Comments on: Switching from Zinc to SWF Studio http://www.gareth-jones.co.uk/2009/12/05/switching-from-zinc-to-swf-studio/ Caiff dyn dysg o'i grud i'w fedd Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:01:50 +0200 hourly 1 By: Grinny http://www.gareth-jones.co.uk/2009/12/05/switching-from-zinc-to-swf-studio/comment-page-1/#comment-106 Grinny Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:14:27 +0000 http://www.gareth-jones.co.uk/?p=236#comment-106 Every now and again I get a client request for some kind of desktop app. I download a new version of Zinc, thinking that perhaps things will be better, work, work, work, type, type, type, $@%#, %$$#, @#$%! Wasted time, missed deadlines. Zinc is the most horrendous collection of fimicolous crawling maggotisms to ever be foisted. I drop by the forum and see the same old issues repeated again and again by new users, for bugs that I remember having to work around years ago. The thing that gets me is that MDM have released a new platform targeting AIR (Inferno), instead of fixing the bugs in Zinc. Sorry for the rant. I'm just now trying to get a simple desktop app to play FLVs on a Mac, just like I tried two years ago - it didn't then, doesn't now! ...off to try Haxe/SWHX. Every now and again I get a client request for some kind of desktop app. I download a new version of Zinc, thinking that perhaps things will be better, work, work, work, type, type, type, $@%#, %$$#, @#$%! Wasted time, missed deadlines.

Zinc is the most horrendous collection of fimicolous crawling maggotisms to ever be foisted. I drop by the forum and see the same old issues repeated again and again by new users, for bugs that I remember having to work around years ago. The thing that gets me is that MDM have released a new platform targeting AIR (Inferno), instead of fixing the bugs in Zinc. Sorry for the rant. I’m just now trying to get a simple desktop app to play FLVs on a Mac, just like I tried two years ago – it didn’t then, doesn’t now! …off to try Haxe/SWHX.

]]> By: davea0511 http://www.gareth-jones.co.uk/2009/12/05/switching-from-zinc-to-swf-studio/comment-page-1/#comment-40 davea0511 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:35:44 +0000 http://www.gareth-jones.co.uk/?p=236#comment-40 very enlightening. thanks. have tried northcode and have liked it ... and was thinking of trying zinc. Not so sure now. I wish however there was better support for any of these desktop integrators for flash ... but that's the downside of competition ... you spread out the technical resources among the competition so much that you fail to achieve a critical mass as large as what say ... Adobe Air has. It's a shame Adobe Air is so stupidly designed as a non-executable. very enlightening. thanks. have tried northcode and have liked it … and was thinking of trying zinc. Not so sure now. I wish however there was better support for any of these desktop integrators for flash … but that’s the downside of competition … you spread out the technical resources among the competition so much that you fail to achieve a critical mass as large as what say … Adobe Air has.

It’s a shame Adobe Air is so stupidly designed as a non-executable.

]]> By: Tiago Dias http://www.gareth-jones.co.uk/2009/12/05/switching-from-zinc-to-swf-studio/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Tiago Dias Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:21:45 +0000 http://www.gareth-jones.co.uk/?p=236#comment-32 Gareth, I've been directed to your blog through a comment on a blog post of mine, Just wanted to drop a few lines and tell you that your post absolutely reflects my thoughts about MDM. All in all we just need to make people aware of the current (and the past 17 versions) NOT to use it until those guys have something working properly (altough I lost hope that is going to happen). Cheers Tiago Gareth, I’ve been directed to your blog through a comment on a blog post of mine, Just wanted to drop a few lines and tell you that your post absolutely reflects my thoughts about MDM. All in all we just need to make people aware of the current (and the past 17 versions) NOT to use it until those guys have something working properly (altough I lost hope that is going to happen).

Cheers
Tiago

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