The Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0 Public betas are now available via Adobe Labs: Flash Player 10.1 AIR 2.0 These are the first fruits to come out of the Open Screen Project – and hopefully much more good will follow as FP 10.1 for mobile devices will begin shipping later this year into next …
Every once in a while, Flash Builder loses its mind when I attempt to debug a project and tells me that I don’t have a debug version of Flash Player on my machine. I do… FB is just crazy. Right. Sometimes it’s looking at the player running in the browser, in which case I just …
I actually forgot to apply the “smoothing” property to a flash.display.Bitmap display object being scaled inside Flash Player. Just look at the difference such an oversight made! Since I was using a flash.display.Loader display object to load the image up, and Loader has no smoothing property, I totally spaced on this and it’s been out …
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I had posted earlier concerning a strange issue with Flash Player 10 where the SWF would refuse to load if being served over a Java servlet. We’ve been able to resolve the issue by explicitly transferring any SWF content with a “Content-Disposition” header of “inline” as suggested by Adobe. The relevant portion of this document …
It seems a lot has changed from the release candidates to the final version- a lot of things people did not expect. For instance, last minute surprise changes to the Sound API… and then the previously announced security changes that Adobe has, in fairness, warned us about since Flash Player 9. I’ve stumbled across something …
I’m working on a rather large AS3 project through Fractured Vision Media which relies on the flash.system.fscommand package to properly transmit data from the application to its container layer. Unfortunately, we’ve come across a bug in which FSCommand calls are ignored! Through some quick research (e.g. Google) it was discovered that more than a few …
So, to delay my unavoidable participation in the initial “Flex/AIR/Flash” waterfall effect, I’ve waited till now to post anything about the massive new beta releases that have been available since last evening. Flex Builder 3: LOVE the new CSS design view. LOVE IT! I’m sure there are plenty more features of direct interest as well, …
I’m not sure whether this should be classified as a bug or not. I’m currently working on a project which utilizes the new fullscreen capabilities of Flash Player 9. The module in question retrieves images, audio, video, and other objects for display one-by-one in an individual presentation format. One thing we’ve included in the application …