The CS3 normal help (not on-line) is very used for me. And very fast and so pratic!!! CS4 hasn't desktop help? Will always need access help.adobe in the Internet? I don't believe in it!!!! Where can I download he desktop help? Thanks.
FabioIKO wrote: > The CS3 normal help (not on-line) is very used for me. And very fast and so > pratic!!! > CS4 hasn't desktop help? > Will always need access help.adobe in the Internet? > I don't believe in it!!!! > Where can I download he desktop help? > Thanks.
Same here, have been traveling allot lately and having hard time getting to internet. No use from help because all the documentation is online. Find it really annoying, considering the install is almost 1GB, unlike previous versions, and does not really have much more to offer beside some really small extras. Where all the data comes from? For such small program, 1GB and not even help files... pure weird...
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If Flash CS4 detects that you're not connected to the Internet, it should automatically revert to them. If that's not happening/you don't want to use the help that's online, you can access the local help files directly at:
Mac OS X: /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Help/[lang]/Flash/
Thanks for your answer. Ok, I can see the local help but it is in html format. I would like to use that old and honest help in help format, is there no more? It is so easy and so fast to locate differently of html: outside of program and slowly. Have you the old and honest help? Thanks.
On Oct 21, 8:06 am, "BWolfe [ADOBE]" <webforumsu...@macromedia.com> wrote:
> The old help format is gone, and not coming back. Sorry.
There are very few added features in CS4 for developers to help Actionscript coding in the code window and you removed the fast searchable help. What on earth were you thinking when you did that?
I knida get it, that information is useful online, but not everyone is blessed with hign bandwidth backbones to your web servers! When you're coding and jumping about in the documentation just to make sure you've got all of your method interfaces correct or a hundred other tasks the last thing I want to do is wait for the OS to load up my web browser, then connect to your documentation web servers half way around the globe for a few lines of text, all of which takes over a minuite. Before this task took me less than a second. What happened to Adobe's focus on efficency and time saving tasks in CS4 here?
You built nifty search features for media and video, the documentation feels like a giant leap backwards.
I'm loving many of the other features, but I'm very dissapointed in the documentation and help features.
> On Oct 21, 8:06 am, "BWolfe [ADOBE]" <webforumsu...@macromedia.com> > wrote:
> > The old help format is gone, and not coming back. Sorry.
> There are very few added features in CS4 for developers to help > Actionscript coding in the code window and you removed the fast > searchable help. What on earth were you thinking when you did that?
> I knida get it, that information is useful online, but not everyone is > blessed with hign bandwidth backbones to your web servers! When you're > coding and jumping about in the documentation just to make sure you've > got all of your method interfaces correct or a hundred other tasks the > last thing I want to do is wait for the OS to load up my web browser, > then connect to your documentation web servers half way around the > globe for a few lines of text, all of which takes over a minuite. > Before this task took me less than a second. What happened to Adobe's > focus on efficency and time saving tasks in CS4 here?
> You built nifty search features for media and video, the documentation > feels like a giant leap backwards.
> I'm loving many of the other features, but I'm very dissapointed in > the documentation and help features.
The new help format absolutely sucks for the following simple reasons: 1. No matter how fast your connection, it's still slower than the app. 2. I cannot have my help files in a tab next to my Actions panel anymore for quick reference 3. Search results are irrelevant and poorly formatted 4. There should at very LEAST be an option to have F1 take you to the local files instead of online!
Did you ask any real users about making this change? (Besides the ones that write AS books as a hobby and already know all this junk)?
It takes longer even just to initialize; the time between when I press F1 and when I'm at a help page I can interact with must be ten times as long as it used to be. Seriously. I just tried it again and am still waiting while I type this. Still waiting. Screw it. [I finished the next paragraph and finally noticed that the help page came up.]
It never focuses on the topic in question; if I select a word and hit F1, it goes to the root of the help index and I'm forced to perform a new web search to find my topic. Then, I have to manually narrow it down through a few more pages to choose between AS2 and AS3, etc. WTF?! Browsing from page to page on Adobe's help site is like browsing on dialup. See previous paragraph.
It is now MANY TIMES easier to use Google for your Flash help than Flash's "built-in" help.
This new help system is extremely disappointing. even though there are some local help files I can't seem to find anything on Actionscript 2 in them. I know that AS 2 reference is online but it so slow and only gotten slower it's become unusable. Please Adobe give us back our Help panel and the choice to use local or online help.
Hi folks. We hear your pain and are working on solutions to improve the situation. In the meantime:
If you?re connected to the Internet, the Help menu within the product opens the product Help and Support page by default. This page is a portal to all of the Community Help content for the product. If you want to consult or search online product Help only, you can access it by clicking the product Help link in the upper-right corner of the Help and Support page. Once inside the Adobe Help for the product, be sure to select the This Help System Only option before you do your search. Otherwise, Adobe content and Community content will be returned in the search results.
If you?re not connected to the Internet, the Help menu within the product opens local Help, which is a subset of the content available in online product Help. Because local Help is not as complete or up-to-date as online product Help, Adobe recommends that you use the PDF version of product Help if you want to stay off-line.
A downloadable PDF of complete product Help is available from two places: - The product?s Help and Support page (upper-right corner of the page) - Local Help and web Help (top of the Help interface)
If you are working in Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Fireworks, or Dreamweaver, and you want to turn off Community Help so that local Help opens by default, do the following: 1. Open the Connections panel (Window > Extensions > Connections). 2. From the Connections panel menu , select Offline Options. 3. Select Keep Me Offline and click OK.
I appreciate the need for up-to-date Help files, but I have to agree with the other posts--the old Help panel was much more useful, faster and, for those of us who have developed in Flash for years, indispensable. And with software updates, the Help panel was always up-to-date anyway, and if we wanted more info or examples there was frequently a link that would access the on-line help at adobe.com. So I want to add my vote to bring back the Help panel! It is really one of the most useful features of previous versions of Flash and not including it in CS4 is a step backward...
Yeah. I've got to add my voice as well. The new help system is less than helpful.
I tried the Keep Me Offline trick, but that seems to break the context sensitive use of F1. I type var myArray:Array and then press F1. Should take me to the Array class, but I end up with a page that just tells me that there is online help. (file:///Library/Application%20Support/Adobe/Help/en_US/AS2LCR/Flash_10.0/i ndex. html)
That seems to be for AS2.
If you can't (or won't) go back and you have to keep it in html. Then I have some suggestions.
The first thing you could do to make it more helpful is actually have it put the list of the classes down the side. That way if I have more than one question I can jump back and forth.
There is a lot of inconstancies between all the different pages I end up. I can't ever rely that pressing F1 is going to take me where I want to go. For awhile it kept taking me to some top level help page where I first had to select Flash CS4 and then drill down. If I ask for help from Flash I don't expect to have to wade through files for all the other Design Premium applications.
Well my post is a bit of a mess and all over the place, but that is how I feel about the new help system! So it is kinda apropos.
I have to agree with everyone else on here. We just updated to CS4 where I work figuring we would try to keep up to date, but what a mistake that was. The templates, components, and custom help files we use and the thousands of files we've created the past few years are all done in AS2.0 and there's no support for it.
I realize the world is getting more and more connected, but who ever decided to force everyone online should be fired. Sure it's easier to keep everything up to date, for the developers at Adobe, not the developers out in the world using CS4. On-line or off-line, the new help system blows.
If you're going to copy the help system that Sun uses for Java, at least make it as good as what they have.
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