Rupert
06-06-2003, 03:24 AM
Just have to share this with you :
I recently built a bunch of flash templates for a particular company. The idea was that this companies team of monkeys could then get in and make lots and lots of little files from the templates.
I used plenty of smartclips and modular coding to make them easy to update - I even wrote a multi page complete eediots step-by-step guide on how to use them. I commented all my code, clearly marking the couple of things that need to be altered but also the important things that need to be "LEFT ALONE". I was even a good boy and cleaned up the library. I demo'd the templates to them and sat with the head monkey while they built some of them. everything worked, everybody was happy.
<two weeks later>
I get a call saying "they aren't working anymore". Uh oh. I get the template files back and after some searching around find that:
- because they couldn't find where a bunch of library objects (that I happened to be loading dynamically) were used in the timeline - they deleted them all.
- they had deleted most but not all of my commented code so that certain comment lines now begin with / and * instead of // so whole chunks of code were being ignored or generating new errors.
...but the one mistake that I just finished 14 hours of searching for (no joke) turns out to be that they had (for no humanly known reason) gone into my smartclips and deleted the second frame - it was a simple highlight around a speech bubble while a sound was playing but because it was SO simple a little thing I didn't find it until now.
So here I sit shaking my fist at the sky and wondering what I could have possibly done to save these people from themselves.
Un believable.
Just thought I'd share that with you.
I recently built a bunch of flash templates for a particular company. The idea was that this companies team of monkeys could then get in and make lots and lots of little files from the templates.
I used plenty of smartclips and modular coding to make them easy to update - I even wrote a multi page complete eediots step-by-step guide on how to use them. I commented all my code, clearly marking the couple of things that need to be altered but also the important things that need to be "LEFT ALONE". I was even a good boy and cleaned up the library. I demo'd the templates to them and sat with the head monkey while they built some of them. everything worked, everybody was happy.
<two weeks later>
I get a call saying "they aren't working anymore". Uh oh. I get the template files back and after some searching around find that:
- because they couldn't find where a bunch of library objects (that I happened to be loading dynamically) were used in the timeline - they deleted them all.
- they had deleted most but not all of my commented code so that certain comment lines now begin with / and * instead of // so whole chunks of code were being ignored or generating new errors.
...but the one mistake that I just finished 14 hours of searching for (no joke) turns out to be that they had (for no humanly known reason) gone into my smartclips and deleted the second frame - it was a simple highlight around a speech bubble while a sound was playing but because it was SO simple a little thing I didn't find it until now.
So here I sit shaking my fist at the sky and wondering what I could have possibly done to save these people from themselves.
Un believable.
Just thought I'd share that with you.