Flash Player 10 (”Astro”) Debug version is out. You can find it here: http://opensource.adobe.com/svn/opensource/flex/sdk/branches/3.0.x/in/player/10/.
I the a previous article I explained how you can build a Flash Player 10 application using Flex SDK and here it is: http://www.flexer.info/2008/05/21/how-to-build-flash-player-10-applications-using-flex-sdk/.
From now on we are looking for new Flash Player 10 applications…
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Some interesting stats where published by Adobe:
99% of internet users do have Flash Player on their machine (98,8% from Google study)
80% of internet users do have Flash Player version 9.0.115 on their machines
99% of PC internet users do have Flash Player on their machine
This is great news. Almost any computer connected to the internet does […]
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Astro is getting closer to a release. A new beta version is out and you can read the announcement on Adobe’s site: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/. Please read also the release notes here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/releasenotes.html.
What is new? To be short…
Fullscreen Keyboard Access - now you can catch key events for non-printing keys (arrows, shift, enter, tab, space, etc)
Enhanced Audio […]
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This is a great news! I’ve been waiting for this to happen for a long time. If you don’t believe me that Google is indexing flash try to search on Google by this kind of phrases: “flex filetype:swf“; and you’ll get a list of SWF files that were indexed by Google.
How does Google do this? […]
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Today I upgraded my flash player to version 9.0.124 and I’m referring to the debug version of it.
The upgrade went OK on IE, I downloaded the version for IE from Adobe’s download page (http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/9/flashplayer_9_ax_debug.exe), I installed it and everything worked out.
I was thinking: “Great! That was easy! Let’s do it for Firefox also…”. I […]
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In a previous article in this series I told you about a reported exploit for Adobe Flash Player. It seems that the security bulletin that this exploit was based upon was released before the version 9.0.124.0 of the Player. Reading the latest security bulletin Adobe informs us that the exploit is not applicable to this […]
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A very recent news on Zdnet announced that there is an very serious exploit that Adobe Flash Players 9.0.115.0 and 9.0.124.0 are vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.
The link to the whole story is here.
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As we promised we are back with a tutorial on how to build Flex applications for Astro flash player. This will be a step by step tutorial which is intended to help you install the last Flex SDK from daily builds. So let’s start…
1) Get the Flex SDK Daily build.
2) Create a new folder: “3.0.1.1739“.
3) […]
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Today I installed Astro! What I did to be able to still develop and debug flash player 9 applications? I installed the Flash Player 10 just for Firefox and for debug I’m using IE. You can inverse it and install the ActiveX for IE and keep Firefox with the flash player 9.
The links to […]
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Bellow you can find a list tags and their attributes that are supported by flash player (and also by flex framework). This list applies to TextArea, TextFields and other controls that are html enabled.
Anchor tag (<a>)
Creates a hypertext link.
href
target
Bold tag (<b>)
Renders text as bold.
Break tag (<br>)
Creates a line break in the text field.
Font tag (<font>)
Specifies […]
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Adobe plans to release a new security update for the Flash Player on 9 April 2008. The update plans to fix the issues listed in the December 2007 Security Bulletin ABSP07-20 for DNS rebinding and cross-domain policy file vulnerabilities, and Security […]
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The Nokia N810 internet tablet runs Flash 9 in the browser.
This device is based on the Maemo platform.
You can find more on the following links:
Nokia N810 - official
Maemo platform
Maemo on Nokia site
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In the previous article found here we reverted to 9.0.28 flash player because we still need the debugging version of flash player for Flex Builder 2. The approach is working and the debug is working again but sometimes in bigger application where a lot of actionscripting is involved some runtime errors are arising. It seems […]
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These days I ran into a problem. I updated the flash player (from 9.0.28) to the last version (9.0.47 - moviestar) and after that the debug didn’t want to work anymore. The error that Flex Builder 2.0.1 displays is:
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins\NPSWF32.dll
Flex Builder cannot locate the required version of the Flash Player. You may need to […]
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