No UI redraw while Mousedown in Illustrator with flash panel (MAC only)

[Guest]

Hello all,

I've noticed in Illustrator whenever the mouse is held down over a FLASH UI object on a mac no updates are drawn to the UI until the mouse button is released. This makes things like highlighting text , using scrollbars etc very awkward.

Has anyone else come across this?

I have slightly altered the sample "Freegrid" & "FreegridUI" found in the illustrator CS5 SDK. I'm running in debug mode & the events are working perfectly (as far as I know)

Interestingly enough the same code works in windows perfectly.

I also experienced the exact same problem back in CS4 when i was using the ADM flash player UI to play my flash animation. My previous CS4 post is

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/533171  (7 months ago, boy how time flies)

I have tried on two macs. One PPC the other Intel, 1.5.8 OS

Thanks.

[weiguo · Accepted solution]

Hi MrReplica,

Do you mean "Freegrid" & "FreegridUI" work well on both Win and Mac, your code works well on Windows, and your code does not work on Mac?

Regards,

[Guest]

I have retested and confirmed; The bundled FreegridUI ZXP appears to have the same draw problem I have described.

The answer to your question is, from my perspective: The supplied Freegrid works well on both Win & Mac; FreegridUI works well only on windows. My code does not seem to be a factor here at all.

Due to the nature of the samples given in the SDK it is not something that would appear to be obvious, but it fortunately is very easy to reproduce.

(the problem is extremely noticable with a scrollbar, the scrollbar graphic does not update until the mouse is released!)

Slowly highlight any text you have entered and you will notice the lack of UI feedback until the mouse is released.

Running the FreegridUI.swf file directly does not have this problem. AFAIK that means this problem is either related to me compiling "Freegrid" or the way the flash panel is being handled on a mac.

This problem has occured on 10.5 Mac OS PPC and Intel. I will be testing it on 10.6 shortly!

If i had any choice I would stick to windows programming, I'm not a big fan of Xcode!

Please tell me i'm not crazy, or it's some crazy compiler flag that I have missed.

Thanks!

[weiguo]

We can reproduce this issue. It seems to be a bug. We will have more investigation and see whether we can fix it in next release. Thanks.

Guo Wei

[Guest]

I don't suppose there's anyway I can track the progress of this bug?

[Guest]

Thanks, Just downloaded the latest update to the embedded flash player! Seems to work much better.