ARADTech opened this issue on Mar 30, 2000 ยท 15 posts
ARADTech posted Thu, 30 March 2000 at 1:53 PM
Attached Link: SwishZone
This is a great tool and well worth the cost! Does great text effects in a fraction of the time it would take to do them by hand. http://www.swishzone.com
rbtwhiz posted Sat, 01 April 2000 at 12:55 PM
Chris, you are sooooo right! That is a great tool. Text effects are too easy with swish... -Rob
swish posted Fri, 07 April 2000 at 3:37 AM
Hi, I'm the author of SWiSH and I'm getting quite a few hits via this site. I just registered so I could see what you guys were saying about me. I'm glad its positive! Cheers, David.
Dillinger posted Sun, 09 April 2000 at 3:56 PM
Swish is great I used it here
clay posted Wed, 12 April 2000 at 6:45 PM
Swish looks totally cool, can't wait for the Mac port of it:-)
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ARADTech posted Fri, 14 April 2000 at 2:50 PM
Sorry bro, don't think there is gonna be one :-( Chris
rbtwhiz posted Sat, 15 April 2000 at 2:52 AM
Chris, Actually... I believe they're in the process of porting it. But I wouldn't hold my breath, from what I've been told it's a ways off. We've been using Flash at work quite a bit for redesigning our intranet. Most of the workstations in our "graphic support" division are NT, but we do have a few Macs. When the production manager inquired about SWiSH for our Macs, he was told that it was being worked on for release a few months down the road... -Rob
ARADTech posted Sat, 15 April 2000 at 5:06 PM
Well very cool, thats great news, and welcome to the forum Swish team, we are very pleased to have you on the site :-) Chris
swish posted Sat, 15 April 2000 at 7:11 PM
SWiSH team? That would be me, there's only one! Here's my standard answer for Mac users: A Mac version will be at least a year away depending on how many of version 1.0 we sell. Then we'll look at getting a cross-compiler, buying a Mac, and hiring a Mac programmer. Its is a very expensive proposition for us (3-person company) and its a smaller market than Windows. In the meantime the SWFs produced by Swish will play on a Mac, and can be imported into the Mac version of Flash. You might be able to run Swish under an emulator. Cheers, David.
Dillinger posted Wed, 19 April 2000 at 2:38 PM
Swish not only creates very smooth finished products. It actually reduces the filesizes, compared to the same effect done by hand. It can be imported into a movie clip and easily used anywhere in your flash movie. You are bad-mouthing a great product so I won't even waste my time helping you. The problem doesn't lie with Swish.. but within yourself.
swish posted Wed, 19 April 2000 at 6:41 PM
Its very simple really. First create a movie clip symbol, import the Swish SWF into the movie clip symbol, then place an instance of that movie clip into the up/over/down frame of the button. Ok, its not exactly simple for beginners, but that's because Flash is not simple for beginners, and you really can't blame us for that. Also, you should never have to select or edit every frame if you import the Swish SWF into a movie clip. Once the Swish animation is saved as a movie clip you can move it around in space and time as a single object. Question: Why do you think our SWFs are "shitty"? Cheers, David Author of Swish.
swish posted Thu, 20 April 2000 at 6:03 AM
Unfortunately FLA is not an open format. Macromedia has not published the specifications, so we can neither open or save FLA files. Cheers, David
Agny posted Thu, 20 April 2000 at 10:17 AM
A_Weirdo, please keep your nasty remarks to yourself , if you have something to say please do it without attacking the product. Swish is a fantastic product that saves many hours work if you know how to use it period. If you need assistance on how to use it , please ask in a nice way or you will be removed from this forum. Thanks Chris
CharlieBrown posted Thu, 20 April 2000 at 12:12 PM
Swish creates SWF files? So there's a use for the things? Jascs Beta of Trajectory Pro can create those too. Maybe I should reinstall the Flash demo and try to figure the silly thing out...
swish posted Thu, 20 April 2000 at 5:11 PM
Yes, Macromedia is pushing hard for SWF to become as commonplace as animated GIFs. Check out my other site: http://openswf.org It will tell you all about SWF, 3rd party products that use SWF, source code for reading/writing SWFs, file format specs, a message board.... everything. Cheers, David.