Much of the Flash community has been less than impressed with the changes made to the help and documentation functionality of Flash CS4. Workarounds like offline only mode and third party applications have started popping up online since this debacle began. I have tried almost every solution I have come across but I always end up feeling like I’m missing something. Thankfully two members of the Flash community, Jeroen Beckers and Michiel Vancoillie, just released their AIR application called Doc?
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I started using Flash CS4 for around a week now and I have to say that I love it—for the most part. There are a few quirky bugs, for example, the app will crash instead of closing occasionally. Overall I welcome the new features and tools.
The one thing I can’t get my head wrapped around is why in the world Adobe would remove the integrated Help system and replace it with a link to their online help documentation. While I see the benefit of online documentation being simpler to update and/or amend I can’t help but to hate this change. The Flash CS3 Help panel offered efficient access to the ActionScript API’s.