Comments on: Flash CS4 Bug with OS X Spaces

By: Found and Lost: The Flash IDE | Sleepwalker's Dream

Found and Lost: The Flash IDE | Sleepwalker's Dream — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:18:40 +0000

[...] depending on what I am doing. I don’t use a Mac, but Jon MacDonald has informed me that the integration of OSX Spaces is an absolute nightmare. I have noticed the panels to be highly buggy, I want to know why Photoshop [...]

By: John

John — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:18:39 +0000

@Jon — Flash CS4 and Fireworks CS4 are the only two apps I’ve had this issue with. I’ve stopped using Spaces because it is a show stopper for me. I haven’t had this issue with any other OSX app to date.

By: Jon MacDonald

Jon MacDonald — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:23:31 +0000

@Dan – I have passed this along to Adobe team members. I have been told it is an issue with Apple’s Spaces/OS X, not Adobe’s apps. However, they are claiming to be working on a fix with Apple. We’ll see!

By: Dan Wilt

Dan Wilt — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:19:10 +0000

Thank you for such a thorough post. The same exact thing is happening to me. Can this be forwarded onto Adobe?

By: Kelsey

Kelsey — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:17:41 +0000

I’ve had the same issue since CS3 as well. I’m noticing that it occurs even more frequently in CS4. However everyone I’ve asked that uses both Spaces and either CS3 or CS4 has never had an issue. This is the first time I’ve come across anyone with this problem. Glad (in a way) that others are seeing this… I just hope enough are seeing it AND letting Adobe and Apple know that this problem exists.

By: FMFurnace

FMFurnace — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:31:56 +0000

This problem has been plaguing me in all CS4 apps that I use. It’s most noticeable for me in Photoshop. I never had an issue with “spaces” in CS3. I would routinely have Photoshop documents open in multiple spaces. Since upgrading to CS4 I have not been able to spread my files out across multiple spaces. It’s only happy if I have all my docs open in once space. This is really frustrating because it can get quite cluttered for me with the way I work.

I really hope they resolve this with an update very soon.

By: Flug Bangkok

Flug Bangkok — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:32:56 +0000

I have had the same thing, i don’ t know what happened with Flash CS3 and OS X. I wish they find a solution to this windowing problem.

By: Amol Mittal

Amol Mittal — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:56:33 +0000

actually.. just discovered..
pressing F4 or the “Hide Panels” shortcut key twice does the trick as well
just a little quicker :-)

By: Amol Mittal

Amol Mittal — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:49:24 +0000

Same thing is happening with me. Flash CS3 also had the same problem.
I really wish they do something about this.

The way I get around this issue for now is I click on the minimize button. It takes two tries. The First click takes you back to space 1. Then you go back to Space 2 and click on minimize again and the Application should minimize. Then open it up again from the dock and everything is in its place.

Very annoying indeed.

By: Jon MacDonald

Jon MacDonald — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:04:28 +0000

Jay – Great explanation. That is essentially what happens to me as well, and is what is shown in the video.