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WilWhimsey
WilWhimsey
Inspiring
April 6, 2020
質問

There seems to be a bug in animate when it comes to changing fill and stroke colors once applied

  • April 6, 2020
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Sometimes Animate no longer allows me to change the color on fills/strokes with the color tab. I can only change via the strokes and fill tab - which only allows access to swatches or the more obtuse color picker attached to the swatch tab. The regular color picker no longer has any effect. The color in the tab will look like it's working then immediately reverts to the previous color.

 

The only way to get it working correctly again is to close the program and open it again - then it may work for five minutes or so before it reverts again. This has been going on for quite some time - erratically though. Sometimes it will be fine for days, then out of the blue it goes haywire again.


Also when it is in this uncooperative state, if I select a color via the color tab and attempt to add it to my swatches, it immediately reverts to the previous color and saves the previous color as a swatch. The only way to get it back is to close the program and restart. And then it will work correctly for a while till the bug shows up again.


Quite crazy making.
I am using Animate 20 - it also did it in 19. I'm on a Mac os 10.13.6

Note: 4/12 it still is happening at least once a day. Most times the only way to stop it is to turn off my computer and reboot. Same with my laptop. Truly crazy making. I am took a screen video of the behavior today. (Below- the attached FlashBug. mov)

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WilWhimsey
WilWhimsey作成者
Inspiring
April 15, 2020

So... this is still happening... pretty much on a daily basis. I've been working in Animate today for about 4 hours, and the bug cropped up again. I restarted the program to no effect. I restarted my computer and it worked fine - as it should for about 10 minutes, and now it appears I need to restart my computer again. I can't express how annoying this is. I am hoping that someone out there has had experience with this and can offer advice. Having to repeatedly restart my computer for the program to function correctly is not an efficient work process.

Mohanaraj
Adobe Employee
Mohanaraj
Adobe Employee
April 15, 2020

Hi - Does this happen when something is selected on stage? Is it possible for you to share a screen recording of the issue that you are facing to mohanraj@adobe.com ? 

 

BTW your assets look amazing!

 

Thanks!

Mohan

n. tilcheff
n. tilcheff
Legend
April 6, 2020

Hi mate,

 

Just a guess:

Is it possible that some other program such as a browser or instant messenger is partly stealing focus from Animate?

To see if this may be a reason try to minimise and maximise the program, do a few clicks on the timeline and stage and try the color again to see if there is a change in behaviour.

 

Also check if Animate has the right privileges on your mac.

One of the devs posted this image some time ago as a potential solution to color picker problems:

 

To define and investigate something as a bug, it has to be reproducible under clear circumstances on multiple computers.

 

Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998 | Member of the Flanimate Power Tools team - extensions for character animation
WilWhimsey
WilWhimsey作成者
Inspiring
April 7, 2020

Well, this is what my Privacy settings look like (below). As far as I understand this, this setting is correct with regard to permissions and Animate. I have had this same thing happen on both my laptop and my desktop. So it is happening on multiple devices. I do not know what instigates it. It typically just crops up mid project while I've been working for a bit. Today it took about an hour before it started. This time when I closed out the program and restarted, the issue still occurred and it did so immediately. I had to turn off my computer, and then restart and relaunch Animate before the color tab was behaving again.

Clicking on the timeline didn't change the behavior. So far the only thing that works is closing/retarting the program, or if needed restarting the computer.

I posted as I figured someone else must have had this issue as well - it has been going on for a while - I have searched but never see any posts about it. Typically I am in the midst of a project and do not have time to post to forums... thought perhaps others may be looking as well. So, am just putting this out there.

note: I think the reason that there are two drivers for Wacom is I sometimes use a Cintiq and sometimes I use a tablet.

    n. tilcheff
    n. tilcheff
    Legend
    April 7, 2020

    Hi again, mate,

     

    Sounds serious and very unpleasant.

    I frequent these forums and have not seen anyone report this before, but the current version seems to be plagued with all kinds of very serious issues.

    I have personally written off recent versions of Animate. They are unreliable for my professional work, but I still have to do a lot of testing because of our tools. I've seen 7-8 times 2020 terminate itself after just being left minimised for some time. Thought it was due to a memory leak, but couldn't verify it.

     

    Maybe if you can screen capture the behaviour on video you should post it here and also submit a bug report.

     

    Good luck!

    Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998 | Member of the Flanimate Power Tools team - extensions for character animation
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