Re: [Flashcoders] What is up with adobes documentation?

2011-05-06 Thread Ktu
: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Newman Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 1:52 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] What is up with adobes documentation? I usually just put the class name with as3 into google

Re: [Flashcoders] What is up with adobes documentation?

2011-05-04 Thread Glen Pike
___ -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Newman Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 1:52 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] What is up with adobes documentation? I usually

Re: [Flashcoders] What is up with adobes documentation?

2011-04-22 Thread Kevin Newman
I usually just put the class name with as3 into google (LocalConnection as3) - it almost always gives me something useful. I do generally agree that's it's often hard to find anything using Adobe's built in documentation tool - especially using the search field (which is local in CS5). Though

RE: [Flashcoders] What is up with adobes documentation?

2011-04-22 Thread Merrill, Jason
...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Newman Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 1:52 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] What is up with adobes documentation? I usually just put the class name with as3 into google (LocalConnection as3

Re: [Flashcoders] What is up with adobes documentation?

2011-04-22 Thread Gerry
___ -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Newman Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 1:52 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] What is up with adobes documentation

Re: [Flashcoders] What is up with adobes documentation?

2011-04-22 Thread Kevin Newman
Yeah, I pretty much learned AS2 with Macromedia's little help ? mark button. :-) I'm not really sure why Adobe felt the need to mess with it so much. Kevin N. On 4/22/11 1:55 PM, Merrill, Jason wrote: I miss the good old days when Adobe's local help was easy to access and find

Re: [Flashcoders] What is up with adobes documentation?

2011-04-21 Thread Bob Wohl
What does documentation that you, as the developer, use have to do with HTML5? It's a search issue that has absolutely nothing to do with Adobe's PR. On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:54 AM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com wrote: Hey folks Every time I do a big search I

Re: [Flashcoders] What is up with adobes documentation?

2011-04-21 Thread Gregory Boland
went to google put this into the search field FLVPlayback adobe livedocs First link at the top: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/fl/video/FLVPlayback.html perhaps your not putting in the correct words into google? On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Bob Wohl

Re: [Flashcoders] What is up with adobes documentation?

2011-04-21 Thread Dave Watts
Every time I do a big search I seem to get a LOT of as2 links and when I add as3 into the search terms I keep getting links to either a page offering up a bunch of generic documentation pages (ie not direct links to the class I'm looking for) or I get class documentation pages that are only

Re: [Flashcoders] What is up with adobes documentation?

2011-04-21 Thread Ross Sclafani
I agree with this. Also, any professional worth their salt is going to have direct links to any documentation required to do their job. Ross P. Sclafani Design / Technology / Creative 347.204.5714 http://ross.sclafani.net http://www.twitter.com/rosssclafani On Apr 21, 2011, at 6:47 PM, Dave

Re: [Flashcoders] What is up with adobes documentation?

2011-04-21 Thread Anthony Pace
Personally I find searching google almost always gives me what I want as long as I use quotation marks around a key phrase, and I must agree that Google's results are not Adobe's fault. To talk about the state of Adobe documentation, I must say that I do find it lacking substance in many key