We just purchased a license for Zinc since we had to quickly pick a 3rd party projector with file load/save for a project. I'm using it with flex 2 framework / flash 9.
It's kinda a letdown, first thing, it has a bad conflict with TortoiseSVN which caused it to crash right on startup. After researching a bit, Zinc installs old DLL-s which TSVN coughs up with. SWFStudio had the same kind of issue but they fixed it in recent builds. If I knew, I'd buy it instead of Zinc. The control over dialogs and features is terrible. They do support AS3, which we need since it's Flex 2 project. But it's spotty at best. To save binary files we had to take a ByteArray and convert it to a huge HEX string for Zinc to understand. This is of course slow, even in AS3. The Open dialog works, but amusingly the Save dialog doesn't! No matter what we tried, it just won't open or do anything at all. And since the open dialog doesn't check for file existence or anything, now we save files with the open dialog, as weird as it sounds. I'm writing here to ask if someone of you have dealt with those issues in Zinc and have workarounds, fixes, tricks/hacks etc. I'm contacting Zinc support too, but from what I see on their forums, they don't seem willing to answer to other people asking about the same issues. Regards, Stan Vassilev _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
