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Monday September 15th 2003 10:54 PM PST

i thought i was going to get so much done today. Well the day is almost over and i've still not started anything that is due tomorrow. i've been bouncing ideas around, but not getting anywhere. Macromedia has started to piss me off again. I've been using Flash since Macromedia first bought out Future Wave and made FutureSplash into what we now call Flash. So at the beginning i remember sitting down with Macromedia developers and talking with them about features that should be included in later versions. We did this a few times while i was at boxtop and then a few more times while i was Paramount. Some of the features that i wanted are now actually a part of the product. But others. OBVIOUS others are still not included in Flash MX. So today i'm killing myself trying to find a fuckin way for flash to write a file of some kind. Now, don't start to comment telling me that i'm a dumbass. I know about the shared object. I know you can write SMALL files with this little piece of shit. But that's not what i need. I need something that actually will write a log file that can be read by another application. I need something that just writes a TEXT file. How much is that to ask. Well i've been asking for basic fileIO since flash version 2.0, and FINALLY macromedia has pulled their heads out of their asses and put it into the lineup of the features of Flash MX 2004. Well what good is it going to do me. I've gotta get the fuckin project done by the end of the week. Well i guess better late than never. As we used to say at 5555...

Macromedia,
You are not quickly!

Comments:

Ok, so i guess i am a dumbass. Flash MX 2004 IS available. So now i am left with the dilemma... Do i drop the $300 for the upgrade and try to figure it out in a couple days, or do i do it with the old version. On top of that i've been trying to look at the specifications on MX 2004 and i can't find much on the FileIO garbage. I really don't even know if it will be able to do it right.

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(You know, the educational price for the Macromedia suite is only $199.) I myself wasted 12+ hours yesterday wiping my drive and reinstalling everything.

Posted by: Angelo