Comments on: CS4 Project Panel Removal Has Bad Workflow Consequences

By: Stan

Stan — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:32:56 +0000

@Martial: I agree, I have been looking for a way to hook up a keyboard shortcut to the gProject panel Publish Project command and then adjust the FlashDevelop test project JSFL files to run the key command. But so far I don't think it's even possible. If it were that easy, I'm sure Steven would have already hooked that up.

By: Martial

Martial — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:18:11 +0000

The worst part is that since CS4 has come up, Flashdevelop can't use the "Test project" command anymore.

So yeah, great improvement…

By: jesse

jesse — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:03:03 +0000

i cant wait till my company has to republish all files for 1 course of our selection. due to updates in external functions. my co-worker ran 216 files took him 1.5 hours would have taken 30 min. by our calculations when the updates are due we will have to run over 2000 files. so a 5 hour turns in to 15 or more hours just publishing lol. hope I'm sick that day.

the time is bad but the killed is going to be checking off all those boxes. i am wondering if the auto publish component on adobe extensions would be smarter. it dose the same open and close function but no checking off files just selecting…

By: Steven Sacks

Steven Sacks — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:21:30 +0000

I spoke with Richard Galvan at MAX and explained the issues at length. Unfortunately, I don't think anything is going to change until at least Flash CS5, maybe later.

I'm hard at work on the new Gaia panel. Over 50 hours logged on it so far. It's a lot of work converting everything over to Flex/AS3/E4X, but the panel will be much better for it.

By: Rich Paul

Rich Paul — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 17:54:16 +0000

Any word on this from Adobe? I think you said you'd be presenting GAIA at MAX, so how did that go? Any timeline or plan for moving forward?

I appreciate all your hard work.

By: Skandal: Adobe CS4 kickt .flp | 72dpiClub

Skandal: Adobe CS4 kickt .flp | 72dpiClub — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:18:37 +0000

[...] auf die Suche nach einer Lösung. Steven Sacks der Entwickler von Gaia schrieb bereits in seinem Blog über die Problematik. Seine Leser testeten die Lösung über JSFL und dem ProjectPanel und die [...]

By: Jesse

Jesse — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:15:56 +0000

Hey I'm the one that ran the test anyone know if there going to come out with a patch(probably for a nice hunk of cash) but that would show hope that someone else would just simplify and make a free component.

when doing my work so far the only thing i have utilized is the bones everything else i do in cs3 still hopefully i wont need as3 soon. making my day less waiting.

i do alot of teaching modulations and there are huge problems.

1. project window.
2. using Page Down key to go to next symbol takes for what seems ever(more like 10 seconds)(but 1 sec in cs3 is a big waist)
3. making hot keys with history and commands for some reason will only follow 1 step at a time.

cs4 was marked to save time but seems to eat up more of it.(at least with what i do) i hope cs4 doesn't quickly turn to csVista with further investigation.

i already don't like the auto key animation sure its nice when done right but i don't have time to learn how to move a key frame that for some reason wont just pick up and move. ill find it. just haven't got to it.

By: James

James — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:53:04 +0000

@Jason: " how come the CS4 Project Panel auto collapses directories and sometimes does not publish to the correct destination?
it is unusable."

Yup. Completely unuseable. Fine if your project has a few files in one folder, but if you have anything more than that, this new project panel will drive you insane. I am hoping that Adobe will replace this panel with a sense of urgency.

By: brad

brad — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:30:38 +0000

This is the single reason I have not switched to CS4 yet. I have it, yes, but simply can't get used to the gProject panel. It's hardly an improvement at all, more like a large step backwards. It seems like Adobe is trying to force anyone who uses Flash more than trivially to switch to Flex.

By: Duncan Reid

Duncan Reid — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:03:20 +0000

This is painful. Right click "Delete" actually deletes the directory or file from the file system? Trying to re-create projects that were old FLP's is proving to be difficult and just not worth my time. Why couldn't this just be an "add-on" like it was when it was GProject? I would much rather see this as an option, I had a nice workflow with a few JSFL commands as helpers in the old Project Panel. Right clicking on something that isn't highlighted will allow you to edit or open a file / folder but the node in the tree won't gain focus.

/rant