Here's a thing, you create a huge application which has become a great tool for creating interactive content online. You then make a new product which is a bit more advanced than that one, and name it Flash Professional.

Having spent all this time to create these great and wonderful products, Why can't you make separate help files?? It's not that hard. You could even have your own application look at it's help files, and if they say, (Flash Professional Only), and you don't have Flash Professional, it doesn't list them.

Every time I go searching through the help to learn what great things Flash does with XML, I discover that what I'm looking at is Flash Professional Only. Does it inspire me to get Flash Professional? No, it inspires me not to use flash.

There are other threads like this, probably, but you really should see it more often, because, beyond taking three days to figure out how to see more than three lines of the help files, it's the worst thing I've seen of Flash MX 2004.

Go back to flash 5 - it was and still is a great tool and a great product.
If you know code outside ActionScript there's almost nothing you can't do.
Later versions of flash just make it easy to get confused.

You haven't looked hard (or long) enough, alas.=20

Be inspired nonetheless - not with new tools, but with your own ideas =
using the tools you already know.

Ciaran

Hey wait, everyone! I've just checked my watch. It's still 2003. Am I =
stuck in a time warp, or is something more calculated going on ?


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