That can’t be right, can it? Absolutely it can. In the mere 2 weeks since Adobe published the how-to “How do I manually install Flash Player on my Android device?” on their community forums – the article has been viewed 15 MILLION times. That’s from June 18th to July 1st. That is amazing. Do I …
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With Adobe AIR 3.8 and Flash Player 11.8 now in beta – I’d like to highlight some of the really neat new features being implemented in the runtimes. Many of them are pretty major and have been sought after for some time now… Want to catch up on release version features through guides, API references, …
So… remember back in September of 2011 when Microsoft declared that Flash Player and other “plugins” would be barred from Internet Explorer in the Modern UI version of the browser? Remember in May of 2012 when Microsoft relented and in place of an all-out ban, devised a troublesome whitelist which developers had to submit requests …
Since Flash Player 9, we’ve been able to use the BitmapData.draw() method in order to capture visual data from a display object. The major limitation of using this method, is that it will render the visual at the stage quality with which the swf has been embedded/compiled. One trick to get around this is to …
Two new major Flash Platform releases have occurred: a new version of the Flash Builder development tool and a brand new product: Adobe Scout! This is part of the larger Adobe Game Developer Tools initiative – part of the Creative Cloud. Flash Builder 4.7 After two beta releases on Adobe Labs, Flash Builder 4.7 has …
In the past, if we wanted to copy some data from a camera object to a bitmap, we would need to draw the data from the display object using flash.display.BitmapData.draw() and then manipulate it in some way. This is problematic at times… if there is no way of knowing whether we have valid bitmap data …
AS3 Quickie – Event.VIDEO_FRAME and Camera.drawToBitmapData() Read More »
In the past, we’ve been able to attach a local camera to Video display objects within Flash Player with relative ease. The flash.media.Video object, of course, is part of the traditional display list and is not accelerated by the system GPU whatsoever. Using the newer flash.media.StageVideo object, we can implement a GPU-accelerated video display beneath …
With Flash Player 11.3 and above, the ability to listen for a frame label event is now included in the runtimes. For example; if you have a MovieClip symbol with a certain set of animation within it, and you have a number of frame labels defined upon the symbol’s timeline… you can now listen for …
Project Monocle (codename) is an upcoming tool from Adobe to profile ActionScript 3 (Flash Player and AIR) applications on both desktop and mobile. It provides an amazing level of insight into just about all aspecs of an application across time. If you would like a general overview of its capabilities, here is a nice video. …
Adobe rolled out a bunch of new Flash goodies on the Labs site this evening; a new version of SWF Investigator, a Configurator release candidate, and the first betas of Flash Player 11.5 and AIR 3.5! We also have a new updater for Flash Professional CS6 and the announcement of the Adobe Game Jams… phew! …
Adobe today released both Flash Player 11.4 for desktop browsers and AIR 3.4 for both desktop and mobile operating systems. This release includes new features as well as enhancements and bug fixes related to security, stability, performance, and device compatibility for the runtimes previously code-named “Dolores” as outlined in the Adobe roadmap for the Flash …
With Flash Player 11.3 and above, the ability to detect a mouse release outside of embedded Flash content makes a triumphant return! Missing in ActionScript 3.0 from Flash Player 9 onward, crafty developers have come up with some strange hacks to compensate for the missing event – but with the modern Flash Player runtime such …