Bug with Adobe Flash

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ultimante

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Adobe/Macromedia Flash 8/CS3 running in Parallels cannot execute the "Distribute to Layers" command.

http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2004/07/13/modify-timeline-distribute-to-layers/

An error comes up that says "Could not complete operation because of an unknown error".

I'm almost certain this command uses the clipboard temporarily. It first stores whatever is currently in the clipboard and then proceeds to cut and paste all the items into new layers, and, when it finishes, it restores the clipboard to whatever the value was before. I'm not sure if this is relevant to why it doesn't work in Parallels, but it's something.

FYI, in all my years of using Flash, this function has never thrown this error. It is definitely specific to running Flash inside of Parallels.
 
None of your suggestions fixed the issue. I coworker has a brand new install of Parallels and Windows XP, he installed Flash CS3 and has the same exact error.

VMWare is able to recognize FlashDevelop as an application. VMWare doesn't have this bug with Flash. VMWare is looking more and more like the better solution. I've even heard from others that VMWare has faster performance, too.

By contrast, all I've been hearing from the Parallels team is deflections of issue reports and unfulfilled promises of looking into these issues. You ask me to PM you, and then you never respond.

Flash on OSX is not that great. A lot of Flash professionals who use Mac prefer to run Flash on Windows via emulation software. VMWare runs everything as expected, but Parallels has problems which it seems your team would rather ignore than fix. Looks like I made a mistake in choosing your software over VMWare.
 
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