Released with Flash Player 8, new features in Macromedia Flash 8 Professional included: graphical filters (blur, drop shadow, glow, etc.) and blend modes,
easing control for animation, enhanced stroke properties (caps and
joins), object-based drawing mode, run-time bitmap caching, FlashType advanced anti-aliasing for text, On2
VP6 advanced video codec, support for alpha transparency in video, a
stand-alone encoder and advanced video importer, cue point support in
FLV files, an advanced video playback component, and an interactive
mobile device emulator.
Macromedia Flash Basic 8, a "lite" version of the Flash authoring
tool targeted to new users who only wanted to do basic drawing,
animation, and interactivity. The Basic product was eventually stopped.
Application Details:
| Version: | Flash 8.0 Professional |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://www.adobe.com/products/... |
| Votes: | Marked as obsolete |
| Latest Rating: | Gold |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 4.0.4 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
From motion tween to masks everything seem to work fine except copying and pasting movie clips.
What does not
For some reason you cant copy movie clips just by right clicking it, it will turn into bitmap after pasting it.
Workarounds
You can get movieclips from library anyways.
What was not tested
Some advanced actionscript code.Basic ones has no problem.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Some animations might be slower than it's on the windows pc but still the best presentation, animation and e-learning stuff software on the market.It also works fine in linux using wine.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Current | Google Chrome OS, Linux(Beta) a.k.a. Crostini | Aug 01 2020 | 4.0.4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Gurbuz | |
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Jun 17 2019 | 4.8 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | TeheeFB | |
| Show | Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu) | Jul 26 2018 | 3.13 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | TeheeFB | |
| Show | Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu) | Jun 15 2018 | 3.10 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | TeheeFB | |
| Show | Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu) | May 01 2018 | 3.6 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | TeheeFB |
