Flash CS4 – Dimension Lock Broken When Sliding Values

October 31st, 2008 by Steven Sacks

I found another bug in Flash CS4. I'm really not looking for these, I swear. I'm just using the new version of Flash, doing various things as I play with it. I have the Mac version and Windows versions open adjacent to each other.

In Flash, if you draw a rectangle, set its dimensions to 120 x 90 and then lock the dimension ratio, you can then type 320 into the width panel and height will naturally adjust to 240.

In Flash CS4, if you use the new dragging value functionality, where you press and hold on a value and drag to adjust it, the math is all wrong. On Windows, when you drag the width from 120 to 320, the height went to 233.5. On Mac, it went to 235.8. Not good.

Upon further attempts, the height value is actually variable, but it's never right. It's inconsistently incorrect, and it seems like vertical, horizontal and diagonal dragging contribute to the incorrectness by varying degrees.

On the plus side, the Mac version of Flash CS4 is INSANELY better than any previous version of Flash for Mac ever made.

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About Steven Sacks

I am a professional Flash developer with over 13 years of programming experience. I have consulted for high-profile agencies and companies in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta and New York, and developed numerous award-winning websites and rich internet applications for clients including Adobe, Fox Sports, FX Networks, Anheuser-Busch, GE, DirecTV, ESPN, The Weather Channel, Home Depot, and Coca-Cola.

I am the author of the open-source Gaia Framework for Adobe Flash, which dramatically reduces development time and makes developing Flash sites much easier.