Comments on: Macromedia Central Public Beta

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 04:52:48 +0000

I have been trying to download Central for about a week on an XP, a 2000, and a 98 machine. The XP and 98 machines are at one location and the 2000 machine at another location.

Every time I attempt I get “A download error occurred. Try to download again?”

I have probably seen this message 200+ times in the last 10 days. I try at all hours of the day and night.

Any insight or suggestions? I have Flash Player 7 on all machines and IE 6.

Thanks,
Kevin

By: Site Manager

Site Manager — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 00:55:23 +0000

I’m still looking for plug ins and extensions support. But overall, Dreamweaver & Fireworks combined is just a killer application

By: mike chambers

mike chambers — Tue, 30 Sep 2003 07:12:02 +0000

not yet, but we will be having a public developers beta very soon.

mike chambers

mesh@macromedia.com

By: beachmeat

beachmeat — Tue, 30 Sep 2003 06:37:00 +0000

Are there any specifications about how to develop apps for Central?

By: mike chambers

mike chambers — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 23:47:03 +0000

Anthony,

Yes, we are aware of the issue. This is a problem with one of our web servers (that is why we are having a beta).

It should be fixed soon…

mike chambers

mesh@macromedia.com

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 21:27:32 +0000

Whenver I try to install the Public Beta, the Flash popup window says “Connecting” then it says “A download error occurred. Try to download again?” I am using Flash Version 6,0,79,0; any suggestions (I really don’t want to upgrade my Flash Player yet.)?

By: Viswanath Gondi

Viswanath Gondi — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 03:20:43 +0000

1) The download was quick enough, but there was this unclosable window which got stuck to the center of the screen while central downloaded. I couldn’t do any other work during the download.

2) The zip code field in aweather app did not come preselected and double-clicking in the field also did not select all the text.

3) I added a few locations and deleted them from favorites in weather app. But the locations would not get deleted from the pod list.

4) The “find a movie” tab also searches for theaters. Just “Find” on the tab would have made my search easier.

5) The resizing grip on the window corner dosn’t work.

From: Central: Easy or hard to use? http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vgondi/2003/09/25#a489

By: S3V3N

S3V3N — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 22:17:09 +0000

I’m running Win2K and successfully installed Central (according to the sniffer). However, when I click on it, nothing happens. I’ve even selected the desktop icon and get nothing. I’ve also examined Windows Task Manager and it does not show any instance of Central.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:25:15 +0000

central’s big advantage to sherlock/watson, is the rabid and very talented developer community. i wouldn’t even know where to begin a sherlock channel, but i could probably (haven’t looked at the dev process) get started on a central app pretty quick.

i don’t know that central itself will be a success, but i hope that it pushes the idea of new delivery method.

By: mike chambers

mike chambers — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:15:44 +0000

>The kicker is it’s way slower then either.

Yes. This is covered in the FAQ:

http://www.macromedia.com/software/central/productinfo/faq/#item-8

We have not yet optimized Central performance or resource usuage.

mike chambers

mesh@macromedia.com