mike is asking us for Flash Authoring features.

Flash 8 is nice, but i see no improments in Flash 8 Authoring, it only provide us few dropdowns for setting filters and etc new things in FlashPlayer8. (no Flash8 Authoring features, toolbar remains same, same _btn style intelli-sense, etc).

it was said that Flash8 will be disegner's version of Flash, but unfortunatly, it came without any diesigner tools. just a quick example, the designer toolbar on the left have no new tools :|, what we would expect as new designer tool in toolbar is for example, a full-fledge selection tool, like in photoshop or stamp tool for bitmaps, etc. there's lot of them that i belive should be Flash if i call Flash a designer tool.

i think i am the most disappointed Flash developer. i've been developing flash apps when flash3 was in market, i guess 1997/8. i was disconnected from internet, flash4 cameout and i still remain disconneted, just before the release of flash5, i get internet connectivity, and i wrote a big wishlist to MM, it was all full with Flash Authoring features. flash5 cameout, i sent again another even bigger wishlist to MM, asking many authoring & player features, ie. the real intelli-sense, SOAP webservices, advanced date object, Timer object, advanced string object, etc.

but i never get and feedback from MM, and these features keep missing in Flash, so making me disappointed on every release.

currently Flash Authoring gives a intelli-sense in a very poor way. like if i write _btn. a popup menu will be shown, without checking the if the object exist in AS, or on the stage :|. its not intelli-sense. MM call it codehints.

i think we need a full fledged Flash IDE (Integrated Development Enviroment), rather then just Flash Authoring.

you maybe get surprised that i am the first developer (i blieve) who managed to call a pure SOAP webservice in flash6 (flashplayer 6). i used ContentType property to add SOAPAction header. myXML.ContentType = "text/xml\nSOAPAction:....";
i posted it on MM flash forums and sent a reuqest to MM, and in only few days MM released FP6.40 with addrequestheader property. followed by fixing a bug in FP6.47. i still didn't got any feedback from MM :|

but i am still hopefull, and keep posting to MM. i am working on another VERY BIG & NICE feature request for Flash Authoring mainly, that i'll be posting all around. but this time i am planning a diffirent way to make it reach the flash team.

So, keep tuned in.

to see my few whishlits that i sent to MM, visit:
http://www24.brinkster.com/chall3ng3r/flashmx/
you may notice that there are still many important features missing, and these whishlists are more than 2 years old.

Note: all the above written are my personal expriences, and i didn't wanted or want to demean MM or anyone else, but to pointout things that should be looked at & learn from, and make things better. i am sorry if anyone feels i got too angry.

if someone likes somthing, he tries to make it better, so that i was trying to do for past few years.

I LIKE MACROMEDIA & FLASH :)

// chall3ng3r //

Issue:
When viewing a movieclip on the main timeline, synchronizing animation inside the mc with action on the main timeline can be challenging because you're not able to see the mc animation until you go "inside" the mc.

Solution:
Redesigning the way layers are presented: Layers would act more like "folders". Underneath the folder would be all of the objects on that layer (viewable using a show/hide dongle). For example, let's say you create a new layer on the main timeline then place two mc's on that layer. You would see the name of the layer, then underneath that, the names of the mc's. Each mc could then have it's own dongle to show the layers underneath that. This would give you the ability to view and edit the timelines of the mc's right on the main timeline.

This "timeline tree-view" of your movie would of course be completely "hideable" (using the dongles).

I almost forgot, and this is the most important:

We need to be able to have a command-line compile utility. We compile lots of Flash files at the same time, and this would be very helpful. In fact, make one now, don't wait for Flash 9.

..what about a feature that's almost 10 years overdue?!

bleh- forget midi. include a basic tracker please!!

(suggested by Frank P. Baumgartner in 2002; http://www.active-web.cc/html/research/f6sync/f6sync.txt)

"to natively support XM or any similar MOD format playback (using something like FMOD player -http://fmod.org/) would take no more than about 30k of plugin size"

ihope to see flash by arabic

Now that Flash is going to be part of the ADOBE family of products we would like to have a better integration between illustrator, After Effects, Photoshop and Flash –basically the same level of integration that exist between the current Adobe programs at the moment.

We also need better tipographical control, in the same league as Indesign and Illustrator: Small caps, ligatures, the works. This support should also extend to the HTML interpreter in flash

In order to use the best fonts available we also need opent type support.

Thanks!

Native functions :

Array.indexOf()

Array.unique()

3d support. Allow us to work in xyz space. 3D support would be huge. We don't need 3D creation ( model, rigging...) We need the abity to use maya exported .swf turnarounds in te Flash auhoring envrionment and be able to work in xyz space. Flash we have to do this (3D) to keep up with Sparkle.

3D Support! 3D Support!

- A runtime function that list all bitmapdatas / cacheAsBitmap objects and return the size take in memory by each.

- Return the sum of memory size used by bitmap caching in realtime.

Color coding blocks (so you can give any range of line a specific highlight color yourself) and collapse function is AS editor !

Getting sound frequenties for equalizers

ok well i have 2 main ideas =D they both probebly have been said many times over but none the less

1. Saving to file
i would like it so you could dynamicly make a XML file somthing that holds a few variables i know theres shared objects but they can be only used by one swf and you cant determin where the file is going to be placed.
I know there mabey problems with people who want to do bad stuff with that like replace other XML files or spam the crap out of your harddrive with xml files so i came up with this.
you dont have the extension .xml you have a new extension like .efx (external flash XML file) and
you can only override .efx files made by that swf.
so yeah =D

and number two
2.
Have a better sound editing tool make it so you can also mix and match sounds with in th swf and stuff like that

Way to realize non affine transformations on bitmap objects would be great.

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How about Importing Photoshop Layers as Flash Layers, Like in After Effects.

-When locking a layer, selection should change automaticly to next unlocked layer.

-When selecting line tool, Color Mixer should automaticly change to edit the line color

-Same for Brush, Fill etc.

-When drawing, right mouse button is useless within "Work Area" - if clicked, the popup menu can only be hided when left mouse button is pressed, but this couse to draw something, so insteed, I think, right button should work as eraser or alternaive color. The popup menu will only show up when using selection tool.

-MORE FREE SPACE. Especialy the color mixer takes to much space.

-Hers a million dollar question:
First, hide the Edit bar, now double-click some symbol in library. How to go back to main timeline? Its the only reason I keep the Edit Bar :/

-Why the Color Mixer holds the same items that already are on Tools bar?

-It would be cool, that if nothing is selected, arrows keys would move the side bars of Work Area

-Also grid color should be somewhat 'smart'- changes depending on whats under it.

-Moreover grid should always be under currently selected layer and above all layers below

-Another cool thing: zooming of area under mouse cursor with mousewheel.

-Paint Bucket Tool should treat visible area as bounderis, so by clicking on empty area in frame of main timeline, everything should fill, the same way as I would make a rectangle around the visible area... I hope its is understandable :s

-More options for "Onion Skin", like: 'Onion skin only for selected layer', setting % of transparency etc.

-Options for layer: "Hide/outline all objects". Not hiding whole layer but just objects on it.

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Workspace layout for dual screen.

I work with dual screens and Flash doesn't save panels position on my secondary screen although i've saved a workspace layout with all panels on the secondary screen, so every time I open Flash I have to move the panels to its position.

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i would like you add the possibility to work with brushes, like in photoshop, it will be great!

almost forgot, also layer blend modes

Is there a way to get the script for writing to this blog?

It would be great to control/define colors not only by actionscript. How about a swatch-palette like in Illustrator. There i could define and easily change colors for any object in my project based on a defined swatch.

3D Objects (CellShaded)
3D Space
3D Grid
3D motion paths
3D Camera
3D ActionScript Classes
3D Max Support (.3DS)

and I will be happy :)

3D Objects (CellShaded)
3D Space
3D Grid
3D motion paths
3D Camera
3D ActionScript Classes
3D Max Support (.3DS)

Id like to see bones, this would make animating a lot easier, i have downloaded a program called koolmoves which actually supports bones with your 2d drawings. thnx

flash 8 is great but their should be one more improvement that i would like is the possibility of music equalizer or discoo lights i mean when a music is being played and i want to show its visualization but there is no way to do it in flash unless to create a fake visualizations it would be much better if macromedia teamm enhance flash with making realtime visualizations for the loop music that works dynamically using graphics routines and some methods and properties to handle dynamic approach thanks and
regards

here's an easy one. how about an 'invert mask' layer option? :)

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What about animating content within a mask layer, and animate this with a motion guide?

i had this idea for a "mesh mask" a while ago..

basically, you would put an image to be masked onto the stage, like normal, then if you select "mesh", flash will put a mesh grid over the mask, and provide you with photoshop-esque liquify tools, where you can distort the mesh (which distorts the image at the same time) in the animation.

id also like an actionscript function that returns the current loudness of a song playing, for visualizations, and, of course, 3d support.

Please slove the arabic language problem , we need to write in arabic in yuor greate flash

Hi ! from Brazil ! :-)

Well .. the macromedia team should really do efforts in less effects for now, and more accessible content and styling of dynamic content, and xml, some integrated prototypes, like tweens or preloaders.

Concerning about acessibility to handcaped users, and to a more "bot" acessible content options.

Well.. redundancy sometimes is nice eauh AIEUhe ui ...

regards.
Jonathas Scott

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How about vector & raster pattern support?

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Anchor to re-scale the stage, is very boring now, I need relocated all if I need change the stage width...

If the stage rescale for the side that i want... :-) it will be very better...

Please give us (the designers) the power to create Irregular window presentations with Flash 9!

hello
i love micromedia flash

First of all thank you macromedia for flash 8. It is a proof of how robust and innovative is macromedia.
I am personally more concerned in player than anything else because that will make flash the future development platform.
My wish list is :
- Lightweight really skinnable components. I could never use AS2 components where 20 combo boxes and 10 lists are present in the same form.
- I think Xpath and Regex is implemented in player 8.5 so I am not sure if this is a wishlist.
- A reasonable more control on textfields (especially creating tables) would really make ajax uses think about ajax again.(of course with lightweight components)
- An implementation of multidimensinal array would be superb.
- You have been promoting RIA for years but your store does not work. I have failed to buy a product from your store several times especially with those nasty successive javascipt sounds. that is not what macromedia has made us get used of. Focus on solution not on theory.

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The ability to pass in extra parameters to the attachMovie function that will be used to instantiate the MC is fantastic. However those paramaters need not appear in the contructor of a class that the MC is using.

When looking at the class it can be confusing as variables pop up and of course have been given values but it is not obvious just looking at the class where those variables have come from.

I hope with the sticter standards of AS 3 you are going to cover this ambiguous dev issue too.

Would be great to have the possibility to load one or more shared Libraries at runtime.

thx cYe

-Support Right to Left languages (ARABIC)
-Support RTL Encoding
-3D Objects (CellShaded)
-3D Space
-3D Grid
-3D motion paths
-3D Camera
-3D ActionScript Classes
-3D Max Support (.3DS)
-Why the Color Mixer holds the same items that already are on Tools bar?
-It would be cool, that if nothing is selected, arrows keys would move the side bars of Work Area
-Also grid color should be somewhat 'smart'- changes depending on whats under it.
-Moreover grid should always be under currently selected layer and above all layers below
-Another cool thing: zooming of area under mouse cursor with mousewheel
-Import photoshop file (.PSD)
-Add and increase more ready effects and filters.
-Export DivX video format.

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Three things are bugging me:

1.Could you make setting the colour workflow a little bit more intelligent? I have three different color selectors on screen simultainously, (toolbar, properties and the Color pad, above the library) and only one of them work for each thing i want to do! The others allow me to pick a colour, but nothing happens.
2. Could you fix the search function in the Help so that it actually returns relevant hits? Right now it is impossible to use,because it returns a zillion pages each time.
3.Talk to the nice people at Adobe and please allow them to make some small changes to how you draw shapes in Flash. Particularly the way flash handles stroke is horrible. If I want to change a stroke, it takes me 5 minutes. I find myself redrawing stuff that are only slightly wrong and importing from Illustrator as much as possible.

Cheers

1. Definitely exporting nested animations to video
2. Exporting actionscript to video is needed too
3. MIDI support would be very much appreciated
4. More filter effects (+ faster rendering)

I don't know if it's just my PC, it's a laptop with a 1Ghz processor and built-in graphics.But when I preview those filter effects they really seem to slow everything down. Oh yeah, the fact that I mostly work on 30 fps could be the cause too, I use such a high framerate for broadcasting.

HSB in ColorTranform

Hi

PDF support !
It will be very useful for me (and other people I think) to have possibility to add PDF in flash animation.
That should be possible for the new Adobe-Macromedia company :)

Thanks a lot

-make some kind of tool that allows you to animate two layers at the same time. Example: you add a keyframe on a layer, the other one get's one too. You tween the objects in one layer, the ones at the other are tweened too. It would help a lot when making an animation.
-Add a way to "conect" two Mc's by a "point". It would be similar to "snap to objects" . But you would be able to choose a point where it would be snaped.

Let us work on a stage that has no fixed dimensions - makes it easier to create flash objects that float over html or whatever . . .

Dynamic frame rate (key frame info should exist in time intervals, not frames therefore allowing me to create an animation that can be rendered in higher quality on a better machine but still finish at the same time, the computer simply renders more transision frames when possible)

BETTER COMPRESSION!!!

How about ability of read jpeg exif data ?

I agree with Philippe Chevalier

1. Definitely exporting of actionscript and nested animations to video.
2. And also MIDI support. This results in audio that isn't the same for every PC because of different audio-cards,
BUT it has a VERY VERY small filesize, and therefor less dowload time.

-RT

Hey, sorry, I forgot one.
Maybe a ".onMouseRightClick" action would be nice.
Then you could really have an own cusor.
Of course on a mac this would be transferred to command+click.(or option, I'm not sure sorry)
If you rightclick now with a custom cursor, the original one reappears.
And if there is no custom action for the rightclick, the default action (the rightclick menu) should come up.
thnx

-RT

- Be able to print Dynamic Text (html formatted too) to printer with multiple page functionality.

- Or better yet; Actionscript that prints directly to FlashPaper.

- An IFRAME style component that links to a real external html doc.

- New Components to create flash IDE's; tab, rollup window, splitter bar for complex interfaces.

That's it for now

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please i want this version to support arabic and rtl encoding and right mouse action to develope it's list

Just one request.

A decent IDE for actionScript. With all the goodies a programmer would expect form a IDE like Code completion, syntax hightlighting, interactive debugger.

Flash is moving more into the realm of Director but it penalises programmers.

I think support or ARABIC is wanted...

Really though, It would be nice if there was a quicker option for the application of (external)css on text

First thought, which promted this visit, was the ability to use html on static text, which goes against it's definition but still plausable

Supporting the first thought was to then possibly add an inheritance of css to .swf from the file displaying it.

For final support would have Flash look for that css file while developing (like dreamweaver does for its embeded styles).

Extended support for css in general wouldnt hurt

Other than that Id have to say i'm in love.

ps. more customization of the context menu (right click)

1) Compiler callable from the command line. Makes autobuilding/incremental building much easier.

2) An editable source file (e.g. XML file) that represents the library of the current .fla. Containing references to external bitmaps, font resources, external SWFs etc. For compile-time rather than run-time use - makes life much easier for shared development of projects and assets via version control.

3) Proper shared library / shared font support.

4) Ability to associate an external .as file with the main timeline.

5) Ability to attach a MovieClip to _any_ timeline, not just the timeline of the movie it was loaded in and below.

6) A 'clean up clip' option which removes any objects/polygons below a certain threshold size.

hi macromedia : your fucking product flash x dont support arabic langage why...

^solved your own question

1) midi implementation (imagine all the crazy visuals we could create with it !!)

2) adding a "alling everything to a whole pixel" option in the menu (no more shaded boxes and stuff like that 101.3 becomes / 101 etc ...

3) the most important one // add a keyboard shortcut for "import to library"

thanx
flash rules !

NetStream enhancements:
- ability to programmatically set the bytes of a NetStream connecting thru a NULL NetConnection (progressive download). This functionnality would looks like the Loader.loadBytes(...) method but would work in a non-blocking mode(like sockets work).
- That is all, but essential for potential flv encryption and cache-control and good video quality all at the same time.

1: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE: The ability to embed movie (especially .mov, but others as well) files into flash WITHOUT HAVING TO CONVERT THEM TO .FLV. I absolutely hate flv format. If I want to create a professional presentation and I want it to be in flash, I have to crank the quality up to 5000 kb/s under custom and it still isn't perfect quality, while outside of flash I can use the H264 codec to have perfect quality movies that are tiny in filesize.

2: Better animated Gif exporting. Fireworks has wonderful gif export, but I don't like using it because using different frames can be a pain.

In Flash, there's no "optimize for ___ filesize" option, and no matter what quality or number of colors you set it to, it always exports with absolutely ugly gifs.

3: Different viewpanels, like in programs like maya, so I can have one panel viewing my stage as a whole at 100% to see my effect, and another viewpanel either zoomed in on a specific object I'm editing, or maybe inside a movieclip editing code or animation in the movieclip while still seeing its placement in the whole movie in my other panel. The timeline could simply change to represent the timeline of whichever panel was last active (last clicked in).

Thanks a lot guys, flash 8 rocks.

I would love to seee flash 9 suporting QTVR!! :)
able to have effects and filters like photoshop!!! and the possibility of animating those filters!! and to input plug ins!!
More of after effects features!!!
integrate axel v2 features!!! being able to design 3d inside flash with the same ease that flahs allow us to use with 3d graphics!

another one

an method
that traces all variables of a object
like this

airplane.vars()

results into

wing : "left one" type:String
nose : "checked" type:String

etc

just for quick checking if vars are set
thanks !

Imagine a flash player that would PERFORM ON MAC. That would be nice, and I'm not talking about the OpenGL fix only working on G4+.

Come on guys, gets your hands dirty!

Don't people know that most of advertising companies uses macs? Will we always have to explain to our clients that flash is slow on their 5000$ dual mac and we cannot do a thing about it?

Three phrases should be among the most common in our daily usage. They are: Thank you, I am grateful and I appreciate.

Better performance for mac computers...

Please I beg you!!!!

I would love to seee flash 9 suporting ARABIC & support RTL Encoding

Three phrases should be among the most common in our daily usage. They are: Thank you, I am grateful and I appreciate.

Three phrases should be among the most common in our daily usage. They are: Thank you, I am grateful and I appreciate.

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I'd love to see a better preview menu for bitmaps, since we're still using that awful little page with a little square that previews jpeg compression and you can't see nothing in there... it's so little! :(

I want these upgrades on the tools:
-When you draw a line you can choose if its going to be a line or fill.
-More brush's on the brush tool.
-If you select allot of crossed lines and convert them to fill they just get f***ed up, so fix that.
-when you are strting flash you can open more than one file on the start menu.

First off, enough of the "ARABIC . support RTL Encoding" requests, geez. It's a great idea, but I think they get the picture already. This isn't a lottery where the more you post the better chance it gets implemented, like duh. Go spam some other list already. (Admin, can we get these idiotically superfluous posts removed?)

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Features I'd very badly like to see in FLash 9:

PLAYER:
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- ***Most Important Request of All: FIX THE MEMORY LEAK ISSUE!!!***
It is totally not cool that an unscrupulous (or ignorant) flash developer could crash a user's machine using this bug in less than 10 seconds.

THIS IS A MAJOR SECURITY ISSUE, NOT A BUG REQUEST.

What should be implemented here is a security protocol that specifies what percentage of the user's RAM the flash player is allowed to consume, so that no matter how a swf is coded, the flash player can NEVER crash a user's machine due to a memory leak issue. See Grant Skinner's page at http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2005/10/major_flash_pla.html for details.

IDE, Drawing Tools/Misc.UI:
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- TIME-BASED TIMELINE!!!
1. Ability to switch between frame-based and time-based timeline;
2. Timeline similar to after-effects or LiveMotion, and where separate properties could be listed or colour-coded differently and represented on the timeline;
3. ability to change the fps without altering the timing of all tweens (i.e. time-based timeline);
4. coloured frames and layers

- Improved colour palette control:
1. ability to drag & arrange colours how I please (so I can get neat rows of palette gradients, not some chaotic mishmash);
2. ability to 'list as name' like you can in Photoshop;
3. ability to give custom names to colours.
4. colour picker would recognize a custom colour name (as a useful alternative to using/remembering all those hex codes!!)
5. pantone colour palettes (for those of us who actually use photoshop for design ;) -- very useful when porting a print ad over to a flash banner, or when approximating clothing colours on the web.

- Greater integration between Photoshop/Flash: filters/blend modes in photoshop, when importing a PSD into photoshop, will conserve layers and filters. Selection of filters/blend modes in Flash mirror the defaults in Photoshop;

- Improved Filter/Blend Modes UI similar to the Photoshop filters/layer effects UIs;

- Illustrator-compatible brushes

- better sound waveform manipulation (I mean c'mon, the UI here has not changed since Flash 5!)

- tabbing between documents: should have an option in the preferences where a) tab order is according to last doc selected (current feature), or b) tab order is order of tabs in the IDE, which I think is much easier to use and more intuitive

- Improved Help Navigation: right now the help panel seems to be based on an explorer browser shell. It's impossible to bookmark help pages with Mozilla/Firefox, and a real pain in the ass to do so in Explorer (I shouldn't have to leave the IDE to find a bookmarked help page). If I wanted to bookmark the livedocs-equivalent page, I'd click on the livedocs link and bookmark that in my browser. So in summary,
1. There ought to be a way to bookmark help items IN THE IDE ITSELF;
2. a preferences option of what browser to open up external help links, so that livedoc links in the help files would open up in whatever is the user's default/selected browser, not only IE.

IDE, Development Tools/UI:
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- Improved Pinned Scripts:
1. when you save the FLA, currently pinned scripts are 'bookmarked' with the FLA, so that when you open up the FLA again you don't have to waste time finding all your scripts all over again;
2. capability to list full OOP AS path to the object versus the IDE/library name of the object. It's much more useful for me to identify a script tab based on the instance of the object/timeline it's on instead of the library object name, which may be different if multiple instances are used.

- A Class Explorer Panel: AS 3.0 virtually requires a class explorer panel which would show the relationships between ALL possible importable flash classes (including user-custom classes placed in a certain director or used in the project), with highlighting for those classes currently imported, and context sensitive menus in the chart to import a certain class or class family into the first (or other) frame of your movie. This would go a long way to offset the coming pain-in-the-ass-ness of the AS 3.0's re-architechting of how classes work, easing the transition for those of us who are still designer/developers and still want to use the flash IDE to do some serious programming without moving to Flexbuilder just to do our AS competently.

- Improved Project Panel:
1. works more like the site listing in Dreamweaver, so you don't have to waste time manually selecting files;
2. unfortunately the current implementation of the project panel is next to useless to me because it's not compatible with other versioning systems like Tortise CVS or the like;
3. able to create new files right in the project panel based on flash templates or user-custom templates -- including .as & .jsfl files
4. option to list multiple versions of the same file in the panel, similar to what some versioning control systems can do -- so one can go back and see what a previous file version looked like;

- animated gif importing

ActionScript:
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- Implementation of a runtime trace class, to ease the pain of debugging in the client

- improved HTML support for HTML textfields; access to the HTML parser via a subclass of the XML class?

- midi implementation (so we can get frequencies from sounds and play with them!!), which would open the door for a sound.matrix.transform class.

- ability to use secure encryption algorithms would be a nice security feature

- Tweens:
1. ability to get the tween equation resulting from the custom tween panel UI for use in actionscript;
2. a simplified, easier to use version of the tween class similar to Zeh Fernando's MCtween: http://hosted.zeh.com.br/mctween/author.html (and if you do integrate his ideas/code, give him credit for it somewhere, not like what happened with Robert Penner and the current tween class)

- MovieClip.framelabel (read/write)

- MovieClip.play() == true/false (read capability, returns true if MC is playing)

- a pure AS 3D class/API that will enable the simulated positioning of objects in a '3D' space, with various methods for camera angles (multiple cameras), depth of field, bitmap fills (for texture skinning), extension of the drawing API etc.

- a random number class or method that has seed variable capability

- fix the bug in setTimeout()

Extended text tool.

Implement all the stuff you could with text from Freehand.

Wrap it around objects, creating style sheets etc

64-bit, OGG and THEORA support.

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add a parameter to the save related methods in order to get rid optionally of the bloody dialg asking to update the fla to newer version.

thank you 900 times (the times i had to click on that button) :-)

oh.. i forgot..

add sup and sub html tags support to textfields...
that would help in writing technical/medical content into flash text boxes...

muchas gracias!

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First off, Flash rocks super hard. I'm glad I get a chance to participate in this wishlist. It's like early Christmas. Here we go!

1. Controller support would great! (if someone knows of a way to already do this, I would love if they could get back to me)
2. Gradients on Text (like was done with stroke) would rock.
3. Please make the pen tool work more like Photoshop (especially since you are now Adobre-media; or is it Macra-dobia?) :)
4. I agree with Bill Brown. He says "hitTest() detection between two shapes (not point-to-shape or box-to-box)." Great thought Bill.
5. 3d support would of course be nice.
6. Better encryting for AS (so it can't be stolen as easily).
7. Favorite Actions (in the AS editor) to stores my smost commonly used AS code. (ex. stop(); Math.round()... so on & so forth)
8. Copy Layer Style. Sometimes I will set a symbol with a certian effect, I would like to copy that effect to other symbols on my timeline. No current possible way to do that (as far as i know)
9. Recording Actions (Much like Photoshop)
10. A beautiful GUI. Flash's current interface is very functional. Layed out prefectly. Can we make it look very nice too? Us poor PC peolpe must suffer with ugly & boxy.
11. More EXE functionality. Would love to have more control over projector files from Flash.
12. Symbol distortion would rock.
13. Surround sound support.

Think that's all for now! Thanks for listening guys (& gals).

The theme for Flash 8 was designer expression, aimed at the visual side of Flash. So, the theme for Flash 9 should be Actionscript development power.

I know the developer platform strategy right now sits largely on Flex's shoulders with the new Eclipse-based enviroment. And that's great, probably as it should be. But I think there's a place in your product taxonomy for Flash 9 to be a great AS development environment to support the Flex MXML environment. The products can fit quite nicely together in an "expressive development bundle." Flex for RAD and Flash for RED (rapid expressive development).

With that being said, here's just a couple of things I'd like to see the Flash team focus on:

1. Give us an outstanding built-in AS editor with much better code hinting and better linkage to the help for components and other elements that don't provide code hints. Something that competes with VS 2003.

I know there are third-party editors, but I don't want to have to leave Flash. I want an IDE, with emphasis on the I (integrated). The third-party editors are not so great at code hinting either, in my opinion.

2. Built-in and robust FTP utility for the Project panel. Again, I want an *integrated* development environment that gives me all the tools I need for development AND deployment. Something like what's in Dreamweaver, but better.

For all of Microsoft's faults, they do make an excellent IDE for the developer. I've used it a lot for C# WinForm and ASP.NET projects, and I've been real impressed with the access I had to the API documentation through great code hinting and integrated help. It made development fun. In Flash 8, AS development is still somewhat of a chore in comparison.

So...I'd like to see Flash 9 make an effort to compete within its particular niche as a rapid expressive development platform, with an emphasis on improving AS development to make it both fun and fast.

Many thanks for Flash 8. Keep innovating!

wacom tablet support (for using with drawing methods ) just like: tablet.getPressure()

For a start, MAKE IT CHEAPER!!!

LOL, just kidding.

But seriously, how about adding a feature that allows you to make some sort of "arm joint" e.g. a feature which allows you to snap 2 shapes together. For example, if you were animating an arm you wouldn't have to tween both parts to produce realistic movements of the arm, just move one part and the rest follows on.

Maybe that's already in there but I don't know.

+ sound: frequency analyzing! , sourround, ogg
+ live video encoding
+ class explorer/manager
+ pdf impl.
+ midi
+ linux!!
+ mtasc implementation
+ exporting nested clips to video
+ filters: add to layer
+ hardware in/out (digital/analog, video/audio)

ability to show output window in normal movie mode. this would allow more accessible content - users could toggle the option on and then be shown the errors (if any) or helpful text could be given to the user by using the trace functions. for example if you have a function that removes certain colours for colour blind users when this button is clicked the output window could contain a trace stating that the movie had entered accessibility mode.

also how about incorperating the windows narrator function on text with a play function?

Well, i really enjoy flash 8, but there are some missing things. Maybe more filters, a 3d editor, advanced sound controls, and usage number in the library. Nice job you guys, keep up all the good work :)

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please >_<

please adobe please

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im paul from usa

Advanced audio capabilities, specifically MIDI support. A real world example that is in great need of such a solution is found at http://mediarain.com/musicrain/ View the demo and hear the sound (ok, but needs improvement).

Here is a list of developers who have been waiting for this solutions:
http://codext.xtyler.com/code/2

I think it's well worth reading.

JSFL wishlist:
- add a command to import fonts to library

FlashLite:
- add a bluetooth integration for testing in real devices directly from the IDE.

Add preloader components please;
preloader components please;
Caption for video please;(Don't like Hi-Caption)
Caption for video please;(Don't like Hi-Caption)

While adding caption for video, please add features enable to see the volumne wave curves graphics, just like soundForge or cool edit, that will help to mark cue point more accuaratelly according to the volumn changes.

Have you guys ever thought about making Flash communicate with databases directly without having to have to use pages between the flash file and the database? would make things so much more easy to integrate flash to the web

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texte in french
bonjour
je vous remerci pour cet ouverture sur les utilisateur de flash
moi en personne pour faire mes animation j'utise d'autre logitiel que fash pour la simple raison que flash ne suporte pas langue arrabe donc mon 1ere souhet c'est que la prochaine vertio suporte la langue arrabe et surtou por changer le sens de l'ecriture.
j'airais esperer que flash suporte aussi le code HTML
تحياتي للعاملين والمسؤولين �?ي ماكروميديا
وشكرا لهم على هدا المجهود وعلى ان�?تاخهم على المبرمجين
شخصيا أهم امنية عندي هي أي يدعم هذا الاخراج اللغة العربية وخاصة الكتابة من اليمين إلى اليسار
وشكرا لكم

I would be very happy to see native mp4-support in flash9.

Currently some mobile devices (like Nokia N90) are able to produce very nice mp4-files. The quality is much better than in 3gp-video. It's so good that it could be used for semipro audiovisual productions. For example interviews. I expect mp4 to really take off because of the quality and easiness of use. This would lead to an explosion in the amount of interesting mp4-files.

I would want to use mp4 videos in multiuser flash-applications. The amount of files becomes so big that it's not possible to convert videos to flv. Therefore I would need native mp4-support in flash.

I gues you can imagine the impact on rich media applications and embedded custom players. You already have mp3 support without conversion. Think what it has made possible.

thanks

Hi,
Here are the few things that i would like to see in flash 9.0

1.Ability to create irregular size projectors

2. Allow for font embedding.. I know that flash allows font embedding but I am talking the way it is done in macromedia director

3.Readymade behaviours to allow non developers to get more out of flash

Man we are still trying to get used to 8.0 and you have 9.0 in the go but i have seen some others of my friends still working in mx any how its always welcomed for the new and latest options in flash

Thank you

In the part of streaming audio if we work on the other formats like mpeg-4 video's and audio's apart from mp3 and flv I think it works out pretty good. Now adays in view of picture quality and the bandwidth mpeg-4 is doing good.

1.Well managed libarary, like photoshop, If I am selecting a object in the IDE, it want to automatically selected in the libarary so we dont want to scroll down or open all folders to edit a movieclip, or whaterver it is.

2. Search facility in the libarary, search by name, type etc.

I would like to see file handling features in flash 9.0.

Flash can be used to build desktop applications too and it has the capability to work online. So these would be combining the power of web and desktop.

1. To be able to create/delete/duplicate frames dynamically...I think that functionality would be useful both for animators and programmers...
2. To be able to duplicate movie clips with dynamic content. (I don't understand why this is not possible yet..)

we need the provision to read the framelabel of a particular frame that would be very much usefull for creating navigation based systems likewise for a movieclip level, a functionality must be written to report all the frame labels inside it.

When people have older versions of flash player 8 installed on their machines they don't see the texts with "anti-alias" effect, implemented on Flash 8. So, to watch an swf with the text whit this feature (that is Flash 8 default) you MUST have flash player 8 installed on your machine.

I wish that on the flash player 9 people could see, at least the text without the effect, than see nothing.

Flash is great.

Please make the V2 Components load faster when many are displayed on a page. And get the file size down, then they can really be used. Right now, too many on a screen (especially the datagrid) make it too sluggish. 100% CPU spike, all aniumation stops - just to display a UI with lots of V2 UI Components.

AS:
loading symbols of a swf into library at runtime !

Stage.library.load("lib1.swf"); // loads swf and adds content into library
Stage.library.addEventListener(LibraryEventType.LIBRARY_LOADED, libLoaded);

function libLoaded(event:LibraryEvent)
{
    var itemsInLibrary = Stage.library.items; // Array
    for (var item in itemsInLibrary)
    {
        trace(item.type); // base class : Shape, Sprite, MovieClip, ...
        trace(item.name); // "Item1", "Item2", ...
        ...
    }
    var baseClass:Class = itemsInLibrary[0].type; // Shape, Sprite, MovieClip, ...
    var ItemConstructor:Class = itemsInLibrary[0].constructor;
    var item:baseClass = new ItemConstructor();
    addChild(item);
}

i want to know from were i can download the new flash(9)for free :D:D:D

it may great feature if we can save graphics runtime in jpg with action script.

Import Swift 3D in flash or add 3d tools!

True support for OpenGL would be amazing.

Improve font sharpness,clearly(like photoShop) for StaticText. Support Language font in input Text field.

this feature was in flash mx but taken out.

before, when you punched in a number for a specific symbol keyframe and hit enter, the number field would already be auto highlighted so you could immediately enter another number and hit enter if the first was wrong.

NOW, you have to backspace or highlight the number and delete before entering a new number.

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Special Frame Rate to Symbol1 ..
Special Frame Rate to Symbol2 ..
Special Frame Rate to Symbol3 ..
Like These ..

And Thanks ..

Linux IDE

Adobe really ought to consider releasing something for the Linux platform. Even if it was a lite version - we are a creative bunch of folks, never know what we'll come up with if given the chance.

Hello!
My Flash 9 wishlist:

Linux version of the player to be released at the same time as the Windows version or as soon as is possible. I can't stress this enough!

Thank you very much.

I'd just like to see improvements of the Flash Player plugin on Linux, and I'd like to be able to RUN Flash 9 in Linux natively...

built-in md5 and\or sha1 support.
That s important to create serious RIA apps.

I just want you to treat Linux as a first class citizen, not an afterthought. Do that, and I'm satisfied.

Fix the bug with Internet explorer (PC) and Flash , so we can all finally create flash applications that can play shoutcast streams. Right now it only works in firefox and others, but not IE for PC.

midi ouput!/control

So, new version of Flash.
And it has a lot of features. Good and not good.
Great thanks to the credits of Flash to returning a Flash 5 drawing and selection mode.
But I don't like a huge ACTIONS panel. And magnetic panels - that's not nice - panels occuping the most part of screen, remains a very little place for stage & timeline.
I can't find any action in the large library of scripting.
New feature - blur effect - REALLY overloading a CPU on fulscreen.

And Flash MX-2004-8 not responds the russian letters in the fonts like Arial, Tahoma and so on.

it may a gro-o-ovy new option if I can change name on FlashPlayer movies instead of common "Macromedia Flash Player 8"

.... that's all... I guess...

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Ok - we need a curve editor - similar to what's promised in After Effects 7.0 so that the motion path of (for example) movement across a picture can properly imitate the "ken Burns" effect. Creating a regular motion path is too time intensive - check out AE 7.0 to see what I mean.

It should be possible to load after effects project files into Flash in the same way as Captivate Projects - imagine the possibities!

We need proper shortcut keys for zipping around the timeline e.g. jump to next keyframe on this layer (check out audio packages such as Cubase).

Optional seek bar in player would be good.

Default ease in / out settings for whole layer would be great.

I'll keep thinking ...

The swf output of After Effects whcih are then imported into Flash to be much smoother when output to SWF by flash. In order to get smooth motion graphics I am having to run at 60fps - really 30 or less than that should give liquid smooth results.

To be able to publish a SWF that is truly protected i.e. nobody should be able to se the content (I'm refering to applications such as Action Script Viewer). How can you expect people to really put their heart and soul into programming and designing in Flash if their work can't be protected?

How about the ability to export bitmaps for high resolution for print purposes (at the moment anything wider than about 3000 pixels seem to corrupt).

I guess export > illustrator that included transparencies would solve this problem.

Also the new filters are nice but they only seem to work at 72 dpi when you export a bitmap at a higher resolution they look awful.

last time I tried the export an image sequence flash would just write each image over the top of the last one so you ended up with just the last frame of the sequence...this has worked in all versions up until 8 so it would be a nice thing to have back agian in 9 (if not 8.01)

On the animation side some kind of IK of movieclips would be nice.

And...more than anything else the ability to export a quicktime that includes actionscripted animation. If after effects can do it surely it must be possibly to do it directly from flash.

Right now... well:

A fix/ext. to the MoveClipLoader Class, so you can test it offline!

We want to support arabic language in the Macromedia Flash MX ...It's very important 4 us

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The ability to load animated gifs by both embedding them into the movie itself AND being able to use the LoadMovie method to import them in while the movie runs.

linux first..!!

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audio synthesis: amplitude modulation, noise generator, some filtering and effects would be sweet...

full support for BiDi - including in UI components, reading it from external sources (variables, XML, etc), displaying it correctly, don't mess it when the text is selected (e.g. in a textbox), split the lines correctly.
You know what BiDi support means, you just have to do it ! It's high time !

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Please we want arabic to be supported :'(

'Export Movie' to support nested animations and simple actionscript.

Accurate timing for framerate & sound playback.

Access to a SoundData object for analysis and interpretation of recorded sounds and for also for generation of sound. Simple functions for noise, sine, saw, square wave generation into the SoundData object. Loop start & end point manipulation and loop types - forward, reverse, pingpong. All actionscript editable.

Irregular shaped textfields and wordwrapping around irregular shapes.

Instead of having to manage code on individual frames, MovieClips, etc, one class should be created for every FLA. In ASP .NET, every Web Form gets an accompanying class (which inherits from the Page class. Of course, this class can inherit from any other class which inherits from Page. You get the idea.)

If you want code to execute when a certain MovieClip is loaded, or on a specific frame, use listeners.

This would make managing code a *lot* easier.

Why not developing the program for Linux ?

Hi
i have a problem with a work.
I need to stop my flash for and "x" time, but i need to manage that time from an external file. Can you give e some ideas on how do that?

Thanks for all

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""audio synthesis: amplitude modulation, noise generator, some filtering and effects would be sweet...""

ow yeah !

AGREED WITH ROGER

"Runtime registration point modification would be really great."

this is NECESSARY. how can we dynamically rotate loaded pictures if we cant even tell the loaded clip where the registration point is?

Something like:

"onExit()" or "onFinish()" event which is fired if the flash player or the webpage containing it is closed.

In the "Document properties" dialog box there should be (added) a CheckBox that is lable isometric view.
While checked there would be a new _z coordinate.
And if not checked, it would have its regular _x, _y coordinates.
In isometric every thing drawn would automatically be _z=0; Draw lines wouldhave two endpoints each, so that they can be asigned new coordinates seperately(that includes non-isometric mode)
This would be psuedo3d, but it is better than making the engine your(our)self.
After that is acomplished by the next release, you can work on the whole rotatable 3d(non-psuedo3d), and even later openGL support.
ThankYou for the greatness on Flash 8, I look forward to Flash 9.

Please, this time DO include a decent audio codec.
You NEED, i mean WE need AAC+ / He-AAC to go along with VP6. Not just MP3 or even plain AAC.
MP3 is at least two generations behind. Keep it for compatibility if you will, but it's no longer cutting edge. In the video streaming world, no one serious enough would consider using it at DSL bitrate videos for live broadcasting. It's too bandwith hungry. MP3 is almost dead for such use. Only radios are still using it for broadcasting, and it's being replaced by AAC / AAC+ as we speak (see the shoutcast and tuner2 websites)
It's no use licensing one of the best video codecs around if you don't have its audio counterpart.
At least, consider Vorbis, it shouldn't cost you much...
Otherwise, you will be losing a large part of your potential client base to Real, AOL / Nullsoft or Windows Media, the former two having already switched to AAC+ with good reasons.

Thank you

i wish if i can have a direct connection tool to DB like visual studio .net, and i wish if it have some components that r related to asp.net in flash..

another comment is the ability to import 3d objects and actually work with them as 3d, not as a sequenced GIF.

Thank u alot..

1. Ability to edit (draw) in a reversed symbol would be helpful. It seems like a bug.

2. Text on a Path would save loads of time.

3. Not 3D, but the ability to put symbols on a 2D inverse kinematic IK chain for more animation control for even the average user. This is something even Director doesn't have and would suit many peoples animation wow-factor needs.

Thanks for the Good Work!

Hi
plz support ARABIC in Flash.

Native support for 3GP (mobile video)

At this moment I have to choose (for example) Quicktime, instead of using Flash for video playback. Simply because converting 3GP to FLV (server side) takes to much processing power/time. But I would love to use Flash for online video editing (timeline, length, links, notes etc.)

sure, it is ok for your average blog site. But I'm talking about communities (with 10.000+ members, and 50.000+ pageviews/day)

I only have one wish to add to all of the above since most of the posts here included a lot of what i wish for in flash 9.

But still there are one thing left:

* Flash 9 should allow developer to specify what should be exported (loaded) before frame 1 and their priority. Like XML file that are used on frame 1 will take time to load and the data won't be displayed til the XML file is loaded.

thanks

Hey, great job on Flash 8! Here's my list of things that I'd like to see in Flash 9. Most of my comments are designer related.

- The ability to use the new blending modes and filters on graphic symbols. They aren't any use to me unless I can export the cool new features to video, which I can't do with a movie clip.

- Ability to export actionscripted and movie clip content to video.

- A more stable way of exporting to video. With the ammount of content I need to export it crashes like there's not tommorow. Also, the ability to render out only a section of the movie to video, instead of having to render the whole .fla.

- The ability to quickly convert all the selected frames (or even everything in the main timeline) to a symbol. Sometimes it's impossible to copy and paste all the frames into a new symbol while retaining all the positions of the shape hints. Sometimes there's too much data for flash to be able to copy and paste.

- An easier way to view all the shape hints on a shape tween without having to insert a new one. Also, at times, shape hints don't do what they're supposed to do at all, making it a guessing game for deciding where shape hints should go.

- A rate-stretch tool for symbols. It'd be great if a 30 frame graphic could be stretched accross 60 frames, and all of the tweens inside automatically stretch to fit.

- The ability to work with a camera instead of a canvas that can be animated like a symbol. 3D space would be very handy aswell.

- Some sort of bone system for character animation.

- Stroke options that are more like Adobe Illustrator's. Illustrator's strokes with a wacom tablet are so perfect and smooth, where as strokes made in flash can look quite horrid at times. Also, the ability to make custom strokes would be cool (or even strokes that could be animated.)

- Ability to distort symbols using the perspective tool. Editable distortion filters that can be animated.

- More blending modes that Photoshop uses such as 'Hue' and 'Colour'

- A more stable way to organise the library. If I want to drag 100 symbols into a new folder in the library, it can take upwards of 10 minutes for everything to be moved, crashing more often than not. Also, dragging symbols with massive ammounts of data from the library to the canvas has the same effect.

- When changing a symbols type in the library, say, a movie clip to a graphic, it still acts like a movie clip in the timeline, quite a hassle when recieving an .fla from someone who uses Movie Clips where graphics would be more appropriate.

- Double clicking on a symbol to edit it should open the symbol at that point in it's timeline.

- The ability to edit sound within flash, slicing up the actual wav file. Midi support would also be nice.

That's all I can think of for now. If even only one of my suggestions makes it through to Flash 9 it'd make my job alot easier. Thanks for reading :)

I second Mike J's request for:
Update file uploading to allow for additional parameters in the post.

Update file uploading to allow for return values from the post target.

Full Xpath support

Also like to get full path on onSlect event for uploads, to display a preview of images users may want to upload. To reduce security worries, allow user to turn off access, maybe something similar to how users of Firefox can toggle access by entering "about:config" in browser, then setting security.checkloaduri to false

Hi
I hope the coming flash will support Arabic.
This will help Arab people to write in flash in Arabic.

it is a dream...!
I hope it will come true..!

- FASTER (INCREMENTAL) COMPILATION!!! (My current project takes up to 6 minutes to compile and then let windows swap for other few minutes)
- Auto completion for project classes
- An "Embed clip" command to let an imported clip be owned by the current library
- An usable debugger for AS classes

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding

Layered PSD imports! Layered PSD imports! Layered PSD imports!

The dream here is to import a layered PSD into Flash - making a new FLA layer for each PSD layer, maintaining layer names and blend settings. Even better with an option to convert each layer into a MovieClip with a configured naming convention based on the layer's name. Those of us who handle high-detail art/design productions in Photoshop can then bypass the brutal days and weeks of doing this manually in efforts to produce animated graphics.

Did I mention layered PSD imports?

By the way... whatever came about your 2003 statement regarding a Linux authoring environment for Flash? It could not possibly be much different from the BSD platform on OSX. We all love our Macs for not crashing every hour like PCs... but you simply get so much more juice out of Linux!

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GIVE THE PENGUIN A LITTLE LOVE, MIKE!

FLASH for LINUX

woo hooo!

Hi there! I hadn't used flash until today, and I've only been coding websites for about two weeks. However I am a graphic design enthusiast and something is driving me nuts. I made a site for my band:

www.hansolomusic.co.uk

And the flash banner at the top has a gap underneath it and I can't for the life of me work out what is causing it, I've tried setting the padding to 0 on everything and all sorts of different alignments.

Please Help!
Tim

I produce >= hour-long Flash screencasts with Camtasia, and I'd really like to be able to ship it as a single swf, but the 15000 frame limitation is preventing that. Any good reason why that limit is there?

Here are some serius things to consider:
-Flash player for linux, we don't have even 8 :(
-Arabic, Farsi, (and hebrew?) language support.
-Accurate collision detection (for game makers).

- Export jpg from swf (on the fly)
- Export mpg/avi/mov from swf (record your the running flash movie on the fly)
- better HTML/CSS text.
- The ABILITY TO STOP STREAMING VIDEOS WITHOUT FLASH STREAMING SERVICE!!! This is a major bug that has costed me a LOT of work.

Thats all u need in Flash 9 =)

i want to new version of micromedia flash whic ic arabic enable please confirm and send me that version,

your honest
safiullah

Browser back button support that is not frame based. Allowence to put a state into the history, that can be called with functions. For example, I will usually build a site that is entirely actionscript driven, only a couple frames, I would like to be able to put a variable of some sort into the history when a particular function is called, and that variable can be sent back when the button is pressed, and used by the designer to display the correct content.

Well, I thought about this 9999 times before saying it. *Please* please, make a (Stickman) component for Flash 9. a stickman with customizable parts, and comes with built-in moves such as (running, walking, crawling) which can be programmedfor others moves.

Looking forward. thanks

-Neo

Support for Arabic! RTL!!!

I admit that this one is NOT a must have, but how about the Function Constructor like in Javascript:

var myNewFunction = new Function("para_1, para_n", "script;");

I know it should normaly be avoided but it could make it possible to define dynamically function from string values!?

But perhaps this includes also a huge security leak that I don´t consider.

Flash 9 for Linux!

i haven't read everything on this page, so i don't know if my wish is already written down here.

my wish:::::
give a movieclip the same instancename as the movieclipname (by pressing F8) as a checkbox in the advanced options or so!

sorry for my bad english!!!

If you find this somewhere in between the "support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding" dude. we could use this:

- varMC_mc = createEmptyMovieClip( "arabicSupport_mc", 1, {_x:100, _y:200, ...} );
- for the love of god, copy & paste the eclipse text editor in this thing.

How about additions and substractions that work in AS ;)

Am sick and tired of having to do...

Math.round(value * 100) / 100
When adding 0.01 to a value (for currency values). Too often, try adding 0.01 (or 1.23 or whatever) to 10.00 and get 10.009999999999

This is further example...
var Value : Number = 0.01;
Value -= 0.01;
if (Value) {
// This code never runs, cos Value is 0.00000001 instead of zero ;)
}

And STRICT data typing...
Again, fed up of...

var z : Number = 1;
z += 1; // No, this does NOT equal "11" lol
// solution... z = Number(z) + 1; // grrr

A method to turn a standard shape into a graphicObject

better HTML/CSS text.

robotics revolution just ahead ...
more actionscript support for things like phidgets .

and

RFID!

a sound api would also be great!

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding

Please ....

Hi !

for Flash 9:
learning interaction use loaded files.(xml,txt...)

3d a sketchup-like !

http://download.sketchup.com/downloads/training/tutorials50/Sketchup%20Video%20Tutorials.html

and more...

AN EASIER WAY TO BE ABLE TO CHANGE THE LENTGH OF A SERIES OF TWEENS

IE if i've just made a little animation which is at 12fps but i decide to change the movie to 40fps then give an option to scale the movie in the same way
or the ability to scale individual timelines to a new fps etc so that flash will adjust keyframes automatically

arabic paragraph cannot be aligned justify .i use flash 8

* Perspective Distortion Control

support ARABIC

Improved sound control to enable simple but accurate sound sequencing... like some sort of flash midi.

1. Give us movieclip distorting or native 3d!
2. Hardware rendering
3. Creating projector files which support desktop alpha (for creating desktop applications with skins)

1 hardware acceleration
2 hardware acceleration
3 hardware acceleration
4 hardware acceleration
5 hardware acceleration
6 hardware acceleration
7 hardware acceleration
8 hardware acceleration
9 hardware acceleration
...
...

Access to a movieclips linkage when it is on stage.

movieclip.getLinkage() returns undefined if blank?

I'm sure it could be useful for something.

Would it be possible to have the true width and height property of a non-rectangular shape rather than it's container box when rotated at an angle other than multiples of 90 degrees?

Allow Flash cursors to override the Director movie it is embedded in.

Be able to change the symbol's type (button, graphic or movieclip) just once instead of having to do it in the browser display and library.

Oh... and a movieClip.createGames(String(gameName));

:-P

A "search" for the library would be a good one because it can be fastidious when you have 500+ items and you need to look through the whole library to find an item.

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding

better components protectio0n would be great. It is now not possible to protect my flash components. It would be great to have something like a licensing mechanism (license key) for flash components, so that you can the component in the Flash editor only when you have a valid license key for it.

This would encourage more developers to build components and would also make it possible to make some money with it.

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding yes yes

Three phrases should be among the most common in our daily usage. They are: Thank you, I am grateful and I appreciate.

we wish da flash 9(Blaze) would support Arabic
coz there r millions of Arab Flash User face da problem of writing Arabic in Flash

A super-cool feature would be the following: the ability to ask the player at runtime to output the current frame in svg/jpeg/bitmap/png format.

Support for CVS would be nice!

A simple request:

The ability to scroll the timeline on a Mac, zoom in and out of the timeline (as you can with After Effects) with a mouse scrollwheel.
This would save us animators a heck of a lot of time and labor.

Thanks!

The bug I mentioned in my comment back in September regarding
Window>OtherPanels>myWindowSWF_A
actually opening
Window>OtherPanels>myWindowSWF_B
or maybe even
Window>OtherPanels>myWindowSWF_C

does still exist in the Flash 8 IDE..

Only the one thing..

Prob been mentioned but hey gotta put it in..

Proper html, css support in htmlText..

Its killing me not having this at the moment...

Thanks..

Great work on Flash 8, thanks!

I read a lot of implemention model thinking, which is not suprising considering most people posting here will be developers/designers.

It has been mention once or twice, but what Flash still lacks, and holds it back in the grand scheme of things is :

-Search engine accessibility. Search engines should be able to get into the content, or get served content in an easy way without (too many) hacks.

The metadata inclusion in Flash 8 has been a good step into that direction.

Look guys!
It has been mentioned above dozens of times. If Flash is going to survive the next decade of development it is going to have to work its way into a full robust 3D engine supporting directX, Open GL. Anark studio as well as other software apps, Sparkle are slowly pushing there way into Flash territory. I would love to start importing models from max and maya directly into multimedia apps. Since director is leaving we need something to replace it badly and work smoother. Don't be suprised if Sparkle becomes the new Flash replacement...

yay. gratuitous wishlist time. 6 months late. whatever. you know you still care.

- cut the size of the download in half. The player's beer belly is starting to show.
- stop discriminating against non-embedded fonts. I like my _alpha set to medium rare.
- evil systematic silent updates of the player to the latest stable version. what users don't know can't hurt them, and it will make those smooth upgrade curves that much sexier.
- full css-3 support. hey c'mon, it's just CSS, it's not like you'd have to implement an entire layout engine. right?
- unbreak the XML object so that people can start implementing SOAP on top of it properly. hmmm SOAP..

I hope my terrific ideas won't lose any credibility if I confess I had never written actionscript until 2 weeks ago. no? good.

Simpler (and in many cases just their creation) interface(s) into the OS APIs (possibly through JSFL?). The use of a pannel to expose the OS's main or total APIs would be a massive step forward in usability and IDE extension. But I'm probably dreaming waaaaaaay easier than you can make it - lol. Sorry, I should really qualify the OS API interface request. We are being asked to make Flash work on more diverse devices these days with reduced or customised OS versions on. This often removes some of the functionality we take for granted in the standard Player and to bridge the problems created it would be very useful to be able to interface with some of the OS APIs directly. I realise this is more than simply making a list and talking to them but it's starting to be the make or break of dev companies using Flash as their interface. I am working at a TV over IP company at the moment and trying very hard to get a version of Flash/Player to talk to their reduced Linux OS to play the video feed directly. If I could talk to the OS's video API, even a little it would make this possible. Essentially this company will not use Flash if it can't do this. The broadband-TV-set-top-box market is about to explode and if Flash can't keep up with things like MPEG-4 direct play and OS integration it'll just be relegated to a pretty menu system

MPEG-4 SUPPORT: this is another one that's killing me in the MultiMedia market at the moment. Could you have the standard Flash player support MPEG-4? If Flash Lite can do it and the entire Media sector are ALL using MPEG-4 as standard then it's a real probelm when our player doesn't support it's use and direct control the same way it does FLVs. Try recommending that a broadband digital TV broadcaster move to FLV and see how long it takes security to throw you out of the building. It is definately stopping Flash adoption in the Media sector. Could it just be added to the standard player straight from the Flash Lite player?

SWF to EXE converter.

I don't know if this was already mentioned, but I think it is VERY important:

The ability to animate objects from a NON-STATIC keyframe

like having an object move to a SPECIFIC point from WHEREVER it happens to be

A "search" for the library would be a good one because it can be fastidious when you have 500+ items and you need to look through the whole library to find an item.

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding yes yes

SWF to EXE converter.
SWF to GIF converter.

A "search" for the library would be a good one because it can be fastidious when you have 500+ items and you need to look through the whole library to find an item.

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding yes yes

SWF to EXE converter.
SWF to GIF converter.

Ok put a list at the top of this page so that we know whats in here. Too long to read.

ADOBE, go out and BUY northcode or swfkit and put a desktop command line compiler into flash 9 for full functioning desktop applications. I can do this with other apps but i KNOW you guys can do it better. and i KNOW you want to kick microsofts but.
Got some COOL ideas.
Would love to produce entire desktop operating skins.

- Hardware acceleration
- Native support for writing strings to files (including overwrite and/or append)
- Save/Load dialog boxes
- Major IDE improvements
> bracket highlighting
> code folding
> dynamic code hints for all classes /functions in the class path
- Include a sleep() function. Oh man this would save me workaround headaches
- Better debugger
- Better advanced searches in the Help files (maybe even RegExpression support?)
- "Use Global Perpective" option for all filters
- Generally, make filter properties more like Photoshop's filter properties; allow more specific control over the affects

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Why hasn't 3D been added yet?

Can anybody say Sparkle vs Flash?

Feature request flash 9
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Can you incoparate the ability to close the view area of a function or a class.
A small +/- sign at the left corner of the code edit area would do the trick, it would close view area between { } making it so much easier to edit long chunks of code.

Also please flash needs regular expressions and better string replace functions.

Finally can you give the designers/developers the ability to create shared libraries, video objects, and embeded font whit code from scratch fully dynamically. Meaning me as developer would not anymore have to go to library to create these things with his/her mouse clicking on (new font or new video etc.).

Best regards

Nicklas

I just thought of something and of what makes flash design/development enviroment so great and that is that it´s not cluttred.

The manual/help section has easy, good code-hints that you just paste in as a rookie or if you're a pro,you manipulate to the fullest.

So keep flash simple but with advanced features under its shell otherwise it will just end up
being micrsoft bloated.

Finally another request :-)
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Maybe give the user the ability to choose advanced editing mode or regular user mode when application starts just like dreamweaver got, but more options.

Meaning that windows and pallets in flash position themselfes according to pro mode or user mode etc.

Best Regards

Put one MC into another MC via ActionScript.

Good to have a possibility to put one MovieClip on the Stage into an another MoviClip on the Stage via ActionScript.

For example, to put _root.mc2 into the _root.mc1 to have _root.mc1.mc2

Thanks!

I've had a few months to work with Flash 8 now and I'm loving. My one BIG problem is the new security restrictions that don't allow you to access functions in the web page via getUrl("javascript:function()"). The warning that pops up and says that the movie is trying to communicate with a location on the internet is not only annoying, but inaccurate. The end user should be presented with an option to trust the currently running flash movie, instead of flat-out denying it access to the javascript functions. Furthermore, this message shouldn't even appear when the user's machine isn't even connected to the internet. I know many people leave their machines connected 24/7, but many more of us, the ones of us actually concerned about the safety and security of our machines, actually disconnect whenever we don't need it, and therefor there is no need to warn us about the flash player trying to communicate with an internet location that the computer can't even connect to anyway. Yes, I know there are current workarounds to deal with this problem, but none that I can distribute with a flash document and expect 90% of end-users to utilize, meaning that 90% of my potential audience will never be given the chance to give my content a chance. As I mainly develop DHTML and flash content that is never meant for deployment on the internet, this new security restriction has had a huge impact on the way I use Flash. In many cases it means that Flash is no longer suitable for tasks that it had once been perfect for, and therefore has substantially lowered it's value for me.

I've also had a chance to play around with JSFL and am loving the possibilities this opens up. One thing I'm surprised at though is JSFL's inability to access the same list of fonts installed on the machine as is accessible through the aulthoring interface. I, for one would like the ability to access this through JSFL. Accordingly, you should also be able to create embedded fonts with JSFL.

Thanks

3D

Plesae, improve the sound API.

Better codecs, more channels, pitch bending and time stretching.

Flash 8 have a terrific graphic evolution, please do the same for sound...

AAC, m4a audio support....PLEASE!!!
AAC, m4a audio support....PLEASE!!!
AAC, m4a audio support....PLEASE!!!

Copy dynamically loaded movieclip contents when using duplicateMovieclip

...and while I think about it.

Better implimentation of setMask, where it would be possible to mask multiple movieclips, and to then unmask them individually.

A more straightforward approach to using the tween class also (look at Laco's attempt). Here's hoping.

Specialised tutorials by reknowned developers (eg. gotoAndLearn.com) linked from or embedded into the help documentation.
These could be included with the release, or an optional download, or permalinked.

Let's say:

- Outline embedded fonts (apply stokes on it)

- more easy graphic library loading... for example to have the ability to load several swf and have access to library of each in the same timeline, loading fonts separately without this old nasty 'import for runtime sharing' ! etc.

- the cut/copy/paste/select all working on mac (yes, I know, again :p )

I wish in next version of flash to be a possibility to relate flash with access database without using asp or php like in visual basic and Delphi.

On2 VP7 or H.264.

give us something.

VP6 is pathetic.

Support for .ogg and .midi

setVolume should be local

How about:

1. Ability to stroke text without having to break it apart. This really should have been done several versions ago.
2. AAC/HE-AAC audio support.
3. Shortcut for Import to Library (or ability to define/customize keyboard shortcuts a la CS2)
4. Allow SWFs to be accessible to search engines.
5. More options for the filters (more like Photoshop's,)
6. More blending modes! Steal some from Photoshop, its completely legal now :) Oh and add blend modes to filters.
7. Naitive .PSD. This would make my workflow oh so much better.
8. Ability to pan and zoom stage.

Perspective Distortion Control for movieclips and dynamic textfields :)

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding

3D

-improve the sound API
-MIDI support http://www.alexisisaac.net/products/flashMidi
-better sound waveform manipulation
-hardware acceleration
-more channels, pitch bending and time stretching.
-allow SWFs to be accessible to search engines

Make sure that vertical positioning of text on the stage is the same in the IDE between Windows and Mac OS. Still in Flash 8, some fonts (such as Adobe Caslon) end up with dramatic vertical shifts in the baseline between Win and Mac. This is a nightmare for developers who share FLAs between PCs and Macs.

And it is not an OS issue because applications like Illustrator don't exhibit this behavior.

This has been a documented issue for several versions now and it's time to take care of it.

"Attach movie clips ... from externally loaded movie clips"
or at least let me use getBytesLoaded() on runtime shared swfs

Printing

There is still much to improve with printing:
-Printing dynamic text and objects (including caching externally loaded images on different frames)
-Being able to manipulate objects(move, resize,load a picture) in the middle of a printJob
-Choose vector/bitmap printing on a per object, per page basis; not just the current per page. ie, print one page with some vector drawings and a mask, so I don't reduce vector quality (by printing as bitmap) because there's one object with the alpha channel(like a mask).
-Increase image import/export, height/width to greater than 2880 pixels (I think it's an issue with stage size)

Documentation

I've been using Director for nearly 10 years now on and off, and spend most of my time these days doing "normal" website/CMS stuff in PHP et al. I finally decided to give flash a try on a smaller semi-complex project.

I found it painfully slow to get started with flash and especially AS - I know javascript syntax and use it daily, but the AS documentation is terrible. It is there, it is plentiful but painfull.

For instance, try searching for "createTextField". I would be expecting to find the documentatin for a createTextField method - not every instance where createTextField is mentioned.
On the resulting page, I would expect to find examples of use and some links in a "see also" section to similar functions, methods or methodologies (this works fairly well in this case, once you've found it).

Instead I get five billion hits. I will never know if there is a better way to do what I am doing, and never learn if I can create other things than textfields.

I remember it being really easy to get going with Director and Lingo (and PHP) because of the excellent documentation - including _relevant_ examples of use for each function or method, small code snippets and the ever present "see also".

And could we have the option to have the help file in a seperate window?

equation editor.

This has been said before, but it's something I wanna see. Linux support needs to be drastically improved to say the least. We are still on 7 whereas Windows and MAC got 8. What we do usually end up with is a substansially subpar work in terms of speed and stability.

-The ability to do an alpha dissolve without seeing whats under each symbol.
-An improved internal audio editor.
-The ability to get the volume level of an audio file with action script (eliminating the need for a program like FlashAmp)
-More filers, similar to what photoshp has
-the ability to make your own filters and give them to other people like 3rd party filers in photoshop
-Better Expand Fill, Soften Fill and Break Apart Lines functions (IE making them work better on complex shapes without screwing up)
-Definable brush shapes, ala photoshop
-better gradiants, like gradiant grids, ala Illistrator

Well the only two things I can think of are..

1. Linux support. For the love of crap I still can't get flash 8 on linux. There really needs to be more support for linux and the player needs to be released simultaneously with the windows version.

2. How about some hardware acceleration? It would be nice if flash could use my videocard to accelerate the animation. (WITH linux support as well)

Flash really needs to have the ability to open the camera control panel that most if not all camera's have. For example, if I wish to adjust exposure, color, zoom, etc. I have to open the camera's control panel through another program such as Yahoo Messenger or SplitCam, adjust it, then close it and open it up in Flash again, very annoying. Most applications that use the camera have the ability to do this, not sure why this has been overlooked in Flash for so long now.

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding
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support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding
support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding

There's an annoying glitch in 8. Try it - create a box and turn it into a symbol of any kind. On the stage, double-click on the symbol to edit it and use the brush to create a circle. Functions as expected, right? Now, from the stage, flip the symbol. Now double-click into the symbol from the stage and use the brush to create a circle. What you drew with the brush dissapears, and the space inside the circle is filled instead.

Things I'd like added:
The ability to get a linear fill to follow the contour of a fill. Maybe you could make it so that we could create some points on the editing line in the fill transform tool that we can move around to adjust the fill.

It would be nice if when I exported a file to an AVI or other video format, movie clips and actionscript would execute.

I also wouldn't mind a template category for video formatting, like PAL and NTSC.

While I don't (currently) use the OS, a Linux-compatible version of Flash would be beneficial to alot of people.

Please, Please, Please

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PrintJob.Copies = We should be able to see the number of copies a printjob has requested and accept or deny a printjob based on this. We may only want a user to print one copy.

Encrypt Layer. I know that flash is an open format, but we should be able to encrypt so that decompilers _can not open it_. Otherwise, there's no serious security if someone googles "flash decompiler". I have a few strings in my flash (web service urls for instance) that it is vital to protect. If this was just an option, and any swf by any company could be encrypted. That wouldn't hurt the nature of the open format.

Hi,

I'd just like to be a bit more specific about my thoughts for After Effects -> Flash integration which I think would draw a lot of new fans to you. In particular, output from AE in the swf rather than flv format.

Now that flash 8 includes things such as blurs, blend modes etc, howsabout everything that AE does (e.g. a blur) that flash has the ablility also to do, should be output as code in the swf format which can then be interpreted by Flash and applied real time rather thna the lame way in which AE currently rasterises the blur every frame.

This would keep the AE swf file size tiny whilst vastly expanding the abilities of the swf's it output.

... and this is not just for blurs but blend modes, drop shadows, glows etc etc

- 3D
- loading any Photoshop plugin as Macromedia fireworks.
- flash 9 ME (middle east edition) support ARABIC and support RTL Encoding.

Thanks,

hi
i'm working in a cartoon animtion company
and doing the lipsing for the characters needs a frame by frame work...
so please if u can make a lipsing like 3ds max

-persenting the .swf files on desktop without the flash background.

-the ability to arrange the files that loaded to internet.

-the ability to know the percent of loading .jpg, .mov , .mp3 files

Ok, i don't care what else happens if you guys promise me one thing and one thing only, please, oh please, make flash 9 fully compatible with linux. I hate how i cant have flash 8 and linux at the same time without installing vmware

I think the next release of Flash needs the option to have symbol timelines viewabe from the main timeline (ie when you hit ENTER to play your movie, the symbols will be displayed as moving images rather than just the first frame of the symbol -- only MOVIE CLIP symbols though!) Also, it needs a virtual Camera of some kind. I know there is allready one by Sham someone, but there needs to be a new Adobe/Macromedia one that can have symbols attached (such as subtitles, navi buttons etc) this needs to be a button in the main toolbar.

Hope this helps,
Shane

mabee some sort of inbuilt button control;

for instance, instead of

on(release){
gotoAndPlay(frame)
}

you could only have to enter

(release){
.play(frame)
}
this could make things a lot less time consuming !

Would love to have access to the serial port. /Dev/tty.xxxxx
Currently use a Perl script to connect via an XML socket and it's not so fast / resource intensive.

More advanced library features would be apreciated. A probe of concept could be: http://www.osflash.org/alf

I support Beverage's request!
It would be great for a company or for students who want to begin a business to cut down some costs by using Linux! Besides... not everyone will support MS if their future os's need expensive hardware!

Also... please implement a render based on OpenGL/DirectX!

when creating a symbol it would be great if you had a checkbox or second input field that would allow you to enter the instance name immediately instead of having to go back onto the stage and click the object and name it.

Depth managment.

I'd like to be able to (optionally) put more than one movie at the same depth. In other words, a depth could be made into a bucket. I wouldn't care if the draw order was indeterminate at that case.

Because:
You have to be very careful managing the depths of objects in a complex isometric or fake 3D scene, and things like particles get very ugly in that case.

Two things, which might be a redundancy.
1 - in the actionScript 3.0 please add a Z direction next to the X and Y directions (_x,_y,_z as it would be in ActionScript 2.0)
2 - A 3d engine to Flash 9
the first could be like a backup.

Video support for MPEG4 and Quicktime movies.

File I/O would be EXTREMELY handy. Scan folders, open and save files, ... Through AS ofcourse.

I'd like to see even more heavily expanded JSFL. I'm a technical director for an animation studio doing broadcast animation. I'm constantly writing pipeline tools in JSFL to automate the redundant tasks, speed up animation workflow, and even help the post department create luma mattes.

Every now and then I hit walls:

1) Control over more of the internal features in Flash such as "Find and Replace Colour". Currently there is no way to script to this, and the feature isn't robust enough to drill down and replace colours within deeply nested symbols.

2) In the same veign, being able to override all import panels with fully exposed import options would be nice. Its frustrating when you can't simply tell a MOV to import because a panel will always pop up. This sort of thing makes batch automation impossible for some tasks.

3) Expanded export options! Please make it possible to export and publish ALL the formats listed in the File Export list. I'd really like to be able to do things like set up batch AVI export scripts.

4) Proper quicktime rendering support on the PC. The "SWF embedded inside Quicktime" has got to go! Please let us render proper quicktime frames with our favourite flavours of quicktime compression.

5) Better ways to deal with raw shapes in a layer would be nice. Simpler ways to list and iterate through closed shapes would be nice, as would simpler methods for deleting by colour, and replacing colours programmatically.

6) Some convenience functions in the Timeline object would be nice. A Keyframes property would be great on each Layer object as it would make having to tediously parse through the layer to find StartFrames more or less obsolete.

7) More robust FLfile functions. Its very difficult to work with file input and output when the entire contents of a file must be loaded into or out of a single string variable. Please consider making proper FLFile.open() and close() methods to allow for readLine() commands to occur as needed.

8) There are a lot of functions that return just a boolean value rather than an object. It would be much more convenient if these various functions returned an object, or null if they fail, wherever possible.

Sorry for the long post, but those are all the JSFL suggestions I can think of right now. Basically, just expose everything possible within Flash as an object.

It should be able to create 3d without much effort. It kinda sux.

How about an XML or Ascii format for the FLA files. This way, FLAs could be generated and batch processed using external tools. Our studio uses Maya for all our 3d productions, mainly because it has the Maya Ascii format.

- Hardware acceleration for Flash player (otherwise Sparkle would sadly justify it's marketing subtitle "Flash killer")
- Bones for character animation, or the option to use keyframe interpolation on hierarchy of objects, maybe through the ability to assign keyframes to layer folders, so the user would be able to apply the same transformation to all the objects from that layer IN THEIR PARENT TIMELINE (!= grouping: when I want to rotate a knee on the character, I don't want that knee to rotate in all the other places I used it, just in this animation)
- Inverse kinematics for bones
- Multiple team members working on the same FLA file at the same time
- Ability to apply some filters (Blur) to scaled MovieClips

HW Acceleration

Bones for character animation <-- this would be awesome

Allow filers to work with graphic symbols and not just movie clips

More than hundred comments here have requested for a native 3D engine. I know that by adding more does not make any sense. However, if one day flash can support 3D, I will definitely buy it.

Autocomplete var names when coding an external class.

i.e. type "this." and the autocomplete show me the properties of the class, something approximately to the flex (eclipse) edit code features would be nice.

Access MIDI ports would be a dream...

Today i need to do a C++ interface :(

If flash could access MIDI ports will be too easy to do some consoles using MIDI controllers...

It associated to Good audio controll, would turn flash a powerfull engine to do some cool stuff for audio softz...

I made a suggestion a few posts ago, and I have some more ideas. I read somewhere that some people don't like Flash websites because they can't hit the "back" button on the browser to get to the previous page on a Flash site, nor can they get to a page other than the front page through a search engine, I don't know if "they" are website visitors or the makers themselves or both. Here's my idea; in Flash 9 have a tool called "web page" with a text field for the name of the page, that will temporarily save the file in Flash, but not close the stage you are working on. It'll be like saving a frame and naming it, the frame naming text field elsewhere will stay because that will be for actionscript, this new one will just be for the file name, so in the timeline frame 1 will be page 1 "Home Page", frame 11, for example, will be page 2 "About Us", page 2 will be in the text field Flash already has, and "About Us" will be in this new field. Then when you are done for the day or permantly, you SAVE then PUBLISH just like you do now, and all the pages you made are published and Flash connects the pages like Dreamweaver would, and you have a website more tolerable to those who would usually avoid Flash sites, or make them. Now I'm not suggesting getting away from the original way, I'm just suggesting another option.

I'd like to be able to export scripted animations to video, or take still from frames. There are so may cool things you can do with ActionScript but if you want to use them to generate videos or still images you can't as it only seems to export animation on the timeline.

I have some security issues using AMFPHP because we can't be sure than the actionscript calling the amfphp method is located on our server on if it's a hombrew swf...
In other word I'd like flash to send in a trusted way (silently and read only) the location of the swf that is calling amfphp.
That way if the call has been made from outside of our website we can reject it.

For example you can easily send fake score in flash games using amfphp by using a decompiler and modifying the score as you want ! :|

Hi,

I am a C# / Flash developer and I don't want to ask for much :) just the following :-

1- I would love Generics in Flash like it is in C# .NET 2.0 pleaaaaaaase that would be really excellent.

2- Remove the rule that I have to type the word "function" in my class next to any private or public function, it shouldn't really be there.

Thanks,

Kind Regards,

Wael

Here is another quick one...

How about the ability to dynamically register a newely created movie clip to a class from within the class.

Example:-

Test.as
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class Test extends MovieClip
{
public Test ()
{
createEmptyMovieClip("Test", 100);
}
}

Object.registerClass("Test", Test);
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"Test" is a newely created movieclip that is being created inside the Test class constructor and also gets registered to the Test class somehow.

therefore, I would like to be able to do the following:-

var myInstance:Test = new Test();

trace(myInstance)

output : _level0.Test

I hope you know what I mean. if someone has comments please let me know on internet.x@hotmail.com

Regard,

Wael

1. I'm a UK-based Flash developer and I sometimes find that the keyboard controls in the Flash authoring environment get switched to a US keyboard rather randomly. Fairly trivial but annoying too.

2. If you have used the transform>flip horizontal action on a movie clip and then go into that movieclip the arrow keys are reversed. I know this is because you are working in a symbol, but its none too intuitive. Trivial again.

3. Some kind of support for 3-D? A 3-D class in actionscript perhaps.

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- Give us the option to embed Fonts without the need to embed the complete font outlines for the bold/italic/underline/... variations we want to use. For example why not skew the regular font instead of including the complete italic font glyphs?

- TextField with increased XHTML/CSS support, keeping the XHTML code in tact.

- MIDI Support

- CAM/MIC: save to server option (as JPEG/MP3/MPG/?)

- CAM: Alpha and/or Chroma keying

- Option to load (new) Flash Player extensions on demand. So distribute the basic Player, if u iser visits a site which needs an advanced extension (e.g. 3D) give them the option to download that on demand. Maybe this would allow third party developers also to build player extensions?

- IDE: better coding environment, better debugger (advance trace options for example, at least an option to clear the output window from code, e.g. trace.clear().

- Pricing: Same prices in Europe as in the States. I still don't get it why we in Europe need to pay much more for the same product as in the U.S.

- Code obfuscation/protection

- Increased performance of the compiled applications

Just an idea: a lot of flash sites with embeded fonts use the same fonts. Users who visit several of these sites will have to download thos fonts over and over again. Wouldn't it be a better option if Flash Player would cash in someway those fonts on the user machine and give the site designer the option to look for cached fonts before downloading them from the site?

in my previous post I meant of course 'cache' not 'cash' ;-)

1. A solution to release the restriction of not being able to duplicate/attach a movieclip from an externally loaded swf out into somewhere in the parent movieclip.

To be able to duplicate a movieclip to a different level. _root.mc1.mc2.original duplicated to _root.mc1.duplicate, or attachMovie can attach a movieclip from an externally loaded swf/movieclip. It's a bit of a dodgy thing to want to do, but would be extremely powerful.

2. Add a border to a shape that currently has the stroke supressed using JSFL (or un-supress the stroke!). The JSFL setStroke method currently does not apply a stroke to a shape which currently does not have one. It only changes the stroke on shapes with an existing border.

This would then mean you could script adding strokes to every frame in an animation sequence.

3. I start to experience incredible performance problems when attaching more than 200 mcs at random locations in one movieclip - but if I create 20 movieclips with 10 movieclips in each, it is much faster. Maybe i'm working flash too hard, but if you're plotting shapes on a map (with rollovers), you could easily reach 200 movieclips.
At the moment, i've ended up creating a hierarchy of movieclips to ensure each one never has more than 50 movieclips in.

Great job in Flash 8!

The object-level undo and blend modes alone were worth the price of the upgrade.

You guys obviously work yourselves nuts and forums like this just show how much you care about what the users think.

Just because MM got bought out by Adobe, don't let Flash turn into a bloated monster like Photoshop has become! :)

Look I know you guys said not to repeat stuff but there's too many articles to look through.

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3D and hardware accel. was already mentioned I know.

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External ASO files need to be OPTIONALLY compilied into the SWF at design time. Designers should be able to tell flash to load the ASO at runtime so if a class is changed, only the ASO needs reuploaded to the server and the SWF doesn't need to be recompiled.

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If a class extends MovieClip (or extends another class which extends MovieClip, etc) I should be able to:

use createEmptyMovieClip to get a reference and then set that reference equal to 'new classname'

OR

use attachMovie

I would actually prefer the former since it would allow parameters to be passed to the constructor. And it would cease the ridiculousness of making a symbol in the library just to attach a class.

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I know this hasn't been your top priority but the Actionscript editor is ridiculous and Dreamweaver is horrible too. The Java editor in Eclipse is probably the best I've ever used.

Whatever you end up doing, code hinting should be a top priority. If I extend a class which extends a class, etc all those properties and functions should be available under code hinting.

Similarly if I import a package or class, all those properties and functions should also be available.

Stability of code folding is important and we should have options of what gets 'auto-folded' (ie functions, classes, etc).

Auto-generation of getter/setter functions based on user-defined criteria.

Auto-format of code as in Eclipse's Java editor.

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Ability to load shared assets from an attached movie clip without specifically attaching it at design time.

Example: Movie A attaches Movie B and Movie B has a shared asset with the linkageID 'Shared C', I should be able to say:

this.attachMovie(this.MovieB.SharedC, 'mySharedAsset', depth);

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Similar to above: better font support so I can dynamically import a font either from a TTF/Postscript file or a new Flash Font Format file type.

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Additions to the easing library.

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Easier way to stack Tween objects so they happen sequentially based on how they're stacked.

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Again, great job on 8 and we appriciate all the work you guys do.

Hi I am Flash 9 in the
Photoshop effects list and photoshop filter list
thanks

Please give us complete control over the context menu, e.g. let us decide whether we need to show settings. The same should be true for the context menu of input text fields.

And if the settings dialog is needed we need it to show the dialog strings in the user preferred language. So you should take care of that or give us the option to add custom translations in some way.

It would also be great if we would be able to give the contextmenu a custom look which is consistent with the rest of the design.

It would also be cool if we could extend the settings dialog to add site related settings.

Maybe it would be best if we could have complete control (over design and content) of the context menu and that if we want/need to have privacy/security related input/consent from the user that we only can get that by calling some method of the settings object. Again for any flash built-in dialog we should have the option to present it in the user preffered language

Thanks for listening to our wishes ;-)
Regards Benny

speaking of context menu, i remember in flash 4, when you right clik on an object, we had 'scale'. You took that away, and now we just have transform, please bring it back, thanks.

better trace control:

e.g.

*stopTraces() - stop all subsequent traces
*clearTraces() - clear trace/output window
*traceWithID("msg", "id"), showTraceIdOnly("id") - assign ids to trace messages then allow turning on and off of certain trace messages by id

This on is not a specific blasze wish, but could you please publish a list with all reported bugs somewhere on your website, with it's status (reproted/confirmed/fixed/...) ...priority/severity. And give others the opertunity to comment on them, e.g. share some idea's about possible work-arounds.

For example what is the complete list of bugs related to the TextFiled? And which bug is specific to which player version?

I would like to have support for VC-1 video in flash 9. Simply put it offers h.264 level compression and quality BUT requires less system resources. Which makes it perfect for cellphones, web confrencing etc, but most importantly smallish resolution videos hosted on webpages and such. h.264 is more suited VOD and hd media discs(so is VC-1 but thats a totally different debate).

Note: Yes im aware VC-1 is WMV9 made by the "Evil" Misrosoft! But to those who think like this is, i just hope that you one day reach puberty. Remember VC-1 is an open-standard now, so it isnt Microsoft's anymore. In a way its everyones now.

More 3d capabilities. It is probably not this simple, but just add a z axis(along with z axis actionscript)

The code editor must show in the autocomplete, the methods and properties of imported classes, alls, the built-in classes and my own classes imported...
This is very important!

Actionscript is great, but...

Your forgetting what made Flash great originaly. The fact that it was a great animation tool.

You could consider better control over the tweening on key frames. It's great having all of the filters but rubbish when you only have + or - settings on each keyframe that only reffers to the next tween, not to the previous.

The timeline should work like After Effects where one keyframe could be for size OR position OR alpha OR filter, NOT for all at once by default.

May be you could also look at the keyframe curve editor in 3D Studio Max for better tweening control (ability to specify the IN tween and OUT tween on a keyframe). If you do, please could you include the trajectories display for moving graphics and movieclips.

And lastly...

PUT BACK THE GRAPHICS TABLET PRESURE SENSITIVE BRUSH TOOL FROM Flash MX!!! NOW !!!

Flash was the only vector based drawing tool that had that ability, can not for life of me work out why it was removed ???

Rant over.

PS : Loving the BitmapData class :o)

Not sure if it's been posted in the reams of suggestions above, but a simple integrated serial interface connection would be great!

Have youi ever seen The Game Maker? (http://www.gamemaker.nl/index.html) you can create a game without any single line of code! That i want in flash! 3d support as well as Bitmap renderin perspective once converted into a symbol....!!!! pleasE!!!!!!

We all want super and subscripts, it'ii be very cool for action script html editor.

Better Mouse support:

- Make the scroll wheel work on a mac
- Add onMouseWheelDown & onMouseWheelUp listeners
- Also onMouseWheelLeft & onMouseWheelRight listeners too (I know there aren't many devices that support this yet, but I know numbers are going to grow!)
- Multibutton mouse support

- Multi-cursor support!! -OK, so that one is less likely, but It would be fantastic all the same ;)

Increase the workspace size! Its too small! Ok don’t make it infinite for security reasons but you could double or triple its size. Today’s computers can handle it.

Code collapse and indications of where a bracket corresponds to (if starts here and ends there).

Non-web player with less restrictions and bigger size that will be faster and more efficient so that you can create really powerful applications that will be able to write big files on the disk and do stuff on the computer other langs like java or C# can do. You have the stuff there why not extend and get that market too?

Add a play(“from”, “to”) method that will enable reverse playback and selective playback. Its so easy to do and I wont have to extend MovieClip all the time.

Keep up the good work!

Sound support like the sound api of fmod.org !!!

Hardware Acceleration would be nice, but im not expecting it.

More realistically, i think one of the major drawbacks in current versions of flash, is that all classes have to be external, i would love for classes to be declared anywhere and also, a c/c++ struct type object would be nice too instead of needing to use a class although it can sort of be simulated via functions but it would be nice to be able to do it like this

struct bullet
{
var position:Vector, direction:Vector, type:uint;
};

var a:bullet = new bullet;

rather than setting up a bullet class (IN AN EXTERNAL FILE! :'( ) which im pretty sure would waste alot of resources since its only to be used as a non-dynamic data structure

one of the things i dont like about AS's Object, is that you cant strict type properly

Overloading would also be a nice touch, especcialy operator overloading, the pain i get from having to call functions for manipulating vectors and other structures

FLASH IN 3D! TAKE A LOOK AT:

ULEAD COOL 3D PRODUCTION SUDIO (exports 3D to SWF)

here---> http://www.ulead.com/c3ds/runme.htm

I'd like to see support for XSL (eXtensible Style Language) as it is a better way to format data and text then CSS. Also like to see direct communication to databases (no middleware required). Perhaps you could work on a seperate app that creates simple flat databases similar to excel. Create an easy to use GUI for all the novice programmers out there.

In Flash 9, my main feature requests (echoing earlier requests) would be:

1. OpenGL accelerated 3D support. Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer is certainly going to push the envelope on this. It would be nice if Flash could accept models from a variety of 3D apps. I would particually like a plug-in to export from Maya, but plug-ins for 3DS Max, SoftImage XSI and Cinema 4D would probably be a sensible starting option.

2. OpenGL acceleration for all content. I know that the Macintosh Flash Player is now OpenGL accelerated, but this should be standard on all platforms. This acceleration should cover, 3D (if included), video and vector/raster graphics.

3. Standalone compiler. Just as you supply a standalone video encoder, could we have a standalone compiler that could be plugged into external IDE's like Eclipse. If you do that, could we have an Macromedia/Adobe supported plug-in for Eclipse as you are doing with Flex?

Please Make the library more like the explorer in the Windows.
For example when I want to select more than 1 thing in the library - I always have to press ctrl and the item which i want to select rather than I do it in the Windows Explorer. In Fact other programs have this ability except for Flash. I thought this user interface support was going to be in Flash 8, but to my shock it wasn't there.
And the renaming of more then 1 item is totally impossible.
Also changing the property and quality of bitmap images - i have to do it one by one. And guess I have more tahn 50 images. Thats really a long and very tyring work. I already know that i can change the quality in the Publish Settings... JPEG Quality. But when we change the quality in the Bitmap Properties - its a big difference.
Just make the ability of the library more functional like the Windows explorer, with the support of Views (Thumbnail, Tiles, Icons, Lists, Details). And the Selections of the Items more easy with the support of changing any property with in the user library - even if the user have selected 2 items or million items. And in case the user selected an Images, MovieClips, Buttons, Graphics, Audio files and FLV files - let it work as tab forms where each tab has property for the type of objects. I will be very Happy if my wish will come true. Thank you all for your attention.
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1. A code view ( similar to Dreamweaver ) with basic features from Flexbuilder

2. Being able to set and preview the vertical and horisontal alignment of text in the label component from the parameters panel.

Extend the Window Component with a Help and a Close Button. Parameters if closing should be a Tween.

Even better would be a "Panel Component" like we have in the Development Enviroment.
Closing the upper Panel then should make the lower one go up.

You guy's are providing so many features in flash 8.5. For god's sake make this two basic features more dynamic

hitTest --> should return what i am hitting and not true and false

HTML --> Support for tables.

If possible

DHTML --> if really possible;

Dynamic stage size --> so that my movie can take any shape and size dynamically.

Support for 3d --> if you don't do anything now sparkle Interactive designer will be a considerable threat.

Database and file support --> for making the flash developers smile and he does not have to run after other developers(asp,php etc. etc.)
Thank you

Convert.ToDate(String);

One very small feature that I know a lot of us would really enjoy is a keyboard short-cut for commenting code (ie control + 7 in eclipse).

I use Flash for drawing and illustraion equally as much as I use it for animation. It's WACOM friendly drawing method and it's intuitive interface are a life saver considered to Adobe Illustrators difficult learning curve and complexity. I know many other professional illustrators who us Flash this way too. Flash MX was capable of exporting images - no problem. But Flash 8 is unreliable for exporting images. It is very buggy and I get corrupted images frequently(a google search reveals this is a common problem). Please consider the image exporting functions when you overhaul Flash.

Also, I wish there were more Photoshop style brush switching option(like right cliking to adjust brush size). It's amazing how intuitive yet counterintuitive Flash can simultaneously be sometimes. I hope Adobe can make it into a cleaner functioning, more reliable program.

Thanks

Few errors to fix

Better support to Icelandic letters in Mac (works fine on Windows)
The letter Ð, ð, Þ and þ doesn't work in textbox on a mac.
This error has always been on a mac.

The ability to duplicate textboxes on mac (doesn't work on flash 8, mac).

Dropzones in flash. The ability to drag drop images into flash (in browser).

I'd like to see a library of built-in preloaders that show percentages and progress bars, *particularly* those that work with FLV and externally loaded SWFs. I believe this would be of great interest to non-programmers. I use Flash for distance learning, and my clients insist on percent loading time for animations and video. It'd be nice not to have to turn to 3rd party solutions every time.

Also, I wish the library panel would stay put. Even though I place it where I want it in my workspace, it won't appear until I call it.

-better timeline user interface ala After Effects. Even the Director time line is better then flash, dedicated script channel, easy markers
-I would love to see a way to scale(timeline) an animation with keyframes (ala maya and after effects "Graph Editor")this is such an import aspect of any animation tool
- more focus on search engine optimization..I often have to talk my clients out of using flash because it's not nearly as seo friendly

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding

Layout Manager:
can we have a layout manager like we have for other languages like JAVA?

HTML and DHTML use Tables and DIV's to manage the layout. With more dynamic applications being developed with the latest "web2" buzz word, a nice Layout Manager would help flash developers take advantage of this wave and ride it smoothly.

Just found this site, and havent read all the posts so sorry if i repeat something. Off the top of my head:

It would have to say better HTML ability. It would be great to be able to open HTML pages inside of a Flash movie.

And what about masking dynamic text, always have issues with that.

What about being able to trace bitmaps in multiple frames when they are all selected.

My timeline has always dissapeared when i start flash even though i have saved my workspace layout?

NB - I am working in Flash MX Pro so if any of these things have been incorperated in Flash 8 sorry about that.

Oh, and how about being able to rotate dynamic text.

>#region , #endregion as in Visual Studio[collapse and expand methods]

>Display methods available in an imported class ,in the dropdownlist after dot,for that class instances

>Add the comments in Livedocs a standard part of Flash help.The option to "update content" can be used to add the new comments to the documentaion.

>Now totally imaginary thing: A tool in debugger, that can generate diagrams of method calls in the swf.

I would like to see, more drawing tool options, i.e. brushes with more size options and smoothing options, perhaps a number based system, and perhaps custom brushes ala Adobe Illustrator. More filters would be nice and allow them to be applied to a graphic symbol or allow for the export of animated movieclips to video and image sequence formats. I woul also like to see more support for export and import formats, primarily PSD's.

Forget about all these feature requests. Please make it less (much less) buggy.

I want flash to access local files, access the directory structure, create 3D scenes, import 3D objects, have a flash paper component so flash paper content can be built dynamically, send binaries through sockets, send udp through sockets, be able to connect to and read from a mSQL/SQL database directly,fast RSA encryption/decryption, call applications on client or server, Ability to process frequency, amplitude, pitch for sound

I am a beginner with Flash, although I want to learn fundementals before I use technique, or Design, so if possible for the next Flash enhancement:
1.Incorporate interactive templates, as a expansion pack maybe.. too many businesses want traffic and that traffic to stay there. ex.. a Design pallette for products. Interactive object placement and design with ease.. a car and its add-ons, or an cnc machinist art pallete, create objects to insert onto it then submit their creation, by the available tools/objects allowed. This is possible now, but not with ease...
2. Transparent flash!
3. Network Rendering.. for large presentaion at a single point in time.. Like after completion of project. and continue to work for high output designers!
Q: If you can publish a a screen saver like so.. why not interactive desktops that are both backgrounds and screen savers in one with interactive toggles or objects for control. Sort of like a instant screensaver that can be instantly pushed back to keep running or entertaining like a desktop movie screen where you can still work etc. ? write it!

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding

Be able to apply an arcked gradient fill to something - or when applying a linear gradient fill to a line and you bend the line, the fill follows the arc of the line. Would be useful for motion effects

Parent child relationships for symbols (like aforward kinematic type rig), the ability to set the default tween to ease in and out, the edit tween box to not be modular, a timeline more like After Effects with easy control over each property independent of the others.

How about a RegExp menu... LOL, Hey I'm not kidding! We all use a third party or self written RegExp.as Well, how about making it part of Flash. Validation needs no explaination and it could be used to many replace type functions. Not that we can't alrady do those, but Regular Expressions are so mind bending to get right. Maybe just a RegExp.check() that shows exactly what our code has asked for. It would cut down on needless tweaking for rookies or intermediates who could really use a break.

1. Hardware Acceleration.
2. Is it too soon to start initial thinking and perhaps some features related to the future of resolution independent displays (High Density Displays)? Specifically, a way to programmatically "quantize" the rendered output of specific vector (and bitmap) symbols on stage, for "pixel crisp effects" handling at different zoom settings. In other words, things that should stay crisp would stay crisp, regardless of scaled size (for things you specifically -- in code -- wanted to scale, that is.)
3. Hardware Acceleration.

Make it easier for game development, Have a capability to reprogram the right mouse button so it can be used for games.
capable of full screen.
Have Adobe buy Electric Rain and add the Plug-in for Flash for 3d IN Flash. (Swift Xpress?)
SWF obfuscators added

An open XML format for the FLA files so that they can be batch modified and generated without needing to explicitly open them. Very VERY useful for tv studios like ours.

It would be great if Flash 9 was able to provide text-to-speech like Director currently does.

Integrated UML Tool Like GModeler

UNDO: currently the undo feature will undo everything: both manipulation of the IDE as well as manipulation opf the library, code, timeline and internals of elements.

Why would I want to undo opening a folder?? Or undo openning a movieclip to edit it's contents - This doesn't make sence, and is also anoying (if some people do use this as a feature, then it should be a config option).

The undo should only undo changed to the file (either code, library structure, movieclip contents, timeline, etc.)

The way that it controls what it undose is peculiar also, it should be more obvious what pressing that CTRL+Z combination will do to your file.... sometimes it will undo something without you knowing what it's done. Then it's panic time trying to remember what you were doing.

Rant over. Please Adobe, sort out the UNDO : )

(I appreciate that you have a hard time of pleasing everyone, from coding geek to creative hippy. But there's also us that are part time geek, part time creative - maybe I need two 'initial setups'?)

I would really like to see:

- ability to use linear gradients horizontally without having to rotate the gradiented image or shape
- more efficient output to AVI...it would be nice to output movie clip animations, rather than only being able to use the _root timeline
- more built-in static graphic effects and plugin access as seen in Photoshop
- custom brush shapes
- more video transitions as seen in Premiere or Vegas, but for use with shapes, FLVs, movie clips, etc
- built-in text animations and templates for text animations (like Swish and similar programs, but not an add-on or 3rd party prog outputting swfs)
- built-in 3D rendering (like Swift 3D, but again, not an add on...actually like Swift 3D Xpress where you can 3Dize your vector graphics)

make a easy scripted camera in components

A "search" for the library would be a good one because it can be fastidious when you have 500+ items and you need to look through the whole library to find an item.

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding yes yes

SWF to EXE converter.
SWF to GIF converter

SUPPORT ARABIC.SUPPORT RTL ENCODING

I would love it if there were predefined methods for selecting only a certain number of characters of a string in a textInput or textArea (ie. If a developer wished to populate a textInput or textArea with text based on the first letter of user input, the user could enter 'a' and the text would populate with 'aardvark'. Developers could then leave the first 'a' unselected, while the 'ardvark' remains selected. Then the user can enter the next letter, for example 'p', and the text would populate with 'apple' with only the 'ple' remaining selected.)

My primary focus is on multi-media. I own a production company and use alot of flash when coding...but there are a few things I have to go elsewhere for.my top 5 is as follows.

1) make use of that vp7 video codec you guys licensed from On2.
2) Allow video to be viewed in full screen!!!!
3) ACC audio support
4) real time video compression for live broadcasts
5) allow html to be displayed inside a flash movie.

I'd really like to see a swf able to write to a data file online. It would be nice to be able to omit having to call up asp or php for this.

And, as long as Adobe owns it all now anyway, why not allow for some serious interactivity between Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Flash?

Not redesigning them per se, but quicker, smoother transitions between the programs would be nice. For example, using an Illustrator tool set allows for greater control and detail for objects- having a seemless transition between that and Flash would be slick.

(I guess ideally, I could see it all as purchased components to a mega-design studio program allowing the best of any given component to apply to any other component. How cool would that be?)

-custom brushes for both lines and fills. This would give me greater artist freedom and rely less on other programs such as xara or illustrator. A set of premade ones and also the ability to make more and modify them.
-Being able to turn off the size of the brush effected from how far i am zoomed in.
-Color picker like adobe photoshop.
-lypsyncing tools.

More accessable to game design, in other words, capable to reprogram the right mouse button and full screen capabilities.
SWF obfuscators.

support ARABIC

One thing that I think would really help when creating graphics in Flash is more advanced masking. By this I mean masks with say 50% alpha showing the thing below them at 50% alpha, I guess this would require something like an alpha channel, so don't know how possible it is.

- setDepth()
- MovieClips using the EventListener Model. SO i can delete onPress Event if i want to.

IDE:
MTASC support!
better AS editor!
CVS/SVN Support!
better components (AFAIK MX components architecture it VERY SILLY, including theming!!! >:-<)
ActionScript:
RegExp!
better drawing API!
3D...
;-)

Zaba

1) Please build Flash Player to actually run well on a mac os.

2) Fix the pallets bug when using dual monitors. This has been buggy since Flash MX!

3) Allow flash to run PHP scripts from through actionscript (assuming PHP server of course).

Best

-better HTML support. if i need to externally import formatted HTML text so that a client can edit their own site more easily it should be able to handle it.

-stroking to match photoshop. i want to be able to stroke a font in flash and have it look exactly the way it does in photoshop.

-bitmap and vector distortion. i want to be able to skew and distort images like i can in photoshop. and i don't want the images to get all jaggy when i do so.

-better bitmap handling. i want to be able to resize or rotate or skew or break apart an image without it looking like crap.

...mainly, now that adobe owns flash, i want flash to work exactly like an adobe product and be able to seemlessly go between the two brands. you should suggest to those who work with photoshop to incorporate psd2fla exporting without using a 3rd party exporter.

thanks for listening!

The pinning of frame actions should save with the source fla. good job on 8 btw

Flash 10 wishlist: directXplugin?? "VR included"??

The pencil tool, on smooth mode, will not connect line endpoints as previously was the case in MX and MX 2004. It is now very frustrating when trying to paint bucket seemingly enclosed, yet unclosed areas. Please make the pencil tool responsive in closing gaps when being used to draw. Even better, have a setting that allows you to choose how responsive it is.

Direct Mysql acces getting rows out of the database inserting etc...

with out using php..

Thanks Adobe/Macromedia - Flash 8 is amazing! Here are some additional requests for Flash 9:

- MPEG4/DivX playback (current lack thereof is a red flag when contemplating integrating Flash Player with set-top boxes and video playback devices)

- Ability to retrieve path to file dragged-and-dropped onto Flash movie (for file upload etc.)

- A AS3.0 reflection method. typeof(clip_mc) currently only returns 'MovieClip'. It would be very useful to also be able to figure out the actual movie clip name as it appears in the 'Library'.

i would really like to see some sort of simple 3d editor for movieclips.

i also feel restricted when using the gradient tool, mabee you could make some function where you can animate the position of the colours without doing it frsme by frame.

another request is, we need more filter effects, noise, smudge, liqufy movieclip, im syre yu getr the point.

i also find that im very restricted with audio & video files, why do you not support some of the common formats?.

im sure all these have been said before but i would just like to say agaim to make sure something is done.

oh yeah.....arabic support? please!!!

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding

flash 9 should support 3d texture mapping, openGL, like a 3d bezier tool!!
flash 8 is great!! guess 9 should be better!

- Degradee masks
- External debugger

I would like to see a way to read and write a text file without php or other third party. Just flash and the text file.

Need to be able to use flash,over https without IE warnings.
I know there is a solution for this,already but You guys should implement this as standard somehow.

Add Adobe Photshop filters to Flash 9.0

Pen Tool! The pen tool is incredibly difficult to use. I often have to rely on Adobe Illustrator. It would be great if the Pen tool for Flash worked the same way Illustrators' does.

I think 3D is the next thing.
Also make Flash closer to After Effects. One should be able to do anything. Have the smoothest possible animation. Full screen with no hassle. And as a designer, I would love to make my interactivity dreams come true without any code. To me action script is still a pain in the arse.
I think these are some designer's dreams (less of the developer - but hey you should care about us too)

I would like to see in actionscript, functions that can interact with windows, like those from Zinc, SWF Studio and mProjector.

And combined with the above, a better .exe projector, so that we can easily create windows (or mac) applications

Thank you

Online enabled peer to peer connections would be a nice addition like an update to LocalConnection. Im not sure If I sound like I know what I am talking about but better peer to server connections as in not having to send XML data through an XML socket.

Well, i'l be expecting this new flash version... i just would love that this new version had this feature: Aotumatically detect the user's flash version, and instal the most recent one on the user's pc... Now, that would save us all a lot of hard work and complications...

=)

João Figueiredo
Aveiro, Portugal

yusef brought up an important issue, and a bug that's been around since MX.

Trying to paint inside a movie clip that's been fixed on stage creates a negative fill effect. Please fix this, it's such a frustrating glitch.

Mobile device simulator would be nice.
An inbuilt sound meter for the sounds would be nice too.
And also please search in this document the word "midi" ;)

Hi. I am a havy user of the path tool.
In Flash this tool sucks... realy don´t work...

Make the path tool work like in photoshop path tool, or like brezier tool in Corel. Like Photoshop is realy better!

Best regards!

First I want to congratulate the Flash team on the wonderful improvements in v8. Having worked with Flash since v2 came out, I have to say this version has the most improvements and least problems of any of my upgrades.

I think I have compiled a list of what it seems people want in Flash 9:
They want it to come with a piece of hardware called a magic wand. Wave this wand and Flash will...
1. Build games and connect to any and all databases without a single line of code.
2. Act as a JIT customizable plugin that imports all major 3d formats (as well as hiring the folks from ILM and WETA to build, skin and light the

models)
3. While adding 3d, increase the speed and decrease the size of the

plugin. It's just not as fast as apps running off my local system. Don't

forget to upgrade the systems of the other 500 million people who might

want to see my 3d content.
4. Build me a comfy chair where I can sit back and let flash do it's thing

and a rake to keep track of all the money that will be floating past my

beach house.
5. Just in case you managed to miss it... Support for RTL languages.

All joking aside. Here's a real list of non-code editor items I would like

to see in v9 or v10. I think the code hint improvements and collapse code

etc. have been covered at length.

1. RegExp - Both in searching and in AS code. Form validation is so much

nicer with this option.

2. Improved HTML support in dynamic text fields. Mostly improved lists and

including tables. The call for all the extended CSS and DHTML is just

nuts. For anyone who wants DHTML inside Flash, just go learn AJAX and deal

with all that extra forking code and the heavy rewrites when new browsers

come out. Yipes. Half the point of using flash is to avoid that crap.

Still on the HTML topic... Talk to the folks on the DW team about adding a

language dtd for Flash friendly HTML files. It would be nice if clients

could edit the HTML for the dynamic text using DW or Contribute without

fear of using unsupported code.

3. I like the idea of advanced text wrapping. Maybe give developers the

option of using non-rectangular dynamic text fields, thus producing

something no one else has or seems to have plans to have in the near

future. It would be cool to see text flowing around curved surfaces (like

in desktop publishing apps) or controlled lines of distortion (i.e. lens

effects).

4. Also along the lines of "It would be cool", I do agree the sound object

should be expanded to allow for spectrum based graphic effects. I'm sure

there will be loads of developers happy to use this.

5. As an MCI, I find the parts of the Flash UI most students find

confusing are the combined Timeline and layers panel, symbol inside symbol

approach and the differences between movieclip and graphic.

As a developer I would like to have the ability to detach the timeline.

Like many developers, I use more than one monitor and there are times I

wish I could place the stage on one monitor and split my second monitor

between the timeline and the actions panel. Another advantage to detaching

the timeline would be the ability to resize it and make it more of a

column when I am working with very few frames. All those empty frames

waste screen space.

Expand the movie explorer. Allow for a more visual (sort of a child box

inside a parent box) approach to analyse and print symbol structures.

Right now I use a whiteboard in my office to accomplish this.

Dump the graphic symbol. Add a checkbox to the movieclip properties that

makes it a slave to the parent timeline. This way it still is available to

AS as a movieclip and retains the features that make graphics unique.

6. Allow lines to not merge with themselves. I'm sure there are plenty of

animators out there who have wasted time fighting with motion guides that

needed to double back over themselves and therefore needed more keyframes

because the guideline fractured when it overlapped.

7. Here's a long overdue change. Make the quadradic bezier's available for

visual editing. MM added the pen tool to make the illustrator people more

comfortable, but all they really had to do was make the control points of

the quadradic bezier's visible. MS expressions tools are going to have it

before Flash? I've tested the spline tool in expressions. We need one too.

8. Flash could probably use the speed enhancements of compiled bytecode AS

files. This could kind of be the equivilant of actionscript dll files. You

know MS is going to be doing this with c#. For larger apps I'm sure this

would make a difference.

9. I'm all for better shape tweening control. Let the anchor points and

control points be animated. Remove the sort if guesswork and buggyness of

shape hints. Display the direction of a path and pop up a number for each

anchor. Let the animator match anchors by number. The anchor tween could

even be set to follow a path. If this becomes too processor intensive,

allow for the shape tween to be converted to keyframes at compile time.

This would allow the animator to choose between processor usage and file

size. By doing this at compile time, the fla file would retain it's ease

of editability.

10. Someone mentioned the idea of a Fillet tool. A tool that could round

two line segments would be very useful. Doing this with the merge drawing

method has always been time consuming.

11. When dragging guideline, add the pixel value as a tooltip like in DW8.

I think the only time I use the info panel is when placing guides.

12. Something lacking in most graphics programs is a way to find useful

color scheme information like complementary color or split complementary

etc. So many flash color schemes seem to be chosen randomly from a hat.

Along the same lines, a color mixer would be handy. Choose between 2 and 4

colors and have flash display colors between the chosen colors. I use

third party tools for these options. I have even mixed gradients for

temporary objects just so I could use them to select intermediate colors.

Just my two cents.
Keep up the good work.

I would like:

- better, easier, customisable UI. Check out Maya, After effects 7 etc...
- a new system specially for webdesign in Flash, specially designed for webdesign.
- when you create an object, you can setup alpha, shadows and so on without making everything a symbol.
- more customisability in the timeline.
- better navigation method of timeline, using the horizontal scrollbar all the time, dragging, gives me RSI. I'd rather want to use ALT+left mouse to pan, etc... Like 3D programs. Or space.
- integrate photoshop and flash. :)
- constraints...
- incremental saving system.
- project management tool.

When creating custom classes then it would be great if the script help knows what properties and methods area avilable in that custome class.
For example with a MovieClip then you get all the properties highlighted and listed if you have code hints on
So if I type ...
"var mc:MovieClip = mc."
.. then after the dot all the options appear

Can this happen for custom classes like it does in Visual Studio.
Makes it a lot easier when you have lots of classes

Right now Flash is a great platform for content development and our company's business is entirely based on Flash. However there are some much needed improvements that we could really take advantage of.

1) Provide native DB connectivity to common database (MySQL is an excellent start). Using Flash Remoting, PHP backend scripts and other means to access DB data adds significant overhead and makes performing simple tasks more difficult than other platforms. I understand that as a client-side application it does not make sense for Flash to parse though mountains of data from a SQL database, but it will be so handy to be able to retrieve data straight from the DB for smaller data sets. This takes me to my next point:

2) Synchronous function calls to web service methods: having to define callback functions for everything requires us to create double the code which is necessary. It will be extremely convenient to have the results of your function call available Very inconvenient for serious development in runtime, just like PHP handles data transfers, DB connections, etc.

3) Same goes to DB connectivity when one is implemented: have the results of queries immediately available.

4) Implement a wait() function so the actionscript execution can pause for a userspecified number of milliseconds. Right now we need to use a combination of setInterval and clearInterval which can cause serious memory leaks if the interval is not cleared properly in same cases.

More complex gradient fills
Im thinking along the lines of the gradient mesh tool in Illustrator.

and of course a real hitTest for shapes.. none of this defining multiple points crap for aan object
i want to check against the actual shapes of the 2 objects.

1- when loading an external swf with library items, those items are only accessible to the target MC where the swf has been loaded, can this be global.

2- As in the microphone activity detection can this also be done for the speaker's activity.

3- Text field imrpovement and more advanced HTML support.

4- Support for more video extensions not only FLV.

5- Ability to read HTTP headers.

6- make some sort of deal with microsoft to remove that stupid "click here to activate this activeX control". :)

Thanks

1. Abstract classes and protected methods
2. Regular expressions
3. A built-in onMouseDoubleClick event
4. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! Fix the bug whereby MovieClipLoader.unloadClip() doesn't stop a clip unloading till its got the first few bytes.
5. Better HTML support in TextFields
6. Native XML support
7. Native event support and some kind of event viewer would be nice
8. skew_x and skew_y native MovieClip properties
9. Screen sharing (with FMS2)
10. A pause/sleep command
11. Optional local scope for direct event handlers
12. Faster compiling

... and a way to capture the entire movie as a jpg/png and save it to a trusted server (in Actionscript).

What I would really like to see is the implementation of autofilling shapes like in Illustrator. I think it is really frustrating to draw a shape and then have to fill it afterward. The ability to quickly make filled shapes in AI is incredibly intuitive and useful. Check out Brian Denhams's site to see what I mean:
http://illcraft.blogspot.com/ scroll down to "GET THE LEAD OUT"

Please, please, please allow fills with the pencil tool. Making shapes with the pencil in AI is sublime, in Flash it is nonexistent. I don't understand why. This is really part of the previous request in a way.

The subselection tool should act like AI's "direct select" tool also. You should be able to click on a line OR a point to manipulate the bezier curves.
Right now clicking on the line means that you want to move the entire shape's position.

To move a frame requires two-clicks, one to select another to move. I think that there should be an option to choose between a single click and move, or the traditional two-clicks, so that everyone is happy.

Please include a method to duplicate a complex data type, rather than just referencing it.

ie.
var myNewObject:Object = myOldObject.clone();

Thanks

Ability to specify a Number type or at least the number of decimal places that number should always be limited, e.g. in currency calculations you can specify that the number can only have 2 decimal places.

I think flash could do with a few moew filters and tools

- ability to load external PROGRESSIVE encoded Jpgs
- clean up library includes the check of obj-usage in the code, not only onStage
- using html4 in flash

Ctrl+F4 closes preview swf window and not Stage/Code window in background (like it was with Flash7)

sorry if this repeats something from previous posts...there are too many to read!

# IDE
- generateAS-from-graphics button:
position graphically the elements on the stage and timeline layers and press a magic-button that automatically outputs the actionscript code for the creation of that specific graphic (with position, depth and properties respected) but on the fly at runTime...in order to lighten the file and allow a more seamless and clear workflow beetween layoutDesigner->motionDesigner->coder.
the ideal would be obviouslly to generate scripted tweens as well...but to have everything in position is already super.
I thought of this because, being both a designer and coder (a "deseloper"? or a "devigner"?? :) ), I often find myself drawing on guide layers the parts needed for the graphics but with the only intent of tediously copying properties (x,y,w,h,alpha ecc) to the AS class and tediously switching between the flash IDE and my favorite actionscript coding environment.

- copy and paste properties of objects x, y, with,... ecc
the same done in actionscript with the TFprops() and MCprops() (see explanation in the actionscript section of this list);

- guide layers auto exclude also actions that are placed in them: now actions are executed even the layer is marked as a guide

- being able to switch between blending modes just by pressing the up and down arrows, without having to tediously press the dropdown menu, slide to the desired blending mode and choose it, much like the font dropdown menu

- font drop down menu that previsualizes the selected text formatted with that specific font.

- text properties wizard -> visualize the differences between parameters and fonts

## ENHANCED TIMELINE
- indipendent tweens for different properties + easing curves like after effects (with the possibility to choose from the standard easing tween graphs and with bezier handler really usable, not like after effects wich are really complicated to use and understand)
this is very easy to do in actionscript, but impossible in the ide...

- vertical timeline view for coders
a coder and single frame movie oriented vertical timeline view, dockable to panel sets or toolbar side. To view the full white and empty timeline is always a waste of screen space. instead if allowed to be like a palette it can shrink to any size and dock in any prefered position. Mabe the layer labels should be allowed to be set vertically as well, making the leftmost vertical layer as the top one and the rightmost layer as the bottom one. The views obviouslly should be easily and quickily interchangable.

- matrioska timeline:
being able to expand mc and directly view (or just preview) their timeline in the context of the parents timeline. in the main timeline it should have like a [+] button close to a mc keyframe and by pressing it, flash would "expand" that current layer and reveal the mc's sub-timeline (or portion of it with scrollers) directly in the main timeline.
I understand this can be a bit difficult if the frame hosts more than one mc with it's own timeline...but Iìm sure there are some design workarounds like: which mc do you want to expand (like rhino's multiple curve selection) or the method would be selectable only if there is one single mc per key frame.

- pin on mc depths timeline:
as for actions palettes that you can pin on single frames actions, do the same but with movieclips depth timeline: scene 1 > mc app > mc subMc (pin here) in order to be able to go rapidly back and forth between timelines. Obviouslly the pin should be kept as "edit object in context" and not a blank background for wich you already have the edit symbol drop down button on the top right of the timeline

# ACTIONSCRIPT

- TFprops( ) and MCprops( ): copy properties of one text field or Movie Clip to others:
in order to not have to write
t1.embedfonts = t2.embedfonts = true;
t1.html = t2.html = true;
t3. ecc
----
somenthing like a textformat but for textfield and mc properties
var tfprops:TFprops = new TFprops();
with (tprops) {
enabled =true;
html = true;
embedFonts = true;
antiAliasType = "advanced";
...
}
tf1_txt.setProps(tprops)
tf2_txt.setProps(tprops)
//and also on creation of textfield
tf3_txt = _root.createTextfield(name, depth, tprops)
//ovviously single tf should be able to overwrite single properties of the TFprops object assigned like so:
tf4_txt = _root.createTextfield(name, depth, tprops)
tf4_txt.html = false;
//and setProps and getProps();
tf4_txt.setProps(tf1_txt.getProps());

- a movie clip loader class that works in local as well + loading sequence enabled.
or this might influence the ide as well(simulate download might be active in flash8)

- local and remote file control:
(create, open, read, save, close) on local file system (user authorisation needed) and on server (user and/or server side authorisation needed) coupled with php files or remote webservice

- usb/serial control:
enable flash to comunicate with devices and pc ports.
there is a java based XMLsocket that allows to comunicate with the serial port, but the usb port is the future and should be implemented in order to allow a brand new set of interaction design experience and the flowing of flash experience even outside the web.
I've got a few projects waiting this possibility.

- an "Export For Actionscript in Frame number:" with an input field to choose the frame in which you want to export it,(and maybe the scope)

# MISCELLANEOUS & BUGS
- best practice well explained on how to couple mc animation and code :
1 frame movies?
or animated movies?
or animated movies generated by code?
or animated movieClips controlled by code?
which is the best for what? benchmarks and comparison matrix on development time, weight of final file, good and bads of every practice, effectiveness to the objective.
is better to create a mask on the timeline? or via actionscript? this is the question...
long debated questions I know...but all the studets I happen to teach the fundamentals and intermidiate concepts of flash always ask me this kind of questions, I also have to ask myself this kind of questions while developing a new project and the answer is never clear, as there is obviouslly more than a way to skin a cat (and there will always be)
MM should develop a clear benchmark on 3 types of projects: simple-graphycal site, mid-dynamic content site, and advanced-ria or higly graphical and programmatically graphical. Every site should be developed in 2-3 different ways or methodologies: 1-more graphics/less programming, 2- graphics and programming, 3-least graphics/most programming. different parameters should be monitored during the development process (duration, weight of final file,effort, difficulty level, amount of bugs found,notes on errors and defects of the method chosen ecc..). Setting up a matrix of the 3 types of projects with the 2-3 different methodologies would give us a starting point benchmark to define the best methodology for the type of project we want to realize. Obviouslly single methods inside every methodologies can be further benchmarked (but that is up to the community to develop)
MM should set up a central repository of best practices for the community, a wiki much like the livedocs, because there are thousands of good resources online and it's often long to indentify single questions. I have an idea or two on how that could be done.

- solve the bug that gotoAndPlay(2) actually stops on that frame without playing.

- build a design pattern wizard directly into flash.

I'm sure it won't even be read but I can try to tell it and be heard : It may be very interesting to have a full imbedding feature of an html page in a flash movie! It could save a lot of time out of being obligated to put a menu animation on the left of the website and a banner animation on the top and then put an "iframe" to change the page. We wouldn't be obligated to cut bitmap images and paste them around the corners! All made in flash with a html embed. Please make it happen!

The following might be value added features for the next version:

1) Class for generating GUID's
2) Enhanced String class - with regular expressions in AS 3 string manipulation problems will be solved but basic functionalities like trim, first letter upper case, etc are still missing
3) Improved TextFormat Class with CSS support (possibility of adding CSS class and reflecting the style at runtime for a TextField)
4) Advanced HTML support
5) Support for creating CDATA text nodes through XML class
6) Option to increase the border thickness of a TextField.
7) Double Click event for MovieClips & Buttons

First of all, thanks for a great release on Flash 8!

The most important from an animation perspective:
-being able to save the custom easing!
-animaton schemes. It would make animating synchronized objects in separate movieclips sooo much easier if you could just save a animation path and apply it on another object.

Thanks!

A larger subset of XHTML and CSS; Working with text in Flash/Actionscript is still a nightmare although improved with the last version.

The ability to duplicate a movie loaded using MovieClipLoader. Wouldn't that be a bandwidth/lifesaver?

The actionscript panel / .as editor could use some helper windows. It would nice if you could get a summary of AS functions and their arguments you've defined in your code.

Collapsable code blocks. Better code hinting for user-defined functions.

Now that you're Adobe.. integrate flash with Version Que.

Thanks for making Flash

Hi there.

Culdt you make the toolbars autohide on muose over? That would save a lot of time clicking for the right toolbar.

Thanks...

Aside from the ragingly obvious (this includes expansion of filters library, as well as shape to shape hittesting), I'd like to see an actionscript command like getkeyName or something of the such, where its possible to read the label of a paticular frame, this would save time in location of the frames and single variable placement!

HOWEVER!
If Flash 9 wants to be groundbreaking in a new world of ease and comfort, as well as a new generation of superb online games you must include:
- Right Click Support (Keeping the menu as default)
- Shape to Shape hitTest (I cannot emphasize how great this feature would be)
- A text writing function for projectors
- An projector publisher feature selection menu:
+ Windowless Projectors
+ Transparency
+ Disable Right Click

All of these features would increase ease for creating outstanding standalone desktop applications, and would also help reduce money spent on third party apps that do this.

FLASH VIDEO
-How about an export movie to flv feature?
-How about an export movie feature that progresses movieclips (Not just show the first frame moving around)?

Also, something like a getIP() command would be cool for creating unique serial codes for the computer and whatnot.

Thanks, looking forward to Flash 9!

Hows about a file browser with an import function, this would be great for locating data stored in text files as well as other features, imagine the flash MP3 Player of the feature.

Also we could use an assortment of file browsing commands, someway to list all the files within the folder prehaps? (Maybe just for projector)

Like with many vector graphics software out there, the ability to natively "Fit text to path" would be nice. Thanks!

LINUX SUPPORT
Flash simply cannot be described as "multiplatform" if there's no up-to-date player for Linux! I'm still using MX 2004 because of that.

Ok, I'm sure you've heard it before, but honestly I've even looked into how I could create my own Flash Extension to make my own custom brushes like in photoshop, Some of the grunge sets are awesome, and for the line of work I do it would save me LOTS of time if I could create custom brushes, like grass, water splats, page rips / burns etc etc.. I see custom brushes has been addressed already though, but it's definatley something I would use.

On another feature note, I come from a strong line of 3d Environment modeling and design.

The best feature I could think of would be Soft Selection on vertices, This is something I wish I had in Adobe Illustrator, photoshop, anything! The ability to affect surrounding vertices gradually, depending on the strength you select, in a radial gradient of how strong it pulls.

Picture it like, if I selected one vertice in one of my vector masks, and set soft selection to On, and set it to 5 strength, it would then create an invisible 5 pixel radius circle, gradient out (strongest in the center, lightest on the outer edge) and any vertices in that area would be pulled when I pulled that one vertice.

It is an incredibly powerfull tool in 3d modeling, and it would be extremely nice to have it in Flash MX so when I'm working on objects with 100's of vertices, and the client says "Can you scrunch his chin up a bit?" I can do it with ease, versus now I have to select each vertice or a group, move them up, modify the curves, tweak them, say "is that ok?" and, well, you get the point :)

If this reaches any flash developers, soft selection and custom brushes man! ALL THE WAY!

1. I wouldnt mind having a script-snippet section - e.g with a "download snippets" from a server where "ready-made" scripts for e.g components, skin, styles and other functionality could be downloaded directly during authoring.

2. Better examples of more complicated apps. E.g a full commerce, miniCMS, pro ads and hiclass animations/effects in the package ;)

I would like to add this function to Flash 9:

Right click on FLA-file, in the rightclickmenu:
Export SWF.
so we can export swf files without opening flash

Nick

Please add speed/tempo control to the playback of Sound and Video objects, e.g. mySound.setTempo(50) for 50% playback speed.

If you can't implement the correct pitchshift and timestretch for the sound stream, then please add the feature anyway. I have seen this request on severel webboards.

An UI that is Adobefied.

Something more like LiveMotion

i guess it would be too complicated to make flash use videoram and the power of graphic cards, but it surely be nice if it could be done cause as some people already mentioned above.

for both codes and designers system resources tie our hands, being able to have that lots of extra resources that flash doesnt use so far would help a ton

still i love flash, keep up the good work!!

1. Layer Parenting - I like the current Timeline alot but the ability to make a layer or multiple layers a child of another layer would be VERY useful. This would speed up the animation process by allowing an animator to animate most of the Symbols on the main Timeline instead of having to nest Symbols for parenting.

2. Bend Graphic Symbols - This would be great for all kinds of animation.

3. Edit in place flipped Symbols - Huge time saver.

4. Better Audio editing UI - Less clunky UI for editing and mixing.

5. Export MC and AS animation to video - The ability to export Movie Clips with multiple frames and ActionScript animation to PNG Sequences and Video would be very useful.

exporting to video in different compressions and also a better export video options like the complete animation not just a timline motion tween I mean exporting entire animation just as good as you see in the preview mode in flash.

A way to swap multiple instances of the same movie clip for a different clip at the same time. Currently it seems necessary to swap them one at a time, and on 80+ frames of frame-by-frame animation with three to four clips per frame that require swapping, this can take a ridiculous amount of time.

Sorry about the double post, but it would also be nice if Flash 9 would sort the folders separately from the symbols in the library and display them at the beginning of the list, sort of like windows explorer does.

What Flash really needs is a native way to write to text files.

Another feature which would make Flash awesome is to allow us to use Java/Swing to code GUi and shapes

I have some features me too:

- an vertical properties window. the current one is ocupying to much space.
- in the bottom af the toolbar an "color favorites". i want to add some favorite colors there for a much faster use of them. others windows are too big to let on my screen.
- to save pinned scripts for the next time i open the fla.
- an shortcut to disable the trace command. the output panel is very anoising in almost all cases.

thanks.

Graphics hardware acceleration! i'd really really like to see this more than anything else.

BUG:
I have noticed that sometimes object tend to be visible at alpha 0 and not be fully visible at alpha 100.

REQUESTS:
1). trace clear
2). Extension to the swf preview window (CTRL & ENTER) for tracing of variables as the movie progresses.
3). Better font compression
4). Shouldn't library items as graphic be redundant now?
5). Flattening of nested flash movies. Thus allowing a nested movieclip to be merged with the level above....
6). Better cpu utilisation
7). Trace command that has colour support
8). Better script locking handling as flash 8 still often hangs and cannot recover
9). More advanced regular expression support
10). Removal of scenes as this should be done via loadMovie and also often functions differently with the use of _root gotoandPlay etc. If keep then include additional functionality into the gotoAndxxxx statements.
11). Image shifts when moving object can still be a tad out
12). I have often coded a preloader on the mac and then found it not to work on a pc and visa versa.
13). File exsists checking returning a boolean
14). Simulate file and project handling like eclipse and sepy
15). loadMovie that can set a var to true or false imediatley so that we dont have to code a timer routine to wait before it starts checking the load state and file exists boolean var so we can error check the files existance and direct the movie appropriatley rather than checking the loadMovies width so see if its greater than zero.

Flash 9 needs a way to minipulate text files and be able to save symbols or the entire stage as an image during run time.

I would like a Music/Sound script into Actionscripts.
Like playTone("C");
That would be really neat so you can compose own music for your flashes.

After 8 years working in flash
I wish
-Flash Support Arabic
-Flash Performance boost by making us of OpenGL or so
-Flash could be a tool for developing desktop applications not only webapplications

It's me again, i just readed through the wishlist, and i must request this!

1. Hardware accelerated graphics! Do you guys have any idea how smooth flash movies and such could be with it?! :O Every PC today have a GPU that supports AA to x4 atleast, and other functionalities. Take advantage of a stronger graphic engine where graphic cards help a lot. Many flash movies today, specialy on newgrounds push the limits of where the framerate is good, with Hardware accelerated graphics the preformance could be dubbled or maybe 3x.

2. RIGHTCLICK support.

Components as that are a nightmare. Things could be made so much easier for non developers.

Help files and tutorials could be much better. For example, I'm working with the learning interactions. The internet if full of people asking questions about these, with no answer in site. How do you handle quizzes with 2 drag and drop components, how do you make multiple choice answers multilined. there's a ton of questions out there that are repeatedly asked and not answered. Adobe / Flash can do better than this!

Source Control integration: Perforce , svn ect.

I'd like to see tutorials that show you how to make sweet headers. For example, a "block" including the top bar and continuous/looped slideshow, which first displays the company name/logo and motions it into place on the bar.

I think MIDI support would be great for small projects with a lot of audio, that way long sound files could be played while only generating a file size no larger than 20KB.

thanks for all Macromedia .

we wish in the next version that flash or blaze is supporting Arabic language ( Typing from right to left)

And thanks very much for your giant potencials .

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding

Please! Allow us , place the files on adobe.com so bad people cant do cheat but...
TRANSLATE THAT F* CAMERA AND MIC MENU
"ALLOW" "DENY"
I hate having to teach everyone what that means!

"help us translating" and you guys you have that text in all the languages in the earth in 2 hours!
then..
not_everybody_speaks_english_!!!!(locale pt_BR);

please
support ARABIC

It would be nice, for the button action to add "Out" case , or somthing like that. Up , Over , Down , Out , Hit..
If i'm not wrong the easyest way to create a btn that has a "realease btn animation" is to create a Movieclip...

tank's

It would be really nice if you have some better HTML support.. Like tables and a scroll bar

The feature i'd like to see in flash 9?
No doubt, bones and IK will be cool for characters animators.
Possibility to switch from IK to FK too..

These will speed up the characters animation, which is a really time-consuming task now (and clients want the best done within few hours...)

I would like to request the next version of Flash to have the ability to turn off the Right-click Menu completely.

I produce training packages in Flash for Air Traffic Controllers to teach them how to use the latest software upgrade of our Air Traffic Control System.

One of the big things in our system is that we use a Three button mouse and each button has special functions when clicked in certain areas.

I need to be able to utilise the mouse Right-click in the training packages without having 'any' of the menu display.

Please consider this in the development of Flash 9 as it would be a major help to my role.

more features coul be:
1-3d object toolbar *just for create obejtc in 3d*
2-all media files suported * that is why flash 8 doesnt support some media files.
3- 3d camera or 2d camera integrated *such be usefull*
4- another toolbar but this one to create pixelate things.
5- add more colors to the paletter.
6- more filters.
7- all windows supported.
8- more graphic.
9- supported on 640x480 resolution.

note: i thing if you add more thing is very good but flash 9 can be over 500mb

one ore thing, blazer is a bad name and if you look it on google some company have that name so flash 9 is the best name.

DirectX Support

can I have something like having a transparency gradient on the bitmaps and MovieClips, just like in the Corel? They would be pretty useful.

More Efficient Actionscript / FlashVM.

I spend most of my time writing actionscript's then trying to make them more efficient via bytecode. This would be a great help to me.

Regular Expression Support

Not essential but would be very useful.

Better Socket Support.

Ideally I'd like A-Synchronous sockets... I can dream cant I?

hi,

i am a flash developer..,,what I want that flash should have the option for encription of data.

and one more feature, that is capble of handling 3d objects, models,

the player is rectangular, please provide the option to make it of any shape..

I realy love the 9scale functionality in Flash 8. But what really annoys me is that it doenst work for masks.

When a 9scale movieclip is set as mask the movieclip is scaled normal!!

It would be great if you could add and alpha channel to the filters, seperately, for more realistic effects.

Hmm, it would also be useful for a speciallized browser, so maybe you could test your more for functionality when the browser doese not have the most recent version of flash.

++And next time put the add comment form on top.

support arbic

native installation on linux

the action panel to have sections with premade codes for certain things like games and tell ya how to edit them...

How about a feature for the Radial and Linear color mixer that allows a SNAP-TO feature so the user could create perfect gradients at half, quater, eighths, and so on...
Maybe there could be an input feature so the usercould decides how it was broken up.

This would be fantastic if you're a perfectionist like me and want everything right where it should be.

Thanks.

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding

ok, heres what i think flash needs:

to have template movieclips with actionscript already on them, like components but not....

for example, like the scrolling text component, have a premade one, where all you have to do is type in the text you want instead of having to faff around with tedious code...

It would be very nice to have have Adobe PhotoShop effects/filters in Flash 4 GenX and also some 3D support just like 3D Max or others.... It would also be very nice to see AS3 or AS4 as true object oriented language supporting multiple cunstuctos overriding overloading incapsulation and catching and throwing exceptions working same as java does....

Regards

Shahbaz Hussain

NEED BIG Integer class, so RSA like mathematics can be performed faster:

Need AT LEAST functions PowMod(a,b,c) MultMod(a,b,c) constructors from Integer, from String, etc.

support ARABIC . support RTL Encoding

XMLSocket.onConnect should receive message when network cable is unplugged.

Filters like in photoShop and sound filters + color key!

rotateToMouse(); - just to make it easer.

makeTiles() ex.
makeTiles((1,1,1,1)
(1,0,0,1)
(1,0,0,1)
(1,1,1,1));
Tile0.gotoandStop(2);
Tile0.walkable = true;
Tile1.gotoandStop(2);
Tile1.walkable = false;
draw.Tiles(MOVIECLIP);

in the frame:
get.Gravitation(strenght);

in the moviclip:
this.graviity = 10;

more online game functions like:

make.online();
this._x = online;

Ready codes for flash-noobs like a

plattformer
a chess game and more,

so it should learn flas easer and make it more fun.
Then more young people get interested in flash.

ready textures like in photoshop

Skelleton. Yes skelleton. Like in Maya. When you make your character you make a skelleton in it so you can animate and code esear.

It would useful if you could pan around the timeline by holding down the spacebar (to get a hand icon) and then clicking and dragging in the timeline window with the mouse. Like you can in Photoshop.

When you have large keyframed animations it is a real pain having to scroll around the window using the horizontal and vertical scrollbars separatley.

Flash Tool fixes:

-burn, water, pull in, pull out and mixer

-do it possible to set corner radius after drawing a rectangle

-when making a poligon it should be possible to change numbers of corners like triangle, hexagon and so on.

-corner radius at polygons

Color Fixes:

-there is radial and linear but there should be more, like:
-cone
-square
-polygon
-triangle

Document Propeties:

-transparent background

-skins

-3D or 2D modes

3D:

-Draw boxes, balls, cones, cylinders, piramids, plane and torus

-draw curves that you can revolope, loft, extrude and planar

-possible to select faces, edges and vertices and extrude them

Components:

-2D and 3D camras

Filters:

-possible to put filters in flash lite, at drawing objects andgraphics.

-more filters like:
-edge blur
-bumping in 2D and 3D
-hand drawed glow, lines
-fire
-water
-reflective
-color key

MovieClip, graphics and buttons fixes:

- movie clip frame rate

- more like 3D object, window and sprites

Sprites:

- a new pixelate drawing style

Timeline:

-possible to transelate tweens to keyframes

-filters at layers

-a function that makes that when you select a key frame then go to propeties you can change depth.

Actionscript:

- _z, _zscale, _xrotation and _yrotation

-_xblur, _yblur and more filters

-frameRate = 10;

-save.variable = VARIABLE; saves variables easy.

-fsComand(download(c:\programs, game.swf), true) to download a text file or a swf or something else.

I also hope the multiple Key Down Bug is fixed. Its a horror for game dev.

Kerning. And I mean good, unlimited kerning, like in Illustrator. Creative typography is not really that easy in Flash, but with the new text display clarity, I REALLY want to be able to get picky with the text from within the application itself.

This should also be accessible via AS.

I agree with many of the comments above about Sound, performance updates, etc.

It would rock everyones world if the flash player actually used DirectX or the GPU instead of the CPU. HOW SWEET WOULD IT BE!!! Faster graphics...games would be awesome.

Search box in the library, a la gmail ability to find things amongst the email-chaos :)

Timeline:
Scrap Flash timeline and replace with After Effects one (Especially being able to edit the motion via a Graph Editor baked right into the timeline).
- Hilighting/colorizing timeline layers sucks... adopt AE system.

Character Animation:
Bones and IK system, and some kind of heirarchy tree panel to drag'n'connect objects together.

Pipline integration:
- Tighter import/export integration with PSD files.
- Linkage/referencing to source files, so Library auto-updates. Linkages break too easily in Fla8, AE's system is better (eg when you find one asset, AE reconnects the all the missing assets automatically)

Vectors:
- Shape tweens are really buggy! Re-do the shape tween capabilities, so they correctly render intesitial frames.
- drawing a shape, then clicking a vector point and moving it envokes Flash to put additional vector points at random, making it impossible and messy to shape tween complex vector objects. Stop Flash from putting all these extra vector points allover my art!
- Better Illustrator integration.

extracting data from an excel file....

My wish list:

I guess it's very usefull, if we could with single click delete unused item in library.

Is it possible for Flash player to enable HTTP Compression using modified HTTP header with:

Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/compress/

Sometimes very large data are sent over the http connections, but flash is too slow to compress/decompress it on client side.

Other possibility would be Implement compress routines in flash player itself.

The ability to add jsfl files to the contextual menu in author mode.

Bitmap-to-Vector Tracing:
- needs a good bitmap-to-vector renderer (such as potrace, http://potrace.sourceforge.net/).
- In fact Illustrator and Photoshop need a vector renderer/tracing tool make-over ;)

I think there should be a feature to "expand/contract" frame rate in the pub;ish options. For example, If i had originially built my flash app for 12 fps, I think I should be able to increase the frame rate without having to move all my keyframes around so that the animation takes the same amount of time.

Also there should be a detect/execute flash player option in the publish settings. If the user who visits the page containing the flash has flash player 4, the flash should automaticlly adjust to those settings.

Right-click "Create Shape Tween"!

- i quote a lot of people.. a non-ActionScript way to distort symbols, and some kind of 3D (but also a fake-3D effect like CorelDRAW "extrusion" would be great)
- as someone else said, the underlined text
- a different Undo system which would not consider the simple selection or deselection of object or frames
- the possibility of choosing the object selection system (like Adobe Illustrator)
- an advanced version of the button symbol, which would blend the passage between (e.g.)the ON status and the OVER status.. or should we always make it with MovieClips?
- the possibility of using the mouse right-click
- some emprovement about pixels
- the possibility of saving a FLA in an old version of Flash (not only the previous)
- exportation of nested MovieClips content to other extensions
- some emprovement about the MovieClip caching option

HOWEVER

in the meanwhile, I'd like to thank you all for what you have done so far, expecially with Flash 8.
bye

uniform gradient for objects made of two or more paths

My wish:

- a transparent Flash Player window.

Regards

Nelson Ferreira

Expansion of the components library would be nice.

TIMELINE EDITING

somthing like :

select frame
arrowUp -> layer up
arrowDown -> layer down
left -> move to the left frame
right -> move to the right frame

ctrl+c -> copy frames
ctrl+v -> paste frame

and so on...

Other people posted all the other my wisches.

Better Export>Image Jpeg support (A higher resolution export would be nice)

1)Support shared assets control through Code..
Eg: Playing an audio with "import for runtime" using attachSound("linkageName")

Drawing functions:

1.Brushes! like all in fireWorks!

2.Patterns

3.BlurTool, burnTool, smugeTool, rotatingSmugeTool, expanding and the reverse of expanding(My english is not so good)

4.Free form tool like in fireworks, it's so smooth!!!!+reshape Area tool.

5.All shapes from fireworks+3D box, 3D pramid and more.

6.Gardients fills like from fireworks!

7.Textures

8.Mirroring a object

9.Blend shapes(to get a man talking by blen a opened mouth and closed mouth)

10.lens flare
Haha wonder if someone gonna buy fireworks then.

Filters:

Flat bevel
noise
motion trails
dotting
possible to choose alpha att flow and inner glow
drop 3D shadow
3D bevel

Animation:

1.Skelleton

2.the shape tween most be fixed

3.Make tweens to keyframes

4.Possible to change framerate in movieclip

3D:

basic shapes like sphere, box, planes ect. like in swift 3D!

Specials:

1.Aim, at the camera and objects

2. 2D and 3D camera(like a component but should be putted in the tools window)

About Skeletons:

1.Draw a character in this example we have a basic stick man.

2.Make dots with the skelleton tool at the knees, hands and so on.

3.Select the dots and the part of body between them

4.click at make skelleton

5. make that with the hole body.

6. drag in the dots, the man moves!

7.Fix the alpha!

AS:

1.Sometimes it's bugs and when I write "_" in the actions panel it gets "?" so with the all keys!

2.
New Window(WINDOWNAME)
Open WINDOWNAME(SKIN,WINDOWTEXT);

There is movieClips, graphics, buttons but there should be window

ex.

1.Make a window name it myWind
2.in the frame write:

New Window(myWind)
Open myWind(false, "WindowTest",);
_root.myWind._xscale = 100;
_root.myWind._yscale = 50;

3._z, _zscale

4.fsCommand(minimize, true)

-Get the GUI focus management together.

It's more than frustrating to be working in actionscript, test the file, then see the cursor blinking in the actionscript window but the focus is really on the design pane and as soon as you hit backspace you start deleting things.

-Give me a way to have the UI layout the same on the Mac as it is on the PC. Full screen, with panels docked.

Apparently you're not stalling a version 8 player for linux for lack of staff since you can't wait to get started on 9 (for windows and mac only, i'm sure)
You seem to think flash can be a serious web technology without cross-platform operability.

Thanks for all the current features :)

to add to the wish list
1. Array.shuffle()
2. String.shuffle()
3. like "_parent" want to have something like ".child"
4. ofcourse.. bug free components. ;)

- Simulate download in badwidth profiler should include simulation of FLV download

- Abstract Classes!!! Please!!!!

- Include arguments to pass in a Delegate construction (similiar to setInterval).
e.g.
private function doDelayedMultiply(num1: Number, num2: Number): Void {
var dFunc: Function = Delegate.create(this, this.doMultiply, num1, num2);
btn.onRelease = dFunc;
}

- Better shape tweening possibilities, perhaps it could implement an interface much like other image morphing software that's out there.

Shape tweening give's Flash so much potential, it's just a shame that it can be so un-predictable and must be kept extremely simple.

- An option to allow for automatic easing of motion tweens.

DirectX and OpenGL so I can Import 3D graphics from maya that I export to directX or OpenGL. Like Import directX

1. Sync (make it consistent depending on how a motion tween is created)
2. jittery tweens (noticable with longer & slower tweens)
3. frame number box wider (please, it has only even been able to display 2 digits - needs to be wide enough to accomodate 4 or 5)
4. export MCs to video
5. IK (Inverse Kinematics)
6. grid on top (please make it so the grid displays on TOP of everything on stage)
7. save advanced easing presets
8. auto keyframe (like AE, keyframes automatically created when an object is scaled and/or rotated)
9. auto-fill across keyframes
10. brushes like AI

Something of a "totally out there" idea, but what if you got rid of MC's, graphics, and all other container elements, and just be able to code/manipulate directly after dropping them on stage. Just toss a bitmap on the stage and throw some code, alpha, blur or whatever.

I hope I'm not too late, since Flash 9 (not payer, but the designer) is not out yet.

I would LOVE to have some decent inline code parsing. For example: I type .width and it becomes blue even if width is not a property of the object I am appklyinf it to. OR... I have a clip on the stage which is a MovieClip, but I cannot type "mc_name." and see a list of methods/properties for it. Same for anything else, including custom classes/library objects.

Object within object: if I have a MovieClip mcChild inside mcParent, I would like to type "mcChild." and see mcParent as one of the options on the code hint list. And if I press Enter and a period, I'd love to see all methods/properties/children of that mc.

Better code coloring. EditPlus is a great example of a code parser. Also you really got it right in Dreamweaver (except -no surprise- in JavaScript parsing).

Altogether the code editor leaves MUCH to be desired in 8.

Could you possibly get rid of the dam Grey border that occurs on Flash 8, it is really hard for Flash DESIGNERS to make a site with Grey Boxes everywhere, at least let us turn them off in Flash Professional 9

Skinnable ContextMenu and SettingsPanel so as to maintain a cohesive look for RIAs.

1. A camera feature - For 3d layering and other simple 3d angles.

2. This ones a long shot but I might aswell mention it; A bone system like in moho. Examples of bone system: http://www.lostmarble.com/moho/index.shtml

A bitmap data array that includes all the pixels. This info might be sent in a compressed file to a server side script.

Printing shadows

highly improved actionscript helper thing,

I would love a "preview in browser" feature, because most of the time my movies perform differently in the browser than in the standalone player.

1. In a TextField add support for changing background color of each character and not just background of textfield ONLY please !!
2.TextField bullet & numbering support !!
3.Context menu SUBMENU support.
4.html TABLE TAG support in TextFields etc !!

Thank you !!

How about an autosave feature such as in the Microsoft Office suite. There have been many times where I have lost work due to not saving.

This may seem stupid, but I think the option to have alternating frame rates would be very useful, especially when involved with tween animations.

Okay, you asked for it!

-Ability to resize the stage to any side/corner, like in photoshop's "canvas size"

-Advanced sound manipulation would be freakin sweet. Something like get/setVolume(), generateTone(Hz), maybe even ability to apply envelopes to audio like we can now apply filters to graphics.

-MIDI support!

-RTL text (had to throw it in ;) )

-Ability to transform shapes like in photoshop (not just resize or skew, but also be able to use the transform tool to drag one corner to distort it, or bring two corners together to simulate perspective. Of course, the ability to do this in AS too would be extra sweet).

-How about a setting to always snap stuff to an even pixel so things always have sharp edges?

-Camera view! I know Sham Bhangal made a component that works great, but it'd be cool if it was built in.

-Some kind of 3D support would be crazy complicated, I know, but reeeeeally cool.

-You know what would really make my life easier? If I'm loading stuff dynamically, and I didn't have to be checking all the time if it was loaded, setting intervals or onEnterFrame()'s and whatnot, before doing stuff with it.

-I'd love to be able to do a hitTest() on a dynamic text field inside the boundary but not on an actual character, and have it return false.

-Or, how about the ability to dynamically break apart text into a shape?

-How come some fonts look the same on the Mac and the PC, but others have a shifted baseline? And why don't I see the same problems in Photoshop?

-And lastly, I'm assuming that the reason flash (both the IDE and player) runs half as fast on the Mac vs. the PC is because flash is optimized for the intel chip, and flash 9 will support the mac intel chip and it'll be just as fast as the PC version. Please tell me I'm not "making an ass out of you and me" ;)

Thanks for asking for my input, and thanks for all your hard work!

Here's one you've probably never thought or heard of before: The next flash should have midi control capability: not for music, but so that the user can have a customizeable hardware interface to flash.

True right-click support for creating app simulations. In other words, a way to lose the Flash menu and capture the right-click as any other keystroke.

Cuurrently, this can only be done via JS and only on IE . . .

(1) A more advanced Color Mixer that offers the same amount of control as Fireworks for applying and manipulating gradients within shapes. Include draggable handles to adjust an object's fill.

(2) A Distort tool, in addition to the existing Scale and Skew tools, just as in Fireworks. More sophisticated drawing and shape tools in general.

(3) More Gradient selections, other than only linear and radial. Give Flash the same useful fill choices we find in Fireworks and other image editors.

(4) The ability to apply Filters to more objects than only movie clips, if possible.

Thanks!

Registration for drawing shapes.

Like with creating a movieclip, it would be hand to be able to set the registration mode with shapes, so you could draw a circle from the middle, and so forth..

Thanks

I would liek to see a beter time line for animation as it stands the FLash time line and keframe elements are difficult and clumbersome. AFter effects uses a dropdown menu to acces elements i think this would be a vast improvent for flash i would greatly benifit from this as it is a visual tool.

I think the next version of flash should have a splash screen that looks slightly different from that in flash 8. And don't worry about 3D support, the future is 4D, embrace it!

IMO, there is one SERIOUS problem with Flash:

A lot of sites check to see if you have the latest version of the Flash Player installed. Let's imagine the site requires you to have version 9. The problem is that the latest version of the player for Linux machines is NOT version 9, but is something else, like version 7.5 (I can't remember exactly) - so of course, the JavaScript for the page determines that you don't have the latest version and prevents you from seeing the content.

This is a real pain in the butt!!! I have to use my Windows PC to look at Flash pages or I have to use a Windows Version of Firefox (running in WINE) which is not ideal at all.

The latest Linux version, should have the EXACT same version number as the latest Windows Player.

Try it for yourself, visit www.gotoandlearn.com on a Windows PC and then try it again on a Linux Box......Sure, you can argue that the WebMaster should be responsible for making sure that their JavaScript takes care of Linux users, but the truth is that so many people aren't aware of this problem.

Would you PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE consider this for the future?

PLEASE

Improve the library so that you can select multiple items and enable BITMAP SMOOTHING for all selected.

Extremely tedious to do all sequences by hand!

Thanks for reading,

Derek

SIMPLE

In the Tween menu include a feature that includes the ability to add alpha to "Shape tweens" in the color menu . I see this as a combination of a "motion tween + "Shape tween"

If posible make that these raw shapes in shape tweens to have the advantages of movie clips, graphic symbols etc.

More DESIGN LESS CODE!!

Easy copy + paste from illustrator. Specially with masked and gradient objects.

I'd like to add my voice to those requesting better support for Linux.

Our company's vision on the website is one message for all, if the Linux player can't do it (proper integration with DHTML for example) then I can't use those features on our site.

This has the effect of keeping all of our Flash content at version 7, giving our win/mac customers no reason to upgrade to the latest player. Rapid propagation of the latest player is definitely in Adobes interest.

Please add Arabic Language support

- 3d modelling mode
- Game commands built in
- Action script to have more control on the graphical side of things
- a pencil tool where you dont need to choose the brush type (straighten, smooth, etc) theres a default one for paint brush like drawing only with pencilised size and appearance.
- Make flash easier
- Support for other forums of input and output

Only thing I haven't yet seen. Stop the trace window grabbing focus when you test a movie in the IDE and output a trace.

The switch to unicode in Flash 2004 improved Chinese coding tremendously. There are still font rendering problems (some characters fill in centers when in bold). I don't know that there is a solution to the problem that the movies get very large very fast when you have to include all of those characters. Perhaps it is more a problem with the .ttf standard than with Flash itself.

Support for Fraunhofer mp3 codec.

Support for mpeg4.

I would like to see a better integration between the Adobe Creative Suite. Especially in Photoshop and Illustrator. I would also like to see better support and additional features for exporting video from Flash.

It would be nice to be able to duplicate layers in the timeline, Like in photoshop where you drag the onto and icon and they create a copy of that layer in the timeline.

It really would be nice to have flash 9.

It would be really handy if the gotoAndPlay(); function could accept another additional parameter for which frame or frame label to stop at, for example:

myClip.gotoAndPlay(10,50);

would start to play myClip at frame 10 then stop at frame 50.

myClip.gotoAndPlay(10,"myFrame");

would start to play myClip at frame 10 then stop at frame lable "myFrame".

A security feature where people can't make annoying flash intos to web pages and "meow meow meow" animations,
better yet self detonation of the computer taking out the user when exporting.

I would like to be able to rezise imported pictures right in the library.

A convenient tool would be a one clic resizer for bitmaps. Select a scaled bitmap in the scene then in one click, resize the imported file in library and revert the bitmap scale to 100% (it won't change its visible size).

- choice to use adobe color picker vs. windows color picker

- ability to set the angle of gradient in gradient panel without having to select and use gradient editing tool

- adobe style pen tool

- heck, the ability to switch tool/drawing behavior from, illustrator, photoshop, or flash original ... so that the user can create art in flash using the tool behavior most accustomed with

I would absolutly love to see a file picker and color picker in the ActionScript editing environment.

blend tool ,

TOOL not filter i want to be able to blend two colours togetther because gradients are no match to blends

if you (somehow) dont get me see this http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/36576031/
NOT MINE just a random thing i found

spray can tool

hi ...maybe too late but here some ideas

- more filters such as a stroke(contour) effect ...

- posibility to invert the mask layer effect

- make the export movie (avi or else) takes care of movie clips and action script ... as we don't need anymore softwares like "ADShareit SWF to Video Converter"(maybe not fair for them)

- posibillity to decompile swf

- some surprises ...we love surprises !

IDE:
-put the advanced color settings for symbols
directly in the Properties panel... come on there is enougth place for that ;)

BUG:
-there's a bug when you delete a BMP from your library and save your project. the FLA's weight should be reduced but no, it is still the same .. seems that the BMP is still there some where in the FLA' datas ...

-and off course every thing that have allready been said before ;)

that's it
thx for keeping flash alive

1. Flash NEEDS a skeletal system for linking symbols together. It really should be a top feature.

2. All the vector transformation tools (distort, envelope) should be usable and tween able on symbols the same way scale, rotate, and skew are. With this and the above i feel Flash's animation toolbox will be complete.

3. Consider making flash and its player 3D accelerated for better performance (Direct3D, Open GL).

Flash 8 is ok, but i need MORE. Please hear the other larget user group of your software, the BROADCAST ANIMATORS!

I use flash to animate shows for Adult Swim and Comedy Central. I love the library and it's reusability features. However, Flash still doesn't address reall animator's needs. Here is what we need!

1. a stretchable timeline

2. ability to paint/erase with the brush tool in a graphic symbol that has been horizontally flipped! Flash seems to have never addressed this.

3. Better Mac support

4. Now that flash is under adobe, let's see a bigger work space. And more zoom. And why does the stage "stick' to the left side of the screen when zooming? I have to import large backgrounds and the stage doesn't like that at all.

5. NTSC safe colors

6. A vector based bones system with forward and inverse kinematics, and some way to key locking and unlocking of joints.

7. z-axis

8. please make the frame number box in the properties tab bigger! Broadcast animators have timelines with frames in the thousands. Make it 4 digit spaces long, instead of the meager 3.

9. I don't know how to describe this, but my symbols sometimes "break" if they are large(2000 pixels). You cannot undo the operation.

10. distortion for graphic symbols.

11. some kind of action script or pluggin that can retime an animation in a non-linear way. Simply sliding keys over doesn't work, and i have to spend hours re-numbering keys in that event. Animators will love you for it.

12. better easing controls

another possiblity for flash would be to release separate versions, one for designers and one for ANIMATORS. That way the program isn't too cumbersome.

I've waited two Flash versions for this: I think Font Metrics are not correct for embedded fonts, and I think it's about time we had that working in the next release. Also, some more HTML tags would be nice, a fixing of the tag so that you can place multiple images on a line within text, and of course, a much faster ActionScript (I know this last one is very vague).

Thank you very much!

be able to embed html files, or have ability to have a full html browser if you will in flash, I would like this functionality so i can include google adsense in my flash movies.

1. it would be good if you'd enable the middle and right mouse button officially
2. links from flash open new windows or change the current one but it would be nice to open new tabs from flash links for tabbed browsing

To implement 3D into flash i suggest the option for rendering a "non-interactive movie" to quickly take frame by frame 2D of the 3D motion to save file size on .swf. Ofcourse use true 3D for interactive shockwave files.

Also the introduction of dual camera placement in the 3D environment is needed to create stereoscopic flash. Stereoscopic capabilites would be awesome for the web in general.

- Chauncey

if working over a network and the cable becomes unpluged or the network goes down, flash deletes file from network and the open document can not be saved. so the file is completely lost.

is there a way to update all symbols in a tween at once instead of having to click on each keyframe and swaping the symbol? if not, how about it?

a change log in the prjoect panel to see who in the team worked on a file and what was changed since it was last opened

A really good one, and I hope its not too late,
would be standardizing php and mySql files needed to completing most flash database tasks.

This would be useful for multiplayer games, flash/php email, highscores.

And a really nice function would be making this same script accessable from html sending to flash, so people could easily send data and would increase flash surveys, flash player control, ect.

Please make this =)

Customisable timeline like After effects.
Hide/lock layers by colour
Change the ticks periods - other than in fives
infinitly zoomable timeline like After effects

The ability to "open" a timeline within a time line - ir click on a movie clip and you get a sub timeline - make it easy to time.

Zoomable timeline with the scroll wheel.
Bezier curve in the timeline for Rotate/x/y/(Z!!) well everything really!

Camera and 3D space like toonboom

Take the Alpha / Tint / blends/ etc off the properties and put them in a pallette. It still annoys me that the advanced colour is a freaking pop up! It was a palette in flash 4!

A style palette.

Any pop up for that matter - why have them? If you can pallet things why have things that force you open and close before seeing the benefit. Like the publish settings - DOCK IT!

3D animation style operators. Like bend/squeeze/cages - again viewable as curves in the timeline.

Node based connectors - to make parented objects.

- What about flash conecting to DB directly. to send sql statments and receive the result.
- What about more power to the exe projector. something like Zinc
- What about real good action script panel (ie. selecting multi lines and click on a button to remark them all)

Ogg vorbis sound support would be neaaaatto, loaded, streamed and imported.

JSFL wishlist :

Better Audio integration into flash content such as a full flash website. Adding audio players with tracklists and even a visualization tool using the flv players.

Rob

I would love to see a built-in export to video(.avi, .mov, .mpeg) feature that had full support of action-scripted events and embeded video.

Many clients I've dealt with often request a video version of completed animations and websites for use in a DVD player(crackheads the lot).

Thanks guys. Keep rockin' the best software in the world. : )

Publishing flash with named anchors doesn't seem to work as of Flash player 9 on WIN Firefox or MAC safari. Where can I report this bug?

I would agree with Mr.Zarate that PSD import will be better.
2.Pen tool can be of same as it is in Photoshop or Illustrator.
3.Different types of color pallets
4.3D functionality
5.Lasso tools can be better with three options which is in photoshop
6.Better functionality over onEnterFrame, which reduces the CPU usage.
7.New actionscript Editor which reseambles SE|PY

I can't wait to see Flash 9 I think it will solve th bi-dirctional langauge! .. specialy the arabic language

Also... can we see a real animation time line like Adobe AfterEffect

- Empded fonts don't work with Arabic ???
- some RTL themes for standerd UI compnent like Tree , DataGrid and List ..

Regards,
AbdulAziz.
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support ARABIC
support RTL Encoding

Thanks

MUCH better UI. More logical menus and hotkeys.

(I want:
collapseable actionscript
More than a 1 fill gradient!!!!!!!
maybe actionscript 3? - ^^

(more effects like:
pattern maker
motion blur=@

Urm, probably been mentioned, and also possibly a little too late, but it would be nice to see a Photoshop stylee History Tab, with a possibility to skip back to a previous step and then export to a new SWF. This would be handy if you are producing visuals for a client. Then you would be able to create a new SWF instead of overwriting the document you are working on. The history pallet itself would just be good for going back to before you messed all the code up, instead of pressing ctrl+z a hundred times.

Hope Flash 9 is going well, keep it up.

Ability to play icecast and shoutcast streams without storing the stream in memory indefinitely.

HELP ME!!!
Im starting with java and c++, fire of flash in my heart is now just geeding. Its becouse I want to make thinks that you can in c++ or java, like create a icon for your flash on the descop and thinks like that, please!!!!

Additive layer blending - so we can add all kind of glows and explosive effects to our animations :)

Flash 3D. At least the option to display some kind of 3D object. I really hate the fact that there's no deep penetration of any kind of 3D app for browsers, it's long time that changed, and the ONLY app that can do that is flash - my website reports show more users with flash enabled than users with javascript enabled! Shockwave and javaRE also seems to have surprisingly low penetration.

Imagine being able to write flash based 3D games - my dream come true!

FIX BUGS

Over the years I've experience a ton of bugs in Flash.

These are what I found in flash 8

Things such as, sometimes for some reason the animation stops in certain frame for about a second and it continues to play. Sometimes it would just stop playing.

When I render a grid using a nested for loop and I try to move the grid, after a few movements, the flash player doesnt render correctly. I fixed this bug by changing the quality back and forth. The variables are the same but what you see is not.

I can't remember the other ones at this time but there was several more.

If anything, bugs can be avoided somehow.

Other stuff
Advanced sound controls would help
- Play at a certian speed
- Play reverse at a certian speed
- Play sounds are a certian note or pitch (associated with speed).
- Equalizer controls and viewing the equalizer
The transparent gradiants would be nice too.

And everything else I would like is probably already listed.

OK, This is necessary, please make something that allows us to connect to databases such as mysql because i am getting tired of this, working with server sides, just take the mick, we need something like
_root.MYSQL.connnect();
it would be good if it functioned like PHP connect and the get_num_rows and everything

I don't know if anything this has been already mentioned but I would like some features that would make t easler to set up a blog in flash but anything that would make it easer to have blog features in a flash website thanks

I'd like to be able to impliment multiple interfaces.

Code completion would also be nice. I've used programming IDEs that complete functions (or provide a list of possibilities) by hitting CTRL-space.

The NetConnection debugger needs debugging, (I currently use ServiceCapture to fill the void).

Great work with Flash 8 by the way, it was one of the most significant software upgrades of last year!

I would like to see the following improvements related to FLV handling ability:

1) synchronous seek to exact millisecond and/or frame (FLVPlayer class says seekSecond() is supposed to work up to millisecond precision but it doesn't seem to be the case. Also on "Flash Professional 8 Video Integration" with Lee Brimelow he states that it is only possible to seek to a whole second so I think the FLVPlayer class documentation might be incorrect.

We are developing a video slicing application and considering using Flash to develop it however the inability to seek to an exact millisecond or Frame
accurately would prevent our users from making the cut where they want so we are looking at other alternatives. A lot can happen in a full second of video at 25fps.

Also, asynchronous seeks with long delays before seeks would look very sloppy and poor to our customers. Seeks performed within a reasonable time for the seek to appear instant to the viewer would be a great improvement.

2) I would like to see the ability to grab an image for a frame at a particular time for a FLV video (without any keypoints embedded into the FLV). Currently we have to extract frame images on the server side and pass them into Flash to display individual frames.

3) I would like to see the ability of Flash to determine the duration and frame rate of a FLV file it has loaded without these values needing to be passed into the Flash application from the server.

Masking like After Effects and Photoshop... using any shade of grey for varying levels of transparency with masks. That would be awesome.... oh yeah and more blend modes. thanks :)

loadMovie and MovieClip.loadMovie should check if the file realy is what it impersonates for. This way if you save an SWF file as e.g. JPG, it still loads it normaly as SWF... this realy could be a security issue for Flash applications which use user-submitted content!

I just started to learn Flash a couple days ago so take my comments with a grain of salt...

That said I'm a 3D Artist/Compositer and I think a great improvement for Flash would be:

1. An Outliner (like Maya) where all of your objects in each Layer is listed with properties and the option to change the order of the objects in a scene.

For instance - "Oops that square is on top of that circle. No problem! I'll move it on top with a key command or in the _________ (fill in the blank) Panel!" Corel draw has the "Ctrl + Page Up" Option for this. I'm not sure if Flash has anything for it though.

2. How about a visual alternative to Action Scripts! I realize not everything would accommodate this but simple linking would certainly be possible!

I've often thought that a Node based setup for HTML programming and Animation programs would be greatly beneficial. You have your Movie Clip that is supposed to play at frame 23 of your scene (or after another movie clip has finished playing or a button has been pressed) and all the user would have to do is open a Node based Panel (Like Shake, Combustion, or Maya) and link the items with "Noodles". After a link has been made the "Noodle" would ask "What would you like to do with this connection?" via a drop down menu or something of that nature. Now the Action Script has been written in the background and Flash has a larger user base because of the simplicity!

Hoo Ray!

I hope this helps and although I'm new I'm very excited about using Flash! It's a great program and has a lot of possibilities!

PS - I know I'm repeating what others have said but... OpenGL/DirectX support! It's a must guys! Common! I see a future of full length animated movies being played and distributed using Flash but non of that will be possible with out this integration. Duh!

Hey, not sure if this was posted previously or not, but well...
First of all: GREAT WORK GUYS. Impressive software.

A thing that could be added in the new flash is the following (which happens very often, at least to me):
Suppose you draw a shape and you delete the line around it (God knows why...), then you distort that shape, it'd be nice if there was a way to draw automatically the line surrounding the newly distorted shape.

Trust me, it happens...
Keep it up!
J.-

-interfaces and abstract classes
-better library of classes
-components - smaller file size
-no more graphics or buttons
     -Instead of graphics, just have grouped objects
     -instead of buttons, have movie clips capture
          mouse events
     -rename "movie clip" to "symbol"
-nested rollovers

I am a flash animator. We struggle with flash every day, but one bug in particular really needs to be fixed. It is impossible to paint or erase inside a symbol that has been flipped horizontally or vertically!! The amount of headaches and trouble this causes is epic, and it seems like such an easy fix. This problem has persisted since MX.

Any improvement to your bitmap tracing feature would be very very useful for accurately incorporating and manipulating bitmaps into documents.

Thanks!

Ad a new property, the z axis, to be able to place the movieclips in 3D space. That would be the greatest!!

I think that in the last versions, flash got some distance from animators. And since flash has been used in studios worldwide to create animations for web and tv, i Think it would be nice to include "ik" (bones, like ToonBoom or moho), camera animation and exporting in TGA sequence.

One small feature that I would love to see in Flash is a 'select behind' tool. It's annoying when (on the same layer) a movieclip is behind another, and I have to move the top one out of position to get to the bottom one.

I would also like better configuration for UI components, especially with the scroll bar. It really is a nightmare to get them to look the way you want, and I'm not fond of having to stick to the default style.

Thanks, Dan.

Spectrum data. Right now, I have to use a third party tool to output a SWF of an MP3. That's not good enough for a true Flash-based audio player. My clients can't create a SWF of all their MP3s before using my audio player. I am glad to see the inclusion of amplitude data in ActionScript 3.0. But I beg you, please add spectrum data! And if you want to go futher, a way to build a graphic eq.

MathML support would finally bring MathML to the Web in a big way. Also, it would bring MathML to Windows Help files (for Windows-based applications), which use HTML for their source files and can embed the Flash Player.

Full XHTML and CSS support.

HTML and CSS support in all components that can display text (eg, datagrid).

Frame properties, tool properties and symbol properties are different things and should not necessarily all be placed in one "properties" panel. The most annoying thing in Flash is when you select a symbol by clicking the timeline and then you have to click on the stage (the scroll bar for example) to get the symbol properties.

Solution: separate the symbol properties and the frame properties into different panels - or at least make this optional.

Flash rocks, printJob blows...

Ability to print based on the absolute origin of the page not just the printable area.

There is currently no way to map a printJob to an absolute x,y on the page because printers vary in their specifications.

You can't do a...
(paperHeight&Width - pageHeightWidth)/2
because the top and bottom margins are often different.

Please consider this as it would greatly improve Flash printing.

I would like to be able to place the mouse on my fore head, click, and then have Flash create the file.

Methinks I should wait until V.10.

Thanks.

1. Fix the datagrid. When I update a cell through ActionScript, it should reflect that immediately. I shouldn't have to put in a line like "myGrid.dataProvider = myGrid.dataProvider" in order to get the updated values to show up.

2. The DragController, currently provided at www.sephiroth.it, is great. It should be a standard component, improved upon by Adobe, and included in a future Flash release.

3. Since Adobe now owns Flash, why not integrate the two better? For example, why not a pdf viewer component that can be plugged into a Flash app?

Ron

This is probably not the place but what I'd love to see happen in Flash as well as other Adobe/Macromedia products is Licenses that covers the user and not the machine.

Like most web developers I author on a mac, but need to test on a pc, so a true user license would allow me author on both my mac and pc, both of which sit on the same desk inches from each other. Especially when it comes to PC only features (MouseWheel).

OK - I'm shutting down the comments on this thread because it's gotten too big (881!). I'll post a new entry asking for feedback and you can post your requests there. Just go to the main page from here and you should see a new post.

Thanks,
Mike Downey
Sr. Product Manager, Flash
Adobe Systems