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Widgets a Gone Gone

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July 21, 2014
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I want to sue Adobe in a class action lawsuit for antitrust violations implemented with this forced cloud update...Anyone want to join? I purchased my CS6 MASTER SUITE less then 6 months ago because I don't believe in leasing software via "The Cloud" BS! However, since my last Air update I can no longer access my widget browser. I get a bogus error that says It can't connect to the server to log in and to check the connection. My internet functions fine, otherwise I wouldn't be able to log in and post this comment/question. So I'm left to believe that this is a deliberate action by Adobe to force people into the cloud. Furthermore, when I try to contact support it seems that Adobe has completely dissolved any real support functions and left that in the hands of it's fine community of PISSED OFF users...thanks Adobe!. So specifically to my problem. I'm designing a web site for a web series (I know, the irony) and it's at 90% completion. I'm trying to add my lightbox widget which I had already downloaded and installed moths ago and SURPRISE SURPRISE...it's not there. In fact none of my widgets are there! Does anybody know a work around for this issue because it seems you can't download the widgets independently from any legitimate web source, and I don't do torrents on my system. I am a freelance editor and graphic designer so this is a nuisance I don't have time to deal with. Any help from this community will be greatly appreciated! Additionally If someone from Adobe should happen to read this know that I am very serious about filing a law suite. It is fraudulent to sell a product for thousands of dollars and then remove all the tools associated with the use of that product! So either someone there is either going to A. provide a viable solution other then converting and paying for the cloud on top of what I already paid, B. issue me a full refund for my purchase since it's utter isles if I can't access the tools I need to do my job, or C. prepare for the social media onslaught and legal petitions from other consumers and uses just like me whose rights you've violated!

Kind Regards,

The Puritan

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Correct answer Nancy OShea

It's not a bogus error message. Widget Browser is gone. The Widgets were old, outdated and most developers had no zeal to update them so Adobe pulled the plug on Widget Browser quite a while ago. You can still visit the Add-on exchange. Adobe Exchange

Or, as many of us do, use jQuery plugins.

Nancy O.

ALsp

Legend

While the widget Browser was a failed venture for Adobe, the App Store is just as bad (if not worse), and in addition to using off-the-rack copy and paste scripts as Nancy suggests, there is still a vital extension community out there, with the largest and oldest being Project Seven Development (PVII.com), DMX Zone, and Web Assist. These companies make automated tools that install inside Dreamweaver giving you visual UIs with which to create menus, sliders, galleries, etc.

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FREE?

Participating Frequently

Agreed.... It is going to be a problem in the future, but for now this is what has to be done

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FREE?

Participating Frequently

I can understand your position since you are paying to upgrade you software, but I already paid for the CS6 suite. I have to make it work since I have already sunk thousands into every CS upgrade. I can not justify giving Adobe an everlasting payment for the rest of my life. They should offer both one-time ownership license fees with payable upgrades as well as the Phukscription system. Just can't do it. I can not afford to pay them $50 a month for the rest of my life... and that is if they do not raise the monthly fee.

paulk7737514

Inspiring

The reality is that operating systems will continue to change and complex and outdated software will encounter problems. There is no way around this.

paulk7737514

Inspiring

You're wasting your time. Upgrade to DW CC.

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FREE?

Participating Frequently

Your wasting your money with Phukscription based everlasting payments.... downgrade to CS6 & make it work.

paulk7737514

Inspiring

I had the same attitude as you. But then I thought, "Do I really want to plunk down $2,900 for software that is nearly 2 years old?" I used a combination of CS2 and CS3 for as long as I could but when I saw the new features in CC I didn't regret upgrading.

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FREE?

Participating Frequently

I agree with Web Magi. I use Extend Studio DW extensions & love every one of them. Sorry to say, they are not free. I wish they were, but they are worth every penny. You need to try this one:

http://www.extendstudio.com/product/DW-Masonry-Gallery-for-Dreamweaver.html

It is the newest Responsive Gallery/Lightbox extension for DW. I use it with DW CS6 & it works just fine. I just want to add that I miss the Free Widgets to & stopped using DW until I found these extensions.

Andrew

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Bird_on_the_Hand

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Firstly I hope all is well with your development and I'm glad I found this post.

I installed a new copy of cs6 18 months ago and that included widget browser.

Have just started to try and use it to produce menus suitable for tablets etc having found adobe posts and a help page on spry menu 2.

Spent the evening trying to get on line.

Uninstalled and downloaded widget browser. Reinstalled.

No mention anywhere I was wasting my time.

Come on adobe, update things so we don't waste time.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

With Adobe's current rapid release cycle, 18 months is practically an eternity. Unfortunately, Widget Browser has not been active for at least 12 months that I can remember. Most of the widgets were sorely outdated and the 3rd party developers didn't express much interest in updating them. Sorry you missed the announcements about it being discontinued. There were several posted in this forum and on Adobe's web site.

Nancy O.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

Mariah12

Participant

It's not good that widgets are gone, now i have to search for widgets, which is so time consuming and difficult..

Mariah Albert

James-J

Participant

Like wise very disappointed trying to teach myself how to use DW CS6 and now I have to go hunting else where to find the widgets I liked and have used in the past,

Ketina_Martins

Participant

Tenho um site na wordpress. Não tem problema nenhum de html.

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Mister AllusionAuthor

Participant

Thanks Nancy, I will check it out and let you know how its goes. If this proves to be the solution I needed I'll send you my undying gratitude!

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Trunker420

Participant

So, how did it go with light box? I am with you... very unhappy about this "change".

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Mister AllusionAuthor

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Thanks Jon and Nancy, I figured as much seeing as I was able to use the widgets as recently as May/June and now just POOF! I've visited the add ons site and found no viable solutions that were comparable to the Lightbox widget free of cost. And the free add-ons quite frankly don't cut the mustard! I can understand if Adobe wanted to pull the plug on the widget browser moving forward with their implementation of the CC takeover, but it doesn't negate their responsibility to continue supporting those with valid user licenses for CS6 such as myself. To send a notification stating Adobe Air must be updated in order to continue using widgets browser and then deliberately disable the tool and remove all the widgets I already had installed is a violation of consumer trust. Not to mention a disturbing precedent. It a systematic implementation of control and monitoring procedures that no company should have.