Comments on: Modify > Timeline > Distribute to Layers

By: Pascal

Pascal — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:40:08 +0000

OMG, Greg. Thanks for pointing that out. I had Flash crash on me all the time and couldn’t put my finger on the problem.
ClipX rules to much to leave out. Guess I have to switch it of when Distributing to Layers..

Thanks again

By: Exasperated

Exasperated — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:15:41 +0000

Wow. Four years later, and the pixel-shifting bug is still here.

By: Greg

Greg — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:21:50 +0000

Thank you for pointing out that this command makes use of the copy>paste. I had been running PC software called clipx. And it caused Flash to freeze whenever I tried to distribute to layers. This makes me a lot happier knowing what the problem was.

By: tom schreiber

tom schreiber — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 20:21:56 +0000

DISTRIBUTE TO LAYERS PIXEL SHIFT BUG

same here. the use of “Distribute to Layers” is breaking my tight layouts by shifting object a fraction of a pixel. -afterall, the command is named ‘distribute to layers’ not ‘throw stuff around randomly’

please let me know when we can expect a fix on this. would be very much appreciated.
-tom

By: Mads

Mads — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 08:37:03 +0000

I know this post may be long dead, but I did a search for this and it turned out on top.

PIX8, I have the same annoying problem with symbols being shifted slightly after the Distribute to Layers command. Has anyone found a solution for this? Mike?

By: Jim Richards

Jim Richards — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 23:32:41 +0000

I actually use this in order to create video segments by importing jpg sequence format and distributing it into layers and exporting it as flash or video, I learned it from one of the articles at http://www.wikiverse.org about Macromedia Flash.

By: Sean McKibben

Sean McKibben — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:22:55 +0000

Ok, I’ll stick my foot in my mouth about bug fixes, but only once its released. Now that I’m aware that the next update even has a code name, there’s a glimmer of hope.

Now if I could just see a bit more of a return on my DevNet subscription…

My issue here is what I haven’t gotten from my $1300 DevNet investment…compared to what I got from Microsoft for my $1100 Universal Subscription. The difference is staggering: 8 kinda neat but not so useful CDs from Macromedia vs. 30 or so DVDs with everything under the sun on them from microsoft. Would it kill macromedia to throw us a bone, or RoboDemo or something? My renewal is coming up, and I have to find some reason to drop $600… I consider properly working panels to be a bug fix – regardless of how much rewriting the flash team has to do.

By: mike chambers

mike chambers — Tue, 20 Jul 2004 19:33:34 +0000

>oh yeah, it’s Macromedia policy never to fix bugs

Umm… we have already released one update to 2004, and are about to release another one (with over 120 new bugs fixed).

See:

http://www.markme.com/flashteam/

for more info.

mike chambers

mesh@macromedia.com

By: Sean McKibben

Sean McKibben — Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:02:55 +0000

The only problem here is that, at least on the mac, the distribute to layers command actually takes over your clipboard. For example, you have two symbols on a layer: “Circle” and “Square”, you cut (Command-x) “Circle”, then you select “Square” and do a “Distribute to Layers”, then you paste (Command-v). Unfortunately, you paste a square, even though you’ve never intentionally modified your clipboard. Your “Circle” is now gone. Boo.

Maybe in 7.0.2… oh yeah, it’s Macromedia policy never to fix bugs, especially for the mac. (Sorry for the complaint, but distribute to layers should definitely not eat my homework, er, clipboard)

By: DanD

DanD — Tue, 20 Jul 2004 03:10:22 +0000

Does anyone else have a problem with Distributing to Layers shifting the distributed symbols a few tenths of a pixel one way or another in MX 2004? Especially text fields. I used to love to use this method just to autoatically name all my layers, but i noticed it started moving stuff slightly in MX 2004 on the Mac.