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danasb352
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August 4, 2017
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The recent Animate update messed up all the extensions requiring text input

  • August 4, 2017
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After the last Animate update, all the extensions that require text input got jumbled up.

We are using a lot of extensions to help our workflow, clearly because Flash lacks so many important features for animators, and it is crucial that these extensions work. As if it was not enough already, that they stopped support of Extensions Manager, and that all the Add Ons developers had to convert their older extensions to match a new format -  now, even within one version, part of them don't work properly again!?

Until a fix (if it will ever happen) we will have to roll back to the older version...

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danasb352Author
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August 6, 2017

By the way - I have reported this bug, and received a reply from Adobe, that they are looking already into this issue! this was a pleasant surprise, hope they became more serious about Animate finally...

Preran
Community Manager
PreranCommunity Manager
Community Manager
August 4, 2017

We haven't heard about this issue from anyone else from what I know. Having said that, did you get in touch with the developers to see if they have updated their extensions to meet the requirements for the latest release.

Thanks,

Preran

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danasb352Author
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August 4, 2017

HI Preran

You probably didn't hear, because animators usually are a quiet crowd, but since I am supervising a Flash pardon - Animate production, I am the one that has to address all those issues. Besides, it takes time and effort to report all the problems (there are too many), and sorry to tell - me and many others have quite bad experience with Flash developers addressing them - we used to participate in a lot of discussions in the older times, but most problems and features were whether never solved, or half-solved after many versions, while new bugs were appearing, messing up whatever was already working... That's why lot's of people don't bother to report any more. I am a very big user Animate and of add-ons, since some of them make workflow way easier, so I still find the need to address major issues sometimes, with the hope it will be fixed one day.

Now - that's the thing - how can a dozen of different developers - some I don't even know how to find - adapt their plug-ins each time there is a weird build of Animate? And I am supposed to contact 10 or more developers to fix an Animate issue? I mean - they all use exactly the same language to write them and the problem is one for all, not specific to a plug-in...

Anyway, due to that, and some other serious issue, which I will report soon, I had to roll back to Animate 16.0, which works way better than 16.5...

thanks

Colin Holgate
Colin Holgate
Inspiring
August 4, 2017

Hi Colin

Thats good to hear!

Here are several extensions that encounter this problem - most are from Toonmonkey, so these would be easy to address:

New Anim Clip by Toonmonkey

Newer Anim Clip (an upgrade of the Toonmonkey's plug-in, not sure where I got it from)

Libappend by Toonmonkey

Search and Replace by Toonmonkey

Move to Existing Folder - don't know the developer (by the way - ever since the drop of Extensions Manager support, there is no easy way to see the embedded plug-in description, unless you try to edit the code itself... - another drawback of "progress")

here is a screenshot - for clarity. see how the Text input field is jumbled up

thanks


I've asked a couple of them to look in on this thread.

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