Adobe Configurator and deprecated Flash-based panel support in Adobe CC products

Jonathan can you tell me where I can voice my opinion on how important it is to build my own panels.  The panels I build are specific to my needs and cannot be shared as quite a few of them are selecting tool presets.  Since I know a little bit of code I figured I would go ahead, when I have a few minutes, and see if I could figure out how to build a panel.  Now I find that Extension Builder 3 is not compatible with CC 2014 so if I ever do figure out the coding I'll need to edit the files to make them compatible for CC 2014.  It won't be difficult to edit the files but it's one extra step that I shouldn't have to do.  I have no problem with the need for change but what I do have a problem with is not having the tools to make the change. 

If you heard a very loud scream that was me finding out I can't use my configurator panels.  What a slap in the face not having some easy alternative for the users of Adobe products.  They talk about increasing productivity but honestly what they really mean is increasing their bottom line.  Of course this has to happen when I'm at my busiest and don't have time to try and come up with something to speed up my workflow.  Thanks for nothing Adobe, screwing the customer again.

Ok some feel sorry. But now it's time to act. There are solutions. I tryed the eclipse pluggin and couldn't make it work with cc 2014. Though it works with cc. Let explain us how to make it work with cc 2014. We need precise tutorial in how to make a HTML button like interface to script and action. Maybe even some template and example. That is not to hard to setup. Could be online within hours or a very few days.  You knew it would happened it has happened. Eclipse is not as simple as configurator but with some step by step tutorial I am sure people can make it work for simple like configurator panel...

Then try to convince someone at adobe to write a configurator converter to export HTML panel from old configurator file.

We have followed adobe in his cc way. Supported you , your jobs , your bussiness, you exist because we are here, making bussiness with your tools. So now it's time to recognize one mistake and repair it... Sure it'll cost you some money but it happens all time.

It's like the oil painting thing. Some people do really rely on this to make their bussiness and now they have to pay for the cc and the update every month and just can't update because adobe deprecated some major functions of its software. Spring cleaning they call that. We are doing bussiness. Your tools are not toys. We invent ways of earning our life with the tools you give us. You can't just decide to get rid of them. Don't make old functions evolve ok but don't suppress major feature like configurator or oil painting without giving alternative.

It's time adobe realize their responsibility. People lifes, family, bussiness rely on the tools you make to earn their living. We need to be inventive, creative, and so some of us use every tiny bits of function you give us to improve their bussiness and find new clients, every single line of code you make can chage some people life. Being a geek at Adobe is certainly fun, inventing new functions, deciding that one other is too hard or to boring to have some attention, but we all have responsibilities, you too, we dont need new feature though we like to have them , but we need our working tools tools to work everyday , event faster , even better, that is what we need

Everybody at adobe should be aware of that.

Stop being sorry. Now it's time for action.

Thanks.

ok. Just another person here wishing he could use his Configurator panel in the newest version.  My custom panel is absolutely ESSENTIAL. I will not be using CC 2014 until I have some way of either using my existing panel or remaking it with something else.  

While Adobe has informed us that Flash would be removed from their apps for a while now, the impact isn't felt until it actually happens, and now it has.  Other than the fact that Flash has been removed is the fact that Adobe may not have realized how many people used features like Configurator.  They look for metrics of people posting their panels on their sites, like the former Adobe Exchange.  The trouble with this is that most people create scripts, panels, and extensions for themselves, so Adobe doesn't have a good indication of how much they're used!  Hopefully they'll see how much people use features like this now, and provide an easy way in html5 to create them.  In the new release of CC 2014, there is a new feature that is on by default that sends metrics back to Adobe about the features that you use.  I would strongly recommend that you leave this on, as we want Adobe to know what feature we do use!!!

Here is the same

Installing CC2014 jsut to discovered that my workflow that I spend hours elaborating with configurator is just f.... up !!

This is total nonsense not to give an HTML version of configurator.

You give tools to professional then remove them without giving any alternative.

I have allways supported the CC system and defend it with my colleague now them just can tell me that they were right... No more customer conscience in adobe team. Shame on you

What surprises me is that when Adobe made the decision that they would no longer support Configurator Panels, and that they would not provide a tool for migrating existing panels, that they still left the page for downloading stating that Configurator 4 can be used to create panels for CC. Even now, users going to that page will be led to think it will work just fine for the current CC. Though I suppose in a way it doesn't matter from Adobe's perspective. Like weymouthsteve said, even though some of us will not be able to upgrade to CC 2014 because of this, we will still have to keep paying our monthly rental fee -- so there's certainly no financial impact from Adobe's approach. Just another example of why the subscription model is great for Adobe and terrible for customers. Previously we could use our wallets to ensure that Adobe kept customer satisfaction a priority. But now it simply doesn't matter -- no matter how infuriated customers may get over Adobe's decisions, they will still be paying a monthly fee. The subscription model makes customers powerless to influence how a product is updated. Unless Corel is miraculously able to come up with a viable competitor, Adobe is free to make any decision they want, not matter how negative an impact it has on customers -- with this decision to remove custom Panels being a prime example.

So lets get this straight, I will be forever paying a regular subscription for a Photoshop cc version that is not the latest and will no doubt never be updated in the future unless I give up a feature that I have come to depend upon. No opt out clause, that just sucks. It great to know that some people in the know `knew these reactions would happen`  that really makes me feel so much better.

I'm very surprised this morning that the latest release of Photoshop suddenly dropped compatibility of custom panels made with Configurator. Until today I couldn't even imagine that they'd shut down such an useful feature because I was using my own custom panels for many many years.

I understand that it is important to throwing away outdated technologies such as Flash to keep things clean, but I believe Adobe Configurator was a software that magnificently useful and highly necessary for the modern Photoshop user experience.

Are they making an new version of Configurator that capable of creating panels based on HTML5 technology? I strongly hope so, because if they aren't, I must use older version of Photoshop for rest of my life. I can't stand anymore that using the standard tool panel instead of my own design.

Configurator, I really need you back.

Just installed the new version of Photoshop CC and noticed that my panels are no longer working. Used to place all functions and actions I need in a panel, in the order I use them in my workflow, so I could quickly edit my photos. Without that I'll need much more time to click through the menus or to remember the keyboard shortcut I'll need next. And no replacement for configurator in the near future ! Thanks Adobe ...