This is seriously my biggest gripe with Flash CS4, the ability to destroy your type settings in a microsecond by trying to scroll down the type panel with your mouse wheel. bad bad bad. adobegripes: Flash CS4 UI: Good intentions fucked up astronomically. Its clear Flash CS4 took a lot of UI cues from After Effects, can’t blame it AE is fucking solid as far as a custom UI goes. AE is so good it makes custom UIs look like a great idea, Flash of course makes them look dogshit. In AE you have many scrubbable little variables and combos so have to scroll loads, so you tend to use the mouse scroll wheel constantly. The Flash developers must have never realised this because they decided to make the scroll wheel also scrub variables/combo boxes so now I’m forced to either find a safe scroll zone like the area outside the red box or just use the shitty little custom scroll bars. This gets even worse with the properties panel because before you know it its throwing fucking dialogues at you because many combos have further options in them.
Pop-upView Separately

This is seriously my biggest gripe with Flash CS4, the ability to destroy your type settings in a microsecond by trying to scroll down the type panel with your mouse wheel. bad bad bad.

adobegripes:

Flash CS4 UI: Good intentions fucked up astronomically.

Its clear Flash CS4 took a lot of UI cues from After Effects, can’t blame it AE is fucking solid as far as a custom UI goes. AE is so good it makes custom UIs look like a great idea, Flash of course makes them look dogshit.

In AE you have many scrubbable little variables and combos so have to scroll loads, so you tend to use the mouse scroll wheel constantly. The Flash developers must have never realised this because they decided to make the scroll wheel also scrub variables/combo boxes so now I’m forced to either find a safe scroll zone like the area outside the red box or just use the shitty little custom scroll bars.

This gets even worse with the properties panel because before you know it its throwing fucking dialogues at you because many combos have further options in them.

Source: adobegripes